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Dr. Christopher J. Bae, an assistant professor in the UH Mānoa Department of Anthropology and member of the Center for Korean Studies, has been awarded a $1.1 million research grant by the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea.
The award, one of only six proposals in the world funded by the Academy's Korean Studies Promotion Service (KSPS) division, will be used to conduct paleoanthropological research in Korea from 2011-15.
Titled "The Earliest Peopling of the Korean Peninsula: Current Multidisciplinary Perspectives," Professor Bae's project will develop an active long-term research program in Korea to facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of eastern Asian human evolution during prehistory. "In particular, this project will integrate datasets from different social and natural science fields to reconstruct a synthetic view of human evolution in the region," explained Dr. Bae, a resident of Mānoa Valley.
The research project is multidisciplinary in nature, and involves close collaboration with scientists from various institutions in Korea, England and the U.S. The proposal was strongly supported by the UH Mānoa's Department of Anthropology, College of Social Sciences, and the Center for Korean Studies.


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Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. - Heb. 10:19
Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better known than Augustine's, "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee."
The great saint states here in few words the origin and interior history of the human race. God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him. For such a man I have no message. My appeal is addressed to those who have been previously taught in secret by the wisdom of God; I speak to thirsty hearts whose longings have been wakened by the touch of God within them, and such as they need no reasoned proof. Their restless hearts furnish all the proof they need.
God formed us for Himself. The Shorter Catechism, "Agreed upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster," as the old New-England Primer has it, asks the ancient questions what and why and answers them in one short sentence hardly matched in any uninspired work. "Question: What is the chief End of Man? Answer: Man's chief End is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever." With this agree the four and twenty elders who fall on their faces to worship Him that liveth for ever and ever, saying, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile. But we have been guilty of that "foul revolt" of which Milton speaks when describing the rebellion of Satan and his hosts. We have broken with God. We have ceased to obey Him or love Him and in guilt and fear have fled as far as possible from His Presence.
Yet who can flee from His Presence when the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? when as the wisdom of Solomon testifies, "the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world?" The omnipresence of the Lord is one thing, and is a solemn fact necessary to His perfection; the manifest Presence is another thing altogether, and from that Presence we have fled, like Adam, to hide among the trees of the garden, or like Peter to shrink away crying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord."
So the life of man upon the earth is a life away from the Presence, wrenched loose from that "blissful center" which is our right and proper dwelling place, our first estate which we kept not, the loss of which is the cause of our unceasing restlessness.
The whole work of God in redemption is to undo the tragic effects of that foul revolt, and to bring us back again into right and eternal relationship with Himself. This required that our sins be disposed of satisfactorily, that a full reconciliation be effected and the way opened for us to return again into conscious communion with God and to live again in the Presence as before. Then by His prevenient working within us He moves us to return. This first comes to our notice when our restless hearts feel a yearning for the Presence of God and we say within ourselves, "I will arise and go to my Father." That is the first step, and as the Chinese sage Lao-tze has said, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step."
The interior journey of the soul from the wilds of sin into the enjoyed Presence of God is beautifully illustrated in the Old Testament tabernacle. The returning sinner first entered the outer court where he offered a blood sacrifice on the brazen altar and washed himself in the laver that stood near it. Then through a veil he passed into the holy place where no natural light could come, but the golden candlestick which spoke of Jesus the Light of the World threw its soft glow over all. There also was the shewbread to tell of Jesus, the Bread of Life, and the altar ,of incense, a figure of unceasing prayer.
Though the worshipper had enjoyed so much, still he had not yet entered the Presence of God. Another veil separated from the Holy of Holies where above the mercy seat dwelt the very God Himself in awful and glorious manifestation. While the tabernacle stood, only the high priest could enter there, and that but once a year, with blood which he offered for his sins and the sins of the people. It was this last veil which was rent when our Lord gave up the ghost on Calvary, and the sacred writer explains that this rending of the veil opened the way for every worshipper in the world to come by the new and living way straight into the divine Presence.
Everything in the New Testament accords with this Old Testament picture. Ransomed men need no longer pause in fear to enter the Holy of Holies. God wills that we should push on into His Presence and live our whole life there. This is to be known to us in conscious experience. It is more than a doctrine to be held, it is a life to be enjoyed every moment of every day.
This Flame of the Presence was the beating heart of the Levitical order. Without it all the appointments of the tabernacle were characters of some unknown language; they had no meaning for Israel or for us. The greatest fact of the tabernacle was that Jehovah was there; a Presence was waiting within the veil. Similarly the Presence of God is the central fact of Chris' tainity At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence. That type of Christianity which happens now to be the vogue knows this Presence only in theory. It fails to stress the Christian's privilege of present realization. According to its teachings we are in the Presence of God position, ally, and nothing is said about the need to experience that Presence actually. The fiery urge that drove men like McCheyne is wholly missing. And the present generation of Christians measures itself by this imperfect rule. Ignoble contentment takes the place of burning zeal. We are satisfied to rest in our judicial possessions and for the most part we bother ourselves very little about the absence of personal experience.
Who is this within the veil who dwells in fiery manifestations? It is none other than God Himself, "One God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible," and "One Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God; begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God; begotten, not made; being of one substance with the Father," and "the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified." Yet this holy Trinity is One God, for "we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal and the majesty coeternaI." So in part run the ancient creeds, and so the inspired Word declares.
Behind the veil is God, that God after Whom the world, with strange inconsistency, has felt, "if haply they might find Him." He has discovered Himself to some extent in nature, but more perfectly in the Incarnation; now He waits to show Himself in ravishing fulness to the humble of soul and the pure in heart.
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the, Church is famishing for want of His Presence. The instant cure of most of our religious ills would be to enter the Presence in spiritual experience, to become suddenly aware that we are in God and that God is in us. This would lift us out of our pitiful narrowness and cause our hearts to be enlarged. This would burn away the impurities from our lives as the bugs and fungi were burned away by the fire that dwelt in the bush.
What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is eternal, which means that He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him. To it He pays no tribute and from it He suffers no change. He is immutable, which means that He has never changed and can never change in any smallest measure. To change He would need to go from better to worse or from worse to better. He cannot do either, for being perfect He cannot become more perfect, and if He were to become less perfect He would be less than God. He is omniscient, which means that He knows in one free and effortless act all matter, all spirit, all relationships, all events. He has no past and He has no future. He is, and none of the limiting and qualifying terms used of creatures can apply to Him. Love and mercy and righteousness are His, and holiness so ineffable that no comparisons or s figures will avail to express it. Only fire can give even a remote conception of it. In fire He appeared at the burning bush; in the pillar of fire He dwelt through all the long wilderness journey. The fire that glowed between the wings of the cherubim in the holy place was called the "shekinah," the Presence, through the years of Israel's glory, and when the Old had given place to the New, He came at Pentecost as a fiery flame and rested upon each disciple.
Spinoza wrote of the intellectual love of God, and he had a measure of truth there; but the highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual. God is spirit and only the spirit of man can know Him really. In the deep spirit of a man the fire must glow or his love is not the true love of God. The great of the Kingdom have been those who loved God more than others did. We all know who they have been and gladly pay tribute to the depths and sincerity of their devotion. We have but to pause for a moment and their names come trooping past us smelling of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces.
Frederick Faber was one whose soul panted after God as the roe pants after the water brook, and the measure in which God revealed Himself to his seeking heart set the good man's whole life afire with a burning adoration rivaling that of the seraphim before the throne. His love for God extended to the three Persons of the Godhead equally, yet he seemed to feel for each One a special kind of love reserved for Him alone. Of God the Father he sings:
Only to sit and think of God,
Oh what a joy it is!
To think the thought, to breathe the Name;
Earth has no higher bliss.
Father of Jesus, love's reward!
What rapture will it be,
Prostrate before Thy throne to lie,
And gaze and gaze on Thee
His love for the Person of Christ was so intense that it threatened to consume him; it burned within him as a sweet and holy madness and flowed from his lips like molten gold. In one of his sermons he says, "Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us .... There is nothing good, nothing holy, nothing beautiful, nothing joyous which He is not to a His servants. No one need be poor, because, if he chooses, he can have Jesus for his own property and possession. No one need be downcast, for Jesus is the joy of heaven, and it is His joy to enter into sorrowful hearts. We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all He has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more." And addressing our Lord directly he says to Him:
I love Thee so, I know not how
My transports to control;
Thy love is like a burning fire
Within my very soul.
Faber's blazing love extended also to the Holy Spirit. Not only in his theology did he acknowledge His deity and full equality with the Father and the Son, but he celebrated it constantly in his songs and in his prayers. He literally pressed his forehead to the ground in his eager fervid worship of the Third Person of the Godhead. In one of his great hymns to the Holy Spirit he sums up his burning devotion thus:
O Spirit, beautiful and dread!
My heart is fit to break
With love of all Thy tenderness
For us poor sinners' sake.
I have risked the tedium of quotation that I might show by pointed example what I have set out to say, viz., that God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is. Such worship as Faber knew (and he is but one of a great company which no man can number) can never come from a mere doctrinal knowledge of God. Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and have looked with opened eye upon the majesty of Deity. Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men. They habitually spoke with spiritual authority. They had been in the Presence of God and they reported what they saw there. They were prophets, riot scribes, for the scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells what he has seen.
The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.
With the veil removed by the rending of Jesus' flesh, with nothing on God's side to prevent us from entering, why do we tarry without? Why do we consent to abide all our days just outside the Holy of Holies and never enter at all to look upon God? We hear the Bridegroom say, "Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely." We sense that the call is for us, but still we fail to draw near, and the years pass and we grow old and tired in the outer courts of the tabernacle. What doth hinder us?
The answer usually given, simply that we are "cold," will not explain all the facts. There is something more serious than coldness of heart, something that may be back of that coldness and be the cause of its existence. What is it? What but the presence of a veil in our hearts? a veil not taken away as the first veil was, but which remains there still shutting out the light and hiding the face of God from us. It is the veil of our fleshly fallen nature living on, unjudged within us, uncrucified and unrepudiated. It is the closewoven veil of the self-life which we have never truly acknowledged, of which we have been secretly ashamed, and which for these reasons we have never brought to the judgment of the cross. It is not too mysterious, this opaque veil, nor is it hard to identify. We have but to look in our own hearts and we shall see it there, sewn and patched and repaired it may be, but there nevertheless, an enemy to our lives and an effective block to our spiritual progress.
This veil is not a beautiful thing and it is not a thing about which we commonly care to talk, but I am addressing the thirsting souls who are determined to follow God, and I know they will not turn back because t the way leads temporarily through the blackened hills. The urge of God within them will assure their continuing the pursuit. They will face the facts however unpleasant and endure the cross for the joy set before them. So I am bold to name the threads out of which this inner veil is woven.
It is woven of the fine threads of the self-life, the hyphenated sins of the human spirit. They are not something we do, they are something we are and therein lies both their subtlety and their power.
To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, selfpity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them. They dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention till the light of God is focused upon them. The grosser manifestations of these sins, egotism, exhibitionism, selfpromotion, are strangely tolerated in Christian leaders even in circles of impeccable orthodoxy. They are so much in evidence as actually, for many people, to become identified with the gospel. I trust it is not a cynical observation to say that they appear these days to be a requisite for popularity in some sections of the Church visible. Promoting self under the guise of pro- 3 moting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
One should suppose that proper instruction in the doctrines of man's depravity and the necessity for justification through the righteousness of Christ alone would deliver us from the power of the self-sins; but p, it does not work out that way. Self can litre unrebuked at the very altar. It can watch the bleeding Victim die and not be in the least affected by what it sees. It can fight for the faith of the Reformers and preach eloquently the creed of salvation by grace, and gain strength by its efforts. To tell all the truth, it seems actually to feed upon orthodoxy and is more at home in a Bible Conference than in a tavern. Our very state of longing after God may afford it an excellent condition under which to thrive and grow.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God Z from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. As well try to instruct leprosy out of our system. There must be a work of God in destruction before we are free. We must invite the cross to do its -deadly work within- us. We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment. We must prepare ourselves for an ordeal of suffering in some measure like that through which our Saviour passed when He suffered under Pontius Pilate.
Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human experience that veil is made of living spiritual tissue; it is composed of the sentient, quivering stuff of which our whole beings consist, and to touch it is to touch us where we feel pain. To tear it away is to injure us, to hurt us and make us bleed. To say otherwise is to make the cross no cross and death no death at all. It is never fun to die. To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful. Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.
Let us beware of tinkering with our inner life in hope ourselves to rend the veil. God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust. We must confess, forsake, repudiate the self-life, and then reckon it crucified. But we must be careful to distinguish lazy "acceptance" from the real work of God. We must insist upon the work being done. We dare not rest content with a neat doctrine of self-crucifixion. That is to imitate Saul and spare the best of the sheep and the oxen.
Insist that the work be done in very truth and it will be done. The cross is rough, and it is deadly, but it is effective. It does not keep its victim hanging there forever. There comes a moment when its work is finished and the suffering victim dies. After that is resurrection glory and power, and the pain is forgotten for joy that the veil is taken away and we have entered in actual spiritual experience the Presence of the living God.
Lord, how excellent are Thy ways, and how devious and dark are the ways o f man. Show us how to die, that we may rise again to newness o f life. Rend the veil o f our self-life from the top down as Thou didst rend the veil o f the Temple. We would draw near in full assurance o f faith. W e would dwell with Thee in daily experience here on this earth so that we may be accustomed to the glory when we enter T by heaven to dwell with Thee there. In Jesus' name, Amen.


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And on this Memorial Day, we are thinking back to one year ago, a Memorial Day that felt very different. The U.S. had already seen awful COVID surges in states including New York, Michigan, Louisiana. As those numbers began to fall, an uneasy lull had set in, and we were beginning to survey the devastation. Here is how Ailsa and Ari, my co-hosts, opened the show on Memorial Day last year.
AILSA CHANG: The U.S. is the undisputed leader in a contest no one wants to win. This country has by far more reported cases of the coronavirus than any other nation in the world. The number now tops 1.6 million people.
ARI SHAPIRO: Even as we inch closer to 100,000 American lives lost to the virus, experts say the true death count is almost certainly higher than what we've been able to record.
KELLY: Again, that was last year. And, of course, those numbers kept climbing and climbing. Today the toll in this country stands at more than 33 million cases, nearly 600,000 people dead. But the number of vaccinated Americans these last few months - that number has been climbing, too. A hundred sixty-seven million people, half the U.S., has now gotten at least one dose. So this Memorial Day, some of our listeners are finally feeling like they can take a breath and relax, like Ada Orey in Maryland.
ADA OREY: This is my very first extended weekend since Christmas because I've been working six days a week. I've been watching Hallmark Channel, which is my happy escape from reality because there's always a happily ever after.
KELLY: Other listeners, though, like Michelle Weber in Oregon - they're still feeling cautious.
MICHELLE WEBER: Honestly, I'm feeling concerned about summer. My kids aren't old enough to be vaccinated. Even though Dad and I are vaccinated, we have made the decision that we're going to continue to wear masks outside of our home.
KELLY: So where are we as a country on this Memorial Day, and what do we need to look out for in the months to come? We're going to put those questions to Saskia Popescu, infectious disease expert and assistant professor at George Mason University.
SASKIA POPESCU: Thanks so much for having me.
KELLY: Did you ever imagine it would get so bad? I mean, if I told you a year ago that we would be approaching 600,000 Americans dead from the virus, would you believe me?
POPESCU: Honestly, I think the thing I keep going back to is - for those of us that work in pandemic response and just pandemic preparedness in general, there was this gut feeling during the Trump administration that if we had a biological event, you know, specifically an outbreak, we knew it would be tough because of the way that the administration had approached science and public health. But no one anticipated it would be so bad and just such an uphill battle every single day. A lot of it truly was preventable. If we could have gotten ahead of this and really prioritized science and public health, those numbers, I truly believe, would be drastically different.
KELLY: Where do you think we are in the arc of this? I've noticed people starting to struggle with what tense to talk about the pandemic in. Is it starting to feel in the rearview mirror to you, or do you feel like there's still significant hurdles to overcome ahead?
POPESCU: You know, we have 40% of the total population fully vaccinated. That's a very exciting thing. And it feels like we're starting to get ahead of this. But then I see the daily numbers of vaccines administered just declining, and we're struggling to get more people vaccinated, to get them to want to be vaccinated. But that's also this very U.S. focus. I was just discussing this with a friend because it feels like everybody in the U.S. is just, oh, COVID is over, and the rest of the world is struggling to get vaccines. You know, India is still dealing with, like, 200,000 cases a day. We've got really severe situations in Argentina and Colombia and Brazil. And, you know, I can't help but think we're starting to become very U.S.-focused with this. And this is truly a global issue.
KELLY: Looking overseas - where, as you noted, the situation looks so much worse in a lot of places than it now does in the U.S. - what are the responsibilities of the United States when it comes to helping the rest of the world through this next phase of the pandemic?
POPESCU: Well, I absolutely think that we do have a role in this. We don't want people to just become myopic about this and get very U.S.-focused. Global health is a huge piece of this, as we just saw with the questions regarding the variants that are coming out. The B1617 was first identified in India. There are a lot of questions about increased transmissibility. And every single time we identified a variant, we ask if it's going to impact, I should say, the vaccine effectiveness. And if we're asking ourselves those questions but we're not investing in global public health and global disease mitigation and vaccine distribution, then we have bigger issues at hand because we're never going to get ahead of this if we don't start supporting other countries in mitigation and vaccination.
KELLY: We're speaking, you and I, on Memorial Day, which, of course, is traditionally a time to reflect on the sacrifices of our armed forces. The last year has felt like we have been at war but against an invisible enemy. I wonder what you're reflecting on as somebody who has been studying and speaking about the pandemic over this last year.
POPESCU: Oh, that's a big question. I think right now I'm really reflecting on the mental health struggles that we're all going through right now. I think there's a lot of fatigue, a lot of exhaustion and some trauma we've all experienced. So I reflect on that and how we can better support each other. But as we've discussed, I simply am so worried and concerned that we're not thinking about the global context of that. And it really worries me. So I'm trying to just really be mindful of that right now. There's so much discussion about the progress we've made in the U.S., but we still have a long ways to go. And that's going to mean supporting people from a mental health perspective and the long term and for long COVID but also globally.
KELLY: We've been speaking with Saskia Popescu, infectious disease expert and assistant professor at George Mason University.
Thank you.
POPESCU: Thanks so much for having me. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Why do you need data recovery services?
Imagine for a moment that you are using your laptop or desktop in a normal day. You are about to email some marketing material to the list of customers in a database which you developed over years . All of a sudden your email software freeze and system become non responsive even pushing the power button won't help or you might get a blue screen of death. What has happened ? The hard drive crashed or system totally dead ? Is it a logical , physical or electronic component failure ? have you lost your data forever or is it still retrievable ? what are the chances and what is the next step to recover data ?
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External Hard Drive Data Recovery in Bayswater North
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How we can help get your data back in Bayswater North
The first and most important thing is to stop using your external hard drive immediately and do not follow any DIY instructions or attempt to recover the files using free data recovery downloaded tools as this can often make the problem worse and make it extremely harder to recover or cause a permanently lost of data.We have been recovering data in Melbourne from a variety of external hard disk drives for many years.
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PC & iMac Data Recovery in Bayswater North
Recovering data from Desktop PCs & iMacs
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The first and most important step is to turn off your system as soon as you encounter a problem and do not attempt to switch it back on. It's always best to be safe in these situations and doing this maintains the highest chance of recovery and prevents further data loss from occurring. You don't even need to remove the storage component from the system, just bring the whole unit to Melbourne Data Recovery and we will do the rest.
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The first and most important thing is to stop using your external hard drive immediately and do not follow any DIY instructions or attempt to recover the files using free data recovery downloaded tools as this can often make the problem worse and make it extremely harder to recover or cause a permanently lost of data.We have been recovering data in Melbourne from a variety of external hard disk drives for many years.
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FLASH DRIVE DATA RECOVERY in Bayswater North
The most convenient way to transport small size of data are Flash drives and USB thumb drives. Whether its family photos , personal documents , financial data or a critical business presentation, most people use these types of storage on a daily basis to hold valuable data. Flash drives and thumb drives are relatively durable, however, they are still sensitive electronic devices and are susceptible to damage and crash in Melbourne.
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CAMERA CARD DATA RECOVERY in Bayswater North
Melbourne Data Recovery fully understands the panic of losing irreplaceable memories and family photos due to a SD or Micro SD card crash in Abbotsford , it is very devastating. In most cases , many of those digital camera images cannot be replicated. Our professional data recovery engineers can help retrieve seemingly lost images from failed camera cards. Melbourne Data Recovery Labs has developed state-of-the-art technology and techniques to ensure the best possible chance of recovering your photos in Melbourne .
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IPHONE DATA RECOVERY Services in Bayswater North
Melbourne Data Recovery recovers iPhone/iPad/iPod under Various Tough Circumstances including:
iPHONE IOS DATA RECOVERY in Bayswater North
Similar to the Android operating system, Apple have a propriety operating system exclusively for all their apple products such as iPhones and Apple touch screen devices such as iPads. This is called the ios and shares the same framework as the Apple OSX such that devices can inter-work seamlessly.
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Mobile Phone Chip-Off Data Recovery in Bayswater North:
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Common Raid Levels
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Why you wrote the book may be compelling but it's not THE most compelling thing about the story (I hope!). It goes later in the query letter. Lead with your strongest element: the story.
Jessie MacGregor's thirteenth year isn't at all what she had in mind. She struggles with her mom's recent departure from the family to "find herself." Her dad hides his broken heart by burying himself in his work. He pressures Jessie to go on a teen backpacking trip, which turns into a rescue mission. When her hiking guide shatters his ankle, Jessie and two other teens must hike to safety from deep in the Sierra backcountry.
This is good.
Throughout her adventure, Jessie struggles with her mother's search for herself and the angry terms on which she left her father. She wonders what the future will hold for her family and desperately wants to feel that she has some kind of control over her life. This inner struggle parallels her physical challenge of getting out alive and causes Jessie to develop an inner strength she never knew existed. Jessie realizes that whatever life throws at her, she will survive.
This isn't. You go from specifics to generalities. What happens on that trail? Is she attacked by bears? Struck by lightning? Solicited for an anthology of teen sex writing (ok, this is a bad joke but you get my point)
We need a sense of what she struggles with other than the obvious.
I have extensive wilderness experience, particularly in the Sierra Nevada, including numerous backpacking and mountain climbing trips, and a 270-mile trek from Yosemite National Park to Mt. Whitney. I've drawn on these experiences and research to create this high-action adventure novel.
This is actually better than the first paragraph about why you wrote the book.
I'm the proud author of seventeen children's book...(publishing credentials to follow).
err...you have 17 books published and NOW you need an agent? Why?
My current goal is to obtain an agent to represent my novel, but I'm also interested in an agent who represents picture books and easy readers.
oh man. You don't need me to tell you that finding an agent who covers all these areas is gonna be tough. We have enough agents at FinePrint to field a baseball team, and even with that many I don't think we do picture books or easy readers. Sometimes if an author has a wide array of work, we can keep it all in house with several agents doing different projects, but this one is a tough problem. Yikes.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to hearing from you.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima (hĬr´ōshē´mə, hērō´shmä), city (1990 pop. 1,085,705), capital of Hiroshima prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on Hiroshima Bay. It is an important commercial and industrial center manufacturing trucks, ships, automobiles, steel, rubber, furniture, and canned foods. The city is also a market for agricultural and marine products. Founded c.1594 as a castle city on the Ota River delta, Hiroshima is divided by the river's seven mouths into six islands. After 1868, Hiroshima's port, Ujina, was enlarged, and rail lines were built to link it with Kobe and Shimonoseki.
During World War II, Hiroshima was the target of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area; it was dropped by the United States on Aug. 6, 1945. Almost 130,000 people were killed, injured, or missing, and 90% of the city was leveled. Much of the city has been reconstructed, but a gutted section has been set aside as a
"Peace City"
to illustrate the effects of an atomic bomb. The Peace Memorial Museum is there. Since 1955 an annual world conference against nuclear weapons has met in Hiroshima.
Hiroshima prefecture (1990 pop. 2,861,699), 3,258 sq mi (8,438 sq km), is generally mountainous, with fertile valleys. Rice and oranges are grown extensively, cattle are raised, textiles are manufactured, and shipyards are plentiful. Hiroshima, Kure, and Onomichi are among the important cities of Japan.
See J. Hersey, Hiroshima (1946, repr. several times); R. Takaki, Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb (1995).


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Gina Rodriguez has apologized for singing along on her Instagram story to a Fugees verse that includes the N-word.
The "Jane the Virgin" actress deleted the short video she posted Tuesday and replaced it with her apology, but not before memes and other backlash ensued. Rodriguez said in her apology she's a longtime Fugees and Lauryn Hill fan and didn't mean to offend anyone.
She sang along to "Ready or Not" and recited the racial slur as she sat in a makeup chair.
Some of the outrage focused on remarks Rodriguez made last year during a panel discussion. She said black women in Hollywood are paid more than Latina women. Detractors at the time noted the highest paid TV actress in the world that year was Sofia Vergara, from Colombia.
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Let's talk about passion.
During my daughter's birthday, hubby and I were actually thinking of where to bring the kids for dinner, they are four , bytheway, having to consider what each one likes and what they are to say with what they may order. Passions means differently for every people. It defines how they look at life and what actions they do in lieu of it.
For a food blogger, it may be about cacoethes or admiration on food and anything that surrounds the idea of it. For an advocate it may be the strong feeling of doing something worthwhile and thus becoming a catalyst of change. For parents like us, it is an encompassing emotion that you do to give your kids joy, and my case, the joy of eating. HHmmm...Funny, I guess, that could be why I was named Joy, one of my passion is really being able to give joy in whatever I do for others and therefore doubling the joy that ricochets back at me.
I posted a blog already about how we made our daughter simply happy, with her classmates and her surprise cake and a tour at Cosmic Center. As a continuation to my daughter's birthday celebration, we decided to go to Uno Pizzeria.
And passion indeed nails down Uno Pizzeria's fair game. Their enthusiasm in giving every customers their dining and yeah, entertainment pauperism take in customers. This isn't our first time to eat here. I did thought though that this is not an establishment where couples or families with kids could enjoy. I was wronged. Well good thing we did come back, for me to find that out. You'll see as you scroll down further and check the pictures out.
We had the package complete with pasta, side dish, chicken and rice, pizza and pitcher of iced tea. The Buttered Chicken came out with plate-full of large Onion Rings. The steamy rice came in next, that's the time my kids were clapping their hands in awe, all ready for their challenging taste test. These crispy-liscious chicken won me over. The glaze is adorable, the buttery scent and flavor adds to it. Though the sauce were smothered as if sticking to the outside of the meat, didn't ruin the crispiness of the skin., but the inside was soft and savory.
The Onion Rings was not so sale-able for my kids, for one, they don't eat raw onions, however they did make some bites. My husband and I liked it, it's more like an onion tempura and when dipped to the dressing becomes a snack in itself.
And the plate that emptied first, the one with Shrimp Scampi. The pasta (lunga), seemed to me like one of my favorite pasta dish, Sphagettini al Gamberi, though this one has cream sauce. I just can't remember if it's cheesy as a Mornay Sauce or just light as bechamel sauce, whatever it may be, all I remember is that it left us all speechless when our mouths were filled with them. The highlight of the evening...tadahhh!, Cheeseburger Pizza. Dear God, this pizza is so big and the savory aroma (like that of a fave cheeseburger of mine) almost enveloped the whole table, our tummies are a bit full, but we dare not give in the the pizza's calling. As you can see, my son was so thankful, and looked as if he might be in pizza paradise, as we were able to give them out of our passion, the dinner we haven't had for months now. A dinner full of precious family time. Do you think we finished the pizza? They tried, oops, that doesn't mean they didn't like it, they couldn't finish it. The pizza, full of beefy and cheesy goodness, qualifies as one of the best pizza in town. I did like the pizza we had also, the last time we went there, well that's way back June.
The Pizza-monsters, hihihi, I don't know what my daughter is doing at this picture, but everyone sure did revel my daughter's birthday.
Now the perfect endings, for a passion full of revelry with refreshing Parfaits for dessert.
Dana with Calamansi Sherbet/Sorbet with toppings-galore. Thanks Miss Girlie Herrera ( the restaurant Supervisor), for these sweet treats. The icy, tangy and lucet desserts are perfect for these tummy-filling meal. I never really thought that a hint of chocolate blends in so well with crystallized Calamansi and Lychee puree.
Chocolate Parfait for the birthday celebrant. Indeed, we felt the passion from Uno Pizzeria Ristorante Bar.
Tutti i migliori a tutti Uno Pizzeria (all the best to everyone at Uno Pizzeria)******************
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In the quarterfinal of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, England and Portugal played for 90 tense minutes and 30 minutes extra time without a single goal being scored. This led them to a penalty shoot-out; as one by one, players went against the opposing team's goalie. After four shots by each team, Portugal was ahead 2-1. Portugal's star Cristiano Ronaldo shot to English goalkeeper Paul Robinson's left, but Robinson dove right. Portugal scored, won the game, and went on to the semifinal.
When Robinson dove to his right, he was making a common choice for our right-oriented brains, according to a new study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers found that, in World Cup penalty shoot-outs, goalies tend to dive right when their team is behind and they have a chance to save the game for their country.
Many studies have found that people and animals that want something tend to go to the right. When dogs see their owners, they wag their tails more to the right; toads strike to the right when they're going for prey; and humans are more likely to turn their heads to the right to smooch their sweeties.
Marieke Roskes, who cowrote the study with Daniel Sligte, Shaul Shalvi, and Carsten K.W. De Dreu of the University of Amsterdam, thought of looking at this phenomenon in another arena: the soccer field. "I was sitting with my coauthors in the bar and we were talking about soccer and about research, which we often do on Friday afternoons," she says. They thought of looking at how goalkeepers move in penalty shootouts, when they're going after a big win.
In a penalty shootout, there are very different assumptions for the shooter and the goalkeeper. it's extremely difficult for the keeper to defend the whole goal against one man, so nobody really blames him if the ball goes in. But he can win glory if he saves a ball. "The goalkeeper is the only person who can regain the chance to win the game," Roskes says. "So he has the chance to become the big hero."
The researchers examined every penalty shoot-out in every World Cup from 1982 to 2010 and found that most of the time, goalies are equally like to dive right and left. But when the goalkeeper's team was behind, he was more likely to dive right than left. In an experiment, the team found that people who are told to divide a line in half tend to aim a bit to the right when they are both thinking about a positive goal and under time pressure—just like the goalies.
"It's quite impressive. Even in this really important situation, people are still influenced by biological factors," Roskes says. She says this suggests that in many situations where people are focused on a positive outcome and have to react quickly, they may go right. And, of course, there's another goal for her and her collaborators: "We're very hopeful this will help the Dutch national team to win the next World Cup."
For more information about this study, please contact: Marieke Roskes at [email protected].
The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "The right side? Under time pressure approach motivation leads to right-oriented bias" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Divya Menon at 202-293-9300 or [email protected].


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"It comes from their heartâ€, says their parents. "It`s difficult to explain, but the boys just feel this music. They easily generate not only blues, but also acoustic Gypsy music.â€
Finding new unique young artists to feature on Rivenmaster's Place is always a challenging but enjoyable experience. Today we are privileged to introduce a very special family of sibling brothers coming all the way from southern Europe.Â
When you hear the name "Gameboys†you usually think about a hand held electronic game device created by Nintendo in 1989. But these Gameboys are much more exciting than an electronic game. While the use of electronic guitars may enhance their sound, these guys are not just playing around. Together they make some real music and bring joy and excitement wherever they go.
The family's story actually began back in 2008 when they moved to Portugal (Algarve) from the Netherlands. They explained;
"One day we went to the beach in Praia da Rocha (Algarve). The two oldest boys (Lars and Kay) were attending elementary school at the time. Their father Antonio a talented Dutchman guitarist/performer decided to strike up a song. However, their audience of beach-goers seemed to be disinterested in Antonio's music. Sven was playing on the beach and asked his father "Can I sing a song?â€Â His father began to play, and as soon as Sven started to sing a large crowd began to assemble. They were mesmerized to hear this little four year old boy belt out a song.†Â
Unbelievable! Amazing! Wonderful; exclaimed some of the onlookers as they listened to the duo perform. Can he sing more songs the people began to ask?â€Â  WATCH SVEN SING
This was the beginning of what is now known as "The Gameboysâ€. Each day Sven and his father would return to the beach to entertain larger and larger crowds. Soon gigs started to come in for birthday parties and other social events.Â
When school dismissed for the day Lars and Kay would join in on the fun. They were only 7 and 8 years old when this video was taken.
Boys perform Live at Private Party Algarve Portugal July 2009
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What's a responsible no bullshit tattoo artist to do if he thinks he smells bullshit?
He sends it off to a laboratory to see if he's right. "The lead levels were off the charts," Seth Ciferri says of the tattoo needles he had rigorously tested. "In some cases, these needles contained 100-300 times the level of lead allowed to be in house paint."
The discovery came about by chance.
Ciferri had moved to Portland, Oregon to open a tattoo shop, realized there were no tattoo equipment suppliers, and saw an opportunity to fill the void for the approximately two hundred Rose City tattoo parlors with an itch to buy local.
"There was a real contradiction between the price of the commodities used to manufacture needles and the cost of the needles," Ciferri recalls. "It didn't make any sense to me that commodity prices were on the rise yet overseas needle manufacturers were basically willing to allow buyers to name their price."
The labels promised the needles were safe. But Ciferri wasn't buying it.
The unhealthy levels of lead in the needles Ciferri uncovered posed a real threat to the industry and consumers; besides inviting government scrutiny and new regulation lead-laden needles posed a risk to tattoo lovers trusting that the needles piercing their skin were safe.
"It's a cause for real concern," says GRIME, a world-renowned tattoo artist, and Ciferri's business partner. "The way the needles interact with the tool combined with the heat and friction can cause potentially dangerous levels of lead to be released which is bad for tattooing as a whole."
The issue was also personal.
Industry suppliers, according to Ciferri and GRIME, often had no experience tattooing yet positioned themselves as experts with the right tools for the job. "It was insulting to see someone who has never given a tattoo think they can tell tattooers how to work and what tools to use," GRIME says.
"We were so frustrated with the ethics of the industry," Ciferri says. "All they cared about was cutting corners and making money, and we knew we had to do something about it."
The choice was stark; sell out morally and abide by the status quo or risk upending an entire industry in an effort to protect it?
Even worse, if picking a fight with dominant industry giants and potentially alienating the very tattoo artists you're claiming to want to protect by offering higher priced alternatives isn't daunting enough…
Ciferri and GRIME would have to do it without any money, no marketing, and an entire generation of tattoo artists who lack the deep knowledge necessary to make or decipher a good needle from bad. Plus, the pair would have to do it all with a self-described "dog shit" website.
Resurrecting Tradition
How good are you at whatever you do?
Good enough to walk into your office, factory or place of business, close your eyes, and know instantly which of your co-workers are top performers just by listening to the sounds associated with their work?
Sound like a silly exercise? Well, this is exactly how old school tattoo artists, guys like Ciferri and GRIME with decades of experience, can identify expertise. "An experienced tattooer can close his eyes and listen to the sound the machine makes when it touches a person's skin and know instantly whether the artist knows what he's doing," Ciferri says.
But this type of intimate knowledge of the craft is dying.
Especially when you consider that years ago, according to industry insiders, tattooers used to make their own needles. In fact, they'd go through a years-long apprenticeship in which elder tattooers would pass along needle making knowledge to the next generation.
However, Ciferri says once needles began being cheaply mass produced overseas this passage of knowledge ceased. "Now we have an entire generation of tattooers who have no idea how to make a good needle and can't tell good from bad," Ciferri says.
The claim isn't an indictment or criticism of today's tattooers.
But rather motivation, along with raising the bar for safety in the industry, that resulted in Ciferri and GRIME partnering to launch Black Claw, a tattoo needle and equipment business founded by tattooers for tattooers. "We're not just selling needles," Ciferri says sternly. "We're using our experience and passion to innovate, set the standard for quality control, and provide tattooers with personalized tools that help them perform better."
Besides sourcing needles made of surgical grade stainless steel and soldered with silver rather than lead, Black Claw designs needle groupings specifically for certain types of tattoos and skin types. "We're helping tattooers find the tools they need to achieve better results from less work," GRIME says.
Initially, Black Claw began as just a needle company.
But two years later, after Black Claw had begun offering an array of tattoo supplies, the company officially unveiled itself at a tattoo convention in San Francisco. "To be truthful we had a primitive, poorly constructed website," says Wesley Brown, Black Claw's Operations Manager. "It was just a shopping cart and a few images."
But the response was overwhelming.
Tattooers gathered at the convention, especially those who already revered Ciferri and GRIME, immediately connected with Black Claw and its mission to promote and protect the tattooing industry.
"Despite our dog shit website we were really successful," Brown says. "The reputation of our founders is key. Tattooing is extremely personal and intimate and customers know our founders are artists themselves and connect with them in ways others simply can't replicate."
Black Claw was definitely clawing share away from competitors. But to scale and ultimately achieve the change it desired for the industry, the dog shit website would have to go.
Are You Branding or Being?
It has been said everyone has a price.
But that may not be the case for the team at Black Claw. "We get calls all the time from investors wanting to get in and telling us how we can grow quicker with their help," Brown says. "But we're not selling out."
In fact, for years Black Claw used its ragtag website to turn a profit on the supplies it sold, reinvested it all in the business, and repeated the cycle again and again. Ultimately, the bootstrapped endeavor yielded a war chest large enough to seek out like-minded partners to help the company take its ecommerce site to the next level and accelerate its growth.
"We just really clicked," Ciferri says of Landis White, the head of strategy at Blue Like Neon, an agency that helps brands discover, create and evolve digital experiences for customers. "I noticed Landis answering questions at a meet-up others couldn't, struck up a conversation, and realized we shared similar views and work attitudes."
"I could see that Seth and his team were really special," White says. "We have similar no bullshit punk rock attitudes and knew immediately the creativity possessed by both teams would combine to make something great."
Shortly after that, Black Claw and Blue Like Neon shook hands and began working to capture the Black Claw voice and translate it into a site that delivers an experience that arouses emotion and causes visitors to feel connected to the brand. "We didn't want a two-dimensional plain website," Brown says. "Sure, we wanted to make it easier to place orders, but our overarching goal was to create an opportunity for customers to learn and bond with the Black Claw brand."
If you ask White, Black Claw made that part easy. "You can brand or you can be," White says in reference to that fine line between branding and authenticity. "The guys at Black Claw are not branding but actually living what you see communicated on the site."
The new Black Claw site:
- Easily syncs with the company's 3PL
- Includes a real-time social proof integration in the form of customer reviews
- Leverages customer information capture tools that position the company to form long-term relationships
In August 2016, the site launched on Shopify Plus, an enterprise-level ecommerce solution for high volume merchants focused on growth rather than the technology that underpins it. "We were already successful, but our site was so lame it was like we were dating the hottest girl in town but driving her around in a lemon of a car," Brown says with a laugh. "But thanks to Blue Like Neon and Shopify it was like we ditched the lemon and began driving the sports car we deserved- we love it."
Since redesigning the site and launching on Plus, Black Claw has experienced year over year results that include:
- Sessions increased 39%
- Page Views increased 69.61%
- Bounce Rate reduced 20%
- Average Order Value increased 13.5%
- Transactions increased 123.94%
"We're so proud of the Black Claw site we show it to other clients looking to grow," White says. "They tell us they want to create the same type of feeling the Black Claw site creates which is the ultimate compliment." Separately, the improved ability to retarget, segment, and communicate with customers who abandoned cart is generating immediate ROI:
- Cart abandonment recovery was 6% before the relaunch
- Cart abandonment recovery increased to 20% following the relaunch
"People are voting with their dollars," Brown says. "The guys at Blue Like Neon and Shopify, especially our account manager Hamza Ayach, are the perfect partners because they do what they promise and the results have been absolutely amazing."
Don't blink though. Black Claw is already itching to needle a brand new problem in the tattoo industry.
Reimagining Disposables as Reusables?
Copycat needle testing.
That's what Black Claw says it's seeing competitors engage in following its groundbreaking lab tests that revealed potentially unsafe needles being used. While Black Claw intends to defend its position as the standard bearer for safe and innovative needles, the company is already pivoting to the future with a focus on brand new problems few others are addressing.
"We're looking for opportunities to fill voids," Ciferri says. "This doesn't stop with needles, and we think we can have an even bigger impact innovating and protecting the industry in terms of sustainability."
Specifically, Black Claw has in its sites the disposable nature of the industry; single-use tattooing supplies that along with bulky packaging creates abundant waste. In the future, Black Claw plans to experiment with ways it might be able to offer sterilization options that may allow certain tattooing supplies to be transformed into reusable items that result in significantly less waste.
"I'm really proud of what we're accomplishing," GRIME says. "I hold tattooing very dear, have dedicated my life to it, and am excited to use my passion to scale and have an even bigger impact on the community we're a part of and love."
While tattooers routinely tell Black Claw they love the company's best in class products, don't be surprised if one day a grassroots movement among people interested in being inked emerges and results in even greater demand for Black Claw's trusted products.
"We want to be on the tips of everyone's tongue," Ciferri says. "Ultimately, we want the recipients of tattoos to demand Black Claw products for health, safety, and sustainability reasons."
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"This is the most important book I've read about Katrina and what came after. In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called 'The People's History of the Storm.' Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines."
Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues and activist and founder of V-Day
"Jordan Flaherty brings the sharp analysis and dedication of a seasoned organizer to his writing, and insightful observation to his reporting. He unfailingly has his ear to the ground in a city that continues to reveal the floodlines of structural racism in America."Tram Nguyen, author of We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11
Floodlines is a firsthand account of community, culture, and resistance in New Orleans. The book weaves the stories of gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, Arab and Latino immigrants, public housing residents, and grassroots activists in the years before and after Katrina. From post-Katrina evacuee camps to torture testimony at Angola Prison to organizing with the family members of the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories behind the headlines from an unforgettable time and place in history.
Jordan Flaherty is a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans. In addition to his award-winning post-Katrina journalism, he was the first journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case and played an important role in bringing the story to theattention of the world. He has produced news segments for Al-Jazeera, TeleSur, and Democracy Now! and appeared as a guest on a wide range of television and radio shows, including CNN's American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, GRITtv, Keep Hope Alive with Reverend Jesse Jackson, and both local and nationally syndicated shows on National Public Radio.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus, the White House's top medical adviser said Sunday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now considering including the negative test as part of its guidance after getting significant "pushback" on its updated recommendations last week.
Under that Dec. 27 guidance, isolation restrictions for people infected with COVID-19 were shortened from 10 days to five days if they are no longer feeling symptoms or running a fever. After that period, they are asked to spend the following five days wearing a mask when around others.
The guidelines have since received criticism from many health professionals for not specifying a negative antigen test as a requirement for leaving isolation.
"There has been some concern about why we don't ask people at that five-day period to get tested," Fauci said. "Looking at it again, there may be an option in that, that testing could be a part of that, and I think we're going to be hearing more about that in the next day or so from the CDC."
Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, said the U.S. has been seeing almost a "vertical increase" of new cases, now averaging 400,000 cases a day, with hospitalizations also up.
"We are definitely in the middle of a very severe surge and uptick in cases," he said. "The acceleration of cases that we've seen is unprecedented, gone well beyond anything we've seen before."
Fauci said he's concerned that the omicron variant is overwhelming the health care system and causing a "major disruption" on other essential services.
"When I say major disruption, you're certainly going to see stresses on the system and the system being people with any kind of jobs ... particularly with critical jobs to keep society functioning normally," Fauci said. "We already know that there are reports from fire departments, from police departments in different cities that 10, 20, 25 and sometimes 30% of the people are ill. And that's something that we need to be concerned about because we want to make sure that we don't have such an impact on society that there really is a disruption. I hope that doesn't happen."
While there is "accumulating evidence" that omicron might lead to less severe disease, he cautioned that the data remains early. Fauci said he worries in particular about the tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans because "a fair number of them will get severe disease."
He urged Americans who have not yet gotten vaccinated and boosted to do so and to mask up indoors to protect themselves and blunt the current surge of U.S. cases.
The Food and Drug Administration last week said preliminary research indicates at-home rapid tests detect omicron, but may have reduced sensitivity. The agency noted it's still studying how the tests perform with the variant, which was first detected in late November.
Fauci said Americans "should not get the impression that those tests are not valuable."
"I think the confusion is that rapid antigen tests have never been as sensitive as the PCR test," Fauci said. "They're very good when they are given sequentially. So if you do them like maybe two or three times over a few day period, at the end of the day, they are as good as the PCR, but as a single test, they are not as sensitive."
A PCR test usually needs to be processed in a laboratory. The test looks for the virus's genetic material and then reproduces it millions of times until it's detectable with a computer.
Fauci said if Americans take the necessary precautions, the U.S. might see some semblance of more normal life returning soon.
"One of these things that we hope for is that this thing will peak after a period of a few weeks and turn around," Fauci said. He expressed hope that by February and March, omicron could fall to a low enough level "that it doesn't disrupt our society, our economy, our way of life."
Fauci spoke on ABC's "This Week" and CNN's "State of the Union."