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Advice from a confidential counsellor
The confidential counsellors are there for you to discuss confidential matters with, such as bullying, intimidation, sexual harassment, aggression or discrimination. You might also want to talk to them about problems with your manager or breaches of academic integrity.
There are different confidential counsellors for different situations:
Confidential counsellor malpractice: this could be excessive spending on a project, for example, or the improper use of a lab.
Confidential counsellor unacceptable behaviour: the workplace should be completely free from unacceptable behaviour, such as bullying, sexual harassment, intimidation, discrimination and violence. If you experience or witness unacceptable behaviour, get in touch with the confidential counsellor.
Confidential counsellor personnel affairs: You may at some point experience problems in your employment relationship with the university. You might feel as if your supervisor will never be satisfied with your performance, or you may not be comfortable with certain decisions. If you're concerned, don't hesitate to ask for advice.
Confidential counsellor PhD candidates: Are you a PhD candidate, and is there something you'd prefer to discuss with someone other than your thesis director or supervisor? The confidential counsellor for PhD candidates is here to help.
Confidential counsellor academic integrity: The confidential counsellor for academic integrity is your first port of call for any questions or situations relating to academic integrity, or if you have suspicions about a current or former employee of Leiden University.
This is what you can expect from a confidential counsellor
Confidential counsellors offer you advice if you have problems in the workplace. They listen, they support you and help you to find solutions for improving your situation. In concrete terms, this means you can expect the confidential counsellor to:
- Be a listening ear;
- Help you to consider what actions you could take and possible solutions;
- Advise you on how to resolve the situation and what to do if you want to submit a complaint;
- Offer assistance and, if you wish, accompany you to a meeting with the other person;
- If necessary, refer you to other support bodies (internal or external).
The confidential counsellor will not: act as a mediator, intermediary or adviser in objection and appeal proceedings; intervene in the normal judicial process; or become involved, in principle, with performance appraisal problems or labour conflicts.
After asking a confidential counsellor to make contact, you will receive a response as soon as possible to arrange a meeting, either online or in person. In this meeting, you will discuss the situation and any support you may need.
If you want to submit a complaint, the confidential counsellor will be able to assist you with this.
Anything you say to a confidential counsellor is automatically guaranteed to be confidential. The confidential counsellor requires your explicit consent before taking any action in consultation with you. You can decide for yourself whether to follow the advice, discuss the issues more widely or submit a complaint. Moreover, the confidential counsellors are completely independent.
If it seems necessary, the confidential counsellor can signal an issue in a general way, for example to a dean or the Ombuds Officer; it is important that the university is aware of problems within the organisation. However, this will never involve disclosing your identity or your own situation.
Help with a difficult conversation
You feel that your manager is discriminating against you. She treats you differently than your colleagues. She no longer responds to your mails, for example, won't grant you permission to follow specific training and has been ignoring you since a discussion about the problems became heated. You definitely do not want to discuss the matter with her anymore but want to discuss this behaviour with her manager instead. You give the confidential counsellor permission to attend this meeting. The manager takes action and your manager's attitude changes for the better.
Help to improve communication
You are dissatisfied with your scheduling. This annoys your manager, and your relationship deteriorates. You contact the confidential counsellor. Together you have soon analysed the situation. You think you shouldn't have to say why your schedule is so important to you: you have caring responsibilities and have to fit these into your schedule, but see this as a private matter. The confidential counsellor advises explaining to your manager in general terms how important it is for you to have a convenient schedule. Then you can count on more understanding and fewer problems.
Having doubts?
Are you unsure which of the confidential counsellors to approach with a problem or question, or do you want some information about your options for reporting an issue? The central information point is a confidential, and if preferred, anonymous way of contacting a confidential counsellor. You can get in touch via e-mail, a contact form or by phone 071-527 3128.
You can also contact the Ombuds Officer for staff. Whereas a confidential counsellor primarily considers your individual situation, the Ombuds Officer focuses on patterns and how the working environment can be made safer.
Appeals and Objections Committee
If you disagree with a decision and are unable to reach an amicable agreement, you can lodge an objection against the decision via the Appeals and Objections Committee. The committee, the secretary and the relevant secretariat have a duty of confidentiality. All information handled by them is therefore kept strictly confidential.


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I have a great love for Christmas romance novels. I had never read any of Carolyn Brown's
previous novels, but I jumped at the chance to review her Christmas cowboy
Sage Presley is having a bad Christmas. While away at an art show, her Grandma has
decided to sell the family ranch to a stranger and move to Pennsylvania to take
care of her older sister. Sage rushes
home in a blizzard to talk her Grandma out of the absurd idea, only to find
herself snowed in with sexy cowboy Creed and her Grandma gone. Sage soon finds out that her Grandma has her
best interests at heart. Will she be
able to convince her Grandma to kick Creed out, or will she want Creed to stay?
The story was very cute, especially with the addition of
puppies and kittens. My only criticism would
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Examining the Archive: a class lecture on activist posters
November 20, 2013 by
What makes art activist? What makes it political? Does who is using it matter?
The Interference Archive is uniquely situated as both a living collection of activist cultures and ideas, and a site of popular education and engagement with these ideas. One way we integrate these facets is by offering lectures/tours/workshops to groups and classes. I recently taught an interactive workshop on activist printmaking and political art at the Interference Archive, where I currently volunteer on the cataloging team and work on my political art research as the Resident Scholar.
For the workshop, in order to reflect the content of the class who was visiting, I wanted to highlight feminist printmakers who create paper-based works that support both global and local liberation projects. I also wanted to select works that have an activist lens which encompassed the struggles and experiences of women of color and allies.
Using these criteria within the collections at the Interference Archive, we still have a lot of options to choose from. I pulled out the files for three printmakers' work:
Melanie Cervantes [dignidadrebelde.com/],
Mary Mack Tremonte [www.marymacktremonte.org/],
and Favianna Rodriguez [favianna.com/].
After I spoke about the Archive's genesis, and gave some history of the popularization of screen printing in the US*, we began to examine pieces in the IA. While flipping through the files and handing some of the pieces around — this object-interaction one of the unusual and wonderful things about the IA — we talked about the questions above and then some:
What makes a print political? Why would we call this poster "activist"? What are the determining factors to call this "art" and what kind of art? Are all prints in some way activist because of the history?
Trying to define "political art" or "activist art" is a challenge many people have thought about. Is it helpful to first define politics, activism, or art? The political is then any element that relates to the governing, autonomy, liberty, freedom and choices of a group of people. Activism can be thought of as actions made from a cultural, identity, or moral imperative with a desired effect. As for art…
In Strategic Visibility, artist and art critic Nato Thompson states, "it is the total lack of classically defined utility that tends to be the signpost for most things arty." For those of us interested in art that has a specific function, effect, or utility — inspiring activism or disseminating political content, in this instance — he suggests that a radical critical approach is to ask "not 'is it art?' " but "what does it do? … what effects are we interested in [it] producing?"**
Instead of "art," artist and Georgetown professor Nicholas Mirzoeff uses the term "visual culture" for the hyper-visuality of everyday life; for the things we look at every day which are produced in and from a visual discourse, or conversation, with the things around them. Further on in that essay, Mirzoeff positions "visuality within a discursive field of power where visual sign systems are deployed to achieve certain ends," and argues that, "visuality is a strategy. It is not neutral. "
Political art can thus be understood one way as the non-neutral strategy of using visual culture within social and protest movements to achieve certain ends. This makes it teleological, or goal-oriented, in its messaging. This is the "activist" part — some effect, or utility, is hoped-for in producing it. So, looking back to posters: why would we call them activist? If they are part of a conversation which includes a call to action. For political posters, this call to action is non-market based, and can come from a cultural or moral imperative rather than a call-to-action that comes from a shopping imperative.
But the message would be a bit hollow if the production was not also looked at as potentially activist or political, right? The message of a political poster, for example Melanie Cervantes's Brown and Proud, pictured, is political because it relates to the autonomy of a group of people. This example is out of Dignidad Rebelde, the graphic arts collaboration between Oakland-based artist-activists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes, who "believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions," and who "create work that translates people's stories into art that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it."*** The making is political because it comes from a 100-year-old printmaking tradition where individuals or groups create a work that urges liberation, made in a non-exploitative way, via collective process while poaching the tools of industrial mechanics like screenprinting, graphic design, and photocopying.
Because political/activist art is both by and about utility as well as politics, and communities as well as activists, it's inherently tied in to the people making it and the intended audiences for it. The individuals and groups who make this kind of cultural production are primarily movement actors [e.g. activists] within the communities meant to experience and co-create the work, artists, cultural activists, tool-having professionals, also often from within the communities of interest. These groups are far from mutually exclusive and often involve a lot of cross-over.
Political art is criticized for being too didactic, that is too blatant, loud, or uncrafty about it's intentions. But, if we see it as visual culture, as part of a conversation, then we can allow it to intentionally make a point: for example, to be Brown and Proud is a good thing. It's also criticized for lacking effect in lieu of more "direct" activist tactics. While we can also not assume that the creation of any revolutionary cultural item is enough to incite revolution, it's also unfair to assume that the production of something that of revolutionary cultural voice is a failure. Most political art does not have a set space for responses, as in the gallery settings which fine art does, or in the market reports which commercial art generates.
To review, I think the factors that define political art are effect/utility in the message, awareness of politics in the production, and community engagement or voice. What do you think? What else is there to consider? Who else is talking about this work in ways you want to engage with?
The Interference Archive is open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 12-5pm, and
by appointment for individuals and classes to get customized tours. Event listings and more are at: www.interferencearchive.org, or email interferencearchive [at] gmail.com to book your class visit.
Hadassah Damien is the Resident Scholar at the Interference Archive. Her work examines political icons in activist art, and she's researching in the Archive to build out a digital humanities project that includes an online catalog of Raised Fist images. See more here: www.raisedfist.femmetech.org
*Check out Paper Politics, Post-Digital Print [PDF], or this interview with historian Lincoln Cushing for some of that history.
**Nato Thompson, Strategic Visibility; A Project by Four Artist/Researchers, in
Art Journal, V 63 N1 Spring 2004 pp 38 – 40 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134473. p39.
***About Us, http://dignidadrebelde.com/section/view/about_us


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Few bands arouse a crowd into a collective shake like Flow Tribe. The six-member band's onstage chemistry reflects a seamless combination of soul and movement that hits the audience within the first few notes. Virgin listeners and avid fans alike are drawn in by the distinctive sound that feels both familiar and original. Outfitted for each performance in colorful, carefully selected suits, it's clear their focus is sharp and the party has begun. This is the work of professional musicians who've found their passion, and are living a dream where everyone's welcome.
Second line brass and Cuban-Caribbean rhythms meld with R&B, soul, rock, and hip-hop beats in high-energy performances that turn every show into a celebration. New Orleans is influence itself, the unparalleled free and easy city weaving its way into track after track of original scores that make up a single definition of sound, which Flow Tribe has dubbed "backbone-cracking music."
K.C. O'Rorke (vocals, trumpet), John-Michael Early (harmonica, washboard, vocals, keyboard), Russell Olschner (drums), Chad Penot (bass, vocals), Bryan Santos (guitar, timbales), and Mario Palmisano (guitar) are native New Orleanians and high school pals who've been writing music and playing live shows since the band's inception in 2004. Post graduation, they went their separate ways, but after Katrina, each returned to their hometown, inherently becoming active members in the rebuilding of a community that's stronger than ever. Flow Tribe may well be the city's next music ambassadors.


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At the January 2000 Annual Meeting in Chicago, we, the new members of the Task Force on Graduate Education (TFGE), walked into the Graduate Student Open Forum to face the full range of disillusion and frustration that many fellow graduate students would express to us for the first time. As their newly installed representatives within the AHA, we were still unsure of our role. Staring out into tightly packed rows of mostly young, articulate historians, I realized that their fears about the job market and inability to make ends meet on the salary of a teaching assistant or adjunct rivaled my own. Bracing myself for the tide of pessimism and the demand for action that was sure to come, I took copious notes, thinking that if I could just get their thoughts down and the word out over the next three years, the AHA could do something.
"Advisers think we shouldn't complain about taking out more student loans," exclaimed one student who already had more than enough loans to pay back from his undergraduate years. "Unions can't solve our problems if they don't get recognized," said another. "But what good can a union do," called a voice from the back of the room, "if the university's administration has decided to downsize your whole department?" Another voice agreed: "That's right. Humanities professors don't rake in the kind of profits that the hard sciences do. Politically, no one cares about history anymore, just economics." Suddenly, a man in the third row stood up. "We've lost three professors to retirement," he attested, "and now they're thinking of shutting down our PhD program in history altogether. How am I going to get a job two years from now if my university's graduate program doesn't exist anymore?" I remember thinking that these graduate students were right: the AHA really can not do all that much besides investigating graduate student concerns and agreeing with their demands for change. Still, even if it did only this much, the AHA would play a crucial role. However urgent graduate students' needs are now and however gradual the impact of the AHA might be, the willingness of the AHA to endorse the need for dramatic change in graduate education could mean a great deal.
The experience of serving as the graduate student representative to Council and as chair of the TFGE for nearly two years has tremendously enriched my understanding of the role of the AHA in mapping out the course of graduate education. Like all the members of the task force, I have become more realistic in setting goals, but I am no less optimistic about what a few committed historians can do. Since the 2000 meeting, not only has former AHA President Eric Foner taken the lead in establishing a permanent body within the AHA to deal with institutional dependence on adjuncts, but our current president, Wm. Roger Louis, is vigorously gathering support for a National History Center in Washington. Moreover, an AHA Committee on Graduate Education (CGE) is conducting a full-scale survey of every history graduate program in the country (the last such survey was undertaken in 1959). This survey will finally collect data on such important issues as the rate of graduate student attrition for lack of funding and the identity of graduate programs that regularly place candidates in tenure-track jobs as well as the reasons for their ability to do so. More important, while department chairs will provide this information, the CGE plans to send a separate survey to graduate student members and solicit information on their experiences directly. In this regard, the members of the TFGE took the lead in October 2000 when we e-mailed an informal set of four questions to all AHA student members. They were: 1) At what stage of your graduate program are you? 2) What would you identify as your greatest sources of intellectual and moral support in graduate school? 3) What issue concerns you the most as a graduate student in your stage of graduate studies? 4) Please add any comments you might have.
In asking these questions, the task force hoped to gather confidential, anecdotal feedback that we could use to discern general patterns of perception and experience among graduate students in history. In defining our own role within the AHA, establishing the basis for an annual exchange of ideas between the AHA leadership and one of its key constituencies seemed a logical first step. We received nearly 300 responses from graduate students. Writing from as far away as Morocco, Japan, and England, graduate students surprised us with the depth of their honesty, the personal tone of their messages, and the urgency of their concerns.
Although this "sample" may be unscientific, these responses are invaluable. That graduate students expressed a high degree of receptivity to our efforts in itself may bode well for the prospects of the upcoming CGE. Moreover, this initial testing of the waters seems to reveal a positive and even warm relationship between the AHA and the future generation of historians who will one day take its helm. Some students feel that the AHA provides them with a sense of belonging to a community greater than themselves—a feeling that their experiences in graduate school has not. As one student attested, "I think it is great that the AHA recognizes the need to foster a special relationship with graduate students. There is not a lot of support out there for us and I joined the AHA to try to find camaraderie with other up-and-coming historians. I feel I have found that so far with your organization and I look forward to hearing more about what plans you have for graduate students." A great number of students confessed to an overwhelming sense of isolation. Students echoed these sentiments from one e-mail to another. One graduate student wrote, "I've been extremely heartened by the stances on adjuncts and grad student organizing that the AHA has taken, and I appreciate the efforts the organization has made to survey the job market in history. . . . I just want to say again how glad I am that the AHA has a Task Force on Graduate Education and that you are surveying members."
But if graduate students feel that the AHA is as "there" for them as it is for established historians, they also expect that the AHA should expand its roles of being a forum for the profession as well as the profession's interface to the public. That the AHA should take seriously the responses to our queries seems clear. By far, the majority of those who responded were all advanced graduate students. Poised to enter the profession, they are most concerned that completing graduate school may earn them a title but not a career.
A majority of graduate students expressed fear over the state of the job market. However, their complaints were neither vague nor self-pitying. Rather, they articulated a clear sense that the "tightness" of the market stemmed from two sources: 1) the increasing reliance of universities on adjunct faculty; and 2) the overproduction of PhDs in history. As one student put it, "Good luck getting anyone to do anything [about it]. The faculty at [my institution] have openly declared that if students are 'dumb enough' to want to get a history PhD in this job market, it's not their problem and they'll just go on taking in 40 plus new students a year. The lack of a sense of responsibility is appalling, especially when compared to fields where the job market is healthy and the profession has standards." When considering who among their intellectual and personal network provided the greatest source of support, graduate students counted their peers first, family second, and their advisers last (if at all). Reading message after message that attested to this, it seemed as if the two conditions—the unreliability of advisers and the "glut" in the market for history PhDs—were related. As one student bitingly observed:
We are expected to finish coursework quickly, write brilliant dissertations and present [papers] at conferences along the way. But when we must compete with too many other graduate students for funding, for time to speak in class, and for professors' attention, we are fighting an uphill battle to meet their expectations. While some graduate students excel, many more are left to languish and pay shockingly high rates for tuition and fees under the impression that they would not have been admitted if the department did not believe that good use could be made of their degree in the future. [Such a situation] fosters feelings of resentment, spurs competition between students, and creates a desperate labor pool that departments can exploit through temporary and part-time hiring, low wages, and the kind of degrading cattle-call interview process that too often puts a demeaning end to a long and stressful graduate career.
In voicing such assessments, many students noted that older generations of historians never faced the possibility of permanent professional limbo that increasingly seems to define the discipline.
Many graduate students observed that senior historians—including some of their advisers—were out of touch with the state of affairs or are "in denial" thinking that a grad student assembly line would not negatively affect the quality of the professorate, graduate student morale, and the undergraduate teaching climate at most universities. A large number of graduate students relied on terms derived from the world of industry, commerce, and the labor struggle to characterize today's world of graduate education. "In a booming economy, I refuse to work for substandard pay. Unfortunately, new PhDs are finding that adjunct positions with no benefits are frequently the only option. . I'm finding that high school teachers have better employment options than we [do]—and without the years of study we have endured. The only difference between these two groups is the teachers' union[s] that exist for secondary level teachers." Another warned, "Remember that you are doing something that has little market value. That can only change with a sincere effort to please the people—students, parents, administrators, and taxpayers—who pay for your product."
Yet, despite their pessimism regarding the stagnation of the market and their own institutions' responsibility for worsening matters through over-admission of graduate students, these historians were for the most part happy to be historians. The joy they took in their craft proved that they were meant to be historians all along. They were convinced that a strong commitment to the profession, a spirit of compromise, and a dose of confrontation every now and again could effect change. But they also had a number of specific suggestions about how the AHA can help them. These included making greater efforts to educate the public on the short- and long-term costs of relying on adjunct faculty as a primary source of labor at the university and community college level; discovering precisely which institutions rely more heavily on adjuncts; and investigating the correlation between successful tenure-track job candidates and their personal, professional, and institutional characteristics (especially age, publication record, teaching experience, and degree of benefit from direct institutional guidance on preparing for the job market). Finally, many graduate students demand that the AHA lead open discussions on the relationship between over-admission of graduate students to fill the need for assistant teachers, overproduction of PhDs, and the tightness of the job market.
In short, many historians feel that the AHA is uniquely qualified to assess the current state of graduate education, evaluate its flaws, and encourage public—not just academic—debate about possible solutions. I have never been so convinced that the time to act is now. Graduate students are the future of the profession and they deserve to play a more critical role in shaping the course it takes in the present. After all, younger generations will pay the price for the action—and inaction—of established historians today. For this reason, the Committee on Graduate Education bears great responsibility for designing a set of questions that will provide us with the evidence to determine how and why graduate education must change. However, it is equally true that graduate students' willingness to participate in the survey and share their views regularly with their representatives in the AHA is fundamental. The Task Force on Graduate Education asks that each of us do our part. The future of our profession depends on it.
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The Natural Resources and Environmental Research Center (NRERC)
Director: Dr. Ghermandi Andrea
NRERC was established in 1985, to carry out interdisciplinary research in the area of natural resource and environmental resource management, pioneering this academic research field in Israel.
NRERC was the first, and for many years the only, scientific organization, dealing with socio-economic aspects of the environment in Israel.
NRERC has conducted theoretical, applied and policy studies in the areas of Environmental Resource Management (water and air quality, solid waste, noise pollution, preservation of natural areas and open spaces), and Natural Resource Management (depleting and renewable resource: water, energy, non-fuel minerals).
Areas of scientific activity include water trade issues, tradable pollution permits, the value of open spaces, the existence of unique natural resources, solid waste and recycling, pollution from transportation, biodiversity conservation, and economic aspects of climate change. Our studies include evaluation of the economic costs of global climate change in the Mediterranean; Vulnerability of Water Resource due to Climate Change in the Eastern-Mediterranean Ecosystem- an Integrated Approach to Sustainable Management- Socio-Economic Aspect;
Recently, NRERC was chosen, by the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection, to lead "The Israeli Center for Climate Change" (ICCIC). The center will produce policy papers regarding adaptation to climate change.
Most of the funding comes from external research funds, either national (Ministries of Environmental Protection, National Infrastructure etc.) or international (EU FP6, FP7, European Commission and alike).
Research results are published as research reports, working papers, conference proceedings, and scientific journal papers. NRERC organizes workshops and symposia on issues of interest to the scientific community, decision-making bodies and to the general public.
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Sea level rise and extreme weather are of the most troubling effects related to climate change.
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Energy is essential to economic growth, yet, its environmental impacts, such as use of fossil fuels and emission of air pollutants should be evaluated.
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The NRERC is now a member at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)


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If you thought your MacBook or iPhone would be immune to the Meltdown and Spectre microprocessor flaws acknowledged earlier this week by Intel, you would be wrong.
The problems found in the chips could allow hackers to get access to passwords and other sensitive data stored on personal computers.
In a statement, released by Apple on Thursday, the company announced, "All Mac systems and iOS devices are affected."
The good news is that "there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time" and that a change could come soon, according to Apple. The company says it has "already released mitigations in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2 to help defend against Meltdown. Apple Watch is not affected by Meltdown. In the coming days we plan to release mitigations in Safari to help defend against Spectre."
Even so, as Devin Coldewey reports for TechCrunch: "If you're wondering why people keep saying, 'mitigate' instead of 'fix' or 'counteract' or something, it's because Meltdown and Spectre take advantage of computing practices so basic that avoiding them is extremely difficult and complex. And new variants of attacks may very well circumvent the protections companies have put together during the last few months during which the exploits were kept secret. The mitigations and patches will probably multiply."
We wrote earlier that security researchers at Google and elsewhere discovered vulnerabilities in chips made by Intel, AMD, ARM Holdings and other companies. Intel said it was working to "develop an industry-wide approach to resolve [the] issue promptly."
As NPR's Laura Sydell reported for All Things Considered, "When you install a program on your computer, there's generally a wall between it and other programs. But the security flaws, which were built into the chips from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ARM, allow one program to spy on another."
Moritz Lipp of Austria's Graz University of Technology is one of the researchers who found the flaw. He tells Sydell that the problem is found on millions of computers, as well as on smartphones and in cloud storage provided by companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple and Microsoft. While a software patch might mitigate the problem, it is really a hardware issue.
"If you have an issue in hardware, it's not very easy to just change the hardware because you already sold millions of CPUs. And you just can't call them back and change them," Lipp says.
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Nosebleeds are usually harmless and easily controlled, but they can look scary. Try not to worry — most nosebleeds are easy to stop.
How Can I Stop a Nosebleed?
Try these simple tips to stop a nosebleed:
- Get some tissues or a damp cloth to catch the blood.
- Sit up or stand.
- Tilt your head forward and pinch your nostrils together just below the bony center part of your nose. Applying pressure helps stop the blood flow and the nosebleed will usually stop with 10 minutes of steady pressure. Don't stop applying pressure to keep checking if the bleeding has stopped.
If you get a nosebleed, don't blow your nose. This can cause more bleeding. Also, don't tilt your head back. This common practice will cause blood to run into your throat. This can make you cough or choke, and if you swallow a lot of blood, you might vomit.
If you've tried the steps above twice and the bleeding continues after the second attempt, you'll need to see your school nurse or a doctor.
After you've stopped the initial nosebleed, don't lift heavy objects or do other activities that cause you to strain, and try not to blow your nose for 24 hours.
Now that your nosebleed is over, let's take a look at what a nosebleed is and what can cause it.
Different Kinds of Nosebleeds
The most common kind of nosebleed is an anterior nosebleed, which comes from the front of the nose. Capillaries, or very small blood vessels, that are inside the nose may break and bleed, causing this type of nosebleed.
Another kind of nosebleed is a posterior nosebleed, which comes from the deepest part of the nose. Blood from a posterior nosebleed flows down the back of the throat even if the person is sitting or standing. Teens rarely have posterior nosebleeds. They're more common in older people, people who have high blood pressure, and people who have had nose or face injuries.
What Causes Nosebleeds?
The most common cause of anterior nosebleeds is dry air. A dry climate or heated indoor air irritates and dries out nasal membranes, causing crusts that may itch and then bleed when scratched or picked. Colds may also irritate the lining of the nose. Bleeding may happen after repeated nose-blowing. When you combine a cold with dry winter air, you have the perfect formula for nosebleeds.
Allergies can also cause problems, and a doctor may prescribe medicine such as antihistamines or decongestants to control an itchy, runny, or stuffy nose. The medicine can also dry out the nasal membranes and contribute to nosebleeds.
An injury to the nose may cause bleeding and isn't usually cause for alarm. If you ever have a facial injury, use the tips outlined earlier to stop the nosebleed. If you can't stop the bleeding after 10 minutes or you are concerned about other facial injuries, see a medical professional right away.
Nosebleeds are rarely cause for alarm, but frequent nosebleeds might indicate a more serious problem. If you get nosebleeds more than once a week, you should see your doctor. Most cases of frequent nosebleeds are easily treated. Sometimes tiny blood vessels inside the nose become irritated and don't heal. This happens more frequently in teens who have ongoing allergies or frequent colds. A doctor may have a solution if you have this problem.
If your doctor rules out a sinus infection, allergies, or irritated blood vessels, he or she may order other tests to see why you're getting frequent nosebleeds. Rarely, a bleeding disorder or abnormally formed blood vessels could be a possibility.
Cocaine (or other drugs that are snorted through the nose) can also cause nosebleeds. If you suspect a friend is using cocaine, try talking about it and get help from a trusted adult.
Can I Prevent Nosebleeds?
- When you blow your nose (especially when you have a cold), do so gently into a soft tissue. Don't blow forcefully or pick your nose.
- Your doctor may recommend a cool-mist humidifier to moisten your indoor air.
- Keep the inside of your nose moist with saline (saltwater) nasal spray or gel, or dab petroleum jelly or antibiotic ointment gently around the opening of the nostrils.
- Wear protective athletic equipment when playing sports that could cause injury to the nose.
An occasional nosebleed may make you worry, but there's no need to panic — now you know what to do!
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Yesterday marked the sixth year of my midlife epiphany ... on Feb. 4, 2008, I was flipping through an elderly copy of ARTnews magazine. A final glance before junking it into the recycling bin under the stairs.
But wait, what? Here's an ad for a life's-work solo show in Philadelphia, called "Adventures in 'Pataphysics." Why hadn't I noticed it months ago, when the magazine was fresh? My father had been into Pataphysics in the 1950s; I'd thought he was the only one making art about it. In that moment, my quest to locate and preserve my father's artwork was launched. It's been an occupation ever since. When I began looking, I knew very little about my father as an artist. My memories, of a much-loved father, are of listening to records and painting together. How fun is a father who encourages scribbling on the walls? I was only four when he died, and lucky to have any memories at all.... Six years into the quest, I have learned a great deal about my father, the artist. Michael R. Taylor, Director of the Hood Museum, helped me gain some objectivity in my research. About 250 works have surfaced. I'm thrilled to be showing a few of the paintings and prints in March, in Philadelphia. The artwork is splendid. Jim himself remains elusive. The people who loved my father and his work are fascinating, generous, clever, offbeat, wonderful friends. I've interviewed Jim Brewton's friends and collectors in Canada, Denmark, all over the U.S., and U.K. It's been an amazing puzzle so far. And all thanks to flipping through a magazine before dropping it in the recycling. Isn't life Pataphysical.... |
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Wall Street Journal Picks up Sloan-Kettering Story
But my favorite comment was posted by "Get Real CME Companies," a person who has worked in the CME system for 20 years. The writer's description of how porous the so-called firewall is between drug companies and the "independent" medical education companies that produce the CME is so accurate and trenchant that I can't resist reprinting it below in its entirety:
"I love all the comments by the CME vendors about how great the system is and how the rules require independence. I have never read such a load of crap in my life. Yes, the rules require independence. Who enforces it? If you work in CME you know the answer very well NO ONE. As the recent investigation by the Senate Finance Committee found the ACCME has no teeth whatsover. But more importantly, the rules are loosely structured and basically an entire approach has developed that works around the rules. And it's not very sophisticated but certainly very devious. Marketing teams will generate a list of medical topics they think are important, things that they supposedly get questions about. Inevitably, certain off-label uses of their product will be on the list because as I said of course they get lots of questions about that. That list of questions or topics will be used by the companies grants department to award grants. Now the CME vendors are very smart folks, it's an incredibly profitable business. They will submit grants and they will note in the request who the chairperson of the event will be and inevitably it will be the lead investigator from a hot off-label study. It's a shocker but that grant request will be awarded while hundreds of others will be rejected. So the CME vendors learn over time what exactly they need to do to get the money. Pharma companies don't need to exercise any control. All the control they need happens right up from when the grant decision is made. It's a giant game incredibly profitable for pharma and the CME vendors alike. And there is no one minding the store. I have worked in this area for 20 years and what I have seen happen in that time frame makes me sick. CME has become just another marketing tool. Many of the CME vendors are the same companies who do the marketing programs, they just have a CME arm! I applaud Sloan-Kettering. And I applaud this blog for picking it up. I frequently look at about 4 or 5 different pharma related blogs and did not see this anywhere. It's a great development and I hope it sets a trend. Pharma and CME have had too many years to clean up their act. It's time for more dramatic change. Please keep focused on this story, it's huge."
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See,"Who's Afraid of Industry-Sponsored CME?
No Pharma Funding at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center."
http://brainscienceblogs.com/memorial-sloan-kettering-opts/ - February 11, 2008 at 2:03 AM
to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Ethics Committee
from: a concerned citizen!
Please clarify Sloan's policies relative to the following Conflict of Interest [COI]/ethics issues: On occasion [e.g. when an article appears in the lay press] an intuitive (and persistent cancer) patient (or their proxy) accesses the Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory via phone, seeking information about (and participation in) epothilone clinical trials conducted at MSKCC. In the past the non-clinician Ph.D. Administrative Manager [AM] (Dr. Sarah Danishefsky, the spouse of the Principal Investigator [PI, also a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University]) of the high profile Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory has instructed me (a junior, but not direct report) to keep secret (withhold/embargo) known information relative to the availability of clinical trials conducted at MSKCC on a (Bristol Myers Squibb [and/or possibly Novartis'] developed epothilone derivative) drug candidate(s) that compete(s) directly with an epothilone analogue candidate that emanates from the Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, in variance with the above-mentioned queries and the fact that the AM had actually apprised me that a clinical trial on the competitor's drug candidate(s) was or were commencing (or had commenced) at Sloan and then instructed me to embargo this information. The AM subsequently attempted to cloak her motives by stating "ours are better than theirs," invoking early, at that point unverified comparative in-vitro and/or in-vivo data points (supplied by a colleague whose scientific methodology had been questioned on more than one occasion by disparate, mutually exclusive researchers, (grant and other) administrators and/or industrial courtship candidates who did not know of each other's concerns about the Sloan colleague researcher). At that point in time the Bioorganic's candidate was ~ an estimated 1 year from the start of a proposed and hoped for clinical trial (which has apparently since begun [off site, and possibly at Sloan]). The lab had smarted, being bested (and dropping out of a front-runner position) in a high profile natural product synthesis race when a staff process chemist charged with supplying an already solved piece of the puzzle reportedly used the wrong racemer of a reagent that was not checked appropriately by the A team prior to utilization, dooming an otherwise successful virtually complete synthesis to failure. Germane is a financially significant, development / rights purchase of a Bioorganic Laboratory epothilone drug candidate by Roche via Kosan (its licensee) [since abandoned by Roche]. Although one can understand the premise of not promoting a competitor's product, that business tenet would clearly not be applicable in this situation at Sloan. Though I have been warned on more than one occasion to not report these problems by Sloan employees I've felt uncomfortable misleading seemingly desperate cancer patients or their proxies and I have always referred these queries to either the MSKCC Physician Referral help line or to administrators or nurse clinicians affiliated with the clinician under whose aegis the BMS [and/or possibly the Novartis] trial (and possibly, now, the Bioorganic candidate's study) is apparently conducted at Sloan) for proper vetting. That the Administrative Manager would place her own potential financial successes and results above the content of the character of the Sloan-Kettering Institute does not surprise me. That she instructed (and expected me) to abet this initiative was out of line and evidence of a lack of respect for the Institute and for myself. I did not think that the AM would go so low as to expect me to do her dirty work or to drop her guard to the point that she'd expose herself, the lab and Sloan to this type of ethics liability, considering that the Bioorganic compound(s) might very well prove to be the best of the epothilone class, after proper clinical trial vetting. Such a tack, if followed would be in variance with that espoused [by Varmus, Nurse, Mendelsohn and/or Abeloff] on the "Titans of Cancer" television special. My parent's first child died of complications from childhood leukemia at Memorial Hospital two years before I was born. A child with this affliction today stands a good chance of survival due in no small part to the therapeutic advances fomented at Sloan and other like-minded Institutions, yet if the above-mentioned bio-ethically challenged tack were allowed to continue unchecked, it would tarnish the otherwise important science and medicine that emanates from MSKCC and instead of properly steeling hope, Sloan Kettering would merely be stealing hope, one clinical trial enrollee at a time. There is a difference between proudly standing behind one's brilliant work product and bending the rules when convenient for oneself, especially when lives may be in the balance and when the professionals bending rules are people and/or Institutions who clearly know better and who claim to be standard bearers of higher ethical practice. A US Army General (possibly a War-College dean/affiliate) has stated (I paraphrase) that Harvard MBA candidates learn to overcome ethics while pursuing a profit. Such an MO may be in variance with the COI and ethics policies of MSKCC. The above mentioned instance of craven self-servitude is coupled with other episodes of intermittently palpable disingenuousness at Sloan (e.g. that the AM is considered a "full time" employee, yet is often on campus at most perhaps 50% time and has had the temerity to complain during work hours via phone from off-campus that she could not check her stocks, peculiar acts of self promotion (e.g.: arranging for one's own nomination for scientific accolades and acting surprised and naive when awarded them, including a prize from the very company [BMS] on the short end of the AM's conflicted interest), a protégé professor who fellowshipped in the Bioorganic Lab involved in his own hubris inspired imbroglio (retraction of multiple tenure facilitating papers and allegations of having an affair with a student and of her "irreproducible" data); the Bioorganic PI had reportedly been barred from consulting at a branch of a NJ based major pharmaceutical company, concerns about the efficacy of laboratory notebook record keeping and the egregious physical plant shortcomings at the Institute (a confluence of bizarre design, building/construction and facilities management flaws in the RRL laboratory building that intermittently, inappropriately render the RRL a toxic firetrap [whose cover-up (and the ruse invoked while duping a rightfully concerned local community, the community board and the city relative to systemic infrastructure problems in the RRL and safety issues at MSKCC that affect employee and community safety) allowing for the hurdling of impediments to the construction of the new/replacement Sloan research tower and the granting of a zoning variance has included the conjuring and synchronizing of cover stories (as well as threats against employees who appropriately report environmental health and safety (EH&S) problems at Sloan) by MSKCC (facilities management and other Sloan administrators). Sloan had to previously abandon a building due to facilities/infrastructure problems that allowed for its employees to be exposed to unsafe levels of poisonous carbon monoxide]; these and other infrastructure problems affect reaction conditions and therefore stand to impeach the credibility of research conducted at Sloan (e.g.: cross contamination between supposedly mutually exclusive fume hoods and ductwork whose controls were unfathomably, yet knowingly, not installed properly by MSK). It has also been reported that the PI of the Bioorganic Laboratory has attempted to leverage (to the point of irritating) the clinician overseeing clinical trials at Sloan to continue and/or increase enrollment in a trial of the above-mentioned bioorganic drug candidate in variance with the clinician's concerns about the bioorganic drug candidate's efficacy and patient safety. This is significant because very large milestone dependent royalty payments are contingent upon continued enrollment of patients and/or completion of a clinical trial's "Phase." A high profile researcher/clinician (a deputy physician in chief) at Sloan has been arrested following an SEC investigation for insider (Imclone) stock trading; The former physician in chief committed suicide; Off-scale windfall profits have been available to biotech company insiders at Sloan, perhaps their fortunate tipees (e.g.: Ariad [stock ticker: Aria] whose stock price jumped one hundred (100) times or ten thousand (10,000) percent during a relatively short ~ five (5) month period (10/99-3/00) following assuaging of a "buy" impediment [the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, pardoned by President Clinton, has sat on the Board of Ariad]) and perhaps fortunate future tipees, were this type of lightning to strike again. Although the honest application of the forces of commerce (monetary reward for brilliant and properly vetted hard work) are appropriate, inappropriate leverage by a powerful non-clinician possibly resulting in someone being a pawn so that the non-clinician or the Institute could receive a royalty payment that lay in the balance, or the embargoing of known information about the availability of competitors' clinical trial drug candidates are likely not. Congress has investigated the National Institutes of Health (NIH) relative to ethics/conflict of interest concerns (e.g.: the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) erstwhile Director). So who's minding the store and who can a desperate cancer sufferer trust if the guardians are equally or more concerned with their own stock portfolios than patient safety and drug efficacy? Some of these issues have been broached in the New York Times, The New York Observer, other press publications and even Michael Moore's movie "Sicko." For the protection of the Institute, in these times of heightened corporate, medical and pharmaceutical industry scrutiny and accountability, given that the research conducted in the Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory is funded in part by government (e.g.: NIH RO1 [discovery] and RAID [scale-up for industrial development (the NIH researcher/administrator who vetted the Sloan epothilone candidate prior to award of an NIH RAID grant has since sat on the Board of Kosan)]) grants and philanthropic (e.g.: MSKCC Major Donor) sources and that MSKCC is reviewed (and accredited) by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations (JCAHO), please clarify Sloan's policy relative to the ethics/conflict of interest awkwardness discussed in this note. One ought to be wary whether a greeting offered by Sloan to a cancer sufferer (especially one who is recruited to join a [lab to clinic] "translational" experimental study) is a compassionate smile or a smirk and whether Sloan is a leader in the fight against cancer or merely a cog in the "cancer racket." There is a connection between the EH&S and ethics problems as potential and/or realized profit has affected the non-addressment of systemic environmental health and safety issues at Sloan. Has Sloan conjured and synchronized their cover stories relative to these issues as MSKCC has done in the past relative to other white-washes for which Sloan "conducted its own investigation" (eg: EH&S, "drug dealing" in its basement [the General Stores (GS) takes up a large portion of the MSKCC basement and one must be concerned as to if and how extensively the GS were compromised [and if government subsidized products or patient safety were compromised])? Is MSKCC following the Hippocratic or Hypocritic Oath? The PI of the lab discussed in this note has in the past been 'predicted' to win the Nobel Prize, see: http://scientific.thomson.com/press/2007/8407285/ People and Institutes capable of performing this level of science clearly know better than to act this way, especially when it is clearly not necessary. Shame on you! How dare you! - May 9, 2008 at 8:54 PM


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The top financial official for the small city of Dixon, Ill., is accused of stealing more than $30 million from city coffers over the past six years. It's a staggering amount of money for the city of just 15,000 residents in northwest Illinois, and federal prosecutors allege she used the funds to finance a lavish lifestyle that included horse farms and a $2 million luxury motor home.
Federal prosecutors charged Rita Crundwell, who has been the trusted treasurer and comptroller of Dixon for close to 30 years, with fraud for allegedly misappropriating more than $30 million in city funds since 2006. FBI agents arrested the 58-year-old Crundwell on Tuesday and led her out of Dixon's City Hall in handcuffs.
Linda Durham, who co-owns the Alley Loop bar in downtown Dixon, says locals are "just shocked that someone could get away with all that; someone that is from your town, you went to school with; and everyone around here assumed was trustworthy and, you know, actually a nice lady, a wonderful person."
'Kept To Herself'
Durham says everyone in Dixon knew Crundwell was a very successful horse-breeder, one of the best in the world, according to the American Quarter Horse Association, which says she produced at least 50 world champion horses. Durham says everyone assumed Crundwell's money came from that.
"She had come in here once in a while, not very often, kind of kept to herself a lot," she says. "And everyone figured everything was on the up-and-up because of the horses."
But federal authorities say it was the other way around: Crundwell allegedly used tax revenue to fund her horse-breeding operation, among other things.
The misappropriated $30 million is a huge chunk of the budget for this quiet town along the Rock River, most famous for being the boyhood home of President Reagan. According to The Associated Press, Dixon takes in and spends about $20 million a year.
Luxury Motor Home
Prosecutors say Crundwell used the money for an extravagant lifestyle, that included two horse farms, several pickup trucks, horse trailers and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry. Her biggest single luxury, allegedly paid for with Dixon taxpayer funds: a $2.1 million motor home.
"It really is the ultimate class," says Shannon Woodward, marketing manager at Featherlite Coaches, which makes custom luxury motor homes similar to the federal officials seized from Crundwell. "It is the highest-end motor home you can get."
Woodward says a motor home like that one has many of the luxuries you would find in a very high-end home: marble panel flooring, Viking appliances, whole house touch-panel control systems, huge HD flat-screen TVs, luxurious bedding, custom-made leather furniture and more.
'Sick To My Stomach'
Dixon Mayor Jim Burke says Crundwell explained away Dixon's financial shortfalls by pointing to the weak economy and late state payments while she shuffled around millions in city funds through multiple city accounts. Annual outside audits found nothing out of the ordinary.
While Crundwell was away last fall, her fill-in, the city clerk, found a city account no one else knew about, with millions of dollars missing.
Burke says he took that evidence last October to the FBI's Rockford, Ill., office.
"While meeting with [the] agent Pat Geary ... in his office and presenting the information to him, I literally became sick to my stomach and told him I hope my suspicions are all wrong," Burke says.
But the mayor says he now sees those same sick feelings reflected on the faces of the people of Dixon, as he placed the city's only financial official on unpaid leave, pending the outcome of her criminal fraud case.
At a court hearing late Wednesday, a judge released Crundwell on a recognizance bond with restrictions. As she left the federal courthouse in Rockford, neither she nor her public defenders commented.
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Meteorologists may have found a way to predict some killer heat waves up to three weeks in advance. Now, the best they can do is about 10 days.
An earlier warning would help cities prepare for the heat wave, arrange to open up cooling centers and check on the elderly, said Gerald Meehl, co-author of a study that describes the forecasting clue.
"It gives you a little bit of a heads up of what's coming," he said.
The key may be a certain pattern of high and low pressure spots across the globe high in the sky. When that pattern shows up, the chances double for a prolonged and intense heat wave in the eastern two-thirds of the United States, according to the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
This could predict some types of heat waves but not all, meteorologists said. The study's authors said they think the pattern occurred before last year's heat wave in much of the central U.S., but they still need more work to confirm it.
The researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., looked at heat waves that lasted at least a week and were about 5 to 8 degrees warmer than normal. In any given summer week, the odds of a heat wave like this happening are usually only about 1 in 67 in the U.S.
They did thousands of computer simulations and discovered that when high pressure and low pressure systems line up in a specific pattern, it foreshadows heat to come in about 15 to 20 days. Scientists call this 4-mile-high pattern wave No. 5.
The weather on the ground at the time of the pattern really doesn't matter; it can be rainy, dry, hot or cold, said study lead author Haiyan Teng, a scientist at the research center. The same pattern that signals a U.S. heat wave also indicates different extreme weather in other parts of the globe, like heavy rains, she said
This wave pattern was seen before the 1980 heat wave that was blamed for 1,250 deaths and pushed temperatures over 100 degrees in Dallas every day, said Randall Dole, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Triple-digit temperatures in Dallas persisted for a record 42 consecutive days that year. Dole, who wasn't part of the study, said the science behind the study is sound, significant and may be practical after extensive testing.


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Top 5 Duties of an Estate Executor: And How to Carry Them Out
The main responsibility of an executor of a will is to carry out the final wishes of the person who bestowed that position of trust. Usually, the executor is a close family member, but the executor could be a qualified, compensated person duly appointed under the laws of the state.
The Top Duties of an Executor Fall Into 5 General Categories:
1. Gathering the documents necessary for distributing the estate
2. Paying the debts and taxes and collecting from the estate's debtors
3. Closing out the deceased's insurance, retirement, and Social Security accounts
4. Maintaining the willed property prior to its disposal
5. Choosing the type of will probate and filing the will accordingly
Depending on the size of the estate, complications in probating the will, etc., the duties of the Executor can include much more. The Executor may require qualified legal assistance to navigate the complexities of probate and tax laws, for example.
Under ordinary circumstances, however, an executor can carry out the above general duties by taking the following actions:
1. Gather Necessary Documents
Secure copies of the deceased's will, death certificate, deeds, trusts, insurance papers, etc. If required, obtain a court document that confirms the will is legal and valid and empowers the executor to administer the estate.
2. Close out the Deceased's Financial Accounts
Contact the deceased's banks, credit card account holders, and lenders. Gather information on mortgages, leases, taxes, etc. Settle any tax liens with the IRS or state tax authorities and obtain appropriate releases. Don't forget to also close out the deceased Social Security accounts.1
For deceased military personnel drawing retirement pay it is recommended that you immediately contact the Defense Finance and Accounting Service at 800-321-1080.2 Retirement benefits terminate as of the date the retiree died. Any payments made to the retiree's account after the date of death will be recouped from the retiree's bank account.
3. Organize the Deceased's Assets
This includes homes, vacation properties, cash and financial assets, and businesses. Locate, inventory, and safeguard valuable household and personal property. Prepare a detailed listing for the heirs and tax authorities.
4. Collect Money Owed to and Pay the Debts of the Deceased's Estate
File or assist beneficiaries in filing for life insurance proceeds. When closing out the Social Security account, file for the deceased death benefit. Also, examine and adjudicate outstanding debts owed to the deceased as well as creditors' claims against the estate.
5. Maintain and Get the Deceased's Real Estate Property Ready for Sale
Make sure routine property maintenance and security occurs prior to disposition of the deceased's real estate. Check for tax or mortgage liens against the deceased's property. Get professional advice on what steps to take to ready the property for sale. When the property can be put on the market, contact a qualified realtor or determine a sales strategy.
6. Prepare a Strategy to Expedite or Avoid the Probate Process
With proper estate planning, it is possible to avoid, or at least minimize, the time and expense involved in probating a will.3 For example, life insurance proceeds, some retirement accounts, as well as jointly owned real estate, pass directly to the beneficiaries without going through probate. Other strategies, like setting up a revocable living trust, can expedite the transfer of assets and bypass probate completely.4
7. Good Planning Leads to the Best Execution
So, an executor can help ensure orderly and uncontested flow of assets from the deceased's estate to the heirs with attention to detail and preplanning. That includes advice to and consultation with the testator before the time comes when the executor must carry out the sad and often stress-filled duties described above.
As always, we welcome any questions you may have about your finances. Reach out to Deb to review your situation and gain some perspective on what your options are.
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The 'Joker' Poster Debuts Ahead of the Film's First Trailer
With the first trailer apparently days (or hours?) away, we've got the first look at the new Joker poster, featuring Joaquin Phoenix as the new Clown Prince of Crime.
Todd Phillips directed the movie, which also stars Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, and Bill Camp. Joker is reportedly an origin story, with Phoenix playing Arthur, a failed comedian who turns to crime and slowly becomes the Joker.
Here's the first poster for the film:
It's easy to be skeptical about a movie about the Joker with no Batman. How can you not be? But all of the images and footage for the film so far — and now this poster — all look pretty great. The way you can't quite tell what is makeup and what is paint in this image is outstanding — and of course Joaquin Phoenix is basically the best living actor working today. The premise basically sounds like The King of Comedy, and De Niro himself is in the movie. Maybe Joker will be ... good?
Joker opens in theaters on October 4. The first footage from the film is supposed to debut today in Las Vegas at CinemaCon. Whenever the trailer hits the internet, we'll bring it to you.
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Bandicoon Kit
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The Bandicoon, the Bandicoon Kit, and the Shy Bandicoon all 3 have identical movesets. Also, the breed choices have identical stats. You could, for example, choose a S/S Bandicoon Kit, a P/S Bandicoon, and a B/B Shy Bandicoon and have all your bases covered. Using Powerball to raise your speed versus undead can help Tongue Lash hit that extra time.
Found a good farming spot at (49,71) were it was 1 Bandicoon and 2 Bandicoon kit's walking around in 4 winds.
When i finishid batteling the second one, the first one had respawned and keept doing that.
Can someone tell me why this pet is coming up as no.1 in my collection when I sort by rarity? I have a few Pandarian spirit pets and dragon whelpings which I consider rare.
I found this pet is unexpectly good for battle with undead. Use powerball to increase speed and then tongue lash, satisfactory damage:)
Definitely not the best battle pet out there. Counterstrike is a great attack, but is counterproductive since Powerball and Tongue Lash increase speed. Which makes the Tier 2 abilities rather lame. (Survival is okay, but only really useful for leveling and/or you have DoTs on the opponent.)
If you are looking for a rare, I had my best luck getting them as secondaries when I engage Marsh Fiddlers or regular Bandicoons.
Cute but the Bandicoons and their cousins the Tanuki make the worst battle pets. Very weak abilities.
These cute little guys color change, my rare one does.


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When homeowners shop for new flooring, the majority of time and energy is devoted to selecting the right option that will serve the home with style, performance and comfort. Whether you love hardwood flooring or ceramic tile, natural stone or red oak, one thing to always consider is what the flooring installation costs will be. Of course, these installation costs will depend on the type of floor you ultimately select and the specific requirements of each to have the flooring installed. Rather than look at this cost estimate as a burden, think of it as added insurance that the foundation of your home is installed correctly for even greater, longer peace of mind! In fact, many manufacturer warranties require a floor is professionally installed for the warranty to be valid. Here are some of the factors that will determine your cost:
Will you need to hire professional installers? The type of flooring that you purchase will determine if you need to have professional installation. For example, the installation needs of wood flooring can vary widely depending on the product: Solid wood planks will require greater expertise when installing whereas some of today's engineered wood products have locking systems designed to make installation easier and reduce the overall time needed to install a new floor. According to HomeAdvisor, the average price of installing wood floors in a 1,000 sq. ft. home is roughly $8,000.00. Of course, all flooring installation costs will depend on the type of floor you ultimately select, the specific installation requirements, and any regional considerations in your area. If installation cost is a concern, your sales professional can help guide you to products that will be more affordable for your home.
Shopping Tip: Always take the square feet measurements of your home or rooms, plus a calculator (there's probably a calculator function on your phone), with you when you are shopping for flooring. This will help you get a fairly accurate idea of installation costs earlier in the process.
Can you take care of some of the installation process yourself? If you have the capability to move furniture on your own, handle the delivery of the new flooring product yourself, as well as take care of cleanup and disposal of the existing floors, you will probably save some of your valuable budget. Some installers, or the flooring store you purchase from, may include one or all of these services in the installation cost if you negotiate them during the hiring process! It never hurts to ask or make preparations to handle these steps yourself in order to keep costs down.
What flooring materials and labor are needed for subfloor preparation? Preparing the subfloor correctly ahead of time will most certainly aid a successful floor installation. Correct subfloor preparation is a vital factor to the sustainability of your flooring installation. It's not wise to put a valuable flooring investment over a subfloor that has not been treated properly, and this may also void your warranty. In some cases, especially if your home is newer, you may not need to factor much of a flooring materials expense other than glue or adhesive, because your subfloor has no issues. However, if your subfloor is uneven or you want to put padding down before the floor is installed, material costs are a proper consideration. When it comes to carpet, you do not want to skimp on the carpet padding in favor of cheap, thin padding that you will later want to upgrade. Again, ask your sales professional if any labor costs associated with preparing your subfloor can be bundled with the overall job cost.
What finishing work, sealing, and trim is required? Determining the sealing and trim involved for your installation will be dependent on the construction of your home or room, plus the type of flooring you select. However, if your new flooring will require trim, molding or sealing, stay ahead of the surprise costs by using a tape measure to create a home blueprint that accurately measures the dimensions of the rooms receiving new floors. You will need to know the perimeters of the rooms specifically, as opposed to the square footage. Some installers will charge differently for tight spaces so it helps to have a measured blueprint ready for estimating installation costs as well. If you have any uncertainty in creating an estimate, it's always better to err on the side of caution and invite a professional to come out and help you take accurate measurements. A professional will also know how to factor in for any extra material needed to cover any waste from cutting pieces to the correct size. The key to all of these thoughtful considerations is to prepare in advance so that your final project cost will not be a surprise and to ensure lasting enjoyment once your beautiful floors are finished!
Thank you for contacting Carpet One Floor & Home. Your local flooring expert will reach out to you regarding your inquiry.


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We are continuing a series of talks on Dreams with Jeremy Taylor.
Jeremy Taylor is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, who has worked with dreams for over thirty years. He blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. Founding member and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, he has written four books integrating dream symbolism, mythology, and archetypal energy.
Special thanks to Rik Ganju for introducing Jeremy to the Radical Change Group team, and for participating in the conversations.
In this episode:
- Dream Group Process
- Social Action Example – Overcoming Racism


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This beautiful scarf is made from the finest Australian merino, hand-dyed to Sophie Digard's exacting specifications. The scarf is approximately 25cm wide by 145cm long
Sophie Digard has been designing exquisite fashion and lifestyle accessories from her Parisian studio since 1999. Inspired by the infinite variation found in the natural world and by memories of her childhood and her travels, Sophie designs pieces that are literally wearable works of art. From whimsical crocheted flowers and tiny woollen pompoms to contemporary abstract designs; her collection is as vast as it is diverse. Sophie sources the finest natural materials - predominately single ply Australian merino wool spun in Italy and fine Belgian linen – which are then hand-dyed in France, using vegetable-based dyes, and shipped to Madagascar where Sophie employs local women to crochet and embroider these beautiful fibres into the works of textile art they eventually become. Digard works to fair trade principles and her workshops provide a valuable source of income to her employees whilst nourishing traditional textile skills. Sophie Digard scarves, jewellery and bags can comprise of up 60 different shades - the beautifully coloured threads plied together and then crocheted into gorgeous creations, each one with its own subtle variation of tone, each one utterly unique.


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Many learners of Japanese begin their studies thinking that the language is a single standard, spoken across the whole nation. While it is true that nearly all Japanese nationals can speak the standard language, it is by no means their every day language. This long and mountainous archipelago has over the centuries given rise to a great number of dialects with their own distinct accent, intonation and vocabulary.
Before the Tokugawa Shogun (徳川将軍) moved to Edo (江戸, modern day Tokyo) in 1603, the main place of government was Kyoto (京都), and standard Japanese was the ancestor of today's Kyoto dialect. Modern standard Japanese, hyōjungo (標準語) is basically the dialect of Tokyo. This is used in schools and media throughout the country. Other varieties of Japanese are often considered provincial and like in every language, each bears connotations of archetypes.
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Ira "Bob" Born, a candy company executive known as the "Father of Peeps" for mechanizing the process to make marshmallow chicks, has died. He was 98.
Just Born Quality Confections, the 100-year-old family-owned company Born led for much of his life, said Monday that he had died peacefully on Sunday.
Born began his life in New York City on Sept. 29, 1924. His father, Sam Born, was a Russian immigrant who started Just Born shortly before his son's birth. The family later moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where Just Born is still based.
Bob Born graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in engineering physics. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a radar specialist and a lieutenant on a destroyer in the Pacific. Later, the Navy sent him to the University of Arizona and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate work in math and physics.
Born applied to medical school and was accepted, but while he was waiting for his classes to begin, he went to work at Just Born. He fell in love with the candy business and decided to stay.
"The candy business was kind of catchy ... it was interesting to him," Ross Born, Bob Born's son, told the Lehigh Valley News. "He enjoyed the science, the technology, the processing. He was very much into the equipment."
In 1953, Just Born acquired Rodda Candy Co., a jelly bean maker that had a side business producing shaped marshmallow candies by hand. At the time, it took about 27 hours to make the marshmallows.
Bob Born saw the candies' potential, so he and an engineer at the company designed and built a machine to make them in less than six minutes. The company's current machines, which are still based on Bob Born's design, now pump out 5.5 million Peeps per day.
Seventy years later, Peeps remain Just Born's most recognizable candy brand, the company says. Just Born makes around 2 billion Peeps each year, or enough to circle the globe two-and-a-half times. It sells the most at Easter, but also has versions sold for Halloween, Valentine's Day and other holidays.
Bob Born also came up with the recipe for another popular Just Born candy, Hot Tamales. Just Born also makes Mike and Ike fruit chews and Goldenberg's Peanut Chews.
Bob Born became Just Born's president in 1959 and held the role for more than 30 years. He last visited the Just Born factory on Feb. 15, 2019, when the city of Bethlehem proclaimed the first day of the Easter season as "Bob Born Day."
He spent most of his retirement in Florida, where he led a literacy program and enjoyed hobbies including photography. He was active until a few months before he died, when he had a difficult recovery after a hard fall.
"Bob will be remembered as a tireless and passionate advocate for the candy industry and a wonderful supporter of our community," said David Shaffer, co-CEO and chairman of Just Born, in a statement released by the company.
He is survived by his widow, Patricia; children Sara and Ross; five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. His funeral will be private.
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I wanted to finish 2012 with a smile, so here you go.
If you've heard of Michael Flatley and know what Riverdance is, scroll to the SECOND video below...especially if you have some Greek or Irish in your family :)
And if you *don't* laugh, no matter your heritage, I owe you a glass of water *with* fresh lemon :)
However, watching the first video is well, brilliant, too.
Here's the SECOND video:
Happy New Year and may all your dreams come true.


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1. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith;
2. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
3. And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;
4. Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance.
5. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit.
6. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit.
8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated.
9. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible.
10. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal.
11. And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal.
12. As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible.
13. So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty.
14. And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty.
15. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God;
16. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
17. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord;
18. And yet they are not three Lords but one Lord.
19. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord;
20. So are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say; There are three Gods or three Lords.
21. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten.
22. The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten.
23. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits.
25. And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another.
26. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal.
27. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
28. He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.
29. Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
30. For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man.
31. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of substance of His mother, born in the world.
32. Perfect God and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.
33. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood.
34. Who, although He is God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ.
35. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of that manhood into God.
36. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.
37. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ;
38. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead;
39. He ascended into heaven, He sits on the right hand of the Father, God, Almighty;
40. From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
41. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies;
42. and shall give account of their own works.
43. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.
44. This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.


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More than a few people would rather stay at home with their cat or dog than go out on a date for Valentine's Day, according to a new poll.
A survey conducted by Rover, a Seattle-based dog-walking and pet-sitting service, suggests 49 per cent of British Columbians would prefer to spend Feb. 14 at home with their pet, instead of going out with friends or on a hot date.
READ MORE: How pets can improve the lives of Abbotsford's homeless
If that seems like a lot, it's actually the lowest number in Canada. The national average was 56 per cent.
The older you get, the more likely you'll want to stay home with Fluffy or Fido, as well.
Sixty-two per cent of respondents aged 55 years old and up chose their pet over a night out, with people aged 35-54 at 55 per cent and people aged 18-34 at 49 per cent.
Are women more likely than men to want to stay home? The survey says yes, with 59 per cent of women saying yes and 52 per cent of men.


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Innate Immunity in Melioidosis
For the past decade, my research group has studied mechanisms of innate immunity in melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei infection) with a particular focus on pulmonary host defense and on the role of host genetic variation. Funding has been provided by NHLBI and is currently provided by NIAID.
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