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Office Hours: 8AM - 5PM, M-F
North Colorado Spine & Orthopaedics
Spinal Problems
Herniated Disc
Disc herniation, often referred to as a "slipped" or "ruptured" disc, is a common cause of low back, neck, and even arm or leg pain. The most frequently affected area of the spinal column is the lower back (the lumbar section of the spine), but any disc in the vertebral column can rupture.
Vertebral discs are the shock-absorbing, protective discs found between the bones of the spinal column (vertebrae). These discs are made up of a strong outer shell of cartilage encasing an inner gel-like substance. Although they do not actually "slip," they may rupture or split, allowing the inner gel-like material to escape into the surrounding tissues. This puts pressure on nearby spinal nerves, which are very sensitive to even the slightest of pressure. Nerve irritation then results in pain, numbness, or weakness in the back and can radiate to one or both legs or arms.
Disc Degeneration
Disc degeneration and loss of elasticity due to aging are one of the most common causes of herniation, although improper lifting, excessive back strain, and repetitive injury to the back area make the discs weaker and more vulnerable to injury. Because the nerves of the spine exit at every level of the spinal column, symptoms may be felt along the length of the nerve that is affected (e.g., down the length of the leg). The pain that radiates from the herniation can range from mild to severe and can be associated with numbness, tingling, or weakness. Pain may be worsened by movement, straining, coughing, or with leg raises.


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Graduate Academic Program
Degrees Offered
Nebraska Wesleyan University provides the following graduate degrees:
- Master of Arts in Historical Studies (MAHS)
- Master of Forensic Science (MFS)
- Master of Science in Forensic Science (MSFS)
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Graduate Degree Requirements
All candidates for graduate degrees must complete the following requirements:
- A minimum of 33 credit hours, of which at least 24 hours must be completed at Nebraska Wesleyan.
- Completion of degree program course requirements, as specified by the pertinent program.
- A minimum GPA of 2.50 with a minimum grade of "B-" for courses meeting graduate program requirements.
Residency Requirement
Students earning a graduate degree must complete at least 24 hours of graduate work toward the degree at Nebraska Wesleyan.
Time Limit/Catalog Determination of Degree Requirements
Master of Arts in Historical Studies and Master of Science in Nursing students must complete all coursework in their master's degree plan within 10 years from the time of matriculation in the MAHS or MSN degree programs. Master of Forensic Science students must complete all coursework in their master's degree plan within seven years from the time of matriculation in the MFS degree program.
Note: Any degree completion limits for the master's degrees can be extended for the length of documented military deployment.
Students must meet graduation requirements stipulated in the catalog under which they first matriculate in their master's degree program. However, a student may select requirements announced in a subsequent catalog instead of those in effect when he or she first matriculated. If a course listed under a student's degree requirements is no longer offered, it will be replaced with a course determined by the program.
Each student is responsible for making certain he or she has met all degree requirements. Advising and an online analysis help students monitor their progress toward graduation.
Candidacy for Graduation
In order to be a candidate for graduation, a student must file his or her graduation application in the Registrar's Office. It is recommended that this take place one semester prior to graduation so that if there are any deficiencies in the student's record, the student may adjust his or her schedule as needed. The faculty recommends graduation candidates to the Nebraska Wesleyan Board of Governors for approval. Nebraska Wesleyan confers degrees twice per year, December and May; however, graduation ceremonies are held once a year in May. All candidates are encouraged to participate in the commencement program; however, students have the option of graduating in absentia.
No student is allowed to participate as a graduation candidate in more than one commencement program unless returning for a second degree. See the Registrar's Office for additional information.
Withdrawal from Master's Program
A student wishing to withdraw from a master's program must declare in writing his or her intentions to withdraw from the program. This request will provide the student an inactive status for one academic year. Within the year the student may reactive his or her participation in the program by notifying the program director and re-registering for courses. After one year, the student is terminated from the program unless he or she has applied for and been granted an extension of their inactive status. Any terminated student who wished to re-enter a program must re-apply for admission, send a new application fee and follow all other required application procedures in place at the time of reapplication.
Earning a Second Master's Degree
Second Master's Degree for Nebraska Wesleyan Master's Graduates
A Nebraska Wesleyan master's graduate wishing to earn a second master's degree must meet all requirements for the second master's degree. A maximum of six hours of program-approved credit from the first master's degree may be used toward the second master's degree. The culminating research/internship/major project of the two degrees must be distinct.
Master's Degree at Nebraska Wesleyan for Master's Graduates from Another Institution
A person wishing to earn a master's degree at Nebraska Wesleyan who has already received a master's degree from another regionally accredited institution must complete at least 24 hours of graduate work at Nebraska Wesleyan. The degree shall not be in the same discipline as the degree the student has previously earned. Fulfillment of all program requirements is required. The culminating research/internship/major project must be earned through Nebraska Wesleyan.

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Many longtime readers may have noticed, that stories have been quite infrequent lately? That's because- I wanted to see what life was like without being on the computer 24/7 looking for stories to post. In fact during this period, I started listening to classical radio. The results are in- and my life appears to me to be more serene- then ever. Not hearing about the latest mass murders, corrupt public official, or downturn in the economy didn't affect me one iota.
But this blog has been a labor of love - part-time for the last 3+ years.....and when I find those stories that turn my light on- I will be posting them still.


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How companies are designing spaces that promote inclusivity and equality
Quiet zones, amenities for parents and gender-neutral facilities are increasingly common for companies seeking to nurture a diverse range of employees.
As more companies set their sights on creating inclusive workplaces, there's a growing focus on design that accommodates a wide range of physical, mental and emotional needs to enable all employees to do their job to the best of their abilities.
While some aspects of inclusive design – such as wheelchair ramps or accessible restrooms – are legal requirements, many corporations are also implementing features like automatic doors or lever-style handles that help all employees move around easily.
Gender-neutral toilets and showers are now found in growing numbers of offices, while height-adjustable tables can make desk work more comfortable for everyone, regardless of body type, age or mobility. Indeed, several European countries are now legally required to provide sit-stand workstations to employees with sedentary jobs.
"In designing for inclusion, companies are thinking beyond the legal requirements to create an accessible and appealing environment where people can be themselves, without calling special attention to anyone with particular needs," says Tish Scott, Senior Designer at Tétris, a JLL subsidiary.
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And many companies are recognising the productivity benefits of downtime by creating spaces such as recreational rooms for socialising, indoor sports or meditation.
"Given the right environment for their particular working style, employees can thrive – and that can be the key for employers to retain talent, particularly millennial workers who are more inclined to change jobs," says Scott.
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Two things came to an end Thursday night: St. Mark's bid for a perfect in-state record in 2012, and Jesuit coach Chris Surran's career winless streak against coach Hayward Lee's Lions. One thing that remains alive and well, however, is the potential for a playoff rematch between the North District's two strongest teams. Thursday's contest was truly a clash of titans, and the atmosphere left nothing more to be desired, with fans from both sides packing the bleachers of Haggar Stadium full.
The first twelve minutes passed at a staggering pace, both teams running purely on adrenaline. Jesuit goalie Dan Morris kicked off the evening with a nice save, but Lion attackman Andrew Graffy gave his side an early lead with an unassisted goal less than a minute into the game. Just over a minute later, Jesuit's Carson Buell found the back of the net on an isolation play that freed him for a right-handed shot. St. Mark's regained a 2-1 lead when Jack Fotosjek fed midfielder Danny Koudelka from X at the 7:53 mark. The Lions had an early extra-man opportunity following a Lee Belland illegal body-check, but the Ranger defense held strong and even generated a scoring chance for the offense before the penalty expired. The Lions extended their lead with just over two minutes remaining in the first with a low-to-low rip from Michigan-bound attackman Will Perkins, courtesy of Peter Addy. Jesuit was flagged again for another illegal body-check in a physical first quarter, but the Ranger man-down defense successfully killed another penalty. The Lions led 3-1 after one, outshooting the home side 10-4.
The second quarter saw only one goal as each team settled down their pace. The Lions switched into a zone defense early, and that, coupled with patient Jesuit ball movement resulted in extended possessions in the Lions' defensive half. Zach Coker hit a few pipes, but that was as close as the Rangers got early on, as the stifling zone forced many wide shots. The Rangers also flashed some zone defense, with similar success.
Just past the midway point of the quarter, another extended Jesuit possession finally paid dividends when Belland found Mac Maguire for a goal that drew the Rangers to within one. A couple of failed clears prevented the Lions' offense from finding a rhythm, but goalie Chris Roach continued a strong half between the pipes. He made two late saves to preserve St. Mark's lead going into the half. Although the game remained a 3-2 Lion lead, it seems that momentum started to shift in that second quarter. Jesuit outshot St. Mark's 16-1 in that second quarter, and won the ground ball battle 10-3. Still, the vaunted St. Mark's defense played well as advertised and kept it a low-scoring contest.
If the second quarter was a defensive grind, the third quarter topped it. Neither team managed a goal, though Jesuit continued to control possessions and force turnovers that would again prevent the Lion offense from pressuring the Ranger defense. Jesuit's best chance of the quarter came on a fast break midway through, but the shot flew wide and Roach made a tremendous hustle play to back the shot up and regain possession for the Lions. Roach made four big saves that quarter, as Jesuit again outshot St. Marks 11-1. After three, the score remained 3-2 Lions heading to the final quarter of the regular season for both teams.
Through three quarters, St. Mark's had not been flagged for a single penalty. Two early penalties in the fourth, however, sparked a Jesuit rally that consisted of six goals in seven minutes. The Lion defense had done well thus far to limit Jesuit midfielder Garrett Van de Ven's scoring chances. It turns out the future Blue Devil only needed a little extra space provided by man-up opportunities for his shots to hit home. Van de Ven scored the tying and go-ahead goals on back to back extra-man possessions. Buell provided an assist on the first strike, but the second rip from the top of the box was unassisted. With just under nine minutes to play, Jesuit led for the first time, 4-3. This spark from Van de Ven, and the resurgent energy from the Jesuit student section opened the floodgates for the Ranger offense. Midfielder Sam Rosengarden made his only shot of the night count when he increased the Jesuit lead to 5-3.
The Lions killed a penalty successfully, and desperate for a rally-killing goal, they called a timeout with 4:44 to go. The Jesuit zone facilitated another Morris save, however, and recently-healthy Matt Miller scored an unassisted lefty goal off of an isolation play just inside the box. Jesuit's Alex Petsos won the following faceoff and called his own number, taking the ball uncontested through the box and beating Roach for a goal. Petsos had another impressive night of face-offs, winning 14 of 15. Twenty seconds after Petsos scored, Zach Coker delivered the knockout blow when he split a double team, stretching the Jesuit lead to 8-3. The Lions' Graffy managed a late man-up goal with just over two minutes to play, but the deficit had grown too large. Jesuit finished the game outshooting the Lions 39-19, and winning the battle on the ground 38-19.
After the game, Jesuit coach Chris Surran was quick to compliment the Lions' defense, "Roach played extremely well in the goal, and they played very well as a defensive unit. Tip of the hat to a well-coached team. I think we executed well on our man-up sets, and that was really the key to the game."
When asked about the fourth quarter, Van de Ven also emphasized the importance of Jesuit's extra-man execution. "Those two great looks were all thanks to my teammates. They did great to pull their men in, and I was able to finish both shots."
St. Mark's coach Hayward Lee was gracious in defeat, "You have to give the Jesuit kids a ton of credit, and they played with a ton of effort all night. They have a lot of weapons, and credit to Coach Surran and his staff for having them ready to play tonight. I think we just made a few too many mistakes tonight, and when you're playing a top-notch team, your margin for error is very small."
Jesuit completes their season with a 15-1 record, clinching the top seed in next week's North District Playoffs. The Lions finish 14-3, with the #2 seed for the North locked in. District playoff match-ups are not yet final; tonight's Plano/Plano West showdown will determine final seeding.
Andrew Githens
Texas Heat Lacrosse North District Representative. Texas Heat Lacrosse is a local online news organization and Texas' growing source for all things lacrosse throughout the state.


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Clot-dissolving bubbles to treat strokes?
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers are using computer simulations to investigate how ultrasound and tiny bubbles injected into the bloodstream might break up blood clots, limiting the damage caused by a stroke in its first hours.
Strokes are the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States and the third most common cause of death. More than 795,000 Americans suffer a stroke every year, which happens when a clot blocks an artery or blood vessel and restricts blood flow to the brain. The longer the clot stays intact, the more brain tissue dies, the higher the chance of severe damage, and the lower a victim's chance of survival.
Now, researchers from the Universities of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and San Diego (UCSD) suspect these clots could be broken up—without surgery or drugs—using a combination of microbubbles and high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). The team used supercomputers at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to figure out how this might work. Their findings were published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
"One day, HIFU could be a useful medical treatment for people who are stroke victims. But before this can happen, we need to establish some fundamental background work, which includes understanding how HIFU accelerates damage to a clot when bubbles are present," says Andrew Szeri, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and co-author of the paper.
According to Szeri, the team's NERSC allocation was incredibly valuable because it allowed them to generate the preliminary data needed to write a research proposal for funding in a new area. "Without some kind of preliminary data, it's a non-starter; there's just no way for us to find funding," Szeri adds.
Bubbles and ultrasound, safe stroke treatment?
Aside from surgery, a drug called tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is currently the only federally approved treatment for stroke-causing blood clots. But it is estimated that less than five percent of all patients transported to emergency rooms actually receive the clot-dissolving drug. For safety reasons, it can only be administered to some patients and then only within four-and-a-half hours of the initial stroke.
In the early 1990s, researchers noticed that ultrasound scans seemed to enhance the effectiveness of drugs like tPA, but nobody knew why. A clinical trial in 2004 confirmed that obstructed blood vessels cleared more quickly when ultrasound was administered in combination with tPA. In the years after, many researchers built on this result by trying to figure out how to administer ultrasound to maximize the clot-busting effectiveness of tPA.
"These experiments never made too much sense to me. With or without ultrasound, tPA is only available to about 3 percent of all stroke victims worldwide. So, regardless of how successful this approach is 97 percent of the population will not benefit from it," says Thilo Hoelscher, Director of UC San Diego's Brain Ultrasound Research Laboratory and co-author on the paper. "We are looking for a safe treatment for stroke patients who cannot receive tPA."
Because artificial microbubbles are already widely used as contrasting agents, Hoelscher suspected they could be safely used in combination with HIFU to dissolve blood clots. Ultrathin shells of fat molecules filled with gas, these artificial bubbles are about one-eighth of the size of red blood cells. Once injected into the bloodstream, they only last a few minutes in the blood pool. The gas is exhaled and the fat molecules are metabolized in the liver or the spleen.
"Imagine these microbubbles as ping pong balls in the bloodstream," says Hoelscher. "The bubble compresses when the ultrasound wave hits it and then decompresses as the wave passes. This positive and negative pressure causes the microbubble to oscillate, which amplifies the signal going back to the ultrasound machine."
This oscillation is what makes microbubbles great contrasting agents for ultrasound. Now, imagine a microbubble sitting atop or inside a blood clot—which is essentially a just tangled network of fibrin fibers that becomes dense as blood cells stick to them. Jolt the microbubble with HIFU and researchers predict the resulting oscillation might be used to loosen or even break up the clot. To test their hypothesis, Hoelscher's team set up laboratory experiments where they planted an artificial blood clot inside a test tube and injected microbubbles into the tube. Then, they placed the tube under a cadaver skull and applied HIFU to see if the clot would dissolve.
"Our experimental setup essentially confirmed that we could break up blood clots using microbubbles and HIFU. What we don't know is how to apply the HIFU—or how much to apply—to get the bubbles to oscillate or even burst the way we need them to," says Hoelscher. "This is where the computer models and Andrew Szeri's team at UC Berkeley come in. We need a 'standard recipe' that says if the skull is this thick, we apply this much HIFU and in this way."
Supercomputer simulations shed light on safety
Today, many researchers are investigating the effectiveness of HIFU for tissue ablation, the selective destruction of body tissues. Research is currently underway to evaluate its effectiveness for treating cancers of the brain, breast, liver, bone and prostate. In fact, a team of researchers at the University of Tokyo initially developed the HIFU simulator code used in this study to understand tissue ablation.
Szeri and his colleagues at UC Berkeley actually adapted this code to look at the effect of HIFU on blood clots, and ran their simulations on NERSC's supercomputers. The models allowed researchers to adjust variables, like skull density, and assess whether these changes created potentially dangerous pressure fields inside the skull.
"Think of a Perrier bottle. When you open the top, the clear liquid is suddenly filled with bubbles that float up and out of the bottle," says Szeri. "Why does this happen? It's because you reduce the pressure when you open the bottle, this causes gas to come out of the solution and then bubbles emerge."
According to Szeri, similar pressure fields are created when HIFU transducers are aimed at the skull. If pressures are low enough, microbubbles will form naturally. This presents a potential safety issue because these bubbles cannot be controlled, and can rupture small blood vessels.
"Whenever we talk about ultrasound and the human body, our number one concern is always safety. Our goal is to keep the ultrasound energy as low as possible," says Hoelscher. "The supercomputer simulations verified that it is feasible to bust blood clots with relatively low energy, which is important because when the energy is not appropriate bubbles will form."
With new funding, Szeri notes that the collaboration will try to make a much closer connection between the theory (as shown in computer models) of how bubbles damage blood clots, and the experimental observations that show how clots are damaged. They hope to use scanning tunneling microscopes to investigate the detail of clot damage from bubbles, and then refine their models based on these observations.
More information: Weiss, H. et al. 2013, Mechanical clot damage from cavitation during sonothrombolysis, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(5), 3159-3175. dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4795774
Journal information: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Provided by University of California - Berkeley


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This family operation began more than 50 years ago when the Martins settled on 160 acres in the Missouri bootheel, and with their four children, cleared the land using mules. Now, three generations later, the same family farms over 7,000 acres of prime rice-growing land. In January 2000, the family constructed a rice processing facility to add value to a crop grown on the farm for over 25 years. With a dedication to quality, the Martins produce rice under the strictest of guidlines offered by the USDA and the EPA.
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Most people have the natural tendency to jump away when they see a tarantula crawling toward their feet. They do not need the time to process whether the tarantula was poisonous or how likely it is that it will bite them in the ankle. However, in more complex risky situations, this fight-or-flight response is not enough to lead us to rewarding decisions. So what does? That is the question that I have continued to explore in my research. In particular, from a communication perspective, what leads people to attend to risk information and make informed decisions?
To answer this question throughout theoretical development, I'm part of a group of researchers who continue to test and refine the model of Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP), developed by Robert Griffin, Sharon Dunwoody, and Kurt Neuwirth in 1999. Empirically, I have conducted research in health contexts including cancer clinical trials, STD and condom use, and the H1N1 pandemic; environmental contexts including renewable energy, urban watershed, and climate change; as well as other risk contexts including the establishment of research facilities for emerging technologies in rural communities.
In most of these studies, I have found that risk perception is not only shaped by an individual's cognitive evaluation of the potential hazard, but also his or her emotional responses to the possible harm. More importantly, as research context varies, what leads people to seek out risk information and process the information carefully is often not their need to know more about the risk, but their need to fulfill other people's expectations or to better manage the emotions they experience when making a decision under uncertainty.
For instance, in a project funded by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), I conducted a nationally representative survey of American adults and a survey of LLS members to compare the sociopsychological factors that influenced enrollment decisions among healthy adults and cancer patients. Findings from the project showed that even though systematic processing of enrollment information and normative beliefs played central roles in influencing healthy adults' decisions to enroll in a trial, emotions had a stronger impact on cancer patients' decisions. In particular, cancer patients who felt optimistic when thinking about enrolling in a clinical trial were more likely to hold favorable attitudes toward enrollment and enroll in a future trial.
In addition, cultural values and macro-level social structure also influence risk information seeking. In a recent study that examines cultural differences in risk perceptions and how these differences influence individuals' intentions to seek information about climate change, I found that even though Chinese respondents were more likely to hold pro-environmental attitudes, their American counterparts were much more likely to be influenced by their attitudes toward the environment when gauging the potential risks from climate change and whether they should learn more about climate change. The gap between general concern about the environment and specific concern about climate change in the Chinese society might account for this difference.
Recently, I submitted a grant proposal to explore how risk information-processing styles influence people's attribution of responsibility for mitigating the impact of climate change. This project will advance RISP-based research by experimentally manipulating research subjects' confidence in how much they know about climate change, as well as refining measurement for information-processing styles through survey questionnaire.
Janet Yang concentrates her research on the communication of risk information related to science, health, and environmental issues.


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Good at Games
by Jill Mansell
Release date: January 5, 2016
Published by Sourcebooks Landmark
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Mansell captivates with a madcap tale of the games lovers play.
Who will make the next move?
How does one become accidentally engaged? That's what Suzy Curtis thinks when she suddenly finds herself very publicly engaged to handsome Harry Fitzallan, local town hero. Harry wants famous rock star Jaz to be his best man—only he's Suzy's
ex-husband and a recovering alcoholic. Suzy's half sister Lucille loves getting to know the family she'd never met, but she can't help her attraction to Jaz, nor can Suzy quash her entirely inappropriate feelings for Leo, Harry's engaged brother!
With all these wild players at the table, mayhem is bound to ensue. As each new piece comes into play, everyone has more to lose, and the only way to win is if you're good at the games of love...
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Could there possibly be anything nicer in the world than a Curly Wurly?
Alone in the office, Suzy lovingly peeled off the wrapper and admired the dappled chocolate covering. Then she bit into it, her teeth sinking through the toffee, her head twisting from side to side in order to bite off that
first heavenly mouthful…oh, and they were sooo much better straight from the fridge…
Suzy's eyes snapped open and she spun around guiltily. Damn, she'd been so carried away she hadn't even heard the door open and close behind her.
And, double damn, it had to be Leo Fitzallan.
"Bitten off more than you can chew?" inquired Leo with a slight smile.
Suzy's mouth was full—OK, overfull—and the toffee was welding itself to her teeth like quick-setting cement. Waving her hand apologetically, praying the melted chocolate wasn't about to spill out and dribble attractively
down her chin, she chewed and swallowed, chewed and swallowed, threw the rest of the Curly Wurly onto her desk and chewed and swallowed again.
Oh dear, not at all like the girl in the Cadbury's Flake ad. In fact, more like Waynetta Slob guzzling a pizza.
"Sorry," said Leo. "I obviously interrupted a special private moment."
And swallowed again.
Hooray, didn't even dribble!
"There." Suzy executed a quick curtsy. "All gone. Now, how can I help you?"
He was wearing Givenchy aftershave—none of your Tommy Hilfigers or Calvin Kleins for Leo Fitzallan, thank you very much—and an expensively cut dark suit. Suzy wondered if he had chosen the bottle-green shirt and blue and
amber tie himself, or whether Gabriella had picked them out for him.
Probably Gabriella. A man who drove a gray Volvo would never be that adventurous. And the dark blue in the tie exactly matched his eyes.
Definitely Gabriella.
"I thought maybe we should call a truce," said Leo. "How does that sound to you?"
Blimey, Suzy thought, like a miracle. Quick, give the man a bottle of water and see if he can turn it into Chardonnay.
Aloud she said, "So what's brought this on?"
"My brother's happy with you. By Christmas you and I'll be related. The last thing I want is a family feud. Easier all around if we bury the hatchet now," Leo said easily. "Put the bickering behind us. What d'you say?"
He was even more attractive, Suzy realized, when he was in a good mood. During the last few days all he'd seemed to do was scowl, sneer, and generally radiate disapproval, which was sexy enough in its own way, of course,
but it really was amazing the difference a few laughter lines could make.
"I agree." Her mouth curled up at the corners. "That's it then. From now on we're going to be completely lovely to each other. And I'll just have to find someone else to bicker with."
"So long as it isn't Harry," said Leo.
"Harry isn't the bickering kind." Suzy smiled sunnily at him and perched on the edge of her desk. "This feels quite weird, actually. I'm not sure what we're supposed to do now. If this were Friends we'd be giving each other
a group hug."
For a split second something indefinable flickered in Leo's eyes. The next moment it had gone. He pushed his fingers through his ultra-straight dark hair, heaved a sigh and shrugged as if searching for inspiration.
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USA Today bestselling author Jill Mansell writes irresistible and funny, poignant and romantic tales for women in the tradition of Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella and Jojo Moyes. She lives with her partner and their children in Bristol, England.
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Web design can be an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. It's a trade that combines technical skills with creative ability. If you feel comfortable with computer technology and enjoy creating documents, web design can be a great way to combine the two interests.
That being said, it's always overwhelming to consider learning a new skill. Before learning how to become a web designer, you should ask yourself, "Should I become a web designer?" I've been learning web design since I was ten years old, in 1994. I now do a lot of web design for myself and some small business clients. There have been plenty of pleasures but also plenty of frustrations. If you're considering becoming a web designer, there are some things you should keep in mind.
If you have a lot of time to devote to learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Photoshop, it's possible to learn the basics in a couple of months. Be ready to spend some money on manuals, books, and applications. No matter how you decide to learn web design and how you decide to enter the field, some people can become web designers than others.
When you're programming, even if you're using a simple language like HTML and using a helpful application like Dreamweaver, you're going to encounter some frustrations. Sometimes, when I create an HTML document, I spend a lot more time making corrections and problem solving than doing fun stuff. Are you prepared to spend a lot of time testing and making little changes? No matter how you approach web design, medium can't be completely avoided. If you're easily frustrated and discouraged, web design might not be for you.
Unless web design is just a hobby for you, you will have clients to work with. Sometimes clients have a lot of specific expectations. Some clients have experience with web design themselves, but others may demand things without knowing the technical limitations. Before you start any project for clients, it's best to have a thorough conversation with them about what they want and what they need. That can save you a lot of time. How would you like to spend weeks developing a website, only to discover that your client wants completely different fonts, colors, graphics, site organization, and content? If you're going to get into designing web pages for other people, you're going to have to be ready to make many compromises and take a lot of criticism. Are you ready for that?
Finally, ask yourself if you have the time and energy to promote yourself. If you want to be hired by a web design firm, in addition to learning skills and possibly obtaining certifications, you've also got to be ready to pound the pavement with your resume and portfolio. It might take you over a year to find a job. Be ready to attend a lot of job interviews and possibly get a lot of rejections.
If you're going to become a freelancer, like I am, you've really got to devote a lot of energy to self-promotion. Set up a website, preferably with your own domain. Be ready to spend some money on advertising. Spend a lot of time promoting your services with social media – Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, and so on. Scan classified ads, particularly online classifieds. Print business cards and distribute them wherever you can. Use your connections and word-of-mouth to your advantage. Tell everyone you know that you're a web designer, and maybe someone knows someone who could be your first client. Sometimes I spend more time promoting myself than I do actually doing the work itself.
If you're ready to spend a little bit of money, do a lot of tedious work, take some criticism, and do a lot of self-promotion, then web design may be the field for you. First, you've got to start the learning process. If you enjoy classroom instruction and having teachers, sign up for some web design and graphic design courses through your local community college. If you'd rather start learning on your own, buy some good books, look at the source codes of the web pages you visit, and go through some online tutorials. Even if you're going to start learning web design in a school setting, be prepared to do a lot of learning in your free time, as well.
It's important to learn HTML, especially HTML5. Learn Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), up to CSS3. JavaScript, possibly some server-side scripting languages, and Flash are beneficial, too. Don't forget to learn how to use Photoshop. If you don't have the money to buy Photoshop right away, start by downloading some free graphic design programs like Paint.Net and GIMP. You can learn some of the basics of graphic design that way and possibly be better prepared when you finally buy the most recent version of Photoshop.
These days, people access the web in more ways than were ever possible before. When you're web designing, you not only want to make your web pages work in multiple browsers but also on multiple devices. Even basic cell phones can access the web today, not just smartphones such as BlackBerrys and iPhones. Even some video game-playing devices like the Sony PSP and Nintendo DSi have web browsers. Web surfers could be using tiny screens or enormous screens. They could be using a variety of different browsers and versions of browsers. Users may have completely different plug-ins and fonts; Adobe Flash is a browser plug-in, for instance. When you're learning web design, try surfing the web in as many ways as you can. There are many helpful resources for learning web design online, and there are many helpful online tools for web designers, many of which I use.
The W3C is an excellent place to start. They're the non-profit organization founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the man who started the World Wide Web. The W3C sets standards for HTML, XML and CSS. In addition to information about coding languages and standards, they have handy tools to validate your code.
HTML Goodies has a lot of excellent tutorials and articles.
I've learned a lot so far, but I'm always learning more, and I'll always be a student of web design and media technology. As technology advances, things change. There'll always be new programming languages and applications. Learning is a constant process. Web design has been an engaging experience for me, and if you decide to get into it yourself, I hope you take it seriously and have a lot of fun.


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When new teams join an organization, or existing teams start a new project, CloudBees CI makes it easy to provision a fully managed and access controlled controller per team. In CloudBees CI, a controller is referred to as a managed controller.
Administrators can provision managed controllers from a standardized template or they can allow team leads to provision their own managed controllers "on-demand." The number of controllers an environment can handle is limited only by the capacity of the cluster.
Upgrading managed controllers
To update a managed controller's version, the administrator needs to update the version of the Docker image for the managed controller. Once this version is updated, the managed controller and its default plugins will be upgraded to the latest versions defined in the image, while any non-default plugins will be left at their current versions.
Once the Docker image definition is updated, an administrator needs to restart the instance so the managed controller can begin using its upgraded components.
Bulk upgrades
When a cluster serves many teams and contains many controllers, an administrator can save time and greatly reduce the overhead of upgrading those controllers by creating a repeatable task to automate this process. This can be achieved by defining a cluster operation in operations center.
To create a task to perform a bulk upgrade:
Sign in to operations center as an administrator.
Create a New Item for Cluster Operations.
Select the managed controllers cluster operation
Select the pre-configured upgrade pattern that you want to use.
In the Uses Docker Image, pick a Docker image that is used by the cluster's controllers as the upgrade target. Any controller in the cluster using the selected image will be affected by this cluster operation.
In the Steps section, select Backup Controller and configure the options as per Using the CloudBees Backup plugin
In the Steps section, select Update Docker Image and then pick the new Docker to which you want to bulk-upgrade the targeted controllers.
Add a Reprovision step to restart the targeted controllers.
Once these settings are configured, the administrator can run the cluster operation to perform a bulk upgrade of their cluster's controllers, or schedule the operation to run at a later time.
Optimizing resources with hibernation of managed controllers
A common issue in installations with many managed controllers is having a cluster with a lot of managed controllers that aren't being used most of the time. What typically happens in large organizations is multiple controllers are heavily used during working hours, and then sit idle during non-working hours. The idle controllers still cost the same even though they're not being used. Similarly static agents where the work has been completed can sit entirely unused and still occupy valuable infrastructure resources. Without the ability to load-balance overtaxed controllers and remove unused static agents, these resources can passively increase cloud spending and infrastructure resources. Large-scale organizations can end up paying significant amounts of money for idle and unused resources.
For those cases, CloudBees offers the managed controller hibernation feature, which helps you "turn off" idle or unused managed controllers.
For example, if you have managed controllers that are only being used by your development teams during business hours, you can reclaim those resources when they're idle instead of having those managed controllers "up" around the clock.
Installing and enabling hibernation
To use hibernation, you need to take three actions:
Enable hibernation in the Helm chart.
Install the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin on any managed controller you want to be able to hibernate.
Enable the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin after installation.
Enabling the hibernation monitor using Helm
Use the helm upgrade
command to enable the managed controller Hibernation monitoring service in an existing Helm release of CloudBees CI.
If you have not already done so, create a custom values YAML file to store customizations for your instance. For instructions, see Using a custom YAML file to install CloudBees CI.
Add the following clause to your custom values file:
Hibernation: Enabled: true
Run Helm upgrade with the following command:
$ helm upgrade -f <name-of-custom-values-file>.yaml cloudbees-core <path-to-CB-helm-chart>
Enabling hibernation in a separate namespace
If you are following the instructions for adding a specific Namespace with Helm section of "Managed controllers in specific Kubernetes namespaces"
and you wish to enable hibernation for at least some controllers in that namespace, add the following to the values.yaml
in those instructions.
OperationsCenter: Enabled: false HostName: cloudbees-core.example.com (1) Ingress: Class: nginx (2) Hibernation: Enabled: true
1 | Replace cloudbees-core.example.com with your domain name. |
2 | Replace nginx with your Ingress class name |
A separate instance of the monitoring service is created in that namespace and handles controllers only in the same namespace. An ingress is also created in that namespace to make namespaced hibernation links accessible.
Since the generated ingresses will share a single host name,
all API endpoints mentioned below support an infix ns/extra-namespace/
after hibernation/
which routes requests to the monitor running in a specific namespace.
Where appropriate, this infix is included automatically in URLs supplied by CloudBees CI:
A hibernated managed controller's link in the operations center dashboard may look like:
The hook URL registered when creating a GitHub organization folder may look like:
Installing the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin on a managed controller
There are two different ways to install the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin on a managed controller:
When setting up the managed controller, from the managed controller's setup wizard.
From the Available tab in
To install the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin from a managed controller's setup wizard:
On the Customize CloudBees CI managed controller screen, click Select Plugins to install.
Locate the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin entry, and then select the checkbox next to it to select the plugin for installation. Default plugins are shown in green; you should generally leave these selected. These plugins are installed at the same time as the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin.
Click Install to install the selected plugins.
After plugins have been installed, check the Installed tab and confirm that the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin is both available and selected.
To install the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin on an existing managed controller:
On the operations center dashboard, select the name of the managed controller.
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On the Available tab, locate the CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin entry, and then select the checkbox next to it to select the plugin for installation.
Click the appropriate installation option (install without restart or download and install after restart).
After the plugin is installed, check the Installed tab and make sure that the plugin is both available and selected.
Enabling hibernation on a managed controller
To enable the hibernation feature on each managed controller:
From the Operations Dashboard, select the name of a managed controller.
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Scroll down to the Automatic Hibernation section.
Click to select the Automatic Hibernation feature.
Click Save to save the configuration.
Configuring hibernation
After the hibernation monitoring service has been enabled in the Helm release and the hibernation plugin has been installed on at least one managed controller, hibernation may be configured on each managed controller to suit your purposes.
To configure hibernation:
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Scroll down to the Automatic Hibernation section.
Complete the following options:
Enable hibernation?: This option enables or disables automatic hibernation for the managed controller.
Grace period (seconds): This option configures the number of seconds the instance should wait after apparent activity has ceased before hibernating a given managed controller.
Running builds: A selector that instructs the instance to treat a managed controller as busy when it is running a build. This option may be disabled by clicking Delete. If this option is disabled, it may be restored by clicking Add, and then selecting Running builds.
Web browsing: A selector that instructs the instance to treat a managed controller as busy if there is web browser activity against the instance's web UI. This option may be disabled by clicking Delete. If this option is disabled, it may be restored by clicking Add, and selecting Web browsing.
Advanced: A sub-option for Web browsing that allows you to specify a Java-format regular expression of URIs to ignore for purposes of activity.
Add: Restores the Running builds and/or Web browsing options if those options have been deleted.
Tracking hibernation status
The hibernation status of a given managed controller can be seen in the operations center dashboard:
Hibernated managed controllers display with a blue "pause" icon:
And the word "Hibernated" when hovered over with the mouse pointer.
Clicking on the managed controller starts it.
Using hibernation API endpoints
The CloudBees managed controller Hibernation Plugin features three API endpoints that can be used to interact with a hibernated managed controller.
POST queue for hibernation
The POST queue
endpoint sends data to a managed controller with hibernation enabled:
If the managed controller is running, the request is proxied (including the path, headers, and request body) and synchronously forwarded.
If the managed controller is hibernating, the managed controller is started in the background, and the request is responded to with a blank
202 Accepted
message. Once the managed controller is running, the request is proxied and any response discarded.
For example, to invoke a parameterized build:
$ curl -u <username>:<API token> -d <parameters>=<values> {domain-name}/hibernation/queue/your-master/job/your-job/buildWithParameters
The -d option implies use of the POST method.
Or to run a Groovy script:
$ curl -u <username>:<API token> -d 'script=Jenkins.instance.systemMessage="awoken"' {domain-name}/hibernation/queue/your-master/script
POST queue may be used with GitHub webhooks: see Using POST queue with GitHub webhooks.
GET proxy for hibernation
The GET proxy endpoint requests data from a managed controller with hibernation enabled:
If the managed controller is running, the request is proxied (including the path, headers and request body) and synchronously forwarded.
If the managed controller is hibernating, the controller is started in the background, and the request is proxied and responded to.
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$ curl -u <username>:<API token> -s {domain-name}/hibernation/proxy/your-master/job/your-job/lastStableBuild/api/json\?tree=number
The GET proxy
endpoint can be useful for read-only APIs. For example, to download a set of build artifacts from a job on a managed controller, you can use https://cloudbees-core.example.com/hibernation/proxy/your-team/job/your-project/lastStableBuild/artifact/zip/artifacts.zip
instead of having to pass a fully authenticated request with a user + API token to https://cloudbees-core.example.com/your-team/job/your-project/lastStableBuild/artifact/zip/artifacts.zip
POST requests for mutating APIs are not supported by this endpoint; such requests are currently supported only by the queue
GET redirect for hibernation
The GET redirect
endpoint, when issued against a managed controller with hibernation enabled, generates an HTML page that redirects to the managed controller:
If the managed controller is running, the redirect is almost immediate.
If the managed controller is hibernating, the managed controller is started in the background, and once the managed controller is running, the page redirects the request.
The GET redirect
endpoint is useful for redirecting browser bookmarks. For example, instead of bookmarking https://cloudbees-core.example.com/your-team/job/your-folder/
, you could use the more useful https://cloudbees-core.example.com/hibernation/redirect/your-team/job/your-folder/
Using POST queue with GitHub webhooks
The POST queue endpoint may be used as part of the URL for GitHub webhooks. When a GitHub webhook arrives at a hibernated managed controller, the managed controller is started, and, once it is fully operational, the webhook is processed. By default, managed controllers are woken by anything that comes into the /queue/ URL except non-matching GitHub events. "Matching" means any known event type (like a new PR) against organizations or repositories defined by the GitHub branch source plugin.
For example, when a PR is filed that corresponds to a project defined in a hibernated managed controller, the webhook "wakes up" the managed controller. After approximately 90 seconds, when the managed controller is ready, it executes and runs the build, and after a few more minutes returns to the hibernated state.
Hyperlinks from GitHub commit statuses using the continuous-integration/jenkins prefix may not work with a hibernated managed controller. However, if you receive a 503 error from a GitHub commit status hyperlink, you can add the redirect infix to the URL to get an actual response. See GET redirect for more information. Hyperlinks produced by the CloudBees GitHub Reporting plugin will automatically incude a redirect infix when applicable, so these can be followed whether the managed controller is hibernated or not.
To use the POST queue
API endpoint in a GitHub webhook, specify the API endpoint as part of the URL. For example, a URL reading https://cloudbees-core.example.com/your-team/github-webhook/
can be specified as https://cloudbees-core.example.com/hibernation/queue/your-team/github-webhook/
When CloudBees CI is creating a GitHub webhook on your behalf, or when you use the CloudBees CI wizard to create a GitHub app (which includes webhook functionality), a queue infix will be included in the webhook URL automatically when hibernation is enabled for that managed controller.


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My family has a history of breast cancer and I have always lived with the fear of contracting this disease. Now that I am in my mid twenties, it worries me a lot more.
As much as there has been advancement in medical science and technologies, I had always dreaded the day when I would go for my first scan and kept putting off the appointments.
Last Monday, while at work, my long time friend and colleague called in sick. She later informed me that she had been to hospital and it turned out that she was in the early stages of breast cancer.
Even though I was used to people around me contracting the disease, this news struck me like a thunderbolt. It?s as if I had suffered the same fate. The strength in her voice gave me encouragement and Jenny added that she was going through chemotherapy soon and all would be well.
This situation made me realize that I could not avoid the inevitable and would have to go for a check up. What?s more, Jenny accompanied me to hospital and her reassuring attitude got me through the procedure. I am glad I went through it because now I know that I am in perfectly good health.
We all know I hate accounting but this QuickBooks course training program was really easy to follow.
My uncle told me about a QuickBooks training program and ordered it for my birthday. Since I had already knew from the Microsoft Excel training courses that I was proficient with that, I didn't really want to bother with it even though the the same QuickBooks training vendor had a sale going on.
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I had never had the opportunity to attend a wedding shower simply because all the friends I had were more or less my age mates and my elder sister was only two years older than me. She had been courting and finally set the date with her boyfriend.
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More people are throwing plant-based burgers on the grill this summer.
Beyond Meat, which makes pea protein-based burgers and sausages, said Tuesday its second quarter revenue jumped 69% to $113 million as more households tried its products in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Sales far outpaced Wall Street's forecast of $99 million, according to analysts polled by FactSet.
The El Segundo, California-based company reported a net loss of $10 million for the April-June period. Adjusted for one-time items, including coronavirus-related expenses, Beyond Meat lost 2 cents per share. That was in line with analysts' expectations.
Normally, Beyond Meat sells half its output to restaurants and food service, Beyond Meat President and CEO Ethan Brown said. The company had to make a rapid pivot when those sales cratered this spring due to coronavirus-related closures.
Burgers and sausages that were packaged for food service were returned to factories and repackaged for consumers. In mid-June, for example, the company launched a 10-burger value pack for $15.99 at Walmart, Target and other groceries. Normally, two four-ounce patties cost $5.99.
As a result, Beyond Meat's U.S. retail sales nearly doubled during the quarter, even as food service sales dropped 61%.
"It's not a small exercise, when it's physical goods, to make a change like that over a quarter," Brown said. The company spent $5.9 million repackaging goods during the quarter.
Brown said that by June, 4.9% of U.S. households had tried Beyond Meat products, up from 3.5% in January. More important, half of those who bought Beyond products bought them again, up from 45% in January, Brown said.
International retail sales were up 167%. Brown said Beyond Meat is now sold in 84 countries, up from 51 a year ago. International food-service sales, however, dropped 56.5%.
Beyond Meat continued to invest in international expansion during the quarter. In June, it opened a manufacturing facility in the Netherlands with its Dutch partner, Zandbergen. Brown said Beyond Meat also plans to start production in China by the end of this year.
"We believe the magnitude of the opportunity in Asia merits significant investment," Brown said.
In April, Beyond Meat debuted in at Starbucks, which sells the company's imitation beef in lasagna, pasta and a spicy wrap. Brown said Beyond Meat products were also offered for a limited time at Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC restaurants in China through a partnership with their parent company, Yum Brands.
KFC is also testing a Beyond Meat chicken nugget in the U.S.
Beyond Meat declined to give forward-looking financial guidance, citing the pandemic.
It shares rose 6% to close at $142.25 Tuesday. But they fell 7.5% in after-hours trading following the release of the earnings report.


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Pope Francis is Time's Person of the Year
Pope Francis has been selected by Time magazine as the Person of the Year.
In only his first year, the pope was selected by the magazine's editors as the person who had the greatest impact on the world, for good or bad, during 2013.
Time Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs said Pope Francis had changed the tone, the perception and focus of one of the world's largest institutions in an extraordinary way.
Leaker Edward Snowden finished second as Time announced its choice on the "Today" show Wednesday.


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Before You Go Out on Your PWC
PWC operators are subject to rules and requirements that apply to both inboard vessels and PWC.
Operating a PWC carries the same responsibilities as operating any other vessel. Before taking your PWC out on the water, you should:
- Read and understand the owner's manual.
- Take time to review the video most PWC manufacturers provide.
- Inspect your PWC periodically, and perform necessary maintenance to keep it in good operating condition.
- Be aware of all local, state, and federal laws that apply to a PWC.
- Not forget that in addition to obeying all boating laws, the PWC operator must adhere to laws specific to PWC.


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Read more: FOX News
By George Russell - Published December 19, 2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that would give it vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems in the name of "sustainable development," the centerpiece of a global United Nations conference slated for Rio de Janeiro next June.
The major focus of the EPA thinking is a weighty study the agency commissioned last year from the National Academies of Science. Published in August, the study, entitled "Sustainability and the U.S. EPA," cost nearly $700,000 and involved a team of a dozen outside experts and about half as many National Academies staff.
Its aim: how to integrate sustainability "as one of the key drivers within the regulatory responsibilities of EPA." The panel who wrote the study declares part of its job to be "providing guidance to EPA on how it might implement its existing statutory authority to contribute more fully to a more sustainable-development trajectory for the United States."
Or, in other words, how to use existing laws to new ends.
According to the Academies, the sustainability study "both incorporates and goes beyond an approach based on assessing and managing the risks posed by pollutants that has largely shaped environmental policy since the 1980s."
It is already known in EPA circles as the "Green Book," and is frequently compared by insiders to the "Red Book," a study on using risk management techniques to guide evaluation of carcinogenic chemicals that the agency touts as the basis of its overall approach to environmental issues for the past 30 years.
At the time that the "Green Book" study was commissioned, in August, 2010, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson termed it "the next phase of environmental protection," and asserted that it will be "fundamental to the future of the EPA."
Jackson compared the new approach, it would articulate to "the difference between treating disease and pursuing wellness." It was, she said, "a new opportunity to show how environmentally protective and sustainable we can be," and would affect "every aspect" of EPA's work.
Click here for an audio link to Jackson's remarks
According to the study itself, the adoption of the new "sustainability framework" will make the EPA more "anticipatory" in its approach to environmental issues, broaden its focus to include both social and economic as well as environmental "pillars," and "strengthen EPA as an organization and a leader in the nation's progress toward a sustainable future."
Whatever EPA does with its suggestions, the study emphasizes, will be "discretionary." But the study urges EPA to "create a new culture among all EPA employees," and hire an array of new experts in order to bring the sustainability focus to every corner of the agency and its operations. Changes will move faster "as EPA's intentions and goals in sustainability become clear to employees," the study says.
The National Academies and the EPA held a meeting last week in Washington to begin public discussion of the study.
Download a free copy of the study here
Even as it begins to go public, EPA, which has come under renewed fire for its recent rulings on new auto emissions standards and limits on coal-fueled power plant emissions, is being determinedly low-key about the study.
Initially questioned about the document by Fox News weeks ago, an EPA spokesman eventually declared that "we are currently reviewing the recommendations and have not yet made any decisions on implementation." During the deliberations, he said, "the agency will seek a wide range of perspectives on the recommendations from the business community, non-governmental organizations, the scientific community, and others."
The spokesman also said that EPA had "no current plans" for the so-called "Rio + 20" environmental summit next summer "that pertains to the Green Book's recommendations."
The U.N. summit meeting, however, is mentioned in the Green Book itself as an instance where "sustainability is gaining increasing recognition as a useful framework for addressing otherwise intractable problems. The framework can be applied at any scale of governance, in nearly any situation, and anywhere in the world."
When it comes to applying the framework via EPA, the study says it is likely to happen only "over time." The Red Book risk assessment approach now in use, it notes, "was not immediately adopted within EPA or elsewhere. It required several years for its general acceptance at EPA and its diffusion to state and local agencies."
What is "sustainability" in the first place? That is a question the study ducks, noting that it is only advising EPA on how to bring it within the agency's canon.
The experts take their definition from an Obama Administration executive order of October, 2009, entitled Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance. It defines sustainability in sweeping fashion as the ability "to create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations."
The study specifically notes that "although addressing economic issues is not a core part of EPA's mission, it is explicitly part of the definition of sustainability."
The experience of the European Union is deemed "particularly relevant" to achieving the sustainability goal.
That European strategy involves a virtually all-encompassing regulatory vision. The study notes that its priorities include "climate change and clean energy; sustainable transport; sustainable consumption and production; conservation and management of natural resources; public health; social inclusion, demography, and migration; and global poverty and sustainable development challenges."
In an American context, the study says sustainable development "raises questions that are not fully or directly addressed in U.S. law or policy." Among them: "how to define and control unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and how to encourage the development of sustainable communities, biodiversity protection, clean energy, environmentally sustainable economic development, and climate change controls."
The study notes that sustainable development is "broader than the sum of U.S. environmental and conservation laws."
It adds that "a great deal more needs to be done to achieve sustainability in the United States."
The experts say they found the legal authority for EPA to foster sustainable development without further congressional approval in the wording of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, or NEPA. The study says the law, the cornerstone of U.S. environmental policy, declared that the "continuing policy of the Federal Government" is to "create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations."
(In fact, the study quotes selectively from that portion of NEPA. What that section of the Act says in full is that "it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.)
What ends that tacit authority should be used for are far less clear, because the study asserts that they need to be made up and codified as EPA goes along.
"EPA needs to formally develop and specify its vision for sustainability," the study says. "Vision, in the sense discussed here, is a future state that EPA is trying to reach or is trying to help the country or the world to reach."
The study offers up new tools for EPA to do the job. As opposed to environmental impact assessment, the study encourages the use of "sustainability impact assessment" in the evaluation of the hundreds and thousands of projects that come under EPA scrutiny to see whether they are moving in the proper direction
"Environmental impact assessment tends to focus primarily on the projected environmental effects of a particular action and alternatives to that action," the study says. Sustainability impact assessment examines "the probable effects of a particular project or proposal on the social, environmental, and economic pillars of sustainability"—a greatly expanded approach.
One outcome: "The culture change being proposed here will require EPA to conduct an expanding number of assessments."
As a result, "The agency can become more anticipatory, making greater use of new science and of forecasting."
The catch, the study recognizes, is that under the new approach the EPA becomes more involved than ever in predicting the future.
"Forecasting is unavoidable when dealing with sustainability, but our ability to do forecasting is limited," the document says.
One forecast it is safe to make: the study shows whatever else the new sustainability mission does for EPA, it aims to be a much, much more important—and powerful-- federal agency than it is, even now.
George Russell is executive editor of Fox News and can be found on Twitter@GeorgeRussell


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cauliflower rice
- 800g cauliflower florets, chopped
- 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
- chopped pistachios, to serve
- Working in 2 batches, place the cauliflower in a food processor and pulse until it resembles rice.
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The following commentary covers Chapters 8, 9, and 10.
The people's demand for a king: Saul the man according to the flesh
But faith is not transmitted by succession. Samuel could not make prophets of his sons. They were no better as judges than Eli's sons had been as priests, and the people had no faith themselves to lean immediately upon God. They ask to be made like unto the nations.
"Make us now a king," said they to Samuel. Where was Jehovah? For Israel, nowhere. But it was evil in the eyes of Samuel, and he prayed unto Jehovah. While acknowledging that the people had, as usual, rejected Him, God commands Samuel to hearken unto their voice. Samuel warns them according to God's testimony, and sets before them all the inexpediency and consequences of such a step; but the people will not hearken unto him. God brings to the prophet, through providential circumstances, the man whom He had chosen to satisfy the carnal wishes of the people. In all this He judges the people and their king. ("He gave them a king in his anger, and took him away in his wrath.") But He remembers His people. He does not forsake them. He acts by Saul on their behalf, while shewing them their unfaithfulness, and afterwards in cutting off the disobedient king. Beauty and height of stature distinguished the son of Kish. But in the signs that Samuel gave him, when he had anointed him, there was a meaning which should have carried his thoughts beyond himself.
How often there is a meaning, a language, perfectly intelligible to one who has ears to hear, but which escapes us, because our gross and hardened heart has no spiritual intelligence or discernment! And yet all our future hangs upon it. God has shewn our incapacity for the blessing it involved. Nevertheless the means were not wanting.
Although the significance of this circumstance was less evident than that of the other signs, yet Rachel's sepulchre should have reminded Saul, the son and heir according to the flesh of the one who was born there, that the son of the mother's sorrow was the son of the father's right hand (Gen. 35: 18).
God-given signs
Now God had not abandoned Israel; faith was still there; men were going up to God. There were some in Israel who remembered the God of Bethel, who had revealed Himself to Jacob when he fled [
], and who in His faithfulness had brought him back in peace; and God gave Saul favour in their eyes. The servants of the God of Bethel salute him and strengthen him on his way. But the hill of God was possessed by the garrison of the Philistinesanother circumstance which, by its significance, should have gone to the heart of a faithful Israelite who desired the glory of God and the good of His people. But the sign which accompanied it made it much more forcible; for the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Saul in this place, and he was turned into another man, called therefore to "do as occasion served him, for God was with him" (chap. 10: 7) [
It often happens, that faith sets forth clearly what should be done, while the heart, waxen fat and unfaithful, does not see it at all.
And what do these signs mean? There are those in Israel who remember the God of Bethel, and who seek Himupright and prepared hearts, who know Him as the resource of faith. But the hill of God, the public seat of His strength, is in the enemy's hands. Still, if this be so, the Spirit of God is upon the man who takes cognisance of it, and it is at this very hill that the Spirit comes upon him. The name of God is also significative here. It is God abstractedlyGod the Creator: God Himself is in question. The Spirit of Jehovah comes upon Saul, because He resumes there the course of His relations with Israel.
Samuel, not Saul, the link between God and the people
But Samuel is still the only one whom God recognises as the link between Himself and the people. It is when Saul has had to do with Samuel, that he is another man. He must wait for Samuel, that he may know what to do, and that blessing may rest upon him. He must thus acknowledge that blessing is connected with the prophet, and not act without him; he must wait for him with perfect patience (seven days), a patience which, submitting to God's testimony, will not seek for blessing apart from His ways.
The Philistine enemies
Here also we see in the Philistines the enemies who put faith to the proof. We have often enemies over whom we gain an easy victory, and on whose account we are considered spiritual, yet they are not such as (on God's part, and it may also be said on their own part) put faith to the proof. With these patience must have her perfect work. And the Philistines held this place with respect to Saul. It was all well that the people should be delivered from their other enemies; but they were not the ones which were a snare to them, and which manifested the power of the enemy in the very midst of Israel and the promises.
Do spiritual powers rule over us in the assembly, in the place where the promises of God should be fulfilled? And what power do we see to overthrow the power of evil and spiritual wickedness within the borders of the professing church?
It was from the Philistines that Saul should have delivered the people of God (see chap. 9: 16). The hill of God was in the Philistines' hands (see also chap. 14: 52). If Saul had waited for Samuel, he would have declared unto him all that he should do. Now we shall see that, two years later, Saul is put to the proof as to this in the presence of the Philistines; and whatever may have been the delay, the thing had not been altered; all the intermediate success should have increased his faith and strengthened him in obedience.
The choice of a king
Samuel calls the people together at Mizpeh. There he sets before them their foolishness in rejecting the God of their salvation. But he proceeds to the choice of a king, according to the command of God. God meets the wishes of the people. If the flesh could have glorified God, nothing was wanting to induce them to trust in Him. God adapts Himself to them in outward things; and further, as we know, had the people followed Jehovah, Jehovah would not have forsaken them (chap. 12: 20-25).
And now that God has set up a king, those who will not own him are "men of Belial." The people however scarcely see God in it at all: they only recognise Him in those things which the flesh can perceive, such as the beauty of the king and the success of his arms, that is to say, the things in which God suits Himself to nature, and in which He grants blessing, in order that He may be known and trusted. In this they rejoice, but they go no farther. Faith is not of nature.
The God who had said to him in the day of his trouble, when driven out from before his enemy, that He would not forsake him.
Accordingly it was the Spirit of prophecy, the Spirit which acted in blessing, which indicated the presence of God, and that to which Saul should have recourse, even though (yea, because) the hill of God, the public seat of His authority in Israel, was in the hands of the enemies of the true people of God. This scene pictured the whole state of Israel.
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