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Migrants who applied for asylum in the United States but then fled north, fearing they would be swept up in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, may have miscalculated in viewing Canada as a safe haven.
That is because their time in the United States could count against them when they apply for asylum in Canada, according to a Reuters review of Canadian federal court rulings on asylum seekers and interviews with refugee lawyers.
In 2016, 160 asylum cases came to the federal courts after being rejected by refugee tribunals. Of those, 33 had been rejected in part because the applicants had spent time in the United States, the Reuters review found.
Lawyers said there could be many more such cases among the thousands of applicants who were rejected by the tribunals in the same period but did not appeal to the federal courts.
The 2016 court rulings underscore the potentially precarious legal situation now facing many of the nearly 2,000 people who have crossed illegally into Canada since January.
Most of those border crossers had been living legally in the United States, including people awaiting the outcome of U.S. asylum applications, according to Canadian and U.S. government officials and Reuters interviews with dozens of migrants.
Trump's tough talk on illegal immigration, however, spurred them northward to Canada, whose government they viewed as more welcoming to migrants. There, they have begun applying for asylum, citing continued fears of persecution or violence in their homelands, including Somalia and Eritrea.
But Canadian refugee tribunals are wary of "asylum-shopping" and look askance at people coming from one of the world's richest countries to file claims, the refugee lawyers said.
"Abandoning a claim in the United States or coming to Canada after a negative decision in the United States, or failing to claim and remaining in the States for a long period of time — those are all big negatives. Big, big negatives," said Toronto-based legal aid lawyer Anthony Navaneelan, who is representing applicants who came to Canada from the United States in recent months.
The Canadian government has not given a precise figure on how many of the border crossers were asylum seekers in the United States.
But it appears their fears may have been misplaced. Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has said that anyone in the United States illegally is subject to deportation, but there is no evidence that asylum seekers with pending cases are considered illegal under the new administration.
'Lack of seriousness'
The asylum seekers will make their cases before Canada's refugee tribunals, which rejected 5,000 cases last year. The tribunals' decisions are not made public, so the reasons are not known. An Immigration and Refugee Board spokeswoman confirmed, however, that an applicant's time in the United States can be a factor in a tribunal's decision.
Rejected applicants can appeal to Canada's federal courts, whose rulings are published. The federal courts upheld 19 of the 33 tribunal rejections they heard last year and recommended fresh tribunal hearings for the other 14 cases.
The judges believed those claimants had a good explanation for having been in the United States first. The outcomes of the new tribunal hearings are not known.
The federal court handles only a small portion of all applications rejected by the refugee tribunals. But overall, applicants who have spent time in the United States have a higher chance of being rejected, said multiple immigration lawyers, including two former refugee tribunal counsel, interviewed by Reuters.
Last year, a federal judge upheld a refugee tribunal rejection of Sri Lankan man who had abandoned a pending U.S. claim. The tribunal said the man's decision demonstrated a "lack of seriousness" and was "inconsistent with the expected behavior" of someone who fears persecution in their own country.
A Chadian applicant lost his 2016 appeal because he did not claim asylum "at the first opportunity" in the United States.
The asylum-seekers who have crossed the U.S border since January are still going through the claim process and many have yet to go through tribunal hearings.
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Canadian officials want refugee applicants to behave the way they think people fleeing for their lives would behave, said lawyer and researcher Hilary Evans Cameron. Living undocumented in the United States for years or abandoning a pending claim, as many people among this latest refugee influx have done, are not seen as consistent with that fear, she said.
Those with failed U.S. asylum claims must prove to Canadian tribunals that the U.S. courts were wrong in their assessment,that their circumstances have changed for the worse, or that they qualify in Canada, several lawyers said.
Crucially, all applicants must show that the often years-old fears that led them to leave their home countries for the United States still exist.
Canada grants asylum if applicants qualify under the United Nations' definition of someone who has a well-founded fear of persecution based on certain criteria, such as race, religion, nationality or political affiliation.
A federal judge ruled in March that the deportation of a Honduran family, who had lived in the United States for more than three years, could go forward after immigration officials found the family no longer faced a risk in Honduras.
"The longer they've been away [from their country of origin], the more difficult it is to establish that they're a refugee," said Winnipeg refugee lawyer Ken Zaifman.


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The Space Shuttle took shape and won support, and criticism, as part of NASA's search for a post-Apollo future. As with the Army and Navy in World War II, NASA had grown rapidly during the 1960s. Similarly, just as those military services saw a sharp falloff in funding in the wake of victory, the success of the piloted moon landings brought insistent demands that NASA should shrink considerably. In facing those demands, and in overcoming them to a degree, NASA established itself as a permanent player in Washington.
In civics books, we learn that the three branches of government include the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court. In making policy and in carrying it out, however, the judiciary rarely plays a significant role. One may speak of a tripartite government with a different set of participants: the White House, Congress, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Though the OMB is part of the Executive Branch and responds to the wishes of the President, its officials have considerable leeway to shape policy in their own right, by cutting budgets. In seeking its post-Apollo future, NASA repeatedly had to accept such cuts, as its senior officials struggled to win support within the White House.
During 1969, with Nixon newly elected and the first astronauts setting foot on the Moon, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine led a push for a future in space that promised to be expansive. He aimed at nothing less than a piloted expedition to Mars, propelled by nuclear rocket engines that were already in development. En route to Mars, he expected to build space stations and large space bases. Almost as an afterthought, he expected to build a space shuttle as well, to provide low-cost flight to these orbiting facilities.
Soon after Neil Armstrong made his one small step in the lunar Sea of Tranquillity, Paine received a cold bath in the Sea of Reality. Nixon's budget director, Robert Mayo, chopped a billion dollars from Paine's request. This brought an end to NASA's hopes for a space base and for flight to Mars. It appeared possible, however, to proceed with the space station and the Shuttle, as a joint project. The Shuttle drew particular interest within the Air Force, which saw it as a means to accomplish low-cost launches of reconnaissance satellites and other military spacecraft.
Congress, however, was deeply skeptical toward the proposed shuttle/station, as both the House and Senate came close to killing it in 1970. NASA responded to this near-death experience by placing the station on the shelf and bringing the Shuttle to the forefront. Its officials needed political support that could win over doubters in Congress, and they found this support within the Department of Defense.
The Air Force now found itself in a most unusual position. Its generals had worked through the 1960s to pursue programs that could put military astronauts in space. These programs had faltered, with the main ones, the Dyna-Soar and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, being canceled in 1963 and 1969 respectively. Yet here was NASA offering the Pentagon a piloted space shuttle, and promising to design it to meet Air Force needs. Indeed, the Air Force would receive the Shuttle on a silver platter, for NASA alone would fund its development and construction. It is a measure of NASA's desperation that it accepted the Shuttle project on those terms. The ploy, however, worked. The Air Force gave its political support to the Shuttle, and NASA went on to quell the opposition on Capitol Hill.
The OMB was a tougher opponent. NASA tried to win it over by commissioning cost-benefit studies that sought to support the Shuttle on economic grounds. These studies, however, merely provided more ammunition for the OMB's critics. In mid-1971, these critics forced NASA to abandon plans for a shuttle with two fully reusable liquid-fueled stages, and to set out on a search for a shuttle design that would cost half as much to develop. Then, when the resulting design exercises promised success in meeting this goal, the OMB responded by arguing that this success showed that NASA could do still more to cut costs. Budget officials demanded a design that would be smaller and less costly, even though such a shuttle would have significantly less capability than the Air Force wanted.
By shrinking the Shuttle, however, NASA won support where it counted. Caspar Weinberger, the OMB's deputy director, gave his endorsement late in 1971. Nixon also decided that the nation should have a shuttle. On the eve of decision, the key player proved to be OMB Director George Shultz. He decided that since the shuttle was to serve the entire nation, it should have the full capability for which NASA hoped and the Air Force demanded. Shultz's decision reinforced Nixon's, putting an end to the OMB's continuing demands to downsize the design. The consequence was the Space Shuttle as we know it today.


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By K. Caragher, T. Drake, K. Engstrom, K. Hays, H. Jellen, S. Levine, A. Medlock, T. Miller, S. Pelczar, C. Short, B. Vargas
Title: Lawrence Gushee Papers, 1794-2008
Primary Creator: Lawrence Gushee (1931-2015)
Extent: 27.5 cubic feet
Arrangement: Organized in three series: Series 1: Medieval and Renaissance Music Research and Instruction (1855-2007), Series 2: American Popular Music Research and Instruction (1794-2007), and Series 3: Tangential Research Files and Personal Papers (1800-2007). Series 1 is organized in three subseries: Subseries 1: Research Files, Subseries 2: Instruction Files, and Subseries 3: Correspondence. Series 2 is organized in three subseries: Subseries 1: Research Files (1794-2007) arranged by primary topical subject area, Subseries 2: Instruction Files (1923-2001) arranged alphabetically by course title or subject and then chronologically thereunder, and Subseries 3: Correspondence (1973-2007) arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Series 3 is organized in three subseries: Subseries 1: Organological Research and Instruction Files, Subseries 2: Reference and Other Research Files, and Subseries 3: Professional Papers and Correspondence.
Date Acquired: 12/15/2014. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Jazz, Medieval History, Music, Music, School of
Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Latin, Russian, Arabic, Spanish;Castilian, Swedish, Greek,Ancient(to1453), Dutch;Flemish, Hebrew, Chinese
Consists of research and instructional files, and correspondence related to his scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance music, American popular music (primarily Jazz), as well as Gushee's ancillary scholarly interests which include organology and nineteenth-century French music. Materials also pertain to Gushee's involvement and service as a faculty member for the School of Music at the University of Illinois. Gushee's study of American popular music grew from his initial interest in Medieval and Renaissance trouveres and troubadours; and his research of early music included the genealogy of important musicians and the tracing of song origins. Such endeavors were highly influential upon his later work with American music. Gushee's research efforts are represented in genealogical records (census, marriage, death, and military service) of famous jazz musicians, including Jelly Roll Morton, maps, card catalog records, audiovisual materials, and print versions of Gushee's conference papers.
Lawrence "Larry" Arthur Gushee (1931-2015) was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania to Lawrence and Mary McEachern Gushee, and grew up in the areas of Boston and Philadelphia. After graduating from William Penn Charter School, Gushee earned a BA in the History of Music from Yale University, and then a Ph.D. in Musicology Studies from Yale in 1962. His teaching career includes posts at Yale (until 1967), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1967-1976), and finally University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1976-1997). Gushee was a classically-trained clarinetist as well as a musicologist, and later in his career he became involved in traditional jazz and ragtime performance. He later formed his own band, the New Golden Rule Orchestra. Gushee's study of American popular music had grown from his initial interest in Medieval and Renaissance trouveres and troubadours; his work in early music included the genealogy of important musicians and the tracing of song origins. Such endeavors were highly influential upon his work with American music. The bulk of his scholarly research focused on medieval music and early jazz, with particular expertise on Jelly Roll Morton and the Original Creole Band of New Orleans. From this expertise came the publication of his book Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band (2005). Additionally, Gushee's written work in these fields appears in American Record Guide and Jazz Review, and he has provided liner notes for Smithsonian reissues of King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, and Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers Recordings. His most influential contribution as a scholar was the promotion of early jazz as a legitimate scholarly field.
Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Accruals: 30 cubic feet of materials were donated by Sarah LaBarre, daughter of Lawrence Gushee, on December 15, 2014. 0.1 cubic feet acquired from Rebecca Bryant on July 28, 2015.
Acquisition Source: Sarah LaBarre
Acquisition Method: Materials were donated by Sarah LaBarre.
Card Catalog includes topics pertaining to Medieval, Renaissance, American Popular Music, Reference, and Professional Papers.
Catagories include: Contacts List; Slide Files; University of Illinois Records; Expertise and Unusual Resources; Improvization and Inspiration; Misc. on Recordings, Models, Imitations, Etc.; Arrangers and Arrangements; Poss. Rec. Anthologies; Special Bands Dance; A & R; Recording Companies; Parks and Resorts; Bars, Halls, and Clubs; Theatres; Shows and Acts; Discology; Pubs., Stores, Schools; Guilds, Unions, and Clubs; Minstrel and Minstrelsy; Riverboats; Record Wants; Instrument Pictures; Photos; Instruments; Jazz Clarinet; Reeds, Mutes, and Sim.; Terms; Blues in Recordings Before 1918; Jazz Transcriptions; Ensembles; Books; and Newspapers.
Card Catalog includes topics pertaining to American Popular Music, Reference, and Professional Papers.
Catagories include: Periodicals; Directories and Annuals; Acts with Creole Band; Movies - Jazz, Dance, Etc.; Tools; Topics; Queries; Xerox Index; South America; West Indian; LA and New Orleans; Speciality Labels Bunk J.; Show Business and Vaudeville; Songs of Interest; Music Wants; Rough Songs; Photographs and Agents; Lis Vernal Manuscripts; Dance Bibliography; Library Collections; Quotes; Bartlett; Locals; United States Music; Funny; Misc. Jazz; Students; University of Illinois Library - Rare and Interesting; Copyright; Odd and Unusual Discs; University of Illinois Rags, Etc.; Interlibrary Loan Requests; Intervies on Discs; Jazz Theses; Persons and Acts; New Orleans Names; Chicago CD Search; and Jazz Writers.
Card Catalog includes topics pertaining to Medieval, Renaissance, American Popular Music, Reference, and Professional Papers.
Catagories include: 1972-73; Dissertations; Paleography; Service Books; New Source ReadingsTeaching Aids and Methods; Ostinato; Reviews, Literature - Berichte; Byzantium and Europe; 17th Century Opera; Book Wants; Romantic; Liturgy; Classic and Gallant for MUS 136; Quotations; Notations; Notation - Daseian; Notation - Paleography; Diagrams; Cities; Oriental; 14th Century; Plainchant; Pre-Carolingian; 9th Century; Pre-Boethius; 11th to 15th Century Theory; Renaissnace; Brahms; Italian; Song; English; Louis Armstrong; Louis Armstrong - Foreign; Jazz, ETc. Slides; and To be Filed.
Card Catalog includes topics pertaining to Medieval, Renaissance, American Popular Music, Reference, and Professional Papers.
Catagories include: Slide Index; Instruments; Misc.; Celtic; 14th Century Minstrelsy Bibliography; Jelly Roll Morton Chronology; 1910 Black Musicians; 1910 Male and Female Black Music Tours; 1910 Black Music Trades; amd 1910 Misc. (1 of 2).
Card Catalog includes topics pertaining to Medieval and Renaissance Music, Reference, and Professional Papers.
Catagories include: Medieval Theory Manuscripts; Photostats; Topics; Books and Records Wanted; Catalogues, Indexes, Lists, Etc.; Curiosa; Manuscripts; Facsimiles; Concepts; Periodicals; Before 1200; 1200-1450; 1450-1600; 17th Century; 18th Century; 19th Century; Theorists and Composers (by Name) before 1300; Boethius Manuscripts; People of Musical Interest from the Middle Ages; Music in Non-Musical Writings; Verlul; Tools; Ideas; Terminology; Medieval Reference in Alphabetical Order; Tonaries; Monochord Incipits; Medieval Library Catalogs; Medieval and Renaissance Bibliographies; Libraries, Manuscripts, and Misc.; and Didactic Theory Articles.
Card Catalog includes topics pertaining to Medieval and Renaissance Music.
Catagories include: Carolingian Secular; Antiphons and Modal Irregularity; Incipits, Explicits, Colopho.; Muris Titles; Manuscripts; Muris; Prdonnaces, Livrees; Crue.; Glossaire; Archives; Personnages; Escorial 0.II.10 Borrowers; Escorial Works; Escorial Objects; Muris and Bibliography; Muris Biography; Julianus de Muris; Ideas Regarding Muris, Etc.; and Evreux.


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Back in the arms of his wife in his beloved adoptive Australian home, refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi is ready to forget his two months in a Thai jail.
The 25-year-old on Tuesday touched down in Melbourne to much fanfare, wearing a Pascoe Vale Football Club top, and filled with praise for Australia.
"I will be more strong for this country," al-Araibi said in broken English.
"I will be strong here, just for Australia. And Australia, this is my country.
"I don't have citizenship yet, but my country is Australia. I will die in Australia and I love Australia. Thank you very much."
The soccer player thanked the Australian government, media and his supporters for their backing, before being ushered through the crowd to meet with his wife whom he hasn't seen since November.
The couple travelled to Bangkok on their honeymoon when al-Araibi was arrested at the request of his birth country Bahrain, seeking his extradition.
He was wanted after fleeing the country when charged with vandalising a police station in 2012 and sentenced to 10 years in jail in absentia.
Al-Araibi denied the crime.
His detention attracted high-profile global attention, raised diplomatic tensions and generated repeated requests for his release from the Australian government, international human rights groups, sporting bodies and the public.
Those calls were answered when Bahrain on Monday requested the case be dropped.
But Bahrain's Foreign Ministry said al-Araibi's 10-year jail sentence remained in place and reaffirmed the country's right to "pursue all necessary legal actions against him".
Even if a future extradition request comes from Bahrain, Australia is unlikely to agree.
And federal police will look at how Bahrain was tipped off that al-Araibi was travelling to Thailand before his trip, allowing the country to wrongly issue an Interpol red notice.
Despite ongoing questions, Prime Minister Scott Morrison thanked Thailand for releasing al-Araibi.
"We know all Australians will deeply appreciate the decision, allowing him to return to his wife, family and friends," Mr Morrison said in a joint statement.
"The outpouring of support ... is a testament to how deeply Mr al-Araibi's situation touched Australians."
Al-Araibi's wife issued a short statement before being reunited with her new husband.
"My heart is now full with gratitude. Just so thankful that these tears are falling out of relief and joy."
There's a chance the valuable defender could get a run during Thursday's game between Pascoe Vale and Heidelberg United, with al-Araibi quick to tell former Socceroo captain Craig Foster he had stayed fit while locked up.
"He said 'I am in good condition' and he wants to go and play.
"He said 'I feel strong Craig, I feel strong. I have been training in prison'."
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MONDAY, June 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- That music at bedtime that's supposed to help you fall asleep may actually have the opposite effect, new research suggests.
It turns out that "earworms," those catchy bits of a composition that can get stuck in a person's head can also interject themselves into a person's dreams, affecting the ability to fall asleep and to sleep well.
"Our brains continue to process music even when none is playing, including apparently while we are asleep," said study author Michael Scullin, a sleep researcher at Baylor University, in Waco, Tex.
"Everyone knows that music listening feels good. Adolescents and young adults routinely listen to music near bedtime. But sometimes you can have too much of a good thing," Scullin said. "The more you listen to music, the more likely you are to catch an earworm that won't go away at bedtime. When that happens, chances are your sleep is going to suffer."
The survey included 209 participants. They completed a series of questionnaires on sleep quality, music-listening habits and earworm frequency. Questions include how often they experienced an earworm while trying to fall asleep, when waking in the middle of the night and upon waking in the morning.
Then, 50 of the participants came to Scullin's Sleep Neuroscience and Cognition Laboratory at Baylor, where the research team attempted to induce earworms to determine how it affected sleep quality. The researchers recorded the participants' brain waves, heart rates, breathing and more while they slept.
The researchers also took EEG readings — records of electrical activity in the brain — to examine physiological markers of sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Memory consolidation is the process by which temporary memories are spontaneously reactivated during sleep and transformed into a more long-term form.
The researchers played three catchy songs, Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off," Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," randomly assigning participants to listen to the original versions of those songs or instrumental versions of the songs.
Participants reported whether and when they experienced an earworm. Then researchers analyzed whether that impacted their sleep. People who caught an earworm had greater difficulty falling asleep, more nightly awakenings and spent more time in light stages of sleep.
The study found that individuals with greater music-listening habits experienced persistent earworms and a decline in sleep quality. These results are contrary to the idea of music as a hypnotic that might help sleep, according to the study.
The findings were published June 9 in the journal Psychological Science.
"Almost everyone thought music improves their sleep, but we found those who listened to more music slept worse," Scullin said in a news release from the Association for Psychological Science. "What was really surprising was that instrumental music led to worse sleep quality — instrumental music leads to about twice as many earworms."
To keep music from having a negative impact on sleep, Scullin recommends first trying to moderate music listening or taking occasional breaks if bothered by earworms. Avoid listening to music before bed.
Another way to get rid of an earworm is to engage in mental activity — fully focusing on a task, problem or activity helps to distract your brain from earworms. Near bedtime, rather than engaging in a demanding activity or something that would disrupt your sleep, like watching TV or playing video games, Scullin suggests spending five to 10 minutes writing out a to-do list and putting thoughts to paper.
More information
The Kennedy Center has more on earworms.
SOURCE: Association for Psychological Science, news release, June 9, 2021


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Aug 26th, 2022 – Food solutions company SpartanNash (the "Company") (Nasdaq: SPTN) is serving three communities surrounding its corporate offices by reactivating its Helping Hands Day this summer. At volunteer sites across West Michigan, Minneapolis and Norfolk, Va., SpartanNash Associates have fulfilled and committed to more than 3,300 hours of service to non-profit partners.
"Our SpartanNash Associates have always been generous with their time and talents, and as part of our People First culture, we were excited to get back out into our communities and volunteer," SpartanNash President and CEO Tony Sarsam said. "We are proud to see our team step up to make an impact for such worthy causes, demonstrating our Core Behavior of We Serve."
Helping Hands Day volunteers participated in a wide variety of activities, including sorting food at local food pantries, yard work, construction work, and organizing and cleaning.
In West Michigan, 16 non-profit organizations benefitted from the extra helping hands, including organizations such as Access of West Michigan, Grand Rapids Home for Veterans and Paws with a Cause. In Minneapolis, the teams supported organizations including The Bridge for Youth, Esperanza United and Solid Ground, among others. The team in Norfolk will provide volunteer service hours for organizations such as Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia, Portsmouth Humane Society and Goodwill on Sept. 15.
"Our Associates' volunteer efforts embody our Pillars of Giving, which are Hunger, Heroes and Hope," Sarsam explained. "We have seen through the pandemic just how resilient our communities can be, and that inspires us to give our best every day and to provide support when we can."
To learn more about SpartanNash's community outreach, including participating organizations that benefited from the Helping Hands efforts, visit SpartanNash.com/corp-responsibility/.
About SpartanNash
SpartanNash (Nasdaq: SPTN) is a food solutions company that delivers the ingredients for a better life. As a distributor, wholesaler and retailer with a global supply chain network, SpartanNash customers span a diverse group of national accounts, independent and chain grocers, e-commerce retailers, U.S. military commissaries and exchanges, and the Company's own brick-and-mortar grocery stores, pharmacies and fuel centers. SpartanNash distributes grocery and household goods, including fresh produce and its Our Family® portfolio of products, to locations in all 50 states, in addition to distributing to the District of Columbia, Europe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Djibouti, Korea and Japan. To support its distribution business, the Company operates a strategically developed network of large-scale distribution facilities and a nationwide transportation fleet. In addition, the Company owns and operates 147 supermarkets – primarily under the banners of Family Fare, Martin's Super Markets and D&W Fresh Market – and shares its operational insights to drive innovative solutions for SpartanNash food retail customers. Committed to fostering a People First culture, the SpartanNash family of Associates is 17,500 strong and growing. For more information, visit spartannash.com.
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Is there a connection between the two diseases? Yes. Recent studies conducted by the American Diabetes Association have proven that diabetes and gum disease are linked. Diabetics not only have the problem of everyday blood glucose monitoring and maintaining; they are more prone to gum disease and oral health complications. With the serious disease of diabetes, numerous other complications can occur such as a low immune system and oral health complications such as gingivitis. Diabetics do not have as much fighting power within their immune system as healthy people and this makes them vulnerable to a variety of problems.
Diabetes and gum disease are connected because when blood glucose levels become unstable the teeth cannot remain strong. This can cause a diabetic to lose teeth throughout their lifetime. The risk of serious gum disease is higher when a diabetic's blood sugar level becomes unbalanced. New research and studies performed indicate that if we focus on maintaining our oral health, we can maintain or improve our general health. An unhealthy set of teeth can lead to numerous problems and health conditions. Gum disease can seriously affect a diabetic because it can increase blood glucose levels so high that it may be more and more difficult to maintain on a daily basis.
If you are suffering from diabetes, you must take good care of your gums. By brushing your teeth two to three times daily after meals, flossing, booking routine dental cleanings, controlling glucose levels and using mouthwash, you can greatly reduce your chances of getting gum disease. It is also important to observe your teeth and gums daily to see if any teeth are loose and if any gums are bleeding as this has been a sign of individuals dealing with diabetes and gum disease
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Ralph Nader: The Rise Of Re-Use – OpEd
By Ralph Nader
Last week I read that the glitzy world of virtual reality created instant multi-millionaires and several billionaires when Facebook went public selling shares.
Last week I also noted the important real world problem of some 250 million tons of solid waste a year in our country alone.
Guess which "world" gets the most investment, status, fame, klieg lights, and attention of the skilled classes and the power structure?
Guess which world is more important for our wellbeing and that of the planet?
You've heard of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's 900 million users exchanging gossip and other personal pleasantries or worries through a medium that inflates narcissism.
You've probably not heard of Ben Rose of the New York City Materials Exchange Development Program (NYC MEDP) or the equivalent organizations in your communities providing services to thousands of charitable non-profit groups which promote the donating and reusing of materials to avoid incineration, landfilling and recycling.
To grasp the enormity of modern society's waste products, Ann Leonard created a sparkling website, visited by millions of people (www.storyofstuff.org). She also published a recent popular book titled The Story of Stuff that details every aspect of your environment and physical being. Air, water, food, soil and even your genes absorb the byproducts of processing mountains of stuff. The results are not pretty.
While recycling efforts in cities like San Francisco, Vancouver and Los Angeles rise above 50 percent, New York City has been slipping behind its own 2002 level and is still struggling to reach 20 percent. New York City has been a leader in improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but it still has dreaded incinerators producing toxic air and toxic residues.
In the early 90s, pragmatic environmental scientist, Professor Barry Commoner demonstrated in two operational pilot projects that the city could reach a residential recycling level of nearly 100 percent. Unfortunately, New York City missed a chance to become a world leader in recycling when its leaders, beginning with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, declined to establish a city-wide recycling program based on Professor Commoner's model.
The New York City recycling challenge still hasn't recovered from that devastatingly wrongheaded decision. Politicians and corporations cannot stop an even superior environmental cycle, presently driven by charitable associations, in Mr. Rose's words, "nimbly accepting, exchanging and distributing thousands of tons of reusable material each year", as they have done for generations, "all the while contributing to the social, economic and environmental fabric of New York City." Over the decades, the recipients have been communities in need, such as homeless shelters and poor populations.
The NYC Materials Exchange Development Program now sees a great potential to "organize, grow and advocate for the practice of donating and reusing materials for the benefit of all New Yorkers," creating local jobs and adding productivity without any tax dollars. They are rediscovering the past of a thrifty culture and expanding it mightily to contribute to the neighborhood and economic landscape.
Donating materials instead of trashing or recycling them enlarges the gifting culture and the beneficial human interactions that follow. As Ben Rose notes: "In contrast to recycling, where used materials are broken down into their raw elements to make new items, reuse takes useful products and exchanges them without reprocessing, thus saving time, money, energy and valuable resources."
The obstacles are obvious. First a throwaway economy of waste is profitable for sellers who want you to keep throwing away and buying. They plan product obsolescence and lure consumers with the convenience of disposable products. So we have to change habits: become more cunning about what manufacturers and vendors are up to and expand second hand, reuse and material exchange programs.
What are reusable materials? Just about everything you purchase that doesn't spoil or perish. Clothing, furniture, books, bicycles, containers, computers, tools, surplus construction materials and things you buy or grow that you do not use. Reuse outlets include Goodwill or Thrift stores, charitable book and clothing drives, ecology centers and creative arts programs.
Nothing less than a "New Age" for a burgeoning sub-economy of reusable products and materials is being envisioned by the collaborative likes of the New York City Sanitation Department and the City College of New York's Department of Civil Engineering. Collecting data which shows how much energy is saved, how many jobs can be created, how much better pricing systems can be, and how much solid waste can be prevented will elevate this subject and its social status within the "zero waste" movement. We should aspire to using resources, in the worlds of Paul Hawkins, "10 to 100 times more productively."
Other countries are advancing in the reuse sector in ways we can learn from immediately. Holland is starting numerous "Repair Cafes," that are attracting increasing interest in "fixing" rather than dumping. These used to be called "Fix-It Shops" in the U.S. before the advent of our throw away corporate culture.
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Gut bacteria produce an appetite suppressant than can strengthen the effect of an exercise-based weight loss program.
The many health benefits of regular exercise are well known. However, its impact on weight loss is less clear, as exercise increases appetite, potentially resulting in an increased calorie intake.
A new study appearing in the journal Metabolism presents a possible solution.
The research comes from the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, the Universities of Glasgow and the West of Scotland, and Imperial College in London, all of which are in the United Kingdom.
It suggests that adding a certain appetite-suppressing supplement to moderate exercise increases the likelihood of weight loss, even without a change of diet.
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council provided funding for this research.
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The study explored a supplement called inulin-propionate ester (IPE).
Propionate is a short-chain fatty acid produced in the digestion of dietary fiber by gut microbes. It is a natural and effective appetite suppressor.
Propionate breaks down quickly in the body, so to strengthen its effect, scientists have chemically bound it to inulin. This is a fiber common to garlic, Jerusalem artichoke, chicory, and onion. The result is IPE.
As corresponding study author Douglas Morrison notes, "There's a great deal of interest at the moment in how our gut microbiota affects our health and well-being."
The scientists' previous research established that the use of IPE as a dietary supplement increased the rate at which the body oxidizes, or burns, fat while at rest.
The research also found that IPE suppresses the urge to consume high calorie foods. As an example, those who the researchers offered all the pasta they could eat wound up eating 10% less than they usually would.
Their new study has revealed that IPE can enhance the weight loss effects of a moderate exercise program without requiring dietary changes.
As Morrison explains, "What we've been able to show for the first time is that this latter effect continues when exercise is added to regular IPE intake." The study did not examine the effectiveness of a weight loss diet plus exercises plus IPE.
The trial consisted of 20 women aged 25–45. Each had a body mass index (BMI) greater than 25. The trial lasted for 4 weeks.
The team divided the participants into two groups of 10. Both groups participated in moderate exercise programs.
One group received a supplement of IPE, and the other received a placebo supplement comprising cellulose. All participants maintained their normal eating patterns throughout the trial.
The researchers measured each person's resting fat oxidation levels both before and after the trial using blood and gas samples. They collected these before breakfast, after breakfast, and after lunch.
The participants who exercised while taking the placebo exhibited no change to their fat oxidation levels after the trials.
The group taking the IPE, however, showed a significant increase in the burning of fat at rest, even 7 hours after their most recent dose of IPE.
Limitations of the study
The new study was small and its duration brief, so its conclusions require additional verification.
Study co-author Dalia Malkova says, "While these initial results are promising, we should stress that there are limitations to this study, which was conducted with a small group over just [4] weeks."
"For example, we can't yet draw any conclusions about how the increased fat oxidation, combined with exercise, might affect participants' body composition and body mass."
The researchers are seeking funding for further trials of IPE, involving more people and for a longer period of time.


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Traditional Indian practice of astrology follows Vedic Astrology as its base and now has also branched out to allied practices like Lal Kitab Astrology. Most of the Top & Famous Astrologers in Chennai practice both the methods to derive conclusions basis planetary movements and calculation based assumptions. Astrologer in Chennai have always been considered as an important part of the society and even modern Indian follow astrological predictions as part of culture and life. Mostly all astrologers in India follow calculation basis the horoscope and the respective zodiac sign of the person to arrive at probability. Solutions for uneventful occurrences are also provided to the person seeking astrological guidance which may include fasting, wearing a specific gemstone or some specific act of donation or kindness.
Astrologers undergo specific training and study of the subject, which is even taught as part of the curriculum in some Indian universities. This study takes a long time for one to be able to arrive at the correct conclusion for predictions. However most important in this study is the experience an astrologer has in terms of years and number of predictions he would have made to establish his credentials as an astrologer. Besides the existing segment of astrologers in Chennai, many people have the inclination to study this subject and are taking this as a full-time profession. Due to fact that astrology is imbibed in Indian culture hence, it is considered to be a noble profession.


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Towards gender and socially just alcohol policy in India
To: The Health, Rights, Media Network with The Communication Initiative
From Ranjani K. Murthy - researcher and policy advocacy person around gender, poverty, health and emergencies on gender and alcohol policy.
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Towards gender and socially just alcohol policy in India
The other day, I was asked a question: "These days women in the corporate sector and elite colleges in Chennai, India want to visit pubs and drink just like men. Advertisements on liquor are targeting Indian women as much as men, what do you think?" This was in a context where the right-wing was against women's consumption of alcohol stating that ancient Hindu scriptures do not permit women to drink (in fact Manu Smriti licensed men to remarry if their wives drank!). In fact a few years back the right-wing raided pubs in a southern state and molested a few women.
At the same time, the World Bank observes that 81% of India lives on under $2.50 a day -what is necessary for a decent standard of living? When I visit village or slums in states (same as provinces) of India where prohibition has not been imposed (majority of states) the main demand from poor, Dalit, and Adivasi women is prohibition. They complain that between half and a majority of men drink regularly (contrary to WHO statistics, 2010 which states 25% of Indian men are ever consumers of alcohol) and eat into men's earnings and part of their own earnings. The wellbeing of family members suffers, apart from the health of the men involved. Expenses on health increase. Domestic violence against women is higher in households were men drink than households where men do not drink. Yes, some women from poor households do drink, but it is around 5-10% of women in non-tribal households, and a slightly higher among tribal households. At the same time, de-addiction services are more accessible to men than women, and rich/middle class than poor. It is not only costs, but space to come out on their own and admit addiction that is a constraint for women to access de-addiction services. Women-only de-addiction services are rare. To add to the complexity, a few women are engaged in brewing and selling alcohol illegally.
It is in this context that one needs to ask: what is a feminist perspective on alcohol policy and gender and alcohol consumption? It is possible to distinguish between these three strands:
1) Liberal strand: It is the choice of individual woman. If men have the right to drink, women should also have the same right. Stigma should be removed.
2) Marxist strand: The alcohol industry and the state represent capitalist interest and are now targeting women as consumers through advertisements to expand the market. State-run liquor shops, like in some states of India, represent this close nexus between corporate and private interests.
3) Socialist feminist strand: It is not only capitalism, but patriarchy, as well, which benefit from the alcohol industry. Men consume alcohol and get away with physical, sexual, and mental violence in particular against their wives, and next they state that that was not "them". Money from poor men and women (from whom the men take money) is being used by state governments through taxes on sale of liquor. This revenue, at times constituting 25% of state revenues, is used to provide doles in the form of subsidised food, vegetables, etc. The socialist feminist strand holds that as long as 81% of India is living on under $2.50 per day and patriarchy persists, prohibition is a must. The poor employed in this industry may be provided with alternative employment.
It is the socialist feminist strand that I uphold. As a woman's groups from a slum stated, "We want to move out of poverty, and we do not want a life of violence at home or outside. Prohibition is a must. Government subsidies can come later. The government is just keeping us just alive and squeezing money out of us through taxes out of alcohol sale."
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A common foot complaint is pain in the bottom of the heel. This is often referred to as heel spurs or plantar fasciitis. It commonly is painful the first few steps in the morning or after rest. It tends to get worse the longer one stands during the day. It is caused by subtle changes in foot structure that occurs over time. These changes result in the gradual flattening of the arch. As this occurs a thick ligament (the plantar fascia) that is attached to the bottom of the heel and fans out into the ball of the foot is stretched excessively. This ligament acts as a shock absorber while walking. As the foot flattens it stretches. If it stretches too much it gets inflamed and causes pain. Over time the pull of the ligament creates a spur on the heel bone. It is important to realize that it is not the spur that causes the pain and therefore the spur does not need to be removed in most cases. This condition may also cause generalized arch pain called plantar fasciitis. This is an inflammation of the plantar fascial ligament.
A common factor that contributes to this condition is tightness of the calf muscles. Women who wear high heels and people who walk for exercise will often develop this problem because of the tightness that results in the calf muscle as a result of these activities. A non-supportive shoe also contributes to this problem. Weight gain is another factor in developing heel pain.
Home Treatments
Calf muscle stretching is very useful. The typical runners stretch by leaning into a wall is helpful. An alternative method of stretching is to stand approximately two feet from a wall. Facing the wall turn your feet inward so you are pigeon toed. Lean forward into the wall keeping your heels on the floor and the knees extended. Also keep your back straight and do not bend at the hips. Hold the stretch for 10 seconds and do the stretch ten times in a row. Do the stretching three times each day. Always stretch the calf muscles following any form of exercise.
Over the Counter Arch Supports
Wear a supportive sport or walking shoe. This can be supplemented with a good over the counter arch support.
Oral Anti-inflammatory Medications
Medications like Advil, Tylenol, or Aleve may be of some benefit. Always read the medications directions and warnings before use.
Professional Care
If the heel pain persists your foot doctor may suggest a cortisone injection, taping the foot to support the arch, night splints to stretch the calf muscles at night while you are sleeping or functional foot orthotics. On occasion surgery may be required to cure this condition. Orthotics should be tried before surgery and should be used following the surgical procedure (See surgical treatment of plantar heel pain).
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All CDH cluster hosts write out separate log files for each role instance assigned to the host. Cluster administrators can monitor and manage the disk space used by these roles and configure log rotation to prevent log files from consuming too much disk space.
Disk Space Requirements
For each role assigned to a host, you should generally provision 2GB of disk space for log files. This recommendation is based on the default values of configuration properties that set the maximum log file size (200MB) and the maximum number of files (10). To calculate the disk space required for each host, multiply the configured maximum size of the log file by the configured maximum number of logs. Perform this calculation for each role on a host and add them together. (Note that Gateway roles do not generate log files.)
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Role Type Max Log Size | Maximum size for a log file before the log file rolls over into a new file. | 200 MB |
Role Type Maximum Log File Backups | Maximum number of rolled-over log files to retain. | 10 |
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Scientists discover for the first time that oxytocin could be a potential new therapeutic option for cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder in which the nerve cells (neurons) in a person's brain and the connections among them degenerate slowly, causing severe memory loss, intellectual deficiencies, and deterioration in motor skills and communication. One of the main causes of Alzheimer's is the accumulation of a protein called amyloid β (Aβ) in clusters around neurons in the brain, which hampers their activity and triggers their degeneration. Studies in animal models have found that increasing the aggregation of Aβ in the hippocampus—the brain's main learning and memory center—causes a decline in the signal transmission potential of the neurons therein. This degeneration affects a specific trait of the neurons, called "synaptic plasticity," which is the ability of synapses (the site of signal exchange between neurons) to adapt to an increase or decrease in signaling activity over time. Synaptic plasticity is crucial to the development of learning and cognitive functions in the hippocampus. Thus, Aβ and its role in causing cognitive memory and deficits have been the focus of most research aimed at finding treatments for Alzheimer's.
Now, advancing this research effort, a team of scientists from Japan, led by Professor Akiyoshi Saitoh from the Tokyo University of Science, has looked at oxytocin, a hormone conventionally known for its role in the female reproductive system and in inducing the feelings of love and well-being. "Oxytocin was recently found to be involved in regulating learning and memory performance, but so far, no previous study deals with the effect of oxytocin on Aβ-induced cognitive impairment," Saitoh says. Realizing this, Saitoh's group set out to connect the dots. Their findings are published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication.
Saitoh and team first perfused slices of the mouse hippocampus with Aβ to confirm that Aβ causes the signaling abilities of neurons in the slices to decline or—in other words—impairs their synaptic plasticity. Upon additional perfusion with oxytocin, however, the signaling abilities increased, suggesting that oxytocin can reverse the impairment of synaptic plasticity that Aβ causes.
To find out how oxytocin achieves this, they conducted a further series of experiments. In a normal brain, oxytocin acts by binding with special structures in the membranes of brain cells, called oxytocin receptors. The scientists artificially "blocked" these receptors in the mouse hippocampus slices to see if oxytocin could reverse Aβ-induced impairment of synaptic plasticity without binding to these receptors. Expectedly, when the receptors were blocked, oxytocin could not reverse the effect of Aβ, which shows that these receptors are essential for oxytocin to act.
Oxytocin is known to facilitate certain cellular chemical activities that are important in strengthening neuronal signaling potential and formation of memories, such as influx of calcium ions. Previous studies have suspected that Aβ suppresses some of these chemical activities. When the scientists artificially blocked these chemical activities, they found that addition of oxytocin addition to the hippocampal slices did not reverse the damage to synaptic plasticity caused by Aβ. Additionally, they found that oxytocin itself does not have any effect on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, but it is somehow able to reverse the ill-effects of Aβ.
Saitoh remarks, "This is the first study in the world that has shown that oxytocin can reverse Aβ-induced impairments in the mouse hippocampus." This is only a first step and further research remains to be conducted in vivo in animal models and then humans before sufficient knowledge can be gathered to reposition oxytocin into a drug for Alzheimer's. But, Saitoh remains hopeful. He concludes, "At present, there are no sufficiently satisfactory drugs to treat dementia, and new therapies with novel mechanisms of action are desired. Our study puts forth the interesting possibility that oxytocin could be a novel therapeutic modality for the treatment of memory loss associated with cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. We expect that our findings will open up a new pathway to the creation of new drugs for the treatment of dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease."
Source: Tokyo University of Science