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Are McDonald's Really Becoming More Sustainable?
McDonald's is often criticised for environmental impact, waste and sustainability issues, but they might not be as bad as you think.
I hear a lot of complaints about the packaging, single-use plastics and trash aspect of McDonald's (and yes, I totally agree it should be better managed), but how often do people look into what really happens behind the scenes. Have you ever wondered how they might look in comparison to your local burger joint?
Let's face it, Fast food in general is pretty bad for the environment, mainly because the major selling point and the reason it exists, is that it's fast and convenient. This results in lots of packaging, including single-use items literally designed to be thrown away to make life easier, or at least seem to be that way short-term. We humans do tend to love convenience items, and trying to live more sustainably can be seriously challenging, particularly in terms of time and effort required.
What is Sustainability Anyway?
The concept of sustainability is centered around the idea of meeting current needs without compromising future needs. These days most people refer to this as the 3P's, People, Planet, and Profit.
All three are required to be truly sustainable and it isn't limited to just being concerned with waste and landfill, but it's easy to get stuck in this mindset.
Just think of and how many people think it is fabulous they can recycle their fast fashion clothes at the store H&M .There are an awful lot of things happening behind the scenes though, and rather than reducing consumption, the focus is on dealing with the end result....and it can't just be me that thinks there is a bit of a hidden agenda to encourage you to dispose of clothes without guilt so you can buy some more?
I've been relatively unfashionable all my life, but food is my thing. I'm pretty much always eating it, cooking it, shopping for it, looking at it or thinking about it....and that leads me to thinking in much more detail about where it comes from, what had to happen for me to be able to eat it, and what are the true impacts.
So, back to McDonald's, fast food, and some of the reasons they are both bad and good on the sustainability front.
Trash vs Recycling vs Composting
Remember in the 80's and 90's how car parks and local areas around Australia were always littered with McDonald's and Hungry Jack's packaging? It was a problem, and there was a big rush to install more rubbish bins and assign staff members to do periodic clean-ups to pick up all the litter on the grounds and neighbouring areas. They now call it Litter Patrol and they also put up signs and added it on packaging to remind people not to litter (I didn't know people who litter actually read signs and obey them).
These efforts made many people happier, and quite possibly avoided some costly fines, but, it didn't really solve the bigger issue. People no longer had to see all the litter (or as much of it) because now the bins are strategically placed to contain the rubbish, but it still exists and probably more of it today than ever before.
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Here's a fun fact that: most of McDonalds food is actually consumed away from the store - so there is hope that people are placing it in their kerbside recycling!
What would be really fantastic to see is segregated waste bins for food, recycling and landfill.
So, why wont they just do this already!
Do they think their customers are too stupid to be able to separate their rubbish?
Is it just too hard to install a bin system?
Maccas promise us they are working towards reducing landfill, and yes, I see their packaging is improving, but what are they doing with the rubbish bins in store?
In 2012, Macca's said they were trialing a back of house recycling system in 25 restaurants but had issues with contamination, so are doing further ''work'' on it. This is the hidden stuff we don't see and don't really hear much about either, unless we go looking for it. I have heard of numerous people contacting McDonald's and complaining about the lack of recycling AND issues with packaging, so I truly hope they are listening and working on more solutions. I've also heard rumours that composting is going to be the best avenue in dealing with landfill due to the amount of food contaminating the recyclables (now this makes a lot of sense!).
Commercial composting can easily handle all types of food along with napkins, cardboard, and more. The reason this is tricky to implement is that the packaging is often a mix of plastics and paper.
Customers would need to put food, serviettes, burger and fries boxes, paper bags, tray covers etc. into a composting bin.
Then plastic cups, lids and maybe spoons into a recycle bin, followed by separating trash like coffee and milkshake cups, straws, single serve sauce tubs.
They might also have a soft plastics collection bin for their sliced apple bags and toy bags. McDonald's serve so many Happy Meals that they are actually the worlds largest toy producer!! and I have no idea why they have to be put in a plastic bag, sometimes two bags.
The ability to separate all the different materials in store and then to prevent food contamination and waste being placed in the wrong receptacle is kinda complex and perhaps just an attempt at dealing with the end problem, not all the steps that lead to the issue. This level of waste separation is hard to achieve in a home, let alone a public ''restaurant. So, it's not because consumers are too stupid to recycle, its that the mix of different packaging along with food creates a bit of a recycling nightmare.
I do love that there is less plastic and more cardboard at Macca's these days and we haven't had to deal with polystyrene in Australia for years, but its still a LOT of rubbish. I somehow always feel they should make a bigger effort and maybe that's because they make such a lot of money and spend so much on marketing that I wish I didn't have to see.
Just as an example of the sheer size of McDonald's, in Australia, when they redesigned the McFlurry Cup to reduce the plastic and the result was a 47 tonne drop in plastic over a year!
That is pretty epic in terms of preventing landfill. Lots of other packaging has had a redesign to be more sustainable and this seems to be an ongoing area of progress that we can easily see. I also have to admit, I see no recycling segregation at my local fast food shops either and only recently have spotted some public recycling bins in our area, but they are few and far between and it just hasn't become the norm yet. So, we may love to hate certain things about Macca's, but we may have to cut them a bit of slack now and again and compare them to other fast food options (which may or may not still involve polystyrene).
Of course we can opt not to spend our hard earned money there too if we want. And, I have to admit, despite trying to live more sustainably, we still go there occasionally, here's how i make our visit to McDonald's more Zero Waste.
It's Not All Bad, and It's Not All About Packaging
You might be surprised to discover that McDonald's have implemented a lot of programs aimed at dealing with sustainability and the environmental impact of their food sourcing.
I have some doubts about the effectiveness of some of them, and can't help but be disappointed by the fact they don't release sustainability reports very often .....but the point is, they are working towards something. Their reasons could be because consumers are getting a bit more educated and pickier at to where they spend their money, or it could be because of the sheer size they attract a lot of media attention and therefore need to protect their image and make sure they do the ''right thing''.
I haven't actually heard any one I know complain about Hungry Jack's packaging......and it seems like HJ's are making some efforts on the sustainability front. They are apparently in the process of changing their burger boxes to wraps to save some trees (wonder if they are recyclable wraps or plastic coated). Part of their action plan includes labels about not littering too (*sigh*). I would love to see a more detailed, meaningful plan from them.
Contrary to what many people believe, operating sustainably can actually be really beneficial to profits. It's a bit like going zero waste and then realising that you have saved a fortune by making some simple swaps. Admittedly, there are a lot of really costly actions and ideas out there that are not realistic for many organisations to implement, but, a smart company will align these with their strategy. after all, if a business isn't making money, how can it possibly continue to operate?
A few years ago, McDonald's created a greener restaurant by focusing on energy and water use as well as idling time of cars waiting at the drive-thru. This may have been a little more expensive to build, but the long term benefits of reduced resource usage and of course lower operating costs are going to make efforts such as this worthwhile especially as more and more are open 24/7.
In comparison to your corner shop takeaway, who probably don't have a strategy and also don't have the resources to heavily invest in such big costly activities, Maccas might not being doing so badly.....but local shops also aren't serving 1.7 million Australian customers a day. I don't doubt that there are some fast food joints doing back of store recycling and I know some of my local cafes do an amazing job at segregating waste that is pretty impressive.
The nature and characteristics of the fast food industry makes it really difficult for them to be truly sustainable, however it is becoming an important competitive factor. Fast Food providers face many challenges including how to sustainably source farmed products such as beef, along with warehouse operations, complex supply chains and transportation. Working conditions, pay and any impact on the communities in which they operate must also be considered and managed for true sustainability. (Remember the 3P's - People, Planet & Profit).
The larger the company, the more complex it is to manage, McDonald's may actually be achieving a much higher level of sustainable practices than most of the other players in the fast food industry.
Sourcing & Supply of Food at McDonald's
Did you know that the trucks that deliver food from the warehouse to McDonald's stores collect the cooking oil on their trip back?
They then convert used cooking oil into biofuel for the delivery trucks. I actually think that is pretty cool and it's something that is difficult for small local fast food shops to implement quite this well.
McDonald's have 36,000+ restaurants worldwide in over 100 countries and they mostly use a very small selection of suppliers that they rely on for a huge quantity of items.
Selecting, managing and monitoring the entire supply chain is pretty critical to making a business sustainable and these days mismanagement can be fatal as business leaders are being held more and more accountable for what their organisations do, or permit to happen, behind the scenes, no matter how far down the supply chain they are.
McDonald's process 27.8 million kilograms of beef just in Australia each year. so to be sustainable they have to look at how products are produced at the farm level, prepared, processed, transported, and finally sold to customers, including the portion that is sent to the USA to meet their very high demand for beef.
Cattle grazing, through to processing the beef so that we can eat it has pretty significant environmental impacts in regards to water, energy consumption, emissions, and impacts on land and forestry. Just a few of the reasons there's a need for examining the life-cycle and supply chain of products, including food. But, to have more sustainable beef, this actually requires input from the beef industry (which does seems to be happening on some level) and is a process that is going to take time and effort to make lasting changes.
When you consider beef, chicken, fish, coffee beans, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, eggs and all the other food types on the menu, this is again a complex task and probably a bigger challenge than just dealing with packaging and waste at a store level.......And, what packaging do those foods come in when delivered to the stores? I have no clue as to what waste is created just from stock deliveries, but this is just an example of some of the hidden aspects that us consumers may not ever see or even consider when we have our sights set on a burger.
If you do want to read a bit more on their sustainability plans, head to their Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report.
So, I'm a little bit of a fence sitter with their sustainability situation for now. I'm not promoting a visit to McDonald's, but I can appreciate some of the changes they have implemented, which are quite a bit more advanced than non-corporation take-away joints.
Yes, they should make it better, but it's complex and is going to take time. We can probably make a little bit more effort too at an individual level every time we opt for fast food.
What do you think?
Are McDonald's better or worse than other options, and are they really as bad as we tend to think?
For anyone who doesn't want to totally quit their burger habit, check out this previous post on How To Make Your McDonald's Visit Zero Waste Friendly


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In the fall of 2009, leaked memos, delayed decisions and calls for more troops in Afghanistan led to growing public demand to know what direction President Obama had in mind for the war-torn country. The view of America's top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, was well-known — without additional troops, he thought the US mission in Afghanistan would fail. Rory Stewart, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, joined guest host Lynn Sherr to offer an alternative plan that could benefit both countries.
Shortly after the US invasion, Stewart, who served in the British military and foreign service, walked alone across Afghanistan. During his 6,000-mile journey from Turkey to Bangladesh, he stayed in small villages few foreigners reach — in order to better understand the region and its people.
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People aren't going to put up with over 100,000 troops on the ground and this level of casualties forever. So, probably better for us, better for the Afghans, would be to step back and say, "Hey, we're not going to try to do all this stuff. We've got two very limited objectives. We'd like to make sure that Al Qaeda doesn't significantly increase its ability to harm the United States. And we'd like to do something for the Afghan people. And we recognize that doing those things is a very long term process, and so, we probably need fewer troops, not more."
About Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart is the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Stewart is the founder and chief executive of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, which is investing in the regeneration of the historic commercial center of Kabul, providing basic services, saving historic buildings and constructing a new bazaar and galleries for traditional craft businesses.
Stewart was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Malaysia. He earned his BA and MA in modern history and politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University, served as an officer in the British Army, and worked for the British Diplomatic Service in Indonesia, Montenegro and elsewhere, before taking two years to walk from Turkey to Bangladesh — a journey described in his book The Places In Between.
In 2003 he started working for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq as deputy governorate coordinator (Amara/Maysan) and senior adviser and deputy governorate coordinator (Nasiriyah/Dhi Qar). In recognition of his service in Iraq, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the British Government in 2004. He wrote Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq, published in the United States under the title The Prince Of The Marshes, describing his experiences with the CPA. Rory spent the 2004-05 academic year at Harvard Kennedy School as a fellow at the Carr Center. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books, among other publications.

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Saint Martin of Turov served as a cook under the Turov bishops Simeon, Ignatius, Joachim (1144-1146), and George. This last hierarch made Saint Martin retire because of his age. But the old man did not want to leave the monastery (the bishops lived at the monastery of Saints Boris and Gleb), and so he accepted monasticism.
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Soon after our arrival we drove out to Yaen Koen, a forested area that houses the Macaque (snow monkeys) reserve. We had a longish walk through the forest to the monkey park, all of us hoping to get a sight of these unusual primates. We needn't have worried, there were numerous very cute monkeys all doing what monkeys do and all ignoring us as if we weren't there.
On the way back to the hotel we visited Obuse, where there is a gallery showing works by Hokusai, he of the famous wood block print "The Wave".


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Today, many recognize Chromotherapy as helpful holistic healing method. Color can be seen and felt.
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This project involved a remediation of 27 one and two storey apartment units on top of a two storey carpark podium in Charles Street, Mt Eden.
Canam worked close with the Project Manger, the designer, the structure and fire consultant to develop the most cost and time effective solutions for the remedial process to fulfil the quality expectation of the client.
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Four of the multi-unit properties on Caro Street that were purchased by the College of the Holy Cross in an attempt to limit off-campus living opportunities for students will be demolished next month with another four to be torn down in June.
The demolitions are part of a strategy by college officials to cut down on rowdy behavior and partying by students, which have driven a deep wedge between the Jesuit institution and its neighbors.
The college said it will aggressively seek to purchase other homes that come on the market, preventing absentee landlords from buying those properties and subsequently leasing them to students.
The construction of a 58,000-square-foot residence hall on the 174-acre Mount St. James campus will provide housing for an additional 156 students. Officials said the new hall, which is expected to be completed by the start of school in 2011, will pull another 100 students back onto campus.
Holy Cross now has 10 dormitories. The last � a 61-unit, five-story building � was constructed in 2003.
Of the 2,900 students at the school, about 300 live off campus.
�We believe there will be less problems as more students move back to campus,� said Ellen Ryder, a school spokeswoman.
Demolition crews are expected to begin tearing down houses at 11, 15, 16, and 22 Caro St. when students go home for the holiday break. Homes at 12, 14, 18, and 19 Caro St. will face the wrecking ball at the close of the school year.
All of the properties are vacant.
College officials said the school also owns about a dozen homes on College and City View streets, but those structures house faculty and staff.
Some residents were hoping the school would sell the doomed houses to families who would live in them and lease the other units to non-students.
�There was some concern that, with the demolitions, you�d have a good piece of the neighborhood torn away,� said District 4 City Councilor Barbara G. Haller. �There was a belief that the face of the neighborhood would be changed.�
She said, however, that the college felt the houses were too expensive to fix up, and some other residents said it would be good to tear down the structures because they were such eyesores.
Ms. Ryder said the Caro Street parcels � once the houses are taken down� could be linked to the piece of property the college owns at College and Southbridge streets that once housed a Howard Johnson�s inn.
�Tying all the properties together might make it more attractive for a developer,� Ms. Ryder said.
She said the school has had discussions over the past two years with some parties interested in constructing a small hotel and some retail shops.
Ms. Ryder said college officials don�t believe they�ll see any development on the site in the near future, given the bad economy.
Meanwhile, college officials believe their overall strategy to cope with misbehaving and drunk students, which includes hiring Worcester police to patrol the neighborhood on weekends, is working.
They said, for example, that student arrests over the past few years have dropped.
Last academic year, 19 students were arrested, seven fewer than the previous year. To date, three have been arrested this academic year.
Ron Chiras of the College Hill Civic Association said it�s important to get the partying problem under control because it is driving middle class residents from the neighborhood.
�People can�t sleep at night because of all that�s going on in the streets,� he said.
Mr. Chiras suggested that the college�s security force become more active, patrolling beyond the boundaries of the campus.
He said he�s also been disappointed by the response of the students� parents.
Mr. Chiras said many of them believe that partying is part of the school experience and that area residents should have known what they might be getting into when they bought a home near a college.


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Allegations of Racial Discrimination by the McMillan Park Site Developers for its Low-Income Housing Aired Before Appeals Court
Published: February 14th, 2018
Accompanying images can be viewed on page 1 of the February 2018 issue pdf
By William G. Schulz*
Another lawsuit against the DC Zoning Commission regarding the stalled and highly controversial historic McMillan Park Reservoir development is moving forward in the DC Court of Appeals — this one making an explosive charge of racial discrimination against low-income, elderly African-Americans.
The Court, on January 24th, heard oral arguments in the case, which was filed back in September 2016 by ANC 5E-07 Commissioner Bertha Holliday. Holliday says that Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in DC are barred from filing lawsuits against the zoning commission so she filed her suit as an individual, alleging that racial discrimination is embedded in the zoning commission's approved design for the project, as presented by developer Vision McMillan Partners (VMP).
She says the developer — a triumvirate of the principal firms Trammel Crowe, Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners, and EYA — has configured placement of low-income housing units required by city law such that those units are separate from other housing units in the planned development, including separate building entrances and common areas.
The planned housing now the subject of litigation is known as "Parcel 4" and it would be located near the intersection of Michigan Avenue, NW and North Capitol Street in the northeast portion of the McMillan site that is part of the Bloomingdale neighborhood. The entire 25-acre site spans the Bloomingdale, LeDroit Park and Stronghold neighborhoods in Northwest.
A motion to dismiss Holliday's suit, filed by VMP's lawyers in October 2016, was rejected by the court. Contact with VMP was not possible given its long-standing policy of not speaking with the news media, including The InTowner; DC zoning commissioners are prohibited from commenting on zoning matters under litigation.
Holliday has also released a video on YouTube video further explaining her lawsuit.
A psychologist by training, Holliday is also an officer of the Bloomingdale Civic Association and an independent consultant on matters of diversity assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. She has been a supporter of Friends of McMillan Park, whose opposition to VMP's development plans included a suit against the Zoning Commission, which resulted in an indefinite stay of construction issued by the DC Court of Appeals in December 2016.
The stay on construction is still in effect and will be at least until the Mayor's Agent for Historic Preservation — an independent, expert evaluator hired by the city to decide such matters — makes a finding on whether the appeals court's five-point remand of original zoning commission decisions for the McMillan site has been satisfactorily addressed.
In an email sent to The InTowner, Holliday explained her conclusion that parcels of the McMillan site dedicated to new housing discriminate by race:
"According to the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, approximately 90% of DC residents in HUD administered programs are African American. Consequently, when a developer proposes a single building in which seniors with incomes of 50% to 60% AMI are physically separated from market-rate tenants (through use of separate entrances, lobbies, elevators, living units, and roof-top mechanical ventilation systems), one can reasonably predict that [such a] building will be not only socially-economically segregated, but also racially segregated. This is the case of the proposed Parcel 4 building at the McMillan development in Bloomingdale."
The zoning commission approved the building plans, Holliday says, despite the commission's failure to consider the building's compliance with federal and DC fair housing and anti-discrimination regulations.
"There are a few other buildings in DC that have been built or are under construction with similar segregated/separated configurations that were NOT legally challenged," Holliday writes in her email. She says that if her suit, ultimately, is unsuccessful, "it is likely that such configuration, which serves to reduce development costs and profit the developer, will become the new template for senior housing in DC. This will be a step back towards DC's past of racial housing covenants and discriminatory mortgage lending, appraisal and realtor practices, and redlining in service of housing segregation and its related myth-making."
*Associate Editor William G. Schulz, a resident of Dupont Circle since the 1980s, has been a journalist specializing in science and investigative reporting for over 30 years.
Copyright © 2018 InTowner Publishing Corp. & William G. Schulz. All rights reserved.


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Diversity policies meet the competency movement: towards reshaping law firm partnership models for the future
Publication Details
N. Seuffert, T. Mundy & S. Price, 'Diversity policies meet the competency movement: towards reshaping law firm partnership models for the future' (2018) 25 (1) International Journal of the Legal Profession 31-65.
Globalisation, commercialisation, and economic pressures following the global financial crisis have produced a 'new normal' for the practice of law in private firms, requiring reassessment of the range of skills necessary for success. Scholarship in the 'competencies movement' has responded to this need for skills reassessment. At the same time, research and scholarship focused on increasing diversity and inclusion in law firms has blossomed. However, little attention has been paid to analysing synergies in the competencies and diversity movements, and there have been calls for more collaborative research between academics, firms and professional bodies in response to issues of diversity and inclusion. This article presents a collaborative research project between law firms, the Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales, and the Legal Intersections Research Centre at the University of Wollongong on current best practices in diversity in large Australian law firms. It argues that such collaborative projects, with a focus on synergies between the competencies and diversities movements, provide the greatest potential for reshaping law firm practice and partnership models to respond to issues of advancement, attrition, and lack of re-engagement, particularly by women in law firms.


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Nathalie Munyampenda
Managing Director of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF)
Session: Presidential Panel: "Accelerating the Inclusive Innovation Economy"
March 10, 2020
11:00 - 12:15
Nathalie Munyampenda is the Managing Director of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). The NEF is driving Africa's scientific agenda through the premier science and innovation conference on the continent as well as organizing a coordinated Africa Science Week in over 35 countries. As part of making science more accessible, Nathalie is Editor-in-chief of the NEF's public magazine, Scientific African Magazine. Nathalie is also the global communications lead for the AIMS Group. AIMS believes the next Einstein will be African.
Nathalie is a passionate advocate for science-driven innovation and tech transfer as a means for industrialization and job creation in Africa. She is also passionate about empowering young women as leaders of today and tomorrow, particularly female scientists and engineers.
Prior to joining the NEF, Nathalie worked in the Canadian public service and international social media consulting before working to build the Government of Rwanda's central communication unit as Coordinator (DG) in the Office of the Government Spokesperson. Nathalie holds an Honours in International Development and Globalization from the University of Ottawa and a Master's in Strategic Communications from Seton Hall University.


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Fair-trade fashion
Fair, Fine and Still Highly Fashionable
There was a time when ethnical fashion suffered the impression of being a pity product. No longer. At the same time more and more importance is being attached to the question of who makes the clothes and how they do it. Now labels like Gundara, Lanius or Armed Angels have young, fashionable answers that allow fair-trade projects to shed their sober eco-image.
Gundara, Shopper | Photo: Jean Amat Amoros
During her assignment as a development worker in Kabul in 2007, Gunda Amat Amoros discovered the small leather manufacturing business of Mohammed Yaqub. His bags were made of finest kidskin and meticulously sewn, but they were not selling well. They did, however, appeal to the political scientist, Gunda Amat Amoros, who was so taken by the material and the craftsmanship that she enthusiastically started to design bags for her own use and for her friends, even though she had no previous knowledge. These models, that now featured many more inside pockets, for example, were quickly snatched up in her circle of friends and acquaintances. They were so popular that her husband, Jean Amat Amoros, a geographer and development worker, managed to persuade her to bring out a complete catalogue of bags. "And so began the story of the Gundara label", Gunda Amat Amoros comments.
Johanna Riplinger, Collection autumn/winter 2015 | Photo: Sarah Dulay When the couple returned to Berlin in 2009 they continued to expand their network and the range of products. Jean Amat Amoros looks after the online shop with a growing selection of merchandise. Besides Mohammed Yaqub's bags from Kabul there are other models designed by Gunda Amat Amoros, some of these coming from a cooperative for physically handicapped men in Burkina Faso. The product range also includes plaids from Pakistan, Babouche slippers from Morocco, Tuareg jewellery from Niger and silk scarfs from northern Afghanistan. Most importantly, the couple's overall objective remains the same for all products, 30 per cent of the retail price goes back to the makers and middlemen are not accepted. In this way, they can offer the craftspeople long-term work perspectives. "But the products still have to look good," Gunda Amat Amoros adds, "no one should buy them out of pity." "
High quality, sustainable fashionLANIUS Collection autumn/winter 2015 | © LANIUS A statement, that Claudia Lanius, of the Cologne fashion label bearing the same, can certainly underscore. She has been producing high quality fashion collections made of silk, wool, leather or linin since 1999. All of her materials are certified GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) and the wool she uses has been farmed in an animal-friendly manner. Organic cotton, for instance, is purchased via the Swiss company Remei AG, that supports cooperatives in India for improving infrastructure and building schools.
LANIUS Collection autumn/winter 2015 | © LANIUS Part of the proceeds from Lanius print shirts goes directly from Lanius to the respective projects, and not just through the supplier, Remei. The collections are timeless, fashionable pieces of clothing with some trendy items that also appear in German fashion magazines. Alongside Alma und Lovis, Lana or the newcomer, Johanna Riplinger, Lanius is one of the few German labels that has successfully combined sustainable materials, fairly paid work and fashion trends for women.


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Product Description
Old-time Tenor that Really Sings
Tenor guitars are making a comeback, and if you're interested in adding the timeless voice of one of these guitars to your music, then Sweetwater has the acoustic instrument for you. The Ibanez PFT2 4-string tenor guitar combines a popular vintage tuning with a comfortable yet expressive mini dreadnought body made from time-tested tonewoods. With its mahogany back and sides and spruce top, the PFT2 gives you a rich warmth that's a prefect complement to the airiness of its tenor timbre. Add to that an elegant rosette and a bone nut with matching compensated saddle, and the PFT2 is sure to please.
Ibanez PFT2 Tenor Acoustic Guitar at a Glance:
- Tenor tuning is a favorite for folk, jazz, country, and other playing styles
- Mahogany topped with Sitka spruce is a singer-songwriter's favorite tonewood combo
- Mini dreadnought body style provides ample acoustic projection
Tenor tuning is a favorite for folk, jazz, country, and other playing styles
By far, the most striking thing about the Ibanez PFT2 acoustic guitar is its tenor setup. Introduced in the 1920s as a way to provide unique chord voicings to complement more common instruments such as standard guitars, the tenor guitar offers the same C, G, D, A fifths tuning that you'd find on a viola, mandola, or tenor banjo. Not only does this tuning allows the PFT2 to both to fill out rhythm parts and to take the lead, without taking up too much sonic space – and it's even a wonderful choice for soloists!
Mahogany topped with Sitka spruce is a singer-songwriter's favorite tonewood combo
Of the three most common acoustic guitar body tonewoods (rosewood, mahogany, and maple), mahogany is easily the darkest and warmest choice. Although "dark" may not sound attractive at first, mahogany bodied guitars (especially ones with Sitka spruce tops like the PFT2) have always been extremely popular among singer-songwriters, because of the sonic space they leave for your voice and the way they blend with rosewood acoustics. What's more, the harmonically complex sound of mahogany is a perfect complement to the tighter voicing of this tenor guitar and adds density to otherwise spartan chords.
Mini dreadnought body style provides ample acoustic projection
The dreadnought body shape has been one of the most popular acoustic guitar body styles ever since it hit the guitar-playing world. Why? Because back in the day, guitarists had to relay solely on the natural projection of their instruments, and the dreadnought body style provided plenty of sound-slinging power. The PFT2's mini dreadnought body balances the size of the instrument with plenty of punch and projection. The result is a comfortable instrument that's ideal onstage or in the studio.
Ibanez PFT2 Tenor Acoustic Guitar Features:
- A traditional tenor acoustic guitar that anyone can afford
- C, G, D, A fifths tuning provides movable chords and unique voicings that complement other instruments
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- Classy touches include white binding, an elegant 2-ring rosette, and real bone nut/compensated saddle
Get traditional tenor tone and style with this Ibanez PFT2 acoustic guitar!


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The Black Ships
Author: A.G. Claymore
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 360
Language: English
Our planet was just one small island in the midst of a vast, empty sea. For millennia, its inhabitants thought they were alone – until they took their first tentative steps out of the cradle. As the nations of Earth struggle to establish a fragile colony on the surface of Mars, they suddenly lose all contact with their settlers.
In the days that follow, it becomes abundantly clear that humans are not the only ones intent on exploiting the resources of the solar archipelago. In a desperate bid for freedom, Humanity must undergo social and economic changes on a scale previously unheard of.
In the midst of growing turmoil, the struggle to build an effective defense leads the species to a turning point. The smallest of chances may determine the difference between freedom or eternal subjugation.
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entering passwords using braille on screen
So I have a password with both letters and numbers. The problem is that my password is letters and numbers and I don't know how to enter those because iOs assumes that I want to type numbers when switching to letters. Is there a workaround?ts
Me too, and in addition
This is a very good question, and one which I have as well. Furthermore, I also use special characters, such as @ and !. How in the world does one pull this off?
I think you have to ...
Someone else will have to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you have to enter a numeric termination sign before you enter letters again. I don't have the cheat sheet in front of me, but I think it is dots 5-6 then dot 1. You might do a search for the UEB braille code reference.
Using Letter sign and Number Sign
Hello, Firstly, you can in fact enter alphanumeric passwords using Braille screen input. I do it all the time. All my passwords are like that.
Which Braille table / country setting do you use? In UEB, it is so much easier to do this. To enter letters, all you do is the letter sign, dods 5,6. For example if you type in the passphrase 123b8 you obviously would need to enter the number sign, dots 3,4,5,6, before number 1. The trrick is, after the 3, to enter the letter B, you put in the letter sign in front of it, and for the number 8, you precede it with the number sign again. This is just how the UEB rules are set up and already are built-in to VoiceOver.
Also, because of the way VoiceOver functions in these 'secure text fields' when entering passwords, it will not say anything that you are brailling. It is just best to walk by faith, and if possible, do not use Braille contractions in your passwords, or just switch to 'six dot' in your Braille screen input by swiping down with three fingers. VoiceOver will still get you the 'click' sounds as you braille the password, though, and the letter rules above still apply.
Hope this helps you a bit.
multiple strategies
I also use the number sign and letter sign to enter mixed passwords. I set the braille input and output settings to match so I know that I can type punctuation in braille the same way it is displayed on the braille display. I set the virtual US standard keyboard to display just in case I can't type in the pass word using the virtual braille keyboard. I also use the Apple keychain for all my web and app passwords. Sometimes it is easier to setup the password in settings where I can see the text of the password. The password prompt appears right above the letter e on the virtual US standard keyboard. I'm not sure how to access the password suggestions from the braille display,. I have to dismiss the virtual braille keyboard to use the auto fill password suggestions.


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As today's high density Data Centers migrate from 10 to 40 and 100 gigabit speeds and beyond, they require low loss plug and play fiber solutions that enable 100% fiber utilization in advanced high speed Base 8 parallel optic applications, eliminating the need for conversion cords or conversion modules. Part of Siemon's LightHouse™ Advanced Fiber Cabling Solutions, the LightStack 8 Ultra High Density Plug and Play System offers superior density, port access and cable management in a sleek, modern enclosure.
It offers the most simplest form of migration from duplex 10 Gig to 8-fiber 40/100 Gig and future 8-fiber 200/400 Gig applications. Siemon also offers a variety of Base 8 MTP trunks, jumpers and hybrid equipment cords for use with LightStack 8, providing a complete end-to-end Base 8 plug and play fiber system.
- Innovative labeling Drop-down label strip holder for high visibility
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- Mounting options Rack mounting brackets can be attached at any of 3 horizontal positions
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Noonan syndrome is a rare genetic disorder. If you have it, you might have certain identifiable facial features, short height, and unusual chest shape. You may also have heart defects.
It can cause a wide range of other physical and developmental symptoms that usually start at birth.
There's no cure for it, but doctors can treat some of the symptoms as they happen.
What Causes It?
Noonan syndrome is caused by a genetic defect. Scientists have identified four genes involved in the syndrome: PTPN11, SOS1, RAF1, and KRAS.
There are two ways you can get this syndrome:
- The gene mutation is passed down to you by one parent
- The altered gene happens for the first time while you are still in the womb
What Are the Symptoms?
There are many symptoms, and they may be mild, moderate, or severe.
Head, Face, and Mouth
- Widely spaced eyes
- Deep groove between the nose and mouth
- Low-set ears that arch backward
- Short neck
- Extra skin on the neck ("webbing")
- Small lower jaw
- High arch in the roof of the mouth
- Crooked teeth
Bones and Chest
- Short height (about 70% of patients)
- Either sunken or protruding chest
- Low-set nipples
- Scoliosis
Most babies with Noonan syndrome are also born with heart disease. They may have:
- Narrowing of the valve that moves blood from the heart to the lungs
- Swelling and weakening of the heart muscle
- Atrial septal defects
- Excessive bruising
- Nosebleeds
- Prolonged bleeding after an injury or surgery
- Blood cancer (leukemia)
- Delayed puberty
- Testes that don't descend -- this can cause infertility
Other Symptoms
How's It Diagnosed?
Before your baby is born, your doctor might consider that he has Noonan syndrome if a pregnancy ultrasound shows:
- Extra amniotic fluid around your baby in the amniotic sac
- A cluster of cysts in your baby's neck
- Problems with his heart structure or other structural problems
Your doctor might also suspect Noonan syndrome if you have abnormal results on a specialized prenatal test, called a maternal serum triple screen.
Most of the time, he'll know your baby has this condition at birth or shortly after by examining him. But sometimes, it's hard to recognize and diagnose.
What's the Treatment?
There isn't one. But your doctor will prescribe treatments for your baby's symptoms or complications. For example, growth hormones may help with growth problems.
What Else Should I Know?
If you have Noonan syndrome, you may wonder if your future children will have it. That depends on your family's history
If one of your parents has the condition, he or she has a 50% chance of passing it on to you.
But if you have Noonan syndrome and no one else in your family had it, the defective gene may have started with you. Doctors call this a "de novo mutation." In this case, your chances of passing it along to a future child are very small -- less than 1%.
If you're concerned, see a genetic specialist. He can run tests to spot mutations that happen with this syndrome, and help confirm whether your child has it or not.


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Social Impact of Mobile Media & Immersive Technology
Doctoral Concentration
This concentration examines the impact of Immersive media (IM), augmented reality (AR), transmedia storytelling, and how they have the potential to create tremendous media disruption – and tremendous opportunity. As we rapidly move toward a future where wireless is embedded in everything around us, these media innovations, combined with the modern tablets and smart phones, empower the user with extraordinary capabilities.
This increased transparency leads to reduced privacy, timely access to information breeds constant access to entertainment and we can trust product marketers to use and abuse the medium. Can these developments be used to increase the cognitive understanding of social concerns? Can location based information (GIS) and spatial psychology be used to increase our cognitive relationship to physical place? What is the social impact of real time data delivery? This seminar recasts Marshal McLuhan's famous axiom where the device becomes the message. Public and private organizations as well as foundations and NGOs are adding GIS competence and functions.
This development, combined with a layer of real time information accessed through immersive media and augmented reality, addresses the demand for media strategists rather than technologists. In this concentration, these new innovations are brought to life drawing on the foundations of psychology that lead to effective data visualization, application design, increased human understanding and most importantly mobile advocacy.
Required Courses:
- PSY-585 Media Psychology Practicum 4 semester credits
- PSY-767A The Social Impact of Mobile and Immersive Media 4 semester credits
Choose one from:
- PSY-685 Research Practicum: Media Psychology 0.5-4 semester credits
- This would be designed to focus research on a specific research or dissertation question. This may be taken concurrent with the Media Qualifying Exam (QE) or in the first term of dissertation research.
- PSY-766 Special Topics in Media Psychology 4 semester credits
- This would include an approved project or paper where the student, individually or as a group, examines a particular area of interest in depth. Requires a contract with faculty.
Dissertation Topic
A dissertation focused on immersive media, media advocacy, mobile augmented reality, cognitive or neuroscience applied to visual media, real time information or a related topic is required.
- First Tuesday. Asynchronous interest group focused on product design, production and applied immersive media research. Meets the first Tuesday of each month via web conferencing.
- Clusters. A minimum of two face-to-face meetings, known as clusters, will be held each year, generally in association with major conferences and events. These are strongly suggested but not required for completion of this concentration.
- Additional Recommended Curriculum for Media Students:
- Psychology Shared Core: The doctoral program requires three courses (12 credits) selected from the psychology core sciences. It is suggested, but not required, that these courses for students in this concentration include:
- General Electives: Media Psychology doctoral students may take a maximum of two courses (8 credits) from selected MSC curriculum. It is suggested, but not required, that for students in this concentration that these electives include:
- Psychology Shared Core: The doctoral program requires three courses (12 credits) selected from the psychology core sciences. It is suggested, but not required, that these courses for students in this concentration include:


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I just saw we've got another dupe here: clockworkmod-recovery (× 9) and clockworkmod (× 236). I don't think we need them both. The latter has a decent tag-wiki already, and is the more frequently used one. Hence I suggest to merge the former into the latter. Not sure we need to make it a synonym, but that might prevent it from being re-created – so I've already marked it accordingly.
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clockworkmod-recoveryactually seems like the better master tag to me. It's more specific, and "ClockworkMod" could also refer to the entity (Koush) that creates various apps (search for apps made by ClockworkMod on Google Play, for example). – eldarerathis Aug 24 '14 at 17:33
1I would tend to agree. I can't see a reason why we should have questions about "ClockworkMod" the entity, so it makes sense to me that
clockworkmod-recoveryis the master tag, with
clockworkmodas a synonym. – ale Aug 24 '14 at 18:29
That would then mean to also rename the 'twrp' tag. I don't know what that would mean to all the places referring there via
[tag:twrp](guess I'm not the only one using these macros in answers and tag wikis). So if you decide to go that way, please ensure that the original tags at least remain as synonyms. – Izzy♦ Aug 24 '14 at 18:54
1I don't really see the corollary there, to be honest. "TeamWin" is the entity, and "TeamWin Recovery Project" (TWRP) is the recovery. That's basically the same situation that I was trying to point out here. If we had a
teamwintag then I would say it should be merged with
teamwin-recoveryor something), but we don't, because nobody is asking questions about the entity, TeamWin. – eldarerathis Aug 25 '14 at 14:24
1And synonymizing them should handle any inbound links, AFAIK. They'll just redirect to the master's page. I'd make sure the tag wiki was brought over to the new master tag. – eldarerathis Aug 25 '14 at 14:25
OK, in this case I'm fine with both approaches ;) I just prefer "short tags" over "long names" (no, I better don't ask for a
cwmsynonym #D) – but that's covered as well as long as both stay, no matter which one becomes the synonym :) – Izzy♦ Aug 25 '14 at 14:53
1Just FYI: the tag merge tool appears to be broken at the moment. When the SE team gets that sorted out I'll do the merge. – eldarerathis Aug 27 '14 at 23:55
@eldarerathis Just a ping (as a non-mod I cannot check): Is the merge tool working again, so this task could be completed? As our mods rarely appear in chat, I unfortunately cannot ask there :( – Izzy♦ Sep 13 '14 at 15:01
1Still not working. I created a bug report on this Meta site: Attempting to merge tags results in an error page – eldarerathis Sep 15 '14 at 14:52
@eldarerathis thanks! Upvoted it to give it some more weight. Good idea to link it here; when checking back next time, before "sending out pings" I can simply check there whether the problem still exists first. – Izzy♦ Sep 15 '14 at 15:15
@eldarerathis Looks like you can mark this one "completed"? :) Thanks a lot for your efforts! – Izzy♦ Sep 16 '14 at 15:26


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If God has a real relationship in time with this creation, including human beings, then not only does God act to affect events in the world, but God is acted upon and affected by events in the world.
The Old Testament's so-called "anthropocentric" way of presenting God in a simple dramatic relationship with human beings and the created order at times may be the only "realistic" way to express how God is related to the created order.
God is not presented in the Old Testament as if everytime God says: "jump," the created order comes into complete line with God's will. God is presented as ruler over creation, but not a ruler whose actions have a one-to-one correspondence with events in the world. God acts upon the forces of the world and gives shape to them, but there are other agents in the animal world, particular human agents, who act from their side as well giving shape to the created order and perhaps influencing God, working to effectuate God's purposes or working in some real sense to hinder or frustrate God's purposes.
Whether one understands God to be in a real, dramatic relationship with this creation and its creatures, or whether one understands God to simply sit at the switchboard and order all that takes place is very important in theology and faith and life.
If a person thinks deep down that God has simply designed everything beforehand and willed each thing to take place that does take place, then the death of Jesus is not part of God's dramatic and passionate efforts to save a rebellious humanity and a broken creation. Because if God has simply set it all out beforehand, and the death of Jesus is simply the unfolding of the irresistible, set-in-stone will of God, and not part of the dramatic back and forth between God and the created order, then it is as if God willed to have humans rebel and Jesus' death was God's affirmative will as well.
If it is all understood this way with God planning it all out like the script of a play before hand, then God is not really in relationship with humanity and creation; we are just actors inevitably acting out a drama we have not part in shaping; and then Jesus is simply the same kind of actor in the inevitable history dictated by God.
There used to be two concepts that were used in theology to try to hold onto the truth that God is in complete control over creation, while acknowledging that there is much rebellion against God's ways in creation. These concepts were the affirmative will of God and the permissive will of God.
The affirmative will of God is that all human beings obey God's law by loving God and neighbor. The permissive will of God allows (while still not losing control or the ability to mold) humans to both obey and rebel and cause good and evil on earth. In fact, as God remains involved in creation, God works at bringing the "out of control" under control at every moment. This is a way of saying God is in relationship with that which is anti-God, and does not lose control of it ultimately. Jesus seems to have represented this type of view as he prays: "Thy kingdom come; thy will be done - on earth as it is in heaven."
This way of speaking is at least much better than the common way of simply saying that "nothing happens that God doesn't want to happen." As if God affirmatively wills all that happens or else it would not happen. This, to me, seems very wrong unless you believe in God as some operative concept and not as a real Being who can be in relationship to other personal beings and other forces in the world.
All of these thoughts become very, very important as we turn to understand what happened when Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. How was God involved in that? It is accepted as "God's will" by almost all Christians, but was Jesus' death God's affirmative will or God's permissive will? I believe that it was part of God's permissive will as the deepest desire of God was not humanity's rejection of God in human flesh, but the deepest desire of God was to save all human flesh. God's affirmative will was to save humanity from the self-destruction that comes of rejecting God's authority and truth and grace. In order to accomplish his affirmative will, God must in a sense get in the mix with other forces in creation - act and be acted upon by them - in order to shape that creation in a real way. I believe that God did exactly that in Jesus in the most dramatic way possible. He actually allowed his very Being to be affected by human response and rejection, and took that rejection into himself and in an act of creation out of nothing just as grand as the original creative act took the hatred and rebellion of humanity and transformed it into a life-giving,saving presence for humanity.
It is in this area of the permissive will of God that the real action of history takes place. The concept of "the affirmative will of God" is how we perceive that God had wanted to be in relation with the world. But, in this thinking about "the permissive will of God" we really come into touch with the real world of God and humanity and all creation, and begin to have some chance to touch on the real, dramatic relationship within which God works out the salvation of the world. But, God is in the midst creating out nothing, actually creating good out of less than nothing.
Jesus is often presented in conservative Protestant theology as simply an answer to the problem of how sinful humans can be forgiven by a God who cannot accept sin. That is, Jesus' death is presented as the solving of a problem that was God's problem,not our problem. I understand Jesus' death as God's response to the ultimate rejection of God by humanity, as a response to the deepest problem of humanity: a will that was opposed to the great Will of God to save and bless humanity - a human will that was bent on self-destruction. The problem was on the side of humanity,not on God's side. Jesus' death didn't convince God to give humanity another chance; Jesus died because God just couldn't help but reach out to save even if it cost him the one human who was closest and dearest to his heart.
So, in simple terms that a child can understand, I ask: "Did God want Jesus to die?" No, that is the last thing God wanted. But, how can something happen that God does not want to happen?
"Did God allow Jesus to die?" Yes, because God is in a real relationship with this world. Did Jesus death affect God? So deeply that it shook all things, even the heart of God. And, what poured forth from the heart of God was not vengeance against humanity for killing Jesus, but love for humanity and the resurrection of Jesus. God could have raised up Jesus to conquer and destroy humanity,but he raised up Jesus as the first-born of a new creation from within humanity to save humanity and all creation.
I guess it begins to become abstract at this point. But, then the dramatic relationship of God with this world and especially with humanity is a story about real events, and about real choices and responses that have shaped reality at its depths.
But, the history of Christianity carries within it two distinct and very different strands of belief: on one side there is the belief in an abstract concept of God from which one can deduce all sorts of theories about life and salvation; and on the other side there is a devotion and commitment to a Real Creator who is dramatically involved with the created order and with human beings and who, though God of all, can be felt to be struggling, working, fashioning a new world, not from some throne up on high, but through a real presence in a real world and real events that sometimes almost break the very heart of God.
The first strand of belief in the abstract concept of God carries with it a rigid view of Jesus' death that actually doesn't have God involved in the death itself. This is the strict substitutionary atonement theory of Jesus' death. It goes like this: God has all humanity under judgment for sin. Jesus serves as a sacrificial lamb to cleanse humans of sin and make them acceptable to God. Those who believe this receive the benefits of Jesus' sacrifice and are acceptable before God. Those who don't believe this remain under God's judgment and rejection for being sinners. In this view of things, God was unable to reach out to humanity because he couldn't accept that which is unholy. But, the sacrifice of Jesus in dying, makes humans acceptable (so long as they come under this acceptance through faith).
The second strand of commitment and devotion to the dramatically involved Being, God, believes that it is the very nature of God to accept the unacceptable and that God's love is precisely that which "justifies the ungodly." The first strand of belief contends that only that which is holy may approach God. The second strand believes that the holiest of all shows his holiness by approaching that which is unholy and transforming it through his will to save and heal and reconcile. What is so shaking about the death of Jesus is what Luther caught on to: God is in the very center of it - not as the one who sacrifices Jesus, but as the one who is in a real sense subjected to and harmed by the sacrifice.
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S Yildiz1, O Ekinci2, R Ucler1
1 Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Department of Endocrinology, Van, Turkey2 Lice State Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey
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Objective: To study the relationship between vitamin D and thyroid antibodies with thyroid benign-malign neoplasms. Materials and Methods: The vitamin D vitamin and thyroid antibodies of 179 patients who underwent thyroidectomy for thyroid nodule were retrospectively reviewed. Results: The mean age of the patients was 44.97 ± 14.139. Vitamin D levels were 14.473 ± 4.9999 ng/ml in women and 19.584 ± 6.1981 ng/ml in men and the mean was 15.016 ± 5.3579 ng/ml. There was a significant relationship between sex and vitamin D level (P < 0, 05). Antithyroglobulin antibody (anti-TGB) had been detected in 95 patients and Antithyroid peroxidase antibody (anti TPO) in 58 patients. There was no significant relationship between vitamin D levels (P: 0, 65), anti-TPO positivity (P: 0, 86), and anti-TGB (P: 0, 12) with benign-malignant neoplasm of thyroid. There was no relationship between vitamin D and metastatic disease (P: 0, 30) as well. In addition, no association was found between malignancy and metastasis (P = 0.068, P = 0.14, P: 0, P = 0, respectively) with thyroid antibody positivity (anti TPO and/or anti TGB) in severe deficiency (<10 ng/ml) and deficiency (<20 ng/ml) of vitamin D. Conclusion: Vitamin D deficiency or thyroid autoantibodies did not have any significant effect on thyroid malignancies or metastatic disease separately or together.
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Love, Herbert give a Heisman slant to Stanford-Oregon matchup
If a Pac-12 player is going to seriously contend for this year's Heisman Trophy, the campaign probably will start in earnest Saturday in Eugene, Ore.
Washington quarterback Jake Browning also merits consideration, but the North Division matchup between No. 7 Stanford and No. 20 Oregon features two legitimate contenders.
Cardinal tailback Bryce Love, last year's Heisman Trophy runner-up, is off to a slow start, notwithstanding his 136 yards rushing against USC. He had only 29 yards rushing in Stanford's opener against San Diego State and sat out last week's UC Davis game because of an undisclosed injury. But a big game on national TV would put Love firmly in the hunt.
Ducks quarterback Justin Herbert has thrown for 840 yards and 12 touchdowns against weak competition. If he has a big night against Stanford's defense, the Heisman drums will start beating for him.
The game is the marquee matchup of the day in college football, televised by ABC and drawing the full "College GameDay" treatment from ESPN. The only other game this week between ranked teams is No. 22 Texas A&M at No. 1 Alabama.
No. 7 Stanford (3-0, 1-0 Pac-12)
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Where: Eugene, Ore.
When: 5 p.m.
TV/Radio:Channel: 7Channel: 10/1050
Story lines: Washington remains the favorite, but the winner of this game moves a big step closer to the Pac-12 North title. Although Stanford pummeled the Ducks the past two years, Justin Herbert is one of the best QBs the Cardinal will face this year. Fortunately for them, RB Bryce Love is back after taking a week off to nurse an undisclosed injury.
Injuries: Oregon — TE Cam McCormick (foot) and QB Braxton Burmeister (knee) are out. S Mattrell McGraw (leg) is questionable. OL Dallas Warmack (ankle), OL Penei Sewell (ankle), K Adam Stack (leg) are probable. Stanford — OLB Casey Toohill (arm), G Foster Sarell (leg), WR Connor Wedington (undisclosed), ILB Jordan Perez, OLB Curtis Robinson (und.) are out. OT A.T. Hall (und.), OL Devery Hamilton (und.), FB Reagan Willias (und.) and QB Davis Mills (und.) are probable.
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Stanford QB K.J. Costello needs to avoid the kind of slow start he had last week against UC Davis. He threw four consecutive passes too high, and two of them were intercepted. He settled down, though, and passed for 214 yards and two touchdowns.
The Cardinal's JJ Arcega-Whiteside leads the Pac-12 in TD catches (five) and yards per catch (24.9). At 6-foot-3 he has a four-inch advantage on Thomas Graham and Deommodore Lenoir, the Ducks' starting cornerbacks.
Oregon's Ugochukwu Amadi leads the Pac-12, and stands seventh in the nation, in punt returns (25.3-yard average), so Stanford's Jake Bailey will have to be at his best with hang time and directional boots. "It's the battle within the battle," head coach David Shaw said.
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Passing yards840
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In last year's 49-7 rout of the Ducks, Love gained 147 yards on 17 carries, including a 67-yard touchdown run. He may do it again Saturday against a defense that has given up just 2.0 yards a rush but against overmatched opponents.
So far this year, Stanford's offensive line has not created as many holes as Love and his fellow backs have enjoyed in the past. Backup Cameron Scarlett said the running backs share some of the blame for the inability of the ground game to get on track.
"We've had some opportunities that we've missed, myself included," Scarlett said. "I'm sure all the backs have a couple of runs they wish they could take back. We've got to be able to make the big play when it presents itself."
Herbert sometimes is prone to big mistakes. He threw two interceptions against San Jose State last week, and Stanford hopes to confuse him with its various alignments.
The Cardinal defense ranks first in the nation in points allowed (7.7 per game). However, two starting defensive linemen, Michael Williams and Jovan Swann, are short on experience, and redshirt sophomore Jordan Fox will make his first collegiate start at outside linebacker in place of injured Casey Toohill.
"Their O-line is probably the biggest we've faced this season, which will be a good test for our D-line," Cardinal outside linebacker Joey Alfieri said.
Even after losing lineman Harrison Phillips and safety Justin Reid to the NFL, Stanford's defense has been impressive.
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