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Approximately 65% of the beaches of west-central Florida are considered "critical erosion areas" according to a report by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Under natural conditions, barrier islands shift in response to storms, sediment supply and changes in sea-level. Man-made structures such as sea walls, jettys, and even buildings and roads can alter the influence of these natural processes.
Consequently, some areas have seen rapid rates of beach erosion, resulting in narrow beaches that are insufficient for recreational use or protection of upland properties. Beach erosion and loss of protective dunes has left the coast susceptible to damage from storms and hurricanes. To address this erosion problem Congress directed the U. S. Geological Survey's Marine and Coastal Geology Program in 1992 to initiate the West-Central Florida Coastal Studies Project. The study area spans approximately 130 km of coast, and includes 18 barrier islands and inlets.
The overall goal of this project was to understand the recent geologic history of the barrier island system and the processes that control the distribution and transport of sediment on the inner shelf. Specific objectives included:
The project was organized into three distinct elements:
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Nuclear Abolition & The Next Arms Race
Nuclear Abolition & The Next Arms Race
As the U.S. reduces its nuclear arsenal, what might the next arms race look like? Assuming current nuclear trends continue, the next two decades will test America's security and that of its closest allies as they never have been tested before. Before 2020, the United Kingdom could find its nuclear forces eclipsed not only by those of Pakistan, but of Israel and of India. Soon thereafter, France may share the same fate.
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Jul 22, 2015
How We Think About the Iran Deal: Four Basic Views
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Jul 14, 2015
Hoover Institution Hosts NPEC Panel on Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future
On July 14, 2015, the Hoover Institution hosted a seminar focusing on two new books on nuclear proliferation. The first was NPEC's latest book, Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future. The second book, The War That Must Never Be Fought, was co-edited by George P. Shultz's and James Goodby. A video of the event is available below.
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Jun 30, 2015
The Heritage Foundation Hosts NPEC Panel on Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future
On June 30, 2015, Brian Finlay from The Stimson Center and Dr. Matthew Kroenig from Georgetown University joined NPEC's executive director, Henry Sokolski, for a panel discussion of the key findings in NPEC's latest book, Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future. The event was moderated by Michaela Dodge, Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation.
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Jun 19, 2015
Hudson Institute Hosts NPEC Panel on Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future
On June 19, 2015, Tod Lindberg from the Hoover Institution, and former Undersecretary of Defense Dov Zakheim joined NPEC's executive director, Henry Sokolski, for a panel discussion of the key findings in NPEC's latest book, Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future. The event was moderated by Lee Smith, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.
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Nov 14, 2013
Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future
NPEC's executive director presented a lecture at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC.
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Jun 11, 2013
Strategic Bombing, the Nuclear Revolution, and City Busting
On June 11, 2013, NPEC's executive director gave this presentation to a group of graduate students and interns at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. Videos and a slideshow from the event can be found below.
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Dec 30, 2012
Victor Gilinsky & Roger Mattson: Revisiting the NUMEC Affair
Victor Gilinsky and Roger Mattson review Israel's role in the NUMEC Affair of the early 1960s. Originally published in the Spring of 2010.
Aug 02, 2012
Susan Voss: Tracking Nuclear Proliferation within a Commercial Power Program
As speculation rises about if and when Israel might strike Iran's nuclear program, it's worth considering how Iran got to where it is now with its program. Iran started in earnest with its nuclear efforts by initiating a nuclear power reactor construction program at Bushehr. Such "peaceful" projects are "bomb starter kits" in a number of ways. First, the reactors themselves can be used to make significant quantities of nuclear weapons-usable plutonium. Second, and easily as important in Iran's case, they can be used as covers to acquire the training, equipment, material, and technologies needed to do far more than boil water. This latter point is one that President Bill Clinton and Ambassador John Bolton both emphasized. Specifically, though, what does it mean? Attached is an NPEC working paper by Susan Voss, "Tracking Nuclear Proliferation within a Commercial Power Program," which tells the tale in critical detail. Ms. Voss, who was an analyst at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is currently the President of the Global Nuclear Network Analysis, LLC, is one of the nation's top experts on Iran's civilian nuclear program and how Iran used it to acquire all that it needed to edge ever closer to acquiring nuclear weapons. It's quite revealing how brazen Iran was in using its program to secure Russian nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons-related technology and training in relative plain sight. By revealing and analyzing these transactions, Ms. Voss also spotlights what the intelligence requirements must be for any serious nonproliferation effort. This is an area we still need to work on.
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Jun 28, 2012
Matthew Fuhrmann: Preventive War and the Spread of Nuclear Programs
In Foreign Affair's most recent featured cover article, "Why Iran Should Get the Bomb: Nuclear Balancing Would Be Stabilizing", the author, Ken Waltz, imagines a peaceful proliferated Persian Gulf. Putting aside the improbability of the kind of automatic nuclear balance the author presumes between Israel and Iran, Dr. Waltz ignores just how militarily provocative states' efforts to get the bomb have been. This history is detailed and assessed in the attached NPEC-commissioned analysis by Dr. Matthew Furhmann of Texas A&M entitled, "Preventive War and the Spread of Nuclear Programs". It makes for sober reading. In the last three decades, the U.S., Israel, Iran, and Iraq have planned or executed preemptive military strikes against Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria and North Korea. Over 10 military strikes were executed. Going back further in history, the list of serious preemptive strikes and plans is much longer. It is also interesting to note that a good number of the targeted nuclear programs that Dr. Furhrmann's covers in his study were "peaceful" and safeguarded by the International Atomic Energy Agency. This hardly argues well for the further expansion of nuclear power in the Middle East. It certainly is not the picture of proliferated "stability" that Dr. Waltz propounds.
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Jun 13, 2012
Frank Gaffney Interviews Greg Jones on Iran's Progress with its Nuclear Program
Secure Freedom Radio's Frank Gaffney interviewed Greg Jones of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Greg now calculates that Iran could produce a bomb, if it chose, in as little as 5-14 weeks.
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In earliest society, the number of jobs that were available to men and women were limited. They were also strictly allocated on the basis of gender. Goods were allocated amongst a community according to one's position in the hierarchy. As society grows larger, this structure of cooperation is difficult to maintain. Groups tend to divide at Dunbar's number, which lies somewhere between 150 and 300 persons. When groups split in two, there will likely remain contact and cooperation between the groups, but as groups grow more numerous they become more difficult to manage. The structure of society must become more sophisticated if many parts are to form a coherent whole.
In a world where resources are scarce, humans must necessarily be value creating if they are to survive. At its core, this value consists in the provision of goods that promote survival. In pre-modern society, this may consist only of finding goods and shelter. As society grows more complex, many agents are expected to acquire more skills and means to augment their labor. One person's livelihood may depend on his Volkswagen van to deliver mail in rural Nebraska. The van is a means to providing the income that maintains his life. Others must develop specialized skills, a form of human capital, in order to offer a service that generates income. Plumbers, lathe operators, auto mechanics, programmers, and many other fall under this category. Blue collar and white collar jobs typically fall within this domain.
Specialization requires the development of technology and capital that embodies this technology. To move from a society of hunter-gatherers to a society of farmers, the technology for farming must be developed and spread. One cannot farm without knowledge of the seasons and of planting. One must also have available means of protecting one's crops from hungry animal and thieves. All of this is technology that would otherwise be unnecessary and relatively costly in a world where food is abundant. As regions become more crowded, inhabitants face two options: move to regions with fewer people or begin farming. Hunter-gathering groups cannot remain in these areas. Herders are forced to the outskirts of this society as farmers develop land for intensive cultivation. The movement from a life in transit to a relatively sedentary existence enables the formation of a governing structure that is also stable. This may not happen immediately, but it does not take long. We will discuss this further in the next lecture.
Specialization and Technological Development
Specialization also enables the development of technology and capital. Imagine two castaways stranded one an island. We often use the story of Robinson Crusoe in this manner. Crusoe, stranded on an island, must find the means to satisfy his desire for food and shelter. He cannot work simultaneously to achieve both. Thus, he must spend some portion of his time fishing or harvesting coconuts and another portion to dedicated to building and maintain shelter. As long as Robinson Crusoe is alone, it is difficult for him to develop means for either. When Friday arrives on the island, he brings with him similar demand for food and shelter. Yet, the economic problem becomes more complex and, therefore, provides more possibilities. If Friday enjoys fishing, he can spend his time gathering food in this manner while Robinson Crusoe concentrates his energies on providing shelter. Perhaps Friday can catch enough fish for Robinson Crusoe in 6 hours. If he likes, he can spend the rest of the day resting. However, since Robinson Crusoe is working on the other side of the island, he may feel an obligation to contribute to the team so as to leave everyone better off. Suppose that Friday would like to be able to catch more fish in less time, so he spends his free time trying to create a net. At first, this is a laborious process as he lacks the knowledge for this, so he must spend time experimenting. Perhaps Friday needs two months two develop a proper net. Once he has discovered a successful strategy for building nets, he dedicate less time to fishing. Further, the time taken to create a new net will be less as it will not require the initial costs of discovery that Crusoe first faced. Now Crusoe can spend his time searching for new food sources. Or if he would, he can work with Robinson Crusoe to improve their shelter.
Once shelter is built, Robinson Crusoe and Friday will need clothes to stay warm at night. If the productive potential of both persons for each good is given, we can perform some simple operations to understand how specialize improve outcomes in a world of exchange. Imagine that, if Robinson Crusoe and Friday specialized, their maximum production of either good is as follows.
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Production Possibilities
If both Robinson Crusoe and Friday split their productive energies evenly between the two goods, they will produce the following amounts.
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Production absent
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This is not the most efficient outcome. Robinson Crusoe must sacrifice 2 units of clothing for every fish he catches, while Friday sacrifices 2/3 units of clothing for every 1 fish he catches. Inversely, he sacrifices 1.5 fish for every 1 unit of clothing he creates. If they were to specialize, they would produce as follows
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Robinson Crusoe will be willing to trade up to 2 pieces of clothing for 1 fish. Let's assume that Friday is willing to trade fish at a price of one piece of clothing, which he would surely accept because the opportunity cost of producing one unit of clothing himself is 1.5 fish. That represents a discount of 1/3 for Friday. In the final allocation, Robinson Crusoe has 5 more fish than he could produce on his own. Friday also has 5 more fish. As fish provide positive utility to both parties, we observe a pure pareto improvement as a result of specialization and exchange.
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Final Quantities
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If both Robinson Crusoe and Friday develop technology to improve their efficiency, we may see their production possibilities frontier shift out. We could perform the same exercise and see that, assuming that specialization enables the development of technology, the situation of both parties will continue to improve so long as technological advancement is possible.
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New Technology Shifts
Production Possibilities
One change enables another. The development of a more cost efficient form of production can support larger populations and more complex societies. Before this change, it may be difficult for metallurgists to survive. To the extent that one can develop and maintain a social position for oneself with a specialization such as this, he can maintain his well-being through production and exchange. Likewise, this change in society opens the opportunity for carpenters who have specialized knowledge of constructing and repairing buildings. Underlying this change is the fundamental principle we identified early on: humans act to improve the state of the world as they perceive it.
Decision to action occurs in light of the costs and benefits that such action is expected to generate. Humans rarely imagine radical change. Even that thought be radical is usually marginal in light of the present state. Thomas Edison's discovery of the light bulb, while unexpected by many, required a combination of elements that were readily available to him. This innovation required a search through the vast space of possibility that exists at the fringes of existence. Once found it may enable and encourage many other innovations that were not previously possible. The development of the light bulb, for example, made valuable the provision of electricity in cities. This further provision opened up many opportunities as it allowed for technical development and specialization that would have otherwise been impossible.
Comparative Advantage and Opportunity Cost
So far, we have been thinking of action solely in terms of the exploitation and creation of profit opportunities. If we also integrate the notion of the opportunity cost that inherently exists as a result of living in a world of scarcity, we add another dimension to specialization. Ricardo first spoke of this dimension as comparative advantage. Consider the job of Stephen Curry who plays for the Golden State Warriors. Stephen Curry is a phenomenal leader and basketball player. He seems to make best use of his talents playing for the Golden State Warriors. Curry is not just a talented player, his presence is a unifying force that has helped move the team to win a championship and a heartbreaking miss last season. The opportunity cost of Curry's participation with the Golden State Warriors is likely participation with another team. The value he creates for the Golden State Warriors is substantial enough that the team has retained him since his entrance in 2009. Although Curry would likely be valuable for any team on which he plays, he has a comparative advantage playing for the Golden State Warriors.
This becomes more obvious if Curry were to change his occupation altogether. Curry may be a fantastic manager. When he graduated from college, he could have entered a field that allowed him to exploit his leadership ability through management. Even if Curry was one of the best managers, it would be difficult for him to surpass his current pay and other benefits he receives playing for the Warriors. This is to say that Curry may have an absolute advantage in comparison to others both in his management ability and his ability on the basketball court. Market prices, however, inform Curry that the most valuable use of his skills will leave him playing for the Warriors, even if he had an absolute advantage as a manager and as a basketball player, he has a comparative advantage in playing basketball.
Comparative advantage allows us to explore areas that may, at first glance, seem to be a source of waste or laziness. Bill Gates, who is estimated to be the world's wealthiest person in 2017, generates a tremendous amount of value with his time. It makes little sense for Bill Gates to spend time preparing meals or cleaning his own home. Every moment he spends engaged in this activity, he could be dedicating to create more value elsewhere. Cleaning and cooking is especially costly for Bill Gates. He is better served by purchasing cleaning and cooking services than by performing these tasks himself. He may choose to do this simply out of enjoyment of the activity or belief in the personal enrichment from such activity. In terms of value as measured by money prices, he is incurring great cost if he chooses to do so.
Development of specialization that arises due to comparative advantage plays a significant role in the provision of knowledge in society. Specialization itself allow individuals to develop knowledge of a particular category of activity. Gold refining processes could not be developed unless individuals were allowed to spend their time and creative energies developing them. The same can be said of computer processors, means of transportation, mass production, and so forth. The development of cost-reducing technology that allowed much farmland to be tended by far fewer people has allowed individuals to invest their labor in other ventures. It is no coincidence that, within a century of this shift, we live in a world that is dominated by technology. The pace of change appears only to increase as freedom to develop technology and organization also increases.
(Table structure borrowed from Don Boudreaux's article on comparative advantage.)
(Table structure borrowed from Don Boudreaux's article on comparative advantage.)


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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune" is a poignant portrait of an uncompromising artist who, despite a struggle with depression that eventually led to his suicide at age 35, believed in the power of music as a tool for social and political change.
While Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are the singer-songwriters most associated with the 1960s folk movement, filmmaker Kenneth Bowser presents a persuasive case that Ochs was a more hardcore political agitator than any of them. His film opens Wednesday through First Run Features.
Bowser charts the subject's life and career via an expertly assembled wealth of archival news and performance footage. Further insight comes from interviews with contemporaries including Baez, Seeger and Tom Hayden, and admirers such as Sean Penn, Billy Bragg and Christopher Hitchens.
But despite its personal focus, one of the broader strengths of the documentary is its probing analysis of the protest movement, from civil rights through Vietnam. The film is more illuminating in this overview than in its intimate details of the unraveling of Ochs' life through manic depression, schizophrenic tendencies and alcoholism. But that arguably is less a shortcoming than an inevitable reflection of the unknowable path of bipolar disorder.
Without pushing the thesis too hard, Bowser suggests that Ochs' downward spiral was part of his crushing sense of general disillusionment. That descent began with the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations and the 1968 DNC riots in Chicago, and continued through the Kent State shootings and political rise of Richard Nixon.
His brother and manager Michael Ochs (one of the film's producers) calls the Vietnam War "the last dragon to be slain," and Phil Ochs' dark mood during what should have been a celebratory "War is Over" concert in Central Park indicates his frustration with the movement's failings.
Whether it was the intention of Bowser's narrative, a parallel emerges between the '60s and present-day America in the painful transition during President Obama's term in office from hope and idealism to the current disenchantment and bitter divisiveness.
While Dylan, whose approval Ochs sought and seemingly never got, achieved fame with poetic anthems like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They are a Changin'," Ochs' songs spoke forcefully and directly to racial injustice, political oppression and the horror of war, to the struggles of striking miners and beleaguered unions. He was equally vocal against right-wing rigidity and liberal complacency. The firebrand nature of much of his work perhaps explains its lack of mainstream recognition.
Ochs' songs provide a stirring soundtrack throughout the film, perhaps nowhere more so than in the closing section, as details of his final weeks are underscored by "Jim Dean of Indiana." It's fitting that such a haunting ode to one iconic American hero should serve to pay tribute to another.


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Frequently Asked Questions about Mutual Funds
- Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman
A mutual fund is a type of registered investment that pools money from people like you, and invests in a selection of stocks, bonds or both. An investment professional or professionals run the fund with a goal of making its investors or shareholders a profit.
Why are mutual funds so popular?
Mutual funds have become one of the easiest and most profitable ways to invest. Most require a $1,000 to start. But it can be less if you open a retirement savings account. Depending upon their investments, mutual funds work similarly to other securities. You stand to profit if the values of the investments in your fund have increased. If there are stocks in your fund, you may earn your share of periodic dividends, or profits passed along by companies to their stockholders. If there are bonds in your fund, you should get your share of periodic interest payments. Meanwhile, if one security in the mutual fund performs poorly, you won't necessarily lose your shirt.
How do you invest in mutual funds?
You can buy mutual funds through a broker, financialadviser or directly from a mutual fund company. The cheapest route typically is directly from the mutual fund company--either online or through a toll-free number. Brokers and some financial planners charge commissions or "loads" on the funds they sell. For a fee, you also can hire a financial adviser to buy and manage your mutual funds, along with other investments. Some brokers may offer certain mutual funds without commission, but expect to pay a bit more in annual expenses.
What are the risks of investing in mutual funds?
Unfortunately, as with any security, the value of your mutual fund may drop due to a number of factors.
So you need to know what your mutual fund is invested in and choose those investments wisely.
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Two weeks ago I talked about how we are starting to move into the age of personalized medicine. Our goal at The Great Plains Laboratory is to determine what factors lead to chronic illnesses and what treatments may help. Previously I discussed how the Organic Acids Test (OAT) and the GPL-SNP1000 DNA Sequencing Profile work well together to determine both the risk for and causes of many chronic illnesses and how useful these two tests are in helping practitioners develop individualized treatments. Last week I specifically discussed the DNA methylation pathway, of the GPL-SNP1000. This week I am going to go over the mental health pathway of the this same test. I will talk about what genes are most important, some specific polymorphisms to be aware of, how the OAT can help diagnosis these disorders, and what treatments seem to work best.
The two most important genes in this pathway are MAO-A (monoamine oxidase A) and COMT (catechol-o-methyltransferase) (Please see Figure 1). Both enzymes are required for metabolizing neurotransmitters critical to mental health. Mutations to either one can have serious consequences relating to how we think, feel, and interpret the world around us.
Monoamine oxidase A is important for the metabolism (breakdown) of biogenic amines such as the neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin (figure 2). Mutations to this gene have also been linked to depression, borderline personality disorder, and bipolar disorder.
There are two different types of polymorphisms involved with MAO-A. The first type, which is characterized by rs6323 , causes an increase in activity of the enzyme. Rapid metabolism resulting from this mutation causes depletion in the neurotransmitter. This depletion is directly related to the extent of the enzyme activity which can be determined on the Organic Acid test (OAT) by measuring the production of Homovanillic acid (HVA) and Vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) which are the end products of dopamine and epinephrine metabolism (see figure 1). Patients who are rapid metabolizers will show an increase of HVA of VMA (Figure 3). Such patients will have a depletion of these neurotransmitters which leads to multiple neurological diseases including depression. Treatment for these polymorphisms includes supporting the methylation pathway which helps to promote the cofactor required for neurotransmitter synthesis and providing neurotransmitter precursors such as tyrosine, B6 and 5-HTP.
A second type of polymorphism to MAO-A is one that decreases activity (rs72554632, Gln296X), whichcauses a premature stop codon in the gene.. This polymorphismwill lead to a buildup of neurotransmitters, which can lead to the development of Brunner syndrome. Brunner syndrome is characterized by a decrease of mental capabilities, increased impulsivity, mood swings, and sleep disorders. These individuals will have a decrease of HVA and VMA metabolites on the OAT. Without the benefit of genetic testing, these results could lead a practitioner to treat with neurotransmitter precursors. Increasing neurotransmitters for individuals with this type of mutation would actually exacerbate the condition. Treatments include decreasing the amine containing foods such as fish, cheese, and fruit, taking progesterone to increase MAO; taking inositol(which reduces 5HT2A serotonin receptor), taking riboflavin (increases MAO activity), or taking ginkgo, which has been shown to decrease aggressiveness in MAO-A deficient patients.
Catechol-O-methltransferase (COMT) is present in the body in two different forms. The short form is called soluble catechol-O-methyltransferase (S-COMT). The longer form is called membrane-bound catechol-O-methyltransferase (MB-COMT). MB-COMT is mainly present in the nerves of the brain, while S-COMT is located in the liver, kidney, and blood. In the brain, MB-COMT is responsible for degrading neurotransmitters called catecholamines, which include dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine. Therefore the membrane bound form is believed to have a greater affect on mental health, though both forms may be implicated in disease since both are capable of metabolizing catecholamines.
GPL-SNP1000 analyzes six different SNPs for COMT. Of these, the most extensively studied is a mutation to rs4680 (Val158Met). Despite the many studies available about this mutation, the scientific community is still at odds about the degree to which this mutation causes disease. What is known is that individuals with this mutation have lower activity of the enzyme. Mutations to COMT will lead to dopamine and epinephrine not being broken down properly, which can be detected by a decrease in the HVA metabolite in the Organic Acids Test.
Interestingly, some individuals may benefit from increased dopamine while others may benefit from less. Dopamine functions differently depending on the area of the brain it is produced in and there are likely other mutation to this gene may also influence its function and expression. These interactions are still being investigated and are why GPL is looking beyond the most common mutation to help inform results. Conditions associated with these mutations include OCD, depression, and schizophrenia. Symptomatic patients may benefit from treatment aimed at promoting the enzyme function so that dopamine and epinephrine can be metabolized. This is a SAM dependant enzyme and methylation support can be helpful in patients with this mutation.
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) combines with lipids in the body to form lipoproteins. Lipoproteins are responsible for packaging cholesterol and other lipids and carrying them through the bloodstream. Like so many genes in the human body, this is not its only function. The ApoE protein is involved with more than was originally thought. In this case, it has a role in immune expression, cognitive function, and telomere regulation. There are four different gene versions of APOE called e1 (the double mutant), e2 (rs7412), e3, and e4 (rs429358). The most common version is e3, the most detrimental is e4
Mutations to APOE can lead to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. People who inherit even one copy of the APOE e4 allele have an increased risk of developing the disease. Certain mutations to this protein impair the ability of the body to phosphorylate NMDA (glutamate) receptors causing a reduction in activity (Glutamate receptors have been implicated in a number of neuropsychiatric disorders including depression, biopolar disorder, schizophrenia, and Autism (PMID: 12404584, 21315104). While this gene is being extensively studied for its role in Alzheimer's disease, vulnerable patients may also be predisposed to other psychiatric disorders. (PMID: 25751510, 15557508). Patients with certain ApoE mutations may develop cognitive symptoms well before onset of Alzheimer's disease (http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/16/2/254/). Patients with these polymorphisms should look for early signs of the development of Alzheimer's disease. Treatment with estrogen has demonstrated some encouraging results.
The D-amino acid oxidase activator (DAOA) protein (also known as G72) is a 153 amino acid protein that localizes in the brain, spinal cord, and testis. This protein is located in the endoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondria cellular compartments. DAOA is a modulator of D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) activity. If DAO is hyper activated it can result in a decrease in the D-serine level and hypo function of the NMDA receptor. Overexpression of DAOA has been found in schizophrenics and those suffering from bipolar disorder. Mutations to DAOA have been linked to a higher incidence of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
It is important to remember that our genes influence our mental health and well being but do not necessarily determine the eventual outcome. There are countless factors that play an equal role in how we perceive the world including diet and lifestyle. I believe that understanding the most common mutations and their function is very helpful in diagnosing, treating, and preventing different neurological disorders. Using the GPL-SNP1000 test in combination with the OAT can further help determine the extent to which our genes are being expressed metabolically. The combination of these two tests can help bring about the best chance to achieve emotional health and physical well being.
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Michaeljon Drouin and Andy Bosley created this small trout pond in 2007 and stocked it with 200 four- to five-inch Rainbow Trout. The pond is located across the road from the hydro station above the Village Green.
To create the pond, they raised the level of the existing pond by four inches by installing an overflow pipe that would return all of the water to Rosy Branch Creek. This four-inch pipe was designed to allow several irrigation options downhill or to channel the water to other ponds. This formerly stagnant pond received extra life and oxygenation when they ran 400 feet of inch-and-a-quarter pipe upstream to achieve enough "head" to lift the water over the bank into the pond.
The pond already contained thousands of pollywogs, and the young fry gorged themselves. Some of them grew at the rate of one-and-a-half inches per month.
This year, Andy and Michaeljon will install a small electric light overhanging the far end of the pond, which will help bugs fall into the water for more natural food, in addition to the conventional fish food they are being fed. In this way, thanks to our hydropower generator, the stream will still indirectly feed the trout.
"I figure last year we lost about forty percent of the trout to turtles and great blue herons although we were delighted that some of the trout had reached seventeen inches. There was also one six-inch rainbow that had different markings; I am convinced that it entered the pond through the inch-and-a-quarter pipe as an egg or a fingerling, and that the Great Spirit also had stocked our pond from Rosy Branch Creek." –MD
"Our primary goal in creating the trout pond is to provide an opportunity for full members of Earthaven and their children to catch, eat, and simply observe these beautiful fish. This year, we plan on stocking 250 fingerlings and on getting the turtles relocated quicker." –MD


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The Career Development Scuba Dive Instructor Certificate program was put together to offer the most comprehensive PADI instructor training program available. It has evolved from over 20 years of experience training divers and PADI Instructors.
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This 7 month full-time program will take you from the basics of diving and build your abilities to a level of diving and awareness often not found in today's industry. Throughout this process, you will receive training and earn certifications in a variety of diving specialties. In total, you will earn as many as 18 PADI diver level certifications, including two programs exclusive to Ocean Quest – Foundations of Diving and the DSAT Wreck Penetration Distinctive Specialties.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with President-elect Trump
In the election aftermath we're seeing the world reacting to President-elect Trump, and that certainly includes our neighbors in Asia. Let's try and start by focusing in on Japan for now. The implications of a change in American leadership should be clear, given the interconnected nature of Japanese markets and American ones. In this modern age our economies are forged together, and likewise so are our alliances. Japan, an enemy in World War 2, became a staunch ally in the capitalist stand against Soviet Russia during the Cold War. Indeed, they continue to stand with us to the present day. In addition to our interconnected & interdependent markets, Japan still relies on the US for much of their defense, protection, and militaristic needs. To that end, some of Trump's promises during the nomination & election process have many worried Trump will be reevaluating the costs & strains American military support put on the American budget with regards to Japan and similar countries (South Korea coming readily to mind). Additionally, there's the question of where Trump's experienced hand in business sees our foreign trade agreements standing.
Well – let's start with the obvious. President-elect Trump's remarks regarding trade and defense policies have left many Japanese citizens concerned what impacts his presidency will have on Japan.1 In part because of this and in part because of President-elect Trump's lack of experience in politics or government – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's meeting with Trump this week felt necessary to assess the future relations between the two leaders and their respective countries. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's previous interactions with the National Diet (Japan's legislature portion of government) confirmed the tone and content of Abe's meeting as following a very predictable route: matters of trade, the economy, and national security.1
Although little has been released on the actual contents of the conversation, Prime Minster Shinzo Abe (speaking via a translator) said: "I am convinced that Mr. Trump is a leader in whom I can have great confidence."2 The general tone appeared positive and upbeat, and Shinzo Abe seemed to feel well-received and heard. This stands in stark contrast to the more brash-natured Trump embodied prior to assuming the title of President-elect. True, Trump's brashness may well have been more reserved for Twitter and rabble-rousing in rallies, but still – it demonstrates some moderate positivity from the Trump camp. While Japan in general may still have concerns about the implications of a Trump presidency, political and governmental leadership in Tokyo appear confident in the long term outcomes.
Continuing with the economic theme, the close of the year shows the value of the yen on the decline with stock prices rising3. In essence, we're seeing a decline in the value of the Japanese currency while the stock market continues to climb. Much of this is being attributed to a continuing response to the surprising outcome of the US elections just last week. Specifically, the two trends primarily being credited are expectations of stronger US economic policies and growing gaps in interest rates between Japan and the United States3.
While protests and unrest may be common in the US presently, the initial outlook on the US elections out of Japan appears wary but optimistic. True - there remain concerns about what will happen regarding defense policies & national security. The biggest questions left unanswered seem to be if Japan will be forced to pay more for US protections, or if Japan will be given more freedom (and the attached, growing expenses) when it comes to defending themselves. Still – Japanese political leadership appear confident in both their expectations and plans moving forward, and the markets appear to reflect a similar mind set.
1 - http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201611180041.html
2 - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38021814
3 - http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201611180056.html


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In the realms of rhetoric and politic, the pen is mightier than the sword. In the world of cinematic action, the one-liner is deadlier than the semi-automatic.
Such logic is expounded in Pop Chart Lab's latest Diagrammatical Dissertation, which follows the pattern of their brilliant breaking down of opening lines of literature, with a dissection of the most curt retorts of action films into their key grammatical components.
Each quote has transposed into a 'correct' English equivalent, before being colour coded to reveal the powers of poetic structure: the power of modal verbs, the genearl lack of participles, the ever present subject noun. Soon you to will be delivering the perfect put-down, having blown the room away with your sawn off (we're speaking figuratively).
Head over to Pop Chart Lab to pick up a print. Here are some of our favourites, followed by the full poster which contains the colour key.
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Teams enable collaboration, streamlined workflows, and efficient management of your social media presence. Invite collaborators to help manage your social profiles without having to share passwords.
Each Hootsuite account can create one organization, which is the overarching team structure. Within it you can set up one or more teams that include your team members, and the social networks they share access to. The user who creates the organization is its super admin, with master-level management permissions. Super admins can give other members super admin status as well.
Follow the steps below to set up your team(s) and start collaborating!
Step 1: Create an organization
- Click your profile picture ( by default) in the top-right corner of the dashboard, and then select Share social networks.
- Click Share a Social Network.
- Select a social network to share from the drop-down menu, or click Add a new social network, select a social network from the list, click Connect, and then authorize the account.
- Enter the email address(es) of your team member(s), separated by commas.
Invitees will receive an email invitation, which will prompt them to create a Hootsuite account if they don't already have one.
- Grant your team member(s) Editor or Advanced social network permissions.
- Click Share. Your organization and team are automatically created (named Team 1 by default).
Click or to add more team members or social networks to the team, or to add them to a new team.
Step 2: Equip your team
Once your team members accept your email invitation and create Hootsuite accounts of their own, they're ready to go!
Because you've already shared social networks with them, they don't need to add social networks to their own dashboards. When they're ready to compose their first post, the social profile picker will contain the social networks they have access to.
They can now:
- publish and schedule messages to these profiles;
- add streams for these profiles;
- assign messages from these profiles to other team members;
- manage their assignments; and
- view scheduled content for these profiles in the Publisher.
If a team member isn't seeing the right social networks, double-check in your own account that the member and social network have been added to the same team, and that the member has the correct permissions.
Step 3: Manage the organization
To access and manage your organization at any time, click your profile picture ( by default) in the top-right corner of the dashboard, and then select Manage under the organization name.
To manage permissions
- Click on the member.
- Click the drop-down menu below a social network they have access to.
- Select their permission level for that social network.
To change a team name
- Click Manage below the team name.
- Click the Team Settings tab.
- Enter a new team name, and then click Save Changes.
To remove a member from a team
- Click on the member.
- Hover over the team, and click the Settings icon in the top-right corner.
- Select Remove member from team.
- Click Remove to confirm.
To remove a social network from a team
- Click the social network.
- Hover over the team, and click the Settings icon in the top-right corner.
- Select Remove team from social network.
- Click OK.
For more details on managing organizations and making other changes, see these help articles.


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Intel is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs). Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.
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On-premise or off, you have powerful tools available to maximize the value of your infrastructure and you demand more visibility and operational control. Fortunately, data center management tools keep a vigil on memory contestation, power, thermal consumption, server health, and utilization, allowing better control no matter your cloud's shape. In this session, learn how Intel software tools enable real-time monitoring and precise management to lower operational costs and optimize infrastructure for today even as you're forecasting for tomorrow.
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Intel is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs). Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.
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DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true DevOps paradigm. In their Day 3 Keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions Marketing Manager at Nutanix, and Mark Lav...
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"NetApp's vision is how we help organizations manage data - delivering the right data in the right place, in the right time, to the people who need it, and doing it agnostic to what the platform is," explained Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate for NetApp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a common and reliable transmission protocol on the Internet. TCP was introduced in the 70s by Stanford University for US Defense to establish connectivity between distributed systems to maintain a backup of defense information. At the time, TCP was introduced to communicate amongst a selected set of devices for a smaller dataset over shorter distances. As the Internet evolved, however, the number of applications and users, and the types of data accessed and...
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The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), which enables organizations to seamlessly run in a hybrid cloud model (public + private cloud), is here to stay. IDC estimates that the software-defined networking market will be valued at $3.7 billion by 2016. Security is a key component and benefit of the SDDC, and offers an opportunity to build security 'from the ground up' and weave it into the environment from day one. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin, ...
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Many organizations are now looking to DevOps maturity models to gauge their DevOps adoption and compare their maturity to their peers. However, as enterprise organizations rush to adopt DevOps, moving past experimentation to embrace it at scale, they are in danger of falling into the trap that they have fallen into time and time again. Unfortunately, we've seen this movie before, and we know how it ends: badly.
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Kin Lane recently wrote a couple of blogs about why copyrighting an API is not common. I couldn't agree more that copyrighting APIs is uncommon. First of all, the API definition is just an interface (It is the implementation detail … Continue reading →
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The Jevons Paradox suggests that when technological advances increase efficiency of a resource, it results in an overall increase in consumption. Writing on the increased use of coal as a result of technological improvements, 19th-century economist William Stanley Jevons found that these improvements led to the development of new ways to utilize coal. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera, compared the Jevons Paradox to modern-day enterprise IT, examin...
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Kubernetes is a new and revolutionary open-sourced system for managing containers across multiple hosts in a cluster. Ansible is a simple IT automation tool for just about any requirement for reproducible environments. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Patrick Galbraith, a principal engineer at HPE, discussed how to build a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on a number of virtual machines or bare-metal hosts. Also included will be a brief demonstration of running a Galera MyS...
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Your homes and cars can be automated and self-serviced. Why can't your storage? From simply asking questions to analyze and troubleshoot your infrastructure, to provisioning storage with snapshots, recovery and replication, your wildest sci-fi dream has come true. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Dan Florea, Director of Product Management at Tintri, provided a ChatOps demo where you can talk to your storage and manage it from anywhere, through Slack and similar services with...
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Growth hacking is common for startups to make unheard-of progress in building their business. Career Hacks can help Geek Girls and those who support them (yes, that's you too, Dad!) to excel in this typically male-dominated world. Get ready to learn the facts: Is there a bias against women in the tech / developer communities? Why are women 50% of the workforce, but hold only 24% of the STEM or IT positions? Some beginnings of what to do about it! In her Day 2 Keynote at 17th Cloud Expo, Sandy Ca...
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Love Your Liver Roadshow Hits The UK
Love Your Liver Roadshow Challenge 2012.
Great news for those of us who have seriously overdone the alcohol and fatty food intake over the Christmas and New Year Festive Season in 2011 and are in need of a liver cleanse.
This January 2012 sees the first ever love your liver roadshow run by the British Liver Trust across the UK.
What is the Love Your Liver Roadshow Challenge?
The love your liver roadshow challenge is an embarrasing bodies type pop up liver clinic run by some of the UK's top liver specialists. These liver specialist will be on hand to test your liver and offer handy tips on looking after the liver. This one of a kind love your liver roadshow tests your liver through a Fibroscan. A Fibroscan is a non-invasive and painless test that measures how stiff your liver is. This Fibroscan technology which is normally only available at some NHS hospitals for people who have been referred to a liver specialist if you have an abnormal liver function test, helps to detect any signs of liver damage that may need further investigation.
Liver Disease Effects 2 Million People In The UK.
Liver Disease is a serious and growing public health problem that effects approximately 2 million people in the UK. The British Liver Trust is a UK Charity that has a small dedicated team of people tackling this serious issue through awareness campaigns such as the Love Your Liver Roadshow.
Love Your Liver Roadshow Dates.
The Love Your Liver Roadshow will be touring the UK and visiting the following cities in January 2012:
- 16/1/2012 - GLASGOW - Silverburn Shopping Centre, Glasgow, G53 6QR.
- 17/1/2012 - LIVERPOOL - Liverpool One, Paradise Place, L3 4AA.
- 18/1/2012 - BIRMINGHAM - Bullring Shopping Centre, Rotunda Square, B5 4BU.
- 19/1/2012 - LONDON - Brent Cross Shopping Centre, NW4 3FP.
- 20/1/2012 - EXETER - Guildhall Shopping Centre, EX4 3HP.
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For more information about the Love Your Liver Roadshow, Fibroscan liver checks and liver health, then please feel free to visit The British Liver Trust.


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Phonetics For Pronouncing 'Amour'?
A Quick Overview Of Amour
Speaking of love, you may be wondering how to say love in French.
- amour
- ah:moor
Pronounce the 'mour' in 'amour' like the English word 'moor'. The French roll the 'r', but if you haven't practised it, it's best just to say it the way you normally pronounce an 'r' in your own accent. If you speak Received English, the 'r' will be silent, and if you speak, say, American English, you roll it as usual. Dealing with the French 'r' in this way is far better than sounding pretentious or comical, both of which can happen if you aren't well-practised in this sound which isn't natural to English speakers at all.
If you want to be romantic you will want to know how to say my love in French. The answer is:
mon amour
- mohn_ah:moor
'Mon' means 'my' and you don't normally pronounce the 'n', you nasalize it. When you say 'mon amour' you make a liaison between the 'n' and the 'a', and this causes the 'n' to be sounded as you would expect it to be in English.
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Eminent Domain Discussion on Voices of Montana
Join us this morning at 9am as we host the guests of Voices of Montana. Mark will discuss the eminent domain with Larry Salois and several other affected landowners. Erin Flint will take calls out of the Billings station at 1-866-627-5483. Join in on the discussion - this morning at 9am!


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How should Christians respond to scandals they read about on the internet? In a question about the Duggars, Douglas Wilson avoids commenting on the facts and explains why getting up in arms about such things without all the facts often does more harm than good.
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Exercise update
I just want to give a little update on where I am at with exercise. While we were in Adelaide I managed zero exercise, despite my excercise clothes taking up precious room in my suitcase, which really proves that you should never pack exercise clothes when you go on holidays as you will generally never use them.
Since we've been back I have started back at work. Last week I managed 1 day of the 30 Day Shred and 2.5 days running. I say .5 because I did half of week 2 C25K before arriving at the cafe. I had good intentions on doing the other half upon leaving the cafe but it never eventuated.
This week I have done three days in a row of 30 day shred. Congrats to me. Plus walking into town 2 days which is a 3km round trip. Not too bad.
I've lost 2kg in a month so something is working at last.
This photo has nothing at all to do with exercise but I thought the graffiti was funny.


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ISLMABAD- Expressing annoyance over the delay in holding of local bodies' elections in the cantonment areas, the Supreme Court Monday directed the Attorney General for Pakistan to submit a comprehensive reply regarding the matter on March 10.
Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, heading a three-member bench hearing the case, said it would pass an appropriate order in view of the federation's reply.
Justice Khilji Arif Hussain remarked if the government desires it could pass the law in a few hours. He said the delaying tactics were being used in holding of the LB polls in the cantonments.
Additional Attorney General Shah Khawar, representing the federation, said that so far the bill regarding holding of elections in the cantonment boards could not be tabled in the National Assembly. He, however, said it would be presented in the next session.
Justice Tassaduq said that in the last hearing he (AAG) had given assurance that the bill would be tabled on February 24. The court, therefore, summoned the Attorney General and adjourned the hearing of the case for half an hour.
Iftikhar Gilani, appearing on behalf of Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (r) Asif Yasin Malik in a contempt case, said a five-member bench had given observation against his client. He said his client had tendered unconditional apology since the beginning, but the trial court had not accepted it.
Justice Jillani said they would see how serious the government was in holding LB polls in the cantonment areas, and what role the secretary played in it. Iftikhar Gilani contended that his client was not the government and it was not in his power to hold elections.
After the break Attorney General Salman Butt appeared before the bench. The chief justice inquired from him as to why the bill regarding holding of LB polls in the cantonments could not be presented in the National Assembly. He told the AG that the court did not stop the government from legislating new law, adding if the government wanted to use the delaying tactics, then they would direct the federation to hold the election in the cantonments in accordance with the old law and the government could insert a clause in the new law that would apply to the local bodies.
The attorney general informed the court that the existing law was not democratic, so the federation wanted to frame a new law. Justice Azmat remarked what kind of democracy it was when no local government elections were held in the cantonments in the last 14 years. Justice Jillani told the AG that after the federation's reply they would pass an order.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed remarked that it was a constitutional command to hold elections in a fair, free and transparent manner. Justice Azmat said in the last five years no local government polls were held on the plea that there was no local government law.
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani remarked, "Prima facie the government does not want to conduct the LG polls in the cantonment boards."
He said the government should make it clear that if no legislation was done, no LG polls would be held in cantonment boards too. "People cannot be deprived of their rights for a long period. The government should hold the polls and legislation in this regard can be done later. Any new law can be reviewed," he held.
The Supreme Court proposed to give district and sessions judges appellate authority in the existing provisions of delimitation of constituencies in the Punjab Local Government Act 2013.
The bench asked the Punjab advocate general to seek instructions from the provincial government in that regard and submit reply today (Tuesday). ECP Additional Secretary Sher Afgan, however, agreed to this proposal. Akram Sheikh, counsel for ECP, endorsed the bench's proposal to give appellate authority to the district and sessions judges.
The bench directed the SC office to again issue notices to all the parties that had not received notices so far, saying in case the parties failed to respond even after receiving the notices, they would then decide the case.


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Writing nothing for a month in my writing blog might seem a tad worrying. But like most things in life, having a writing career is all about finding the balance. The balance, that is, between work and passion, even if work is the thing we are passionate about.
For years I dreamed of being a writer without really knowing what it meant. I had images of swinging on a hammock drinking Mojitos in the romantic light of an early evening sun, typing late into the night very Hemmingway-esque, having spent the day talking to terribly interesting people.
Sadly this is not the reality, for me anyway. I have three small children and a dog and I write at the kitchen table. The reality for most writers – as shown very recently by Donal Ryan going public with the fact he has to go back to work full-time in the civil service to make ends meet, despite being a best-selling, award-winning author – is that we multi-task multi-jobs to hold down the roof of the house.
Finding the balance is hard – money versus creative freedom. Jobs versus passion. For me anyway, it has taken a long time to allow myself to write my novel without feeling guilty. It is not commissioned like my previous book and might end up in someone's slush pile but still I must write it. But I don't have the luxury of writing it methodically. All my paid writing work has to be done before I can write the might-never-make-any-money stuff. It gets done squeezed in between deadlines and invoicing, and between children's homework and dirty dishes.
That's not to say that my 'day job' isn't great. I get to write for a living, even if it's not paying for hammock swinging in Havana. (It is paying for tango dancing in Buenos Aeries next month though, so I can't really complain, can I? More on this to come.)
I have a day job as a fundraising copywriter, working with a number of charities on their donor communications. This can involve touring cancer research labs to interviewing people with motor neurone disease, from writing about child abuse to irrigation systems in Africa. In that sense, I talk to incredibly interesting people every day and I love it.
I also work as a freelance journalist and for my sins seem to have two completely different specialist topics – sex and death. The sex is mostly about middle age, and I somehow have ended up as a Dating Doctor (yes, you read that right) for a weekly column on middle age dating for the Daily Mail. I absolutely love it. I love meeting all these people in their 40's to their 80's still willing to give love a go. I also write about feminism and women and all things related and hope soon to start writing another book on this generation of women redefining middle age.
As for death, well my own experiences caring for my mum after her stroke which led to my first book means I write regularly about parent-care, and the right to die and the many issues relating to death and dying. This month alone I have appeared on several radio shows talking about the issues, and written several articles.
So, I have a rather schizophrenic writing life – today alone I wrote about middle age sex, child grooming on the internet, cancer research, and I set up two blind dates for people in their 60's and wrote an advice column on not setting an age cap on love.
I took the weekend off which means this week I have to work my ass off. Instead I spent the weekend writing my passion – 5000 words of a novel that no-one has commissioned but which I have to write.
My writing life is full of words (thankfully), interesting people and even, in fairness a hammock. I hung one up in my garden last summer and while I rarely swing and sip Mojitos in the early evening sun Hemmingway-esque, I do occasionally lie lazily dreaming about the writers life and being rather glad I have one.


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This weeks sketch is LOTS of fun and I really enjoyed putting my card together. I've gone all BRIGHT and Pink FREE this week... never fear.. there WILL be a suitable PINK FRENZY appearing on my Blogo soon I think!!! hahah
Here is my card for this week:-
And here is Karen's FUN sketch:-
This little card is for my Godson Jack!! It's his 5th Birthday party today, so I thought I'd have a bit of fun with it. I've used TWO colours I haven't used before.. Poppy Parade!! and Peach Parfait... it's not that I don't like them.. it's just that well OK.. Poppy Parade frightens me a little and I don't really have an excuse for Peach Parfait. I've also used Tempting Turquoise, another colour that is sadly neglected by me and some Old Olive.
I also inked up my Party this Way set and used some Twine for the balloon strings and added a couple of Turquoise brads.
The rest of the Sweet Sunday Stamper's have some AMAZING cards to show you too... sooooo... off you go.. go visit them and be INSPIRED:-
- Jen Tapler
- Karen Motz
- Dana White
- Lynn Put
- Vicki Burdick and of course
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Here's what I used:-
Stamps:- Party this Way
Paper:- POppy Parade (i'm still a little frightened!!), Peach Parfait, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Peach Parfait DSP, Poppy Parade DSP, Whisper White
Ink:- Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories:-Dimensionals, Twine, Tempting Turquoise Brads


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Spiked, bled, poisoned: it sounds like a torture scene from Tudor England, rather than the fate that befell another England, the 1500m world silver medallist Hannah, in a race in Hengelo in the Netherlands two months before the Olympics. After her achilles was shredded by an opponent's spike, along with any realistic medal hopes, she also spent five days in hospital with blood poisoning. Somehow she made it to London 2012 but a lack of race sharpness told in the 1500m semi-finals.
So it was with some relief that England returned to Hengelo last Saturday, with understandable trepidation, and finished third in a strong 800m. The result followed her fastest ever season opener, in the Diamond League meeting in Eugene, and a fourth in Rome. With the world championships in Moscow two months away her body and times are healthy.
England's immediate focus, however, is on next weekend's European Athletics Team Championships in Gateshead, where she is hoping to inspire Great Britain & Northern Ireland to their first victory since 2008. "It's a really cool event," she says. "We get so few opportunities to be a team and it's wicked to be all in it together."
She is glowing in her praise for the "tremendous work ethic" of the team captain, Perri Shakes-Drayton, whom she has known since the world juniors in 2006, and it is clear they share a similar mindset. "We were taken out to watch Beijing in 2008 by the BOA and we were sat there saying: 'I don't want to be here, having this rubbed into our faces.' We wished we'd made the senior teams instead."
Yet England was able to wear her irritations as a spur, not a saddle. It was a similar story after London 2012: 10 days after the Games she ran a personal best for the 800m, smashing the two-minute barrier. "I was really pleased but the first thing I thought was: 'I wish I had two more weeks to prepare for the Olympics,'" she says. "I was getting fitter with every session but it came too quickly."
And, she confesses now, in some ways she was glad to miss the 1500m final. "To be honest I didn't quite want to be a part of it because of the drug implications surrounding the winner [Asli Cakir Alptekin, who was suspended in May]," she says. "That was worst example of drugs in the 1500m I've seen in my career.
"At the time I thought Lisa [Dobriskey] was incredibly brave to speak out and I'm so happy that she's been proved right. I was very angry that she was made to look almost bitter. Would I have said anything? I don't know."
Does the race make her fear a level playing field is impossible? "No," she says. "The good thing about women's 1500m is I don't think you need drugs to win. Look at Lisa in 2009 and me in 2011. We did that clean. I try not to lose sleep over it."
After the Olympics England "caught up on real life". Got married, bought a house and passed her driving test. "Everything had been put on hold for the Olympics," she says, laughing. "I feel a bit more adult now.
"I'd never got round to taking my test and I was delighted to only get two minors. They take you to a little room, which definitely felt like the call room you sit in before a race. I was like: 'Don't get nervous, deep breaths, deep breaths!' I don't have a car yet because I've been racing so much so I'm still stuck on the bus."
England, who studied biochemistry at Birmingham University, believes her science background helps her probe the exercise physiologists, nutritionists and doctors at her disposal. "I push them," she says. "Why will it help? I'm quite into the science side of it."
She trains four hours a day, drinks beetroot juice and protein recovery shakes and always carries a massage ball with her to loosen limbs. There is, however, a small weakness: chocolate eclairs, which are "her absolute favourite".
"I tend to have pudding just around races as a reward," she says, smiling. "You've got to hit all the food groups. You never know, with 150m to go I might need that slice of cake."
She jokes that when she retires her father, a professor at Oxford University, would probably like her to follow him into the sciences. "I'm not sure," she says. "Maybe I'll be a book critic. Or a chocolate eclair taster."
Until then, though, the day job takes precedence. At 26, England is close to her prime, and, provided she stays fit, can have a major say in Moscow. "My form is definitely at least as good as it was before Daegu," she says. "I have a more mature head with two extra years of racing. The plan is to get in the best shape possible, reach the final and run an amazing race."
A repeat of 2011, when she stormed from seventh to second, would certainly be as sweet as any eclair – and, after the disappointment of London 2012, just as filling.


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