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Principal Proposed Uses
Selenium is a trace mineral that our bodies use to produce glutathione peroxidase . Glutathione peroxidase is part of the body's antioxidant defense system; it works with vitamin E to protect cell membranes from damage caused by dangerous, naturally occurring substances known as free radicals.
China has very low rates of colon cancer, presumably because of the nation's low-fat diet. However, in some parts of China where the soil is depleted of selenium, the incidence of various types of cancer is much higher than in the rest of the country. This fact has given rise to a theory that selenium deficiency is a common cause of cancer, and that selenium supplements can reduce this risk.
As we will see, there is some preliminary evidence that selenium supplements might provide some protection against some types of cancer among people living in the US, but this evidence is far from definitive.
The official US and Canadian recommendations for daily intake of selenium are as follows:
- 0-6 months: 15 mcg
- 7-12 months: 20 mcg
- 1-3 years: 20 mcg
- 4-8 years: 30 mcg
- 9-13 years: 40 mcg
Males and Females
- 14 years and older: 55 mcg
- Pregnant Women : 60 mcg
- Nursing Women : 70 mcg
Selenium content of food varies depending on the selenium content of the soil in which it was grown. Studies suggest that many people in certain developed countries, including New Zealand, Belgium, and Scandinavia, do not get enough selenium in their diets. 3-6 However, most people in the US and Canada are believed to consume sufficient quantities of selenium. 46
Foods containing significant and reliable amounts of selenium include animal products like meat, seafood, and dairy foods, as well as whole grains and other foods grown in selenium-rich soils, especially Brazil nuts. The table below from the Office of Dietary Supplements provides a more complete list of the selenium content in certain foods and the percent daily value. 69
Selenium Absorption
Certain digestive conditions, such as Crohn's disease , short-bowel syndrome, and ulcerative colitis may impair selenium absorption. 47 In addition, medications that reduce stomach acid such as proton pump inhibitors or H 2 blockers may reduce absorption of selenium. 12
Therapeutic Dosages
In controlled trials of selenium, typical dosages were 100 mcg to 200 mcg daily.
The two general types of selenium supplements are available to consumers are organic and inorganic forms. These terms have a very specific chemical meaning and have nothing to do with "organic" foods. In chemistry, organic means a substance's chemical structure includes carbon. Inorganic chemicals have no carbon atoms.
The inorganic form of selenium, selenite, is essentially selenium atoms bound to oxygen. Some research suggests that selenite is harder for the body to absorb than organic forms of selenium, such as selenomethionine (selenium bound to methionine, an essential amino acid) or high-selenium yeast (which contains selenomethionine). 13,14 However, other research on both animals and humans suggests that selenite supplements are about as good as organic forms of selenium. 15,16 These contradictory results suggest that any differences in absorption, if they exist at all, are relatively minor.
Therapeutic Uses
Preliminary studies hint that supplemental selenium may help prevent some forms of cancer ; 17-22 however, this evidence has a long way to go before it can be taken as reliable. ( See below .)
Selenium is required for a well-functioning immune system. 24 Based on this, selenium has been suggested as a treatment for people with HIV . Early studies showed little to no benefit. 25-32,62 A large trial reported in 2007 reported that use of selenium supplements reduced viral load. 62 However, this study suffered from numerous flaws in its statistical methods. For reasons that are not clear, another study found that selenium supplements decreased symptoms of psychological anxiety in patients undergoing highly active retroviral therapy (HAART). 56
One study of healthy people in the UK (where marginally low selenium intake is common) found that use of selenium supplements improved general immune function, as measured by response to poliovirus immunization. 57
A preliminary double-blind trial suggests that selenium supplements may improve fertility in males who are selenium deficient. 54 Weak evidence suggests that selenium might be helpful for diabetic neuropathy . 23
Selenium has also been recommended for many other conditions, including acne , anxiety , cataracts , cervical dysplasia , fibromyalgia , gout , multiple sclerosis , osteoarthritis , psoriasis , and ulcers , but there is no real evidence as yet that it is actually helpful.
A small study among nursing home residents found that low levels of the mineral selenium was associated with depression . Moreover, 8 weeks of supplementation tended to improve the mood of the most seriously depressed patients with low selenium levels. 67 The same was not true of the two other nutrients investigated, folate and vitamin C.
Current evidence regarding use of selenium for preventing heart disease is more negative than positive. 48-53
A large (about 500 participants) double-blind, placebo-controlled study failed to find that use of selenium supplements at 100 mcg, 200 mcg, or 300 mcg daily improved mood or general well-being . 59
A study of 197 people with moderately severe asthma failed to find benefit with selenium (100 mcg daily). 61
Low selenium levels have been associated with increased likelihood of developing certain kinds of rheumatoid arthritis . 34 However, selenium supplements don't appear to help rheumatoid arthritis once it has developed. 35,36,44,45
Despite hopes to the contrary, it does not appear that selenium supplements can help prevent type 2 diabetes , but rather might increase the risk of developing the disease. 64
Selenium may offer some benefits for people with hypothyroidism . 68 A review of 6 randomized trials, involving 339 people with low thyroid hormone level from Hashimoto's thyroiditis, compared selenium (200 mcg daily for 3 months) to placebo. Those in the selenium group reported improvements in their mood and well-being, and lab tests found lower levels of the antibodies that attack the thyroid.
What Is the Scientific Evidence for Selenium?
Somewhat inconsistent evidence suggests that selenium supplements may help prevent cancer.
Evidence from observational studies indicates that low intake of selenium is tied to increased risk of cancer. 39,40 However, such studies are notoriously unreliable as guidelines to therapy. Only double-blind trials can truly determine whether selenium supplements can help prevent cancer. (For information on why this is so, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-blind Studies? )
The most important double-blind study on selenium and cancer was conducted by researchers at the University of Arizona Cancer Center. 37 In this trial, which began in 1983, 1,312 people were divided into two groups. One group received 200 mcg of yeast-based selenium daily; the other received placebo. Participants were not deficient in selenium, although their selenium levels fell toward the bottom of the normal range. The researchers were trying to determine whether selenium could lower the incidence of skin cancers.
As it happened, no benefits for skin cancer were seen. (In fact, careful analysis of the data suggests that selenium supplements actually marginally increased risk of certain forms of skin cancer. 58 ) However, researchers saw dramatic declines in the incidence of several other cancers in the selenium group. For ethical reasons, researchers felt compelled to stop the study after several years and allow all participants to take selenium.
When all the results were tabulated, it became clear that the selenium-treated group developed almost 66% fewer prostate cancers, 50% fewer colorectal cancers, and about 40% fewer lung cancers as compared with the placebo group. (All these results were statistically significant.) Selenium-treated subjects also experienced a statistically significant (17%) decrease in overall mortality, a greater than 50% decrease in lung cancer deaths, and nearly a 50% decrease in total cancer deaths. A subsequent close look at the data showed that only study participants who were relatively low in selenium to begin with experienced protection from lung cancer or colon cancer; people with average or above average levels of selenium did not benefit significantly. 55, 60 It has not yet been reported whether this limitation of benefit to low-selenium participants was true of the other forms of cancer as well.
While this evidence is promising, it has one major flaw. The laws of statistics tell us that when researchers start to deviate from the question their research was designed to answer, the results may not be trustworthy. Currently, other studies are underway in an attempt to validate the findings accidentally discovered in this trial.
Interestingly, combining the results of 12 recent placebo-controlled trials investigating the association between antioxidant supplementation and cancer, researchers found that men who took selenium experienced an overall reduction in the incidence of cancer. No similar effect, however, was observed in women. 65 This difference cannot be explained without more research. In addition, selenium supplementation appeared to modestly lower cancer mortality in both men and women.
Other evidence for the possible anticancer benefits of selenium comes from large-scale Chinese studies showing that giving selenium supplements to people who live in selenium-deficient areas reduces the incidence of cancer. 38 In addition, animal trials have found anticancer benefits. 41,42
However, one study published in 2007 reported negative results in transplant patients. 63 People who undergo organ transplants are at particularly high risk of skin cancer linked to the human papilloma virus (HPV). In this double-blind study, 184 organ transplant recipients were given either placebo or selenium at a dose of 200 mg daily. The results over two years failed to show benefit; both the placebo and the selenium group developed precancerous and cancerous lesions at the same rate.
Safety Issues
The US Institute of Medicine issues guidelines for the maximum total daily intake of various nutrients, based on estimations of what should be safe for virtually all healthy individuals. These tolerable upper intake levels (ULs) are, thus, conservative guidelines. For selenium, they have been set as follows: 43
- 0-6 months: 45 mcg
- 7-12 months: 60 mcg
- 1-3 years: 90 mcg
- 4-8 years: 150 mcg
- 9-13 years: 280 mcg
Males and Females
- 14 years and older: 400 mcg
- Pregnant or Nursing Women : 400 mcg
Note that these dosages apply to combined dietary and supplemental intake of selenium. When deciding how much selenium it's safe to take, keep in mind that most adults already receive about 100 mcg of selenium in the daily diet.
Maximum safe doses of selenium for individuals with severe liver or kidney disease have not been established. There is some evidence that supplementing selenium over the long-term in areas where selenium is already adequate in the diet may increase the risk of diabetes and perhaps hypercholesterolemia. 66
Highly excessive selenium intake, beginning at about 900 mcg daily, can cause selenium toxicity. 46 Signs include depression, nervousness, emotional instability, nausea, vomiting, and in some cases loss of hair and fingernails.
Interactions You Should Know About
If you are taking medications that reduce stomach acid, such as H 2 blockers or proton pump inhibitors , you may need extra selenium.
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Ellsbury drives relentless Red Sox offense
Leadoff hitter allows lineup to force the action, ramp up pressure
BOSTON -- For Red Sox left fielder Jonny Gomes, it's pretty simple what Jacoby Ellsbury brings to the Red Sox.
"A lot of teams have their five-tool players hitting three or four," he said. "We've got a five-tool player hitting one. He's a game-changer."
Ellsbury changed Game 2 of this American Division Series quickly on Saturday. Like about five minutes after the Red Sox came to bat in the bottom of the first inning.
He led off with a bloop single to right, promptly stole second base and went to third on catcher Jose Molina's throwing error. Two batters later, he trotted home on Dustin Pedroia's sacrifice fly to center field.
And the Red Sox were off and running to a 7-4 victory over the Rays and a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. They will try to close out the series Monday night at Tropicana Field at 6 p.m. ET on TBS.
Red Sox manager John Farrell calls his offense "relentless." That is, the Red Sox have tough outs up and down the lineup. They also have smart hitters. Besides leading the Majors in runs -- as if that weren't enough -- they also forced pitchers to throw more pitches than any other club.
Relentless is what the Red Sox were on Saturday night. They had the leadoff hitter on base against Rays starter David Price in four of the first five innings and scored at least one run in every one of them. Ellsbury was in the middle of a lot of it. He collected three hits, including two singles and a double, and scored three runs.
"I think the big thing is that we did a good job of putting pressure on each inning," Ellsbury said. "It's one thing to have a big inning and then kind of let up. We made it tough on them. He's such a good pitcher that's all you can do is keep the train moving."
By the time Price departed in the eighth inning, he'd allowed seven earned runs. David Ortiz hit a pair of booming home runs, but the Red Sox had Price in constant trouble.
"I think that's the key for a pitcher like Price, get to him early, don't let him get comfortable," Ellsbury said. "[We] put pressure on him each inning. I thought we did a pretty good job of that."
Afterward, the guys behind Ellsbury in the lineup, especially Shane Victorino and Dustin Pedroia, said his mere presence on the bases forces pitchers to throw more fastballs to give their catcher a better chance of throwing him out.
That strategy didn't work much in 2013 since Ellsbury led the American League with 52 stolen bases and also a 92.9 percent success rate. He's the first player to lead his league in both steals and stolen-base percentage since Tim Raines in 1981.
He's a tremendous weapon for the Red Sox. In a season in which he had 31 doubles, eight triples, nine home runs and a .355 on-base percentage, Fangraphs.com gives him a Wins Above Replacement number of 5.8, eighth-best in the American League among position players. Also according to Fangraphs.com, he saved 13 defensive runs, second among all American League center fielders.
This is an especially sweet time for Ellsbury. Not only is he proving himself an impact player as he approaches free agency. But he has returned to the Red Sox after missing 16 games with a right foot fracture.
At the time of the injury, there was some doubt about when -- or maybe even if -- he'd be able to return. He got back in time to play three games the final week of the regular season and has been as good as ever in the first two games of this series against the Rays -- five hits, two steals and four runs.
"It's playoff baseball," he said. "I'm definitely happy to be back and contributing."
His speed is a weapon in different ways. For instance, in the first inning, Victorino took a pitch in the first inning to allow him to steal.
But in the fifth inning, Ellsbury had the sense that Price was so focused on stopping him from stealing that he might give Pedroia a hittable fastball.
"Hopefully, even by me not going will give him better pitches to hit," Ellsbury said. "I was going to go, but decided to wait."
Pedroia drove a Price fastball to left for a double, and Ellsbury sprinted all the way home with the run that made it a 6-2 game.

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What is an interior stylist?
An interior stylist is trained in interior design but has a flair for real estate and for making a property live up to its full potential and appeal to a broad market.
Buying a home is an emotional and aspirational task. Interior stylists harness that emotion by creating a space that potential buyers can see themselves in.
Traditionally, the basics of presenting your home for sale are to clean, tidy, neaten the garden, complete small maintenance jobs internally and to get rid of any funny odors.
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An interior stylist is an expert in
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What are the benefits in using an interior stylist?
The biggest benefit in using an interior stylist is that interior styling can add a substantial boost to the value of your home. Australian studies by the Institute of Home Staging have reported that property styling can add 7 – 17% to your property sale price.
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Emmett McCarty Cullen and Rosalie Lillian Hale are one of the secondary couples in the Twilight Saga. They are both vampires and members of the Olympic coven. Emmett and Rosalie are the only couple to share the same year of birth in the Twilight Saga. Stephenie Meyer describes their personalities as similar in the way that they are both physical people—often opting to take action instead of thinking firsthand, and would go through any measure to achieve their goals.[1] Their Life and Death counterparts are Eleanor Cullen and Royal Hale.
In the movies, Emmett is portrayed by Kellan Lutz and Rosalie by Nikki Reed.
Rosalie HaleEdit
- "I got luckier than I deserved. Emmett is everything I would have asked for if I'd known myself well enough to know what to ask for. He's exactly the kind of person that someone like me needs. And, oddly enough, he needs me, too."
- ―Rosalie's feelings.[src]
Rosalie Lillian Hale led a human life ruled by her beauty. In 1933, during the Great Depression, her father kept the family wealthy with his job as a banker. She was constantly praised and admired for her beauty, making her vain and self-centered. One day, after her mother forgot to send her father's lunch to work with him, Rosalie's mother had her dress up and sent her to deliver it, in the hopes that she would catch the eye of Royce King II. It worked, and she met Royce, the son of the owner of the bank. They began a relationship based only on physical attraction, as Royce was too busy working. They were soon engaged.
One day, after visiting her friend Vera and her son Henry, Rosalie became aware of the lack of love in her relationship with Royce when Vera's husband, a carpenter, kissed her, and it was filled with nothing but love. Walking home, shaken by such thoughts, Rosalie stumbled across Royce and a group of his friends, all very drunk. When Royce bragged about his fiancée's beauty, she was brutally gang-raped and beaten before being left for dead in the street.
Carlisle later found her, attracted by the smell of her blood, and changed her into a vampire, in the hope that she could become a romantic companion for Edward. However, Edward loved her only as a sister, which deeply hurt her vanity, since she had never been rejected, her sisterly feelings for him notwithstanding. Though she was pleased with her superior vampire beauty, she was furious of what she had become and wanted revenge on Royce—she murdered him and his friends, wearing a stolen wedding dress. She tormented all of them to death while avoiding spilling their blood to avoid temptation—she was repulsed by the idea of having any part of them inside her. After this, she joined the Cullens, but only because she did not want to be alone.
Emmett CullenEdit
- "I figured I'd died, but I tried to open my eyes anyway. And then I saw her and I knew I was dead. I didn't even mind the pain. I fought to keep my eyes open - I didn't want to miss one second of the angel's face."
- ―Emmett on seeing Rosalie for the first time.[src]
Emmett McCarty's human life was focused on his simplicity. Though he hung out with a crowd that drank, gambled and womanized, he loved his family and provided prosperity and games. He worked on a railroad with his older brothers in Tennessee and as a hunter. He was never one to worry about things that were outside of his control and preferred to take things in stride and make jokes about them.
In 1935, Rosalie was hunting in Tennessee when she found Emmett being mauled by a bear outside of Gatlinburg. Because his physical features reminded her so much of little Henry—the son of her human best friend—she carried him over one hundred miles back to Carlisle, barely able to resist the appeal of his blood. Emmett was barely alive when she saved him. He managed to open his eyes and was completely mesmerized by her beauty, and described the experience as "being saved by an angel who brought him to God".
When they got back, Rosalie asked Carlisle to change Emmett into a vampire. Carlisle had felt guilty for turning Rosalie without her consent, so this became his way of mending their relationship. Throughout the process of Emmett's painful transformation, Rosalie watched over him, and Emmett refused to remove his sight from her—he was already in love with her.
After his transformation, Rosalie and Carlisle explained to Emmett that he had become a vampire. Surprisingly, this did not upset him at all: he was never one to worry about situations outside of his control. He also said, "Hell's not so bad if you get to keep an angel with you."
Emmett and Rosalie got married sometime after… and did so repeatedly over the decades: Rosalie loved the attention and Emmett loved to make her happy. They sometimes live separately from the family and are more "public" with their relationship than the others.
However, Rosalie only considers Emmett as half of her happiness because she cannot conceive children. She yearns to become human again, and Emmett knows that she would give up anything for the chance, even him.
In Twilight, the pair attend Forks High School along with Jasper Hale, Edward and Alice Cullen. Emmett isn't happy about Edward's new relationship with Bella Swan, but learns to accept it quickly, while Rosalie, on the other hand, completely despises her and refuses to accept the fact that Edward is in love with a human and because she thinks that Edward can never love anyone.
When the time comes for Bella to meet the family, the couple is absent because Emmett is trying to comfort Rosalie. Rosalie doesn't like Bella because she is envious of her humanity and disapproves of the fact that Bella has chosen to become a vampire, when she could lead a perfectly normal human life, and have a family. She is also offended that Edward chose Bella over her even though she never had any romantic feelings for him.
During the baseball game when James, Victoria and Laurent show up and the latter two decide to hunt Bella for sport, the pair split up with Emmett going with Alice and Edward to protect Bella while Rosalie goes home with the rest of the family to meet Laurent. Emmett willingly helps Edward lead James away from Bella while Rosalie, when asked to help confuse the tracker by trading clothes with each other, is reluctant to help. She eventually does at Esme's request, and they lead Victoria away from Bella's father, Charlie.
Emmett later helps tear apart James at the ballet studio in Phoenix and afterwards, attends the prom with Rosalie and their other siblings.
Midnight SunEdit
In Midnight Sun, both Rosalie and Emmett disapprove of Edward's relationship with Bella, but Emmett eventually warms up to her. Jasper and Rosalie planned to kill Bella after Tyler almost crashed his van into her and Edward was forced to reveal his secret to her after he saved her. Jasper and Rosalie's true feelings of hatred are revealed more in depth in Midnight Sun. But during a meeting with the whole family Carlisle convinced Rosalie that she did not need to kill Bella. Rosalie was only worried that they would have to move away again and was concerned for the safety of her family.
New MoonEdit
In New Moon, Rosalie and Emmett are originally on a vacation in Africa but come home for Bella's birthday party because, according to Edward, "Emmett wanted to be here". Emmett gives Bella a radio which he installs in her truck for her before she can open the present. In the movie, Rosalie gives her a necklace. When Bella suffers a paper cut and Jasper tries to attack her, Emmett restrains him while Rosalie helps wrestle him out the door.
They move to Ithaca with the rest of the family, where they marry once again and "honeymoon" in Europe for a few months before returning to the Cullens, who are in Denali while Edward tracks Victoria in South America. When Rosalie learns of Alice's vision of Bella jumping off a cliff, she calls Edward to tell him about it, because she believes he had the right to know. This revelation leads Edward to almost kill himself. After Bella and Alice stopped him, they all move back to Forks.
Bella later asks the family to vote whether or not they allow her to join them. Rosalie thanks Bella for having the courage to save her brother from her mistake, but votes against the idea of letting her become one of them. She explains that she wanted Bella to have a chance for a normal life, something she would've chosen for herself, and that she wishes there had been someone to vote no for her. Emmett, however, votes in her favor, but shows some interest in fighting the Volturi and agrees with Edward's plan of hiding Bella.
In Eclipse, Emmett almost got into trouble with the pack while the family is chasing Victoria. Since they are along the line, the wolves are chasing her as well and when Emmett tries to attack her, but she dodges, prompting him to fall on Paul. Paul believes that Emmett has crossed the line and when Rosalie angrily defends Emmett, a fight nearly escalates but Jasper and Carlisle manage to calm everyone down.
Later, when strange murders in Seattle started to occur, Emmett wants to check the situation, but Rosalie disagrees. When Edward caught the scent of the unknown vampire in Bella's room (which is eventually revealed to be Riley), Emmett and Jasper take on the task of tracking the scent.
Rosalie and Bella share a moment during Alice's "slumber party" where Rosalie tells Bella about her past, in an attempt to make her realize the mistake she is going to make by becoming a vampire. She tells her how and why she saved Emmett and describes him as being "half of her happy ending" as he was what she'd always wanted for herself, and she had found true love in him, but can't conceive his children.
During training with the wolves, Emmett is the first one Jasper challenges because his strength is most like that of a newborn.
During the actual fight, both Rosalie and Emmett escape injury from the newborns and manage to take them all out without problem.
The Short Second Life of Bree TannerEdit
In The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Emmett and Rosalie appear at the end of the fight. They witness the Volturi's interrogation on the surviving newborn, Bree Tanner, who had surrendered at Carlisle's offer of asylum. Emmett and Rosalie mostly remain in the background while the Volturi interrogate their family and Bree, and eventually witness her execution despite their family's best efforts to persuade them to spare her.
Breaking DawnEdit
In the beginning of Breaking Dawn, Emmett and Jasper take Edward out for a "vampire bachelor party" the night before Bella and Edward's wedding. Both Rosalie and Emmett are present at the wedding where Rosalie performs as the pianist during the ceremony. When Edward and Bella leave for their honeymoon in the Breaking Dawn movie, Emmett and Rosalie can be seen kissing each other on the porch.
Bella calls Rosalie for help when she realizes she is pregnant. Rosalie acts as a bodyguard to Bella during her pregnancy, and looks forward greatly to caring for Bella's baby, while everyone else is against the idea because they believe Bella will die if she goes through with it. Since this is his wife's decision, Emmett sides with her.After Bella successfully gave birth to Renesmee, and became a vampire, Emmett frequently mocks Bella and Edward's sex life, saying his and Rosalie's was more exciting, to which Bella responds with an arm-wrestling match that Emmett loses, as Bella is a newborn and therefore stronger than him, which annoys Emmett greatly.
When the Volturi plan to destroy Renesmee for supposedly being an immortal child after hearing it from Irina, a former friend of the Cullens, Emmett and Rosalie help gather witnesses from across the globe to prove to them that Renesmee is a vampire hybrid. Rosalie and Emmett also help train Bella to fight when Edward refuses to, but Emmett secretly uses the training sessions as an opportunity to get back at Bella for beating him in the arm-wrestling match and the rematches.
When the Volturi trial looks set to turn into a fight, the couple shares a passionate kiss of farewell but, luckily, Alice arrives with Nahuel, a vampire hybrid like Renesmee, and the family continues their life after the Volturi decide Renesmee poses no threat to their world. They then share a long kiss of victory.
In the movie, Rosalie and Emmett are last seen saying goodbye to the Amazon coven with Renesmee.
- ↑ http://thenovl.com/post/132956005459/hey-stephenie-what-made-you-decide-that-emmett Stephenie Meyer on The NOVL


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Nishaat Vasi, MathWorks
Jay Abraham, MathWorks
In this webinar you will learn techniques and practices in Model-Based Design to verify and validate software designs and embedded code using MathWorks tools. We will address requirements driven development, model coverage testing, and static code analysis of embedded software.
About the Presenters:
Nishaat Vasi is a product marketing manager at MathWorks. Since joining MathWorks in 2007, Nishaat has partnered with customers involved in high-integrity applications to promote the adoption of MathWorks tools for embedded software verification. He holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from University of Massachusetts and a B.E. in electronics engineering from University of Mumbai.
Jay Abraham is a product marketing manager at MathWorks. His area of expertise is in software tools for the verification of critical embedded applications. He has over 20 years of software and hardware design experience. Jay has an M.S. in computer engineering from Syracuse University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Boston University
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Japanese encephalitis is a mosquito-borne infection that leads to swelling of the brain. It can affect the central nervous system and cause severe complications, even death.
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chances of Japanese encephalitis:
- Living or traveling in certain rural parts of Asia—Outbreaks have occurred in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. These countries have controlled the disease through vaccinations . Other countries that still have periodic epidemics include Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, Nepal, and Malaysia.
- Employment as a lab worker, which may result in exposure to the virus.
Symptoms of Japanese encephalitis usually appear 5-15 days after the bite from an infected mosquito.
Japanese encephalitis may cause:
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Tests may include the following:
- Blood tests to look for antibodies
- Lumbar puncture to evaluate the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord
Imaging tests to assess the brain include:
Since there is no specific treatment for Japanese encephalitis. Care is focused on treating specific symptoms and complications.
There is a Japanese encephalitis vaccine . It is recommended for people who live or travel in certain parts of Asia and for lab workers who are at risk of exposure to the virus.
Take the following measures to protect yourself from mosquito bites:
- Remain in well-screened areas.
- Wear clothes that cover most of your body.
- Use insect repellents that contain up to 30% NN-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET) on skin and clothing.
- Use proper mosquito netting at night. Look for netting treated with insecticide.
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World governments, the public, and the UN now recognize that the human population number matters in achieving ecological sustainability for human communities.
For forty years, since the first United Nations environment meeting in Stockholm in 1972, environmentalists have debated whether we should include human population growth among the urgent challenges of human consumption, industrial toxins, species loss, global warming, and so forth.
This debate appears to be resolved. Clearly, human population figures have an impact on the health of natural ecosystems. Virtually every nation in the world seeks more commodities for its citizens, and a growing population multiplies the effect of this growing per-capita resource consumption. We could make all the right moves regarding energy systems, transportation, and recycling, and still overshoot Earth's capacity with unsustainable numbers of humans. It is a good sign that the United Nations now recognizes this.
UN special session on population
Next year, in September 2014, the United Nations will convene a special session on human population. The U.N. General Assembly finally intends to implement a population stabilization plan devised twenty years ago at the U.N. population conference in Cairo. The original strategy, adopted by 180 nations, cited women's rights, birth control, and economic development as keys to stabilizing population growth. This strategy remains valid, but is useless if not implemented with meaningful targets and actions. It may also prove useless if we do not re-define "economic development" to focus on better lives for the world's poor, less wasteful consumption among the rich, and less concentration of wealth among the super-rich.
Since the Cairo conference, the world's population has grown from 5.7 billion to 7 billion people. We add about 75 million people each year – the equivalent of five cities the size of Beijing each year – but we fail to match this growth with new infrastructure, shelter, food, water, or health care. Adding more people simply puts more strain on Earth's limited and dwindling resources. As we add more people, we lose some 16 million hectares of forest each year, gain 6 million hectares of desert, lose 26-billion tons of topsoil, deplete aquifers, and drain rivers. These trends are not sustainable.
The additional humans are crowded into existing cities and depleted countryside. About ten million people starve to death each year, over a billion people go hungry, and some 2 billion have no access to clean fresh water.
Lip service or real action?
The danger with UN meetings – as we witnessed with climate conferences – is that no substantive action will follow. Kenya lead the movement for a UN population meeting, but Kenya's deputy U.N. ambassador Koki Muli warned that there will be no final document from the 2014 population session. The assembly may dodge the real changes that need to occur, choosing to avoid controversial issues such as universal women's rights, girl's education, abortion rights, and access to contraception.
Historical evidence shows that wherever women have rights over their own reproduction and where families have access to birth control, the fertility rate declines. Growth advocates claim that industrial development leads to lower population growth, but that is not always the case. Prior to 1964, population and GDP grow together. Since then, in Europe, fertility rates have dropped, but not in the US or Saudi Arabia where cultural resistance undermines family planning. However, in the 1970s, fertility rates fell in Spain and Italy, not because of increased wealth, but rather following the advent of women's rights and available contraception. In Columbia, fertility rates dropped from 6 to 3.5 children per family in 15 years after contraception was made widely available.
The U.N. is correct to focus on these measures, but to be successful, the U.N. must be willing to confront cultural resistance with education. The Cairo conference recognized the need for comprehensive population policies that include family planning, gender equality, and sex education for both young women and men. However, they also noted that such policies will conflict with cultural habits. The Cairo conference recognized that practices such as abortion should be treated as a public health issue to ensure safe motherhood.
The U.N. Population Fund's executive director, Babatunde Osotimehin, believes the UN has to work with individual communities to reverse out-dated cultural practices such as contraception bans and female genital mutilation. That organization has been working with UNICEF, the UN's children fund, to encourage communities to stop the practice. In 2012 they met directly with 1,800 communities to overcome "major obstacles related to culture," according to Osotimehin. They have worked to educate communities in family planning and contraception, which Osotimehin calls "the most important intervention you can give to liberate a women's energy and life." Finally, according to Osotimehin, "the world is listening."
Change in attitudes
With present practices, the UN estimates we are on pace for 10 billion people by 2050, and possibly 12 to 14 billion by 2100. That would mean twice as many humans in a world even more depleted of resources. Since we have not been able to feed or supply basic living standards for 7 billion, these figures appear frightening. However, attitudes are beginning to change.
In the US, the Center for Biological Diversity conducted a Public Poll a found that 60 percent of Americans now equate human population growth to wildlife extinctions; 57 percent understand the link to climate change. These represent marked changes from even a decade ago.
Real world environmental crises are driving these changes in attitude. In the US, for example, the nation is on track to lose 15 million hectares (36 million acres) of forest to urban sprawl by 2050. In Florida, due to over-pumping of water, salt water is now intruding into the primary aquifer, which supplies water for 19 million people.
Water shortages now appear in most parts of the world, rich and poor – US plains, Beijing, Madras, Mexico – simply because of over-consumption, too many people demanding too much of a limited resources. Since 1960, for example, the Aral Sea has shrunk to about 10 percent of its original area.
Population, consumption & technology
During the 1970s, American ecologists Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren published a now-famous formula to account for human ecological impact on the Earth's systems: I = PAT, indicating that ecological Impact (I) is equal to Population (P) times Affluence (A), or average consumption, times a factor for Technology (T).
Stated simply, the human impact on the planet is proportional to a certain population consuming a certain amount of resources per person, using particular technologies, such as coal, hydrocarbons, automobiles, nuclear power, and so forth. The point is: population is a factor, not to be ignored.
This formula has been useful, but one obvious flaw in this formula, we now know, is that the "Technology" factor is non-linear, meaning that a simple change in technology can create a large, exponential leap in ecological impact. Consider for example the exponential impact of deep sea drilling after the British Petroleum oil-well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, or the exponential impact of a disaster such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. A nuclear war would be the ultimate exponential impact.
Another reason we must consider the exponential impact of technology is that the living ecological system may also respond with its own multiplying effects. Every time we disturb nature, we set in motion a sequence of system responses, which then have their own impact, usually beyond our control or influence. We witness this with global heating. Carbon in the atmosphere heats Earth's air, land, and water, but the heating itself creates feedbacks that include: Melting permafrost that releases methane, which increases heating; melting ice that reduces Earth's reflective qualities (albedo), retaining more heat; dying forests that absorb less carbon; increased wildfires; and so forth.
The formula should more accurately be I = PATS; the ecological impact of humanity is related to population and per-capita consumption, as well as to technology and systems feedbacks, which can be non-linear, or exponential, factors.
The wealthy nations and wealthy consumers have, of course, the greatest impact, but sheer numbers do count. There are ways that we can stabilize human population without unpleasantly imposed restrictions, namely with universal women's rights, education, and available contraception. We can hope that in 2014, the United Nations adopts these policies and takes serious action.
Rex Weyler
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Deep Green is Rex's column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
(Unregistered) John
Thank you for speaking out!
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Thank you for your kind comments, and thanks to those working on this critical issue of human population.
Two things I should make clear:...
Thank you for your kind comments, and thanks to those working on this critical issue of human population.
Two things I should make clear: (1) Greenpeace provides this forum for me to publish my Deep Green column, but I do not speak for Greenpeace International or any other Greenpeace Group. Our interests remain aligned, but this column reflects my perspective.
(2). Greenpeace has been involved in the population issue since 1972, when Greenpeace co-founders Ben and Dorothy Metcalf attended the first UN environment conference in Stockholm Sweden. I also wrote about the subject here five years ago: (http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/deep-green/deep-green-september-2008/ )
Activist groups have to pick their battles, and these are always limited. Over the Greenpeace has focused on nuclear war, toxins, marine mammals, global heating, and sometimes performed other humanitarian missions with their ships. However, it might be unrealistic to expect any organization to actively take on every issue they care about. Greenpeace would love to solve the issues of child slavery, starvation, war, gender injustice, population overshoot, and so forth, and would contribute to these campaigns. Greenpeace may seem like a huge organization, and it is, but it still works with limited resources, so we cannot expect that it will lead the charge on every worthy cause. It is good to encourage Greenpeace or any ecology organization to review their priorities, and I'd love to see Greenpeace active in all the issues I mention above, but I'm fully aware that activist groups have to focus their work on manageable campaigns. So please be patient, and if you believe strongly that population -- for example -- is the most important issue, then please, focus your energy on that.
The changes the world needs to make require all of us working in our diverse ways on diverse issues.
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Acknowledging the population explosion problem is good. Figuring out how to stabilise it is better.
Reducing total World population is the only...
Acknowledging the population explosion problem is good. Figuring out how to stabilise it is better.
Reducing total World population is the only really effective way to ensure human survival.
Simple if the birth rate per woman reduced globally to 1.7. Then in 100 years the total population of the UK for example would reduce to a sustainable 30 million. 100 years just happens to be the time when oil reserves are predicted to be exhausted. Less people living better lives using sustainable and renewable resources. Impossible? The alternatives to this are horrible to contemplate. Time is short and survival or death are ultimately our choices.
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Rex wonderful post, keep up your inspriing colum.
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Rex...you make me smile. We do love the freedom to express ourselves, correct? And nice how you managed to mobilize some a...
Rex...you make me smile. We do love the freedom to express ourselves, correct? And nice how you managed to mobilize some alliance :)
So, Greenpeace is only providing you with a forum?
Why? What for?
Greenpeace only provided you with the opportunity to take photographs of Antarctica at a time not many people had access to these remote regions, therefor any pictures were something no matter if the Photographer was talented or not.
Greenpeace only provided Joel Stewart with the logistics to transform 200 cheap acres of land next to a planned pulpmill into a luxury-lodge?
Greenpeace only provided Joel Stewart with contacts to build up a Eco-reputation among nature-media etc.
Question: WHY DO YOU STILL NEED GREENPEACE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A FORUM?
Greenpeace only has limited ressources...? Come on my friend, you guys collect hundred of millions on a beggar-like manner.
Greenpeace is focusing on the SAME campaigns for 40 years.
But the environmental problems have strongly diverted.
That Greenpeace is not able to adopt to changes and challenges to an environmental NGO, much rather is continuing the same track it has been following 4 decade, is doing so after all Greenpeace-positions of previous 40 years have prooved to be right - therefor Greenpeace should be more important than ever...
...that Greenpeace is not able to adopt to changes I believe to be originated in the fact that there is all these old man still pulling the strings and give key-positions to puppets who will not become dangerous to them.
Unfortunately the Idea of Greenpeace is NonViolentDirectAction and being originated somewhere close to Rebellion.
You can not expect puppets of Green- and Socialwashed nature, Greenpeace has turned into an Career-opening oportunity for anxious characters, to transform into rebels if the old man in the back seem to be tired and enjoy having been important.
So please, why don't you take Joel, Derek and all the other puppets having been installed and go whereever you feel like.
But don't try to tell us 250 Millions of donation money are not atractive, and do not open opportunities...if you need a forum: we do have the Internet.
Sun Wu, GODFATHER, of the Rainbow Warrior III captained by the Senior Citizens, former Fisherman and owner of the El Remanso in Costa Rica, Joel Stewart (who still feel atracted to Greenpeace, and sailing a luxury yacht designed by the God of Megayachts, Gerry Dijkstra & Partners.
But of course it is all about our fragile earth who needs a voice!
PPS: DOCTOR Naidoo is from Africa, correct?
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Halleluja...the formula for our survival on our fragile earth is located somewhere close to
Halleluja...the formula for our survival on our fragile earth is located somewhere close to
...and this makes ALL Greenpeace campaigns completely OUTDATED.
Green electronics...Industry is responsible...yes, of course, and we fly to the other side of the world at least 2 times a year to see our daughter (when she has not just come to Amsterdam to visit her Daddy).
Greenpeace has turned into a farce, a sale of indulgences...we are just about to change this
Sun Wu, GODFATHER of Rainbow Warrior III captained by Joel Stewart.
PS: the 2000watt society '....the change requires rigorous adjustment of the infrastructure and an intelligent LIFESTYLE
Feel free to ask Rex for explanaiton of basic physics on the extend of change required...he studied physics in the 70s.
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Hopefully this remains a controversial issue for many years to come.
You may ask - Why do you say that, listenin? I'm so glad you aske...
Hopefully this remains a controversial issue for many years to come.
You may ask - Why do you say that, listenin? I'm so glad you asked that.
Human population exceeding a comfortable, healthy existence is both personal and global at the same time. In addition to those here now it is for any healthy child to face or not face, each in his/her own time.
How many ways can we look at limits to our Home Earth? If I begin to list limits I see I just don't know how to end the list.
Some of you may have read/heard - There is no planet B. Surely this observation applies to this difficult issue as well as many others.
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I just do not have any idea how to stop population-growth.
But I do know that there would be a decent way of l...
I just do not have any idea how to stop population-growth.
But I do know that there would be a decent way of life for all people if spoileed western world would be willing to face the fact that resources are limited.
Like Greenpeace resources are (according to Rex) limited.
Since Greenpeace-resources are said to be limited I strongly recommend to focus on things that can be done, e.g. change your lifestyle instead of focusing on blaming industrie and politicans. Take the responsibility for your own footprint on this earth.
Acknowledge the fact that there is 7 Billion persons like yourself who each want their part of life.
According to the 2000watt society this means a drastic change of LIFESTYLE!
2000watt in words: 1)become regional 2)insulate your house 3)keep an eye on your way of eating...
But of course we could also adopt Paul Watson's view who believes DRASTIC measures should be taken so population on earht does not exceed 1 Billion...nothing would have to change for us (al long as you are among the 1 Billion)...wouldn't this be wonderful?
This is sick thinking, I much rather share resources available and fight for a sustainable lifestyle...unfortunately it is not working because we, the western world, is not willing to face the consequences of sharing our fragile earth.
Yes, life would be much easier with only 1 Billion humans around...but Greenpeace will not be able to achieve this.
But I strongly believe Greenpeace could create AWARENESS on limited resources (Rex, nope, I am not talking about the money you guys collect) and the necessity to CHANGE...it is simply not enough to buy green electonics and clothing.
It is the sale of indulgences for spoiled western kids who love to travel (by plane) and their laptop...and organic carrots.
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Good to hear Greenpeace addressing population issues at last, and keep returning to the issue to make people realise how very important it is, and to change attitudes like "it is a human right to decide on the size of family". Hopefully other NGO's will follow suit
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — All 79 officers and crew of a U.S. Navy minesweeper stuck on a coral reef in the central Philippines have left the ship two days after efforts to free the vessel failed, the Navy said Saturday.
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text: Thursday, July 25, 2013 APTA Member James Buskirk Examines Today Show Host for Balance Issues This morning's airing of the Today show featured a segment with APTA member James Buskirk, PT, SCS. Show host Savannah Guthrie, who notes at times that she tends to be accident prone, traveled to Illinois to be evaluated by Buskirk. He performed a series of tests to track her vision, equilibrium, and spatial location, and he explained how he can design a rehabilitative program to help her with deficits in these areas. Comments Great job, Jim. I would like to have seen Savanah take more of a positive approach to therapy, she was dismissive of treatment options in the TV segment. maybe more that went on behind the scenes. Posted by Courtney Bryan PT on 7/26/2013 4:39 PM great segment right to the end except when Savannah 'pooh poohed' PT and said she would just deal with the bruises, maybe when your young but not later...anything more from APTA? Posted by wendy fox on 7/26/2013 5:00 PM I agree that the anchorwoman could have had a more positive approach on air. Regardless, this is still great exposure for our profession. Thanks to Jim for his knowledge and representing our profession to the highest level of professionalism and expertise! Posted by Kevin Svoboda on 7/27/2013 9:28 AM It's not a good idea to try to score some PR on the daily show. The public's impression of PT could go either way no matter how competent you are. It's like playing roulette with the honor of our profession. Posted by Ehren Howard, PT on 7/27/2013 1:17 PM It was very interesting and really showed the degree of knowledge and professionalizm that the PT's possess. But I can't convince my own husband to do exercise for his back pain, so unless the impairment is stopping the patient from doing something they love or is important to them, they will not invest the time or effort. Posted by Wendy Katsiotis, pT on 7/29/2013 4:38 PM


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Now, if you know me or even if you don't, you should know that I am not your regular everyday shukto making kinda gal. Heck, I am not even a gal any more, but that is besides the matter. I do not get up at 5 in the morning and make shukto, dal, maacher jhol and bhaat. Ok, so nobody does that anymore. No one gets up at 5 apparently. I do at 5:30, tap the snooze button and drag myself out at 6. But even that is besides the matter.
The crux of the matter is I am not the kind who can make shukto without a thought and with a song on their lips. I cannot cook shukto for 20 people coming home for dinner. I have to weigh the decision in my head for several days, shrug off a near reached decision several times, make long lists about six different vegetables, tear them off and then eat a sandwich from Panera. After all this the shukto gets cooked probably twice or maybe four times in a year, once in each season, not bad.
This does not mean that the husband, who loves shukto more than anything does not get his fill. I have enterprising friends who cook shukto and more for 20 people. I do not have to bow down to any sentimental pressures.
When I last posted my Shukto recipe in 2006, in the beginning days of my blogging, my Ma was here and she was the one who barked out the instructions. That post had several comments, some said the standard "great recipe", a couple made it and liked it, someone protested about not using "radhuni". Now radhuni is an elusive ingredient in my pantry. Honestly, I have never used it. My Ma, her mother my dida all being probashi bangalis(bengalis settled outside of West bengal) adjusted and substituted in absence of this spice which you rarely find outside Bengal. I have friends who bring radhuni by the pound from Kolkata. Maybe because I have not grown up with it, I have never felt the need.
Now radhuni is also referred to as "wild celery seeds" by wiki.I did not find "wild celery" and got regular "celery seeds" for my shukto this time. Everything else was exactly same as I have always done. The "celery seeds" did not do any magic. The Shukto tasted just like before. If you have the real "radhuni" seeds it sure will add a whole lot of flavor.
Having said this, let me make it clear that if you do not like my shukto, pick up the phone, dial 011-91-33 and any number after that and get the detailed recipe from your Mom, your Ma-in-law, your aunt, your uncle or anyone who is the shukto master in your family. You can even skype. It is easy now days. It does not cost a bomb to outsource a recipe from overseas.Tell me what they said and we can chat.
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Make a list and buy the following vegetables on you next errand
1 Alu or Potato
1 Mulo or White Radish or a bunch of small red ones,
1 Jhinge or ridge Gourd,
1 KanchaKola or Green Plantain
1 Begun or Eggplant(the slender one),
1 Uchche or Bitter Gourd,
a bunch(about 6-8) of long green beans or string beans
You can also add drumsticks, zucchini etc.
Wash and chop the vegetables along the length. See pic here.
Soak and grind
1 tbsp mustard seeds + 1 tsp poppy seeds + little salt,
to a paste with little water
Heat Oil in a Kadhai/Frying pan
Saute the vegetables in batches, bitter gourd being the last, lightly.Remove and keep aside
Fry the vadi(10-15 small ones) till they are brown and crispy. I did not have any this time and skipped.
Heat 2 tbsp of ghee in a Kadai/Frying Pan
Temper with
1/4tsp Radhuni(optional. In it absence use Paanchphoron),
1/4 tsp Methi(fenugreek) seeds(approx. 10),
2 bay leaves,
a pinch of Hing(asafoetida)
When they start sputtering and you get the smell of hing rising add the mustard & poppy seeds paste
Add 1 tbsp of grated Ginger
Add the sauted veggies and mix well
Add 1/2 cup whole Milk + 1 Cup water. Add salt to taste. Cover and cook till veggies are cooked well. If you want gravy, add little more milk + water and cook.
Once the vegetables are almost done add a little sugar, about 1/4-1/2 tsp
Add the fried vadis at the end
Serve shukto with white rice


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Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey's office confirmed Monday it had launched a criminal investigation of Secretary of State Scott Gessler on the same afternoon the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission voted to begin an investigation into whether Gessler violated the law by using state funds to attend a partisan event.
The commission, on a 4-0 vote, decided that the complaint filed by liberal-leaning Colorado Ethics Watch against Gessler, a Republican who is the swing state's chief elections administrator, was "not frivolous" and should be investigated by staff. The commission also decided to investigate a separate complaint by Colorado Ethics Watch that Gessler improperly took money from his office's discretionary account.
In an e-mail statement to The Denver Post, Morrissey's office spokesman Lynn Kimbrough confirmed that a criminal probe also had been launched.
"There is now a formal criminal investigation into the allegations," Kimbrough said.
Gessler was unavailable for comment, but his spokesman, Rich Coolidge, said, "We welcome a thorough review."
In August, Gessler attended a Republican National Lawyers Association meeting in Sarasota, Fla., and then traveled to the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
Gessler was reimbursed $1,452 from his office's discretionary account for the trip, which was submitted to his office as "RNLA/RNC Trip." His office also paid $422 out of its regular budget for a flight change to bring him home a day early, something he said was needed because of threats against his family.
Gessler, who has been criticized for how he has used his discretionary fund, also sought and received $1,400 from the fund in July 2011 at the end of the 2010-11 fiscal year. The request, for which Gessler submitted no receipts, drained what was left in the fund that year.
Colorado Ethics Watch said it couldn't file a complaint with the commission over that action because it was beyond the one-year statute of limitations. However, the group did file a complaint with the commission over a $117 payout — also with no receipts — Gessler took from the fund in July this year, well within the statute of limitations.
The commission also agreed 4-0 to investigate that action.
Ethics Watch has asked Morrissey, a Democrat, to conduct a criminal investigation into whether Gessler misused state funds.
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