text: What's next for email? By Christopher Hosford. Published on September 16, 2013. To take the pulse of email trends and best practices, BtoB East Coast Bureau Chief Christopher Hosford recently conducted a virtual roundtable discussion with email marketing executives. Participating were Christopher M. Litster, senior VP-sales and marketing, Constant Contact; Bonnie Malone, director-response consulting, Return Path; Pamela McAtee, senior VP-digital solutions, Epsilon; Jon Miller, VP-marketing and strategy, Marketo Inc.; and Dela Quist, CEO, Alchemy Worx. BtoB: Marketing has moved quickly in the past few years, with a number of new channels and trends emerging. What impact does this have on email? Bonnie Malone: One factor in the deliverability of email is the recent changes in Gmail. Gmail has moved to a tabbed format and there is hubbub in the industry about what this means for opens and read rates. Actually, though, this is nothing new; it's just the next evolution of Google's efforts to engage with subscribers, to make the email experience more convenient and easier, and to say to the user, "This is not spam." Jon Miller: Yes, it's all about engagement and trust. Now marketers' emails are going into Gmail's marketing tab, but with enough consistent clicks that email will start going into the priority box. So if you're sending engaging emails, your message will actually be more likely to get to the inbox. But to make this happen, the way marketers think about email needs to change. Email as a channel grew out of a direct marketing mindset 15 years ago, with incentives to get the right message to the right people. But for most marketers, batch-and-blast is the way they're doing email, and the targeting discipline has gotten a little sloppy. Many marketers aren't well built for real-time, behavior-based messages that are targeted off someone's recent Web or e-commerce activities. Pamela McAtee: I agree. The days of sending one piece of content to an entire list has evolved now to where many marketers are doing at a minimum segmented communications and more are striving to do true dynamic content; and, when possible, even real-time personalization based on what transactions the recipient is actually doing. I'm seeing this happening at a rapid rate—and in the b-to-b world, not just retail. Dela Quist: When I'm looking at trends in email, I'm focusing on how people will manage human needs. Your email address is actually your unique identifier. If you don't have an email address, it's the digital equivalent of being homeless. You're just not commercially viable. You could argue that your cell phone number is possibly competitive with your email address as being the identification that people default to, but that hasn't happened. There's a good chance a marketer can get my email address, but zero chance he'll get my cell phone number. Christopher M. Litster: The impact has really been in the other direction—by email to these other channels—because it's at the core of all these other things. For example, with online event registration, the important thing is to get people to know it's going on; and invites are sent by email. And for Facebook campaigns, the best practice is to continue to amplify the campaign's life by sending notifications to your email list to drive them to Facebook. I think of email being the base, with all these other things being helped and amplified. However, one of the biggest things impacting the very nature of email is mobile. BtoB: What impact in particular is mobile having? Litster: Mobile is an incredible way to get messages to people simply because the smartphone is in everyone's hands. For example, our research tells us that 43% of email is now opened on a mobile device, versus 32% on a desktop and 25% in general Web mail. However, what we're also seeing is that mobile is a prioritization device, to note and flag email so when you get in front of a desktop or tablet you can dive deeper and consume the content. That doesn't mean if you have mobile-optimized email that people won't take action if it's readable, short and clear-cut, and has a strong call to action. McAtee: A lot of our clients are doing time-of-day testing, which ties into mobile use. What we're seeing is that people are opening email on their mobile device in the middle of the day and later on their desktops. And time-of-day analysis is helping marketers figure out where and when people are actually making transactions—and that's typically on a desktop. So make sure you're sending your email when someone is more likely to be on a desktop. That's especially important for b-to-b. The content on mobile devices still has to be readable, and in a format where prospects still can make a decision to delete or transact later. So designing for mobile is important. Quist: The mobile phone is only just broadening your ability to receive and interact with your emails. That's important, yes; but what does it mean? Nothing changes. You triage on your cell phone when you have nothing better to do—for example on the train. True, that moment constitutes very important branding; and, even if you delete the message, you've received the message. But if you see something you want to purchase (while reading email) on a cell phone, you'll wait until later in the day and make the transaction on a tablet or desktop. BtoB: But what about the impact of marketing automation platforms? That's surely having an impact on email, with behavioral targeting and triggers? Quist: Think about what's driving email. Is it segmenting your list five different ways? No, it's list size and frequency. A bad marketer with the best marketing automation tools is worse than a great marketer with no tools whatsoever. If you think marketing automation will change your life, it won't. In theory, if you have everyone on your list and you've worked out the perfect frequency and have all the perfect offers, maybe the only place left is to use marketing automation tools. But the point is, most marketers are far away from that stage. As for triggered emails, there are only three types of triggers: event-, time- and behavior-based. And behavior is a combination of event and time, so effectively you only have two. So should you send triggered emails? You're just second-guessing the prospect's intent. It works sometimes but not always, and it's not clever. BtoB: The last couple of years have seen severe security breaches of email databases. What's new on the security front? Malone: We're seeing phishing on a massive scale, with general email coming in to recipients along the lines of, "You've won the lottery in the U.K. Click here." This may prompt you to open, click and allow the phisher to access your information. But the biggest concern here in the b-to-b world is "spear phishing." This is where phishers are more focused and target individuals within a business. They might send an email instructing you, specifically and by name, that your specific email service has been reset and to log in to reset a password. The criminals are smart, and we have to be a step ahead. BtoB: What might be the ultimate impact of social on email marketing? Malone: I don't see it as a threat to email but more a complementary strategy where marketers are looking for social ... to drive sign-ups for email. Email is still the dominant focus of small-to-midsize companies in particular, for a continuous conversational experience with subscribers. Miller: I think many people thought social would overwhelm email. But you can't sign up for those social networks without an email address. And when a social network needs to communicate something important to you, such as a data breach, they send you an email. There are three ways social and email coordinate: with social connecting, sharing and promoting. Connecting is when you use an email list to build social awareness, such as putting a "follow us" link in the message. Sharing is when you try to have a subscriber share your email content on their social networks, to amplify the message. And social promoting is using a social network to drive email marketing—for example, putting out a tweet asking people to subscribe to your email list. BtoB: There has been much talk about the problem with email metrics and that those old standbys, opens and clicks, aren't sufficient. What are your thoughts about optimum email metrics? Miller: Marketers are going beyond opens and clicks and toward more strategic metrics, such as engagement and revenue impact. The problem with opens and clicks is, first, one email might have great opens, and a second email great clicks and a third great conversion rates. But which one was the most engaging? That makes it hard to manage what you want to manage, which is engagement and revenue. The CEO doesn't care about open rates but only which email drove the most revenue. E-commerce marketers have known that for years, but b-to-b marketers have had a harder time making that connection. McAtee: Opens and clicks are still important. If you're not getting people to open, they won't click or transact. That is why people do subject line testing, to get the opens. But for many b-to-b marketers, site visits or time on site is just as important as a conversion metric. That's especially true for those with longer sales cycles, getting prospects interested with content or to learn more about a product. BtoB: Email list-building is a popular topic of discussion among marketers. What influences are you seeing here? McAtee: B-to-b marketers looking for sources have to be cautious. While online publications ask for opt-ins for third-party communications—for example, after someone signs up for a piece of content—it's sometimes pretty inconspicuous to the subscriber. For b-to-b marketers who are going after executive-level contacts, it actually can have a negative impact. Marketers are getting smarter and realizing that list rentals and other types of name acquisitions might not have the same ROI as in the past, and they're looking for other methods for acquisition, such as display ads to promote a white paper or webinar. BtoB: What's on the horizon for email marketing? What significant issues will email marketers face in the coming years? Quist: Probably one of the most significant things that's happening to email is Google's new inbox ads that look like emails. The reason that's interesting is that, unless someone stops them, Google is circumventing the CAN-SPAM laws that relate to electronic messages. But if it doesn't get shut down, it's a huge opportunity to reach people who may have unsubscribed. If you send an ad that looks and acts like an email, and is treated like email and can stay in the inbox like an email, tell me that's not an email. This means something else as well. Most advertising is done by the media department. Email is an exception; it gets done by a combination of the IT and direct-response people. My feeling is that Google's new inbox ads will bring email to the media folks, and then you'll have a ton of people with no experience in email wondering how to optimize it. And it also allows Google to sell behavioral data by reading people's emails. I think once media gets involved in email, that's potentially transformative. Litster: The future is bright and expansive, because email builds on all these new ways of gaining engagement and marketing perspective. Email rounds the circle. It will always be there to reach people, regardless of their device, be it their watch or Google Glass. People live in their email inbox. Malone: We've seen email become more and more personal—consider that the spear phishing threat I mentioned before is a personal attack. But by the same token, lots of marketers are embracing engagement. This means making sure to send content to those who are engaging with it and in setting expectations about this content that it is compelling and interesting. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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The temporary head of the Internal Revenue Service on Monday released a much anticipated but ultimately disappointing report on how the agency came to unfairly target tea party and other conservative organizations.
"The IRS is committed to correcting its mistakes," Daniel Werfel, the temporary head of the IRS, said at the start of a briefing for reporters about his first 30 days on the job in the wake of a scandal over the extra scrutiny of conservative-leaning tax-exempt organizations.
Neither Werfel nor the report, "Charting a Path Forward at the IRS," shed new light on how the criteria used to single out certain groups was developed or how right-to-life groups were told they'd win tax-exempt designations only if they agreed not to picket in front of Planned Parenthood offices.
That violation of First Amendment protections is arguably the more egregious wrongdoing by IRS officials, and neither congressional investigators nor Werfel have yet said how it happened.
To date, said Werfel, there is no evidence of any intentional wrongdoing by IRS officials.
"I am not providing a definite conclusion that no intentional wrongdoing occurred," he said, "but no evidence has yet surfaced."
The lack of detail didn't impress Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who heads the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and who has pressed the IRS for details for more than a year.
After a year of investigation by the IRS and a Treasury Department inspector general, "unsurprisingly the completion of this third internal review fails to meaningfully answer the largest outstanding questions about inappropriate inquiries and indefensible delays," Issa said.
Werfel's contention that he had found no evidence that anyone at the agency did anything intentionally wrong "can only be called premature," the lawmaker added.
During the telephone briefing, Werfel announced that he had uncovered more of the now-infamous BOLO lists – shorthand for "be on the lookout for" – and that he'd ordered them halted.
"We took immediate action to suspend the use of these lists," said Werfel, named by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to take over the agency after President Barack Obama fired the acting IRS commissioner, Steve Miller, on May 15.
Although Werfel would not discuss the content of the other BOLO lists, a document annexed in the report was more descriptive.
"They involved cases with potential terrorist connections, abusive transactions, fraud issues, emerging issues, coordinated processing and watch-out cases to allow for more consistent treatment of similarly situated taxpayers," said a June 20 letter from Karen Schiller, the acting director of the Rulings and Agreements Exempt Organizations Office, temporarily halting the use of all watch lists.
The BOLO lists are at the heart of the controversy engulfing the IRS. Former agency leaders acknowledged the use of such a list to target groups that had "tea party" in their name, as well as names based on themes of the Founding Fathers, such as "constitution," "Bill of Rights" and others.
Under questioning from reporters, Werfel said the agency would make public the other BOLO lists and many other IRS internal documents once confidential taxpayer information had properly been redacted.
The top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, Michigan Rep. Sander Levin, late Monday released what he said was one of the new, redacted BOLO lists. He noted that BOLO lists were previously known to have included conservative organizations, but that "this is the first evidence, however, that the lists included 'progressives' as an identifier." Levin added that he wants answers as to why this was not disclosed during the initial outcry.
In a statement, the White House called Werfel's report "an important step in ensuring accountability."
Asked directly about the fate of two big names in the scandal, Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, Werfel deflected the question.
"There are limitations imposed by the (federal) Privacy Act . . . that prevent me from commenting . . . with respect to a particular individual," he said, stressing that all the people in top positions that involved elements of the IRS scandal have either resigned or been placed on leave. "There has been leadership replaced at every level."
Lerner triggered the probe by trying to get ahead of a negative report from the Treasury Department's inspector general by apologizing at a legal conference where she was asked a planted question by an IRS advisory committee member.
When later called to testify before Congress, she declared that she did nothing wrong and then invoked her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Werfel placed her on administrative leave.
Holly Paz worked for Lerner and was present, for reasons not entirely clear, when the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration questioned IRS employees in Cincinnati about how the criteria now deemed inappropriate was developed.
Werfel, who announced an expedited approval process for tax-exempt organizations, is scheduled to appear Tuesday before the House Ways and Means Committee.


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North American Affiliate of World's Leading Chemical Company Singled Out as a Leader in Diversity and Inclusion
North American Affiliate of World's Leading Chemical Company Singled Out as a Leader in Diversity and Inclusion
FLORHAM PARK, NJ--(Marketwired - Apr 24, 2013) - DiversityInc last night recognized BASF Corporation as one of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity for 2013. The DiversityInc Top 50 includes companies from a wide range of industries whose leadership, procurement practices, communications and training best reflect the reality of the rapidly changing face of America. The full list can be found at www.DiversityInc.com/top50.
"On the heels of the demographically revealing 2012 presidential election, it is clear that U.S. companies are increasingly conscious of the importance of diversity," said Luke Visconti, CEO of DiversityInc. "We are very encouraged to see more companies applying for this distinction and embracing diversity more deeply than ever. We also note a continued positive correlation between achievement in diversity and overall positive stock performance."
Both the 2013 and the 2012 DiversityInc Top 50 lists outperformed the S&P 500 on a one-, three- and five-year basis.
"The BASF Diversity Council's increased focus on leadership accountability, diversity recruitment and retention are paying off. BASF makes the list this year with strong efforts supporting employee resource groups, a talent/diversity dashboard, mentoring and supplier diversity," said Visconti.
"At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. One of the most important ways we do this is by recognizing, appreciating and leveraging diversity. This drives our efforts to attract, develop and retain the best team, and use the power of diversity as a competitive advantage and key to personal and professional growth," said Hans Engel, Chairman and CEO, BASF Corporation.
"In recognizing BASF, DiversityInc noted that we have developed a talent/diversity dashboard that goes beyond traditional representation measures and gets to the heart of the leadership behaviors that support a diverse and inclusive work environment," said Patricia Rossman, BASF Corporation Chief Diversity Officer. "This is providing important insights, helping to change minds and behaviors, and leading to a greater appreciation of the positive role diversity plays in creating a great place to work."
In addition to BASF's talent/diversity dashboard, cited by DiversityInc as a leading diversity innovation in its InnovationFest! 2012, the company was recognized by DiversityInc for the strength of its:
About DiversityInc
DiversityInc is the leading source of information on diversity management. The company is a consultancy and publishes two websites, www.DiversityInc.com and www.DiversityIncBestPractices.com, as well as a magazine, published five times a year. DiversityInc also produces diversity events, which average more than 600 attendees from 200 companies and have featured more than 20 CEOs of major corporations.
BASF - The Chemical Company
BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 16,600 employees in North America, and had sales of $18.5 billion in 2012. For more information about BASF's North American operations, visit www.basf.us.
BASF is the world's leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Through science and innovation, we enable our customers in nearly every industry to meet the current and future needs of society. Our products and solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring nutrition and improving quality of life. We have summed up this contribution in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. BASF had sales of EUR 72.1 billion in 2012 and more than 110,000 employees as of the end of the year. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com.
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aes2550 driver supports devices based on the ?AuthenTec AES2550 and AES2810 chipsets.
aes2550 is part of libfprint and is developed by Vasily Khoruzhick.
Supported devices
Driver supports AES2810 and AES2550 (which is cryptoless version of AES2810). These sensors can be found in some standalone USB devices, and also in laptops (commonly Lenovo). Even when embedded in this way, these devices just sit on the regular USB bus.
Driver history
In June, 2012 Greg Kerr from ?AuthenTec announced that they are willing to support opensource development. Vasily Khoruzhick contacted ?AuthenTec support and received external USB reader with AES2550 sensor and datasheets for AES2550 and AES2810 devices. Driver was written using those reader and datasheets.
Device operation
This is a swipe-type device which is similar to other ?AuthenTec devices (AES1610, AES2501). Each frame is 192x8 pixels in size.
Security notes
The fingerprint is always sent unencrypted over the USB bus. Crypto engine which is present in AES2810 is not supported.
Imaging performance
For my AES2550 scanner image quality is brilliant and imaging perfomance is good. MINDTCT finds over 40 minutiae on image.
Scanning technique is same as for other swipe sensors: don't scan too fast, don't scan too slow, don't put too much pressure on the sensor.


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NOTE: As of Feb. 18, some of the numbers in the article below have changed. MEA-MFT is now compiling new information. The cut for K-12 schools is now $51 million below the governor's budget. Our message remains the same: Reverse the cuts! The state has enough revenue to fund state services and education at levels in the governor's budget.
Jan. 11 - In a job-killing move, majority Republicans at the 2011 Legislature voted in Appropriations subcommittees to chop some $500 million from Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer's proposals for the next two-year period. MEA-MFT testified against the cuts. (Read some of our testimonies here.)
The cuts happened way too quickly, without enough opportunity to hear from the people who will be affected by them. If the legislature is going to cut services, they need to do it in the light of day!
Over $30 million in health and human services, over $116 million in education funding – all gone with little public input, little consideration of lost federal funding, little consideration of the real human cost to Montana communities and families.
The cuts are completely unnecessary. The money is available in Schweitzer's budget to fund public schools and state services.
The cuts will wreck jobs. The move will kill hundreds of jobs across the state, from teachers to state employees to private businesses with state contracts. Cuts to Medicaid alone could affect almost 3,000 jobs across Montana – nurses, doctors, and other service providers.
Plus, the cuts will slice services for Montanans who need them -- including schools, foster care, various disability services, Meals on Wheels for seniors, funding for hospitals and doctors to serve the poor and mentally ill, and much more. These are the public services make Montana a good place to live and work.
By starting the budget discussions at an artificially low level, the Appropriations subcommittees made it more likely that essential state services will be cut or eliminated.
Instead of starting with the governor's budget, which already contains cuts, or starting at the current level of funding, which is the traditional way to build the budget, the Appropriations subcommittees voted to cut an additional 5% out of the appropriation bill, known as House Bill 2. All the Republicans on the subcommittees voted for the motion.
Cutting the budget might make for a good sound bite -- but it's bad policy.
The cuts include over 200 separate cuts in state and education services.
Education cuts:
To replace the cuts in state funding for education, Montanans should expect:
Public Health & Human Services cuts:
Opposing the cuts, Representative Tony Belcourt (D-Box Elder) said, "I came here for jobs, not to cut jobs." He went on to say that the cuts in DPHHS would result in a loss of 40 state jobs. He pointed out that federal dollars would be lost as a result of the cuts.
Representative Mary Caferro (D-Helena) said, "My goal is to balance the budget while protecting the people of Montana." She called the budget cuts "artificial solutions" and said, "I didn't come here to rubber stamp a plan."
Senator Trudi Schmidt (D-Great Falls) called the cuts "draconian" and asked why the cuts are necessary when Montana has a large amount of money (over $300 million) in the bank.
MEA-MFT is fighting these cuts. We are working with many other Montana organizations that advocate for education, seniors, people with disabilities, and others.
"It is important to keep the pressure on," said MEA-MFT Public Policy Director Marco Ferro. "We want legislators to look citizens in the eyes when they tell them their schools and services are being cut. This isn't a game—it is our economy and our future."
We need your help! Please stay informed and involved by visiting our Legislative Action area often. Be ready to take action when asked.
Read news story: GOP majority takes first go at budget, cutting $300M from governor's proposal
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Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
RE: Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
(09-01-2013 10:06 AM)Denicio Wrote: So, in semi-debating spiritual things with a loved one they replied to my need for scientific testable proof with a semi smug "Science cant prove that i love you".Love is an emotion. It is learned/acquired later in life though demonstration. So, it's not up to science to prove or disprove it, it's completely subjective and up to the individual to decide if those words are simply excited utterances or backed up by reality.
But as if to knock me down, reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch, cut me into little pieces
RE: Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
I would correct their assertion to say "Science cant prove that i love you, yet."
Our bodies are chemicals, electrical signals, etc, all things that have the potential to be measured and observed. It's conceivable that at some point we'll have equipment and research data that can actually measure all the common physiological 'readings' that go with love, lies, hate, anger, mental illness, joy, euphoria, and the likes. Maybe one day science will show you a picture of an avocado, measure the release of an electrical signal in a certain area of the brain, and determine that you indeed hate them.
I personally don't care if feelings are one day quantified with measurements. Knowing what's going on "under the hood" doesn't diminish my enjoyment of experiencing great emotions, just like knowing how alcohol affects the body doesn't diminish my enjoyment of a good party.
If Jesus died for our sins, why is there still sin? If man was created from dust, why is there still dust? If Americans came from Europe, why are there still Europeans?
RE: Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
Aren't these arguments applicable to all emotions? Love, hate, whatever? And by further extrapolation, to all relationships of all kinds? Friends, coworkers, pets, enemies, whatever?
We can prove what people do to each other (usually, unless it was unobserved and left no trace). We can prove or demonstrate proximity, behavior, conversations, obvious relationships like parent/child, boss/employee, etc. That's about it.
From all that, we infer emotional relationships based on our own personal understanding of what those emotions mean. Our inferences can often be quite wrong.
What's really interesting is that none of us have the same exact understanding of any emotion. I know what love is. I learned it as a child, loving my parents and family and pets. Later I learned to love romantically and later I loved (and still love) my children. I also love pizza, and Rush, and playing video games. It's all love and it's all different - yes, I love my children differently than I love pizza. But my understanding of love is almost certainly different than how each of you understand it, and you're all almost certainly different from each other. At least marginally.
This is because love cannot be demonstrated, quantified, or taught. We each experience it our own way and learn to call that experience love, but it's unique to each of us with no way to compare and measure it against each other. Of course, this applies to all emotions. They're all unique to each person experiencing them.
So it's an interesting thought - when you say "I love you" to someone and he or she says it back, you're almost certainly saying slightly different things.
"Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly." - Robert A. Heinlein
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RE: Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
Does that explain it?
Ha ha. I kid.
Love actually can be 'proven'. It is a descriptive of an emotion. Saying what your loved one said is like saying you can't prove that you give me 'warm fuzzies'. That's because there are no actual fuzzies he/she is giving you. It's describing what is happening in him/her when they relate to you (in presence or thoughts). It's chemically contrived and has layers (some we love more intricately than others based on memory and association).
It's based on a chemical reaction in a brain and is a secondary emotion to the base emotion of empathy. Emotions have evolved over time in humans (and other creatures) as a means of survival (cuz that's what it's all about). It doesn't mean it isn't real or meaningful, it very much is! And it's one of the most intelligent sources we have as human beings. It's what holds us together for this fleeting time and makes us passionate about this life.
Does your L.O. mean you can't prove love or do they mean you can't prove that action or doing of love? I guess that would be my next question in that mini debate because that would have determined how I furthered the conversation. CTS was describing the action (using divorce papers as evidence for what was at that time), or it could be described in actions of hugs, gifts (love language if you're familiar, ha ha). I previously described more so the actual feeling.
RE: Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
(09-01-2013 11:26 AM)Aseptic Skeptic Wrote: Aren't these arguments applicable to all emotions? Love, hate, whatever? And by further extrapolation, to all relationships of all kinds? Friends, coworkers, pets, enemies, whatever?This is true. Love is felt differently and none of us will know if it's the same type or degree as the other we feel it for (the reciprocated feeling from them). Just like we all don't know we inturpet sounds, sights or tastes the same. What is too spicy for one may not be enough for another, too bright, etc. It's the difference of sensitivity.
RE: Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
Well, first we need a pretty precise definition of love. Science is at its best, analytically, dealing with clearly defined hypotheses. "Love", as a word in common usage, is NOT precisely defined, and can refer to a very wide range of states: erotic love, parental love, nationalism, thinking your car is really cool... once we've narrowed down precisely what sort of love we're talking about, various options become available. These options include...
Self-reporting of physical sensation. Does the stomach do flip-flops? Do you get a warm, dizzy feeling? Cross-reference across a self-reporting population as to what love feels like, and you get something good enough to serve as the bulk of a medical doctor's diagnosis or a knowledge-base AI.
Examining physical reaction to physical proximity. Blood testing for certain hormones in the presence of that special someone. Do the pupils dilate? How does your ECG light up? Does your brain start producing dopamine or serotonin?
Predictive claims. Establish a model of behavior conditioned upon love. For example, "If and only if person A loves person B, then person A will do _______." (This would have to be a fairly complex model, allowing for a wide range of possible behaviors in turn conditioned on society, personality, and person B's responses, and no doubt would be subject to some error bars. Like most of science.) Once empirically established, we can then diagnose love based on purely behavioral psychology.
On and on and on.
Now, can we do any of that (including the precise definition part) with God?
I am an antipistevist. That's like an antipastovist, only with epistemic responsibility instead of bruschetta.
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RE: Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
Studies in neuroscience
have involved chemicals that are present in the brain and might be
involved when people experience love. These chemicals include: nerve growth factor,[6] testosterone, estrogen, dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, and vasopressin.[7] Adequate brain levels of testosterone seem important for both human male and female sexual behavior.[8] Dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin are more commonly found during the attraction phase of a relationship.[citation needed]
Oxytocin and vasopressin seemed to be more closely linked to long term
bonding and relationships characterized by strong attachments.
The conventional view in biology is that there are two major drives in love — sexual attraction and attachment.[9]
Attachment between adults is presumed to work on the same principles
that lead an infant to become attached to his or her mother or father–
or both.
The chemicals triggered that are responsible for passionate love and
long-term attachment love seem to be more particular to the activities
in which both persons participate rather than to the nature of the
specific people involved.[9]
Chemically, the serotonin effects of being infatuated have a similar chemical appearance to obsessive-compulsive disorder; which could explain why people experiencing infatuation cannot think of anyone else.[10] For this reason some, such as anthropologist Helen Fisher, assert that taking SSRIs and other antidepressants impede one's ability to fall in love. In one particular case Fisher noted:
Quote:I know of one couple on the edge of divorce. TheOxytocin
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Nerve growth factor
In 2005, Italian scientists at Pavia University found that a protein molecule known as the nerve growth factor (NGF) has high levels when people first fall in love, but these return to previous levels after one year. Specifically, four neurotrophin levels (NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4)
of 58 subjects who had recently fallen in love were compared with
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(09-01-2013 10:06 AM)Denicio Wrote: So, in semi-debating spiritual things with a loved one they replied to my need for scientific testable proof with a semi smug "Science cant prove that i love you".Actually it pretty much can, and will be able to completely in the very near future. Hate to break it to you but when you "love" someone there are a special set of chemicals and neural pathways your brain utilizes that we are getting pretty good at analyzing.
The main chemical culprits are phenylethylamine, norepinephrine, dopamine, oxytocin, testosterone, and endorphins.
RE: Love cant be proven Scientifically: The argument
As Richard Dawkins put it.."People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'.
But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.
Sometimes people have a strong inside feeling that somebody loves them when it is not based upon any evidence, and then they are likely to be completely wrong. There are people with a strong inside feeling that a famous film star loves them, when really the film star hasn't even met them. People like that are ill in their minds. Inside feelings must be backed up by evidence, otherwise you just can't trust them"
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Usually there is a sentence or maybe two in each unit that I simply cannot understand, but, in Unit Thirteen, there were several. I guess M & F decided that they had to raise the bar a little bit.
5. Harum sententiarum quae vera sit, deus aliqui videat.
I can't make any sense of it. Literally, it seems: "Of these opinions which be true, some god would see." What noun governs "harum sententiarum"? Is it the woman (?) implied in "quae" and "vera"? And how are the two sentences connected? What is it that some god sees?
32. Di in caelo, parcite nobis! Naturam optimam ducem tamquam deum sequimur eique paremus.
Just a small question here. The first half is fine; but in the last half, there seem to be a lot of accusatives: "naturam optimam ducem . . . deum." Would I translate it as, "we follow our best nature, the leader, as it were, of the gods, and we will obey it"? This textbook does not give any examples with tamquam, so I'm not entirely sure how it's used. Deum is a bit tricky, since it can be either accusative singular or genitive plural, I believe.
35b. Me interficere conanti dextram moratus sum manum.
I think that "conanti" is most confusing for me in this sentence. It seems to read, "I stayed my right hand . . . the one trying to kill me." Is "me interficere conanti" an ablative of cause? That, I guess, seems plausible. But I haven't seen a participial phrase used like that before.
51. ... Sed de his duobus generibus alterum est druidum, quibus unus fortissimus praeest, alterum equitum. ...
I really enjoyed reading most of this adapted excerpt from Caesar, but this particular sentence stumped me. My translation: "But concerning these two types, one is of [?] the druids, of whom the strongest is the chief, the other of [?] the horsemen." First, why are the two alterums in accusative? Of which verb are they the object? Second, I am having difficulty understanding why "druidum" and "equitum" are in the genitive.
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Columbus, OH -- Each year Dr. Guillermo Couto and a team of veterinary students from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine travel to the Scooby Animal Shelter, in Medina del Campo, Spain. And while they give aid to injured animals and Greyhounds - "Galgos" in Spain - they also forge relationships with Spanish veterinarians and students who speak limited English.
To further bridge the language gap, staff from the Greyhound Health and Wellness Program and the University of Zaragoza (Spain) translated the program's web site into Spanish. "International outreach is something we're definitely interested in and we had the resources available," said Dr. Couto, section head - oncology, professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, and Argentina native. "As part of our outreach program, we have a Spanish-centered service and we don't have to limit it to just English-speaking veterinarians and clients."
Dr. Couto said the new web site allows potential clients within the growing Spanish-speaking population of Columbus to learn more about the program in their own language.
Dr. Couto plans to continue the trend of having all new content on the web site translated into Spanish as well as offering new Online Continuing Education services in the future in both Spanish and English. This is not the first time, however, that the program has used languages other than English to reach more clients and veterinarians. A survey being conducted next week by Dr. Couto and researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine on Galgos will be administered in English, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian and German because large greyhound populations exist in each of the respective countries with those national languages.
"I'd like to personally thank Pablo Gómez Ochoa, Pachi Clemente Vicario, Ana Pérez Castro, Saúl Prieto Rodríguez, Ivan Sosa Samper, and Liliana Marin for their outstanding work on translating the web site, as well as Ken Matthias for making the site available," said Dr. Couto.
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The newest issue of GenerationQ magazine (Winter 2012) is on its way right now to book stores and quilt shops across the nation and I am excited to announce that it includes an 8-page spread on our home and studio. This is the one that features my buddy, and fellow fabric designer, Thomas Knauer (and his adorable daughter, Bee), on the cover. It's definitely a must get!
I let privacy go out the window and, for the first time ever, take you inside our home to show you where we cook, eat, hang out, and visit with friends. We even show you our daughters' bedrooms (yes, they picked up for a change)! Then, we take a little stroll over to the MODKID studio — which is about 10 minutes from our home — and visit with Emalee while she sews up a quilt that will appear in a future issue. Oh, so much to share! In this issue, you'll learn about my decorating style, my influences and background. Also, I speak about our transition from home-studio to full-fledged studio space... and all the trials and tribulations associated with that.
Psst... I've made this picture small on purpose... because I want you to go get the issue and read the article. In addition, you'll get some amazing projects, product reviews and more cool stories to peruse!
Go get one... NOW! If you can't find it at your local quilt shop or book store, here is a list of online retailers that carry GenerationQ magazine.
But, I do happen to have an extra copy of this issue in my hands and since I'm letting go of my hoarder tendencies, I am giving it away! If you'd like your chance at winning a copy of this issue, please leave a comment below. Don't forget to leave a way for us to contact you if you are the lucky winner. A winner will be randomly chosen next Wednesday, November 14th.
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A select group of predissertation students from throughout the United States gathered in Philadelphia for the Penn SSPF's first Summer Institute on Inequality. Held from June 17 through June 26, the program furthered SSPF's mission of fostering policy-relevant scholarship at every stage of development by helping graduate students early in their careers explore key topics and refine their research goals. Students explored cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative research on a variety of topics related to inequality, including poverty, labor force participation, income and wealth disparities, the impact of race and ethnicity, spatial dynamics, educational gaps, and social and economic policies that address inequalities.
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This is a quilt from my Great Grand Aunt Flora. She didn't get a chance to finish it, it's about the size of a throw. Would it ruin the value to finish it? She passed away in 1987, and had expressed a desire for my mother to finish the quilt. As you can tell, my mother listens well....lol


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Exciting goings on at a Students' Union affiliated society workshop at the University of Manchester: a speaker said that homosexuals would be executed in an ideal Islamic state. Whee! What a lot I missed out on by going to university so many decades ago.
1st year Middle Eastern studies student Colin Cortbus attended a public meeting at the Students' Union last Wednesday 13th February organised by Global Aspirations and asked the chairperson of the meeting whether "in the Islamic society in which you strive for," they would "feel comfortable, personally and morally, to kill a gay man."
She responded, "Absolutely," and added later that homosexuality was an "atrocity, because it goes against what God says."
Mr Cortbus sent an undercover recording of the talk to The Mancunion the following day.
Wonderful, isn't it. It's an atrocity, because God says so. We know this how? It says so, in the book. How do we know that's true? It says so. In the book. And on that firm basis, gay men should be killed. Absolutely.
The society lists its purpose on the Manchester Students' Union website as "to highlight the universal aspirations of women and create discussions on campus as to what these are and what can be done about it. "
They further claim to "create an environment in which students can come together and discuss concerns."
Though their page on the Students' Union website makes no reference to Islamic beliefs, their Facebook page – which has 91 likes – describes them as: "A UoM society set up to discuss the aspirations of women, whether these can be achieved under the current system and showing Islam as an alternative."
So it's stealth Islamism? Lure them in with waffled about universal aspirations and then hypnotize them into Islamism? Cool plan.
A statement from Students' Union Wellbeing Officer Cat Gray, read: "We are deeply concerned with the covert filming of a student event within the Union. We are also deeply concerned by the suggestion that comments of a homophobic nature have been made. The Union operates a safe space policy where students should not be subject to any form of intimidation or discrimination. We encourage students who wish to report incidents which have made them feel unsafe to contact any member of the Exec Team."
Oh shut up. Shut up with your deeply concerned and your safe space policy and your any form of intimidation. You have to pick one. You can't just deeply concern everything and then go back to sleep; you have to pick one.
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I think I've posted all three of these photos (found on http://www.atomicantiques.com/) before but seperately, not realizing that they were Custer Cars
Levitt Custer was inventive, and 1st awarded a patent in 1912 at the age of 24, for his Statoscope which registered the rise and fall of an aircraft. Approved and preferred over the competition by the Army and Navy it was Levitt's financial and professional stepping stone into business and creative success.
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Custer had been working out of the old barn behind his home until 1916, that's when he decided to start his own company and had a four-story brick building constructed, on the second floor became an oceanarium, on the fourth floor he made the first indoor miniature golf course.
About 1925, he'd developed the Custer Park Car as an as an amusement park ride, the car was battery-operated and since it could be used on any track, it was immediately popular with amusement park operators who realized they could capitalize on the national craze for amusement parks by converting any vacant lot into a Custer Car Speedway.


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Naim Audio's latest Ovator S-800 loudspeakers took five years of research to build - which might help explain why a pair comes with a an eye-watering £30,000 price tag.
The speakers were unveiled at the Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show and will be made available from December, which means you'll need to put aside around £6,000 a month from now until then in order to have enough money to buy one.
Measuring 1393mm tall and 520mm wide, the Ovator S-800 loudspeakers will take up a large amount of space in your living room, but then if you're forking out £30,000 for a pair of speakers we're guessing your rooms are bigger than average.
Rather than a cone-shaped bass as found in most speakers, Naim Audio has kitted the Ovator S-800 with a flat diaphragm bass unit, which leaves more space behind the unit. This in turn helps create a better sound quality.
In addition, Naim's own Balanced Mode Radiator (BMR) eliminates the need for a separate tweeter because it is able to handle both high and low frequency levels.
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Florida will venture outside the state for a non-conference game for the first time since 1991 and it will be a doozy.
Florida will venture outside the state for a non-conference game for the first time since 1991 and it will be a doozy.
The Gators will open the season with Big 10 power Michigan in Arlington, Texas, on Sept. 2, 2017.
Cowboys Stadium is the home for the first College Football Championship game in 2015 and will play host to this season's Final Four.
Florida will receive $6 million to play the game, according to a high-ranking SEC source. Expenses for a road game usually are less than $200,000. Florida usually nets about $1 million for a home game.
"It's just a great opportunity to expose our program," Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley said. "It's nice to do something different. It's not something we'd want to do all the time."
Foley said the move was not in response to the new playoff system, where strength of schedule will be a component for the committee that will decide the four playoff teams. Neither, he said, was any criticism about Florida playing its last non-conference road game outside of the state at Syracuse in 1991.
Instead, he said the opportunity was one that could not be passed up when Florida was approached about the idea by organizers of the annual "Cowboys Classic" game.
Florida last played Michigan in Orlando in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1, 2008. The two schools also played in the 2003 Outback Bowl following Ron Zook's first season. Michigan won both games.
Michigan played Alabama in the game to open the 2012 season. Florida's basketball team played its Sweet 16 and Elite Eight NCAA games in the stadium in March of this year.
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CLEVELAND, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DATATRAK International, Inc. (OTCQX: DTRK), a leader in developing cloud-based, unified eClinical® technologies and delivering related services for the clinical trials industry, today announced Chris Wilke, DATATRAK's Chief Technology Officer, was elected as the CDISC Advisory Board's (CAB) Chair-Elect.
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"We are very pleased to have Chris Wilke as a member of the CDISC Advisory Board's leadership team. His many years of industry experience will add immense value to this group and will further promote our vision to inform patient care and safety through higher quality medical research," said Dr. Rebecca Kush, President and CEO, CDISC.
"Standards are key to effective sharing of clinical research data and ultimately, improving patient health," stated Chris Wilke, DATATRAK's CTO. "After serving as a member of the Advisory Board for two years, I am excited to take a more active role in furthering CDISC's mission to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards."
As a Charter Platinum Member of CDISC, DATATRAK has a long history of supporting CDISC and its mission to define and implement standards industry-wide. The Company currently holds CDISC Registered Solution Provider (RSP) status in the following categories:
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DATATRAK is the leader of unified eClinical® technologies and related services for the clinical trials industry. Using the DATATRAK ONE™ multi-product, cloud-based clinical research platform, DATATRAK's Clinical and Consulting Services™ group assists clients in conducting Phase I-IV drug and device studies in multiple languages throughout the world. DATATRAK has offices located in Cleveland, Ohio; Bryan, Texas; and Cary (RTP), North Carolina. For more information, visit www.datatrak.net.
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Beetles get by with a little helpOctober 3rd, 2008 - 4:00 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 3 (IANS) Cooperation between insects and bacteria suggests inter-species collaboration may be common in many ecosystems.Humans living in communities often rely on friends to help get what they need and, according to researchers in the lab of Cameron Currie at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, many microbes, plants and animals benefit from 'friendly' associations too.
The Currie team's study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) describes the complex relationship between a beetle, two types of tree fungus and a bacterium that aids in their struggle to survive and thrive.
Research revealed that adult beetles have a specialised compartment in their bodies used to store two other organisms: a slow-growing beneficial fungus that serves as a food source and a bacterium that produces a unique, newly discovered antibiotic.
Interestingly, the antibiotic inhibits the growth of a fast-growing competitor fungus but does not affect the slow-growing beneficial fungus, according to a University of Wisconsin release.
Before laying eggs in tree bark, adult female beetles spread the slow-growing, beneficial fungus and bacteria around the area where they will deposit the eggs.
The antibiotic from the bacteria prevents growth of the fast-growing competitor fungus but does not harm the slow-growing beneficial fungus, which continues to grow and provide a rich source of nutrition for the developing beetle larvae.
"There are perhaps 10 million species of insects on the planet," says Currie, an evolutionary biologist. "So, if insects associate with bacteria like this more generally, then there's potentially a huge number of new places to explore."
NSF programme officer Lita Proctor agrees, saying this research, which was co-authored by Jon Clardy of Harvard Medical School, has important implications for the ecosystems these species occupy.
"It may be that some organisms evolved symbioses (cooperative relationships) as a strategy to give them an advantage over others when competing for resources," said Proctor. "These cooperative relationships may be much more common than we thought."
These findings were published in Friday edition of Science.
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As a pair of Army veterans who have successfully transitioned from life on the battlefield to civilian life, Spc. Matt Marcus and Staff Sgt. Chris Lyke know they're two of the lucky ones.
"For a lot of the guys in our position, there's a ton of guilt that we carry with us I think every day about guys we served with, guys who--they had our backs, we had theirs and you spread out and some guys just can't seem to make it," said Marcus, a 33-year-old Ukrainian Village resident who works at an ad agency.


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One of the lights of Islamic morality that illuminated humanity's path was scientific thought. Pre-Islamic Arab and some other Middle Eastern societies had never been concerned with the universe and how nature came to be or how it works. But this attitude changed with the Qur'anic revelation, for Allah tells people to inquire into the origins of the heavens and Earth:
[People with intelligence are] those who remember Allah, standing, sitting, and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and Earth [saying]: "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire." (Surah Al 'Imran, 191)
This awareness started the scientific rise of Islamic civilization, and it then embarked upon a scientific journey like none ever seen before that time. Its powerhouse was Baghdad, capital of the Abbasid Empire and the Islamic world. Scientists, thinkers, researchers, and other scholars from all over the Islamic world came together in Baghdad's famous Dar al-Hikmah ("House of Wisdom") to research and investigate the secrets of Allah's universe.This awareness that Muslim scientists acquired by adhering to the Qur'an's morality enabled history's most rapid leap in scientific progress until that time. Open-mindedness, a wisdom Muslims are taught by the Qur'an, enabled them to analyze and then develop further the scientific achievements of other civilizations without prejudice. Muslim scientific records were full of observations, experiments, calculations, and research on various subjects. In the schools of science, women were entitled to the same education as men and made their own scientific contributions.
Muslim mathematicians developed the decimal number system and invented algebra and trigonometry. Muslim scientists were very keen on astronomical observations, and thus discovered and established the principles of modern astronomy. Muslim scholars calculated the moon's orbit around Earth and recorded the formulas. The spectacular works of architecture throughout the Islamic world were made possible only by the scientific infrastructure put in place by the Muslims.
Some of the Muslims' greatest achievements were in the field of medicine. Back then, ignorant Europeans considered illnesses to be a curse of evil spirits and so did not even have the concept of treating or actually curing the afflicted people. Muslim scientists, however, reached the research-based conclusion that illnesses were caused by tiny creatures invisible to the naked eye and that patients needed to be isolated from healthy people during their treatment. The world's first modern hospitals were conceived in this way. Muslim hospitals had different wards for different illnesses, and Muslim doctors had scientifically developed methods of treatment. Muslims treated mental illnesses with music and therapy, while Europeans believed that the mentally ill were Satan's slaves and so burned them at the stake. Muslim reference works on the human anatomy were so accurate that they were used for 600 years in Europe's faculties of medicine.


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Editor's Note: This May Connor Miller was featured in a KSTP Story. Catch up with Connor below.
Connor is an energetic, (very!) opinionated and happy one-year-old. He has a zest for life that is difficult to explain in words. Perhaps it is because of the physical challenges he has had to overcome, or perhaps he simply loves life. Regardless, his energy and excitement are contagious – it is almost impossible to avoid smiling when he is near!
Connor's journey at Gillette began when he was just 1-month-old. Throughout the past year, Connor has accomplished some pretty amazing things -- he learned to crawl, a milestone that we were unsure he would ever achieve, he celebrated his first birthday, he learned to walk, and, most importantly, he made it through another surgery at Gillette!
At our visit with Dr. Van Heest in April, she observed that Connor's use of his wrist and hand remained relatively limited and unchanged since our previous check-in. She explained that, as a result of his previous injury and surgery, Connor had built up a significant amount of adherent scar tissue in and around the tendons in his wrist and hand. She recommended that an additional surgery be performed to remove these adhesions, in hopes of significantly improving his ability to actively use his left arm and hand. This surgery, his third at Gillette, was completed on July 11, 2014. Dr. Van Heest was able to remove a significant amount of scar tissue and we have already seen improvements in Connor's passive and active range of motion!
After a brief break from occupational therapy to allow his incision to heal, Connor restarted twice-weekly OT visits. As a somewhat stubborn (have I mentioned opinionated?) one-year-old, these visits are proving to be more difficult than they used to be. As he continues to get older, he wants to play and he most certainly does not want anyone touching his arm! We are extremely grateful for the wonderful care and patience that his OTs, Alex and Lindsey, show toward him during his visits. They know his personality well and are great at finding creative ways to both entertain him and address his therapy needs.
As we think about Connor's future (which we do a lot!), whether or not he will need additional surgeries is unknown. What we do know, however, is that he has a fantastic team of medical professionals standing behind him to help guide our family in making the best decisions on his behalf. We are, and forever will be, incredibly grateful for the amazing care that he receives at Gillette!


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> How do you address an invitation to a same-sex married couple?
From a Miss Conduct chat on Boston.com
This situation is too new to have traditions built up around it, so we must rely on common sense and the principle of treating all marriages, and both parties within a marriage, as equal. (Yes, this means that Miss Conduct doesn't care for the "Mr. and Mrs. Hisfirst Hislast" for heterosexuals, but that isn't what you asked.)
List a same-sex couple alphabetically by last name (by first, if they share their last), unless one partner is a doctor, clergyperson, judge, or the like, in which case, that person goes first. Either both are given a first name or no one is.
If the invitation is formal enough to require titles, here are some options: Mesdames Fauna and Flora Vernal (or Messieurs Jerry and Tom Katz); Mrs. & Mrs. (or Ms. & Ms.) Fauna and Floral Vernal; or Dr. Flora Vernal and Ms. Fauna Vernal.
And for couples with different names, you can try Mesdames Fauna Hibernal and Flora Vernal; or Ms. Fauna Hibernal and Ms. Floral Vernal.
> I am majoring in nutrition science and find that people expect me to eat only salads. When I visit friends for dinner, a meal of "comfort foods" is replaced with "health foods." When I do indulge in junk food, people make sarcastic remarks. I don't judge others, but it bothers me that they assume I will. I'm getting reluctant to tell people my major. What can I say when someone asks?
P.M. / Boston
Saying that you major in "food science" makes you sound a bit more like a chemist, and "health sciences" is nicely vague — but this is a stopgap and somewhat ridiculous solution. What do you plan to do when you're an actual working nutritionist? You need to get control of the conversation.
I deal with the same thing as a social advice columnist. People sometimes expect me to be a paragon of propriety or personally invested in proper table settings, which is just . . . no. While I can behave like a proper salad when I need to, I often conduct myself more like a cheeseburger with fries. You're not alone in this problem! Not only nutritionists and etiquette writers but also ministers, English teachers, social workers, dentists — oh, the list of professions that cause other people to get defensive goes on and on.
Start thinking about what nutrition science means to you, and when you talk about your studies, frame them that way. Developing your personal philosophy of nutrition won't be an overnight process. The way you talk about your career will develop and become more nuanced over time.
Ask yourself: Why are you willing to eat junk food when you know exactly how bad it is? You'll want to develop your own language, but here are some ideas to start with: Food not only nourishes our bodies but also our spirits. Eating is a social as well as biological function, and food serves to connect us with other people. One of the benefits of a healthy diet is the room to indulge occasionally, and what's life without indulgence?
Have this conversation with yourself and then start having it with other people — ideally over a slice of pie and an excellent cup of coffee.Miss Conduct is Robin Abrahams, a writer with a PhD in psychology.NEED MISS CONDUCT'S HELP? Write to her at firstname.lastname@example.com. And read her blog at boston.com/missconduct.


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Known for its original colorful graphic textiles since 1951, when Marimekko first showed their cheerful prints in Helsinski, the company was an instant hit. For years only available in capsule collections or in Europe and Scandinavia, New York City finally has its own flagship store that is a welcome dose of color therapy.Now that the company has expanded beyond clothes, the items that fill the store are a wide range of things for the home, from trays to mugs, pillows, bedspreads, dishes and decor. Tablecloths and pillows can be bought as is, or fabric can be purchased by the yard from the floor to ceiling selection and cut by the friendly and knowledgeable staff.
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Lukewarm Stove: Diamondbacks Decline Option on Adam LaRoche
Another possibility at first base for the Chicago Cubs just came on the market as the Arizona Diamondbacks declined their $7.5 million ($1.5 million buyout) option on first baseman Adam LaRoche. LaRoche, 31, played good defense and had 25 homers and 100 RBI, but had an OPS under .800 (.788) for the first time since 2005.
LaRoche is expected to get another one-year, $6 millionish deal this Winter, so he makes for a pretty interesting move for the Cubs. His solid defense makes Derrek Lee's departure more tolerable, and his left-handed semi-power bat certainly fills a need in the Cubs' lineup. And on a one-year deal, his signing would leave open the possibility of pursuing Adrian Gonzalez next year.
The downsides, of course, include the risk that LaRoche is in decline. While he isn't old, he is on the side of 30 where players tend to start that gradual march toward disappointing seasons, and LaRoche's 2010 was arguably his worst in half a decade. Also, the Cubs have to decide whether they want to go after Adam Dunn, who would likely reciprocate any interest. He's expected to cost twice as much as LaRoche for more than twice as many years, but he's also a plainly better hitter.


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When Professor Ghappour is asked what he does for a living, he sometimes has to pause before answering. "In a way it's complicated," he says. "But in another way it's actually very simple: I presume innocence, and let the law take care of the rest."
Ghappour will join UC Hastings in the fall from the University of Texas School of Law, where he co-taught the Civil Rights Clinic (formerly the National Security Clinic), and directed a nationwide project litigating constitutional issues related to security and technology in complex criminal cases.
A former computer engineer, his research and teaching focus on the interplay between emerging technologies and national security—particularly in the context of the modern surveillance state, preventative law enforcement and cyberspace as a theater of war. He brings experience litigating issues related to national security, technology, press freedom, electronic surveillance and foreign intelligence gathering, and the international law of armed conflict.
The Liberty, Security & Technology Clinic will be modeled on Ghappour's work at UT, and will offer indigent defense in complex federal criminal prosecutions involving national security and cybersecurity issues. Students will work with appointed trial counsel under faculty supervision to litigate issues related to Constitutional due process, privacy, speech, and other rights, often involving issues of first impression.
Typical clinic cases "test the limits of substantive doctrinal law, present difficult procedural or ethical questions and have a national or global footprint," says Ghappour. Last year, one student team drafted a motion to unseal materials related to a district court order order authorizing a state law enforcement agency to conduct "roving" surveillance without a showing of probable cause or specifying a target. Another student team wrote a brief challenging the legality of wiretaps authorized under controversial amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, in a court-martial convened to try an Army Specialist charged with attempted espionage.
"If these cases are not thoroughly and vigorously litigated," says Ghappour, "then the liberty interests of many or all of us could be sacrificed." In one recent case, he and colleagues litigated the first challenge by a criminal defendant to mass collection of domestic call records by the government.
"Ahmed's cutting-edge work in litigation engages the great legal issues of our day," said UC Hastings Provost & Academic Dean Elizabeth L. Hillman, "including how technological change affects the intersection of privacy and security. He brings an exciting new dimension to our experiential curriculum."
Currently, Ghappour represents Barrett Brown, a journalist whose case became a cause célèbre after he was charged with crimes related sharing a publicly available hyperlink. The link pointed to a public webpage containing data obtained unlawfully from a private intelligence contractor by a hacker. In a case that was poised to become a First Amendment test case, prosecutors dropped most of the significant charges just two days after the defense filed a motion to dismiss. Following the victory, students worked extensively on plea negotiations and sentencing strategy.
"We are thrilled to have Ahmed Ghappour join us to launch the Liberty, Security & Technology Clinic at UC Hastings," says Nancy Stuart, Clinical Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Experiential Learning. "Ahmed's expertise and the work of the clinic will allow our students to engage in practice at the intersection of Constitutional Rights and Cyber-security law while promoting our long-standing tradition of fostering students who wish to dedicate their careers to public service."
"It's great to be returning to the Bay area," said Ghappour, "and an honor to be joining such esteemed faculty at an institution whose tradition of public service is both longstanding and forward thinking."
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Carolyn Woo, Ph.D., president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R. from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, will deliver lectures on campus as a part of the university's Global Studies Speaker Series.
Dr. Woo's lecture, titled "God, Neighbor, Self", will be held Tuesday, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. in the Marian University Theatre. Dr. Woo joined CRS in January 2012 after a distinguished career in academics, including a stint from 1997-2011 as dean of the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. She also served as associate executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Purdue University.
CRS was founded in 1943 by the Catholic bishops of the United States to serve survivors of World War II in Europe. Since then, it has become one of the world's largest and most respected international relief and development agencies, each year reaching more than 130 million people in nearly 100 countries. Dr. Woo's lecture represents Marian University's eighth annual Global Studies Speaker Series event with CRS.
Archbishop Tobin's lecture, "The Catholic Church: Catalyst for, or Obstacle to a Better World?", will be held Wednesday, April 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the Marian University Theatre. Archbishop Tobin was appointed the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in October 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI.
"Marian University is proud to provide this platform for Dr. Woo and Archbishop Tobin to address issues that are important to Catholics and the Church, and the broader community," Dr. Pierre Atlas, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of The Richard G. Lugar Franciscan Center for Global Studies at Marian University, said. "As central Indiana's only Catholic university, it's incumbent upon us to connect Church leaders to the community."
Admission to both lectures is free to the public, although pre-registration is encouraged. To RSVP for the lectures, please visit www.marian.edu/lfcgs.
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Three Miami-Dade hotels have something — or five things — to brag about.
On Wednesday, Forbes Travel Guide announced its 2014 Star Award winners, and three hotels were on the five-star list.
The Mandarin Oriental, Miami on Brickell Key and Acqualina Resort & Spa in Sunny Isles Beach both held on to their top status after achieving it for the first time in 2013. And the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort, which opened in 2012, was also awarded five stars on the same day it was sold to a Qatar ownership group.
The Mandarin Oriental's restaurant, Azul, and its spa also earned five stars, as did the spas at Acqualina and St. Regis.
Miami went more than a decade without a single five-star hotel as determined by the Forbes Travel Guide, formerly the Mobil Travel Guide. But that changed last year with two hotels earning the designation.
"People don't realize the work really starts once you get it," said Mandarin Oriental, Miami General Manager and Vice President Jorge Gonzalez. Speaking from Las Vegas, where celebrations are being held for the five-star hotels, he said the effort is shared by the entire staff of the property, which opened in 2000.
Since finding out about the repeat honor, there has been another benefit, Gonzalez said: "My sleep went back to normal."


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The training will commence from 12 Sept 2017 through to 3 May 2018 and takes place at Blatchington Mill School astro pitches.
All our training sessions are led by qualified coaches supported by senior players from the Club. During half-term breaks in the season we'll be holding hockey camps.
All U14s train on Wednesdays: 5:30-6:30pm ( goalkeepers train on Tues at 6:30pm to 7:30pm ); Matches against other teams take place on Sundays.
Players must wear suitable sports kit (layers recommended for cold/wet weather) and good trainers/astro-turf trainers.
Shin-pads, mouth-guard and own stick are required.
To be selected for fixtures - attendance at training is essential.
U14 'performance training' by invitation only session for boys and girls (years 8 & 9): 6:30 - 7:30 (Tuesday evenings).
The performance training sessions (Tues ) will be strictly by invitation only - so if a player is not on the relevant register, they will not be able to take part. ONLY Jon and Wendy (senior coaches) will decide who can attend these sessions. These identified individuals are expected (must) also attend their age group training session as well.
Fees for the 2017/18 season will be:
- Annual subs (Sept to May) - £95 per child
- Annual sub (second or more sibling) - £90 per child
- Half year sub (Sept - Dec or Jan - May) - £50 per child
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Registration payments are to be made via the payments section of the website. Please ensure you 'tag' the payment to your child's name. Click PAYMENTS
Parent/guardian MUST REGISTER on-line (Join our Club) and enrol their child (using the Apply for Parent role function). ALL registration details must be completed. Incomplete details may result in relevant child not being selected for matches.
. We also need parents to help out, so please let us know if you would be willing to volunteer - especially coordinating junior teams for matches.
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For juniors over 8 year old it is a requirement to wear a mouth-guard and shin-pads; for those under 8 we recommend the same. BHHC cannot accept responsibility for injuries resulting from not wearing them.
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George J. "Jit" Haupricht Jr.
George J. "Jit" Haupricht Jr., 82, of Dill Hill Road, Johnsonburg, died at home on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 after a lengthy illness.He was born July 13, 1931 in Toledo, Ohio, son of the late George J. and Helen (Pavlock) Haupricht.On July 4, 1953, he married Kathryn (Shannon) and she survives.A 1950 graduate of Johnsonburg High School, he served in the U.S. Air Force 3510th maintenance squadron from 1951-1953 being stationed in Sampson AFB, Lowry AFB, Mitchell AFB and Randolph AFB, and receiving the National Defense Service Medal.He worked in the pulp laboratory of the Johnsonburg Paper Mill for 43 years before retiring in 1993. He was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church, and Ridgway Rifle Club where he was also a founding member of the Silhouette Shooting Competition, lifetime member of the NRA and member of the PA Rifle & Pistol Association.He was a Distinguished Master Pistol Shooter, registered in .38, .22 & .45 calibers and enjoyed hunting, the outdoors and competing in many shooting competitions. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather being truly adored by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He had a very strong value of "Family, God & Country" and has lived in Johnsonburg since 1946.In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Kenneth G. (Gina) Haupricht of Johnsonburg, and Cheryl (Donald) Launer of Johnsonburg; four grandchildren, Kenneth M. Haupricht, Jamie (Ryan) LaBenne, Kristyn (Eric) Lowry, and Brian (Jacqueline) Launer; three great-grandchildren, Nora Haupricht, Elizabeth Lowry and Dominic LaBenne; and one brother, Douglas (Diane) Haupright of Johnsonburg.In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one sister, Barbara Warmbrodt.A funeral service for George J. "Jit" Haupricht Jr. will be held Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 at 8 p.m. at Ubel Funeral Home, 111 Bridge St., Johnsonburg, with Father David Wilson presiding.The family will be receiving friends on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 from 5 – 8 p.m. at the Ubel Funeral Home, Johnsonburg, followed by the service at 8 p.m.Military honors will be held privately on Tuesday at the Ubel Funeral Home. Johnsonburg/Wilcox Servicemen's Detail members are asked to assemble at the funeral home at 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday.In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the Community Nurses, Inc. – Hospice.Ubel Funeral Home, 111 Bridge St., Johnsonburg is entrusted with funeral arrangements.


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Soundgarden is on the Mount Rushmore of grunge music (along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains). The band formed in 1984 in Seattle, Washington. While they're considered a seminal grunge band they really didn't achieve mainstream success until after the genre became popular.
Soundgarden was founded by Chris Cornell (lead vocals), Kim Thayil (lead guitar), and Hiro Yamamoto (Bass). At early gigs, Cornell played drums and sang. To enable Cornell to concentrate solely on his vocals, the band tapped rhythmists Scott Sundquist and finally Matt Cameron.
Yamaoto left the group in 1990. He was unhappy with his lack of contribution and went back to college. Jason Eveman played bass for Soundgarden in 1990 before being replaced by Ben Shepard.
The band's current lineup is Cornell, Thayil, Cameron, and Shepard.
Soundgarden reached its commercial and artistic zenith in 1994 thanks to their album Superunkown. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 after selling more than 300,000 copies in its first week. The album contains the smash hits "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman."
"Black Hole Sun" is the band's signature song. It was written in 15 minutes by Cornell who said in interviews that the lyrics don't really mean anything and he was just playing around with words.
"Spoonman" was a song originally composed for the 1992 film Singles. You can actually hear an acoustic version of "Spoonman" in one of its scenes. The song's title came from "Artis the Spoonman," a real-life street performer who actually plays the spoons.
Break Up
In 1996, Soundgarden tickets were collected at Lollapalooza as well as all over the world. In February of the following year, Shepard stormed off the stage after an equipment failure. Exactly two months later, Soundgarden announced that they were calling it quits.
In April of 2010, Soundgarden reunited and played their first concert in more than a dozen years at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle. That summer they headlined Lollapalooza.
In early 2011, Soundgarden began work on what would be their sixth studio album, King Animal. It dropped Nov. 13, 2012. The album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and received positive reviews from critics.