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SR Dental / Dentist Vacancy in PGI Chandigarh 2016
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research PGIMER Chandigarh has invited offline application for recruitment to the posts of Senior Resident / SR / Dental Doctor.Those who are interested in career in PGI Chandigarh may apply for these jobs as follows -
Senior Resident / SR (Dentistry) – 02 posts (UR-01,OBC-01)
- Dentistry (Prosthodontics) - 01 post
Qualification - Post Graduation in the concerned speciality
Application Fees - Rs. 1000 (Rs. 500 for SC / ST) in the form of Challan of SBI – details given in the detailed advertisement
Selection Process - Selection to these posts will be by Written test followed by Departmental assessment and finally Interview
How to apply - Interested and eligible candidates need to apply as per the detailed instructions in the detailed advertisement.Filled in application form along with all the needed documents should be mailed through Registered / Speed Post to the following address – Assistant Administrative Officer (Recruitment Cell),PGIMER,Sector-12,Chandigarh – 160012
Last date for application submission - December 05,2016
For detailed original advertisement click at the following link - http://pgimer.edu.in/PGIMER_PORTAL/AbstractFilePath?FileType=E&FileName=Advertisement101110Nov2016163943.pdf&PathKey=VACANCY_PATH
Other details are available at - http://pgimer.edu.in/PGIMER_PORTAL/PGIMERPORTAL/Vacancies/JSP/ViewAll.jsp?record=2009
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Microsoft recently confirmed that Internet Explorer browsers from version 6 to version 11 are impacted by a major vulnerability that could allow remote code execution. What this means is that a sophisticated attacker can essentially own your machine through specific code manipulation. In fact, the U.S. government has issued a stern message advising all users to stop using Internet Explorer until a patch is issued.
Over the past few years, innumerable vulnerabilities have been discovered in every browser, and every kind of active content has given rise to effective attack channels. The reality is that HTML, CSS, Java Script, Java, Active X, Flash and all other content rendered by browsers are far too complicated to ever allow anyone to create a fully featured browser that would be completely resistant to attack.
We know with certainty that over 90% of all successful attacks come through the browser, yet few have thought to address this gaping security hole. It is essentially the enterprise's Achilles heel.
Ntrepid has moved on to a new paradigm where security failures in browsers don't lead to a total collapse of the security perimeter and compromise of sensitive data and infrastructure.
It is not enough to simply isolate the computer, if the attacker can use the browser beachhead to search the local network for vulnerable devices. Similarly, isolating the network, while allowing the compromise of the host computer would allow far too much damage. By isolating both, the attack can be effectively contained and any damage minimized.
Passages was designed for exactly this kind of threat. Passages isolates the browser within a fully virtualized hardened operating system, which is burned down and re-created from a known clean image every session. All network communications with that virtual machine is itself isolated from the local network through a secure VPN tunnel protecting the local network from any attack or observation. By isolating both, the attack can be effectively contained and any damage minimized. Passages is the only secure browsing platform to provide robust protection for both the computer and the network simultaneously. If you're interested, check out GetPassages.com to sign up and be part of our pilot program.

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Any curiosity I had about extraterrestrial life had been crushed by the eerie consistency of alien "sightings". Oh it's not the abductions, the anal probes, the failure to at least take the victims to dinner first - no. It's the aliens themselves. Have you seen what these guys LOOK like? Every now and then you'll get some guy who envisions aliens as big green lizardy things that will rip your head off and impregnate your women, but for the most part they tend to be these diminutive, big headed, big-eyed, earless, speechless, sexless grey things with long padded fingers and no fashion sense.
A few years ago I pondered the implications of this body type. Any which way you turn the various theories on these guys the aliens are either our ancestors, our heirs or an indication of what our own body types are going to look like in a few milleniums. For the record let me state that I am NOT happy about any future that doesn't include room for a strappy pair of Richard Tyler stilettos. Go ahead. Try to picture one of those big-headed aliens in my shoes. See what I mean? No thank you.
Be that as it may, I'm a team player at heart. I try to listen to other people's ideas and give them a fair shake before pointing out how ridiculous they are. Sometimes a bad idea isn't really a bad vision, it just lacks direction. So I tried to come to terms with this future physique.
There is a logical hypothesis for how anyone could allow this alien body type to evolve and I happen to be typing on one: the computer. All those days scooping up new knowledge from the internet could explain a need for expanded cranial capacity to hold our bigger brains. (Sure, even more porn) All those days spent staring at the monitor while ignoring friends and family and other calls to socialize might lead to the big saucer eyes and our ears falling off from lack of use. Great reductions in outdoor recreation could explain the hair loss, lack of muscle and pasty complexion of the aliens. And those fingers - obviously Darwin prefers those most deft with a keyboard. Long fingers, great dexterity, little pads on the end to protect the metaphalanges from all those keystrokes.
See? Anything seems reasonable if you look at it long enough. It could happen. And future pasty alien paleontologists could be explaining it just they way I wrote it there. So can I just say right here, right now THANK GOD for the palm pilot. That little handheld, remote access device is going to save us from a future doomed to looking like animated fishing lures. Bless the trekkies and their gods Spock and Kirk for "The Communicator." Oh yes. I'm mobile. I'm communicating. I can check the stock market and Leiutenant Uhura still wears a skirt and saucy boots.
And bless the trekkies for alerting us to the need for international cooperation on these future projects because the western versions of handheld computer technology aren't going to cut it. But don't panic. I already did that for us and I found out some good news: the Japanese know what to do with wireless. Japanese wireless is so far ahead of the game I'm on the verge of sinking some of my Manolo Blahnik spring sandal allowance into investing in their progress. Not that I intend to give up my keyboard anytimes soon. Or my shoe habits. Evolution is a slow thing.
But I have seen the future and I owe it to my children and their children and the future of any children, even the alien inbred ones. Japanese Wireless. They know something. Why do you think all the Japanese aliens look like giant lizards?
I rest my case.


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Dawn of a New Era: Personalized Medicine
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Developments in the Approaching World of Gene-Based Personalized Medicine
GoogleNews.com, MiamiHerald.com, McClatchy Newspapers, June 11, 2009, by Robert S. Boyd — WASHINGTON – Six years ago, scientists announced the completion of the Human Genome Project, a historic effort to decipher each of the 3 billion letters in the genetic instruction book for our species. A single anonymous male from Buffalo, N.Y. – code name RP11 – provided the bulk of the DNA used for the project.
Now, many thousands more people are contributing DNA samples for a wide array of follow-on studies designed to turn the project's findings to practical use in health care, genetics and biological research.
Researchers and doctors have opened a new era of "personalized medicine" that seeks to tailor therapies to patients based on their unique genetic makeups and medical histories.
According to the National Cancer Institute, the days are passing when most cancer tumors were thought to be essentially the same and patients got the same drugs.
"We're not very good at selecting therapies for individual patients," Dr. Rick Hockett, the chief medical officer of Affymetrix, a genetics firm in Santa Clara, Calif., told a conference on personalized medicine last week in Washington. "Targeted therapy," he said, can "improve the benefit-risk ratio for patients."
For example, Hockett said that heart patients who took the popular anti-clotting drug Plavix had a greatly increased risk of serious problems, including death, if they had two tiny mutations in their genes.
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York have begun to screen lung tumors for genetic abnormalities that could reveal whether a particular treatment is likely to work or should be avoided.
Last year, Dr. Richard Wilson, the director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis, compared 20,000 genes in cancer cells from a woman who died of leukemia with healthy cells also taken from her body. Wilson identified 10 mutations – or genetic mistakes – related to her cancer, including one that blocks chemotherapy drugs from getting inside the cancerous cell.
Other developments in the approaching world of personalized medicine include:
A "Personal Genome Project" led by George Church, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, aims to recruit 100,000 people of diverse backgrounds to analyze their genomes and medical histories.
The first 10 participants already have published their personal data – including their pictures, weights and smoking and drinking habits as well as their DNA – on the Internet for anyone to see.
To take part, volunteers donate hair and saliva samples for DNA analysis. So far, 13,000 people have asked to be enrolled. For privacy, their data will be encoded by number, not by individual names.
The goal is to discover which genetic variations are related to which diseases, so that targeted therapies can be designed. According to Church, at least 1,449 genes have been linked to potential illnesses. For instance, a gene called ApoE is associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer's.
The National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md.,has launched a "1000 Genomes Project," which has started to collect DNA from 1,000 individuals from Africa, Asia and Europe. The goal is to provide much broader and deeper information than the original limited Human Genome Project could.
Medicine in the Age of Twitter
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"With social media," Dr. Sands observed, "we can aggregate across space and across the world and create a safe environment for support. Although there may be only 10 people in greater New York with a certain disease, there may be 250 people across the world."
The New York Times, June 11, 2009, by Pauline W. Chen MD — I blog, I tweet and I use Facebook. And as I recently told a medical colleague, social media has been an enormously useful tool in my work.
"I can barely keep up with e-mail," he snorted back. "I'm not about to open up that black box."
About 15 years ago, during my residency and just as the first blogs were starting up, I took care of a patient in his mid-40s whom I'll call Eddie. In a waiting room filled with elderly patients crippled by vascular disease, Eddie looked out of place. Until you looked closer at his fingers and toes. Parts of them had been amputated.
Eddie suffered from Buerger's disease, or thromboangiitis obliterans, an illness that causes clotting and inflammation of the blood vessels of the hands and feet. Considered an "orphan" disease because of its relative rarity, Buerger's disease compromises the blood supply to a patient's fingers and toes. Eventually these patients, who are usually men in their 20s to 40s who smoke, develop excruciating pain, severe ulcerations and gangrene. And more often than not, they must undergo progressively higher amputations.
There is no cure for Buerger's disease; the only way to slow the process is to quit smoking. Therein lies the tragedy. For unknown reasons, patients who suffer from Buerger's disease are profoundly addicted to tobacco, far more so than most smokers. It is nearly impossible for them to quit.
Eddie wanted desperately to quit. Over the two years that I cared for him, he tried at least a dozen times. But his already challenging task was made even more difficult by his isolation. Eddie lived alone, estranged from his family, with friends and co-workers who grew increasingly unsympathetic to his plight. "They don't understand why I keep smoking if I keep losing fingers," he said to me one afternoon. "They just don't understand how hard it is for me." Moreover, because his disease was so rare, he had no community of fellow patients to turn to in his town or at our hospital.
But his visits to the clinic always seemed to cheer him up. He responded, it seemed, to my encouragement, and each time he left, he renewed his vow to quit smoking. But weeks would pass and his enthusiasm would wane. If I contacted him by phone, his momentum might continue another few days, but finding a mutually convenient, quiet moment to talk on a regular basis was exceedingly difficult. I tried scheduling frequent follow-up appointments, but Eddie lived over an hour away from our hospital and could not afford to keep missing work.
Eventually, Eddie lost another two fingers, the front half of his left foot and his entire right foot. The youngest man in my waiting room soon became confined to a wheelchair. At the end of our last visit, I stood in the clinic hall watching him inch away from me in that chair, pushing off the ground with the remaining stump of his left foot and grasping at the wheels with hands that had become mitts.
I thought about Eddie and other patients I have cared for who might have benefited from more frequent contact when I spoke with my colleague about social media and the patient-doctor relationship. I wondered if Eddie would have felt a little less isolated and perhaps been able to quit smoking if I had, for example, texted a word of encouragement to him every few days, interacted through blog comments, or directed him to an online community of people who were dealing with the exact same disease.
A survey released today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that 61 percent of Americans go online for health information, and the majority of them have turned to user-generated health information. But a quick scan through peer-reviewed journals reveals only a handful of articles, and no evidence-based guidelines, to guide doctors on the use of social media. It is unclear whether such engagement adds to or detracts from a therapeutic patient-doctor relationship, and clinicians are unsure about what constitutes good standards of care and professional responsibility on these platforms. For example, should doctors give out diagnoses or prescribe treatment on Facebook or a blog? If doctors and patients communicate on Twitter, is a doctor liable if she or he misses a patient's tweets about the acute onset of shortness of breath?
Dr. Sean Khozin, who blogs and can be found on Twitter @SeanKhozin, is an internist and founding member of Hello Health, a paperless "concierge" practice based in Brooklyn that utilizes e-mail, instant messaging and video chat for coordinating care. "There are so many layers of bureaucracy between health care providers and patients," Dr. Khozin said. "We can use social media to coordinate care with patients and with different specialists, all using the same platform. I can monitor my patients, and they can also use these tools to become empowered through a better understanding of their own disease state and active engagement."
In Dr. Khozin's practice, that engagement occurs on a secure site, as patient privacy remains a major concern with all forms of social media. But on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, where privacy is more difficult to insure, those concerns also extend to physicians. "On the one hand it is really good to see the human side of your doctor on a site like Facebook," observed Dr. Daniel Sands (@DrDannySands), a physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass., and a consultant with the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group, as well as co-author of the first set of guidelines ever published on using e-mail in patient care. "On the other hand," Dr. Sands continued, "maybe letting your patient get too close isn't always good for the therapeutic relationship."
Taking on the responsibilities of yet another form of communication can also be onerous for physicians, many of whom already feel overburdened by multiple demands on their time. "Physicians are really busy," Dr. Sands said. "In our current health care environment, the only commodity they have is time. Doctors don't want to introduce new technologies of unknown value, which is why many were hesitant about e-mail. Something like Twitter is going to take longer to accept because the value proposition is even hazier."
Still, there continues to be anecdotal evidence regarding social media's potential to strengthen the patient-doctor bond. "One way I see that power is through education," said Dr. Christian Sinclair, a physician for Kansas City Hospice who has created a palliative care network through his blog and Twitter (@ctsinclair). "I can help to inform the public, I can put the knowledge I have out there. And if there are patients or families who need this knowledge, I can help them because of this network." Dr. Sinclair has, for example, helped individuals he has met through Twitter connect with local hospices, a process he believes was expedited by Twitter's particular platform.
And social media can also help patients and physicians widen illness support networks, which in turn can augment the patient-doctor relationship. Health care providers have long known that patients with chronic or life-threatening diseases benefit from support groups made up of people who can sympathize and empathize with them. But such support is difficult for physicians or hospitals and clinics to cobble together when patients and families are physically isolated or homebound, or when they have an orphan disease like Eddie's.
"With social media," Dr. Sands observed, "we can aggregate across space and across the world and create a safe environment for support. Although there may be only 10 people in greater New York with a certain disease, there may be 250 people across the world." Dr. Sands recalled guiding a patient to the Association of Cancer Online Resources, a social network of online communities for patients and families. "That was the most important advice I ever gave him. It was an information prescription."
Social media platforms can turn 10- or 20-minute doctor's visits into an ongoing dialogue, where sources of information and, potentially, support are continually available to the patient and the doctor. "Platforms like Twitter can be powerful if doctors are a lot more active in disseminating their expertise," Dr. Khozin said. "Patients are being bombarded with information online, but I don't think all that information necessarily empowers them. You also need expertise."
Social media has kept me connected with colleagues and a few former patients, allowed me to stay up-to-date with certain health care and medical education issues, and helped me to keep abreast of Web-based resources that might be useful to those I care for. It has also taught me a tremendous amount about the experiences of patients and caregivers, information I'm not sure I would have had access to had I not been engaged online. Although I am far from a savvy user, I have come to think of social media like I do any other test, instrument or procedure; it's extremely helpful in some situations, and for some patients, and less so in others.
A few days ago, staring at a blank screen and thinking about this column, I tweeted: Working on column on social media (spec. Twitter, Facebook, blogs) and patient-doctor relationship. Any opinions?
Minutes later I began to receive replies, including this one from @achronicdose:
Knowledge from patient-peers thru social media *can* mean more helpful talks w/ dr; dr. p.o.v. helpful for patients to read.
Doctor or patient, you are never alone in the twitterverse or blogosphere; there is always someone who is willing to offer some help or lend some support. It's a world that I think might have made all the difference for a patient like Eddie.
Cost-Effective Ways to Fight Insomnia
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Charles Morin, a psychology professor at Laval University in Quebec, in a study chamber of his sleep clinic.
HOW much would you pay for a good night's sleep?
The New York Times, June 10, 2009, by Lesley Alderman — If the sleep peddlers have their way, quite a bit. Sleep is a $23.9 billion industry – if you count things as diverse as mattresses, white noise machines and prescription pills – and it has more than doubled in the last decade, according to Marketdata Enterprises, a research firm in Tampa, Fla.
The market for insomnia drugs alone is expected to grow 78 percent, to nearly $3.9 billion, by 2012, as drug makers scramble to bring more pills to market to compete with name brands like Lunesta, Sonata and Ambien CR.
There is even a new event, the National Sleep Foundation's Big Sleep Show, to promote sleep-inducing products and services to the tired masses. It occurs several times a year, and the next one is set for August in Dallas.
Sleeping is a serious problem for millions of people. The National Sleep Foundation (which receives financial support from pharmaceutical companies) estimates that 20 percent of Americans, up from 13 percent eight years ago, sleep fewer than six hours a night. The lucky few who sleep a full eight hours or more dropped to 28 percent, from 38 percent, the foundation said.
Being chronically sleep-deprived is more than just tiring. It can lead to depression, high blood pressure and lower productivity, both on and off the job.
If the problem is pure insomnia – rather than sleep apnea or another medical issue – there are smart and affordable options. Here are some of the most cost-effective ways to get the sleep you need, and a few things you should avoid altogether.
Patient Money You have probably heard these sleep dos and don'ts before, but they bear repeating. If you have been tossing and turning, do not drink caffeine after, say, 2 p.m. And avoid downing more than a glass of wine or the equivalent amount of other alcohol in the evening.
Save stressful activities, like arguments with your children or a review of your finances, for early in the day.
Get into bed a half-hour before you plan to turn out the lights, and read a calming book. No TV, BlackBerry or electronic diversion of any kind an hour or so before bed, because they tend to be stimulating, not relaxing.
Exercise regularly, and reduce the overall level of stress in your life. (Free, yes. Easy? Not always.)
For more tips and suggestion, try the consumer site (www.sleepeducation.com) of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Do not waste your money on herbs like Valerian or fancy mattresses. There is no proof that herbs or special bedding help chronic insomnia.
Over-the-counter medications that contain sleep-inducing antihistamines are fine for a night or two, but that is all. They typically do not work over the long term, and they bring unpleasant side effects like dry mouth and grogginess, says Dr. Alex Chediak, a past president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami.
If you still cannot sleep, see a doctor.
FIND A SLEEP SPECIALIST If you have mild insomnia, see your primary care physician. But if you have been having trouble sleeping for months and feel tired most days, Dr. Chediak advises finding a board-certified sleep doctor.
Doctors with that certification – there are about 3,500 in this country – have passed a rigorous exam and have a thorough knowledge of sleep medicine. Your physician can give you a referral or you can go to the American Board of Sleep Medicine's sleep center site (www.sleepcenters.org). All accredited sleep centers are required to have one certified sleep doctor on staff.
A sleep doctor will first try to rule out an underlying medical condition that would require treatment by a different type of specialist. If you have primary insomnia, a medical condition in its own right, your doctor will probably begin treating you right away.
TRY A GENERIC DRUG Your doctor may prescribe a so-called hypnotic drug to help you sleep through the night. Ask for a generic option- such as zolpidem, the generic version of Ambien – which will be much cheaper than brand-name medications like Ambien CR or Lunesta, which can cost $2 to $3 a pill.
If your main problem is falling asleep in the first place, zolpidem is very effective and works quickly, Dr. Chediak says. But if your problem is waking too early, he might suggest a longer-duration drug like temazepam, the generic version of Restoril.
CONSIDER A NONDRUG OPTION When your insomnia is chronic, meaning it has been going on for months, your doctor might also recommend cognitive behavioral therapy, or C.B.T.
C.B.T. for insomnia is meant to help patients change the behaviors and thoughts that can get in the way of a good night's sleep. Proponents say that it is remarkably effective and that once you learn it you may never have to spend a dime on medications again.
The cognitive part of the process teaches you to change anxiety-producing thoughts that interfere with your ability to sleep, says Gregg Jacobs, who has a doctorate in behavioral medicine and is an insomnia specialist at the Sleep Disorders Center at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. You might lie awake worrying, "I have to get eight hours of sleep or I will be a wreck tomorrow." Most people, however, can function fine on seven hours, he says.
The behavioral part aims at actions that impair your ability to sleep, like spending too much time in bed or not exercising at all during the day.
"C.B.T. should be the first-line therapy for people with chronic insomnia," says Dr. John Winkelman, medical director of the Sleep Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and a consultant to several pharmaceutical companies. "It's fabulous."
It typically takes about four to five sessions over six weeks to learn the therapy and reap the benefits. A study published in the May 20 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association looked at the effectiveness of behavioral therapy alone and therapy in conjunction with zolpidem. The study found that patients who used both therapy and zolpidem fared better during the first six weeks of the study. But by the six-month mark, subjects who relied on behavioral therapy alone made the most progress.
"In the short run, medication is helpful," said the study's primary author, Charles Morin, a professor of psychology at Laval University in Quebec. "But in the long run, people need to change their actual sleep habits – that's what C.B.T. helps them do."
Your sleep doctor may be able to do the therapy with you or may refer you to a psychologist who is trained in behavioral sleep medicine. If your insurer covers your visits, you will have only a co-payment. If it does not, it may cost $100 to $150 a session. You can also learn cognitive behavioral therapy online at www.cbtforinsomnia.com for a $25 fee. The program was designed by Mr. Jacobs of the Sleep Disorders Center.
While in-person therapy is usually preferable, a study published in the current issue of the journal Sleep found that 81 percent of 118 subjects who used online behavioral therapy reported improved sleep.
Check with your doctor before trying an online behavioral therapy program. It may not be helpful for people with certain conditions like depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder, for example.
STICK WITH IT "The most wasteful thing is not doing anything," Dr. Winkelman said. "The cost of living with insomnia can be far more than the cost of treating it."
New Prospects for Prosthetics
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ScienceInSociety.Northwestern.edu, Spring 2009, by Aimee Schultz, Todd Kuiken — A procedure called "targeted reinnervation" reroutes brain signals from nerves severed during amputation to intact muscles, allowing patients to control their protheses intuitively. The map above plots a patient's attempt to move his missing limb.
Over the last few decades, we have seen robots created with astonishing capabilities-a humanoid robot that can walk up and down stairs, a robot that can rove on Mars, collect samples, and send images back to Earth, and robots that are used to help perform surgery. With all the amazing robotic technology that surrounds us, one might wonder why prosthetic limbs (used to replace human arms and legs) aren't more like the real thing.
In fact, many amazing advancements in prosthetic technology have been made in recent years, with more currently underway. Unfortunately, prosthetic limbs still haven't reached the level of Luke Skywalker's flawless arm in Star Wars. Why? One reason is that we lack ways for people to naturally and intuitively tell their prosthetic limbs what to do.
In general, robots are either controlled through remote control or programmed to perform certain tasks at a given time. A prosthetic limb, however, cannot be preprogrammed- how could we know when someone would want to take a drink of water, or begin to walk up the stairs? And a remote control would take a great amount of concentration as well as the constant use of one or both hands.
There are two ways in which prosthetic arms are currently controlled. One way is to use other body motions, such as shrugging the shoulders, to pull on a series of cables and operate the hand, wrist, or elbow. These prostheses are called "body-powered" prostheses. The other way is to read the tiny electrical signals generated by muscles when they contract, and use these signals from remaining muscles to control a motorized arm.
These muscle signals are read by small electrical antennas called electrodes. For example, someone who has lost their arm above the elbow may use their biceps and triceps muscles to control their prosthetic hand. The prosthesis could be programmed to interpret signals from the biceps muscle as "open the hand" and signals from the triceps muscle as "close the hand." These prostheses are called "myoelectric prostheses."
Designers of myoelectric prostheses have an important problem to solve-there are many movements to control, and not enough remaining muscles to control them. Take the example above: if the biceps and triceps muscles are used to open and close the hand, what muscles can send the signals to bend and straighten the elbow? And what if the hand needs to rotate sideways in order to pick up an object-how will the user tell it to do this?
Researchers have tried many ways to get around these issues. They have implemented various types of switches, or instructed users to perform combinations of muscle contractions to act as a switch. However, the lack of available control signals makes it extremely difficult to move prosthetic limb technology forward.
The Neural Engineering Center for Artificial Limbs at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is focused on this problem of prosthesis control. The lab centers around a surgical technique called targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR). The goal of TMR surgery is to utilize to the brain commands that still attempt to reach the missing limb. These commands travel down nerves that were severed during amputation and are no longer received by muscles. If these nerves are connected to different muscle sites, they can cause these other muscles to contract, producing the signals used to control myoelectric prostheses.
The first TMR patient was a man who lost both arms at the shoulder in an electrical accident. Without arms, his chest muscles were useless to him. So, on his left side, they cut the nerves which ran to the chest muscles and instead connected the nerves which had previously gone to his arm.
After a few months, attempts to move his missing left arm resulted in contractions of his chest muscles, with different contractions occurring for elbow bending, elbow straightening, hand opening and hand closing. Then, using an even larger number of surface electrodes to read the muscle contractions, researchers were eventually able to tell the difference between attempted movements of the elbow, wrist and hand, including different types of hand grasps. Not only did this help with the problem of control, letting the patient independently move different joints, but it allowed him to control his prosthesis intuitively. His attempts to move his missing arm now resulted in similar movements of the prosthesis.
Work is now underway to further refine myoelectric control. Rather than using individual muscle sites to control each movement, a computer can be trained to recognize different movements from the pattern of electrical signals recorded from all reinnervated muscles. It does not require the muscle signals to be perfectly isolated, and can adapt to extra signals, such as a heartbeat. In addition, the placement of electrodes is not required to be exact, as they would with conventional control, because the system is retrained each time the system is used. This technology, called "pattern recognition," is currently only used as a research tool. However, it's possible that it could one day be incorporated into prosthetic devices for even more precise control.
Further improvement of prosthetic technology may be possible because of an additional and unexpected result of TMR surgery. Several months after his procedure, the first TMR patient reported that being touched on his chest actually felt like he was being touched on his missing arm-the sensation nerves had grown into his chest skin. Further investigation has shown that patients are able to perceive different temperatures, sharpness of objects, vibrations, and pressures on their reinnervated skin, and that they feel like all of these stimuli are being applied to their missing limb.
Researchers have been able to "map" these perceptions, or see what locations on the reinnervated skin correspond to the pinky finger, palm, forearm, etc. Surprisingly, these maps appear to remain stable over time. By learning more about these perceptions, we hope to someday provide feedback from the prosthesis to the reinnervated skin that will allow users to "feel" with their artificial arm as if it were their own hand. This could go a long way in improving patients' ability to control their prostheses, and even improve their quality of life.
WHO 'declares swine flu pandemic'
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BBC.co.uk, June 11, 2009 — The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting, according to reports.
It means the swine flu virus is spreading in at least two regions of the world with rising cases being seen in the UK, Australia, Japan and Chile.
The move does not necessarily mean the virus is causing more severe illness or more deaths.
The swine flu (H1N1) virus first emerged in Mexico in April.
It has since spread to 74 countries.
Official reports say there have been 28,000 cases globally and 141 deaths and figures are rising daily.
Hong Kong said it was closing all its nurseries and primary schools for two weeks following 12 school cases.
It is the first flu pandemic in 40 years – the last in 1968 with Hong Kong flu killed about one million people.
The current pandemic seems to be moderate and causing mild illness in most people.
One factor which may have prompted the move to a level six pandemic was that in the southern hemisphere, the virus seems to be crowding out normal seasonal influenza.
It is thought the move was not prompted by the situation in any one country but the reports of several pockets of community spread.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes, in Geneva, says that while the number of cases has made the declaration inevitable, the problem is that the pandemic phase system is designed for a very different type of virus.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said it had been expecting something more like the deadlier bird flu.
"It was believed that the next pandemic would be something like H5N1 bird flu, where you were seeing really high death rates, and so there were people who believed we might be in a kind of apocalyptic situation and what we're really seeing now with H1N1 is that in most cases the disease is self-limiting," he told the BBC.
The WHO will have to manage the global anxiety the declaration of a pandemic will generate, our correspondent says.
Pandemic planning
There have been more than 800 cases in the UK with some areas of Scotland being particularly hard hit.
The government has been stockpiling antivirals such as Tamiflu and has ordered vaccine, some doses of which could be available by October.
Chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson said the WHO declaration of a pandemic would not significantly change the way the UK was dealing with swine flu at the moment.
But he added there could be some minor changes to who received antivirals.
"The declaration of a pandemic per se doesn't make a big difference to the to the way we are handling the outbreaks we have.
"We are going to continue to investigate every case that occurs and treat their contacts with antivirals even though they may not be ill.
"The difference is that the Health Protection Agency has learnt a lot about approaching this question of antiviral prophylaxis and they are going to be treating the closer contacts of the cases, rather than the more far-flung contacts, because they feel that that is supported by what they know so far about how the disease is transmitting.
He added: "These flu viruses can change their pattern of attack, so when we come into the flu season in the autumn and winter in this country, when we expect a big surge of cases, we need to watch very carefully to see if the character of the virus is changing."
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon said a move to level six means that countries need to be ready to implement pandemic plans immediately but the UK was already operating at a "heightened state of readiness".
But it could affect the speed at which the UK gets pandemic vaccine supplies but that had been factored into pandemic planning.
Flu expert Professor John Oxford, said people should not panic as the outbreak was milder than others seen in the past century.
"It is global and fulfilling the requirements of a pandemic but I don't think anyone should worry because nothing drastic has happened between yesterday and today."
The New Old Age:
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Social Networking for Seniors
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Paula Rice, 72, of Island City, Ky., spends many hours a day conversing with friends online.
The New York Times, June 11, 2009 — About one-third of people ages 75 and older live alone, and increasingly they are turning to online social networks like Facebook and MySpace for support and companionship, reports Stephanie Clifford in Tuesday's Science Times. Online networks can provide benefits similar to those of real-world groups of friends, but often are easier to assemble and maintain, experts say.
"One of the greatest challenges or losses that we face as older adults, frankly, is not about our health, but it's actually about our social network deteriorating on us, because our friends get sick, our spouse passes away, friends pass away, or we move," Joseph F. Coughlin, director of the AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Ms. Clifford.
"The new future of old age is about staying in society, staying in the workplace and staying very connected," he added. "And technology is going to be a very big part of that, because the new reality is, increasingly, a virtual reality. It provides a way to make new connections, new friends and new senses of purpose."
About The New Old Age
Thanks to the marvels of medical science, our parents are living longer than ever before. Adults over age 80 are the fastest growing segment of the population, and most will spend years dependent on others for the most basic needs. That burden falls to their baby boomer children, 77 million strong, who are flummoxed by the technicalities of eldercare, turned upside down by the changed architecture of their families, struggling to balance work and caregiving, and depleting their own retirement savings in the process. In The New Old Age, we explore this unprecedented intergenerational challenge.
Can Memory Loss Be Prevented?
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The New York Times, June 11, 2009, by Anne Underwood — Bob Branham, 78, at home with some of his quilting projects. He participates in a study designed to see whether acquiring new skills can stave off dementia.
At the age of 78, Bob Branham, a retired computer software developer in Dallas, Tex., took up quilting. It wasn't his idea, actually. He'd never dreamed of piecing together his own Amish diamond coverlet or rummaging around Jo-Ann Fabrics in search of calico prints. But then he enrolled in a trial sponsored by the National Institute on Aging to assess whether learning a new skill can help preserve cognitive function in old age. By random assignment, he landed in the quilting group.
When it comes to mental agility, we're more likely to think of crosswords than cross-stitch. But neuroscientists suspect that learning a challenging new skill – a new language, a new musical instrument – may be even more effective than mental games at keeping the brain sharp. And quilting is more complicated than it may seem.
"It's a very abstract task," said Dr. Denise Park, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Dallas, who is leading the trial. "You have to picture what the pattern will look like, match fabrics, manipulate geometric forms, mentally rotate objects."
In Mr. Branham's case, he also had to learn to use a sewing machine. And while it's too early to tell if quilting is sharpening his mind, he quickly found that he loved his new pastime. He spends as much as 40 hours a week piecing and stitching, both at home and at the social center that Dr. Park set up for the trial.
"I get ideas and pointers from the instructor and the other participants," he said. "We have a real good time."
Memory is among the least understood areas of neuroscience, and the sad truth is that there is no magic pill or potion at present that will prevent our parents' minds from failing. But a panel of 30 experts from the United States and Europe recently issued a consensus statement on what we do know about maintaining brain fitness (which includes not only memory, but also reasoning, attention and speed of processing). The verdict was that three things are crucial: physical exercise, mental challenges and good health habits in general.
But wait! What about the supplements and software programs we've been stocking up on? "There's a lot of snake oil out there," warned Dr. Laura Carstensen, director of the Center on Longevity at Stanford University, who co-chaired the panel. In short, don't count on supplements. (The rationale behind ginkgo biloba is plausible, but there is no scientific evidence it works.) Steer clear of anything that promises to prevent Alzheimer's disease. (Such a claim would require approval from the Food and Drug Administration, and no product has it.) And look skeptically on software programs. (Most improve performance only on the games themselves, not mental function in general.)
Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
Instead, Dr. Carstensen said, get moving. Exercise may sound like an impractical way to boost Mom's cognition when her energy levels are dwindling. But multiple studies show it helps. In a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2001, women ages 65 and older who walked the most showed the least cognitive decline over an eight-year period – up to 30 percent less than their sedentary counterparts.
Another trial in the journal Nature by Dr. Arthur Kramer, a neuroscientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, found not just slower declines but actual improvements in working memory, attention and executive skills in older adults (average age 72) after six months of an aerobic exercise program – specifically, 45 minutes to an hour of walking, three times a week.
How could aerobic exercise possibly accomplish this? Among other things, it increases blood flow, encourages the formation of new synapses and reverses some of the age-related decline in brain volume. "If exercise were a pill, it would be the most expensive drug on the market," said Dr. Carstensen.
Other good habits are important, too. As neuroscientists like to say, what's good for the heart is good for the brain. That would include maintaining healthy blood sugar and blood pressure levels. A study last December in the Annals of Neurology showed that controlling blood sugar, even in non-diabetic adults, can help prevent deterioration in a part of the brain that's necessary for memory formation. Another paper published in the Archives of Neurology in February by scientists at Columbia University found that eating a heart-healthy Mediterranean diet – rich in fish, vegetables, whole grains, fruits, legumes and unsaturated fats – lowered the risk of mild cognitive impairment over four and a half years by as much as 28 percent.
But even if Mom follows all the advice she herself used to propound – eat your vegetables, go outside and exercise – there is no substitute for mental challenges. The brain is a use-it-or-lose-it type of organ. Synaptic connections that aren't firing will weaken.
The problem with most of our favorite approaches to staying sharp is that they are narrowly focused when what's needed is global improvement. Crosswords are great for word retrieval. That's clearly important. But not even The Times's Sunday puzzle by Will Shortz will help you remember where you left your car keys. "If you want lots of improvement, you have to do mental cross-training," said Dr. K. Warner Schaie, a professor of psychology at Pennsylvania State University.
In short, engage in many types of mental activity. Do crosswords, Sudoku, acrostics, play bridge, read books, join clubs, get into debates, volunteer – anything to keep the mind alive and engaged in new and interesting tasks. If the activity includes social interaction, so much the better. Or take up a new hobby, a new language or a new instrument that will challenge the brain in entirely different ways, preferably for years. "One problem with aging is that you develop expertise in a few things and do them over and over," said Dr. Carstensen. "Proficiency is good, but it's probably not growing new synapses."
Mr. Branham, on the other hand, seems to be sprouting plenty of neural connections. He's now completed two full-sized quilts – one a sampler with various patterns, the other a split rail design with stars in the four corners. He'd even like to launch a small business selling his patchwork place mats and table runners. When friends at church ask him why he signed up for such a study, and why on earth he agreed to start quilting, he has a ready answer. "Studies need participants," he says. "And you should sign up, too."


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There are a number of theories as to where the tradition of 'toasting' originated from. Some believe it was the ancient Greeks who had a strange practice of spiking wine with poisons. To eliminate their concerns, the host would pour wine from a decanter and take the first drink. Guests were then satisfied that the wine was safe and invited to raise their goblets for the 'toast'. Others say it came about from the Romans, who drank to the health of Augustus at every meal.
In the 17th century, during the reign of Charles II, pieces of spiced toast were added to the wine, firstly to enhance its flavour and secondly to keep sediment, which was often found in the wine, at the bottom. By the end of the 17th century, 'toasting' important guests at a banquet was very popular. This tradition has continued down the ages to the custom we use in the present day.
History tells us that there were two main characters who were heavily influential in the development of Toastmasters as we know them today.
Richard 'Beau' Nash was a larger than life character, born in Swansea in 1674. Details on his formative years are scarce but he studied law at Jesus College, Oxford. He was quite a dandy, dressed in a frock coat, knee breeches, black stockings and silver buckled shoes. However he was not particularly academic and after a short spell in the Guards soon found himself in trouble by cavorting with too many women. He moved to Bath where he became assistant to the Master Of Ceremonies. Soon after, due to his employer being killed in a sword fight he found himself appointed Master Of Ceremonies, a title which he held for over fifty years.
He would organise many events in Bath society life and created a strict code of etiquette and behaviour for its citizens to adhere to. To this end he became one of the most influential men in social history of England.
A Toastmaster is employed to preside over an event and must be immediately recognised. The tradition is that he should be more splendidly dressed than the guests present goes right back to these times of Richard 'Beau' Nash. Extracts taken from Beau Nash: Monarch of Bath and Tunbridge Wells, by Willard Connely 1955
Some 130 years after the death of Richard 'Beau' Nash, a Toastmaster of repute by the name of William Knightsmith was becoming increasingly frustrated at being mistaken for a waiter at events that he was attending. Having explained this to his wife, she suggested that he should change the colour of his coat so that it made him stand out. Soon after, the 'hunting pink' tailcoat became the adopted form of dress for Toastmasters. The name is derived from Mr Pink, the tailor who designed them.
In the City of London, tradition and protocol is different, as the 'hunting pink' tailcoat is not worn. The reason being that the law stated a hunt was forbidden to pass through the City, and of course, the huntmaster wore this particular style of coat.
However, you will find that Toastmasters (particularly connected with the livery companies) in the City usually wear a black tailcoat with some form of red sash underneath.
(Much of this information was taken from the English Toastmasters Association training manual)


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When you're trying to find perfect woodworking tool for yourself, looking at brand names can be good indicator of product's quality. Granted, it's not fool-proof method, there are plenty of bad DeWalt products, but generally, you're safer when going with brand name products. These big brands spend fortune on making their brands synonymous with quality, and spend even more on actually delivering on that promise. Yes, sometimes they abuse that brand recognition and sell products at very high markups, but those are the exceptions rather than the norm. I, personally, love DeWalt. At first, i bought it out of genuine research – i spent a lot of time on finding the best worm drive saw i could get, and it happened to be DeWalt. Same thing happened with table saw, and after trying both of these products in action, and liking them, now i've turned into very loyal customer. Whenever i happen to be looking for tools, first ones to be considered are DeWalt. I know, i should probably give other brands a chance, but DeWalt tools have left nothing to be desired. Even though DeWalt is very good, i must admit it's not always the right brand.
For example : if you're not planning to use the tool every day, and only need something to distract yourself on weekends, Ryobi is perfectly good brand too. Usually, it's considered cheaper and worse than DeWalt, but it has its advantages too. For once, Ryobi tools cost less than half of what DeWalts cost. And their quality is great – as long as you don't use them too often. They are made for gentler use, while DeWalts are made to last forever, no matter how harshly you use them.
Same doesn't apply for hand tools, though. I recently got myself splitting maul from Fiskars, and i'm loving it. I chose it according to TheSawExpert guide.
Other than that, other decent budget brand is Skil. Black and Decker used to be like DeWalt, but something happened in the corporate, i thing they got sold to someone else, who turned it into their budget brand. But they can't even excel at that now. So i'd advise to stay away from Black and Decker.
Bosch is much like DeWalt. These two have been the best at making tools for the past decade. Both have their advocates, but i've only tried DeWalt and liked it a lot. So can't comment on Bosch, but it seems to be very good, too.


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A hidden gem, just across the way from our house. Very pleasant greetings as we walked in the door. Food was delicious and the peanutbutter/ chocolate cake for dessert was amazing. Cant wait to come back for breakfast and try the corned beef hash.
Very good place to eat. We have eaten lunch and breakfast there and both were excellent. Good service. We will go back
Visting Venice and found this wonderful Cafe in Venice. The best Reuben I have ever eaten! The bread was perfect and the prices are reasonable! Highly recommend this Cafe!
Great service, crowded at 6:30 PM. Food was very good, wait staff was very attentive despite all tables being filled. Parking tight, park in back instead. Had several unusual delicious desserts, standard menus, available online, with specials each night. Will be going back.


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Indian robusta bowls over Boston roasters
A quick look back at the Emerging Market: India feature discussion held at this year's Specialty Coffee Association of America exposition in Boston in The Hindu BusinessLine.
Indian robusta coffees have been received well at the Specialty Coffee Association of America meet held recently at Boston, US.
"With Boston being in close proximity to major coffee roasters in the US, the event was attended by a sizeable crowd," Jawaid Akhtar, Chairman, Coffee Board told Business Line.
"Robustas are generally known to be harsh, but when American roasters tested our coffees, they were amazed to discover the mildness and aroma of Indian coffees," he said.
The Coffee Board had taken up space at the specialty coffee association and visitors tasted liquid coffee, instead of coffee samples from different regions.
At the event, a session on "Emerging Markets in Specialty Coffee: India" was also held to educate the US roasters. The one-hour session mainly focused on why specialty coffee needs Indian robustas. The session was attended by about 70 roasters from the North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Sunalini Menon, CEO, Coffeelab Ltd, talked about the distinct characteristics of Indian coffee and coffee growers' representative Nishant Gurjer, Partner, Kaapi Royale Coffee, and Chairman of Karnataka Planters' Association (KPA), spoke about the farm practices of cultivating coffee in India. The moderator of the event was Andrew Hetzel, consultant, CafeMakers.
The Indian delegation had, besides the Coffee Board Chairman and the KPA Chairman, quality control expert Sunalini Menon, M.P. Devaiah of Allana Sons, Bharat Mandanna of BBTC, Jacob Mammen of Bhadra Group, Kurien who was representing Small Coffee Growers Association, Kerala, and US coffee trader Joseph John.
For the last three to four years, the Coffee Board has been focussing on the US market. "Roasters in US are increasingly using robustas in their blends, it is here we are focusing our attention to penetrate the most important market in the world," said Gurjer.
Creating awareness of the Indian coffee in the US has led to gaining some ground in the market. Indian coffee exports to US are currently averaging at around 6,000 tonnes and is the 14th important market. Exports have doubled in the last five years. In 2008-09 exports stood at 2,556 tonnes.
India's robust step towards quality coffee
The January 2012 issue of Global Coffee Review features the article "India's robust step towards quality coffee," written by Nishant Gurjer. The article discusses changes in robusta farming over the years and the new and emerging specialty robusta market being spearheaded by a new generation of small farms.
The article is online now and available to GCR subscribers.
India's emerging specialty coffee market
The January / February 2012 issue of Roast Magazine article features the emerging specialty coffee markets of China, the Middle East, Russia and India. Be sure to read Nishant Gurjer's quotes on the current state of India's booming specialty coffee development and gives his outlook for the future in: The New Frontier, Specialty Coffee's Emergence in China, India, the Middle East and Russia


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Electa ABBOTT m. Chauncy BIGFORD IL/IA
Illinois marriage index has: "Electa H. ABBOTT m. Chauncy BIGFORD, 30 Nov 1845, Kane County, IL."Chauncy J. W. BICKFORD and wife Electa (ABBOTT) BICKFORD later settled in Floyd Co., IA.
LDS Ancestrial File says Electa (?) BICKFORD b. 6 Jan 1823, VT?; d. ?, buried Rockford, Floyd Co., IA.Chauncy J. W. BICKFORD, b. 1 Oct 1818, NY?; d. 4 Feb 1892, buried Rockford, Floyd Co., IA.Four children: Margaretta BICKFORD b. 1850, IL; Clara L. BICKFORD b. abt.1851, IA; Simeon A. BICKFORD b. abt. 1856, IA; Ella BICKFORD b. abt. 1857, IA. (Ella may have married ? McGaugh.)
I am seeking any info that would link LUTHER A. BICKFORD b. 1847 (IL?) as a probable fifth (and first born) child to Electa (ABBOTT) BICKFORD and Chauncy J.W. BICKFORD.Luther A. BICKFORD was my ggrandfather.I have family photo of "Uncle Sim Bickford from Rockford, Iowa."Said to be an uncle of my grandmother Lutheria "Lutie" (BICKFORD) FOOTE, only known child of Luther A. BICKFORD.I think Simeon BICKFORD and "Sim" BICKFORD are one in the same, and was the brother of Luther A BICKFORD.Also I have found graves of Chauncy & Electa (ABBOTT) BICKFORD and Sim (headstone reads Sim, not Simeon) and Mary (SIDO) BICKFORD - all interred in same cemetary, close together, in Rockford, Floyd Co., IA.
I would so greatly appreciate any info on Electa ABBOTT's parents/siblings?Chauncy BICKFORD(BIGFORD) parents/siblings? Birth place of Luther A. BICKFORD?
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Reunion Pointe's location
just might be its best attraction.
RVers will find us perfectly positioned just off I-10 between Pensacola, Florida, and Mobile. Our South Alabama community is just minutes from the sugar-white sands of the Gulf of Mexico, nestled among 100-year-old live oaks and sandwiched between Wolf Bay and Mobile Bay, both offering direct water access to the deep green waters of the Gulf.
But the natural setting of this beautiful Southern hamlet is not somewhere out in the boondocks—far from it. We are only a mile from the picturesque city of Foley, Alabama, with an array of shopping and restaurants. The entire Gulf Coast is known for its fine dining and shopping. Our port-home community is only three miles from the Tanger Outlet Mall and less than five miles from the site of the new, 528-acre Blue Collar Country Entertainment and Sports Complex built with the Blue Collar Comedy team of Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy—a $300-million complex announced to open in the near future.
We are also just minutes from the $1-billion retail and resort center, The Wharf, famous for its high-end retail and restaurants, resort hotel and condominiums, and a 10,000-seat amphitheater that draws name acts such as Alabama, Sugar- land, The Beach Boys, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Its 215-slip marina offers docking for up to 150-ft vessels with direct Gulf access.
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Prescribe Connection
"… can we PLEASE keep the discussion boards open post program?!"
It's our most common question. We hear it all the time, so we finally decided to make it happen. Exclusive to alumni, we're opening a brand new discussion board for you to check in with us and the Prescribe Nutrition community. We're offering a three month package for $57. The first grouped kicked off this fall and the boards are-a-buzzing. After many requests, we're opening the doors for more to join Prescribe Connection. We're going to navigate 2016 TOGETHER.
Talk about a party!
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Check out the discussion board activity from the opening weekend of Prescribe Connection.
Bonuses for 2016? You know it.
- Monthly LIVE calls. Yes, you and us on the phone. Together.
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- And a brand spanking new tab where you share your meal plans for inspiration with each other!
*these packets will be from all archived (no longer running) programs.
Here is the not-so-fine-print:
- This is just the beginning. We have big plans for Prescribe Nutrition but we're starting with what we can right now. Why not, right? This will continue to grow into a badass offering.
- As always, the discussion boards will be open 24/7 but moderated from 8am-10pm CST. To be transparent with you from the beginning, the turnaround on posts will not be as immediate as in a typical program. We are committing to a 4 hour response time.
- What is it? An ongoing discussion board – consider it your nutrition support center. What this isn't? A live program. This is a space for you to use all you've learned from Prescribe Nutrition programs and keep up the momentum with the PN team and community.
- You will continue to have access to all of your past programs and materials.
- Discussions, bonus materials, giveaways and surprises along the way – you guys, we can hardly wait.
Again, this is just for alumni (you're our people). Have a friend or family member that's interested in PN? Refer them to a program and then they will have the option to jump in on the Prescribe Connection fun.


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Trainee Recruitment Consultant - Award Winning agency
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Premier Group Recruitment is a leading IT, Digital and Engineering recruitment consultancy. We are rapidly expanding and in the last 18 years have opened offices in Manchester, Birmingham, London, New York and Reading. Due to this growth we are currently looking to hire Trainee Recruitment Consultants within our central Birmingham office. Your role as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant will consist of business development, being proactive in making both cold and warm canvass calls to clients and candidates. As a Trainee Recruitment Consultant you will resource for candidates and will be given the tools to access them, such as job boards, social media and our database. Additional to this you will write adverts to attract the best candidates and manage responses. When speaking to clients you will capture their requirement by taking a thorough job specification over the phone as well as meet with them face to face. At Premier Group Recruitment we offer Trainee Recruitment Consultants: An uncapped commission scheme up to 40% - realistic first year OTE of £40,000 - £45,000. The opportunity of making over £100K in 3 years! Structured and transparent career progression from Trainee to Senior Management, based on performance. Company Car Allowance scheme target Subsidised gym allowance Free PT sessions in the office Industry leading training programme with onsite trainers Fresh fruit daily Breakfast provided daily We love to celebrate success and achievements and offer the opportunity to: Hit 5* Luxury holiday incentives every 3 months - Las Vegas, Hollywood, Barcelona, Berlin and Budapest Hit Lunch club incentives to Michelin Star Restaurants such as Crazy Bear, L'Ortolan, Ascot Races and Henley Regatta Friday beer fridge A hard working and fun environment Team incentives to go Paintballing, Go-Karting, Cocktail making, battleships, team dinners etc. Pool table, Fully stocked bar, PS4 and table tennis What are we looking for in a trainee recruitment consultant: 0-1 years in some form of sales environment - Call Centre, Banking, telesales, estate agency, mobile phone shops etc. Passionate about hitting targets and working in a highly competitive environment Good communication skills Determination, drive, ambition, energy and high levels of resilience You will be given the opportunity to build a thriving career. You don't need to have experience in recruitment, we will teach you everything you need to know. Apply today or call Sara Collins on to find out how you can further your career as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant
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I am schizo-affective. I just started taking 20 mgs a day. I also suffer from panic attacks, but the klonipin controls some of the attacks.I tried prozac,zoloft, it just increased my anxiety.I just started taking it today, 20 mgs. a day. How long before i start seeing results.
Does paxil control panic attacks?
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- 27 Sep 2012 by Morton87
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- 30 September 2012
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- paxil, prozac, zoloft, anxiety, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder
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Need to add that Paroxetine is used more often than not for GAD, not for panic attacks.
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Dana Richman is the Senior Marketing Specialist at Hivewyre. She is a marketing professional with a passion for marketing, design and branding. She is the queen bee of making sure our brand shines to the outside world. Her background consists of balancing marketing with design in today's tech-savvy world and ensuring our team has all the tools they need to showcase what Hivewyre is and does to help our customers succeed.
Dana received her bachelor's degree in Marketing from Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business and is certified in ClickDimensions Marketing Automation. When she's not buzzing around the office, she's volunteering in the community with Valley of the Sun Active 20-30 and Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY).


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"I will answer very simply that the internet will disappear," Schmidt said on Thursday at the ongoing World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Why?
"There will be so many IP addresses, … so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won't even sense it, it will be part of your presence all the time,"he explained. "Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room."
Schmidt spoke on the theme "The Future of the Digital Economy". He predicts highly personalized, highly interactive and very, and he said, a very interesting world emerges.
World Should Expect The Death Of Piracy
Harvard professors at the World Economic Forum in Davos Thursday and assembled elite heard that the notion of individual privacy is effectively dead.
"Welcome to today. We're already in that world," said Margo Seltzer, a professor in computer science at Harvard University.
"Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible … How we conventionally think of privacy is dead,' she added.
Sophia Roosth, a researcher in genetics said, intelligence agents were already asked to collect genetic information on foreign leaders to determine things like susceptibility to disease and life expectancy. said it was "inevitable" that one's personal genetic information would enter more and more into the public sphere.
"We are at the dawn of the age of genetic McCarthyism," she said, referring to witchhunts against Communists in 1950s America.
What's more, Seltzer imagined a world in which tiny robot drones flew around, the size of mosquitoes, extracting a sample of your DNA for analysis by, say, the government or an insurance firm. Invasions of privacy are "going to become more pervasive," she predicted. "It's not whether this is going to happen, it's already happening … We live in a surveillance state today."
Political scientist tackled the controversial subject of encrypted communications and the idea of regulating to ensure governments can always see even encrypted messages in the interests of national security.
Joseph Nye , a political scientist posits that "governments are talking about putting in back doors for communication so that terrorists can't communicate without being spied on. The problem is that if governments can do that, so can the bad guys,"
"Are you more worried about big brother or your nasty little cousin?"
In the same way we can send tiny drones to spy on people, we can send the same machine into an Ebola ward to "zap the germs," Seltzer said. "The technology is there, it is up to us how to use it," she added.
And at a separate session on artificial intelligence, panelists appeared to accept the limit on privacy as part of modern life.
Rodney Brooks, chairman of Rethink Robotics, an American tech firm, took the example of Google Maps guessing – usually correctly – where you want to go.
"At first, I found that spooky and kind of scary. Then I realized, actually, it's kind of useful," he said.


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The Boston Harborfest or the Boston Festival as it is better known is usually celebrated for a week before the 4th of July each year. Boston being a major harbor in the US, the festival is well-attended by people from all over the country. It is a six-day celebration which begins on the 29th of June and ends on the 4th of July. The festival is divided into six distinct categories which are described below.
The opening ceremony takes place on the first day of the Boston Festival. It is marked with several marching bands and lots of music and fanfare. The Boston Harbor bears a festive look and the upcoming events of the next few days are announced during the opening ceremony. A kickoff party is usually held as part of the opening ceremony.
Usually held on the first day at the town hall, this is a party which sets the event into motion. This party brings the city together in a general spirit of camaraderie
The children's day celebration is usually free. It is held on the 30th of June and several fun-filled activities, games and competitions for children are organized. It usually takes place at the City Hall. Activities include clowns, jugglers and face painting with lots of music and dance for the children.
The main feature here is a boat race featuring multi-hull boats. A total of 11 international boats are selected to compete for the first position and the race can be seen from the Fan Pier in Boston.
This event is also free. It consists of a re-enactment of the American Revolution where actors portray important historical figures of the American Revolution.
This event is self explanatory. As a fishing port, Boston boasts of a wide variety of different types of sea-food chowders such as clam chowder, fish chowder and so on. The Chowderfest is a platform for all types of chowders imaginable. There are several vegetarian chowders also available.
Since the Boston Festival has so much to offer in the way of reinforcing the rich American Traditions, showcasing the American way of life, Americans would do well to travel down to Boston over the 4th of July holiday to celebrate American Independence Day in the true American style.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Shut up, fool!
8 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2011 at 12:14 AM
I think you should shut up instead, fool ... there is no rule on Twitter saying "retweeting" is the same as "endorsing" ... a person can retweet something as a mean of joking or discussion opener or whatever the person's intention is .. when you interpreted her retweet as endorsing and she should be responsible for that, well it's you who worsened the simple thing ... and it made you look, well, fool instead ;-)ReplyDelete
hello, when you retweet something and ure a public figure, it carries weight. would u retweet something like "the PM is fat" if you're a public figure? you wouldnt right? so when she retweeted something, and then proudly told the person who owned the ori tweet, "hangat la tweet u i RT", that sounds like endorsing and a bit of bragging. i dont look like a fool coz im no public figure. she on the other hand looks like a damn fool, along with her supporters.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2011 at 8:22 AM
I think the reason why so many people are pissed is because they think the government should be giving the rakyat of Malaysia education free of charge which btw, some countries do. I'm on the fence about it though. I think everybody should be grateful about the fee reduction. It's something, isn't it? But personally, I do think education should be given freely, it's not like they don't have enough money.ReplyDelete
you make a fair and reasonable argument. in my opinion though, Malaysia is not a 3rd world country. Therefore most Malaysians can afford to pay the minimal fees required for their children's education. That way more money can be channeled to other developments and the quality of education will have room for improvement.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 13, 2011 at 3:34 AM
everybody got their very own opinion in certain issues. some people may agree with you and some people may not. so do she (wardina)..., but you must respect her. does what she said (or RT) hurt you?? well, you maybe coming from a rich family and therefore, can afford to pay all such fees. how about those who can't afford?? those coming from rural areas, those unfortunate?? think about it...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 13, 2011 at 7:21 AM
Alright motherfucker,troll to some more people i dare you,cause soon enough the only safe haven you're gonna have is behind that little computer screen of yours...wouldn't that suck?ReplyDelete
is that supposed to be a threat? i dont troll by the way. this is an outright comment. im not hiding behind anything. now its clear, whats worse than an ignorant celeb is their ignorant followers!ReplyDelete
by the way, i wouldnt mind saying all this to her face as well. i dont hide behind my computer screen. unlike you, anonymous!ReplyDelete


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Meta Tags Analyzer
The question generally raised among the SEO community is; are Meta tags important; do Meta tags have any significant impact on search engines ranking and are Meta tags useful? SEOs and Webmasters can select from some Meta tags analyzer tools now widely available on the internet.
Some search engines give importance to Meta tags, and others do not. But we first need to understand what Meta tags are? Search engines read them to see if the tag keywords, description are related to the visible content.
Go to any website page and do right click on the mouse on you will get the option. Once you click a window will open with the option 'view source'. Select it, and the source code of the page will be displayed. You will find the Meta tag located in the header section. If you are unfamiliar with HTML code, you might find it difficult to find.
There are not many but only four types of Meta tags which are discussed here:
- Meta Keywords Attribute - these are a series of keywords that are deemed to be relevant to the page being analyzed.
- Title Tag - This is the text which appears at the top of your browser. Search engines view this text as the "title" of your page.
- Meta Description Attribute - Search engines consider this attribute as a brief description of the page.
- Meta Robots Attribute - This attribute indicates to search engines crawlers as to how this page is to be treated.
Using Meta keywords is a futile exercise nowadays. In the past, they were useful but not anymore. There are many reasons for their dropping out of favor with search engines, but primary reason was that internet marketers eager to get a better ranking started inserting useless keywords. These keywords had no relevance to the content of the web page. This practice was called 'keyword stuffing.' Google soon realized something was seriously wrong and got wise to this practice. After which Google decided to do away with using Meta keywords as a metric in their website ranking algorithm. Right now some search engines do give some importance to them. But since Google is the market leader other search engines follow its lead.
Of all the Meta tags, title tags are the most important, both from the search engine as well as the visitor's view. These are the only tags that are visible on the viewer's page. This tag is found at the top when you open a website or page. Title tags should be easy to read and be understandable. Title tags that describe your website should be based on how you expect people to search for websites in your industry. For example, this page's title tag will be 'meta tags analyzer.' When SEOs and webmasters search for this analyzer, this page's website should appear on the first page displayed by the search engine. Therefore the title tag should service two purposes. Be visible for ranking to the search engine and the website visitor.
It may or may not be used by Google as a description of the page content as it may pick up a snippet from the content to use as the description. However, Google may deny the importance of the Meta description being used in its page ranking algorithm.
But their actions contradict this statement. Agreed Meta titles don't matter anymore but when searching for content keywords Meta descriptions do. If it cannot find a useful snippet of the content, it will have to rely on the Meta description attribute.
This attribute tells search engines what to do with the pages in the site:
- Index/no index - This tells the search engine to show your pages in search results or not, which in fact means to index them in ranking
- Follow/no follow - This tells the search engines to trust your pages and follow the links or not to follow them.
Now that we have discussed Meta tags and their role in search engines ranking and visitors viewing. Where do you go from here? If your website has excellent content but is ranking low on Google and other search engines, you should examine your Meta tags. First use searchenginereports.net meta-tags-analyzer to carry out an analysis of your website, its source and pages. Once you enter your website URL address the analyzer tool will conduct an analysis of your site.
It will use a color code used to point out errors, warnings and good. The color code used is red for errors, orange for warnings and green for all is good. It will show the status of your website. The Meta tags report summary and a detailed analysis. Once you have studied the report you will know the areas that you need to improve to get a better ranking for your website.
You can use Meta description generator to generate helpful descriptions that you can use to describe your text. You can also look at sample Meta description to seek help. Using a Meta tag generator will be a futile exercise as Meta tags are ignored by Google in ranking sites. You should first do a website analyzer run and then get into looking at Meta tags.
Don't fidget with the generated source unless you know exactly what you are doing. It might sound quite simple, and you may be tempted to change it. But this can cause your entire website or pages to get corrupted. Therefore seek expert help if you really think you need to make any changes to your Meta tags.
For example a Meta tags analyzer may report not finding a Meta robot attribute on your site. It might ask you to download and install one. Don't do this as on a different site you will find them encouraging you to install their version. Your best bet would be to get an SEO to look at your site and select the robot to install. That's if one is needed.


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Excess Emissions (New Mexico)
From Open Energy Information
Last modified on February 12, 2015.
EZFeed Policy
| New Mexico
|Applies to States or Provinces
|New Mexico
|Excess Emissions (New Mexico)
|Policy Category
|Other Policy
|Policy Type
|Environmental Regulations
|Affected Technologies
|Biomass/Biogas, Coal with CCS, Natural Gas, Nuclear
|Active Policy
|Implementing Sector
| State/Province
|Program Administrator
|New Mexico Environment Department
|Primary Website
| http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title20/20.002.0007.htm
|Last Review
| 2014-09-15
|Information Source
This regulation establishes requirements for a source whose operation results in an excess emission and to establish criteria for a source whose operation results in an excess emission to claim an affirmative defense in an administrative or judicial enforcement action from a civil penalty. "Excess emission" means the emission of an air contaminant, including a fugitive emission, in excess of the quantity, rate, opacity or concentration specified by an air quality regulation or permit condition.
The owner or operator of a source subject to a permit or to the notification requirement under the New Mexico Air Quality regulations must establish and implement a plan to minimize emissions during routine or predictable startup, shutdown, and scheduled maintenance through work practice standards and good air pollution control practices. The owner or operator must maintain the plan at the location authorized by the permit, at the facility, or at the nearest occupied facility, and provide the plan to the New Mexico Environment Department upon written request. The emission of an air contaminant in excess of the quantity, rate, opacity, or concentration specified in an air quality regulation or permit condition that results in an excess emission is a violation of the air quality regulation or permit condition and may be subject to an enforcement action. The owner or operator of a source having an excess emission must, to the extent practicable, operate the source, including associated air pollution control equipment, in a manner consistent with good air pollution control practices for minimizing emissions.
Policy Contact
|Contact Name
|Donald Flores
|New Mexico Environment Department
| Air Quality Bureau
| 505-476-4359
Authorities (Please contact the if there are any file problems.)
|Authority 1:
|Environmental Improvement Act, NMSA 1978, section 74-1-8(A)(4) and (7)
|Date Effective
|Date Enacted
| 1978
|Authority 2:
|Air Quality Control Act, NMSA 1978, sections 74-2-1 et seq., including specifically, section 74-2-5(A), (B) and (C)
|Date Effective
|Date Enacted
| 1978


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|Artwork by Ameala Lyons - click to enlarge
On 11 October 2011, I visited Thorpe Hall Lower School in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and gave a slideshow presentation and talk followed by a 'Meet the Author' booksigning event.
Afterwards, the children kindly sent me some letters and artwork based on my books and the presentation. This helps other schools to know what happens so they can decide if they would like a FREE Jack Trelawny author visit to their school. Below is a letter from Ameala Lyons.
|Letter from Ameala Lyons
I really like the animal that Ameala has drawn. Do you think it's a friendly animal or a ferocious creature?
School website: Thorpe Hall Lower School
See you next time in the Story House.
Happy writing... and reading!
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