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How To Root And Install TWRP Recovery on Infinix Hot 5
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Rochelle's Friday Fictioneers' challenge this week is around the theme of boxing, as you can see from the photo prompt. Here is my 100 word story.
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My Home Town
My dad was a big man, wanted me to be a big man too, boxer like him. I remember being at the ringside watching his moves, his bravery, his power And the raw energy in the hall.
I'm big like him, cos I trained all through my growing up. He was my hero – died suddenly, brain injury they said. I left, studied, became an engineer. Just visiting my home town now, my old gym, feels its tug on me. Hear his voice 'Be a boxer, be proud, honour your dad.' Tell myself 'be brave, make a tough decision'…….


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Almost one-third of chemotherapy used "off-label"
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one-third of chemotherapies are used to fight cancers that drug regulators never approved them to treat, says a new study.
Chemotherapies - drugs that kill rapidly dividing cells - are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to fight specific cancers, but there's nothing stopping doctors from prescribing the drugs "off-label" to treat other types of tumors.
Some researchers have questioned whether doctors were prescribing the expensive and toxic drugs outside of their intended use, according to the study's researchers, led by Rena Conti, an assistant professor of health policy and economics at the University of Chicago.
"The main criticism of off-label prescribing has been the concern that it jeopardizes patient safety because the full risk-benefit ratio is often not completely understood," wrote the University of Toronto's Dr. Monika Krzyzanowska, who published an editorial accompanying the study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on Tuesday.
But that doesn't mean the billions of dollars spent on off-label chemotherapies are wasted, according to Conti.
"We don't know what the outcomes are. We can't make a judgment of whether the off-label use we document… is appropriate or inappropriate," said Conti.
For the new study, the researchers used a national prescription database from U.S. cancer doctors to estimate how the most common intravenous or injected chemotherapies were used in 2010.
They found ten chemotherapies that were still protected from competition by patents. They ranged from almost 500,000 doses of Genentech's Avastin or bevacizumab - approved to treat brain, colorectal, lung and kidney cancers - to about 53,000 doses of Celegene's Vidaza or azacitidine - used to treat certain blood disorders.
Overall, about 70 percent of the doses of the ten chemotherapies were used "on-label," which means the doses were used in line with FDA approval. The other 30 percent was used to treat cancers the drug regulators never approved.
The researchers also looked at whether the off-label use of chemotherapies was supported by the National Comprehensive Care Network (NCCN), a group that publishes its own guidelines on cancer care.
They found that 14 percent of chemotherapies were prescribed off label but were supported by the NCCN's expert opinion, and 10 percent were prescribed without NCCN or FDA support.
Conti told Reuters Health that doctors follow guidelines from expert organizations when there is not enough data for the FDA to make a decision, such as when rare diseases make it too difficult to conduct a clinical trial.
Conti and her colleagues point out, however, that some researchers have criticized NCCN recommendations, because of possible delays in guidelines based on the latest data, and possible conflicts of interests.
The total cost of chemotherapies for 2010 was $12 billion. Of that, $4.5 billion went toward off-label chemotherapies - $2.5 billion for non-NCCN supported uses.
"To me it's a little troubling that so many drugs are given in areas where there is not a lot of data to back it up," said Dr. Nancy Keating, a cancer researcher who was not involved with the new study.
"The tricky thing is patients with cancer and their doctors are looking for anything with a benefit. So I think they're sometimes willing to try things where there isn't as much data as you would like," said Keating, from Boston's Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
But Conti said they can't tell from their data whether patients prescribed on-label chemotherapy did better than patients receiving off-label chemotherapy.
"What our study basically does is highlight this proportion of use that is off-label and endorsed by expert opinion, or off-label and not endorsed by expert opinion," Conti said.
She added that their study shows chemotherapy use is driven by FDA approval and expert opinion. The other chunk that's prescribed without expert or FDA backing may be in response to a lack of available treatments, she said.
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MILES, EDWARD MADAN, surveyor; b. 14 March 1835 near Thornhill in Markham Township, Upper Canada, eldest son of Lawford Edward and Anna Miles; d. 9 Nov. 1866 at Weston (now in Metropolitan Toronto), Canada West.
Edward Madan Miles' parents moved to the island of Heligoland, then a British possession, soon after his birth. He attended school in Altona in the duchy of Holstein, and, following that, spent three or four years at sea. In 1851 he returned to Markham Township to farm on land purchased by his father in 1834. However, he was attracted by land surveying and became articled to John Stoughton Dennis* of Weston. Miles passed his final examination on 13 July 1857. A year later he accepted as a pupil his younger brother, Charles Falconer Miles. In 1858 Edward Miles entered into a partnership with surveyor John Lindsay; he assisted in surveying military pensioners' lots and ordnance lands in Penetanguishene from November 1858 to January 1859, and the boundaries of the town plot of Keswick in May 1859. Soon after he formed a partnership with Charles Unwin, who in 1860–61 conducted surveys on the north shore of Lake Huron for the Crown Lands Department, which had decided to subdivide some townships and find new lines of communication. From May to October 1860 Miles was in charge of the survey of Macdonald Township in the Algoma District.
Miles is best known for the position he held as surveyor with the Canadian Land and Emigration Company, founded in London in 1861 with Thomas Chandler Haliburton as chairman. After lengthy negotiations the company had agreed to purchase from the Canadian government ten townships, en bloc, nine in the present county of Haliburton, and one, Longford, in Victoria County, which it proposed to divide into lots for sale to settlers. The cost to the company and the settlement duties required by the government were to be based on the number of acres considered fit for settlement as determined by a surveyor acceptable to both the company and the government. Miles was originally selected by the company but was not approved by the Crown Lands Department. The position was given to Brookes Wright Gossage, who by 1862 had more than 60 men working in the area. In 1863, after disputes had arisen between the department, the company, and Gossage concerning the location and quality of the land and the amount to be paid to Gossage, the company employed Miles independently as "inspecting surveyor." He re-examined Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Harburn, and Guildford townships and made a preliminary survey of the townsite of Haliburton. His estimate of the acres fit for settlement was far below that of Gossage, but, unfortunately for the Company, Gossage's figures were accepted in the final agreement between it and the Crown Lands Department. It was left to the settlers, struggling with rock and swamp, to prove the accuracy of Miles' report.
While Miles was employed by the company he was active in establishing the new settlement at Haliburton. He read the services in St. George's Church (Church of England) before the arrival of the first clergyman, the Reverend Frederick Burt, in the summer of 1865. He left the company shortly after this date. Returning to Weston, where he had maintained his home for some years, he entered into partnership with J.W. Farrand to operate a woollen mill on the Humber River. In the fall of 1866 Miles' hand was crushed in a burring machine and he died from lockjaw on 9 November.
In December 1859 he had married Louisa, eldest daughter of the Reverend William Arthur Johnson*, rector of St Philip's Church, Weston, and founder of the school that later became Trinity College School at Port Hope.
Ont., Dept. of Lands and Forests, Surveys Office, Instructions to land surveyors, Canada Land and Emigration Company surveys, 26 Feb. 1861–13 Jan. 1869 (mfm. copies at PAO). PAO, RG 1, B-IV, 82. Daily Telegraph (Toronto), 13 Nov. 1866. Globe, 13 Nov. 1866. Leader, 20 Nov. 1866. Muskoka and Haliburton (Murray). Mitchell & Co.'s general directory for the city of Toronto, and gazetteer of the counties of York and Peel for 1866 (Toronto, 1866). H. R. Cummings, Early days in Haliburton (Toronto, 1963). Nila Reynolds, In quest of yesterday . . . ([Minden, Ont., 1968]). C. F. Miles, "Edward Madan Miles," Assoc. of Ont. Land Surveyors, Annual report (Toronto), 33 (1918), 186–87. "Charles Falconer Miles," Assoc. of Ont. Land Surveyors, Annual report (Toronto), 38 (1923), 142–48.
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Cornel West, on HBO's Real Time, reiterated his criticism that President Obama is a "war criminal" for killing innocent people through drone strikes. He went on to make a simple, but rarely heard observation, that if you "have an empire, you're going to have war crimes."
Critical voices like his are an exception in the mainstream. For the most part, establishment liberals have either been silent or have cheered as Obama has expanded the national security state. West chastises these liberals as "morally bankrupt" for giving Obama a pass for the same problematic policies that Bush was roundly criticized for.
The mainstream reception of the NSA leaks is only the most recent illustrations of this trend. Rather than criticize the gross abuse of power by government, a smear campaign was orchestrated first against whistleblower Snowden and then journalist Glenn Greenwald.
From MSNBC's Mika Brezeznski using, as Greenwald states, "White House talking points" to downplay the significance of the leaks, to NBC's David Gregory asking why Greenwald shouldn't be charged as a criminal, the liberal establishment media and their "experts" have faithfully defended the White House.
Instead of "watchdog of the government," the corporate media acted as attack dogs for the government. One wonders what fate journalists Woodword and Bernstein might have suffered if they broke the Watergate scandal today.
The public, however, has not bought liberal apologia and have responded differently to the ongoing revelations. Fully 55% of Americans believe that Snowden is a whistle blower rather than a "traitor," and in a dramatic reversal far greater numbers of the public believe that the government has gone too far in violating civil liberties.
The machinery of liberal imperialism and the rhetorical shift orchestrated by the Obama administration is beginning to unravel.
Liberal Imperialism
Towards the end of Bush's second term the credibility of the US had been badly damaged on the world stage. Sections of the political elite had begun to strategize about how to rehabilitate empire's image.
In 2007, a leadership group headed by Madeleine Albright produced a document titled "Changing Course: A New Direction for US Relations with the Muslim World." The document states that to defeat "violent extremists," military force was necessary but not sufficient, and that the US needed to forge "diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural initiatives." In short, both "hard" and "soft" power was needed.
It rejected the Bush-era "clash of civilizations" framework and advised the next president to talk about improving relations with Muslim-majority countries in his or her inaugural speech and reaffirm the US's "commitment to prohibit all forms of torture."
Obama did exactly that. From his inaugural speech to the speech in Cairo he echoed these themes emphasizing the positive contributions of Muslims to human history. His administration dropped the term "Global War on Terror" and replaced it with the innocuous "Overseas Contingency Operations," all the while critiquing torture and upholding liberal human rights principles.
Yet liberal rhetoric by itself was not enough to rehabilitate empire. The defeat in Iraq, and the Afghan quagmire, necessitated a shift in imperial thinking from conventional warfare to largely invisible mechanisms of coercion.
Analyzing the 2012 Defense Planning Guidance document in my book Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, I argued that the era of large scale warfare was over, instead "the new phase of Obama's imperial posture involves reestablishing US hegemony. . .through multilateral alliances and the use of air strikes, drone attacks, and counterterrorism and special operations forces as well as cyber warfare."
The Empire's New Clothes, Same As the Old Clothes
Obama launched what has been called a "smarter" war on terror, using the tools developed by the Bush administration; a shift that has largely been kept from the public. From the establishment of Wikileaks on, we have entered a period where whistleblowers and investigative journalists are rendering the emperor's clothes visible.
The prison at Guantanamo bay became a symbol of Bush's excesses, and yet despite promises to the contrary it remains open. Obama issued an executive order to close down the notorious CIA "black sites," where torture was rampant. Journalist Anand Gopal, however, revealed that the US continues to maintain several secret prisons in Afghanistan where torture continues. Jeremy Scahill in his book Dirty Wars unearthed another such prison in Somalia.
It is hard to say how many more there are in other countries. But these revelations shed light on why the Obama administration has not prosecuted a single Bush administration official for torture. In fact, it has granted immunity to these officials.
When Bush indefinitely detained prisoners stripping them of their habeas corpus rights he was rightly denounced by liberals. Yet when Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that not only institutionalized this process but also expanded its use to US citizens there was little criticism from establishment liberals.
Rumsfeld and Cheney created a top secret killing machine out of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) which travelled around the world assassinating people at will without Congressional oversight or public discussion. Obama embraced and systematized this.
As Scahill observes, the Obama administration inherited from Bush a set of covert and clandestine programs marked by infighting between various agencies, particularly the CIA and JSOC. Obama would bring in Bush-era officials to create a seamless, integrated, and expanded global assassination program.
Obama has dramatically escalated drone strikes around the world; heinously, he also ordered the assassination of US citizens. The US-born radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki was executed without due process in Yemen; a few weeks later his teenage son was also killed in a "signature" strike.
The netwar has also been relentless. When the Bush administration announced the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program of intrusive data gathering and mining, it was rightly denounced as big brother. As the ongoing NSA leaks show, under Obama a program of even greater width and depth is now a reality.
The Obama administration has escalated cyberwarfare using militarized computer viruses to attack computers in Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities. Journalist Nick Turse notes that while these efforts were begun under Bush, "President Obama. . .became the first American commander-in-chief to order sustained cyberattacks designed to cripple another country's infrastructure." ((Nick Turse, The Changing Face of Empire, Haymarket Books, 2012, p. 8))
This reconfiguration of empire has been largely kept under wraps in order to maintain Obama's liberal posture. It is therefore not surprising that he has prosecuted whistleblowers at a rate higher than all previous US presidents combined.
Additionally, as McClatchy newspapers revealed, federal employees will be asked to spy on each other and tattle when they identify a potential leaker. Known as the "Insider Threat" program, this will apply not only to security establishment workers but also those in the Department of Agriculture, EPA, Social Security Administration and other agencies.
For Obama secrecy is vital since his entire presidency has rested on saying one thing and doing another; on liberal rhetoric and imperial actions. At root, his foreign policy still relies on the narrative of "keeping Americans safe" from the menacing "Islamic terrorist threat."
Liberal Islamophobia
In contrast to the visibly bigoted language of the right, the Obama era saw a shift to a more subtle anti-Muslim vocabulary. As Arun Kundnani, Hamid Dabashi and others have shown, liberal racism is central to empire. This analysis, however, has been critiqued.
Matt Duss, one of the authors of the important Fear Inc. study that exposed the machinations of the Islamophobia industry, in an otherwise sympathetic review of my book, takes issue with my definition of liberal Islamophobia.
Duss argues that the "problem with defining Islamophobia as broadly as Kumar does is that it threatens to divest the term of meaning." I disagree. If we don't explain the various forms and shapes that anti-Muslim prejudice takes, and offer a nuanced and comprehensive analysis, we run the risk of seeing it as only a right wing phenomenon. Thus, while Fear Inc. remains a useful guide to right wing Islamophobia, it unfortunately stops short of critiquing liberals and Democrats.
Meredith Tax similarly argues that my definition is too broad. Tax, however, is more interested in convincing liberals that the very term "Islamophobia" is so "confusing" that it is best rejected because it echoes the views of Islamists. This is a deeply problematic proposition yet one that we might expect from Tax and her group Center for Secular Space, which, as Saadia Toor shows, offers a liberal cover for imperialism.
Tax takes issue with my Nation article, which demonstrates how both political parties have demonized Muslims. She states that my definition of liberal Islamophobia is so broad that it can be used to "cover every imaginable form of US interaction with Muslims." Tax needs to work on her imagination and try to expand it beyond the twin parties of empire.
As the great historian Richard Hofstradter teaches us in The American Political Tradition there are very few substantive differences between the main political parties. While they "differ, sometimes bitterly, over current issues. . .they also share a general framework of ideas." ((Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition, Vintage, 1989, p. xxxviii)) This "range of ideas. . .is limited by the climate of opinion that sustains their culture." ((Ibid, pp. Xxxvii to xxxviii))
We are part of creating this "climate of opinion." When Woodward and Bernstein broke Watergate they did so after a period of massive social upheaval where the civil rights, women's rights, gay rights and anti-war movements had decisively shifted the culture of American politics to the left.
Frank Church, who headed a committee to study government excesses, warned of the dangers of NSA surveillance stating that it could "make tyranny total in America." On the FBI's COINTELPRO used to spy on 1960s activists including the pacifist Martin Luther King, the Church report stated that the "techniques used [are] intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity." The result was a curtailment of government spying.
Today, it is our responsibility to shift the culture in the US to bring an end not only to surveillance but also empire and its national security state.


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CRS: Andean Regional Initiative (ARI): FY2003 Supplemental and FY2004 Assistance for Columbia and Neighbors, January 30, 2004
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Title: Andean Regional Initiative (ARI): FY2003 Supplemental and FY2004 Assistance for Columbia and Neighbors
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Author(s): K. Larry Storrs and Connie Veillette, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: January 30, 2004
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- In 2003, Congress is considering President Bushs requests for FY2003 supplemental and FY2004 funding for Colombia and six regional neighbors in a continuation of the Andean Regional Initiative that was launched in 2001. The region has been viewed as important primarily because it produces virtually all of the worlds cocaine and increasing amounts of heroin. Moreover, the stability of Colombia and the region is threatened by Colombias longstanding guerrilla insurgency and rightist paramilitary groups, which are both believed to be largely funded by taxes on illegal narcotics cultivation and trade.
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The internet is a strange and unique phenomenon. I can choose to write an article every day and you may choose to read it every day; and yet the two of us can remain almost entirely anonymous. Maybe by briefly introducing myself I can help dismantle just a small portion of that anonymity.
If you've gotten this far, you already know my last name—Challies. Tack on the name of Tim and already that anonymity is falling apart. I am the author of this site, the editor of Discerning Reader (discerningreader.com) and a co-founder of Cruciform Press. A pastor and writer, I live on the outskirts of Toronto, Ontario (Canada) with my wife and three children and am a member of Grace Fellowship Church (gfcto.com). I have authored three books and a few free ebooks.
I am…
- Christian – I affirm that Jesus is my Saviour.
- Protestant – I affirm the five "solas" of the Reformation.
- Reformed – I affirm the doctrines of grace, principles known to some as Calvinism.
- Evangelical – I believe the gospel (which is the original and truest meaning of "evangelical").
- Unfinished – Though I find great beauty in traditional Protestantism, I realize that in some areas traditions may not be fully Scriptural. Where that is the case I am eager to change as the Spirit convicts me through the Word.
How Is "Challies" pronounced?
It's quite simple, I assure you. CHALL-eez. Just like that. There is no trick to it. It's not CHALL-is, it's not Charles and it sure isn't Chall-EES. Just pronounce it the way it looks like it should be pronounced and don't overthink it. CHALL-eez. It's that easy.
How Do I Get In Touch With You?
All that info is here. I like to get email though, because of the constraints on my time, I can't always reply.
Why Challies.com?
This started as a site where I posted pictures of my children for the benefit of my family. Eventually I began to write articles and post them here, also for the benefit of my family. But then other people began showing up and reading them and before I knew it, I had a blog. The site has since evolved into what you see today. I have not gotten around to changing to a new domain name and at this point I suppose I never will.
Will You Review My Book?
Maybe. While I generally prefer to receive books from publishers, I do accept some books directly from authors. Feel free to send it along. Though I cannot guarantee a review, I can at least guarantee that I'll give it a look and consider it.
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Islamic Alchemy in the context of Islamic ScienceThese pages are edited by Prof. Hamed Abdel-reheem Ead
Professor of Chemistry at Faculty of Science-University of Cairo Giza-Egypt and director of Science Heritage Center
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Part 1 Metallurgy - Copper and Iron Extraction. - Mercury - Metal and Mysticism - Art of Glass Making - Textile and Dyeing Materials.
Part 2 Earliest Chemical Manuscripts of the Chemical Arts In Egypt - Discovery of earliest chemical manuscripts - Leyden Papyrus - Stockholm Papyrus - Some selections from the Leyden Papyrus.
Part 3 Dyeing Processes in Leyden and Stockholm Papyri - Phrygian Stone - Hints for testing the quality of dyestuffs - Methods For Whitening Pearls - Method of making Artificial Pearls - Trade Names of Materials used in the Recipes
Part 4 Alexandria-Egypt and Early Alchemists - Alexandrian Alchemical Mystics - Fate of Alexandria University - Alexandria In Times Of Muslims - The Earliest Alchemical Writers In Alexandria
A study of the treatment and Conservation of Coptic Icons
History of Botany
Medicine In Old Egypt
Introduction: Cultural Background - Islamic Alchemy In Western Writings
The sources of alchemy among Muslims: Archelaos - Socrates - Plato (Aflatun) - Aristotle (Aristu)o - Porphyry (d. c. 303) - Galen (Jahnus) (d. c. 199 AD) - Bolos the Democritean of Mendes - Zosimus - Hermes and Hermetic literature - Sirr al-Khaliqa of Ballnas
Muslim alchemists: Jabir ibn Haiyan (721-815) - Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (866-925)
Later Arab alchemists: Aidamir al-Jildaki (?-1342) - Al-Tughra'i (1063-1120) - Al-Majriti ( -1007)
General review of Muslim chemistry
Alchemy in Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah
Edited by Prof. Maher Abd Al Kader M. Ali.
Arabic (or Islamic) Influence On the Historical Development of Medicine
Edited and Prepared By Prof. Hamed A. Ead, Professor of Chemistry, Cairo University [8th August 1998, Heidelberg, Germany]
Averroes As A Physician
On the occasion of the 800th Anniversary of the Muslim Scientist "Averroes". Edited and prepared by Prof. Hamed A. Ead during the DAAD fellowship hosted by Heidelberg University, July-October, 1998
Based on the book George Sarton, Introduction To the History of Science. Edited and prepared by Prof. Hamed A. Ead
The Time of Jabir Ibn Haiyan - Second half of Eighth Century
The Time of Al-Khwarizmi - First Half of Ninth Century
The Time of Al-Razi - Second Half of Ninth Century
The Time of Al-Mas'udi - First Half of Tenth Century
The Time of Abu-l-Wafa - Second Half of Tenth Century
The Time of Al-Biruni - First Half of Eleventh Century
The Time of Omar Khayyam - Second Half of Eleventh Century
Portraits of Twelve Muslim Scientists in Various Fields
Timeline of Islamic Scientists (700-1400)


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text: I am glad that we are having such a long discussion on this issue and bringing it to the attention of many. Thanks for your imput everyone. I was told by a college student in the " know",that we needed 21 days of a certain frigid temp this winter, to help curtail the ticks and it did not happen. Look out everyone.


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Private Company Council Holds Inaugural Meeting, Identifies Four Areas for StudyNorwalk, CT, December 6, 2012—At its inaugural meeting today, the Private Company Council (PCC), a new body created to improve the standard-setting process for private companies, identified four areas to research for agenda consideration. The areas involve consolidation of variable interest entities; accounting for "plain vanilla" interest rate swaps; accounting for uncertain tax positions; and recognizing and measuring, at fair value, various intangible assets (other than goodwill) acquired in business combinations.
"These four areas are often top of mind for users, preparers, and auditors of private company financial statements," said PCC Chairman Billy M. Atkinson. "We are eager to review the research, and we look forward to discussing the issues in more detail at our next meeting in February. After we discuss these issues further, we'll make a decision about which projects to add to the PCC agenda."
The PCC was established in May by the Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) to work with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to determine whether and when to modify U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for private companies.
During the PCC's first meeting, FASB staff members presented to the PCC issues identified as being of concern by constituents providing written input to the Blue-Ribbon Panel on Standard Setting for Private Companies in 2010, and by participants in private company roundtables held in 2010 and 2011. The PCC directed the FASB staff to develop agenda research memoranda on:
- Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 810, Consolidation (formerly FIN 46(R) and FAS 167), which involves financial reporting by companies involved with variable interest entities (organizations in which the investor holds a controlling interest that is not based on the majority of voting rights).
- Accounting for "plain vanilla" interest rate swaps, which are used to convert variable interest rates on loans to fixed interest rates, and vice versa, as referenced in ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging (formerly FAS 133).
- ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes (formerly FIN 48), which is intended to increase relevance and comparability in reporting information about uncertain tax positions.
- Recognizing and measuring various intangible assets (other than goodwill) acquired in business combinations, including providing Level 3 fair value measurements and disclosures associated with them, as referenced in ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations and ASC Topic 350, Intangibles-Goodwill and Other (formerly FAS 141(R) and FAS 142)..
- The official transition from the Private Company Financial Reporting Committee (PCFRC), including a report which summarizes recent PCFRC activities, lessons learned, and suggestions on FASB projects that the PCC may want to monitor
- An update on the FASB's private company decision-making framework Invitation to Comment, including a summary of outreach and feedback
- An update on the FASB's project on the definition of a nonpublic entity, including a summary of outreach and feedback
- A discussion on the current FASB project on going concern.
All PCC meetings will be archived on the FAF website. The meeting handouts for the inaugural meeting can be found here.
For more information on the PCC, please visit the FAF website or read the Establishment of the Private Company Council Final Report.
About the Financial Accounting Foundation
The FAF is responsible for the oversight, administration, and finances of both the Financial Accounting Standards Board and its counterpart for state and local government, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. The FAF also is responsible for selecting the members of both Boards and their respective Advisory Councils.
About the Financial Accounting Standards Board
Since 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has been the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting and reporting. Those standards govern the preparation of financial reports and are officially recognized as authoritative by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Such standards are essential to the efficient functioning of the economy because investors, creditors, auditors, and others rely on credible, transparent, and comparable financial information. For more information about the FASB, visit our website at www.fasb.org.


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- Six to twelve different wines
- Standardized unmarked bottles or receptacles in which to decant the wines (or bottle sleeves with which to mask the original wine bottles)
- A corkscrew
- A funnel
- Metal foil wine pourers
- ISO wine tasting glasses, one per wine in each flight
- Spittoons
- Tasting sheets
- Crib sheets
- Some spare pens
NB: Tasting sheets and crib sheets can be downloaded from here.
A typical blind tasting involves six to twelve different wines. The wines ought to be decanted into standardized unmarked bottles or receptacles. This is preferable to using bottle sleeves, which betray the shapes of the original bottles. In the absence of unmarked receptacles and bottle sleeves, the guests need to leave the room while the wine is poured into their glasses, which is quite a palaver.
It is important to pour the right amount of wine into the glass: too little and it is difficult to smell and taste all the components; too much and the wine cannot breathe in the glass. A finger's breadth is a good rule of thumb (no pun intended). At most, a bottle of wine can serve 18-20 portions, which equates to ~40cl per portion. Ideally, white, rosé, and sparkling wines ought to be served at 8-10 °C (46-50 °F) and red wines at 14-18 °C (57-64 °F), even if the wines will quickly warm up in the glass.
If there are twelve different wines, they may be presented in two flights of six, typically a flight of white wines followed by a flight of red wines. This has a number of advantages, including dividing up the evening and limiting the number of glasses required to just six per person. If there are six wines, they can be presented as a flight of six or two flights of three, and so on. The wines within a flight may or may not have a common theme, for example, grape variety, country or region of origin, or vintage. Remind guests that they need not progress systematically from the first to the last wine in the flight; encourage them instead to start with the lightest wine in the flight and work their way up to the heaviest wine, which, if tasted first, could interfere with their ability to taste the lighter wines.
Each wine calls for five to ten minutes of analysis and ten minutes of discussion. So if there are, for example, six wines presented in two flights of three, allocate thirty minutes for assessing the first flight, thirty minutes for discussing the first flight, thirty minutes for assessing the second flight, and thirty minutes for discussing the second flight. Don't be too rigid about time allocation: if everyone has stopped writing, move on to discussing the wines.
Wine is also about bringing people together, so remember to make time for guests to socialize. If at all possible, sit everyone around a single table: this is more convivial and also facilitates the discussion of the wines. Sit beginners next to more experienced tasters who can encourage and guide them through the tasting process described in Chapter 4 of the Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting. Some people prefer to assess the wines in silence, but complete silence can be intimidating to beginners and restricting to more gregarious or talkative types.
Upon discussing a wine, it is customary to call for one or two tasting notes before taking guesses and opening up the table to a more open-ended discussion of the wine. Once the discussion has been exhausted, the identity of the wine can be revealed. In some cases, particularly if there is a common theme to the flight, it may be more politic to delay the guessing and/or revealing until all the wines in the flight have been discussed. With the tasting at a close, consider asking the guests to dinner with whatever remains of the wines.
See my related article: Why Blind Taste Wine?


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This new attraction opens October 6, on the first day of Happy Halloween Weekends.
The walk-through attraction is in our Holiday Theater in the Christmas Plaza. It's family friendly – no hideous zombies will chase after you, promise!
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When asked if he was about to restore the Kingdom to Israel, Jesus reminds his disciples that "it is not for them to know" when the kingdom will be restored. Rather than knowing the "times and dates" God has planned, the disciples are to be witnesses to the good news of Jesus in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and all the earth. To some extent, the kingdom is about to begin in the Temple in a manner which is not unlike what many expected. The Holy Spirit will fall upon people and they will speak the Word of God in power in the Temple itself.
These men are to be witnesses, a very important word in Luke-Acts and this command is in many ways programmatic for the chapters which follow. In the chapters which follow, the 12 disciples are called witnesses 8 times, and the Holy Spirit bears witness on their behalf (Acts 5:32). Both Paul (22:15, and 26:16) and Stephen (22:20) are called witnesses in Acts.
The disciples are to give testimony of who Jesus was (the messiah) and what Jesus did (died for the forgiveness of sins) and what he intends to do (return to establish his kingdom). They are all eyewitnesses of the life of Jesus, his death and resurrection, and they will be witnesses to the coming of the Holy Spirit (in Acts 2). They are Jesus' own personal representatives sent to report to others what Jesus said and did.
As in the modern use of the word, a 'witness" often functioned in a legal context, giving testimony in a court case. As the disciples give their testimony in various speeches, sermons or other teaching opportunities, they are offering evidence concerning who Jesus is. This evidence can be corroborated other eye-witnesses. In Luke 1:2, the author claims to have done this already, confirming the events of his Gospel by eyewitnesses. That Luke himself is a part of the story after Acts 16 indicates that he is an eyewitness himself and can confirm the truth of his document.
This is an important historical point, since what accounts for evidence for a first century historian differs from that of a modern writer. As Keener points out, to call upon witnesses is common in other Greco-Roman histories. An eyewitness was the most important evidence a writer could give. Polybius, for example claimed that "sight is, according to Heracleitus, by far the truer; for eyes are surer witnesses than ears" (Hist. 12.27). As I suggested in a previous post, Luke can be both historical and theological, since the two are virtually the same in the literary world of the first century.
This commission to be the witnesses of the Messiah in Jerusalem is based on the activity of the Holy Spirit. They are verbally commissioned, but it will be the reception of the Holy Spirit which empowers them to preach and confirms the words of their preaching (through signs and miracles).
How does this theme of "witness" work out in the Book of Acts? How are the disciples witnesses for the Messiah? To what extent is "eye-witness" important in modern evangelism? (Or, is it?)


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2004 Staples Mill Road
Second Place: Class and Trash
Third Place: Alexander's Antiques
When you want everything old to be new again, one option is the West End Antique Mall in the Crossroads Shopping Center, near Broad Street and Staples Mill Road. The antique mall has been around for two decades, and within its 53,000 square feet and 250 booths, you're likely to find what you're looking for in the way of glassware, jewelry, furniture, pottery and porcelain. If you have something you'd like to sell, you also can rent showcases or space by the square foot. Open seven days a week, the mall offers gift cards, layaway for items more than $100 (for a 25-percent down payment), free 24-hour reserves on items, and a 72-hour refund and return window. Class and Trash on Washington Highway is a newer addition to the Richmond landscape, having opened in 2004, offering furniture, garden items, collectibles and fixtures. Class and Trash also buys, as it puts it, "everything from one item to an entire estate." Alexander's Antiques on Midlothian Turnpike auctions more than 700 items weekly. And as always, all sales are final.
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[Eugene Volokh, April 15, 2006 at 4:21pm] Trackbacks
Blog Cited Over 20 Times in Court Cases:
Congratulations to Ohio State University law professor Doug Berman, who runs Sentencing Law and Policy; that blog has been cited over 20 times in court cases, according to Ian Best (3L Epiphany). Many (likely most) law professors never get that many court citations for all their law review articles put together, much less for their blog posts.
Ian also points to some other blogs that have been cited in court cases, but Sentencing Law and Policy is far ahead of any other.


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'Iron Man 3' has record-breaking opening day in China
First-day box office sales topped $21 million
The Chinese version has extra scenes not in the original
"Iron Man 3" has set a new box office record in China, taking 130 million yuan ($21 million) on its opening day.
The appeal may have something to do with additional scenes added into the Chinese version of the film. The extra four minutes of footage feature product placement for a Chinese-branded milk drink and two new characters, Dr Wu and his assistant, played by top Chinese actors Wang Xueqi and Fan Bingbing, respectively.
Gitesh Pandya, editor of BoxOfficeGuru.com, described the scenes as "borderline propaganda" in an interview with CNN's Andrew Stevens. But the inclusion of the scenes, he said, gave the film access to the Chinese market that other Hollywood studios lack.
The Walt Disney Company and Marvel Studios teamed up with Beijing-based DMG Entertainment for the third installment of the Iron Man series. DMG Entertainment is also a co-distributor in China, where some filming took place.
With China surpassing Japan as the world's second largest movie market last year, studios that successfully appeal to Chinese audiences can reap sizeable profits. But navigating around the country's censorship and other restrictions has proved a challenge for some.
READ MORE: Iron Man passes $300 million internationally
When "Red Dawn" was released in China last year, a scene showing an invasion by Chinese forces was changed to the North Korean army, and a shoot-out scene set in Chinatown in "Men in Black 3" was cut entirely.
"The American studios are desperate to get into China," said Pandya. "And they're looking for new ways to profit from this growing market. The population of just the middle class alone is much bigger than the entire United States population, so there's tremendous potential there."
Pandya predicts the movie's gross profits in China will reach well over $100 million.
Robert Downey Jr. spoke of his fascination with Chinese culture during a promotional tour for the film in Beijing last month. "I'm interested in all things Chinese and I live a very Chinese life in America," he said.
Globally, "Iron Man 3" has already raked in more than $300 million since it premiered in London on April 18. The film opens in the U.S. on Friday.
Michael Bay's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" set the previous opening-day Chinese box office record in 2011, grossing 110 million yuan ($17 million).


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The natural disasters in Japan and political tension in the Middle East could hurt PC shipments during the second quarter this year, an IDC analyst said on Wednesday.
Japan is a major manufacturer of components like batteries, and any disruption in the supply chain could impact the price of and demand for PCs, said David Daoud, research director at IDC. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11 and the ensuing tsunami in Japan have killed more than 13,000 people and caused extensive damage to buildings and factories along Japan's eastern coast. Blackouts and closure of transportation links hurt Japan's supply chain. However, factories are slowly resuming operations after inspection and repairs.
Rising oil prices, driven by the recent conflicts in the Middle East and Libya, could increase the cost of making and supplying computers and components, Daoud said. That could trigger a rise in PC prices.
PC shipments worldwide are already on shaky ground. PC shipments totaled 80.56 million during the first quarter of 2011, declining by 3.2 percent compared to the first quarter of 2010, IDC said in a report released on Wednesday. However, there is not much data to suggest that shipments during the quarter were hurt by events in Japan, Daoud said.
The decline follows a record 26 percent growth during last year's first quarter, which was driven by people upgrading PCs and buying new computers with Microsoft's new Windows 7 OS, which was released to the general public in October 2009.
The earthquake happened toward the end of the first quarter, and PC makers likely had components stashed away to build and supply computers for a couple of weeks, Daoud said. The real impact of Japan's natural disasters will be felt in the second quarter when components start running short, Daoud said.
A lack of economic confidence in Europe could also contribute to the slowdown in PC shipments, Daoud said. That is a big change from the same quarter a year ago, when record PC shipment growth came as economies were exiting the recession.
There was a lot of interest in PCs when Windows 7 came out, but the excitement has dried up, so consumers are trying to extend the life of their PCs, Daoud said.
"What we are seeing now may be part of a correction … plus a very difficult [economic] environment out there," Daoud said.
While Daoud said a straw poll would suggest a lot of interest in tablets, there is not empirical evidence yet to suggest that tablets are directly hurting PC shipments, which are much larger in volume. Tablets are used as secondary computing devices to PCs, but as new usage models emerge, tablets could "cannibalize" PC shipments over time, Daoud said.
The top three PC vendors — Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Acer — saw PC shipments fall year over year due to lackluster demand for products. However, fourth-placed Lenovo saw shipments grow by 16.3 percent due to strong demand for its products in China and a disciplined channel expansion worldwide.
HP shipped 15.2 million PCs, down by 2.8 percent year over year, but grew its market share to 18.9 percent. Dell's shipments totaled 10.3 million units, falling by 1.8 percent, with its market share growing to 12.8 percent. Acer's shipments dropped by 15.8 percent to 9.04 million due to slow demand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the company's largest market, and reliance on the slumping netbook market. Lenovo's shipments totaled 8.17 million units.


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How Gambling Can Kill You Faster Than Drug Abuse or Alcoholism
Of all the destructive habits in the world, gambling would seem to be one of the more benign. It doesn't blow out your liver. It won't make your nose cave in. Even after the most appalling run of bad luck, you can be reasonably sure that you won't be carted away, having expired with a mouth full of vomit. No harm done. It's only money.
You can keep telling yourself this until the moment you kick the chair out from under you.
For the majority of addictions, how much you spend is regulated by how much the body can endure. There is only so much heroin, cocaine or vodka you can consume before you end up in a hospital or a morgue. Gambling is subject to no such constraints. "The amount of financial devastation you can wreak plays a big role in this," says Keith Whyte, the NCPG Executive Director. "You can bet $50,000 in a single hand, every minute."Suicide rates among gambling addicts are staggeringly high. The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) has estimated that one in five problem gamblers attempt to kill themselves, about twice the rate of other addictions. The reasons for this fact are both blindingly simple and impossibly complicated. And the central befuddling fact is this: Gambling kills you because it doesn't kill you.
Scholars of addiction point out that problem gamblers are subject to a slew of messy contributing factors and associative disorders. "We've known for along time that problem gambling is not a standalone issue," says Dr. Rachel Volberg, President of Gemini Research, which conducts gambling-related studies. "Problem gamblers are likely to have other substance abuse issues, usually alcohol and tobacco. Depression and anxiety are also prevalent among problem gamblers."
In terms of the gambler's tendency toward suicide, however, these factors serve only to cloud the issue. The most reliable killer of people with gambling problems can be summed up in a single word: debt. Because once negative equity enters the picture, gambling addiction moves into a category of its own.
A study undertaken in Hong Kong in 2010 found that of the 233 gambling suicides in the city over the course of a year, 110 of the victims had significant debts related to their problem. The majority of these were male, middle-aged, married and employed. Few showed evidence of prior psychiatric problems. They appeared normal in every way except that they had gambled their way into a bottomless pit.
It's tough to put a number on how much debt Americans incur due to gambling: people lie about the problem; the landscape shifts too quickly to keep track. We do know that callers to a Wisconsin helpline a couple of years back claimed an average of $43,800 in gambling-related debts—up from $36,000 the previous year. One study estimated that US problem gamblers owe, on average, between $55,000 and $90,000. Another reported that 90 percent of problem gamblers use their credit cards to play.
None of these figures, though, get to the heart of the issue like the following passage, which was posted on the NCPG website: "I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to tell my husband that once again we have a major credit card bill on the way. I swore to him that it would never happen again. I believed my vow, especially when I saw how hard he had to work to pay off the last debt I ran up. How can I tell him I've done it again?"
This is where, in terms of suicidal tendencies, gambling addiction leaves the pack. "If you stop drinking, you can still go get a job," says Whyte. "But once you've got a gambling debt twice your annual income, it's hard to come back from that. In our society, living without money is a lot harder than living without alcohol."
Gamblers who have landed themselves in debt, then, are no longer simply chasing a high, they are trying to evade catastrophe—as Whyte puts it, "You're always one bet away from winning everything back." And, again, there is no limit to the amount of money that can be devoted to this pursuit. Unless the gambler just stops, which is unlikely without outside intervention, the problem becomes compounded with every attempt at a solution. It is the cruelest catch-22.
There was a story in the paper a few weeks ago about a Vietnamese gambling addict who, having been hounded by creditors, dug a hole beneath his kitchen and hid there for two months. There's a certain symbolic resonance to this story. For people with this addiction, there is an overwhelming urge to vanish, to remove yourself from the world.
"There's a sense of stigma and shame," Whyte says. "A lot of people still don't understand that you can be addicted to a behavior. People tend to view gambling as a moral failure." So adept are gambling addicts at hiding this failure, the people around them are often blind to it until the bailiffs come knocking on the door.
As the problem progresses, pathological gamblers become insufferable, riddled with anxiety, anger and paranoia. They tend to be deceitful, manipulative and preoccupied, and always seem to have forgotten to bring their ATM card when they go out. People get fed up with it; it wears them down. And so the gambler eventually finds himself alone—which becomes especially true after the explosive revelation of his debts.
The gambler's sense of isolation, says Whyte, is compounded by the "vast disparity of resources" devoted to treating the various forms of addiction. "A problem gambler can find it much harder to get help," he says. "Some people don't even know it's treatable." According to Volberg, fewer than 5% of problem gamblers enter into treatment. Left unchecked, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness proliferate. Very often, gamblers will come to the conclusion that there is only one way out. About 80% at least think about killing themselves.
We have no real way of knowing how many people follow through. Gamblers are, by nature, impulsive and secretive—the ones who leap from a multi-story parking deck after a bad night generally don't leave suicide notes, while those who do tend to gloss over the reasons for their self-annihilation. Certainly, it's unlikely that there has ever been an autopsy report that cited "gambling" as a cause of death. Which is not to say, of course, that it wasn't.


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St Augustine. De civitate Dei. Venice?: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, about 1476-1478.
While cataloging an Italian edition of St Augustine's De civitate Dei, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a beautiful illumination. The table of contents makes up the first ten leaves of this volume, but the opening page of the text proper (leaf a1 recto) displays a stunning hand-painted border and initial "E". The border is made up of foliage, pink and blue flowers, and fruit, and is ornamented with black penwork and tiny dots of gold leaf. The two columns of text are divided by a foliate column, and the initial, which is set in a ground of gold leaf, continues this leafy motif.
The most fascinating and mysterious element of this illumination lies at the foot of the page, where a circular wreath encloses an as-yet unidentified heraldic crest. Within this roundel—surrounded by a pink, ornamental ground—is a tear-shaped escutcheon argent with a greyhound rampant azure collared gules.1
A cursory investigation has turned up few clues as to whose crest this could be. A March 1887 catalog of the library of former Union General Rush C. Hawkins (1831-1920) lists a copy of Aquinas' Summa contra gentiles (Venice: Nicolas Jenson, 1480) and remarks that "[t]he recto of the fifth leaf has a large capital in blue and at the bottom of the same page, in colors, the arms of a former owner:– 'Argent a greyhound rampant azure'". I have been unable to track this copy to its modern-day owner. Much of General Hawkins' large book collection, including his incunabula, is now held by Brown University as part of the Annmary Brown Memorial collection, set up in memory of Hawkins' wife after her death in 1906. Unfortunately, the copy of the 1480 Summa contra gentiles at Brown does not correspond to the one in the catalog. Both the Augustine and the Aquinas date from the same period and were possibly published in the same city. These two copies could very well have been in the possession of the same 15th-century owner who had them adorned with his arms. This is impossible to determine unless the whereabouts of the Hawkins copy become known. Perhaps there are more incunabula in institutions and private collections around the world with this same crest, waiting to be discovered.
This volume also has a manuscript note on the second front fly-leaf verso stating that this copy was "Bought at the Marquis of Hasting's sale for £. 10. 10. 0." This is presumably the sale of 1868, after the death of the 4th Marquess. It was acquired from Stonehill Books in 1949.
It is bound in 18th-century light-brown calf with gilt tooled and stamped boards and spine, and has the spine title: "S. Agostino – Della citta di Dio".
We are seeking any information that might help to identify the owner of this crest or the present-day location of the copy of Aquinas mentioned in the 1887 catalog. If you have any suggestions please contact the Non Solus blog moderators or the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. TB


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When it's time to break bread with giant, plush Playhouse Disney characters, it's time to go Play and Dine at Hollywood and Vine.
That's right folks, this is your opportunity to make your kids' favorite TV stars come to life…and eat breakfast, too!
Hollywood & Vine is located in the beautiful Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park. Shades of mauve and aluminum chairs are the most descriptive decor, but there are some great photos of old Hollywood, along with some pretty fantastic murals on the walls.
Of course, the main events here are the Playhouse Disney characters. On my visit, we enjoyed meeting June and Leo from Little Einsteins, and Jo Jo and Goliath from Jo Jo's Circus. These days, Jo Jo's furry friend Goliath has been replaced by Mr. Handy Manny himself. (And, might I say, Handy Manny has to be one of my favorite Playhouse Disney shows, so I greatly bemoan the fact that I missed him by a few short weeks.)
Every half hour or so, the characters and their human counterparts put on a fun and energetic show, which kids are welcome to join. This is a lot of fun for the kids and gives Mom and Dad a chance to actually eat.
I hadn't been to Hollywood and Vine for many…MANY years before this visit, and I must admit, I wasn't expecting much in terms of food quality. It's a buffet. It's audience is primarily kids. How good could it be?
Turns out…quite. We really, really enjoyed our breakfast here. Apparently there was a bit of a Tex-Mex thing happening, with a chorizo and pepper filled scramble and make-your-own breakfast burritos. The fritatta was delicious. And the bread pudding and apple crisp for breakfast was not a bad addition, Disney, not bad at all.
While the offerings weren't extensive, what was available was high quality, tasty, and made for a great breakfast.
I will reiterate: the reason to go to this restaurant is because you, or someone you love, is a huge Playhouse Disney fan. If that's not the case, this might be one to skip.
That said, while I'll probably pick Boma or Tusker House over Hollywood and Vine for breakfast, it was definitely on par with other kid-centric breakfast buffets in Walt Disney World. The food is definitely decent, so if your
food blog writer kiddo is clamoring to hug Handy Manny, I say give it a go.


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There's no need to reinvent the genetic wheel.
That's one lesson of a new study that looks to the saliva of humans, gorillas, orangutans, macaques and African green monkeys for insights into evolution.
The research, which was published Aug. 25 in Scientific Reports, examined a gene called MUC7 that tells the body how to create a salivary protein of the same name. The protein, which is long and thin, forms the backbone of a bottlebrush-shaped molecule that helps to give spit its slimy, sticky consistency.
The study found that within the MUC7 gene, instructions for building important components of the bottlebrush were repeated multiple times in each of the five primate species studied. Gorillas had the fewest copies of this information (4-5), while African green monkeys had the most (11-12). Humans fell somewhere in between, with 5-6.
Through an in-depth analysis of MUC7's evolutionary history, the researchers concluded that having numerous copies of the repeated instructions likely conferred an evolutionary advantage to primates — possibly by enhancing important traits of saliva, such as its lubricity, and perhaps even more importantly, its ability to bind to microbes (a capability that may help curb disease).
The takeaway lesson?
Evolution can favor the expansion of tried-and-true genetic tools, in addition to the development of totally new ones, says UB biologist Omer Gokcumen, who led the study together with Stefan Ruhl, a salivary researcher in UB's oral biology department.
"You don't always have to invent a new tool," says Gokcumen, assistant professor of biological sciences. "Sometimes, you just need to amplify the tool you already have."
In the case of MUC7, repeating key genetic instructions over and over resulted in longer, denser proteins, which are likely better at performing two protective tasks: lubricating the mouth — which facilitates talking, chewing and other vital functions — and latching onto microbes, an action that's thought to expedite the removal of disease-causing pathogens from the oral cavity.
The genetic instructions that are repeated within the MUC7 gene are what scientists call tandem repeats — short strings of DNA found multiple times inside the gene.
The new study shows that as primates evolved, the DNA in their MUC7 tandem repeats sometimes changed in places (a normal part of evolution).
But the genetic material stayed the same in one key way: Pieces of DNA that told the body how to make the amino acids serine and threonine, two vital building blocks of the bottlebrush backbone, persisted in all primates. The directions for creating serine and threonine were found in the same location in tandem repeats across humans, gorillas, orangutans, macaques and African green monkeys.
The likelihood of this happening at random is small, which hints that those genetic sequences provided an evolutionary advantage to their hosts, Gokcumen says.
This hypothesis is bolstered by the crucial role that serine and threonine play in the MUC7 protein's function. Within MUC7, the two compounds act as anchoring points for sugar molecules, which protrude from the protein backbone like the bristles of a brush. It's these bristles that carry out the important task of binding to microbes.
The research elucidates how tandem repeats may serve as modular building blocks for rapid evolutionary adaptation.
"Tandem repeats may be a major way that many different genes in the genome quickly adapt to their environments," says Duo "Erica" Xu, the study's first author and a PhD student in biological sciences.
The research builds on the groundbreaking work of scientists in UB's oral biology department, who discovered the MUC7 protein more than 30 years ago and sequenced the MUC7 gene, says Ruhl, a professor in that same department, part of the School of Dental Medicine.
"Saliva is an important body fluid which has been for a long time underappreciated by mainstream biomedical science," Ruhl says. "It is amazing to see the research on MUC7 take off again with modern technology. In the next few years, we expect to learn a lot more about the importance of saliva for human health through such cross-disciplinary studies with evolutionary geneticists."
The research team also included scientists from the Foundation of Research and Technology in Greece and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.


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The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA, 1997), designed to stimulate more drug safety studies in children, has resulted in more than 130 label changes since its inception nearly six years ago, according to researchers at Duke Children's Hospital.
Their analysis appears in the September issue of Pediatrics.
Under this and subsequent renewal of this legislation, pharmaceutical companies were given a six-month extension of their exclusive marketing rights on a drug if they performed clinical trials requested by the FDA to determine the drugs' safety, dosing, and efficacy in children.
According to P. Brian Smith, MD, an assistant professor in Duke's department of pediatrics, many safety concerns cannot be detected until after the introduction of a product to a larger and more diverse population. The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (2002) required the FDA to review and report to a public expert panel the adverse events occurring after granting pediatric exclusivity. That effort was needed because pediatric clinical trials are notoriously small, making it more likely that some safety concerns would not be detected until after the drug is used in a larger pediatric population.
Using MedWatch, the FDA's computerized information database for collecting reports of adverse events, the FDA's Pediatric Advisory Committee reviewed 67 drugs granted the extension. "This is a voluntary, cost-effective reporting system that can identify adverse events that may never have been seen in a clinical trial," Smith said.
"Just because a drug goes through testing and clinical trials does not mean its entire safety profile is known," says Danny Benjamin, MD, a co-author of the study and pediatrician at Duke Children's Hospital. "Before this incentive, there was no systematic, focused pediatric review of the data provided to the FDA's adverse event reporting system. Now, field experts in pediatrics are evaluating the data. That's what's so unique about this effort."
The majority of the 67 drugs studied (65.7 percent) did not appear to cause enough adverse events to require continued pediatric monitoring. However, nearly one in five drugs studied required label changes consisting of additional warnings and cautions for use in children, and several of the adverse events revealed during this process were considered life threatening. Some of those labeling changes included:
The Duke researchers say their findings support the approach that pediatric post-marketing surveillance is crucial, and that physicians, nurses, parents and others should take the job of reporting adverse effects seriously. Very rare serious adverse events are seldom defined during a study of a few hundred children and learning about these events is often dependent on the reporting of them from caretakers and parents.
"Unfortunately, few clinicians and patients know this reporting system exists," says Smith. "In the Duke Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the pharmacist reports adverse drug events to MedWatch. But I'm not sure that happens at every hospital. A lot of physicians don't know it's available. This publication is somewhat of an advertisement that this program is available."
Smith urges parents to report adverse reactions they see. The FDA does not release any confidential information provided. Nor do the parents have to be certain that a drug exposure was the cause. It's the FDA's job to further investigate these events and any possible relationships to therapy, Smith said.
Reporting to the AERS system can be done electronically at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm or by phone at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Duke researchers who contributed to this study are Robert M. Califf, MD, Jennifer S. Li, MD. FDA researchers who also contributed to this study include Dianne Murphy, MD, Rosemary Johann-Liang (presently at HRSA), MD, Solomon Iyasu, MD, Barbara Gould, and William Rodriguez, MD.
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On Twitter, Purpleslog asked for a good book on Mao Zedong. Of course, the answer is Mao Zedong: The Unknown Story. I warned him, though, that Mao is a rotten human being. Absolutely unsympathetic. Hard to stomach.
This is true.
If Jawaharlal Nehru was the "last British ruler of India," then Mao Zedong was the last Chinese. China's first attempt at Westernization was the Hundred Days of 1898, and while that was aborted, the Xinhai Revolution would come just 13 years later. Soon the Three Principles of the People were promulgated by China's first President, the Hawaiian-educated Dr. Sun Yatsen. The Three Principles have an obviously American source: that a China of the people, by the people, and for the people, will not perish from the Earth. Other pioneers included the triracial (Chinese/Spanish/Black) Eugene Chen, the London-educated Foreign Minister, and Feng Yuxiang, the influential warlord and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mao early on co-opted the Japanese- and French-educated Zhou Enlai. Important members of the next generation included Lin Biao (who studied under Zhou and Vasily Blucher), as well as Deng Xiaoping (educated in France and the Soviet Union), Liu Shaoqi (educated in the Soviet Union), Yang Shangkun (educated in the Soviet Union), and others.
By contrast, Mao graduated from the First Provincial Normal School in Hunan, though for a time he worked as a librarian in Beijing.
Mao was left behind by time. He was out-of-step with the rest of China's leadership class, though this connected him more firmly to both China's past and China's peasantry than the modern education of his rivals. Mao Zedong was the last Supreme Leader of China to enjoy writing poetry. He left the math portion of his college entrance exam blank because math offended him. His first attempt to leave the country was denied — he couldn't pass an exam for foreign exchange students because he couldn't speak standard Chinese.
Mao is like an emperor, like some figure from history. This is because he was. He was the last Chinese leader who perfectly fit the role of poetic Emperor, dismissing five-year plans and (seemingly, truly believing) that adoration of his thought would be more helpful to workers than proper diet, proper tools, or technical training. Mao's unpredictable, go-with-the-flow attitude served him well as a guerrilla leader but was disastrous for everyone else. To use just one example, when his Defense Minister fled to Russia (with the obvious intent of forming a 'Free China' movement that would serve as a figurehead to any future Russian invasion), Mao's reply was: "Rain falls, birds fly, girls want to be married. Some things can't be helped." No normal person thinks this way.
For modern readers, Mao is inexplicable. Like the smiling cannibals on Papua New Guinea, we share too little to empathize with him. He's a weird leader, and only the poor, the backward, the uneducated, and the weird adore him.


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The great American pastime is to read blogs or listen to radio and TV shows that bash the "them" of your choice. Lately "them" are politicians and municipal workers. You know those people other people vote for, who take our money, or spend our money, or waste our money because they are greedy, stupid, crooked, or fill-in-the-blank.
The latest attacks are against the Directors of the Dublin San Ramon Services District because three of "them" voted to use surplus income to pay bonuses to selected employees as part of a long-established Pay for Performance program.
I always opposed these bonuses and objected to them when the item came on the agenda last year. I even argued with Director Rich Halket over them, but even though we disagreed we never resorted to personal attacks.
The Around Dublin blog encouraged readers to send emails to DSRSD opposing the bonuses, and this resulted in discontinuing the Pay for Performance program earlier this year. Maybe it takes incendiary rhetoric to get people to pay attention to Special Districts, but that's a sad commentary on the attention level of American citizens these days.
Directors Dan Scannell and Dawn Benson voted against the bonuses and were declared heroes in the Around Dublin Blog. The other three were "them" and subject to attacks and ridicule even when the authors of the blog, and their mostly "Anonymous" posters, misinterpreted or oversimplified whatever they didn't want to understand.
I, on the other hand, try to be insightful rather than inciting; so I write these instructional tomes here posing as blogs. I also started a Blogtalkradio show for in-depth, in-person interviews to find out more about how and why these decisions are made.
I asked Rich Halket, who is serving in the rotated position as President of DSRSD Board of Directors this year, to be my guest this Wednesday morning on my Blogtalkradio show. Rich will have his chance to answer questions on Pay for Performance, restructuring DSRSD's debt, Zone 7's separation from Alameda County and possible utility consolidation, the impact of Proposition 218 on water agencies, and the DSRSD election in November.
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Below is a list of projects under review that require public hearing which will be held in December or later. This information is current as of February 10, 2017. Contact the City or review the web site for the most current list of projects and status as this is subject to change (go to the "Land Use" tab on the front page of the web site):
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Anyone may testify at any public hearing verbally or in writing. Written statements are encouraged and may be submitted to the Planning Department, City Hall, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR 97140. Failure to raise an issue accompanied by statements or evidence sufficient to afford the decision-maker and the parties an opportunity to respond to the issue will preclude appeal on said issue to the State Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA). All hearings will be held in the Community Room of the City Hall at 22560 SW Pine Street.
Application materials are available for review or can be copied for a reasonable cost at City Hall, 22560 SW Pine Street. All application materials are available on the web site at http://www.sherwoodoregon.gov/projects. The City Planning Staff reports on these matters will be available for review at least seven (7) days in advance of the hearing. If you have any questions, please call the Planning Department at (503) 925-2308.
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Explore the skills needed to be an effective interpretive coach. Coaching others to develop and deliver meaningful interpretation is rewarding because you multiply the opportunities for visitors to understand the relevance and significance of our resources. It gives you the chance to share your passion.Learn More
Design Elements in Interpretive Media
Not a designer, but need to develop an interpretive media product? This course will teach you basic design principles that will help you put together a product that is both interpretive and eye-catching.Learn More
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Why do you write? Is it to inform, instruct, or persuade your audience? Or do you write to help your audience think or feel something new? Effective interpretive writers have basic skills in writing and understand the art and practice of interpretation. This course explores the reasons we write and teaches the essential elements of effective interpretive writing.Learn More
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Do you have a strong background and understanding of interpretation (perhaps in programming) but want to dig deeper? Do you struggle with interpretive media or writing? Are you curious about what exactly 'dialogic' interpretation means? If so, this certificate program is for you!
The Intermediate Methods in Interpretation Certificate is entirely web-based and consists of five interpretive courses each culminating with an applied assignment that relates to your organization or site. This course of study provides you with the opportunity to receive feedback from your instructor(s) who review the elements of your portfolio. Additionally, if you apply for and are accepted into the cohort-based program, you will work with a mentor who has considerable experience in the interpretive field who will guide you as you develop your intermediate skills.
Stop!Before you register for this certificate program, are you interested in completing it as part of a cohort and working with a mentor? The Eppley Institute and the National Association for Interpretation will be recruiting students to participate in a cohort program that begins in January. Applications will be available in the fall and will be linked here on this webpage. If you have questions before the application window opens, please contact Eppley.Learn More
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Virtualization heralds a brave new world of security. Here are a few things to keep in mind when it comes to securing a virtual infrastructure.
One common challenge in maintaining virtualized environments is security. While many standard security guidelines apply to physical and virtual machines (VMs) alike, virtualization does present some unique security challenges. Here are some things to consider when creating a secure virtual IT infrastructure.
Of Hosts and Guests
Virtual security involves securing both the host and all VMs. Most of today's virtualization products use a specialized driver, called a hypervisor, to emulate the physical devices for each VM. Depending on the VM technology, the hypervisor may run in a regular operating system or in a minimal, special-purpose OS that's designed to run just the hypervisor. Microsoft's Hyper-V runs under Windows Server 2008 and thus requires a full operating system on the host computer. When a virtualization solution runs on a computer with a regular operating system, you should secure the host computer the same way you would secure any other server.
To keep its attack surface as small as possible, resist the temptation to install any services not required to host the VMs. Instead, install services like DNS and Exchange inside one of your VMs. Virtual hosts also need the same care and feeding as any other servers. This means you need to include them in your patching and anti-virus plans.
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Some virtualization products like VMware's ESX server use an operating system consisting only of the hypervisor and a management interface. This means that you won't need to worry about anti-virus software or even be tempted to install unnecessary services.
Securing virtualization hosts is important, but VMs exist in their own world, oblivious to how you've configured the host or which software it's running. As far as the OS and applications are concerned, each VM is just another computer. As a result, a VM faces the same threats as a physical server.
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The most overlooked security threat from virtualization stems from the uncontrolled proliferation of VMs. Adding a new virtual server to your network is much cheaper and easier than deploying a new physical server, especially as it doesn't involve convincing managers to sign off on buying new hardware. The result is often a proliferation of haphazardly managed virtual servers.
Once an organization starts to embrace virtualization, there's soon a plethora of VMs on the network. Some of them are turned on, some of them turned off and others are forgotten. When your company needs a server for a short-term project, it's often deployed as a virtual server. Then, when the server is no longer needed, it's typically powered off, but the files that comprise its configuration and virtual hard disk aren't deleted. If such a VM is turned on at a later time, it has likely missed several patch cycles and thus may be vulnerable to attacks.
To avoid such a threat and to stay in control of virtual servers in your organization, a combination of policies and monitoring tools is required. Make sure your security policy contains rules about who can install new virtual servers, what configuration guidelines must be followed and how virtual servers are decommissioned. The decommissioning procedure should go beyond deleting the VM files and include steps for tracking which VMs actually exist in your organization and who is responsible for each of them.
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