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Arts and Sciences Professor Emeritus Edward Stanton's recently published book "Wide as the Wind" has been named by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group as one of the best indie books of 2017.
Stanton, formerly a UK professor of Hispanic studies, based his young adult novel on the decade of research and traveling he did on Easter Island. The prophetic story of adventure he created reflects the Polynesian exploration of the Pacific Ocean in wooden, handcrafted canoes with no metal parts or instruments of navigation. The National Geographic has called the Polynesian exploration the greatest feat in human prehistory, as bold as modern space voyages.
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I have a quick question.
I'll be sitting in class using my computer and a message box will pop up in the middle of my screen with a short humorous message :] (usually the whole class receives the message) I'm sure it is a student (as a someone who is employed by the college would be reprimanded for these sometimes crude messages because it is kind of an anal retentive college)
I'm wondering how someone would be able to do this.
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Giving antiviral medications to gay men without HIV led to a 25 percent reduction in new infections of the AIDS-causing virus, a new study shows.
Researchers followed 3,700 gay men who were given what's known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) under a program in New South Wales, Australia. The regimen generally involves taking a daily pill.
Most followed the regimen. Among those men, the incidence of HIV infection was less than 1 in 2,000 per year with PrEP, compared with an expected incidence of 2 per 100 per year or more without PrEP.
The number of newly diagnosed HIV infections fell from 295 cases in the year before the PrEP program rollout to 221 cases the year after. That was the fewest since 1985, when collection of HIV data began, the researchers said.
The study was published Oct. 17 in The Lancet HIV journal.
"PrEP is a highly effective preventative approach when implemented alongside high levels of HIV testing and treatment," lead author Dr. Andrew Grulich said in a journal news release.
Grulich is head of the Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the University of New South Wales Sydney.
"Rollout should be prioritized as a crucial component of HIV prevention in epidemics predominantly affecting men who have sex with men," he added.
A number of other countries have approved PrEP. It was approved in 2012 in the United States, where it was estimated that 492,000 men would benefit. After a slow start, by late 2016, about 83,700 U.S. men had begun PrEP, according to the researchers.
Sheena McCormack, a professor of clinical epidemiology at MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, wrote an accompanying editorial.
In it, McCormack said the study provides "robust evidence for the added value of PrEP at the population level, as well as endorsing the biological efficacy [effectiveness] in individuals who use PrEP consistently during periods of possible exposure to HIV."
More informationThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on PrEP.


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Thanks for linking up with Sassy Sites-Free For ALL Friday! I just posted my new party for the month of January... Operation Organization. Come by and check it out! Happy New Year! xoxoReplyDelete
Too funny! The Liv doll looks very happy. Hugs, KimReplyDelete
Love it!!! Used your tut last night to make some for my daughter's barbies. She thought it was great!!ReplyDelete
Mary, Im so glad you tried this out!! :) And glad your daughter liked them! I made more for my daughter too.. she was so excited! So much fun! :)ReplyDelete
What a great idea!! My daughter is in love with this! I'm gonna try to make a bigger one for her BFC doll. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Yes! Barbie needs 20. Darn I don't have girls, but that doesn't mean I don't have Barbies.ReplyDelete
This is hilarious! Not to mention it looks fabulous! I haven't seen such a great idea for Barbie since making a water-bed by using a quart size baggie (and water of course.) :)ReplyDelete
I think this is hilarious and fantastic! I can't imagine a little girl who wouldn't want this for their doll! Great idea!ReplyDelete
Awesome, my daughter has a gazillion babies that would love their very own headband just like their "Mommy"!ReplyDelete
That is the cutest idea! My daughter will love this!ReplyDelete
I totally love the picture of her on the couch! I don't have any little girls but I have nieces that got the same dolls for Christmas. Thanks for linking up!ReplyDelete
I used to make clothes for my Barbies too! Nice to see that you're passing along the tradition to your daughter.ReplyDelete
What fun! I initially learned to sew making Barbie clothes... This is pretty nostalgic for me! How cute!ReplyDelete
Thanks for linking up to Making It With Allie! I can't wait to see what you have for next week!
oh my, how cute. my daughter is only 1 and I already have bought her holiday barbie 2010. Its her birth year couldn't resist! haha I just started blogging, feeling my way around,barely getting the hang of it! haReplyDelete


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It was a remarkable thing that the man who was never to die, for whom God had ordained an infinitely better lot, the man who should be carried to heaven in a chariot of fire, and be translated, that he should not see death-should thus pray, "Let me die, I am no better than my fathers." We have here a memorable proof that God does not always answer prayer in kind, though he always does in effect. He gave Elias something better than that which he asked for, and thus really heard and answered him. Strange was it that the lion-hearted Elijah should be so depressed by Jezebel's threat as to ask to die, and blessedly kind was it on the part of our heavenly Father that he did not take his desponding servant at his word. There is a limit to the doctrine of the prayer of faith. We are not to expect that God will give us everything we choose to ask for. We know that we sometimes ask, and do not receive, because we ask amiss. If we ask for that which is not promised-if we run counter to the spirit which the Lord would have us cultivate-if we ask contrary to his will, or to the decrees of his providence-if we ask merely for the gratification of our own ease, and without an eye to his glory, we must not expect that we shall receive. Yet, when we ask in faith, nothing doubting, if we receive not the precise thing asked for, we shall receive an equivalent, and more than an equivalent, for it. As one remarks, "If the Lord does not pay in silver, he will in gold; and if he does not pay in gold, he will in diamonds. " If he does not give you precisely what you ask for, he will give you that which is tantamount to it, and that which you will greatly rejoice to receive in lieu thereof. Be then, dear reader, much in prayer, and make this evening a season of earnest intercession, but take heed what you ask.
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Originally published in the October 2, 1995 issue of the Library of Congress Information Bulletin.
[William Gottlieb and Dr. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, examine a photograph of Thelonious Monk (1920-1982), a pianist, composer, combo leader, and developer of bop. Photographer: Jim Higgins]. (Photoduplication Service)
The Library recently acquired an important collection of photographs by William P. Gottlieb, a jazz columnist who shot some 1,500 portraits of more than 250 jazz musicians from 1938 to the late 1940s.
Mr. Gottlieb's photographs have great appeal in the jazz world because they are not only what one critic called "very penetrating pictures of real people," but they also seem to express the essence of jazz.
"His particular genius seems to have been portraiture," said Jon Newsom, acting chief of the Music Division. "He got a sense of the character, the individual, he had a feel for what they were like."
Added Bernard Reilly, head of the Curatorial Section of the Prints and Photographs Division, "He also worked at a particularly important period in jazz in the United States."
The collection presents many major jazz musicians from the fertile 10-year period between 1938 and 1948, and includes earlier pioneers and stylists as well as the up-and-coming boppers, said Robert Bamberger, head of the Fuels and Minerals Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division in the Congressional Research Service who also hosts a weekly jazz program, "Hot Jazz Saturday Night" on Washington public radio station WAMU, 88.5 FM.
"Boy, how it makes you wish, looking at them, that you could hear the music of the instant," Mr. Bamberger said. "Bill's photos are of performance art captured through the lens of another art," that of writing critical reviews.
Mr. Gottlieb began work at the Washington Post as an advertising agent and later started a jazz column for the newspaper on the side. He could not convince the management to pay a photographer overtime regularly to shoot the shows that he covered in his column--so he taught himself photography.
Mr. Gottlieb said the secret to the richness of his photographs lay in the needs of his weekly column, first for the newspaper and later for Down Beat magazine.
"I have what may be the key to it but I'm not sure. I took those photographs as a writer would," Mr. Gottlieb said. He said he would ask himself, "What can I say visually to augment the message that I said in so many words?"
When he photographed French gypsy guitarist Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt, whom he did not know well, Mr. Gottlieb focused on Reinhardt's accident-disfigured hand. "He didn't know what I was doing," Mr. Gottlieb said, "but I knew what I was doing. It wasn't as subtle [a shot] as trying to capture the emotion of Billie [Holiday]," he said, adding that his photographs range from gimmickry--Reinhardt's hand--to subtle expression--Holiday's singing.
Other subjects of Mr. Gottlieb's incisive portraits are such legendary figures as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Nat "King" Cole, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Charles Parker, Frank Sinatra, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Art Tatum and Lester Young.
"The most elusive quality I tried to get was personality, but that was a hit or miss operation," he said.
Today's photographers, armed with automatic film winders, shutter speed and focus, expensive flash units and high-speed film, would probably have predicted failure for Mr. Gottlieb. He took only two or three photographs per session, in part because flash bulbs were so expensive. To conserve film, yet catch the best moments, Mr. Gottlieb would wait until the second or third chorus, when the music and emotion became most intense, he said.
[Frank Sinatra--untied, Liederkrantz Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. 1947]. (Music Division, LC-GLB13-0779)
His photographic principle became "don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes," he said.
"The creative process is exhilarating and wonderful but it's also sort of painful. Bill's photos capture different aspects of that creative process," Mr. Bamberger said.
Many Gottlieb photos find the musicians warming up backstage or congregating outside the clubs for a smoke between sets, Mr. Bamberger said. "We can see how they hold their horns, we can see their dress, and the settings in which these artists worked and lived. Bill's pictures add a dimension that recordings just can't conjure," Mr. Bamberger said.
"Music didn't have anything approaching the visual component that has become second nature today, what with cable and video," Mr. Bamberger said. "In Bill's photos, we have images of people whose names and music may be familiar, but whose appearance may not."
"Yet, Bill's photos are never intrusive," he continued. "They're revelatory, capturing the immediacy of performance and those intangible forces behind it," he said.
The Prints and Photographs Division has acquired all Mr. Gottlieb's negatives, as well as a set of prints. The Music Division retains and makes available to the public for study purposes a second set of reference prints as well as 64 framed exhibition prints. The Library purchased the collection of 1,500 negatives and additional prints through financial support from the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund.
Although Mr. Gottlieb now charges $400 and up for reproductions of his prints, he has agreed to transfer his copyright to the public domain in 15 years. Therefore, in the year 2010, all of his photos will be copyright-free, unlike many of the Library's photographic holdings. "It's more the rule than the exception that photographers and their estates tend to maintain copyright restrictions," said Mr. Reilly.
"His collection is an extremely valuable commodity for him; the fact that he decided to give it to us is very generous. He has given something that is very important to the research community," Mr. Reilly said.
[Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946. Reinhardt (1910-1953), a Belgian guitarist, was one of the first Europeans to influence modern jazz]. (Music Division, LC-GLB23-0731)
Exhibitions of Mr. Gottlieb's work have appeared in nearly 100 institutions throughout the world, from the Navio Museum in Osaka, Japan, to the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. His photographs have appeared in books, magazines and newspapers, as well as on posters and T-shirts. They were also the basis for the portraits of four jazz artists who have appeared on U.S. commemorative postage stamps.
"His photos, in my mind, are like songs--"Heart and Soul," for example--that everybody recognizes but virtually no one could name the composer. Under the Library's stewardship and owing to greater public access to the collection, Bill Gottlieb's name will become more closely recognized and linked with his work," Mr. Reilly said.
In fact, the Interpretive Programs Office is preparing for an exhibition of some of the prints at the Performing Arts Library at the Kennedy Center, according to Mr. Newsom.
For his part, Mr. Gottlieb said that one of his favorite images is the shot of Holiday singing. In The Golden Age of Jazz, his 150-page overview of the collection, he wrote, "The haunting, anguished voice of Billie Holiday . . . is one of the glories of music; so I was fortunate to have heard her in the late 1930s and early 1940s when she was at her peak."
Fortunately for the nation, he not only heard Holiday and her contemporaries--but took their photographs too.
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We are sorry but due to unforeseen circumstances the meeting and open Mic tonight at the Red & Black are cancelled. Please bear with us and watch this space for further news. Big love to all our friends in cardiff and further afield x
Workday! this Sunday
- The return of the original workday format…
Breakfast together at 11am, work together from 12noon.
Areas to be worked on are:
- Backyard(en)
- Clearing tat from and fixing lights in main room and possible start of redecorating.
- Fixing lights in toilet/bathroom
- Workshop/tool-room
- Bin store/old mini-kitchen
- Gig room if there's time?
The more people that come, the more we can do, so come help make it an active and fun day (as we put some tunes on the radio!) and work together to bring some light and life back to the space.
General Meeting tonight?
We'll be having a General Meeting tonight… Or will we???*
Come along at 7:30pm to find out
*Spoiler – yeah we will !
No Borders meeting tonight 7pm
Sunday 29th March – Free Market & Practial Squatting Workshop
A free market is a market where you can get clothes, shoes, books, furniture bric a brac, and it is all completely free. Anyone can come and even bring unwanted goods and services to donate, you can recycle all your old things and give them a new home, in the mean time taking away goods for yourself.
We believe in a system that isn`t based on hierarchy, money and oppression, everyone is entitled to food and clothes and shelter. Everyone has things they don`t want anymore, and everyone has things they need, so if we combine the two, maybe we can solve this problem, bring the community together and show that we will not be controlled by selfish corporations who put profit over people.
Come and see what's on offer this Sunday when we'll be open with tea, coffee, vegan snacks, and other wonderful things!
Beats Not Borders! Tonight, 7pm
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People's Kitchen on St. Patricks Day!
People's Kitchen is back! Come and celebrate St. Patricks Day with us in support of Dublin Social Centre Seomra Spraoi. See http://seomraspraoi.org for more about them!
Revolution Solution – No Borders Hip-hop – Saturday 14th March
Film night – "Eyes and Ears of God"
Monday 9th March at 7pm.
"…an eyewitness account by publicist and activist Tomo Križnar from 1979 to 2012 of the secret exterminations of African natives from the areas of Sudan, rich in natural resources: The Nuba Mountains, Darfur, Abyei and Blue Nile. The film is a personal account of what one man can do with the help of like-minded people and friends, who still believe in the power of active commitment and refuse to give in to conformism…"
"(it) also tells the story of the birth of independent South Sudan and how its secession from Sudan brought about new wars between strategic interests of the world's powers and both Sudans."
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Robert M. Ochshorn studied computer science at the Cornell University in Ithaca, NY/USA. After receiving his BA in 2009, he worked as a research assistant with Krysztof Wodiczko in the Interrogative Design Group at MIT and Harvard. His background includes media and journalism, electrical engineering, and activism. In 2012 he completed a fellowship at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL, where he developed the open-source InterLace software that was used in collaboration with Eyal Sivan to create the web-based documentary Montage Interdit.
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JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore.
In a 5 to 4 decision on Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to protect minorities from voter discrimination. Now, with this recent decision, states no longer need permission from the federal government before changing their voting laws.
Here to discuss all this is Bruce Dixon. Bruce is the managing editor of the Black Agenda Report. He's had an extensive career as a union activist in a string of factories, plants, and workplaces. He's also a state committee member of the Georgia Green Party.
Thanks for joining us, Bruce.
BRUCE DIXON, MANAGING EDITOR, BLACK AGENDA REPORT: Thank you for inviting me, Jessica.
DESVARIEUX: So, Bruce, my first question is: how did this come to be? And what does this ruling mean for everyday people?
DIXON: Well, the formula that the law is based upon was based on the fact that there was historic discrimination in nine states against blacks, keeping them off the voting rolls. In Mississippi, for instance, only 7 percent of blacks were registered, as opposed to 70 percent of whites, back in 1965 when the law was passed. And so that's how the nine states were chosen.
What the court argued was that now, since black voter turnout levels have risen to nearly that of whites, or in the case of places like Mississippi higher than that of whites, that no discrimination exists anymore, and so there's no reason to single out those nine states. Essentially what they've done is they've gutted the enforcement criteria for the Voter Registration Act. And if there are no criteria to enforce it, then it becomes a dead letter.
Nobody should really be surprised at this, because John Roberts not long ago telegraphed his displeasure at the continued existence of the Voting Rights Act. The last two times that the Congress approved it, he excoriated his fellow Republicans in Congress for not having the guts to vote against it. So apparently John Roberts and the Republicans on the court have taken it upon themselves to do what their colleagues in Congress could not do.
DESVARIEUX: So let's actually talk about some of these Republicans on the court and this Republican point of view that there is an increasing amount of voter fraud. If you look at the statistics–I'm quoting something from a Rolling Stone article published two years ago by Ari Berman that essentially said that out of the 300 million votes cast between 2002 and 2007, federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud, and many of the cases involved immigrants and former felons who were simply unaware of their ineligibility.
So Bruce, let's talk a little bit about this and this crusade against minorities that some people are calling this from voting. What does this mean for everyday people?
DIXON: Well, what this is going to mean is that states are free to–states and the federal government, states and local governments, down to the city and county level–and we've got 2,000 different counties in the United States–are all free to come up with inventive and creative ways to disenfranchise their minority voters.
For instance, if you're a county commissioner in places like Ohio in 2004 and 2006, near Columbus Ohio, a city of 1 million-plus people, county officials decided to send all the good functioning voting machines to the white suburbs, while they sent the broken-down voting machines to the black ghettos. And as a result, black voters had to line up for ten hours to wait to vote. If you're a state official, you can come up with inventive felony disenfranchisement rules, rules that require convicted felons, after they've served their sentences, to go through lengthy, lengthy processes to restore their voting rights. If you're in part of the executive branch in state government, you can come up with voter ID rules. The list of creative things that local and federal officials all over this country have come by to restrict the rights of people to vote is just enormous and a tribute to evil human creativity.
DESVARIEUX: Let's talk about the executive branch on a federal level and let's discuss President Obama's recent comments about the ruling. He says that he's deeply disappointed. What is your take on the president's reaction?
DIXON: Well, I'm sure the president is deeply disappointed, because, after all, we have to note that the current black political class sprang into existence as a result of the Voting Rights Act. However, the president's last job before he became president was as the U.S. senator from Illinois for four years, during which time he served on the Senate Judiciary Committee with John Kerry. Both of them were responsible for vetting Samuel Alito and John Roberts. There was talk–who were nominated by George W. Bush during his term. There was talk of filibustering these gentlemen. There was talk of asking them sharp and pointed questions to reveal to the public their awful right-wing views. But both Senator Obama and Senator Kerry nixed all talk of a filibuster and asked them softball questions, and even voted to recommend Roberts to the full Senate. What they could have done is, for instance, they could have asked Alito and Roberts questions about both of their membership in the Federalist Society, a notorious right-wing legal society that has espoused basically the repeal of the 20th century for more than a generation now. But Obama and Kerry did nothing to block the ascension of some of these very judges that have led in and have made his ruling.
DESVARIEUX: Also we're hearing from Georgia Representative John Lewis, who is a civil rights leader and helped establish the Voting Rights Act and really fought for it. He's now saying that he is shocked and dismayed by the decision. Let's take a listen to what he had to say.
JOHN LEWIS, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE (D-GA): –in disbelief that members of the Supreme Court would take this position. We've come a distance, we made progress, but there's still progress to be made. I think what the Supreme Court did was to put a dagger in the very heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This act helped liberate not just a people but a nation.
DESVARIEUX: So, Bruce, what's your reaction to this comment? And more importantly, what could have been done to avoid this ruling?
DIXON: Representative Lewis has every right to be shocked and dismayed, because he's one of the people who marched in the street and created the pressure with illegal and lawless acts that the black freedom movement perpetrated to get this voter rights bill passed back in the '60s, 48 years ago.
However, what our black political leadership never did is they never followed up their victory in achieving Voting Rights Act by law with a constitutional amendment to further cement and lock down that victory. Without a constitutional amendment, any county official, any state legislator, any governor, and any judge, local or federal, can put any number of blocks to your right to vote, be it felony disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, rigged voting machines, voter caging, and an endless, endless number of things. If we had a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote, there would have to be a uniform federal standard for who could vote, for how the votes would be counted, for who could run for office, for how voting machines operated, and for a number of things like that that would make all these shenanigans and this ruling impossible. But that is the kind of struggle that our black political class, who owe their existence to the Voting Rights Act, shrink back from. And so the laziness and ineptitude of our black political class is what got us to this point. And apparently they cannot even save themselves, let alone protect our right to vote. What we need is a constitutional amendment to protect the right to vote.
DESVARIEUX: Well, thank you for your insight, Bruce.
DIXON: Thank you for inviting me.
DESVARIEUX: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
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Federal Mental Health Agency to Drop DSM Use
The National Institute of Mental Health is moving away from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, sometimes known as the psychiatrist's "bible," saying that patients deserve better.
The change won't alter the way patients get diagnosed and treated in the clinic — at least not for many years. Instead, researchers seeking to study mental disorders with National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funding will be required to look at patients across traditional diagnoses, rather than limiting their studies to a single DSM diagnosis such as depression, for example.
"Studies of biomarkers for 'depression' might begin by looking across many disorders with anhedonia or emotional appraisal bias or psychomotor retardation to understand the circuitry underlying these symptoms," NIMH director Thomas Insel wrote in a statement.
The DSM's fifth revision, the DSM-5, is due out in May. The book, published by the American Psychiatric Association, classifies mental disorders, and the revisions have spurred controversy. Particular disorders, such as sexual fetishes, are contested by those who would like to see them removed from the book and those who would like to see those diagnoses remain available.
Compared with the NIMH's shift, however, the DSM changes are minor. The agency is looking to improve the way mental disorders are identified in general.
"Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure," Insel wrote.
As an alternative, the NIMH is launching the Research Domain Criteria Project. The goal, according to the agency, is "to transform diagnosis by incorporating genetics, imaging, cognitive science and other levels of information to lay the foundation for a new classification system."
The decade-long project will require researchers to include patients across DSM categories, or to subdivide the categories, when conducting research trials.
"We need to begin collecting the genetic, imaging, physiologic and cognitive data to see how all the data – not just the symptoms – cluster and how these clusters relate to treatment response," Insel wrote.
The agency acknowledged that such a shift will be a challenge in a time of limited funding and budget cuts, but said that patients should welcome the step toward better diagnosis and understanding of mental disorders.
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EU drinking in the Last Chance Saloon, warns report
by Stuart Littlewood
The window of opportunity for peace between Israel and the Palestinians "is closing before our eyes", warns a hard-hitting report by 22 well-known and highly regarded NGOs from nine EU member states and from Norway and Switzerland. Trading away peace embargoed copy of designed report.pdf
These humanitarian, human rights and faith organisations work at the coal-face in the Occupied Territories and have witnessed the impact of the illegal Israeli settlements and brutal military rule. Nobody pulls the wool over their eyes and the assessment they have produced ought to be compulsory reading for all Western politicians and businesspeople. Here's the list:
- Broederlijk Delen (Belgium)
- Caabu (UK)
- CCFD – Terre Solidaire (France)
- Christian Aid (UK and Ireland)
- Church of Sweden
- Cordaid (Netherlands)
- DanChurchAid (Denmark)
- Diakonia (Sweden)
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- FinnChurchAid (Finland)
- ICCO (Netherlands)
- IKV Pax Christi (Netherlands)
- Medical Aid for Palestinians (UK)
- medico international (Germany)
- medico international switzerland
- The Methodist Church in Britain
- Norwegian Church Aid
- Norwegian People's Aid
- Quaker Council for European Affairs
- Quaker Peace and Social Witness (UK)
- Trocaire (Ireland)
They tell us bluntly that as settlements expand the Palestinians' access to resources such as water and farmland shrinks, and the Israeli-superimposed infrastructure of checkpoints, settler roads and the separation barrier blocks their freedom of movement and their access to basic services. Palestinian homes and infrastructure are being demolished to make way for still more settlements, dispossessing and displacing many hundreds of people every year.
"The growth of settlements is creating facts on the ground that are violating the Palestinian right to self-determination and making the two-state solution promoted by the European Union ever harder to achieve," they say. "More than 42% of West Bank
land and the majority of water and natural resources have been seized from Palestinians and allocated to settlements."
The settlements and their related infrastructure, including Jews-only road networks and the separation barrier, "have carved up Palestinian communities into disconnected enclaves with movement controlled by checkpoints. This 'land grab', that has no legitimate security justification, has dramatically reduced the space available for Palestinians to develop livelihoods…" At the same time the settlements have merged with Israel proper, blurring and expanding the internationally accepted pre-1967 border and effectively annexing the Palestinian land on which the settlements are built.
The EU now faces a fundamental challenge and possibly a last chance to match its high principles with effective action, says the report. It must do so without further delay if Europe truly wishes to see a two-state solution.
"During the past decades, the EU has consistently criticized and condemned the settlement policy. Dozens of official EU statements and positions reaffirm the illegality of the settlements under international law and regard them as major obstacles to peace," says the introduction by Hans van den Broek, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and former EU Commissioner for External Relations. "Repeatedly, the EU has stressed that it will not recognise any unilateral changes to the pre-1967 borders, including with regard to Jerusalem.
"As settlement construction has continued and accelerated, however, we Europeans have failed to move from words to action." The EU, he continues, has refrained from using its huge political and economic leverage to halt and reverse those Israeli developments that contradict the EU's stated values.
The report also suggests measures the EU and its 27 member states could now take to save the situation and restore credibility. Action against the illegal settlements outside Israel's recognized borders could not be branded an anti-Israel move, suggests van den Broek, since the aim would be to preserve the two-state solution in accordance with international law.
The plain fact is that settlements control more than 42% of West Bank's land and most of its water. The report accuses the EU, despite its moralistic policy, of actually helping sustain the Occupation by importing fifteen times more from the illegal settlements than from the Palestinians themselves. The report gives latest figures.
While Israeli settlement farmers and manufacturers enjoy easy access to international markets the Palestinian economy is strangled by Israeli restrictions on movement and access to natural resources. As a result, Palestinian exports have declined to the point where any benefits from the EU's preferential trade agreement have been wiped out.
Under the absurd Oslo Agreement, which was meant to be temporary and transitional, Israelis were allocated four times more water from the shared West Bank aquifers than Palestinians. But even this over-generous allocation wasn't enough and Israel has helped itself to 80% more. This, together with restrictions imposed on drilling and water sector development by the Palestinians, means that the average Palestinian's water consumption in the West Bank is about 73 litres a day, well below the 100 litres per capita recommended by the World Health Organisation. The average Israeli – settlers included – use three and half times as much.
Consequently many Palestinian farmers have to purchase water from mobile tankers at up to five times the price of their normal supply, which has been reduced to a trickle.
In Gaza, where 1.6 million Palestinians live, the picture is even more cruel. Exports from Gaza have been banned almost entirely and are less than 2% of the pre-2007 levels. "EU imports from Gaza over the five years of blockade have been limited to a few shipments of agricultural produce to the Netherlands and two trucks of garments to the UK," says the report.
Despite treaty obligations Israel's behaviour gets worse
Everyone is reminded of the legal position. As the occupying power, Israel is obliged to respect international humanitarian law. The Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) prohibits an occupying power from transferring its citizens into the occupied territory (Article 49).
The Hague Regulations (1907) prohibit an occupying power from undertaking permanent changes in the occupied area unless these are for specific military needs, or unless they are undertaken for the benefit of the local (in this case Palestinian) population.
The EU and EFTA both have trade agreements with the Palestinians granting
preferential access to the European market, in what the EU has called "one
of the most generous [agreements] that the EU has ever signed in the field of agriculture".
The trouble is, Israel's vicious restrictions and interference in every aspect of the Palestinians' business activities effectively invalidate that agreement. As a result, says the report, although Palestinians are among the highest per capita recipients of foreign aid in the world, foreign funding cannot offset the paralysing impact of Israeli constraints and collective punishment.
The largest donor to the Palestinians is the EU itself: It gave around €5 billion between 1994 and 2011, and handed over €525m in 2011 alone (this does not include additional assistance from individual member states). So what on earth is the EU doing perpetuating an unlawful situation that requires endless taxpayer subsidies when it has the leverage to force an end to the occupation and set the Palestinians free to thrive in the normal way.
Nothing changes. Nearly four years ago I was writing about the wretched EU-Israel Association Agreement, the purpose of which was – and still is – to promote (1) peace and security, (2) shared prosperity through, for example, the creation of a free trade zone, and (3) cross-cultural rapprochement. It governs not only EU-Israel relations but Israel's relations with the EU's other Mediterranean partners – including the Palestine.
Undertakings regarding 'respect for human rights and democratic principles' are a condition in Article 2, which says:
"Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement."
This clause allows steps to be taken to enforce the contractual requirement regarding human rights. The Agreement also requires respect for self-determination of peoples and fundamental freedoms for all.
Fine words and high-sounding aims… but the EU-Israel Association Agreement actually achieves none of these things. In 2002 the EU Parliament voted to suspend the Agreement on the grounds of Israel's violations of human rights, condemning the "military escalation pursued by the Sharon government" and the "oppression of the Palestinian civilian population by the Israeli army". The EU Commission ignored the will of Parliament, and since then there has been no improvement in Israel's behaviour, which has only got worse.
The EU, in its treaties, declares a firm commitment to the Charter of the United Nations and international law. The Charter requires all Members to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity
or political independence of any state. The International Court of Justice ruling on the Illegality of the Separation Wall warned all states of their obligation not to recognise, aid or assist the illegal situation and reminded all parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention that they are bound to ensure Israel's compliance with this Convention. These obligations apply also to EU institutions charged with ensuring that EU-Israel contractual relations conform to Community and international law.
Who would believe that the people who head up these institutions need reminding of something this important… and having been reminded still shirk their responsibility?
Israel's latest reward for its delinquency is the passing of the Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA), which will make it easier for Israeli pharmaceutical to flood into Europe. The deal was negotiated by the European Commission and signed by the Council of Ministers, causing real concerns about the
impact on British jobs and research in the pharmaceutical industry.
Meanwhile on the question of the settlements, here is an extract from yesterday's Parliamentary Questions…
- – William Hague: We have always stressed urgency of this issue because settlements are making a 2-state solution less feasible; we need a major push by the US; everything else is second best to that.
- – Ian Lucas: What progress has been made by the Foreign Secretary failing to adopt a position on this matter?
- – William Hague: I have just been explaining our position; the solution is negotiation on a 2-state solution, otherwise we will be in a more dangerous situation which will require a reconsideration by many nations of their approach.
Since most of them, including Britain, have done nothing, reconsidering their approach is the least they could do. And note foreign secretary Hague's failure, as always, to bring international law into the equation. Only lopsided 'negotiations' with a gun to the Palestinians' head will satisfy him and the rest of Israel's admirers at the heart of our government.
And why wait endlessly for the US which, as everyone knows, is ruled from Tel Aviv? The NGO group's report urges the EU to now take the lead and get it done. Unfortunately the EU is a cesspit that has been unable to sign off its accounts for 17 years due to error and fraud. Its budget is rocketing even during these times of austerity. It is crammed with pro-Israel pimps and stooges with their snouts deep in the free-flowing trough, and the fee for Britain to remain a member is £37 million a day.
It just can't be relied on to do the right thing.
Yes, the EU is drinking in the Last Chance Saloon in more ways than one.
Stuart Littlewood's book Radio Free Palestine can now be read on the internet by visiting www.radiofreepalestine.org.uk
Stuart Littlewood worked on jet fighters in the RAF then pursued a career in industrial marketing.
More recently he worked as a freelance and with innovation consultancies. Psychology degree Exeter University, Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Served as a Cambridgeshire county councilor 1993-97 and on the Police Authority. Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. Since retiring has been a newspaper columnist and produced two photo-documentary books. He is a regular contributor to a number of internet news magazines.
Stuart's book Radio Free Palestine, with Foreword by Jeff Halper, tells the plight of the Palestinians under brutal occupation. It can now be read on the internet by visiting RadioFreePalestine.org.uk.
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We've been fiddling around with the Windows 7 Beta for a few days, but just now finally run into that old friend of Windows users: the blue screen of death. It looks the same.
It's good to see that Microsoft hasn't bothered to change the old Windows blue screen; and by good, we mean bad. Isn't it about time to fail a little bit more gracefully? Or at the very least, in a way that actually makes sense to end-users? The error throws up the driver that caused it (way at the bottom of the error) before automatically rebooting, but actually identifying it via which type of component it is—sound, video, USB, hard drive—would be useful for people who just want to know what they did to cause it.
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Introduction. I recently revisited Shelah's model without P-points and I was wondering how "badly" Grigorieff forcing destroys ultrafilters, i.e., what kind of properties can survive the destruction of the "ultra"ness.
An example. Given a free (ultra)filter $F$ on $\omega$, Grigorieff forcing is defined as $$ G(F) := \{ f:X \rightarrow 2: \omega \setminus X \in F \},$$ partially ordered by reverse inclusion. A simple density argument shows that "$G(F)$ destroys $F$", i.e., the filter generated by $F$ in a generic extension is not an ultrafilter (the generic real being the culprit).
Of course, there are many forcing notions that specifically destroy ultrafilters (also, Bartoszynski, Judah and Shelah showed that whenever there's a new real in the extension, some ground model ultrafilter was destroyed).
My question is:
If $F$ is destroyed, how far away is $F$ from being the ultrafilter it once was?
Maybe a more positive version: Which properties of $F$ can we destroy while preserving others?
This might seem awfully vague, so before you vote to close let me explain what kind of answers I'm hoping for.
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- If the forcing is $\omega^\omega$-bounding and $F$ is rapid, then $F$ will still be rapid. That's a very clean and simple preservation.
- In Shelah's model without P-points, all ground model Ramsey ultrafilters stop being P-points but "remain" Q-points.
- "Minimal" answers. Is it possible that $F$ together with the generic real generates an ultrafilter, i.e., there are only two ultrafilters extending $F$? For Grigorieff forcing, I'd expect this needs at least a Ramsey ultrafilter. But maybe other forcings have this property?
- Negative answers. Say $F$ is a P-point; can $F$ still be extended to a P-point? Shelah tells us that forcing with the full product $G(F)^\omega$ denies this. Is it known whether $G(F)$ already denies this? Do other forcing notions allow this?
I know there is a lot of literature on preserving ultrafilters (mostly P-points, I think) but I'm more interested in the case where the ultrafilter is actually destroyed. But I'd welcome anything that sheds light on this.
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Here's just what you need to play Crysis. The bespoke server division of Dell, called Data Center Solutions and accounting for a sizeable portion of Dell's quarterly server volumes, has cooked up a PCI-Express expansion chassis that can house up to 16 GPU co-processors.
The new expansion chassis is part of the PowerEdge C class of machines that Dell launched in March. These PowerEdge C machines fall somewhere between the general purpose PowerEdge boxes Dell sells directly and through channel partners and the truly custom boxes made by DCS; they are not sold directly over the web, but rather through a sales engagement.
Generally speaking, the PowerEdge C machines are aimed at hyperscale computing jobs and focus on density and power efficiency. The C1100 is a 1U box and the C2100 is a 2U box, both with two sockets designed to run Intel's latest six-core Xeon 5600 processors; the C6100 puts four half-width two-socket Xeon 5600 systems into a 2U rack chassis, and is the densest rack server that Dell sells - with the possible exception of custom boxes no one but the customer and Dell know about.
The PowerEdge C410x is a PCI-Express expansion chassis which is meant to link to servers over PCI-Express links. According to Joe Sekel, a systems architect for the DCS unit at Dell, the 3U chassis comes with fan-outs and PCI-Express switches that let from one to four GPUs in the chassis to be allocated to a single server. Each GPU co-processor is wrapped in a metal skin that Sekel called a "taco," which directs the airflow around the GPU cards so they don't cause each other to overheat.
The C410x chassis puts ten GPUs in the front, where the cold aisle is in a data center, and six more in the back, where the hot aisle is. There is room for eight PCI-Express links and four power supplies (with 3+1 redundancy). The unit has eight fans that are all hot pluggable (7+1 redundancy), and the GPU co-processors themselves are also hot-pluggable once they are encased in the taco enclosure.
Basically, this is a GPU blade server, as you can see below:
Dell's PowerEdge C410x GPU enclosure.
The PowerEdge C410x chassis is certified to use the older Nvidia Tesla M1060 fanless GPU co-processors or the new Tesla M2050 fanless units, which debuted in May using the latest Fermi GPUs.
The fanless design of the M1060 and M2050 uses big ole heat sinks to take the heat off the GPU and the cooling fans of the server - or in this case, PCI expansion chassis - to keep the units from melting spectacularly. Dell has not certified the fanless FireStream GPU co-processors from AMD, launched in June, for the C410x enclosures.
The M2050 GPU co-processor is rated at the same 515 gigaflops of double-precision and 1.03 teraflops single-precision floating point performance, which means you can pack up to 16.48 teraflops of single-precision oomph into a single C410x chassis. The M2070 will have the same flops ratings, but will include 6GB of GDDR5 memory to the M2050's 3GB; the M2070 is not yet certified for the C410x because it is not yet shipping from Nvidia.
The AMD FireStream 9350 fanless GPU co-processor is rated at two teraflops SP and 400 gigaflops DP, and is something some customers probably want. The FireStream 9370 is a double-wide card rated at 2.64 teraflops SP and 528 gigaflops DP, but has 4GB of GDDR5 memory - twice that of the FireStream 9350.
At the moment, Dell is pitching the C410x as a companion to the C6100 four-server rack mounted machine, which would allow four GPUs to be linked to four servers, or one per Xeon CPU socket. Sekel says that the reason Dell created the C410x is that an oil and gas customer doing seismic processing wasn't sure if it needed two, three, or four GPUs per physical server to run its workloads. So Dell built a box that could dynamically allocate GPUs to machines.
The C410x is not restricted to GPU co-processors. Any PCI-Express 2.0 x16 device can, in theory, be wrapped in the metal taco, made hot-pluggable, and slid into the chassis if customers need it. Sekel said one obvious candidate was a Fusion-io PCI-Express flash drive, or any number of PCI-Express peripherals.
The only requirement is that each PCI-Express module has to burn 225 watts or less. The C410x uses 1,400 watt power supplies and has a maximum draw of 3,600 watts from the PCI-Express slots. That's a pretty tight power budget, with only 600 watts of headroom to spare for inefficiency, switching, fans, and der blinken lights.
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Shiksha Mantri Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced the Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems (CoE-IKS) to be set up at IIT Kharagpur for INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH on various branches of the Indian Knowledge Systems. Accordingly, the Center of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems (CoE-IKS) has been established to bring forth a comprehensive research, development and outreach base for promotion of various domians of IKS. The domains range from Indian history to advanced archaeological exploration; from Indian language systems to aesthetics systems; from Indian systems of geometry and mathematics to cosmology and positional astronomy; and from Indian constructs of ecological and working ethics, law to Indian systems of welfare economics and planning, which are to name a few only.
Prospective post-graduate candidates with initial matching backgrounds and qualifying GATE/ NET/ other scores may apply for their Doctoral Research (Ph.D.) in the following areas (Autumn session):
1. Arthashastra (Indian system of Welfare, Environmental, Behavioral and Ecological Economics)
2. Sanskrit (Sanskrit for Natural Language Processing and other Lingua)
3. Samkhya, Ganita and Jyamiti (Indian system of Numbers, Mathematics and Geometry)
4. Rasayana (Indian Chemical Sciences)
5. Ayurveda (Indian Biological Sciences)
6. Jyotir-tatha Mahajagatika Vidya (Indian systems of Positional and Astronomical Sciences)
7. Prakriti Vidya (Indian system of Terrestrial/ Material Sciences/ Ecology and Atmospheric Sciences)
8. Nandan Tathya tatha Vastu Vidya (Indian system of Aesthetics-Iconography and built-environment/ Architecture)
9. Nyaya Shastra (Indian systems of Social and Ecological Ethics, Logic and Law)
10. Shilpa tatha Natya Shastra (Indian Classical Arts : Performing and Fine Arts)
The CoE-IKS will target a full scientific recovery of various domians of IKS to best advance the contemporary national development of India within the futuristic framework of National Education Policy (NEP 2020), Government of India.
Prof. Joy Sen
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Based on 'INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH', senior students, research scholars and Post-Doc Fellows are invited to join the Center of Excellence for Indian knowledge Systems (CoE-IKS), which will integrate two worlds, the traditional Indian past and the modern scientific world, with right overlaps between the two. The historic meeting points of patron-sage Swami Vivekananda with Scientists Nikola Tesla, Herman Helmholtz, and Lord Kelvin in Chicago 1893; and further meetings between World poet and Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur and Scientist Werner Heisenberg (1929 in Kolkata) and Sir Albert Einstein (1930 in Berlin) are the important precursors. Furthermore, a making of the American Institute of Integral Studies, the Esalen Institute in California, and the triple contributions coming from Sir Arnold Toynbee, Professor Alan Watts and renowned Trans-personal psychologist Abraham Maslow, soon after Dr. Haridas Chowdhury introduced the works of Sri Aurobindo to the West, are the latest landmarks. Eventually in 2004, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research has accepted the non-linear causal pattern behind India's ageold concept of space-time-causation and change (Karya-karan-vada of the Vedas and Pratyud-samutpada of Buddhism) in the form of a dancing Cosmic Purusha, i.e., Shiva or Nataraj, which stands for a deeper non-local reality behind our surface existence. From that point-onward, IKS has secured worlwide acceptance, and IIT Kharagpur now makes a historical landmark to pave an integral (normative-positive) evolutionary course of IKS for our better future, and make a great dream come true.


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LONDON – A British student was on Thursday convicted for his role in a series of cyber-attacks by the hacking group Anonymous that cost the US online payments giant PayPal millions of dollars.
Christopher Weatherhead, 22, was found guilty of participating in attacks by Anonymous on PayPal, MasterCard and other companies that refused to process payments to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
Prosecutors said the assault on PayPal had cost the company £3.5 million ($5.6 million, 4.3 million euros) in loss of trading as well as software and hardware updates to fend off similar attacks.
Weatherhead, who used the name Nerdo on the Internet, was described as a leading player in the "distributed denial of service" attacks. The jury at London's Southwark Crown Court convicted him on one count of conspiracy to impair the operation of computers, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977. Weatherhead, who will be sentenced at a later date, could face up to 10 years in prison.
The DDoS attacks paralyzed computer systems by overloading them with online requests.
Targeted websites were directed to a page reading: "You've tried to bite the Anonymous hand. You angered the hive and now you are being stung."
In a campaign codenamed "Operation Payback", Anonymous also targeted companies in the music industry and opponents of music piracy including the Ministry of Sound nightclub and record label, the jury heard.
Three other men have already pleaded guilty to the charge.
Anonymous, who style themselves as "hacktivists", said last month that they had downed dozens of Israeli government websites in protest over the Jewish state's air assault on Gaza, which ended with a wary truce on Wednesday.


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WCF RIA Services was (past tense) an awesome technology that allowed developers to quickly and super easily build domain classes and WCF services for Silverlight applications.
In VS 2012 (and VS 2010 SP1), you could use Add | New Item and get a template for a WCF RIA Domain Service Class.
(If you are still using VS 2012 or VS 2010 SP1+ with RIA Services, see this set of blog posts for samples and tips.)
In VS 2013, attempting to find the Domain Service Class template gives you this:
As of July 3, 2013, WCF RIA Services was open sourced and renamed Open RIA Services. The project lead is my friend, Colin Blair, whose name you know if you have ever had a question about WCF RIA Services.
To ensure your Silverlight/WCF RIA Services applications still run in Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft included WCF RIA Services V1.0 "in the box". This provides the compile-time domain class and service code generation as well as the runtime functionality that makes the domain service work. So you don't have to do anything extra to run or debug your existing VS 2012 Silverlight applications in Visual Studio 2013.
However, the following features are gone:
- The Business Application project template
- The Domain Service Class template and associated wizard
- Toolbox items for the Silverlight designer surface
- Data Sources window integration for the Silverlight designer surface
See this post for more information on the above changes.
Microsoft has published several NuGet packages for support of Entity Framework 5, Windows Azure, and the SOAP and JSON endpoints in WCF RIA Services. See this post for more information on the NuGet packages.
To follow the Open RIA Services project, see this blog. (Click on "Navigation" to open the menu and navigate the blog.)
EDIT: Clarified that the VS 2013 RIA Services features don't require changes when opening VS 2012 Silverlight projects.


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Chapter 6: Employee Attitudes and Engagement 143
Chapter 7: Financial Effects of Work-Life Programs 169
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Chapter 9: The Economic Value of Job Performance 223
Chapter 10: The Payoff from Enhanced Selection 255
Chapter 11: Costs and Benefits of HR Development Programs 283
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PerkinElmer and Verinata Health Announce Collaboration to Expand Access to Non-Invasive Prenatal Tes
PerkinElmer and Verinata Health Announce Collaboration to Expand Access to Non-Invasive Prenatal Test for Down Syndrome and Other Chromosomal Abnormalities
Global Maternal and Fetal Health Leader and NIPT Innovator Join To Provide Comprehensive Prenatal Solutions for Doctors and Parents
WALTHAM, Mass. & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYS: PKI) and Verinata Health, Inc., today announced a strategic agreement for expanding access to Verinata's verifi® test, the most comprehensive non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) currently available for high-risk pregnancies. The verifi® test, which is performed at Verinata's CLIA-certified, California laboratory, uses a single maternal blood draw as early as 10 weeks of pregnancy to detect multiple fetal chromosomal aneuploidies. Chromosomal aneuploidy is an abnormal number of chromosomes.
Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, PerkinElmer will serve as an exclusive Verinata Health commercial partner in the joint sales and marketing of the verifi® test in the United States. The collaboration consolidates and streamlines delivery of prenatal testing options due to the combination of PerkinElmer's extensive prenatal testing menu with Verinata's proprietary technologies for the early, non-invasive identification of specific fetal chromosomal aneuploidies.
"PerkinElmer has a strong history and commitment to bring innovative offerings that are dedicated to maternal and fetal health, to physicians and patients. Integrating Verinata's non-invasive prenatal test with PerkinElmer's existing solutions ensures that physicians and patients have early access to the most advanced testing solutions to help protect the health of mothers and babies and we look forward to working with Illumina," said Robert Friel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PerkinElmer.
In December 2012, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine issued a joint Committee Opinion stating that NIPT is one option that can be used as a primary or secondary screening test for pregnancies with an increased risk for aneuploidy. This includes women who will be 35 years of age or older at delivery, women with a prior personal or family history of chromosome abnormalities, pregnancies that have received abnormal biochemical screening results, and pregnancies showing ultrasound abnormalities. Further asserting the importance of screening, this new opinion follows ACOG's Practice Guidelines in 2007 which recommended that the option of screening and invasive diagnostic testing for aneuploidy be offered to all pregnant women, regardless of age.
Highly accurate biochemical screening results can be received as early as 11 weeks gestation, through the current PerkinElmer NTD Labs offering for Down syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities. The verifi® prenatal test can be considered for women who have received high risk first trimester screening results at PerkinElmer's NTD Labs early in the first trimester of pregnancy.
"Given our growing success with the verifi® prenatal test, we are excited that PerkinElmer has chosen our advanced technology as their NIPT offering," said Jeff Bird, M.D., Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman at Verinata. "Collaborating with PerkinElmer provides a great opportunity to not only offer expectant mothers greater access to complete high quality screening and diagnostic tests, but to also extend the verifi prenatal test to the over 160 million people who are currently part of PerkinElmer's contracted managed care network."
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About PerkinElmer
PerkinElmer, Inc. is a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment. The company reported revenue of approximately $1.9 billion in 2011, has about 7,400 employees serving customers in more than 150 countries, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. Additional information is available through 1-877-PKI-NYSE, or at www.perkinelmer.com.
About the verifi®prenatal test
The verifi® prenatal test is a blood test that analyzes genetic material (or DNA) naturally found in a pregnant woman's blood to detect the most common fetal chromosome abnormalities. When directed by a physician, the verifi® test can be offered to pregnant women of at least 10 weeks gestation at high risk of carrying a fetus with a genetic abnormality. For more information on the verifi® test, please contact Verinata Health's Client Services at 1-855-266-6563 (BMOMKND).
About Verinata Health
Verinata Health, Inc. is driven by a sole, extraordinary purpose - maternal and fetal health. Our initial focus is to develop and offer non-invasive tests for early identification of fetal chromosomal abnormalities using our proprietary technologies. We aim to reduce the anxiety associated with today's multi-step process, the unacceptable false-positive rates, the non-specific and sometimes confusing results of current prenatal screening methods, as well as the risk of current invasive procedures. We support national guidelines and the recent American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Committee Opinion recommending cell-free DNA prenatal testing is one option that can be used as a primary or secondary screening test in women at increased risk of aneuploidy. We believe women who desire such testing should be offered a single blood draw test with a definitive result. The verifi® prenatal test is available in the United States through a physician. For more information about Verinata, please go to www.verinata.com
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6222.0 - Job Search Experience of Unemployed Persons, Australia, Jul 2001
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More than one in three unemployed are under 25
Over one-third (39%) of Australia's unemployed were aged between 15 and 24, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Half (50%) of unemployed people aged 15-19 were seeking full-time work compared with over three-quarters (76%) of unemployed people of all ages.
The main difficulty in gaining employment for unemployed people aged 15-24 was insufficient work experience (18%). Other difficulties experienced were no vacancies at all (15% of those aged 15-19 and 10% of those aged 20-24) and lacked the necessary skills/education (11% and 13%).
Of the 613,000 unemployed people aged 15 and over in July 2001, the main difficulties in finding work were:
Three-quarters (75%) of unemployed people in search of a full-time job were registered with Centrelink compared to only one-fifth (22%) of unemployed people in search of a part-time job.
Almost one-quarter (24%) of all unemployed people had been unemployed for one year or more (ie. were 'long-term unemployed'). Most of these people (89%) were seeking full-time work, and the majority (90%) had not received any job offers in the previous 12 months. One-fifth of long-term unemployed people reported that being considered too young or too old was the main barrier to finding employment.
Of the 613,000 unemployed persons, three-quarters (75%) had highest educational qualifications at Year 12 level or below. Persons whose highest qualification was Year 10 or below had been unemployed for an average of 64 weeks compared to 31 weeks for those holding a Bachelor degree or above.
Further details can be found in Job Search Experience of Unemployed Persons, Australia, July 2001 (cat. no. 6222.0).
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This Filmmaker Spent a Studio's Promotional Video Budget on Typhoon Relief
When 20th Century Fox approached filmmaker Casey Neistat to make a promotional video for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Neistat had a proposal: Let him use that budget to help victims of typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6000 people when it made landfall in November.
"Mitty is a movie about chasing a dream and they wanted me to make a movie about chasing a dream," Neistat writes on his Youtube channel. "I am a big dreamer but at that time only one thing came to mind; if i could do anything in the world right now what would it be? That's to help the victims of the typhoon."
Fox went for it, and Neistat released the result, an incredibly moving 7-minute film, today.
"It was complicated and at first improbable but with the help of an extremely loving group of locals, all who were total strangers, we were able to stretch the production budget really far," Neistat writes. "Beyond the food distributed in the video we also worked with a local nurse and purchased a lot of medicine and medical supplies, as well as providing tools to village leaders to be shared within the village and aid in the rebuilding process. ... Big thank you to Fox and Ben Stiller for not freaking the f*** out when they saw what i did with their money."
Neistat has directed shorts for Nike and Mercedes-Benz and posts frequently to his YouTube channel, where he makes films on everything from just when you're supposed to use the emergency brake in NYC's subways to the dangers faced by people using bike lanes, and much, much more.
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What is the best way to get traffic to my online used cell phone store? What would be the best way to get customers to the site?
There are no absolutes in marketing, only what works for you.
Start trying various tactic and see what performs. As things fly or don't cut it determine if it's the media, the visitor or the site to know where to adjust.
My advice would be to go through as many channels that your target audience use. Utilize all the social media platforms such as G+, Twitter, Facebook and so on. Work on SEO but don't make it your primary root. Get involved with the online discussions where your target audience are. If you have any questions drop me a message.
This always depends on how much money/time you want to spend on your project!
Diversify your communication channels, which channel would you choose when searching for used cell phones? Differentiate yourself from your competitors!
If you have the budget and your site is fairly new SEM might be a viable option to get your new/page/service started. Communiation through natural search engine rankings is also important. Optimize your onpage, create a solid backlinking campaign and maybe choose a different keyword strategy than your competitors (for example long tail keywords).
Competition is tough in the tech. sector. If you rank in the top 10 for money keywords, you need to have a simple structured layout of your site, as many make the process (for example # of clicks) of buying a product way to complicated.
This is brilliant advice.
Firstly, I would suggest you to list your products on products listing sites( free & Paid). Google products feed is free of cost so initially you should list your products on Google Merchant that will not only generate the traffic for site but also some genuine leads for you.
Secondly, I would suggest you to do aggressive classified listings, articles posting, blog commenting, forum discussions etc.
Finally, I would suggest you to create social profiles on all major social networking sites like facebook, Google+, Linkedin, twitter etc. and participate actively to create brand awareness.
Some good advice there however I would disagree with blog commenting, classified listings and article posting. These have been used so much that spammers have taken advantage of them and you can be harshly penalized by Google for this. A new site may not recover. Forums are good when you're not there for the links but for the traffic, to join in and of course it must be relevant to your niche.
When a customer or subscriber is happy with your business and the services that you provide them, they are more likely to recommend you to a friend. In today's socially-connected world, referrals have an even greater ability to drive new customers. Nearly all of us are connected to Facebook, which now has over 1 billion active users. A positive recommendation can go a very long way. But so can negative feedback…
Businesses in nearly every industry put a lot of time, money, and effort into increasing customer satisfaction and here are 3 primary ways to make your subscribers and customers happier, more loyal, and most importantly more likely to tell their friends about you.
1-Provide Exceptional Customer Service
2- Provide World Class Deals from High Quality Businesses
3-Implement a Seamless Referral Program
Hi Friend !
you can gain lots of natural backlinks from guest blogging, DoFollow blog, forum posting and social media interaction. you should not forget that backlinks are backbones and if you have quality content then you will quick ranking on major search engines.
A site is promote the same regardless if it sell phones, information, membership, etc. True: you will have to promote in specific areas, depending on it's content.
So forums, social sites, social bookmarking, directories, link exchange ( with other phone related sites ).
Hmm. what about video marketing? Also advertising and social media.
Perform these white Hat SEO techniques:
- Create and write unique and fresh articles.
- Social bookmarking
- Article submission
- Blogging
- Blog Commenting
- Press Release
- Yahoo Answers
- Directory Submission
- Guest Posting
- Video Creation
- RSS Submission
- Social Media
Can you apply those to this specific question?
First recognize your target market and the age group for which your eCommerce site is made. Accordingly as per their taste and choices, their likings and dislikings you have to do other things like Article submission, Blogs posting etc.
my opinion is do the good seo for the site…that make your ecommerce site traffic
1.directory submission
2.social media bookmarking
3. add posts
4. artciles submissions
5. blogs submissions
Directory and article submissions are a waste of time and also adding your signature in when it is against the rules is a complete waste of time.
Yes totally waste of timings on these offpage works. rather than these, any new methods?
SEO is the best way to bring more traffic in your website. Either hire a good SEO professional who can work on your website to get the Google ranking or start doing it by your self. You can also use Google ad word's paid service.
Other tools you can use is E-mail marketing: It can be very useful to bring traffic, Just look for company who sell database in you area and Buy a bulk of database should include emails address of the contact person(first you need to decide who is your target customers) in this case all individuals who uses phone are you target customers.
Than Prepare a customize nice looking and informative template of you services offerings. Start sending mails , Avoid sending HTML templates, with HTML template chances are more that your mail will be marked as a SPAM
Diwakar Joni
Bulk email (to a list of people who did not sign up for it) is a method of the past, the long past… Now made illegal in many countries, regulated closely in others and a sure-fire way to destroy your brand's value no matter where you are from. The insignificant returns are not worth the downsides.
Great thinking and nice ideas, iwill try for this