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Shy Singer Stuns Judges With Emotional Song on The X Factor UK 2015 (VIDEO)
Market trader Chloe Paige sang Katy B's "Crying For No Reason" on The X Factor UK 2015!
I'm not familiar with this song, but Chloe's performance instantly made me fall in love with it. Her performance wasn't perfected, but I thought it was beautifully raw. She's got a "diamond in the rough" quality to her presentation that makes me excited about the prospects of what a good mentor could do with her. This was one of my favorite auditions of the weekend, and Chloe has me excited about what could happen with the Girls category this year. Watch Chloe's audition video below:
What did you think of Chloe Paige? Sound off in the comments!
And for more from The X Factor UK 2015 premiere weekend, check out more auditions below:
Lauren Murray, "Somebody Else's Guy"
Jennifer Phillips, "Shackles"
Tom Davies, "As Long As You Love Me"
4th Power, "Bang Bang"
Tom Bleasby, "Make You Feel My Love"
Mason Noise, "Senorita"
Louisa Johnson, "Who's Loving You"
The First Kings, "Uptown Funk"


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Today's article is all about celebrating this special occasion with our mother's and wishing them with our bests, short, funny and cute collection on happy mother's day quotes saying for cards and for friends. Whether you are a daughter or son or her best friend, here we are sharing some of the cute short mother's day saying for friends or for cards from daughter and son, which can melt her as these are the most heart touching & emotional sayings for mothers day and can be used in a greeting cards. It is said that mother–daughter and son relationship is the most important & strongest one as the moms always see their reflection in their daughters and son. So, even if you are married, have kid and family of your own, never forget that your mother will always be there for you. Here we have posted cute Mother's day sayings from daughter for all the daughters to express your deep feelings for your moms in a card. Also we have gathered short best happy mother's day saying from son to wish and honor their mother. Everyone has a friend who brings out the real "you" in every situation and if you are lucky to have that one friend in your life, then do share these funny mother's day sayings for friends who is also a mother. Below we have given inspirational sayings for mother's day 2017 to cheer up the amazing moms from daughters and sons.
{Best} {Short} Happy Mothers Day Quotes Sayings For Cards
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- "God made us best friends because he knew our mom couldn't handle us as sisters."
- "A true friend cares like a mom, scolds like a dad, teases like a sister, irritates like a brother and loves more than a lover."
- "Friends help you to find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage."
- "Each day send his angels to guide us, we don't expect to see them with wings…instead, they come in disguise and we call them friends!"
- "Friends come and go like waves of the ocean… but the true ones stick, like an octopus on your face."
- "In my friend, I find a second self."
- "You are honestly the weirdest person I know… and that is why we are best friends."
{Cute} Mother's Day Sayings From Daughter
- "A mother can take the place of anyone but no one can take her place!"
- "Mothers believe in us more than we believe in ourselves, do more for us than they do for themselves, worry about us more than we realize, pray for us more than we'll ever know, value us more than anything else in the world, give us more than they can afford, love us more than anyone else can, matter more than words can express."
- "Her Smile makes me smile. Her laugh is infectious. Her heart is pure and true. Above all I love that she is my daughter."
- "My mother is my best critic, and yet my strongest supporter."
- "The more daughter knows the details of her mother's life, the stronger the daughter."
- "Words cannot express the gratitude that you deserve for all that you have done for us throughout the years."
- "A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart."
Mothers Day Messages For Daughter
Happy Mothers Day Saying From Son
- A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
- All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln
- "A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."Mothers day saying for cards
- "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world."
- "The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."
- "To the world, you are a mother. To a family, you are the world."
- "No matter how old you get, sometimes, you still just need a hug from mom to make everything better."
Funny Mothers Day Saying For Friends
- "I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me."
- "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-b*itch."
- "My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping."
- "Nobody loves me but my mother. And she could be jiving' too."
- "Yes, I do have a beautiful daughter. I also have a gun, a shovel and an alibi."
- "I won't always like who you are, but I will always love you. You will always be my child."
- "My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia."
So this post all round up in Best, Short, Funny, Cute Happy Mothers Day Quotes Sayings For Cards & For Friends From Daughter & Son.

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Jeffrey Favorite
[M.S.N.E. 1994, Ph.D. NE 1998]
Member, Technical Staff
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico
I decided to do graduate study at Georgia Tech because, after graduating from Tech with my bachelor's degree, I knew the professor I wanted to work with and the project that I wanted to work on. I think this is a testament to how the faculty looks after its undergrads.
My graduate school experience prepared me well for a career in applied theoretical and computational transport theory at a national laboratory. In graduate school my research topic combined applied mathematics with nuclear reactor physics. Although I don't deal directly with reactor physics any more, I learned some important tools for approaching many physical problems, tools that I do use in my job. Also, in graduate school I worked independently on my thesis project, but I worked on large teams for two major design projects. Both skills are very important at the lab.
The major strengths of the Woodruff School are its faculty and staff. My advisor was one of the pioneers in the field of my research, and the rest of the faculty are also experts in their fields. The management of the Woodruff School was always helpful, supportive, and attentive. I was always encouraged to publish my work and supported to attend meetings. I really felt like the entire School was my ally in obtaining my Ph.D. Another strength is the support from the rest of the Institute. The faculty in the other departments is very strong. Also, the central computing facility has high-performance computers available for special projects.
The nuclear engineering graduate program is outstanding. There are high-quality facilities available for both computational and experimental research, and the faculty is especially good. These are the main reasons that I took my Ph.D. at Georgia Tech.


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This photo shows a closer view of my Copic-filled image. This was a perfect image for using the feather blending technique to smoothly transition the addition of different color families. I also added thin layers of light colors to the background then spotted my colorless blender for a mottled effect.
I've layered patterned papers from a Memory Box Viola paper pad with Bazzill cardstock. A Spellbinders Large Labels die cut frames my image. The sentiment is from a Close To My Heart Pair-a-Phrase set.
Here's a photo of my completed card front showing my use of Crafts and Me Stamps' Foxgloves image as designed by Janna Prosvirina . . .
Copics used:
skin - E000, E01, E11, E93
hair - Y13, Y26, Y28
gown, wings - V20, V22, V25, V28, YG11, YG13, YG17, Y00, Y02, Y06
mottled background - E84, E89, 0
I'm so glad that you stopped by to visit!
~ Rose


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On the 8th August 1665 the Navy Board ordered the Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard to equip Sheerness Yard with materials and workers to clean the hull of the ships, the same year Samual Pepys visited the yard to begin the planning of the construction works. His diary reads: "To Sheerness where we walked up and down, laying out the ground to be taken in for a dockyard, a most proper place". The first building to be constructed was a storehouse, used to store provisions that were to be sent out to ships. Three months later orders were sent from the Navy Board that all ships in need of cleaning, minor repairs and refitting go to Sheerness Dockyard; by doing this they relieved some of the work at Chatham Dockyard as the men there were struggling to keep up with the workload and they also avoided the plague that was raging at Chatham. To be able to accommodate this extra workload more buildings and more suitable cranes were planned, these plans and cost estimate were sent to Samual Pepys who agreed to the work. This work was completed at the end of 1665.
During the following year plans were drawn up by Bernard de Gomme for the building of a new fort at Ness Point, adjacent to the new Dockyard to protect it and the King's fleet anchored at Chatham, however before the fort could be completed the Dutch attacked and invaded the fort and surrounding area. They removed as much of the stores as they could carry on their ships and burnt anything they could not keep, including destroying the new fort. They finally left with £3000 worth of stores, guns and ammunition. They then sailed up the River Medway to Chatham where they took the Royal Charles (the English flagship), another ship, and destroyed the rest of the fleet. By the end of 1668 both the fort and dockyard were operational again. The first dry dock was completed in 1673 and the first ship was launched four years later, this ship was to become one of many launched at Sheerness.
Sir Phineas Pett was appointed Resident Commissioner of Sheerness and Chatham Dockyards on 19th April 1686, he was to reside at Chatham Dockyard on a salary of £500 per year. Thirteen years later on the same date a shipwright was discharged from a hulk at Sheerness due to his age and inability to carry out his work. The shipwright petitioned the Admiralty for a position on a Chatham hulk as he was very poor and luckily Their Lordships approved. By this time the dockyard had grown considerably and now consisted of around 20 buildings, a number of docks and slips and a mast pond. The building would have consisted of stores, saw pits, wheelwrights shop and other essential workshops. In 1794 a house for the Commissioner had also been built and Ordnance Stores are also marked near Powder Monkey Bay and the Gun wharf. By this time a new telegraph system had been invented and was in use by the Admiralty between Chatham, Sheerness and Deal, this was to be replaced in 1822 by a semaphore system.
The next major event at Sheerness was the Mutiny at the Nore. Naval crews of 28 naval vessels started a Mutiny at the Nore anchorage, the sailors were angry due to poor working conditions, un-equal pay, not enough leave, poor rations and they wanted an end to people being forcefully enrolled in the Navy (press-ganged). Richard Parker, a former officer who had been voted president of the fleet by the mutineers, led the rebellion and blockaded access to London, this meant all trade was unable to carry on. The Garrison was increased to 3,000 men to protect the fort and dockyard if they attacked and the shot was kept warm for the batteries. The mutiny was hijacked by radical delegates and started to turn sour, due to lack of food and disagreement between the mutineers they started to leave. Parker and co-conspirators were dealt with severely and were hanged by the Admiralty for treason, the executions taking place upon the ship 'Sandwich'.
The dockyard steadily grew and by 1800 it consisted of two dry docks, two slips and around 30 buildings. It was soon realised that the present dockyard was struggling to keep up with the work expected of it, the building were badly placed and room was short. With this in mind it was decided the dockyard needed a complete overhaul. John Rennie was asked to survey and design the new dockyard and work began on 23rd December 1813 with the first piles being driven. In total the works cost £2,586,063 and took 10 years to complete. The docks were re-opened by HRH the Duke of Clarence on 5th September 1823 and Howe, a 1st rate ship, was floated into No.1 dock as part of the ceremonies. During this works, in 1816, dockyard workers set up the Sheerness Economical society to buy food in bulk to distribute to other workers and their families at a reduced cost compared to local shops. The company Joliffe and Banks (Sir Edward Banks) were contracted to build a number of buildings including the Captain-Superintendants House, the Admirals House, to be the home of the Commander-in-Chief The Nore and Naval Terrace to name a few in 1827.
Sheerness Dockyard was the scene of a riot in 1830 after a Warden accused one of the workers of being in possession of the 'Kings stores' as he was leaving the dockyard to go home. A large number of workers heard this accusation and tried attacking the Warden. Three Constables and Commissioner Lewis attempted to get the Warder to the safety of his home but by the time they reached the Barrier Gate they realised that the Military Guards had to be called to help, by this time Commissioner Lewis had been struck with thrown stones and bricks. The worker, a mechanic, pleaded guilty to theft at his trial and was fined and discharged from the yard. Eight years later the Temeraire, a 2nd rate ship, fired her guns for the last time as a 21 gun salute for Queen Victoria's coronation on the 28th June. Moored at the Nore, the crew were treated to a double issue of run and shore leave to Sheerness as part of the celebration.
The ship Actaeon was commissioned at Sheerness as a Torpedo School on 6th June 1905, she was later moved to Chatham. Four years later in June 1908 the gunnery school, HMS Wildfire, was closed and all courses were moved to Pembroke although the firing range remained in use. The same year Agincourt, a battleship, arrived at sheerness Dockyard to be stripped and converted into a coal hulk. 1000 extra labourers were hired to help in this task and she was later moored just off Sheerness until Trafalgar Day in 1960. On the 10th January 1912 Sheerness was involved in another history making exercise when the battleship Africa was moored off the dockyard, her purpose being the first Royal Naval warship to launch an aircraft, a Shorts S27 seaplane from a ramp over the forward gun turrets. In 1914 and 1915 two ships exploded causing a great loss of life off the coast of Sheerness, both were unfortunate accidents.
Before and during WWII ships entering the River Medway were ordered to remove all their ammunition at Sheerness Dockyard so to prevent any serious and damaging explosions at Chatham Dockyard or near the Ordnance Store at Upnor. The dockyard was still in use during this time repairing and making adjustments to ships, it also played a vital role during the Dunkirk evacuation with many small boats being brought to Sheerness to be checked over by the Navy. It was here they were provided fuel, rations and charts and arranged in convoys before they were sent to Ramsgate before entering the deep waters on a dangerous mission to save all they could from the beaches of Dunkirk.
The 18th February 1958 brought bad news to the dockyard workers when an announcement from the Government confirmed the dockyard at Sheerness was to close, they had two years to find alternative employment.


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Guest post by Michael Valentine, Head of Online Learning at Hale School
The future of teaching in schools is a current, very complex education issue. Teaching is being informed that it must change and retain a focus on core skills to develop students who can participate in our 21st century society. Transformation of practice is often cited as a key goal for teachers' and their curriculum to achieve these expectations.
There are 3 important drivers of this conversation;
- Technology; over the past 25 years technology has been used to amplify our teaching methods, engage students with their learning and make educational infrastructure more efficient. Today, technology can transform teaching, classrooms and schools in ways we never considered possible 25 years ago. Individual teachers and some schools are exploring breathtaking innovations…educational innovation is as diverse as it is spontaneous and irregular currently.
- Brain science; the science of learning has revealed significant new insights into how students learn best and the unique nature of each students learning. We need to focus on developing the intellect of each individual and concede that the teach content and test content academic model falls well short in the 21st century.
- The future needs of students; to ensure they can be active participants in a 21st century society where citizenship, career and communication are envisaged to be so different to existing contexts. We need to understand and cater for students, perhaps our brightest students, can now genuinely consider creating their own job rather than go to university or follow a traditional career path.
In order to develop students who are best equipped for the future a new core set of skills have been identified as being essential for successful participation in the 21st century economy and society. They are usually identified as;
1. being creative and innovative in their thinking
2. being able to collaborate, sometimes over distance
3. being able to problem solve
4. being able to communicate well in a different modes
5. being entirely comfortable and innovative with ICT.
Currently, creativity and innovation are two of these skills discussed in detail and many teachers seek to bring these qualities into their own teaching. They are rightly recognised for this advanced professional practice and often they are role models for the entire teaching team in their school. Their practice is often technology rich and innovative. Students respond well to this exciting new context as they prepare to be assessed on the content delivered more dynamically and in a context more aligned with their own IT-savvy world. Schools rightly proclaim these individual classrooms as indicators of progress towards 21st century teaching and learning.
However, it is my contention that this is also causing some obstruction to the successful embedding of all the 21st century skills and intellectual qualities into our entire school curriculum. The focus on creative or innovative teaching practice is important; but it is overshadowing the need for students to undertake curriculum designed to teach them to be creative and innovative. We not only need to teach creatively; we need to teach creativity.
In order to embed enduring and substantive change into our schools' teaching and learning we need to ensure that the entire teaching team in any school is conversant with why it has to happen. And, that how it happens is not reliant on them becoming a dynamic, technology guru who can develop insightful educational practice on their own. It would be ideal and some will achieve it; but it is not reality for diverse and large teaching teams initially. However, in time, such professional qualities must be the norm.
Our first step in the transformation of teaching and learning must be for the teaching team to speak the same language when discussing the needs of students, understand that these needs have changed from those of the recent past and to understand that our students need us to teach them how to think creatively and how to be innovative…. How to work collaboratively and to problem solve….. And how to communicate powerfully and effectively…as well understand and interconnect the richness of the subjects in our curriculum. From there we need to ensure that curriculum design in schools embeds core 21st century skills in each subject right alongside the explicit content for that terms work. It becomes the role of teaching teams to design teaching that delivers and assesses the content, and the core 21st century skills, for each unit of work. Learning for students needs to hone communication and collaboration skills, provide opportunities for a variety of valid responses to the same problem. None of these changes devalue or diminish content. New science reveals it enhances understanding.
These changes challenge current teaching practice and current assessment models in all areas of school. They require teachers to rethink the outcome of their daily interactions with students in the classroom. Certainly, in the junior and middle years teachers need to grasp the reality that lecturing content and assessing that content in a test or essay falls well short of their students' needs. The teachers of senior years may invoke external assessment pressures as a reason for neutrality in this current debate; but such an argument ignores science and educational momentum and the makes the inevitable change even more traumatic.


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Portable RegRun Security Suite Platinum 22.214.171.1240
RegRun Platinum portable includes 24 system utilities for protecting a computer against Rootkits/Trojans/Adware/Spyware components, increase Windows boot-up process speed, help in computer management. Malicious software or Malware may be harmful to your computer and may spread from one computer to another without user's knowledge. The constant improvement of broadband and other means of Internet connection have also made these harmful softwares more powerful. For this reason, computers should be armed with RegRun Suite.
RegRun Secuirity Suite is an excellent tool kit for protecting your computer against viruses, Trojans, spyware, or Adware parasites. RegRun Suite uses the very latest anti-malware detection technology. Fight the bad guys by using the most powerful weapon!
RegRun Suite prevents these viruses from auto-starting with Windows, so that your anti-virus program cannot be disabled. This allows you to clean your computer with your antivirus program to remove the viruses and their associated files and registry records.
Here are some key features of "RegRun Security Suite Platinum":
· Detects rookits during Windows boot-up process. Removes hidden kernel rookits!
· Invisible Trojan's – Rootkits Killer. Provides an unusually friendly interface to users, who can easily and quickly provide detailed information about, suspend, resume, alter, or delete any of the programs within the Windows startup.
BootLog XP:
· Boot Log XP is the best Windows boot analyzer.
Start Control:
· Provides an unusually friendly interface to users, who can easily and quickly provide detailed information about, suspend, resume, alter, or delete any of the programs within the Windows startup.
Registry Guard:
· Protects Windows startup registry keys from changing.
Startup Optimizer:
· Startup Optimizer allows removal of useless and dangerous applications from Windows startup with one click.
· Advanced Startup Optimizer (Windows Core Components)
· Advanced Startup Optimizer allows to remove useless and dangerous applications from Active Setup items, Browser Helper Objects, Shell Loggers DLLs, Static VxD (Windows 9X/Me only).
Secure Start:
· Analyzes the Windows registry, initialization files, and .vxds and warns the user if any changes have occurred. Secure Start is activated BEFORE Windows startup – in both W9x and W2K/WXP. It allows you to reverse any modifications, additions, or deletions.
Network Connections Monitor:
· Monitors ports and applications that allow access to the Internet.
Clean Boot:
· Using "Clean Boot," the user will boot into Windows without unnecessary or problematic programs and processes. This is a quick and handy alternative to Windows "Safe Mode".
Watch Dog:
· Provides silent monitoring of the startup programs during your Windows working session. Watch Dog will pop up and advise you of any changes in these areas, and allow you to reverse any modifications, additions, or deletions.
System Files Protection:
· System Files Protection is an extremely useful function, serving to protect your computer from viruses, trojans and malfunctioning programs. It checks system files for adulteration, and offers the option of restoring them if necessary. You have the option of adding additional files for its protection.
Infection Detector:
· This is not signature scanning, but rather "infection scanning". During a session, it opens and monitors a number of "bait" program and macro files which are vulnerable to infection by any active virus. If any of these files change, it will advise you.
Application Database:
· Includes descriptions of always-used programs as well as malware. Watch Dog monitors applications as they start, and compares them with this database, looking for dangerous programs. Users may contact Greatis Software for information about unknown programs; Users can add their own programs.
Antivirus Coordinator:
· Coordinator detects the well-known antivirus programs (it can be customized to incorporate lesser-known AV programs), and uses this information to quickly check startup files and folders, if necessary.
Process Manager:
· Allows you to analyze and control all of the processes and modules that are running on your computer.
System Files Editor:
· Looks like a Microsoft's SysEdit but it is handier and allows you to quickly and easily open your files subset.
Launch Soon:
· Allows a delayed launch of your programs. This is particularly useful on smaller systems that launch many programs simultaneously at boot up.
Used Files:
· Shows all the files that are open on your computer.
File Extension Manager:
· Helps to manage Windows file extensions.
Registry Assistant:
· Includes registry search and replace, tips and tricks collection, registry shortcuts, useful links and utilities. This includes a full, 32-bit application that allows fast, multi-threaded searches of the Registry; a very useful tool for those accustomed to working with the MS programs.
Registry Tracer:
· Registry Tracer monitors selected registry keys, and advises of changes. It allows you to reverse any modifications, additions, or deletions.
Run Job:
· Advanced batch manager. Allows you to launch several programs simultaneously, delayed, or by "chain" – a series of jobs; each waiting for completion of a previous program.
Recovering WinSock2:
· It allows the removing Adware from Winsock2 key in the
Substitution Detector:
· Feature added to Trojans searching module. It fights against viruses and Trojan who have the same names as system files but located in the different places.
· Backups registry and system files and allows the user to quickly restore them.
· Analyze script files (VBS, JS), Microsoft Office files, registry files or HTML files before execution. It will warn you of suspicious or dangerous scripts, and offer the option of preventing execution. Sophistocated, and unlike most "script blocker" tools, RunGuard works at the .dll level – assuring that it works even if the script is initiated by a false extension, or has been hidden within an email or web page.
Trojan Analyser:
· Monitors applications for suspicious be-havior, including registry and file activity, and reports if any questionable action is detected.
· Clears Internet cache, temporary files and other files assigned by user.
Bootlog Analyser:
· Bootlog Analyser allows to troubleshoot Windows startup and shutdown using generated by Windows startup log file (bootlog.txt).
Startup Analyser:
· Startup Analyser allows to unhide Windows startup process. Must have tool for troubleshoot strange problems on startup.
Registry Compressor:
· It can decrease the size of your registry and the memory using by removing deleted records from registry files.


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It's been revealed to Press Start that the physical edition of Outlast 2 has been delayed on Xbox One in Australia. It will now release on May 5th for Xbox gamers. Outlast 2 is being released physically as a part of the Outlast Trinity Collection which contains the first game, the Whistleblower collection and Outlast 2. It will retail for $59.
The PlayStation 4 edition will continue to release on April 26th.
It's unclear whether the Xbox One version will continue to release digitally on April 26th, but we've reached out to the distributor for comment.


text: The Low-Emitting Materials Third Party Certification table lists acceptable certifications and programs for the LEED v4 EQ Credit Low-Emitting Materials. This list will be updated often to add programs as they become eligible. Note that the LEED v4 credit also requires reporting on TVOC levels. The programs deemed acceptable may already include this information—if they do not, project teams must request this additional information. Updates: 3/26/2014 added UL Greenguard Gold 9/10/2014 10/1/2014 added Greenguard certified, added European programs for composite wood criteria 7/1/2015 added Intertek ETL VOC, added eco-Institut-Label 11/24/2015 added CRI Green Label Plus label, clarified language for CHPS 5/11/2016 clarified language for Intertek ETL VOC and VOC+, added MAS Certified Green for acceptable third party certifier (moved from acceptable for first party claims section), clarified language for SCS Indoor Advantage and Gold and added program for VOC content and wet-applied, added Berkeley Analytical ClearChem program 8/2/2016 added Finnish Emission classification of Building Materials M1 for general emissions criteria, updated entry for EMICODE to clarify what is required for EMICODE EC1 and EC1plus. 6/16/2017 added TUVRheinland Green Product Mark for furniture criteria 10/18/2018 added Finnish Emission classification of Building Materials M1 for furniture evaluation criteria, updated entry for Intertek ETL VOC and VOC+ with new program names- Clean Air Silver and Clean Air Gold.


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What do you think of when you hear of Idaho? Potatoes… maybe a few mountains… maybe the fact that it has more white water than any other state… or that it has more hot springs than any other state? Well all of those are true. Idaho also has one little town of 63 people that on average has 290 mornings of frost… Stanley, ID.
This little town sits at the base of the Sawtooth Mountains just 63 miles north of Sun Valley. Last month two friends and I decided we would take on a portion of the Idaho Hot Springs Springs Loop in late August. When we told people we were going to be riding our bikes for 250 miles in August they all scoffed at how hot we would be. Little did they know that we would wake up to frozen water in the morning. As the trip began to get closer the weather forecast began to look sunnier and sunnier so we decided that we'd leave the tent at home and each sleep in hammocks.
Sleeping in hammocks comes with it's own set of challenges. One of those challenges is insulation. That brings me to what this whole piece is about… the Thermarest NeoAir Trekker SV and Thermarest NeoAir XLite SV. Insulation is key when sleeping anywhere outdoors but when you're in a hammock a sleeping bag alone will do very little. The down or synthetic down of your bag flattens on the underside of the bag and therefore provides zero to no insulation. The Thermarest pad solves that problem.
Use of product
Thermarest has always done a great job of helping you get a good night rest under the stars. From their original "self-inflating" mattresses to their z-rest pads that are affordable and comfortable, they do a great job. This year however they introduced new technology called the speed valve (hence the SV). The speed valve is a "dry-bag " like closure system on the top of each pad. This allows you to open it up and blow into the large opening rather than just a small little valve on the corner. They've made it so you can blow "5 large breaths" of air 6 inches from the speed valve and have your pad nearly inflated. Finishing the inflation process is easiest through the small valve but this new iteration saves a ton of time and less chance of hyperventilation due to how hard you've been working at blowing up what you're about to sleep on. The intention seems to be that they want you to be able to save as much energy as possible in the backcountry as they also send a little battery powered inflator along… I left that part at home but for some it might be useful.
Trial and error
The first night we spent in our hammocks was by far the coldest. Like I said we woke up to frozen water that morning and every morning after wasn't much warmer. That first night before getting on the road we slept horribly. Not only because of nerves and anxiety to get on the road but also due to "user error" and the fact that two of us woke up to partially deflated pads (to be fair they tell you on their site that you need to roll the closure 7 times tightly… but I am a man and I don't read directions). Seems like a minor issue, but when its all that's keeping your entire backside warm… sleeping became very tough. It didn't help that I hadn't set my hammock up as well as I'd hoped and between the two problems my butt was actually on the ground at one point during the night. Like an ashamed little kid I hopped out of bed in my skivvies and reset as quickly as possible. All I can chalk it up to is that I hadn't rolled my speed valve down enough. It almost looks like it could act as a little pillow extension if you don't roll it all the way down but I would suggest rolling it as tight as possible. (The suggested 7 times, again don't follow in my footsteps of not reading.) Needless to say we didn't make the same mistake twice, from that night on our pads were as full in the morning as they were when we went to sleep.
Why they excel in a bikepacking setting
Thermarest has always had a great reputation in the backpacking and even car camping world. They've got a ton of heritage to their brand and they've always made great lasting product. But why did we choose them for bikepacking? Well for one, they're very compact. It has a diameter of 5 inches and measures 12 inches in length when it's stored in its own little "stuff sack" of sorts. It's not too heavy either, it weighs in at just over 1.5 lbs. or 740 grams. Mounting it on the bike was also very easy. I used one G3 backcountry ski strap around my bars and it worked great the whole trip. These pads also use their Neoair technology for insulation. Basically they use 100 cells of evenly distributed air that are also covered in reflective coating to capture and retain your body's radiant heat. For how small they get and easy they are to set up there sure is a lot of technology that goes into these pads.
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A Palestinian human rights group is complaining about major abuses against Palestinian civilians. The malfeasors stand accused of
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- shooting people to death in hospital beds; and
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Those damn Israelis!
Whoops. There I go again, misreading a news stories. The fact is, as soon as I saw the words "Palestinians" and "abuses" I went on automatic pilot. After all, from ordinary media reports, whenever the Palestinians complain about the violence visited against them, it's always the Israelis' fault. But not this time: this time, it's Palestinian on Palestinian violence being reported, from the Fatah/Hamas fighting.
Nor can we get around the Israelis' lack of involvement by contending that they somehow brutalized these people, rendering them incapable of avoiding this type of violence. As Augean Stables explains, a recent study shows that, while 11 million Arabs have died in the last 57 years, over 90% of them were killed by fellow Muslims. In other words, the bloody, brutal, heartless battles being waged amongst the Palestinians slot neatly into a cultural approach to tribal warfare that has absolutely nothing to do with the Jews.


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Disclaimer: I am a food chemist and any medical comments are those of a food chemist.
Will anything prevent cancer?
No, probably not. Cancer is not one disease but a diverse group of illnesses, all characterised by uncontrolled cell growth. Cancerous cells are being produced all the time and the body deals with them. The problems arise when the body can no longer deal with them. This will be partly why cancers are more prevalent in the elderly; the body's defences get weak, lazy or ineffective.
I believe that pretty much anything will cause cancer – if the body gets swamped with any chemical, systems can go awry.
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Good diet and good health seem to be part of the cancer preventative thing : be healthy, give your body a chance. Let your body function as it should, defences work properly, cell reproduction work reliably.
I have little doubt that the individual components of ginger, cumin and curry powder will trigger cancers if taken in excess. Anything taken at a level that distresses the body increases the likelihood of the body malfunctioning and cancers being the result.
But I really have no knowledge on compounds, natural or synthetic, that may directly work to prevent cancers. And I think it unwise to pin your hopes on a 'silver bullet'.


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I like this book because it's so funny. If you want to hear more, you'll just have to read this book. I really love this book because the book is funny and cool. My favorite part is when Fox is supposed to watch his sister. She falls, and Fox said, "Uh-oh!"? because he is scared. It reminded me of when my cousin was on a tricycle and ran into a tree! Just like Fox! But, Fox was on a bike.
I recommend this book to kids that like weird, crazy, and hilarious stories. I also recommend this book to families. You would like this book in any grade!


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Of course I want to be writing about Jamaica. Jamaica was amazing and beautiful and everything I hoped it would be and more. But today, I am writing about another kind of beach in another kind of place. And I'm writing about the thing that made both places wonderful – time with my love.
So here was the scene: Imagine a hot summer day, the kind of sweltering summer day that is thankfully rare in Oregon. To walk outside was to be hit by a wave of heat that made you want to turn around and run straight back into the air conditioning. Except it's too hot to run, so you just slowly walk and then find a spot to sit where you don't have to move. Add to the almost unbearable heat the smokiness. For weeks over the summer, wildfires throughout the region settled a tangible haze of smoke into the valley that frequently made breathing uncomfortable. On this particular day, I was also finishing up my work week and feeling hot and tired and stressed.
And then Brandon texts. "Hey babe. I'm at your place packing the camping gear into the car. Let's go to the coast."
Music to my ears.
I rushed home from work, eager to head out on our adventure. With no specific plan in mind, we loaded Sydney into the car and headed toward smoke free, cooler weather. An hour and a half later, we were breathing easy and enjoying the novelty of not sweating every time we did something intense, you know, like sitting quietly and breathing. On the drive, we chatted about where we might settle for the night. After some debate, we decided to try to find a spot at our "secret beach." Although there were no official campsites, camping was allowed on the side of the dunes opposite the beach. After another terrifying drive down the terrible road leading to the beach, we parked and made a few trips to carry our camping gear the short walk to the spot we decided to camp. If we had a vehicle that could drive on the sand, we could have pulled right up to the campsite.
From there, the weekend became everything. And nothing. I cannot even begin to describe how much I love weekends like this with Brandon. Days spent relaxing that end with nothing to do except sit and watch the sunset, days where I don't have to share him with anyone or talk to anyone else (I know, I know, I'm kind of unsociable sometimes). Days where I can recharge and reset from the stress of day-to-day life.
We walked to the beach and watched the sunset before settling in for the night.
We literally spent the entire next day walking along the beach. See what I mean by everything. And nothing. It was absolute perfection.
We did not see another person the entire day.
At one point, we set out our beach towels, ate a picnic lunch, and then took naps. We know how to have a good time.
Sometimes you just need to get away – from the heat, from the smoke, from the stress and routine of everyday life. I needed to recharge and reconnect. I am thankful for days when we can load up the car and randomly head to the coast to get away from it all.
And up next on the blog, the gorgeous and amazing Jamaica (spoiler alert: aka the trip where I came home with a ring)!


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Jag läser i Voice of America att Sverige än en gång framhålls som ett land mot strömmen i migrationsfrågor.
De uppmärksammar att invandringen till Europa minskar och ställer frågor till Georges Lemaitre, OECD.
Immigration specialist Georges Lemaitre, of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, is not surprised by these reports.
"The first thing that affects migration is the fact employers do not want as many workers," he said. "They are not looking to hire as many immigrants. So this is the first thing that reduces the level of migration. The second is the fact immigrants themselves do not see many opportunities. So they themselves tend to come less often."
Lemaitre says this trend is reflected elsewhere in Europe and in richer nations as a whole. And it concerns legal and illegal immigrants.
"Two very significant labor migration countries, Ireland and the United Kingdom, they have seen very significant drops in labor migration," he added.
Lemaitre says Sweden is one of the few countries bucking the trend. Sweden has opened immigration channels since the economic crisis and the numbers of immigrants have jumped 30 percent.
lördag 23 januari 2010
Sverige mot strömmen
Upplagd av Henrik Emilsson kl. 15:44
Etiketter: Europa, Georges Lemaitre, invandring, OECD, Sverige
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(Reuters) - Canadian stock futures were little changed on Friday as investors gear up for Christmas holidays.
Gross domestic product growth likely stalled in October, data is expected to show. The report is due at 8:30 a.m. ET. ECONCA
March futures on the S&P TSX index SXFc1 were down 0.03 percent at 7:15 a.m. ET.
Canada's benchmark stock index climbed for the sixth straight session on Thursday, led by energy and telecom shares, after the nation's telecom regulator ruled that broadband internet access will be considered a basic service.
Dow Jones Industrial Average e-mini futures 1YMc1 were down 0.04 percent at 7:15 a.m. ET, while S&P 500 e-mini futures ESc1 were down 0.03 percent and Nasdaq 100 e-mini futures NQc1 were down 0.09 percent. [.N]
(Morning News Call newsletter here ; The Day Ahead newsletter here)
Oceanagold Corp (OGC.TO): Raymond James raises rating to "strong buy" from "outperform"
Sun Life Financial Inc (SLF.TO): Dundee cuts rating to "neutral" from "buy"
Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO): Dundee raises target price to C$93 from C$87
COMMODITIES AT 7:15 a.m. ET [COM/WRAP]
Gold futures GCc2: $1,131.5; +0.21 pct [GOL/]
US crude CLc1: $52.33; -1.15 pct [O/R]
Brent crude LCOc1: $54.30; -1.34 pct [O/R]
LME 3-month copper CMCU3: $5,508.00; -0.18 pct [MET/L]
1000 U Mich Sentiment Final for Dec: Expected 98.0; Prior 98.0
1000 U Mich Conditions Final for Dec: Expected 112.0; Prior 112.1
1000 U Mich Expectations Final for Dec: Expected 89.0; Prior 88.9
1000 U Mich 1 year inflation final for Dec: Prior +2.3 pct
1000 U Mich 5 year inflation final for Dec: Prior +2.5 pct
1000 New home sales-units for Nov: Expected 0.575 mln; Prior 0.563 mln
1000 New home sales change mm for Nov: Expected +2.1 pct; Prior -1.9 pct
1030 ECRI Weekly Index: Prior 143.4
1030 ECRI weekly annualized: Prior +11.0 pct
TSX market report [.TO]
Canadian dollar and bonds report [CAD/] [CA/]
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NRG Energy and Reliant to Provide Over $2 Million in Relief for Hurricane Harvey.
This summer, various community centers and locations will have a spot for seniors and young children to cool off, with support from Reliant.
A 2nd Cup in Houston received $100,000 from Reliant Gives to help fight human trafficking.
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Los Angeles - Shia LaBeouf and Jesse Eisenberg are to star as two weapons-dealing drug addicts in new film, Arms & The Dudes.According to Deadline, the two actors are in talks with Warner Bros. and film director Todd Phillips to star as two stoners who are contacted by the Pentagon to supply $300m's worth of weapons to the US troops in Afghanistan.The unusual plot is based on a true story by the journalist Guy Lawson, which was later published by Rolling Stone magazine.Todd has reportedly been working on the project with fellow writer Jason Smilovic for years under Todd's company, Green Hat. Arms & The Dudes will mark his first big film since The Hangover trilogy, which starred Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Heather Graham.Criminal Minds producer Mark Gordon is reportedly producing the film, while The Messenger's Bryan Zuriff is rumoured to be the executive producer. Jesse - who rose to fame by playing Facebook creator Mark Zucerberg in The Social Network - most recently starred in the thriller The Double. His rumoured co-star Shia is set to star in the action film Fury, which is out in cinemas from 14 November.
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The King's School, Parramatta
Site Directions
Parking is available at The King's School Main Administration Building, with entry via Russell Road (off Pennant Hills Road).
Public Transport
The M54 goes right past The King's School and begins at Parramatta Train Station.
Other Information
Please meet at The King's School Main Reception ahead of classes, as indicated by Key Areas #1 on the map below. There is no cafe on site so please bring morning tea, lunch and water for the day if attending holiday classes.


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Lang Lang will be in residence in Stockholm this weekend
Lang Lang will be in residence in Stockholm this weekend, in two featured performances at the city's stunning neoclassical Konserthuset (Concert Hall). On Friday June 12th he will perform with the Royal Philharmonic Stockholm, in a program that will include Beethoven, Stravinsky and Brahms, conducted by the world-renowned John Axelrod. On the following evening, Saturday, June 13th, Lang Lang will perform a solo recital concert, with works by Schubert, Bartók, Debussy and Chopin.


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Laboratory Sciences Core (D)
The CFAR Laboratory Core provides access to a wide range of cutting edge immunology and virology assays at compettitive prices. Services are available to both CFAR members and the wider UM research community.
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Capturing Participant Information for Mucosal Sampling: An Investigators Guide
Published by the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise* with the support of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the HIV Mucosal Immunology Group. 1st edition, May 2014
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and facilitates coordination, collaboration, knowledge sharing and resource optimization. A small Secretariat supports the Enterprise, helping to catalyze the activities of this collaboration and implement programming to move its mission forward.
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Please welcome our latest CB, Virginia Bed and Breakfast, the Under the Magnolias! Next to Hunan Diner on Washington Street, you'll find this quaint property in walking distance to just about everything in town. It is a four bedroom house built in 1900. To book a stay, phone 804-410-5020.
The Dennison Street Inn is an 1893 Queen Anne Victorian which was originally built by the town's first mayor. A mirror-image was built around 1903 on the opposite corner and at that time became The Breakers Hotel. DSI can be reached by calling 800-210-0769.
Colonial Beach, Virginia B&B's are beautiful, historic properties tucked away amongst tall shade trees that offer sweeping water views. Most notable is probably The Bell House at 821 Irving Avenue, phone 804-224-7000. It's a Virginia Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places and it was the summertime home of Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the telephone. You won't have to wait for summer to stay here, it's open year-round!
Built in 1883, this inn features four guest rooms and a widows walk which is open to the public. The original "privy" or outhouse even still stands on the grounds, but it is not operational. I guess that's a good thing!
Please note, The Bell House is currently not in operation.
Also on Irving Avenue (a perfect location, it's right on the Potomac River) is the Potomac Breeze which offers three bedrooms, a front deck, river access, hot tub and evening refreshments. phone 804-224-3915
The Monroe Bay Inn at 306 Hamilton Street dates back to 1905. Originally used as a summer home for children from Washington, D.C. who would benefit from the fresh air, it features four beautiful rooms.
We loved @ColBchVAttracts and our stay at Monroe Bay Inn B&B! #SadToSayGoodbye pic.twitter.com/clTU0YnOso— Ken Slack (@KenSlackVA) November 11, 2013
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Chizuko Ueno, the director of Women's Action Network and a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, will be speaking at the Nagaokakyo City Gender Equality Forum 2011 in Kyoto on January 21, 2012. The lecture is entitled "Passing the Baton" and features her experiences of coediting the twelve-volume feminist anthology, Feminism in Japan. The original series was published by Iwanami Shoten in 1994 and an augmented edition was completed in 2011.
Date: January 21, 2012
Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: Nagaokakyo-shi Chuo Shogai Gakushu Senta (Center for Continuing Learning, Nagaokakyo City), Main Hall (third floor)
* The Center is located in front of JR Nagaokakyo Station.
Capacity: 200 seats
* Please fill out and send in the application sheet attached here. Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis.
* Childcare services are available. Please register by January 14.
Contact: Women's Support Center, Nagaokaky City
Tel: 050-7105-8501
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WHITE WINE – Maintain whites or Rose' chilled to the perfect serving temperature for maximum enjoyment.
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Mariana Arcaya
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Urban Planning
Rocio Calvo
Rocio Calvo is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College. Rocio is also a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Center for Population and Development Studies, where she focuses on studying immigration, social policy, social inclusion, and quantitative and comparative methods. She earned a Joint European Master's in International Humanitarian Action from Deusto University, and a PhD in Social Work from Boston College. Rocio's dissertation is a cross-examination of the welfare state as an agent of immigrant incorporation.
Harvard School of Public Health: Center for Population and Development Studies – Bell Fellowships Profiles
Boston College: Graduate School of Social Work
Christian Chan
Christian Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong. He was born in Vancouver, raised in Hong Kong, and educated in Montreal, Tokyo, Kobe, Boston, and New York. He obtained a BA in psychology from McGill University and is completing a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research interests include natural disaster and mental health, and positive youth development. He completed his clinical training at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, and the UMass Boston Counseling Center.
Hong Kong University: Department of Psychology
Rhodes Lab at University of Massachusetts-Boston
Erin Dunn
Erin C. Dunn, ScD, MPH is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist and Instructor at the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Dunn is also affiliated with the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Dunn's research is centered on using interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the etiology of depression in women, children, and adolescents. To this work, she brings a multilevel or "cells to society" approach, focusing on the independent effect of social determinants (e.g., exposure to child abuse and neglect, school and neighborhood factors) and the joint effect of genetic and social determinants (e.g., gene-by-social environment interplay). Her most recent work is examining a developmentally informed model of gene-environment interplay (GxE), whereby the role of exposure to adversity is hypothesized to exert a strong effect during sensitive periods in development.
The Dunn Lab
Massachusetts General Hospital: Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit
Corina Graif
Corina Graif is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. As a Health and Society Scholar, Corina is studying the effects of migration flows, neighborhoods, and spatial mismatch on individual and collective wellbeing. She is also investigating the socio-spatial, structural, and biological interactions that produce and reproduce racial and ethnic disparities in health, crime, and related outcomes. Corina received her MA and PhD from Harvard University. She was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her work has been published by the Russell Sage Foundation, in Social Psychology Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, Homicide Studies, and in Research on Occupational Stress and Well Being. Corina's projects have been awarded the Howard T. Fischer Prize for Excellence in GIS and recognized by the ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section.
University of Michigan: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars
Harvard University: Department of Sociology
Sarah Lowe
Sarah Lowe is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. She earned her B.A. in Psychology, with a citation in Spanish, from Harvard University, and her M.A. and PhD. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Sarah was awarded the Beacon Award for Outstanding Leadership from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2009. She completed her clinical internship at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Her doctoral dissertation explores the trajectories of psychological distress among a sample of low-income women, primarily unmarried and African American, who survived Hurricane Katrina.
Rhodes Lab at University of Massachusetts-Boston
Helen B. Marrow
Helen B. Marrow is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Tufts University. She was designated a university Neubauer Faculty Fellow in 2011-12. Professor Marrow served as a Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy (UC-Berkeley and UCSF, 2008-10); a European Network on Inequality Research Fellow (Harvard University and University College Dublin, 2006); a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (Harvard University, 2002-04 and 2005-06); a Research Fellow with the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy (Harvard University, 2001-04); and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellow with the U.S. Department of Education (Brazil, 2002). She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University, where she received four Certificates of Distinctions in Teaching, and her A.B. (summa cum laude) in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Princeton University, where she received a President's Award for Academic Achievement in 1998. Her research explores Latin Americans' racial and ethnic identities in the United States and Europe, the impact of immigration on social life and race relations in the contemporary rural American South, and variation in public bureaucracies' approaches to unauthorized immigration (especially in education, law enforcement, and health care) For her work, she has been awarded the 2008 Best Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association, and the 2011 Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award from the Latino/a Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Helen B. Marrow
Tufts University: Department of Sociology
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Scholars in Health Policy Research
Jordan Smoller
Jordan Smoller, MD, Sc.D., is Associate Vice Chair of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Director of Psychiatric Genetics. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He is Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the MGH Center for Human Genetics Research. Dr. Smoller also serves as co-director of the Genetics and Genomics Unit of the MGH Clinical Research Program. At Harvard Medical School, he is Director of the Translational Genetics and Bioinformatics Program of the Harvard Catalyst. He is also Science Director of the Science of Health and Development Initiative at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. Dr. Smoller is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute and a Senior Scientist at the Broad's Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. With RISK, Dr. Smoller examines whether specific genetic polymorphisms modify the effect of social and individual environmental exposures on post-hurricane adjustment, including PTSD.