text:
Complete article first published in the January 2012 issue of Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation available online to current subscribers.
Back To The Future
The question: Why has mediation use grown?
The authorities: A survey of the people who were there, at the beginning of modern practice.
The takeaway: New institutional initiatives offer solid practice opportunities.
Until the 1970s, formal mediation activity in the United States was largely confined to labor contract negotiations by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and various state mediation agencies.
In the 1970s and 1980s, however, mediation spread to new areas: business and commercial, family and divorce, environmental, public policy, neighborhood disputes, and even prisons.
One could speculate endlessly on the reasons for the '70s re-emergence of a process that in its simplest form—one person helping others to resolve a dispute—is undoubtedly as old as mankind. Rather than contribute further speculation about the reasons for the growth of mediation, for this article we interviewed 31 people who were at least in part responsible for that growth—those who began providing mediation services in the 1970s and 1980s. (We also compared and included here some of our own experiences.) We conducted each initial interview in telephone calls, but asked some follow-up questions via electronic mail.
We asked the mediators a series of questions about what had attracted them to the nascent mediation field, why they had remained in the field, what changes they had observed, whether they viewed those changes as positive or negative, and where they anticipated mediation would be 10 to 15 years from now. In brief, we sought to elicit their views on the past, present, and future of mediation.
The mediators in our study entered the field from diverse backgrounds. Slightly more than half—16—are attorneys. Inasmuch as mediation typically deals with disputes, and many disputes lead to court filings, the high proportion of lawyers in the first wave of mediators is hardly surprising.
Furthermore, it is generally agreed that a motivating force behind mediation growth was the search for alternatives to the court system. Thus, lawyers who knew first-hand the problems of the legal system led the effort to provide alternatives to that system—and one of the primary alternatives was mediation.
The non-attorney mediators we interviewed were engaged in a variety of occupations at the time they first became involved in mediation. Three were graduate students, two were professors in fields other than law, and nine—including some of the lawyers—had labor backgrounds. Others included a peace/civil rights activist, an ombudsman, an Outward Bound program leader, a family therapist, a youth gang worker, and a conscientious objector performing alternative service at a student housing project in Belgium.
The study participants' attraction to mediation came from a variety of sources. For those with experience in the adversarial approach used in courts and arbitration, mediation's contrasting collaborative structure was compelling. Perhaps the best-known example of someone whose experience with the adversarial system which led him to embrace mediation is Frank Sander, who was at the time a Harvard Law School family law professor.
During a sabbatical in Sweden in 1975, Sander said, he "began to reflect on [his] experiences in dispute resolution in the U.S., noting that the courts often made things worse in divorce cases, but that labor arbitration worked pretty well to solve a variety of problems."
Sander said he wrote down some of his ideas "about ways of resolving various disputes and sent them off to some of my colleagues at Harvard Law School for comment."
These ideas ultimately led to his famous article, "Varieties of Dispute Processing," presented at the 1976 Pound Conference, and which can be found in "The Pound Conference: Perspectives on Justice in the Future" (A. Levin & R. Wheeler eds., West 1979). Many consider the Pound Conference to be the birth of the mediation movement. It was a three-day, St. Paul, Minn., gathering formally known as the National Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice. The event brought together about 200 judges, legal scholars, and bar leaders to examine the efficiency and fairness of court systems and administration.
"[T]here's something magic about [mediation] that grabs people," said Sander, who is Harvard Law's Bussey Professor of Law Emeritus. "[W]hen people get into mediation, in many cases, they're subsumed . . . in the warmness of mediation, and the potential of the process to get [to a resolution] more amiably and more quickly."
For Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Georgetown University A.B. Chettle Jr. Professor of Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure, it was experience as a Legal Aid lawyer that led her to mediation. "[W]inning the case didn't solve the problem," she told us. "I would win a lawsuit and the next day the welfare department would change the regulation. So I was more interested in solving legal problems than winning lawsuits. And I thought mediation was a better way to do that."
Because arbitration, like litigation, is an adjudicative process, some arbitrators were drawn to mediation for reasons similar to those expressed by Menkel-Meadow.
Co-author Steve Goldberg has noted,
I had been doing an awful lot of arbitration in the coal industry, and I was making plenty of money, so that was fine. But I'd go to the same coal mine time after time, and essentially arbitrate the same dispute—different people, but essentially the same dispute, and I became very frustrated that I was deciding cases, but not solving problems.
Religious traditions of peacemaking, in particular those of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Mennonites, and Buddhists, played a role for several mediators, among them Gail Bingham and Christopher Moore (see below), as well as David Hoffman, who is founding member of Boston Law Collaborative LLC, and Jean Paul Lederach, professor of international peacebuilding at Notre Dame University's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, in Notre Dame, Ind.
Intellectual Challenges: Another frequently mentioned reason for being attracted to mediation was its intellectual challenge—could the mediator assist disputing parties to find a mutually acceptable resolution of their dispute that they had been unable to find on their own?
For example, co-author Margaret Shaw was drawn to mediation for "the challenge and satisfaction of really trying to understand what mattered to the people you had in front of you, figuring out what the particular Gordian knot in their situation was, and helping them see and untangle that. It's both intellectually and interpersonally satisfying."
Social and Political Change: Still others reported that they were attracted to mediation because they saw in its collaborative approach to decision making a means of bringing about social and political change. In addition to citing his Quaker background as an influence, Christopher Moore, founder and president of CDR Associates in Boulder, Colo., told us that mediation seemed to reflect the principles of both Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. "I was concerned," he said, "about how we could have significant social change, and have it done in a manner that was peaceful, respectful, and did minimal harm."
Bernie Mayer, another CDR Associates founder, and a professor at the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., also saw mediation as a way to further his personal and political goal of "working with people on some very difficult issues in their individual and collective lives, and doing it in a way that was fundamentally using an empowerment model. . . . We were trying to give some real meaning to the concept that was thrown around a lot in the 60s of participatory democracy—what that really looked like in practice . . . but that also has an interpersonal manifestation."
Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation co-founder William Ury, who is co-author of "Getting to Yes," and Washington, D.C., mediator Susan Carpenter took the broadest view of all concerning their attraction to mediation as a means of achieving social and political goals. They saw collaborative decision making fostered by mediation as necessary for global survival.
"The conflict that most drew my attention," Ury explained, referring to the Cold War, "was the prospect of nuclear war that was the Sword of Damocles hanging over all of us. I never quite understood why it was worth threatening the whole human race for a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States."
Whatever drew them initially to mediation, once our respondents experienced it, they were captivated.
Some were delighted at the constantly changing topics of the disputes in which they became involved; others enjoyed the opportunity to become involved in the lives of others. Nearly all commented on the pleasure involved in assisting participants in mediation to resolve their dispute, often a dispute that had become life consuming.
"You're helping people, you walk away, and you feel good about it," Marvin Johnson told us. Michael Lewis said, "I really enjoy helping people put their own personal jigsaw puzzle together in a way that makes sense to them." Both Johnson and Lewis are veteran neutrals at JAMS' Washington, D.C., office.
The mediators also described the excitement they feel when, in the course of mediation, the likely resolution of a hard-fought conflict becomes apparent. Peter Adler, president of the Keystone Center, a Keystone, Colo., public policy nonprofit, made this point vividly. "When . . . people gain clarity into something that was one-dimensional for them, and then all of a sudden they can see that there's more dimensions than one, people start to get unstuck," he said. "I just love that. Yeah, and it's not about how much I made, it's not about the case, it's just something special . . . that's the million dollar moment for me."
All the mediators we spoke with agreed that today's mediation landscape bears little resemblance to what they saw when they began mediating. Most strikingly, the use of mediation has expanded dramatically. Peter Adler told us that when he started mediating,
Mediation was kind of a neat little idea, and the thought was that this would be very good for little problems on the courts' dockets—trees, dog poop on the sidewalk, all that kind of stuff, and certainly not anything serious. But, what we learned is that things that are "little" to some people are big to the people who might hold those problems. And we've learned that the processes, techniques, and strategies and values actually are quite pertinent to huge numbers of different sorts of problems and conflicts and disputes and different types of litigation.
Perhaps the most significant change our respondents noted is the extent to which mediation has become institutionalized in the judicial system. Nearly all of the respondents recognized that the judicial embrace of mediation is a major reason for its increased use, which they consider to be a positive development. They were also pleased that lawyers have been able to make productive use of mediation.
Institutionalization is not viewed as an unalloyed good, however. Judicially ordered or strongly encouraged mediation has led those lawyers who are not interested in settlement to use mediation for other purposes.
"Sometimes [the lawyers] are not interested in a settlement at all, at least that day," Eric Green, a co-founder and principal of Resolutions LLC, a Boston ADR provider, explained. "It's just a step they have to go through. . . . [Too often] people engage in mediation with the idea that it's just going to be a protracted-type process that's going to give them more time in the litigation to either postpone the day of reckoning, or gain more information . . . rather than really rolling up their sleeves and working hard to find a settlement."
Peter Adler agreed. "Lawyers learn how to game any system pretty fast. I've heard lawyers say 'We'll go through this bullshit, but we won't put on much of a case, because we really want to get to the big show.'"
As the use of mediation has expanded, the amount of research and writing devoted to mediation has also grown. Gail Bingham, who is president emeritus of Washington, D.C.'s Resolve; said:
We have established a more robust and rigorous pursuit of research and reflection in this field. Reflective practice is a long-held value, but it has become more professional, with academics from many disciplines who ask interesting questions and bring the rigor of intellectual thought to these kinds of practices.
Some respondents lamented, however, that the growth in research and writing has encouraged unproductive debate among mediators and scholars concerning the "correct" approach to mediation. Homer LaRue's comment was typical of many: "One of the things that I've become increasingly disturbed about is that we've gotten into too much debate between evaluative and facilitative mediation, [and] transformative," said LaRue, who also is a Washington JAMS neutral. "Any mature mediator will tell you that during the course of a single mediation, he or she might use techniques from any of these approaches. . . . We're losing some of the art by trying to make it doctrinaire and rule-bound."
The mediators also expressed widespread concern about the lack of quality control—both of mediators and trainers. "We train too many people," Madison, Wis., mediator and arbitrator Howard Bellman argued, "We don't train them well, we don't monitor them well, we don't have any sort of an effective oversight, all that stuff that we always talk about."
Several mediators also told us that they worry about the growth of mediation models that focus primarily on the legal strengths and weaknesses of each party's position and on the dollar amount that should resolve the dispute.
"[C]ommercial disputes often are just 'How much money?' or 'How little money?'" said Michael Lewis. "Occasionally you get a commercial dispute in which there is a little more nuance, and people are trying to do things, or are willing at least to think about doing things differently. But in the commercial world, I think, there's much less ability to help people do things differently."
"[I]n the early days," observed co-author Margaret Shaw, "lawyers who brought cases into mediation were more open to thinking creatively. Now many simply want us to persuade the other side that they're wrong."
Gary Friedman, an attorney-mediator at Mediation Law Offices in Mill Valley, Calif., also told us that he thinks some of the original promise of mediation has been compromised. "For me mediation was really about flipping the basic professional assumption that we knew better than people in a dispute about what they should do with their lives," he explained. "The people that came to mediation in the beginning really got that. . . . [O]ver time that changed because lawyers got involved, and said, 'Well, this is a settlement conference, we know how to do this.'"
A number of mediators expressed concern that the field has become too specialized and routinized. Christopher Moore said that "because of the specialization dynamic, people get locked into one area of practice. One of the most wonderful things about my practice has been the cross-fertilization of ideas. You can take an insight from doing a family case . . . or any interpersonal case, and apply it to big public or international conflicts. . . . I worry that the specialization may prevent some of the great cross-pollination of ideas."
Several mediators noted that concerns can vary according to practice area. For example, co-author Steve Goldberg said that he found an obsession with financial settlements to be less of a concern in labor–management mediation than in business/commercial disputes.
[I]t's a whole lot easier for me to get the parties to focus on interests in labor-management cases than it is in most business cases—unless there is an ongoing relationship between the disputing parties in the business case, like there is in a union–management situation. . . . Whether or not a mediation will be at least partly interest-based is influenced primarily by whether or not there is a mutual interest in the relationship.
The mediators who provide services in public policy matters—often related to environmental issues—were the most positive about the opportunity for creativity in their work. According to Susan Carpenter, "The range of creativity can be much greater in the public policy area . . . particularly if you are able to work upstream on issues, as so many government agencies are doing today."
She continued: "Many agencies are shifting toward a more collaborative practice, and they want a mediator to come in and help . . . design a conversation so that issues and perhaps potential outcomes can be outlined up front—it's more conflict prevention than intervening."
"I've mediated disputes," Carpenter said, "where everybody's hot under the collar, people claiming 'my right as a citizen is involved.' People are battling with arguments over values. . . . People rarely say, 'Pay me this much and I'll go away.' . . . What some will say is, 'If we can all work this out, it will probably be better than either a court or agency decision.'"
We asked the survey group members to envision the future of mediation over the next 10 to 15 years. Their predictions were remarkably similar.
Their general sense was that the type of mediation that takes place in the shadow of the courts is likely to increase and that such mediation is likely to become even more routinized than it is at present. "There's no question in my mind that it's still growing," said Carrie Menkel-Meadow, "and there will be more of it. Litigation is getting even more expensive . . . so all the quantitative reasons will push it."
Several mediators told us they expect to see particularly substantial growth in mediation use to assist in the resolution of public issues, an area where mediators such as Bowdoin College Prof. Craig A. McEwen, in Brunswick, Maine, see greater prospects for creativity. "[T]here will continue to be new opportunities for people to do creative work in the public sector," he said.
Those who practice in the public policy context draw a distinction between their work and the work of those who practice in the shadow of the courts. As Chris Carlson said, the work of mediators in the public sector involves "engaging citizens in policy making and implementation." Carlson, chief adviser to the Portland (Ore.) State University-based Policy Consensus Initiative, added that it also means "getting people from across sectors working together on tough issues, and dealing with the conflicts that naturally arise in that process."
Prof. Josh Stulberg, of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio, said:
[M]y hope would be we're going to get involved one way or another in public education policy, health care, energy. It strikes me that those areas are extraordinarily exciting in terms of trying to play a facilitative, leadership role in helping to both shape and implement new initiatives in those areas. Whatever health care looks like in 15 years, I'm sure it's still going to involve people who believe they ought to get a lot of things that somebody else doesn't want to pay for. So there's a lot of work to do. I don't know what the context will look like, but to me, the exciting possibilities are taking a more prominent visible role in shaping those discussions.
Interestingly, many of the mediators who work in the public policy area predicted that growth in the facilitation of collaborative processes is likely to be carried out by organizational insiders, rather than outside interveners.
"I think [mediation] will have a strong presence, but it may not be what we're expecting," explained Susan Carpenter. "I don't think there will necessarily be more jobs for mediators. I think there will be more training of staff people to mediate or use the skills of mediation internally. . . . [In today's economy], the resources available for hiring a facilitator are going to become less just as the interest in using the tools of mediation increases. So what agencies are interested in is training people internally to be effective problem solvers both within their agency and with their external public groups."
Peter Adler gave an example of what Carpenter described:
The U.S. Forest Service has set up a whole series of collaboration initiatives that utilize a so-called mediator to do the same things we do, but their rules are somewhat different and their roles are somewhat different, and they have very little interaction with other mediators. . . . They don't know anything about our journals, our language, our jargon, they don't know what a Batna [Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement] is, and they may not understand the intellectual distinction between interests and positions, but they get it. They get this stuff, and they do it. They do it all the time. So what I think is happening is that the ideas themselves that underlie the premises of mediation will find lots and lots of traction in lots and lots of places. And it may not be called mediation, it may be called lots of other things . . . but they're moving along and taking the same ideas and the same [fundamentals] and deploying those ideas in very interesting ways.
We find many things striking about our interviews with these "founders." One is the genuine wonderment expressed by so many at having somewhat serendipitously wandered into work that "sang" to them—and that now, some 40 years later, has truly become formalized into a "field." Another is their sense of privilege in witnessing the field's tremendous growth and institutionalization.
We found an idealism—and if not, from time to time a bit of dreaminess—among these early mediators, including a determination to change the culture of disputing.
Mediation is for many a "calling," a part of a larger cause or socially valuable enterprise. These individuals' statements about what drew them to mediation convey their excitement and satisfaction in finding what they came to consider their life's work. And they are justly proud of their writings, teachings, and program designs, which have contributed to people seeing and doing things differently.
On the other hand, another common theme that emerged is questioning and concern about where the field of mediation is headed.
To some degree, at least with respect to the mediation of cases in the shadow of litigation, practitioners have some real concerns about the effects of institutionalization. Will only lawyers have credibility in handling these cases, when alternative dispute resolution initially attracted individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds?
Is mediation in these kinds of cases just about money, with creative resolutions giving way to a more prosaic kind of horse-trading over numbers?
And will clients choose only mediators with subject-matter expertise, or mediators who are only facilitative, only evaluative, or only transformative, as if good mediators are not facile in more than one area? Of equal concern is a perceived lack of quality control in the field, among trainers and mediators alike.
Lest this group of founders be dismissed as aging curmudgeons, they also expressed excitement about the kinds of neutral work being done outside the litigation context. Josh Stulberg, for example, talks about "playing a facilitative leadership role in helping both to shape and implement new initiatives" in the areas of public education policy, health care, and energy.
Peter Adler talks about the U.S. Forest Service "setting up a whole series of collaboration initiatives to utilize a so-called mediator to do the same things we do."
These kinds of initiatives and ideas offer a great deal of promise for the generations of mediators and disputants who follow.
"Don't give up your day job" need no longer be the proverbial advice to new mediators. While, except for retired judges, becoming established as a mediator takes considerable time, it is now possible to make a good living mediating cases "in the shadow of the law."
Furthermore, opportunities increasingly abound for using collaborative processes in state governments and legislatures, in the health-care arena, and in traditional institutions.
Thus, while the efforts of the founder generation may have led to the institutionalization of mediation, at least in the shadow of the law, for those who follow, the field may offer a promise with a different vibrancy, and with the potential to transform the culture of disputing in a variety of different contexts.
Goldberg, a veteran mediator and arbitrator, is an emeritus professor at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. He is co-author of the treatise "Dispute Resolution" (2007 5th Ed. Wolters Kluwer). Shaw is a JAMS neutral in New York and was an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law for more than 25 years. The authors acknowledge with great appreciation mediator Amy Glass, whose questions sparked and informed the idea for this article, which is updated and adapted from its original longer version, in the April 2010 issue of Negotiation Journal, published by the Harvard University Program on Negotiation and John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Sign-Up Now and Stay Informed!
Additional text goes here and here and here.
More text regarding the E-Alerts signup goes here.
© John Wiley & Sons, Professional Development Subscription Content
One Montgomery Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, CA 94104-4594 | Phone: 800-835-6770
Terms and Conditions


text:
|Are You Man Enough lyrics
|Are You Serious ? lyrics
|Baby, I Need Your Love lyrics
|Backgirl lyrics
|Backseat Of Your Cadillac lyrics
|Big Time lyrics
|Born On The Wind lyrics
|Can't Catch Me lyrics
|Cause You Are Young lyrics
|Dancing In Shadows lyrics
|Don't Be A Hero lyrics
|Don't Shoot My Sheriff Tonight lyrics
|Don't Wait Too Long lyrics
|Feels Like Heaven lyrics
|Fire Of Love lyrics
|Give Me What I Want lyrics
|Good Guys Only Win In Movies lyrics
|Hear What I Say lyrics
|Heartbeat City lyrics
|Heartbreak Hotel lyrics
|Heaven And Hell lyrics
|Hollywood Nights lyrics
|House Of Mystic Lights lyrics
|I Can Lose My Heart Tonight lyrics
|If I Feel Love lyrics
|I'm Gonna Miss You lyrics
|Jump In My Car lyrics
|Like A Hurricane lyrics
|Little By Little lyrics
|Love Away lyrics
|Midnight Gambler lyrics
|Midnight Hour lyrics
|Night In Africa lyrics
|Nothing But A Heartache lyrics
|Nothing's Gonna Change Our Love lyrics
|One Night's Not Enough lyrics
|Picture Blue Eyes lyrics
|Shake Your Head (Radio Edit) lyrics
|Smokey Joe's Café lyrics
|Soul Survivor lyrics
|Stay lyrics
|Stop (dragging My Heart Around) lyrics
|Strangers By Night lyrics
|Summer Kisses lyrics
|Tears Won't Wash Away My Heartache lyrics
|V.I.P. (They're Calling Me Tonight) lyrics
|Wild Fire lyrics
|You Can Be My Lucky Star Tonight lyrics
|You Can't Run Away From It lyrics
|You Shot A Hole In My Soul lyrics

subset: commoncrawl


text:
"Joel Franco" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote in message news:email@example.com...
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joel Franco <firstname.lastname@example.com> * Package name : nettee Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : David Mathog <email@example.com> * URL : http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/nettee.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : a network "tee" program It can typically transfer data between N nodes at (nearly) the full bandwidth provided by the switch which connects them. It is handy for cloning nodes or moving large database files.
Out of curiosity, besides being a bit easier to remember/type, and not requiring the user to choose a port, what benefits over combining normal tee and netcat does it have? for example:
On A: nettee -in IMAGE -next B -v 31 #full logging On B: nettee -next C >/dev/hda On C: nettee -next D >/dev/hda On D: nettee -next E >/dev/hda On E: nettee -next F >/dev/hda On F: nettee >/dev/hda
AFAICT, that could be done more or less equivlently as On A: nc -q0 B 12345 <IMAGE On B: nc -l 12345 | tee >(nc -q0 C 12345) >/dev/hda On C: nc -l 12345 | tee >(nc -q0 D 12345) >/dev/hda On D: nc -l 12345 | tee >(nc -q0 E 12345) >/dev/hda On E: nc -l 12345 | tee >(nc -q0 F 12345) >/dev/hda On F: nc -l 12345 >/dev/hda(Some stdout redirections to /dev/null could be added, so stdin on the reciving does not come out as stdout on the sending end.)


text:
Blink Price$10,272.00
Save on this prescription when you pay with Blink Health
Blink doesn't need a copy of your prescription, so you can bring it straight to the pharmacy or have your doctor call it in. If you're picking up a refill, head to the pharmacy as usual.
Pay online and pick up at local pharmacies serving every community, including:
Blink Price
Blink is partnered with one of the largest group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the country and leverages their purchasing power to negotiate significantly lower prices. By bringing these prices online, Blink is able to give everyone equal access to the same fair prices that commercial payers and large insurers have.
Search in a different zip code
Blink can handle your prescription transfers - it's free & easy.
Blink Health beats traditional prescription discount options in nearly every way.
Traditional way to save on prescriptions
The new way to save on prescriptions
Find savings on over 15,000 medications.
You'll get a Blink Card — that's your proof of purchase. You can print it out. We'll also text it to you.
When your pharmacist asks for payment, show them your Blink Card. You'll pay nothing at the pharmacy.
From facing a bill of $390 for some medication, just one medication, my husband was able to get it for $18.95. We couldn't believe it, we thought it was a joke! I thought it was a scam! ... We're currently saving about $600 a month just on 4 different medications. That makes a huge difference. — Rebecca
Blink has changed my life because after I lost my job... I was unable to afford prescriptions because I had no health insurance, like many of us Americans. With Blink, I was able to get all my prescriptions. — Farrian
This medication is used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections. This product contains 2 different medications: ceftazidime and avibactam. Ceftazidime is a cephalosporin antibiotic that works by stopping the growth of bacteria. Avibactam is an enzyme inhibitor (beta-lactamase inhibitor) that helps ceftazidime work better.
This medication is given by injection into a vein, as directed by your doctor, usually every 8 hours over 2 hours. The dosage and length of treatment are based on your medical condition and response to treatment.
If you are using this medication at home, learn all preparation and usage instructions from your health care professional. The solution is normally clear and light yellow. Before using, check this product visually for particles or discoloration. If either is present, do not use the liquid. Learn how to store and discard medical supplies safely.
For the best effect, use this antibiotic at evenly spaced times. To help you remember, use this medication at the same time(s) every day.
Continue to use this medication until the full prescribed amount is finished, even if symptoms disappear after a few days. Stopping the medication too early may result in a return of the infection.
Tell your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
Nausea, vomiting, constipation, or anxiety may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
Tell your doctor right away if you have any serious side effects, including: mental/mood changes (such as confusion, hallucinations), loss of consciousness, seizures, shaking (tremors), muscle spasms, jerking movements, easy bruising/bleeding, yellowing eyes/skin.
This medication may rarely cause a severe intestinal condition (Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea) due to a type of resistant bacteria. This condition may occur during treatment or weeks to months after treatment has stopped. Tell your doctor right away if you develop: persistent diarrhea, abdominal or stomach pain/cramping, blood/mucus in your stool.
Do not use anti-diarrhea products or narcotic pain medications if you have any of these symptoms because these products may make them worse.
Use of this medication for prolonged or repeated periods may result in oral thrush or a new yeast infection. Contact your doctor if you notice white patches in your mouth, a change in vaginal discharge, or other new symptoms.
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, get medical help right away if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
In the US - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to ceftazidime or avibactam; or to penicillins, beta-lactam antibiotics, or other cephalosporins; or to other beta-lactamase inhibitors (such as sulbactam); or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: kidney disease.
Ceftazidime/avibactam may cause live bacterial vaccines (such as typhoid vaccine) to not work as well. Do not have any immunizations/vaccinations while using this medication unless your doctor tells you to.
Before having surgery, tell your doctor or dentist about all the products you use (including prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, and herbal products).
During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
Ceftazidime passes into breast milk. It is unknown if avibactam passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Consult the product instructions and your pharmacist for storage details. Keep all medications away from children and pets.
Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so. Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company.
Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.
One product that may interact with this drug is: probenecid.
Although most antibiotics are unlikely to affect hormonal birth control such as pills, patch, or ring, a few antibiotics (such as rifampin, rifabutin) can decrease their effectiveness. This could result in pregnancy. If you use hormonal birth control, ask your doctor or pharmacist for more details.
This medication may interfere with certain laboratory tests (including Coombs' test, urine glucose tests), possibly causing false test results. Make sure laboratory personnel and all your doctors know you use this drug.
If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call 911. Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center.
Missed Doses:
For the best possible benefit, it is important to receive each scheduled dose of this medication as directed. If you miss a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist right away to establish a new dosing schedule. Do not double the dose to catch up.
Laboratory and/or medical tests (such as kidney function) should be performed periodically to monitor your progress or check for side effects. Consult your doctor for more details.
Selected from the Licensed Solutions data included with permission and copyrighted by FDB, inc., 2014. This copyrighted material has been downloaded and Licensed data provider and is not for distribution in professional healthcare settings. This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking any drug or commencing or discontinuing any course of treatment.


text:
July 18, 2013 to July 20, 2013 3 Events
Tickets Unavailable
This event has ended.
Put on your "Blue Suede Shoes" and swing those hips over to the Grand Casino Event Center July 18th through 20th for:
The EP Expo is a tribute to one of the most legendary American pop culture icons of all time. Elvis experienced enormous success throughout his career across many genres of music. The best-selling solo artist in the history of pop music, The King earned three Grammy awards and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The EP Expo will include appearances from "Kissin' Cousins" co-star Cynthia Pepper; Sam Thompson, close friend and bodyguard; The Imperials, Elvis' vocal group and Millie Kirkham, the cherished soprano voice accompanying Elvis on the hit song "Blue Christmas." The Flying Elvi will also perform a jump from 5,000 feet at 4:00pm on Saturday. Elvis fans will have an opportunity to spend a weekend with the "King of Rock and Roll" and Elvis impersonators will have the chance to compete for cash prizes.
Events include: "The King" Musical Production featuring Jay Dupuis, Victor Trevino Jr. and Nathan Belt. 1st round of contest competition. Elvis Celebrity Introductions. After Party following the nightly show.
Events include: "Elvis in Vegas" Musical Production featuring Jay Dupuis, Nathan Belt, Elvis' Imperials, Joe Guercio, Millie Kirkham and Sam Thompson. 2nd round of contest competition. After Party following the nightly show.
Events include:
9:00am-11:00am - VIP Celebrity Meet & Greet Q/A Brunch*
1:00pm-3:00pm - To Be Determined
4:00pm - Flying Elvi Airplane Jump (Free to Public)
6:30pm-10:45pm - "Aloha" Musical Production featuring Bill Cherry, Joe Guercio, Millie Kirkham, Elvis' Imperials and the EAS Band. 3rd round of contest competition and finals. After Party following the nightly show.
* Available only for Gold Record & Pink Cadillac packages with VIP add-on.


text:
The housing market is poised for a strong performance this year, unless strong economic headwinds stymie its progress.
Continued high levels of unemployment, partisan bickering in Washington over spending and broader fiscal policies, new mortgage rules along with bad appraisals and a tight lending environment could hamper the recovery that rooted last year, economists argue.
Still, the sector is fragile and any shocks could not only hurt housing but ding up the economy, which is trying to gain more traction nearly three years after the recession ended.
"Nearly every measure of housing market strength — sales, starts, prices, permits and builder confidence — has been trending upward in recent months and we expect to see gradual but steady growth along these lines in 2013," David Crowe, chief economist of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said this week.
But "continuing gridlock in Washington over how much more fiscal tightening is needed to stabilize the debt-to-GDP ratio, along with calls by some policymakers for major changes to the mortgage interest deduction, threaten to negatively impact consumer confidence and future housing demand," Crowe said.
Although lawmakers mostly avoided going over the fiscal cliff, they left plenty undecided for 2013, billions in automatic spending cuts, funding the government through the end of the fiscal year and raising the debt ceiling, which is expected to be put off until this summer.
As part of the legislation passed by the House to delay the debt ceiling until May 19, lawmakers must produce yearly budgets in each chamber or face the loss of their pay, a move that could, at least, provide certainty over that long-put-off process.
The House approved a budget last year but the Senate hasn't produced a non-binding blueprint for the nation's spending since 2009.
Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody's Analytics, said there are three key potential impediments to a housing recovery, including a still tepid job market, tight mortgage credit standards and a large number of homes wallowing near or in the foreclosure process.
"There is a bit of chicken and egg problem between the housing and job markets," he told The Hill.
"I'm hopeful that more homebuilding, home sales and higher house prices will jump start more job growth which in turn will further propel the housing market. A virtuous cycle takes hold after many years of a vicious cycle," Zandi said.
There are nearly 3 million first mortgage loans — out of 49 million — hovering near foreclosure and that number needs to drop below 1 million to reflect a healthier mortgage market.
"This overhang of foreclosed property should dwindle as the year progresses, and investor demand for distressed property remains strong, but as long as so many loans are in so much trouble it is hard to be fully confident that housing is off and running," Zandi said.
Getting a loan is still tough for potential borrowers with high underwriting standards and appraisals coming in low based on the price declines of the past.
"As mortgage quality improves and the legal and regulatory uncertainty abates, I expect lenders to ease up and mortgage credit to become more available," Zandi said.
"It is important for regulators to nail down rules like QRM [Qualified Residential Mortgage] and the Basel III capital standards to give lenders more confidence to lend with more gusto."
Anthony Sanders, a real estate finance professor at George Mason University, agreed that while the nation's "fiscal health and looming budget cuts" are weighing negatively on the housing market, the new mortgage rules recently announced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) "are truly endangering a recovery" because they are so restrictive.
The final rules on the QRM, which are expected later this year, could further restrict mortgage lending, David Berson, senior vice president and chief economist at Nationwide Insurance said this week at a housing conference.
Generally, though, most banking and financial groups have praised the CFPB for producing rules that will better protect them along with their customers following the 2008 financial crisis and housing crash that wrecked the economy.
But there is still concern that the new rules could curb competition, increase costs and tighten credit availability for borrowers.
While Berson echoed some of the concerns about Washington's ability to come to agreement on major fiscal issues, he said that it is "still too soon to completely rule out the chance that a policy stalemate will lead to an economic downturn."
He is optimistic that President Obama and congressional Republicans will reach agreements over the trio of major policy issues they face during the first six months of the year.
A positive result could put housing as a leader of the economic recovery this year, Berson said.
Despite the hurdles, the housing recovery trudges onward.
Over the past five quarters, housing's contribution to the economy has gradually increased, up to 12.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012.
The NAHB is forecasting 949,000 total housing starts in 2013, up 21.5 percent from 781,000 units last year.
In December, construction starts hit their highest level since June 2008 and were up 28 percent compared with 2011.
Weighing construction starts, existing home sales and the delinquency-plus-foreclosure rate, a housing recovery gauge this week showed that the market is 52 percent of the way back to normal, up from 41 percent in September, according to Trulia's Housing Barometer.
In addition, housing prices increased 4 percent between September 2011 and September 2012, with prices increases seen in 42 states, according to the Freddie Mac.
Home price appreciation only occurred in a handful of states during 2010-2011.
Meanwhile, new home sales had their best year since 2009, making their first gain since 2005 after coming off their worst year since records were kept in 1963.
For the year, sales were up 19.9 percent 20 percent to 367,000, still below the 700,000 level that economists consider healthy, the Commerce Department reported on Friday.
Sales are expected to increase to 575,000 in 2013, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
Existing-home sales are forecast to rise 8.7 percent increase to 5.05 million in 2013, up from the 4.65 million last year, with 5.3 million expected in 2014, according to the NAR.


text:
Organize your favourite listings
Sign up to keep track of your favourite spaces and revisit them later.
1 unit available in a prime location fronting onto Fitzwilliam Street - unit is 656 sq ft. Unit has just been renovated and is newly painted, all new flooring and has air conditioning. Plenty of parking available for rent. Location is key, being in a busy area of downtown and offers plenty of retail, shopping, dining and professional services. Excellent pedestrian and vehicular exposure. Within a short distance is the waterfront, seaplane terminal, Vancouver Island Conference Centre, cruise ship dock, Gabriola ferry terminal and Port Place Mall. For more details go to www.zorkin.com


text:
Nikolaos Papanikolaou
Office: Carman Hall, Room 368
Phone: 718.960.8297
E-mail: email@example.com
- Ph.D., New School for Social Research
- M.Phil., New School for Social Research
- M.A., City College, City Univ. of New York
- B.S., Salem State College
- Anwar Shaikh, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Noe Wiener, (2014) "Race, gender and the econophysics of income distribution in the USA", Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. (415) (December), pp. 54-60.
- DelaCruz, JJ, Papanikolaou, N and Wu, R (2013), "The Influence of Imprisonment on HIV and its Impact on Health-Related Inequalities in New York City", International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 6 (2):115-126.
- Madrick, Jeff and Papanikolaou, Nikolaos. (2010). 'The Stagnation of Male Wages in the US', International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 24(3) (July), pp. 309-319.
- Ghilarducci, T., Holder, M., Madrick, J., Papanikolaou, N., and Schelefer, J. (2008). 'Infrastructure for America's Economy: Evaluating the Evidence', in The Promise of Public Investment, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, (May), pp. 21-31.


text:
Happy Friday! Get your chisme fix below:
- It appears that Marc Anthony isn't a fan of wet kisses. The salsero shared a beso with his girlfriend and Venezuelan model, Shannon de Lima, but clearly wiped it off before hitting the stage to accept his "Hall of Fame" award presented by legendary producer, Emilio Estefan, and Billboard executive, Leila Cobo. Could it be a clear sign that he isn't that into his "statue of peace"?
Regardless, it was a big night for the "You Sang to Me" singer. "This is a very special award for me," said Anthony on stage. He continued, "I began as a child with a dream in New York city. You only need a dream."
- Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar are expecting baby #2! The couple met while filming the 1998 flick, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and was married in 2002. What a beautiful way to celebrate their 10th anniversary. The part-Puerto Rican actor and the Ringer star have a 2-year-old daughter Charlotte. Congrats to the lovely couple!
- Don't expect Justin Bieber to propose to Selena Gomez anytime soon. When asked whether he was ready for marriage, the "Boyfriend" singer answered, "No, I'm too young. One day, I will get engaged, when I have found the right person in five or 10 years. It doesn't mean Selena is not the right person though!" MTV reports that Bieber later said, "She's going to kill me if I say that!"
Ay Bieber! We are sure Gomez also agrees that she's too young to get hitched! It's nice to hear that our chica keeps him in line though. Wink.


text:
Patrick Moseley's debut novel also begins a new chapter in his (gay) life
RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer email@example.com
When closets become a recurring theme in a gay novel, let's just say it's fair to think the author is working through some issues. With Locked in Closets and Other Fairy Tales, Dallas author Patrick Moseley has not only written his first book, but also takes a leap of faith as a gay man.
"I think we create culture that forces people into the closet and forces them into the recklessness," he says. "Society still drives or keeps people into those places."
This is an issue he's dealt with all of his 36 years — until recently. He has been slowly coming out for a while, but Closets could be his rainbow moment. If only it were that easy.
"It's one of those complicated things," he says. "I know I can't get fired for my orientation and if I'm out, there isn't so much that can be done about it. But it does complicate things. So I just don't make those issues at school."
Moseley is a high school teacher, so his outness has to be, well, different. As an educator, the gay thing can demand a delicate balance. Moseley knows he's a good teacher and has found success as a coach, but even a slight misstep could affect his career. He experienced a kind of quiet discrimination at his last school, so he remains on guard.
"Because I teach and coach, I tend to be more discreet than others," he says. "I worked in a very conservative district. I was moved out of my head coaching position with the intention that I'd leave. There are things I don't talk about but I don't want to feel like I'm hiding. And I wouldn't discuss [being gay] with a student at school anyway."
In Closets, the reader follows Roger, a 70-something gay man who has so locked himself away from life that he crashes into other people's lives. But how does a 30-something come close to relating a septugenarian's gay life story and drag queen adventures?
"Roger and I have experienced a lot of the same things," Moseley says. "All the characters interweave with what I've dealt with, especially that fear of taking the next step. I feel like the book exposed me and I lost some things that were important to me. The sadness of the characters and their fear is by far mine."
Funny, since the original intention was for the book to comedic. Conjuring Monty Python, he based his title on the notion that locking yourself away was prevalent. As he proceeded, Roger's tale went into darker territories.
"I liked that idea of someone being locked in a tower and that fairy tale rescue kinda deal," he says. "It's a lot easier to lock ourselves in situations, but then closets become a theme in the book and not just dealing with the usual homosexual issue."
Moseley's personal experiences of growing up strongly religious, being outed at 24 and having to ask people to stop trying to fix him naturally found their way into his novel. He says that although it's not Christian fiction, God becomes a dominant character as the characters do battle, trying to figure life out.
"One thing I struggled with along the way is figuring out how God plays into our sexuality," he says. "I believe and always have that sexuality is created. How can He create you and tell you you're no good?"
Questions like these seem to strike the author. Moseley has a fun-loving sense of self, but when he delves just a bit to deep, his eyes shift for a moment. He searches for an answer and in his eloquent way, finds one.
"Roger is learning to embrace himself. I guess at times, we hide and shy away from things that could have been great."
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition September 17, 2010.


text: We are in the process of planning the construction of a new "state of the art" greenhouse for physiological studies. We would like to have the input (both positive and negative) of others who have been through this before. Who out there has "state of the art" greenhouses? What are the variable controlled and what are the best ways to control them. What are the general considerations you have made such as section size, basic framework plan etc.? What are the best companies for this sort of construction. We would greatly appreciate your time and effort in answering this posting, even if it is just a lead to a person or company you know who could help us. Thanks in advance, Mark Guiltinan Penn State Biotechnology Institute mjg at psupen.psu.edu


text:
Biology is the science of living organisms.
The definition of biology is the science of all living organisms.
An example of biology is one aspect of science a person would study in order to become a Forensic Scientist.
- the science that deals with the origin, history, physical characteristics, life processes, habits, etc. of living organisms, as plants and animals, and of viruses: it includes botany, zoology, and microbiology
- animal and plant life, as of a given area
- biological history, principles, etc.
Origin of biologyfrom French or Ger: French biologie from Ger; coined (1802) by G. Reinhold (Treviranus), German physiologist from Classical Greek bios (see bio-) + -logia, -logy
- The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution and encompassing numerous fields such as botany, zoology, mycology, and microbiology.
- The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a group or category of living organisms: the biology of fungi.
- The living organisms present in a specific area or region.
Origin of biologyGerman Biologie Greek bio- bio- Greek -logiā -logy
Related Forms:
- bi·ol′o·gist
See also animals; botany; cells; life; organisms; plants; zoology.abiogenesisthe process of generation of living organisms from inanimate matter; spontaneous generation. —abiogenetic, adj. —abiogenetically, adv.agamogenesisasexual reproduction. —agamogenetic, adj.agrobiologythe branch of biology that studies the relation of soil management to the nutrition, growth, and erop yield of plants. —agrobiologist, n. —agrobiologic, agrobiological, adj.amensalismthe living together of two organisms in a relationship that is destructive to one and has no effect on the other.anamorphismgradual change in type, usually from a lower to a higher type. Also anamorphosis, (Obsolete) anamorphosy. —anamorphic, adj.anastomosisconnection between parts that have branched off from each other at some earlier point. —anastomotic, adj.anisogamya form of reproduction in which dissimilar gametes, often dirfering in size, unite. —anisogamous, anisogamic, adj.apomixisany of several processes of asexual reproduction. Cf. parthenogenesis.astrosphere1. the central part of an aster, containing the centrosome.2. the whole aster excluding the centrosome.autecologythe branch of ecology that studies the relation of an organism to its environment. Cf. synecology.auxanographythe branch of microbiology that studies the rate of growth or inhibition exhibited by individual organisms in various plateculture media. —auxanographic, adj.auxesisgrowth, especially owing to an increase in cell size. Cf. merisis. —auxetic, adj.biodegradabilitythe capacity of some substances to decompose readily by biological process. —biodegradable, adj.biogenesis, biogeny1. the process by which living organisms develop from other living organisms.2. the belief that living organisms can only develop from other living organisms. —biogenic, biogenetic, adj. —biogenetically, biogenically, adv.biogeographythe branch of biology that studies the geographical distribution of animals and plants.biologisma theory or doctrine based on a biological viewpoint. —biologistic, adj.bioluminescencethe property of some organisms, as fireflies, of producing light. —bioluminescent, adj.biometrics, biometry1. the calculation of the probable extent of human lifespans.2. the application to biology of mathematical and statistical theory and methods. —biometric, biometrical, adj.bionomicsecology. —bionomist, n. —bionomic, bionomical, adj.biophysiologythe branch of biology that studies the growth, morphology, and physiology of organs. —biophysiologist, n.bioscienceany of the sciences that deal with living organisms.biospherethat part of the earth where most forms of life exist, specifically, where there is water or atmosphere.biosynthesisthe formation of chemical compounds by living organisms, either by synthesis or degradation. —biosynthetic, adj.biosystematicsbiosystematy.biosystematicsthe science of the classification of living things. —biosystematic, biosystematical, adj.biotypologythe science or study of biotypes, or organisms sharing the same hereditary characteristics. —biotypologic, biotypological, adj.cataplasiadegeneration of cells or tissues. —cataplastic, adj.cetologythe study of whales. —cetologist, n. —cetological, adj.chemotropismgrowth or motion in response to a chemical stimulus. —chemotropic, adj.chiasmatypythe formation of chiasma, the basis for crossing over or the interchange of corresponding chromatid segments of homologous chromosomes with their linked genes. —chiasmatvpic, adj.chorologyBiogeography. the study of organisms, especially their migrations and distribution. —chorologic, chorological, adj.commensalismthe living together of two organisms in a relationship that is beneficial to one and has no effect on the other. —commensal, adj.consortisma relationship of mutual dependency between two living organisms.crustaceologythe study of crustaceans. —crustaceologist, n. —crustaceological, adj.cryptobiosisMedicine. a state in which the signs of life of an organism have weakened to the point where they are barely measurable or no longer measurable. —cryptobiotic, adj.ctetologythe branch of biology that studies the origin and development of acquired characteristics. —ctetologic, ctetological, adj.cytogeneticsthe branch of biology that studies the structural basis of heredity and variation in living organisms from the points of view of cytology and genetics. —cytogeneticist, n. —cytogenetic, cytogenetical, adj.cytologythe branch of biology that studies the structure, growth, and pathology of cells. —cytologist, n. —cytologie, cytological, adj.diakinesisthe final stage of prophase prior to the dissolution of the nuclear membrane. —diakinetic, adj.dialysisthe process whereby colloids and crystalloids separate in solution by diffusion through a membrane. —dialytic, adj.diapausea period of rest or quiescence between phases of growth or reproduction.digenesissuccessive reproduction by two different processes, sexual in one generation and asexual in the following generation. —digenetic, adj.digitigradismZoology. the condition of walking on the toes. —digitigrade, adj.dysmerogenesisa form of generation characterized by irregularity of constituent parts, which differ in function, time of budding, etc. Cf. eumerogenesis. —dysmerogenetic, adj.ecdysisthe process of shedding skin or other covering, typical of snakes and some insects. Cf. endysis. —ecdysial, adj.ecology1. the branch of biology that studies the relations between plants and animals and their environment. Also called bionomics, bionomy.2. the branch of sociology that studies the environmental spacing and interdependence of people and institutions, as in rural or in urban settings. —ecologist, oecologist, n. —ecological, oecological, adj. —ecologically, oecologically, adv.electrobiologythe study of electrical activity in organisms and of the effect of electricity on them. —electrobiologist, n. —electrobiological, adj.embryogenythe formation and growth of an embryo. —embryogenic, embryogenetic, adj.endogenythe formation of cells from within. —endogenous, adj. —endogenicity, n.endysisthe growth of new scales, hair, plumage, etc. Cf. ecdysis. —endysial, adj.enzymologythe branch of biology that studies fermentation and enzymes. Also called zymology. —enzymologist, n. —enzymologie, enzymological, adj.epicenismthe state or quality of combining characteristics of both sexes. —epicenity, n. —epicene, adj.epigenesisthe biological theory that germ cells are structureless and the embryo develops through the action of environment on the protoplasm. Cf. preformation. See also birth; disease and illness; geology. —epigenetic, adj.epigenesista supporter of the theory of epigenesis.eumerogenesisgeneration by unit parts, as in the tape worm, in which each part repeats the one before. Cf. dysmerogenesis. —eumerogenetic, adj.galactosisthe process of producing milk.galvanotropismgrowth or movement of an organism in response to an electric current. —galvanotropic, adj.gamogenesisthe process of reproduction by the joining of gametes, a form of sexual reproduction. Also called zoogamy. —gamogenetic, adj.geneticsthe branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in plants and animals. —geneticist, n. —genetic, adj.gnotobioticsa branch of biology that studies animals under germ-free conditions.Haeckelismtheories and doctrines of Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), German biologist and philosopher, especially the notion "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." —Haeckelian, adj.heterogametea gamete differing from the gamete with which it unites in sex, structure, size, or form. Cf. isogamete.heterogamy1. the condition of being heterogamous, or reproducing sexually and asexually in alternating generations.2. the process of indirect pollination. Cf. heterogenesis. —heterogamous, adj.heterogenesis1. reproduction by a sexual and asexual process alternately. Cf. heterogamy.2. reproduction in which the parent bears offspring different from itself. Cf. xenogenesis. —heterogenetic, adj.3. abiogenesis.heterolysisthe destruction of the cells of one species by the enzymes or lysins of another species. —heterolytic, adj.heterotopismheterotopy.heterotopy, heterotopiadeviation from the normal ontogenetic sequence with regard to the placing of organs or other parts. Also heterotopism. See also brain. —heterotopous, adj.hexiology, hexicologythe study of the effects of environment on an organism's growth and behavior. —hexiological, hexicological, adj.histogenesisthe growth of organic tissues. —histogenic, histogenetic, adj.histographya treatise or other work on organic tissues, or histogenesis. —histographer, n. —histographic, histographical, adj.histolysisthe disintegration or dissolution of organic tissues. —histolytic, adj.homodynamythe homology of serial segments. Cf. parhomology.homogenesisthe normal course of generation in which the offspring resembles the parent from generation to generation. Cf. heterogenesis. —homogenetic, adj.homology1. similarity of form or structure in two or more organisms owing to common descent.2. similarity in form or structure between different parts of an organism owing to common origin. Cf. homodynamy. —homologous, adj.isogametea gamete that is not sexually differentiated from the other gamete with which it unites. Cf. heterogamete.isogamyreproduction by means of the union of isogametes. —isogamous, adj.isogenesisthe state or process of deriving from the same source or origins, as different parts deriving from the same embryo tissues. Also isogeny.isogonismproduction of similar reproductive parts from stocks that are dissimilar, as with certain hydroids. —isogonic, adj.isomorphismsimilarity in the form or structure of organisms that belong to a different species or genus. —isomorph, n. —isomorphic, adj.karyologya specialty within cytology that studies the anatomy of cell nuclei with emphasis upon the nature and structure of chromosomes. —karyologist, n. —karyologic, karyological, adj.kinetogenesis1. the genesis of organic structure by kinetic processes.2. the belief that the structure of animals is determined and produced by their movements. —kinetogenetic, adj.Lysenkoismthe theories of the 20th-century Russian geneticist Trofim Lysenko, who argued that somatic and environmental factors have a greater influence on heredity than orthodox genetics has found demonstrable; now generally discredited.macrobioticsthe branch of biology that studies longevity. —macrobiosis, n. —macrobiotist, n.malacologythe study of molluscs. —malacologist, n.Mendelianismthe principles or use of Mendel's law. —Mendelian, n., adj.merisisany form of growth, especially as a product of cell division. Cf. auxesis. —meristic, adj.merogenesisthe process of segmentation in which similar parts unite and form a complex individual entity from the aggregate of the parts. —merogenetic, adj.metagenesisalternation of generations across reproductive cycles. Cf. xenogenesis. —metagenetic, metagenic, adj.Michurinismthe biological theory of Ivan Michurin who asserted the fundamental influence of environmental factors on heredity in contradiction of orthodox genetics. —Michurinist, n. —Michurinite, adj.microtomythe science or practice of preparing extremely thin slices of tissue, etc, cut by a microtome, for study under the microscope. —microtomist, n. —microtomic, adj.mimicrythe ability of some creatures to imitate others, either by sound or appearance, or to merge with their environment for protective purposes. See also performing. —mimic, mimical, adj.mitosisthe normal process of cell division. —mitotic, adj.monogenesis1. asexual processes of reproduction, as budding.2. development of an ovum directly into a form like that of the parent, without metamorphosis. —monogenetic, adj.monosymmetrythe state of being zygomorphic, or bilaterally symmetrie, or divisible into symmetrical halves by one plane only. Cf. zygomorphism. See also physics. —monosymmetric, monosymmetrical, adj.morphologythe study of the form and structure of plants and animals. —morphologist, n. —morphologic, morphological, adj.mutualismthe living together of two organisms in a mutually beneficial relationship.neontologythe scientific study of recently living plants and animals. —neontologist, n. —neontologic, neontological, adj.ontogenesisontogeny. —ontogenetic, ontogenetical, adj.ontogenythe life cycle, development, or developmental history of an organism. Also ontogenesis. —ontogenic, adj. —ontogenic, adj.oogamythe union of sexually differentiated reproductive cells. —oogamous, adj.oogenesisthe formative process of the ovum in preparation for fertilization and subsequent development. —oogenetic, adj.ooscopyobservation of the development of an embryo inside an egg by means of an ooscope.organogenesisthe origin and growth of organs. —organogenetic, organogenic, adj.organographythe scientific description of the organs of plants and animals. —organographist, n. —organographic, organographical, adj.organologythe study of the structure and organs of plants and animals. —organologist, n. —organologic, organological, adj.organonomy1. the laws of organic life.2. the doctrine upon which these laws are based. —organonomic, adj.organonymythe nomenclature of organs. —organonymal, —organonymic, adj.orthogamythe property or process of self-fertilization, as in certain plants and animals. —orthogamous, adj.orthogenesisprogressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society. —orthogenetic, adj.ovismthe theory that the female reproductive cell contains the entire organism and that the male cell does not contribute anything, merely initiating the growth of the female cell.ovologythe study of the formation and structure of animal ova. —ovologist, n. —ovological, adj.palynologythe science that studies live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and other microscopic plant structures. —polynologist, n. —polynological, adj.parabiosisthe uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. —parabiotic, adj.parasitismthe living together of two organisms in a relationship that is beneficial to one and destructive to the other. —parasitic, parasitical, adj.parasitologythe branch of biology that studies parasites and parasitism. —parasitologist, n.parhomologythe biological process of imitative homodynamy. —parhomologous, adj.parthenogenesisreproduction without fertilization, as certain ova, seeds and spores, insects, algae, etc. Also called unigenesis. —parthenogenetic, parthenogenic, adj.photoperiodism, photoperiodicitythe effect on the growth and reproduction of plants or animals of varying exposures to light and darkness. Cf. thermoperiodism. —photoperiod, n. —photoperiodic, adj.photosynthesisthe synthesis of complex organic substances from carbon dioxide, water, and inorganic salts, with sunlight as the energy source and a catalyst such as chlorophyll. —photosynthetic, adj.phototropismgrowth or motion in response to light. —phototropic, adj.physiogenythe history or science of the development or evolution of vital activities in the individual and the genesis of organic functions; a division of ontogeny. Also called physiogenesis. —physiogenetic, physiogenic, adj.phytobiologyplant biology. —phytobiologist, n. —phytobiological, adj.pleomorphismthe existence of a plant or animal in two or more distinct forms during a life cycle. Also called polymorphism. —pleomorphic, pleomorphous, adj.polygenesis1. derivation from more than one kind of cell in the generative process.2. Also called polygenism. the theory that different species have descended from different original ancestors. Cf. monogenesis. —polygenic, polygenetic, adj.polyphagiathe tendency to eat a wide variety of food. —polyphagist, n. —polyphagic, adj.polyzoismthe character of being made up of a number of smaller organisms that are acting as a colony. —polyzoic, adj.preformationthe theory that germ cells contain every part of the future organism in miniature form, future development being only a matter of increase in size. Cf. epigenesis.preformationismthe theory that an organism is fully formed at conception and that reproduction is thereafter simply a process of growth. —preformationist, n.protozoologythe study of protozoa, especially of those that cause disease. —protozoological, adj. —protozoologist, n.psychobiology1. the branch of biology that studies the interactions of body and mind, especially as exhibited in the nervous system.2. psychology as studied in terms of biology. —psychobiologist, n. —psychobiologic, psychobiological, adj.speciationthe formation of new species.spermisman obsolete biological theory that stated that sperm contained the preformed germ or the embryo. —spermist, n.spongologythe science and study of the sponges. —spongologist, n.sporogenesis1. the process of reproduction by means of spores.2. the formation and growth of spores. —sporogenetic, sporogenous, adj.stereotaxisorientation or movement of an organism in response to the stimulus of a solid object. Cf. stereotropism. —stereotactic, adj.stereotropismgrowth or movement determined by contact with a solid. Cf. stereotaxis. Also thigmotropism. —stereotropic, adj.stirpicultureselective breeding to develop strains with particular characteristics. —stirpicultural, adj.superfetationa conception occurring during a pregnancy from an earlier conception.symbiosisthe living together of two dissimilar organisms; the relationship may be beneficial to both (mutualism and symbiosis), beneficial to one without effect on the other (commensalism), beneficial to one and detrimental to the other (parasitism), detrimental to the first without any effect on the other (amensalism), or detrimental to both (synnecrosis). —symbiotic, adj.symphytismRare. the tendency of two separate elements to grow together. —symphytic, adj.synecologythe branch of ecology that studies the relation of various groups of organisms to their common environment. Cf. autecology.synnecrosisthe living together of two organisms in a mutually destructive relationship.teratologythe branch of biology that studies abnormal formations in animals or plants. —teratologist, n. —teratologie, teratological, adj.testaceologythe study of the shell-bearing animals. —testaceological, adj.thermoperiodismthe effect on the growth and reproduction of plants or animals of timed exposures to varied temperatures. —thermoperiod, n. —thermoperiodic, adj.therologythe study of animals. —therologist, n. —therologic, therological, adj.thigmotaxisinvoluntary response or reaction to the touch of outside objects or bodies, as in motile cells. —thigmotactic, adj.thigmotropismstereotropism. —thigmotropic, adj.ultrastructurethe submicroscopic, elemental structure of protoplasm. —ultrastructural, adj.unigenesisparthenogenesis. —unigenetic, adj.uterogestationthe process of gestation taking place in the womb from conception to birth.xenogenesis1. abiogenesis; spontaneous generation.2. metagenesis, or alternation of generations.3. production of an offspring entirely different from either of the parents. —xenogenetic, xenogenic, adj.zoogamygamogenesis. —zoogamous, adj.zygomorphismthe state or quality of being bilaterally symmetrical, as certain organisms. Cf. monosymmetry. —zygomorphic, zygomorphous, adj.zygosisthe biological process of conjugation; the union of cells or gametes. —zygose, adj.zymogenesisthe process in which a zymogen becomes an enzyme, as in the fermentation process. —zymogenic, zymogenous, adj.zymologyenzymology. —zymologist, n. —zymologic, adj.
(countable and uncountable, plural biologies)
bio- + -logy; a classical compound (modern coinage), with components derived from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, "bio-, life") + -λογία (-logía, "-logy, branch of study, to speak"). The term (rather, analogous terms) arose in various European languages c. 1800, but the term *βίολογία did not exist in Ancient Greek.


text:
Private investment in health IT has increased as electronic health record (EHR) adoption reaches critical mass and federal incentive dollars from the HITECH Act are winding down. In addition to EHRs, data analytics were favored by investors.
"Funding into healthcare IT is on pace to double over last year."Increasingly, data analytics, such as low-cost on-demand SaaS services utilizing Identity and Access Intelligence (IAI), provide healthcare organizations with better business as well as clinical insights.
- Raj Prabhu, CEO, Mercom Capital Group
Learn how Veriphyr Identity and Access Intelligence delivers business insights - with no hardware and no on-site software.Sources:
(a) Record quarter sees VC cash top $737M - www.healthcareITnews.com, 10/15/2013


text:
Love One Another
31243, Hymns, Love One Another, 308
As I have loved you,
Love one another.
This new commandment:
Love one another.
By this shall men know
Ye are my disciples,
If ye have love
One to another.
Text and music: Luacine Clark Fox, 1914–2002, arr. © 1961 by Luacine C. Fox. Renewed 1989. This hymn may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use.


text:
ALBANY — Liz Landolfo made a critical mistake on Jan. 3.
She boarded a United Airlines flight in Albany because she thought it was the quickest way to get to her home in Nevada. It might almost have been quicker to drive.
After my inquiries about her ordeal, the state's Consumer Protection Board is launching its first investigation under New York's airline passengers' rights law. If the state finds United
was in violation, the carrier could be fined $1,000 per passenger or $50,000 in this case.
United Flight 5309, a small Embraer commuter jet, was scheduled to leave Albany for Dulles International at 6 a.m. Once there, Landolfo would catch a connection to Reno.
Crews discovered a problem with an engine cowling and decided they'd try to fix it.
noon, she said.Doug Myers, spokesman for Albany International Airport United, said the plane went into the gate about two hours and 45 minutes into the delay, and passengers got off.United's corporate headquarters tells still a different version.Jeff Kovick, a United spokesman based in Chicago, said passengers were told around 8:45 a.m. they could get off the plane at any time they wanted and sit in the terminal. Apparently
some did and some did not.
Landolfo, who, let's remember, was the only person here who was actually on the plane, vehemently disputes the other two versions of events. "No way. We were not let off the plane
until noon. People were bugging out," she said.
Why is it so important to the airport and the airline to show that passengers could get off the plane at 8:45 instead of noon? Because New York became the first state in the nation Jan.
1 to institute a passenger rights law that triggers fines of up to $1,000 per passenger if customers are stranded in a parked airplane for more than three hours.
The new law also mandates "adequate" food and water during delays as well as clean on-board restrooms.
Landolfo said the plane's toilets were okay. But the adequate food consisted of … wait for it … tiny packages of peanuts. Is that what counts for adequate these days?
The Consumer Protection Board wants to know more about what happened with Flight 5309, and whether United broke the new passenger rights law. A spokeswoman, Deborah Sturm Rausch, confirmed the board was investigating.
Kovick stands by his airline's response to the ordeal. They told passengers there would be a delay. They didn't know how long it would take, and frequently thought the problem would be solved in moments, and then a complication would drag the problem out for another agonizing hour. Peanuts count as food, the restrooms were clean, and, don't forget, Kovick believes Landolfo was mistaken and that passengers were allowed to wait in the terminal. Everyone got an apology and a $200 voucher toward a future flight.
A reasonable person might ask, what could United have done differently?
They could have had another aircraft ready to go.
According to Kate Hanni, who runs the Coalition for an Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights, it used to be more common for airlines to have spare aircraft ready. But when the industry
faced the catastrophic aftermath of 9/11, they cut fleets to the bone.
"Airlines are so desperate to keep people in their seats because they don't want them to
go down the terminal to a competitor," said Hanni, whose blog is at trandedpassenger.blogspot.com.
Now Liz Landolfo, who finally got home on Jan. 5, but didn't get her luggage for another week, has a $200 voucher and an apology. That's not good enough, she said. "I'm never flying
them again. That was the flight from hell. That was torture."


text:
Skip to content
Key resources
This forum is run by Kidney Health Australia. The theme of the forum is Keeping informed about our kidneys. The forum will provide an opportunity to gain practical information and understanding about managing health and lifestyle options when living with chronic kidney disease. The forum is aimed at persons affected by chronic kidney disease: those on dialysis or who have had a kidney transplant, their families and carers.
Registration is free.
Ph: 1800 454 363
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Sarah Challenor
Kidney Health Australia
c/- Renal Services
Level 3 - Launceston General Hospital
Charles Street
Launceston TAS 7250
Ph: (03) 6348 7533
Fax: (03) 6348 7577


text:
AMHERST, Mass. — Complaining they are underpaid, resident assistants at the University of Massachusetts are trying to form a union in what is believed to be the nation's first organizing attempt by undergraduate students.
School administrators are trying to block the move, which follows successful union drives among graduate researchers and teaching assistants across the Northeast.
The university's 360 resident assistants filed a union election petition last week with the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission, which will determine if the group is legally eligible to form a union.
The United Auto Workers is supporting the students.
The school has refused to recognize the RAs as eligible for collective bargaining, saying they are primarily students rather than employees.


text:
I posed the question some time ago about wine and scents, as for me there is an influence on what scent you wear and what a glass of wine might taste like! (It's true!!).
However, for cooking/baking... difficult question, because I like to cook too (not so much into baking!) - but I guess it will depend on what you're cooking! Though you didn't really say what you might be cooking, but if I assume it might be ham with cloves, I think the Arabie would be very nice (I don't own it, but have sniffed it... and it will be on my buy list soon! ). I haven't smelled the others you mentioned, but in my wardrobe, I would go with Carlos Santa for men too - it reminds me of baking apple pies!


text:
The Audi e-tron is coming to the Playstation 3, more precisely to Playstation Home.
Audi has created a virtual world for its e-tron electric car that will be featured in Playstation Home later this year.
The action takes place in Audi Space, the digital realm that Audi has built inside the Playstation Home online community. The car is featured in the Vertical Run driving game, featuring a track with enough dimensions to impress Speed Racer. The point of the game is to gather enough electrical energy to get the highest top speed, and if you're one of the best, you'll get one of the skyscraper apartments in Audi town.
Related news: GermanCarBlog, P4MR, Audi e-tron
Source: Autoblog


text:
The Alpha Particle or Helium 4 Nucleus
Summing up of previous sections covering the alpha particle
The alpha particle or helium 4 nucleus is very stable. The figure to the right shows two protons (outlined in red, each containing two up quarks, red, and one down quark, blue) and two neutrons (outlined in green, each containing two down quarks, blue, and one up quark, red).
The magnetic and electric fields of all twelve quarks of the four nucleons in the alpha particle are lined up so that there is maximum magnetic and electrical coupling which provides maximum stability to the alpha particle. The alignment of the magnetic fields results in the alpha particle having zero spin and zero magnetic dipole.
This arraignment of quarks in the nucleons forms an alpha particle has the approximate shape of a flattened ovoid. The following illustrations show how two protons (red outline) and two neutrons (green outlines) might form an ovoid alpha (purple outline). There are two illustrations present the ovoid of the alpha from a top perspectives and a side prospective.
Examining the alpha particle from the perspective of how it will fit into the structure of the nucleus and attach with other nucleons. The structure ultimately takes on a six sided, flattened shape. The illustration below indicates how the alpha approximates a six sided elongated structure where the ends are formed by two 60 degree wedges or capping triangles. Attachment occurs between nucleons by joining on one of the three sides of a nucleon. Thus the structure builds by adding to angled ends of the alpha, not at the middle where two nucleons are attach to each other. Triangular attachments result in an elementary six sided structure.
The ZOME model shown to the right further illustrates the six sided structure of the alpha particle. This six sided form is the dominant shape that controls the basic structure of the nuclear lattice. The black nodes represent up quarks and the white nodes represent down quarks. The nodes connected with blue struts represent two protons, and the nodes connected with white struts represent two neutrons. The yellow and red struts used here represent the electrical and other cross connections between the quarks contained in the protons and neutrons.
There are two obvious, if not more, possible ways to visualize the assembly of an alpha particle. The two methods illustrated here are for information purposes to aid the reader in visualizing the final assembly or arrangement of the alpha particle.
The helium nucleus or alpha particle can be visualized as being composed of two prism shaped deuterons each the mirror image of the other. A tinker toy model of two deuterons coming together is depicted in the following figure.
The alpha particle forms a stable elongated hexagonal crystalline structure based on the electric links between alternating positively and negatively charged quarks and the interlinking magnetic dipoles.
The nuclear quark interactions and structure does not alter the quark structure of the protons or neutrons in anyway. This illustrates vividly why the resulting alpha structure is such a stable form. The twelve quark arrangements of the alpha particles are such that the two protons and two neutrons are diagonally opposed in a manor where the protons do not touch each other, nor do the neutrons touch each other.
A second method for visualization of how the alpha particle structure is arranged can be demonstrated using two six sided plates that are coupled together from two hexagonal flat prism crystalline equivalent arrangement like the tinker toy model shown below. This pattern of alpha building occurs at the top or bottom of larger nuclei. In this arrangement the upper layer has three up quarks and three down quarks. This six sided top plate structure alternates up and down quarks, and the bottom plate, generally part of the larger nucleus also alternates down and up quarks in a mirror image such that there are always up-down quark pairs in vertical and horizontal direction that eventually becomes an internally stabilized alpha structure. The final result is the same arrangement as previously illustrated which is symmetrical with attractive coupling between all of the component quarks.
The structure for the alpha particles can almost be considered crystalline like in state. The sections on the "Deuteron & Alpha Steps illustrates how the progression of stable nuclei can be visualized as deuteron or alpha building. The table of stable elements shows a construct similar to what would be created by a long chain organic polymer or the deposition pattern of a crystalline sub-straight. The pattern of stable nuclides is indicative of filling crystalline subsets as well as building a larger crystalline set. This statement will become clearer as you proceed.


text:
The Italian City-State of Milan was predominantly ruled by the Visconti family. Similar to the de Medici's of Florence, the Visconti's rarely if ever held high office within the oligarchical representative system of Milan, which they ironically called "communes". The Visconti family maintained enormous power in Milan from the early 14th until the mid 15th century when the last surviving male heir of the family Philippe Visconti died in 1437. The eldest daughter Valentina Visconti served as the head of the family but never managed the amount of control or leadership of previous generations.
The reason I demonstrated the background is to note the circumstances in the city-State of Milan, northern Italy in the middle of the 15th century. They were easing out of totalitarian rule beginning at the time of Philippe Visconti's death. There was no revolution, but the power of the State receded entirely for almost two years. This is worthy of note in and of itself.
Meanwhile, the wealthier citizens of Milan decided that the city would be better off with a return to a (relatively) more representative and effectual communal rule. Under the rule of the Visconti family the reality of the commune was similar to that of the Roman Senate under Julius Caesar.
Unfortunately these fine Renaissance Capitalists were not libertarian anarchists. The communal system quickly escalated tensions between the cloth industry's working class (not represented politically) and the investing industrialists (represented politically). In spite of the inevitable disputes that would arise from these tensions, there is something interesting in how they solved these disputes.
"Condottiere" were mercenary captains that were hired primarily by Italian city-States in their respective battles in the 15th century. It was critical to the success of a Condottiere that he not gain a reputation for getting in brutal, bloody, drawn-out battles. With a reputation like that he would never be able to hire replacements. Recruiting would become so difficult that you would have to increase your soldier's wages. The Condottiere had a Capital incentive in keeping their soldiers safe because they were also the inventory.
The rival factions in Milan, from 1437 to 1439, each hired Condottieres to fight for them respectively. As per the usual, opposing Condottiere marched their troops, and counter-marched their troops, and marched, and counter-marched etc… Eventually the troops that were cornered in an unmistakably unfavorable situation, such as trapped against a river or mountain, would surrender. Not a single shot was fired and not a single soldier was harmed.
Francesco Sforza was the victorious Condottiere in the "battle" for Milan, he never relinquished power to the faction that had hired him. The Sforza family controls Milan for another century.
Why is this important? It is important because it shines a light on the beauty of Capitalism and peace. Capitalism promotes peace and the demonstration of that in history is always important. Even in a market not even remotely free, the peaceful settlement of disputes between Condottiere show the power of market forces for peace. Would we ever go to war if each household in America got an itemized bill of expenditures? Even in the face of tyrants, and even at the disposal of tyrants, free market forces are a force for good.
Ironically it was Keynes who said "Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all." Francesco Sforza was a nasty man, and his only motivations were wealth and power. Were they not market forces that kept each and every soldier on both sides of that battlefield alive?
– the Humane Condition


text:
Perfect for social media campaigns and blogs. Web photos (up to .5 MP). 1 Seat.
Learn More
Build a high res library or promote your brand. Up to Large (2.5-4.5 MP). 5 Seats.
Learn More
Get more high res photos and more. Up to Large (2.5-4.5 MP). 25 Seats.
Learn More
no people, outdoors, day, vertical, low angle view, twig, one animal, animal themes, bird, perching, nature, focus on foreground, white, animal
bird and white bird


text:
What does FMB mean in Unclassified?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand FMB in the Miscellaneous field in general and in the Unclassified terminology in particular.
Francois Marie Boyaux
Find a translation for FMB in other languages:
Select another language:
Discuss this FMB abbreviation with the community:
Use the citation below to add this abbreviation to your bibliography:
"FMB." Abbreviations.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2018. Web. 17 Mar. 2018. <https://www.abbreviations.com/term/1507926>.


text:
Jell-O comes in so many yummy flavors (hello, have you tried the Jolly Rancher flavors!?) and I have been trying to find the perfect way to use it to make popsicles. When my boys and I made this batch we nailed it! The Jell-O popsicles were easy to make and when they started to melt they just become a Jell-O consistency on the stick instead of running down the stick making a melty mess! We will be making these quite often this summer and next time I am trying them with fruit!
SEE THE MELT TEST and Q&A's HERE!
Jell-O Popsicles
- (1) 3oz package of Jell-O
- 4 cups of water
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar (optional)
Bring 2 cups of water to a boil. In a medium bowl mix sugar and Jell-O powder. Stir in boiling water, stirring constantly until Jell-O and sugar are completely dissolved (about 2 minutes).
Stir 2 cups of cold water into bowl and then pour mixture into popsicle molds.
**Affiliate link to the exact mold I purchased and used** This made about 40 ounces and we had 8 ounces left after filling our 10 slot popsicle mold. I put the remaining mix into the fridge and my boys ate it after it set.
You may also like:


text:
Simplify IT by using cloud as a service. (Caas)
For organizations looking for ways to manage IT more efficiently and cost-efficiently, using the cloud as a service can provide enormous benefits and greater grow when needed.
A lot of providers offer some ways to use the cloud as a service. From Software-as-a-Service offerings to cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service and cloud desktop hosting, cloud services enable organizations to match IT resources to business needs more efficiently, reducing capital expense by only provisioning the virtual resources required at any given point in time.
With the cloud as a service, organizations also enjoy greater scalability and cost reductions. And IT teams can be freed from the routine tasks of monitoring, maintaining and updating IT resources by offloading these jobs to a team of third-party experts.
When transitioning to the cloud as a service solution, choosing the right cloud computing provider is paramount. A preferred provider must offer a world-class cloud architecture and state-of-the-art data center services, protected by the most advanced security defenses and a proven security methodology.
For enterprises around the world seeking to reap the benefits of using the cloud as a service (caas), Backlayer is the cloud services provider of choice.
Cloud as a service solutions from Backayer
Backlayer offers solutions that use cloud as a service (Caas) to provide:
- Application services that include managed hosting for major enterprise applications and communication resources, including product suites from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and custom applications.
- Desktop services that provide virtual cloud desktops to help solve the challenges of administrating desktops for a mobile workforce.
- Infrastructure services that provide virtualized infrastructure on demand and allow organizations to match resources to business needs more effectively.
- Hosting services that allow organizations to outsource management of servers, security, networks, databases, storage and more.
Learn more about using cloud as a service with Backlayer