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Inspirational music, well done.
For everyone that likes Warhammer 40k Tabletop and Dawn of War Games or anything to do with Warhammer 40K.
Inspirational music, well done.
I do believe this is from a youtube video I saw. Don't remember the name of it though
"Hammer of the Emperor" - Youtube.com
I feel more manlier after listening to this music...
gonna post the rest of them here too.
Call of Duty: World at War OST... lol
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The University of California, Irvine Libraries seeks a dynamic, knowledgeable leader to join an enthusiastic staff in building a research library of excellence for a young and rapidly-growing university ranked nationally among the top. The Head of Collection Development will play a leadership role in an innovative, service-oriented, and collaborative environment to develop high quality learning and research intensive collections that support the teaching, research, and patient care needs of the University.
The Head of Collection Development provides leadership and vision for the Department and within the Research Resources Division. The incumbent oversees collection development and management of resources in all formats library-wide, supervises collection development personnel, and monitors and helps coordinate the Libraries' collections budget. The incumbent will also play a lead role in developing a new E-Research and Digital Scholarship Services unit within the Department. Collection development responsibility is distributed among 17-20 Research Librarians who are also responsible for instruction and reference. The Head of Collection Development will directly supervise one collections assistant and 7 Research Librarians who reside in the Collection Development Department and will also provide collection development direction and feedback to approximately 10 Research Librarians who reside in the Reference or Education & Outreach Departments. In addition, the Head of Collection Development works collaboratively with staff at the UC Irvine Law Library and with colleagues in the UC system libraries.
Reporting to the Assistant University Librarian for Research Resources, the Head of Collection Development participates as a member of divisional and library-wide groups, task forces, and project teams as appropriate and is expected to work comfortably and with a high degree of expertise in a shared decision-making environment. As a member of Leadership Council, the UCI Libraries' senior management team responsible for library-wide planning and policy making, the incumbent works with other library leaders to shape strategic directions for the Libraries.
Duties include:
• Provides leadership and coordination in developing, evaluating and assessing the Libraries' collections to support the University's research, teaching and patient care programs.
• Monitors and helps coordinate the Libraries' materials budget of approximately $7.5 million.
• Oversees the E-Research and Digital Scholarship Services unit within the Collection Development Department.
• Manages departmental budgets, policies, procedures, and web pages.
• Coordinates collection development/management and related faculty/student liaison activities of Research Librarians.
• Responsible for recruitment, retention, training, and evaluation of Collection Development Department personnel.
• Chairs the Collection Development Department meetings.
• Acts as a spokesperson for the UCI Libraries to the campus community as appropriate in conjunction with the Research Librarians and the Assistant University Librarian for Research Resources.
• Fosters good communication and effective working relationships with faculty, staff, students, and other library users.
• Manages the Libraries' approval plans with input from the Research Librarians and in consultation with the Acquisitions Department.
• Approves or recommends action on licenses for electronic resources and media.
• Coordinates a range of library-wide collection development preservation activities (both print and digital), and participates in UC system-wide preservation issues.
• Ensures excellent communication and cooperation with other departments in the Libraries.
• Participates in the Libraries' development efforts as they relate to collection development, e-research, and digital scholarship services.
• Provides leadership in the application of new technologies related to collection development/management and digital scholarship services.
• Shares leadership for scholarly communication issues and coordination and oversight of the scholarly communication program.
• Graduate degree in library science from an ALA-accredited institution or an equivalent combination of relevant advanced degree and library experience.
• Collection development and collection management experience in an academic or research library.
• Ability to oversee collections in the full range of subjects at UCI.
• Five years of progressively responsible professional experience including management of resources and personnel in an academic or research library setting.
• Ability to successfully supervise, mentor, and train Collection Development personnel.
• Knowledge of current issues and trends in collection development, collection management, and preservation facing academic and research libraries.
• Knowledge of current issues and trends in e-research and scholarly communication.
• Leadership qualities to be an effective Department Head and Leadership Council member.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written).
• Ability to work creatively, collaboratively, and effectively and to promote teamwork, diversity, equality, and inclusiveness within UCI Libraries and the campus.
• Record of professional achievements sufficient to meet the criteria for appointment at the Associate Librarian or Librarian rank and ability to meet the University of California criteria for advancement in the Librarian series.
• Successful experience supervising librarians.
• Successful experience managing a budget.
• Experience assessing and negotiating licenses for online resources.
• Experience working with general and specialized vendors, publishers, and approval plans.
• Reading knowledge of at least one language other than English.
The Collection Development Department
The Collection Development Department is responsible for the library-wide development and management of general collections in the Langson Library, Science Library, and Grunigen Medical Library under the administration and coordination of the Assistant University Librarian for Research Resources. This department takes the lead role in developing and planning the overarching and ongoing collections policies, procedures, and projects that ensure that the scholarly resources available meet the campus teaching, research, and patient care needs. The Department consists of 8 librarians (including the department head) and 1 library assistant. The Department is committed to developing, delivering, and preserving the Libraries' outstanding collection of significant and diverse research resources and is dedicated to building a research library of excellence.
The UCI Libraries
The UCI Libraries are committed to innovation and excellence and are in a major period of change. The Libraries consist of the Langson Library, the Ayala Science Library, the Library Gateway Study Center, and the Grunigen Medical Library. These buildings contain over 3,300 public seats for study and research and provide more than 600 public access computers. The UCI Libraries have a staff of approximately 140 FTE plus approximately 30 student assistant FTE. The library collection consists of over 3.4 million volumes and over 137,000 journals and serial titles and an aggressively expanding electronic resources collection. The UCI Libraries are a member of the: Association of Research Libraries (ARL), California Digital Library (CDL), HathiTrust Digital Library, Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Coalition of Networked Information (CNI), Digital Library Federation (DLF), Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance (PRDLA), and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine is nestled in over 1,500 acres of coastal foothills, five miles from the Pacific Ocean, between San Diego and Los Angeles. Founded in 1965, UCI has a diverse student body consisting of more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Among the most dynamic campuses in the University of California system, UCI employs over 1,100 faculty and 9,400 staff. Consistently ranked among the nation's best universities, UCI is noted for its top-rated research and graduate programs, extensive commitment to undergraduate education, and growing number of professional schools and programs of academic and social significance.
Librarians at the University of California Irvine are academic appointees and receive potential career status at the time of their initial appointment. Librarians periodically receive administrative and peer review for merit increases based on the following criteria: 1) professional competence and quality of service within the Library; 2) professional activity outside the Library; 3) university and public service; and 4) research and other creative activity.
Salary & Benefits: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience based on the University of California pay scales. Appointment is anticipated to be at the Associate Librarian or Librarian rank with a salary of $50,448-$100,212 plus an annual administrative stipend.
Librarians are entitled to two days per month of annual leave, thirteen paid holidays, and one day per month sick leave. The University has an excellent retirement system and offers a variety of group health, life, and disability insurance plans. Benefits are equal to approximately 40% of salary.
Deadline for Applications: Applications received by March 25, 2014 will receive first consideration, but applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled.
To Apply: Qualified applicants who wish to be considered for this position should submit the information requested (cover letter; résumé; and the names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of three references, with a statement of each reference's professional relationship to the applicant) via UC Recruit at: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF02221
Upon application, candidates should be in possession of proof of their legal right to employment in the U.S. In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, verification of legal right to work will be required between the time of final selection and hiring, and is absolutely essential in ultimately being hired.
This position description is listed on the UCI Libraries Web site at http://www.lib.uci.edu/about/jobs/librarian-vacancies.html with links to additional Web sites featuring campus and community information.
The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity.
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Department of Industrial Relations
Industrial Medical Council Public Meeting
Best Western, Grosvenor, SSF
Thursday, May 18, 2000
1. The meeting was called to order by Co-Chair Dr. Richard Pitts at 10:30 A.M.
A quorum was present.
Members present:
Robert Larsen, MD Richard Pitts, DO
Marvin Lipton, MD Patricia Sinnott, PT, MPH
Maria Mayoral, MD Lawrence Tain, DC
Steven Nagelberg, MD Paul E. Wakim, DO
Jonathan Ng, MD Benjamin Yang, CA, OMD
Members absent:
Robert Goldberg, MD Michael Roback, MD
Hubert T. Greenway, Jr., MD Richard Sommer, Esq.
Ira Monosson, MD Gayle Walsh, DC
Glenn Repko, Ph.D
2. Consent Agenda:
a. Adoption of the Minutes and Notice of Actions: The Co Chair, Dr. Richard Pitts, asked for a motion on the minutes of the April 20, 2000, IMC meeting. Ms. Sinnott recommended that the approval of the April minutes be deferred until the next meeting.
b. Executive Medical Director's Monthly Report:
Dr. D. Allan MacKenzie indicated his EMD report stood as written. He commented on several issues. 1) AB 776, a bill regarding Med-Legal report writing and other IMC QME issues is moving along. Mr. Brakensiek informed him that the amendments sent by the Council were accepted by the bill author Assembly Member, Thomas Calderon, and 2) AB 2301, the bill dealing with the Cooperative Personnel Services' (CPS) ability to administer the QME proficiency exam was expected to move to a floor vote.
Dr. MacKenzie was requested by Ms. Christine Baker, Director of the Commission for Health & Safety in Workers' Compensation, to announce the Commission's proposal to host a meeting for the California Forum for Work Place Health & Safety in February, 2001. The IMC was also asked to co-sponsor this meeting. This issue will be brought up during the next meeting in June once more information is obtained.
c. Legislative Update:
Dr. Pitts called on Mr. Fisher to give an update on the legislative issues. But first Dr. MacKenzie had to introduce Mr. James Fisher, Esq. as the new IMC Staff Counsel. Mr. Fisher has some thirteen (13) years experience in the DIR Director's Office Legal Unit, after which he spent some four (4) years as an attorney for one of the major defense law firms in the City of San Francisco.
Mr. Fisher reported on the following updates: 1) AB 776 would pass in the Committee today after some discussion of moving it till Monday; 2) SB 129 would be going to a conference committee; 3) Senator Speier's Bill SB 1903 on Medical Information Privacy would be on its second reading; 4) the Bill on Nurse Practitioners and PA's, SB 1977 has been amended and would be going to a third reading. It looks like it would be going to pass the Senate relatively quickly, and 5) AB 2301 has been amended, it specifically provides for CPS to do the QME testing that we require (as do other State Agencies) and it looks like it will be pass quickly.
The May 2nd hearing on AB 2543 which is an attempt to modify last years AB 435 (Corbett) was canceled and it appears this Bill may not be moving quickly on the legislature. Mr. Fisher was not sure if there would any changes.
Dr. Robert Larsen asked how the Privacy Bill would affect physicians, patients and other third parties in the workers' compensation system. Mr. Fisher responded that Senator Speier's SB 1903 would impose actual damages and punitive damages for knowing willful violations. He said he was not sure that it changes the parameters of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act. He thought that it works more in increasing penalty than broadening or restricting the intent of the Act.
Dr. Larsen commented that we need take a close look at that this issue. Interested parties who paying for treatment and making decision on benefits on the workers' comp. system take it for granted that there is nothing confidential once a person files a claim. The Legislature and the Courts do not seem to see it that way. More of the State and the Federal legislation were emphasizing confidentiality and the person's rights. There was a recent bill that became law as of January 1st. Provider who released all psychotherapy records to another provider or third party has to guarantee that those records will either be returned by a certain date or be destroyed. Physicians have no control over this kind of things. There are many who were in favor of the idea of a person's rights and liberties being protected. Someone should take a look at what Ms. Speier's intentions in regards to protecting workers' privacy versus being able to communicate effectively and make decisions.
d. Minutes of April 20, 2000
Ms. Patsi Sinnott said there were some clarification on the minutes. On page 2, last paragraph, she thought that ISIS should be ICIS and on page 4, paragraph 3, the name of Dr. Jewel Saal should be Joel Saal. So she requested the approval of the minutes be on hold until the next meeting.
e. DWC Report:
Ms. Peggy Sugarman, Chief Deputy Administrative Director of Division of Workers' Compensation, spoke on behalf of Mr. Dick Gannon, Adm. Director and Dr. Linda Rudolph. Ms. Sugarman said that she had a legal backup in the presence of Mr. Jim Robbins, Esq. and Ms.
Mallika, a newly hired DWC economist who will help analyze the different fee schedules. Ms. Sugaman announced that there were continuing discussion on the inpatient hospital fee schedule. At the last meeting, they discussed the growing concern of the hospitals about costs not being covered in the maximum fee schedule. DWC are proceeding quickly in proposing some regulatory changes to the hospital fee schedule in two areas: 1) The proposal to remove the instrumentation from the five (5) DRGs in spinal surgeries and suggesting putting them in durable medical equipment as one fix, and, 2) to establish some sort of cost of outliers system that were being studied They want to move as quickly as they can in the regulatory process this summer to get some of these taken care of.
Ms. Sugarman thought it made more sense to study the entire hospital fee schedule since it has been in existence for little over a year. It was causing some growing concerns and it was suggested that a study be conducted with CWCI and the Health & Safety Commission. DWC would like to proceed with the more comprehensive look at the hospital fee schedule and would be working on a study outline. If they are able to come up with a better solution to the current schedule, they would go to a sooner revision than this upcoming small fix.
She added that they are proceeding with pilot project on medical bill dispute resolution. DWC is trying to find a way to respond to the issues of resolving medical bill disputes on a more administrative level or trying to figure out a way to do that without forcing providers to always go file a lien at the Workers' Comp Appeals Board. This pilot project will give additional information on whether a voluntary system would work in trying to help people figure out how the fee schedule should be applied. The Pilot will start on July 1st up to September 30th, for services rendered between April 1st of 2000 and June 30th in Contra Costa County and in San Bernardino County is where this pilot project would occur. Ms. Suzanne Honor Bangroft would be heading up the pilot, training the reviewers for this voluntary system. This would not be a binding decision but they expect to: get the referrals; to have the other side agree to have us take a look and make a recommendation as to what the bill should be according to the fee schedule and issue this recommendation. This will tell a lot about what's going on in terms of the disputed area from the fee schedule and whether or not a system like this would work on a more longer term basis.
Consent agenda was approved and the Minutes of the Meeting for April 20, 2000 were deferred for the next month meeting.
3. Education Committee Report:
Dr. Susan McKenzie, on behalf of Dr. Gayle Walsh, chairperson of the Education Committee, reported that at the Committee meeting, the Committee continued to work on a draft document which would strengthen the continuing education program for QMEs. She received a number of very valuable suggestions from people who attended the meeting and hoped to re-draft that document and be able to get it to the Council within the next month or two.
4. Fee Schedule Committee Report:
Dr. Susan McKenzie, on behalf of Mr. Richard. Sommer, chairperson of the Committee, reported that the Committee held a meeting today. Attendees two topics: 1) the E&M RFP which was advertised on the internet, and 2) the remaining tasks for the OMFS revision. A number of E&M packets were sent out to potential bidders who were asked to submit written questions for written response by last Monday. No questions were submitted.
Dr. McKenzie announced that there would be a bidder's conference on June 2, 2000. This public meeting would be optional for the bidders but they could come and ask any questions about the RFP. Written proposals should be submitted by June 19. The IMC would have a small committee to score these proposals. The proposals that receive a passing grade will go on to oral presentations. The bidder who obtains the highest score will be the bidder to be recommended to the Council. The Council would vote on awarding the contract to the bidder at its July meeting
Dr. McKenzie said that the RFP is meant to find a bidder to review the E & M section and to make the E&M section fair for workers' comp in the State of California. The Committee plans to set up a task force on the Physical Medicine Section, which was not revised the last time. It will set up a task force on the ground rules which will review at revisions that may be necessary and on the Medicare payment rules that need to be pulled in to the schedule for RBRVS. The Committee discussed doing another study to look at the impact of going to RBRVS on the medical specialties..
Dr. MacKenzie said that Dr. Susan McKenzie's critical path planning had been detoured several times in the past but this should culminate by a vote in July or otherwise would be put off for another cycle. On the issue of a July versus an August Meeting, it is critical to have one in July so that the next fee schedule will not be pushed back. She said that only the Council can award the contract.
Dr. Steven Nagelberg asked if the IMC could agree now on whatever the Committee decides.
Mr. Fisher responded that there might be some issue whether the bidder who wins the process is responsible "bidder". The Council should make a considered decision about who that highest bidder is and make a determination if they are responsible or not which may need a review of the Council to do that.
Dr. MacKenzie asked Dr. Susan McKenzie if she had any position on whether the Council could delegate to the IMC Staff finalizing the final bidder. Dr. Susan McKenzie responded that they are going to recommend a final bidder. In terms of delegating the final authority, she thought it is a legal matter and could not comment on this.
Dr. Marvin Lipton briefed Mr. Fisher with past history. He said that there was some controversy about the awarding of a contract and wondered how much we would expose ourselves to criticism, if we were to reflexly approve in advance the recommendation of the Committee and therefore, denying the other people who did not meet the criteria of the Committee, if they never got the full hearing of the full Council Members. Dr. Pitts responded that this issue would be left with Mr. Fisher to explore.
5 Discipline Committee Report:
Dr. Pitts announced that there would be a lengthy Discipline Committee closed session at which time when the door opens, any action taken will be announced. He stated that this falls under the section of the Government Code that requires IMC to have a closed session because discussion would be about possible litigation.
The room was cleared and the closed session began.10:50.
The open session resumed at 11:50.
Dr. Pitts stated that during the closed session, the Council had a discussion regarding pending litigation. No action was taken by the Council
6. Announcement:
Dr. Pitts read the letter sent by Mr. Richard Gannon, Administrative Director of DWC. Mr. Gannon apologized for not attending the IMC Meeting. In his letter, Mr. Gannon reemphasized his commitment to adopting a Resource Based Relative Value System (RBRVS) with the next revision of the official medical fee schedule.
Dr. Pitts announced that the next IMC Public Meeting will on June 15, 2000, in Los Angeles. He will not be able to attend so Dr. Steven Nagelberg will chair the meeting.
7. Meeting adjourned at 12:10 P.M.
Thursday, May 18, 2000
IMC Staff present:
Diana Cornell Allan MacKenzie, M.D.
Mila Diadula Anne Searcy, M.D.
Elizabeth Ignacio David A. Kizer, Esq.
Irah Lagura James D. Fisher, Esq.
Mark Schelling Susan McKenzie, M.D.
Cynthia Tse Gerry Evans, Spc. Inv.
DWC Staff present:
Peggy Sugarman, Chief Deputy Admin. Dir.
James Robbins, Esq.
Mallika Rajapaksa
Members of the public present:
Carl Brakensiek, CSIMS Michael Pulley, Workers' Comp Adv
Arthur Azevedo, Green & Azevedo Diane Przepiorski
Doug Hikawa, Priority CompNet Philipp Lippe, MD, CMA, CANS Ken Young, Pres. OPSC Susan Taylor, Palo Alto Med Fndtn
C. L. Swezey, CHSWC Linda Coltrin, CCA
Rea Crane, CWCI Mary Campbell, Camino Med Grp
Jennifer Orosz, HNC Insurance Solutions Alan Kimelman, M.D.
Richard Knet, Sport, Spine & Ortho James Musick, ICAC
Bill Hutchins, e-Rehab Diane Harroun, Reviewco
David Willat, D.C.


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Minutes of the MLA International Bibliography
in Academic Libraries Discussion Group ALA Midwinter Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, January 25, 2003
Present: Bonnie Alpert [Ovid and SilverPlatter], Kristine Anderson, Dale Askey, Peg Bessette [Gale], Laura Bottoms, Michaelyn Burnette, Barbara Chen [MLA], Faye Christenberry, Madeline Copp, Charlotte Droll, Jane Faulkner, Bill Gargan, Gail Hueting, Kathy Johnson, Robert Means, Rob Melton, Marc Meola, Judy Reynolds, Amanda Roberts, Susanna Van Sant, Suzanne Waddell, Sue Waterman, Helene Williams
Van Sant noted that the section on User Aids will probably be removed from the site since fewer and fewer such guides are being created, but Barbara Chen remarked that MLA would be interested in seeing these sites. Melton said that he had created guides for both the Bibliography and the Directory for the Ovid interface for the California system, but added that there might be problems in connecting to these from outside of the California system. Melton added that after making some criticisms of the first version of the Directory on Ovid, things have improved.
Barbara Chen
Director of Bibliographic Information Services and Editor, MLA International Bibliography
26 Broadway
New York, NY 10004-1789
tel. (646) 576-5076
fax (646) 835-4021
email firstname.lastname@example.com
A. How important are subject terms for the 1963-1980 indexing?
B. How important is it to add indexing for 1921-1962?
Respectfully submitted by Kathy Johnson


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In his GQ cover story, Kanye teased out plans to release a new album this fall and a new single sometime this summer. Well, it appears that we may have a bootleg version of that single -- "All Day" -- right here. It's a very rough cut (there's even the sound of someone coughing at the start!) but even so, it's clear that this jam is a entirely different direction from last year's sinister-tinged Yeezus, one that some people are already comparing to 'Ye's earlier output like 2010's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. At any rate, give the track a listen, above.

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How Does Webcasting Work?by Mike Munson
Webcasting Hardware
Regardless of whether a webcast is real-time, on demand, video, audio or a combination of both, the streaming media transmission must have an origination point. The person or company that chooses to host a webcast must have hardware and software that is dedicated to the serving of media to multiple destinations at once. The hardware can be as simple as one computer, or as complex as a collection of servers working in tandem. Hardware needs are assessed by the entity originating the media transmission. In order to facilitate a successful webcast, one must effectively estimate the size of the target audience and supply the hardware necessary to process all the user requests at the same time.
In addition to the broadcast hardware, a software solution must be in place that can handle all the webcast user transmissions with ease. While the hardware is responsible for processing the actual data of the media being broadcast, the software acts much like a traffic cop. Webcasting software ensures that each individual user requesting the broadcast has a copy of the webcast allocated to him. The software and hardware work hand in hand to make sure that each person that wants to view the webcast can do so.
A webcast depends on an audience with an Internet connection to complete the entire webcast cycle. Each person that is interested in the webcast is simultaneously sending a request to the broadcasting hardware and software. Once the request is received, the webcasting hardware and software appropriates a virtual channel for the visitor. This channel sends the requested webcast over the Internet to the visitor's device. Depending on the webcaster's chosen broadcasting solution, a webcast visitor may be able to view or listen to the webcast using a computer, cell phone or other supported Internet device.


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In The News
Depression in Pregnancy: No Easy AnswersMar 6, 2012
Depression during pregnancy posed problems for the developing fetus and newborns, regardless of whether the mother received treatment, investigators reported.
Women who took the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class of antidepressants during pregnancy had fewer depressive symptoms, but babies had delayed fetal head growth and an increased risk of preterm birth.
Untreated maternal depression was associated with delayed fetal head growth -- though not as much as for mothers taking SSRIs -- and delayed fetal body growth, according to an article published online in Archives of General Psychiatry.
The dilemma arising from the retrospective cohort study left the authors with no simple answers.
"Although our findings add to current knowledge about the consequences of SSRI use (or nonuse) in women with depressive symptoms during pregnancy, they are not conclusive," Henning Tiemeier, MD, PhD, of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and coauthors wrote in the discussion.
"Most importantly, untreated women with depressive symptoms also have children with reduced growth of the fetal head, albeit less prominently. Nevertheless, our findings are of important value because there is a paucity of data regarding safety of SSRI use during pregnancy and possible consequences on fetal health."
Despite widespread use during pregnancy, SSRI antidepressants have not been studied extensively with respect to their effects on fetal development.
Animal studies have shown that serotonin has a key role in prenatal brain development. Studies in mice showed that prenatal exposure to SSRIs was associated with smaller head size.
Additionally, mice deficient in serotonin transporter had high levels of serotonin, which was associated with neuroanatomical deficits, which, in turn, were associated with disturbed behavior later in life, the authors wrote in their introduction.
The scant clinical data on prenatal effects of SSRIs include evidence of nonsignificant delays in motor milestone development. Untreated depression during pregnancy also has been linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes and neonatal complications, the authors continued.
Given the modest knowledge base, Tiemeier and colleagues retrospectively analyzed data from an ongoing prospective cohort study. Investigators examined associations among depressive symptoms during pregnancy, maternal use of SSRIs, fetal head and body growth, and birth outcomes.
To assess maternal SSRI use, the authors evaluated patients' self-reported use and prescription records. Depression was assessed by means of the Brief Symptom Inventory at an average of 20.6 weeks' gestation.
The final analysis comprised 7,696 women: 7,027 who did not use SSRIs and had low depressive symptom scores (control group); 570 women with clinically relevant but untreated depressive symptoms; and 99 women who used SSRIs during pregnancy.
Fetal ultrasonography was performed at a median gestation of 12.8 weeks, 20.3 weeks, and 30.1 weeks.
The primary outcomes were fetal body and head growth, preterm birth, small for gestational age, and low birth weight.
Fetuses of mothers with untreated depression had significantly lower body growth (-4.4 g/week, P<0.001) and head growth (-0.08 mm/week, P=0.003) compared with fetuses of mothers in the control group.
Women with untreated depression had significantly more depressive symptoms compared with the control group (P<0.001) and with the women who took SSRIs during pregnancy (P<0.001).
Among women who took SSRIs during pregnancy, fetal body growth did not differ significantly from that of the control group. However, fetal head growth was significantly reduced (-0.18 mm/week, P=0.003).
With respect to birth outcomes, women who used SSRIs during pregnancy had a twofold increase in the odds of preterm birth compared with the control group (OR 2.14, P=0.03). The women with untreated depression did not differ significantly from the control group.
"Our study shows a rather specific effect of maternal SSRI use on fetal head growth, one of the best prenatal markers of brain volume," the authors wrote of their findings.
"Fetal head circumference in early life has been shown to be an accurate indicator of brain weight. Small head size in neonates predicts behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders ... Nonetheless, we must be careful not to infer an association of SSRI use in pregnancy with future developmental problems."


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Contradictory behavior abounds. What do I mean by contradictory behavior?
Contradictory behavior is when we send one message with our mouth and yet act is an opposite manner.
Hypocrite is the term that is often used for someone who practices contradictory behavior on a regular basis like the person who always orders Diet Cola with their super size burger and super size fries.
As a pastor, I once had to settle a matter between two people as one person had taken the other person's Bible. We did a little Bible study on Exodus 20:15 using the Bible in question and settled the matter quickly.
I recently read a news item reported by Scripps News Service from St. Lucie, Fla., where someone who was employed as a Weight Watchers Demonstrator was apprehended for shoplifting cupcakes from the local grocery store. How embarrassing to be a Weight Watchers Demonstrator with the nickname "cupcake." Could that person go back to work after making those headlines?
No one appreciates hypocritical behavior. Some of the most scathing words that Jesus ever spoke were not directed to "sinners" but to hypocritically acting religious people. Contradictory behavior leaves everyone affected by it feeling cheated.
The problem is, we all practice contradictory behavior. We justify it, we rationalize it, sometimes we just do it because we feel like it. Not all of our contradictory behavior is funny or without serious consequence.
In an unguarded moment, we might be tempted to do something that we know is wrong, we might think we won't be caught so it won't make any difference, or we might get caught up in something we unwisely became a part of.
How do we avoid sending one message with our mouths and another message with our actions? The only way is to be in constant contact with Jesus. Paul called this, "walking in the Spirit":
Galatians 5:16 (NKJV) I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
If we would keep our relationship with Jesus constant, it would leave little time to send contradictory messages. In fact the power of our message becomes great when what we speak matches what we do, even when we think people aren't watching.
By maintaining a constant relationship with Jesus, not weekly at church, or even daily as we start our day with prayer, but moment by moment be in conversation with Him, we will see our words and our actions line up and become something that affects everyone around us in a positive way.
So even though you might drink diet cola with your burger and fries because you like it, or you might not ever steal a Bible from a church, walking in the Spirit can help you to always tell the truth, not become involved in "road rage" or to be kind to the people around you.
You may not make headlines by walking in the Spirit but that may be its own reward.
Stephen Brown is the reverend at Kenai New Life Assembly of God at 209 Princess Street Kenai.
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As you can imagine, this was a difficult post to write, I've gone back and forth about whether or not to post it. It deals with the morning David died and it's raw. Raw and emotional and I thought it best to say so, upfront, just in case you're not up to shouldering some of the hurt. Because there's a lot of hurt.
It had been a long night. Ever since he had aspirated the blood on Saturday morning, he had been having episodes of decreased oxygenation and increased levels of CO2.
His lungs were no longer working properly.
There had been talk of the oscillator, but they had tried to hold off as long as possible. By 6am, they couldn't wait any longer. There was no choice left but to put him on life support.
At that point, I knew with the utmost certainty that I would lose my Capt Snuggles.
I just didn't know it would be within the next 6 hours.
The oscillator is a horrible apparatus, it is a piston based machine that creates constant motion. It caused David's entire body to vibrate non-stop. It was a jarring presence in the peaceful atmosphere I tried so hard to hold on to.
By 8:30am he was having some drops in blood pressure and heart-rate, something he'd been doing sporadically. They needed to place an arterial line and start support meds for his heart. Everyone was very calm, business as usual.
I hadn't left to take a shower the day before, so I left to go to the RMH for a quick shower and maybe a bite to eat. I'd only gotten 2 hours of sleep – I needed a boost for the day ahead.
At 9:10, just as I was getting ready to leave the RMH, one of the nurses called and said the words I wasn't prepared for "I think you need to come back, now."
I ran.
I dodged through the people in the concourse, I swept past the guards stationed in front of the elevators – by now they no longer asked for proof that I was allowed up – and I'm sure with my wild-eyed, frantic appearance – they knew I needed to hurry through.
I tried to catch my breath in the elevator, I was scared and alone. I knew I may have to face this all by myself – my husband was an hour and a half away. I took a deep breath and walked into the throng of people that had gathered outside our room.
I knew when I saw our transplant coordinator, this was it.
She offered to call my husband and I let her, I knew I couldn't find the words to tell him he needed to be here, now.
I watched as they worked over him, the images are so firmly etched in my head that I see them whenever I close my eyes. I'd seen them bag him before, but never with the urgency I saw at that moment. The Attending doctor pulled me into the hallway to talk. Ironically this is the same Attending that admitted us, all those months ago. We hadn't seen him since.
He explained to me that there comes a time to decide. To differentiate between doing things for him and doing things to him. We were no longer doing things for him. I understood and all I could say was, My husband's not here, can we hang on until he arrives?
Then he coded.
His heart stopped. I replay the words over and over again in my head, his heart stopped and then suddenly, with an increased frenetic pace, the Attending began chest compressions. Again and again and again, I wanted to shout Enough! Enough already! Please stop! But I didn't. I let them continue, his Daddy wasn't there and I couldn't let him go by myself.
Some how, they brought him back. Not David, not really, not my Capt Snuggles. I think he took flight the minute his heart stopped. But they kick-started his heart and kept blowing air into his lungs until his Daddy arrived.
Which he did shortly, by now it was almost 11am. The doctors gathered and ushered us into a small conference room. They said everything I already knew. I looked at each one of them telling me all these things and it didn't matter.
It didn't matter that they all loved him, because I'm sure that they did. It didn't matter that they did the best they could, because I know that they tried. It didn't matter that they thought I was a good mother, because I still couldn't change the outcome. None of what they said mattered.
All I could think of was that in a few minutes I would be allowed to finally hold my son and it would be the last time, and it wouldn't be enough.
It would never be enough.
We returned to the room. They brought in a rocking chair and I held him. I held him while that awful oscillator vibrated and vibrated and vibrated and finally, I told my Hub to get the nurse – I was ready, I
wanted, needed them to turn off that awful machine, just so I could hold him in peace.
They came. The drips keeping his heart pumping were stopped. That awful machine was turned off and they removed the breathing tube from his nose. I was finally able to look at my sweet boys' face without the tape and tubes.
He was finally free of it all.
And I held him.
I held him when the Attending came in to listen for his heartbeat. I held him when the Attending called out 12:15. I held him while they left us alone and I cried. I cried for all the hurt and pain that he had endured. I cried for all the lost hope and the pure senselessness of the whole situation. I cried for the boy that would never grow old and I cried for the emptiness and brokenness that would haunt me for the rest of my days.
I cried until I thought I was empty and then I cried some more, just like a cut that starts to clot, but if you bump it, it starts to bleed again.
I thought that I may never stop bleeding.
Finally, I laid David back on the bed and I covered him with his blanket. Our Chaperone came in and asked if I would like to help her bathe him.
And I did.
Before we bathed him, we took imprints of his feet and hands, both on a heart shaped mold and on paper. I trimmed a lock of his hair to keep tucked away.
Then we washed all traces of blood and tears away from Capt Snuggles. We rubbed baby lotion on his arms and legs and his sweet face, just like he was getting ready for sleep. We dressed him and wrapped him in his blanket.
I bent down and kissed his forehead, more tears than I ever thought possible, streaming down my face.
I had to leave, it was more than time. It may very well be the hardest thing I've ever had to do. To put one foot in front of the other and walk out of that hospital room. To walk out and leave my Capt Snuggles behind.
To walk out and leave my heart behind.


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With so many different animal species to look after, being in-charge of feeding the inhabitants of a zoo is no easy task.
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Andrew Reilly arguably has an animal lover's ultimate job.
Every morning he arrives at the Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, NSW, at six o'clock to start work.
As the Animal Food Preparation Supervisor, his job is to organise and distribute the food for the zoo's inhabitants.
It's a job he enjoys, and one that poses challenges every day.
"We've got a very large collection of animals, with a lot of variety amongst them, so a lot of different food is required," says Andrew.
"It's my job to go out and find that food, bring it to the zoo, store it here, then distribute it for the animal's nutrition."
Andrew says his schedule differs every day.
"There's such variety and different things happen on different days," he says.
"One of us will do the morning run, which means loading up all the hay and stock feed and delivering it right throughout the zoo. The other one will stay back in the prep room and prepare the fruit and vegies, or carnivore diets.
"Then there's hay sheds to be maintained, suppliers to go and visit, orders to be placed and things to be picked-up."
Andrew says with a range of animals at the zoo, careful consideration must be given to what food is distributed.
"We've got primates which are predominantly fruit and vegetable consumers; we've got big cats and wild dogs, which are carnivores; and we've also got huge amounts of large grazing animals which require stock feed, hay and other supplements to satisfy their requirements," he says.
With so many different species, large volumes of food are needed to satisfy the animals' hunger.
"To give you a bit of an idea, we go through about 350 tonnes of hay each year," says Andrew.
"That equates to around 15 to 20 semi-trailer loads, so that's a fair bit."
Andrew says the zoo tries to replicate the diet the animals would consume if they were in the wild.
"These animals in the wild would go around finding the food they require. So if they're grazers, they're looking for grass; if they're browsers, they're looking for trees and shrubs.
"We can't provide those things 100 per cent in a zoo situation, so we have to find alternatives which satisfy nutritionally what they get in the wild, that we can obtain," he says.
"Hay is a good example of that, because we can get it and store it for 12 months of the year and maintain consistency in their diets."
A lack of rain in western NSW and the onset of drought means sourcing food for the animals could become increasingly difficult.
"There's a lot of demand for food in droughts, so it really is a matter of us being organised and preparing for those situations if we can see them arising, while also building-up a really good network of reliable, consistent suppliers," says Andrew.
While being in charge of feeding hundreds of different animals from Australia and overseas is no small task, Andrew says it is a job he loves.
"The best part is that I start here pretty early in the morning and I just drive around looking at the animals in the exhibits, and see that they're healthy. You can see that they're well looked-after," he says.
"That's a big team effort from everyone who works here, and obviously the food plays a part- that's something I'm pretty proud of."


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Lucy Hale Plays 'Pretty Little Liars' Cast Superlatives on The Tonight Show
This week during an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Hale was put in the hot seat. Jimmy made it her job to choose a few co-star superlatives for her fellow 'Pretty Little Liars' cast mates. Of course in true Jimmy fashion…she was encouraged to be brutally honest. And that she was….while some of the options came from a place of high praise, some of the superlatives had a tinge of shade attached too them, which is kind of fitting if you know the girls and have watched the show.
Now I want to hear from you. Do you agree with Lucy's superlatives for her Pretty Little Liars cast mates or do you have better winners in mind?


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All of ScanSource's major business lines are touched by the mobility trend in some way, so it was no surprise that mobility solutions were the big theme of this week's ScanSource partner conference in Greenville, S.C.
As ScanSource CEO Mike Baur sees it, solution providers need to focus their energies not so much on iPad but what surrounds iPad, and figure out how their expertise contributes to that infrastructure solution, whether it's security or data capture or app development.
Baur was one of the original six employees of ScanSource when it was founded in 1992, so the celebration of the distributor's 20th anniversary this year holds special meaning for him. He was president from the beginning, presided over ScanSource's IPO in 1994, became CEO in 2000, and yielded the president title in 2007, all the while overseeing steady growth and addition to ScanSource's varied holdings via acquisition.
These days, ScanSource is a roughly $3 billion value-added distributor still very much focused on infrastructure and communications but building its businesses particularly in UC, video, POS systems, mobility and security, and expanding its international footprint further into Europe and Latin America. ScanSource overall has about 1,500 employees.
[Related: 10 Mobility Trends To Inspire and Scare the Channel]
Baur joined CRN Editor At-Large Chad Berndtson for an interview during the Greenville event this week.
CRN: There's lots of opportunity for solution providers in mobility, we've established that, so where do you see ScanSource partners having the best opportunity to make money, especially if they aren't Apple resellers?
Baur: So let's talk about the POS and cash register and data capture side of the business. They're excited right now because retailers are actually buying technology. It isn't iPad from them but, well, here's an example: I spoke to a partner last night who sells software to manage beverage inventory at restaurants. He wants to link that to the iPad and to the backroom management so they can track trends and what people are looking at and how they're buying. An iPad, our channel makes nothing on, but they're looking at what else can we surround the iPad with. I asked a partner the other day, 'Why do you have all these iPads here in your office if you don't sell them?' He said customers want them, and I'm their trusted adviser so I have to understand this. It's a little scary at first, but there is so much opportunity around it.
CRN: So the play is understanding the infrastructure that goes with iPad and mobile devices?
Baur: Yes. The integration of the IT infrastructure and applications and software systems isn't clear to a retailer. Our channel has a great opportunity to do that.
CRN: And the profits are good in that end of their business?
Baur: I think so. And another thing is this: I had a reseller last night who said, 'Mike, I'm asked by my customers to configure their iPads and provide them the [software] to handle that piece of it.' That reseller in turn is dealing with a larger partner who's taking its software and making it part of their overall deal. Customers are asking for that, so partners get together and find a good opportunity.
CRN: Do you expect to see more of that type of behavior, with partners leveraging each other?
Baur: It always looks like it's going to hurt business, but the truth is that there is so much more business potential. You are their systems adviser and everything that goes with that. That's part of the reason that with mobility we're seeing demand in all of our wireless business. Our Aruba sales are up, our Ruckus sales are up, our Cisco wireless sales are up, everything. Wireless is driving new infrastructure choices and customers -- if they haven't already -- are finally saying, maybe I do need to enable my retail shop.
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U.S. Rep. Billy Long voted in favor of legislation requiring the Obama administration to submit a report on how they plan to implement sequestration, budget cuts, that are scheduled to take place in January 2013 under the Budget Control Act.
"President Obama likes to talk about the need for transparency but his administration is anything but transparent when it comes to the pending cuts to our national security and domestic programs," Long said. "We all know our escalating national debt is dangerous for all Americans since it threatens our economic and national security. We must reduce our overall budget, but dramatically reducing defense while ignoring the primary drivers of our debt is both unwise and dangerous."
The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012 requires the president to submit a plan to Congress 30 days after the legislation becomes law on how his administration plans to implement sequestration. The report must include detailed information on what reductions the Obama administration will seek and estimates of the percentages and amounts needed to meet the sequestration.
Long supports efforts to replace the impending sequestration with responsible spending cuts and reforms, but to date President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid have failed to propose a plan to replace the budget cuts set to take place in January 2013. In May, Long voted in favor of the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act, which would replace the defense spending cuts currently in place with reductions in mandatory spending. This would restore $78 billion in defense funding that is scheduled to end in January 2013. The funding restoration would adhere to the House-approved Ryan Budget and further reduce the deficit by $242.8 billion over ten years. The legislation passed the House and is now awaiting further action in the Senate.
Source: http://long.house.gov/press-releases/long-calls-for-greater-transparency-from-president-on-sequestration/


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Children from Ballysally Primary School children have taken part in a Christmas-themed multimedia and play event aimed at building tolerance and respect for others.
The event was organised by leading development group for the 0-6 age range, Early Years – the organisation for young children.
Hosted by Derry City Mayor Martin Reilly, the Ballysally kids were joined by another primary school from Donegal.
Media Initiative for Children (MIFC) – Respecting Difference programme, combines a series of five cartoon media messages helping children build a better understanding of physical, racial and cultural differences – while bullying and the inclusion of Traveller children are also addressed within the videos.
The cartoons are shown on television three times a year – once each school term – in an effort to raise awareness across generations,
Geoff Dunne Principal of Ballysally PS said: "This was an excellent event, the children were so excited about showing off their work."
Samantha Linton, a teacher at the school, added: "The children really loved the puppets and listening to their messages. They are now taking on board the ideas that we talked about like feelings, being helpful, helping everyone to feel included, it's really is a great programme."


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Briefing Room
Why is the press reporting on Hurricane Ophelia but not the worst ever terrorist attack in Somalia?
It's just possible you have heard about Hurricane Ophelia, the remnants of which are battering the Republic of Ireland and parts of the UK (and from where I'm sitting, appear to have turned the sky over London a strange shade of yellow).
Given the British obsession with weather, perhaps it should be no surprise that the prospect of some 80mph gusts is dominating headlines. Handily too, the stiff breeze has turned up three decades after the Great Storm of 1987, which has provided an excuse for lots of recollections of Michael Fish telling people not to worry about hurricanes. (He's usually misquoted but hey ho.)
If such an attack took place in the UK, or elsewhere in Europe – or frankly anywhere else in the West – it would plainly have taken centre stage for weeks
True enough, the Met Office has warned of there being danger to life so let's not be too dismissive. Moreover, there is little more immediate or primordial than weather conditions – I'm the first to admit to a fair bit of cloud-watching over the years; what I can't predict about the likely route and ferocity of a "passing shower" is, well, considerable.
Nevertheless, it was notable this weekend that, aside from the ongoing sex abuse scandal enveloping Harvey Weinstein, few other news stories got a look in when it came to media front pages.
In particular, Saturday's truck bomb in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu, received moderately little attention, despite taking the lives of more than 300 people and injuring hundreds more. If such an attack took place in the UK, or elsewhere in Europe – or frankly anywhere else in the West – it would plainly have taken centre stage for weeks. As it is, it seems to have fallen into that category of grim attack in a far-off country beset by an Islamist-inspired, militant insurgency – nasty, of course, but not something that affects us directly and or about which we can do very much.
Somalia, indeed, is far down the list of nations we might think of in that bracket of troubled places. We know all about Syria and Iraq; and quite a lot about Libya. Yemen is next in line; and of course the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014 brought awareness to the horror of Islamist terrorism in Nigeria.
If we think much of Somalia it is probably in connection with pirates, although ironically the piracy problem has improved considerably in recent years. If not pirates, then our first thought may be connected to the UN and US intervention in the east African country in 1992 and 1993 – mainly because one battle during the international effort to bring order to Somalia was immortalised in the film Black Hawk Down.
Inevitably, the situation in the country today is highly complex. A parliamentary election with full suffrage was planned for last year – the first democratic vote since 1969. In the event, ongoing civil strife meant there was an indirect election in which delegates appointed by senior clan leaders chose members of parliament on behalf of the people.
With the United Nations backing the slow process towards democracy and African Union soldiers bolstering the government and its local law enforcement forces, al-Shabaab remains the primary opposition group. Having emerged from the Union of Islamic Courts which held sway in Mogadishu as recently as 2006, the terror group has gradually lost control of most urban areas. But it still has a few thousand fighters in its ranks and – as it proved once again this weekend – is capable of bringing mass slaughter to Somali streets.
The notion of moral equivalence is bandied about far too easily, usually to suggest that relatively wealthy, predominantly white Westerners don't care about relatively poor, mostly non-white foreigners in war-torn or disease-ridden places a long way away. It is, for the most part, an overly-simplistic narrative which seeks to downplay the perfectly reasonable interests (and fears) of ordinary folk in their own lives and their localities. News, fundamentally, is context-specific: to argue otherwise is disingenuous.
Nevertheless, it is tempting sometimes to wonder if we should pay a little more attention to difficult political situations in far-flung parts of the world; and rather less to the potential consequences of a system of moderate low pressure in the Atlantic, no matter how much hot air it produces.
Briefing Room
In Somalia, women defy strict rules to play football
MOGADISHU – (AFP) – Shortly after sunrise, a group of young women arrives at a football pitch in Mogadishu, where they shrug off their hijabs — some changing underneath the billowing veil — to reveal their team kit.
Young Somali men stand nearby, some disapproving but all watching closely, as the women jog up and down, dribble a worn-out ball between colourful cones and do sit-ups, less than 200 metres (656 feet) from a heavily guarded security checkpoint.
The sight of young women playing football is highly unusual in Somalia, due to societal pressures as well as fear of Al-Shabaab.
The Al-Qaeda linked Islamist group launches regular attacks in Mogadishu and considers forms of entertainment, such as football, to be evil, worse still if women are involved.
"It is obvious that we are scared despite the fact that we put on heavy clothes over our shorts and T-shirts (until) we get to the pitch. It is very difficult to walk normally with sports clothes — we never wear sports clothing in society," said Hibaq Abdukadir, 20, one of the footballers.
She is among 60 girls, who have signed up to train at the Golden Girls Centre in Mogadishu, Somalia's first female soccer club.
'Think differently'
Mohamed Abukar Ali, the 28-year-old co-founder of the centre, said he was inspired to create the club after he realised that Somalia had no female footballers.
"We are… trying to make these girls the first Somali female football professionals," he said.
However this is not an easy task.
Somali football players of Golden Girls Football Centre, Somalia's first female soccer club, attend their training session at Toyo stadium in Mogadishu, on March 5, 2018. PHOTO | MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB |AFP
"When the girls have to attend training sessions, we have to organise to pick them up and bring them here and back home after the session because they are girls and we think about their security," said Ali.
"There are so many challenges, from security to lack of resources… but that will not deter our ambition to establish female football clubs in this country," he said. "We believe it is the right time and we should have the courage to think differently."
'They look naked'
Many of the girls who have joined the club said they had always wanted to try playing football but never had the opportunity.
"I have been playing football for seven months, but my family has only known about it for two months," said Sohad Mohamed, 19.
"I used to dodge my mother about where I was going because she would not allow me to play football, but at least my mum is okay with it now, even though the rest of my family is not happy."
In Somalia, it is taboo for women to appear in public dressed in shorts, trousers or T-shirts, with Islamic scholars saying sports clothing is not appropriate Islamic dress for women.
The players wear tights underneath their baggy shorts, and cover their hair, but still face criticism for their dress.
"I come to watch them train but frankly speaking, I would not be happy to see my sister doing it, this is not good in society's eyes because they look naked," said Yusuf Abdirahman, who lives near the football field.
Mohamed Yahye, another onlooker, is happy to see women playing football but is also concerned about how they are dressed.
"I think there is nothing wrong with women playing football, the only thing they should change is the dress code, they need to wear something that is not slim-fitting. But as long as their body is not seen, they are in line with the Islamic dress codes," he said.
However the Golden Girls are not fazed.
"My ambition is so high that I aim for the same progress as those female footballers who play for Barcelona," said Abdukadir.
Briefing Room
A dream of a continental free trade area deferred
DAILY MAVERICK — A dream of establishing a continental free trade area in Africa has slipped back again after a last-minute decision by Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari not to attend the summit in Rwanda where an agreement was set to be finalised. South Africa, the other large economic player on the continent, also has its reservations.
There was a hint of dejection as ministers filed into the beehive-shaped Kigali Convention Centre on Monday morning, in the midst of the rainy season, to hammer out the details of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
The special summit was called by Rwandan president Paul Kagame, who this year also chairs the African Union, and talk in the weeks ahead of the gathering was that the agreement only needed a few final touches and that everyone was on board.
It was supposed to be the breakthrough Africa needed before finally rising, and the no-nonsense Kagame was the one to drive this.
The process started in 2012, and free trade was already supposed to have been a thing by 2017, so there was a goal to meet.
Ambassadors had on Saturday already pored over the paperwork, and it was up to the ministers to fine-tune it before the presidents arrive on Wednesday to sign the agreement.
After this, it would have to go through individual country processes, such as parliaments, to be ratified and come into force.
On Sunday, however, news came from Nigeria, which was bidding to host the CFTA secretariat and which chaired the technical negotiations team, that president Muhammadu Buhari had abruptly cancelled his trip to Rwanda.
ThisDay reported that he was already on his way to the airport on Saturday, but was then told to turn back. This was after business groups in Nigeria objected to the signing of the agreement, saying there had not been enough consultations.
They feared that Nigeria would be overwhelmed by business from the outside without Nigerians benefiting from it.
Also, incidentally, the country is having presidential elections next year, in which Buhari might be running again, which might explain the sudden – some would say undue – pressure from within.
Still, Nigerian foreign minister Geoffrey Onyeama arrived at the ministers' meeting where he possibly had a lot of explaining to do.
Outside of the fight about where the secretariat should be located (indications were that even though both Nigeria and Ghana made a bid for it, it was decided to have it at the African Union's headquarters of Addis Ababa for now), countries had concerns about the dispute resolution mechanisms in the AfCFTA, and also about whether it would effectively be able to prevent dumping.
That would occur if a country outside Africa used an African country with weak import controls to bring goods in from the outside, using it as a springboard to distribute duty-free to the rest of the continent. Instead of promoting business in Africa, as the AfCFTA is supposed to do, this would undermine it.
South Africa, another leading economy on the continent, also had some reservations about the fine print as well as the Protocol on the Free Movement of People, even though President Cyril Ramaphosa apparently indicated that his pen was ready.
Most of the AU's 55 member states seemed to have no principled objection to signing the agreement and the legal instruments to establish the AfCFTA, which really means nothing much until it's ratified by all. This happens when local laws and regulations are brought into line with the agreement through a parliamentary process.
South African officials on Monday morning were still unclear about whether Ramaphosa would sign the agreement or not, although some in the Nigerian delegation seemed to be under the impression that Ramaphosa would join Buhari in abstaining.
Ramaphosa himself was expected to attend the summit, and he even arranged to arrive earlier on Tuesday afternoon to attend an AU-organised business summit ahead of the heads of state gathering where the agreement would be signed.
On Monday, international relations minister Lindiwe Sisulu was left to deal with the negotiations even as South Africa's brand new administration was still busy settling into the continental body (this is her first summit in her new position, and it's likely that she would have a few bilaterals with her counterparts from other countries to introduce herself).
There was also reported disagreement on how many states needed to sign the agreement for it to come into force. At the lower end, some said 15 states would be enough, while others wanted at least 37. Leaders could eventually settle for something in between, such as half of the states.
As the meeting broke for lunch on Monday, it still wasn't clear exactly how many states would sign, but an official involved in the negotiations said it was "a good number" and that he was optimistic.
AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahammat imparted the urgency of getting the AfCFTA going in a hard-hitting opening speech, and he seemed to urge leaders to come to an agreement:
"Our continent is at a crossroads," he said.
"What path will she choose? That of maintaining the status quo, which means making cosmetic changes relating to borderline adjustments which have no real impact on the lives of our populations, or that of effecting a paradigm shift which requires us to look far into the horizon for a truly integrated Africa?"
This would be "structurally reformed economically, guaranteeing the freedom of movement and settlement to all her daughters and all her sons, as well as offering, in the final analysis, fulfilling and promising living conditions for her youth, in a bid to reverse migratory flows", he said.
Rwandan foreign minister Louise Mushikiwabo said in her opening speech that the agreement should enter into force as soon as possible, but "with everybody feeling comfortable about it".
She said the agreement would be to the advantage of Africa, which could then act as "a global player" to promote the continent's economic interests and attract investment, create jobs and improve things for the people.
The official line is that the AfCFTA agreement would grow intra-African trade, which is still lower than trade between African countries and the outside, by 55% by 2022, and Africa's exports to the rest of the world would grow by 6%.
Life would also be better for small cross-border traders.
The agreement would open a market of 1.2 billion people, and is one of the flagship projects of the AU's Agenda 2063, a 50-year plan for a transformed Africa.
The other projects are the Single African Air Transport Market and the Protocol on the Free Movement of People.
Even though the protocol was still in draft on Monday, AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry Albert Muchanga promised that it would be ready for signing when heads of state meet on Wednesday.
The dream, however, would have to be deferred for a little while longer. DM
Briefing Room
In a Man's Death, a Glimpse of Libya's Horrors
HRW — A young Eritrean man died on Tuesday in Sicily of tuberculosis compounded by severe malnutrition. His name was Segen.* He was 22.
There is so much about Segen we may never know. Did he prefer to read books or play football? What music did he like? Had he ever been in love? Who did he leave behind?
This is what we do know: Segen was rescued from the Mediterranean on Sunday by Pro Activa Open Arms, a Spanish group, and disembarked in Sicily on Monday. He died in the hospital. He told rescuers he was held captive in Libya for 19 months.
Segen may have been held in an official detention center or by smugglers – in today's Libya, both are similar and brutal. He may have been held for ransom, or tortured while forced to call home so his family could hear him scream as he begged them to send money. He may have been sold from one smuggling network to another or forced to work without pay.
These possibilities are based on accounts I heard from migrants who escaped Libya. When I went out on a rescue ship run by SOS MEDITERRANEE and Médécins sans Frontières, they rescued many Eritreans and Somalis who had spent many months in captivity in Libya; some were severely emaciated.
If Segen had survived, there's a good chance he would have been granted the right to stay in Europe; most Eritreans are because of serious repression, including indefinite military conscription, in Eritrea.
Yet European governments are empowering Libyan authorities to stop migrant boat departures and intercept – including in international waters – ones that do launch. All of those on board are then indefinitely detained in Libya.
While implementing policies that effectively trap people like Segen in horrible abuse, European governments are failing to resettle people the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, evacuates from Libya to Niger. Just over 1,000 people have been taken to Niger, but only 55 have been resettled to Europe, leading Niger to ask UNHCR to temporarily suspend the program.
Europe can and should do more. Our governments should focus on ending the cycle of captivity and violence in Libya and help as many people as possible reach a place of safety. Ramping up resettlement is a good place to start.
*Italian authorities registered his name as Tesfalidet Tesfon, but he was known as Segen.
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SINGAPORE (AP) -- Sauber driver Sergio Perez says he's ready to drive for one of Formula One's top teams as speculation grows about a potential move to Ferrari and McLaren.
The Mexican's impressive performances this season have seen him linked to potential vacancies at the series' top teams, even though Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo said he does not think Perez has enough experience yet to make the move in 2013.
"I fully respect his opinion … to become a Ferrari driver you probably need more (experience)," Perez said ahead of this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix.
"It's only my second year in Formula One but I feel ready to do a good job with a top team, to fight for the championship. In that respect I feel ready."
Perez said he has not received any formal approaches from F1's leading teams, despite the rumor mill putting him at the top of the list as a potential replacement should Ferrari drop Felipe Massa or if Lewis Hamilton does not reach agreement on a new deal with McLaren for 2013.
"Before it was Ferrari, now it's McLaren," Perez said. "Always when I have a good race, they (the media) put me in a different team."
Ferrari's top driver, Fernando Alonso, said he was amused by the amount of drivers linked with a move to Maranello next season, saying not many would reach the team's standard.
"I have worked with Felipe for two or three years, we have a good relationship," Alonso said. "If the team decides to change Felipe, someone who arrives would have to be better than Felipe.
"In my opinion we need a driver that respects Ferrari, the tradition of the team."
Force India's Nico Hulkenberg is another driver linked with a possible Ferrari vacancy, even though he remains under contract next season.
"There is a good chance I will be with Force India next year, but nothing has been announced yet," Hulkenberg said.


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David Feherty wiki, bio, net worth, show, salary, books, net worth
A former golfer who played on the PGA and European Tour, David Feherty's professional career lasted from 1976 to 1997. He is Irish-American by nationality and 57 years of age. Let's find more about him from the short bio compiled from various websites below.
Having made a career in golf, Feherty now is a sportscaster for CBS and the Golf Channel. He spent most of his golfing career in Europe, and in his entire career he has won five European Tour championships and five other championships. Some of the tours that have his best performances are Masters Tournament (1992), US Open (1992), The Open Championship (1994), and PGA Championship (1991).
He has also co-authored five books, namely: Somewhere in Ireland, A Village Is Missing an Idiot (2013), A Nasty Bit of Rough (2013), An Idiot for All Seasons (2013), David Feherty's Totally Subjective History of the Ryder Cup (2004), The Power of Positive Idiocy: A Collection of Rants and Raves (2011). You can choose to buy his books online through amazon or other online buying platforms.
Born on 13th of August 1958 in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Feherty is 5 feet 10 inches in height. He lives in Dallas, Texas with Anita, his 2nd wife, and his five children, one of which is from his affair to Anita. Feherty has two sons from a previous marriage to Caroline Feherty, a model from South Africa, and they divorced in 1995. One of his friends then fixed up a blind date with Anita, and that's how they met. Their first date lasted for only about 30 minutes, as Feherty got so drunk.
Before Anita agreed on a second date, she put a condition that Feherty should be sober. He agreed, and that's how their relationship moved forward. He then married Anita in 1996. Well, as it turned out, Feherty was doing well in his golfing career until he wandered off course and his career hit rock bottom. One of the reasons his marriage went sour might be that he was never there to spend time with his wife and sons. After three years of divorce from Caroline, he finally won the custody of his two sons that she bore him.
He has over seven thousand followers on Instagram and over 400 thousand followers on Twitter. You may follow him on these social sites as well as on his page on the PGA Tour site and European Tour site. At the beginning of this year, Feherty announced that he was ready to end his hibernation and appear in a new role for NBC. His net worth is said to be about $3 million. It is now clear that he decided to leave CBS since they were not willing to give him the salary he was demanding.
His struggle and victory against alcoholism, divorce, rise and fall of career, and depression are what make his life story so inspiring. He has stated in an interview with Golf Magazine that he used alcohol as a means to escape his stress. Lopez-Feherty Foundation Anti-Pro-Am was hosted in 2005 by Feherty along with George Lopez, an American actor/comedian and talk show host.
He premiered his talk show named Feherty on 21st June 2011, which is broadcast on the Golf Channel.


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Friday, 25 February 2011
Terminal Five Expo Gallery
It seems obvious, once you've seen it, that a gallery of original art in an airport terminal is a good idea, especially when the work is by artists from the country where the airport is sited. My work is now on display in the Terminal Five Expo Gallery at Heathrow Airport, as part of an exhibition called "Legacy". It's a lovely space and, because it is at the quieter end of the terminal, is amazingly peaceful.
With check-in having to take place at least two hours before a flight, people have a lot of time on their hands. They are drawn into the gallery to see something they normally would not encounter at an airport. Once inside, visitors say that it is like being in an oasis where you can forget you are in a terminal.
I've met some delightful people from all walks of life in the time I've spent in the gallery. Airport staff often drop by for a chat when the terminal is quiet. Travelers seem to love to discuss all the work. There are sculptures by Susan Leyland, Lorne McKeen and Mike Speller, and paintings by Jeremy Houghton and others, as well as yours truly. The guest book speaks of how delighted and surprised passengers are with the concept, and it is a lovely experience to be involved with something that obviously brings such happiness to so many people.
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3 things
1) Where can I find some guardian builds for both WvW & PvE? More so focused around support/boons/healing
2) Are support guardian builds viable for WvW & PvE? Centered around cleansing, giving boons, healing, etc
3) Are fractals not designed for the level ranges they design?
I was just removed from a fractal for being under level 10, even though it says 1-9?
Am I failing to understand something? I got insta burst too from one of the mobs while my group was off dilly dallying without me.


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Wnt 3a conditional medium - (Mar/11/2009 )
I am planning to use Wnt 3a protein in my organotypic tissue culture (embryonic Kidney). There were studies using Wnt 3a conditional medium which is produced by L cells. I also found Wnt 3a recombinant protein produced by R&D systems. Which one is good? What are the pros and cons?
The pros and cons are many:
Conditioned medium Pros: is easy to produce, cheap and you have a continuous supply. However (Cons), it is also a pain to prepare - you have to add medium to the L cells, remove it after 24 hours, filter and store it appropriately, but not for too long as many of the things being produced will decay quite quickly. It is essential that you remove all the L cells so as to not contaminate your other cultures (a big problem if you do) and that it is bacteria and fungus free. You have to make sure that the medium you are using isn't depleted of other nutrients by the conditioning process as this will affect the growth of your main cultures. Conditioned media also contain a whole heap of excreted products from the feeder cells (L cells) which may or may not be good for your other cells, and how will you tell the effects of these from the wnt 3 effects if that is what you are studying.
recombinant protein: Pros: purity, single component system (i.e. no other things being added). Cons: Cost?, avaliability?, preparation (what does it dissolve in?, how will this affect your cells?).
I am sure there are more to each side of the argument, but I have to get back to work.


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Mr. Money Mustache of Lifehacker talks about the "true" cost of commuting:
Let's take a typical day's drive for this self-destructive couple. Adding 38 miles of round-trip driving at the IRS's estimate of total driving cost of $0.51 per mile, there's $19 per day of direct driving and car ownership costs. It is possible to drive for less, but these people happen to have fairly new cars, bought on credit, so they are wasting the full amount.
This is a really in-depth article focused on the cost of buying cars with loans and living too far from work. It is crazy to see the numbers presented in the way they are, and really amplifies why telecommuting is becoming more and more popular.


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(Masterpieces of American Fiction)
As much about myth, literature, and language as it is about worldly existence, Holy Place consists of a series of incompletely connected and suggestive episodes in the troubled life of its narrator, Guillermo Nervo. Nicknamed "Guillermito" (the diminutive shows endearment but also condescension), or simply "Mito" (Spanish for "myth"), Nervo unfolds as a parasitic decadent, a Baudelairian dandy totally dependent on and infatuated with his castrating mother, the protean film star Claudia. Guillermo moves from idolizing her and aspiring to be her lover to trying to arouse her jealously by taking Bela as a lover. A measure of his failure emerges when, after losing Claudia to his rival Giancarlo, he resorts to transvestitism in an attempt to possess his mother by becoming her. In the final chapter, he is transformed into a dog and must watch his maid and her lover desecrate his apartment, a literalizing of his neurotically servile role and an unequivocal announcement of the provisional completion of his fall. "Happily Ever After," as the opening tableau is titled, thus proves to be a doubly misleading indicator, for it both appears out of its conventional place and evokes the contrary of the novel's eventual outcome.


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Former Microsoft vice president Suzan DelBene has collected another big endorsement in the crowded, five–person Democratic field running in the newly reconfigured 1st Congressional District.
Gov. Chris Gregoire sent out a fundraising letter for DelBene on Monday, saying she was making a "sole endorsement" of the "right Democrat for this district." DeBene worked under Gregoire as state revenue director.
"The next 48 hours is critical!" Gregoire said in the standard-issue jargon of fundraising appeals. She didn't say why.
DelBene has already captured endorsements from the Teamsters and the Boeing Machinists, unions with thousands of members who work or live in the sprawling, competitive congressional district.
DelBene lost to 8th District Republican Rep. Dave Reichert in 2010. The Medina resident found herself in the reconfigured 1st, which stretches from Carnation to the U.S. Canadian border. It includes Eastside technology centers as well as rural Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish Counties.
The seat was given up by ex-Rep. Jay Inslee, who is running as a Democrat for governor.
Gregoire hints at a reason for endorsing early, namely the presence of formidable Republican John Koster in the contest. Koster, a Snohomish County Councilman, lost close 2000 and 2010 races to U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen in the old 2nd Congressional District.
The Democratic race in the 1st District features three prominent women.
DelBene is running. So is former State Rep. Laura Ruderman, a topnotch fundraiser and tireless retail politician who in 1998 became the first Democrat to break Republicans' hold on Eastside legislative districts.
Two-time U.S. House nominee Darcy Burner, defeated by Reichert in 2006 and 2008, has hit a rough patch. Burner has been trying to explain away tweets in which she mocked President Obama as "a Republican" and a "moderate Republican" for being insufficiently liberal.
State Sen. Steve Hobbs, a centerist Democrat from Snohomish County, is running along with first-time candidate Darshan Rauniyar, a Nepalese emigre and successful entepreneur.


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The Derbyshire Times has opened a Book of Condolence as tributes flood in for 16-year-old Connor Short who sadly passed away after a road traffic collision near Ashover.
The teenager was a passenger in car which was in a collision with another vehicle at the junction of Birkin Lane and Matlock Road at about 11.10pm, on Thursday.
His heartbroken family has told how the popular teenager was kind and thoughtful and will be greatly missed. His former schools described him as hard-working and friendly and Derby FC paid their respects to the Rams' fan during their home match at the weekend.
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