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Biogen scoops up eye and anti-TNF drug rights from Samsung Bioepis in $300m deal
Biogen has struck a new deal with Samsung Bioepis, it has emerged, picking up the commercialisation rights to a raft of drugs including two new ophthalmology biosimilars and a range of anti-TNF therapies.
Specifically, the partnership gives Biogen the exclusive rights to market both SB11, a biosimilar of Lucentis, and SB15, a biosimilar of Eylea, in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, in a bid to expand its offering in the eye therapy space. These two drugs brought in sales of $11 billion in 2018, with $5.8 billion of that made in the US alone.
Additionally, Biogen will also receive exclusive commercialisation rights to a range of anti-TNF drugs including Benepali (etanercept), Flixabi (infliximab) and Imraldi (adalimumab) in China, with the option to extend these rights to the European market down the line. Biogen said it hopes that the uptake of these drugs in the European market could lead to healthcare savings of around €1.8 billion in 2019.
Biogen confirmed it will pay $100 million upfront to Samsung, with up to $210 million potentially coming later in the form of development, regulatory and commercialisation payments.
"We believe savings enabled by biosimilars provide payers and health systems globally the budgetary headroom to fund innovation" commented Chirfi Guindo, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Product Strategy and Commercialization at Biogen. "According to a 2017 RAND Report, in the US alone savings generated from biosimilar uptake could reach as high as $150 billion over a ten-year period. We look forward to expanding our biosimilars portfolio in major markets worldwide."
Michel Vounatsos, Biogen's Chief Executive Officer, also remarked: "We are excited about the potential to bring biosimilars to a new therapeutic area as well as new regions around the world with the goal of sustainably advancing broad access to care for patients in need. This transaction would expand the potential for our leading biosimilars business worldwide, while complementing Biogen's presence in ophthalmology."
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The campaign, launched last year in nine U.S. cities, generated a lot of national buzz. Its short videos featured regular folks talking about their lives as doctors, skateboarders, tax attorneys, environmentalists, surfers or former felons before announcing that they are Mormons. Nary an Osmond to be seen.
It helped burst stereotypes of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by showing individual and diverse members expressing their spirituality.
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Energy efficiency is misunderstood by many policy-makers, despite the large amount of scientific studies trying to explain how it works at micro and macroeconomic levels. At policy level, the effect of energy efficiency measures is mostly estimated through the use of engineering calculus. Let's start with an example. Suppose that the government initiates an investment plan to improve isolation at households. This measure will improve the efficiency in providing heating and cooling (known as energy services), less effort will be needed to provide the same amount of these energy services. Government technicians roughly estimate the efficacy of this measure in terms of new energy consumption by estimating how much isolation material will be purchased with the funds and what is the actual isolation provided by this material in a controlled environment. This would be quite accurate in a single timeless dwelling without intelligent life living in it. However, social sciences show us this is not the way it works.
Theoretical and empirical studies show that the installation of the isolation material (or whatever the efficiency measure is) triggers changes that make people react. There is an individual and social behavior beyond the engineering models. First, the energy service (heating or cooling) becomes cheaper. Some households that were concerned about the expensive price of this service no longer are. These households used to turn off the heating or cooling system at night or other specific times, or maybe they did not acclimate some rooms. They may save some energy but not as much as expected. Besides, even if they try to keep the same behavior patterns previous to the efficiency improvement, they save money.
If we go beyond in the analysis of economic and social behavior, we will notice that there is an extra income in households. Households can spend this extra income buying goods and services or can save it. Both options lead to an increase in energy consumption. Goods and services need energy to be produced, distributed and consumed; and banks (or financial system in general) turn savings into investments, loans, mortgages or other assets that also have physical goods and services behind, that require energy in all the production and consumption chain.
This is known as rebound effect among economists and social scientists. They all agree on its existence; the discussion is on how large it is. Policy-makers have to be aware of this effect, start conducting rigorous assessments on energy efficiency measures and implement additional measures to control it if they want to fight climate change.
Font Vivanco, D., McDowall, W., Freire-González, J., Kemp, R., van der Voet, E., 2016. The foundations of the environmental rebound effect and its contribution towards a general framework. Ecological Economics 125, 60–69.
Freire-González, J., Puig-Ventosa, I., 2015. Energy Efficiency Policies and the Jevons Paradox. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 5(1), 69–79.
Jevons, W. S., 1865. The Coal Question. London: Macmillan and Co.
Ruzzenenti, F., Basosi, R., 2008. The rebound effect: An evolutionary perspective. Ecological Economics 67, 526–537.
Saunders, H.D., 1992. The Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate & Neoclassical Growth. The Energy Journal 13(4), 131–148.
Sorrell, S., 2007. The rebound effect: an assessment of the evidence for economy-wide energy savings from improved energy efficiency. UK Energy Research Centre.


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A yeast infection is something that not many people are willing to talk about very often. Although this is not a life-threatening condition, a lot of women suffer from this sometime during their lives. Many women want to know how to stop them and how to treat them. Read the following information for some great advice.
Always wear fresh clothing after physical activity. That can help, because it gives you a new "foundation." Unsoiled clothing will lower your chance of getting a yeast infection.
If you are very much prone to yeast infections, make sure you reconsider your bath products. Do not use cleansers and soaps that have dyes and fragrances. This happens because those type of products throw off the pH of the vaginal area. You should instead use hypoallergenic and mild products.
Only use gentle, non-irritating products on your vagina, avoiding scents. Scented products, including sprays and soaps, can induce irritation and boost the odds of incurring a yeast infection. You must never make use of scented tampons or sanitary pads, since they are in the closest proximity to the critical area. Stay away from colored toilet tissue, as well.
Tea Tree Oil
A great way to kill bacteria in your body is with the use of tea tree oil. Mix the oil with a little sweet almond oil, and apply it directly to the vagina. Avoid applying tea tree oil without mixing it with something else, as it can burn and cause discomfort. This natural remedy is effective in both combating an infection and restoring order to vaginal chemistry.
Eating a cup full of plain yogurt daily can work to prevent a yeast infection. Bacteria in yogurt will help fight the organisms that give rise to a yeast infection. Having said that, you should understand that yogurt does not help to eliminate a yeast infection if you are currently suffering from one. It simply helps prevent one from occurring in the first place.
Try to wear looser clothes. Skinny jeans and tight underwear can limit the air circulation around your vagina. Skinnies may look great, but they allow for zero air circulation. If the area doesn't get enough air, then your chances of getting a yeast infection skyrocket. Wear light and airy fabrics that are comfy and breathable.
Try to reduce the amount of douching that you do during the day. Make sure you thoroughly clean your genital area while taking a shower. Clean the area lightly, even the folds, with gentle applications of water and soap. That will prevent any yeast from harboring in warm, wet crevices. Douching is never necessary and may actually increase the risk of infection.
Yeast Infections
If you suffer from reoccurring yeast infections there is help available. Learning what causes yeast infections can help you to prevent them from occurring again and again. Think about making some radical changes to your daily diet, your lifestyle and your clothing.
Avoid wearing synthetic fibers. These fibers can prevent air circulation, which will trap moisture and heat near your skin. This is the environment that yeast will thrive. So, when you avoid this kind of clothing, you are reducing the chances of yeast infections.
Yeast Infection
If you are dealing with a yeast infection and then have sex with someone, it is vital both partners undergo treatment. The infection passes between you and it can be hard to cure the yeast infection. Use protection if one person has a yeast infection.
Avoid scented feminine hygiene products. This can make the pH balance get thrown off in the vaginal area, and that makes yeast grow even more. Besides, these products can hide odors that indicate you have an infection.
You should now be better equipped to treat your next yeast infection. Be aware that there are things you're able to do in order to prevent it from occurring.


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For all the flack she's taken for her now famous quote that "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life", Judge Sonia Sotomayor's words have a prescient ring these days. In fact, given last week's nightmare on Ware Street, the judge might want to broaden her definition of males prone to jumping to thoroughly wrong conclusions based on their life experience.
Following the showdown between Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley in Cambridge, headlines have been dominated by the question of whether or not racial profiling led to Gates's eventual arrest at his own home. That the professor and the arresting officer "probably overreacted"– as President Obama diplomatically characterized the event– is now painfully (embarrassingly, for them, I imagine) clear. But what if the scholar and the cop had had the benefit of a third party to help mitigate the escalation of tension and ill-will? Someone who could see things clearly from both men's points-of-view and bridge the divide? An individual uniquely qualified to diffuse the perfect storm of race, class, guns, badges and testosterone that gathered on Professor Gates's front porch with alarming speed? What if a wise Latina woman had been on the scene?
Had Judge Sotomayor been there, her first order of business probably would have been to advise Gates to cooperate when Crowley requested that he to step outside onto the porch. Surely she'd have seen the futility in Gates's questioning a police officer's motives before establishing why he was there– never mind hurling invectives like "why, because I'm a black man in America?" in answer to Crowley's assertion that he was there to investigate a "break in progress." Sotomayor, being familiar with conflict resolution in both ivy-league lecture halls and on the streets, could have pointed out the differences to Gates: chief among them that police officers are required to follow procedure in a specified manner because the consequences for not doing so could mean the difference between life and death. Of course, had Gates wished to formally make a case that racial-profiling was at play, Sotomayor could have offered expert counsel on that front as well.
No doubt, Gates's preppy attire, wire-rimmed glasses and overall affect are professorial– almost to the point of caricature. Other than George Will, Henry Louis Gates is the only man I can visualize who actually looks comfortable in a bow tie. His age and use of a cane only add the the overall impression that this is a man who is non-threatening, upstanding and trustworthy. But had Crowley walked away from an alleged crime scene based on such superficial evidence it would have constituted negligence on his part. What if, for example, a break in had occurred and Professor Gates was being held hostage inside his home? Wouldn't the wisest course of action have been for the responding officer to remain on the front porch until he could assess the situation? And wouldn't this have been the most efficient way of getting the homeowner out of harm's way had such a crime been in progress? By any measure, Gates failed the first crucial step which required nothing more than compliance on his part.
The next misstep occurred after Crowley asked to see identification– ostensibly to determine if he was in fact on Gates's property. Instead of providing a driver's license or other government-issued piece of identification, Gates proffered his Harvard identity card. This, along with his alleged statement that Crowley "hadn't heard the last from him" eased Gates out of the category of bookish intellectual and into the realm of class-card-playing elitist. At this point, any wise bystander– Latina or otherwise– might have encouraged the professor to dial back on the posturing, and just present proper I.D. After all, of what was the value in letting Sgt. Crowley know where Gates worked when Crowley was obviously trying to determine where Gates lived? At this point, if Crowley got fed up with being dragged into a game of "do-you-know-I-am" when he was simply trying to do his job is not only understandable, but forgivable. Class prejudices run deep across all strata in most college towns. Surely, Professor Gates could not have been ignorant of this fact as he chose to signal that he was a member of the privileged/ruling class. Unfortunately, the gambit got him nowhere and things spiraled downward from there.
The irony that Sgt. Crowley should find himself accused of racism when he has served as instructor for a Lowell Police Academy course entitled "Racial Profiling" since 2004 is impossible to overstate. Still, for all his training and purported goodwill, one wonders how sensitive a post-civil rights white male can be to the pre-civil rights reality of what it meant to be black in America. An America with which Skip Gates was all too well acquainted: where a black man with dignity was viewed as a threat, systematically undermined and under attack– as often by those charged with upholding the law as by those intent on breaking it. Whether the assaults were state-sanctioned– as with Jim Crow Laws– or manifest in a tone of voice meant to belittle and degrade its target, blacks and whites have yet to live down the legacy. What Sgt. Crowley may not have taken into account is that for all his good intentions his very physicality and authoritative posture may well have caused Gates to travel back in time, whether rightly or not, and respond accordingly.
Had Sotomayor materialized at this juncture the fracas would never have become the stuff of water cooler legend. While there's a hole in Crowley's police report that doesn't quite explain what triggered Skip Gates's "loud and tumultuous behavior" (logic suggests that the truth lies somewhere between both mens' account of what happened)– the broad support the sergeant has received from colleagues of all races indicates that he would have been open to Sotomayor's suggestions for navigating the situation differently. Might Professor Gates, for example, been put off by what he perceived of as a less-than-deferential tone, in his own home, by a much younger man? With her Caribbean background (where children learn to respect their elders… or die trying) Sotomayor would have seen this faux-pas from a mile off. And whereas Crowley had every right to see himself as the more vulnerable of the two (though armed, the fact remains that he had no idea who Gates was– while the professor had a more facts at his disposal from the start); based on countless tales of police brutality and, yes, racial profiling, Gates could be forgiven for feeling threatened at the sight of an armed, white police officer on his doorstep when he hadn't summoned one.
That said, as any kid from the Bronx could have told Gates, there are three simple rules for dealing with the police:
1. Don't get bent out of shape by his or her tone. After all, how would any of us conduct ourselves if the potential for getting shot at, cursed out, spat on and threatened were part of our job description?
2. Do not, under any circumstances, yell at someone who is armed, stressed and, quite possibly, crazier than you. Nothing good can come of this.
3. If you feel you're the victim of police brutality, don't seek resolution by arguing with your abuser. Take it to a higher authority.
Of course, trying to determine who's right or wrong at times like these is pointless as once the human instinct for self-preservation kicks in, rational thought is typically the first casualty. For all we know, in the heat of the moment, both Crowley and Gates may have felt their lives were on the line. Still, if we, as a nation, strive to learn anything from situations like these, it is imperative that voices from a variety of cultures, races, classes and socio-economic backgrounds take part in the discussion.
For all our sakes, let's hope that the Senate Judiciary Committee is paying attention.


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Luftrauser is the epitome of a flash game. This is the perfect game to play when you only have five minutes to kill and you don't want to use that time on something silly like thinking.
Genre: Action
Played at: Free Web Arcade
Luftrauser is a simple game. It only uses the X and arrow buttons. It's one of those simple to play, hard to master type of games. You play as a pilot with some sort of super jet plane that can heal itself. The objective of the game is to kill everything you see. You get more points of the bigger stuff that you manage to destroy. It starts off simple but quickly becomes difficult.
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Your plane shoots a barrage of bullets, and there isn't any of this overheating gun crap. Just hold down and let the lead fly. When you sustain damage, you can release the fire button and your ship will slowly heal. You will need this healing ability too because of how quickly the game becomes next to impossible. I really do suck at this game. My best score is 2400 points. I am sure some asshole(s) (unnamed) will play this game and beat my score quickly then rub it in my face.
So if you have some time to kill, and you want a play something quick, try Luftrauser. It is one of the most satisfying and simple games around.
- Quick to play, easy to learn
- Cool retro style
- simple controls, great handling
- If you are looking for a game to take up hours of your time, this isn't it
- It gets really hard really fast (that's what she said)


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Have You Ever Experienced a True Raw Bar?
The word is out in Boca Raton. SanTo's Modern American Buffet & Sushi has become the place to go for the best all you can eat sushi in Boca Raton. The truth is you can find sushi at plenty of places. But what makes SanTo's stand out from the crowd is its wide variety of selections at its various different food stations. While many come to enjoy the great hot entrees and hearty meat dishes at the carving station, the buffet restaurant's raw bar has quickly become a crowd pleaser.
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Peter Foglia guessed, and he guessed wrong. He figured that his South Florida Mini-only store, Minspeed, would sell a lot of aftermarket parts to owners of regular Coopers, because, after all, by not buying the pricier Cooper S, they'd have more to spend on personalizing their cars.
"My mistake," Foglia says. "It's the Cooper S owners who come in and say, 'I just bought this car. What do you have for me?' "
What Foglia has is a long list of upgrades—inside, outside, under the hood—for owners of the 2002-2006 R50-R53 models, but aftermarket parts for the new '07 model, called the R56, are trickling in slowly. The last-generation Cooper S, with its 1.6-liter, 168-hp, supercharged engine, is already a potent little car, but it's one with untapped potential.
Foglia's performance upgrades for Minis, installed next-door by Redline Racing, "are typically pretty mild," he says. Most of his customers own Minis that are new enough still to be covered under warranty, "and we try to keep cars close enough to stock to make sure our clients don't get in trouble with the dealers but still get plenty of performance and handling out of their cars."
Dealers, Foglia says, "are tightening up" on taking warranty claims on modified cars, which is one reason Minspeed usually avoids modifications to the electronic control unit. Besides, he says, "we just haven't seen that many modifications to ECUs that make all that much difference."
Foglia has a Checkered Flag Package he has installed on nearly 100 cars, including a black Cooper S owned by customer Louis Gonzalez. It consists of a cold air box, a 15 percent stainless-steel reduction pulley with a John Cooper Works belt and—most important—a modified cat-back exhaust system.
Results are surprising. Gonzalez whips out the latest dyno sheet on his 2006 Cooper S, and it shows 188 hp at the wheels, not bad for an upgrade that costs $1,250 installed and has a four-year, 50,000-mile warranty on the new components.
Gonzalez isn't through, though. He just had a three-point-adjustable rear antiroll bar installed ($284), and next week, his Cooper S gets a lowered suspension with coil-over shocks.
Foglia's shop, north of Miami in Pompano Beach, used to be called MyMini, but—and this is no secret—BMW and Mini have employed a team of lawyers to troll the country looking for what they consider to be trademark infringement, so Foglia is having to relaunch his business as Minspeed. Part of the relaunching consists of a growing part of his business: building bespoke Minis, with custom packages including customer-chosen leather and carpet. He will even order you a Mini, make the upgrades and return it to the dealer for delivery to you.
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Do you feel like I used to feel?
You've done all the right things – got a degree, picked the right jobs, had your achievements recognized and enjoyed financial success. But you keep struggling with overwork, self-doubt and perfectionism. You feel like you never have enough – time or money or whatever it is you want. You feel stressed by your long hours, financial responsibilities and the never-ending demands you seem to encounter almost every day. You've become so used to putting everyone's needs ahead of your own that you've forgotten how to claim time for yourself to pursue your passions, relax or just enjoy life.
Sometimes you wake up with an empty feeling in your gut, as if you've lost touch with your soul. You sense that there is something bigger out there for you, but you don't know how to find it. There is something you'd love to be doing, but you don't think it's possible for you. There is something you'd love to offer the world, but you keep finding reasons to hold yourself back.
If you find yourself nodding in recognition at a lot of this, you're not alone. In fact, you might be surprised if you knew just how many other accomplished people secretly share this feeling of lack.
That's one of the privileges I enjoy as a life coach. I get to see how the human mind works. I get to see the full range of human emotions. I get to see just how similar we all are, regardless of our accomplishments and outward successes.
Because one of the most important parts of coaching is holding space for all of my clients' thoughts and feelings, not just the pretty ones. This is so important because awareness is always the first step you need to take to start to move your life in a new direction.
I have a question for you. And I want you to take a moment, take a deep breath and notice how your body responds to the question I'm going to ask you now. Here it is: ARE YOU LIMITING YOURSELF FROM BEING ALL THAT YOU COULD BE?
One of the things I'll show you if you work with me is that your body is your truth teller. If you don't believe this yet, don't worry. I won't be sharpening my legal skills to convince you. We'll do experiments so you'll see it for yourself. And if you can't feel your body's response to my question at all, don't worry about that either. That is not rare and is also a skill I also teach to my clients.
So, for those of you who could feel your body's response, was your answer yes?
If I'd asked myself this question six years ago, my body, if I'd known how to read it, would definitely have said yes. And it wouldn't have been because I wasn't the best tax lawyer or the best leader I could be. It would have said yes because I wasn't BEING all I could be in the world. I wasn't showing up as my highest self. I wasn't showing up in a way that fueled me and made me feel energized and purposeful.
I'd known for a long time that something was missing, but my search for answers never seemed to yield anything that was helpful for more than a few days or weeks.
My brain told me that my options were to either keep on grinding OR completely give up my lifestyle, put on some robes, head to the mountains and search for meaning. (My brain has always tended towards the dramatic!)
And then, one day, everything changed and I did decide to take a huge leap. I left my career as an international tax lawyer, taught myself to paint and became a full-time artist. (And no, this isn't the normal trajectory that I recommend!)
I wasn't able to shift my life in a sudden and radical way because I suddenly became artistic, courageous or fearless. I simply had an experience that opened me up to what was possible. It was like I had put on new glasses and could see everything in a different way. And it felt so good that I wanted to dive in.
And so that's what I did. And in my case, that kind of leap was what was right for me.
My transition, as it turned out was hard and challenging, magical and beautiful, all at once.
As I made huge changes in my own life, I kept encountering former colleagues, as well as new friends, who continued to grapple with the same questions I'd asked myself for so long. They often remarked that they wished they could do what I'd done. Meaning that they wished they could feel delighted about their lives in the same way they saw me delighted about mine.
I knew that they wanted to find answers, but I also knew that many people wouldn't be prepared for the kind of wholesale changes I had made in my own life. I knew that everyone needs to follow their own path. And I also knew that small shifts could equally change how people feel about their lives.
I developed a deep desire to help people navigate through their obstacles and blocks and experience their lives with more joy, a greater sense of fulfilment, meaning and worthiness.
I decided to train as a life coach to supplement the skills I'd picked up over the years as a lawyer and leader in my field, and from all my experiences and the lessons I'd learned as I'd transformed from lawyer to artist. And through all of this, I developed new ways of showing people how to approach their lives differently, stand in their own power and feel the way they want to feel. I learned how to teach my clients to create a life they love, whether that entailed a significant change like I jhad made (rare) or simply required small, incremental, yet life enhancing steps (more often).
So that is what I do now. And what I can offer to you.
I do this in two ways. I offer one-on-one online Love Your Life Again coaching packages. And now I'm also able to offer two live coaching programs at GRACE in Prince Edward County: solo Creative Soul Intensives and Love Your Life Again group coaching retreats. The live coaching options are for people who want to de-stress and get away for a few days to learn some life altering skills, either alone or in community. I'm able to offer the live options now because GRACE is finally completed and ready for visitors! (For those of you who don't follow me on social media, GRACE is the beautiful, restorative workshop and retreat space I've spent the last year building on a peaceful, nature-filled acreage in Prince Edward County.)
If any of what I've said strikes a chord and you'd like to find out more about what it might be like to work with me, let's chat. Jump on a free personal strategy session and we'll talk through your issues and challenges and decide whether one of my coaching programs could help you find your answers. If you'd like to join me, just click on this link to schedule your call.


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Distance Learning Activity #11 was a success!
The discussion was moderated by Christian Bertsch, professor of Science Education at the University of Teacher Education in Vienna.
More than 100 teachers registered to participate in the DLA followed its development over the course of the week. During the first days of the DLA, teachers introduced themselves and shared their experience with teaching science and interest in improving their methods. Many of them actively posted in the discussion page of the DLA!
Before the webinar, Christian Bertsch introduced activities and resources to the participants.
You can watch the whole live session below:
More than 50 teachers were very active in sharing their opinion and trying to solve the mysteries posed by the moderator. They applied their knowledge of biology and zoology and discussed each other's arguments against or in favor of certain suggestions.
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Android Advisor – Issue 54 2018-P2P
Android Advisor is your go-to source for everything Android, from smartphones, tablets and the best mobile apps to wearable and in-car tech, optimised for the small screen of your mobile device. Whether you're new to the Android operating system or a seasoned user, you're sure to find something you like in Android Advisor's wealth of analysis, reviews, features and tutorials. Android Advisor will not only help you to choose the best phone or tablet for your needs, but also to get more out of that device.
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Whether you're in My Lead System Pro (MLSP) or considering becoming a member, check this out…
Brian Fanale, co-founder of MLSP recently announced a bunch of new changes that GREATLY benefit it's members.
1. The Cost of the University Membership level has been reduced to $49.97
Previously priced at $79.97, the value of the University membership has never been greater.
- build your own list (YOUR leads, not your company's leads)
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Check out all the benefits of the University Membership.
2. Complete Training Library now available at the Mastery Level
This is huge.
MLSP has been doing weekly marketing trainings for years. Up until now, you could only access the complete training library by paying for an Annual Mastery Membership.
Starting immediately, the training library will be available to ALL Mastery members.
Check out what you get when you join MLSP at Mastery.
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The programmers at MLSP have basically made a mini-Facebook community JUST for MLSP members and people who have purchased MLSP courses/trainings.
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Great post Bob, always thought $79.97 was an odd starting price, priced at just under $50 is much more affordable for those starting out…. How are you doing with Mlsp would like to connect and see how you are doing and share success stories.
Regards Dexter
Nice and very informative post
The changes MLSP made are really good and have been very helpful. I did not have much knowledge about MLSP but have got to know more about it through your post. It surely benefits its members who are registered and also the people who are willing to join . The two changes i found very attractive is reducing the membership charge and complete training guide available to mastery members.
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What's behind our Cigar Holder's name?
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Text messaging and HIPAA
There is currently a lack of clarity about whether patient consent to communicate via (unencrypted) SMS is adequate to protect covered entities from HIPAA concerns. HHS (and medical research) has released data supported use of non-encrypted SMS, given its high accessibility to patients and its efficacy in achieving behavior change (e.g. medication compliance, smoking cessation).
Many covered entitites feel that this use of unencrypted SMS is okay - as long as sensitive information is not communicated, and as long as it is in agreement with patients' preferences, and as long as consent is obtained. Other covered entities disagree.
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Eczema is not a specific disease, but rather a term that describes a group of inflammatory skin conditions that produce rash-like symptoms, such as red, itchy patches on the skin.
It's also known as dermatitis (skin inflammation), atopic eczema ("atopic" means a genetic tendency toward allergic hypersensitivity), or simply atopic dermatitis.
In fact, the word "eczema" is often used interchangeably with "atopic dermatitis," though clinically speaking, atopic dermatitis is the most common type of eczema.
Atopic dermatitis is the most severe and chronic (long-lasting) form of eczema. It's characterized by inflamed skin that may crack and release a clear fluid when scratched (an effect known as weeping). People with atopic dermatitis often experience flares, during which symptoms worsen, and remissions, when symptoms improve or clear up, according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. (1)
People with eczema have very dry, itchy skin and rashes on various parts of the body — particularly the face, hands, feet, insides of the elbows, and behind the knees.
In addition, skin lesions and blotches may develop on the wrists, ankles, sides of the neck, or around the mouth.
For most people, the main symptom of eczema is itching, which can lead to scratching and rubbing that further irritates the skin. This can, in turn, lead to the "itch-scratch cycle" or increased itching and scratching that worsens eczema symptoms.
Other skin symptoms associated with eczema include:
Eczema is not contagious — it cannot spread directly between people, notes the National Eczema Association (NEA). (2)
Skin affected by eczema is unable to retain moisture well, possibly because of low production of fats and oils. It is also caused by a disrupted skin barrier, allowing whatever moisture the skin has to freely evaporate into the air. This causes it to become dry and lose its protective properties.
It's not clear what causes certain people to develop eczema, specifically atopic dermatitis.
Children are more likely to develop eczema if other allergic diseases — such as hay fever and asthma — run in the family, which suggests that there may be a genetic component to the condition. Read more about conditions related to eczema below.
Though dermatologists don't necessarily consider eczema an autoimmune disorder, the symptoms of atopic dermatitis are thought to be the result of an immune system overreaction or dysfunction.
According to the NEA, with eczema, your immune system causes inflammation. Usually, this a natural process that protects against infection and foreign bodies, but with eczema, this happens even in the absence of harmful substances, notes an article published in November-December 2019 in the Indian Journal of Dermatology. (3,4)
In addition to genetic and immune system factors, environmental factors also play a role in worsening or triggering eczema.
Eczema triggers may include a wide range of irritants, allergens, and other substances, such as: (3)
In some cases, eczema symptoms are confused with insect bites or allergic reactions.
There are several other types of eczema besides atopic dermatitis, according to the NEA. (5)
These include:
To diagnose eczema, your doctor will first conduct a physical examination to look at the state of your skin and see if you have the characteristic rash of the illness.
They may perform a skin biopsy (remove a skin sample for examination) to confirm the diagnosis and rule out other skin conditions.
To better understand your symptoms and their potential causes, your doctor will also ask you questions about your personal and family medical history, especially as it pertains to allergic conditions and skin-related issues, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. (7)
Your doctor may also give you a blood test to look for signs of a recent immune reaction, as well as allergy tests to determine possible allergic triggers for your skin flare-ups, notes National Jewish Health. (8)
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, people who develop atopic dermatitis as an infant or young child get better over time. (9) For some, the condition disappears on its own by age 2.
But about one-half of adults with atopic dermatitis had it as a child.
Atopic dermatitis in adults often lasts a long time and there is no way to determine if it will go away or last a lifetime. But the frequency and severity of symptoms usually decrease over time, and you can control atopic dermatitis through treatment, moisturizing, and by avoiding irritants that cause flare-ups.
Atopic dermatitis may be harder to control if you have a family history of eczema or if it began at an early age, covers a large portion of your body, or occurs along with allergies and asthma, according to an article published in March 2013 in the World Allergy Organization Journal. (10)
There is no cure for eczema, and the goal of treatment is to reduce eczema symptoms, heal the skin, and prevent skin damage and flare-ups.
Medication, moisturizers, and at-home skin-care routines make up an effective treatment plan for many people who live with eczema.
Medication for atopic dermatitis includes:
Other treatment options include light therapy (phototherapy), which treats eczema using ultraviolet light, nots the NEA, and wet wrap therapy, which combines topical medicines and moisturizes with a wet gauze wrap, per the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). (13,14)
Changing your diet isn't a surefire way to control eczema symptoms, but it may help. Food allergies and eczema can produce similar skin symptoms, so if there are certain foods that trigger this reaction — maybe it's eggs for you and peanuts for another person — you'll want to avoid them, notes the NEA. (15)
If you aren't sure which foods may be triggering your symptoms, you may explore using an elimination diet. With this approach, you'll eliminate potentially problematic foods before adding them back in, noticing how your skin reacts along the way, says InformedHealth.org. (16)
Some people have also used complementary or alternative remedies to treat their eczema. These include, for example, baths that contain oatmeal, baking soda, or unscented oils; massages with essential oils; and stress management techniques, such as yoga and meditation, according to the NEA. (17,18)
Learn More About Treatment for Eczema: Medication, Alternative and Complementary Therapies, Diet Changes, and More
There is no proven way to prevent getting eczema. Nonetheless, research suggests children who are breastfed until they're 4 months old may be less likely to get it. Alternatively, partially hydrolyzed formula, which contains processed cow milk protein, may also reduce a child's chance of developing atopic dermatitis. (9)
If you have eczema, you can take the following steps to prevent flare-ups, per the Cleveland Clinic:
People with eczema are at risk of developing infections if they scratch themselves so much that they break the skin.
In fact, infections from staphylococcus and streptococcus bacteria are common in people with atopic dermatitis. Up to 90 percent of people with eczema have staph bacteria on their skin, and many develop active infections that further worsen their condition, according to the NIAID. (20)
Additionally, the herpes simplex virus (a common cause of cold sores) may infect people with eczema. The virus can cause an infection called eczema herpeticum, which may spread throughout the body, and it can be fatal if it travels to the brain, lungs, or liver, notes the NEA. (21)
People with atopic dermatitis may also get a severe and potentially fatal infection called eczema vaccinatum if they receive the live-virus smallpox vaccine. (18)
Other complications of atopic dermatitis include sleep deprivation, poor performance at work or school, depression and anxiety, and increased suicide risk, according to the NEA. (22)
Eczema can occur at any age, but it typically begins in infancy and early childhood.
Estimates suggest that about 9.6 million children in the United States — about 13 percent — have atopic dermatitis, according to a study published in June 2019 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. (23,24)
National survey data suggest the one-year prevalence of atopic dermatitis among American adults was 10.2 percent in 2010 and 7.2 percent in 2012. But the surveys used different questions: The former referred to "dermatitis, eczema, or any other red, inflamed skin rash" and the latter to "eczema or skin allergy." (5)
Whatever the case, about 25 percent of adults with atopic dermatitis first experienced symptoms during adulthood. (24)
Among American children, atopic dermatitis affects black and white children the most. Among American adults, multiracial and white adults tend to the have the highest prevalence of the disease. (22)
National Eczema Association (NEA)
The NEA is the most prominent U.S. organization devoted solely to education, research, patient support, and advocacy related to atopic dermatitis and other forms of eczema. We love their eczema fact sheets, glossary of skin-care terms, and informative webinars. Plus, they have a yearly family-friendly Eczema Expo each summer at a vacation destination.
This society is one of the most visible resources in the United Kingdom to educate people about eczema, provide help for people with the disease, and support research. Perhaps their most unique resource is a confidential telephone and email hotline that people in the United Kingdom can call Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time.
American Academy of Dermatology (AAD)
The AAD says it is the largest professional dermatologic association, with more than 20,500 physicians as members worldwide. They publish information about a variety of skin conditions, and we recommend checking out the robust resource center with information about childhood and adult eczema.
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)
Because allergens can trigger eczema flareups, it makes sense to stay on top of information about managing allergies. The AAFA's site has a wealth of information about allergies, for both adults and kids.
The NEA's annual expo provides a vacation retreat for people and families affected by eczema. The four-day event includes activities; educational seminars; camps for infants, children, and teens; and hotel accommodations that are as free of potential allergens as possible. The next Eczema Expo is June 25 through 28, 2020, in Orlando, Florida. The organization offers a limited amount of needs-based scholarships to help people attend.
National Eczema Association — Alternative Treatment
Our favorite way to take a deep dive into authoritative articles about eczema alternative medicine treatments is to visit the "alternative treatment" tag page on the NEA website. Learn about how acupuncture, Ayurvedic medicine, natural oils, and other alternative treatments can help to ease eczema symptoms.
Filling out a lengthy form indicating your areas of interest will give you free access to an online forum that includes discussion threads on eczema-related topics. Each time you log in you will see a stream of blog posts with daily news and the latest discussion threads.
We recommend this NEA-hosted forum for sharing support and advice about living with eczema. After registering for free, members post questions or comments in freewheeling discussions and receive written replies, or reactions via "Support," "Thanks," and "Useful" buttons.
Find household products that are certified "Asthma & Allergy Friendly," and therefore less likely to trigger eczema flare-ups, through the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America's online store.
The National Eczema Association has an online store of sensitive skin–friendly products that bear the NEA Seal of Acceptance, meaning they are intended for people with moderate to severe skin conditions. Get moisturizers, cleansers, detergents, and other items designed to protect and not irritate your skin.
Elimination Diets — NEA on Eczema and Food Allergies
Avoiding food allergy triggers may help you manage eczema, but sometimes you need help identifying precisely what the triggers are. This is where an elimination diet may help. This approach involves omitting a food you think is problematic and then reintroducing it to see what happens. We love this article with information from the dermatologist Peter Lio, MD, which delves into some of the misconceptions about the diet, as well as the link between eczema and what you eat.
We love that the NEA has made it so easy to advocate for better healthcare policies. Their Advocacy Action Center enables people to browse legislation related to eczema in various states. If you wish to "take action," you can click on a button and fill out an online form to send a message to your local lawmaker.
Eczema Tracker
Information is power when it comes to managing eczema symptoms and flare-ups. Eczema Tracker allows you to take a photo of flare-ups and monitor your condition, as well as track and analyze a wealth of information concerning your triggers, allergies, and skin. The app even provides local pollen, weather, mold, and humidity information to help you manage your symptoms. It uses your data to find trends that may lead to flare-ups. Eczema Tracker is available only for iOS in the Apple Store. It is a free app.
Participants in the 2019 NEA Eczema Expo were able to enjoy spa treatments at a local day spa in consultation with a dermatologist who could help them to choose the best treatments for their skin condition. We hope they will do this again in 2020!


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Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition: A Social Case Study of the American Baptist Convention
Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition: A Social Case Study of the American Baptist Convention
Baptists are proud of their history and devoted to the principles of their faith. They justifiably boast of great fighters for freedom in America, England, and Holland. They have advocated the principle of separation of church and state and have been in the forefront of the struggle for independency in the secular as well as the religious world. Many of the assertions of the early Baptists were treated as blasphemous and presumptuous and some of the leaders of the movement were unmercifully persecuted as religious fanatics dedicated to the destruction of the true faith.
Their emphasis upon the competence of the individual to discern the mind of Christ within a community of worship and discipline has produced some of the greatest preachers in the history of Protestantism. The Baptists were in the vanguard of the modern missionary enterprise and they contributed important leadership to the Social Gospel movement. They have labored to meet the needs of disinherited people everywhere in the world and have fostered the idea of the gathered church where all who have faith in the gospel shall unite for mutual inspiration and service to the kingdom of God.
This study is written by one who is dedicated to the purpose of the Baptist witness, by one who is profoundly indebted to those leaders of the past and present who have suffered for the principles of their faith. For it is only within a religious environment where free and mutual criticism is respected as a fundamental element of church polity that an effort such as this can be accepted in the spirit in which it was written.
The problem which this study seeks to analyze arises from a discrepancy between the Baptist doctrine of the church and the polity of the American Baptist denomination. For more than a century the Baptists have emphasized the freedom of the individual in all matters of faith and practice. In addition, they have insisted upon the autonomy of the local church . . .


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Every Friday on "A Little Night Music" – Vintage Vocalists. Jean Stillwell of "Classical Mornings with Mike and Jean" joins Kathleen Kajioka to explore great voices of the past. This week, they stay in the present, and talk Messiah!
What's it like to be a soloist in this epic work? What do you focus on, and how do you keep your voice ready after sitting for so long? Also what's a counter-tenor?
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Slack is Slack, and Microsoft is Microsoft, and never the twain shall meet? Perhaps not. Slack has announced the launch of integration capabilities with Office 365 in order to – theoretically at least – bring more seamless collaboration to user workflows.
"Your company relies on a unique mix of tools to get work done. Maybe it's Zoom for calls, Box for file storage, and Outlook for email and calendaring. Or you could be using Webex and OneDrive, or Dropbox and G Suite," the company wrote in a blog post. "No matter what your mix looks like, Slack takes all of these everyday work tools out of browser tabs and brings them into one central place. And now, that includes Office 365 tools too.
"By using apps to connect Outlook and OneDrive with Slack, repetitive tasks such as checking your calendar or sharing email attachments with a group can be done right from your workspace," the company added. "Each little improvement to these workflows adds up to a whole lot more time for you and your team to do your best work."
Among the potential new features are rich file previews of Office 365 files uploaded to Slack, syncing with Outlook's calendar, as well as importing and searching files from OneDrive. On the to-do list, promised soon, is the ability to send emails to Slack from Outlook.
The move is an interesting one considering the previous relationship the two companies have shared. When Microsoft Teams was launched in late 2016, Slack went to the effort of taking out a full page advert in the New York Times with the following broadside: "We know that playing nice with others isn't exactly your [modus operandi], but if you can't offer people an open platform that brings everything together into one place and makes their lives dramatically simpler, it's just not going to work."
In Microsoft's most recent 10-K report, published in August, the company listed Slack for the first time as a competitor to Office, alongside Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Google, and IBM.
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UGA New Materials Institute to test first fully biodegradable plastic straw
A research team that includes partners from the University of Georgia New Materials Institute and the RWDC Environmental Stewardship Foundation will develop a fully biodegradable plastic straw thanks to an award from Singapore's Temasek Foundation Ecosperity.
The $719,000 award represents the top prize in Ecosperity's inaugural Liveability Challenge and was presented to RWDC Industries in July in Singapore. UGA researchers, graduate students and a UGA alumnus, working with RWDC Foundation funding, synthesized a food contact polymer that they will now attempt to develop into a commercially viable straw, which RWDC would then bring to market.
The next step is for RWDC and the New Materials Institute to create prototypes. Then they must prove the straws can be manufactured consistently, produced at a scale to meet global demand and are fully biodegradable in soil, fresh water and marine water. Testing largely will be conducted in a New Materials Institute laboratory built with RWDC grant funding.
Few non-plastic alternatives
Currently, there are few non-plastic straw alternatives available to consumers. Many plastics branded as "biodegradable" are made from plant-based material called polylactic acid, or PLA. PLA-based plastics are compostable in limited environments, but they do not fully degrade outside of these settings.
"Plastics made from PLA only degrade in industrial compostable settings under high temperature and humidity conditions," said Jason Locklin, director of the New Materials Institute and a professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of chemistry, and the College of Engineering, who worked on the project. "Other types of plastic, which are petroleum-based, last forever. Less than 10 percent of these plastics are recycled. The 90 percent that aren't recycled will ultimately fragment over time, and as micronized plastic, can end up in our soil, rivers and oceans–forever."
The team's biodegradable straws are based on a proprietary, bio-based resin in the class of polymers called polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs.
Effective environmentally-friendly straws
For the PHA-straw to be a viable product in the marketplace, it will have to perform as well as the plastic straws currently in use. It must also be cost-effective over its entire life cycle, including disposal, said Branson Ritchie, director of technology development and implementation for the New Materials Institute, and a distinguished research professor at UGA.
"The PHA-straw is an initial step toward our shared goal, with RWDC, of replacing single-use, petroleum-based plastics with plastics made from our biodegradable resins," Ritchie said. "We can tweak our formulas and expand our technology on a product-by-product basis. This keeps a manufacturer's costs down because they don't have to reinvent their processes, and this facilitates their ability to quickly produce environmentally-friendly plastic products."
RWDC provided a substantial grant in order to quickly boost the New Materials Institute's capabilities and position it for fast-tracking development, testing and illustration of the scalability necessary to create products from the bio-based resins we have co-developed, said Daniel Carraway, a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur who co-leads RWDC Industries and its foundation. Carraway earned his doctorate in forest biotechnology from UGA in 1996.
"We have positioned the New Materials Institute to succeed in the critical step of translating these technologies beyond the laboratory scale," Carraway said. "This straw will be the first of our fruits from these endeavors and the first product from what we view as a long-term partnership."
The UGA New Materials Institute is committed to preventing waste through the design of materials and systems that adhere to Green Engineering principles. The Institute partners with industry and businesses to design materials for their use that are bio-based, fully biodegradable, or completely recyclable, and safe for people, animals and our planet. In addition, it works with businesses, governments, foundations and other organizations to redesign systems so that they generate less waste and promote circularity in materials management. The New Materials Institute is also shaping the future by training the next generation of scientists and engineers on the importance of considering Green Engineering design principles in everything they do. For more information, visit http://www.newmaterials.uga.edu.
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There are two aspects of volunteering which we tend to accept. Firstly in economic terms because there is no money value attached, since the word itself implies the word 'free', and secondly the outcomes of the efforts of volunteers often can't be valued and therefore are often just accepted.
This problem particularly affects older people. Because we are not seen to be producing an income we are not regarded as valued members of the community and are therefore regarded as bludgers on the economy by some. I suspect that many who feel this way are not aware of having this attitude, much as people who are racist are often not aware of it. As an older person I am aware that it exists, particularly when out shopping. So many younger people expect me to move out of their way, not necessarily because they feel that as an older person, and therefore unlikely to be contributing to the economy, but I don't count because they see no reason to value me. They forget that one day they will be old themselves and therefore subject to this behaviour!
This attitude extends to most volunteers of any age group. Unless their work is specifically brought to our attention, such as through wearing a special uniform as in some hospitals, we may not be aware that it is being done out of the goodness of people's hearts.
What we forget is that a monetary value could be put on what is done in many cases but because it is often just accepted, and is nothing new, people don't think of it. A group I belong to has many volunteers but doesn't normally put a monetary value on what we do. As it has now applied to be a registered charity I suggested we would attract more donations if we did include it in our brochure and would then be able to expand our work. For a reason like this I suspect many of us would be willing to count up our hours. For other voluntary work, such as babysitting, which is a frequent unpaid occupation for many older people, I suspect many would feel that this is too precious to be given a monitory value and to do so would devalue it.
The other side of the coin is that it means that the rest of the citizens never have a figure in terms of, in many cases, billions of dollars contributed to the economy by these people, including those they push out of the way in shopping centres.
If we added up in monetary terms the value of all the voluntary work done even in just one country I suspect we would change the attitude of its citizens to each other in a very positive way. We shouldn't need to push those who are more frail out of the way and people who do this would feel much better about themselves if they didn't.
Two recent events are giving me negative thoughts about our Universities in particular. The first is the closure of our manufacturing industries in quick succession and the apparent lack of an alternative solution to avoid an increase in the unemployment rate. The negative outcome of these events not only causes deep distress for the workers involved, particularly as many have worked for decades for these employers, but is also harmful to the health of the country. The dismissed workers have not only lost their jobs but also status in the community and the country as a whole is faced with declining taxation income and increasing benefit requests. Many people saw this coming, particularly with the higher wages of our workers, but apparently it wasn't at a high enough level for action to be taken early. There is one school of thought which points out that jobs frequently disappear from society and new ones take their place as society modernises. Whilst this is true this has a pace attached to it which is probably unlikely to be matched by the current pace of job loss.
Already some industries are calling out for an increase in qualified migrants as it seems we are short of staff in some fields. Many of us are left questioning why we can't train people for the jobs in which there are vacancies rather than depriving other countries, often poorer countries, of the qualified staff they need themselves.
These problems require a think-tank approach which I would have thought was a field in which our Universities would have excelled but apparently not. I recently read an article about the way the US tackled the problem of a diminishing manufacturing work force 20 years ago. Apparently they worked out that manufacturing was not the place for their workers in the future but rather problem solvers were the way to go. Surely our Universities, either alone or combined could find a viable solution for us at this point in time. Wasn't it possible for someone in a relevant position here to realise that manufacturing was not going to be a viable path in future and planned for an alternative?
The second input I had into the way Universities and other research institutions currently work and their role in society was the fact that I am having difficulty getting backing for my own research. The only cost envisaged at this stage is the cost of getting it approved. Apparently the paper work for this is now huge and expensive, even before research gets off the ground. I can't help feeling there is an Alice-in-Wonderland situation arising here. In the past I would like to think projects got off the ground based on merit now it seems to be based on how many people can be employed in fulfilling and examining the paperwork for projects. Such expensive bureaucracy results in actual, real life research ending up in unopened computer files while the country misses out on research which would have moved us forward and improved life for many. Is that what happened to research into an alternative to manufacturing?
Maybe Universities should be ranked, and awarded funding, based on the amount of human good they are contributing to, particularly when applied to research. I'm not sure what current benchmark Universities are applying to themselves but this may be one reason why very few of the Australian ones have a good world ranking.
This is a subject that occupies my mind quite a bit as my Ph D continues to drag on. Unfortunately I stumbled across a list of University rankings and found that the one I am studying at does not make the world top 500 on any of the main lists and is even ranked at the bottom of the Australian ones. This week the University has added two more people to their staff who are in no way academics. It used to be a requirement that to be appointed to a University at anything above tutor level you had to have a Ph D. A few years ago this University had less than half of its staff with this qualification, again well down even on an Australian list. Current policy seems intent on lowering even this figure.
Does this matter? I think it does. Our politicians run the country but they largely rely on others to provide the necessary background knowledge. We can easily dismiss the situation by saying that often people with higher qualifications don't seem very bright and/or the subject of their thesis didn't really contribute much to human knowledge ( I remember one thesis successfully submitted at one of the top 50 ranked Universities was based on whether two elderly ladies who lived together in Wales over a century ago were lesbians or not! This wasn't world shattering knowledge!). The point is that research at that depth in any subject produces a really well-trained mind which the world needs although if the subject of the research adds value to world knowledge this is even better. If politicians were obliged to undergo the sort of mental activity involved in higher learning then political debate would be minus a lot of the crap which currently permeates it.
A second problem is that this type of, and level of, learning can't be a one-off experience. I cringe when I hear politicians professing to support education, and recognise its benefits, as long as they are referring to other people! Many of them sprouting the need for universal access to education, which no-one would disagree with, haven't undertaken any formal education themselves for decades. Do they think that what they learned in that distant past will last forever? Given the enormous rate of change in the world knowledge bank we need to accept that learning has to be a lifelong experience. Listening to people whose own learning is well out of date spruiking about the need for education for other people makes me wince. We need to realise that the world is constantly changing and our knowledge of it regularly changes and unless we make at least an attempt to keep pace with it we look silly when we open our mouths and sprout rubbish.
In many, if not all, countries of the world ordinary people strive to improve their own education if possible. They are even more adamant that where possible they will fight for their children to have access to learning. In developed countries more and more people strive to go to University not just to get degrees but an increasing number are moving on to higher degrees. If a country is to benefit from this then the quality of the education involved needs to be acceptable. If universities in other countries are also lowering their standards it will be less of a problem in a highly competitive world. If not Australia is in big trouble.
Just before Christmas I received copies of the examiners' reports on my thesis. I am not able to know the names of the examiners until the whole degree process is over but I assume that all three were chosen for their expertise in ageing.
I find it difficult to accept that three people with what should be parallel backgrounds can have such different views. One gave positive ticks in all the boxes, one gave all negative ticks and the third is all over the place. This was particularly intriguing in terms of whether each examiner regarded my research as new knowledge or not. One said it was, the other two said it was not although the one who was all over the place seemed to think that if I did some more study it would be! Considering that I am supporting my arguments using the fairly recently accepted brain plasticity research, which to my knowledge no-one else in the field of later stage of life research has applied in this area, I find it difficult to accept that it is not new work. In addition, if it is not new work and other people are already following this line I would assume I would be aware of it through the very many conferences I attend, both in Australia and overseas.
I know that there is some unease about increasing the number of undergraduates exponentially as we seem to be doing, without lowering standards. This concern then extends to higher degrees, particularly with doctorates. At my first conference for researcher students in ageing five years ago I was concerned that so many students, many of them in the field of physiotherapy, were researching very trivial issues. In their case the incentive was that they could then call themselves 'Doctor' when setting up their physiotherapy clinics and people would assume that they were medical doctors.
This mass production of higher education needs to be monitored to make sure that 'easy' topics don't replace genuine research in much-needed areas. If we look at the world today we do not seem to be producing research in the right fields nor are we applying it as we should. Any newspaper any day is likely to portray at least parts of the world in a state of chaos, either nature produced or man-made, and we seem to have no solution for either. The collapse of the banking sector led some people to realise that our so-called democracies are actually controlled by dictatorship banks. Queensland, which has been suffering for years from drought is now inundated with water which has to be left to flow distructively away. Will this be replaced by another drought which again we don't know the cause of, nor can we prevent it.
Meanwhile I am left to grapple with an academic problem nearer home. If one examiner objects to part of my thesis and the other two don't is it a problem? How do I address such differing responses? The one who failed me makes comments that have already been refuted in the text, suggesting that he read it in a hurry. The one who ticked all the boxes is very keen for me to publish several parts of my research which I intend to do but not initially in the academic press which is what I think he has in mind. Ageing, and the effects of it, are an everyday problem for an increasing number of older people. This is where most research should be taking us, to practical use in the community. A few years ago a researcher in Sydney did research on solar panels but could get no financial support here. He found a very different story in China which seems to be well ahead of other economies in its use of natural energy and welcomed him with open arms.
Research should be largely based on the natural, and man-made, problems around us, recognised as such and assessed as such. Then we will have a better world, including for the homeless and starving. Then our scholarship and research will have its rightful place in society.
I have always felt that having my research sitting in a thesis on a dusty shelf was a bit of a waste and I have always been determined to publish it as a populist book. I have now even abandoned the thought of publishing articles in appropriate journals they usually have limited circulation and the audience is almost 100% younger people who wouldn't appreciate the relevance of it.
Currently my thesis is with three examiners, hopefully with intimate knowledge of older people, and not obtained from what other younger researchers have written. There are too many holes in this type of research, all theory and no practice.
Meanwhile I am having a fruitful time putting my research into a book which is aimed at older people themselves, and also pre-aging people. It is so different writing in a more personal style, in which there is no word limit and no longer does each word have to be formal and necessary. What makes it easier is that I am not writing about 'them' but about 'us' as an older person myself. By continuing my career until the age of 73 I know what is possible because I am doing it myself.
I am continuing to read the latest books about brain plasticity and how increasingly important this is to older people. The old 'use it or lose it' saying has now been amended to 'use it as much as possible'. With an anticipated 1.13 million Australians predicted to have Alzheimer's disease by 2050 a scary picture is presented. One author pointed out that we have got ourselves into an unacceptable predicament and we need to work towards extending brain health to that of life expectancy. I still feel that research into Alzheimer's disease focusses on finding a cure, not prevention. This is cynically tied in with the fact that the organisations doing the research are all medical people who can't look outside the square, nor does their careers support a non-medical prevention approach.
We are in the midst of an election in Australia. It really saddens me that neither party has announced a policy on our Aboriginal people, in spite of world condemnation of our treatment of them. Presumably the politicians don't feel that their votes are worth chasing.
Since the voice of older people is only heard through the young people employed by the major senior organisations, the situation as regards this section of the population is much easier, although the policies are often irrelevant as far as genuine older people are concerned.
I hope I can find an international publisher for my book as I think its relevance stretches beyond Australia.


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Trying out the new Databin product in the Wolfram Cloud.
I have a simple ,-delimited .csv file with a header row which I have imported using the follwing:
apps = SemanticImport["ListOfAppsWithAttributes.csv", Automatic, "Dataset", HeaderLines ->1]
Simple calls such as
apps[Total, "StorageDemand"] work just fine.
I would now like to export/write this dataset to the Databin.
theBin = CreateDatabin[]
However I get the following error:
Export:chtype: First argument Databin[...] is not a valid file specification.
Also, using
DatabinAdd[theBin, apps] will also throw an error:
Databin:apperr: An API must be specified.
Any suggestions on how to export/write a dataset to a databin in a short/direct way?
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This is to share the outcome of a follow-up investigation on the topic.
Dislaimer: Wolfram's DataDrop and with it the Databin command as part of the Wolfram Language are being pushed as extensions of Mathematica. Hence the posting in this forum.
the issues I have encountered where with
- the dataset's cleanliness
- the need to RTFM on setting adequate parameters for SemanticImport to begin with, and
- also some other (c) observations worth sharing around the 'behaviour' of the Databin interface.
The dataset:
- ~2900 rows with approx 100 columns.
- Originally managed in Excel, then exported to .csv Many cells had ',' in them which had to be cleaned up. Not doing so skewed the loads drastically and obviously produces the wrong outcome.
- Several cells had UTF-8 characters in it which created additional noise.
The code which worked in principle after fixing the file:
apps = SemanticImport["DataFilesFullset/Index_AllRows_AllColumns.csv", Automatic, "Dataset", Delimiters -> ",", HeaderLines ->1, CharacterEncoding -> "ASCII"];
theBin = CreateDatabin[]
For[i = 1, i< 2000, i++, DatabinAdd[theBin,apps[i]]]
The for loop was inserted to ensure that the size limit on Databin items (25kb by default) is not exceeded.
Additional points to note though on the loading of the Dataset subsequently into the Databin. The DataDrop platform enforces ingestion and compute ceilings which you may need to take note of when attempting to load 'lots' of data in relatively short time.
I hope this additional info is useful for future readers of this page. The question as such though should be closed.


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By Margaret Mary Policastro, Diane Mazeski, Noreen Wach (Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois), and Tom Magers (Broadmeadow Elementary School, Rantoul, Illinois)
From the Illinois Reading Council Journal, Fall 2019
Recently, at our Summer Reading Clinic open house, a parent asked if we "ever had success with a student who doesn't like to read?" As we were thinking of a response, her son, who is just going into 1st grade in the fall, was telling us how much he likes "bones and skulls." He took out an object from his pocket and showed us a small dinosaur skeleton that he had put together. Collectively, we responded with positive thoughts about how all of these interests would be an important factor for the first day of the clinic and moving forward with him as a reader. On opening day, we had an abundance of books awaiting him about skeletons, bones, dinosaurs, and skulls. We were eager to see how he would respond. Indeed, within minutes of surrounding him with these books, he was totally engaged, curious, and captivated by the informational texts with which he was encircled. The photo in Figure 1 captures the essence of what happens when you match books to students' interests. In this instance, the student going into 1st grade had access to books that had pictures, diagrams, and illustrations for him to comprehend. One pop-out book dis- played dinosaur skeletons. Since that first day, we noticed how his interest in these topics is both dense and deep—a knowledge base of information far greater than most of his peers.