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Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata: Sequencing Panel
Condition Description
Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP) is a group of peroxisomal disorders that affects many parts of the body. Characteristic features include disproportionate shortening of bones of the upper arms and thighs (rhizomelia), specific bone changes seen on X-ray (punctate calcifications in cartilage), congenital cataracts, growth deficiency, distinctive facial features, and severe intellectual disability and developmental delay. Additionally, most children with this condition have respiratory tract infections, seizures, and may not live past the first decade of life. Some individuals may present with less severe symptoms that constitute a milder form of RCDP.
There are three different types of Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata; type one is the most common. Types one, two, and three are caused by mutations in the PEX7, GNPAT (DHAPAT), and AGPS genes, respectively. RCDP is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern and is estimated to affect less than 1 in 100,000 people.
- GeneReviews: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1270/
- Genetics Home Reference: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/rhizomelic-chondrodysplasia-punctata
- OMIM (Type 1): http://www.omim.org/entry/215100
OMIM (Type 2): http://www.omim.org/entry/222765
OMIM (Type 3): http://www.omim.org/entry/600121
OMIM (PEX7): http://www.omim.org/entry/601757
Genes (3)
This test is indicated for:
- Confirmation of a clinical diagnosis of Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata.
Next Generation Sequencing: In-solution hybridization of all coding exons is performed on the patient's genomic DNA. Although some deep intronic regions may also be analyzed, this assay is not meant to interrogate most promoter regions, deep intronic regions, or other regulatory elements, and does not detect single or multi-exon deletions or duplications. Direct sequencing of the captured regions is performed using next generation sequencing. The patient's gene sequences are then compared to a standard reference sequence. Potentially causative variants and areas of low coverage are Sanger-sequenced. Sequence variations are classified as pathogenic, likely pathogenic, benign, likely benign, or variants of unknown significance. Variants of unknown significance may require further studies of the patient and/or family members.
Next Generation Sequencing: Clinical Sensitivity: Unknown. Pathogenic variants in the promoter region, some pathogenic variants in the introns and other regulatory element mutations cannot be detected by this analysis. Large deletions/duplications will not be detected by this analysis. Results of molecular analysis should be interpreted in the context of the patient's clinical/biochemical phenotype.
Analytical Sensitivity: ~99%.
Specimen Requirements
Related Tests
- Individual sequencing is available for PEX7, GNPAT, and AGPS.


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上篇讲到我要test Clip on Earring 的耐度,看会不会掉,以下是结果:-
佩戴时间:01/08 (11.30am) to 02/08 (6.30pm)
1. 掉了3次,两次是用毛巾擦脸后拉到,一次在外面放下bag时弄到。
2. 午觉,晚上睡觉到早上都没有掉.
3. 我的皮肤会敏感的,平时只能带金或银的耳环,戴这个没有敏感。
I've tested on the clip on earring that made yesterday morning and is the result:-
Wearing date and time: 01/08 (11.30am) to 02/08 (6.30am)
Vanue: home and restaurant for dinner
1. the earring has drop 3 times, 2 times drop while i wide my face with towel where another 1 while i'm putting down my bag in restaurant.
2. i've been wore it for a nap and sleep overnight, it remain on my ear.
3. No sentitive problem as normally i was sentitive to the material other than real gold or silver.
It's result was acceptable and satisfactory ^.^


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Published at Wednesday, May 01st, 2019 - 16:34:02 PM. Worksheet. By Laverne Dufour.
In many preschools, child care centers, and kindergartens, young children spend their time on worksheet paper and pencil tasks. Teachers who use worksheets believe they are demonstrating children's learning progress to parents. Unfortunately for Jamaica and the other children in her class, worksheet activities are not developmentally appropriate and can cause many problems. Worksheets typically have a "right answer." Jamaica is expected to circle the rhyming words or match the pictures of things that start with the letter "G." She may learn quickly that putting down a wrong answer is emotionally costly. Worksheet activities may make her feel ignorant and incompetent, so that she learns to stop taking risks by guessing.
Developmentally Appropriate Activities, There are many active, and far more interesting, ways for children to begin understanding words and numbers than via worksheets (Mason, 1986). A classroom with a developmentally appropriate curriculum is a print-rich environment. The walls are covered with signs naming objects, stories children have dictated, lists of words they have generated, pictures they have painted and labeled, and charts of classroom jobs (such as feeding the pet and passing out napkins for snack). At the small motor activities table there may be sandpaper letters to feel and puzzles to complete. Creative activities may include squirting shaving cream onto the table and having children make designs and write their names. And always there are many books to explore, examine, wonder about, listen to, and love as they are read aloud. In these ways, children learn that reading and writing are useful skills, not simply tedious activities adults invent to make school boring. It takes a lot of experience with words and print for children to understand why it is good to be able to read.
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The house was built on the edge of a cliff on the only flat part of the site which measures approximately 4.5 m by 16 m.. Because on the site the house was placed within a cluster of trees, the design was made with care about the nature, leaving the trees untouched and even incorporating their presence into the house structure by letting them grow through the over-sized roof height.
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"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." – Emilie Buchwald, author
There is a wealth of literature about how important it is to read out loud with children from an early age – even before birth. In fact, research has shown that growing up in an environment where reading is valued, has a more positive effect on a child's achievement than their education or their economic status [1].
With this in mind and in order to raise awareness of the importance of sharing books with babies and young children, our Communication and Language Team are currently holding 'Book Sharing Weeks' within seven local Early Years settings in the ABS areas. Each setting are opening their doors to all parents and carers for a whole week, encouraging them to come in at any time of their choosing, to share a book with their child. It has been a popular event so far, with some parents so keen to share books with their children that they have been back to the pre-schools or day nurseries, several times over the week!
During these special weeks, some settings have also been lucky enough to have received a visit from the mobile library and as a result of its popularity, further regular visits have now been scheduled to take place between the mobile library and the settings.
Little Stars Day Nursery, Shoeburyness ran a really successful Book Sharing Week at the end of May and also received a visit from the mobile library. Sue Arrowsmith, their manager said, "It was a great success, all the children had a lovely time reading their favourite books in specially created cosy areas. We had many parents attend, some attended more than once and one dad actually read to a whole group of children!"
Andrew Bazely, Southend-on-Sea's Mobile Library Manager says, "It's always enjoyable to welcome young readers on to the mobile library, I think for some of the children it can be a novelty to hop onto the book bus to choose their books and hopefully it's a good introduction to the enjoyment of a good book, either reading it yourself, or even better with mum or dad!"
[1] How to Enjoy Reading Aloud to young children, Pegg and Shakespeare, Southgate Publishers (2008)
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Glint Of Gold
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Glint Of Gold
by Gawen Robinson
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Ideal Cast Size 53
Speaking Roles 15
Minimum Possible Cast Size 24
Duration (minutes)45
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Easy to stage with simple scenery - very adaptable
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Age range: Key Stage 2 Production (7-11 years)
Duration: 45 minutes
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My super awesome friend Charlie (who also has a blog you should totally check out), made a comment yesterday that made me think about how what we read might affect what we write. I think, in general, readers and writers are versatile. They like all different kinds of genres and authors and stories. But, it seems like we tend to really love certain authors or books or styles. I've gone through phases.
In elmentary school I was in love with The Boxcar Children series. I loved mysteries and kids who played outside.
During middle school I read mostly boy survival books like The Hatchet. Or really anything written by Gary Paulsen or Will Hobbs. I also seriously adored Harry Potter.
In high school I became uber churchy and read a lot of LDS fiction (which I would barf if I read now becuase holy bad writing, batman!) by people like Jack Weyland and whatever the local library had . I also read a lot of classics during high school (assigned and otherwise) which may have balanced out the quality my literary experience in my teen years. That was when I learned to love (oddly enough) Ray Bradbury. I enjoyed Jane Austen mostly because it seemed a lot like LDS fiction--there are a lot of parallels between Mormon cutlure and the Regency Period as described by Austen.
Also somewhere in high school I discovered Joan Bauer who writes the kind of books that even now I'd love to write. The only word I can think of to describe her books is: simple. And that doesn't even really do it, because it's not really like they're simple. But they sort of have the feel of A Long Way From Chicago (another good book). I was so in love with Joan Bauer's books that I wrote her an email asking her how she became a writer and how does she do it. She even wrote me an email back! I have to admit that was probably one of the most encouraging things that happened in my career as a writer.
Even as I got more into reading "The Classics" during college, I still never could get away from young adult. Actually, I probably read more of them in college than any other time. I actually met the authors of the books I've become copycat to lately while taking classes at BYU. Carol Lynch Williams and Ann Dee Ellis.
What can I say? I love their books and their writing styles. Personally, I think that my current WIP has a little bit of both these writers in them. So, does that make me a copycat?
I don't think so. And here are a few reasons why:
1. I started writing bits of my story before I'd ever read a book by Ann Dee Ellis. I took some secitons to a writing group and they said, "hey! This is a lot like this book which I happen to be carrying in my backpack and you should borrow it and read it." That book was Everything is Fine. The next semester I took a creative writing class from Ann Dee herself, and we became friends. But I had my style before I knew about her--so how is that copycat?
2. Part of why I feel like I'm a "copycat" to these ladies is because they both write books with heavy issues like physical abuse, death, sexual abuse, etc. Those stories for some reason or none speak to me, and for some reason or none I happen to come up with those same kinds of stories and characters--so I write them.
3. I took classes from both authors, so I learned a lot of their techniques and their preferences. I limit myself on adverbs and adjectives--that just makes for clean, simple, and good writing; it doesn't mean I'm a copycat, it just means that I can apply the good things that I learn.
4. Every author has their own unique style, voice, rythm, and sentence construction. If you asked fifteen people to tell the exact same story, you would get fifteen different stories. This is why we have several movies about spiderman or batman. Also, this is why we have genres. If the second person to write a story with aliens and space ships never wrote their story out of fear of being a copycat, then we probably wouldn't have Star Wars or Star Trek or a number of scifi stories. I like to think that my story would fit into a genre and maybe a sub-category with stories like Glimpse, This is What I Did, Speak, and even Perfect.
So, am I a copycat? Maybe. Or maybe I'm just an original writer who happens to draw upon my experiencew which may or may not be shared with others already...
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A lot has been written in the last two weeks about how the Obama campaign pulled off a strong re-election against some incredible odds (and odd people, too). There's been a lot of talk about messaging and getting donors lined up, getting the right surrogates out there, having good oppo research, and having an instant counter-strike force ready to take on whatever the Republicans threw out there… or gaffed up on the field.
All of that was important, but it really didn't matter until the actual votes were cast, and that meant getting every voter that had the slightest inclination to vote for Barack Obama out to the polls, either early voting or on the actual day. And that took dedication, organization, and just plain hard work. Not everyone can do all of that, even those who want to. For some, it's the time that it takes, for others it's the cost that cannot be absorbed. So they found other ways that they could help win the election.
For instance, my parents. They have been involved in a lot of campaigns in Northwest Ohio for many years, and you might recall that in 2004, my mom was a delegate to the Democratic convention in Boston. In 2008 they opened their house to visiting campaign workers and volunteers, and this year they did it again. Yesterday they shared their story with TPM.
I just read the great piece by the man from Idaho who went to Cleveland to canvass for Obama's re-election. My husband and I were similarly blown away by the dedication to Democracy we saw in the volunteers we hosted. At our house (my husband and I are in our 80's by the way) we have taken in workers like this man who arrive from all over the country.
We have given them beds and use of our laundry machines plus the occasional early morning glass of orange juice and a cup of coffee. Other volunteers provided home cooked meals at the downtown Toledo headquarters. We had as many as six sleeping in our guest rooms and in the hall between during the '08 election run-up. One young man was part of the legal team that advised the campaign staff and came from David Boies' law firm in New York. He shared his personal life stories with us and we kept in touch for more than a year after he went to work in DC.This year we had at one time four women sharing our two guest rooms. One told her astonished husband she absolutely had to go to Ohio – this being the Thursday before the last weekend – and she lived in Seattle. She caught a plane to Detroit the next day, rented a car and arrived unannounced at headquarters. They placed her with us during which time she walked the streets to canvass in downtown Toledo, rising early and working deep into the evening, grabbing a bite at headquarters and collapsing in our bedroom after 10:00. Another woman came from the Jersey shore and once she found her house was OK put her shoulder to the wheel as well in Toledo doing anything that was needed including the demanding work walking the neighborhoods to get out the vote. Our guest who stayed the longest had taken unpaid leave from Congresswoman Maxine Waters' office in DC four weeks before the election to work where she knew the need was most critical, Ohio. She was exhausted by the time the votes were all in. She had risen at dawn every morning, canvassed all day – eventually working as one of the team leaders placing volunteers where they were most needed – and she didn't return until after 11:00 at night. The Tuesday of the voting she finally got to bed around 2:30 Wednesday. When she left two days later we hugged and exchanged addresses. I'll never forget her or the stories these great women shared with us, some of them hilarious, some frustrating but a lifetime of memories for them and for the two of us.
Obama's machine stayed dormant after the '08 election and then retooled and expanded to the vast organization you saw that blew away the competition. I see this happening again in Ohio. The name is a bit different now; it's Organization For Ohio today, but it will be in place when needed for the off-term elections and beyond. The e-mails are already beginning. They know me and they'll call on me again.
Needless to say, I am very proud of my parents.


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Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/08/2014 -- In 2014, it appears that America has finally stopped holding its collective breath, waiting for another economic shoe to drop. After five years of slow but steady growth, Americans have passed the tipping point of prolonged economic worry and have cautiously accepted that things are better. Confidence in personal finances has allowed consumers to think about the future rather than linger over the past.
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"While we live we are responsible to the Lord" (Rm 14:8). Jesus is "Lord of both the dead and the living" (Rm 14:9). To be saved, we must recognize "the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Pt 2:20), "believe in the Lord Jesus" (Acts 16:31), and confess with our "lips that Jesus is Lord" (Rm 10:9).
However, we can deceive ourselves about being under the lordship of Jesus. Jesus said: "None of those who cry out, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of God but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven" (see Mt 7:21). For example, if we judge others' character, we are acting as if we are the Lord rather than being under the Lord (Rm 14:10). Moreover, if we belong to the Lord, we have the heart of the Lord for the lost. Jesus ate with and died for tax collectors and sinners to lead them to salvation (see Lk 15:1ff). If we don't seek out the lost sheep, have we accepted the Shepherd of the sheep as our Lord? (see Lk 15:3ff)
Ask the Holy Spirit to overcome the spirit of deception and show you whether you have accepted Jesus as Lord on His terms, for "no one can say: 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor 12:3).


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Let's just get this out of the way, shall we? Mad Max: Fury Road is full on, straight-up, high-octane crazy, but it may be one of the best examples of cinematic insanity captured on celluloid since Stanley Kubrick died.
Pretty amazing for a reboot, which, in many ways, had absolutely no business making it to the cineplex in the first place.
Reboots of cinematic franchises are becoming a familiar element of 21st century moviemaking; James Bond, Batman, Spider-Man (twice!), and now Mad Max.
This time though, it's the original creator, George Miller, who is overseeing the re-birth of one of the all-time great action movies. 70 year old former physician, George Miller, who made the first Mad Max movie almost forty years ago and pretty much invented the 'Oz-ploitation' genre, has spent the last three decades making family films like Happy Feet and Babe: Pig in the City (a great film, by the way). Oh, and not succeeding in getting a Justice League movie made about 8 years back, which now feels more tragic than ever.
How a person matching that description could get $150 million dollars to revisit the post-peak-oil wasteland of Australia, And with so little studio interference that he can make his own leading man the sidekick to Charlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa, then take the whole she-bang to Namibia to scratch his David Lean itch is absolutely astonishing.
The fact that he has crafted a tightly knit and gripping, though minimalist, narrative to tie the whole works together is nothing short of miraculous.
Fury Road has been out for a couple of weeks now, so you have probably already heard how Tom Hardy, as the titular Max, probably has less to say than Kurt Russell's Soldier in that film, and how he gets captured and waylaid for the majority of the first act. You may have heard Furiosa is the real main character, enabling the film to take a surprisingly feminist stance at some points. Worst of all, you may have heard that his iconic ride, the last of the V-8 Interceptors, gets taken out of action very early on in the story.
This is all true.
But it doesn't make the movie any less awesome, and here is why:
You may have noticed that the Mad Max trilogy has been gradually amping up the intensity and societal craziness as the films progressed. In Mad Max, there is very little separating Max's world from our own, but in The Road Warrior, with a bit more gestation time, some experience and a bigger budget, you know right from the jump that things have gone off the rails. Seeing Max's battered car evade crossbow-wielding biker savages in order to sop up some leaking 'guzzoline' with a dirty bandana, you are given a very clear picture of how things have deteriorated, and without any dialogue for the first ten minutes or so.
By the time we get Beyond Thunderdome, with MasterBlaster running Bartertown and Tina Turner's Auntie Entity demonstrating her authority with a one-hundred pound chainmail dress, it finally sinks in that civilization and society have irrevocably changed.
Miller has had his ideas about Mad Max's madder world percolating for three decades now, and the place is crazier than ever now. The outlaw gangs are no longer on the outskirts of society, they are society, and their leader, Immortan Joe, is worshipped as a god on Earth, or at least a prophet of old. He has used his control of water to exert total domination of the populace via the speed cult of chrome-coveting 'half-lifers' that wish for nothing more than to die in his service so they can be reborn and live again in his twisted take on Valhalla.
Using slaves like Max as 'blood bags' to help stave off what is either radiation poisoning or just the high cost of red-line living, these half lifers take him in pursuit of a rogue Imperator driving one of the Immortan's War Rigs. Once Max has the chance to break free, Furiosa and her precious cargo becomes his best shot out of the desert, with his vampiric nemesis Nux (an almost up recognizable Nicholas Hoult) in close pursuit.
As mentioned, there are those who feel Max's role is incidental, and unbecoming of a hero in his own film, but I have bad news for these individuals, as they are madder than Max:
Max has never been the hero.
He is the focal point and the protagonist, sure, but does very little in terms of selfless bravery. In the first film, Max starts out as a normal fellow who loses his bottle when the lawless ones destroy his family (the madness being played up very effectively via flashbacks and intrusive visions in Fury Road); he is as much a victim as a hero, and his vengeful actions make him an anti-hero at best.
Likewise, it can be argued that Max is not the hero of The Road Warrior, merely the viewpoint of a crazed survivalist bystander who encounters a community trying to save themselves. They do something heroic by breaking out of a besieged refinery with a tanker of precious fuel, with Max essentially along for the ride with only a fatalist's choice in the matter. Even in Thunderdome, the mantle of hero comes uneasily to Max, he is mostly a man willing to do what it takes to survive, but with some lines he is still unable to cross, despite his loss.
This film starts out much the same, rebooting the series at point well after Max has lost his family, and for most of Fury Road, Tom Hardy's take on Max is a crazed, rock-hard and soul-deadened shell of a man unwilling to let the plight of others distract him from his ultimate goal: freedom or death, but on his terms. No explanation is given, no single transformative moment builds the trust both sides need in order to transcend their horrible and hopeless situation, but progress is made, regardless.
Fury Road is a visceral, visual feast of the action canon, and is well worth seeing in the cinema. The landscape shots of the Namibian desert standing in for the outback are breathtaking, punctuated at times with colourful signal plumes, and at others with astonishing cloud formations. Personally, I think D.P. John Seale gives guys like Roger Deakins a run for their money in several places in this film, and would love to see the Academy give a cinematography nomination to it.
The stunts are absolutely top-notch, making me fear that Namibia perhaps has the same lackadaisical attitude towards stunt performer safety as, say, the Thailand of Tony Jaa. When your film is essentially a 90 minute chase scene interrupted only by the barest requirements of plot and exposition, your chase had better be awesome, and Fury Road delivers the goods. Outrageously re-worked vehicles that make Lord Humungus' armada look like Shriners on parade, and jumps and crashes that make those from The Road Warrior look like they were filmed on a 1:72 scale slot car track, and almost all of it real. A minimum of CGI was used, primarily to enhance the landscape or remove safety harnesses and wires.
Best of all for me, though, is the production and art design. Miller takes care to bring beauty and detail to his harsh environments and encampments, because that is what humans do: we try to pretty the ugly things up, no matter what our circumstances are. From the audacious vehicle designs to the motorhead's temple, thought and care and purpose has gone into everything you see on screen. And yes, that even applies to the fellow riding the truck full of amplifiers who is playing a flame-throwing guitar as he whips Immortan Joe's acolytes into a frenzy. Fury Road takes place in a world as alien and off-putting as anything ever seen off-world in science fiction, and is all the more disturbing because of its familiarity.
If you are looking for a complicated or nuanced story with deep character development and crisp dialogue, you will need to look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you are comfortable with a gorgeous (but minimalist), imaginative and highly kinetic vision of a nightmare future that gives Warhammer 40,000 a run for its money, then go check out Fury Road. Theron balances out her toughness with a surprising vulnerability, and Hardy's intensity about the eyes make him a real treat to watch on screen, even when he has very little to say.
Me? I'm counting down the days until I can get my hands on the BluRay, and then I will begin waiting in earnest for the next instalment of Mad Max; Tom Hardy has been signed on for three more films. I only hope they are as chrome as this one; Fury Road is a movie that goes to 11.


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DAVOS, Switzerland — French President Emmanuel Macron laid claim to the mantle of leader of the free world on Wednesday, with an ambitious speech before a packed assembly at the World Economic Forum.
He sought to place France at the center of a mission to revamp global capitalism while spreading its spoils more equitably, forging a mode of commerce centered on innovation, yet bearing protections for workers set back by change.
Mr. Macron's hourlong speech before the annual gathering of the world's wealthy and powerful in the Swiss Alps came on the same day that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni issued their own forceful speeches toward advancing European integration, while defending the notion of international cooperation.
Collectively, they signaled that Europe — only a year ago dismissed as a crippled economic realm fraught with political recrimination — has regained force. Europe's leaders left no doubt that they aim to channel their newfound economic strength toward advancing the project of European integration first launched in the middle of the last century, seen as an antidote to the brutalities of two world wars.
President Trump was not in the room (he is not due to speak here until Friday). But the shadow of his America First policies hung heavily. The three speeches resonated as a broad rebuttal of the doctrine that Mr. Trump has made his own.
In contrast to Mr. Trump's pullback from international trade agreements and his renouncing of the Paris climate accord, the European leaders emphasized their commitment to prosperity through global commerce.
In place of Mr. Trump's unilateralism, the three European leaders pledged to strengthen the bonds of the European Union and the 19 nations that use the euro currency.
They underscored their commitment to multilateral approaches as the salve to trouble, including widening economic inequality, terrorism and the ravages of climate change.
"If we want to avoid this fragmentation of the world, we need a stronger Europe, it's absolutely key," Mr. Macron declared. "France is back. France is back at the core of Europe, because we will never have any French success without a European success."
A year ago in Davos, the role of world-leading defender of globalization fell to Chinese President Xi Jinping. His address followed Britain's shocking decision to leave the European Union, and only days before Mr. Trump's inauguration.
To an audience fearful that the global, rules-based trading system was unraveling, Mr. Xi's commitment to internationalism drew a mixture of relief and acclaim. But China was at best a compromised claimant to that role, given its preferential credit for state-owned companies, its theft of intellectual property and its jailing of dissidents and journalists.
Mr. Macron put forth his own credentials as a leader singularly able to help guide Europe and the global economy.
"Our vision, our DNA in terms of the relationship between freedom and the furtherance of individual rights, is unique," Mr. Macron said.
He described a sense of responsibility to translate French values into a form of capitalism that can deliver growth along with increased opportunities for middle-class and working people.
"It's a transformational moment for Europe," said Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. "There is clearly determination to deepen European governance. These leaders do believe in the rule of law. They do believe in globalization."
Among the many casualties of Europe's decade-long economic crisis was a sense of collective purpose among the region's leaders. The downturn was exacerbated by the unique defects of the euro — a shared currency that operates without a joint budget or political agreement among member states.
Mr. Macron has devoted his first months in office to arguing for the creation of a shared eurozone finance minister along with eurozone-wide budgets, enabling better coordination of economic policies when crisis returns.
Ms. Merkel has expressed cautious support while assiduously avoiding blessing anything that smacks of transferring German wealth to the less prosperous countries of the Mediterranean — a radioactive proposition among German voters.
The German chancellor has in recent weeks grappled with complex negotiations toward forming a coalition government composed of her Christian Democratic Union and the more left-leaning Social Democratic Party after inconclusive elections last fall.
Many analysts have assumed that political fragility in Germany would complicate Mr. Macron's efforts to win German support for his integration proposals. But the coalition taking shape would bring a more pro-European orientation, many analysts say.
"I came here thinking about the fractured world, and one day later I feel I'm in a converged world," said Charles-Edouard Bouée, chief executive of Roland Berger, a global consultancy with offices in Shanghai and Munich.
In her speech here on Wednesday, Ms. Merkel reaffirmed her commitment to completing a so-called banking union, a system that shares the risks of financial breakdown across national borders.
She cast the drive to better integrate Europe as a historical responsibility of grave import, noting that the concept of the European Union dates back to the effort to limit future bloodshed in Europe by building economic ties.
"We have to ask ourselves, when we have fewer and fewer people who remember these events of history, have we learned the lessons of history?" Ms. Merkel asked.
"Many people seem to worry, will multilateralism find an answer to the problems that mankind has in a fair and equitable way?" Ms. Merkel said, seemingly referring to Mr. Trump. "We think that shutting ourselves off against the world, isolating ourselves, will not lead to a good future. Protectionism is not the right answer."
For years, Italy has been the face of Europe's most deep-seated problems: its banks stuffed with terrible loans, its communities full of young people who have moved in with their parents for lack of jobs.
But even Italy is now sharing in Europe's economic expansion, though joblessness remains rampant. The country's prime minister used the stage here to argue that now is the moment to attack economic inequality. Either that, or the forces of populism will triumph, he warned — a clear worry about Italy's approaching national elections, and the ascendant Five Star party, which has been hostile to the euro.
"We must not give in to the idea of a world destined to be split between a cosmopolitan digital elite and an army of precarious and underpaid local workers," Mr. Gentiloni said. "This worry, and these frustrations, are our main concern."
These sorts of mission statements are increasingly dominating the political conversation in Europe — nowhere more than in France, where Mr. Macron, a former investment banker, has pledged to make his country more appealing to business while strengthening unemployment benefits and training for castoff workers.
The centerpiece of Mr. Macron's efforts are the labor reforms he introduced last summer, making it easier for employers to terminate workers. In his speech here, he cast that not as a means of relinquishing labor to the unsentimental winds of capitalism, but rather giving start-up companies relief from the strictures of national labor contracts negotiated by unions.
Employers have in recent weeks used their newly acquired authority to fire to do just that, while the supposed Nordic-style worker protections Mr. Macron has promised have yet to materialize.
Mr. Macron promised to fill the void, vowing to spend 15 billion euros — about $18.6 billion — over the next five years on education and retraining.
"If I cannot explain to people that globalization is good for them, and that it will help them develop their own lives, then they will be the nationalists, the extremists who want to get out of the system," he said. "And they will win in every country."


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Still, reading the comments, I think I was largely correct: it's better for the site if we encourage people to do a little research before posting. Maybe even just the "two minutes of searching" that I refer to in the answer.
I was considering deleting the answer, but decided to bring the old debate back to Meta, instead.
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The press release is pretty hilarious, detailing some of the new content...
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BJ B'Yahad: Passion in Action
After a year of community-wide brainstorming, the development of a Task Force, and a coordinated publicity effort to encourage participation, BJ B'Yahad morphed into a reality this fall as more than 60 members signed on to participate.
The structured program was designed to afford members the opportunity to meet and socialize with others in small groups and to renew their involvement by being exposed to the numerous classes and volunteer opportunities that the congregation offers.
Two Kvutzot (groups) were formed to ensure intimacy in the experience of three evenings (including a Shabbat dinner). The plan was enhanced with the commitment by the Rabbis, Board members, committee chairs, and lay leaders to participate in the events.
The first sessions were each attended by more than 25 members. Everybody welcomed these gatherings as a new opportunity to personally revitalize their connection to BJ. After the catered buffet dinner and time to socialize, the group met as a whole for introductions and then broke into smaller groups to promote personal interaction and explore how members would like to deepen their connection to the community.
In the first session, we learned that many members did not read Hebrew and were frustrated by the lack of available transliterated prayer books in the synagogue, prompting the task force to not only relay this to the administration, but to ensure that transliterated songs would be available at the upcoming Shabbat dinners. In the second session, many members indicated a desire to be part of a havurah that would meet regularly and allow for deeper, sustained connections with other members.
The most striking feature of these sessions was that, despite the diversity of ages, backgrounds, and life experiences, all these members shared a heartfelt passion for the BJ experience: the prayer service, the music, the inclusiveness, and the social action initiatives.
The Shabbat dinners that followed were warm, intimate gatherings of 10 to 12 members, graciously hosted by lay and Board member volunteers. They were filled with delicious homemade food, singing, and discussion of Shabbat customs and of the weekly parashah.
The third session included a wine tasting and presentations by committee chairs of volunteer opportunities. This is BJ at its best—a passionate effort to strengthen the cohesiveness of our community and its social action initiatives by reaching out and encouraging those who feel disconnected, or uninvolved, to reconnect and become revitalized in the process.
On behalf of myself and my co-chair, Emily Weiss, I would like to thank Assistant Executive Director Belinda Lasky, the Task Force members, Board members, Shabbat hosts, and wine-tasting hosts for their time, effort, and generosity.


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There is no doubt that today people everywhere are becoming more and more herb minded. They now realize the benefits of using nature's ingredients for a host of beneficial products, from cleaning the house to cleaning themselves. And what better way to use them than to include herbs in your own custom-made soaps.
A good herbal soap exerts its effects on the outer layer of the skin, the so-called horny or epithelial layer, making it smooth and soft. You can make your special soaps by saving leftover soap scraps and using them, or using a grated, pure toilet soap.
Chamomile soap is both soothing and healing, and is suitable for all skin types, including disturbed skin. It is ideal for men whose facial skin suffers trauma from the daily routine of shaving.
Place 5 tablespoons of dried chamomile in a ceramic bowl and add 300ml of boiling water. Cover, infuse for 12 hours, strain through muslin, squeezing all liquid from the herbs, and add to recipe.
Melt 350g of grated soap in an enamel pan over a low heat with just enough of the chamomile infusion to form a soft paste (use a potato masher to help dissolve the soap). Add the remaining infusion and stir continuously until thoroughly blended. Remove from heat and pour into suitable moulds. Allow to harden, remove from moulds, and your soap is ready to use.
Moulds for the soap mixture can be small, shallow cardboard boxes, patty pans, circles, triangles, chocolate moulds, etc — anything you can think of. And you can increase the quantity of the recipe, proportionately, to make more soap.
Honey Soap: This is a very gentle soap that is particularly helpful for dry or sensitive skins.
Prepare an elder flower infusion in the same way as the chamomile, reducing the amount of dried herb to 2 teaspoons to 300ml of boiling water. Put 900g of grated soap in the top of a double boiler with barely enough of hot elder flower infusion to cover.
Melt over boiling water, stir thoroughly and add 110g each of almond oil and unprocessed honey.
Mix well by continuing to stir for about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and pour into moulds and allow to cool.
When it has hardened it is ready for immediate use.
Whether you inhale them, add them to your bath, dab them on the skin, or include them in a massage oil, the beneficial properties of pure essential aromatic oils can make you feel terrific. The rich fragrant perfumes of essential oils calm, soothe, heal, fight infection, revitalise, relax and stimulate the body.
The oils are very concentrated and so only a small amount, a few drops, is necessary. Try the following tips whenever a particular problem is bothering you:
- To relieve headaches, put a couple of drops of lavender oil on your fingers and massage your temples. Rubbed into the wrists or on to the nape of the neck it has a calming effect, and if a blemish is coming up, dab on one drop of lavender oil to help it disappear.
- Revitalise yourself after a busy day, when you still have to go out at night, by adding a few drops of bergamot and ylang-ylang oil to a warmish bath and soak in it for 10 minutes. Unwind with a mixture of lavender and rosewood in your bath.
- Help to revitalize your body and restore health after illness by adding tangerine oil to your bath or take it as an inhalation. Also good for a soothing back massage for anxiety or for expectant mothers.
- For relief of muscular pains, massage 6 drops of eucalyptus oil and 6 drops of lavender oil, mixed together, into the afflicted area. And a few drops of eucalyptus or peppermint oil on your handkerchief will case laboured breathing when inhaled.
- Ease indigestion by adding one drop of peppermint oil to a glass of warm water with a little honey added and sip. It acts extremely quickly. This also works well to counteract nausea during pregnancy.
- Use lavender oil as a cleanser for your face. Mix one drop of oil to 100ml of distilled water and apply with a cotton ball. For oily or spotty skin, use tea-tree oil.
- To clear blemished skin, mix two drops each of lavender and chamomile in the palm of your hands, then massage into facial skin each evening after thoroughly cleansing. Leave on overnight.
If your daily schedule doesn't always allow for a relaxing bath, you can still enjoy the benefits of fragrant oils in an aromatic shower. Mix 30 drops of essential oil with 40ml almond oil and rub this over your entire body, diluted 50-50 with water. Plug the shower drain and sprinkle in some of the same aromatics as the water collects.


text: As America is apparently bored with putting shallow people in an alcohol-filled fishbowl and forcing them to fornicate, the next generation of reality television seems to be taking many of its cues from Stephen King's The Running Man (which may not end well—did you read it?). First Michael Bay announced plans for One Way Out, his "no rules" game in which contestants compete to see who can file a reckless endangerment suit against Bay the fastest; now Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are developing their own action-adventure reality show for TNT, The Great Escape. As you would expect from the wham-bam team behind Parenthood, the show has everyday people dealing with dramatic situations while trying to balance work, family, and their own need for love and sexual fulfillment. Or rather, it's mostly everyday people dealing with dramatic situations—specifically, being "dropped off blindfolded in a different extreme environment—lost in the desert, trapped in the mountains, locked in a prison, marooned on an island"—all of which draw inspiration from similar settings in the movies. Teams must then work together to fight their way out of their predicament and collect the cash prize. (Then they tear each other apart with chainsaws, right? When do we get to that?)


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It is very unlikely that your computer monitor is faulty. From our experiences, only about 1 out of every 20 cases is related to a faulty computer monitor. But, let's say that the monitor has an issue and displays a one color picture. This problem is most likely because of a faulty VGA cable, or the fact that a cable is improperly connected. The VGA cable has many connectors and if it is not plugged in properly, one or several of the pins could bend.
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A dim screen is almost always related to the inverter located in the LCD panels. At times, a dim screen indicates that the CCFL bulbs are failing. The one symptom that indicates there is a bulb problem is when the displaying image on the screen is a reddish hued color. The screen will also light up and then go dim after a few seconds, which indicates a failing CCFL. The main reason why CCFL bulbs fail is because they are aging faster compared to the other computer components. The indication of an aging CCFL is a reddish picture right after a power on. The picture may or may not return to the normal color.
CCFL stands for Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp.
Today, all monitors have an LED backlight. The
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The screen may also show a strange,
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Sometimes, your PC will not start because of problem with the graphics card. This is easily identified using the Systematic Fault Isolation.
The reality is that a monitor failing is very rare. More often, laptops will be damaged or have faulty screens. The LCD not working because of manufacturing defects is very rare.
Computer users can be confused when monitors display cut images towards the edges or show distorted images. This occurs because the resolution set in the computer is not the one that the monitor supports. The best remedy is to set the display setting to the maximum display supported resolution. The monitors display resolution can be found on the internet using the model number. The resolution stated will be the maximum resolution that the monitor can display without distortion.
Sometimes, a monitor will show a warning message when the resolution is set to a level that the monitor cannot display properly.
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