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"In one sense we know much less about Earth than we do about Mars. The vast majority of life forms on our planet are still undiscovered, and their significance for our own species remains unknown. This gap in our knowledge is a serious matter: we will never completely understand and preserve the living world around us at our present level of ignorance.
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Clinical Trials
Prevention of Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV)-Reactivation in HIV-positive Individuals Enrolled in a Prospective Immunogenicity and Safety Trial of VZV Vaccine: PROVE-IT-Study
University of Zurich
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
University of Zurich
First received: August 13, 2010
Last updated: February 28, 2013
Last Verified: February 2013
History of Changes
The goal is to demonstrate the immunogenicity and safety of Zostavax® in HIV positive individuals. Study participants are stratified into different patient groups according to their CD4 cell count, viral load and HIV Status.
- Trial with medicinal product
Herpes Zoster
Biological : Zostavax
Phase 1
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
Further study details as provided by University of Zurich:
Primary Outcome Measures
[ Time Frame: half a year ]
Geometric mean titer of Varicella zoster virus-specific IgG, VZV-specific T- cells per 106 peripheral mononuclear cells, Frequency of VZV-specific T- cells of total T-cells, CD4+ T-cells in different HIV-positive persons.
[ Time Frame: half a year ]
Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability"
|Study Start Date:
|December 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|June 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion criteria: All individuals
- Age >18 years
- Male, or female with negative urine pregnancy test
- VZV-seropositive (serologically documented)
- Agree to use a barrier method of birth control (such as a condom)
- Written informed consent HIV positive individuals on ART (group A1-A3)
- Continuous ART for >3 months before baseline
- No change of ART regimen within 1 month before baseline
- HIV-RNA (value must be <3 months old )<50 copies/ml at last visit
- CD4-count (value must be <3 months old) > 500 cells/µl for group A1, 350-500 cells/µl for group A2 and 250 -349 cells/µl for group A3
- Participation in the SHCS HIV-positive individuals without ART (group B)
- HIV-1 RNA >1000 copies/ml (<3 months before baseline)
- CD4-cell count >500 cells/µl (<3 months before baseline)
- Participation in the SHCS Healthy HIV-negative volunteers (group C)
- Negative HIV-screening test (<3 months before baseline)
- CD4 cell count >500 cells/µl
Exclusion Criteria:
- Common exclusion criteria
- Contraindications on ethical grounds
- Involvement in a conflicting (vaccine or investigational drug) clinical trial (except from the participation in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study).
- Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, psychological disorders or dementia of the subject.
- Pregnancy or breast feeding.
- Other clinically relevant concomitant disease states (e.g., renal failure, hepatic dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, etc),
- Known or suspected non-compliance, drug- or alcohol abuse.
- Fever > 38.3 °C or acute illness during the last 4 weeks
- Exposure to chickenpox or shingles within four weeks prior to study entry
- History of shingles
- Immunosuppression due to disease (other than HIV) or due to medication within 30 days of study entry (eg corticosteroids)
- Household contact with known immunodeficiency (e.g. HIV-positive with CD4 <250 cells/µl)
- Immunoglobulin or blood product treatment within 1 year prior or 2 month after study vaccination
- Previous allergic reaction to vaccine components (i.e. neomycin or gelatin)
- Vaccination with a life attenuated vaccine one month prior to study entry
- History of chickenpox vaccination
- Treatment with anti-herpes drugs 4 weeks before baseline
- Severe coagulation disorder or oral anticoagulant treatment
- Laboratory exclusion criteria.
- Thrombocytopenia < 50x 103/?l
- Haemoglobin <12 g/dl
- More than threefold elevation of ALT
- Creatinine of more than150 µmol/l
- Glucose >10 mmol/l
Specific exclusion criteria
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01213810
Sponsors and CollaboratorsUniversity of Zurich
|Principal Investigator:
|Barbara Hasse, MD
|University Hospital Zurich, Div of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|University of Zurich
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01213810 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 13, 2010
|Last Updated:
|February 28, 2013
Keywords provided by University of Zurich:HIV
VZV (Varicella zoster Virus)
T cell
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Herpes Zoster
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on May 24, 2020
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When a child's paternity is in question, parents often turn to a paternity test to establish who is the father of the child. Many people understand that paternity tests are an acceptable method for determining paternity in the Florida legal system. There are two types of paternity testing that can be used to either establish or exclude paternity. Knowing about each type of test might help people facing a paternity issue decide which is appropriate.
One form of paternity testing is inclusion testing, which is the type of testing that many people think of when they think of paternity tests. This form of paternity testing determines how likely the man is to be the father of the child. The results of this test are usually provided in a percentage form with results that are 99 percent or higher considered the best likelihood that the man is the child's father.
Exclusion paternity testing can definitively exclude a man from being a child's father. Unlike inclusion testing, which isn't always 100 percent accurate, exclusion testing is 100 percent accurate. In the exclusion paternity test, the DNA of the child is compared to the DNA of the father. If there aren't any matching DNA strands, the man is excluded as a possible father for the child because the father is responsible for half of the child's DNA.
There are several reasons why paternity tests are important. When a man is proven to be a child's father, he can work toward obtaining visitation or even custody of the child. Establishing paternity is also important in child support cases. It is vital for anyone who has a paternity question get an accurate answer about paternity prior to moving forward with a child custody or child support case.
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University of Hertfordshire Finalists in Research & Innovation Award for Alert
- Date: Wednesday 31st July 2013
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University of Hertfordshire named finalist in 2013 Research & Innovation Award for Alert Detector
The University of Hertfordshire has been named a finalist in the annual online competition run by Edmund Optics for the innovative use of optics for their work on Alert - the world's first real-time detector of airborne asbestos.
The competition recognizes outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at non-profit colleges and universities.
The University of Hertfordshire's work on Alert has placed them in the finals alongside other prestigious universities from around the world including: the USA's UCLA and Pensylvania State Universities; Singapore's Nangyang Technological University ; China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University and fellow countrymen at Cambridge University, England.
The University of Hertfordshire's outstanding work on the development of Alert's potential life-saving technology deserves global recognition and acclaim and all the members of the Alert Project Consortium congratulate them on reaching the finals of this competition and many more in the future.


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There are schools offering international business degrees in Tennessee!
Schools Offering International Business Programs in Tennessee
Nearby States
Each year, approximately 0.1% of Tennessee graduates receive degrees in international business. That means an estimated 117 international business professionals graduate from Tennessee's 14 international business schools each year.
Top Schools
The top-ranked school in Tennessee with a international business program is Rhodes College, which is located in Memphis. In 2010, it was ranked 26th nationwide. 5 students graduated with a degree in international business from Rhodes College in 2010. The tuition rate at Rhodes College was $34,580 per year.
The second-ranked school in Tennessee with a international business program is Sewanee-The University of the South, which is located in Sewanee. In 2010, it was ranked 26th nationwide. In 2010, 26 students graduated from Sewanee-The University of the South international business program. Sewanee-The University of the South charged in-state students $35,862 in tuition fees per year.
University of Memphis, which is located in Memphis, is the third-ranked school in Tennessee that has a international business program. It received a ranking of 40th in the country in 2010. In 2010, 46 students graduated from University of Memphis international business program. University of Memphis charged in-state students $6,780 in tuition fees per year.
International business schools in Tennessee, charge students an average tuition of $22,031 per year. But, tuition can be as much as $35,862 per year, or as little as $6,298 per year. The Tennessee international business schools with the highest tuition rates in 2010 were:
- Sewanee-The University of the South - located in Sewanee, students are charged $35,862 per year
- Rhodes College - located in Memphis, students are charged $34,580 per year
- Maryville College - located in Maryville, students are charged $29,473 per year
The international business schools in Tennessee that charged the lowest tuition rates were:
- Middle Tennessee State University - located in Murfreesboro, students are charged $6,298 per year
- University of Memphis - located in Memphis, students are charged $6,780 per year
- Southern Adventist University - located in Collegedale, students are charged $17,712 per year
An international business degree from a Tennessee school... what next?
Some of the most popular jobs international business graduates in Tennessee pursue include chief executive officer, operations manager, business professor, international buyer, and wholesale buyer. In 2010, there were 61,860 international business professional working in Tennessee, including 7,270 business analysts, 11,050 chief executive officers, and 36,190 operations managers. The largest populations of Tennessee international business professional are working in the following counties:
- Cannon County - 21,020 international business professionals
- Crittenden County - 12,850 international business professionals
- Anderson County - 8,020 international business professionals
Projected Growth
The government projects that, by 2018, the number of international business professionals in the state of Tennessee will shrink to 68,020. This would require a -1% decline in the field.
international business professionals in Tennessee earn $78,253 per year on average. But, salaries for international business professional can vary. In 2010, international business professional made as little as less than $17,100 per year or as much as more than $165,210 per year in Tennessee. The counties in Tennessee with the highest average salary for international business professionals are:
- Cannon County - $92,697 per year
- Anderson County - $91,508 per year
- Christian County - $91,150 per year
On average, international business professionals earn the least in the following Tennessee counties:
- Campbell County - $61,503 per year
- Benton County - $65,365 per year
- Bedford County - $70,655 per year
On average, the highest paid international business professionals in Tennessee were:
- Chief Executive Officer - $155,940 per year
- Operations Manager - $92,780 per year
- Business Analyst - $79,840 per year
The international business professionals with lowest average salaries in Tennessee were:
- Wholesale Buyer - $51,640 per year
- International Buyer - $39,930 per year
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Location: Faisalabad Cantonment
While the army officer talks with wazira, she tries to tease him about his wife understanding his shady talks, and asks him to show her pic. He says that he doesnt have her pic. He says that last time he saw her when she was ten years old. she asks how can he marry someone without seeing. he says that he wouldnt have married even after seeing, as he doesnt want to spoil another life by marrying her. he changes the topic, and asks her how is her husband treating her, and has he talked to her or not. She gets tensed knowing that her hsuabnd hasnt called him either. she says that she knows he is on an unofficial mission, and that even if they fight, he sends his message somehow. She says that she is very scared of the riots in Uch sharif. He consoles her that everything shall be alright, as he knows Liyaqat, and he knows how to take people's troubles, and not get in trouble. The Army officer asks Wazira not to worry, as he is going to lahore, and then everything shall be settled. he hopes that he is okay.
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Location: Uch Sharif, pakistan
While sanam wanders around aimlessly, the riots begin and all start running. she is boggled and unable to understand. In the riot stricken city, sanam wanders around helplessly, and then starts running for shelter, seeing mobsters. She gets in a shade and hides, where from the corner of her eye, in a far building, he sees the shadow of a person putting his foot on another amry officer, beaten brutally, a hand is seen with four fingers, pointing a pistol at him. She is too stunned to react. the army officer says that he shall come and wont spare him. the mystery man pulls the trigger repeatedly and finally kills the officer. she runs away from there in scare, and on the burnt and ruined streets, desolate. she falls on the ground running, and hurts her knee. Wincing in pain, she sees mobsters having gathered upto her again, and she is scared. she says that she doesnt know as she doesnt remember. They see the vermillion on her head and think that she is married. they point the sword at her, and ask her to speak up. She is shocked to see blood stained sword aimed at her. they ask her about her husband. They ask her ferociously, and she is unable to respond, mumbling. She tries to speak about the murder she just witnessed. their leader rushes to the other side, and finds the dead body. he comes back and says that its one of their men, and asks who killed their men. They ask her to name the culprit and she is unable to. One of them says that she is from the other side, and if she can kill one, they shall kill ten, starting from her. she gets scared and begins to run for her life, while they run after her. meanwhile the army officer arrives and stands in the middle of the road, as riots engulf the city, bearing witness to it.
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Location: Ahil's residence
The new bride is shocked to know from the sheikh, on phone, that he didnt receive the girl, and if he doesnt get any girl by tomorrow evening, then she knows the consequences. she is tensed as she cancels the call. She then calls the person, the truck driver, who tells her about the truck accident. She asks if he retrieved the bodies, and he says that its impossible. She says that she needs strong evidences suggesting that the girls are dead, and asks her to call when he has them. She is tensed. Just then gazalla and razaak come to her, saying that the police have come, and they have found sanam's mobile phone.
Downstairs, ahil asks the inspector how did he get this, and gets to know that he found this at the Toll Pass. Ahil is shocked. The inspector tells him that she tried ahil's calls several times, but didnt get through and then left a message too. He also tells about the unknown number from which sanam received several calls. He shows ahil the number, who is baffled. Meanwhile, the new bride heaes this and is tensed. Ahil says that he doesnt recognise this number. the inspector says that he shall investigate further, and ahil desperately asks him to search for her. He says that he shall try and his best, and takes ahil's leave. the new bride turns away tensed, as she finds ahil dialing the number, which is hers. She runs towards the room to escape from ahil, so that he doesnt find out about the call. The new bride reaches the room, and starts searching for the phone, while ahil climbs up the stairs, with the phone on dial. She finally finds the cell phone, under the sofa and switches the power off, and pushes it back there, and turns around to find ahil staring anrgily at her. she gets nervous and tensed. He asks her why did she lie to him. She is scared of his anger. he asks her clearly what sanam told before leaving. He orders her to say it again. she asks why is he talking to her like this. he grabs her tightly, and says that this is how liars are talked to, and reminds her of her lies. He says that since she called him so many times, that means she wants to tell him something, and asks her why did she lie. He says that if anything happens to sanam due to her, he wont spare her. he finally lets go of her. He says that he should have understood that if sanam was angry she would have taken her stuff. meanwhile, the new bride gets the chance to use her magic, which is badly thwarted by the taveez in his neck, and she gets a shock, and stumbles on the floor. he says that because of her, sanam went from the house and away from him, and hence now he doesnt have any place for her in this house. he takes her hand forcibly, and drags her outside, in the corridor, while she desperately pleads him not to do this, as its paining her. She tries to reenter the house, but he stops her, warning that he hopes sanam is alright, as before the lord, he shall punish her, and that she has lost every respect in his life, and after what she did, being a wife is long lost, she doesnt even deserve his sympathy, and that now she has no place in this house, and in his life. he shuts the door on her. She thinks that he shouldnt have done this, as she did this for the sake of her love, as she wont let sanam come back in his life, and that she wont let him remember sanam ever. she says that he is just hers, and he would treat her as wife, and he may have thrown her out, and before this night returns, he would get her back in his arms. the screen freezes on her vicious face.
Precap: A dishevelled sanam falls in the arms of the army officer, who holds her from coallpsing on the floor, and they share a weird eyelock in each other's arms.
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Have you blown the dust off you soft water sailing equipment? Well it's time. Lake Winnebago opened on April 7th, as far as we could see to the north from Wind Power . The water temps are in the upper 50's already. A few more warm days and you can put the drysuits away.
Spring is a great time for those with experience to get out and enjoy some high wind action. Be sure to check all you cold weather gear so it's going to protect you as designed. Don't forget to also check over your equipment; u-joint, lines, all screws. Breakdowns can quickly become a much bigger problem with colder water temps.
Wind Power enjoyed it's annual spring trip to Hatteras. A great group of 14 enjoyed warm temps in the 70's and lots of wind. I windsurfed overpowered on my 4.2 and kited with an 8m. Christy, Pat and Greg, new kiters, worked on getting rides on soft water and Debbie learned how to Windsurf.
Wind Power's Online Store has been busy this spring and new items are being added daily. Check it out at https://www.windpowerwindsurfing.com/shop/ The Mid-West largest used inventory and replacement parts will soon be showcased in the online store! The road construction on Winnebago Drive (in front of the shop) is completed and it's a big improvement to the area. Come and enjoy a sail out of Roosevelt County Park.
School will be out Soon! Wind Power is currently taking registration for the Kid's Classes on wed. Starting Wednesday June 15th there will be a morning kids class from 10:00 to noon and an afternoon class from 1:00 to 3:00. Last year the classes were full. We will add a Thursday program if there is enough demand. Call Kevin at Wind Power or see the web site for more information: https://www.windpowerwindsurfing.com/lessons/windsurf#kids
Wednesday night will be the Advanced Windsurf classes. This program covers all levels, from those who have just learned to the aspiring racer. If you are nervous and not real comfortable out in the water, this is the class for you. Kevin will get you relaxed and having fun while learning how to windsurf better. Class curriculum is adjusted to the students level and the wind conditions of the day.
Beginner Windsurf Lessons are available anytime just call ahead to set a lesson time. Wind Power prides itself on having the best lesson equipment available. We want you learning experience to be easy , fun and fast! Roosevelt County Park has a nice shallow sandy area where the beginner lessons take place, it's an ideal location. See our web site for more information: https://www.windpowerwindsurfing.com/lessons
Kiting Lessons are available, Wind Power supplies the equipment if you don't have it. A large Pontoon boat is the launch site and a Jet-ski is the chase vehicle. Contact Wind Power for more information and to setup a time.
Stand Up Paddling (SUP) Lessons and equipment are also available. If the wind dies stop over to the shop and pick up a paddle. Paddling along the shore checking out the houses is interesting, you can paddle back in the channel behind Wind Power or cruise up to the Light House and even go in Supply's marsh.
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Making your own Gardens
Birmingham is a fantastic lively city to live in, it is full of different cultures, entertainment and dining areas that make it a highly desirable location. However sometimes people need a little more green in their lives. apartments for rent in birmingham city centre can often be quite barren of green life, and it is in these situations that community gardens are so essential to maintain.
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For you to enjoy the results of a well-planned cottage garden, then it is understood that a good professional is required. With the help of a garden landscaper who has completed construction training, you will be able to design something that makes you happy while still adhering to the environmental conditions in your home.
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Never make the mistake of assuming that all garden flowers will do well in Oxford, because they will not. Some flowers are more fragile than others are and require controlled surroundings to thrive. Cottage gardens, however, place a strong emphasis on flowers that require little maintenance. You should, therefore, ensure that you pick sturdy garden plants that are long lasting and you will have wonderful flowers in season.
Some of the flowers that you should consider when planning a cottage garden design include Columbine, daisies, love-in-the-mist among others. All these flowering plants are capable of surviving with very little mollycoddling.
Prepare the Ground Well
The kind of soil that you have in your garden will determine the kind of flowers that you have in your cottage garden. It is important to do the preparation of the soil well, to reduce the overall work after planting is done.
The soil you use to plant the cottage garden flowers should have enough nutrients so that your flowers can have a good start. In fact, it would be better for you to determine the kind of soil that you have through soil tests, with the help of an Oxford landscape gardener. Once you do that, you can design how your garden is going to look based on the kind of soil that you have. You should aim to plant flowers in soils where they will have optimal growth.
Also, ensure that the spacing of the flowering plants is done as it should be. Cottage garden flowers are meant to look as if they grew there naturally, as opposed to by human hands. The arrangement of such flowers should, therefore, follow a more informal design, something that does not look too planned. If you can do that right, you will be able to enjoy the burst of colours once the flowers are in full bloom.
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text: Hi guys, This is Vansh Bhalla, student of class-X from DPS Surat during the academic year 2014-15. I had recently attended a ten days photography workshop held at our school. This workshop was held by the respected Principal of D.P.S. Surat Mr. G.R. Sivakumar who is a maestro in photography. I feel overwhelmed to have received such an opportunity. The workshop taught us how to operate a DSLR camera that too in a manual mode. Above all it taught us how to make a picture alive. We also had a field trip at the end of this session where we visited a studio where the studio owner Mr. Zaveri briefed us about the studio photography. So I would like to thank my respected Principal Sir and Mr. Jude Fernando who accompanied us as our helping hands throughout the camp. I hope you like my photos.


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Bookmanager's list of the top selling books and new releases for the week of September 7.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Sept. 7
1. Women Talking: A Novel, by Miriam Toews.
2. Akin: A Novel, by Emma Donoghue.
3. Quichotte: A Novel, by Salman Rushdie.
4. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, by Billy-Ray Belcourt.
5. Sharon, Lois and Bram's Skinnamarink, by S. Hampson, L. Lillienstein, by B. Morrison.
6. Lampedusa: A Novel, by Steven Price.
7. Chinese Whispers, by Peter May.
8. The Scarecrow, by Beth Ferry, The Fan Brothers.
9. Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie Plum Novel, by Janet Evanovich.
10. Nothing Ventured, by Jeffrey Archer.
1. A Better Man: A Novel, by Louise Penny.
2. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens.
3. The Innocents: A Novel, by Michael Crummey.
4. The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander Novel, by David Lagercrantz.
5. Akin: A Novel, by Emma Donoghue.
6.Quichotte: A Novel, by Salman Rushdie.
7. Normal People, by Sally Rooney.
8. The Nickel Boys: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead.
9. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong.
10. City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert.
1. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino.
2. Becoming, by Michelle Obama.
3. The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami, by Linden MacIntyre.
4. The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben and Tim Flannery.
5. Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo.
6. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience, by Helen Knott.
7. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, by Alicia Elliottt.
8. The Secret Wisdom of Nature, by Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst.
9. The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, by Timothy C. Winegard.
10. Guinness World Records 2020, by Guinness World Records.
— Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent stores.


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Daniel Dennett's main claim to fame is through his membership of a triumvirate of intellectual heavyweights who have waged war on behalf of Charles Darwin and his theories. The British zoologist Richard Dawkins, based at Oxford University, and the Harvard biologist and ant expert Edward O. Wilson make up the rest of this group. Each is committed, fiercely, to the idea that evolutionary theory is sufficient to explain our world, all living things and our own species. Call in any other force to elucidate our existence and you are indulging in sheer intellectual sloppiness, they argue.
All three are fierce debaters, particularly Dennett and Dawkins, and none has been known for taking prisoners on the battlefield of biology. Many is the bloodied academic who has crossed swords with them. Not surprisingly, this ungodly crew doesn't go down terribly well with the religious right of America.
Thus, waged against Dennett, Dawkins and Wilson, are an alliance of creationists, religious fundamentalists, church-goers and rightwing politicians, as well as a rump of scientists who include the US biologist Richard Lewontin, the UK academic Steve Rose, of the Open University, and Stephen Jay Gould, the late palaeontologist and science populariser. The latter group accuse Dennett, Dawkins and Wilson of the heinous crime of genetic determinism, of believing we are all robot slaves operated by our genes. For their part, the Dennett triumvirate accuse their opponents of telling 'simple lies'. Welcome to the Darwin Wars.
Hostilities can be traced to the publication of Wilson's theory of sociobiology 30 years ago. In it, Wilson argues that the make-up of society has a strong genetic component, a controversial notion to say the least. Gould, Lewontin and Rose disagreed and mounted a fierce attack on Wilson. Dawkins took up cudgels on Wilson's behalf and over the years his support has been swelled by a number of hard-line Darwinians that include Matt Ridley, the writer and journalist, Steve Pinker, the MIT brain researcher, and Helena Cronin, of the London School of Economics centre for philosophy of natural and social science.
But the biggest hitter to join the club was Dennett, a man not averse to adopting some heavy tactics to back the cause. On one occasion he sent his students to a seminar being given by Gould who was then subjected to a distinctly rough time. Gould never forgave Dennett and later denounced him as a Darwinian fundamentalist. For his part, Dennett devoted a chapter of his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, published in 1995, to Gould, ripping into his ideas with predatory lust.
The bitterness of the debate has dissipated in the last couple of years, however, with the death of Gould. In the latter's final years, the triumvirate took pains to try to bring some kind of graceful closure to the issue - though they have never relinquished their fierce commitment to their cause.


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And I literally mean "everyday" in the sense that page ranking is now a very moment-to-moment situation. Nobody understands Google's criteria 100%, but many are very well-versed in their intelligent analysis and advice.
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I'm going to tell you a secret today…
I used to get stressed AF about having treats out in public.
I worried that if a client, friend, or blog reader ran into me eating a donut or having a Pink Drink from Starbucks that they would judge me or think less of me professionally.
I was living with a self-imposed expectation of perfect eating because I'm a trainer, a nutrition coach, and people look up to me. The amount of time I spent wondering if anyone was noticing that I ate a cookie as dessert was obscene.
When I write it out now it actually kind of makes me laugh. People don't pay near as much attention to us as we think they do.
Today I walked into Dunkin Donuts to get a coffee and a couple mini donuts for P and I and I had that thought….what if someone i know is in here?! And then I shrugged it off.
I've come to the conclusion that you dear reader, don't need another person modeling "perfect eating" for you. Someone that sets an expectation so high that you will never achieve it and make yourself feel like shit while you try to do so.
We've got enough "perfect" examples out there and honestly so much if its is probably bullshit anyway. On the internet, its really easy to only let people see the things you want them to.
I want to be someone that encourages you to eat a variety of unprocessed foods. Fruits, vegetables, lean meats, whole grains, and nuts.
But I also want you to see that it's ok to eat a donut once in awhile. You're not bad. You don't need to go and do 75 burpees to "burn it off."
Let's be realistic….
Donuts aren't nutritious. But they are delicious.
If you're feeling the push (either from yourself or someone else) to never have treats like this I'd like to encourage you to ditch that mentality (or that person). It's perpetuating your all or nothing approach to eating.
And quite honestly what is the fucking point of eating a donut if you're just going to feel shame about it all day?
If you're going to eat it then own that you're eating it. Afterwards, make your next meal or your next snack nutritious. It really is that simple.


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Some people have commented that Right to Life often posts on American politics. There is a very good reason. What happens there will ultimately impact what happens here. That Hillary Clinton might be elected president of the United States is of very great concern to those concerned about the right to life of the unborn. This video sourced from the LifeNews.com post below, tells why.
A couple of days ago Gary Bauer's American Values Action PAC released a YouTube video that in a mere 57 seconds encapsulates why Hillary Clinton is (by anyone's definition not on the abortion industry's payroll) an abortion extremist. These are Clinton's own words and they are not taken out of context.
Of course there are many dimensions to the multi-layered Clinton abortion agenda that are not addressed, but the four items the You Tube video highlight will make your blood run cold.
#1. Expanding taxpayer funding for abortion, specifically for Planned Parenthood. And Clinton has forthrightly called for the end to the Hyde Amendment, which would put you and I back in the business of taxpayer funded abortions and increase by hundreds of thousands the number of dead babies.
#2. "Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed." This is even more ominous than it sounds; Democrats are not big believers in freedom of conscience or religion. These are remarks from a speech Clinton delivered this year to the "Women in The World Summit" in New York City. In context the message was impossible to miss: to bring real "reproductive health care" to the ends of the earth (Hillary and Bill Clinton are anti-life missionaries), a lot that means a great deal to billions of people must be jettisoned. And you don't change what Clinton labeled "deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases" with pleasantries. You do so coercively, with the power of the state.
#3. Unborn babies have no constitutional rights whatsoever, up to and including "just hours before delivery."
#4. A pledge to appoint to the Supreme Court only people "who believe that Roe v. Wade is settled law."
There is no way to exaggerate the level of Clinton's commitment to multiplying the number of dead babies at home and aboard.


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State Rep. Randy Terrill, the outspoken anti-illegal immigrant fighter who now faces a felony count of bribery, projects an image of Oklahoma that can only be damaging to long-term economic development and population growth here.
Terrill (R-Moore), pictured right, has become a figure on the national political stage. On Wednesday, he appeared at a Washington press conference as part of an effort by State Legislators for Legal Immigration to force federal judicial rulings on the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to people born in the United States. Terrill called it the "holy grail" of the movement to fight illegal immigration. The group is against automatic citizenship for foreign nationals.
All this is nothing new for Terrill, of course, but what has become apparent is that he has become a major face of Oklahoma the state could do without. Just a cursory Google search shows Terrill has been mentioned recently by prominent media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Terrill's remarks make the state's residents seem intolerant, xenophobic and unwelcoming. Try selling that to companies considering relocating to Oklahoma.
In 2007, Terrill sponsored draconian anti-illegal immigration legislation that became law in Oklahoma. He now wants to push legislation this year-apparently with the blessing of Gov. Mary Fallin-that would be modeled after Arizona's tough new anti-illegal immigration law, which some legal experts argue legalizes racial profiling. A federal judge blocked some provisions of the law last summer.
Outspoken and unapologetic, Terrill obviously strikes a chord with many Oklahomans, but regardless of how one feels about illegal immigration, it should remain a federal issue. Both Republicans and Democrats have failed to find a solution to the problem. The GOP, in particular, has fractured over those Republican politicians who welcome a cheap labor pool and those like Terrill who favor arrests and deportation.
Complicating Terrill's image right now on the national level-and this is not good for the state's image either-is the felony bribery charge he faces. The charge alleges Terrill tried to arrange a deal in which former state Sen. Debbe Leftwich, a Democrat, would get a state job if she declined to run for reelection. Leftwich has also been charged in the case.
Terrill calls it "political persecution" and "hyper partisan" on the part of Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater, a Democrat, but there's a lot lacking in that argument. Leftwich is a Democrat, for example, and Prater had to act on information he received about the case. To ignore information about a potentially criminal act is a dereliction of a prosecutor's duties. There is no evidence-at least any that has been publically revealed-to suggest Prater has politicized the case. If Terrill has such evidence-beyond the simple fact that Prater is a registered Democrat-then he should produce it.
The criminal aspect of the case is important. Just as important is the question over whether Terrill's and Leftwich's alleged actions represent business as usual at the state Capitol regardless if a crime was committed or not. If this is the case, then there needs to be expanded investigations.
Fortunately, State Rep. Mike Brown, (D-Tahlequah) has called for a House investigation of the case. Such an investigation is prudent and necessary and shouldn't necessarily be limited to Terrill. Again, here's the main question: Were Terrill and Leftwich, if the information against them is true, just acting in a status quo fashion or was it a renegade act outside the normal political milieu? If, as Terrill argues, the charge is politically motivated, then where is the evidence? The people of Oklahoma deserve answers.


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The Sculptor's Shirt
Once, for a short time, we were separated. He was lured away by a siren with a pack of lies and a pied piper with an ample supply of pot.
Soon after, he saw through the haze and found his way back to me.
And once again his books, his records, his clothes, and all his favorite things came back into my life along with him. I loved being surrounded by his things. It made me feel close to him. I still do.
Look out Art World…
The Weaver Academy of Art students are coming!
I was honored to be chosen as Juror for the 2018 Students Select exhibit for Weaver Academy for Performing and Visual Art in Greensboro, NC. When I walked in to the exhibit and saw their work I was delighted and impressed! It was thoughtfully and imaginatively created, in a variety of mediums, sizes, themes…these students have been working hard!
With all this really well crafted work it was difficult to choose the recipients for the awards. I fell in love with so many of the works. Here are details from a few of my favorites…
I attended the opening reception/awards ceremony and met and had lots of conversations with these bright, enthusiastic student-artists. I had a blast! The parents were cool, too.
I now have renewed faith in the art world!
A work in progress
He was a beautiful corpse. That phrase keeps popping up in my mind. I think it's the first line of my book. The book that's inside me that I need to write.
I keep painting about him, hinting, being ambiguous, hoping others will connect with my paintings because they are slightly vague and more universally appealing, and at the same time including specific details so the people who knew him and loved him will recognize that my work is about him.
My book will be very specific. It will probably be described as heart wrenchingly tragic but sweetly beautiful. Certain people will probably disapprove and want me to keep quiet. But there will come a time when that swirl of feelings, visions, emotions leap out of me and into an organized pattern of words that tell the story.
In the meantime, I'll keep painting. Now it's his leather jacket. There's still a cigarette butt in the pocket.
A work in progress….
Who says you can't have Marilyn Monroe's boobs…
I was painting self portraits of my tattoos and I used this photo of Marilyn as a reference when I painted my boobs because the lighting was better and it was easier to see than the selfies I took for reference. Yea, that's it…the lighting, right…
My most favorite painting professor taught me that you don't need to paint the bits that you're not happy with, you can leave out the double chin, the crows feet if you want to, it's your painting; it doesn't have to be exactly realistic.
Isn't that artistic license?
Sometimes it still hits me. Like out of nowhere. I think of him, I feel him. My heart stops for a second. I remember he's gone.
Five years later and still.
I wonder if that will ever stop. But I don't really want it to.
This guy's got bells!
Why am I such a misfit?
Too timid for the cool kids; too weird for the mainstream. Wondering where my work truely fits in.
Perhaps I don't let myself say what is fighting to come out, programmed to censor myself, preoccupied with what others will think and say, struggling against some expected confines of what a woman my age should be (whatever the fuck that is) that I absorbed along the way. Worried about embarrassing my sons with my subject matter (But they've told me they don't care if I paint dolls with vaginas!)
Scarred and scared from the manipulation and betrayal of a most recent relationship (But I kicked his ass out! I was triumphant! But the damage remains.) Semi-paralyzed with anxiety, doubt, insecurity… Fuck that! I've got "bells" too! I'm gonna put on my happy clown face and paint them!


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How did I get to Wolfsburg?
Stefano Piemontese
The first time I visited Wolfsburg was in june 2007, after deciding to write my BA thesis on the Italian community living in the city of Volkswagen. In fact, between 1955 and 1973 about 120.000 young Italians lived and worked there, and I thought that it was an interesting story to understand. I discovered that many of them came from the southern regions of the peninsula (but also from northern Italy) and worked in the car industry for a limited period of time: once their short-term contracts terminated, they used to leave the wire fence surrounding the Volkswagen barracks and go back to their families with good savings. I also discovered that some of them rested. They kept being employed by Volkswagen or become self-employed workers. They entered flats, rejoined their Italian wives and children in Wolfsburg or got married with german girls. As it could be expected, the most evident traces of these chronicles are preserved in the friendly atmosphere of some typical italian bars, in the picturesque interiors of many regional associations and in the towering chimneys of the Volkswagen power station. The picaresque past of these retired workers (but many work even now, together with their sons) still reverberates in their family photo albums and the intimate stories about their homeland and their migratory experience. The prevailing representations of the Italian community living in Wolfsburg are apparently limited to the construction and preservation of a collective mythology based on the recovery of memory. This process finds its way out in the public celebration of traditional italian festivals and in the denunciatory pamphlets of some cultural associations. During my field-work I moved mainly through the established narration of this community. So, besides the gathering of interview the role of social researcher required to me, and not separated from this, I also participated to the representations of the Sardinian carnival of Orotelli (left), I visited the local mosque with the members of the Apulian Cultural Association and took part to the assembly of the german-italian school. About five years later, in October 2012, I went back to Wolfsburg as photographer. Apparently nothing was changed. I was happy to meet the people I knew a few years before exactly in the same places where I left them. They told me what happened in the meanwhile and indicated me new directions to explore. Actually I was there to stumble on undiscovered layers of the 'biggest Italian village beyond the Alps'. So, I began to explore the city from the beginning, like if it were the first time …
During ten days I walked through the town, getting in touch with a big part of the Italian and Italian-related entities, milieux and people. I strengthened old contacts and forged new ties. I explored the aesthetic of this place with my camera and also wrote down some reflexions, phone numbers, quotations and appointments in a sort of 'field diary'. Because of a promise I made to my flatmates on the portal of my house in Barcelona, I send everyday a postcard to this imaginary but at the same time also so real family. I guess that the so-called 'Familia de los Caballeros' represented for me the the reference point that every emigrant is in need of, a place where to share questions, aspirations, disaffection and joy, and where to address its Heimweh. Here below you can find some traces of my last visit to Wolfsburg …
First Day
The first picture I did not take is that of a locked blonde girl with a bicycle waiting at the semaphore in the fresh wind in the ground boring would-be modern german buildings. Then, that of a rude boy in the underground passage of the main station in Braunschweig, with his little and young mediterranean mother, aggressive movements and shoes. It lasted just an instant. Above all I should take confidence with these yobs with the penis. Be a man! I sit in the train watching the fields and I ask to myself if there are still italians working there as farmers. The first Italians were recruited as peasants, like Lorenzo A.. Walking through the Porschestrasse I am able to recognize the somatic traits of the elderly 'compatriots' sitting in the sun. I would like to approach them but I do not have any plausible conversation in mind. Today I am under cover, or rather, I convince myself of this. I should take familiarity, feel the camera in my hand and do not make a certain number of pictures which will certainly blow up – I hope – in a day full of chiribitas (sparks). I decide to visit the Apulian Cultural Association and just when I am inspecting the interiors through the window arrive Angelo M., the president. We converse for a while and he provides me with the following informations, which I record:
- Tonight the NDR broadcasts a documentary-film titled 'Wolfsburgo Autostadt';
- In the castle there is an exposition on the first Italians titled 'i primi italiani – italienische Premierens, Porträts aus Wolfsburg';
- December the 14th the book of Margherita Carbonaro 'Wolfsburg, eine italienische Geschichte' will be presented to the public (see the program of the Italian Cultural Institute);
- The Lupo-Martini football team play in Wolfsburg on Sunday at 3pm. The trainer is named Francisco C.: he is half Italian half Spaniards;
- If I want to know how to enter into the Volkswagen factory I should call Franco G. which is member of the Works Council. His number is +49 (0) 5361 ******;
- On Sunday at 3 pm, when also the Lupo-Martini plays, Angelo will arbitrate a Kreisliga football play in Boddenstädt, where he also lives (it is 70 km from Wolfsburg). If I want I can go there to take some pictures of him in referee clothing!
In the Azzurri Bar i meet Armando G.. He remembers of me. I find him much more happy than in the past. He plays and jokes with all. He roams in the bar and is probably the only person, excluding me and the barman, which does not play cards. He clouts his friends and let them clouting him. Then he cames back to me laughing, and leaning to my arm says: 'they are all crazy!'. He has a strange way, that I really like, to touch you when he talks: for less than half a second he exterts pressure with all his weight on your arm or on your shoulder, in order to signal when you are expected to laugh or when the crucial point of this or that anecdote is coming. He informs me that I should watch the cabaret performance of Francesca de Martin 'Aufmarsch der Itaker'.
Wonderful answer of the German girl of the picture IMG_8559 after I explained to her what I am actually doing in Wolfsburg: 'Ah, the Italians! They should be our best friends!'
I am half-sleeping on the train to Braunschweig, I open the eyes, take my moleskine and write down: 'cemetery'. Then I continue: 'I guess the name of the barman of the Azzurri Bar is Domenico, he is from Brindisi and is about 30 years old. He came to Wolfsburg four years ago following the recommendation of his uncles, arrived in Wolfsburg many years ago. He is, together with the Tunisian man married with a Campanian woman, the dark-hair ex-sportsman Kosovar Albanian who lived in Italy but nothing remembers of the Italian language, and the sloppy Israeli guy fucking his life in front of the automatic gambling games, and also the crazy violet dark sloopy alcoholic blonde with a doomed but provocative expression … these are the 'outsiders', whose stories seem to intertwine with the image – apparently solid and homogeneous … but I created this image: in the reality every one has its own history, thus, is an outsider among the outsiders – of the old Italian 'ao! cazzo!' playing cards at last retired. Stories to tell? Pictures to do?'.
Mittwoch 17.10.2012
'I also wants the mustaches like this, like Bismark! – Now I tell you how you should do: you should have a good pussy to lick!'
'… eh, currently I am living just of satisfactions! – Eh! We should all live of satisfactions! When you die, you do not take nothing with you. Now they use to burn you, they burn the cloths … 'cause burial became a luxury. Now also in Sicily they incinerate you … before we emigrated for poverty, now to emigrate is a luxury. Before we threw us on the straw, il feno, do you understand sicilian? Now we have the duplex, the foam mattress … now all is luxury. And luxury will make us poor again!'.
The talks about pussy and death of Pietro S., the man from Catania with great mustaches great rings great stomach and great wisdom (his appearance is pure gadget. In the reality he is more profound than the image he gives of himself) strengthen the thought of yesterday: I must go to the cemetery.
Today I walk continuously and approximately 8 hours. Now that I'm recalling it, just a few days later, I know that it was a beautiful day. It has been a day of loneliness between me and the city. To justify the absence of unforgettable pictures (which is not true) I told myself that yesterday I had to let me see by the Italians and today from the city. I was surprised and annoyed by the cemetery-forest where everything is undefined because everything is nature. I prefer the squared künstliche ordered and mediterranean cemeteries rather than this 'earth to earth' taken literally completed with squirrels and rabbits. However I enjoy eating a sandwich in the humid silence of the little park to the victims of Nazism and later in sign of respect, by way of a moral rule of which I ask me the origins, I jump over the railing to piss just a few feet from there. I caress and hug a three without looking like a fool. It is a practice that tunes me with myself and all the important things. Then I come back to the center. There are some tubby rabbits, the same that the Italians immigrants hunted for fun or need and ate: unphotographable decently. I come to the bridge after the adventure of the circus (not very exciting for the truth). I stop by coincidence exactly at the same point of the railing where I noticed the wisdom of Mr. S. (I notice it because I see the factory from the same perspective) and I write: 'I feel strange. I feel like I've never been. I feel I am present, too much present (perhaps because the only thing in this city it's me) (get out of me, please)'. Before taking the train I go to watch the canal (actually I am seeking a place to piss near the train station, but at this time there are white collars everywhere). I consider that I should try to sail away on one of these boats which are crossing the river. And I should come more often to watch the canal while waiting for the train.


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During their first 24 hours as Oscar winners,
Best Supporting Actress Tilda Swinton
and the songbird stars of Once
reminisce about their big night.
there's nothing wrong with your eyes, it's just my sad scanning skills.
i just had to post this cos tilda rocked this shoot!
she's definitely the coolest androgynous person right now
diablo cody in bed with oscar...and cookies.
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