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Last year a post popped up on my FB screen “Want to join my next book project?” Today I am excited to share that we launched a collection of inspiring stories that I co-authored with another 24 amazing women. Book Joy – Recipes for Abundance already reached the status of best-selling book on Amazon.
What is this book about?
Joy – Recipes for Abundance offers inspiring, lived ideas for all women to awaken to joy.
In this fruitful collection of stories, 25 inspiring, entrepreneurial women share their recipes for joy and abundance through tales of overcoming, determination and gratitude. From nutrition, travel and community to spiritual practise, compassion and self-realisation, they each reveal their unique recipes towards creating a joyful and abundant life, available to each of us.
Through these joyful narratives, you will discover how to:
- Nourish joy through the grips of adversity
- Stir up opportunities for joy in the small, ‘everydayness’ of life
- Create a strong and lasting foundation to keep bringing more of it into your life
- Share the sweet taste of joy with the world and those around you
- Become inspired to create your own recipes for joyful abundance.
Joy – Recipes for Abundance, published by Reach for Greatness Ltd. The heart of this beautiful project, Sabine Matharu woke up one day with the idea to write a book with another 100 women without knowing how to go on about it. Following the first successful book launch of RISE, she followed up on her dream and attracted her co-authors.
Book Joy – Recipes for Abundance is co-authored by:
Jeanne Anette Heinzer-Hiemer
Jodie & Paris Welton
Julie Sylvia Kalungi
Joy – collection of inspiring stories quickly reached top selling scores in various categories on Amazon and within one week from the release became one of the bestsellers.
My story – synopsis
“Sometimes things aren’t quite as they seem. After her mother took her by surprise with a seemingly simple question, Adriana Kosovska began to reassess the amount of joy she was letting into her life. With the realisation that she was letting life slip by without following her dreams, she employed courage and determination to begin opening her eyes to new joyful possibilities.”
I decided to participate in this book because it truly resonated and it was aligned with my vision to support employees to go from stressed, unhappy or bored in their careers to feeling joyful and happy.
Having seen too much frustration, disengagement and stress within the workplace, I made it my mission to help employees realize that they can build their dream careers instead of feeling like a number on a payslip. I do this through Zero to Dream Job platform as well as through bringing my human-oriented approach into global corporations.
It’s a perfect gift
This book is a beautiful gift not only for Valentine’s Day or birthday. It makes a perfect gift for you or your friend who is going through challenging times in life. These stories of encouragement, honesty and realisations about Joy will touch single women, women struggling in their careers as well as mums taking care of their families.
– How to order?
You can purchase a beautiful paperback copy or Kindle version of “Joy – Recipes for Abundance” on Amazon.
But this not your usual book from Amazon. Sabine and co-authors prepared an amazing selection of bonuses valued at over £1000
You can grab your book copy and sign up for bonuses on this link https://joybook.gr8.com/
Proceeds from the sale of the book are going to Connected Sisters Charity.
Article Author: AdriAna Kosovska
Professional and certified coach & founder of ZERO TO DREAM JOB ACADEMY
I work with employees, couples and organisations that care about
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STC was partnered with Artist Jessica Wheeler to animate an abstract short film of Jess' vision and concept. Using the multiplane and filming rostrum style, Jess created individual cut out collage assets for Kim to bring Jess' vision to life.
In Jess' words
My only attempt at stop motion animation was a short that followed a worm (constructed of blue tac) journeying through a rotten apple, filmed on my bedroom floor when I was 15. So stepping into OA studios in October and greeting the multiplane was an exciting moment.
Euphorbia uses paper collage and other materials to map out the internal landscape of a young girl. The film sees a ‘skin plant’ form. The plant appears vibrant and shy, made up of fleshy skin segments with hidden details in its fabric. I was interested in how this strange tactile plant could inhabit the character of young sexual desire within the film, by tracing its natural growth and its vulnerability within its environment. From the skin plant I wanted to pick, and then unpick, the questions – what is the ‘natural’ growth of sexuality, what is ‘natural’ desire and what does female desire look like?
Having pinned the questions and etched out the imagery, my collaboration with Kim made it possible to put things into motion. In the run up to filming, I was lucky to have the studio space as a den to develop the artwork. Once the cutting and sticking was done, I was able to use the multiplane and trusty Dragonframe to test the shape of the film; experimenting with movement whilst feeling my way through the basics of analogue animation.
In the middle section, inside the skin plant, we were using seven shelves of collage pieces to create the depth of shot. Each layer, tested separately, had to move as one and give the feel of journeying through the plant. I had an idea for a random plum (or peach, we weren’t sure) to fall through the plant towards the front of the frame. Having calculated the sizes of 82 plums, carved them out and backed them in black wrap, its journey had to be meticulously traced and spun into the fabric of the collage.
As the experiments turned to tests, and the tests started to form an animatic, I relied on Kim to indicate what was possible and what would be more difficult to make happen. However, as I described hands wrapped in wire and flowing inky rivers soaking the pieces of sliced skin plant to form the final landscape, Kim hardly flinched and found ways to animate. This organic approach to animation was unexpected and made the production a liberating creative process.
The handmade feel of this stop motion animation film was always important. It didn’t seem fitting to create a shiny polished design that had been digitally glued together on aftereffects. I was interested in how this craft, made with human hands, could provide a sensory experience for the viewer, encouraging their eye to act as an instrument of touch.
Since finishing my Random Acts film I have another experimental project surfacing. I maintain a drive to represent the female voice, animating new and interesting materials in order to approach this representation from a queer angle.
by Jessica Wheeler
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The Witch-Doctor: Episode Three
Written by Equanimous Rex
Read by Kevin Brown
Edited by James Curcio
Logo by Amun Disalvatron
Thirty pounds of cured meat in the larder. Maybe a hundred potatoes. Add about another hundred pounds of fresh meat.
Calculations in mind, fingers twitching against the hide of her latest quarry. Artemis carried the beast on her shoulders, its legs splayed out to either side. She could feel a little of its blood running down the back of her neck, under her shirt.
Earlier, when she tried to bleed it, she got a niggling. A little wispy worm tickle in the lower spine. So she had carried her prey back towards town, ears perked for snapping twigs, crunching leaves. The way back to the bridge was grassy and overgrown, thorns bit her thighs and calves. She was glad when her boots touched the crumbling road, which meandered to the bridge.
The beam bridge spanned about a hundred feet, suspended over the river, but it felt like more, when you stared down into the gap. Asphalt, concrete, and steel, supported from below by old pillars, it was hard to say just how old it was. The townsfolk had patched parts that collapsed over time, logs the length of entire trees spanned portions, lashed together. All forms of mechanical or equine travel were treacherous across the bridge, if not outright impossible. Occasionally a new span would need patching, from those who made the attempt and failed. There weren’t enough to people to keep track of the diversity erupting out in the Wilder, but it truly seemed a free-for-all. The mutant animal she carried sported an odd numbers of limbs, a truly improbable body plan, but it appeared goat-like. It lacked a clear taxonomic niche, but judging from its patchy fur, she guessed it was mammalian. Whatever it was, it reeked to high heavens. Musky death-scent clung to both of them now, and there was not much to be done about it. She could already see scavenger birds settling in the trees around her. They cawed, but were somber, reserved, saving the racket for after their imagined future feast. What tasty tid-bits might be left behind by this predator? she could imagine them asking themselves. What morsels, what treats? Which of my nest-brothers will I have to eviscerate to get a bite to eat? Her mind flashed back to the old rhyme her father used to recite before bed every night, so far away and so long ago.
“The ravens they call, they squawk and shriek
O’ what morsels and O’ what treats?
The crows they caw, they bark, they scream
When will they get to wet their beak?
The magpies hem, they haw, they sneak
The blood is shiny, the blood must leak
Ho Hum! Ho Hum!
Squawk! Squawk! Squawk!
But the sun is fair, the time is right
They’ll have full bellies before the night!”
Her eye caught one of the ravens. Ancient and monstrous, it perched amongst its kind in the lower branches of a riverside pine. Its feathers were tattered and missing in spots. Even at this distance, Artemis could see the milky tint of its eyes, the tumors growing along its bald face. She stopped and gazed for a moment. The ravens didn’t budge. They stared back, statuesque, their alien minds working out solutions to problems Artemis couldn’t even begin to discern. She turned away from them, set feet upon the bridge, and continued. She could feel their eyes on the back of her neck, sharp as pinpricks. Circle of blood, circle of stone, circle of blood, Feyn bring me home. The words appeared in her mind, unbidden.
“Fine,” she said, forcing the words from her mouth, as if she needed to speak to break the spell. Setting down her quarry, she fished one hand around her waistline, and pulled out a small skinning knife. She plucked out the eyes of the carcass, all five of them, and set the organs on the dusty ground. They stared up at the sky, lost in the blue. Artemis seized the corpse and slung it around her shoulders again. Her biceps bulged with the effort.
She could hear the flutter and caws of the corvids behind her, as they fought amongst themselves for the eyes.
Halfway across the bridge, she crossed the sections of bound logs with ease. Sweat ran down her face, and under her arms. Her hair, which she kept tightly bound, was saturated, as was her shirt.
I smell, she thought, smiling slightly. Good. It means I’ve put in my work. But had she? Thoughts flashed back to the eyes of the parents of those lost children. She hunted the children, but it was their parents eyes that haunted her. Two missing from Nowell, and Artemis hadn’t done jack about it. Hadn’t been able to. She’d tried—gods know she tried—but she had been unable to find a single clue as to where the children had gone. No forced entry, no tracks left behind. It was as if the children had vanished into thin air. As if the town had imagined them, and they’d never existed at all.
“Gimme that badge!” Frank Callas had demanded of her, just two nights hence. She had been at the Ratskellar, trading with the proprietor. The never-ending stew always needed new meat, and Artemis didn’t know how to make vodka. In the middle of their conversation, Frank had grabbed Artemis by the shoulder. He’d tried —and failed— to turn her around to look at him.
“Fuck off, Frank,” she had replied, still looking at the proprietor. Frank tried to reach back and snatch the sheriff’s badge from her hat. She bent his pointer finger to near breaking point, and laid him on the ground. He saw himself out after that, yelling “You’re no sheriff! There ain’t no more sheriffs and you ain’t one! You freak! You…consorter!” Then he he had left the patrons of the bar sitting in awkward silence, nursing their drinks. For her part, she had finalized the trade, carried a gallon of potato vodka back to her home, and got shitfaced.
Maybe I’m no sheriff, she thought, hopping off the logs suspended over the river and back onto sure-footed asphalt. But I’m the closest thing we’ve got. Which probably means we’re boned.
It was an uneventful walk to the water lines. The gate was open, allowing Chet access to the river bed. He knew this dirt trail well. It led steeply past a small guardhouse that used to be a machinists shop, and sloped down to the water.
The way was largely empty. Chet could see Harvey Fortin, every aged wrinkle of him, sleeping in the chair outside the guardhouse. Harv’s cap was pulled down to block the sun from his eyes, his musket leaned up along with powder horn against the wood-shingle siding.
Whys Harv’s name even in the guard’s lot anyhow?, Chet thought. Well ain’t that just the goddamned testament of Nowell, if there ever was one…
Most had already come and gone, except late risers and a gaggle of farmers, who made their umpteenth trek from the fields to the filters, horse cart sans horse.
One such straggler pulled near Chet, bearing a gang of youths with ropes wound around their reddened fists, the cart behind packed near bursting with empty containers. They carried the haggard Nowell look, slight, wiry, seemingly made entirely of tendon and leather. The shortest of the pack lost his grip and fell to the ground face-first. The cart shot to a halt, containers rattling. One of the others helped him up, while the others jeered.
They secured the cart where it stood, and the group joined the queue, all the while shouting an endless litany of expletives amongst themselves, “I’m not!” “Shut your fuckin’ yap.” “You’re both so dumb. Like wow.” “Fuck!”
They fell in behind Chet, but Chet ignored them, staring instead at the woman walking in front of him with false indifference. He could see her struggling with a steel cooking pot. How many moons had that pot been dutifully scrubbed of rust and crusted stews? Chet once thought it an heirloom, a freak occurrence of stability, of persistence. Something passed on through the years. Now he wasn’t so sure.
The youths hushed behind him, interrupting his thoughts. They dispersed suddenly and conspicuously, leaving Chet and the woman to walk together.
As they cut in further down the line, they grew louder once more, joking and shoving.
Chet coughed, “c’mere, let me help you, Gerty.” The woman turned and smiled at him, setting down her beloved cooking pot.
“Lord Father bless your heart,” she told him, “I thought my arms were gonna give out before I got down there.”
“I gotcha,” Chet replied, grabbing the pot with one hand, bucket in his other. “How were you planning to get it back up? Where’s your girl?”
“Hell if I know. I can’t keep up with her these days. She was gone before I woke up.” Less stooped, she walked freely alongside Chet down the path. “Can I tell you a little secret?” Her eyes glinted.
“Always,” Chet said.
“I slept in!” Gerty cried, grinning.
Chet opened his eyes in mock shock. “Gerty, you layabout. We should have thrown you to the wolves when we first got here.”
“Though,” he paused, “don’t tell anyone, but I may have just woke up myself.”
She snorted, and then coughed into a palm.
“I’ll help you bring it back up,” Chet told her. “You aren’t that far anyhow, no trouble at all.”
“Us old Nowell folks have to stick together, eh Chester? Too many of us are ghosts now, walking these woods,” Gertrude cooed.
He remembered Gerty as a young woman, and his mind could peel back the layers of damage the years had piled on her. They remembered what it was like, to trek out into the unknown. Something these youths had no inkling of. Those who wanted to talk big about the first years hadn’t been there. To them, it seemed mythical. To Chet, it was a bad memory he had no intention of breathing back to life.
Chet remembered how the horde of them had been unleashed, sent to reclaim land once held by man; and how they lost, through neglect, to the wild, only to be forgotten themselves.
It was old history. He tried to stop thinking about it.
By the time Chet got back to the cabin, bucket of clean water in hand, he saw smoke rising from the chimney. His stomach was set rumbling at the smell of food. He opened the front door and saw the face of one of his girls. Her head still only reached his ribs while standing atop a stool, cooking eggs in a pan ably as any adult. The logs inside the wood stove spat and snapped; the heat made Chet’s pores open. The girl hummed an off-key tune, something he couldn’t place. She didn’t react to his entrance.
“By god, Olivia. It’s hotter in here than it is outside.” Chet set down the bucket.
The girl whirled around, her reverie broken, and the stool teetered. She hopped off, leaving the spoon behind, and put her hands up, fingers splayed as if to show she was not armed. “I wanted it to be a surprise! I thought you were sleeping! I swear to God!”
Chet approached the kitchen table, pulled out a chair, sat down, and leaned back. When she didn’t move, he waved a hand.
“It’s fine, you’re fine,” he said, softly. “Why don’t you bring some of those eggs over here and let grandpa have a few?”
“They’re not done!” Olivia shouted at him, her voice squeaking with enthusiasm. She ascended the stool once more, wobbling. The girl began worrying the eggs with the spoon.
Chet groaned, stretched, and stood up. He walked over and gently took the wooden utensil from her hand.
“Do me a favor, go wake your sisters up, tell them breakfast is almost ready,” he said. The girl hopped off the stool and bolted for the bedroom. Chet winced, “But be quiet! Don’t wake your ma.” Olivia giggled and disappeared into the dark room.
Soon the eggs sat steaming on a plate, set in the middle of the table. Around it were three pairs of carved oak utensils and plates.. The two youngest girls came running out and took their places.
“I had a dream,” Marytbeth said, rubbing at her eyes. She looked like she’d been crying. Chet felt the hair rise on his neck.
“Let’s not talk about dreams right now, okay sweetie?” he said, studying her. She’s gotten so skinny.
“I wasn’t,” she whined.
The disappearance of Kalliope Smith had taken a toll on his family. How many times had he seen them playing out by the road? Playing make-believe? Pretending to be heroes and witch-doctors and scavvers? Even Nat, who pretended to scorn “little kid games” would join in from time to time.
In fact, hadn’t it been after Kal got…after Kal disappeared, that she stopped all that “little kid” stuff? Chet thought it had, felt stupid for only noticing it now.
He supposed it was all the commotion. The girls were exhausted. All those late nights, all those dreams cracked open and spilled into the waking world. Marybeth screaming her head off, confused, upset. With him bolting upright in the dead of night, peace shattered. Those screams always sent him running, by laws writ deep in his nerves and blood, to comfort and protect.
Chet thought it was nightmares at first. He’d expected nightmares. Fear. There was plenty of it going around these days, spreading like a pox. Picked up by the wind. Transmitted. But it wasn’t nightmares.
The first time Marybeth woke him, he tried to calm her, saying everything would be okay.
“She’s back! Kal is back! I saw her!” Marybeth screamed in reply, her cries waking the rest, except for her mother who slept like the dead.
Chet had been flummoxed, unsure what to say.
“You’re dreaming, sweetie,” he murmured, after checking out the window, seeing nothing. He lowered his voice, trying to lull her back to sleep. She couldn’t keep her eyes open.
“Why can’t I go with her?” his grand-daughter asked, before she drifted off once more. “She wants me to go with her.”
Chet replayed those words in his head the next time it happened. When she had sleepily looked into his eyes, and told him that Kal just “wanted to play”, she was “lonely,” and “why can’t I go grampy why can’t I?”.
Not long after, Marybeth began to talk about Kal regularly, always in the present tense. As if she was only down the street and not…wherever she was. Six feet under, or someplace worse.
Chet still felt guilty about the talk they’d had: by the end she’ was sobbing inconsolably. He had tried to explain that Kal was missing, that nobody had seen her. That what Marybeth was remembering were dreams.
“Why are you lying grampy!?” she asked, red-faced and snotty. “Why do you lie!? I want to go!”
“I WANT!” “TO!” “GO!”
Chet grew more concerned as the nights passed, without a solution, until the day Marybeth approached him. He had been stacking firewood out behind their home. She told him with a succinct formality altogether alien to her, that she would not be talking about Kal anymore, because it upset him. Because she was sparing his feelings.
He didn’t have a response, and she hadn’t waited for one. She turned, and walked, with exaggerated stride, back into the cabin. That had been the last of it, and she seemed okay enough. At first.
She still carried that almost-sick and haggard look about her. Marybeth sometimes gave Chet the impression she was an old woman trapped in a little girl’s body. Weary from the countless years. The exile. The scores of dead husbands and miles of hand-tilled farmland, and the thought scared him. She was too young to be so tired.
When he asked her how she was sleeping, she’d said “Good!” and that was all.
If it keeps up, I’m taking her to the doc, Chet swore.
“Grampy! Hellooo?” Olivia clapped her hands in his face, trying to get his attention, no doubt eager for breakfast.
Olivia was only a year older than Marybeth. It struck Chet as uncanny, to see them side by side. How similar they looked! Not only to each other, but to his own daughter at their age.
Unlike Natalie, who joined them last, dark skin around her eyes, pursed lips. The spitting image of her father, now long dead in the ground.
“Any milk?” She asked.
“Nope,” Chet replied. “There hasn’t been any milk in this cabin for three years.”
“Don’t I know it.” She grumbled.
This again. Chet could feel heat rising from inside him.
“So why do you ask?” He snapped, and the two younger girls stopped playing at the table, and fell silent.
“Because I wish we had some is all.” Natalie told him, not raising her voice, but not lowering it either. Chet started to speak but his voice caught, and he cleared his throat.
“Well there isn’t any. I wish there was. But—” He pointed to the plate of eggs, still hot. “We’ve got plenty of eggs. Those chickens were a good idea Nat. You’re doing good with them.” Chet paused, scratched his arm. Natalie stared off blankly. “And I really wish we did have some milk, but we don’t, and we aren’t gonna. There isn’t one milk cow left around here, since Mike’s passed, and it was expensive as all hell before that.”
“Cussing!” Olivia reprimanded, frowning, her finger pointing. Chet scowled back at her, and raised his own finger to mirror her gesture.
Suddenly, he jerked to attention, rigid and formal. Chet gestured at the eggs as if showing off a prize, and gave an extravagant bow. The younger girls shrieked with laughter. Even Nat smirked.
“Eat up! We’ve got an eggsss-cellent meal in front of us,” Chet said, drawing out the pun so they wouldn’t miss the joke. When they didn’t react, he grimaced, playing the curmudgeon. “And I brought water up. Make sure to fill your canteens, it’s going to be a sweaty one today.”
“Thanks gramps,” the oldest said through mouthfuls of food. Natalie served them while Chet took a silver cigarette case and opened it with a click. One of his most valuable possessions, scav from Old Nowell. The case caught the light and shone Marybeth in the eye.
“Blinding me!” she protested.
Chet turned, obscuring the reflection, pulled out a hand-rolled smoke, and set it between his lips.
“Miss Sumner says you shouldn’t smoke,” Natalie told him. “Says it gives you cancer. Says that’s science. She said that she read it in these books she has. She says—”
“I don’t want you to get cancer, grandpa!” Olivia shouted, over her sister. Chet plucked the cigarette from his mouth.
“It isn’t even tobacco,” he told them. He wished it were.
“Doesn’t matter,” Natalie replied, and left it at that.
Chet put the cigarette back, and closed the case.
“Well,” he declared, watching them eat, his own stomach empty. “I better get going. You girls enjoy your eggs. I’m gonna say good-bye to your ma.” They were too absorbed in their meal to acknowledge him, except Marybeth.
“Pick me a wylrose?” She asked, egg on her chin, pouting. Chet smiled and gave her a wink.
He snuck away to the dark bedroom the girls shared, a figure lying covered in blankets. The oilskins secured over the window were not rolled up. The room smelled slightly, and he hated that he noticed.
“Suze, you awake?” he whispered, to no response save shallow breaths. The blankets over the prone form rose and fell weakly. He walked over and saw that she had covered her entire body in them, despite the heat. Chet pulled the top down slightly, and kissed her on the top of her bald, exposed head.
“Make sure you save some for your mother,” he told them on his way out the front door. He held his boots and scavving pack in one hand, his simple muzzle-loading rifle in the other. Chet closed the door behind, and stuck the mothsbane cigarette between his lips.
It was time to cross the bridge, to go back to the ruins across the river. Back to Old Nowell.
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Wide receivers are critical in fantasy football.
A good fantasy roster is deep in pass catching talent, especially in PPR leagues.
These 5 players are the latest ones in the news.
Use this information to help start the right players, monitor the waiver wire and identify trade targets.
Quincy Enunwa WR (NYJ)
Quincy Enunwa Likely out for 2020 season: The Jets informed Enunwa (neck) on Tuesday that he'll be placed on the reserve/PUP list, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
Our take: New York also moved Josh Bellamy (shoulder) to the same list, with Rapoport relaying that the organization doesn't expect either receiver to play during the 2020 season. Considering Enunwa has played just 12 regular-season contests dating back to 2017 as a result of neck issues, his time in the NFL could well be over. The injuries to Enunwa and Bellamy likely had a hand in the Jets' decision to invest a second round pick into Baylor receiver Denzel Mims during April's draft.
Enunwa isn't currently being drafted in fantasy drafts right now.
Odell Beckham Jr WR (CLE)
Odell Beckham Jr Pleased with recovery process: Beckham (abdomen) posted a workout video Monday, noting that his recovery from January surgery is going well, Mary Kay Cabot of The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
What it means: Beckham provided some details on his medical history, referring to his quad and abdomen issues from the past two seasons as "compensation injuries" stemming from the severe ankle injury he suffered Oct. 2018. He first noticed discomfort in his groin/abdomen area last June, eventually suffering a sports hernia during the third week of training camp. Beckham managed to play all 16 games, but his practice time was scaled back and his average of 64.7 yards per game was easily a career low. By the end of the season, he was dealing with a torn abductor and torn rectus abdominis, which led to what Beckham describes as "probably one of the worst surgeries I've ever had." Regardless, Beckham expects to come back stronger and faster, hoping to hit the "reset button" and get his body properly aligned. The 27-year-old wideout will be working with a new coaching staff led by Kevin Stefanski and offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt.
Up until now, Odell Beckham Jr has been drafted at the 5.05 in PPR leagues.
Keep an eye out on his value going forward.
Alshon Jeffery WR (PHI)
Alshon Jeffery Possible PUP list candidate: Jeffery (foot) could open the 2020 season on the Physically Unable to Perform list, Mike Kaye of NJ.com reports.
Our take: Jeffery remains in the midst of a lengthy rehab process after having undergone Lisfranc surgery in December, and even discounting the possibility of quarantine-related challenges inhibiting his recovery, there's no guarantee that the 30-year-old wideout will be ready to go by Week 1. Heading into the third season of his four-year deal with Philadelphia, Jeffery's fully guaranteed $9.91 million base salary for 2020 essentially guarantees that he won't be cut, and he's the team's best option as an X receiver when healthy, but it's possible that continued injury concerns could incentive the exploration of a tentative trade. Though rookie first-round pick Jalen Reagor's skillset doesn't overlap with Jeffery's, his arrival could make moving on from the veteran a more realistic possibility for the Eagles.
Up until now, Alshon Jeffery has been drafted at the 9.08 in PPR leagues.
How much this impacts Jeffery remains to be seen.
John Ross WR (CIN)
John Ross No fifth-year option: Ross will not have his fifth-year option picked up by the Bengals, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.
Our take: Ross has played just 24 of 48 eligible games since being drafted No. 9 overall by the Bengals in the 2017 NFL Draft due to a number of injuries, so it doesn't come as much surprise to see Ross fail to receive the fifth-year option. The speedy wide receiver has largely been productive during the few times he's been on the field, but with the addition of 2020 second-round pick, Tee Higgins, and the expected healthy return of A.J. Green (ankle), it might be a tall task for Ross to see enough opportunities to break out in a meaningful way next season.
The fantasy value of John Ross is measured by his average draft position (ADP). The graph below shows how it's trending in the latest mock drafts . In recent drafts, Ross's current ADP is 13.03
Watch out to see if Ross's value changes in light of this update.
Corey Davis WR (TEN)
Corey Davis Fifth-year option declined: Davis' fifth-year option was not picked up by the Titans, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports.
Our take: The former No.5 pick overall has had a rocky start to his career and will now be eligible to hit free agency after the 2020 season. Davis was surpassed by rookie A.J. Brown as the lead dog in the Titans' passing game in 2019 and his targets plummeted from 112 in 2018 to just 69. The Titans declining Davis' fifth-year option doesn't preclude them from working out a new contract next offseason, but it is a statement that the former Western Michigan receiver needs to get things turned around in a hurry.
The fantasy value of Corey Davis is measured by his average draft position (ADP). The graph below shows how it's trending in the latest mock drafts. In recent drafts, Davis's current ADP is 11.07
Keep an eye out on his value going forward.
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As the government guidelines are allowing non essential businesses to reopen, we are able to open our studio to customers who would like to come along and take a look at our stock in person.
If you would like to come along and browse our products we will be operating an appointment system so that we can ensure that we are following guidelines in regards to social distancing and sanitising the area. There will be hand sanitiser available in the studio for you to use and we have a contactless payment system.
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I am sure many of you have a lots of odd bits of yarn lying around after finishing your projects, whether your chosen craft is knitting or crochet. There is a wide choice of small stashbusting projects that you can make with your odd bits of yarn, but I really like the idea of making a Frankenyarn. By doing this you can embark on a larger more ambitious project. (more…)
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Are you one of the thousands of parents sending your children to a state school in 2020? Then you might have noticed the news from mid last year of a new mobile phone ban. Of course, this depends on which state you are in.
In Victoria, Education Minister James Merlino wants the mobile phone ban in effect during school hours and in primary and secondary state schools. This means phones must be kept in lockers from the first bell to the last bell of the day. The only exceptions to this rule are if a child requires the phone for medical reasons or if specifically instructed by teachers for a classroom activity.
“Banning mobile phones during school hours will not only mean students focus more on learning, it will also help kids interact more in the schoolyard and reduce cyberbullying.” James Merlino said.
The Victorian Member for Hawthorn, John Kennedy supports this ban and has said, “this is about getting all Victorian state schools ready to put away their phones and put their education first.”
This was the similar response given by Mark McGowan, Premier for WA. The WA Labor government will have a similar mobile phone ban in place for next year. “We want to create the best possible learning environment for WA kids and our policy will allow students to focus on their school work without the distraction of a mobile phone.”
From 2020, all WA public schools will implement a ban on the use of mobile phones for students from the time they arrive at school until the end of the school day – including before school and at break times. pic.twitter.com/zYfS8lTxvD— Mark McGowan (@MarkMcGowanMP) October 30, 2019
When will the mobile phone ban take effect?
NSW currently allows state secondary schools to opt in to the ban. So it's best to check with your local school for changes.
Victoria starts its ban from term 1, 2020 in all state primary and secondary schools.
WA will also start its ban from term 1, 2020 in state schools from kindergarten to year 12. The ban also includes restricting the use of smartwatches, tablets and headphones. The only exception will be unless instructed otherwise by a teacher for a classroom activity.
Tasmania begins a little later in the school year, from the beginning of term 2, 2020 for all state primary and secondary schools. However, students in year 11 & 12 will be given greater flexibility in when they can use their phones.
QLD, NT and ACT have no plans to roll out a state school mobile phone ban at this stage.
For most students, this means they will be required to store their mobile phones in their locker for the day.
Get the right padlock before it’s too late
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Go for the classic
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Last week, without any words from Sony themselves, every single PlayStation Classic and PSP game were put onto the PlayStation Network, available for download onto the PS Vita. It was a strange move, and the change was originally noticed by members on NeoGAF.
Games like Spyro and Crash Bandicoot 2 were made available through this event, and many PS Vita owners managed to bag quite a few titles whilst they were available on the PSN store.
However, shortly after their appearance on the PSN store, all of the PlayStation Classic and PSP games were removed, again without a word from Sony. If you managed to download any games, good news is that you'll be able to keep them, but for those that missed out on the event, you may never get a chance to see these ports again.
This whole fiasco did show us that it's completely possible for Sony to port over these games, but for some reason they seem to have held back thus far with releasing them. Perhaps there could be issues related to licensing that could be preventing Sony from releasing the titles to the PS Vita, and therefore these games might never officially make it to the PlayStation Network. Hopefully Sony will make some kind of statement this week to clear things up. | <urn:uuid:5d847ad4-7980-4b24-8330-d8992227006e> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.evilcontrollers.com/blog/all-playstation-classic-and-psp-games-made-available-on-ps-vita-for-a-day/ | 2020-07-05T01:46:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655886802.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704232817-20200705022817-00155.warc.gz | en | 0.983949 | 251 | [
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[PATCH v3 1/3] ARM: EXYNOS: Add missing static to file-scope declarations
pankaj.dubey at samsung.com
Thu Feb 5 03:25:38 PST 2015
On Thursday 05 February 2015 12:53 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> The 'pm_data', 'exynos_release_ret_regs', 'exynos3250_release_ret_regs'
> and 'exynos5420_release_ret_regs' are not exported nor used outside of
> suspend.c file. Make them static.
> This fixes following sparse warnings:
> arch/arm/mach-exynos/suspend.c:83:23: warning: symbol 'pm_data' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/arm/mach-exynos/suspend.c:106:14: warning: symbol 'exynos_release_ret_regs' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/arm/mach-exynos/suspend.c:117:14: warning: symbol 'exynos5420_release_ret_regs' was not declared. Should it be static?
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey at samsung.com>
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I snuck home over lunch today to get a couple things done, one of which was work on the airplane loudly. First, I set up my c-frame and spent some time verifying, re-verifying, and trip verifying that I was going to dimple in the correct direction. These rudder skins are thin, and I didn’t want to make any mistakes here. I set the skins on the table with the exterior side up, and the c-frame with the male die above, pointing down, and then dimpled all the holes in the skin. Jack and Ginger (who were inside), clearly don’t like me dimpling with the c-frame and told me so with a pair of barks, each. We did get into a nice rhythm, though. [whack] Bark, bark…bark, bark. [whack] Bark, bark…bark, bark. It helped pass the time, but I hope I didn’t cause them too much stress.
After that, I flipped them over and cleaned the scuffed lines.
After drying, I shot them with some self-etching primer. I was at the end of one of the cans, and some of the stuff came out kind of splotchy, but I think it will look good after it dries. I can always lay down another coat.
Another thing. I’ve been putting blue tape on the exterior side, then laying the skins down flat and shooting them with primer. When I do this, some primer gets into the dimple (from the underside I am priming), and kind of bounces off the sticky side of the blue tape and settles in the dimple on the finish side. Today, I made sure none of the holes were obscured; hopefully that will prevent any primer from getting on the exterior surface. I thought about taping the final rivets in the dimples, since that is the next step with the skins anyway, but I am not sure about using self-etching primer on unset rivets, then setting them. I have never seen that done before, and I don’t want to be the first guy to try. I’m sure I would have been okay, but the other way seemed to work fine.
After work, I put rivets in all of the dimples, taped them up, and flipped the skins over to lay the stiffeners in. One note, since I am using the tank dies, the rivet sizes must be lengthened in some places. All of the stiffener rivets were too short before setting, so I am going to substitute AN426AD3-3.5 rivets for the AN426AD3-3s called out in the plans. Except for the aft-most rivet in each row. The construction manual tells you to make sure you set this rivet fully, so I’m going to leave the shorter one in there.
Once you get the stiffener in, you can see they aren’t the recommended 1.5 times diameter. I’m also a little concerned that the dimpled holes are a little big for the rivets. I didn’t notice this on the other components using the tank dies. Hmm. I’m going to look around and see if anyone else has encountered this.
I was moving along merrily until I got to this hole. Doh!
After I got all the rivets in and taped, I flipped the skin over.
Then, one by one, I final trimmed the stiffeners (snipped the 90° corners off with the snips) and laid them in to see what it would look like.
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Flowers: May-September in flushes. Plant in sun or part shade. HxS 60x60cm
A choice plant for our Celtic cousins. It was found in Ireland, in 1947, by the noted horticulturalist Graham Thomas. This lovely geranium has large, pale blue flowers with a pinkish-purple hue and a white eye, making it quite distinct from the species. The petals are also slightly notched at the tips. Lovely and not easy to find, but if you are here you have! Choice and very distinct.
Care & Maintenance.
Cut back all foliage to the ground in spring. Propagate by careful division. Seedlings will be variable.
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From the Tyler Collection. The Fine Art Collection does not hold copyright on all materials in this collection. Contact us for further dealings with this work
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Wrinkles are one of the earliest signs of aging. Rather than allowing these lines to deepen and worsen, many women and men turn to Retin-A to refresh their skin and achieve a more youthful appearance.
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What Is Retin-A?
Retin-A, also known as tretinoin, is a topical skincare product that’s derived from vitamin A.
As the most-studied retinoid, it’s often recommended for treatment of acne, photodamage, and wrinkles. Numerous research has demonstrated Retin-A’s ability to counteract signs of aging by boosting collagen, improving skin tone and texture, and stimulating the development of new blood vessels.
How to Use Retin-A for Wrinkles
In order to reap the benefits of Retin-A, it’s important to apply it properly.
Here are 3 tips for how to use Retin-A for wrinkles:
1. Apply Retin-A in the evening before bed to maximize its wrinkle-fighting capabilities. Additionally, avoid using it in the daytime, as Retin-A can may skin more sensitive to the sun.
2. Whether for wrinkles or other skin concerns, do not pair Retin-A with benzoyl peroxide or other acids, including salicylic, glycolic, and vitamin C. This helps limit irritation and dryness.
3. It’s important that you cleanse your skin prior to using Retin-A. However, you should wait 15 minutes between washing and application of the product.
How Long Does It Take Retin-A to Work?
Although Retin-A begins working right away, it can take several months for patients to note wrinkle reduction and smoothing of skin.
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Foulad Gostar Atena (FGA) Company was established in 2008 with the aim of manufacturing Hollow Structural Steel Sections (HSS) through Cold Forming and Electric Resistance Welding (ERW) method. In order to promote the quality level of different industries such as construction, Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Water and Wastewater and many other industries, high quality HSS are produced in various sizes. ATENAs factory is located in a 6-hectare area at ILAAM-IRAN with a production capacity of 150,000 tons per year. We studied market demands and responded to current deficiencies by recruiting eminent and experienced technical consultants in this field with a hope to be one of the largest HSS manufacturers in Iran and the Region.
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Phally is the senior architect and coordinator of the World Monuments Fund Program in Angkor, Cambodia.
She is responsible for managing a number of architectural conservation projects at Angkor Archaeological Park, including a multi-year project supported by the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation to preserve the ancient stone temple of Phnom Bakheng — one of the great achievements of the ancient Khmer Kingdom. The five-year project at Phnom Bakheng is scheduled to be completed in 2013.
"I was born in a construction family" says Phally. "I wanted to be an architect because architecture is rich with constructive ideas for serving people. An architect is a person who understands political, economic, historic, artistic, geographic, and philosophical concerns."
On a typical day at Phnom Bakheng, Phally works with stonemasons, archaeologists, engineers, suppliers, accountants, public officials, and people from different backgrounds who contribute to the preservation of Cambodia’s ancient and unique cultural heritage.
"Cambodia is small country, but it has a long history," says Phally.
With more than 100 brick and stone shrines and seven large stone terraces, Phnom Bakheng is a major architectural monument in its own right. Decades of neglect and erosion due to poor drainage and heavy foot traffic have caused a number of structural problems which Phally and her team are in the process of correcting.
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EHA ARCHIVE
We would like to congratulate the winning project EpiSouth Plus.
The EpiSouth Plus Project is aimed at increasing health security in the Mediterranean Area and Balkans by enhancing preparedness to threats, which can affect health security, and to bio-security risks at national/regional levels in the framework of International Health Regulation implementation. Building upon the Network of 27 EU and non-EU Countries established by the previous project EpiSouth (2006-2010), the whole initiative has lasted more than seven years (2006-2014). The project has strengthened countries' capacity to cope with health threats through concerted and coordinated capacity building activities, including the establishment of a Mediterranean Regional Laboratories network; promotion of common procedures in interoperable Generic Preparedness and Risk management among the countries involved in the Network; enhancement of Mediterranean Early Warning Systems (EWS) allowing alerts and Epidemic Intelligence (EI) information sharing among EpiSouth countries and developing interoperability with other Early Warning Systems, including the European EWRS; production of guidelines and a strategic document based on assessments and surveys aimed at facilitating IHR implementation.
Participating countries: Italy, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia plus 18 non-EU MS.
Two videos explaining more about the activities of the Network can be accessed here:
The ITAREPS system (Information Technology Aided Relapse Prevention Programme in Schizophrenia) represents a mobile phone-based e-Health solution for weekly remote patient monitoring and disease management in schizophrenia and psychotic disorders in general. ITAREPS provides health professionals with home telemonitoring via a PC-to-phone SMS platform that identifies prodromal symptoms of relapse, to enable early intervention and prevent hospitalisations. The participants of the programme are patients and their family members. The programme was developed by the Prague Psychiatric Centre in 2005. Based on available evidence, ITAREPS is capable of reducing the risk of rehospitalisation down to one-fifth.
Participating countries: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Japan
The main aim of SALUS is to complement on-going medical drug safety studies through a scalable and standard based interoperability framework which specially focuses on postmarketingpharmacovigilance activities. Post-marketing pharmacovigilance can be defined as the science of detecting, assessing, understanding, and preventing adverse effects of drugs or other drug related problems once the drug is on market. The SALUS project fosters the integration of clinical care information from electronic health records (EHRs) into clinical research systems to enable proactive post-marketing safety studies for early detection of potential safety issues.
Participating countries: Italy and Germany and partners from Switzerland, France, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands and Turkey
ExplainTB is a crowd charity project that offers free educational videos in several languages at the point of care: more than 300 volunteers worldwide contributed content, translations, proof-readings, voice-overs or acted as doctors in the films. The app allows the display of movies and written information in about 28 languages. The audio-visual content also teaches populations that are out of reach for print material. ExplainTB helps the healthcare worker to overcome the language barrier, allows patients to learn about their disease in their mother tongue and provides relatives with essential information about prevention of transmission. Furthermore, ExplainTB allows governments to publish national guidelines and country-specific information on a mobile point-of-care platform. Access to all videos can be gained via an app or by scanning a QR code from a poster. The posters are available on www.explaintb.org. The website allows the creation of bi-lingual handouts with individually tailored written information. Available since November 2013, ExplainTB has registered access to its website from over 80 countries. More than 2500 regular users access the information.
Participating countries: Not applicable, videos in 16 languages, written material in 33 languages, 12000 visitors registered from over 80 countries
EHA 2014 winning project.
The Euro-Peristat project’s aim is to develop a high quality, innovative, internationally recognized and sustainable European perinatal health information system, producing data and analysis on a regular basis for use by stakeholders including clinicians (obstetricians, neonatologists, midwives, and neonatal nurses), policy makers in health ministries, maternal and child protection offices, and insurance and quality assurance agencies as well as pregnant women and their families. The project began as part of the EU’s Health Monitoring Programme and relies on an active network of European perinatal health professionals (clinicians, epidemiologists, and statisticians). Euro-Peristat’s data serve as evidence for key stakeholders making decisions about mothers and babies´ health in Europe. Each of their reports has been downloaded over 3000 times and in a web evaluation of 100 high-level stakeholders, 80% of respondents rated their publications very useful for their work. Over 200 news articles have been published on their results which have generated multiple debates about care provision to mothers and children.
Twenty-nine countries currently participate in Euro-Peristat, including 26 EU member states and Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland
Electrical heart disease leading to arrhythmias represents a major public health issue because it increases the risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD). Current SCD prevention strategies are not directed at the underlying risk mechanisms. The EUTrigTreat project elucidates molecular and environmental mechanisms, which underlie life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, and how genes and external factors modulate and initiate catastrophic electrical abnormalities in the heart. Improved understanding of key arrhythmia mechanisms enables EUTrigTreat investigators to develop mechanism-targeted diagnostic and therapeutic approaches including novel drug and device therapies. These important objectives are investigated by a multidisciplinary research team including clinical and basic scientists together with small-to-medium enterprises, and through a coordinated large-scale collaborative excellence project.
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At this point, who should show up to spoil the party but… the ghost of Clytemnestra, Orestes's mother, whom he killed at the end of the previous play in the series (called Libation Bearers).
Clytemnestra calls out to the Furies, who are still sleeping inside the temple.
She says, "Hey, shake a leg will you! Get up! It's me, Clytemnestra! All the other dead people keep on disrespecting me; it must be because you haven't punished Orestes yet for killing me. Don't you remember all the sacrifices I made for you back when I was alive? Come on! Have at it!"
Still half-asleep, the Furies cry out from inside the temple (in Collard's translation): "Seize! Seize! / Seize! Seize! Put your mind to it!"
But that isn't very helpful. Clytemnestra wants them to help her, after all.
Finally, after telling the Furies off one more time, Clytemnestra's ghost floats offstage.
Now, still groggy, the Furies come out of the temple and array themselves in front of it.
The Furies form themselves into a Chorus and start dancing and singing. In their song, they complain about how Orestes got away from them; they blame Hermes, the god of trickery. (From Libation Bearers, Part II of the Oresteia trilogy, we already know that Orestes and Hermes are tight.)
In general, they think that the world is going to Hades in a hand basket because the young gods (like Hermes and Apollo) are turning against the older gods (the Furies themselves). Kid-gods these days, eh?
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Changes In Modern Hockey and Pakistan
Pakistani Fans are celebrating wining in Manchester UK
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Aloha CKMS Band `Ohana,
Hope you are staying safe. Here is the email sent home to families about our current school closure due to the pandemic. Please have your child check Google Classroom for updated information regarding assignments and announcements. Any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out.
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Frank Azar Commercial
A 10 second video by Frank Azar, personal injury attorney in Denver, Colorado.
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Sleeping Giant Ski Area Ski Trail Map
near Sleeping Giant Ski Area, Cody, WY
Trail map from Red Lodge Mountain.
48 miles away
Official ski trail map of Red Lodge Mountain ski area from the 2007-2008 season.
49 miles away
Simple and clear State Park Map.
65 miles away
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I haven't been able to keep up with the mass shootings so now it needs to be something pretty unusual to catch my eye these days. Ten mass shootings in a single weekend? Yep, that caught my eye. These are in (more or less) reverse chronological order, from early Sunday backwards.
Five people hurt after shooting at Dyersburg American Legion
Of the five, three were male and two were female. The key phrase I look for in these cases...
Police say witnesses were not willing to talk to investigators.
Yep. Dyersburg is a fairly close to Memphis, a hotspot for urban gun violence
Woman and 3 men shot and wounded during dispute in Brooklyn
The police have a solid lead:
Police are looking for the gunman, described as a man in his 20s dressed in black with a white t-shirt who fled the scene.
That narrows it down. How many guys of a certain demographic in their 20s wear white t-shirts? Also a key clue: the shooting followed a "dispute".
The first of two from Chicago...
Man killed, 3 hurt in Near West Side shooting: police
The man killed was Dante Denny, a 29 year old black male. The other three are in bad shape and of course are uncooperative.
Police said the victims have been uncooperative with investigators and further details about the shooting remain unknown.
The second one from Chicago
6 wounded in Bronzeville shooting
Like a broken record:
The victims were unable to provide a description of the shooter, police said. No one is in custody as Area One detectives investigate.
Yep. Bronzeville is a Chicago neighborhood. According to Choose Chicago: "Bronzeville is a center of African-American life and culture in Chicago. Historically known as the city’s “Black Metropolis”. Huh.
We travel now to the Show-Me-State of Missouri. This was a bad one.
2 dead, 7 injured in Sikeston shooting; SEMO Major Case Squad activated
Two women were killed, 31 year old Kimyata Haynes and 20 year old Faquazia Wilson. Both women, as you can probably guess from the names, were black. As usual, no help from the witnesses.
“Two young ladies are brutally murdered and several people are there and I know people have information but are somehow reluctant to give it to us,” Sikeston DPS Chief Jim McMillen said. “Without that information, we can’t do our job and we talk about how important it is to have that relationship and it’s something that we need to work on to try to better in our community.”
How can the police get murderers off the street when witnesses won't help? The report states that there was a large houseparty/block party and police responded to a noise complaint. I am sure they were treated with the utmost respect. Soon after they left, at least two men in a car drove by and sprayed the crowd with gunfire.
Our journey takes us to Hope, Arkansas, the hometown of former President Bill "Slick Willie" Clinton and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.
UPDATE: Seven injured after shooting breaks out at social gathering in Hope, Ark.
Ah, the old "social gathering". Six people were shot and one suffered a broken leg running from the gunfire. In an unusual twist, we have a brief description of the suspects.
Assistant Chief Kimberly Tomlin said the suspects, three black men, were last seen getting into a black vehicle that looked like a Grand Marquis.
Three black guys shoot six people who were probably all black as well.
My home state of Ohio had their own mass shooting last weekend in Ironton.
Man charged for bar shooting that injured four
The four were all men, at least three with names that sound like they belong to black men. A man was arrested in the shooting, a Tayvon Gaulds. Pretty safe bet he isn't Irish.
Back to Missouri!
Police: 4 injured, 1 dead after shooting at 18th and Vine early Saturday morning
This occurred in Kansas City. The deceased is Montel Ridley, a 27 year old black male. Apparently there have been 121 homicides already this year in the Kansas City metro area. The story is pretty typical:
Police said the preliminary investigation indicates that a group of people gathered in a parking lot at 18th and Vine when an argument broke out. Several people began shooting which led to the five victims.
An argument escalates into gunfire, unfortunately all too common.
Five people were shot during an argument of some sort in Drew, Mississippi. An arrest was made.
WEEKEND SHOOTING IN DREW LEAVES FIVE BYSTANDERS INJURED
One woman (?) named Lacey Griffin has been arrested and warrants have been issued for Griffin's brothers. I tried and tries but couldn't verify the race or gender of Lacey Griffin but it certainly sounds like a white chick. Not sure though.
Out to California
Police: Shooting at house party leaves one man dead, 4 others injured
Another shooting at a "house party". Surprise, surprise...
Police are still investigating the motive behind the shooting but they say the shots were fired as a result of some type of altercation.
Remember when people got into fights and just exchanged a few punches? The deceased was Joseph Almanza. Joseph appears to be mixed race, at least partly mestizo based on the last name and the picture on the GoFundMe page.
There was a mass shooting in Colorado on Friday but ten is nice round number so I am leaving that one out, it was pretty early Friday morning so not really the weekend yet and no details are available other than four shot and a juvenile arrested.
There were lots of mass shootings before last weekend and there have been several since including three yesterday, on a freaking Tuesday no less, including a shooting at a child's birthday party where two women in their 60s were killed and another where a 6 year old was shot in a hail of gunfire from "several black men" in a car.
Why in the world was it not in the news that there were ten mass shootings in America over a single weekend?
You know why. The victims were almost all black and the shooters were as well. No one wants to hear that.
The entire Black Lives Matter movement is based on a lie.
Black lives don't matter when blacks take them. You won't see any white liberals getting weepy or bowing down before blacks or taking a knee.
A man like George Floyd, by all accounts a terrible person who had added nothing positive to the world, is now a martyr and given three funerals fit for a head of state. He was buried in a golden coffin and eulogized by weeping people as if his death was a great loss.
Meanwhile dozens of black people are shot and killed last weekend and there are no celebrities mourning them and paying for their funerals. They just get buried and no one cares, and next weekend their friends will seek vengeance for their death.
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By Rosalie Marion Bliss, USDA Agricultural Research Service
February 27, 2006
Dietary professionals and others interested in checking the amount of "added" sugars in foods can now tap a new data resource. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) nutritionists today launched an online table that lets users look up the added sugars, total sugars and carbohydrates in 2,041 common foods listed.
The "special interest table" was produced by researchers in the Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL), one of six units that make up the ARS Beltsville (Md.) Human Nutrition Research Center (BHNRC). The NDL is headed by nutritionist Joanne Holden. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency.
U.S. consumers eat about 74 pounds of added sugars per year, according to 1999-2002 survey data analyzed by researchers at the BHNRC's Community Nutrition Research Group. That's about 23 teaspoons of added sugars every day--or 460 calories that supply no additional nutrients.
In the new table, added sugars are defined as those sugars added to foods and beverages during processing or home preparation. The data reported are estimated values based on the added sweeteners listed under "ingredients" on the package labels of processed foods and beverages. Some added sugars listed under ingredients include honey, molasses, fruit juice concentrate, brown sugar, corn sweetener, sucrose, lactose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup and malt syrup.
The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans underscore the importance of consumers' limiting the amount of added sugars in the foods they eat. While foods containing natural sugars, such as fresh fruit and milk, are rich in vitamins and minerals, many foods and beverages that contain high amounts of added sugars may be relatively low in nutrients. This special interest table will help users identify foods that contain high levels of added sugars.
The new table is entitled "USDA Database for the Added Sugars Content of Selected Foods." Entries are listed alphabetically within 23 food groups such as "Baked Products," "Fast Foods" and "Snacks." To download the new special interest table as a PDF or Excel file, go to: http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=12107
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ProcedureFlow makes the case for bringing more visual content into your contact centre training to improve agent learning.
1. People prefer visual content– According to Hubspot, 4x as many customers would rather watch a video about a product than read about it. And the same goes for your employees!
2. Increased comprehension– Adding illustrations to text increases understanding of a concept 98% of the time. This can have a huge impact for employees who are required to have a deep understanding of a wide variety of topics.
3. More engaged learners– Replacing walls of text with visuals improvers learners’ engagement and motivation. And when learners are engaged, they’ll master challenging concepts sooner.
4. We’re becoming a visual world– Cisco projects that global internet traffic from videos will make up 82% of all consumer internet traffic in 2020.
5. Variety of content– If your three week training program consists of mostly long and text heavy slide decks, it’s easy for new hires to lose interest. Visuals help keep trainees attentive by providing a variety of content types like images, gifs, videos, diagrams, etc.
6. Simplify complex information– Visuals can make some of your most complex topics much simpler to understand. Just look at the example below! Do you find the visual, or text based explanation easier to understand?
7. Storytelling– Humans love stories. In fact, we’re more likely to remember information when told in the format of a story. Visuals can significantly help with this and convey things like emotions and humor.
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1 cup almond milk 3 tbsp chia seeds 1 ½ cups cut, fresh figs 2 tbsp maple syrup 1 tsp vanilla extract
4 figs, cut into quarters 2 tbsp chopped hazel nuts 2 tbsp maple syrup
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To deliver the most fashion-forward curation of active and off-duty to our global audience in a unique, innovative and personal way.
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In 2012, Stylerunner founder Julie Stevanja was based in London working for a tech start-up and attending Bikram yoga five times a week. Although living in one of the most fashionable cities in the world, it was here that she found that she wasn’t able to find a big enough selection of stylish activewear to meet her needs.
Realising the gap in the market was the perfect opportunity for an e-commerce store with beautifully curated activewear to an international audience, Stevanja committed to creating the world’s first premier online sportwear store and launched Stylerunner just three months later.
Fast forward five years, and Stylerunner is the leading women's online activewear e-tailer in the world offering a coveted range of brands and product like no other.
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IATA Refers the Southeast Lowa Regional Airport as BRL. Owned by the Southeast Lowa Regional Airport Authority, this airport is situated two miles southwest of the CBD of the city called Burlington in Des Moines County. Known as a public airport, BRL serves Southeast lowa, Northeast Missouri and Wes-Central Illinois.
The Airport is spread over 537 acres of land and possess two runways. Apart from being used for general aviation, the airport is also used by a commercial airline called Air Choice One, for providing its services. This airline runs daily flights to Lambert Airport in St.Louis and Ohare International Airport, Chicago. Air ambulance, aircraft sales, organ procurement, flight training, aircraft rental and aircraft maintenance are few of the wide range of services provided at the airport.
The employees at the airport are so friendly and courteous that the travel experience of every passenger visiting at Southeast lowa Regional airport is made uniquely enjoyable. One can avail services like free parking, umbrella services in case of rains, complimentary coffee and many more
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Disentilde;o de cadena de suministros resilientes (Spanish Edition)
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Description : A partir del conocimiento generado con la investigacioacute;n titulada Desarrollo de un modelo integral para el disentilde;o y gestioacute;n de cadenas de suministro resilientes y confiables , se presenta este texto que tiene como propoacute;sito convertirse en una herramienta de consulta para estudiantes y profesionales interesados en conocer nuevos enfoques en la administracioacute;n de la cadena de suministro basados en el aumento de la confiabilidad. Este enfoque permite abordar el problema de sincronizacioacute;n de la cadena de suministro con el fin de aumentar su resiliencia al momento de enfrentar rupturas en su flujo natural. El texto presenta ademaacute;s teacute;cnicas de integracioacute;n de sistemas de informacioacute;n geograacute;fica al disentilde;o y gestioacute;n de cadenas de suministro resilientes y confiables, y enfatiza en su utilidad en los procesos de toma de decisiones.
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This is the third time I've worked with Estella and once again she did an amazing job. Her main design focus is on book covers, but she took on the challenge of doing a promotional art booklet. I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted in the beginning and she worked with me to develop the perfect design. The booklet she created is a piece of artwork itself. Thank you Estella, I look forward to working with you again. | <urn:uuid:3c242ede-eace-432e-856d-5f59fa477d05> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://99designs.com/profiles/1386441/reviews/253968 | 2020-07-10T23:37:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655912255.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20200710210528-20200711000528-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.992762 | 89 | [
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Background: Forcipomyia taiwana (biting midge) allergy is the most prevalent biting insect allergy in Taiwan. An animal model corresponding to the human immuno-pathologic features of midge allergy is needed for investigating the mechanisms and therapies. This study successfully developed a murine model of Forcipomyia taiwana allergy. Methods: BALB/c mice were sensitized intra-peritoneally with midge extract on days 0, 7, 14, 21 then intra-dermally on days 28, 31 and 35. Serum midge-specific IgE, IgG1, and IgG2a were measured every 14 days by indirect ELISA. The mice were challenged intradermally with midge extract at day 40 and then sacrificed. Proliferation and cytokine production of splenocytes after stimulation with midge extract were determined by MTT assay and ELISA, respectively. The cytokine mRNA expression in response to midge stimulation was analyzed by RT-PCR. Results: Serum IgE, total IgG, and IgG1 antibody levels against midge extract were significantly higher in the midge-sensitized mice than in the control mice. After the two-step sensitization, all mice in the midge-sensitized group displayed immediate itch and plasma extravasation reactions in response to challenge with midge extract. Skin histology from midge-sensitized mice showed marked eosinophil and lymphocyte infiltrations similar to that observed in humans. Stimulation of murine splenocytes with midge extract elicited significant proliferation, IL-4, IL-10, IL-13 and IFN-γ protein production, and up-regulation of mRNA in a dose-dependent manner in the midge-sensitized group, but not in the control group. Conclusions: A murine model of midge bite allergy has been successfully developed using a two-step sensitization protocol. The sensitized mice have very similar clinical and immunologic reactions to challenge with midge proteins as the reactions of human to midge bites. This murine model may be a useful platform for future research and the development of treatment strategies for insect bite allergy.
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With The Choosing looming, Storm knows her destiny is about to be revealed. Which of the four Elementals will claim her as her own, determining her future in Yanlin? Last to undertake the Choosing, Storm visits the shrines where her fear of not being chosen by any of the Elementals is replaced by a much bigger one, for she has had a great gift bestowed on her. Can she accept it and harness it’s power to save her people, or will she turn her back on it and betray everything she holds dear?
Beautifully written, emotionally intelligent and with a powerful, pacey plot, that twists and turns like a tornado, Storm Witch is a spellbinding fantasy that draws you into the world of Yanlin and entwines you with it’s characters.
With each turn of the page, I felt my feet plant themselves more firmly on the streets leading to the harbour, smelt the salty tang of the sea and heard the hustle and bustle of the town as Yanlin’s people went about their lives.
Storm is a great character; her emotions are real, understandable and make her easy to relate to. Mixi, as her enemy, is very easy to dislike, yet feel sympathy for. I adored Teanu for her quiet strength, her kindness and compassion, and her steely command of any situation. She reminded me so much of my Nan!
Nim provides the most complex character – hero or villain, friend or foe? It is through his eyes that The Drowned Ones, seen as savage pirates by the people of Yanlin, are given a different narrative. This provides huge food for thought and would be a great discussion topic in class, resonating deeply with issues in our world around displaced people and refugees.
I can’t wait to see what happens next in this powerful series; with three more books, there’s a lot of thought-provoking adventure still to come.
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Wednesday’s rugby news has Cheika punished, Genia starting, more debate on the Test exclusion policy and McCaw back from injury.
Cheika found guilty
Waratahs coach Michael Cheika has pleaded guilty to verbally abusing a cameraman in Durban last month and will be placed on a suspended six month ban and forced to fork out $6000 in legal costs. If Cheika breaches SANZAR’s code of conduct between now and August 31 next year he will have the ban imposed.
The NSW coach was previously fined for abusing match officials at Stade Francais and may also have been hurt by very publicly damaging Canberra Stadium recently.
Genia soldiering on
Wallabies halfback Will Genia will take part in Friday’s match against the Blues despite rolling his ankle last week. Genia said that he could play through the injury, asserting, “There’s still a bit of pain there, but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone whose not experiencing pain while playing and training anyway.”
Genia characterised the match as “do or die”, while also citing the desire to be a part of Quade Cooper’s 100th match as a driving factor in his decision to play.
Gregan pushes for sabbaticals
Former Wallaby captain George Gregan has urged the ARU to allow players to go on short-term sabbaticals to Europe or Japan, preventing a mass exodus after the World Cup. The Australian Super Rugby salary cap is set til 2017 while Test payments have been reduced from $13,1000 to $10,000.
The Brumbies in particular risk losing a host of their big-name players at the end of the season, including Lealiifano, Matt Toomua, Scott Fardy, Jesse Mogg, Nic White, Scott Sio and Henry Speight. The prospect of a short stint overseas down the track could make the ARU financials more competitive.
McCaw returns for Crusaders
Richie McCaw is set to rejoin his Crusader teammates after two months on the sidelines with a broken thumb. Although the health of the inspirational McCaw will help Todd Blackadder’s team, the All Blacks legend will ease back into action off the bench against the Brumbies on Saturday.
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Fire or agni is one of the five manifestations of life. In ceremonies like Wedding, birth, festivals etc., the fire is lit symbolizing the presence of God. Havan is a sacred fire ritual that accepts our offerings and sacrifice. The sacred fire acts as a link between human’s consciousness and the cosmic consciousness. The fire also has the ability to convert the physical components (offerings that symbolize the sacrifice into the fire) into the psychic components as offering to the deities presiding over the Havan.
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Following is a sample list of items required. Additional items may be needed for special occasions. Puja and Havan Ceremony items can be supplied. These items are also available separately and can be shipped to your destination.
- 1. Pure Ghee 1/3 Lb.
- 2. Havan Samigri one packet.
- 3. Camphor few small tablets.
- 4. Cotton wool.
- 5. Dry, clean, small size fire wood.
- 6. Match Box.
- 7. Napkins.
- 8. Glass with water.
- 9. Lota with water.
- 10. Long Spoon for Ghee. 11. Four small pates.
- 12. Fresh Flowers.
- 13. Home Made Prasaad or Ladoo
- 14. Kesar (Saffron).
- 15. Uncooked rice (in a small plate).
- 16. One clean plate.
- 17. Mauli (Red Cotton Thread).
- 18. Havan Kund.
- 19. Kitchen Foil one Packet.
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January 3, 2018 3 min to read
Is Print Still Relevant?
Category : 4CDesignWorks
Right now the marketing world is entertaining a lot of thoughts on the whole subject of print. I, like many other graphic designers, was schooled on the importance of print in relation to a company. “Print is dead,” has been a running theme the past few years, however I (and many like-minded individuals) see that as a completely untrue statement.
Why would anyone say such an awful thing as “Print is dead?”
Times have changed and new mediums are quickly becoming the norm. A few years ago actually being productive on a phone was something George Jetson would be doing! Tablets are already overtaking laptops as a platform of choice for many that need to do particular tasks and/or not be chained to their desk to do them.
It’s all exciting and possible mostly by the creation of 3G/4G/XG and the internet. The internet is a wonderful thing and a great tool to use for marketing, BUT it’s only one piece of the pie. Receiving something in the mail or being physically handed something still has a ton of value.
Stationery and corporate documents are just as important as the information a company may place on their website. If no invoices are sent how does someone get paid?! If no business cards are handed out, do you expect people to just stalk you on FaceBook?!
Print isn’t limited to your screen.
Fold it, mail it, wear it, put it into a container… these are some things you can do with print. There are no restrictions to the size of a screen or tablet. It can be as big as a billboard or as small as a mouse pad. The shape can be altered, corners can be rounded, logos can be cut out and different tactile techniques can be used.
Some effects just don’t translate.
While depth and textures may be visually copied some items like seeing metallic ink or a varnish showing a subtle glimmer due to lighting just can’t be replicated like they are seen in real life.
It can be experienced.
The last time I tried to touch the internet I got a static shock for my efforts! Handing someone a brochure that has texture that can be seen and felt (even smelled) creates an experience for the viewer. If you’re anything like a certain marketing director I know, smelling a freshly printed piece is not out of the ordinary!
Something as trivial as the weights of a business card have a message and an indication of the business. A heavy business card by a construction company makes sense because they do hard work and should have a card that reflects that.
Print is easier to read than on screen.
This is a common preference I’ve heard from multiple sources and avid readers (Light that Kindle on fire! I’d rather read from a book!) Paper cuts aside, there are still those that prefer to read information in hardcopy. Not to mention that there is a large population that work long hours in front of a screen and being able to look at anything else for even a few brief moments is a total change of pace.
No Pop Up ads.
Looking over a piece in its entirety without additional interruption in the same space is possible. There aren’t banners blinking, dogs barking and things intruding on your viewing enjoyment prompting you to click the “x” to get away from the latest car movie that just took up half your screen. My obvious distain for pop-ups aside… the printed piece does not have to be scrolled to be enjoyed.
It is what it is.
With digital being everywhere, the items that are invested in typically stand head and shoulders above the ones that were constructed by some type of “free webpage” offer seen on the interwebs. Websites can be altered at a moment’s notice, whereas a printed piece is not going to change or need to be refreshed in your hands. There was a finality and presence to it that prompts it to be passed on.
So, what is the future of print?
Think about the interactions you’ve had to get to websites or information. There’s a good possibility that a professionally printed item was the tool that was used to get you the information you needed. As a techie/marketing/consulting ally we are seeing a swing back to the importance of print.
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Senior Tax Preparer
How Long have you been with Perfect Balance Accounting?
I have been with Perfect Balance Accounting since February 2014. I was one of Laura’s first employees when she was at the Bankers Rd. location.
Do you have a specialty?
Individual taxes is my specialty, but I also work with corporate taxes, payroll, and occasionally bookkeeping.
How many years of experience do you have in this field/position?
I started learning tax laws and preparing individual taxes for H&R Block when my son was young. Preparing taxes has kept me employed many years.
What other types of jobs have you had?
I have worked several types of jobs in my past. Some of my past jobs have been factory assembly, bank auditor, accountant/tax preparer.
— Bachelor of Science in Finance from University of Wisconsin – Parkside.
Other Certifications, or Continued Learning?
— Yearly tax update classes attended.
Married for 29 years to Kurt. We have two children Sarah, 21 and Erik, 27. We also have a dog named Sadie. She is a 7-year-old Terrier mix.
What are some of your hobbies?
Bike riding, travel, shopping, eating out and trying different ethnic restaurants, cooking, enjoying time with friends and family.
We have lived in Racine for over 20 years.
Do you volunteer or work with any particular charity or organization?
I volunteer at a weekly food distribution for Feeding America and a local church.
“People don’t realize how much they have to be thankful for until they have to pay taxes on it.”
Meet the rest of the staff!
Laura DeGroot, Owner
Melissa Vela, Senior Payroll Specialist
Tammy Wishau, Lead Accountant
Julie Rodriguez, Bookkeeper / Tax Assistant
Lisa Shockley, Office Manager, Bookkeeper
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The Design Museum has announced the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. And their shortlist for transport showcases some of the most forward-thinking ways to get around you've ever seen.
Air Access Seat: Air Access comprises two components; a detachable wheelchair that transports passengers from the gate to the plane, and a fixed-frame aisle seat into which the wheelchair can seamlessly slide to form a regular airline seat. Designed by Priestmangoode. Photo: Priestmangoode
Donky Bicycle: The steel beam running through this compact bicycle by British industrial designer Ben Wilson means it can carry heavy loads on its front and rear platforms. Designed by Ben Wilson. Photo: Ben Wilson Design
Exhibition Road: This $42 million development project improved the infrastructure of, access to, and facilities within London's famed Exhibition Road area, and was completed just in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Designed by Dixon Jones/The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Photo: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images for the Cass Sculpture Foundation
i3 Concept Car: This BMW coupe not only generates zero emissions, it also provides a calm, virtually silent driving experience for up to 100 miles before requiring charging. And through its optional fast charging, the battery can be replenished to 80 per cent charge in less than 30 minutes. Designed by BMW. Photo: BMW/Facebook
Mando Footloose Chainless Bicycle: Unlike similar bicycles that combine manual and electric power, the Footloose totally eliminates the chain and transforms the cyclist's efforts directly into electricity. This energy is then stored in a lithium-ion battery inside the bike frame, before it is converted back into kinetic energy by the electric motor that powers the rear wheel. Designed by Mark Sanders. Photo: Mando Footloose
Morph Folding Wheel. For the first time the wheels on a wheelchair are able to fold flat and fit in the storage compartments of airplanes and small cars. When folded, the wheel takes up less than half a cubic foot, compared with nearly twice that when in use. Designed by Vitamins for Maddak Inc. Photo: morphwheels.com
N-ONE: Featuring a naturally aspirated 1.3L DOHC engine, this hatchback delivers a fuel economy of 64 mpg. Designed by Honda. Photo: Honda/Facebook
Olympics Wayfinding: It was easy to find your way around London last year with these eye-catching signs that cropped up everywhere from the Tube, to the Torch Relay, to the Olympic venues themselves. Designed by TfL/JEDCO/LOCOG. Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
Touch & Travel: A new travelling system in Germany that uses a smartphone app to scan your tickets and generates a monthly bill that can be taken from your direct debit. Designed by DB Mobility Logistics AG. Source: Touch & Travel
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LAFAYETTE – Freshman Karleen Bedre scored a pair of goals in the first 14 minutes of play and the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Women’s Soccer team earned its first berth in the Sun Belt Conference Championships since 2016 as it blanked Georgia Southern, 2-0, on a rainy Friday night at the Ragin’ Cajuns Soccer/Track Complex.
Mackenzie Lee posted her fifth shutout of the season – and ninth of her career – as Louisiana (8-6-3, 4-3-2 Sun Belt) improved to 5-0-1 at home this season heading into Sunday’s regular-season finale against Troy (11-2-4, 6-1-2 Sun Belt). The win also secured the Ragin’ Cajuns first non-losing season since posting a 9-8-2 mark in 2014.
Bedre gave Louisiana a 1-0 lead in the eighth minute of the match after getting a feed from Kobi McNutt just inside the Ragin’ Cajuns half of the field, raced downfield and blasted a shot from approximately 20 yards out that skirted past Georgia Southern goalie Sallie Newton into the lower, right corner of the goal.
McNutt, who recorded the first multi-assist game of her career, got Louisiana started again in the 14th minute after serving a ball to Ashley Newland along the right side. Newland’s crossing shot found the foot of a wide-open Bedre, who beat Newton to the left side of the net, for her team-high sixth goal of the season and giving the Ragin’ Cajuns a 2-0 advantage.
Louisiana held a decisive 12-4 advantage on shots, including a 6-1 edge on shots on-goal. McNutt took a team-high four shots for the Ragin’ Cajuns with Bedre, Skyla Sykes, Una Einarsdottir and Rachel Sutter each taking a pair of attempts.
The Ragin’ Cajuns defensive line of Kaylie Powell, Gwen Mummert and Alex Augustyn limited Georgia Southern’s Frida Brattum – second in the Sun Belt Conference in goals scored (8) – to one shot attempt in 63 minutes on the field.
Louisiana will host Louisiana Salutes on Sunday against Troy, recognizing all first responders and military personnel. The Ragin’ Cajuns will hold Senior Day activities prior the match, which will be televised live on Cox Sports Television and ESPN+. Admission is free.
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We are writing to you today to urge you to take action to improve P.S. 289 George V. Brower School in Crown Heights Brooklyn. For years, this school has lagged behind other schools in New York City on state math and English language arts tests (scoring 30% in math and 22% in ELA respectively, in 2014 ). That means this school is only preparing roughly 1 in 4 children. To make matters worse, the teachers and administration at P.S. 289 are consistently inattentive to the needs of both parents and students. That is why we, the parents of P.S. 289 students, are calling for the following changes:
- Additional instruction time for struggling students: This is a policy that the Department of Education has called for at its renewal schools, and it should be a top priority at P.S. 289. The new teachers contract took away time for tutoring and it should be restored.
- Accountability: Teachers and school leaders need to be held accountable for the success and failures of students.
- Quality Teachers: P.S. 289 should have competent educators who effectively teach our kids.
- Weekly Progress Reports: Regular reports would help monitor student progress and keep parents informed of where children stand on a regular basis.
- Improved Curriculum: Students need a more rigorous curriculum and instruction, which includes high academic expectations.
- Professionalism from Staff: Staff should treat parents and children with respect and make sure they are professional in their attire and demeanor.
- Zero Tolerance for School Bullying: The school should establish a definitive plan of action to address bullying, including school suspensions and possibly parent mediation.
- Parent/Teacher Orientation: Parents and teachers should meet and interact during the first month of the school year. Parents should have a clear expectation of what to expect with the curriculum.
- Parent Observation Time: Administration should set aside specific times on a monthly basis when parents can observe students in the classroom environment.
- Student work on display: Teachers should showcase student work from each classroom to help create an environment that is more conducive to learning.
We have tried to raise these concerns to Principal Jeffers directly as well as with the school’s PTA. We have told Principal Jeffers about our problems with staff and how there needs to be a more open dialogue, but he has refused to take action.
The PTA won’t even allow us to speak at their meetings, betraying the very definition of a PARENT - Teacher Association.
We hope you will take our recommendations seriously and will institute real change at P.S. 289 so our children will have access to the quality education that the Mayor and the DOE have promised.
Thank you for your consideration.
Jonathan Row, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Belinda Aguilera, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Xiomara Arocha, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Noarie and Marie Blaise, Parents of P.S. 289 Student
La-Fleur Bristol, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Cheryl Brown, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Ida Brown, Grandparent of P.S. 289 Student
Irma Brown, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Jeanette Bryan, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Angelette Caminero, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Shannon Hayes, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
William Ingram, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Anthony Inniss, Parent of P.S. 289 Student
Wanda Jones, Grandparent of P.S. 289 Student
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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are used for monitoring industrial processes such as power grids, water supply systems, traffic control, oil and natural gas mining, space stations and nuclear plants. However, their security faces the threat of being compromised due to the increasing use of open access networks. Furthermore, the emergence of quantum computing has exposed a new type of threat to SCADA systems. Failure to secure SCADA systems can lead to catastrophic consequences. For example, a malicious attack can take control of the power supply to a city, shut down the water supply system, or cause malfunction of a nuclear reactor. The primary goal of this thesis is to classify attacks on SCADA systems, identify the new type of attack based on quantum computing, and design a novel security scheme to defend against traditional attacks as well as the quantum attack. The proposed Signcryption scheme provides both encryption and intrusion detection. In particular, it detects the man-in-the-middle attack as this intrusion can lead to others. The signcryption scheme is built on the foundation of the fundamental BB84 cryptographic scheme and does not involve computationally expensive third-party validation. We simulate the proposed scheme using the Quantum Information Toolkit in Python. Furthermore, we validate and analyze the proposed scheme using security verification tools, namely, Scyther and Prism. | <urn:uuid:ab39d464-e975-4dff-a08c-a5dc0e8d014d> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/76313 | 2020-07-09T12:32:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655899931.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709100539-20200709130539-00155.warc.gz | en | 0.92044 | 294 | [
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Fearless Warrior - A Yoga Adventure in Sharm 1-8 Sep 2017
"Do one thing every day that Scares you" Eleanor Roosevelt
Fear is often crippling, holding us back from enjoying the things that make our heart race and sing at the same time! Yet when we dare to take a step towards those unknown experiences, two magical things happen. The first is that we realise that things are much scarier in our minds than they really are, that we did not need to be scared. The second is that we grow, learn, enjoy ourselves and feel more alive than ever.
In this retreat we will awaken the inner warrior within each one of us. We will go into adventures of snorkling, quad biking and para sailing to awaken experiences of strength, courage and vitality.
Through our Yoga practice we will bravely explore the things that scare us the most and examine them. Lovingly, we will support one another to overcome the fears that we can, and accept those we cannot.
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"Drench the Doc" If we raise $5000 for Smiles for Life
By Julie on March 08, 2017
HELP US HELP KIDS! HELP US DRENCH DR. SHARP!
Local dental patients can have their teeth whitened and help a child in need by visiting local Crown Council dentist Dr. Michael Sharp at Sharp Smile Center. March marks the beginning of the 20th annual Smiles For Life Campaign. Sharp Smile Center has set a goal and Dr. Sharp has agreed to let everyone nail him with water balloons and water guns if we reach it!
The campaign runs from March 1 until June 30, and 100 percent of the proceeds from teeth whitening procedures done at Sharp Smile Center are contributed directly to the Smiles for Life Foundation. This foundation uses donations from the community to help fund worthy children’s charities and humanitarian work, both locally and around the world.
Tooth whitening patients receive their smile brightening procedure at a discounted rate. They can enhance their own smile while also improving the lives of disadvantaged children.
Since its creation in 1998, the Sharp Smile Center’s Smiles for Life Campaign has raised more than $82,000 thousand dollars for seriously ill, disabled, and disadvantaged kids thanks to participation from our local communities. Smiles for Life and the Sharp Smile Center hope to continue this tremendous pace for donations in 2017.
Anyone interested in donating directly without teeth whitening can do so by calling Sharp Smile Center at 269.344.4004. Participants can also refer friends to Sharp Smile Center by linking to the Smiles For Life site, making it easier than ever to give the gift of a new smile to friends and loved ones, while also giving hope to children in need.
Half of the donations raised by Sharp Smile Center will be given to Bronson Children’s Hospital. The rest goes to the Smiles for Life Foundation to support its national and international initiatives, including programs in the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and Guatemala.
Patients who would like to get involved should talk to Crown Council dentist Dr. Sharp at SharpSmileCenter.com
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ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters Wednesday that he never spoke with his New Jersey counterpart, Chris Christie, about whitewashing the 2013 Bridgegate scandal — his administration’s second day of responding to an assertion made in a federal courtroom in Newark.
Cuomo, a Democrat who has long observed an unofficial nonaggression pact with Christie, has been placed on the defensive by David Wildstein, a former Christie ally and authority appointee who pleaded guilty to closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge as an act of political retaliation against a Democratic mayor who declined to support Christie's re-election.
Wildstein testified that he was told by two top Christie appointees that the governors coordinated on a false cover story to "put an end" to the lane-closing controversy.
Cuomo and his team immediately branded Wildstein as a lying felon and said his testimony — given under oath — was “false and delusional.”
But a lawyer in the case suggested that another witness, Scott Rechler — a respected Cuomo appointee to the Port Authority — will corroborate the post-scandal collaboration by the governors.
Wildstein said it was his impression that Cuomo and Christie told Pat Foye — the Cuomo-appointed executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the bridge — to stand down. He said he was told that the governors agreed on the creation of a report that would back up the Christie-backed explanation that the lane closures had been part of a traffic study.
“It didn’t happen, and you know it didn’t happen because there was no report,” Cuomo told reporters after an event at the New-York Historical Society. “If there was a conversation where we said, we will do a report that does X, you know you would know? There would be a report.”
Cuomo’s chief of staff, Melissa DeRosa, attacked “totally irresponsible reporting yesterday from 3rd hand testimony based on nothing” after Wildstein on Wednesday said he had no actual way of knowing for certain whether the Cuomo-Christie conversation occurred.
Later, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi issued the following statement: “It is well known that Pat Foye and his New Jersey counterparts were at odds on many issues for many years. However, there was no conversation between the Governors concerning a ‘plan’ to have Pat Foye stand down or have a report written. Pat Foye and the Governor have both said Mr. Wildstein's account is inaccurate, he himself concedes its hearsay, and the supposed directives from it never happened: Mr. Foye never stood down and no report was ever prepared or issued."
Cuomo’s aides did not respond to questions about whether Rechler — a real estate developer who is a close gubernatorial ally and donor, and Cuomo’s former vice chairman at the Port — would corroborate any aspect of Wildstein's account.
While questions of what the governors knew and when they knew it are coloring the Bridgegate trial, the actual defendants are Bill Baroni, a former deputy executive director of the Port, and Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie’s deputy chief of staff.
Kelly’s lawyer, Michael Critchley, has sought to portray her as a lower-level figure who was not, as prosecutors say, responsible for engineering the Bridgegate coverup.
“Two top levelers: Chris Christie and Cuomo. They were both involved. They were both talking to each other. Talking what to do and how to do it,” Critchley said last month as the trial opened. “As a matter of fact, you'll hear from Scott Rechler, who says he spoke with Cuomo, Cuomo said he spoke — Cuomo told him he spoke with Christie and that Christie was upset because Pat Foye was meddling in his campaign. Pat Foye, whether he says it or not, will have witnesses to say that he heard that Chris Christie was angry with him and wanted him fired.”
Foye’s attorney has said that Wildstein’s testimony “is not accurate.”
Rechler did not answer calls or emails seeking comment.
Here is a transcript of Cuomo’s exchange with reporters at the Historical Society, excluding some questions about sputtering plans to overhaul the Port and hire a new CEO.
Q: Just go back to the timeline on Bridgegate. Pretty early on after the lane closures, in September of 2013, Pat Foye at the Port Authority sent an email calling it a federal crime. We now know it was a federal crime. Do you still maintain you were not aware at that time? When did you find out? Was anybody ever held accountable for not telling you?
A: “Nothing has changed from the past two years, we’re just learning more facts.”
Q: David Wildstein said on the stand that it was his impression that you and Christie talked about telling officials to stand down in terms of what happened in Fort Lee. Did it happen?
A: “Sometimes there’s innuendo and you can’t prove it one way or another. Here there are facts. If I said, ‘I think Zack Fink has blond hair,’ then we could find out, because we could look at [NY1 reporter and brunette] Zack Fink and he doesn’t have blond hair so it’s not true. This came up last year. I don’t know who raised it last year, but the same gossip was spread last year, and it’s factually impossible. ‘Pat Foye, stand down.’ Pat Foye didn’t stand down. Pat Foye stood up. ‘The report would whitewash.’ There was no report done. So, there was no report, Pat Foye didn’t stand down, he stood up. Pat Foye says it’s untrue. Governor Christie says it’s untrue. And I believe the gentleman himself, Wildstein, said he wasn’t sure it happened. He had just heard it.”
Q: The issue is not whether there’s a report or he stood down. It’s whether you two governors discussed a report, or asking him to stand down. Did that happen?
A: “It didn’t happen, and you know it didn’t happen because there was no report. If there was a conversation where we said, we will do a report that does X, you know you would know? There would be a report.”
Q: How did you find out about Bridgegate?
A: “That was two years ago, Zack. I have to go back and look, but I found out basically when it became public.”
Q: If this is false, then why did David Wildstein even bring you into the picture?
A: “I don’t know. You’d have to ask Mr. Wildstein what the theory is and what they’re trying to communicate. I don’t watch it, frankly, in the way you guys do.”
Q: What was the substance of your conversations with Governor Christie regarding Bill Baroni’s 2013 testimony to the New Jersey Legislature when he claimed there wasn’t a legitimate traffic study?
A: “There was no conversation that I can remember.”
Q: Do you have a response to Rob Astorino, who claims you and Christie colluded against his campaign?
A: “He has no basis for it, but that hasn’t stopped him before.”
Q: Are you going to do anything to bolster what you just said, either with documents or in any other way?
A: “It’s sort of irrefutable, you know. It’s black and white. His point is, ‘I heard a story.’ Now, this is a person [Wildstein] who admitted that he’s committed a crime and he’s pled to a felony. ‘I heard a story that the governor said to the governor that Pat Foye should stand down and we’re going to do a report.’ That was not accurate. That’s gossip that he’s passing on, and in this situation we have the advantage of knowing that it is factually not true. Pat Foye did not stand down — if anything, he was the whistleblower. And there was no report done whatsoever. Whitewashed, accurate, colorful – no report. And then he says he doesn’t know that that ever happened, but he heard that. Yeah. So I, look: this is an ongoing drama in New Jersey with a lot of rumors and a lot of gossip and a lot of conspiracy theories and a lot of political connections, and I think that’s all playing out, and let it play out and then at the end of the trial we’ll know the facts. What I’m concerned about is getting the Port Authority reforms passed. This is all nice for the tabloids, right? And especially in New Jersey there’s a lot of political intrigue. At the end of the day, it’s going to be, did you pass the reforms to the Port Authority.”
Q: “How tight are you with Governor Christie?”
A: “I don’t even know. How do you define tight? Are you and I tight?”
Q: “However you define tight.”
A: “Tight like I am with you.”
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Between the long hours I work and my three young kids, I try to sleep in till the last possible second I have to get up. Seriously my children have to be on the bus at 7:30 and I set my alarm for 7, get them ready, and then head to work. It is rush, rush, rush in the mornings. However as most of you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I rarely have time to make myself a full breakfast. I need something that is better for me and filling in the mornings to fuel my day! My go to choice for a quick and easy breakfast are smoothies!
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Anna and Ibrahim came up with two new ways to weight the nodes, both of which have produced a far greater range of nodeweights than the original nodescoring.py program did. The histograms for the new node weights are as below:
Beyond that, I have spent most of this week making small tweaks to nodescoring.py so that it runs more smoothly.
In my last blog post, I talked about how I was concerned about how small the range of normalized node scores is. This week I’ve been trying to figure out why that is. To do this I’ve been making histograms of each step of the process from foldchange to Xv to Cv. This is an example of that process for one gene:
The Cv of the gene above was 0.5000000003. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of genes even with fairly different fold change and Xv distributions end up with very similar Cvs.
Ibrahim realized that this is occurring because there is an error in the equations we were using so we will have to rethink the way we normalize the data.
This week Kathy, Usman and I met to discuss how we would combine the projects we’ve been working on into a cohesive pathway and how we would analyze the output of CancerLinker as compared to PathLinker.
I have been working on ways to visualize the data. One thing I wanted to look at was how incorporating gene expression data would change the overall distribution of edge weights in the interactome.
The original interactome has a reasonable distribution with two values that seem to appear frequently around 0.4 and 0.8.
Gene expression data was incorporated into the original interactome with a beta value. The beta value determines the weight of the original edge weight when including the gene expression data. So the higher the beta score, the lower the importance of the gene expression data. I made three histograms one for a beta=0.25, one for beta = 0.5 (equal contribution between original edge weight and gene expression data) and one for 0.75
As can be seen in the histograms above, when gene expression data is weighted more heavily, edges weights are more closely clustered. To investigate why this occurred I made two additional histograms: one of the gene expression data before it was transformed and one of the gene expression data after it was transformed.
After the gene expression data is transformed, there is extremely little variation. Additionally all the gene expression data is greater than or equal to 0.5 which should be the median. This would explain why weighting the gene expression data more heavily causes more closely-clustered edge weights. I’m not sure how to fix this. It seems like an error, but I’ve been over the code multiple times and the math seems right to me. So my next step is to figure out what’s going on there.
In the meantime I took the output from the pipeline that Kathy put together and put graphs for the top 1000 Wnt paths with β=0.25, 0.5 and 0.75 up on GraphSpace. If I figure out what’s wrong with the function that transforms the edgeweights, I will run it again and re-upload the updated graphs.
I have spent most of this week trying to transform the gene expression data and implement the equations that Ibrahim came up with to incorporate gene expression data onto edge scores.
I have had several major hold-ups to accomplishing this. The first is pretty simple, I just don’t know how to get the kind of data output I want from the CDF function because the scipy.norm.cdf() function outputs an array and I want a single value for each node.
The biggest issue is that the TCGA data on gene expression and PathLinker use different gene nomenclature systems. The TCGA relies on Ensembl IDs whereas PathLinker relies on UniProt IDs. Originally I tried to convert all the Ensembl IDs to common names to UniProt IDs because I have a file that contains UniProt IDs and common names, and another file that contains Ensembl IDs and common names. However, this didn’t work because a single gene may have multiple common names and may refer to multiple UniProt IDs (for example there are about 20 UniProt IDs that correspond to the HLA-A gene).
Therefore, to avoid the loss of data due to various common names, I tried to make a dictionary of Ensembl IDs directly to UniProt IDs. I was able to obtain a file that contained both UniProt and Ensembl IDs from the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee website. However, converting between Ensemble and UniProt came with its own problems. First of all, there are many genes that either only have UniProt IDs or only have Ensembl IDs. 997 genes in the interactome were unable to be converted from one to the other because of this reason. In addition, many of the Ensembl IDs in the TCGA file (over 16,000) don’t line up with any of the Ensembl IDs in the dictionary I constructed. I think this might be because the Ensembl IDs in the TCGA file include version numbers at the end of each ID. The version number is the decimal point at the end of the ID name. For example for the gene, “ENSG00000242268.2”, the “.2” means that this is the 2nd version of that gene. I think one way to fix this problem might be to just take all the version numbers out of the gene name when constructing the dictionary from the TCGA file. However, I can’t figure out how to do this without making the code super slow. If every version number were a single decimal place (ie: .1, .2, .3 … etc), I would just cut off the last two digits of each name which wouldn’t be that slow. However different IDs have different number of decimal places. For example, if I cut off the last two digits of “ENSG00000167578.15” I would still be left with the decimal point. Therefore the only way I can currently think of to get rid of the decimal and everything following it is to use a for-loop that goes through every character in the name and if the character is a decimal point to cut the string there. However, if the program has to go through every letter in every gene name, it’s going to be extremely slow. Maybe something I could do is pre-process the data to create a text file that contains gene IDs without the decimal places so it only has to do it one time and won’t slow the whole code down, but I feel like there has to be a faster way to do it within the program.
This week we spent most of our time attending and volunteering at GCC/BOSC (Galaxy Community Conference/ Bioinformatics Open Source Conference). While the conference wasn’t extremely relevant to what we’re working on right now, we learned how to use software like Galaxy and Intermine, which might be useful to us in future projects. Also, this was the first conference I’ve ever attended so it was very interesting to learn how conferences work and to meet people.
This week I have continued trying to visualize and integrate gene expression data from GDC TCGA onto nodes in Graphspace. This is the graph I have so far:
The color of the nodes on the graph represent the mean foldchange of the gene. The foldchange is the ratio of gene expression of a cancerous tissue sample to a normal tissue sample from the same patient. There were 41 patients with colon adenocarcinoma who had gene expression data from both a tumor and a normal sample. The foldchange for each of these 41 patients was averaged to find the mean foldchange of each gene. Light blue indicates that the gene is slightly underexpressed in cancerous samples (less than 1 standard deviation), dark blue(not shown) indicates that the gene is underexpressed by 2 standard deviations, purple (not shown) indicates that the gene is underexpressed by greater than 2 standard deviations. Orange indicates that the gene is slightly overexpressed (within one standard deviation), dark orange indicates that the gene is overexpressed by 2 standard deviations, and red indicates that the gene is overexpressed by greater than 2 standard deviations.
One problem that came up was that some genes have a lot more variance in patient data than others. (Data on variance is available by clicking on the nodes in Graphspace). Additionally, patients that no gene expression or close to no gene expression in their normal samples had extremely high foldchanges that threw off the mean. It’s tempting to just throw away those samples as outliers, however several samples had multiple “outliers”. As an example I’ve included three sets of line graphs I made that show the gene expression data and foldchange of each patient for three different genes:
In the first example, CFTR, one can see that cancerous samples tend to have lower gene regulation than healthy samples and most of the fold change values hover around 1.0, meaning that the change is fairly low.
The second example, FZD9, is slightly different. The FZD9 expression data is much less uniform. In some patients, FZD9 is largely overregulated in cancerous samples. In other, it’s largely under regulated. The foldchange data shows foldchanges that range from zero to extremely high values (greater than 30,0000). This occurs because those patients had normal sample values of 0.0. In this case, it looks like dismissing the two extremely high foldchanges as outliers would yield a more realistic data set.
However, in ZSCAN4, there are many patients with extremely high or low foldchanges. Instead of ignoring these patients, I think I need to find a way to normalize the data so that a few large foldchanges don’t completely throw off the data.
The next step in this project is to work with Usman and Kathy to integrate the gene expression data onto the edge weights so that PathLinker can calculate the most disregulated protein pathways. To begin this process, I’ve written a program that produces a text file that contains for each gene the ID, common name, mean foldchange, standard deviation, and either a +1, 0, or -1, which represents whether it’s under-regulated, unchanged, or over-regulated in cancerous samples. Right now the +1, 0, and -1 are really just placeholder values. I need to meet with Ibrahim and Anna to discuss how to better weight the nodes.
This week our main goal has been to find a pipeline to obtain TCGA data in a neat form. We discovered UCSC’s Xena Browser, which has files from the TCGA and a number of other databases.
Last week, we used the data from FireBrowse to make a graph of the genes that have patients with abnormally high or low levels of expression.
This week we changed that graph slightly by showing the difference between the number of patients with high expression and the number of patients with low expression by gene.
It is interesting to me that there are generally more patients with severe under-expression rather than severe-overexpression. I wonder if this is because these genes play a role in suppressing tumors, and that therefore maybe under-expression is more likely to cause cancer than overexpression?
I also worked on integrating gene expression data from Xena into our graph of the Wnt pathway.
Kathy figured out what was wrong with PathLinker the first time we ran it and re-ran it. I am working on turning it into a graph, but the input data is very different because it’s coming from a different version of NetPath so I need to change the program to be able to process the new data.
I also noticed while I was processing the expression data from Xena that there was a large amount of variability in gene expression between patients. I’m currently working on several things. Instead of just averaging gene expression for genes I’m comparing gene expression patient-by-patient so I’m comparing a tumor sample to a normal tissue sample for every patient. I also want to come up with a way to visualize the variance of expression among patients, because the more variance there is the less significant differences in expression between cancerous and normal tissue are. Anna suggested I do this by making the borders on nodes with high variance thicker. I am also going back and checking my math on gene expression to make sure that it is actually statistically significant and is conducted in a way that is similar to how other researchers have done similar research in the past.
On Monday we all met with Anna to agree on some goals for the week. Kathy and I set out to acheive several things: A. to figure out how to download data from FireBrowse on colon adenocarcinomas, to perform several statistical analyses on that data and to visualize it in some form using pylab, B. to write a code that produced informative graphs of the different signaling pathways from text files containing information about the edges and nodes and C. to implement PathLinker and LocPL and to create graphs of the top k paths on GraphSpace.
Originally to acheive our first goal, we tried to use Nicholas Egan’s pepper pathway code to download and format the data. However, while we were able to decipher how it worked, it ended up not being all that useful to us, so Kathy downloaded all the gene files related to colon adenocarcinoma onto her computer . Unfortunately, we’re still not really sure how to use them. We wrote a code that took text files containing information on edges and nodes and spit out a graph with color-coded nodes that were labeled with the node name and type and edges that were labeled with the type of interaction that was occuring between the two nodes for example “physical” or “phosphorylation”. I have attached to examples of the graphs we produced below, one very complex and the other very simple.
We also ran PathLinker on the Wnt pathway and made a graph of the top 200 best paths produced.
Moving forward we have several goals. Kathy is trying to figure out how to implement LocPL. I am still trying to figure out how to process and use the FireBrowse data. Because I will need to integrate methylation data from FireBrowse in my project, it is essential I figure out how to use it.
Overall, this week I have learned a lot about data processing, writing code to read text files, and using NetPath, PathLinker, FireBrowse, and GraphSpace. These skills should come in handy as I move forward in my project.
This week, Kathy, Usman, and I split up to learn more about different aspects of PathLinker. I researched the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, precision-recall curves, and the role of CFTR and Dab2. On Wednesday, we all presented the topics we had researched to each other and Anna and Ibrahim.
To briefly summarize what I learned, the Wnt/β-catenin pathway regulates the transcription of certain genes related to cell proliferation, cell attachment, and growth. When the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is dysregulated, a number of pathologies can develop including cancer and heart disease. In fact, in a study on colon adenocarcinoma by the Cancer Genome Atlas, 93% of tested tumors had a mutation that affected the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway (TCGA, 2012). At the most basic level theWnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is turned on when Wnt proteins bind to “frizzled” a 7-pass transmembrane receptor which halts the destruction of β-catenin in the cell. Usually, when the pathway is off, β-catenin is constantly being produced and destroyed. When β-catenin destruction is interrupted, β-catenin will build up in the cytoplasm and move into the nucleus where it will bind to LEF and the TCF promoter to promote the transcription of specific genes that were previously being inhibited by a transcription factor that was bound to TCF. The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway involves many proteins and interactions, some of which we still do not understand. The PathLinker algorithm succesfully identified a path in the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway that was not in the KEGG or NetPath database: the Ryk-CFTR-Dab2 path (Ritz et al, 2016). The authors of the paper hypothesized that Ryk would interact with CFTR (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane-conductance Regulator), a chlorine ion channel previously studied for its role in cystic fibrosis, which would activate Dab2 to inhibit β-catenin activity. This hypothesis was experimentally confirmed by silencing Ryk, CFTR and Dab2 individually using RNA interference and then testing transcription levels of β-catenin controlled genes using a TCF/LEF luciferase activity and levels of β-catenin in the cell using a Western Blot assay.
We also attended a data management workshop taught by David Isaak, Reed’s data science librarian to learn how to use Git and GitHub. Because I’ve never really used terminal before (I usually use repl.it), I worked through a command line tutorial to learn more about it.
On Thursday, Kathy, Usman, and I went through our Dijkstra code with Anna, and finally got it to work the way we wanted it to. Anna added us to the cancer-linker repository on GitHub so we can all begin to actually work on PathLinker now.
My next project is to figure out how to take data from FireBrowse, a database containing data from TCGA on 38 different cancer types, put it into a format we can use, and apply several statistical analyses to the information. I’m hoping to base it off of PepperPathway, a program written by Nicholas Egan, a student in Anna’s lab last summer, that uses data from FireBrowse, GeneCards and NetPath and to create a visual representation on GraphSpace. I’m struggling to make sense of the PepperPathway program because there are a lot of files on the GitHub repository and I’m not really sure where to begin. I’m going to try to make sense of it this weekend.
TCGA Research Network. Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Human Colon and Rectal Tumors. July 19, 2012. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature11252.
Ritz, Anna et al. “Pathways on Demand: Automated Reconstruction of Human Signaling Networks.” Npj Systems Biology And Applications 2 (2016): 16002. Web.
This is Kathy, Usman, and my first week working on our summer research projects which all involve modifying the PathLinker algorithm. For my project, I am interested in integrating data about protein methylations related to colon adenocarcinoma from the FireBrowse database into PathLinker. Protein methylation, which is only one of many ways that cell signaling pathways can be altered in cancerous cells, can either inhibit or enhance protein-protein interactions. I intend to devise a way to use this information to change the weights of edges connected to methylated proteins to more accurately model cancerous cell signaling pathways. I am hoping this method could eventually be generalized so that the algorithm could be modified for multiple types of cancerous mutations. I believe that this work could be important in identifying important proteins for further research.
So far, we have mostly been trying to learn about pathway reconstruction methods before we dive in. To do this, we have been re-reading the original PathLinker paper as well as a more recent paper about an alteration to PathLinker that allows it to integrate protein localization information.
We have also been working on understanding and implementing two algorithms that calculate the shortest path from a source to a target in a graph: Breadth First Search and Dijkstra’s algorithm. Breadth-first search is an algorithm that finds the path with the fewest number of edges from a source to a target. Dijkstra is more advanced and relative to our work because it takes the weight of the edges between nodes into account. Dijkstra will find the path with the lowest sum of edge weights from the source to any node in the graph.
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“There’s not a powerlifter on the planet that doesn’t know Westside Barbell.”
“They were like the crazies—a collection of lunatics with some fucking crazy strength, world record holder after world record holder.”
“I’ve seen a lot of guys come in; I’ve seen a lot of guys go out.”
“People don’t understand what a hardcore attitude you need to have in that gym.”
“It was go-time every time you walked through that door.”
“Westside was a cult.”
“It was literally hell with weights.”
If the preceding collage of quotes, which comes near the beginning of Westside vs. the World, doesn’t make you want to hear and see more, than this documentary isn’t for you, because it dives deep into the five decades of drama and all around badassery of world-class powerlifters in the legendary Columbus, Ohio gym, Westside Barbell. Members are taught, tormented, and sometimes, in their opinion, betrayed by Westside’s owner, the Yoda of power, Louie Simmons.
A lot of drama also preceded the release of this film. Its original co-director and cameraman, out on bail last March after a drug-dealing arrest, emptied the production bank account. The movie’s greater creative force, Michael Fahey, successfully sued his former collaborator for full ownership but couldn’t recover the stolen money. All of this fostered delays and more fundraising. Many believed Westside vs. the World, previously much-hyped (“The Pumping Iron of powerlifting”) and supported by Kickstarter funders, was cursed to never materialize.
So, it’s a testament to co-producer/director/editor Fahey that not only is it now screening on Netflix, but it’s a terrific movie, especially for powerlifting fans.
• The biggest criticism of Westside vs. the World is that it spends too much time deep inside Westside—the disputes, bruised egos, and machinations—and not enough time on the World—how Louie Simmons’ techniques (chains, bands, the conjugate method, etc.) transformed strength training. It dips into the latter too briefly near the end when we see Simmons working with MMA fighters and other non-powerlifters, and throughout we hear from football coaches who sought out Simmons the sage. But what criticism have the methods faced? How exactly have the techniques been incorporated by programs and lifters outside Columbus? This was never meant to be a how-to lesson, but everything included about the Westside way is fascinating, and it left this viewer wanting more of the big picture and a bit less of the “reality TV” ego clashes.
• As great as it is to see any footage from the ’80s and ’90s, the quality of deteriorating VHS tapes makes some of it look like it was shot underwater. Also, you may sometimes strain to hear Simmons, whose twangy mumbles can be difficult to make out.
• There’s a wealth of material here. Fahey should be commended for doing his due diligence, interviewing the famous and the forgotten, in and outside the Westside “gang,” including Ed Coan (who tears up in a surprising scene), Dave Hoff, Dave Tate, Laura Phelps, and Mark Bell. Interviewees talk candidly (and often fuckin’ profanely), telling stories never chronicled before, as if they’d been waiting to spill the beans. The rapid rise and fall of the late Matt Dimel is a tragic highlight. And there are delicious quotes throughout, like this one from Tony Ramos: “We’re fucking thoroughbred horses. If we break our leg, take us out back and fucking shoot us. That’s how it works.”
• The editing, music, and judicial use of animation are all first-rate. The film is especially well-paced. And it benefits from the baritone narration of actor Ron Perlman, of Hellboy and Sons of Anarchy fame.
• Then there’s all the badassery: the fuckin’ strutting, the fuckin’ cursing, the fuckin’ punches, the fuckin’ world record lifts. Even in small doses, this may be the ultimate pre-workout (or pre-set) psych-up to keep on your phone. It’s sort of the inverse of Pumping Iron, the cheery 1977 documentary that introduced bodybuilding and charismatic Arnold Schwarzenegger to the general public, and therefore Westside vs. the World won’t have a similar impact. Powerlifting ain’t bodybuilding, so this is a much darker tale. Whereas sunny P.I. seduces with joy and comradery on and near California beaches, gray WvW smacks you with pain and conflict in a windowless pit in the Rust Belt. Buckle-up and get under a bending bar, now!
• In two words: Louie Simmons. What a character! Every moment he’s onscreen is captivating, and he’s onscreen a lot, dispensing wisdom, celebrating what was and lamenting what could’ve been, and baring his tortured soul. “What else have I got?” he asks the camera near the end, going all Moby-Dick about his need to lift heavy things. “I’m hooked onto that white whale. I got nowhere else to go. What else am I going to do? I’m gonna go down with that white whale. He’s gonna drag me to the bottom eventually. And I don’t care; that’s what I want.”
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Can twin flames both be married at the same time?
Thu 22 Jan 2015 20:55
Is it possible that twin flames can both be married at the same time when they meet and both be going through marriage problems with very similar marriage issues? I have met someone not planned it just happened and we have the exact marriage issues, we have very similar backgrounds growing up as kids. I am extremely drawn to him and he has well but don't really understand it "why". I have had someone tell me that we are possibly twin flames. Any info would be helpful. ...Stephanie
Sun 01 Jul 2012 23:42
By: Mark and Claire xx
We think it is possible to meet your twin flame whilst you are both still married to other people. However it is vital that you finish relationships with others before commencing a new relationship. We have discussed this very subject in the past and decided that if we were married to others when we met, that we would both have ended our marriages immediately to be together. To be fair to the other partners, honesty is always the best no matter how much you think it will hurt them. Follow your true heart Stephanie. ...Mark and Claire xx
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Fierce! A lady walks by with a nice leopard skin dress, black shoes and a black bag laced with gold.
All heads turn to look at who just passed, the dress is well fitting, the print screams notice me and her accessories made her look like something from fashion heaven. This is what I think when I see someone pull off a leopard skin dress well. I love this print.
It could be the shoes
It could be the dress. Check out Beyonce looking hot in her leopard skin dress. The dress brings out her complexion and flatters her figure.
It could even be the bag
Whatever it is, the leopard print can look gorgeous. So how do you wear such a bold print?
Well if it’s the dress you are wearing that has the print if you don’t want to look over done you can accessorise with black and gold like in my example above. Your dress should fit your body structure so it does not emphasise on your flaws but rather your strengths. I advise gold because gold just looks great on so many Nigerian women and if you can accessorise well you will look fantastic. Tip: Whenever you dress up take off the last accessory you put on less is more.
If you want to wear leopard print shoes let them be the focal point of your outfit. Why not wear a nice black dress and let everyone notice your amazing shoes. If it is a leopard print clutch make sure your dress does NOT have another print. This could really kill your look. Personally, I would make the clutch the focal point of the outfit too and make my outfit simple, letting all eyes fall on my clutch.
My question for you: Do you like leopard prints? How would you wear it?
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Specific detergent for the removal of oily and greasy stains (oil, butter…) from marble, granite and other natural and artificial stone. Solvent-based product.
Thoroughly shake the bottle and pour TWINSPOT on the stain to remove. Let it dry for approx. 2 hours then remove the residual powder using a brush or some water with neutral detergent. In case of tough stain, repeat the operation.
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October 1 is the first day of the 2008 farm bill’s expiration.
Agriculture groups marked the occasion with a series of statements underlining the importance of new farm legislation for rural America. Democrats marked it by scolding House leadership for not bringing the legislation to a vote since it was passed out of the House Agriculture Committee in early July.
“While expiration of farm bill program authorities has little or no effect on some important programs, it has terminated a number of important programs and will very adversely affect many farmers and ranchers, as well as ongoing market development and conservation efforts,” said a joint statement released by, among others, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association and National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.
The group said in the absence of a new farm bill the main challenge “will be in planning for 2013. This includes lining up the critical financial assistance needed from lending institutions which prefer, if not demand, to see business plans presented in black and white. That will be difficult when producers don’t know when to expect a new farm bill -- or what type of financial safety net is likely to be included in that bill.”
For full farm bill coverage, see here.
Striking the same chord, Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee said, “It is unbelievable that we're in this position now where the farm bill will expire and create so much uncertainty for farmers, ranchers, and small businesses.”
The expiration, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday (Oct. 1) afternoon, will quickly impact “many” programs administered by the USDA. “I think it’s important for folks to know that there are a number of programs – very important programs – that expired, or are frozen, absent Congressional action. There are deep concerns about the uncertainty this has caused for producers.”
Speaking from Wisconsin, Vilsack said residents of the state “are well aware of the fact that the dairy industry will no longer be able to take advantage of the MILC (Milk Income Loss Contract Program) program…
“I have particular sensitivity to the dairy industry because it’s been under a great deal of stress and pressure. The last thing it needed was for Congress to leave town early, not get its work done and put these producers in a position where they no longer even get the MILC payment, which may have been very significant for a number of producers facing difficult situations with their profitability being impacted by high feed costs.”
While dairy producers may receive a check, or two, after October 1, “that’s because of what they were entitled to receive prior to (the farm bill expiration). … If a dairy producer has an FSA loan and was counting on the continuation of MILC, that producer will probably have to go into an FSA office and see if there’s any way of providing some latitude.”
Vilsack insisted this would cause “a rippling effect” in the countryside.
Further, “I think there will probably be extensive pressure put on our credit programs.” That isn’t just for those who wonder how to “continue to make payments but also folks who won’t be able to convince a commercial banker to provide the resource absent a guarantee by the FSA. That commercial banker isn’t sure what the safety net is going to be because there is no safety outside crop insurance.”
Vilsack also believes ranchers who are “stretched may also be faced with serious credit issues.”
Other impacts, lame duck worries
Other programs impacted are the Specialty Crop Block Grant program and Specialty Crop Research Initiative that won’t be continued “absent passage by Congress of a (farm bill),” said Vilsack.
Conservation Reserve Program new contract sign-ups are now frozen while the USDA is “somewhat limited” on the CSP (Conservation Stewardship Program). “We still have some resource that can be used. But that resource could be used up fairly quickly and we won’t get anywhere near the Congressional mandate is relative to the number of acres they’re interested in enrolling in CSP.”
Export assistance is also reduced. “On the Export Assistance Program, we’re not going to be in a position to provide directly the help and assistance we’ve provided through the Market Access Program and some of the other trade promotion programs,” said Vilsack.
The USDA also will not “provide any additional assistance” to the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development program.
These are only some of the “casualties of Congressional inaction,” said Vilsack. “It’s unfortunate but, hopefully, when Congress returns after the election they’ll focus on the five-year (farm bill) done, starting with the House completing its work.”
The lack of a farm bill has caused “a great deal of stress. It didn’t have to be. There was plenty of time to get this done and there were the votes, in my view, to get it done.”
The reason it wasn’t, said Vilsack, “is there are folks in Congress who want to have much deeper and more significant cuts – not just to the nutrition programs but to the farm safety net, crop insurance, subsidies and conservation payments in the Commodity Title. They weren’t interested in having that conversation before the (November) elections. They prefer to have it afterwards.”
And lurking in the shadows is the possibility of sequestration. If the budget deal wrangled by the White House and Congress goes into effect, Vilsack said for most USDA programs it would mean “an across-the-board reduction line item at USDA … of about 8.2 percent. That would have a significant impact on the availability of offices and personnel to administer programs.”
Sequestration would “likely” mean “the need for furloughs in the food inspection area. Of course, a furlough could result in the potential for shutting down processing. If there isn’t an inspector, you can’t keep the plant open.”
The coming lame duck session “will feature a plethora of important issues that have also gone unresolved by this Congress, including the sequestration process, numerous tax and spending issues, and U.S. Postal Service reform,” said Roger Johnson, National Farmers Union president. “Therefore, it is absolutely critical that House Speaker John Boehner brings the farm bill to the floor early in the session to ensure it can be conferenced and finalized before Congress returns to their districts yet another recess in December.
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Superhero films are being killed with kindness. They are far too respected politically, with too many wondering if Batman represents Bush, Harvey Dent Obama and the Joker Bin Laden. My favorite misreading is the interpretation of Bane's uprising in "The Dark Knight Rises." It was a blatant reference to Occupy Wall Street, and an interesting example of capitalistic paranoia, yet some still saw this as a reference to the Tea Party. (Come on, people -- storming into banks? Complaining of corruption? Occupying Gotham? Surely you can see it's not the Tea Party they're afraid of?) Even those who take a more critical approach are treating the films as if the screenwriters or directors had happened to choose a disappointing political viewpoint all by themselves, as opposed to recognizing the limitations placed upon them by powerful, less-than-socialist movie studios.
Critics tend to renounce superhero films only if they don't like that kind of thing anyway. Everything has a political dimension, but this is all too often forgotten with superhero narratives, as defenders of the genre respond to any criticism with the fallacious standby, "What were you expecting, 'Citizen Kane'?" The reason it's so difficult to convince people that a superhero movie could be intelligent rather than fall back on right-wing clichés is because it's been so rarely done: After so many movies that are clearly no more than bubble-gum, most people with a taste for proper drama understandably cut their losses and look for intelligent narrative elsewhere.
Yet the critics can't leave them alone. It's an unfortunate coincidence that the Marvel-led boon in comic-book movies (which had actually already gotten underway before 9/11 with "Blade" in 1998, "X-Men" in 2000 and "Spider-Man" filmed in the summer of 2001) -- should have coincided with the "War on Terror." What has been overlooked, though, is just what a lousy metaphor superheroes are for nations. The main problem is force: sheer physical force, which lies at the heart of the superhero myth, something Steven T. Seagle observed nicely in "It's a Bird...", his poignant autobiographical graphic novel about his reluctance to write for a Superman comic, in which he points out that Superman triumphs by being able to move faster and hit harder than everyone else: essentially a fascist concept.
I was reminded of this by Jor-El's speech in "Man of Steel":
You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.
How, though? Those watching him can't fly, topple buildings or fire heat rays from their eyes. What else does Superman do other than these purely physical feats? The 1978 version of Jor-El warned: "It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history. Rather let your leadership stir others to." Can you really inspire others with steel? At this point it's interesting to reflect on the real-life leader who chose a name meaning "Man Of Steel": Stalin.
Fascism also reduces the role of anyone who isn't Superman to that of an adoring onlooker. Anyone who has ever daydreamed about heroic activities as a child might remember the passive role the imaginary spectators take on while you rescue them, display superpowers or battle your antagonists. As China Miéville said of Frank Miller's earlier celebrated comic-book miniseries "The Dark Knight Returns": “The underlying idea is that people are sheep, who need Strong Shepherds." Throughout Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, the people for whom Batman is fighting are absent. There are some awed children, and a couple of people foolish enough to think that they could dress up as Batman, but they put in no more than fleeting appearances.
Fascism also relies on people who must be crushed. The Batman films -- and indeed the entire Batman mythos -- are based on the idea that what criminals really need is a damn good thrashing, because it's the only language these punks understand. The vicarious thrill in seeing Batman yell "Swear to me!" at some pitiful creep who swears to God he doesn't know anything is for the nasty-minded child in all of us: an innocent pleasure until you start to think about the politics. Always lurking in these movies, too, is the assumption that whether or not we should torture people is actually a question, surely the most obscene symptom of the cultural shift toward right-wing ideas in a liberal coating (seen also in "Homeland" and "Battlestar Galactica").
Alan Moore attempted to bring this to our attention in his masterpiece "Watchmen," but to his chagrin it was simply absorbed into the geek mainstream. The comic book intended to question the dubious right-wing nature and unexamined fascistic assumptions of superhero narratives ended up being made into a film by Zack Snyder. Capitalism, of course, has an advantage over fascism: it has survived longer because it can incorporate criticism and pseudo-criticism. "Iron Man," for instance, begins with the premise that high-tech weaponry is indeed a Bad Thing, but its solution is that the guy who built it should have a conscience. Then its use is just cool. Just as Superman's triumph is due not to heroism but to his physical strength, the successes of Iron Man and Batman are due to their equipment.
While watching the beautifully realized climax to "The Dark Knight Rises," I couldn't help thinking the real moral was that to defeat evil, to take a stand and to fight for what you believe in you just need a really cool turbine-powered heavily armed flying car. "He's got a lot of firepower," says one of the police admiringly after Batman has evaded him. George Orwell remarked on the limits of Dickens' socialism:
There is not a line in ["Hard Times"] that can properly be called Socialistic; indeed, its tendency if anything is pro-capitalist, because its whole moral is that capitalists ought to be kind, not that workers ought to be rebellious.
Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are surely American equivalents of what Orwell called "The good rich man" in Dickens' novels -- as exemplified in Mr Brownlow, the Cheerybles, John Jarndyce, Scrooge -- who makes his money from the system but then uses it to help individuals who have suffered because of it. Thus is the system vindicated.
Superhero films have also given us, most obviously in "Man of Steel" and "The Avengers," bloodless versions of 9/11: all the patriotism, none of the deaths. They've told us we must not give up hope in those fighting wars for us. They've glorified the military. "I just think he's kind of hot," says a female soldier as Superman zooms off at the end of "Man of Steel." "This man is not our enemy," says her commanding officer earlier in the film, as the real and fictional U.S. superpowers join forces. I don't imagine Bush or Obama would disapprove.
Maybe one day we will see a superhero movie championing something other than fascist or hypercapitalist values: a superhero movie in which it isn't physical superiority that saves the day. Maybe one day we will get the hero we need: one who challenges rather than reinforces the status quo.
In the meantime, why can't I stop watching these movies? Because my imagination is shaped by superheroes: fights and chases are iconic, mythic triggers for me. How cool it would be to say, like Christian Bale's Batman: "Tell me where the trigger is, then... You have my permission to die." How revolting it would be if I actually could. The hunt goes on for a superhero who says something worth listening to. I continue to dream the superhero dream, but that doesn’t mean I have any illusions. | <urn:uuid:4d04dcf8-e036-402c-9f37-8dccc4503fad> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.salon.com/2013/11/30/superheroes_are_a_bunch_of_fascists/ | 2020-07-05T16:06:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655887377.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20200705152852-20200705182852-00155.warc.gz | en | 0.972965 | 1,641 | [
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How to increase sperm count and volume?
There may be some of the ways that how to increase sperm count and volume and these must be 5 in number which can be described in detail below.
- Consuming the supplements relative to D- Aspartic Acid: – By the consumption of such supplements male testosterone should be increased which also increasing the male sex hormone assertions that is playing a vital role in male fertility increment.
- Exercise on daily basis: – Exercise regularly is the best way to all the health relative issues and also helps in improving physical performance by making the body of the male partner physically fit in one way or the other.
- Consumption of Vitamin C must be in enough quantity: – By intake of the components which increases the level of Vitamin C in the male’s body so to accrue the reduction of risk related to stress and tiredness and also helps in increasing the level of sperm count and mobility.
- Minimizing the stress and keep the body in relaxing stage: – Sexual satisfaction should be reduced while the person is suffering from stress so in order to impair the fertility level the stress should be reduced to minimum level and also the stress should be on the down level in order to up level the fertility.
- Consumption of Vitamin D must be in enough quantity: – Vitamin D is also the nutrient for the increment in testosterone levels in the male’s body in order to increase fertility and also increment in the sperm count and volume.
Medicine to increase sperm count
There must be basically two types of medicines to increase sperm count which can be assessed there with and can be described below in detail.
- Intake of Puncture vine: – While getting intake of puncture vine which is the herb for increasing the male infertility level and having the low sperm count to be converting in high raised sperm count and also the person should be well aware with the risks and benefits relative to the consumption of the same.
- Fenugreek intake: – Fenugreek as the medicinal herb should be taken with the aspiration to increase sexual power and also to accrue the consumption with the supplements relative to this.
Increase sperm count by food
The most basic food which is necessary for increase sperm count by food which are high in boosting the energy level in the male partner during the time of intercourse.
The basic food rich in increasing the sperm count are Walnuts, wheat grains, bananas, dark chocolates, garlic, turmeric, broccoli and citrus fruits that are rich in the increment for increasing the sperm count and the sperms mobility in the male partner’s body that can be also increased through green leafy vegetables like Spinach and Kale which is also the rich source of the vitamins and helps in increasing the sperm count and volume in the male partner.
Fruits to increase sperm count and motility
Fruit to increase sperm count and motility is the most basic fruit which is rich in such kind of nutrients is the banana that is much more rich in accusing the treatment relative to infertility level to be accrue and assess for making the treatment rich and vital with all the components that are required in such aspect to be available in the single substance the banana which is rich with Vitamin D and also helps to increase sperm count and sperm motility up to the large invasive extent that accrued the basic scenario to be covered in such a quality fruit that accrue the healthy development of the body and sperms should be increased with effect from such progesterone which helps in increasing testosterone and helps in increment of the sperms and the motile level.
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The most rewarding thing about working in the Careers Department is definitely when an OS returns to the college a few years later and thanks us for helping them to make good choices during their time at Stonyhurst. When someone says “You helped me to make my choices and I’m really happy with where I am as a result” - that is really rewarding.Careers Guidance Coordinator
The Careers Department is here to help students understand the options available to them at various stages of their academic careers. Their role is to ensure that our sixth form students are armed with the right information to support them in making those choices. The department has a wealth of resources that can be utilised in the careers library and also through u-explore, a bespoke online portal.
The Careers Department organise trips, such as the UCAS exhibition and the Oxbridge Student Conference and arrange speakers, often including OS returning for presentations on their chosen career path. This helps to educate and motivate students and encourages them not to limit their thinking. For example, last year we had a presentation on the solar system and beyond from a parent, previously employed as an aerospace engineer at NASA, so quite literally encouraging them to reach for the stars!
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I’ve always believed in giving back in some way, maybe it stems from my upbringing with parents always giving…not just to me but constantly helping others.
So, I decided to sit down with people for a quick drink and not only in the industries that I work in – weddings, funerals and corporate speaking, but also people that I trust or look up to in some way for the way they run their business or as a leader in their own industry. We constantly talk about stuff, but I just wanted to find out a little about what makes them AND their business tick.
My first Virtual Coffee this morning is with David Chorlton of Superior Hire Cars Wollongong.
How did you get into your business?
I was made redundant from a large company in Sydney and decided it was time to run my own business instead of someone else’s.
Why did you think it was such a good idea?
I thought it was a good Idea because it is a simple business that deals with people at there happiest times in life.
How many staff do you have?
We have three staff members. Not including myself and my partner.
What are your major challenges?
Our challenges at the moment are making sure we keep compliant with ever changing industry regulations.
Who inspires you?
My partner inspires me. She has gone through two spinal surgeries, lost her career that she loved yet she still manages to be kind and loving to me and support me in business and my ever growing amount of hobbies.
Tell me about the best opportunity and what happened?
Our biggest opportunity has been meeting other small business owners that have the same business morals as us and being able to network with them.
OK, we gotta go, whatdya drinkin’?
Not sure if you are serious or not?
Of course, what are you drinking this morning?
Green tea please.
Enjoy mate and continued success with Superior Hire Cars!
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In this little thing (like a hazelnut) I saw three properties. The first is that God made it, the second is that He loves it, and the third is that God preserves it. But what is that to me? It is that God is the Creator and the lover and the protector. For until I am substantially united to Him, I can never have love or rest or true happiness; until, that is, I am so attached to Him that there can be no created thing between my God and me. And who will do this deed? Truly, He Himself, by His mercy and His grace, for He has made me for this and has blessedly restored me….For this is the reason why those who deliberately occupy themselves with wordly business, constantly seeking worldy well-being, have not God’s rest in their hearts and souls; for they love and seek their rest in this thing (that is all the cosmos, seemingly as small as a hazelnut) which is so little and in which there is no rest, and do not know God who is almighty, all wise and all good, for He is true rest. | <urn:uuid:c206fcd5-1053-45c5-8ce7-943f20ae6aee> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://sunflowerseedspirituality.com/2019/12/23/40-day-journey-with-julian-of-norwich-day-4/ | 2020-07-09T15:19:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655900335.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709131554-20200709161554-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.986096 | 237 | [
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WCW Saturday Night 1/13/1996
Written by: Bob Colling
World Championship Wrestling presents Saturday Night
1.) Alex Wright defeated Steve Armstrong
2.) Eddie Guerrero defeated Scott Armstrong
3.) Kevin Sullivan defeated Butch Long
4.) American Males defeated Men At Work
5.) VK Wallstreet defeated Mr. JL
6.) Meng defeated Dusty Wolfe
7.) Randy Savage defeated WCW World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair by disqualification
1. Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage share a promo in the middle of the show where Hogan promises that Savage will win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from Ric Flair. Savage naturally agrees with that comment and they say that they have a secret weapon with them. The last time they had a secret weapon, it was a cheap rip off of the Renegade.
2. We hear from the Giant and WCW World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair, who tells us that they will destroy Macho and Hulkster once and for all. Flair brags about being with all the women as well.
3. Mike Ditka had a second interview with WCW. He and Eric Bischoff talk about Mongo and how he would have been great roommates with Dick Butkis. Bischoff tries to get Ditka to be Mongo’s manager, but come on now, that would never happen.
4. Early on, Savage and Flair trade simple offense with Flair focusing his attack with chops and a knee drop sending Macho to the floor. On the floor, Jimmy Hart kicks the challenger. Savage is sent into the guard railing and back in the ring, Flair nearly wins with a back suplex. Flair maintains control with a delayed vertical suplex and after a knee breaker he locks in the figure four! Macho is able to reverse the hold and Flair breaks the hold. Flair gets slammed off the top rope and Savage hits a few clotheslines. Randy comes off the top to hit an elbow drop and hits it but Jimmy Hart distracts the referee. Hulk Hogan comes down and attacks Flair while Arn Anderson hits Savage with brass knuckles. Flair is on top but the referee saw everything and calls for the bell. (**. A decent match between these two, but they aren’t going to be putting on a classic for Saturday Night. Nor would there be a World Championship title change, come on!)
5. Tony Schiavone interviews Hogan and Savage. Hogan believes that Savage should be the champion and is fed up with the Dungeon and Horsemen. Savage is loopy from the attack and hypes up the secret weapon to close the show.
Not a lot of good taking place this week on Saturday Night. The main event is a really strong one on paper, no doubt about it. Aside from the opening squash match and the main event, there is nothing of entertainment value on this program.
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Testolab-E 250 is made by 7Lab Pharma.
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250 mg Testosterone Enanthate
Testolab-E 250 comes in 10 mL vial.
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Long-Wearing Eye Look
Happy Valentine's Day everyone! If you haven't seen videos from me in a few days there are a couple of reasons why... I'm still learning about my camera and editing software, and also my parents were down for a couple of days- my dad had a workshop down here and he and mom were able to come watch one of my newscasts live in the studio! It was awesome.
I've had some questions about my makeup in the most recent videos- (2-9 haul, qotw valentine's makeup) thanks for all the kind comments! My face makeup has been the same as what I've had on in many of my recent videos, but I believe the new camera picks up on color better and makes my face look more like what it truly looks like- i.e. the color shows up better. So for a quick refresher, here are the face products I've been using:
**************************-Rimmel Lasting Finish or Stay Matte foundation (both are the EXACT same shade-Soft Beige so they look very similar)
-Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer Kit in Natural + Corrector in Bisque
-Mary Kay Loose powder
-Milani Sunset Duos bronzer (shades vary- but I use the matte tan shade in the duos)
-Cover Girl Cheekers blush in Golden Pink (contour)
-Milani Minerals Blush in Mai Tai (apples of cheeks)
****************************As for the eye makeup- I've been experimenting all week with the MAC stuff I recently bought (posted product pics in a recent blog post, there's also a haul video about it). I've discovered that the look I've been using is EXTREMELY long wearing. When you see me in those videos, that's me at the end of my day (I anchor morning news and get up far before the crack of dawn). I haven't touched up at all before doing these videos and I feel the eye makeup has been holding up GREAT. Here's how to get the look!
1. Apply Too Faced Shadow Insurance All Over lid (I've decided this is better than Mary Kay eye primer)
2. Smooth MAC Rubenesque Paint Pot all over lid (I think this is a big key to the long-wear aspect)
3. Apply MAC's Naked Lunch shadow all over lid
4. Apply MAC's Sketch (a brownish-plum) in crease, concentrating on outer "V"
5. Use Cover Girl's Golden Sunrise for a light wash of golden color under brow bone
6. Use MAC's Naked Lunch right under the highest part of your arch for extra highlight
7. Line top lashline with Femme Couture Mineral Effects liquid liner in Brown
8. Line halfway in on the bottom lashline with Revlon Colorstay pencil liner in Black-Brown
9. Line the rest of the lower lashline with Sketch shadow, using an angled liner brush
10. Curl lashes, apply one coat of L'oreal Lash Out mascara, then use Salon Perfect lashes (the ones that are to be applied only out the outer half of your lid- makes a nice cat eye look). Apply one more coat of Lash Out to blend real & falsies together.
*FYI... I shot a video on this, and then once I loaded it into my editing program, I accidentally deleted it. like I said before, I'm still learning! LOL. I'll likely try to shoot this again though, since I think it's a valuable tutorial for those looking for a nice long-wearing shadow look.
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You love Dad. Dad loves phones. Therefore, surprise the man who gave you life with a new phone this Father's Day. Here are some humble suggestions.
Google Nexus 6
Sporting an expansive 5.96-inch display, the Nexus 6 is great for a dad who likes things big. But this phone isn't just all brawn -- it has impressive brains too: it features the latest OS updates from Google, a Snapdragon 805 processor and a 13-megapixel camera.
For the father who is all-business, the One M9 is a polished mobile machine. This phone isn't just serious-looking -- it also has some serious specs underneath its hood, including a Snapdragon 810 processor, large dual speakers, and a full-HD display.
The Moto X doesn't have to be limited to quirky users looking for something unique. Because of its customization options, your Father's Day gift can be a touch more personal. Choose the back texture (we like the handsome leather material), pick an accent color, and write out a short engraving to show him your gratitude.
If Dad is partial to size, power and all the tricks, the Galaxy Note 4 is a top-of-the-line phablet. Topping off that 5.7-inch screen, excellent camera and bullish processor? A stylus for navigating, sketching and writing notes in the office or at home.
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Angry Gran is back with a hammer armored. If you liked the endless running games of Angry Gran, you'll just enjoy this endless name of arcade. You have to take control of our favourite grandmother in this game and guide her through the streets. She can't jump or dodge, but she's wearing a enormous hammer and she's prepared for destruction! Gather coins and attempt to crush the wacky barriers and individuals walking in the streets when playing this game. | <urn:uuid:cb5e0754-ff1c-4f57-8eb1-015bf14be154> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.kompotgames.com/game/Angry-Gran | 2020-07-13T05:00:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657142589.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20200713033803-20200713063803-00355.warc.gz | en | 0.957178 | 93 | [
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Gunnar Peterson is probably one of the first names that comes to mind when you think of “celebrity” fitness personalities—but according to him, that association is just because of where he operates his gym.
“I’m a Beverly Hills-based strength coach, personal trainer, however you want to look at it,” he said while introducing himself to Men’s Health when we dropped by his Hollywood facility. “Because of where I am, you meet a lot of people in the entertainment industry as well as athletes from a number of different of different sports.”
But Peterson’s location isn’t the only reason he’s successful. The veteran trainer is clearly an expert at coaching people to success, as is abundantly clear from his wide-ranging A-list clientele. Peterson has worked with actors like Hugh Jackman, Matthew McConaughey, and Sylvester Stallone, reality TV royalty from the Kardashian/Jenner family, and pro sports teams, most recently as the L.A. Lakers Director of Strength and Endurance Training. He’s also one of the expert trainers included in Chris Hemsworth’s new Centr app.
No matter who he trains, or for what purpose, Peterson’s philosophy is the reason for his success. That’s why he’s so popular—it’s not some secret formula or Hollywood showmanship. Just smart programming and hard work.
“The goal is to get [my clients] where they want to go, from a performance standpoint and of course from an aesthetics standpoint” he said. “We do a lot of strength training, and of course we work on flexibility, cardiovascular strength as well.”
Peterson opened up his gym and walked us through some of the moves he uses in the workouts he creates for his A-list clients. You can plug the exercises into your current plan depending on what you’re already doing, or use the routine as a standalone workout since it checks just about every box. “We hit multiple planes of motion, upper body, lower body, push, pull, and of course the all-important core.”
Some of these moves require specialized gear you might only find in a Hollywood gym—never fear. We’ll provide an easy substitution for each one that you should be able to pull off just about anywhere.
Gunnar Peterson’s Hollywood Workout
2 to 3 sets
Perform on treadmill with 11 percent incline.
Sub: Walk holding dumbbells at your side. Shrug every 4 steps. Walk until you finish 8 to 10 shrugs.
3 sets of 10 reps
If you try the staggered squat, aim for 2 sets of 6 to 8 reps per side.
Lateral Lunge with Chop
3 sets of 10 to 15 reps each side
Sub: Barbell or ViPR weight, seen below.
3 sets of 6 to 8 reps
If you’re using a shorter bar, move from one side to the other.
Athletic Press on Sorinex
3 sets of 4 to 6 reps
Sub: Dumbbell push press
3 reps of 1 minute intervals
Sub: If you don’t have the Stealth unit, try standard planks, shoulder tap planks, or some of the variations from the video below.
Snatch with Sorinex
3 sets of 4 to 6 reps per arm
HIIT Cardio on VersaClimber
30 seconds on, 30 seconds off for 6 to 8 minutes
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Glyphosate in my cereal?
What is glyphosate?
It is a herbicide also known by the trade name Roundup that is commonly used on farms and lawns to control weeds.
Should I be concerned about glyphosate in my cereal?
No major international regulatory body considers glyphosate a health risk. The International Agency for Research on Cancer considers a risk to measure the probability that a health problem could occur, taking into account the level of exposure.
Science is getting better at detecting smaller quantities, such as one part per billion which is equivalent to one second in 32 years. The fact we can detect glyphosate at parts per billion has zero significance to health. For example, it would not be possible for a person to eat enough bread, drink enough beer or eat enough oatmeal in a day to come close to the acceptable daily intake of glyphosate. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets safety standards for chemicals used on farms.
The EPA conducts extensive safety tests, which are used to set the maximum level of chemical residues that food can contain and still be safe. On top of that, the EPA sets a safety margin by setting allowable residues at 100 to 1,000 times lower than the level that is considered hazardous.
Why do farmers use glyphosate?
Farmers use glyphosate to control weeds in a sustainable way. In years past farmers relied on tillage to control weeds but this led to extensive soil loss by wind and water erosion. No-till agriculture using herbicides to control weeds helps improve the organic content of the soil as well as help preserve the soil
for future generations.
Glyphosate is low toxicity and degrades completely into non-toxic compounds. This is not the case for some of the older herbicides that glyphosate replaced. Because glyphosate is more effective than most other herbicides it allows the farmer to use less in the production cycle.
- Glyphosate was subject to rigorous scientific review when it was first registered and has been re-evaluated multiple times since then. Health and environmental risks are considered acceptable if there is reasonable certainty that no harm to human health, future generations or the environment will result from exposure to or use of the pesticide, based on its conditions or proposed conditions of registration.
- The presence trace amounts of herbicides in food, like glyphosate that have passed rigorous scientific view, is not significant enough to pose a risk to the public.
- Glyphosate is used to control weeds and it has been extensively tested for safety.
- Glyphosate has been detected in very small amounts in foods. Those trace amounts are below the amount determined to be safe by regulatory bodies and do not pose a health risk.
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STUNNING artwork has been unveiled which reveals one of the locations involved in the brand new Giant spectacular heading to Liverpool and Wirral in October.
New Brighton Lighthouse features on a brand new design created by Liverpool artist Alice Duke, confirming that a Giant visitor is expected to explore parts of Wirral for a day, with the lighthouse being included on the route.
As well as the Wirral location, organisers can also announce that Princes Park will feature as part of the show, with some very special activities planned for the green space. Both locations will feature on Friday 5 October.
Liverpool’s Dream takes place from Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 October, and will see Nantes-based Royal de Luxe bring their unforgettable street theatre event to the city for the third time. As usual, the French team are keen to keep an air of mystery around the event, so although two of the locations have been revealed, the full route and the specifics around which Giants are coming, is going to be kept under wraps for some time.
Alice worked on the last Giants event back in 2014 and is delighted to be back on the team four years later: She said: “After making work for the 2014 campaign it was an honour to be invited back to create a piece of artwork to promote the 2018 visitation. Seeing the Giants is always magical and surreal; I think the way Perch Rock Lighthouse emerges from the sea and sand matches that perfectly. It was a beautiful location to research and paint, and will be a wonderful place to see the Giants.”
Councillor Phil Davies, Leader of Wirral Council, said: “I am thrilled we are bringing the Giants to Wirral. It will be a truly spectacular event, and I hope as many people as possible get a chance to see and experience them on our side of the Mersey for the first time, and make memories that will last a lifetime. Like many Wirral residents, I have seen the Giants in Liverpool before and I know just how special they are.
“Working with colleagues from across the Liverpool City Region to bring huge events like the Giants to our shores is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing. These events attract thousands of visitors, boosting local businesses and creating jobs. Coming so soon after the hugely successful return of the Tall Ships, we are delighted that our Imagine Wirral programme is delivering everything we promised.”
Liverpool’s Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for culture, tourism and events, Councillor Wendy Simon, said:
“We had such an incredible response when we announced the return of the Giants and we know people are eager to know as much as possible about what is going to happen in October.
“Thanks to the beautiful piece of art created by Alice, we can reveal a bit more information about the locations involved. The New Brighton Lighthouse will be a stunning backdrop for the event and it’s really exciting that Wirral is going to provide a whole new playground for our visitors to explore.
“In the next four months we’ll be making more announcements around what Liverpool’s Dream has in store for the hundreds of thousands of visitors we’re expecting to head to the region in October.”
The event is one of the major highlights of the Liverpool 2018 programme – a year-long celebration which marks a decade since the city held the game-changing title of European Capital of Culture. The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is supporting several highlight Liverpool 2018 events with £5 million from the Single Investment Fund (SIF).
The event has been made possible thanks to support from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Arts Council England.
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region, said:
“The last time the Giants visited Liverpool they attracted a million people and boosted our economy by nearly £50 million. It is very exciting that this third instalment of the story will also include the Wirral and I am sure that the hundreds of thousands of people who visit will see what the wider city region has to offer as a visitor destination. That’s why we’ve invested £5million into the 2018 cultural programme.”
Any businesses interested in sponsorship opportunities should email Giant.Spectacular@liverpool.gov.uk.
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Many of us will recall Petri dishes from our first biology class – those shallow glass vessels containing a nutrient gel into which a microbe sample is injected. In this sea of nutrients, the cells grow and multiply, allowing the colony to flourish, its cells dividing again and again. But just as interesting is how these cells die. Cell death in a colony occurs in two ways, essentially. One is through an active process of programmed elimination; in this so-called ‘apoptotic’ death, cells die across the colony, ‘sacrificing’ themselves in an apparent attempt to keep the colony going. Though the mechanisms underlying apoptotic death are not well understood, it’s clear that some cells benefit from the local nutrient deposits of dying cells in their midst, while others seek nutrition at the colony’s edges. The other kind of colony cell death is the result of nutrient depletion – a death induced by the impact of decreased resources on the structure of the waning colony.
Both kinds of cell death have social parallels in the human world, but the second type is less often studied, because any colony’s focus is on sustainable development; and because a colony is disarmed in a crisis by suddenly having to focus on hoarding resources. At such times, the cells in a colony huddle together at the centre to preserve energy (they even develop protective spores to conserve heat). While individual cells at the centre slow down, become less mobile and eventually die – not from any outside threat, but from their own dynamic decline – life at the edges of such colonies remains, by contrast, dynamic. Are such peripheral cells seeking nourishment, or perhaps, in desperation, an alternative means to live?
But how far can we really push this metaphor: are human societies the same? As they age under confinement, do they become less resilient? Do they slow down as resources dwindle, and develop their own kinds of protective ‘spores’? And do these patterns of dying occur because we’ve built our social networks – like cells growing together with sufficient nutrients – on the naive notion that resources are guaranteed and infinite? Finally, do human colonies on the wane also become increasingly less capable of differentiation? We know that, when human societies feel threatened, they protect themselves: they zero in on short-term gains, even at the cost of their long-term futures. And they scale up their ‘inclusion criteria’. They value sameness over difference; stasis over change; and they privilege selfish advantage over civic sacrifice.
Viewed this way, the comparison seems compelling. In crisis, the colony introverts; collapsing inwards as inequalities escalate and there’s not enough to go around. In a crisis, as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, people define ‘culture’ more aggressively, looking for alliances in the very places where they can invest their threatened social trust; for the centre is threatened and perhaps ‘cannot hold’.
Human cultures, like cell cultures, are not steady states. They can have split purposes as their expanding and contracting concepts of insiders and outsiders shift, depending on levels of trust, and on the relationship between available resources and how many people need them. Trust, in other words, is not only related to moral engagement, or the health of a moral economy. It’s also dependent on the dynamics of sharing, and the relationship of sharing practices to group size – this last being a subject that fascinates anthropologists.
In recent years, there’s been growing attention to what drives group size – and what the implications are for how we build alliances, how we see ourselves and others, and who ‘belongs’ and who doesn’t. Of course, with the advent of social media, our understanding of what a group is has fundamentally changed.
The British anthropologist Robin Dunbar popularised the question of group size in his book How Many Friends Does One Person Need? (2010). In that study, he took on the challenge of relating the question of group size to our understanding of social relationships. His interest was based on his early studies of group behaviour in animal primates, and his comparison of group sizes among tribal clans. Dunbar realised that, in groups of more than 150 people, clans tend to split. Averaging sizes of some 20 clan groups, he arrived at 153 members as their generalised limit.
However, as we all know, ‘sympathy groups’ (those built on meaningful relationships and emotional connections) are much smaller. Studies of grieving, for example, show that our number of deep relationships (as measured by extended grieving following the death of a sympathy group member) reach their upward limit at around 15 people, though others see that number as even smaller at 10, while others, still, focus on close support groups that average around five people.
For Dunbar, 150 is the optimal size of a personal network (even if Facebook thinks we have more like 500 ‘friends’), while management specialists think that this number represents the higher limits of cooperation. In tribal contexts, where agrarian or hunting skills might be distributed across a small population, the limiting number is taken to indicate the point after which hierarchy and specialisation emerge. Indeed, military units, small egalitarian companies and innovative think-tanks seem to top out somewhere between 150 and 200 people, depending on the strength of shared conventional understandings.
Though it’s tempting to think that 150 represents both the limits of what our brains can accommodate in assuring common purpose, and the place where complexity emerges, the truth is different; for the actual size of a group successfully working together is, it turns out, less important than our being aware of what those around us are doing. In other words, 150 might be an artefact of social agreement and trust, rather than a biologically determined structural management goal, as Dunbar and so many others think. We know this because it’s the limit after which hierarchy develops in already well-ordered contexts. But we also know this because of the way that group size shrinks radically in the absence of social trust. When people aren’t confident about what proximate others are mutually engaged in, the relevant question quickly turns from numbers of people in a functioning network to numbers of potential relationships in a group. So, while 153 people might constitute a maximum ideal clan size, based on brain capacity, 153 relationships exist in a much smaller group – in fact, 153 relationships exist exactly among only 18 people.
Smaller college size facilitates growing trust among strangers, making for better educational experiences
Dunbar’s number should actually be 18, since, under stress, the quality of your relationships matters much more than the number of people in your network. The real question is not how many friends a person can have, but how many people with unknown ideas can be put together and manage themselves in creating a common purpose, bolstered by social rules or cultures of practice (such as the need to live or work together). Once considered this way, anyone can understand why certain small elite groups devoted to creative thinking are sized so similarly.
Take small North American colleges. Increasingly, they vie with big-name universities such as Harvard and Stanford not only because they’re considered safer environments by worried parents, but because their smaller size facilitates growing trust among strangers, making for better educational experiences. Their smaller size matters. Plus, it’s no accident that the best of these colleges on average have about 150 teaching staff (Dunbar’s number) and that (as any teacher will know) a seminar in which you expect everyone to talk tops out at around 18 people.
But what do we learn from these facts? Well, we can learn quite a bit. While charismatic speakers can wow a crowd, even the most gifted seminar leader will tell you that his or her ability to involve everyone starts to come undone as you approach 20 people. And if any of those people require special attention (or can’t tolerate ideological uncertainty) that number will quickly shrink.
In the end, therefore, what matters much more than group size is social integration and social trust. As for Facebook’s or Dunbar’s question of how many ‘friends’ we can manage, the real question ought to be: how healthy is the Petri dish? To determine this, we need to assess not how strong are the dish’s bastions (an indicator of what it fears) but its ability, as with the small North American college, to engage productively and creatively in extroverted risk. And that’s a question that some other cultures have embraced much better than even North American colleges.
On the Indonesian island of Bali, a village isn’t a community unless it has three temples: one for the dead ancestors and things past (pura dalem); a community temple that manages social life (pura desa); and a temple of origin (pura puseh). This last temple is what literally ties an individual self to a particular place. For the word puseh means ‘navel’.
To this last temple every Balinese is connected by a spiritual umbilicus, and every 210 days (that is, every Balinese year) a person thus tied is obliged to return physically to honour that connectedness, becoming again a metaphorical stem cell: returning to their place of origin, examining their patterns of growth, and using their ‘stem’ in the interests of restructuring a healthier future. The stem cell, of course, is the recursive place where embryologists gather cells to regrow us more healthily; and, in Bali, extroversion is health-enhancing only once we bring back what we learn to where we began. Neglecting this originary connection can cause grave harm, and being far removed, or abroad for an extended period, risks snapping that cord if stretched too far, severing the very lifeline to one’s own past, present and future.
But why stretch your umbilicus at all if potential outcomes might be dire? Because boundary exploration helps us define who we are; because the unfamiliar makes us conscious of what’s central; because we need to approach things that are unusual if we’re to diversify and grow. It’s the idea behind the avant-garde (literally, the advance guard) – the original French term referred to a small group of soldiers dispatched to explore the terrain ahead so as to test the enemy. You could stay put and remain ignorant, or go too far and get killed. Alternatively, you might go just far enough to learn something and come back to describe what you’d witnessed. It’s a simple idea, part of every vision quest, and filled with deep uncertainty.
Indeed, the very uncertainty of exploration is critical to adaptation and growth. Our shared values (the ‘cultures’ we think we know at the centre of the Petri dish) are always explicitly defined at the peripheries, where we become more aware of our assumptions. And if there’s no wall or Petri dish to contain us, we need to have that umbilicus: because we need a device to measure how far is too far. This being the case, it follows that curiosity is critical to rethinking what we take for granted. It can make us better informed, but it can also get us into trouble. When will the umbilicus snap? How far is too far? These are good questions that once again might be illuminated by a biological example. The human immune system is the best one I know.
For a long time, science told us that immunity was about defending ourselves from foreign invaders. This model explains the way we resist becoming host to lots of foreign things that could destroy us – it’s how the body resists becoming a toxic dump site. It also animates the way we teach schoolchildren about washing hands and, today, donning masks and remaining socially distant.
Viruses are not living invaders. They’re just information that can sit around like books in our genetic library
Setting aside its inherent xenophobia (keep out all things foreign), the defence model works well enough. But there’s a big problem with this simple idea: because we need knowledge of the foreign landscape and its inhabitants in order to adapt. Indeed, we build immunity on the back of dendritic (presentation) cells that, like the military advance guard, bring back to our bodies specific information that we assess and respond to.
While it’s true that, in this sense, we’re reacting ‘defensively’ when we adapt, that’s pretty much where the utility of the military metaphor ends – and where modern immunity begins to challenge what immunologists have defined for decades as the ‘recognition and elimination of nonself’. The metaphor fails because viruses are not living invaders. They are just information that can sit around like books in our genetic library until someone reads them, revising what they mean through some editorial updating, and then bringing the information they offer to life once again, in a new form.
Moreover, like books in a lending library, some viruses remain unread, while others are widely used. Some are dusty, some dog-eared. That’s because viruses proliferate only when people congregate in reading groups and animate them; where what those groups attend to is socially, not biologically, driven. Like those books, viruses are just bits of data that our bodies interpret and share with others, for better or worse. This is a process that happens every day, and mostly for the better, especially when viral intelligence helps us to adapt, and prevents us (like isolated tribes) from dying of the common cold every time cruise ships or truckers from abroad show up at our ferries and ports.
But there’s another reason that invasive images fail to explain the science. In 1994, the immunologist Polly Matzinger introduced an immune system model in which our antibodies don’t respond solely as a matter of defence. They respond, in her view, because antigen-presenting (dendritic) cells stimulate immunologic responses. Although the immune system remains defensive in this view, Matzinger’s argument shifted the debate ever so slightly from levels of self-preservation to information-presentation – from excluding outsiders to understanding them.
The idea was radical in immunologic science, but mundane in anthropology. Countless anthropological arguments saying much the same thing about self, awareness of ‘the other’ had been around for more than a century (and obvious to other cultures for millennia), but the assault on self-preservation through extroverted risk finally entered bench science with Matzinger, appearing not only as ‘new’, but in a form familiar enough to bench scientists to sound plausible.
The immune system is your biological intelligence. It needs the ‘infection’ of foreign bodies to help you survive
Now, if belatedly, immunology was poised to question both Darwinian preservation and selfishness in one go, as well as its own otherwise unexamined assumptions about the social and biological exclusion of ‘nonself’. Matzinger’s idea got traction, its shift from defence to curiosity calling attention to the immune system’s role in assessing the unknown (as opposed to shunning the outside).
Still, the argument would in any case be revised by three key realities. The first, which didn’t take root among theoretical immunologists until regenerative medicine emerged at the end of the 1990s, is that viruses are less invaders than informants. I’d picked up this idea from the Balinese whom I worked with during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. But it wasn’t limited to them. Other, less ‘Cartesian’ Indigenous groups, such as the Navajo, share this understanding. The second truth, which came from the same cross-cultural experience, was that immunology was stuck in self-interest: it couldn’t fathom why a self would reach out in an extroverted and potentially dangerous manner instead of only selfishly defending its identity.
Scientists were slowly awakening to a fact well known in many non-Darwinian settings: namely, that externality (extroversion) matters. So does reciprocity – as anthropologists well know. External information has to resonate with ‘self’ – in this case, with cells that your body already makes – in order to bind, transcribe and replicate. That’s the key function of our immune cells, which are made mostly in the thymus (T cells) and bone marrow (B cells). Our bodies make millions of novel cells in these mutation factories, so many in fact that we can’t even count them. Like experimental radio beams sent into outer space, these cells send out signals, functioning as much as search engines as systems of defence.
The point here is that thinking of the immune system only as a defensive fortress-builder seriously misses what it’s actually doing. Because the immune system is also, and quite literally, your biological intelligence. It needs the ‘infection’ of foreign bodies to help you develop and survive. This same need also explains how vaccines protect us from biological meltdown. Extroversion is therefore not only needed as a defence strategy, as Matzinger would have it, but as a means of engaging with and also creating environmental adaptations, even if these encounters prove life-threatening for some. We see this need manifest itself graphically in the present COVID-19 crisis – less by what is happening scientifically, than by what is happening socially.
A recent report on wellbeing and mental health by the Brookings Institution attempts to deconstruct the apparent paradox of reported feelings of hope among otherwise disadvantaged and openly disenfranchised populations in the United States during the pandemic. ‘Predominantly Black counties have COVID-19 infection rates that are nearly three times higher than that of predominantly white counties,’ the report says, ‘and are 3.5 times more likely to die from the disease compared to white populations.’ Yet those same communities also express much higher levels of optimism and hope.
The authors list various potential explanations for these higher rates of infection and death: ‘overrepresentation in “essential” jobs in the health sector and in transportation sectors where social distancing is impossible’; ‘underrepresentation in access to good health care, and their higher probability of being poor’; ‘longer-term systemic barriers in housing, opportunity, and other realms’; and being ‘more likely to have pre-existing health conditions [risk factors] such as asthma, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases’.
Given such disadvantage, and the inability to practise social distancing, the authors understandably presume that these socially disadvantaged groups should ‘demonstrate the highest losses in terms of mental health and other dimensions of wellbeing’. However, what they discovered is the exact opposite. Not only do African Americans remain the most optimistic of all the cohorts studied, when data is controlled for race and income, they also report ‘better mental health than whites, with the most significant differences between low-income Blacks and whites’. Indeed, low-income African Americans are 50 per cent less likely to report experiencing stress than low-income whites, and (along with Hispanics) are far less likely to involve themselves in deaths born of despair than whites.
There are, of course, many complex reasons involved, including such things as community resilience and extended family ties, a belief in the merits of higher education, and a history of overcoming social inequality – some of which (like the merits of education) have declined among low-income whites. According to the authors of the Brookings Institution report, ‘the same traits that drive minority resilience in general are also protective of wellbeing and mental health in the context of the pandemic’.
Now, these factors fit well with the literature on so-called ‘post-traumatic growth’ (where overcoming threatening hurdles can be strengthening). They also conform with what has been written about ‘resilient kids’ – those children who make good on challenging backgrounds to become considerate and sometimes successful human beings. Such findings, though, can be dangerous if the only take-home message is that adversity produces resilience. Herbert Spencer, the 19th-century father of Social Darwinism, who believed that stress was strengthening, and that charity only delayed what biology, in eliminating the weak, would take care of on its own. For Spencer, stress defined resilience.
Every time we look one another in the eye and nod affirmatively, we create an informal contract
And that’s the problem. Because the simple act of translating a biological story into a social one exposes a critical fallacy in the biology itself – this being that our otherwise inert genes possess the animated capacity for ‘selfishness’, even though they’re just bits of inert information to which our cells clearly bring life. Here, the supposedly scientific argument about determinism emerges as animated fantasy – a tendentious fundamentalism bordering on religious fundamentalism; or a moral lesson, as E O Wilson thought of sociobiology, in which stress emerges as morally and allegorically conditional. The only problem is, well, that’s just not what’s happening.
Stress, to be clear, is neither good nor bad. It is amoral – or rather, its moral content is something we make together – socially, not biologically. For social engagement is itself a form of extroversion – an act of accommodation, a belief in the value of difference – in short, an anti-fundamentalist, anti-determinist view of the merits of navigating uncertainty together. But resilience can look Darwinian – both because the disadvantaged African Americans who respond to Brookings Institution surveys have already transcended significant challenges; and because the uneven playing field on which they’ve lived has long since silenced, ruined or completely destroyed those lacking survival networks. Such a story might even be corroborated by the unhappy fact that African Americans (and men in particular) live less long than their counterparts in other groups; and, when they do live longer, they’re more likely to spend time in prison if what stress teaches them is antisocial.
Research on minority resilience must, therefore, be read differently. For it is social exchange – our very sociality, the ‘moral economy’ – that produces hope. Here, everything depends on social context. So, those who engage and exchange socially (by choice with families, or by default or of necessity in healthcare and service jobs) are better equipped to deal with the uncertainty of COVID-19 – and remain hopeful. It’s the engagement part – by choice or necessity – that nourishes hope. Every time we look one another in the eye and nod affirmatively in a social setting, we create an informal contract with another person. Dozens, sometimes hundreds, of times a day, we affirm our trust in others by this simple act, masked or not. We do this as an act of extroversion, hoping that we can survive and grow through creative engagement with what we learn on the edges of our community, and, if not, that our resilience can be nourished by those with whom we share common purpose.
Black people in America might die more than three times more often than whites in the pandemic, but they’re also less socially isolated via their higher representation in public-facing jobs in which they have to engage with others. Like the military advance guard, or those cells at the edge of the Petri dish colony, they’re more likely to learn more from extroverted risk, and to adjust their expectations accordingly, emerging as more resilient in themselves and less vulnerable to mistrusting others. That’s not only why deaths born of despair are less common among them, but why isolation itself is a major driver of COVID-19 fatigue for all of us.
It’s the engagement that matters. The so-called ‘healthy migrant effect’ offers a clear example. Migrant struggles are well documented, but migrants who enter into new communities often have just as good or even better health statuses than native populations. Thus, second-generation Asian-American migrants are more likely to excel in secondary school, and have much higher test scores, attend elite colleges and receive high-income professional degrees (eg, business, medicine, etc). The point is that it’s not only the extroverted risk of migrating that matters: it’s whether that risk results in a sense of meaningful exchange within a social context. It’s exchange itself, it turns out, that’s important.
What’s more, the more moral its content, the better the odds that such exchange will enhance resilience. Most of the time, risks don’t work out as expected. And when they don’t work out, we all need a parent’s couch to sleep on and a shared meal to increase our sense of belonging and hope. It’s what the French sociologist Marcel Mauss observed almost a century ago about the value of reciprocity in his essay The Gift (1925): that the giver gives a part of him or herself, and that the thing given implies a return. Which is to say that it’s the exchange relationship that makes an economy ‘moral’ in the first place.
By contrast, being alone undermines wellbeing. We know this from studying the impact of social isolation on mortality and morbidity. There’s lots of evidence here, and not just from studies of suicide: experiencing social isolation is a key reason why children who are wards of state, for example, often elect to return to families that are dangerous for them. In fact, being socially engaged even trumps being equal to others when it comes to what we all need.
Again, evidence falls readily to hand. Some recent work on isolation and healthcare in China, carried out by members of the Cities Changing Diabetes global academic network that I lead, shows just how much of a risk factor social isolation is. Asked if equality of access to healthcare contributed directly to an inability to manage disease, about one-third of the several hundred people we interviewed said ‘yes, equality matters’. Asked how much the absence of family networks (a proxy for social isolation) impacted illness experience, and the percentage who said it did rose to almost everyone (93 per cent). And that’s in a country known to provide next-to-no care, let alone equal care, for economic migrants who must go home to be treated. This finding is startling, because equality is the gold standard for engagement in any democracy. Yet even it fades in importance when the moral economy is measured.
For hope to proliferate, we need much more than endurance in the heroic, Darwinian sense
The same holds true of refugees from violence. In another project (one in which I’ve been personally involved), funded by the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany, we systematically documented the health vulnerabilities of recent migrants. Asked whether they were receiving good healthcare, Syrian refugees resettled in communities often answered that they were receiving excellent care, even though German-born citizens publicly stated that those migrants were getting less. That’s not just because welfare in Germany looks pretty good when compared with Aleppo. It’s because extroverted hope, when paired with the altruism it generates socially, mediates a person’s ability to believe in the future – even if that hoped-for future is still somewhere far in the distance.
There’s an important conclusion here: equality is only a first step towards alleviating human suffering and promoting feeling well within a moral economy. The bigger part concerns how people learn to hope about more than getting through the day. To put it another way, being hopeful requires a belief in the future, a long-term view.
But being hopeful also requires more than that. It requires a sense of deep time and an enduring willingness – a desire – to engage. For hope to proliferate, we need much more than endurance in the heroic, Darwinian sense. We need a willingness to accept the natural place of everyday uncertainty, and we need diversity – even redundancy – to make that possible. The idea isn’t hard to grasp. The American inventor Thomas Edison once said that, in order to create, inventors need ‘a good imagination and a pile of junk’. The implication is that the hope required to convert junk into something useful sustains your extended contemplation of a pile of rubbish (what looks irrelevant now) over the deep time required to reshape it. But there’s another lesson: if you eliminate (recycle) what in the moment seems redundant or useless, without giving it a fair chance at invention, you also eliminate the possibility of making something new. Growth depends on merging two unlike things in the interest of making something greater.
Redundancy and diversity form the basis of every moral economy, which is why neoliberal economies – those that take what look like redundancies and eliminate them in the interest of ‘efficiency’ – fail miserably in assisting population wellbeing. I have yet to see, for example, how profit manages itself in places where state welfare is almost entirely absent (eg, Nigeria). Neoliberalism succeeds only when it emerges within otherwise generous societies that have welfare stockpiles that can be selfishly mined. On that point, Ayn-Rand-style economics fails, and will forever fail, by favouring self-interest and efficiency over diversity, generosity and altruism. Observe what short-term self-interest has done to challenged economies, and a picture of what my fellow anthropologist Jonathan Benthall in 1991 called ‘market fundamentalism’ is easily painted.
The social parallels here almost need no stating: what seems irrelevant to any one of us today, including the peculiar views of others, might in the end provide the very thing necessary to make us resilient to a future challenge – just as hope in the future mediates the uncertainties of COVID-19 through social engagement.
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You may have run out of your favourite skincare products, but did you know that your kitchen has so many powerful ingredients that are great for your skin? So why not make the most of them and try some simple DIY skincare tips and tricks to get that glow. Among other things, did you know oats are great for your skin? In case you are yet to discover its utility, we are here to help.
Here are some easy face packs you can make with oats.
Rose water and oatmeal face pack
This is very easy to make. In a bowl, take two tablespoons of oatmeal and add one tablespoon of honey. Mix it well and add a few drops of rose water. Apply this on your face for 10 minutes and then wash off with lukewarm water. Your skin will feel smooth and fresh!
Egg white and oatmeal face pack
In order to make this, take two tablespoons of oatmeal and one egg white. Blend it well and apply on your face. Wash your face with lukewarm face and you will see a difference.
Papaya and oats face pack
Make the pack by mixing a small piece of raw papaya, two tablespoons of oats, a bit of water and one teaspoon of almond oil. Apply this on your face for 15 minutes and then wash off. Skin will be visibly rejuvenated.
Turmeric and oats face pack
Take two tablespoons oatmeal, and add a bit of turmeric powder and a few drops of rose water to make the pack. Apply this on your face and scrub gently. Wash it off after 10 minutes and see the difference for yourself.
Which pack are you trying?
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June 24, 2020
What was the Buddha’s great wisdom, and how do the artworks of the Buddhist tradition convey it to us today?
Buddhist art has been created over two millennia across India, China, Japan and throughout Asia, and takes some distinctive forms in various regions, but generally speaking it was created to guide followers of the Buddha, known as “the Awakened One,” in their religious practice.
Whether they depict the Buddha himself, episodes from his life, or bodhisattvas (those who have taken a vow to seek enlightenment), this art was meant to inspire the Buddha’s devotees and remind them of his teachings, whose core message is about compassion and the path to relieving suffering.
One thing Jeff Durham, associate curator of Himalayan art at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, stresses is that the very role of Buddhist art is fundamentally different from that of art in the Western world.
“Buddhist art isn’t just a picture of anything,” he said over the phone. “It’s active art designed to reflect and project a certain mental state. These works are meant to change the mind from a state of obsession to one of friendliness.”
The Buddha triumphing over Mara, a statue in stone from Bihar state, India (approximately 800-900). Part of the Avery Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Credit: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Despite the broad geographic reach of Buddhism and its centuries-long history, the teachings are consistent. Our actions, or karma, define our destiny. The Buddha, who was born as the Prince Siddhartha into a royal family in Lumbini, close to the border with India in what is now Nepal, taught that the cycle of death and rebirth, called samsara, is caused by our mental attachment to earthly concerns, and that a mind disciplined by meditation can release us from this endless cycle of suffering.
Durham’s museum recently mounted the exhibition “Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment
,” whose works point to key aspects of Buddhist philosophy.
One classic representation of the Buddha, depicting a key moment in his life, is the museum’s “The Buddha triumphing over Mara,” a ninth-century Indian stone sculpture. In it, the Buddha is seated in meditation at the very moment of his awakening, or enlightenment, when he realized the causes of suffering in human life, and understood that meditation could release humankind from such suffering. The Buddha went into Vipassana meditation, a technique practiced throughout the world today, Durham explained, after making the resolution that, “My bones may break, my blood may dry up, but I will not move from this position until I have solved the mystery of the universe.”
He would not rise, he determined, until he had divined a means to banish suffering.
A basalt statue: “Standing crowned Buddha with four scenes of his life,” approx. 1050–1100. southern Magadha region, Bihar state, India. Part of the Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Credit: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
There is a way to read what these sculptures are saying, Durham explained. Here, the clue that the sculpture shows the moment of Buddha’s awakening is the gesture he is making with his right hand. When the demon Mara — who in Buddhist cosmology is associated with desire — tried to challenge the Buddha by demanding a witness to his awakening, the Buddha touched the Earth itself, calling upon it to testify to his enlightenment. When the Earth testified, “I am your witness,” it drove the demon away.
Another exceptionally fine representation is the brass “Buddha Shakyamuni” from the twelfth or thirteenth century in central Tibet, explained John Guy, curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. This particular sculpture is rare since it avoided destruction in a historical purge: “It’s one of the rare survivors of Tibetan art to have come down to us from this very early period,” he said over the phone. “They survived in greater numbers until the 1950s, when the Chinese Communist People’s Liberation Army invaded Tibet and destroyed so much art.”
It’s not only gestures that clue viewers in to the fact that a sculpture represents the Buddha and conveys his teachings, but also distinctive physical attributes. One common feature of the Buddha among Tibetan renditions, Guy explained, is the fire atop his head, seen in this work. “Kings and rulers are understood to have distinguishing body marks, of which this is one,” he said.
Buddha Shakyamuni, 12th century, central Tibet. Credit: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Another telltale mark is the profile of the Buddha’s cranium. That’s not a headdress you see creating a conical shape on top of the Buddha’s skull — it’s actually a bodily attribute called the ushnisha (cranial protuberance), which signifies great wisdom.
Other identifying marks of the Buddha are long earlobes (a relic of his earlier, wealthier life, when he wore earrings), flat soles of the feet, and fingers all the same length. (“That continues to this day,” Guy added. “The Dalai Lama, too, was chosen because of the body marks on the infant.”)
The Met’s seventh-century Indian bronze sculpture “Buddha Offering Protection,” meanwhile, shows how some of the earliest artists to depict the Buddha combined attributes that were unique to Buddhist teachings, with those associated with regal figures in other art historical traditions, such as the raised right hand, palm outward, which extends protection to his followers. They also used umbrellas, fans, and thrones, which were meant to help followers of other traditions shift their loyalties to the Awakened One, said Guy.
“The Buddha triumphing over Mara” provides a great example of an artwork that doesn’t just remind you of an episode from the Buddha’s life, but also includes the Awakened One’s teachings too,” Durham said. The writing around the Buddha’s head reads, “Everything has a cause.” The Buddha realized at his moment of enlightenment that nothing in the world is disconnected from anything else; samsara, remember, is caused by our own minds.
Buddha Offering Protection, Late 6th-early 7th century, India. Credit: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“You can actually read off the sculpture that it’s the enlightenment experience,” Durham said. “And you can understand what the Buddha actually understood that woke him up.”
If you’re not quite ready to accept that your own mind causes the endless cycle of death, rebirth and suffering, there’s still plenty to be gleaned from this ancient tradition and its artworks.
“The Buddha’s teachings can be read on many levels,” Guy said. “But at a fundamental level, all the storytelling was a way of conveying ethical values. One of them is the peaceful coexistence of all life forms, which is very germane today. We’ve wandered dangerously far from that principle in the era of climate change.”
Referring to the seated Buddha sculpture in San Francisco, which is inscribed with the message that all things are connected by causality (in contrast with the deterministic belief that our fate is out of our hands), Durham, too, brings matters from the time of the Awakened One to today.
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Organizing Support for Success
Community College Academic and Student Support Ecosystems
The Community College Academic and Student Support Ecosystems (CCASSE) project examines how academic and student support services at not-for-profit associate-degree granting colleges are organized, funded, and staffed, and how these services can most effectively advance student success. In spring 2019, we surveyed 249 chief academic and student affairs officers at community colleges across the United States on success measures, services offered, resource challenges and constraints, and vision for future service provision.
- The most important objectives for colleges and their leaders are increasing student retention, graduation, and course completion. More than seven in ten senior administrators rated increasing student retention, graduation, and course completion as the most important objectives to their college and to the services under their own leadership.
- Services within academic affairs focus more often on student learning and outcomes, while services within student affairs focus more on student enrollment and well-being. Academic affairs leaders are more likely to rate increasing student learning and post-graduation outcomes as important for the services under their leadership compared to student affairs leaders, who view increasing enrollment and helping students develop a sense of community as relatively more important.
- Peer to peer mentoring, academic advising, and dual enrollment services vary in their reporting structure across academic and student affairs. While many services are consistent in to whom they report, these three services do not clearly report to a single department and may be led jointly by academic and student affairs.
- Cross-departmental collaboration is expected to increase. Collaboration between academic and student affairs may be integral to service provision in the future, as eight in ten respondents anticipate seeing more collaboration over the next five years.
- Senior administrators name financial constraints and resistance to change as the primary limitations for making desired changes. Approximately seven in ten respondents indicated that the lack of financial resources limits their ability to make desired changes, followed by four in ten who rate general resistance to change among employees and inadequate institutional infrastructure/systems as challenging.
- Reliance on non-governmental funding sources is expected to increase as governmental funding remains stagnant or decreases. About five in ten respondents anticipate student tuition or fees and private gifts to increase over the next five years, whereas about four in ten expect state appropriations to decrease and three quarters expect federal appropriations to stay the same.
- Senior administrators anticipate that the budgets for academic advising and dual enrollment will increase. For many other services, they anticipate budgets will remain the same over the next five years.
- Senior administrators most often collect and analyze data to improve the effectiveness of support services and demonstrate impact. Greater shares of student affairs leaders use data from intra-institutional sources to improve service provision while academic affairs leaders are more prone to examine external data from other institutions or industries to accomplish these objectives.
- The use of learning analytics tools is expected to increase. Over 70 percent of senior administrators, and even greater shares at large colleges in particular, anticipate the expansion of learning analytics tools.
- Many senior administrators anticipate incorporating more diverse course offerings for an array of student needs into their curriculum. Over 70 percent of senior administrators expect courses for workforce students to increase over the next five years and anticipate more distance learning courses in the curriculum.
- Administrators value the student-centered roles of the library. While only about four in ten respondents highly value the role of the library overall, the overwhelming majority of respondents, especially those at transfer-focused colleges, specifically value the library in providing students with access to technology, resources, and spaces.
Community colleges serve a wide range of students, including, but not limited to, returning adult learners, first-generation students, low-income individuals, and underrepresented minorities. We have spent the last two years deeply engaged in a project that focused on how these students define success, what barriers stand in their way of achieving it, and what services might hold promise for helping them overcome these challenges. We heard clearly from students, both via interview and survey, that they face tremendous difficulty navigating college resources and services and would greatly benefit from a deeper understanding of these ecosystems.
Ensuring that students can access support services requires more than just understanding student needs, but being able to translate those needs into accessible and actionable services to help students achieve academic, personal, and professional success.
Ensuring that students can access support services requires more than just understanding student needs, but being able to translate those needs into accessible and actionable services to help students achieve academic, personal, and professional success. The provision of academic and student support services aimed at helping students realize this success varies from college to college, as they are organized or structured in different ways to utilize limited resources effectively. In order to truly understand how best to provide scalable, actionable, and accessible services, it is not only vital to ask students what they need, but to evaluate how services are currently constructed, organized, funded, and staffed.
To that end, we are engaging in an IMLS-funded, multi-year initiative focused on understanding: (1) how services are currently organized, funded, and staffed to address student needs, (2) what type of library services community colleges need in conjunction with other academic and student services, and (3) how the library can best organize itself to develop and sustain programs or services that contribute to the community college’s mission and student success. The Community College Academic and Student Support Ecosystems (CCASSE) project will contribute to these topics through three phases of work:
- Survey of chief academic and student affairs officers. This survey investigated the perspectives of senior community college administrators within academic and student affairs on the value of the services provided at their college, the challenges they face, among other organizational information.
- Site visits. An in-depth examination of community college services through site visits will provide a holistic perspective on how services are currently structured within different community colleges and the extent to which these services are meeting student needs.
- Survey of library directors. This survey will explore perceptions of the library’s role, priorities, resource allocations, and constraints within the community college, and how the library can best meet the needs of students in coordination with the services offered through academic and student affairs.
This report details the findings from the first phase of the CCASSE project, the survey of chief senior administrators in academic and student affairs, which investigates the current structure and provision of services at two-year colleges.
The population for this survey is chief academic and student affairs officers at not-for-profit two-year colleges and associate’s dominant four-year institutions across the United States. These senior administrators vary in their role and title and were thus selected based on the qualification of being in the most senior role within academic and student affairs at each college in the sample. Typical titles for academic affairs roles included Chief Academic Officer (CAO), Provost, and Vice President of Academic Affairs, and those in student affairs were often Vice President of Student Affairs (VPSA), Dean of Students, or Dean of Student Success. In an effort to streamline our reporting, we refer to these individuals as chief academic affairs and student affairs officers, academic and student affairs leaders, or senior administrators throughout this report, recognizing that actual underlying titles vary greatly.
As these roles are typically housed in different offices and carry different titles depending on the college, contact information for the sample was hand-gathered anew. This process entailed creating a list of applicable colleges and locating the contact information for the individual via their college’s website, or by calling the college directly.
After iterating with project advisors on survey instrument drafts, the survey was pre-tested in order to ensure that it was understood consistently and clearly across respondents. Six in-depth cognitive interviews were conducted in March 2019 with senior administrators within the survey population.
The survey was fielded between April and June 2019, and distributed under the signatory of Ithaka S+R leadership and relevant professional associations including the League for Innovation and Achieving the Dream. A total of 11 state college associations also promoted the survey. Approximately 2,069 senior administrators received an email invitation to participate in the survey, and 264 completed the survey for an overall response rate of about 13 percent.
The response rate for respondents from for-profit colleges was not comparable to the rest of the sample, and consequently this subgroup was excluded from analysis. Thus, the sample used in this report includes the 249 respondents representing 229 not-for-profit colleges.
On average, the resulting sample of colleges represented by the respondents have a graduation rate of about 27 percent (SD = 14), a full-time retention rate of about 61 percent (SD = 9.64), a part-time retention rate of about 44 percent (SD = 13), and a transfer-out rate for the total cohort of about 19 percent (SD = 8.91). The resulting sample of 249 respondents broke down in the following manner; some of the following subgroups do not amount to the total sample due to a small number of participants not responding to select survey questions:
- Chief Academic Officer, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Provost, or equivalent: 118
- Vice President of Student Affairs, Dean of Students, Dean of Student Success or equivalent: 93
- Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs or equivalent: 26
- Other: 10
Sector of Institution
- Public, 4-year or above: 23
- Public, 2-year: 213
- Private not-for-profit: 11
- Tribal: 8
Size and Setting
- Very small, two-year (<500 FTE students): 17
- Small, two-year (500-1,999 FTE students): 63
- Medium, two-year (2,000-4,999 FTE students): 80
- Large, two-year (5,000-9,999 FTE students): 49
- Very large, two-year (>10,000 FTE students): 26
- Four-year, primarily nonresidential: 12
Undergraduate Instructional Program
- Associate colleges, high transfer: 80
- Associate colleges, mixed transfer/career & technical: 89
- Associate colleges, high career & technical: 52
- Baccalaureate/associates colleges: 12
- Special focus: two-year institution: 6
- No graduate coexistence: 8
Years in Current Position
- 0 to 5 years: 172
- 6 to 10 years: 42
- 11 to 15 years: 15
- 16 to 20 years: 8
- 21 years and more: 11
We thank our external advising committee for their expert guidance and support throughout the project:
- Braddlee, Dean of Learning and Technology Resources and Professor, Northern Virginia Community College
- Rosemary A. Costigan, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Community College of Rhode Island
- Mark McBride, Senior Library Strategist, State University of New York
- Karen Reilly, Dean of Learning Support, Valencia College, Orlando, Florida
- Karen A. Stout, President and CEO, Achieving the Dream
We are immensely grateful to Nicole Betancourt who led the administration of the survey, and to Kimberly Lutz and Roger Schonfeld for their input on this report. This project would not be possible without their substantive contributions.
The most important objectives for two-year colleges are increasing student retention, graduation, and course completion: 85 percent of respondents indicated increasing student retention as extremely important to their college, followed by increasing student graduation (79 percent), course completion (73 percent), student enrollment (70 percent), and student learning (68 percent; see Figure 1).
These objectives align somewhat with student goals that Ithaka S+R uncovered in earlier research with students across seven community colleges. Students named educational advancement—graduating with an associate’s degree or moving on to additional education—as important. While only 37 percent of senior administrators rated increasing post-graduation outcomes as extremely important to their college’s objectives, about half of students rate their ability to make more money and advance in their career as an extremely important goal. The top three most important college objectives do not necessarily capture some of the other intrinsic goals students see as highly important, such as developing social skills or a professional network. However, colleges are aligned with students’ most important intrinsic goal—gaining knowledge. About six in ten students rate this as extremely important to their college experience, and about seven in ten senior administrators rate increasing student learning as an important objective to their college.
Academic and student affairs leaders were later asked the same question regarding their own objectives for the services under their leadership. Increasing student retention was most important, with nine in ten rating retention as extremely important, followed by increasing student graduation (82 percent), course completion (77 percent), and student learning (71 percent; see Figure 1).
Figure 1. How important are each of the following objectives to your college and to you for services under your leadership to students? Percent of respondents that indicated each objective as extremely important.
Respondents from large colleges are more concerned with increasing student transfer to four-year institutions, whereas medium and smaller colleges are focused on increasing student enrollment. About 48 percent of respondents from large colleges rated increasing student transfer to four-year institutions as extremely important to their college compared to 38 percent from medium colleges and 35 percent from small colleges. About 72 percent of respondents from medium colleges and 74 percent from small ones rate increasing student enrollment as extremely important, while about 65 percent of respondents from large colleges rate this as important. Additionally, transfer-focused and mixed transfer and vocational-focused colleges rate increasing student transfer as relatively more important than vocational-focused colleges (see Figure 2). However, mixed-focused and vocational-focused colleges rate increasing student enrollment and post-graduation outcomes as more important than transfer-focused colleges.
Figure 2. How important are each of the following objectives to your college? Percent of respondents from transfer-focused, mixed transfer & vocational-focused, and vocational-focused colleges that indicated each objective as extremely important.
Approximately 76 percent of academic affairs leaders perceive improving student learning to be highly important to their college compared to 57 percent of their colleagues in student affairs. Additionally, leaders in academic affairs designate increasing course completion, transfer to four- year institutions, and post-graduation outcomes to be more important to their college than their colleagues in student affairs (see Figure 3). Similar to what respondents perceive to be important for their college, those in academic affairs rate learning-based objectives (i.e. increasing student learning, course completion) and improving post-graduation outcomes as more important than their colleagues in student affairs (see Figure 4). Conversely, a greater share of student affairs leaders rate increasing student enrollment and helping students to develop a sense of community as important to the services under their leadership than their colleagues in academic affairs.
Figure 3. How important are each of the following objectives to your college? Percent of chief academic and student affairs officers that rated each as extremely important.
Figure 4. How important are each of the following objectives to you for services under your leadership provided to students? Percent of chief academic and student affairs officers that rated each as extremely important.
The objectives of the college, as perceived by these leaders, are very much aligned with what they themselves hope to achieve within the services under their leadership. When comparing college and individual objectives, goals of increasing student retention, graduation, and course completion remain the three most important objectives. However, leaders within academic affairs align more closely with their colleges’ objectives than do those in student affairs. Student affairs leaders find that the goals related to addressing social and well-being needs are more important to the services under their leadership than to their college overall: 33 percent rate helping students develop a sense of community as extremely important to their college compared to 42 percent who rate this item as extremely important to their own leadership objectives. Additionally, only 14 percent of those in student affairs rate addressing social justice imperatives as extremely important to their college compared to 36 percent who rate this as extremely important to the services under their leadership.
Leaders in both academic and student affairs are united in their service to students and their success–seven in ten strongly agree that supporting student success is the most important priority at their college, and that their college has a well-developed strategy to meet changing student needs and practices. In the following sections, we explore current service provision at community colleges and anticipated future resource allocations more closely.
One of the fundamental research questions under investigation in this project relates to the provision and organization of services serving students at two-year colleges. When asked what services are provided at their college from a list of possible student support services, nearly all respondents indicated their college has financial aid, and over nine in ten reported their college offers orientation, academic advising, student computer labs, a library, tutoring center, student life/activities, dual enrollment services, IT/Helpdesk, and transfer services. On average, respondents indicated that their college offers 14 support services for the students at their college from a list of 17 potential services (see Appendix A). Unsurprisingly, respondents from large colleges reported offering relatively more services than small or medium colleges.
Senior administrators were asked whether the services offered at their college report to academic affairs, student affairs, both, or neither. The majority of respondents noted that the library, tutoring center, and writing center report to academic affairs and that student life/activities, personal counseling, orientation, financial aid, opportunity programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, career services, and transfer services report to student affairs (see Figure 5). Respondents frequently noted that some services—commuter services, child care, IT/help desks, and computer labs–do not report to either student or academic affairs.
Peer to peer mentoring services, academic advising and dual enrollment services tend to vary in reporting structure more so than other services listed, and in some cases report to both student and academic affairs. Forty percent of respondents said peer to peer mentoring reports to student affairs, while 30 percent listed it under academic affairs, and 20 percent said it reports to both. Roughly 49 percent of respondents said that academic advising reports to student affairs, compared to 35 percent who said that advising falls to both student and academic affairs. Similarly, about three in ten indicated dual enrollment services report to student affairs, four in ten to academic affairs, and three in ten to both student and academic affairs.
Figure 5. To what area(s) of your college do the following services report? Percent of respondents that indicated whether each service provided at their college reports to student affairs, academic affairs, both, or neither.
When asked to rate the importance of various services offered at their college in supporting student success, 87 percent of respondents rated financial aid extremely important, followed by academic advising (76 percent), and the tutoring center (58 percent). About 37 percent of respondents said that the library is extremely important in contributing to student success. This is particularly noteworthy given that a majority of students frequently rated the library as a promising source of support for new services, compared to other locations on campus, as we uncovered in earlier research with students across seven partner community colleges.
In some instances, senior administrators, particularly academic affairs leaders, tend to rate the services under their leadership as more important to supporting student success than those not under their leadership. A greater share of academic affairs leaders rate tutoring and writing centers, as well as child care centers, as extremely important compared to their colleagues in student affairs (see Figure 6). Likewise, a greater share of leaders in student affairs rate student life/activities as important to contributing to student success. Other services are rated similarly in importance across senior administrators.
Figure 6. Based on anything you know, have heard, or just happen to think, how important are each of the following services in supporting student success at your college? Percent of chief academic and student affairs officers that have this service currently offered at their college and rated each as extremely important.
Five in ten respondents strongly agree that the services under their leadership collaborate closely with those not under their leadership to improve student success. This may be integral to service provision in the future, as eight in ten respondents anticipate seeing more collaboration between departments over the next five years (see Figure 7). Greater shares of leaders in student affairs and in combined student and academic affairs roles agree that their services collaborate closely with other units compared to respondents solely in academic affairs: about 55 percent of student affairs leaders and 54 percent of leaders in combined roles strongly agree compared to 41 percent of academic affairs leaders. About 42 percent of student affairs leaders and 54 percent of combined student and academic affairs leaders strongly agree that services under their leadership have clearly articulated how they contribute towards student success, compared to 35 percent of academic affairs leaders.
Additionally, about 92 percent of respondents from large colleges anticipate collaboration to increase compared to 82 percent of respondents from medium colleges and 68 percent from small ones. While limited resources may hinder these goals, collaboration between academic and student affairs may be an intuitive and beneficial way to use limited resources more effectively as demonstrated by past studies.
In the next five years, about seven in ten senior administrators also anticipate providing more assistance to students who are housing and/or food insecure, 55 percent anticipate providing more specialized services for subgroups within the student population, and 54 percent anticipate more one-stop centers (see Figure 7). Over half of leaders in academic and student affairs anticipate that the service hours they offer students will stay the same. Similarly, over half of the respondents think contracting with external vendors will stay the same over the next five years
Figure 7. Do you anticipate seeing more, less, or about the same of each of the following in the services provided to students at your college over the next five years? Percent of respondents that anticipate seeing more, less, or about the same for each item.
When making decisions about services for students, senior administrators typically consider the perspectives of various individuals and governing bodies to inform their choices. Student and faculty perspectives, along with the vision and strategy of senior administrative leadership themselves, are rated as the most influential in shaping student support services. About nine in ten respondents rate academic and student affairs leaders as highly influential for shaping services under their leadership, followed by students (88 percent), faculty (81 percent), and accreditors (75 percent). Around half indicated state government agencies and board members as highly influential, and about two in ten rate librarians or library staff as highly influential. Not only are specific people influential within the decision making process, but data collection and assessment as well as budgetary restrictions are at the forefront when making choices for service provision.
Senior administrators often use data in their decision-making processes: roughly 88 percent of respondents are currently collecting and/or analyzing data on student demographics, followed by outcomes and impact from current services (87 percent), and usage of current services (80 percent) to inform their vision and strategy (see Figure 8). About 87 percent of leaders in student affairs gather data to assess the use of current services compared to 78 percent of their academic affairs peers. Conversely, leaders in academic affairs are more likely to look to research both from other higher education institutions (73 percent) and from industries outside of the higher education sector (50 percent) than their colleagues in student affairs (64 percent and 35 percent respectively).
Figure 8. What data, if any, do you collect and/or analyze for decision-making related to the services under your leadership provided to students? Please select all that apply. If none of the following are collected or analyzed, please leave blank. Percent of respondents that selected each of the following items.
These data are primarily collected for improving the effectiveness or impact of services (95 percent), determining if/how existing services should be changed (88 percent), and demonstrating the effectiveness or impact of services (87 percent; see Figure 9). Comparing data with peer and aspirant institutions is a relatively lower priority to senior administrators—57 percent of respondents collect data for this purpose. Leaders in both student and academic affairs have similar reasoning for collecting and using the data for improving and demonstrating the value of their services, though 95 percent of leaders in student affairs use data to determine if/how to change existing services compared to 86 percent of those in academic affairs. From these responses, we can see that student affairs leaders typically look to internal data sources to improve service provision while those in academic affairs might be more prone to examine external data from other institutions or industries.
Figure 9. Why do you collect and/or analyze these data? Please select all that apply. Percent of respondents that selected each of the following items.
Limited financial resources impede senior administrators’ ability to make needed or desired changes at their college, according to seven in ten respondents. Other roadblocks include a general resistance to change among employees (41 percent) and inadequate institutional infrastructure or systems (40 percent; see Figure 10). Additionally, a little less than half of respondents agree that they lack the resources needed to contribute to student success effectively.
Figure 10. What are the primary constraints on your ability to make desired changes in your college? Please select up to three items below. Percent of respondents that selected each of the following items.
Although financial limitations are rated as a primary constraint across all respondents, 76 percent of student affairs leaders report financial restrictions compared to 66 percent of academic affairs leaders (see Figure 11). While greater shares of student affairs leaders cited limitations with financial resources, more academic affairs leaders indicated difficulties with general resistance to change among employees, implementing new technologies, and labor regulations and/or restrictions, perhaps because teaching faculty and the curriculum fall under their leadership in addition to support services. Additional examples of constraints mentioned by respondents in open-text responses included lack of time, understaffing, and decreased enrollment.
Figure 11. What are the primary constraints on your ability to make desired changes in your college? Please select up to three items below. Percent of chief academic and student affairs officers that selected each of the following items.
Respondents anticipate budgets for most services at their college will stay the same over the next five years (see Figure 12). Less than 20 percent of respondents believe that any of the services’ budgets will decrease over time, while about half of respondents anticipate academic advising and dual enrollment budgets will increase. About 20 percent of senior administrators anticipate the budgets of student computer labs and the writing center to increase over the next five years, whereas only 12 percent of respondents anticipate the library’s budget to increase, and 76 percent anticipate the library’s budget will stay the same.
Figure 12. Do you anticipate the budget for each of these services provided to students at your college to increase, decrease, or stay the same over the next five years? Percent of respondents that have budgetary responsibility for each of the following services, and that indicated the budget would increase, decrease, or stay the same for each.
Many sources for funding are expected to remain the same over the next five years (see Figure 13). However, a greater share of senior administrators anticipate funding from non-governmental sources will either increase or stay the same over the next five years, whereas they think state and federal appropriations will stay the same or decrease over time. About 57 percent of senior administrators anticipate that student tuition and fees will increase as a source of funding over the next five years, followed by private gifts, contracts, or grants (50 percent), and government grants or contracts (35 percent). Three quarters of academic and student affairs leaders expect federal appropriations to stay the same, and four in ten anticipate state appropriations to decrease.
Figure 13. Do you anticipate each of the following funding sources at your college to increase, decrease, or stay the same over the next five years? Percent of respondents that indicated each will increase, decrease, or stay the same.
Lastly, to determine where senior administrators would like to prioritize greater investment, we asked respondents what they would do, hypothetically, if given a 10 percent increase to the budget they already receive. Six in ten senior administrators would allocate this extra money towards new employees and/or refined positions, followed by technology and/or systems (49 percent), new service area development (32 percent), and employee salary/compensation increases (31 percent). Academic affairs leaders would be more likely to use this budget increase for technology and/or systems (53 percent) and new facility expansions and/or renovations (27 percent) compared to their colleagues in student affairs (45 percent and 18 percent respectively). Thirty-four percent of student affairs leaders would use the additional funding for marketing toward prospective students compared to 16 percent of academic affairs leaders.
Staffing also presents unique difficulties for senior administrators, as about four in ten designated general resistance to change among their employees as a primary constraint to making desired changes and, as previously noted, a general lack of funds can certainly present issues with understaffing (see Figure 10).
Although resistance to change is viewed as a primary constraint to making changes, many senior administrators expect the roles of their current college employees to expand to more non-curricular responsibilities (see Figure 14). About four in ten expect the provision of these non-curricular services (i.e. helping students register for classes, advising students on course selection, etc.) to increase over the next five years, and five in ten expect this to stay about the same. Additionally, senior administrators anticipate that faculty will need to administer new elements in their curriculum. About eight in ten expect the use of learning analytics tools to increase over the next five years, 77 percent expect courses for workforce students to increase, and 73 percent anticipate more distance learning courses in the curriculum. Four in ten respondents expect the employment of contingent and part-time faculty and staff to increase over the next five years and 55 percent expect the level of employment of these roles to stay the same.
Figure 14. Do you anticipate seeing more, less, or about the same of each of the following in the services provided to students at your college over the next five years? Percent of respondents that they anticipate seeing more, less, or about the same for each item.
Respondents from large colleges anticipate an increase of learning analytics tools and distance learning courses, while smaller colleges anticipate that they will add more courses for workforce students over the next five years (see Figure 15). Large and medium sized colleges also anticipate the provision of non-curricular services to increase in the coming years. Additionally, about 46 percent of respondents from vocational-focused colleges anticipate increased employment of part-time or contingent staff and/or faculty compared to about 38 percent of respondents from transfer-focused and mixed-focused colleges. About 77 percent of respondents from both transfer-focused and mixed-focused colleges anticipate increased distance learning courses compared to 64 percent of respondents from vocational-focused colleges.
Figure 15. Do you anticipate seeing more, less, or about the same of each of the following in the services provided to students at your college over the next five years? Percent of respondents that they anticipate seeing more of each item by size of institution.
Respondents noted several staffing challenges, including rewarding high-performing employees (75 percent), building a pool of qualified candidates for open positions and providing competitive compensation packages to prospective employees (65 percent), and filling vacant positions in a timely manner (64 percent). Senior administrators in student and academic affairs experience similar difficulty with rewarding high-performing employees, though academic affairs leaders have a greater difficulty building a pool of qualified candidates (72 percent rated as difficult) and developing the knowledge, skills, and abilities of employees (52 percent) compared to student affairs leaders (58 percent and 35 percent respectively). Student affairs leaders reported encountering greater challenges with retaining employees and reducing turnover (37 percent) than did their colleagues in academic affairs (26 percent).
As one of the main goals of this multi-year research initiative is to determine what types of library services community colleges can offer to students in conjunction or coordination with other academic and student services, we asked chief academic and student affairs officers about their perceptions of the role of the library. We also plan on asking many of these questions to library directors in a later phase of this project.
Academic and student affairs leaders tend to view library roles that are access- and student learning-oriented as more important to student success than perhaps more traditional or scholarly roles of the library, such as the buyer of needed resources and a gateway for locating new information. In their valuation, the library’s most important roles are providing access to technology that supports student learning, providing essential course and other learning materials, helping students develop research, critical analysis, and information literacy skills, and providing an informal academic environment that supports student learning (see Figure 16).
Figure 16. How important is it to you that your college library provides each of the functions below or serves in the capacity listed below? Percent of respondents that rated each as highly important.
Greater shares of respondents from transfer-focused and mixed-focused colleges rate most aspects of the library as extremely valuable compared to respondents from vocational-focused colleges (see Figure 17). However, respondents from vocational-focused colleges rate the library as a gateway for locating information for faculty research as slightly more important than respondents at transfer- and mixed-focused colleges.
Additionally, respondents from small and medium colleges rate the value of teaching-related support of their library more highly than respondents from large colleges: about 77 percent of respondents from medium colleges and 74 percent from small colleges rated the library’s support and facilitation of teaching activities as extremely important compared to 66 percent of respondents from large colleges. About 62 percent of respondents from small colleges also find the library’s role as a buyer of needed resources, such as academic journals to books and electronic materials, to be extremely important compared to 57 percent of respondents from medium colleges and 51 percent from large colleges. Almost nine in ten respondents from large and medium sized colleges rate the library’s support in developing students’ research, critical analysis, and information literacy skills as extremely important compared to eight in ten respondents from small colleges.
Figure 17. How important is it to you that your college library provides each of the functions below or serves in the capacity listed below? Percent of chief academic and student affairs officers that rated each as highly important, by undergraduate instructional program.
Leaders in academic affairs rate each role of the library as more important than their colleagues in student affairs. In particular, the library’s role in supporting teaching activities, as an archive of resources, and in the provision of caring professionals who are experts in navigating college are rated as substantially more important by academic affairs leaders (percentage point differences of about 18 points, 11 points, and 9 points respectively) (see Figure 18).
Figure 18. How important is it to you that your college library provides each of the functions below or serves in the capacity listed below? Percent of chief academic and student affairs officers that rated each as highly important.
Students can face substantial difficulty in navigating college resources and services that may have the potential to help them reach the goals they seek to achieve. Through this project, we have now documented the landscape of service offerings across student and academic affairs at two-year, not-for-profit colleges. While many services are provided across the majority of colleges, some are offered much less frequently, including peer to peer mentoring, child care, and commuter services. Mapping the provision of these services across colleges is an important first step in providing higher education leaders with an evidence base for making decisions about services to continue or add in the future.
Mapping the provision of these services across colleges is an important first step in providing higher education leaders with an evidence base for making decisions about services to continue or add in the future.
Senior administrators are especially focused on increasing student retention, graduation, and course completion, and face financial and staffing barriers in doing so. They use a variety of data to make decisions in planning for future service provision and evaluating the effectiveness of their current services. And, while they highly value student-centered roles of the library, faculty- and research-facing roles are considered to be of relatively lesser importance.
We have also established commonalities and areas of convergence regarding the configuration of these services across student and academic affairs. Reporting lines are clear for many of these services, though many have shared responsibilities across functional areas. Many chief academic and student affairs officers anticipate increased collaboration in the coming years.
The information presented in this report begins to paint a picture of current service provision, the strategy driving it, and the factors that constrain it. We can begin to imagine new models for learning and collaboration across and within institutions, and anticipate what is on the horizon for future offerings. These results also shed light on the role that the library plays in supporting student needs.
In our next phases of work, we will be conducting site visits in 2020 with a diverse set of colleges to explore in more depth how these services are structured and the extent to which they are currently meeting student needs. In early 2021, we will turn to surveying community college library directors on their own strategies, resources, and constraints alongside other institutional support providers. We will conclude the project with an invitational workshop to bring together key leaders and participants from these research engagements to discuss action agendas for libraries and other service providers.
Through this project, we aim to help colleges institutionalize findings and organize themselves to better support student needs by enabling leaders to strengthen and reconfigure services to increase positive student outcomes. We look forward to sharing our work and engaging thoughtfully with the higher education community as it continues.
|Student support service||Number of respondents with this service at their college||Percentage of respondents with this service at their college|
|Academic advising (i.e. professional staff assisting with major and course selection, developing plan of study, etc.)||244||98%|
|Child care centers||103||42%|
|Commuter services (i.e. any assistance with transportation to campus(es), parking, etc.)||127||52%|
|Dual enrollment services (i.e. admitting/enrolling high school students to earn college credits)||237||96%|
|Opportunity programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds (i.e. EOP programs, TRIO programs, etc.)||180||73%|
|Peer to peer mentoring (i.e. new students paired with more experienced students)||115||47%|
|Personal counseling (i.e. professional staff assisting with treatment, outreach, and/or educational programs for the psychological well-being of students)||190||77%|
|Student computer labs||243||98%|
|Student life/ Student activities (i.e. student clubs/organizations, recreational activities, etc.)||241||97%|
|Transfer services (i.e. assistance to students transferring to/from the college)||227||92%|
- For more information on the CCLASSS project, see Melissa Blankstein, Christine, Wolff-Eisenberg, and Braddlee, “Student Needs Are Academic Needs: Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success, “Ithaka S+R, 30 September 2019, https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.311913, and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg and Braddlee, “Amplifying Student Voices: The Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success Project,” Ithaka S+R, 13 August 2018, https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.308086. ↑
- The list of colleges included within the sample was determined by Carnegie Classification and pulled from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System based on data from the 2017 academic year. The following Carnegie Classifications are those that make up our sample: Associate’s Colleges: High Transfer-High Traditional; Associate’s Colleges: High Transfer-Mixed Traditional/Nontraditional; Associate’s Colleges: High Transfer-High Nontraditional; Associate’s Colleges: Mixed Transfer/Career & Technical-High Traditional; Associate’s Colleges: Mixed Transfer/Career & Technical-Mixed Traditional/Nontraditional; Associate’s Colleges: Mixed Transfer/Career & Technical-High Nontraditional; Associate’s Colleges: High Career & Technical-High Traditional; Associate’s Colleges: High Career & Technical-Mixed Traditional/Nontraditional; Associate’s Colleges: High Career & Technical-High Nontraditional; Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions; Special Focus Two-Year: Technical Professions; Special Focus Two-Year: Arts & Design; Special Focus Two-Year: Other Fields; and Baccalaureate/Associate’s Colleges: Associate’s Dominant. ↑
- The following professional associations aided in the promotion of the survey to their constituents: Arkansas Community Colleges; Colorado Community College System; Technical College System of Georgia; Idaho State Board of Education; Iowa Association of Community College Trustees; Kentucky Community and Technical College System; Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges; Maryland Association of Community Colleges; Pennsylvania Commission of Community Colleges; Texas Association of Community Colleges; and Virginia Community College System. ↑
- Margin of error is 5 percent for n = 264 at the 90 percent confidence interval. ↑
- There was a response rate of about 6 percent from for-profit colleges, compared to a response rate of about 11 percent from private, not-for-profit colleges, and about 13 percent from public colleges. ↑
- We intend to deposit the underlying dataset as part of the Ithaka S+R Surveys of Higher Education Series with ICPSR (https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/series/226) for long-term preservation and access. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.org if we can provide any assistance in accessing and working with the dataset. ↑
- Data were taken from IPEDS and are reported by the individual college to IPEDS on an annual basis; these data were a part of the fall 2017 reporting period. ↑
- As defined by IPEDS, “primarily nonresidential” includes colleges with fewer than 25 percent of degree-seeking students that live on campus and/or fewer than 50 percent who attend full time. This subgroup within the sample is comprised of respondents within the small, medium, and large, 4-year, primarily nonresidential Carnegie classifications for size and setting and were excluded from stratified analysis due to their low number of respondents compared to other subgroups. ↑
- Respondents from colleges within the Baccalaureate/associates colleges, Special focus: two-year institutions, and No graduate coexistence classifications were excluded from stratified analysis due to their low number of respondents compared to other subgroups. ↑
- Referred to as transfer-focused throughout this report. ↑
- Referred to as mixed transfer and vocational-focused, or mixed-focus, throughout this report ↑
- Referred to as vocational-focused throughout this report. ↑
- Comprised of respondents within the Arts & sciences, Arts & sciences plus professions, Balanced arts & sciences/professions, Professions plus arts & sciences, and Professions focused, no graduate coexistence Carnegie classifications for undergraduate instructional program. ↑
- Christine Wolff-Eisenberg and Braddlee, “Amplifying Student Voices: The Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success Project,” Ithaka S+R, 13 August 2018, https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.308086. ↑
- Melissa Blankstein, Christine, Wolff-Eisenberg, and Braddlee, “Student Needs Are Academic Needs: Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success, “Ithaka S+R, 30 September 2019, https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.311913. ↑
- Respondents were presented with the following two questions: (1) How important are each of the following objectives to your college? and (2) How important are each of the following objectives to you for services under your leadership provided to students? ↑
- This list is not exhaustive of every type of support service that can be offered to students, as there are many specialized and unique services that colleges can and do offer to students beyond what is contained within this list. The list was generated based on services that have been found to be the most common services offered across colleges, as well as support services students highlighted during interviews within the previous CCLASSS initiative. ↑
- A possible explanation for why dual enrollment programs vary by college and by state could be that certain states allow the discretion of local districts to make decisions as to whom has the budgetary responsibility of this service. The organization of dual enrollment programs may also be distributed across departments, with academic affairs managing curriculum-based programming and student affairs managing enrollment to the program. For more information, see: http://ecs.force.com/mbdata/MBQuest2RTanw?Rep=DE1904;John Mark Grubb, Pamela H. Scott, & Donald W. Good, “The Answer is Yes: Dual Enrollment Benefits Students at the Community College,” Community College Review 45, no.2 (2017): 79-98, DOI: 10.1177/0091552116682590; and,Dennis Pierce, “The Rise of Dual Enrollment,” Community College Journal April/May (2017): 16-25, https://www.mtsac.edu/president/cabinet-notes/2016-17/ccjournal_Rise_of_Dual_Enrollment_Apr-May_2017.pdf. ↑
- Melissa Blankstein, Christine, Wolff-Eisenberg, and Braddlee, “Student Needs Are Academic Needs: Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success, “Ithaka S+R, 30 September 2019, https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.311913. ↑
- Recent survey results highlight the cost-effective elements of collaboration between the library (a service typically offered by academic affairs) and other non-academic departments as seen in Amy Wainwright and Chris Davidson, “Academic Libraries and Non-Academic Departments: A Survey and Case Studies on Liaising Outside the Box,” Collaborative Librarianship, 9, no. 2, (2017): 117-134, https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol9/iss2/9/.Also, a study on a newly implemented plan for collaboration between academic and student affairs at Kingsborough Community College demonstrated the positive effects a partnership can have on students, as seen in Peter Cohen, David Gomez, Regina Peruggi, Marissa R. Schesinger, and Stuart Suss, “Partnering with Academic Affairs in the Community College Setting,” in Handbook for Student Affairs in Community Colleges, Ashley Tull, Linda Kuk, and Paulette Dalpes (Virginia: Stylus Publishing, 2015), 85-97. ↑
- This figure represents a subset of all items from the question answered by respondents. For the rest of the items listed in this question, see Figure 14. ↑
- For more information on how governmental and non-governmental funding sources have shifted over time, see: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76; Michael Mitchell, Michael Leachman, and Kathleen Masterson, “Funding Down, Tuition Up: State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Quality and Affordability at Public Colleges,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, (2016), 1-28, https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/5-19-16sfp.pdf. ↑
- In 2014, contingent or part-time faculty taught over half of courses at two-year colleges. For more information on increasing adjunctification and contingent labor in higher education, see Center for Community College Student Engagement, Contingent Commitments: Bringing Part-time Faculty into Focus (A special report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement), Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin, Program in Higher Education Leadership, 2014; and Susan Bickerstaff and Octaviano Chavarín, “Understanding the Needs of Part-Time Faculty at Six Community Colleges,” Community College Research Center, November 2018, https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publications/understanding-part-time-faculty-community-colleges.html. ↑
- Ithaka S+R has been reporting data on these library roles over time through our US Faculty and Library Director Surveys at four-year institutions. You can find the most recent findings from these surveys here: Melissa Blankstein and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, “Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2018,” Ithaka S+R, April 12, 2019, https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.311199; and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, “US Library Survey 2016,” Ithaka S+R, April 3, 2017, https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.303066. ↑
- Overall, about 38 percent of leaders in academic and student affairs similarly view the library as extremely important to supporting student success (see Figure 6). ↑
- Percentages rounded to the nearest whole number. ↑
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* 2019 MLB Record: 104-85-4 (55%) *
NBA Finals – Game 6:
Under 211.5 (-110) – Toronto Raptors (+2.5, -110/ML: +124) at Golden State Warriors
Game 5 was a cruel twist of everyone’s emotions. The Warriors led nearly the entire game, but that was followed by a Raptors run that gave them a 103-97 advantage with about five minutes to go. Then, just as they’ve done so many times in the past, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson engineered a meticulous 3-point shooting exhibition and took the lead late to come away with the 106-105 victory.
Let’s be honest – Toronto has dominated the majority of the series. Even in the games that Golden State won, they barely hung on for dear life at the end. Sure, the Warriors got a huge jolt of energy from Kevin Durant’s presence in Game 5, but knowing he’s gone has to put them in a different mindset. Unfortunately, that mindset could be detrimental as the Splash Brothers know they need to do literally everything on offense.
Expect Nick Nurse to formulate a gameplan that makes life difficult on Curry and Thompson all night. In my opinion, you HAVE TO make anyone but these two guys beat you.
We know this will be the final game at Oracle Arena and the crowd will be the loudest it has ever been. However, I don’t think that’ll be enough to help the worn-down and beat-up Warriors tonight. Kawhi Leonard has the perfect mentality, in that a riled-up crowd isn’t something that will get to him. Expect the rest of his teammates to follow suit and hoist the trophy at the end of the night.
Lastly, the SK Trend Confidence rating likes the total to go under in this game, as three of the last four games in this series have suffered the same fate.
* Final Score Prediction: Toronto Raptors: 103 – Golden State Warriors: 99 *
[7:10 p.m. EST] Under 8.5 (-104) – Texas Rangers at Boston Red Sox
TEX: Adrian Sampson – R (5-3, 3.72 ERA/1.33 WHIP)
BOS: David Price – L (4-2, 2.70 ERA/1.05 WHIP)
Vegas has already declared this as a low-scoring game, dropping the IRTs for both teams – Rangers: -0.6, Red Sox: -0.3. The Rangers’ IRT actually comes in as the largest drop for any team on today’s entire schedule.
David Price has been simply magnificent, and you know this because he actually pitched well at Yankee Stadium two starts ago, a place that’s been an absolute nightmare for him. Not including the one start where Price came out in the first inning at Houston (due to sickness), the veteran lefty has allowed two runs or fewer in seven of his last eight starts – the one misnomer, he allowed three. In addition, Price has a microscopic 1.08 ERA in four starts at Fenway Park this season.
The Rangers’ offense has not been great against left-handed pitching over the last 21 days, with a .302 xwOBA and .127 ISO.
After an absolutely brutal start to the season, Adrian Sampson has allowed exactly one run in four of his last five starts – the one misnomer, he allowed three. Not to mention, Sampson has struck out 18 batters in his last 16 innings of work. It also helps matters for the under that Boston’s offense has only produced an average of three runs per game over the last seven contests.
All in all, both starting pitchers are at the top of their respective games and Vegas has made the proper adjustments on the run total. 10 of the Rangers’ last 14 games have gone under the total, while Red Sox games have suffered the same fate in four of the last five.
* Final Score Prediction: Boston Red Sox: 4 – Texas Rangers: 1 *
[7:10 p.m. EST] Over 9 (-110) – Los Angeles Angels at Tampa Bay Rays
LAA: Tyler Skaggs – L (4-6, 4.97 ERA/1.36 WHIP)
TB: Ryan Yarbrough – L (5-2, 5.31 ERA/1.09 WHIP)
Both of these teams have been doing a great job against left-handed pitching and also have a great history against each of these pitchers.
Let’s start with the Angels, who smashed Ryan Yarbrough for six runs (two homers) in 5 1/3 innings at Tropicana Field last season. Los Angeles has been great against lefties all season, but even more recently owns a robust .400 wOBA and .269 ISO over the last 21 days.
Yarbrough is scheduled to come in after the “opener” that Tampa Bay occasionally rolls out for an inning or two. Good news for the total going over tonight, as Yarbrough owns a 7.25 ERA at Tropicana Field – 3.15 ERA on the road.
The Rays don’t necessarily have the power numbers against lefties, but they are getting on base a great deal, registering a .347 wOBA over the last 21 days. In that same start where Yarbrough got ripped last season, Tyler Skaggs did even worse, allowing 10 runs over 3 1/3 innings. Much like Yarbrough’s splits working in our favor, Skaggs has a much worse 6.23 ERA on the road, compared to his 3.58 ERA at home.
Vegas adjusted the run total from 8.5 to 9.0, with each team getting a slight increase on the IRT, so that is good news that things are trending in that direction. Look for history to repeat itself and plenty of cleats to touch home plate tonight.
* Final Score Prediction: Los Angeles Angels: 7 – Tampa Bay Rays: 6 *
[8:10 p.m. EST] Detroit Tigers (ML: -126) at Kansas City Royals
DET: Matthew Boyd – L (5-4, 3.08 ERA/1.04 WHIP)
KC: Homer Bailey – R (4-6, 5.90 ERA/1.51 WHIP)
Matthew Boyd had a few tough matchups of late but still managed to hold his own against some of the league’s best. In fact, he’s notched at least seven strikeouts in each of five outings, and that includes going against teams like the Twins, Braves and A’s. That’s bad news for a Royals team that is striking out 27.8% of the time against lefties over the last 21 days. Not to mention, their offense against lefties has sucked all year, owning the third-worst wOBA (.281) in baseball this season.
Boyd did skill this KC team a month ago, striking out nine Royals over seven innings en route to a win.
On the other side, Homer Bailey gets ripped with great regularity. Bailey has some of the worst advanced metrics of any pitcher on tonight’s slate, setting up a huge night for the Tigers’ offense. While they haven’t scored a ton of runs lately, the heart of the order has been making solid contact against right-handed pitching over the last 21 days and that bad luck is bound to turn around, especially against a pitcher like Bailey.
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Dawn Blake, Wildlife Biologist, Hoopa Valley Tribe; Member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe
Dawn has worked for over a decade in the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s forestry program. She is currently the Tribe’s Wildlife Biologist II, and continues to work directly with Tribal forest managers on the timber sale process. Dawn recently completed a Master of Science program in Wildlife at Humboldt State University. Her work focused on the movements and habitat selection of Pileated Woodpeckers on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in response to timber management practices. Dawn also sits on the Board of Directors of the Hoopa Tribal Education Association.
Mike Dockery, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota; Member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Mike is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He works at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of tribal natural resource management in the Department of Forest Resources, an affiliate faculty member in the American Indian Studies Department, and as a fellow at the Institute on the Environment. His academic focus is on incorporating Indigenous knowledge into forestry and natural resource management, supports tribal sovereignty, and addresses tribal environmental issues. Mike earned a B.S. and Ph.D. in Forestry from the University of Wisconsin, as well as an M.S. in Forest Resources from Penn State University.
Tim Hayden, Executive Deputy Director, Natural Resources Division, Yurok Tribe; Member of the El Dorado County Wopumnes Nisenan-Mewuk Tribe
Tim has been the Deputy Executive Director of Natural Resources for the Yurok Tribe since 2015, having started his career in the Tribe’s Fisheries Department nearly 25 years ago. He currently oversees all Yurok natural resources departments and programs, and leads Tribal efforts on resource management planning, environmental compliance, and carbon project management on recently purchased Yurok lands. Tim serves on the CAL Fire Native American Advisory Committee and was recently selected to serve on the CA Air Resources Board’s Carbon Offsets Taskforce. He holds a B.S. from Humboldt State University’s Fisheries Department.
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Jean Becker of Mt. Pleasant Township, Adams County, knew she might need an aortic valve replacement. Since her heart attack about a year ago, her interventional cardiologist, Gurpal Singh, MD, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, has been keeping an eye on her condition.
“We knew there was a problem with her aortic valve,” Dr. Singh said. “We were regularly watching the progression of the disease — doing echocardiograms and watching for symptoms.”
Then Jean started feeling poorly.
“I was getting short of breath, my legs were swelling, and I had a lot of pressure in my chest,” she explained. “When I got my last echocardiogram, Dr. Singh said, ‘Jean, now it is time.’”
Hemal Gada, MD, MBA, president of UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute at UPMC Pinnacle and medical director of structural heart, came to the office in Hanover to see Mrs. Becker. The UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute team has offices throughout southcentral Pennsylvania so that patients’ exams and testing can be done as close as possible to their homes.
“Dr. Singh did a work-up and a heart catheterization in Hanover,” Dr. Gada noted. “Chest discomfort is a serious symptom, so I knew we had to act rapidly.”
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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Procedure
The question was whether Jean would need open heart surgery or could get the less invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure.
“My sister went through open heart surgery,” said Jean. “I was hoping I wouldn’t have to go through the same thing.”
“TAVR has become our standard of care if there are no other issues,” said Dr. Gada. “We felt Jean would be a good candidate for TAVR, and the procedure went as expected.”
Open heart surgery is a major procedure requiring a large incision in the chest, explained Dr. Gada. It generally requires four to seven days in the hospital. TAVR uses small incisions in the upper leg or groin. A plastic tube or catheter is guided through the patient’s arteries to the heart where the old valve is replaced with a new one. Most patients go home the next day, noted Dr. Gada.
Dr. Gada and the structural heart team at UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute offer TAVR procedures at UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg.
“Dr. Singh said the doctors there were very good and that gave me peace of mind,” said Jean. “Going to Harrisburg was not bad. I was in and out so fast I hardly had time to think about it. They operated one day, and I came home the next.”
Jean also enjoyed the excellent care, and she felt better almost immediately.
“I felt a difference right away. I wasn’t so short of breath, and I had no pressure on my chest. I’m very thankful and so pleased with everything.”
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