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Chakra #12 – 'Domain of the Bee'
Chakra #12 – Bhramara Sthānam ('Domain of the Bee')
"OṂ! Praise be to Highest Śiva, the Supreme Soul! ||
"This is the twelfth location, the 'Domain of the Bee'. Its color resembles the golden hue of a million suns. The divinity is Śiva. The presiding sage is the universal soul (paramātma-ṛṣi)…
"Śakti at this domain is the sound of resonance (nāda), dissipated upon its arising to the 'place of dissolution' (at the crown of the head). Here, she is called 'Source of Embodied Delusion'….
"She is the un-broken voice when it has become imperceptible [having arisen through the crown of the head]. She is the attenuated nasal vowel (Ṃ, or 'nnnnngg…") who at this place of sonic dissolution is the bee's very sweetness, found at the end of the mantra 'AHAṂ' ("I am"), which first gave rise to the elemental body and mind….
"Having engaged in an upward trajectory (ucchāra) through the suṣumnā, She becomes the final sound of the 'bee' (Ṃ) fading in its ascent out of the body at Brahmā's door (brahma-dvāra), coming to quiescence at the hidden domain of the Bee."
Attributes of the 12th Chakra-
- name: Domain of the Bee
- location: dvādaśanta ('12 fingers' above the 3rd eye) or brahmarandhra ('Brahma's door) – i.e. the crown chakra
- color: Golden, light of 10 million suns.
- Divinity: Śiva
- Power (śakti): Mūlamāyā śaktiḥ ('Root Power of Delusion')
- ṛṣi – paramātmā
Tantric Verses on the Liberated "Bee" of Awakened Awareness.
* Poetic references to the common (but largely forgotten) Tantric metaphor of the Soul's sonic ascent (ucchāra) up the suṣumnā, analogized to the sound of an ascending Bee–
"I am a filthy sinner," "I am a bound creature," "I am separate from all other beings," or (even) "I transcend all things"*—when such firm beliefs are innate stains on the heart, how indeed for such a one can (the vision of) supreme reality flash forth? //
In the heart-lotus (of consciousness) that has blossomed due to an intense Descent of a ray of light from the sun of Supreme Śiva, the phases of awareness (emit) the exquisite fragrance of the Self, revealing its secret nature: (there) the bee of Self-Awareness vibrates, cherishing (the exper-ience of) its own radiant core, humming "I am Lord Śiva, overflowing with the reality of all beings!" //
–Śrī Abhinavagupta (ca. 1000 A.D.), from his 'Essence of the Tantras" (trans. by C. Wallis).
By merely reflecting on You, we make into a humble servant this demon called 'I', that thirsts for the blood that is the fortitude of men, ripping them apart with its treacherous fangs called 'mine.You I praise, the unborn beloved of Śhiva in the lotus of my heart, seated in deepest consciousness [on your throne that is] full of radiance…
You I praise, who are ever eager to drink the honey-wine exuded by the lotus maṇḍala in the innermost awareness of all living creatures."
–from the 'Eight Verses' of Śrī Prabodhanātha (10th century)
"My mind is a honey bee, who flew among all of the trees of the objective world of the senses, with its desire [for objective things] fading. Through divine grace, it found the blossom of the *wish-fulfilling tree of the Supreme Shiva."
having reached the fragrant nectar that is the *abode of Śiva, now remains perpetually intoxicated by the revivifying drink found within the flower that grows on the vine of pure awareness."
-from the '30 Verses on How I Delight in My Own Awareness' (Cittasaṃtoṣhatriṃśikā)


How Do I Ignore A.Gitignore File?
Why is Gitignore not ignoring?
gitignore ignores only untracked files.
Your files are marked as modified – meaning they were committed and the past and their are now tracked by git.
To ignore them, you first need to delete them, git rm them, commit and then ignore them..
What is difference between Git and GitHub?
Is Gitignore automatically created?
gitignore file will automatically be generated. Of course I mostly have things setup in global gitignore but this does come in handy for specific use cases.
How do I ignore a file in Git?
If you want to ignore a file that you've committed in the past, you'll need to delete the file from your repository and then add a. gitignore rule for it. Using the –cached option with git rm means that the file will be deleted from your repository, but will remain in your working directory as an ignored file.
Where is the.gitignore file?
The. gitignore file tells Git which files to ignore when committing your project to the GitHub repository. gitignore is located in the root directory of your repo. / will ignore directories with the name.
Why is my Gitignore not working?
gitignore file is ignored by git and it does not work 6. Some times, even if you haven't added some files to the repository, git seems to monitor them even after you add them to the. gitignore file. This is a caching issue that can occur and to fix it, you need to clear your cache.
What type of file is Gitignore?
How do I create an ignore file?
41 AnswersCreate the text file gitignore.txt.Open it in a text editor and add your rules, then save and close.Hold SHIFT, right click the folder you're in, then select Open command window here.Then rename the file in the command line, with ren gitignore.txt.gitignore.
How do I undo a git add?
To undo git add before a commit, run git reset or git reset to unstage all changes.
When should I create Gitignore?
A. gitignore file is a list of files to ignore when pushing files to. It tells git which files should be ignored when changes are staged (added) and committed. Some files are commonly not tracked by git so they are not committed nor sent up to repositories.
What is git exclude?
In Git, you can exclude a file locally – i.e. only on the current computer. Inside the. git folder for your project, there is a file /info/exclude. This file has the exact same structure as a. gitignore file, so you can add the file patterns for any files which must be excluded locally, inside that file.
Can Gitignore ignore itself?
gitignore (before you tell it to ignore itself), then it will always show up in git status, even if you later modify it to ignore itself. There's not really a good reason to do this. If you want files ignored for your clone only, add them to.
How does.gitignore work?
A. gitignore file is a plain text file where each line contains a pattern for files/directories to ignore. Generally, this is placed in the root folder of the repository, and that's what I recommend. However, you can put it in any folder in the repository and you can also have multiple.
What is git stash?
How do I ignore a folder in git?
To ignore an entire directory in Git, the easiest way is to include a. gitignore file within the target directory which simply contains "*". dirB/. gitignore then just reads as "*" and all contents are ignored completely, itself and all files!
How do I stop Gitignore from pushing?
So, the answer is simple: just add the line:. gitignore # Ignore the hand that feeds!
Should.gitignore Be Checked in?
Normally yes,. gitignore is useful for everyone who wants to work with the repository. On occasion you'll want to ignore more private things (maybe you often create LOG or something. In those cases you probably don't want to force that on anyone else.


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Using random effects in the modeling of homogeneous Poisson processes (HPP) has proved effective (Cook and Lawless (2007) and Gongjun et al. (2015)). We (Khribi et al. (2015)) compared the truncated normal prior (truncated at 0) to the usual gamma prior in the prediction for homogeneous Poisson processes and we concluded that the truncated normal prior (which is equivalent to the 2-moment maximum entropy prior) compared very favorably to the gamma one. This method was called the general Poisson-MaxEnt model. Unfortunately, because of the 2-moment condition on our maximum entropy prior, we were restricted to considering only cases where the coefficient of variation was less than or equal to 1 (Wragg and Dowson (1970)). Here we remove this restriction by the use of the
\(k\)-moment maximum entropy prior (
\(k>2\)). The effectiveness of the general Poisson-MaxEnt model with this
\(k\)-moment prior for prediction in HPP was measured by two goodness-of-fit criteria: Kullback-Leibler divergence and a discrepancy measure. The estimators obtained by these methods are compared to the estimators obtained with the two moment maximum entropy prior and the gamma prior used by (Khribi et al. (2015)). The likelihood ratio test is used in order to determine when to stop adding higher order moments. We also illustrated on two examples: one concerning the occurrence of mammary tumors in laboratory animals taking part in a carcinogenicity experiment and the other, a warranty data set from the automobile industry.
Paru en décembre 2016, 18 pages

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The resulting map should contain a key for each value of type b, occurring in any set in the original map. The new values (of type
type SetMap k a = Map k (Set a) invertSetMap :: (Ord a, Ord b) => SetMap a b -> SetMap b a
Set a) are all those original keys for which the new key occurred in the value set. Intuitively, if the original set was representing arrows from values of type a to values of type b, this function should reverse all arrows. We can easily implement this function using two nested folds.
That's not pretty at all! I had written quite a bit of this kind of code (and hated it each time), until I finally remembered a fundamental Haskell lesson. Haskell uses lists to simulate iteration and specify other kinds of control flow. In particular list comprehensions are often extremely cheap, since the compiler can automatically remove many or all intermediate lists and generate very efficient code. So let's try again.
invertSetMap sm = M.foldWithKey (\k as r -> S.fold (\a r' -> M.insertWith S.union a (S.singleton k) r') r as) M.empty sm
So much more readable! A quick benchmark also shows that it's slightly faster (a few percent for a very big map). Lesson to take home: If your folds get incomprehensible consider list comprehensions.
invertSetMap sm = M.fromListWith S.union [ (a, S.singleton k) | (k, as) <- M.assocs sm, a <- S.toList as ]

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Entrepreneurs are often not alike in their personalities and approaches because, experts say, being entrepreneurial is a state of mind. Each brings a certain outlook and vision according to many factors, yet research continues to suggest that one the major factors may be brain function. Even though differences can be profound with regard to how they approach business, entrepreneurial endeavors, and networking, each of these actions depend on brain function to process. Strangely enough, the differences become even more noticeable when comparing the way that male and female entrepreneurs think.
So what makes the opposite sexes so different in business? Let's find out.
How does our Brains Work in Business?
It is helpful to, first of all, understand the function and design of the human brain and how it affects the behavior and approaches for both men and women. As you already know, the human brain is divided into two hemispheres; the right side and the left side. The left side of the brain is analytical and prefers mathematics and logic. It allows people to take on a problem and develop conclusions in an orderly, list like manner. The left side tends to demand order and reason as well as certain structured routines. These traits are true in everyone, regardless of their overall intelligence, business background, or any other factor.
Here's where the similarities take an abrupt turn-
- The right side of the brain is the more creative side and deals more with language, emotion. The right side is also more concerned with process and multi-tasking endeavors. Men tend to favor left brain activities. Women tend to lean right but they can generally draw on both sides of the brain at the same time when looking for an entrepreneurial solution.
- Men tend to approach business problems from an orientation of being organized and performing certain steps to reach a certain decision or conclusion. Women tend to be less structured and are more attentive to how emotions and feelings play into a decision or problem solving situation.
- Men tend to be action oriented while women tend to be verbally oriented. In other words, men isolate themselves from the group and prefer to tackle problems according to a preconceived plan. Women, on the other hand, take a more collaborative approach and can communicate more effectively in reaching a solution that is in the best interest of everyone involved.
- The right side of the brain, which is responsible for communication, is larger in women. Women can draw on both sides of their brain while men to depend on the left side. Because of this, women can more easily succeed at communication based decisions and the use of language that brings empathy and feelings to a business or entrepreneurial decision making process.
- Men have a larger inferior-parietal lobule which makes men more capable at mathematical solutions and highly structured task-oriented endeavors. Women have larger deep limbic systems, which allow them to lock into feelings and emotions. Because of this, women can verbally express feelings much better than can men and it allows women to quickly develop emotional connections and bonds.
A Study of the Entrepreneur's Brain
In 2010, the Kaufman Foundation of Kansas City published a report that was entitled: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur in which they interviewed 549 founders of various growth oriented startups. Of those 549 interviewed, 41 of them were women. The report attempted to discover how men and women approach an entrepreneurial endeavor and to measure the differences, as well as the similarities.
- Both women and men believed that prior experience regarding their industry was crucial to their being able to create and manage a successful company.
- Family considerations were of greater importance to women than to men. Women were more inclined to seek a balance. It's not that family is not important to men but they were more concerned over their personal responsibilities. For women, it is more about balancing the time to tend to a business as well as providing what they believe is the proper amount of care and attention to their families.
- Women put more emphasis on their networking opportunities and believe that it is one of the major reasons for their success. Likewise, both genders value their business networks highly, but women seemed to give them greater credence.
In 2011, Ivan Misner, PhD published, along with Hazel Walker, the book entitled Business Networking and Sex (Not What You Think). Dr. Misner is the founder and chairman of Business Networking International, the largest business networking organization in the world. For their book, they interviewed over 12,000 men and women in business and specifically wanted to uncover their approaches and feelings towards business networking.
- The research discovered that, for men, business is business. Men focus on the business at hand and the transactional nature of it. For women, networking is more about establishing relationships and building their business from there. The research found that men believe that a relationship will develop in due course as the business collaboration begins to unfold.
- Women are not as capable of approaching a new client right away (as compared to their male counterparts). Women were somewhat put off by the direct approach finding it to be high pressure. Men believed that women were not as serious about attracting business as they were due to their relationship building efforts.
- Men networked slightly more than women, yet females attracted more business from their networking efforts.
- Men speak to impress while women speak to relate. Because of these different approaches, the authors say that both genders end up frustrated when trying to deal with each other.
Misner and Walker suggest that both men and women need to have a greater understanding of how the other thinks so that they can be able to greater collaborate and succeed. The findings concluded, however, that the female approach seemed to produce better results in the long run.
Finding the Right Balance of Thinking for Success
Both Misner and Walker suggest that both sexes should adapt to each other strategies and to somehow combine the approaches. What will work in a man to man or women to woman situation is not going to work in a man to woman interaction. The authors also point out that women should be more direct with men in their dealings. They suggest that women actually ask for what they want and to put a greater emphasis on their successes to close the deal.
For example, Ms. Walker shares that a woman should not simply tell a man that she is a Mary Kay representative since the man will think that she just sells makeup and hair spray. In other words, he will not take her seriously. However, if the woman tells him that she is the director of a cosmetic marketing company with +$100k earnings and several hundred people under her, the man will more likely be impressed because men understand such a statement and such directness.
For the men, the authors suggest that they slow down and take the time to get to know the woman they are trying to network and do business with. Men should focus on finding some manner of common ground and expand out from there. Men who cultivate, and execute, their listening skills will fair far better with women than those that don't.
So, it seems that political correctness needs to be tempered if men and women are to understand one another better. Knowing how the other side thinks and how they approach entrepreneurial endeavors can only lead to greater understanding and, perhaps, a greater bottom line.


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Math education reform is a complex, long-term process requiring the persistence and effort of generations of experts, as well as the integration of theories from educational research and best practices from classroom experiences, a Shanghai math expert says.
Gu Lingyuan, who pioneered mathematical education reform in Shanghai in the 1970s and was the former vice-dean of the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, made the remarks during an exclusive interview with China Daily regarding a speech about a math education experiment that he delivered at the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education, the largest international conference of its kind. It is currently underway at East China Normal University and will run until Sunday.
"Education reform relies on the efforts of generations of experts from different disciplines, including math, education and psychology," Gu says.
"Ideas from front-line teachers who are familiar with students' academic, physiological and psychological characteristics are vital to enhance the efficiency of the reform as well."
Gu's insights are based on a math teaching experiment that he and his peers initiated in 1977 to improve students' academic performance in the subject in Qingpu district, an area too far away from the center of Shanghai to, at that time, have access to abundant and quality teaching resources and proper school management.
The experiment will conclude next year, according to Gu.
The national college entrance examination was resumed on the Chinese mainland in 1977, and Gu arranged a math test for all high school graduates in Qingpu to assess their abilities.
Although the test was on primary and middle school level math, student performance was shockingly disappointing, Gu says. Among the 4,373 people who took the test, over 23 percent received zero out of 100 marks. The average score was 11.
Supported by local education authorities, Gu formed a team of five to carry out the trial. The first three years were spent on investigating and researching teaching approaches, student performances and school management in Qingpu. They then explored suitable teaching methods for Shanghai students and applied the shortlisted methods to classes as an experiment.
Great progress was made after 10 years of reform, while Gu's team grew to include over 200 math teachers, researchers and other practitioners.
More than 85 percent of students in Qingpu scored over 60 out of 100 marks in the high school entrance examination in Shanghai in 1986, which was a surge of 69 percentage points from 1979. The Qingpu students' performance in high school math exams that year was also higher than the average of high school students in Shanghai at 68 percent.
Aside from academic performance, since 2008, Gu's team has also been engaged in cultivating students' creative and analytical abilities. The team has also adopted some elements of foreign math instruction into the local curriculum through teacher exchange programs, such as interactive techniques to make classes fun.
"This year, we'll summarize the experiment, results and achievements so far and publish a book on it for further promotion of the core accomplishment of the reform next year," Gu says.
"It's a complex, long-term process requiring the persistence and effort of generations of experts and the integration of front-line practice and theories based on facts.
"A transformation of the roles of teachers and students is the essence of an educational reform. In the past, imparting knowledge used to be the only responsibility of teachers, but the student-teacher relationship evolved into teachers asking inspiring questions in a bid to lead students to study on their own. However, teachers are now more like tutors, seeking to enlighten students to learn, inquire and experience proactively," Gu says.
He adds that in the next phase, improving students' creativity and critical thinking ability in math study is a key challenge for mathematics education in China.
"It is not advisable to achieve high scores through excessive academic training. Diverse teaching and research activities are crucial for teachers to analyze the performance of students and themselves and accelerate their professional growth," Gu adds.


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When displaying multiple rows of data, it is often needed that the data be sorted according to some columns specified by end users. Yii uses a yii\data\Sort object to represent the information about a sorting schema. In particular,
 - attributes specifies the attributes by which the data can be sorted. An attribute can be as simple as a model attribute. It can also be a composite one by combining multiple model attributes or DB columns. More details will be given in the following.
 - attributeOrders gives the currently requested ordering directions for each attribute.
 - orders gives the ordering directions in terms of the low-level columns.
To use yii\data\Sort, first declare which attributes can be sorted. Then retrieve the currently requested ordering information from attributeOrders or orders and use them to customize the data query. For example,
use yii\data\Sort;
$sort = new Sort([
 'attributes' => [
 'name' => [
 'asc' => ['first_name' => SORT_ASC, 'last_name' => SORT_ASC],
 'desc' => ['first_name' => SORT_DESC, 'last_name' => SORT_DESC],
 'default' => SORT_DESC,
 'label' => 'Name',
$articles = Article::find()
 ->where(['status' => 1])
In the above example, two attributes are declared for the Sort object: age and name.
The age attribute is a simple attribute corresponding to the age attribute of the Article Active Record class. It is equivalent to the following declaration:
'age' => [
 'asc' => ['age' => SORT_ASC],
 'desc' => ['age' => SORT_DESC],
 'default' => SORT_ASC,
 'label' => Inflector::camel2words('age'),
The name attribute is a composite attribute defined by first_name and last_name of Article. It is declared using the following array structure:
 - The asc and desc elements specify how to sort by the attribute in ascending and descending directions, respectively. Their values represent the actual columns and the directions by which the data should be sorted by. You can specify one or multiple columns to indicate simple ordering or composite ordering.
 - The default element specifies the direction by which the attribute should be sorted when initially requested. It defaults to ascending order, meaning if it is not sorted before and you request to sort by this attribute, the data will be sorted by this attribute in ascending order.
 - The label element specifies what label should be used when calling yii\data\Sort::link() to create a sort link. If not set, yii\helpers\Inflector::camel2words() will be called to generate a label from the attribute name. Note that it will not be HTML-encoded.
Info: You can directly feed the value of orders to the database query to build its ORDER BY clause. Do not use attributeOrders because some of the attributes may be composite and cannot be recognized by the database query.
You can call yii\data\Sort::link() to generate a hyperlink upon which end users can click to request sorting the data by the specified attribute. You may also call yii\data\Sort::createUrl() to create a sortable URL. For example,
// specifies the route that the URL to be created should use
// If you do not specify this, the currently requested route will be used
$sort->route = 'article/index';
// display links leading to sort by name and age, respectively
echo $sort->link('name').'| '. $sort->link('age');
// displays: /index.php?r=article%2Findex&sort=age
echo $sort->createUrl('age');
yii\data\Sort checks the sort query parameter to determine which attributes are being requested for sorting. You may specify a default ordering via yii\data\Sort::$defaultOrder when the query parameter is not present. You may also customize the name of the query parameter by configuring the sortParam property.
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What is a Display Manager?
The responsibilities of a display manager are:
- Starting and managing local instances of the X server.
- Authenticating users.
Starting and managing user sessions. Common use cases:
Starting a single X server on boot and starting a session (kiosk mode).
- Starting a single X server instance on boot, displaying a greeter GUI (username and password), and starting the user session when connected (traditional).
- Supporting multiple simultaneous logins by exposing what users are logged in, and starting new X servers for each user (user switching).
- Running a thin-client server by allowing X servers to connect using XDMCP, and connecting greeters and sessions to those X servers.
- Fast - The display manager should add no noticeable delay to startup time.
- Fail-safe - Failures should be handled gracefully.
- Secure - Resistant to malicious users.
- Flexible - Able to support a range of use-cases.
- Extensible - Able to support rarer use-cases though plugins.
- Simple - Configuration should be easy and the code should be simple to understand and modify.
- Display Manager - A daemon that manages the displays on a system.
- Display - A combination of an X server, greeter and a user session.
- User session - An application that runs on a display and allows the user to run applications.
- Greeter - An application to run on a display and prompt for authentication and session options.
- Able to run as as system service without user interaction
- Provide logging information for debugging
- Launch and monitor X servers
- Launch and monitor greeter applications for displays without a user session
- Launch and monitor user sessions after user is authenticated
- Authenticate users
- Provide an interface to greeter applications
- Provide an interface to user switchers
- Store a database of active displays
- Load sessions from /usr/share/xsessions
- Store session configuration in ~/.dmrc
- Support.dmrc not being readable before login
- Advertise display database to Software/ConsoleKit if available
Use PAM for authentication Session environment:
Set USER to the username
- Set HOME to users home directory
- Set SHELL to the users shell
- Set PATH to /usr/bin:/bin
- Set LANG to the users language
- Set DISPLAY to the X servers address
Set environment variables from /etc/environment Static Display Module:
Allow 0-N displays to be enabled at all time
Support automatic/timed login User Switcher Module:
Interface to switch to existing local display for a logged in user
Start new static display if user not logged in XDMCP Server Module:
Implement XDMCP protocol Module interface:
Expose display database Greeter application/interface:
- Session choice
- Session language
- Session keyboard layout
- Logged in users
- Implemented in C+GObject
Single process Greeter Interface:
D-Bus GTK+ Greeter:
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Saturday, March 9, 2013 // 8:00AM–12:00Pm for Teachers of Grades K–2 // 1:00–5:00pm for Teachers of Grades 3–5 // Museum Studios & Galleries
There's more to a portrait than you might think. Portraits are often viewed as a mere depiction of a person when in actuality they are a visual text that can be read as biographies that communicate significant information about a person's life. This engaging workshop, using the Museum's collection, teaches how to help students build background knowledge. Teachers can apply this strategy to teaching historical and literary figures across the curriculum.
Jamin Carter is a visual artist and art educator. He holds a BFA in sculpture and painting and a Master's of Arts in Teaching in visual art education. He has taught in K-12 classrooms and currently teaches studio art and A.P. art history in a public high school in Memphis, Tennessee. He spent five years working as an art educator in three diverse Title I schools ranging from grades K-8. Additionally, he has worked as a mentor in elementary and middle school art classrooms modeling skills and techniques that utilize arts integration as well as other unique approaches to art education. Jamin has worked in various media such as oil painting, sculpture, and brush with ink. He currently has a studio in Memphis where he has exhibited work and served as a consultant for public art works with the Urban Arts Commission and Vita Brevis.
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Below is the map of Greater Romania shown after it gained its territory from the First World War. It is very interesting to note that Transylvania is not as close to the Hungarian borders, but that most people simply call the two smaller provinces ( in particular the Banat) a part of Transylvania. This is where Transylvania is on the map. This would also be the map that the Romanian Royal family would know until 1940 and the beginning of the Second World War.
It is worth noting that many people do not see Transylvania as being so small, and that since they are used to thinking about Romania as being larger, they tend to forget that Transylvania proper is in fact the grey area in the map below. it it also because of the many connections with the Royal families of several countries that Transylvania has so many castles, and also why people seem to think that Romania and Transylvania are larger.


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Maputo Resolutions For Peace In Africa
MAPUTO RESOLUTIONS FOR PEACE IN AFRICA
Delegates from different African countries, after listening and analyzing the Keynote Message of His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano, former President of the Republic of Mozambique, Chairperson of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation and Chairperson of AFRICA FORUM, followed by the Message of Dr Michael Cassidy, Chairman and Founder of African Enterprise,Patron of Christians for Peace in Africa,as well as presentations from different Guest Speakers,have taken the following Maputo Resolutions for Peace in Africa:
RESOLUTION NO 1:
CHURCH AND LEADERSHIP.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must raise awareness for the Church to produce among Christians, men, women and youth Leaders in order to fulfill the prophetic mandate of African nations, in the 7 pillars of society.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must create a platform to partner with other organizations sharing the same Vision of Peace and Reconciliation, like African Enterprise, in raising young African Christian Leaders.
RESOLUTION NO 2:
ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE PEACE EFFORT.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must create a platform to empower women to take the lead in promoting the Culture of Peace according to Christian Values.
- Christians for Peace in Africa should advocate for Peace capacity building in organizations that promote women's interests, based on Biblical standards.
RESOLUTION NO 3:
FOOD SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE.
- A. Christians for Peace in Africa must raise awareness for poverty alleviation, food security and climate change.
- B. Christians for Peace in Africa must raise awareness and oppose excessive land's ownership by non -African people, countries and organizations.
- C. Christians for Peace in Africa should support foreign investments in the form of land leasing, technology to process raw African products on African soil, empowerment and training of Africans for better food production.
RESOLUTION NO 4:
AFRICAN WAYS OF PREVENTING AND CURING DISEASES.
A. Christians for Peace in Africa should promote research on Good practices for disease prevention and cure, according to Christian Values.
B. Christians for Peace in Africa should promote healthier diet through the consumption of natural African products and dishes instead of processed food.
C. Christians for Peace in Africa should oppose the multiple partners African culture and promote the one sex partner strategy in the combat against HIV/AIDS
RESOLUTION NO 5:
POSITIVE INPUTS OF MIGRANTS IN AFRICA
- Christians for Peace in Africa should promote the safe migration, integration and inclusion through Social cohesion of migrants in the host countries and get rid of xenophobia.
- Christians for Peace in Africa should raise awareness on the mental health of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) in their countries, and refugees in the host countries, and facilitate their voluntary repatriation.
- Christians for Peace in Africa should promote the respect and human dignity of all migrant people and encourage the exchange or transfer of skills among the locals.
RESOLUTION NO 6:
LESSON FROM ZAMBIA AS AN AFRICAN WAR –FREE COUNTRY.
- Christians for Peace in Africa should advertise to other African countries the secret of Zambia being a WARFREE country.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must advocate in African churches the role played by the Church in promoting the Culture of Peace in Zambia
RESOLUTION NO 7:
LESSONS AND EXPERIENCES LEARNT FROM POLITICAL AND CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP IN MOZAMBIQUE.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must spread the Message of the Outstanding Leadership of His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano and other political Leaders in promoting the Culture of Peace, Reconciliation, in his own country, the Republic of Mozambique, in working hand in hand with the Christian Leaders, for the sake of Africa Lasting Peace and Sustainable Development.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must learn and share the experiences of the Mozambican Christian Leaders in working for the Lasting Peace in Mozambique; the same work can be done by Christian Leaders in other African countries.
Done on the 21st February 2013 at the Igreja de S. Estevard E S. Lourenco (Anglican ), in Maputo, Republic of Mozambique


are equipped with lower explosive level (LEL) monitors, which have a couple of set points. If the monitors detect vapor levels of 2 percent, they activate and open up the ventilation system to clear the air so the vapors are sent out of the building, thus preventing explosion. This is not a standard safety feature in buildings with regulated materials, Kerns says, but it's one more way to ensure safety.
In the learning lab, a fume hood - the blue piece of equipment on the left - allows students to learn how to handle regulated materials. The fume hood acts as a barrier to protect people from hazardous materials. The white steel cabinet to the right is a biosafety cabinet that runs HEPA-filtered air over hazardous products to keep them clean. Not pictured are an emergency shower and eye wash. The ISU department's previous learning area was in a dungeon-like space; the graciousness of the new facility encourages people to come for training. Better facilities make teaching easier, says architect Tom Whetstone of Architects Smith Metzger.
A Johnson Controls building automation system functions throughout the facility and FireLite safety glazing is used for fire-rated windows and doors. In laboratory areas, Siemens fume hood controls work with Fisher Hamilton fume hoods to exhaust air and sound an alarm if air contaminants reach dangerous levels. Intrinsically safe lighting is in flammable materials rooms and conduit is intrinsically rated, preventing sparks, vital in such spaces. Lead-lined doors surround the radioactive cell. On the facility's roof, Strobic exhaust fans dilute exhaust air and move it safely out of the breathing zone of those in and immediately outside of the building.
An additional safety feature is in the three rooms that double as tornado shelters: One room is used for storage, another for fire extinguisher maintenance, and another for fire extinguisher storage. Two 1,600-pound doors by Overly Doors protect the spaces (the two fire extinguisher rooms are connected, and thus together use one heavy door). The spaces are available for occupants both of this building and of neighboring ones. "We wanted to show the rest of the university how we were able to add storm shelters with little additional cost. This building is a show-and-tell for other university spaces," says Kerns.
All these features may seem like they should have cost a lot, but they didn't. Only $6 million of the $7 million was used. Says ISU project manager Robert Holzwarth, "Cost-wise, it surpassed everyone's expectations in terms of what we were able to do. Due to the fact that it came in under budget during bid, we were able to put some things back in the project that we had to weed out during the design. We put back some terrazzo flooring that - near the entryway - turned out very nice."
The key was figuring out how to maximize results, keeping an open mind to all solutions. Says Whetstone, "With this building we found that the safety came much more naturally when we just embraced the idea of doing what's safe."
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crowded station like Bond Street, twenty-four times an hour in both directions, that could mean massive amounts of energy flows generating heat in the station tunnels.
Remember that London's tube train are smaller, have similar frequencies and have regenerative braking working through a third-rail system.
Surely, if the train is fitted with a battery or batteries capable of handling these amounts of energy, it must be more efficient to store and recover the energy from the batteries.
Batteries also get rid of a vicious circle.
 - Feeding the braking energy back to the overhead wire must generate heat.
 - Feeding the start-up energy to the train from the overhead wire must generate heat.
 - All this heat would need bigger air-conditioning, which requires more energy to be drawn by the train.
Batteries which eliminate a lot of the high heat-producing electricity currents in the tunnels at stations, are one way of breaking the circle and creating trains that use less energy.
After writing this, I think it is obvious now, why the trains will be tested in short formations between Liverpool Street and Shenfield.
The trains could be without any batteries during initial service testing, as all the reasons, I have given above for batteries don't apply on this section of Crossrail.
 - Regenerative braking can either work using two-way currents on the upgraded overhead wiring or not be used during testing.
 - Remote wake-up is not needed, as the trains will be stored overnight at Ilford depot initially.
 - Ilford depot is still wired, although the jury may be out on that, given the depot is being rebuilt.
 - There will be no need to do rescues in tunnels.
Once the trains have proven they can cope with herds of Essex girls and boys, batteries could be fitted, to test their design and operation.
You have to admire Bombardier's careful planning, if this is the way the company is going.
Could the following be the operating regime for Crossrail going from Shenfield to Reading?
 - The train runs normally between Shenfield and Stratford, using regenerative braking through the overhead wires or batteries.
 - The train arrives at Stratford with enough power in the batteries to come back out or get to a station, if there was a total power failure.
 - The train uses regenerative braking with the batteries between Whitechapel and Paddington.
 - In the tunnels, the power levels in the batteries, are kept high enough to allow train recovery.
 - Once in the open, regenerative braking could use overhead wires or batteries as appropriate.
 - The train even handles complete power failure and perhaps a problem with one pair of power cars, as the train is in effect two half-trains coupled together, with at least two of everything.
Has there ever been a train design like it?
It looks to me, that the Aventra and Talent 3 trains are just different-sized packages for the same sets of components like Flex-Eco bogies and Primove batteries.
One train is for the UK and the other for Europe and the rest of the world.
But have the two design teams been borrowing ideas and components from both sides of the Channel?
You bet they have!
Brexit? What Brexit?
The engineers of Crossrail, have not only dug one of the biggest holes in Europe for a long time, but with Bombardier's engineers, they could also have designed a very efficient and different way of getting passengers through it.
I am very strongly of the opinion, that putting batteries on the trains to handle regenerative braking in tunnels, is almost essential, as it is simpler, possibly more affordable and cuts the amount of heat generated in the tunnels.
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 1. I remember reading that the Class 345s will be fitted with the sort of battery you describe (the increase in carriage length to 23m makes this possible), but the purpose for this is self-recovery if power is lost while underground. In a similar vein to the single diesel power pack fitted on a Class 801.
 Presumably this battery is charged through the overhead lines and/or regenerative braking, but it won't be used in normal service.
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 - Perhaps not so much with Crossrail, but certainly with Abellio, the automatic wake-up of a train in a cold siding for the driver to get in and take it away, would be a good function and soming that would need a battery.
 Obviously, if you have batteries on the train, yu get all sorts of advantages, with as you say, recovery being the most important.
 I was on a Northern train last weekend and an off-duty driver was sitting next to me. I told him about the Aventras and he particularly liked the automatic wake-up feature, as there are places in the North where ytrains can get really freezing overnight.
 Certainly those that work on the railway understand what batteries can do for their comfort and safety.
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California Court Denies Widow Right to Posthumous Reproduction
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A California Court of Appeals upheld a trial court's ruling that a widow had no right to use her deceased husband's sperm without an affirmative showing that he intended her to do so. As a result, the court dismissed her lawsuit against an IVF physician, program and storage facility that lost the sperm. The facts are taken from the plaintiff's complaint because the appeal was based on whether or not the plaintiff's complaint alleged viable causes of action: the standard of review is to accept facts recited in the complaint as factually accurate and assess whether--assuming those facts are true--the legal claims can proceed. The case highlights a number of legal issues arising from posthumous (or comatose) extraction, use and parentage, and the different analyses and outcomes among different state laws, as well as ethics committees.
The lawsuit was brought by Sarah Robertson, whose deceased husband, Aaron Robertson, had suffered from Marfan syndrome. According to her complaint, the couple had been married in 1995 and "planned to start a family when reliable medical technology existed" in order to prevent transmitting the disease to any offspring. In 2004, at age 29, Aaron had a stroke and fell into an irreversible coma, from which he died a week later. Before his death, Sarah requested, and UCLA's ethics committee approved, extraction of Aaron's sperm.
Six vials were obtained, frozen, and stored. Sarah continuously paid storage fees, initially to Tyler Medical Clinic which froze and stored the sperm, and starting in 2006, as she noted, to another entity. At that time, she contacted the physician at Tyler Medical Center for reassurance the specimens would be safely maintained as she intended to use them to conceive in the future. She was informed by that physician that he was retiring but that another physician who had joined the practice, the defendant Peyman Saadat, would be purchasing the business and the specimens would continue to be safely stored. In 2006, the business purchase was completed, and the tissue bank contents were transferred to Saadat's facility. In April 2014, Sarah requested the vials be transferred to UCLA so she could access them for treatment and was later told that the clinic could only locate one of the vials. At one point she alleges she was told the other vials were likely lost in a fire, but she later learned the fire occurred at least a year before Aaron's sperm vials were stored. Sarah made arrangements to transfer the remaining vial, and alleged Saadat instead repeatedly attempted to intimidate her to allow him to perform her treatments. In April 2015, the clinic informed her the only remaining vial belonged to another individual with the same first name as Aaron. Sarah unsuccessfully attempted to have the clinic notify its patients they might have unknowingly conceived with Aaron's sperm.
In her lawsuit, Sarah Robertson relied on several legal theories, and amended her complaint after the trial court struck a number of her causes of action. She ultimately presented causes of action for: professional negligence (against Dr. Saadat only); breach of oral and written contract; negligent infliction of emotional distress; negligence, fraud, misrepresentation, and/or, concealment; and violations of federal regulations and California commercial and business and professions codes. Aaron's parents initially joined as plaintiffs, but the trial court dismissed their claims for lack of legal standing. The factual bases for the widow's claims included that the defendant physician and business denied her an opportunity to have her deceased husband's biological child, necessitating her expending additional costs for fertility treatments, emotional distress for both her lost opportunity and the fear that others received Aaron's sperm and might have children at risk of Marfan syndrome, and that the defendants had made false representations through their website, advertising and promotional materials that they had the ability to store reproductive tissue safely.
The trial court ruled against the plaintiff, finding she had no right to use the sperm for reproductive purposes, and that allowing her claim would be against public policy, and therefore, she was entitled to no relief. The court dismissed the complaint, and this appeal followed.
On appeal, the court put aside the public policy issues, and scrutinized the alleged facts in the complaint. It concluded that all of the plaintiff's claims were predicated on a claim that she was legally entitled to use her deceased husband's lost sperm to conceive. The court found that under California law she had no such right, as there was insufficient evidence of his consent to either extraction of his sperm or posthumous procreative use of it. Without that consent, it ruled she had no right to have extracted or used the sperm, and therefore, could not press claims for harm and resulting damages. The court dismissed the case in its entirety.
The court reviewed California law, including two cases in that state involving claims to use a deceased's sperm. In the first, Hecht v. Superior Court (1993), the California Supreme Court upheld posthumous use, over the objection of the deceased's former wife on behalf of their adult children, where he had expressly and in writing authorized posthumous release to, and use by, his current partner. That court distinguished sperm from embryos, ruling disposition of the former was completely at the discretion of the deceased. It also rejected any claim that the planned posthumous conception violated public policy. In the second case, Estate of Kievernagel (2008), a widow failed to persuade a California Appeals Court to allow her access to her deceased husband's stored sperm even though they had been undergoing IVF treatment at the time of his accidental death. In that case, the husband's storage agreement had indicated his sperm should be discarded at death, and his parents intervened in the case to object to her use--informing the court the couple had been on the verge of divorce and undergoing IVF in an attempt to save their marriage.
In the present case, the Appeals Court cited certain principles from both cases: first, that sperm was a unique type of property and not governed by ordinary rules of property and gift law; second, that a deceased person maintains an interest in the nature of ownership and decision-making authority over their gametic material so that their intent is dispositive; third, that in contrast to embryos, there is no balancing test to consider; and fourth, that a surviving spouse has no independent, fundamental right to procreate with her deceased partner's gametes. The court cited California statutes to support its findings, including that California does not recognize a posthumously conceived or born child for testamentary purposes without a decedent's written express indication to recognize any such child. It also rejected any applicability of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, which allows surviving spouses to make anatomical gifts for "transplantation," to sperm for procreation.
The court also rejected the widow's argument that it should follow the reasoning of a 2019 New York case, Matter of Zhu, where parents of a West Point Cadet killed on a ski slope were allowed to retrieve his sperm for potential future procreative use (with a surrogate), in part based on his being an organ donor and his prior statements about wanting to have a family and carry on his lineage. In contrast, the California court said its laws on intestacy and use were different from New York's, but more significantly it noted, "[f]urther, we respectfully disagree that the signing of an organ donor card… and expressions of a desire to have children and carry on the family legacy are sufficient to indicate an intention to allow one's gametic material to be used for posthumous conception."
The court also noted it was not bound by UCLA's ethics panel and risk management department, which had authorized the unconsented retrieval and posthumous use. ASRM's Ethics Committee Opinion on the subject also suggests that, subject to applicable law, in the absence of explicit consent from a deceased, programs may ethically choose to act, or not act, on such requests from a surviving spouse where there is either evidence the partner would have agreed or at least not objected. This case highlights the point that the law need not follow, and has the power to override, any professional ethical guidance.
Concluding that the widow had no right to either extract or use the sperm absent consent from her deceased husband, the court found she was entitled to no relief whatsoever. It rejected her argument that she was not looking to use the sperm (which was no longer available) but seeking damages for its loss and for her mental distress. It should be noted that, as a result, the professionals and storage facility who were responsible for retrieving and then maintaining the reproductive tissue, who charged and received payment for storage services for several years, and on whose storage services the widow had relied, apparently faced no legal penalties for their failure to do so. The court affirmed the dismissal of the lawsuit and also awarded the defendants their costs on appeal.
Robertson v. Saadat, 262 Cal. Rptr. 3d 215 (Cal. Ct. App. 2020)
HFEA Changes Surrogacy Rules on Exporting Sperm, Eggs and Embryos from the UK to US
As Legally Speaking went to press, the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has reportedly agreed to update its guidance and relax rules for shipping gametes and embryos to the US for surrogacy following a challenge from Brilliant Beginnings and the Natalie Gamble Law firm. The change involves removing an


Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
18 November, 2014
Elective Affinities
I confess I've only read one book by Goethe which was Faust because who didn't try that one as a student? But I don't remember much of it and I probably raced through it without really thinking about it much. So although I've been wanting to try more of Goethe's novels, I only retain memories of something dark and heavy. So what a revelation Elective Affinities turned out to be. Chosen as my October/November's book group read, the novel showcased Goethe's lightness of touch and acute sensibilities which are so finely tuned that you really feel you are in the presence of a master. What could so easily have turned into a heavy, dank romantic tragedy was saved by the relentless self questioning of his characters and their wish to do the right thing.
Elective Affinities begins with Charlotte and Eduard who has been given a second chance at love. No longer in their first flush of youth and having overcome previous life events that were orchestrated by others, they are now happily enjoying the freedom of their simple coupledom. Charlotte's daughter is away at school and so they spend their days organising and designing their house and land at their pleasure. In fact all their time is taken with pleasure. Happy but getting a little bored of their monotonous life, a visit from a scandalous aristocratic couple embeds ideas of love and affairs which slowly take root in their minds. Their fidelity is tested when Eduard's close friend, the Captain, and Charlotte's niece, Ottilie who is unhappy at school, come to stay.
Goethe melds his views on romanticism with the scientific ideals and advances from the Age of Enlightenment that was fashionable in 19th century Europe to create a story which mirrors science. Elective affinities, a concept in chemistry where elements naturally gravitate towards their optimal counterpart, is used here to illustrate the romantic leanings of the four main characters.
Eduard, a dynamic man, begins to feel an affinity for Ottilie who is equally smitten, and succumbs to temptation, albeit platonic. However Charlotte and the Captain are a bit more reserved, battling with their morals even though their feelings for each other are as fierce. The main focus of the novel is the love affair between Eduard and Ottilie, a reflection and dissection of the ideals and reality of what love is.
However there were a few things that perplexed me. For example, why did everyone love Ottilie so much? Because she is young and innocent? Eduard who is actually married sees nothing wrong in his feelings and nor does Ottilie until towards the end of the tale. Only Charlotte and the Captain seem commendable but Goethe seems more sympathetic towards Eduard and Ottilie as though he holds them much higher up as his romantic ideal, that theirs is the great love story with so many obstacles when in fact they could have really gotten together at any point. Ottilie's refusal of Eduard doesn't seem to have a moral aspect to it, more as a whim and feels self-indulgent. And personally I felt Eduard comes very close to being the villain of the piece, acting as though his marriage to Charlotte meant nothing. It seems as though he was going through a mid-life crisis and as a result I found it very difficult to sympathise with him. In fact, all the characters felt a little flat, especially the female characters, except for Charlotte's aristocratic friends who revel in their scandalous lives. At least they don't pretend to be good. And although there are tragic consequences to the choices these characters make, Goethe's light touch stops short of making Elective Affinities a tragedy or even a moral tale, leaving the reader feeling rather confused.
It's been several weeks since I've finished the book but I'm still wondering about the characters in Elective Affinities, especially Ottilie and Eduard. I wonder whether Goethe was drawing a parallel to himself and his own choices in life. However, the novella certainly made for an interesting discussion and I most certainly would like to read more by Goethe.
I read this as part of German Literature Month hosted by Caroline and Lizzy.
4 Responses to "Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
 1. lizzysiddal Says:
 oh, there's definitely something autobiographical about Ottilie. She's based on Minna Herzlieb, an 18 year old girl with whom Goethe fell in love in 1807 when he was 58 and had been married for only one year. Hmmmm….
 2. Jonathan Says:
 I tried to read Faust again recently but just had to give up as my eyes were scanning the words but I wasn't taking anything in. I mean to read Young Werther at some point but Elective Affinities looks like it might be better. I'm assuming that this was a later work.
 - sakura Says:
 Yes, it is a later work (and it's not too long). The first half may seem a little slow but it really picks up pace towards the end in a surprising way. I hope you do give it a try. And I will try and re-read Faust again at some point too!
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At Del Monte, we work each day to create innovative products for our consumers without any trade-offs in price or performance. To us, environmental sustainability means creating value by conserving our natural resources and preserving the planet for future generations. We look to reducing our environmental impact whenever we can – from the design of our factories to manufacturing & packaging of our products. We ensure that our products are made in a responsible way and in doing so we look at:
- Advancing technologies to reduce waste
- Increasing recycling and reuse
- Creating even safer treatment and disposal options
- Developing sources of renewable energy
- Sharing the benefits of our learning and innovation with our clients and collaborators
In our endeavor to save energy & water, we are working on various projects at our manufacturing plant in Hosur.
The objective is to reduce carbon footprint with Change of Fuel from fossil fuel (Furnace oil) to Biomass. Compared to fossil fuels, the briquettes produce low net total greenhouse gas emissions because the materials used are already a part of the carbon cycle. Biomass Boiler is fired with Agri waste like Husk & Cobs.
Natural resource - Water used for cooking, is preheated up to 70 Deg C by using concentrated solar thermal (parabolic reflectors). This helps reduce usage of 4-5 LPG Cylinders per month.
Cooler Tower Heater This is being used in HVAC system to cool process & filling hall. Temperature of cooling tower water is between 10 - 12 Deg C. Helps save the usage of 135 KW compressor and overall cost.


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calls repentance, atonement and forgiveness. It is what makes biblical cultures more humane than their alternatives.
We owe to the anthropologist Ruth Benedict the fundamental distinction between shame cultures and guilt cultures. In shame cultures what matters is how we are seen by others. In guilt cultures like Judaism and Christianity, what matters is the voice within - conscience, what Freud called the superego, the moral values we internalise and make our own. In shame cultures a person is judged by the honour in which he or she is held. In guilt cultures there is no way of escaping the still, small voice that calls to us as it once called to Adam and Eve saying, "Where art thou?"
Shame cultures seem to lack the idea of forgiveness. If you've done wrong, the most important thing is to hope no one will find out. Once they do, there is no way of removing the stain of dishonour or the loss of face. Depending on time and circumstance, the shamed hero either goes off to fight and die in a distant battle, or flees to some remote country, or (in the old British theatrical tradition) disappears offstage to do the decent thing with a loaded revolver in the library of a country house. Shame cultures produce literatures of tragedy.
Guilt cultures produce literatures of hope. King David sins - seriously, as it happens - is confronted by the prophet Nathan and immediately confesses. So do the inhabitants of Nineveh when Jonah finally reaches them and tells them of their impending doom. They are given the greatest gift a culture can confer: the chance to begin again, not held captive by the past.
It seems to me that Britain, once biblical in its values, has now become a shame culture. What counts today is public image - hence the replacement of prophets by public relations practitioners, and the ten commandments by three new rules: Thou shalt not be found out, thou shalt not admit, thou shalt not apologise. It's a bad exchange. A shame culture turns mistakes into tragedies. A guilt culture turns them into learning experiences. I know which I prefer.


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And why is New Year's Day an official holiday in Massachusetts? Here's the Lowell connection from worcester.bettysgenealogy.org :
New Year's Day, however, was not an American holiday. It was for many years distinctively the French-Canadians' day. All the mills were open as usual but the French-Canadian help refused to work. This presented difficulties in maintaining operating crews and frequently resulted in trouble between management and employees. It was not until 1914 that New Year's Day became a legal holiday in Massachusetts. Urged by a demand made by French-Canadians throughout the state, Representative Henry Achin of Lowell obtained passage of the bill in that year. It was preceded by a hard fight having been before our state government for a number of years. Frank P. Allen (Ed. Note: A well known Franco-American resident of Fitchburg) was a member of the legislature in the year of its passage. So, when we celebrate New Year's Day, we should remember that our own Frank was instrumental in making the holiday possible.


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Why the Artichoke is Amazingly Healthy for Your Body
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PERNI, S., READ, E.S. and SHAMA, G., 2008. Detachment of Listeria innocua and Pantoea agglomerans from cylinders of agar and potato tissue under conditions of Couette flow. Journal of food engineering, 89 (3), pp. 355-359
Cylinders of raw potato or agar were contacted with suspensions of Listeria innocua and Pantoea agglomerans and then used as replacement rotors in a rheometer in order to investigate detachment under the influence of known shear forces. These shear forces were functions solely of the rotational speed of the rotor and the fluid (glycerol) in which the cylinders were caused to rotate. With this system surface shear forces ranging from 1.3 to 125 Pa could be generated corresponding to rotational speeds of 12.5 to 775 rpm. Under these conditions detachment phenomena were quite rapid with in most cases complete detachment being achieved over timescales of the order of 30 s. In general, lower shear forces were required to detach L. innocua from both agar and potato. For agar cylinders an applied shear force of only 1.3 Pa was sufficient to achieve 98 % detachment of L. innocua after 20 s. By contrast, relatively high shear forces were required to detach P. agglomerans particularly from potato; under an applied shear force of 2.8 Pa only 9.5 % detachment was achieved after 30 s. The results obtained at the highest shear forces studied here (125 Pa) with potato cylinders were suggestive of mass transfer into glycerol of one or more constituents present in potatoes that caused detached cells to aggregate causing an apparent decrease in percentage detachment. The data obtained could be used as a basis for the rational design of washing processes for fresh ready to eat food products.


Hedge funds are a risk
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I've been reading the report of the Financial Stability Forum on hedge funds. The UK and USA might be resisting Germany's call for more regulation of this sector, but the FSF makes a compelling (if muted) case for regulation. As their press release says:
Given the importance of strengthening protection against systemic risks, the FSF makes the following five recommendations to support and where relevant build upon ongoing supervisory and private sector work:
1. Supervisors should act so that core intermediaries continue to strengthen their counterparty risk management practices.
2. Supervisors should work with core intermediaries to further improve their robustness to the potential erosion of market liquidity.
3. Supervisors should explore and evaluate the extent to which developing more systematic and consistent data on core intermediaries' consolidated counterparty exposures to hedge funds would be an effective complement to existing supervisory efforts.
4. Counterparties and investors should act to strengthen the effectiveness of market discipline, including by obtaining accurate and timely portfolio valuations and risk information.
5. The global hedge fund industry should review and enhance existing sound practice benchmarks for hedge fund managers in the light of expectations for improved practices set out by the official and private sectors.
The FSF underscores the importance of ongoing cooperation among financial authorities in taking forward these recommendations and in spreading good practices.
Read that another way and they're saying that all the arguments about hedge funds creating liquidity in the market are threatened by excessive exposure by banks to these institutions and a lack of transparency and accountability by these bodies to anybody and everybody.
In the circumstances I'm with the Germans on this, and regret that their efforts to regulate this sector look certain to fail. As my mother used to say, this could end in tears.


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are many legends, tales and songs of very ancient origin that were not put into writing until the arrival of the Europeans. One of the most representative of these tales was the story of Vorvong and Sorvong (Vorvong and Saurivong), a long story about two Khmer princes that was first put into writing by Auguste Pavie. This French civil servant claimed that he had obtained the story from old Uncle Nip in Somrontong District. This story was put into writing in Battambang. In 2006 the Vorvong and Sorvong story was enacted in dance form by the Royal Ballet of Cambodia.
Tum Teav, which has been compared[by whom?] to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, is probably the most well-known indigenous story, based on a poem first written by a Khmer monk named Sam. A tragic love story set during the Lovek era, it has been told throughout Cambodia since at least the middle of the 19th century. The story has been portrayed in many forms including oral, historical, literary, theatre, and film adaptions. Tum Teav also has played a role in Cambodia's education, appearing as a topic for the 12th grade Khmer language examination several times. Although a translation into French had already been made by Étienne Aymonier in 1880, Tum Teav was popularized abroad when writer George Chigas translated the 1915 literary version by the venerable Buddhist monk Preah Botumthera Som or Padumatthera Som, known also as Som, one of the best writers in the Khmer language.
Some talented members of Khmer royalty such as King Ang Duong (1841–1860) and King Thommaracha II (1629–1634) have produced lasting works of literature as well. King Thomaracha wrote a highly esteemed poem for younger Cambodians. The prolific King Ang Duong is most famous for his novel Kakey, inspired from a Jataka tale about an unfaithful woman. While not written as a work of instruction, Kakey is often used as an example to teach young Khmer girls about the importance of fidelity.
Shadow Theatre
Nang Sbek (shadow theatre) (or Lakhaon Nang Sbek; Khmer) is closely related to the Nang Yai of Thailand, Wayang of Malaysia and Indonesia like the islands of Java and Bali, thus implying that Nang Sbek may have an Indonesian or Malaysian origin many centuries ago. Nang Sbek is also a dying art form and may disappear because of the decline in popularity due to the introduction of modern entertainment. Before the spread of modern entertainment such as movies, videos and television the Khmer enjoyed and watched shadow theatre apart from the other sources of entertainment available during that time. There are three kinds of shadow theatre in Cambodia:
- Nang Sbek Thom is an art that involves mime, song, music as well as dance and narration to the accompaniment of the Pinpeat orchestra. It most often features the Reamker.
- Nang Sbek Toch also called Nang Kalun and sometimes called Ayang (small shadow theatre) uses smaller puppets and a wide range of stories.
- Sbek Paor (coloured puppet theatre) uses coloured leather puppets.
Cinema in Cambodia began in the 1950s; King Norodom Sihanouk himself was an avid film enthusiast. Many films were being screened in theaters throughout the country by the 1960s, which are regarded as the "golden age". After a decline during the Khmer Rouge regime, competition from video and television has meant that the Cambodian film industry is relatively weak today.
Cambodia has increasingly become involved in sports over the last 30 years. Football is popular as are martial arts, including bokator, pradal serey (Khmer kick boxing), and Khmer traditional wrestling.
Bokator is an ancient Khmer martial art said[by whom?] to be the predecessor of all Southeast Asian kickboxing styles. Depicted in the bas relief at Angkor Wat,[dubious ] bokator was the close quarter combat system used by the ancient Angkor army. Unlike kickboxing, which is a sport fighting art, bokator was a soldier's art, designed to be used on the battlefield. When fighting, bokator practitioners still wear the uniforms of ancient Khmer armies. A kroma (scarf) is folded around their waist and blue and red silk cords are tied around the combatant's head and biceps.
Pradal serey, or traditional Khmer kickboxing, is a popular sport in Cambodia. Victory is by knockout or by judge's decision. Styles of boxing have been practiced in Southeast Asia since ancient times. In the Angkor era, both armed and unarmed martial arts were practiced by the Khmers. Evidence shows that a style resembling pradal serey existed around the 9th century. There have been heated debates between nations about the true origins of Southeast Asian kickboxing.
Khmer traditional wrestling is yet another popular Cambodian sport. A wrestling match consists of three rounds, which may be won by forcing an opponent to his back. Traditional matches are held during the Khmer New Year and other Cambodian holidays.
The Cambodian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Cambodia, controlling the Cambodian national football team. It was founded in 1933, and has been a member of FIFA since 1953, and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) since 1957.
See also
- The Influence of Indian Culture on Khmer superstructure
- Federal Research Division. Russell R. Ross, ed. "Housing". Cambodia: A Country Study. Research completed December 1987. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- "CIA World Factbook - Cambodia". Retrieved 2007-04-10.
- Federal Research Division. Russell R. Ross, ed. "Families". Cambodia: A Country Study. Research completed December 1987. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Lay, V., (n.d.) Cambodian law on marriage and family
- Federal Research Division. Russell R. Ross, ed. "Household and Family Structure". Cambodia: A Country Study. Research completed December 1987. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Ledgerwoord, Judy. "Cambodian Literature". Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- Profile of Cambodian Cooking and Culture
- Auguste Pavie, Contes populaires du Cambodge, du Laos et du Siam. Paris: Leroux, 1903.
- Les Nuits d'Angkor
- Documentation Center of Cambodia - Tum Teav: A Translation and Analysis of a Cambodian Literary Classic
- Cambodia Cultural Profile (Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts/Visiting Arts)
- Center For Khmer Studies
- Khmer Renaissance
- Culture Kampot pepper


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Wave Swell is a developer of world leading proprietary technology which works to convert the energy in ocean waves into clean and emissions free electricity
The Wave Swell Energy (WSE) technology is based on the well-established concept of the oscillating water column (OWC).
The OWC is an artificial blowhole consisting of a chamber that is open underneath the waterline. As waves pass the OWC, the water rises and falls inside, forcing the air to pass by a turbine at the top of the chamber. This turbine generates electricity.
Previous OWC technologies have all been bidirectional. The WSE technology, however, operates unidirectionally. This results in the WSE turbine being simpler, more robust and reliable, and exhibiting a higher energy conversion efficiency. The only moving parts in the technology are the turbine and bespoke valves, all of which are well above the water line. There are no moving parts in or below the water.
A world first project
WSE has deployed its 200kW wave energy project on King Island, Tasmania, adjacent to the harbour at the township of Grassy.
The unit was installed at Grassy, King Island, on January 10, 2021. It has since been commissioned, exporting its first power into the King Island grid on June 18, 2021. These are significant events for WSE's shareholders and stakeholders.
WSE has worked with Hydro Tasmania, the island's energy and network provider, to connect the unit to the local grid, and is now delivering energy from the project into the existing network. Hydro Tasmania will separately monitor the energy produced by the unit to ensure it meets the requirements of the King Island grid.
The wave energy produced will complement Hydro Tasmania's existing hybrid grid, further diversifying the renewable sources and reducing diesel consumption on King Island.
The UniWave200 is now contributing to the mix of energy resources used to power the homes and industries of King Island.
What is the King Island Project Expected to Achieve?
The primary purpose of Wave Swell Energy's (WSE) UniWave200 King Island project is to validate the models entailed in the various stages of the technology's power conversion process.
This will be achieved in a comprehensive "wave to wire" fashion via the following modules:
- wave to pneumatic power – by validating the Australian Maritime College (AMC) physical scale model testing results in a full-scale ocean environment
- pneumatic to mechanical power – by validating the turbine efficiency model via a full-scale WSE turbine operating in a UniWave200 device in the real ocean
- mechanical to grid – by validating the electrical model via a full-scale electrical system installed in a UniWave device operating in the real ocean
These results will provide WSE with a baseline and the tools and inputs from which to develop the technology further as part of Project Bluefire, the company's planned technology enhancement program.
The AMC model tests, conducted at the institution's test tank facilities in Launceston, provide a detailed matrix of pneumatic power1 production across a range of different combinations of model scale wave height and period2. The King Island unit is expected to encounter this same range of wave conditions at full scale at the Grassy site.
A direct comparison of the King Island unit's pneumatic power with the corresponding results of the AMC model tests will allow the confirmation of the UniWave200's pneumatic power performance matrix3.
The King Island project is also designed to confirm the performance and conversion efficiency of the WSE turbine4. This bespoke turbine has been designed by a leading expert in the field of turbine design, based in the US.
Additionally, the King Island project will provide data that enables a refinement of the WSE electrical control system. The purpose of this system is to efficiently convert the mechanical energy of the turbine shaft into electricity, minimising energy wastage, and maximising output. This electrical process incorporates a short-term storage facility, utilising state-of-the-art ultra-capacitors, to provide a smoother delivery of electrical energy to the grid.
When the pneumatic power, turbine conversion efficiency, and electrical conversion efficiency matrices are combined with the frequency of occurrence matrix5 for a given site, an accurate estimate of the unit's power production can then be calculated for that site. In this way, the results from the King Island project will make it possible to accurately predict the total conversion efficiency6 and power output of the WSE technology at any site in the world for which comprehensive wave data7 is available.
The validation and results from these three stages of the process, whereby energy from the waves is converted into electricity, will be the cornerstone of the inputs into Project Bluefire. The outcome of Project Bluefire is expected to be a more efficient and lower cost technology that is more widely applicable in terms of depth and geography.
Finally, the King Island project will be a tangible demonstration of the ability of the WSE unidirectional OWC technology8,9 to produce useable electrical energy capable of being incorporated into an island grid. It will also provide invaluable information and experience related to the unit's day-to-day and long-term operation and maintenance.
King Island was chosen as a project site for two primary reasons – the wave climate and Hydro Tasmania. The wave climate in the region is amongst the best in the world. And, Hydro Tasmania, being a world leader in the integration of renewables into island grids, provides the project with a virtually unparalleled level of relevant expertise. This will prove significant in demonstrating the technology's value to remote island grids.
Grassy, on the east coast of King Island, was chosen as the specific project site for additional reasons. As the main commercial harbour for the island, the general site already has the necessary electrical and other infrastructure required by the WSE project. And, being on the east coast of the island, the wave conditions that will be encountered are expected to cover the full range, from small to large, needed to validate the AMC model tests. Given this project involves a demonstration unit, there is as much to be learned from the operation and maintenance of the unit as there is from the production of power. The Grassy location provides the ideal conditions required for regular and easy access for operating the unit, as well as delivering the range of wave conditions necessary to fully test the device.
Importantly, the King Island project is not aimed at maximising the power production of the unit. Doing so would require a more energetic wave location, such as the west coast of the King Island. Future projects, incorporating the improvements from Project Bluefire, will be located in more energetic wave regimes to maximise energy production.
Glossary of Terms
- Pneumatic Power: Power measured at the pneumatic stage of the conversion chain given as the product of the volume flow rate (m^3/s) with the differential pressure (Pa) between the OWC chamber and atmosphere.
- Wave Height and Period: Wave height is the vertical distance between the wave crest and trough. Wave period is the time between two wave crests.
- Pneumatic Power Performance Matrix: A two-dimensional graphical representation of the pneumatic power (pressurised air flow) corresponding to the sea state (a combination of a specific wave height and period).The matrix normally consists of height on the vertical axis and period on the horizontal axis.
- Turbine Conversion Efficiency: The proportion of pneumatic power the rotating turbine converts to mechanical power.
- Frequency of Occurrence Matrix: For a given location, the frequency (how often) each sea state occurs is known as the Frequency of Occurrence Matrix.
- Total Conversion Efficiency: The proportion of wave power that is converted into electrical power across all stages of the energy conversion process.
- Wave Data: The sea state collected at a given location that allows for the Frequency of Occurrence Matrix to be populated (filled in).
- OWC (Oscillating Water Column): An oscillating water column consists of a large chamber that sits partially below the water and partially above, with a 'mouth' or entry duct open below the water line, and a small aperture open above. The chamber acts like an artificial blowhole, with energy from the waves entering and leaving the mouth, and energy in the air flow entering and leaving via the aperture, in which is housed a turbine.
- Unidirectional OWC: A variant of OWC technology that is unique to Wave Swell Energy and protected by an international patent. The technology enables simple rectification of air flow so that a more efficient and robust unidirectional air turbine can be used for pneumatic to mechanical energy conversion. Temporary energy storage in the water column is the key to why this concept works and explains why the energy is not being lost by venting the air chamber.
Wave Swell website


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Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act says,"No person in the United States shall, on the grounds of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefit of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." 42 U.S.C.§2000d Title VI covers all forms of federal aid except those federally funded contracts of insurance and guaranty. It does not cover employment, except where employment practices result in discrimination against program beneficiaries or where the purpose of federal assistance is to provide employment. Nor does it apply to discrimination based on age, sex, geographical locale or wealth.
Federal financial assistance means more than just money. It is also aid that enhances the ability to improve or expand allocation of a recipient's own resources. Examples in the City of Franklin might include:
Training of employees (permits better use of the employer)
Grants and Loans, tax-exempt bonds
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Title VI prohibits entities from denying an individual any service, financial aid, or other benefit because of race, color or national origin. It prohibits entities from providing a different service or benefit, or providing these in a different manner from those provided to others under the program.
Title VI prohibits segregation or separate treatment in any manner related to receiving program services or benefits. It prohibits entities from requiring different standards or conditions as prerequisites for serving individuals. Title VI encourages the participation of minorities as members of planning or advisory bodies for programs receiving federal funds. It prohibits discriminatory activity in a facility built in whole or part with Federal funds. It requires information and services to be provided in languages other than English when significant numbers of beneficiaries are of limited English speaking ability. Title VI requires entities to notify the respective population about applicable programs. It prohibits locating facilities in any way that would limit or impede access to a Federally funded service or benefit. And finally, Title VI requires assurance of nondiscrimination in purchasing of services.
Title VI does not apply to Federal assistance provided through insurance or guaranty contracts, (e.g. FHA loan insurance). It does not apply to employment, except where employment practices results in discrimination against program beneficiaries or where the purpose of the Federal assistance is to provide employment. Title VI does not provide relief for discrimination based on age, sex, geographical locale, or wealth. It does not apply to direct benefit programs such as Social Security. And finally, Title VI does not apply only to contracts and set-aside programs.
There are many forms of illegal discrimination based on race, color or national origin that can limit the opportunity of minorities to gain equal access to services and programs. Among other things, in operating a federally assisted program, a recipient cannot, on the basis of race, color or national origin, either directly or through contractual means:
Deny program services, aids or benefits.
Provide a different service, aid, or benefit, or provide them in a manner different than they are provided to others.
Segregate or separately treat individuals in any matter related to the receipt of any service, aid, or benefit.
To ensure the broad, institution wide application of Title VI and other civil rights statutes Congress passed The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987. This act clarifies the definition of "programs and activities" covered by the nondiscrimination provisions of civil rights statutes. The revised definition states that discrimination is prohibited throughout an entire agency or institution, if any part of that agency or institution receives Federal financial assistance. Title VI applies to discrimination throughout an agency, not just to actions involving the federally assisted program. Therefore, if an agency receives any federal financial assistance for any program or activity the entire agency is required to comply with Title VI, not just that particular program. Example: If the Police Department Operations Division receives a federal grant to purchase laptop computers to put in Police cars, all divisions of the Police Department must be in compliance with Title VI rules and regulations.
Title VI is a mechanism that directs the federal financial assistance, which drives or promotes economic development. By legislative mandate, Title VI examines the following public policy issues:
Accessibility for all persons
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Employment and training
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A turtle begins its life as an egg and, once hatched, is called a hatchling. Turtles take care of themselves from birth as they grow from hatchlings to juveniles then into adults. Adult turtles migrate to beaches where the females lay eggs for the males to fertilize. The eggs are covered in sand until they hatch. Teach elementary schoolchildren about the life cycle of a turtle through multi-sensory activities and books.
Cut and Paste
Cut and paste activities allow the opportunity for students to visually see the life cycle of a turtle and manually arrange the life cycle in the correct order. Cut and paste activities develop fine motor and visual processing skills, and help tactile and visual learners comprehend new material. Print out a cut and paste activity from worksheets available on TimeForKids.com or make your own.
Graphic organizers are comprehensive learning tools for students in all grades. Break students into groups and have them fill in a graphic organizer that shows the turtle's life cycle. Younger students can draw pictures to portray the life cycle. Older students can draw and add captions. You can make your own graphic organizer by drawing seven circles or boxes and numbering them. The students can fill in each stage: hatching, crawling to water, migration, crawling to land, finding a spot to nest, digging a hole and laying eggs. You could also use a pre-made graphic organizer, such as the one also available on TimeForKids.com.
Books are valuable learning tools for visual and auditory learners. Use books, such as "One Tiny Turtle" by Nicola Davies and Jane Chapman or "Sea Turtles" by Gail Gibbons, to pique students' interest and introduce them to the life cycle of a turtle. Take the students on a picture walk through the book first, by showing them the pictures and having them describe what they see. Next, read the story to them and see if they accurately described what was happening in each picture.
Use sentence strips that describe each stage of the turtle's life cycle to involve children in a hands-on sequencing activity. Make the sentence strips large and colorful, and have students work in groups to try and put the steps in order. Children can lay the strips out on the rug or use magnets to attach them to a magnetic board. This involves physical learners, who learn through movement and by doing.
Children learn through questioning and observation. Create journals with your class by stapling together lined paper with a construction paper cover. Have children decorate the journals with pictures of turtles. As you learn about each part of the life cycle of the turtle, have children record new facts they have learned, write any questions and make drawings of what that stage looks like. Include leading questions for children to respond to if you want to assess their learning, such as "Where does a turtle make her nest?" and "What does a hatchling do when it is born?"
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Ruptured renal calyx mimicking leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm
- 1Accident and Emergency Department, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK
- 2Department of Urology, Chelsea and Westminister Hospital, London, UK
- 3Department of Urology, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- Correspondence to Dr Benjamin Allin,
The case of an 81-year-old man with a known 5.2 cm abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder who presented to the emergency department in painful clot retention is described. Approximately 5 h after starting bladder irrigation he developed a sudden onset of severe abdominal pain radiating to his back. Urgent CT scan (AAA protocol) revealed a rupture of the lower pole calyx of his right kidney and a stable aneurysm. Bladder irrigation was stopped and the patient settled with a catheter and simple analgesia. Given his significant co-morbidities, it was felt that surgical intervention for the underlying malignancy was inappropriate and the patient was discharged home. At last outpatient review, his renal function was at its baseline and he was suffering no ill-effects from the ruptured kidney.
Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.


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SEER in the News
Hispanic Lung Cancer Patients Tend to Live Longer than Blacks and Whites
April 26, 2012 - The journal Cancer has issued the following press release.
A new analysis has found that Hispanic lung cancer patients seem to live longer than white or black patients. The study suggests that, as with several other types of cancer, certain yet-to-be-defined genetic and/or environmental factors put Hispanic patients at a survival advantage. Most studies that look at ethnic and racial disparities in lung cancer compare black patients with whites. To see how Hispanics compare with other ethnicities with regards to survival after a lung cancer diagnosis, Ali Saeed, an MD/PhD candidate, and Brian Lally, MD, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, led a team that analyzed patient information from the Survival, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Database, which compiles incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries in the United States. The investigators identified 172,398 adult patients who were diagnosed with any stage of non-small cell lung cancer (the most common form of lung cancer) between 1988 and 2007. Compared with white patients, Hispanic patients had a 15 percent lower risk of dying during the years of the study, whether they were born in the United States or not. "This is important because it shows that our findings are indicative of the Hispanic population in general and not specific to specific groups of Hispanics," said Saeed. Black patients were slightly more likely to die than whites. Also, Hispanics were more likely to develop a lung cancer type called bronchioalveolar carcinoma that is not as serious or life-threatening as other types.
Saeed AM, Toonkel R, Glassberg MK, Nguyen D, Hu JJ, Zimmers TA, Robbins DJ, Koniaris LG, Lally BE. The influence of Hispanic ethnicity on nonsmall cell lung cancer histology and patient survival: An analysis of the Survival, Epidemiology, and End Results database. Cancer. 2012 Apr 23. [Epub ahead of print] (PubMed)


Google Tag Manager provides a convenient method to control the code snippets you would like to include within your store - without needing to modify a theme's code every time. Please be sure to watch the Google Tag Manager Getting Started video to get up to speed on how to get going with the tool.
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Adding the Google Tag Manager code to your shop
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