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Fed Injects $600Bn, Feeds Bond Rally
Author: Gordon Platt
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT
By Gordon Platt
The bond market rally was given a new lease on life last month when the Federal Reserve announced it would buy $600 billion of US treasuries—and maybe more, if necessary—by the middle of next year. While the announcement was largely in line with expectations, analysts say it will ensure a further decline in rates and leave the window open for record borrowing by corporations.
Even before the Fed acted, total US high-yield issuance for October was $27.3 billion, a record for the month and down only slightly from $30.6 billion in September, according to KDP Investment Advisors, based in Montpelier, Vermont. Year-to-date issuance for global high-yield debt reached the highest level for any full year in September and continues to expand.
The monetary stimulus, known as quantitative easing, means that the Fed is monetizing US government debt, which critics contend could lead to future inflation and asset bubbles. Kansas City Fed president Thomas Hoenig, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), dissented from the action, saying that the risks entailed in the purchases were greater than the potential benefits to the economy.
Awash in Liquidity
The second round of quantitative easing, known as QE2, follows the Fed's purchases of nearly $2 trillion of bonds during the Great Recession. "No one really knows how effective QE2 will be," says Sung Won Sohn, professor of economics at Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics at California State University. "There is so much liquidity in the economy that additional liquidity may not do much."
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke says QE2 is designed to bring down interest rates and further boost asset prices. The Fed is hoping to encourage a virtuous circle of more spending, higher incomes and rising profits that will boost the economy, Bernanke says.
The treasury yield curve actually steepened in initial reaction to the FOMC announcement. Long-term bond prices fell on disappointment that the Fed will concentrate its purchases in the five-to-six-year maturity area, rather than in longer-dated bonds.
Negative Feedback Loops
"The steepness of the yield curve holds a long-standing correlation with currency weakness," a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch global research says. "In other words, expected inflation establishes negative feedback loops. There is no point in holding something today if its value is going to decrease tomorrow."
The weaker dollar will boost exports, but QE2 likely won't be sufficient to jar the economy out of its recent malaise, economists say. Consumers and financial institutions are simply holding too much debt and need to deleverage.
Lower-rated corporations are rushing to take advantage of the low rates in the high-yield bond market to refinance existing debt and to finance acquisitions. Auckland, New Zealand–based Reynolds Group Holdings, the maker of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, sold $3 billion of notes in October to help fund its $6 billion acquisition of Lake Forest, Illinois–based Pactiv, which makes Hefty trash bags. The issue was the second largest offering of high-yield debt this year after Stamford, Connecticut–based Frontier Communications' $3.2 billion note sale in March. Earlier this year, Reynolds issued $1 billion of debt in the high-yield market to finance its purchase of Evergreen Packaging, based in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and the Whakatane Mill, a New Zealand–based paper mill.
In its latest offering, Reynolds sold $1.5 billion of 8.5-year secured notes at 7.125% and an equal amount of unsecured notes with the same maturity that yield 9%. Credit Suisse and HSBC managed the private placement. In the event the Pactiv acquisition is not consummated, the proceeds of the offering will be returned to investors.
Issue Size Increased
Houston-based Calpine, an independent power producer with 93 plants and customers in 21 states, sold $2 billion of first-lien senior secured notes due in February 2021 with a coupon of 7.5%. The size of the issue was increased from an initially planned $1.5 billion to take advantage of low interest rates. The proceeds will be used to pay down a bank loan. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, RBC and UBS managed the sale.
Georgia-Pacific, a building products and paper maker based in Atlanta, sold $1.25 billion of senior guaranteed 10-year notes in the private placement market with a 5.4% coupon. The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes and to repay existing debt. Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan were the managers for the sale.
The largest high-yield offering in the US public market in October was a two-part note sale totaling $1.55 billion by Denver-based DaVita, which provides dialysis services. The company sold $775 million of 6.375% notes, due in 2018, and $775 million of 6.625% notes, due in 2020. The proceeds will be used to redeem outstanding notes as part of DaVita's debt restructuring.
Focus Shifts to Fundamentals
Upcoming economic data are likely to matter more for interest rates and currencies than they have over the past few months, when market participants waited for the launch of QE2, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. If data continue to reflect a weak US economy, expectations of an eventual Fed tightening will be pushed further out in time, the firm said in a note to clients following the FOMC's announcement. "Even though the statement did not explicitly push out the hiking cycle, the mere act of restarting asset purchases should push out the time frame for hikes," BofA Merrill Lynch says.
The US jobs data for October came in much stronger than expected, with the economy adding 151,000 jobs, the first increase since May. However, the unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.6%. The hours-worked index rose 0.4%, which could be a good omen for fourth-quarter gross domestic product, economists say. Upward revisions for August and September showed that there were 110,000 fewer jobs lost in those months than previously reported—although the net change was still a loss of 42,000 jobs for the two months. Treasuries sold off sharply immediately following the strong employment report.
The Fed's bond-buying program has reinforced optimism that the US economy will continue to grow and that corporate profits will improve, according to Torsten Slok, senior economist at Deutsche Bank in New York. The Fed's stimulus could boost GDP growth by 0.25% to 0.5% in 2011 and by 0.75% in 2012, Slok forecasts.


With words commissioned from Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Gary Breeze collaborated with sculptor Anthony Fanshawe to create a concrete poem in North London's Edward Square for landscape architects J & L Gibbons. Concrete was specially cast with a matrix of black and red granite aggregate and the surface grit-blasted to reveal the darker pattern of lettering within. This 'betograve' process was developed by Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar and used by him in collaboration with Picasso on his large concrete sculptures. The process, rarely seen elsewhere, was employed as a cost effective alternative to casting letters.


POLL CLOSED Slashers are the main feature of the game Before The Dawn, they act as the antagonists and the main reason you would want to play the game. Here are some suggestions from the community and some horror movie geeks.
Before The Dawn will not feature any creepypasta characters or game characters, this game is only limited to movie monsters and real life monsters/killers, or mythology.
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Slappy the Dummy (Goosebumps) "Who you callin' dummy, dummy!"
The poll was created at 18:55 on August 6, 2017, and so far 250 people voted.


Choosing the right salad dressing is important if you want to lose weight.
Point is, in order to reduce excess fat and lose weight, we need to reduce the amount of calories we consume until it is LOWER than our calories-out. Exercise helps us to achieve this (by increasing calories-out) but we can also reduce calories-in by making better calorie choices.
2 tbsp creamy Italian dressing contains 165 calories.
Twice a week, that's 330 calories per week.
2 tbsp Zero low-cal dressing contains 5 calories.
That's 10 calories per week; 520 calories per year.
If you substitute low-cal for creamy salad dressing in this way, you save about 16,640 calories per year.
16,640 calories per year is the equivalent of about 4.75 pounds of weight.


Florida manatees are easy to spot in winter because they congregate in springs and canals to stay warm. Famous places to see them include the Three Sisters Spring at Crystal River (http://www.threesistersspringsvisitor.org/) and Blue Spring State Park (https://www.savethemanatee.org/manatees/manatee-webcams/).
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a wonderful place to visit – it is one of the top aquariums in the country! It is located on the beautiful California coast south of San Francisco. Up to 2,000 gallons per minute of fresh sea water constantly flows through the exhibits.
Animators from Pixar Studios visited the aquarium before animation began on the movie "Finding Dory". They studied octopus, sea otters, and shorebirds in detail. That attention to detail shines through in the film, and hopefully inspires a new generation of children to love the ocean too!
If you travel to Heimaey in the Westmann Islands off the south coast of Iceland, you can visit the Eldheimar Museum. It is known as the "Pompeii of the North" because it displays houses that were buried by volcanic ash in 1973. For months before the eruption began, a little girl told everyone in the village that she dreamed an eruption was coming. Her mother told her that was ridiculous because the volcano had not erupted in over 5,000 years. On January 23 at 2 am, though, her mother looked out the window and saw a fissure of fire on the ridge above the house. The lava was coming! Fortunately there had been poor weather earlier that day so all the fishing boats were in port. The people were quickly evacuated and the fight was on to save the town. One man's crazy idea to spray sea water on the advancing lava to divert its flow actually worked, and the harbor was saved.
We enjoyed our visit to Heimaey and highly recommend the trip (30 minute ferries to the island are available in summer). Highlights were the Eldheimar Museum (http://eldheimar.is/en/), Saeheimar Aquarium (http://saeheimar.is/en), spectacular puffin colony (http://visitwestmanislands.com/page/birdwatching-in-vestmannaeyjar-iceland), and of course the island's abundant natural beauty (http://www.visitvestmannaeyjar.is/).
UPDATE JUNE 2018: A new outdoor whale sanctuary and museum is being constructed in the Westman Islands of Iceland. The Sea Life Trust Beluga Whale Sanctuary will be the first of its kind in the world. Two beluga whales are being rescued from a small concrete aquarium in Shanghai and will be flown to Iceland in March 2019. There the pair of whales, commonly known as "sea canaries", will live life in an open sea pen in the harbor, with access to an enclosed pool if weather conditions temporarily warrant it. Their lives will be greatly improved under the best possible conditions, since they could never survive in the wild. We hope to see them when we visit Iceland again in June of next year!


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Rev. esp. enferm. dig. vol.98 no.3 Madrid mar. 2006
CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
A young woman with first-trimester metrorrhagia, fever and skin lesions
A. Lalueza Blanco, D. Rodríguez Alcalde1, C. González Gómez, G. López2, P. Martínez Montiel1, E. Sanz García3 and J. A. Solís Herruzo1
Departments of Internal Medicine, 1Gastroenterology, 2Pathology and 3Radiology. Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre. Madrid, Spain
Inflammatory bowel disease commonly affects women with child-bearing potential, and clinical activity extent is most relevant at the time of conception. Below, we report on the case of a 19-year-old woman who was admitted for first-trimester metrorrhagia and fever, with various extraintestinal manifestations, mainly including erythema nodosum and episcleritis during the course of disease. The differential diagnosis of these manifestations led to the diagnosis of Crohn's disease, which involved the whole colon.
Key words: Inflammatory bowel disease. Erythema nodosum. Extraintestinal manifestations. Pregnancy.
Lalueza Blanco A, Rodríguez Alcalde D, González Gómez C, López G, Martínez Montiel P, Sanz García E, Solís Herruzo JA. A young woman with first-trimester metrorrhagia, fever and skin lesions. Rev Esp Enferm Dig 2006; 98: 204-215.
Case report presentation
Dr. C. González Gómez. Department of Internal Medicine: A 19-year-old gypsy woman presented in our Emergency Department with first-trimester metrorrhagia and fever.
Initially she had hypogastric pain and fever up to 39 ºC, which was clinically and hemodynamically well tolerated. A scraping procedure was performed, following which abdominal pain improved; however, high temperature persisted despite this procedure and the use of ampicillin, gentamycin, and metronidazole. Baseline laboratory workup revealed moderate leukocytosis, and microcytic anemia.
Given the patient status her admission to the internal medicine ward was decided upon. On new history taking the patient reported a previous pregnancy that yielded a healthy, currently 16-months-old child, and having lost 15 kg of weight in the absence of hyperorexia since then. She reported having taken no oral contraceptives, and no other medications or toxics. For 15 days before admission she had two or three soft stools daily with no pathologic products, but she had spontaneously recovered before visiting the emergency room.
During the review of systems she reported no other systemic symptoms, except a number of painful lesions in the oral mucosa that she had never consulted for.
During her stay at the Gynecology Department a number of erythematous, papulonodular lesions in various stages developed on her skin; these were widespread but predominated in the lower limbs, particularly in the pretibial area. Subsequently she had an episode of monoarthritis in her right knee with inflammatory, sterile synovial fluid.
Blood pressure: 93/50. Temperature 38 ºC. Severe thinness overall. Head and neck: normal venous pressure. No lesions in the oral mucosa. Conjunctival elevated white-yellowish lesion with hyperemia on the medial aspect of both eyes, with a foreign-body sensation (Fig. 1). Chest: cardiopulmonary auscultation, rhythmic at 130 beats per minute; rest, normal. Abdomen: moderate painful hepatomegaly; tenderness in right iliac fossa and hypogastrium, with no peritonism or palpable masses. Limbs: no osteoarticular symptoms. Skin: papulous, nodular, erythematous, hyperemic lesions in various stages, predominating in the lower limbs (Fig. 2).
Blood test: hemoglobin 8.2 g/dl; hematocrit 26%; MCV 70 fl; MCH 22 pg; platelets 551,000/mm3; leukocytes 8690/mm3 (N 60%; L 30%; M 6%); reticulocytes 0.55%; absolute reticulocyte count 20,800/mm3; ESR 100 mm/h. Coagulation: prothrombin activity 85%; INR 1.12; APTT 31.2 s; fibrinogen 504 mg/dl. Chemistry: glucose 87 mg/dl; LDH 107 IU/l; GOT 18 IU/l; GPT 16 IU/l; gamma-GT 118 IU/l; AP 344 IU/l; total bilirubin 0.31 mg/dl; total proteins 6.4 g/dl; albumin 2.85 g/dl; creatinine 0.62 mg/dl; calcium 8.7 mg/dl; phosphorus 3.9 mg/dl; uric acid 3.1 mg/dl; cholesterol 118 mg/dl; triglycerides 100 mg/dl; sodium 137 mEq/l; potassium 4.6 mEq/l. Thyroid hormones: free T4 1.3 ng/dL; TSH 1.8 µIU/mL. Iron profile: iron 25 µg/dl; ferritin 226 ng/ml; transferrin 153 mg/100; TIBC 216 mcg/100; SAT-transferrin 12%. Urinalysis: density 1020; pH 7; leukocytes +++; rest, negative; with some bacteria, 4 RBCs per field, 25 leukocytes per field and some amorphous phosphates; folic acid: 2.73 ng/ml. Vitamin B-12: 1.85 pg/ml. Clostridium difficile toxin: positive. Repeat coprocultures: negative. Repeat blood cultures: sterile. Mantoux: negative. HIV: negative. Chest x-rays on admission was normal, and abdomen x-rays showed an abnormal luminogram in the right iliac fosse with thickened submucosal structure.
Comments and clinical course
Dr. A. Lalueza Blanco. Department of Internal Medicine: In summary, this is a young woman who, since delivering her first child 16 months ago, had a constitutional syndrome with severe weight loss and clear protein-energy malnutrition signs. Fifteen days before admission she had a transient episode of scarce diarrhea with no abnormal products and in association with hypogastric pain that spontaneously subsided with no treatment. She presented to hospital with first-trimester metrorrhagia and fever up to 39 ºC, and thus underwent scraping, which managed to improve abdominal pain while fever persisted despite antibiotic therapy. A sole microbiologic evidence had been available that far, namely the presence of Clostridium difficile toxin in her stools, which was adequately managed. Severe hepatomegaly associated with bilateral episcleritis and elevated skin lesions predominating in the lower limbs, which suggested erythema nodosum, was seen during admission.
These findings suggest the presence of a systemic inflammatory process involving various organs, although the presence of infection -mainly subacute- accounting for the patient's illness cannot be excluded at the present time.
Before proceeding with differential diagnosis, I would like to know whether the histologic study of skin lesions confirmed a diagnosis of erythema nodosum.
Dr. G. López (Department of Pathology): The histologic study of skin lesions showed changes suggestive of suppurative septal panniculitis. There was an inflammatory infiltrate in the dermis and subcutaneous tissue made up by lymphocytes and histiocytes in association with edema (Fig. 3). This lesion may be found in infectious panniculitis, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and erythema nodosum.
Dr. A. Lalueza Blanco (Department of Internal Medicine): Given the patient's history, the most likely diagnosis is that of erythema nodosum, which forces to rule out causes most commonly associated therewith (1,2) (Table I).
While not very accurately, we may divide up erythema nodosum into those accompanied by mediastinal adenopathies (M. tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, lymphoma, fungi, Chlamydia and Yersinia), and those associated with gastrointestinal symptoms [inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Behçet's disease, Whipple's disease, pancreatitis, and bacterial gastroenteritis by Shigella, Yersinia or Campylobacter]. However, before getting into the differential diagnosis for erythema nodosum as manifested by this patient, I would order an abdomino-pelvic computerized tomography (CT) scan to rule out gynecological complications and then attempt to anatomically document her hypogastric pain. In addition, we should have a chest-PA, Mantoux test, and ASLO titers available, as Streptococcus pyogenes is most commonly associated with erythema nodosum. Similarly I would request a serology for hepatotropic viruses and HIV, an intradermoreaction and cultures for Mycobacteria, genital, anal, and oropharyngeal exudates, reaginic and treponemic tests, a coproculture, a search for parasites and C. difficile toxin in stools, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) titers, and 24-hour calciuria. I would also have an interest in cryoglobulins, C-reactive protein (CRP), anticardiolipin antibodies, antinuclear antibodies (ANA), anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA), rheumatoid factor, and blood-borne tumor markers. Finally, I would order a colonoscopy and gastrointestinal follow-through to exclude IBD.
E. Sanz García. Department of Radiology: Abdominal CT scans showed hepatomegaly with left-lobe hypertrophy and splenomegaly, where a hypodense lesion suggestive of infarction could be seen. There were no septic thrombophlebitis signs. The presence of diffuse thickening in the colonic wall and a cystic 2-cm anexal lesion also stood out (Fig. 4).
This patient also underwent an intestinal follow-through where the stomach, duodenal bulb, and jejunal loops with no apparent abnormalities could be seen; in contrast, the distal ileum was severely involved and exhibited marked changes in its wall; margins appeared strongly irregular and folds were thickened (Fig. 5).
Dr. P. Martínez Montiel (Department of Gastroenterology): Regarding the studies you want to know, I inform you that this patient underwent the following laboratory tests: beta-2 microglobulin, 3.32 mg/L; tumor necrosis factor alpha, 30 ng/mL; ANA, negative; c-ANCA and p-ANCA, negative; anticardiolipin antibodies, IgG, 4.8 U/mL; IgM, lower than 0.07 U/mL; CRP, 11.5 mg/dL; rheumatoid factor, lower than 20 IU/mL; ASLO, lower than 200 IU/mL; cryoglobulins, negative; ACE, 37.5 IU/L; urine calcium, 7.5 mg/%. Serologies for rubella, toxoplasma, Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus with positive IgG and negative IgM. Serology for HIV, negative. Serology for hepatitis C, negative; serology for hepatitis B: negative HBsAg and anti-HBc. Endocervical, anal, and pharyngeal cultures were negative. Intradermoreaction, fluorescence staining, and sputum culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis were all negative. Last, an abdominal scan using Tc99m-labelled leukocytes showed an abnormal leukocyte accumulation in the hypogastrium.
Dr. A. Lalueza Blanco (Department of Internal Medicine): As we just saw, CT ruled out any gynecological disorder accounting for the patient's manifestations; it rather showed colonic wall changes in the form of thickened wall areas. On the other hand, the intestinal follow-through demonstrated extensive involvement at the distal ileum, which was consistent with the findings of the abdominal scan using labelled leukocytes, which showed abnormal leukocyte accumulation in the hypogastrium. In our opinion, differential diagnosis should include those conditions where erythema nodosum associates with bowel manifestations, specifically with ileal and colonic involvement, and 1-year-standing systemic symptoms.
Among infectious causes Mycobacterium tuberculosis stands out, and might therefore account for both the patient's 1-year-long constitutional syndrome and terminal ileum involvement. Ileocecal involvement is found in 80-90% of patients with abdominal tuberculosis (3,4), and the most common symptom is diarrhea. Abdominal pain, fever, nocturnal sweating, distension, and weight loss are less common. Ileal involvement is commonly associated with local adenopathies -usually massive and with central low attenuation areas related to caseous necrosis; dual-contrast barium studies usually show ulcers longer than those seen in Crohn's disease (5). None of this was found in this patient; hence a diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis was unlikely. While only 15% of patients with intestinal tuberculosis have evidence of associated pulmonary disease (4), the fact that chest x-rays, Mantoux tests, and sputum Ziehl stainings were consistently negative (subsequently confirmed by cultures) makes this diagnosis even more unlikely.
Bacterial gastroenteritis, mainly by Shigella spp., Yersinia spp. and Campylobacter spp., could be another potential cause of erythema nodosum, which would account for diarrhea. However, the progression of some symptoms (1-year-standing constitutional syndrome), the self-limited nature of diarrhea with no abnormal products in the stools, and stool culture negativity make it little likely. The search for Yersinia would lead to the identification of specific antibodies, since stool culture was negative for pathologic bacterial flora (6). Among the remaining bacterial causes for gastroenteritis, the only one that should be considered is Neisseria gonorrhoeae, even though the prolonged course, and the fact that antibiotics covering this pathogen had been received with no clinical improvement, as well as microbial culture negativity would rule it out.
Sarcoidosis may explain arthritis, uveitis, and skin involvement. While exceptional, ileal involvement has been described in 17 cases of intestinal sarcoidosis in the absence of respiratory symptoms (7), which greatly complicates differential diagnosis versus Crohn's disease. The fact that chest x-rays was strictly normal, together with calciuria and normal ACE titers, make the diagnosis of sarcoidosis difficult (8). In patients with sarcoidosis ACE sensitivity for this disease ranges from 58 to 86%, depending on disease activity; in contrast, this test's specificity reaches 90%. They may be present in tuberculosis, silicosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, and lymphoma, but not in Crohn's disease (7-11).
Among systemic causes Behçet's disease and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) should be ruled out. The former disease may account for erythema nodosum, for gastrointestinal symptoms, and potentially for oral aphthae as reported in the patient's history. Behçet's disease may affect any portion of the bowel, but the ileocecal region is most commonly compromised (12). Histologic lesions and similar extraintestinal manifestations may render the distinction between Behçet's disease and Crohn's disease a difficult task (13-15). Pain is the most commonly seen abdominal symptom, and is present in some series in up to 90% of patients, followed by diarrhea and gastrointestinal bleeding (12). However, this patient does not meet the criteria allowing a diagnosis of Behçet's disease, mainly the major criteria (recurrent oral ulers with at least 3 episodes in 12 months), and only has one of the minor criteria (skin lesions including erythema nodosum). She reported no recurrent genital ulcers, ocular lesions or pathergy (16). Colonoscopy usually demonstrates deep isolated ulcers in the ileocecal region (12). LSE, while a most uncommon cause of erythema nodosum (17), may explain skin lesions; however, the patient's immune profile and the absence of additional clinical or blood data make it little likely; in addition, diarrhea is not easily explained by this condition.
IBD may justify the constitutional syndrome's progression, as well as abdominal pain, radiographic bowel findings, and fever at admission; however, the fact that gastrointestinal symptoms were scarce is outstanding. In this disease, up to 35% of patients have extraintestinal manifestations. In our case report, the patient had erythema nodosum. This finding occurs in 15% of patients -it usually develops during flare-ups and is closely linked to peripheral joint disease. At admission the patient had type-1 peripheral arthritis symptoms involving the right knee. Episcleritis is the most commonly occurring ocular symptom in Crohn's disease, and affects 5% of patients (18); its severity is also parallel to that of bowel disease (19-23).
Among erythemas nodosa of tumoral origin Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas stand out, as do leukemias; however, no laboratory parameters warrant such diagnoses. From a pathological standpoint, a cecal carcinoma or carcinoid tumor might also be considered.
To clear doubts I truly believe that colonoscopy -plus ileoscopy if possible- in association with the sampling of lesions encountered is essential.
Dr. D. Rodríguez Alcalde (Department of Gastroenterology): Colonoscopy showed a patchy involvement of the whole colon with numerous fibrin-covered ulcers, some of them serpiginous, that bled on touch; the biggest ulcers were up to 3-3.5 cm in size, alternating with apparently normal mucosal areas (Figs. 6 and 7). In the vicinity of ulcers, and within some of them, there were millimetric pseudopolypoid formations consistent with damaged mucosal areas, whereas mucosal regions far removed from ulcers had a normal macroscopic appearance with a well preserved vascular pattern. Involvement was more severe in the descending colon and sigma, while only a few aphthae were found in the rectum. Ileoscopy only managed to show the most distal 5-7 cm, but no lesions were seen in that ileal portion. All of this was trongly suggestive of IBD, specifically Crohn's disease with pancolonic involvement in a moderate flare-up.
Dr. G. López (Department of Pathology): Colorectal biopsy showed a severely distorted glandular architecture and densely packed, mixed inflammatory infiltration reaching beyond the muscularis mucosae and into the submucosa. Microabscesses and cryptitis were apparent. It was all strongly suggestive of idiopathic inflammatory disease, most likely Crohn's disease with high inflammatory activity (Figs. 8 and 9).
Dr. C. González Gómez (Department of Internal Medicine): Indeed, with a presumed diagnosis of Crohn's disease involving the whole colon and terminal ileum treatment was empirically started with mesalazine 800 mg and intravenous methylprednisolone 1 mg/kg/day. Fever regressed within 48 hours, and both extraintestinal manifestations and laboratory changes gradually improved to the point that the patient could be discharged.
Dr. A. Lalueza Blanco (Department of Internal Medicine): Chronologically, a fact to point out in this patient is the development of insidious manifestations including weight loss in the wake of her first pregnancy, with a subsequent episode of severe extraintestinal manifestations during the second pregnancy. These are the two most interesting aspects of this case: extraintestinal manifestations and then the association of pregnancy with IBD.
During pregnancy, there is seemingly no higher risk for spontaneous abortion, and pregnancy is no risk factor for IBD relapse. Also, fertility has not been seen to decrease except in patients with proctocolectomy or ileoanal anastomosis. In this respect it must be stressed that sulfasalazine induces reversible hypomotility and oligospermia in 80% of males receiving this drug (24,25).
We may pose a couple of questions here -on the one hand whether pregnancy affects IBD activity; on the other hand how may this disease impact on pregnancy. Regarding the former question, there is a clear association with activity extent during pregnancy: if the condition is stable at pregnancy onset, it will probably remain like that until the end of pregnancy. Inflammatory disease relapses during pregnancy in one third of patients, but this percentage does not differ from that of relapse risk among non-pregnant women (26). On the contrary, if IBD is active when pregnancy starts, this flare-up will probably remain for the rest of pregnancy (70% of patients). IBD complications that may occur during pregnancy do not differ from those seen in non-pregnant patients. No differences exist during the postpartum period either (27). In the presence of perineal involvement a Caesarean section is often advised; when IBD is inactive or during mild-to-moderate flare-ups vaginal delivery is possible, but episiotomy is advised against given the subsequent fistulization risk (28,29).
Crohn's disease has a greater impact on fetal development when compared to ulcerative colitis; in fact, ulcerative colitis is thought not to influence pregnancy outcome, except for a risk of preterm delivery for women first hospitalized during pregnancy. Crohn's disease is considered a risk factor for preterm delivery and low birth weight. This risk is similar to that seen in smoking mothers (30). In no case is there a higher risk of congenital abnormalities (31).
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Q: Is the husband of my mother's sister my uncle, even if he perished before I was born? This question is related to an original question asked 9 years ago but with a twist. The OP was asking about familial titles
This was the original question.

This may seem an odd and morbid question, but I am curious about the use of relative familial titles when the family member you are referring to died prior to your birth. For example, say my mother has a brother named Bruce. How would I refer to my mother's brother Bruce if he died before I was born?

A lot of answers suggested that the individual was still this person's uncle. The original question implies a blood connection.
Now my question implies no blood connection.
Is the husband of my mother's sister my uncle, even if he perished before I was born?
Okay, to clarify. My Aunt had remarried by the time I was born and I recognised this second individual as my uncle. It's just in conversation the other day, and for more information I am a first generation Australian of British descent, a newly immigrated Chinese friend of mine referred to him as my uncle.
Another clarification from a question asked.
 The sentence from my Chinese friend, fairly verbatim, was "So your uncle died and then your Auntie moved to Australia and 4 years later your parents followed" And I had also explained that I had been born 3 years after my parents arrived in Australia. So I'm not sure if she was trying to westernise her grammar or if it was a direct translation from her cultural point of view. Next time we speak, which will be tonight AEDST I'll query her and try to understand what she meant, she's a very pleasant person and will take no offense to me trying to understand her understanding of familial titles.

A: Yes.
It makes no difference whether the relationship was by blood or by marriage.
It makes no difference whether the deceased person died before or after you were born.
Death of one spouse indeed ends a marriage. But it is still OK to refer to someone as another's husband or wife, even if the person you're talking about is dead. To see this, you need only read historical accounts which refer to married couples.
So if your aunt is now a widow, it's still OK to refer to her deceased husband as your uncle.
How could it be otherwise? Are we not to speak of the dead at all?

A: If the OP doesn't feel any biological or familial bond to someone they have never met in life they are not to blame. It's up to the OP what they call their aunt's dead husband.
If a widow refers to her late husband as "uncle" to her nephews and nieces, it suggests she considers him a permanent member of the family and to all intents and purposes he is their uncle.
The OP, however, is free to call the deceased person by his first name; by his title, uncle, or by any another expression, e.g., my aunt's late husband. Although the latter would be confusing if in the meantime she had remarried, it would seem that her most recent husband had died.

A: I would say yes... Your grandfather (or great-grandfather) doesn't stop being your grandfather just because he died before you were born, right?  If your father got your mother pregnant, went off to war, and died before you were born, he would still be your father, right?

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Student finds support after unspeakable tragedy
Sept. 7, 2013 was the worst day of young Leo Chavez's life. He was just 6 years old when his father stabbed his mother, Martha Casillas, to death at their home while Leo was watching television in the other room. "It was heartbreaking," Edenvale Elementary Principal Ryan Haven said. "You don't know what to say. You don't know how to console a child. You know that they're going to need a lot of encouragement and support." Leo and his older brother, Mario, were left in the care of their 22-year-old sister, Katia. But Haven recognized it would take the entire Edenvale community stepping up to help Leo grieve the loss of his mother. "One of the things that I remember many times kind of mentally committing myself to, and I think a lot of people on our staff did the same thing, is saying, 'Leo is our kid,'" Haven said. "'We're going to see him through. We're gonna walk with him through this. He's not alone. And we've got him.'" In the weeks and months that followed, Leo struggled to control his emotions. After all, he grew up in a house where he constantly saw violence. "At first it was hard because he got in a lot of trouble here at school," Katia said. "Fighting. Hitting girls. Getting mad so easily. Didn't listen." Leo battled with bouts of depression during the first few years. Haven admits there were stretches of silence, made harder by the fact that Leo was an English language learner. "Although we have tons of staff who speak Spanish, he's trying to figure out the English language as well as the vocabulary to describe his feelings," Haven said. "And he's mad. And I think there was a lot of anger that he went through." Yolanda Guerra was the school's health clerk. She made it her mission to take Leo under her wing and help him find peace in the midst of grief. "He would tell me that Ms. Yolanda was his second mom," Edenvale Elementary teacher Jacqui Murbach said. "That was his second mom that he would go to for everything. She would make sure that she fed him in the mornings. Ms. Yolanda definitely kept track of him." In February 2019, Guerra died after a battle with leukemia. Once again, Leo had lost an important figure in his life. "He's held it together really well," Murbach said. "If I was in his situation, I wouldn't have been able to handle it in the way that he did. He grieved in all the right ways. He talked to people in all the right ways. It's almost because he had that past trauma experience that he was able to handle Ms. Yolanda passing so well."
"He knows he has a home here."
‒Ryan Haven, Edenvale Elementary School Principal
Through it all, Leo Chavez recognizes his success. And he is quick to credit the Edenvale community for helping him overcome such an unspeakable tragedy. "It feels amazing," Leo said. "I've been here for seven years now. And it's been a real journey." And while he is moving on from Edenvale Elementary as he enters seventh grade, Haven says Leo's school family is not far away. "He knows he has a home here," Haven said. "He knows he has a home at Edenvale. He knows he can come here and that he will get support."
When Leo Chavez's mother was murdered, he found support to cope with the loss at his school.
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Practice based research, many faculty worldwide would find this concept ridiculous and only worship « pure » research.
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New report from Amnesty International documents the increasing repression of Iranian scholars and students during the Ahmadinejad presidency.
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A new report from Amnesty International documents the crackdown on Iranian students and scholars that came in the wake of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election in 2005.
The report, which is based on interviews with more than 50 individuals with direct knowledge of Iran's higher education system and an analysis of publicly available documents and media reports, is titled "Silenced, Expelled, Imprisoned: Repression of Students and Academics in Iran." It provides specific information on the cases of student activists and scholars who were imprisoned on national security-related charges or allegations of insulting government leaders in connection with their participation in the mass protests that followed Ahmadinejad's disputed reelection in 2009. Many remain behind bars today.
The report also traces how Ahmadinejad renewed and redoubled efforts to further "Islamicize" Iranian higher education, by, for example, tightening rules on gender segregation and dress code, suspending and expelling student activists and banning them from continuing their education elsewhere, cancelling or revising humanities courses deemed to be Western-influenced and "un-Islamic," and dismissing or forcing the retirement of faculty perceived as being "secular" or "reformist."
Furthermore, the Amnesty International report describes official government efforts to restrict university participation on the part of women – who by 2007 were reported to represent more than 58 percent of university enrollment – by imposing quotas on female enrollment in certain degree programs and closing off their participation in others (such as mining engineering). As the report documents, members of Iran's unrecognized minority religions, including the Baha'is, have largely been denied access to higher education since shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Amnesty International offers a series of recommendations to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, whose comparatively moderate rhetoric since taking office last August has raised renewed hopes about the potential for improved relations between Iran and the West. The recommendations include "annul[ing] all previous arbitrary suspensions and expulsions of students and all forced retirements or effective dismissals of academic staff carried out on prohibited grounds" and ending discrimination on the basis of gender, religion and other identity categories.
"[T]he period since President Rouhani took office has seen some, albeit limited positive developments," the report states, noting that some banned students had been allowed to resume their studies. Iran's Ministry of Science announced in August that 126 banned students had been reinstated.
"For hundreds of others, however, there appears to have been no change, and they remain barred from university either because of their peaceful exercise of freedom of expression or the rights to peaceful assembly and association, or because they are Baha'is or members of other officially unrecognized religious groups who continue to face discrimination," the report continues.
"President Rouhani's first months in office have raised hopes of a less repressive system in Iran and greater government respect both for the human rights of Iran's people and for its obligations under international human rights law. The next months and years will be crucial to whether Iran's universities will be liberated from arbitrary interference by the security police and their political masters and be given the opportunity to become centres of independent scholarship, free thinking and innovation."
Elizabeth Redden, Senior Reporter, covers general higher education topics, religion and higher education, and international higher education for Inside Higher Ed. She has more than a decade of experience as an education journalist. She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Columbia University.
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Here it is 3:28 and someone is drawn to flowers and after further inspection find that they are some how rewarding. Here the person and plant seem to be communicating, but what is being exchanged? Elements as solutions can sometimes exist before their companion problem. The matrimony of issue and solution creates an end.
Specific flowers thrive during the plague of their counterparts.
Here you are exposed to elements that can aide in solving problems.
Here someone mentions an observation that aides in the resolution of a problem.
Facing you: Here flower or screwdriver presents itself as a solution to an upcoming problem. Work with the tools at hand.
Facing away: Here someone around you does not realize they have the tools to solve or overcome a situation. It is on you, to inspire them.


A sound engineer who does not HAVE SOUND?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
I do now, I didn't at my parents.
Congratulations to the winners and to everyone else who participated and completed their entries!
Wow. Awesome. Thanks, everyone who played Echoes and/or gave me advice!
Did you guys by any chance give the other campaigns a rating? If so, can you post them here?
Ricky's logs are the best source for such information. We purposely didn't list placement for all projects because do not want to encourage negativity and discourage the creation of projects. If there's one thing I can say is most of the projects were well done. Some of them were the first campaigns by a few, others have gone through multiple, but they were all a great step towards learning the process to craft something. Perhaps in time we'll list our personal reflections on the campaigns, but that is up to the judges themselves.
Congratulations to all the winners! I think they deserve the win.
Now, I wonder if we could get a more compressed version of the winning entries. Like, 300mb is kinda heavy? Anyway, I think guests and fans out there, including myself, would appreciate much if the entries had light versions, or ones with smaller file sizes. Is that possible?
300mb is like a fifteen minute dl for most DSL and Cable providers.
Gna isn't from North America, it takes longer to download.
IskatuMesk wrote: Leave it run overnight?
Also, you're implying that only North America has decent cable/DSL, which is not the case; pretty much everyone but Australia does, and Australia could still download those.
No worries then. Amazing work guys! We should do this much often. I had so much fun!
Would someone be so kind to provide download links to these awesome campaigns? I would like to replay them, but I could only download the Vile Egression, and for the other campaigns the download links are seemingly long dead.
Check my campaign listing, all the contest campaigns are there and (should) have working download links!


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Homily of Bishop Joseph Duffy celebrating 150 years of St Louis Sisters in Ireland
Discerning the will of God is of the essence of Christian life. Perhaps we need to get the message out these days that this is much more than an optional extra; it's an integral and intimate part of Church life, it's at the core of what the Church is about – Bishop Duffy
A Shoilse, Uachtarán na hÉireann, my dear Sisters of St Louis, brother-bishops and clergy, sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ. It is my pleasant duty to welcome President McAleese to the Diocese of Clogher. Your Excellency, we have of course had Martin and yourself in the Diocese many times during your years of high office, not least some years ago on Lough Derg. We are greatly honoured by your presence here today.
Last month I attended a seminar in Rome organised for Bishops involved in social communications. Over the few days one got to meet most of the ten or so bishops present, amongst them Archbishop Niederauer of San Francisco, California. "I know you are lrish", he said to me, " but what part of Ireland are you from?" "A place called Monaghan", I said, expecting no reaction, "Oh", he said, "the St Louis Sisters. I knew them well when I was in LA. Did you know a Sister Bernadette Murphy from Monaghan town? She did marvellous work in our Education office". That is to let you know how the St Louis education charism has got around. I can tell you in the diocese of Clogher we owe the Sisters a huge debt of gratitude for their magnificent contribution to education over the 150 years. I mean education in the broadest sense; not merely the basics which were always taught to the highest standards but also music and drama to the same level of perfection. I am thinking in particular of their many fine boarding schools both south and north of the Border, including the Diocese of Down and Connor, two of whose bishops, Bishop Treanor and Bishop Farquhar, are with us today.
Archbishop Niederauer went on to relay a story he heard from one of the Sisters about the old days in Monaghan convent. The local Bishop, obviously one of my predecessors, – he didn't say which – was paying one of his formal visits to the Convent. The Sisters went about the task of preparation with their usual efficiency. Time came for the cup of tea: the best china was produced, the best silverware, a silver sugar bowl with matching tongs to deliver the lump sugar. The young Sister, on duty for the first time, took the tongs to deliver the sugar. Then it happened. Overcome by the occasion and possibly over-rehearsed, she was heard to say "Two lords, my lump". Apparently, the story went into the folklore of the convent. I am sure the Sister was eventually able to see the fun of it, whatever about the Bishop.
These stories capture much of what I want to say today. We all feel genuinely proud of the high esteem the St Louis Sisters have won for themselves across the world, not only in Ireland but everywhere they went, America, Africa, England, and of course France where it all began. We are also conscious of the equally attractive and varied texture of personality behind the public image, behind what often appeared on the surface to be immaculate uniformity. Over the years I have known many of you in person; my own St Louis experience began when I was four years of age. I have mentioned high esteem. That high esteem comes from a common source, a source which is your community way of life, a way of life reflecting years of unstinted generosity and dedicated hard work, most of it behind the scenes, years of humble listening and obedience to God's will. In this respect, your two very challenging mottos are complementary; Dieu le veult and Ut sint unum.
Dieu le veult, 'God wills it', is attributed to your patron, St Louis, king of France. St Louis, we are told, was a person of exceptional character, who had to his name great cultural and humanitarian achievements; apparently he had Thomas Aquinas regularly at his table, another personal friend was the founder of the Sorbonne. He set up a hospital for the poor, he negotiated treaties, he was famous for keeping his word. Rather suddenly, he left all this behind, left it to embark on a crusade to the Holy Land, a crusade that turned out to be over-ambitious but was considered at the time to be a pressing missionary concern. The important point for us is that there was absolutely no worldly motive here; nothing in it for himself beyond an obedient response to what the occasion demanded. Not a bad template for your own predecessors, those three women who came to Monaghan in 1859, women who put their own comfort and indeed their health on the line, in an environment of post-Famine disease and depression. Not a bad template for the Sisters, whom some of you, like myself, will remember, who pioneered the mission to Ghana and Nigeria in the late 1940s.
Discerning the will of God is of the essence of Christian life. While the task belongs to every baptised person, there have always been in the Church groups of women and men who consecrate themselves in an organised radical way to what we call 'religious life'. Perhaps we need to get the message out these days that this is much more than an optional extra; it's an integral and intimate part of Church life, it's at the core of what the Church is about. It means putting one's home and family to one side, certainly not ignoring them but subordinating them to the greater good, it means being alone with the Lord on a daily basis, it means carrying the high tension of uncertainty and doubt as to the best way of reaching out to others. But it also brings with it the consolation of knowing that you are cultivating a garden, a garden of inner peace, a peace the world cannot give.
Your second motto, Ut sint unum, 'that they may be one' is very different from the first. It is more an aspiration than an imperative, its a gentle prayer, a humble recognition that our world, not just the world outside, but the human nature within each of us, is a fragmented place, that disagreements and misunderstandings come the way of all of us, all the time, that there is always a risk factor in reaching out, however prudent and careful we think ourselves to be. The initial experience of the Sisters in Monaghan, the utter lack of basic communication at the time of their arrival, the riven nature of the society into which they came, their own internal troubles later on, which to their credit they resolved, the tidal wave of change brought about by the Second Vatican Council, the new emphasis on
ecumenism: these were some of the issues that made and continue to make this simple prayer of the Lord for his apostles immediate and real for St Louis Sisters.
What of the future? In view of the collapse of vocations to religious life which has overtaken the Church in this part of the world, it is tempting to close the book and consider the work done. I don't have to remind you that this would be to lose our way. It would also be an injustice not only to those valiant women whom we remember today, but also to the prophetic witness so many of you present here today continue to give, both by your quiet life of prayer and the many helpful ways in which you serve the local community. If it all gets you down at times, think of those early women who moved from their socially privileged Francophone and Victorian background into espousing enthusiastically the Irish Ireland of Clochar Lughaidh Muineachán and Clochar Lughaidh Carraig Mhachaire Rois.
It is the same spirit we need today to keep moving into the new world that awaits us. And it is a spirit that inspires this celebration. There is a 15th station of the Cross somewhere in the Donegal Gaeltacht that reads: Mac no hOighe slán, The Virgin's Son is alive, Christ is risen.
Bishop Joseph Duffy is Bishop of Clogher and Chair of the Bishops' Commission for Communications.
Bishop Duffy's delivered this homily yesterday, 26 April 2009, in St Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan, at the Mass celebrating 150 years of St Louis Sisters in Ireland. The congregation of over 1,000 people included St Louis Sisters, President Mary McAleese and her husband Dr Martin McAleese, local TDs and members of Monaghan Town Council.
Sister Uainín Clarke is the Institute Leader of the St Louis Sisters and is based in Dublin. Sister Anne Kavanagh is the Regional Leader of the St Louis Sisters in Ireland and is based in Dundalk.
The congregation, which consists of approximately 500 Religious Sisters, is especially involved in education, pastoral care and medical work and has missions in Brazil, California, England, France, Ghana, Ireland, Nigeria and Benin.
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Whether done for work or for pleasure, traveling can be time intensive and demanding at times. No matter the distance involved, traveling can also be physically difficult to adapt to as a person adjusts to being in an alternative environment, in changing surroundings, and in possibly different time zones.
One the common challenges that travelers may face is being able to get adequate rest while on the road. The combination of the many changing factors involved with traveling can making sleeping seem almost close to impossible.
Many individuals who are traveling might resort to sleeping aids or medications to help induce sleep and relaxation, especially if traveling frequently. However, what if you are an individual who is in recovery from addiction or who is susceptible to misusing or abusing drugs?
Relying on sleeping aids, such as prescription medications or even over the counter substances may not be your best option. Thankfully there are some natural alternatives that may be helpful and safer for an individual who is susceptible to drug abuse.
There are some natural herbs and supplements that may be helpful in reducing the time it takes to fall asleep, which may be helpful for someone who travels frequently and having issues with sleep in general. These include the hormone Melatonin and the herb Valerian, both of which have been shown to help individuals effectively improve sleep quality.
Other natural supplements that may be helpful include the herb Chamomile, which is often taken as a tea, Kava Kava, Trytophan, and Catnip.
Each of these natural supplements function differently and may react different to other substances, so it is always important to consult your physician before taking any over the counter supplements as a form of sleep aids. Like any other substances, natural sleep aids can also produce side effects, so be sure to understand what you are taking before trying something new.
Over the counter natural sleep aids, such as herbs, are not regulated by the FDA, which increases risks of unknown substances in what you are purchasing. If you are looking for a natural sleep aid, be sure to ask you doctor about suggestions that may be most appropriate for you.
If you are a frequent traveler, what natural sleep remedies have been effective for you?


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Why Is Switzerland Sanitising The Concept Of Cryptocurrencies?
Why is Switzerland actually spending efforts to sanitise the concept of cryptocurrencies? And what real purpose is being achieved by that? This is when much of the world already knows that cryptocurrencies, good or bad, we shall come to that later, are actually a haven for illegal activities and criminals, above all things?
Surely, there's got to be something that Switzerland seriously wishes to purse with a concept that, beyond darkly adjectives is a rage of our times. As a matter of fact, you'd much rather call it, a dominant discourse of our times.
Truth be told, where the serene landlocked European wonderland is concerned, then it's clear that Switzerland is batting big on Cryptocurrency. Nothing is more evident about this fact than the country going as far as taking steps to ensure gentrifying of the very currency format that the world views as polarising.
Not that anyone can be doubted as such!
It's a platform from which to operate illegal activities- point #1
It's a source through which one can further illicit deals and even commit heinous crimes- point #2
Furthermore, it can break and make fortunes, the latter, provided one's not caught or appears in the radar of suspicion.
All of these aren't mere virulent statements intentionally made to suffocate those who dabble in cryptocurrencies; these are widely-felt beliefs that do need some debunking perhaps or so one reckons.
At this point in time, it is not clear as to where and when might one get to see the light at the end of the tunnel where cryptocurrencies' future in Switzerland stands or whether how soon can they be done away with, if at all, things from a legal standpoint come to that.
Having said that, the following are the bunch of steps that Switzerland is dedicatedly taking in order to ensure a future with cryptocurrencies playing a dominant part. The excerpts were taken from a report published recently on Swissinfo.ch:
Blockchains are digital systems that store and transmit cryptocurrencies. The technology has been hailed in some quarters as an improvement on the current financial plumbing.
Switzerland has this year updated a range of company and financial laws to give blockchain commerce a solid legal basis. The financial supervisor has in the last two years licensed two crypto banks, and not just that- a crypto stock exchange, and Switzerland's first crypto assets fund.
The intention is to replace the old "wild west" image by gentrifying cryptocurrencies. Raucous troublemakers like bitcoin are being scrubbed up and made fit for consumption by banks.
The market has matured, the legal framework is there, licenses are being handed out, a pipeline of new financial products are being created," says Katie Richards, former head of Falcon private bank's crypto unit. She is now setting up the Swiss offices of Netherlands-based cryptocurrency investment company Cyber Capital.
"Switzerland is becoming more innovative and competitive. We are continuously attracting new companies from other countries."
The above told, there already exist non-profit foundations that can take care of blockchain projects in that the hundreds of thousands of dollars that are crowdfunded using blockchain projects can be simply housed by these NGOs.
Unlike the rest of the EU, and remember Switzerland is not a part of the EU, the regulatory stance taken by the Swiss toward the concept of cryptocurrencies isn't archaic, restrictive or divisive, as some note. The same story persists with America where, many happen to believe, that cryptocurrencies are viewed with an eye of suspicion.
Who can blame them unless and until there's more awareness directed toward the pros and cons at a country level to set the record straight?
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Doctors have told patients for decades to eat less saturated fat - the predominant kind in red meat, butter and cheese -- as a way to prevent heart disease. The truth may be more complicated. A report published Tuesday concludes that people who cut out saturated fat don't necessarily lower their heart disease risk.
You have to read this article very carefully to find that there is a linkage between saturated fat and heart disease when the glycemic load of the diet is reduced. That's why monounsaturated fats are superior to saturated fats. The reason is that saturated fat (especially palmitic acid) causes inflammation in the hypothalamus that increases hunger. Monounsaturated fats have the opposite effect. This is why a Mediterranean diet (rich in monounsaturated fat) is superior to a high-saturated-fat diet in terms of heart disease. The logical extension is the Mediterranean Zone Diet, which is even more heart healthy than the traditional Mediterranean diet because it is also a stricter anti-inflammatory diet.


It is to my eternal shame that, until this week, I had copies of books by Matt Hilton sitting on shelves and unread.
At the weekend, I corrected this (in part) by cracking open the covers of his first Joe Hunter novel 'Dead Men's Dust' and, if you'll excuse the pun, I was 'blown away' by the action packed narrative therein. I loved it – from the speed of the plotting, the furious and clearly well researched action sequences (Matt Hilton is a 4th Dan blackbelt ju-jitsu coach and ex-private security and police officer), the central character and, in particular for me, the almost mystical closing scenes of the novel where I likened it to some of the best John Connolly work I had read.
And then – I went full pelt along with Joe Hunter once again for his seventh adventure, confident that I would still get a great thrill ride, despite concerns that I was running the risk of losing some information no doubt locked within the five novels in the series I was skipping past.
'No Going Back' is another cracker of a book. Set in the Arizona Desert with Hunter on the trail of missing women who have been stolen away, seemingly without a trace and, in all likelihood, having been taken by a brutal group of men, whose motives are unclear and may hold a sinister secret. Once again, the book rushes along at breakneck speed and I was somewhat stunned at the page count rushing by – I defy anyone not to get swept along by the story and the action. And, like Dead Men's Dust, you will see hints of the unknown, the mysterious, in the corners of the page, small touches that may make you question if there is, once again, the possibility that this is more than an action thriller and whether you have in fact read something which is every now and again making little tears into other genres, all the time masking you with clouds of Arizona desert dust.
Joe Hunter takes no prisoners – and from the two ends of the series that I have experienced so far, I'd say that Matt Hilton doesn't either – once he's got you gripped, you're his….but it won't be against your will.


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So as of now, 3:30pm on Tuesday the 23rd April 2013 I am officially an unemployed bum.
This is the first time in my life I have quit a job without having something else lined up ready to move to and it's scary. I have no idea where I'll be job-wise in a week, month, three months time… hopefully I'll find something within a few months of moving to London. Worst case I job hunt for several months and move home when I run out of money. I've always been a saver rather than a spender so I have a bit of money squirreled away. Enough to last me three months, four if I'm careful. The main problem is that everything is so much more expensive in London especially rent and transport.
The mortgage on my flat is less than £300 per month and the minimum rent I'm looking to spend is double that. Similarly a four-week bus pass in Aberdeen costs £64 (which I already grudge paying given their absolutely shocking excuse for service) however this is a small price to pay in comparison to the £136.80 per month it's going to cost me for a zone 1-3 Travelcard which of course doesn't include any trips I might have to make out with these zones.
I've kept an eye on my NET worth for a while now (and in credit accounts added to the worth of my assets and minus any debt I owe) so I'll be carrying on with that and also for the first time setting myself a budget. I've tried to set myself budgets in the past but found it hard due to the fact that I didn't really know where my money was going. However since the start of the year I've been keeping track of my expenses using a handy iPhone app called "Expense Tracker – Spending Free" so I have a better idea of where it all goes now and hopefully this will help make my budget reasonable.
Part of me is excited about not having to go to work every day, to have the time to explore my new home and not have to worry about setting an alarm for the morning but the sensible part of me knows that working is part of life and the sooner I get into some kind of routine the better. I'm not very good at the whole playing it by ear thing but right now, I don't have much choice!


STEM has been getting a lot of attention these days in equality, education, career choices, and how we view the future. However, women are under-represented in STEM education and careers – not only is this a disservice to women, it also takes away a huge pool of resources that we need for our future.
The world of robo-advisors is taking storm as an excellent alternative to the traditional investing we're used to. It's tempting to go the DIY route in investments and forgo the heavy fees that traditional investing offers for advice, however it's here where robo advisors provide a middle ground.
The Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO) is the leading advocate for the health industry in Ontario founded in 2009. Their policy is to help companies from the human health industry in Ontario to be further commercialized by engaging with them on strategies, programming, policy and advocacy. The OBIO is focused on building a health innovation economy that will support lead providers of health technology products and services.
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The Bell Inn
Thetford, Norfolk
Guests feel watched, smell perfume or grow cold here. They have reported seeing a monk in the main bedroom suite and have seen the former landlady, Elizabeth, in the drawing room. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Former keeper, Elizabeth Radcliffe still haunts her old property, as does a hooded monk seen in the main suite bedroom. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Canewdon, Essex
Objects are reported to fly around and the scent of perfume is picked up. The activity is thought to be caused by a ghost named Sarah who was murdered after being caught in a marital affair. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Cambridge, England
The University of Cambridge dates back to 1209 and has been ranked as one of the best universities in the world. With quite a history, it should be no surprise that Cambridge has had its share of paranormal reports. In the Old Master's Lodge, Henry Butts took his own life ...
The Maids Head Hotel
The two most commonly reported spirits are those of a woman said to be a former (whose presence is detected by the smell of lavender) and an elderly man in the courtyard (thought to be a former mayor of the city). (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Wysing Arts Centre
bildeston, Cambridgeshire
Once a home to another family before being turned into an art museum, one of the former homeowners is said to reside here. The original house is said to have burned down and killed the entire family. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Old Ferry Boat Inn
bildeston, England
A woman named Juliet Tewsley hung herself on March 17th, 1050 after suffering from a case of a bad broken heart. She is said to return every March 17th on the eve of her suicide. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Somerleyton Hall
bildeston, Suffolk
A Scandinavian woman who was brutally murdered is said to be responsible for strange sounds and poltergeist-like activity. The apparition of a Victorian woman is also spotted commonly on these grounds. Room 7 is said to be the most active. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
The Feathers Inn
Wadesmill, Hertfordshire
A little girl who was run over by a stagecoach is seen here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Raynham Hall
bildeston, Norfolk
Quite possibly the most famous ghost photo was taken at this location. The ghost of Lady Dorothy Walpole (referred to as 'The Brown Lady') has been seen here since the 1830's. She has been throughout the building wearing a brown dress. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
The Dark Side Of The Cemetery: Ghosts, Hauntings, And More
Castle Rising
Former French royalty, Queen Isabella, was thought to be responsible for the death of King Edward II (see: Berkeley Castle). After his death, she lived the rest of her life here and was said to have gone mad. People have heard screaming and maniacal laughter. Apparitions and mist have also ...
Minsden Chapel
bildeston, Hertfordshire
The ruins of this chapel are home to a phantom monk who said to ring bells (which do not exist anymore) and that of a nun who was murdered in a nearby tunnel system. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Sandringham House
Poltergeist activity is reported here; books fly off of shelves, blankets are pulled, footsteps are heard, cold blasts of air are felt, lights turn off and on, and a wheezing noise is heard. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Brocket Arms
A priest who was either tried and hanged or, rather, committed suicide is said to haunt here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Bruce Castle
A lady who supposedly committed suicide is said to remain here. People said that they have seen her apparition or heard her screams. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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bildeston, Kent
A woman (thought to be wife of John Machell the younger) has been seen here in a white (or sometimes) blue dress. Guests have been awakened from their slumber in the Exhibition Room by a woman standing beside them. Dogs are heard barking despite no animals being inside of here, ...
8 Ferrestone Road
This old terrace house is reportedly haunted by a violent poltergeist, who forced a family to leave after throwing objects around and making mysterious banging noises. It has been dubbed the 'Hornsey Coal Ghost' and is believed to be one of those buried in the garden which was a former ...
Gloucester Drive
Children can be heard running up and down the street at unusual hours, despite the road being empty. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Kimbolton School
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
The ghost of Catherine of Aragon is seen here, having it once been her home. She is usually seen walking in the hall. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
bildeston, Greater London
Bethnal Green Tube Station
On March 1st, 1943, the sound of an anti-aircraft battery went off, but was mistaken for an attack by the Luftwaffe. Many Londoners fled down this tube, but the stampede resulted in the deaths of 173 people. The screams of many are still heard, as well as crying and sobbing. Submitted ...
Tollington Park
The sounds of a former murder from the beginning of the 20th century have been heard here. Generally, it's described as the sound of someone being chased, then choking to death. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Bowser Mandates COVID Shots for School Personnel, Student-Athletes by Nov. 1
by James Wright Jr. September 20, 2021 December 21, 2021
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that adults who regularly visit schools and child care centers facilities in the city and students 12 and older participating in some school activities must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Nov. 1.
Bowser's order applies to all employees, contractors, interns and volunteers of the District's public, private, parochial and charter schools in addition to child care facilities managed by the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education. A wide range of positions such as educators, administrators, athletic personnel, library professionals, technologists, social workers, school bus drivers, special needs aides and maintenance employees.
"We know that vaccinations are the most effective tool to slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect children who are not yet eligible to receive the vaccine," the mayor said at a news conference Monday. "This new mandate requirement, without a test-out option, will add another critical layer to the robust measures we have implemented to reopen our schools and keep our child care centers safe. We also know that sports are a high-risk activity. Requiring athletes to get vaccinated will ensure they not only stay safe, but also stay in the classroom and are able to participate in school-based extracurricular athletics."
D.C. Council member Christina Henderson (I-At Large) applauded the mayor's order.
"The mayor's action today to require vaccinations for all teachers—public, charter and private—as well as child care workers in the District of Columbia will save lives," Henderson said on her council Facebook page Monday. "This is a crucial step in the right direction to protect our students and school communities. Prior to the start of the school year, when the FDA fully approved the Pfizer vaccine for individuals 12 years and older, I, along with seven of my colleagues asked for this mandate. I am pleased with this action today."
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the local list: Reverse Happy Hour is the ISH!
As we know, I have a big thing for sushi - HUGE. So when my friends mentioned reverse happy hour and on a weekend nonetheless, I ran to Tomikawa as fast as my feet could get me there.
The fish here is very fresh, and they have fun rolls that fit every one's choices. Downside is that there is no sake/beer special, but this is a family place. Don't expect to do sake bombs here - it's a classy joint. And reverse happy hour doesn't start until 8:30.
The best rolls we had were the Rose Roll, the Lion King Roll, the Spicy Tuna Tempura Roll, and definitely get the garlic chili edamame to start. Add a large Kirin, a great group of friends and possibly an uber (in case there's more than one Kirin in your night), and you could possibly have the best night that Irvine allows.
4/5 for great sushi with a little bit of an uptight atmosphere. But let's remember its still reverse happy hour 8:30-close!
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