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California Congressional Representatives Encourage BLM to reconsider its controversial Cadiz pipeline guidance
15 Jan California Congressional Representatives Encourage BLM to reconsider its controversial Cadiz pipeline guidance
Posted at 23:03h in News	by	superoxygen
By California Water News Daily on January 15, 2016
Before leaving Washington for Christmas break, nine Members of Congress sent a letter to Neil Kornze, the Director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), encouraging him to reconsider the agency's recent guidance regarding the Cadiz Water Project.
On October 2nd, 2015, the California Office of the BLM made an unprecedented decision: requiring additional environmental review of third party railroad right-of-way uses previously authorized by the host railroad. Under this new guidance, the Cadiz Water Project would require federal approval in order to transport water through a 43-mile long underground pipeline along the Arizona & California Railroad from Cadiz's land, east of Pam Springs, to the Colorado River Aqueduct.
In 2011, the US Department of the Interior's Solicitor General concluded that railroads that fall under the General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875 "have the right to authorize third parties to undertake a range of activities within their rights-of-way, including commercial activities, so long as the activity is derived from or furthers a railroad purpose, at least in part."
As described in the letter submitted by the nine Members, the Cadiz Water Project would further railroad purposes by:
Providing water to put out potential fires.
Creating electrical power used to operate remote transloading facilities.
Creating an access road for railroad maintenance.
Creating water for a steam-powered excursion train.
"In this case, the Project proposes to do far more to further a railroad purpose, at least in part. It will capture water in the Fenner Valley that would otherwise be lost to evaporation and transport via buried pipeline to the Colorado River Aqueduct. From the aqueduct, the water would be distributed to several Southern California communities where it would supply the annual water needs of approximately 400,000 people for 50 years," the letter reads.
"I support the Cadiz Water Project to increase the flow of water to Southern California, including San Diego, and to enhance our water security," Congressman Scott Peters (D-52) told California Water News Daily. "During such a prolonged drought, we must consider new, innovative projects that will provide our local water authorities access to reliable sources of water."
"No single, silver-bullet is going to solve California's water challenges, which is why we need to thoughtfully consider all potential water supply sources like the Cadiz project," Congressman Ken Calvert (R-42) told California Water News Daily.
The letter was submitted by a bipartisan group of California Congressional Representatives, including: Jim Costa (D-16), Tom McClintock (R-4), Tony Cardenas (D-29), Paul Cook (R-8), Scott Peters (D-52), Ken Calvert (R-42), Dana Rohrbacher (R-48), Duncan Hunter (R-50) and Mimi Walters (R-45).


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REVIEW: With or Without You by Zane Riley
August 1, 2016 August 1, 2016 alysiaconstantineLeave a comment
With or Without You by Zane Riley (July 21, 2016); 348 pages. Available from Interlude Press here.
So, ever since I reviewed Go Your Own Way by Zane Riley (here), I have been waiting for the release of the sequel, With or Without You, and guess what? It's here!
If you've not read my review of GYOW, pop over there and do that first, or be, at least, forewarned: I'm going to talk about this like a sequel, as if these characters and this situation are familiar because, to me, they are. And I'm happy to see them get more book space.
(Oh, and probably: spoiler alert for book 1.)
With or Without You picks up where Go Your Own Way left off: Lennox McAvoy—a nominally homeless, rather crass high school senior—is living with (and falling for) the relatively-privileged Will Osborne. Lennox was living in a residence motel after being dumped there by an uncaring grandfather and The System (which, after releasing him from a pretty abusive juvie situation, slapped an ankle monitor on him and told him to go be successful… without going too far). Will's family has taken him in, but they discover that keeping him safe and well-behaved and at "home" is a bit like trying to hold on to a wisp of smoke with nothing but a tissue and a rubber band; Lennox just won't be contained that way.
Lennox has a dirty mouth and no filter, and absolutely no tolerance for folks (like Will's dad) who neither trust nor particularly like him. Like a good Harvard Business School grad, he's proactive: when he senses someone's not going to treat him with the respect or understanding he needs, he acts like a jerk and pushes them away before they get the chance to hurt him.
Ironically (in the O. Henry sense, not the Alanis Morissette sense), the people Lennox trusts least (Will, Will's dad and Will's stepmom) are the most likely to help him stay safe and get him through high school and into college. Ironically (in the O. Henry sense, but maybe a little in the Morissette sense here, too), those folks are so wrapped up in their own ideas of what's right and good that they do a bit of metaphorical foot-shooting and end up suffocating the kid with their good intentions.
Will pushes Lennox to apply for college at a very expensive, very exclusive music school (Lennox plays several instruments and composes music and is an incredible musician, after all, and Will… really, really isn't), and it brings out the fear that underlies Lennox's bravado. What if he bombs the interview or the audition? What if he doesn't even get that far? What if Will goes away to college in New York as planned, and Lennox is left alone with nothing, holding his… gonads… and has to join the army?
Or what if he gets in after all, but can't afford to go?
While Will's in this up to his eyeballs, and has a lot of figuring out to do (how do you support someone without imposing your own values on them?), this book feels like Lennox's story. Lennox has to learn to trust everything: Will's dad, his stepmom Karen, Will, and even himself and his own abilities. He also has to learn to let go (his best friend Lucy is leaving him behind, moving to Boston with her new girlfriend). Finally, he has to learn to settle down into happiness and not screw it up just because he's afraid and wants to ruin stuff before something or someone else does it for him. He is, in the classic sense of irony (and, okay, in Morisette's sense, too) his own worst enemy.
Not that there aren't enough really bad enemies out there for him anyway. His own grandparents reject him and keep him from seeing his little sister (his grandparents are white and he's the child of a Black woman and a white man); the authorities don't really care who or what he is, as long as his ankle monitor doesn't indicate he's gone outside his permitted zone; the racist homophobes at the motel where he was living just want to beat on somebody (he'll do); Will's dad kind of thinks he's a punk, an opinion which may or may not be driven by some privileged racism.
This is a smart and compelling follow-up to Go Your Own Way. (It's great as a sequel, but can also be read on its own, without having read the first book.) Lennox is tough to love; Will, though his motivations are probably more familiar to most middle-class readers than those of Lennox, is also tough to love much of the time. In fact, almost everybody in this novel (I'm giving Karen a pass) is a well-meaning jerk of one sort or another. (Okay, and the racist homophobes don't get passes, but they also don't get to be included here… they're just jerks, not at all well-meaning.) All of them are interesting and compelling, complex enough as characters to pull you in and make you care what happens to them.
REVIEW: Daniel and Erik's Super Fab Ultimate Wedding Checklist by K.E. Belledonne
June 30, 2016 alysiaconstantineLeave a comment
Daniel and Erik's Super Fab Ultimate Wedding Checklist by K. E. Belledonne (June 23, 2016); 188 pages. Available from Interlude Press here.
So, not to make this book review all about me, but I'm going to talk about me for a moment. I prefer to identify as queer—not lesbian (though I do, when asked, agree), not gay, but queer. It's a political thing. Part of that political thing is feeling suspicious of marriage, its effects and meanings. (I was one of the queers who opposed American gay marriage in theory but advocated for it in the political short term because it was the quickest, surest way to gain all the rights and privileges legal marriage confers on straight folk in the United States.)
That said, I married my partner when gay marriage became legal in the U.S., despite political misgivings. My resistance was not about my feelings for her, but about the expectations that we queers would conform to the straight values of legitimacy/legality, visibility, monogamy and, well, conformity, by accepting something that was a barely-modified form of a straight social/political institution. No sooner was gay marriage made legal than non-marriage was made socially illegitimate, and resistance was futile.
That said, I sure do like my Married Person tax breaks and extra rights.
I needed to include all these explanations at the start of this review because this book takes as its situation the event of a gay wedding/marriage. To be quite honest, I balked a bit, worried a bit about reading the story (even as I trusted its author) because of my feelings.
But enough about me. What do you think of me? (Just kidding; I don't care what you think of me. This review is only a bit about me and my feelings. Instead, I'm going to tell you what I think of this book. Which is both about me and about this book.)
Daniel and Erik's Super Fab Ultimate Wedding Checklist is fun. It's funny, smart, sunny, romantic, by turns heartbreaking and sweet. It's all the good things one expects of a rom-com. The characters are wise and complicated enough to be interesting without being too complex to understand. The situation is probably common enough that anyone who's tried to throw a traditional wedding (or watched folks do it) will empathize. The writing is smooth and gently wry.
Here's the deal: Daniel (a glasswork artist) loves Erik (an archeologist), and Erik loves Daniel, but when Daniel starts using a mobile phone app to plan their impending wedding, things spiral down the drain right quick. The app persona (Aurora), who is a minor character throughout the novel, is genial enough, but in the stress of planning every detail of an elaborate, classic wedding, it suddenly dawns on Daniel (get it? Aurora? Dawn? See what I did?) that he's miserable, and everything breaks down rapidly from there. The two men wind up in different countries, on different paths, in different worlds, but similarly heartbroken.
Daniel seems to be all about form: he gets sucked into the Wedding Industrial Complex and agonizes over the differences between two essentially-identical paper colors for their invitations (this reminds me of that scene with the business cards in the film version of American Psycho), while Erik is over it and unafraid to say that he thinks the whole mess is ridiculous. One of them seems most driven by the glory of the ceremony (the wedding), and one seems more concerned with the glory of the outcome (the marriage). Between them, a vast political chasm. Filled with broken glass. And hungry wolves. With guns.
This story has all the trappings of a good rom-com: a hostile bestie secretly in love with one of the grooms-to-be, a few folk who root for the couple, a seemingly senseless but realistic breaking point, an interloping new love interest, and a dramatic journey to proclaim love and establish renewal. Like Belledonne's first novel, Right Here Waiting, this story intervenes in a traditionally-straight narrative (in RHW, the war romance; in this case, the wedding-centric rom-com) and inserts gay folks at its center without changing the narrative too drastically. It's one way of claiming territory to extend the borders of a previously-hetero-only institution to include outsiders while keeping the institution recognizable. (Another way is to change the institution itself, but that's a subject for a different essay.)
DESFUWC a fun, beachy, lovely read. It's engrossing (I read it in two large gulps over two evenings, because I didn't want to stop). It's sweet, and gently harrowing (in that bad things happen, but somehow you know it will all be okay in the end).
Ask me, because you knew it was coming: "do you take this book?" I totally do.
Review: The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood
April 30, 2016 April 30, 2016 alysiaconstantineLeave a comment
The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood (April 21, 2016); 182 pages. Available from Interlude Press here.
This is the story of Deanna, who works for a company that runs a werewolf role-playing game called "Wolf's Run," and who falls for her very sexy neighbor called Jamie, who turns out—in a weird coincidence–to be an actual werewolf.
Things get intense when Deanna gets stalked by a person on the Wolf's Run message boards who claims to be an actual werewolf (they are EVRYWHERE!) angry about the portrayal of werewolves by the game. Deanna appeals for support to her best friend Nathan and—eventually—to Jamie, since the stalking becomes terrifying because, well, it's STALKING. Things escalate—there's frighteningly bloody stalker photographs, and actual blood, and creepy leering orange eyes—and everything comes to a head at the annual role-playing competition hosted by Wolf's Run. It's night, and there are hundreds of fans crowded into a small area, many of whom will be running around in the dark woods howling like wolves and trying to win a prize. Crywolf, Deanna's stalker, appears to be there, but slips into the crowd before Deanna can do anything about it and, well, you probably see a confrontation coming, and you're probably on the right track (yes, that's a wolf-on-a-scent-trail-joke… it's probably lame because I don't get many opportunities to make those).
This is a tense story—not only does it have the will-they-won't-they-budding-romance appeal of a good love story, but it has this jarringly-thrilling other plotline about the wolf-guy stalking the girl-girl, like Gamergate, but with fangs. I read this in a couple large gulps, because I needed to know what was going to happen in both plotlines, and because it was just that kind of shivery fun.
It's probably no secret by now that I balk at supernatural stuff; I may be the only 45-year-old American lesbian who wasn't into Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But this novel works so well for me, despite my anti-supernatural prejudice—mostly because the plot, the characters, the ideas, they all have lives outside of the supernatural thing. (When I was an undergrad creative writing major at a…ahem… snobby private university with a kilt-wrapped theme and a Scottish founder… no names mentioned here, but the initials were CMU… we writing students were taught that "genre" stories were bad because they usually eschewed the fundamentals of good storytelling… not so this one, folks, so CMU can go fly a kite, which is more awful a wish than it sounds, because of the kilts and the wind.) The world of this story is incredibly believable. The characters are people in whom you want to invest your faith and love (boy, did I love Nathan, the BBF (I don't mean BFF, nor do I mean your clichéd Will & Grace GBF, but a BBF, a bi best friend with his own real life and personality)). In fact, Nathan is a great example of why this novel works so well: werewolves, bi best friends, lesbian love interests… it all has the potential to become cliché, too easily dealt with, usable for the story's purposes, but it just doesn't. This story doesn't use its characters, but lets them be who they are, do what they will, even if it means that they grow fangs and fur.
The supernatural part is present, but it's not the only important thing, and doesn't dictate how you can read this story—you can read it because of the werewolves, the lesbians, the were-lesbians, or just the dang good storytelling.

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Review: "Quackery" highlights history of trusting medical experts
Posted by emilieegger on March 24, 2019 January 5, 2020
Emilie Egger // Review of Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen. Quackery: a Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. New York: Workman Publishing Company, Inc. 2017.
The publishers of Quackery promise "67 shocking but true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly," and the book's authors are well-suited to this task. Lydia Kang, MD practices medicine and is a published author of adult and young adult fiction and nonfiction; Nate Pedersen works as a librarian, historian, and journalist. They combine their expertise to catalog and describe some of medical science's greatest blunders in an approachable narrative.
Within the book's five subcategories (e.g. "Elements," "Animals"), Kang and Pedersen introduce each of the remedies, antidotes, or methods with a catchy anecdote, which they follow up with historical context and a look at the remedy over time. With their description of the peculiar, bizarre, and appalling means people have taken throughout history to maintain and enhance their health, these vignettes form the hook of Quackery. These include cocaine-infused Bordeaux wine enjoyed by Alexandre Dumas, Henrik Ibsen, and other nineteenth-century literary stars (103) and people consuming clay with the hope that it will absorb "toxins" in their bodies, a routine continued by some to this day (117). More familiar (though not necessarily less interesting or horrifying) methods catalogued in the book include bloodletting, lobotomies, and enemas, all of which can be found in the "Tools" section.
Numerous illustrations accompany each chapter and add a visual dimension to the shocking tone of the book. Kang and Pedersen include additional insert sections on other tantalizing cures that don't neatly fit into the subsections. Together, these elements form a solid primer of bygone remedies and contemporary treatments that deserve a critical look from historians and all people who receive health treatment.
Indeed, the book is most illuminating in chapters that chronicle cures that have occupied various points on the spectrum of completely obsolete to observed medical science; Kang and Pedersen repeatedly and skillfully engage the line between "then" and now. One example readers could find familiar: anesthesia. The authors seamlessly sketch erstwhile methods for putting patients under alongside contemporary practices of anesthesiology in a way that makes the reader wonder what a book on bygone medical theories written 50 years from now will have to say about our own health-care procedures (205).
Other disquieting examples include the practice of surgery itself, medical fasting, and therapeutic radium, all of which have come a long way from their original uses and standards, but retain their status as a "cure" or necessity in some format. (The chapter on opiates is especially provocative in this regard.) Within these examples lies the implicit business of the book: destabilizing the concept of quackery itself, in order to think about medicine as many sets of historicized beliefs and practices.
While the authors allude to this goal in the introduction, Quackery would have benefited from a more explicit challenge to (or at least historicization of) the concept of quackery to guide their readers through the chapters that follow. Regardless, Kang and Pedersen add nuance to discussions about medical truth and fraud. While some of the so-called cures included in the book were touted by fraudsters, many were proposed by health-care professionals who really believed in them (vii).
With this in mind, each of the practices catalogued in Quackery accentuate the "public's need to trust an expert," and how much trouble vulnerable patients can fall into within the power dynamics of health-care structures. Kang and Pedersen address the need for future popular studies of religious-based medicine and medical science based in racism. This book forms a solid primer for some of these cures to prompt readers to think about the ways medicine is situated in contemporary society and produce studies of their own.
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Director Adam McKay had to cancel his plans for filming an Anchorman sequel in 2011 after Paramount passed on the project last April. The news that Anchorman 2 would not happen incited a major outcry from fans of the original improv comedy hit.
"It did, it made a difference. Paramount heard it. Adam Goodman, the President of Paramount, was on the first one so he loves it and when that outcry came, he was kind of excited because he know it could maybe push [Anchorman 2] towards happening."
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INTERVIEW WITH ABBA EBAN (TEL AVIV, 13/5/97))
(Preliminary talk)
INTERVIEWER: Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed. To start off, can you tell me what Israel meant to the Jews, why it was necessary to have a Jewish homeland?
ABBA EBAN: Our situation at the end of World War II was as follows: we were wallowing in the fearful anguish of the Holocaust; the visual effects of the Holocaust had an effect that went far beyond the mere statistical enumeration of the victims. Our promised homeland was being assailed by regional violence and by international alienation. The victorious powers, the three of them - the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union - showed no intention whatever, at first, of recognizing the Jews of Palestine as a political reality. There wasn't a single ray of light on the horizon. The Jewish representatives at the United Nations conference at San Francisco were humiliatingly seated in some distant balcony, looking down at the 50 member nations, none of which had made anything like the sacrifices demanded of the Jewish people by its own martyrdom. That was the situation. Two years later - two years later - the gates were opened; masses of our kinsmen were coming back to their national home. The war of survival had been won, and our flag was aloft in its own name and pride. And there has never been, I believe, in the history of any nation, a transformation of fortune as abrupt and as speedy and as providential as that which the Jewish people had in that period, during the first two years of its existence.
INT: Why was there Israeli-Arab hostility?
AE: I..I regard that, the hostility of the Arabs to Israel, as a deterministic inevitability in a way, because there was no way in which the Jews, after their trials and ordeals, could renounce the idea of Jewish statehood, and there was no way in which the Arabs could possibly accept the Israeli demand for statehood. In other words, this was not a tragedy of choice, it was a tragedy of compulsion. It was really a Greek tragedy in that sense, that what the Jews had to insist upon was something which the Arabs could not possibly accept.
INT: But the Soviet Union was among one of the first nations to recognize Israel. What was the significance of that?
AE: The Cold War was destined to have an overwhelmingly powerful effect on the Middle East. We're all familiar with the Soviet Union in its capacity as Israel's adversary. It was after all the Soviet Union which, from 1950 onward, supplied the arms, supplied the incitement, supplied the defamatory propaganda, closed the international agencies to any recourse or access for Israel. In other words, the Soviet Union is well known as Israel's adversary. I would even say that there was a time when the Soviet hostility was more dangerous to Israel than was the combined hostility of all the Arab states. After... before that, there was a honeymoon, in which the Soviet Union made a very cold calculation. For them, the important thing was how to shake loose from what they called "encirclement by the West". "Encirclement by the West" meant that there were British bases all over the area, in Sairanaika and in Havania airport in Iraq and in Egypt, the Canal; and the complex, in the mind... the obsession of the Soviet Union, was how to shake loose from that encirclement. For them, British bases were absolutely the same as American bases: in the Soviet U.. Britain is simply the area which is just as American as the United States is itself. So that was their first calculation. Therefore, get the British out of the area, get them out of the Negev especially, which is where the British policy rather wanted to take root. So... and that lasted a year or two, during which the Soviet Union spared absolutely no effort of conciliation and of friendship towards Israel. I used to go along to the Park Avenue address almost every night; they always made their meetings at midnight, and I couldn't understand why, until it dawned upon me that midnight in New York is 8 in the morning in Russia, in Moscow, and therefore their leaders could take counsel. Those who took attitudes without taking counsel with the Soviet Union, usually disappeared from the scene diplomatically with extraordinary speed. So that was the situation: two years of uninhibited assistance, and then a whole long, long night of exile, during which we were faced by the Soviet Union as our principal adversary.
INT: What a wonderful answer - thank you. And what formed the basis, in that case, of the Israeli friendship with America?
AE: Israeli friendship with the United States was... first of all, it was kind of an offshoot of Soviet hostility. Israel had a very strong interest in having the United States further established as the leading power center in the Middle East. There was also, of course, a fraternity of values, and we made a great deal of that - especially during my own embassy there - and there was a lot on which we could rest. After all, the United States, like Israel - although on a much larger scale - was a nation created by immigrants and by pioneers, by people for whom freedom was the central theme of their existence, and it was possible therefore to dig deep into this bedrock of common values in order to achieve this entrendre, this... really... this co-operative relationship with the United States. And in addition, of course, there was the fact that there is a very large community... in the United States itself there's a large Jewish community, which is a kind of a bridge in which Israeli values and American interests can be deemed to coincide.
INT: Very good - thank you. But the Americans weren't exclusively friendly with Israel in the Middle East during the Fifties and up to the mid-Sixties, and so on. Was their friendship with Egypt a challenge to Israel? Was there non-exclusivity? Was there an opportunity in the Cold War that Israel sought out?
AE: The United States is never exclusively friendly to anybody, and is not exclusively hostile to anybody. Whenever the United States faces a conflict, especially a conflict between democratic, freedom-loving countries, it tends to build bridges for its own policy in between the two antagonists; and therefore the United States will never give all of its friendship to anybody, but will also not give the whole of its hostility to anybody. And there were many years during which the United States, as it were, oscillated and fluctuated between these two concepts. "Yes, how can we support Israel, which is very deep-rooted in the American consciousness, without however totally alienating the Arab world? And how can we avoid alienating the Arab world but in a way that doesn't do harm to Israel?" And therefore, this kind of.. hybrid kind of approach to international conflict is, I believe, endemic to American attitudes.
INT: Absolutely excellent. Could you give me your assessment of Nasser, your opinion of Nasser, and the growth of Arab nationalism? How did that challenge Israel?
AE: When Nasser first came to power in Egypt, many Israelis were optimistic. After all, Israel had no love whatever of the previous regime under King Farouk - not only the dissolute habits that he had, but it was he, after all... under his influence that Egypt made war against Israel. Without the Egyptian leadership of wars, there probably would never have been a war between Israel and the Arab world. Egypt is the only country which led five Arab wars against Israel. But then it became obvious to us that Nasser was putting all his investment really on the Arab side, on the side of Muslim fundamentalism, on the side of Egyptian nationalism, very fiercely and virulently implemented, and on the side of the expulsion of the West. When it became evident that these were his objectives, it was not difficult for Israel to make alliances - first of all, extraordinarily, with the Western powers, with Britain and with France; that's the basis of the Sinai-Suez expedition. But it was clear from that point onward that Nasser had a militant quality which shut him off entirely froany prospect of conciliation with us, although there were soundings and gropings towards some kind relationship with Nasser throughout the whole period of his rule.
INT: And what threats was he issuing against Israel?
AE: The threat of Nasserism to Israel was nothing less than a threat of Israel's destruction. And although Arab propagandists have always denied this, I myself listened to a speech by Nasser on the... I think the 28th of May, 1967, in which he said: "Our objective is, first of all, to cancel the results of the Suez-Sinai war" - that meant to stop allowing our.. ships to go through the Canal - "But then let me say that I intend also to abolish the results of the 1948 war," which means the existence of Israel is optional.. and something to be stopped, eliminated.
INT: So why did Israel plan a preemptive strike?
AE: The only way in which Israel could resist this Nasserist threat was being the first to strike. If you look at the map, then Israel does not have any capacity of withdrawal...
(Interruption. Cut.)
AE: There is no way for Israel to win a war except by striking first. All you have to do is to look at the map, and you'll see that we don't have sort of large spaces into which we can retire for the purpose of restoring our positions. So that was the logic of the Six-Day War, and to some extent also of the Yom Kippur War as well, although then, in the Yom Kippur War, there was no preemptive strike at all.
INT: Was America's support vital to Israel? Can you tell me about your visit to Washington in May and your conversation with President Johnson? What did you ask him, and how did he reply?
AE: I made what turned out to be a very crucial visit to the United States; also to France and to the United Kingdom. In the month of May, ahead of the Six-Day War, the objective was to examine whether the powers were willing to carry out what had been their commitment to support Israel if we were blockaded again by the stoppage of our traffic in the Gulf of Aqaba and in the Suez Canal. And when it was obvious that that was going to be the Arab attitude, we could see that there was a casus belli in every sense of the word. Now, in France I received a douche of cold water from President de Gaulle. I hardly had time to sit down, let alone to exchange any pleasantries, before he bellowed at me, "Ne faites pas la guerre!" - "Don't make war," or in any case, "Don't be the first to make war." And he then said, "My solution is this: it's important that the four great powers should get together" - "Il faut que les quatre se concertent." When I said that to President Johnson, who asked me what President de Gaulle had said to me, he said, rather irritably, "What did he mean by 'the four great powers'? Who the hell are the other two?" So that was the reaction of the United States to the idea that there were four great powers. In Britain, surprisingly... I expected a colder response, but the response was very warm, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson gave me a very gossip-ridden account of how his ministers had voted that morning, saying he... I would be astonished if he [sic] knew how people voted: that my friend Crossman was actually against us, and that his friend George Brown was for us. But it was quite clear that their attitude would be totally dependent upon whether they were with or without American cover; and therefore everything now depended on President Johnson. He expressed to me a sense of his own impotence, that I never heard either before or since from an American leader. He said that he was actually confined, contained and frustrated by the Vietnam War. He said, "Without the Congress, I am nothing but a 6-foot-4 Texan. And unless you people move your anatomies up on the Hill and start getting some votes, I will not be able to carry out..." what was then his policy of forcing the straits with American power. That could have been done: the United States only had to send one ship through, and I believe that Nasser could have capitulated. He was not able to do that, and he kept talking about the limitations of his own power in words which almost made me compassionate towards him. And he then said, in a kind of Delphic oratory [sic] sort of mood: "Israel will not be alone unless it decides to be alone." And we in Israel started trying to solve that particular acronym so far as we could. It didn't seem to me very much; but there was a period when he really thought of forcing the straits, then a period in which he recognized his own limitations; and a third, a sense of intense relief when Israel solved the problem itself, not only by surviving but by winning the war. And when I went back after the war had been won, he didn't even try to conceal his relief at what had happened. He said, "Of course, our generals always said that you would win the war in any case, either in seven days if you had the first strike, or in 12 days if the Egyptians had the first strike." But Johnson went on, "My generals are always right about other people's wars."


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How & Why Your Company Should Help Working Parents
08 Oct How & Why Your Company Should Help Working Parents
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THE RECRUITER'S RECRUITMENT PODCAST: WOMEN IN BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
Boulo creates opportunities for a massive pool of return-to-work moms. This group is effectively a hidden pool of candidates, presenting a real opportunity for employers in this tight job market. Our team also works to help moms (and all working parents and caregivers) who have not left the workforce remain employed through flexible job opportunities.
In this episode of The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast, host Lysha Holmes and Boulo Founder & CEO Delphine Carter discuss why employing working parents is the best way to elevate your productivity, profit, and employee value proposition simultaneously.
However, employers must also answer to non-parents as to why they should be allowed flexibility too. This podcast addresses that issue as well.
This episode is a must-listen for working parents. Leaders of working parents, and those hoping to recruit Gen Z (yes, the two are linked), this podcast is a must for you too!
Listen at the links below, or watch below. Keep scrolling for an edited transcript.
You can also jump to topics here:
Why We Start with Return-to-Work and Working Moms
Do We Have to Choose?
What Barriers Lead to the Gender Gap?
Reasons Working Moms Succeed
What About Flexibility for Non-Parents?
Bums on Seats OR a Better Way to Measure
How to Create a Culture Where Moms Want to Return to Work and Parents Stay
Pandemic Challenges
Being Part of the Dialogue
Economy and Equality
Attracting and Employing Younger Generations
Perfect Timing and Real Life
Lysha Holmes: This is Lysha Holmes. I'm your host on the Recruiters Recruitment Podcast brought to you by Hoxo Media. Today I am beyond excited because we are recording all the way to the United States of America. I am so thrilled to welcome Delphine Carter, who is the CEO of Boulo Solutions.
Delphine Carter: I'm so excited to join you. You've had a ton of great guests throughout your series.
Lysha Holmes: We have. We are very privileged to be in this position, where I've interviewed some of the most incredible leaders across the globe. What's exciting for me, as the host, is that I'm getting to speak with more and more people from across the channel, yourself included. You're coming from Birmingham, Alabama?
Delphine Carter: I am. I love how you say "Birmingham" versus me saying "Birmingham." We're a national company, but this is our home base.
Lysha Holmes: My first recruitment job was in Birmingham, England. So, shout out to all the West Midlands folk who I know still follow the channel.
Tell us a bit about your business and yourself. How have you come to be in this position?
Delphine Carter: At Boulo Solutions, our entire purpose is to help women stay in and return to the workforce. We do that by matching them with flexible job opportunities. That could be contract, it could be project, part-time, or full-time permanent positions. Then we help guide them.
Our dream is to build our platform out so that we'll be able to offer career pathing. We plan to provide women guidance on exactly where they need to go in their careers and what it'll take to get there.
Women are not fabulous about asking for a raise. We want to be the wind at their back and tell them, "Hey, most people are getting paid this amount. Why don't you go ask?" Or you need one additional certification or one extra project under your belt. Go get it.
And so, I started Boulo based on my background in technology and my need for people to help launch products. I could not find these people through traditional methods. But, I would run into moms outside of work who had the skills I needed and could not get back into the workforce.
Lysha Holmes: Why should women have to choose at all? Why can't we have a successful career without compromising our roles as mothers?
Delphine Carter: COVID made people realize, even for males, that our personal and professional lives are inextricably linked. There is no separating them.
We now see cats walking across our keyboards. You see the drawings of kids in the background. So we need to capitalize on that and make sure that companies continue to realize our personal and professional lives are intertwined. That way, even if we come back into the office, we can see some significant change.
Lysha Holmes: This is the time for a change. What you're doing is phenomenal. Whatever country you're in, look around your boardroom roundtable and see how many females are there. Did the ones there have to compromise at some point in their parenting or career?
So that's why this conversation is so important to me. Regardless of gender, irrespective of where you say it, we all have a responsibility to make options available for those returning to work after becoming parents. It's as simple as that.
Why do you think there is still a gender gap? What are the fundamental barriers?
Delphine Carter: Studies show three main barriers. One is a lack of flexible job opportunities. Once you become a parent, there's just that push and pull struggle. If you leave the workforce, you lose about 30% of your pay when you come back. That's not helping the pay gap; that exacerbates it.
Two is the lack of access to projects and to career progression that males often receive. The difference there is if you become a parent and pull out of the workforce then return, or even if you remain, people think you may not be able to handle special projects or travel.
It's not a conscious verbalization. It's typically an unconscious bias. But people need to let the female or parent decide whether they can do (aspects of their job) or not. Many people are shocked to learn that in the US, the pay gap between mothers and non-mothers is greater than the pay gap between men and women. That's terrible.
If you are on an HR team or a people team, allow people to talk about their personal lives at work, including being parents. Creating a culture where parents are encouraged to talk about their family, rather than feel they need to hide their family obligations because they'll lose opportunities, is a massive step to take. Allowing a man to leave an hour early to coach their kid's soccer team will also help women. It's an acknowledgment of parenting.
The third thing for women is the lack of career coaching. Not as many women have hit the C-suite. So, it's challenging for women to find the mentor that will guide them and say, "This is how I got here. Try this."
How to Increase Diversity and Inclusion
Lysha Holmes: Yes. Someone who will say "I'm going to be your mentor, I'm going to help raise you up." Because that's what we effectively do as mentors, coaches, and leaders, we raise people up. Everything you've said is all about diversity and inclusion.
Delphine Carter: Yes, 100%. We have over 1500 women on our platform, and we consider ourselves their advocates. We create a 360-degree profile that shows their soft and hard skills, so you can see them as a whole person and not just these experiences on paper.
When we go to hiring managers, we ask them to consider their job descriptions and carefully consider what they need. Do you need that college degree, or do you need that she's got 12 years of experience doing this? A 12-year-old college marketing degree is pointless because the field has changed so significantly.
Recruiters should do their best for diversity, inclusion, and equity. For instance, they could say, "You need to interview this person. They may not have that college degree, maybe they're not experts in Salesforce, but we know they've got the acumen to learn." Then we start allowing people who have not had the same opportunities to get into the workforce in the positions they can thrive in.
Lysha Holmes: Yes, they can thrive. In terms of productivity, these females returning to work, even on a part-time basis, will absolutely give it their all. They want to prove themselves. They want to champion their fellow working moms.
In the hours that my children are not with me, I'm going to absolutely smash it out of the park. I've got no distractions, and I need to earn loads of money because kids cost a fortune. And I also want to do this for myself. I want to be defined by who Lysha is, not just "Mom."
The mindset for leaders listening who are potentially discriminating against those who have been out of work, even for several years, needs to change. Just stop and think to yourself what skills a person brings from being a parent—time management, budget management, negotiation, conflict resolution, and so on.
Delphine Carter: FedEx has nothing on logistics on a mom. A mom can get people five different places at the exact same time and still get it done.
And you're right. There's a commitment that happens because women are so desperate to have that multi-dimensional side of themselves. Once you put them in that role, they get heads down. They're not getting distracted by coffee talk or the water cooler. These women put their heads down and get work done.
Probably our number one customer that appreciates these moms are tech companies. They tend to think more innovatively and consider all the skills moms bring to the table.
I do wish that larger companies would think more innovatively regarding candidates. They have open roles they've got to fill fast, and they streamline or scale that process. But if they aren't careful, they lose out on some incredible talent. It's there but hidden from them.
Lysha Holmes: Do you think some leaders put in barriers for return-to-work moms because they worry that non-parents may feel that they're being prejudiced against by not being given flexible working options? For example, someone that chose not to have children and looks over and says, "Well, hang on, she's allowed to go at 3:00 to go and pick her kids up. You know she's logging back on when she gets home. Why can't I have that?"
Delphine Carter: And she should. We tell our clients that to be most effective in a remote and flexible culture, they should measure by goals and not "butts in seats."
That person with no kids should be able to leave at 3:00. If they're a passionate bike rider, go ride and get it done and log back in. You can do so when your measurement is: Did you hit your goals, and are you upholding the company values? You are? Great.
Lysha Holmes: I love it. We call it "bums on seats" here, but you can have "butts on seats."
I'm so pleased I brought that up with you because that's exactly how I will challenge my client if they say that (about non-parents). I'll say that you should be offering inclusivity on flexibility to everybody.
Now of course, COVID has changed that. More leaders are receptive because people have had to work remotely. But that's not the same as flexible working. We need to make sure flexible work is defined in terms of expectations.
Measure output rather than depending on micromanagement. Don't, for instance, measure how many calls someone logs. Then you're creating a grown-up, empowered culture where people want to log in and get the job done. You're making an embracing culture. You're saying, "we know that you'll do the job regardless of where you are."
Delphine Carter: You also weed out the people that are only performing because you're sitting there, pushing them and pushing them. That's exhausting from a manager role.
Is that really where your brain needs to be? Should you be driving that person to perform versus thinking strategically about how you can improve the output for everyone? The people who are just making it through will fall off because they won't be able to hit their goals.
Lysha Holmes: I agree with you. This discussion is exciting for me as the host when considering our global audience. We have a lot of leaders, and those who are aspiring to be leaders listening.
So what can they do right now to ensure that they create a culture where women want to return to work? And that if they've already left to go and have children to make sure that's not it. How can they attract those who have the potential to reach the top table?
Delphine Carter: It's flexibility. That's the flexibility of hours or location, or just in culture. Define your flexibility and stick with it.
Also, ask your parents how their kids are doing. You may not care. It's okay if you don't care. But what you're doing is establishing a culture that says, I acknowledge there's this other part of you that is very important and valuable to you. I will not judge you on the fact that you have kids or on the fact that you've got responsibilities that are significant outside of work.
Once you normalize that, then people feel like they can thrive. They don't have to hide that they have kids to get assigned projects.
Lysha Holmes: Yeah, I think that's important.
There's been a lot of stress and strain put on females during COVID. And since COVID, potentially more so. I'm a single, solitary parent, so I can say from my own perspective that it all comes on me. The pressure on me is immense. What do you see from your audience?
Delphine Carter: For every 2.2 men that returned to the workforce, only one woman has as of May 2021. Some of that is because of school closures. A lot of that is because of the extra pressures on support systems.
Maybe their mom helped with childcare, or they had a community around them that helped with childcare previously. Childcare is expensive. So, if those support systems have been uprooted or locked out, they have to figure out how to pay for childcare.
It's a challenging situation, and we still have about a third of fourth and eighth graders that are not back in school. The result of that too is that women are spending, on average, three-plus more hours than men on housework and schoolwork with the kids. There are a lot of concerns over the balance righting itself once people go back into the office.
And then, there are also valid concerns if women embrace remote work. If they say working remotely helps me, do they then lose their presence in the office? But we have to figure it out.
If your office decides to allow hybrid or remote work, be intentional to ensure you still include women. That inclusion goes for any minority that doesn't have an equal voice in the room. Ensure that their voice can still be heard across Zoom or whatever tool you use.
Lysha Holmes: I agree with you. It's about inclusivity. It's about being part of a culture and being part of the dialogue every day.
Delphine Carter: "Being part of the dialogue," that's well said.
Lysha Holmes: Yes, it's not just weekly updates. It's that dialogue, every single day.
There were a lot of reports that showed females felt the pandemic caused extra responsibilities to fall on them. It was the same in the United Kingdom and Europe as it was in America.
We need to shift the balance back towards equality. We've gone back 50 years, according to one report.
Delphine Carter: That's exactly right. And frankly, our economy will suffer because you take all of those wage earners out of the economy. That's a lot of money for restaurants and groceries and kids' activities. Our economy needs these women back in.
There's also bad male on male behavior. There's a lot of times where a male will want to get more involved. He'll recognize his wife needs his help, but someone will say, "Well, you've got a wife for that." There's still some male-on-male behavior that isn't great for parenting or equal share.
What happens to a man's career when they have a kid? Can they take the paternity leave that's allowed? Or will people say, "You're actually taking that paternity leave?"
Lysha Holmes: It's hidden misogyny. This attitude has become one of the hottest topics among the younger generation. And it's this younger generation that employers will need to attract.
If you are misogynistic and you are not embracing your working parents, you will alienate yourself from an entire future generation of people coming to work for you. They will want to know about your flexible working arrangement. What do I do if I have a child? What are you doing to help those that currently work for you? They're not going to be interested in your latest trick or if they get champagne on a Friday.
Delphine Carter: I think the younger generations have realized they can obtain more of a balance. They're going to ask for it. If you don't have it, even if you double their salary, you're still going to lose them quickly. So, modernize.
Lysha Holmes: Modernize and lose misogyny. That's what I would like to say as well.
It's been an absolute pleasure to have you join us today. As we record this, I know that it's towards the end of my workday, and your workday is just starting.
When we share this episode, we will make sure that everyone connects because I think your business sounds wonderful. I don't know of anything like it in the UK. So please connect with Delphine and follow Boulo. We want to change the way that females are perceived in the marketplace.
And bang, on cue. My daughter is about to walk through the front door, which is just hilarious, isn't it?
Delphine Carter: Perfect timing. I love it.
Lysha Holmes interviews business leaders who share their personal experiences, life lessons, and top tips on The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast. The podcast is a positive place for learning and self-development!
Boulo Solutions Incorporates the Momsource Network to Return More Women to the Workforce Through Rewarding Careers
Parenting Resources & Flexibility Lead to Work Success
Women Returning to the Workforce; Boulo on WBRC
Having the Courage to Take that First Step
Delphine Carter Chosen as WBL Area Game-Changer
Boulo: Champion for Women Seeking Flexible & Fulfilling Work
Boulo: Matching Women to Jobs And Helping Businesses
Why You Live or Die by the Culture You Build: Key Points
Scrappy Startup Advice on Business & Brews
Partner With Boulo
Talent FAQs
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This will be the third Sunday of the month, so we will have our liturgy of healing. Please invite anyone who may benefit to attend. The service is more informal than other Sundays.
A reminder that Lent starts on Wednesday, February 18th.


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This article is taken from my book "Intarsia Down Under". Just one of the many tips and tricks that you will find throughout this informative intarsia bible.
The most difficult wood colours to find are very light and very dark. Here is a way of getting these colours without using stains.
I only did a very brief experiment so you will need to research more information and try it out yourself on different timber species.
I cut a length of red cedar into three squares. This is what it started off looking like.
Ebonising solution is created by placing steel wool in white vinegar. The steel wool will dissolve in the solution and can be painted onto timber to ebonise it. This piece was immersed in the mixture overnight. The solution reacts with the tannins in the timber turning it a blue/black which will go a deep black when the final finish is applied. Although I haven't tried it this process can be reversed by applying lemon juice to the wood. Some interesting effects can be achieved by selectively removing the ebonising.
This is the piece that spent 24 hours in household chlorine bleach.
Both the bleaching and ebonising were only skin deep after this short experiment. You would need to completely finish off the intarsia pieces before giving them this treatment.


The 1868 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 3, 1868, as part of the 1868 United States presidential election. The state legislature chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Florida voted for the Republican nominee, Ulysses S. Grant.
As a result of the status of Reconstruction, the state's three electoral votes were allocated by the State Legislature to Grant. This was the only time in the state's history that the popular vote did not decide the election in the state.
^ a b "1868 Presidential General Election Results".
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Q: Can I configure WordPress to use postfix without a plugin? I am developing a WordPress site on a vagrant box and have installed postfix in order to test email notifications.
At this guest OS (Ubuntu) level, I am able to end a test email:
echo "Test mail from postfix" | mail -s "Test Postfix" my@email.address

This works and I receive the email. As far as I know postfix uses the sendmail binary and so I would expect WordPress to send emails successfully.
However, my contact form notifications are not being received. Is there a way to check/debug email sending in WordPress or verify which mail function it is using?
UPDATE
So after a bit of digging I discovered that wp_mail() uses PHPMailer. If I debug the wp_mail() function using this test script I see that PHPMailer is throwing an exception:

Could not instantiate mail function.

// Set $to as the email you want to send the test to
$to = "myreal@email.address.com";

// No need to make changes below this line

// Email subject and body text
$subject = 'wp_mail function test';
$message = 'This is a test of the wp_mail function: wp_mail is working';
$headers[] = 'From: Me Myself <myreal@email.address.com>';

// Load WP components, no themes
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    // the message was sent...
    echo 'The test message was sent. Check your email inbox.';
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    // the message was not sent...
    echo 'The message was not sent!';
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A: WordPress uses the wp_mail() function to send mail. It says on the Codex article there that:

For this function to work, the settings SMTP and smtp_port (default: 25) need to be set in your php.ini file.

Also be sure to check that your contact form is sending the required parameters to the wp_mail() function. The required parameters are included on the page in the link above.

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Mayo officials tout team-based care, other innovations at forum
Published 9:36 am Tuesday, October 28, 2014
By treymewes
By Trey Mewes, Austin Daily Herald
AUSTIN — Over the next two years, health care is going to work a little different at Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin.
Mark Ciota
Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea and Austin CEO Mark Ciota explained how the hospital's team-based health care approach would mean more preventative care, long-term cost savings and a shift in the way things work at hospitals during a community health forum at the Paramount Theatre Monday night.
"We're trying to swing the pendulum the other way," Ciota told the audience. "That's a huge change for the provider and a huge change for patients as well."
Echoing his speech at least year's community health forum, Ciota said the team-based approach would improve health care in the face of issues like fewer primary care physicians in the field, changing health care practices and rising costs.
Mayo's team-based approach uses the concept that a patient has a team of medical professionals, including doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physical therapists, etc., that would help manage a patient's overall well-being. In addition, health care is likely going to focus on preventative treatments and keeping well rather than seeing a doctor only when patients are sick.
That means a more active approach on the hospital's part, as well as the patient's according to Mayo officials. For example, the hospital will likely have staff to help patients connect with outside agencies for medical benefits or to get easier health care access.
While the team-based care will likely decrease medical costs in the long run, it also serves as a better benefit for patients, according to Ciota.
"We want you to get services you need in a very timely manner," he said.
Several departments at the Austin hospital already run a team-based approach, according to Mayo officials, and all of Mayo Clinic Health System's services should switch to the team-based model over the next 12 to 18 months.
On a larger scale, the Mayo Clinic Health System is close to finishing an overhaul of its medical records database to ensure medical staff can access patients' pertinent health information at any MCHS hospital. The systemwide database works similar to the team-based approach in that it provides consistent care across the hospital system no matter where you are, according to Steve Waldorf, chief administrative officer for the Austin hospital.
Other health care changes are on the horizon. Ciota said genetics could play a larger role in medical care as doctors will soon be able to analyze a patient's genetic structure and potentially predict when patients could get a disease. Looking at a patient's genes could also help medical staff immediately determine what medication to use for an illness, rather than have a patient test out several kinds of medicine for conditions such as high blood pressure.
"That type of care is coming," Ciota said.
Sharing her cancer story to give life to others
Albert Lea advances two wrestlers to state meet
Santa, Mrs. Claus and their reindeer hit Albert Lea for an early visit
Albert Lea hockey turns to a new fundraiser
Minnesota sets Ebola monitoring plan


It's episode 74 and it's a sibling special! Phil (Time Out Film) and Nick (Empire Magazine) de Semlyen join us for Phil's choice the 2010 David Fincher film The Social Network.
If you've never heard of The Social Network you'll definitely know Facebook, this is the (elaborated) true story of The Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and the lawsuits that followed. Whilst the premise is interesting but not exciting the fun and sharpness is from the Aaron Sorkin (Oscar winning) screenplay and career making performances from Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake and Rooney Mara. Also features a fantastic Trent Reznor soundtrack.
The Social Network scores high 4s across the recommendability but loses points on repeat viewing coming in overall at 3.92, recommended!
What do you guys think? Have you seen The Social Network? What did you think? Please let us know in the comments below!
For more info on The Social Network, you can visit the The Social Network IMDB page here or the The Social Network Rotten Tomatoes page here.
Marine recruits endure the grueling ordeal of basic training and later face the unrelenting Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive in this grim drama.
A sportswriter and his Samoan lawyer embark on a hallucinogenic three-day romp from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in this counterculture cult favorite.
In this recut personally supervised by Barbra Streisand, a gifted songbird's marriage to an aging rocker falls apart as her star rises and his falls.
Mowgli, who's been raised in the jungle by wolves, leaves home on an adventure guided by black panther Bagheera and friendly bear Baloo.


This tool will help you narrow down your choice of rare kidney cancer clinical trials listed on clinicaltrials.gov in a short period of time using only 'clicks'.
Initially, all text is 'selectable' (displayed in black. e.g. 'Birt-Hogg'). Clicking on selectable text 'selects' it. (displaying it in in bold. e.g. 'Birt-Hogg'). Once you select something, most likely other items will become incompatible with that selection. The tool 'eliminates' such items. In long lists, eliminated items disappear. (e.g. most states disappear if you select 'Birt-Hogg'). In short lists, 'eliminated' items are shown explicitly. (displayed in gray font. e.g. 'Collecting Duct') 'Eliminated' items can be selected as well. This produces a 'contradiction' (displayed in red 'strike through' font. e.g. 'Collecting Duct'). This means that there is no trial which meets all the selected criteria. 'Contradictions' can be removed by clicking them. This removes the selection and the item is again displayed as eliminated.
Some lists are quite long. For example 'Facilities' has 3800 items. You can scroll through the items or use the 'autocomplete' 'box above the list to search through the list's contents via entered text.
Some list entries have link beside them (e.g. NCT_id, the Clinical Trial ID). Clicking the link will take you to the clinicaltrial.gov description of the clinical trial.
This tool interrelates 400 interventions, 1600 keywords and 3800 facilities. It will take several seconds to load.
A newcomer to clinical trials is unlikely to know all the important categories in a clinical trial (Phase, Condition, Interventions (e.g. 'Drugs'), Keywords, etc.). So we list them explicitly.
A newcomer is also unlikely to know all the names of category members as well (Papillary, Chromophobe, Foretinib, Bevacizumab, etc.) So we list them ALL explicitly as well.
Unfortunately dealing with long lists is a pain, so we provide several mechanisms to help.
'show all' - if checked, all items are shown. if unchecked, all eliminated items disappear.
Let's illustrate tool features via an example.
Notice that 'Birt-Hogg' is displayed in bold font. This means that it has been selected.
Notice that 'Birt-Hogg' is displayed in plain black font. This means that it has been de-selected.
'Birt-Hogg' is again displayed in bold font since it has been re-selected.
Notice that 'Collecting Duct' is displayed in gray font. This means that it has been eliminated, i.e. that there are no clinical trials that are treating both 'Birt-Hogg' and 'Collecting Duct'.
However, there are trials that treat both 'Birt-Hogg' and 'Chromophobe'. That is why 'Chromophobe' is still in plain black.
Notice that 'Chromophobe' is now displayed in bold font. This means that it has been selected.
Notice also that the number of clinical trial IDs displayed in the NCT_ID field has been reduced. (As before you can deselect and reselect 'Chromophobe' to notice this.) This means that there are fewer trials that treat both 'Birt-Hogg' and 'Chromophobe' than trials that treat 'Birt-Hogg' alone.
Notice that 'Chromophobe' is still displayed in plain black font, but 'Collecting Duct' and 'Birt-Hogg' are displayed in red 'strike through' font. That is because there are no clinical trials that are treating both 'Birt-Hogg' and 'Collecting Duct'.
One state, 'maryland', is still selectable.
All others have disappeared since 'show all' is not selected.
'Maryland' is consistent with the facilities listed since 'national institutes of health clinical center' is in Bethesda Maryland.
Note that all the drugs have also disappeared except everolimus.
NCT_id shows that there are several clinical trials dealing with Birt Hogg.
Clicking on the 'link' entry to the left of the NCT_id takes you directly to the clinical trial description.
Enter "foretinib" in the Intervention search field and click on the single dropdown entry.
Under condition, we see that there is one condition that it is used for: papillary kidney cancer.
It is being tested only in the US in one clinical trial in a handful of states.
Enter "nib" (or "mab" or "olimus") in the Intervention search field and click on the single dropdown entry.
These are three common suffixes for kidney cancer treatments. So these queries help you discover all the clinical trials using these treaments.


Nightmare! But at least you've spotted it and aren't afraid to tackle it.
Barbara - yes, phew...time yet. There's comes a stage where you just have to give it up though, isn't there?
Sue - Ugh, I hate having a voluble character. I find verbose dialogues so difficult to pull off convincingly.
This feels very symbolic of something greater, how in life sometimes we overlook the significance of a certain person. And how sadly when we realise its often too late to make room for them, or to go back and appreciate them.
Ahhh, the wonders of fiction. Well done on your continued efforts.
Yes, Jem - very true. I hadn't thought of that.


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Next go to the page you wish to insert a link.
I was surprised how easy it was to insert an example of an inserted PDF file into my text.
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which is why her goal is to offer the guidance and support you need to help you navigate through the family court system. Whether it is divorce, military divorce, child custody or other legal family issues, Lesley Turmelle Abbott, P.A. can assist you.
The State of Florida is a "No Fault State". Neither party has to prove to the Judge the reason for the divorce. No one is found to be "at fault" for a divorce. Either party may file for a divorce siting that the marriage is irretrievably broken.
In order to file for a divorce in Brevard County, one of the parties must have resided in the state of Florida for 6 months prior to the filing of the action.
When the parents of a child are not married, either party could go the Court's for assistance with child support and establishing or enforcing time-sharing (visitation) agreements and/or Orders. For Fathers until a Court establishes him as the "legal father" of the child, he cannot ask a Judge to give rights.
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If a party is not working at the time child support is established, a Judge may assess minimum wage to the unemployed parent. If a parent has quit their job in an attempt to avoid paying child support, the Judge may assess their past income when establishing child support.
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Sometimes in life there are parents who are not able to take care of their children. In many cases, the families of these parents are the ones that become responsible for the care of the children. There are occasions that the parents willingly ask for help. But, unfortunately, there are times when the families sometimes have to step in for the best interest of their grandchild, niece, nephew, cousin, brother, or sister. The Florida Statutes have a Chapter specifically addressing these times to assist families in stepping in and protecting the children without the necessity of the Department of Children and Family Services (Social Services, Child Protective Services). In these instances, the parents of the children maintain their parental rights.
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As one of the most experienced players in the team, Schweinsteiger is considered irreplaceable by many. Unlike Michael Ballack in the past, the former Bayern Munich midfielder has the ability to win matches on his own and is not considered as a bad omen. Despite being one of the best German players of his generation, Ballack has long been involved only in lost finals. Thomas Müller means that Schweinsteiger may be able to return in time for the Euro 2016. However, this remains as a major blow for Manchester United, who just recently appeared to get back into the top four race with a 1-0 win against Manchester City on Sunday.
"Bastian is out of the internationals against England on Saturday and Italy on Tuesday. The MRI scan today found the captain suffered a partial tear of the medial ligament in his right knee after a tackle with an opponent at the end of training on Tuesday. Medical care will be provided by Manchester United in coordination with the medical department of the German team," read a statement on the German FA's site. It needs to be remembered that the player only recently missed around two months of action due to a knee problem. Schweinsteiger came to United in the summer.


Aderonke Akinkugbe, Ph.D., and Erica Brecher, D.M.D., want to change and shape lives through dental care, education and research.
Each of them has earned multiple degrees, completed comprehensive training and started a promising career at the VCU School of Dentistry, but their work toward impacting lives has just begun.
Aderonke Akinkugbe, Ph.D., assistant professor in the VCU School of Dentistry, was named a Revere Scholar this year. Her funding will support a pilot study to gather important preliminary data for her ongoing research into associations between gum disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
This summer, the VCU School of Dentistry helped the two assistant professors move closer to achieving their goals by naming them Revere Scholars.
Erica Brecher, D.M.D., assistant professor in the VCU School of Dentistry, was named a Revere Scholar this year. She plans to use her funding to pay for continuing education classes and leadership training.
Dr. Brecher plans to use her scholarship to pay for continuing education classes and leadership training. First on her list is to apply for a competitive leadership institute through the American Association of Pediatric Dentistry.
She told us that her drive for continual development stems from a desire to always improve the care she delivers to her pediatric patients and expand the education she provides her students and residents.
Dr. Akinkugbe plans to complete a pilot study in which she'll collect samples from volunteers to examine oral and gut microbiomes. Her research looks at associations between periodontal disease, which is inflammation of the gums, and the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
MCV Foundation board member James H. Revere Jr., D.D.S., is a graduate, former instructor, former interim dean, fundraiser and mentor at VCU School of Dentistry. He has been a friend of the school for more than 50 years. Photo CSI Studios LLC.
Revere Scholars exemplify the highest health profession standards as modeled by MCV Foundation board member James H. Revere Jr., D.D.S., a graduate, former instructor, former interim dean, fundraiser, mentor and friend to the School of Dentistry for more than 50 years.
Dr. Revere, a 1965 School of Dentistry graduate, began teaching at the school following a year of post-graduation clinical practice and two years of service in the U.S. Army.
Dr. Revere moved into various administrative positions in his time at the school, including assistant dean for admissions and interim dean on two occasions, and it was this time as an administrator that endeared him to the largest number of students.
Dr. Revere said making an impact through teaching and administration was about connections and friendships.
The Revere Scholars program began in 2009 when Dr. Burns and John Svirsky, D.D.S., also a School of Dentistry professor and former student of Dr. Revere, decided to honor their mentor by supporting young faculty members.
Drs. Burns and Svirsky gave $200,000 over several years to establish and grow a lectureship in Dr. Revere's name, and through an overwhelming show of support from faculty, alumni and friends who believed in the mission and wanted to honor Dr. Revere, the fund grew to more than $1 million. This growth enabled the fund to move beyond a lectureship to provide direct support to up to eight young faculty members.
Revere Scholars receive $5,000 per year for four years, and two new scholars are chosen each year. This was the first year the program implemented a rolling selection process rather than selecting an entire cohort at once.
And so far, the program is working. All three members of the first cohort are now up for promotion and tenure, and they attribute their success to the fact that the school provided a career plan and encouragement.


The effect of this has been somewhat predictable. Some people with cancer have told me that they have felt blamed. Other overweight people have written on social media of how they felt shamed.
Cancer Research UK says it has "tested the campaign and seen that it works."1 It said its aim was to "raise awareness" of the link between obesity and cancer, and in doing so this would, it believes, allow it to have "better conversations" with MPs about "more change," such as to "reduce junk food marketing." The charity bases its belief on a pilot campaign in the West Midlands, the result of which, it told me by email, was that "awareness of the link increased by 22%." But the data it sent me showed that, three months after the campaign, 27% of people exposed to it cited obesity as being linked with cancer, versus 25% in the control group. They have not proved that the campaign "works" in a meaningful way.
The charity has also said, as part of the campaign, that "being overweight or obese causes 13 different types of cancer."2 But the vast majority of studies on this have found an association, not causation.3 We could argue that the hormonal effect of fat may contribute to some cancers' origin, but patients and their families enduring cancer treatments and deaths do not need more confusion, guilt, and shame.
And what of the harms of such campaigns? It is ironic that there is so little "awareness" of this. Unless we look systematically for the adverse effects of campaigns like this, we will not see them.
We might reasonably ask whether this has been an evidence based campaign worth the harms.
Cancer Research UK. National obesity health marketing campaign 2018: frequently asked questions. www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/obesity_campaign_faqs_final_3_-external.pdf.
Cancer Research UK. #CancerNews roundup: 1 Being overweight or obese causes 13 types of cancers. Twitter. https://twitter.com/CR_UK/status/970562097959636992.
National Cancer Institute. Obesity and cancer. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/obesity/obesity-fact-sheet.
Cancer Research UK. Statistics on preventable cancers CRUK. www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/risk/preventable-cancers#ref-0.
. The ironic effects of weight stigma. J Exp Soc Psychol2014;51:74-80doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2013.11.009.


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This work sets late texts by Friederich Holderlin. The fragmentary poems have been edited together to create the text. Gedachtnis-Hymne was premiered in November 2010 by the New London Chamber Choir with the Rasher Saxophone Quartet.


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You may be surprised to learn that you have hundreds of toxic chemicals in your body. What's even more surprising is the fact that these chemicals come from products you use every day. Here are just a few examples of harmful chemicals found in everyday products: vinyl baby chew toys and cosmetics that may contain phthalates; bisphenol-A (BPA) in baby bottles and sport water bottles; lead in children's vinyl bibs and raincoats; and toxic flame retardants in furniture and electronic equipment. Use of toxic chemicals in these and other products is unnecessary, as safer alternatives are available.
These chemicals are not harmless. A growing body of science shows that long term exposure can cause numerous health problems. Phthalates cause harm to the developing reproductive system of rodents, and should be considered a potential risk to humans as well, according to the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to the Human Reproduction (CERHR), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Studies published by scientists at the University of Missouri and Case Western Reserve University demonstrate that BPA disrupts hormone function, causes genetic damage in animals and is linked with reproductive, immune and developmental problems. Lead is a well-known brain toxin that causes reduced IQ, as well as learning and behavior problems in children. Brominated flame retardants are toxic to the brain, reproductive system, and liver and disrupt thyroid function, as reported in the scientific literature.
Everyday exposures from products increase exposures to global and local pollutants that enter our air, our water and our food, ultimately finding their way into our bodies. For example, DDT and PCBs are global pollutants that were phased out decades ago, but are so persistent in the environment that they are still commonly found in fish and in the human body, including breast milk. (However, breast milk is still by far the best food for infants.) Communities also have exposure to toxins through local pollution sources. For example, some Minnesota communities are facing contamination of drinking water and fish from perflurocarbon chemicals, which the 3M Company used to make Scotchgard until 2002. Communities in agricultural areas also experience involuntary exposure to pesticides that contribute to chemical body burden and may increase risk of cancer, learning disabilities and miscarriage.
We are all exposed to hundreds of chemicals. Through exposure in the womb, babies enter the world with a "body burden" of toxic chemicals. A study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found a total of 287 chemicals in cord blood samples from 10 newborn children. This is especially alarming as fetuses and young children are the most vulnerable among us, and exposure during a critical stage of development can have lasting adverse effects. Adults also carry a chemical body burden. The EWG's study of 55 adults revealed 432 of 528 tested chemicals, including those mentioned above.
Though these chemicals are generally found in miniscule levels in the body, there is cause for concern. Newly emerging science is finding that chemicals can cause problems at very low levels and that chemicals interact with each other to increase the severity of effects. This is not surprising, considering the therapeutic effectiveness of prescription drugs at very low dosage levels. Although the presence of these chemicals in a person's body doesn't automatically mean that adverse health effects will occur, we should be concerned because these toxic chemicals, which could potentially cause health problems, do not belong in our bodies. Furthermore, we don't need toxic chemicals in our products.
Innovative businesses are already making safer products, and hundreds of companies have taken a safe cosmetics pledge to eliminate the use of problem chemicals. We can also use our consumer and citizen power to demand safer products that don't pollute the environment and our bodies.
Consumer power: Purchase safer products whenever possible. Use the Resource Boxes below to find more information on products and product safety. Ask the stores where you shop to carry safer products. Ask product manufacturers to label toxic ingredients and ultimately to eliminate these ingredients from their products.
Citizen power: Advocate for green practices in schools and communities e.g. using safer cleaning products and eliminating pesticide use. Advocate for public policies that do not allow the use of chemicals in products until they are proven safe and that require companies to use safer substitutes to protect public health and the environment. For more information on state legislative initiatives, see www.healthylegacy.org.
Individually we can reduce our burden of toxic chemicals, but we can also work together to create a healthier world for ourselves and for generations to come.
For further information on the studies cited within this article, please contact Do It Green! Minnesota.
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products: Who's at Risk and What's at Stake for American Power, Schapiro, Mark, Chelsea Green, 2007.
The Safe Shoppers Bible: A Consumer's Guide to Nontoxic Household Products, Cosmetics and Food, David Steinman and Samuel Epstein, MD, Wiley, 1995.
Clean House, Clean Planet, Karen Logan, Pocket, 1997.


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Islamic State Confirms Death of Spokesman
"Martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo."
Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Popular Mobilisation units, fighting alongside Iraqi government forces, display, upside down, the flag of the Islamic State (IS) group during a military operation aimed at the centre of Baiji, some 200 kilometres north of Baghdad on October 19, 2015. Iraqi forces advanced on three fronts against the Islamic State group, flushing out pockets of resistance in and around Baiji and closing in on Ramadi and Hawijah, officers said. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group says its spokesman has been "martyred" in northern Syria.
The IS-run Aamaq news agency said Tuesday that Abu Muhammed al-Adnani was "martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo," without providing further details.
#BREAKING #ISIS Spokesman Abu Muhammed Al-Adnani has been killed in #Aleppo , #Syria . pic.twitter.com/I0C8T8jbFA
— Rasan Remzi (@RasanRemzi) August 30, 2016
IS has released several audio files online in which Adnani, a senior leader in the group, delivers fiery sermons urging followers to carry out attacks.
The extremist group has suffered a string of defeats in recent weeks, including in Syria's northern Aleppo province, where Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels drove IS out of the border town of Jarablus last week.