In this chapter, we will focus on laser therapy for tattoo first among lasers for pigmentation. Tattoo was selected first among pigmentation disorders or other skin conditions that are treated by lasers for pigmentation because it has a very long history in terms of disorder and treatment.
The history of tattoo goes way back to the Stone Age and has been conducted spontaneously in various regions around the globe between where cultural communication was nonexistent. The ubiquitousness of tattoo around the world represents the presence of human instinct to improve their appearance. In other words, tattoo can be considered as the presentation of such instinct. As tattoo is discriminated or viewed as not very desirable in many countries, it may become less and less frequent. However, if it is viewed as one of human instinct, it will not disappear as long as human exists, which means there will be always people who want to remove tattoo.
Removing tattoo is one of very important skin aesthetic therapy but is more or less neglected due to the difficulty of the procedure and the uniqueness of the patient group. Tattoo refers to the injection of dye in the dermis, where the dye is taken up by phagocytic skin cells and left as insoluble ink particles. It may fade over time in several years but is maintained for a long time, suggesting that these cells do not move a lot. Inks for tattoos are mostly made of metal salts, oxides or organic compounds (Table 1).
As seen in Table 1, tattoo artists tend to use multiple colors, resulting in very colorful tattoos as seen below (Figure 1). As we all know very well, different dye color has different optimal absorption spectrum, therefore we need lasers of different wavelengths, making the removal more difficult. In addition, considering the fact that a new color may arise from chemical reaction by laser irradiation on tattoos, laser treatment of tattoos can be viewed as a very complex and professional area.
The first doctor who used medical laser was Leon Goldmand, who has already published the possibility of using Q-switched ruby laser for the treatment of tattoos in the mid 1960s (Goldman L, Wilson RG, Hornby P, Meyer RG. Radiation From a Q-switched Ruby Laser. Effect of Repeated Impacts of Power Output of 10 Megawatts on a Tattoo of Man. J Invest Dermatol. 1965 Jan;44:69~71.).
Despite the presented possibility of Q-switched laser, the first laser to be used in the clinical practice was CO2 laser(Brady SC, Blokmanis A, Jewett L. Tattoo removal with the carbon dioxide laser. Ann Plast Surg. 1979.2.482~90), Argon laser(Apfelberg DB, Maser MR, Lash H, Rivers J.The argon Laser for cutaneous lesions. JAMA. 1981 May 22~29;245(20):2073~5), as it has tissue damaging pattern of nonspecific tissue destruction similar to salabrasion and dermabrasion, which were traditional methods of tattoo removal.
In addition to Argon Laser, other lasers of various wavelengths (505, 577 or 690nm pulsed dye laser) have been attempted but scarring could not be avoided. In the mid-late 1980s, 'Chemo-Laser Technique' was developed to reduce the number of treatments and scarring (Ruiz-Esparza J, Goldman MP, Fitzpatrick RE Tattoo removal with minimal scarring: the chemo-laser technique. J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1988. 14(12):1372~6.). Combination with other treatments, to make up for the insufficiencies of laser therapy, is a general course often encountered in the course of laser development.
After the first attempt in the 1960s, Q-switched ruby laser has not been clinically used until late 1980s, and first clinical study was published in 1990, possibly with the development of ruby laser which generates stable and sufficient fluence (Taylor CR, Gange RW, Dover JS, Flotte TJ, Gonzalez E, Michaud N, Anderson RR. Treatment of tattoos by Q-switched ruby laser. A dose-response study. Arch Dermatol. 1990;126(7):893~9). Since then, lasers with the idea of selective photothermolysis has appeared for tattoo treatment, and such lasers has been studied for mechanism of action and histological findings.
In 1991, Taylor reported that intracellular dyes are broken down to 10-100 particles on electron microscopy, after treating tattoos with Q-switched ruby laser, and that they exists inside fibroblasts, macrophages and mast cells before the treatment (Taylor CR, Anderson RR Gange RW et al Light and electron microscopic analysis of tattoos treated by Q-switched ruby laser J Invest Dermatol 1991 97 131~136).
Due to the high absorption rate in melanin pigment, ruby laser tend to leave skin hypopigmentation. The later Q-switched Nd:YAG laser with longer wavelength, however, has relatively lower absorption rate, causing less of such side effect (Kilmer SL, Anderson RR Clinical use of the Q-switched ruby and the Q-switched Nd:YAG(1064nm and 532nm) lasers for treatment of tattoos. J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1993;19(4):330~8.).
Q-switched alexandrite laser, the wavelength of which is in between ruby and Nd:YAG lasers, has also been introduced for the treatment of tattoo around the same time (Fitzpatrick RE, Goldman MP, Ruiz-Esparza J.Use of the alexandrite laser(755nm, 100nsec) for tattoo pigment removal in an animal model. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1993;28(5 Pt 1):745~50.).
With more and more doctors experiencing clinical removal of tattoos, there have been reports of post-procedural tattoo ink darkening in various cases, calling for careful treatment.
In 2007, Freedom2 released InfinitInk which consists of small capsule (made of PAMMA), containing bioremovable dyes. This ink is worth noting because it is used in the same method as the conventional tattoo inks, but is easily removable, whenever needed, by breaking the capsule at once with various currently available lasers. Recently, Kossida and Rox Anderson compared one treatment and 4treatments every 20 minute with Q-switched alexandrite laser. They reported that multiple treatments method was more effective for removing tattoos 3 months laser(2011 ASLMS annual conference abstracts #76).
The demand for tattoo removal will not dwindle in the future. Various lasers have been attempted for the purpose, but Q-switched laser is most commonly used at present. If anyone tattooed firsthand, they would be amazed at how deep the dyes should be inserted. Furthermore, as tattoo artists use multiple colors, making it more difficult for doctors to remove them. Laser for tattoo removal requires more studies and efforts, and requires joint studies between scientists and doctors.


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Hackensack fatal crash victims identified
Two women, one from Bergenfield and one from Palisades Park, were killed in the two-car collision on Hackensack Avenue, officials said.
Hackensack fatal crash victims identified Two women, one from Bergenfield and one from Palisades Park, were killed in the two-car collision on Hackensack Avenue, officials said. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/hackensack/2019/07/08/fatal-hackensack-nj-crash-victims-identified/1678731001/
Rodrigo Torrejon and Joshua Jongsma, North Jersey Record Published 6:08 p.m. ET July 8, 2019 | Updated 10:06 p.m. ET July 8, 2019
Two killed, two injured in Hackensack car crash Isaiah Mccall, North Jersey Record
A woman from Bergenfield and another from Palisades Park were identified Monday as the victims in a fatal Hackensack crash over the weekend.
Diana Pelayo, 33, of Bergenfield and Huishan Li, 63, of Palisades Park were killed in Saturday night's crash at Hackensack Avenue and Terhune Place, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office said. A 30-year-old Fairview woman and a 38-year-old River Edge man were treated for minor injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.
"We heard a loud boom and everybody came running out of the Burger King," Hackensack resident Henry Campoverde said after the two-car crash. "Both cars were totaled."
The street was littered with pieces of the vehicles, and airbags were deployed in both cars, highlighting the considerable damage to their front ends.
Staff Writer Isaiah McCall contributed to this article.
More: Union City man charged in alleged DWI crash that killed Hackensack hospital nurse
More: As furor over Hackensack school trustee quiets, her critics eye a recall election
Car crash kills two in Hackensack
Police investigating at the scene of a head-on car collision on Hackensack Avenue at Terhune Place in Hackensack, NJ around 6:50 p.m. on July 6, 2019. Christopher Sadowski/Special to NorthJersey.com
Police investigating at the scene of a head-on car collision on Hackensack Avenue at at Terhune Place in Hackensack, NJ around 6:50 p.m. on July 6, 2019. Christopher Sadowski/ Special to NorthJersey.com
Fatal car crash in Hackensack under investigation. Isaiah McCall
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Victims identified in fatal Hackensack crash
Man charged in alleged DWI crash that killed nurse
Man rescued after being trapped by trench collapse
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Water in the atmosphere of HD 209458b from 3.6-8 μm IRAC photometric observations in primary transit
J. P. Beaulieu, D. M. Kipping, V. Batista, G. Tinetti, I. Ribas, S. Carey, J. A. Noriega-Crespo, C. A. Griffith, G. Campanella, S. Dong, J. Tennyson, R. J. Barber, P. Deroo, S. J. Fossey, D. Liang, M. R. Swain, Y. Yung, N. Allard
Lunar and Planetary Lab
The hot Jupiter HD 209458b was observed during primary transit at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 μm using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope. We describe the procedures we adopted to correct for the systematic effects present in the IRAC data and the subsequent analysis. The light curves were fitted including limb-darkening effects and fitted using Markov Chain Monte Carlo and prayer-bead Monte Carlo techniques, obtaining almost identical results. The final depth measurements obtained by a combined Markov Chain Monte Carlo fit are at 3.6 μm, 1.469 ± 0.013 and 1.448 ± 0.013 per cent; at 4.5 μm, 1.478 ± 0.017 per cent; at 5.8 μm, 1.549 ± 0.015 per cent; and at 8.0 μm, 1.535 ± 0.011 per cent. Our results clearly indicate the presence of water in the planetary atmosphere. Our broad-band photometric measurements with IRAC prevent us from determining the additional presence of other molecules such as CO, CO2 and methane for which spectroscopy is needed. While water vapour with a mixing ratio of combined with thermal profiles retrieved from the day side may provide a very good fit to our observations, this data set alone is unable to resolve completely the degeneracy between water abundance and atmospheric thermal profile.
Occultations
Planetary systems
Planets and satellites: general
Techniques: photometric
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Beaulieu, J. P., Kipping, D. M., Batista, V., Tinetti, G., Ribas, I., Carey, S., Noriega-Crespo, J. A., Griffith, C. A., Campanella, G., Dong, S., Tennyson, J., Barber, R. J., Deroo, P., Fossey, S. J., Liang, D., Swain, M. R., Yung, Y., & Allard, N. (2010). Water in the atmosphere of HD 209458b from 3.6-8 μm IRAC photometric observations in primary transit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 409(3), 963-974. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16516.x
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In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 409, No. 3, 12.2010, p. 963-974.
Beaulieu, JP, Kipping, DM, Batista, V, Tinetti, G, Ribas, I, Carey, S, Noriega-Crespo, JA, Griffith, CA, Campanella, G, Dong, S, Tennyson, J, Barber, RJ, Deroo, P, Fossey, SJ, Liang, D, Swain, MR, Yung, Y & Allard, N 2010, 'Water in the atmosphere of HD 209458b from 3.6-8 μm IRAC photometric observations in primary transit', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 409, no. 3, pp. 963-974. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16516.x
Beaulieu JP, Kipping DM, Batista V, Tinetti G, Ribas I, Carey S et al. Water in the atmosphere of HD 209458b from 3.6-8 μm IRAC photometric observations in primary transit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2010 Dec;409(3):963-974. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16516.x
Beaulieu, J. P. ; Kipping, D. M. ; Batista, V. et al. / Water in the atmosphere of HD 209458b from 3.6-8 μm IRAC photometric observations in primary transit. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2010 ; Vol. 409, No. 3. pp. 963-974.
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Travelling from North to Central Brazil looking for the perfect story for our Brazil Collection, we discovered it somewhere between Recife Pernambuco and Ouro Preto Minais Gerais.
Chico Rei's adventures started on the shores of some African kingdom and continued in the gold country of Minais Gerais. This is where we bumped into him… or better said, its remains.
Chico was an African king from the late 1600s who became slaved with his tribe to hard labour in an Ouro Preto gold mine. He turned a national folk hero when he managed to buy out his tribe freedom and built the first church for the black community in Minais Gerais.
Here are a few snapshots taken along the way to discovering the story and connecting the dots, between meeting graffiti artist Derlon Almeida on the streets of Recife and Chico's remains in the town of Ouro Preto.
Our first encounter with Derlon Almeida's s work! As if famous woodcut artist Jorge Borges was born again, 40 years later, as a street artist – Nordeste traditionnal woodcuts turned into quirky graffitis: just beautiful!
Brazilian graffiti art has kept on enchanting us. This is why we chose to work with Derlon and his great way of reviving the northeastern folk tradition of the woodcuts with his urban take on contemporary culture.
Back in Minais Gerais following the journey of the Africans sent to work on the rich gold mines of the region.
Well, of course! We need a bit of "local gold" to make our guide Fernando, tell us Chico's story.


A visually stunning floor sets the stage and creates the mood for your show—before you even take the first step. Our digital floors, like our digital flags, can be custom-created in collaboration with our award-winning designers. We'll work with you to imagine a striking, custom look for your performance.


Kiddie City is the proud recipient of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health "Health Champions" Grant.
*Come join us in the Kiddie City Childcare Community gymnasium for an evening of family fun and fitness!
*Tom Evert of "DancEvert" will lead participants of all ages in yoga, Pilates, and dance related activities. Tom is an energetic, enthusiastic, and captivating instructor, who inspires individuals of varying abilities.
*Mr. Evert is a Euclid resident and the former world renowned lead dancer of the Paul Taylor Dance Company! He currently works with students in the Euclid City School District.
*This is a free and open event to all in the community. Bring your yoga mat (If you have one. Extras will be available.) and water bottle. Don"t miss this fantastic weekly opportunity!
For more information, please call 216-481-9044.


Here are some example configurations for various situations.
This example shows you how to set up OfflineIMAP to synchronize multiple accounts with the mutt mail reader.
Make sure that you have both an [Account Personal] and an [Account Work] section. The local repository for each account must have different localfolder path names. Also, make sure to enable [mbnames].
# Trims off the preceeding Mail on all the folder names.
# would seem intuitive that reference would trim it.
You can have OfflineIMAP load up a Python file before evaluating the configuration file options that are Python expressions. This example is based on one supplied by Tommi Virtanen for this feature.
This code snippet illustrates how the foldersort option can be customized with a Python function from the pythonfile to always synchronize certain folders first.


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Q: PHP usort DOMNodes by depth I'm trying to sort php DOMDocument elements by their nodePath so that they end up deepest nested first, then in order they exist in the document within the same parent.
For example, in the following HTML the order attribute is the order in
which I want the elements to be sorted.

I get tantalizingly close, but not all the way there.
//THIS gives me order 2,1,4,3,5 which is deepest nested but not linear
 within the same parent

function dorder($a,$b){
    $bp=count(explode("/",$b->getNodePath()) );
    $ap=count( explode("/",$a->getNodePath()) );
        if($ap==$bp){
            return 0;
        }
        else if($ap<$bp){
            return 1;
          }

         else{
            return -1;
         }
  }

Sometimes a sort will get some elements in the right order within one parent,
but wrong within another parent...
//THIS gives me 1,2,4,3,5 which is right except for 4 and 3 are swapped.
function dorder($a,$b){

$bp=count(explode("/",$b->getNodePath()) );
$ap=count( explode("/",$a->getNodePath()) );
        if($ap==$bp){
            return 1;
        }
        else if($ap<$bp){
            return 1;
         }

         else{
            return -1;
         }
}

NOTE
In the actual XML there is no 'order' attribute to work from. It is here only for testing purposes.

A: Here a way you could go. Instead of usort, you could just depth first the dom stack. You will reliably hit the elements in order:
$dom = <<<DOM

DOM;

echo "
" . htmlentities($dom) . "
";

$domDocument = new DOMDocument;
$domDocument->loadXML($dom);
$domXPath = new DOMXPath($domDocument);
$domNodes = $domXPath->query('//div');
$nodesArray = array();
orderNodes($domNodes, $nodesArray);

foreach ($nodesArray as $n) {
  echo "order: $n
";
}

function orderNodes($domNodes, &$nodesArray) {
  foreach ($domNodes as $divDOM) {
    if ($divDOM->hasChildNodes()) {
      orderNodes($divDOM->childNodes, $nodesArray);
    }
    if ($divDOM instanceof DOMElement && ! isset($divDOM->visited)) {
      $nodesArray[] = $divDOM->getAttribute('order');
      $divDOM->visited = true;
    }
  }
}

Wrestle with the DOMNodes using recursion, depth first. I stuffed a hack in there, setting an arbitrary property: $divDOM->visited = true;. This acts somewhat like a filter, preventing duplicate elements from being written as the recursion backs out.

A: @eggmatters convinced me to give up on usort for this and to piggy back off the natural order of returned nodes. I changed the function so I don't add a 'visited' property to each node and I can use it to compare any two or more nodes from a document without having to sort the whole document.
function depthSort($nodesArr){
    $sorted=array();
    foreach($nodesArr as $node){
       $i=0;
         $adepth=count(explode("/",$node->getNodePath() ) );
         while($i<count($sorted)){
           $bdepth=count(explode("/",$sorted[$i]->getNodePath()));
           if($adepth>$bdepth){
            array_splice($sorted,$i,0,array($node));
            break;
        }
        $i++;
    }
    //order must go on the end cause it didn't go anywhere else
    if($i==count($sorted)){
        array_push($sorted, $node);
     }

}
return $sorted;
}

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#The CoronaDiaries, Featured post, News, UK
Opinion: We need equality more than ever during this pandemic
Written by Molly Wroe on 30th March 2020
More in #The CoronaDiaries:
Revealed: the impact of pandemic mental health trauma among NHS staff 10th May 2021
Pandemic helps reduce number of University withdrawals 23rd April 2021
IN A TIME of uncertainty, panic and fear, we can be sure of one thing: the royals are doing just fine, thank you for asking.
For those of you who have been living under a rock recently, COVID-19 has quite literally swept the globe and put many countries – including ours – into lockdown. Due to this global pandemic, makeshift hospitals are cropping up everywhere, over 500,000 people are volunteering for the NHS and your local triathlon geeks and couch potatoes alike are taking to Twitter to kick off about their outside exercise becoming rationed – not that this affects the lifestyle of the latter in the slightest.
Photo credit: David Cliff/NurPhoto via PA Images
The official advice is to stay inside unless you need to sensibly shop or get medical attention. You may travel to and from work if it is absolutely essential to do so. If your friends ask you to meet, you should say no. Where have I heard that line before?
However, if you just so happen to be royalty, you can go ahead and skip those first two paragraphs. That's right – the royals are at it again.
A 71-year-old man has ignored government advice, been positively tested for a highly contagious virus, and travelled the entire country to his holiday home instead of staying inside. Sounds bad, right? Not for old Charlie-boy, who gets a free pass for being the Prince of Wales. Our dear Prince of Wales took a trip in an RAF helicopter from Highgrove House to Balmoral – what appears to be a completely unnecessary journey – and put his staff at Balmoral at risk.
While we've been worrying about 'super-spreaders' on our public transport and in our offices, we never stopped to consider that the people in charge of our country would be so ill-advised as to become 'super-spreaders' themselves.
Credit: PA Images
Not only that, but every news outlet in the UK assures us that the Queen is 'in good health'. Our 93-year-old monarch is being hailed by our red-top magazines as a 'beacon of stability' for the country – yet she also apparently ignored government advice last week and travelled from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle.
Instead of staying in one place and only having one set of staff at risk, both Lizzie and Charlie-boy are potentially infecting at least double the amount of people!
For reference, my great-grandmother – who acts like she's the Queen of England – is 87 and she is absolutely petrified of leaving the house. She's following every word of Boris Johnson's conferences to the letter and we haven't seen her in weeks. So why should one particularly fussy old lady have more leeway than another fussy old lady?
This takes me to my main point – in a global pandemic, why are we not equal?
How can one family be allowed so much privilege when other families are struggling to survive on what they can scavenge from their local corner shop? We cannot expect people to abide by the safety rules when one family, regardless of titles, is allowed and almost publicly praised for their disobedience. This will only make the collective turmoil last longer and the heartbreaks more common.
I'm not normally one to keep up with the royals, quite frankly I'd rather watch the grass grow or Keeping Up With The Kardashians – and I loathe the Kardashians – but this whole affair has had me flummoxed.
To me, and I would like to think many others, the monarchy is pointless. They act as a figurehead to remind us that we are Great Britain and we were once able to conquer a ton of other countries; every so often one of them gets married or has a baby and they act as a distraction from their expensive holiday home renovations and our increasing amounts of austerity. In reality, much of the general public couldn't care less if we had a platypus running the show instead of our Windsors.
With this in mind, we should not be giving priority boarding passes to these elderly buffoons to get out of this catastrophe that is COVID-19. We should be taking care of our NHS workers who can't get tested and our key workers who aren't considered 'priorities'.
We should really be doing more for our whole country, not just for our rich.
Molly Wroe


2008 ( US ) · Japanese · Terror · G · 90 minutes of full movie HD video (uncut).
Tales from the Dead, full movie - Full movie 2008. You can watch Tales from the Dead online on video-on-demand services (Netflix, HBO Now), pay-TV or movie theatres with original audio in Japanese. This movie has been premiered in Australian HD theatres in 2008 (Movies 2008). The DVD (HD) and Blu-Ray (Full HD) edition of full movie was sold some time after its official release in theatres of Sydney.
Movie directed by Jason Cuadrado.
Produced by Monique Yamaguchi, Nick Rossier, Lon Bixby, Jason Cuadrado, Andra Nita and Anthony Begonia.
Screenplay written by Jason Cuadrado.
Commercially distributed this film, companies like Seminal Films.
This film was produced and / or financed by Half Fictions Productions, Cinemonster Films and Rum Runner Films.
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In the last couple of days, we've learned that the database of the Democratic National Committee has been hacked, apparently by hackers associated with the Russian government. And apparently, they were able to root around in there for a year or more before they were detected, and collect messaging and email traffic, the DNC's database on Donald Trump, and who knows what else. Likewise, there is at least some evidence that Clinton's server may have been similarly hacked. She received, and apparently replied to, a phishing email sent from the account of an advisor and may have clicked a link that unleashed a phishing program. And later, some email from an advisor wound up on a website purportedly associated with the Russian government. Exactly what transpired is unclear, but obviously, some damaging possibilities exist.
These, among many other examples, illustrate some of the perils of modern information technologies. They are certainly very useful for communicating and for gathering very large amounts of data, and for analyzing that data. But, not everyone who wants to see that data is a good guy or has a right to see it, so if it gets hacked, a great deal of damage can be done.
So, now we've got all this big data, and we're properly concerned, as illustrated above, that it can be misused, so we impose an assortment of controls and privacy rules and maximum retention periods upon it to prevent that misuse.
But then, in the aftermath of the recent terror attacks in France and Belgium, we learn that the authorities' ability to track terrorist suspects and investigate terror attacks is hampered by the lack of information flow between the investigative bodies of the various European states. Their privacy laws restrict this flow to protect individual privacy, but an unintended consequence of that is that among the people whose privacy is protected are terrorist suspects and actual terrorists. So, they are able to use the shield of the law to hide from the law. And even when it's there and theoretically available, the information often doesn't get used the way it could be and probably should be – Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was the object of the FBI's attention for terrorist ties, and had what appear to be several other red flags in his past, but passed at least two background checks easily, had a security guard license and was able to purchase firearms legally.
These are only the most recent examples of this – on the privacy front, the National Security Agency (NSA) had a number of programs for very large scale data collection about all sorts of things that on one hand, significantly impinged upon the presumed privacy rights of a great many people, but on the other hand, if you ask anyone in the know, they will tell you that these programs probably prevented a number of terrorist attacks in the United States. These programs have been significantly curtailed, which may well yield more terrorist incidents in the United States similar to those in Europe. We've already seen a few. It's impossible, for me at least, to confidently blame them on the curtailment of the NSA programs, but it's certainly at least possible, and maybe likely, that the curtailment of those programs will result in more terrorist activity in the United States. On the data security front, the number of really large-scale data breaches is too large to list here: several at Sony, Target, Anthem, MySpace, an assortment of government agencies . . . the list appears endless.
It does not seem as though there can be a perfect solution to these problems. Collective security necessarily requires the limitation of some individual rights, including rights of privacy. And making information available enough to be actually useful necessarily limits the amount of security and protection that is placed upon it. So in both of these cases, any choice you make necessarily involves some limitation on some others of these factors – it simply cannot be avoided. We could undoubtedly create very safe and secure countries if we were willing to tolerate very totalitarian and intrusive methods to achieve them – universal phone taps and email and messaging monitoring, expanded search and seizure rights by the authorities, restrictions on travel and so forth. But we will not do this, because we won't tolerate the complete abridgment of what we see as our innate rights in the name of collective security. Nor will we really tolerate complete information security – we like to have our credit card on file with Amazon, because we like to be able to purchase things very easily. As it is, we're annoyed if they make us type in a CAPTCHA or the 3 digit verification code on the back of the card. We've gotten so used to the convenience of these transactions that these very minor things start to become irritants. It's hard to imagine most people tolerating a great deal more in the way of verification in the name of information security. Nobody ever thanks the government for long airport security lines either, even though they're about to get on a plane that might be blown up otherwise. It just doesn't work that way.
Call all of this the Dilemma of Democracy and Information. Those of us fortunate enough to live in democratic societies value that fact and the rights that this gives us very highly. And we want to protect those rights. But when they wrote the Magna Carta or the United States Constitution, that was a pretty straightforward thing to do, comparatively speaking. 21st century information technologies have very much complicated this discussion. Our rights have become inextricably intertwined with the information that is being collected about us and the conclusions that can be mined from that information. And the information that is being collected grows constantly in both size and complexity, as does the ability of the collectors to mine it. So we cannot really talk about our rights without necessarily involving that information collection, and what will be done with that information.
And therein lies our dilemma: if we insist on complete privacy for ourselves and our information, we necessarily sacrifice some things – including some lives – in return for that privacy. And if we insist upon complete security for our information, we likewise sacrifice some things that we might otherwise have. And there is no perfect answer here, only a set of trade-offs, each of which is imperfect. Whatever we decide, we have elected to sacrifice some of one important thing, and in return, get more of another important thing.
So we enter into a great debate: how much of what in our information lives are we willing to trade, and what must we get back in return to justify that trade? We individually can and do enter into that debate every time we surrender information to a website, apply for a government benefit or do a hundred other things. But there are a thousand other ways information is collected about each of us that we have little or no control over, so someone else is making that choice for us – a legislature, a government agency, an employer, a social media site. To avoid these is to withdraw from society, and most of us are unwilling to do that.
And that means we must continue that debate as societies, making collective decisions that will necessarily be imperfect but that cannot be avoided. Our goal should not be to avoid the debate – it cannot be avoided, because inaction is a kind of action. What we must do is avoid the temptation to take simplistic or black and white positions. There is no easy position, nor can we go back. The information technologies that allow us to do these things, and the way virtually all of us do use them, makes it impossible to go back. The Pandora's Box of information has been opened, never again to close.
The way forward, however imperfectly, lies in front of us.


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The company was founded in 1990 by Ing. Hisham Watte and started as a network of small shops in Karlovy Vary. It specialized in sale of Bohemian Crystal and cut glass from prestigious Czech manufacturers. The huge demand for crystal chandeliers later led to the foundation of our own chandeliers production in the Crystal Valley - which is a region in the Czech Republic that gave birth to the world's most renowned Bohemia Crystal manufacturers. The name chosen for the new chandeliers production was "Madonna Chandeliers".
Our company has now 27 years of experience and tradition in manufacturing and designing chandeliers. To this day, we have brought a warm light into thousands of homes and, with dedication, will continue to do so.
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package com.edian.www.base;

public final class C {

	////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// core settings (important)
	public static final class list {
		public final static int LISTVIEW_ACTION_INIT = 0x01;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_ACTION_REFRESH = 0x02;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_ACTION_SCROLL = 0x03;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_ACTION_CHANGE_CATALOG = 0x04;

		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATA_MORE = 0x01;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATA_LOADING = 0x02;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATA_FULL = 0x03;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATA_EMPTY = 0x04;

		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATATYPE_NEWS = 0x01;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATATYPE_BLOG = 0x02;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATATYPE_POST = 0x03;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATATYPE_TWEET = 0x04;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATATYPE_ACTIVE = 0x05;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATATYPE_MESSAGE = 0x06;
		public final static int LISTVIEW_DATATYPE_COMMENT = 0x07;

		public final static int REQUEST_CODE_FOR_RESULT = 0x01;
		public final static int REQUEST_CODE_FOR_REPLY = 0x02;

		public final static int LIST_MAX				= 120;
	}

	public static final class dir {
		public static final String base				= "/sdcard/demos";
		public static final String faces			= base + "/faces";
		public static final String images			= base + "/images";
	}

	public static final class api {
		public static final String base				= "http://api.edianlab.com";//"http://192.168.1.10:8001";
		public static final String updateversion	= "http://static.edianlab.com/version.xml";//"http://192.168.1.10/version.xml";
		public static final String login			= "/index/login";
		public static final String logout			= "/index/logout";
		public static final String notice			= "/notify/notice";
		public static final String checkname		= "/user/userCheck";
		public static final String usercreate		= "/user/userCreate";
		public static final String userlist		    = "/user/userList";
		public static final String userview		    = "/user/userView";
		public static final String squarelist		= "/square/squareList";
		public static final String sharelist		= "/share/shareList";
		public static final String userupdate		= "/user/userUpdate";
		public static final String inform			= "/inform/informCreate";
		public static final String pubsquare		= "/square/squareCreate";
		public static final String pubshare			= "/share/shareCreate";
		public static final String shareview		= "/share/shareView";
		public static final String feedbackcreate	= "/feedback/feedbackCreate";
	}

	public static final class task {
		public static final int loadimage			= 1000;
		public static final int notice				= 1014;
		public static final int login				= 1015;
		public static final int logout				= 1023;
		public static final int checkname			= 1016;
		public static final int usercreate			= 1017;
		public static final int userlist			= 1018;
		public static final int userview			= 1019;
		public static final int squarelist			= 1020;
		public static final int sharelist			= 1021;
		public static final int userupdate			= 1022;
		public static final int inform				= 1023;
		public static final int pubsquare			= 1024;
		public static final int pubshare			= 1025;
		public static final int shareview			= 1026;
		public static final int feedbackcreate		= 1027;
	}

	public static final class err {
		public static final String network			= "网络错误";
		public static final String message			= "消息错误";
		public static final String jsonFormat		= "消息格式错误";
		public static final String emptysignupbox		= "似乎有漏填项哦~";
		public static final String pwdcheck		= "两次输入的密码不一致,请重新输入";
		public static final String userexist		= "用户名已存在";
		public static final String nameorpassempty		= "取用户名和密码时应用出错,请返回到上一页";
		public static final String userbaned		="此用户帐号已被封";
		public static final String getuserfailed		="获取用户信息失败!T_T";
		public static final String updatesuccess		="资料更新成功!";
	}

	public static final class errcode {
		public static final String SUCCESS	= "10000";
		public static final String NOT_LOGIN	= "10001";
		public static final String USER_BANED		= "10064";
		public static final String NICKNAME_EXIST	= "10065";
		public static final String EMPTY			= "10008";
		public static final String NOUSER			= "10062";
	}

	////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// intent & action settings

	public static final class intent {
		public static final class action {
			public static final String PUBSQUARE	= "com.edian.www.PUBSQUARE";
			public static final String PUBSHARE		= "com.edian.www.PUBSHARE";
		}
	}

	public static final class action {
		public static final class edittext {
			public static final int CONFIG			= 2001;
			public static final int COMMENT			= 2002;
		}
	}

	////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// additional settings

	public static final class web {
		public static final String base				= "http://192.168.1.100:8002";
		public static final String index			= base + "/index.php";
		public static final String gomap			= base + "/gomap.php";
	}

	//////////////////////////////////////////
	///城市列表
	public static final class City {
	}

	//////////////////////////////
	//const integer
	public static final class con {
		public static final int toast_dur = 2;
		public static final String male				= "0";
		public static final String female			= "1";
		public static final String male_zh_cn		= "男";
		public static final String female_zh_cn		= "女";
		public static final String notmarried		= "0";
		public static final String married			= "1";
		public static final String married_zh_cn	= "已婚";
		public static final String notmarried_zh_cn	= "未婚";
	}
}

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PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI -- Wolverine World Wide dumped tannery sludge in a Kent County landfill that closed in 1986 following groundwater contamination problems, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Darwin Baas, Kent County public works director, confirmed the North Kent Landfill on 10 Mile Road NE in Plainfield Township contains several years worth of accumulated tannery sludge, which was mixed with foundry sand in a separate dumping cell.
MLive informed Kent County in early November that court documents and township meeting minutes indicated Wolverine used the landfill in the early 1980s. The county subsequently found records of Wolverine's use in response to a public records request.
Baas said those records were given to Wolverine and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, which is overseeing a multi-township investigation into drinking water contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances named PFAS (or PFCs), which Wolverine used in 3M Scotchgard to waterproof shoes in Rockford.
Lawsuits have been filed against both Wolverine and 3M.
North Kent Landfill closed in 1986 after contaminated groundwater was disclosed beneath the property in 1983.
Bass said Kent County has not tested for PFAS in the network of monitoring wells around the landfill, which borders the Art Van Sports Complex to the east and the new Merrell Trail mountain biking trail network to the west and south.
"We don't know if it's a problem," Baas said. "We don't know if there's any impact."
Official testing for contamination from the House Street landfill has not extended east of Belmont Avenue NE to properties adjacent and down gradient of the landfill, which also borders the south side of the DEQ's Wolven Avenue and 10 Mile testing area, where drinking water wells are contaminated with high PFAS levels.
Residents on a list of nearby private water wells, which the county monitors annually, said they haven't been contacted by anyone yet about PFAS testing.
Mike Hosford of Crestview Drive, a neighborhood about 1,500 feet south of the landfill, said his household started drinking bottled water this fall as a precaution.
Members of his family who lived on the street for years have suffered kidney and liver cancers, he said. PFAS (also PFCs) is a class of chemicals tied to cancer, thyroid problems and other diseases. The investigation into water contamination stemming from House Street and at other known and suspected Wolverine tannery waste dump sites prompted Kent County to start its largest-ever cancer study.
Kent County is awaiting guidance from the DEQ or the Environmental Protection Agency, Baas said. The sludge was de-watered and the landfill is covered with a clay cap to prevent rainwater infiltration that could exacerbate any groundwater contamination.
"We're really looking for some guidance from the state and EPA," he said, referencing the Kent County Health Department's request that Gov. Rick Snyder seek federal help with the Wolverine PFAS contamination investigation and response.
"This is kind of new territory for the county," Baas said. "It's new territory in a lot of ways for the state. There's just not a lot of guidance coming the state or from the EPA locally."
Baas said the county has questions like, "what do you want us to do? What's the right thing to do? What's the practical thing? What is the best way to proceed and not be taking the shotgun approach and spending money where we shouldn't be?"
"I think between the state and the EPA, there's a lot of head-scratching going on," he said. "We look to them for advice and guidance. How to comply with this is a bit of an unknown for us."
If state won't seek federal help, county says it may.
The DEQ "will be coordinating with the county regarding additional testing in that area," said Melanie Brown, DEQ spokesperson.
The EPA has not replied to inquiries about the Wolverine investigation. Wolverine has not responded to requests for more information about the North Kent Landfill.
An inquiry with Plainfield Township was not immediately returned.
Baas said Wolverine sludge passed leachate testing and was considered non-hazardous material. Records show the state approved plans to dump there on June 4, 1980 after the county agreed to accept sludge that was 37 percent solid if it was mixed with foundry sand, covered daily and subject to regular moisture testing.
Wolverine planned to dump 20 to 25 tons of sludge per day at $15.20 per ton in a cell along the south side of the landfill, records show.
The exact dumping timeframe is unclear. Plainfield Township's approval was required to dump industrial waste at the landfill.
A Dec. 3, 1980 memo from then-county assistant public works director Curt Kemppainen references the Plainfield board as "stating their concurrence with our plan to dispose of tannery waste."
A Nov. 26 letter written by former Plainfield Township supervisor Donald Lamoreaux to Wolverine stated, "the Township Board concurred" with Kemppainen's method of handling the waste.
The sludge is described as "filter cake" in a May 6, 1980 letter to the DNR from the Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber engineering firm.
Carl Huber wrote that Wolverine had been taking sludge to the Granger Grand River Landfill near Lansing after the company was forced to stop dumping at the Northeast Gravel pit in southeast Plainfield Township. Wolverine began dumping at Northeast Gravel -- which was later redeveloped into Boulder Creek Golf Course -- in 1970 after it stopped using the 1960s House Street NE landfill.
Wolverine also began sending waste to the Central Sanitary Landfill in Pierson in the 1980s and maintained disposal there for years after Northeast Gravel closed.
Wolverine left its 12-acre Northeast Gravel site in 1979. Court documents from past litigation indicate the company chafed at the expense of trucking sludge to Lansing.
"Since that time, Wolverine has been exploring the alternatives for disposal, including disposing of the filter cake at another landfill site," Huber wrote. In a subsequent memo to Kent County expressing disappointment in an approval delay, he wrote that "Wolverine must have a disposal site for this material as quickly as possible."
North Kent Landfill was known as the 10 Mile Landfill and the Kent County Landfill when it opened to fierce public opposition in 1976.
The Department of Natural Resources pressured Kent County to close the landfill ahead of its projected 1987 final capacity date after a clog in the leachate collection system was discovered.
Tetrachloroethylene (PERC), trichloroethylene (TCE) and other industrial chemicals were found under the landfill. PFAS were not known contaminants at the time.
Plainfield Township asked the state to not renew the landfill drainage discharge permit in 1982 after six years of violations, according to an Aug. 25, 1983 story in The Grand Rapids Press.
The township claimed nearby Rogue River tributary streams that were once clean had become "filled with slime."
The landfill was capped with two feet of clay and put on a monitoring schedule. The North Kent Transfer Station and recycling center was built on part of the property in 1991.
In 1997, leachate from the landfill along with Rockford wastewater from Wolverine's tannery and the former Converters Paperboard Co. was blamed for corrosion and failures in the concrete pipes that carried sewage to the Grand Rapids wastewater plant. The pipe failures sparked creation of the North Kent Sewer Authority.
Group wants formalized community role in PFAS investigation.


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Solar Farms as Pollinator Habitat? You Read that Right!
By: Trevor Buckley
Solar energy development is booming these days and is a growing part of our project portfolio in our Dallas, TX, Charlotte, NC, and Richmond, VA offices here at Timmons Group. With an increasing number of projects in the works, many communities are taking a closer look at the land use implications of solar stations, particularly in the rural context where many larger-scale projects are located. Inspired by practices in the United Kingdom, several U.S. states and localities are considering regulations to encourage or require sustainable landscape practices to mitigate the impacts of solar infrastructure. A growing and exciting practice in the industry is the establishment of pollinator-friendly habitat on solar sites, a design solution that reinforces solar energy's promise for a greener future.
Solar farms (otherwise known as photovoltaic power stations) have conventionally been developed with the photovoltaic panels situated on gravel or turf grass. In non-desert areas, substituting these options with pollinator-friendly landscapes under and around the panels offers a host of environmental and economic benefits for the site and surrounding community, and it may even save money on materials and long-term maintenance. Wildflowers and host plants (particularly native plants) attract pollinator species, which in turn improves pollination and increases crop yields on local farms. These meadow-like plantings, which include deep-rooting grasses, also reduce stormwater runoff and erosion, enhance soil quality, and improve the visual aesthetics of solar infrastructure for neighbors.
The ecological benefits of this solar development could be improved with a pollinator-friendly landscape. Credit: Timmons Group
Due to many factors, pollinator populations globally are under duress, including here in the U.S. One main reason is the loss of habitat for pollinator species. Conserving and restoring this habitat is crucial not only to pollinators but is integral to our agricultural economy and the health of whole ecosystems. We depend on animals for pollinating some three-quarters of our crops! (See our previous post on supporting pollinator populations here on the INNOVATE blog.)
Pollinators are drawn to nectar-rich wildflowers and host plants. Credit: Liz West/Flickr
In the U.S., Minnesota and Maryland have led the way with legislation establishing guidelines and incentive programs for solar developers employing sustainable landscape design and management practices. In Virginia (home to Timmons Group headquarters), Halifax County is the first locality specifically requiring developers to incorporate pollinator-friendly landscape plans. Many other localities are in process of studying their zoning ordinances and considering similar guidelines to capture the benefits of these practices. Timmons Group is following this trend and we'll share new information here on INNOVATE.
Swallowtail butterfly perched on a coneflower. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Flickr
Resources and links:
Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources has produced Prairie Establishment & Maintenance Technical Guidance for Solar Projects.
The Virginia Natural Heritage Program at the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has created a Virginia Solar Site Pollinator/Bird Habitat Scorecard, similar to Minnesota's, for developers and localities to use in evaluating projects. DCR has also designed a Virginia Solar Site Native Plant Finder to use for appropriate plant selection.
The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center hosted a webinar on Pollinator-friendly Solar last fall.
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Deewana Mastana (1997) (DVDRip)
Raja is a minor league crook who sells railway tickets on the black market at Amirpur station. Tired of his job he looks for new ways to make a quick
buck. One day, along with his friend Ghafoor and a police inspector, he robs Rs 2.5 million from the railway treasury. Later, Raja and Ghafoor bump off the inspector and run away with the loot to Bombay. At Bombay airport, Raja sets eyes on Dr Neha and promptly falls in love with the psychiatrist, for that's what she is. Raja and Ghafoor quickly find out where she lives. Ghafoor pretends to be a psychiatric patient while Raja takes on the name Raj Kumar and befriends her, telling her he has just returned from the US. However, Ghafoor cautions Raja not to hurry and be patient in matters of love. The trouble begins when Bunnu, the son of a wealthy businessman, is sent to Neha for treatment. He is really crazy, and terrified of fire, heights, running and water. Soon, he too falls for Neha and discovers he has a rival in Raja. Suddenly, Neha has to leave for Ooty with her father to attend her uncle's wedding. She does not leave behind a forwarding address. However, both Raja and Bunnu impersonate policemen and intimidate her secretary into revealing where she's vamoosed. Dr Neha is thrilled to see them in Ooty, but is drawn closer to the ill Bunnu rather than Raja. Things take an ugly turn when Ghafoor tires to kill Bunnu, who escapes. Bunnu contacts contract killer Pappu Pager to bump off Raja. However, that plan too comes a cropper. Armed with a gold ring and garland, Neha calls Bunnu and Raja to court, ostensibly with the purpose of marriage. Both are surprised to see the other there.
Pran Jaaye Par Shaan Na Jaaye (2003) (DVDRip)
Aman Joshi (Aman Verma) is on a research assignment. His subject is the chawl dwellers in Bombay City. He rents a small tenement there and talks to t
he people living there. He soon gets involved in their lives, and even gets attracted to plain-looking Saundarya (Divya Mirza), who he transforms into a beauty, after a cosmetic makeover. Aman's kindness is mistaken for generosity by all the chawl dwellers, and they swarm him for his money, trying to get loans and gifts, to improve their lives. Then the lives of this small community are turned upside down, when the owner announces that he intends to tear the building down.
Yes Boss (1997) (DVDRip)
There are lots of poor people in India who want to get rich soon. A woman named Seema is one of them. She is very beautiful and has an admirer by the
name of Sidharth. This man is very rich, and wants to marry Seema. But Seema finds out that he is already married, so refuses to marry him. He assures her that he does not love his wife, and will divorce her, and then marry Seema. Then there is the story of another poor person, a man by the name of Rahul. Rahul is also an admirer of Seema. But Rahul works for Sidharth. Rahul knows that Sidharth is going to betray Seema and have an affair with someone else very soon. Rahul also knows that Seema wants to get rich very quickly. How will be convince her about Sidharth? Rahul is also afraid If Sidharth finds out he will fire Rahul, thus he will remain a poor man all his life.
Dillagi (1999) (DVDRip)
Two brothers -- Ranvir and Rajvir along with their parents move to Mumbai. They endure numerous hardships, but their will to survive prevails and the
y succeed. Soon, their parents pass away, leaving young Rajvir in the care of Ranvir. Now wealthy beyond any means, Ranvir runs the business and Rajvir lives recklessly. When Rajvir falls in love, Ranvir arranges his marriage, but to his dismay finds out that he has arranged his brother to marry the girl he loves.
Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999) (WEB-DL)
The trials and challenges of a joint family in India, whose parents are Ramkishen and second wife Mamta, and have three sons and a married daughter.
The eldest son is handicapped since birth, and is from Ramkishen's first wife. Mamta, the second wife, hates him, and like Kaikeyi in Ramayana wants the estate and wealth in her sons' names. She and her daughter's father-in-law, scheme together, and have the eldest son, including his wife and child, thrown out of the house. Mamta and her sons are all set to control the finances and the estate - until she finds out that her very own sons do not approve of nor support her actions in throwing their step-brother out of the house.
Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003) (DVDRip)
The Kapoor family are very rich Indians who live in India and want their eldest daughter, a girl named Sanjana, to get married to an American-Indian
businessman named Prem. Prem is welcomed, and after a few misunderstandings, both Sanjana and Prem fall in love with each other. Then chaos descends upon the Kapoor family when they find out that the boy named Prem is a fake, and that the real Prem was delayed and is now reaching India. How will this news affect Sanjana, who has given her heart to the fake Prem?
Kya Kehna (2000) (WEB-DL)
The story is about Priya Bakshi (Preity Zinta), the daughter of Gulshan (Anupam Kher) and Rohini Bakshi (Farida Jalal). Priya has her parents, brothe
rs and best friend, Ajay (Chandrachur Singh) who all love and support her. She enters her first year in college and catches the eye of Rahul (Saif Ali Khan) who quickly becomes attracted to her. She succumbs to his charm but her brothers and parents are not sure about Rahul. His womanizing nature worries them and they tell her to stay away from him. However, Priya is unable to leave Rahul. She convinces her parents to meet him but when they talk about marriage he backs off and he leaves Priya. Priya is devastated but moves on with her life. In one sweep she learns that she is pregnant with Rahul's child. Her parents go to Rahul to talk about marriage but to their shock he refuses to marry her. Priya is faced with a decision, and she chooses to keep the child. Her decision prompts her father to chuck her out the house. Alone and neglected Priya is devastated, but her parents and brothers find it hard to live without her and they bring her home. She now has to face society and try to overcome the disdain of her neighbors, among others. Society virtually ostracizes her and her family. She eventually gains the support of those who had earlier disrespected her. At the same time she manages to change Rahul's views as well and he decides to marry her. However, Priya has already given her heart to Ajay and they get married.
Kalyug (1981) (DVDRip)
Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994) (BluRay)
It tells the story of two lovers, Prem (Salman Khan) and Nisha (Madhuri Dixit). Their older siblings, Rajesh and Pooja get married. After Pooja has h
er baby, the elders decide to get Prem married with a girl like Pooja. Prem and Nisha slowly fall in love with each other. Prem tells his sister-in-law, Nisha's older sister, Pooja, that he loves Nisha.Pooja binds the two with her blessings and a necklace. Before Pooja can tell anyone the good news, she falls down the stairs, and dies. Everyone feels they lost their life after Pooja dies, because she had a magic touch that even the dog, Tuffy, notices. Rajesh finds life hard without Pooja, and he finds it especially hard to raise their son. The parents decide to get Rajesh married to Nisha so that he won't feel so lonely, and his son will get a mother. Nisha unknowingly accepts because she thinks that she is going to marry Prem. When she finds out she is marrying Rajesh, the two lovers decide to sacrifice their love for Rejesh's happiness. The servant that Pooja treated like a brother prays to God to stop the wedding and have Prem and Nisha get married. The dog decides to do something and takes the necklace Pooja gave to Nisha to wear to her wedding with Prem. Nisha writes a note saying that she is giving Pooja's bind back to Prem. The dog takes the necklace and note and instead of giving it to Prem, he gives to Rajesh. Rajesh finds out that Nisha and Prem love each other, and steps aside so that his younger brother can marry Nisha. They live happily ever after.
Vaastav - The Reality (1999) (WEB-DL)
Raghunath Namdev Shivalkar (Sanjay Dutt) and his best friend Dedh Footiya (Sanjay Narvekar) struggle to find work in Mumbai. They decide to run a pav
bhaji stall.But fate steps in when Raghu accidentally kills a customer who turns out to be the brother of a notorious gangster, Fracture Pandya and end up in the Mumbai underworld. Vitthal Kaanya (Ashish Vidyarthi), a rival gang lord, offers Raghunath and Dedh Footiya protection and later hires them both as hitmen. Raghunath becomes a respected hit man, with Dedh Footiya as his accomplice. With Raghunath in his gang Vitthal Kaanya hits a peak in the Mumbai underworld. He is protected by a politician who uses Raghunath for his needs. While BabbanRao (Home Minister) relies on Raghunath, there are some others who despise Raghunath, and are just waiting in the sidelines to see when Raghunath makes an error. Raghunath does so, and hence becomes an embarrassment for BabbanRao. Soon Raghunath is on the run, both from the police, and BabbanRao's men. Raghunath knows now that he must protect his wife, parents, and family, as they too are in danger. Then Raghunath comes to know that the police have been ordered to kill him in an "encounter", and Raghunath now realizes that there is no escape from this harsh reality. Unable to save himself from police, Raghu comes back to his home and asks his mother to shot him down for a graceful end of life. His mother does the same and his wife doesn't stop her from doing this.
Saajan (1991) (WEB-DL)
Aman (Sanjay Dutt) is a poor, handicapped orphan who is befriended by wealthy Akash Verma (Salman Khan) during his childhood. Akash's parents adopt h
im and give him their family name, and Akash and Aman grow up as brothers. While Akash is a womanizer, Aman takes to writing poems under the pen name Sagar. The poems get published, and Aman becomes very popular. One of his fans is a young woman by the name of Pooja Saxena (Madhuri Dixit), who corresponds with Sagar. Akash meets Pooja and falls head over heels in love with her. When Aman comes to know this, he asks Akash to pose as Sagar, which he does, and Pooja and Akash fall in love with each other. A heartbroken Aman looks on, as he knows that although women may like his poetry, they will never come out openly and love him when they see his handicap. At the end, Akash discovers that Aman is actually Sagar and loves Pooja, so he decides to sacrifice his love for Aman.
Judwaa (1997) (DVDRip)
Mrs. Malhotra (Reema Lagoo) is the mother of twins, who were separated at birth, and she only has one son. Since then she has been in shock and confi
ned in a wheelchair in the USA. Quiet and mature Prem, (Salman Khan) one of the twins, and his dad (Dalip Tahil) return to India together with Mrs. Malhotra to get Prem married to outgoing and percocious Mala (Karishma Kapoor), who is the daughter of Mr. Sharma (Kader Khan). There Prem meets with his twin brother very outgoing and percocious Raja (also Salman Khan), who looks like him, but is exactly the opposite in nature, A series of comic scenes result as a result of the twins getting together. Raja loves quiet and mature Roopa (Rambha), and both the girls are confused by the change they perceive in their respective lovers. To muddy the waters Tiger Ratanlal (Mukesh Rishi) has sworn vengeance against the Malhotra family for what they did to his dad (Deepak Shirke).
Yeh Dillagi (1994) (DVDRip720p)
Sapna, the daughter of the Saigal family's driver is a simple fun-loving girl, but her dreams are not as simple. She dreams about riches and day-drea
ms about her dream man. Vijay Saigal and Vicky Saigal, both heirs to Saigal Industries have almost all the qualities of a dream man. Almost. Because "All work and no play" makes Vijay a dull boy and "All play and no work" makes Vicky and outrageous flirt, as he does not believe in the affairs of the hearts, but only in affairs. But then even Sapna is not made of the stuff, dream girls are made of. Not until she becomes a successful model and transforms into a beautiful girl. That's when she become Vicky's dream girl. But Sapna's success hasn't changed her status. She is still the driver's daughter and Mrs. Shanti Devi may overlook her son's affairs with rich girls but not with a driver's daughter. Big brother Vijay takes upon himself to iron out the differences, but himself gets smothered by Sapna's live-wire charm and subsequently her beauty dazzles him and he finds himself falling in love with her. In this complex situation, fun takes a dramatic exit from the lives of these fun-loving people and love becomes a serious business. Serious to the extent that one brother is ready to give his life for love and the other is ready to sacrifice his love for brother's life.
Maine Pyar Kiya (1988) (DVDRip)
Kishen Kumar Chaudhary and Karan are family like friends, when Kishen's wife Mrs. Kaushalya gives birth to a baby boy Prem, Karan helps the couple br
ing up there child with out- most care. Years later the two friends have parted ways, Karan likes in a shanty house, works as a mechanic and is the father to a young girl Suman while Kishen is a wealthy industrialist and lives in a spacious bungalow. In order to accumulate huge sums of fund abroad for good living Karan decides to leave Suman in the care of the Chaudhary's family. All is well there for Suman as she is befriend by Prem which eventually blossom to love, Kaushalya finds out about Prem and Suman's relationship and approve of Suman as her daughter-in-law but Kishen is quite unhappy with the relationship as he have plans to get Prem marry to his business partner's daughter Seema thus he insults Suman and throw her out of his house. Karan returns and is enraged at the treatment his daughter receive and leaves the house immediately with his daughter. Prem too is unhappy with his dad's decision and he also leaves the house opting to marry Suman with the blessings of Karan. But Karan refuses to accept Prem and the only way Prem can win Karan's approval is if he prove that he can earn money by his own sweat.
Rui Ka Bojh (1996) (DVDRip)
Vijaypath (1994) (HDRip)
The family of Justice Saxena is extremely happy until his younger brother Inspector Rajesh Saxena (Suresh Oberoi) arrests a notorious gangster, Bhawan
i Singh. Justice Saxena sentences Bhawani Singh to death. Bhawani Singh's brother, Dilawar Singh (Danny Denzongpa), vows to avenge his brother and he…
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Naajayaz (1995) (WEB-DL)
Police Inspector Jay Bakshi has been assigned the task of aprpehending gangsters affiliated to notorious criminal don, Raj Solanki. Assisting him in t
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Shreemaan Aashique (1993) (WEB-DL)
Professor Vishwa Mitra (Anupam Kher) has made an organisation that persuades men not to marry because a woman makes the life of a man hell. Durshan Ku
mar (Rishi Kapoor) is also a member of that organisation. Durshan's parents (Tiku Talsania & Reema Lagoo) are very upset because of Durshan's views…


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SUPERMARKET PREPARED FOOD BEATS FAST FOOD: CONSUMERS
WASHINGTON -- Consumers believe that food prepared in supermarkets is healthier than fast-food meals and getting healthier than shelf-stable packaged food or frozen food, according to a recently released study.That's good news for operators of supermarket-based prepared-food programs, but the survey reveals a potential financial hazard as well: shoppers are becoming less willing to pay a premium for
Jack Robertiello 1 | Oct 27, 1997
WASHINGTON -- Consumers believe that food prepared in supermarkets is healthier than fast-food meals and getting healthier than shelf-stable packaged food or frozen food, according to a recently released study.
That's good news for operators of supermarket-based prepared-food programs, but the survey reveals a potential financial hazard as well: shoppers are becoming less willing to pay a premium for healthy and convenient supermarket food.
The Food Marketing Institute/Prevention magazine national survey, based on telephone interviews with 1,005 adult food shoppers, found that more than two-thirds -- 68% -- of Americans bought prepared food from supermarkets last year, with more than a third -- 36% -- saying they think buying supermarket prepared food helps them eat more healthfully. That's a substantial increase since last year, when only 25% considered supermarket prepared food healthy.
Nearly two-thirds -- 65% -- said that supermarket prepared food is healthier than that available in fast-food restaurants, while 43% said supermarket prepared food is healthier than shelf-stable packaged food. Thirty-eight percent said prepared food is healthier than frozen food.
More than 80% of respondents said they bought prepared food from supermarkets to save time.
For consumers under 40, the attraction of supermarket prepared food increases: 42% said food sold there helps them eat healthy meals, 49% believed that food was more healthy than packaged food and 47% believed the same vs. frozen food.
Meanwhile, the percentage of respondents who said they would accept a price premium for more healthful versions of food they regularly eat keeps falling, from 73% in the 1996 survey to 67% this time.
At the same time, 77% of all shoppers said that nutrition is more important to them than price.
"Shoppers are beginning to think of health and convenience as standard equipment, like air conditioning and power brakes on a car," said Ed Slaughter, director of research for Prevention.
Shoppers who want to improve the healthfulness of their diets said there are a number of things supermarkets can do to help them improve their customers' health: provide recipes for making healthful meals (71%), provide signs and displays in grocery stores about health and nutrition (58%), and make nutritionists available in supermarkets to answer questions (48%).
Supermarket executives have been wrestling with what makes food convenient for some time. According to the survey, more than half of the respondents -- 52% -- said being able to store a product for a long time without worrying about spoilage makes a product more convenient. Nearly half -- 47% -- said a food needs to require little or no cooking time to be considered convenient. And 46% said being able to eat an item anywhere made it convenient.
Interest in packaging also grew, with 37% saying individual servings make a product more convenient. For the first time, the annual survey asked respondents about complete meals, and found 29% see an advantage in being able to buy prepackaged complete meals that include an entree and side dishes.
The survey, "Shopping for Health: Balancing Convenience, Nutrition and Taste," is the sixth report from the annual "Shopping for Health" series conducted by the FMI here and Prevention magazine, Emmaus, Pa. The national survey monitors food shoppers' understanding of and concern about key issues in nutrition and health, and examines how they affect purchase decisions nationally.


I'm so fortunate to be a wedding DJ in the city of Pittsburgh. There are many wonderful locations and an incredibly rich history. Many of my clients share my passion for the city, but never as much as Cathy Aniszewski and Steve Bolar. Last night I had the honor to DJ their stylish interpretation of a real Pittsburgh wedding at the Highland Country Club.
For starters, their wedding colors were Black and Gold, but done so elegantly. The staff at the Country Club told me that they've never seen the room look better.
Throughout the Country Club there were signs and tributes to our amazing city.
After their introductions, Cathy and Steve had their first dance. It was clear they were having a blast.
The music was varied so that all of the guests were able to enjoy the evening. From Frank Sinatra to Black Eyed Peas… we covered everything!
I think every one of their guests made it to the dance floor. Cathy & Steve's friends and family were so much fun!
I loved the fact that Cathy and Steve found a way to share their love of Pittsburgh with their guests in such fun and unique ways throughout their wedding reception. They provided so many fabulous details for their friends and family to enjoy that they will remember forever. As real Pittsburghers, I'm sure the newlyweds will be happy to return to the Steel City after their awesome honeymoon in St Lucia.


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Planetologia, nauki planetarne – interdyscyplinarna dziedzina nauki, wywodząca się z astronomii, zajmująca się badaniem budowy i ewolucji planet, księżyców, oraz mniejszych ciał niebieskich, a także procesów na nich zachodzących. Dzięki rozwojowi badań kosmosu od II połowy XX wieku, w szczególności misjom automatycznych sond kosmicznych, możliwości badania planet Układu Słonecznego nie ograniczają się już do samych obserwacji astronomicznych. Coraz częściej w badaniach planetologicznych wykorzystywane są metody geofizyczne i geologiczne.

Nauki o Ziemi również mogą być rozumiane jako część nauk planetarnych. Na niektórych uczelniach wyższych istnieją jednostki badawcze zajmujące się zarówno naukami o Ziemi, jak i innych planetach, lub kierunki studiów łączące te dziedziny (np. "Geofizyka w Geologii" na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim).

Metody badań planetologii

Teledetekcja
Przy badaniu planet i księżyców Układu Słonecznego wykorzystuje się głównie metody teledetekcyjne, prowadząc obserwacje z Ziemi i z kosmosu. Badania planet wykraczające poza mechanikę nieba rozpoczęły się z rozwojem teleskopów, kiedy możliwe stało się identyfikowanie szczegółów ich powierzchni; w XIX wieku powstały pierwsze mapy Marsa. Obserwacje radioteleskopowe w latach 70. XX wieku pozwoliły poznać ukształtowanie powierzchni Wenus. Obserwacje naziemne i z niskiej orbity okołoziemskiej są kontynuowane także w epoce lotów międzyplanetarnych. Radary naziemne są regularnie wykorzystywane do obserwacji planetoid bliskich Ziemi

Obecnie najwięcej informacji wartościowych dla planetologii dostarczają sondy kosmiczne przelatujące w pobliżu planet i orbitujące wokół nich. Do tej pory (2018) udało się wprowadzić sztuczne satelity na orbity wokół Księżyca, sześciu planet Układu Słonecznego (z wyjątkiem Urana i Neptuna), a także niektórych planetoid i jądra komety 67P/Czuriumow-Gierasimienko.

Obserwacje ukształtowania powierzchni (w świetle widzialnym, podczerwieni oraz radarowe) pozwalają na dokonanie analiz geomorfologicznych. Dzięki nim możliwe jest postawienie hipotez dotyczących zjawisk kształtujących powierzchnię, w tym procesów impaktowych, tektonicznych i wulkanicznych. Prowadzone są także obserwacje spektroskopowe, ujawniające skład chemiczny powierzchni i dystrybucję minerałów. Satelita krążący po orbicie planety lub księżyca dostarcza informacji o polu grawitacyjnym okrążanego ciała, pozwalających planetologom tworzyć modele jego budowy wewnętrznej.

Badania powierzchniowe
W miarę rozwoju planetologii możliwe staje się używanie na innych ciałach niebieskich metod badawczych wypracowanych na Ziemi. Badania takie są prowadzone przez lądowniki, łaziki, a w przypadku Księżyca także astronautów. W ramach programu Apollo na Księżyc dostarczony został zestaw instrumentów ALSEP, dzięki któremu przeprowadzone zostały m.in. eksperymenty sejsmiczne (aktywne i pasywne) i magnetometryczne. Sonda InSight, która wylądowała na Marsie w 2018 roku, ma mierzyć m.in. aktywność sejsmiczną planety i strumień ciepła dochodzący z jej wnętrza.

Współcześnie, dzięki zainteresowaniu możliwością istnienia życia i planami wyprawy załogowej, szczególnie rozwija się geologia Marsa. Na powierzchni planety działają (stan na marzec 2019) dwa roboty, stacjonarny lądownik InSight do badań geofizycznych i łazik Curiosity misji Mars Science Laboratory, wyposażony w laboratorium, umożliwiające m.in. badania mineralogiczne próbek, obserwacje radiometryczne i meteorologiczne. Marsjańskie lądowniki sond Viking w latach 1970. prowadziły nawet badania biologiczne.

Analizy próbek

Głównym źródłem próbek materii pochodzącej z ciał Układu Słonecznego są meteoryty. Zidentyfikowano wśród nich skały wyrzucone z powierzchni Marsa (m.in. Allan Hills 84001 i Northwest Africa 7034), Księżyca (np. Yamato 791197) i Westy (meteoryty HED). Takie próbki, poddane badaniom laboratoryjnym, stanowią źródło wiedzy o budowie innych ciał niebieskich. Meteoryty pochodzące z Marsa są jak dotąd jedynym źródłem skał z tej planety na Ziemi.

Załogowe loty Apollo i bezzałogowe misje Łuna na Księżyc pozwoliły zdobyć próbki skał z tego globu, które zostały poddane analizom na Ziemi. Sondy przywiozły także materię z komety 81P/Wild i planetoidy (25143) Itokawa, wzbogacając wiedzę nie tylko o tych ciałach, ale także o historii i ewolucji Układu Słonecznego. W planach jest misja mająca na celu dostarczenie na Ziemię skał pochodzących bezpośrednio z Marsa, rozważane było nawet przechwycenie małej planetoidy bliskiej Ziemi.

Badania teoretyczne
W ramach planetologii prowadzone są także badania teoretyczne. Jednym z ich dużych sukcesów było przewidzenie aktywności wulkanicznej na Io, księżycu Jowisza, na krótko przed przelotem sond Voyager, dokonane na podstawie obliczeń ilości ciepła wydzielanego przez siły pływowe pochodzące od planety.

Zobacz też
 kosmochemia
 selenologia

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

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While Calitz and De Villiers were the first solo male and female, respectively, over the finish line, the leading teams were Team Soul Running, featuring J.C. Visser and Mauritz Jansen van Rensburg, in the men's team category; Salomon/Garmin, formed by Landie and Christiaan Greyling, in the mixed category; and Jana Trojan and Tracy Forbes, running as Partners in Crime, in the women's team category.
The day got off to a chilly start, but as the sun climbed higher in the cobalt blue sky the mercury rose too. Soon the temperatures were soaring into the mid-thirties, but the heat did not affect Calitz, as he blazed to victory in a time of two hours, twenty three minutes and fifty-five seconds.
A one kilometre neutral zone got the 2017 Tankwa Trail off to a sedate start and once the flag dropped Endi Angelo Pegado set the early pace. Cape Peninsular University of Technology student, Angelo Pegado is a Taekwondo and K-1 fighter by training. In fact the Tankwa Trail is his first ever trail run. So it was not surprising that Calitz caught and then distanced him on the first section of singletrack, eventually extending his lead to win by a comfortable eleven minutes and forty-five seconds over the young Angolan.
The first section of trail was rugged, eroded and featured the day's most significant climb, making for technical and challenging running. Once beyond the first singletrack jeep tracks and less technical singletacks made up the rest of the stage's route. The on-going drought in the Koue Bokkeveld clearly affected the trails as Calitz explained: "The route was very similar to stage one last year, but a little more technical because of the sand. You can see the area has been very dry and the dams are all nearly empty."
De Villiers, along with Riaan Potgieter, is one of only two Tankwa Trail runners to have ridden the Momentum Health Tankwa Trek, presented by Biogen, last weekend. Not only did she ride the Tankwa Trail's sister event, but she finished second in the elite women's category, with South Africa cross country champion Mariske Strauss. "Cycling is easier", a clearly exhausted De Villiers said upon crossing the finish line, "I've got big respect for runners. Julle is yster", she concluded.
Rounding out the solo men's podium were Angelo Pegado and Jonathan van Wyk, while Alana Jane Munnik and Therese Hansson rounded out the solo women's top three.
Saturday's stage two sees the trail runners bussed into the Witzenberg Valley for what is sure to be another chilly start. The first seventeen kilometres of the thirty-five kilometre route will explore the pome fruit orchards and rocky singletracks in the shade cast by the high rock faces which line the Witzenberg Valley. The route then crosses into the heat of the Koue Bokkeveld via an old waggon trail and explores a section of virgin singletrack on its way back to the finish line at Kaleo Manor. You can follow the action live on Twitter by following @TankwaTrail and view all the photos and daily highlights videos on the Tankwa Trail Facebook page.
Selected Results: Tankwa Trail
Stage 1 | Solo Men:
AJ Calitz 02:23:54
Endi Angelo Pegado 02:35:39 (+11:45)
Jonathan Van Wyk 02:46:14 (+22:20)
Stage 1 | Solo Women:
Yolande de Villiers 03:06:05
Alana Jane Munnik 03:11:00 (+04:55)
Therese Hansson 03:46:59 (+40:54)
Stage 1 | Men's Teams:
Team Soul Running - J.C. Visser & Mauritz Jansen van Rensburg 02:39:10
Series Yorkshire - Rob Williamson & Jakob Volmoer 02:50:40 (+11:35)
Click Foundation - Adriaan Louw Heyns & Riaan Potgieter 03:03:09 (+24:04)
Stage 1 | Women's Teams:
Partners in Crime - Jana Trojan & Tracy Forbes 03:11:14
Jolly Dolphins - Ilse Nel & Marizanne Neethling 03:40:54 (+29:40)
Kaleo 1 – Mariette van Dyk & Anneke Janse van Rensburg 04:29:31 (+01:18:17)
Stage 1 | Mixed Teams:
Solomon/Garmin - Landie Greyling & Christiaan Greyling 02:46:13
Rock Kestrels - Karoline Hanks & Filippo Faralla 03:02:52 (+16:39)
The Deanes! - Didi Francis & Tim Deane 03:44:53 (+58:40)
Photo Captions & Credits:
Chritiaan Greyling runs into the rising sun during Stage 1 of the Tankwa Trail. Photo by Oakpics.com.
For more information please visit www.tankwatrail.co.za. For high resolution images click here, and for further enquiries please contact Seamus Allardice (082 748 7772 | seamus@dryland.co.za). To view the full results on the Jumper Trax website click here.


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Q: visualforce page to list cases by contact using 'case.AccountId' for Person Account - Lightning Design I have a business use case demand to show a list of Cases for the current associated Contact on the Case Feed in Service Console.
I was able to achieve this with the below VisualForce Page:

I was able to generate the list view but it renders in Classic view.
I am trying to generate Lightning view with the below code but I am getting this error and have no idea how to resolve it. I am sys admin and have no coding experience. Thank you for any help.

Could anyone help me with the code to achieve this list view in lightning.

A: I believe you are missing the '/' as a closing tag for apex:stylesheet.
Can you place the below line instead and retry:
<apex:stylesheet value="{!URLFOR($Resource.SLDS080, 'assets/styles/salesforce-lightning-design-system.min.css')}" />

As a side note, here's a code I written, which renders the related cases in Lightning view:
<apex:page standardcontroller="Case" standardStyleSheets="false" showHeader="false" sidebar="true">

Hope this helps.


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Bacterial Vaginosis is Associated with Higher Risk of Female-to-Male Transmission of HIV
An investigation led by UCSF has found that the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission is increased three fold for women with bacterial vaginosis, a common disorder in which the normal balance of bacteria in the vagina is disrupted.
Previous research has shown that bacterial vaginosis can increase a womens risk of becoming infected with HIV as much as sixty percent. Our study is the first to show that the risk of transmitting HIV is also elevated. Our findings point to the need for additional research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial vaginosis, which is extremely common in sub-Saharan Africa, the region of the globe with the highest burden of HIV, says the studys lead author, Craig R. Cohen, MD, MPH, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at UCSF.
The study is being published in the June 26th issue of PLoS Medicine.
The new research assessed the association between bacterial vaginosis and female-to-male HIV transmission risk in a prospective study of 2,236 HIV positive women and their uninfected male partners from seven African countries. After controlling for socio-demographic factors, sexual behavior, male circumcision, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy and levels of HIV in the blood of the women with HIV, bacterial vaginosis was associated with a significantly increased risk for female-to-male transmission of HIV.
Bacterial vaginosis is a condition where the normal balance of microorganisms naturally found in the vagina is altered. This disruption of vaginal flora takes place when bacteria that are helpful are reduced and more harmful bacteria are increased. Besides increasing the risk of becoming infected with HIV, bacterial vaginosis can increase the risk of acquiring other sexually transmitted infections and increase the risk of preterm delivery. In addition, HIV-infected women with this disorder may have higher levels and greater shedding of the virus from the cervix and vagina.
We looked at the increased shedding of HIV in the genital tract, but that was not sufficient to explain the increased risk of female-to-male HIV transmission. It is also possible that bacterial vaginosis causes inflammation and that could be a factor. We dont really understand the relationship between vaginal flora and inflammation, says Cohen.
In addition, he says, we think its likely that the sharing of genital tract microbiota between women and men may be implicated as a cause of the transmission risk. The interrelationship of the sharing of flora remains poorly understood and is an important avenue for future research.
Notwithstanding the need for better understanding of the role of vaginal flora, the development of more therapeutics for bacterial vaginosis, including better drugs and probiotics, would be a significant boost to womens health in general, as well as help decrease HIV acquisition and transmission risks, adds Cohen.
Study co-authors include Jairam R. Lingappa, Jared M. Baeten, Ting Hong, and Connie Celum from the University of Washington, Musa O. Ngayo and Elizabeth A. Bukusi from the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Carol A. Spiegel from the University of Wisconsin, Deborah Donnell from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Saidi Kapiga from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Sinead Delany from the University of Witwatersrand.
Funding for this research was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.


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Community-Based Participatory Research for Improved Mental Healthcare
A Manual for Clinicians and Researchers
Laura Weiss Roberts
4k Downloads
Pages i-xxi
What Is Community-Based Participatory Research?
Background Preparation for the CBPR Process
Beginning Partnerships with Communities
Finding Common Ground Within the Partnership
Sustaining the Partnership
Evaluating the Partnership and Enhancing Future Successes
Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice are the principles that collectively form the ethical basis of human research . These three principles find expression in Community-Based Participatory Research for Improved Mental Healthcare, or CBPR – a systematic approach for engaging specially-defined groups of people in a process of inquiry and social change. In Community-Based Participatory Research, a panel of renowned authors provide a step-by-step approach for conducting CBPR, providing all the conceptual and methodological guidelines needed to implement this important and extremely fruitful research approach. As early career investigators use this mode of collaborative inquiry in the service of society, an exciting and entirely new capacity for ethically sound and more rigorous and consequential science can be built. An indispensable resource that will be of great interest to researchers from a wide array of disciplines, Community-Based Participatory Research for Improved Mental Healthcare is a major addition to the literature and certain to become the gold standard reference in the field.
1., Dept. Psychiatry & Behavioral SciencesStanford University School of MedicineStanfordUSA
Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Publisher Name Springer, New York, NY
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