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The Loan Estimate and the Closing Disclosure
Meet Your New Mortgage Forms
Home Purchase Loan Borrowing Mortgage Refinance
Subtle yet fundamental changes have come to some of the most important forms involved in the mortgage loan process. The Good Faith Estimate (GFE), the Truth-In-Lending (TIL) form, and the HUD-1 document have all been combined into two new forms: the Loan Estimate and the Closing Disclosure. The new forms were supposed to become effective in August, but were pushed back until October.
The Loan Estimate form replaces the GFE and the initial TIL form that you receive on or before the third business day after submitting your loan application. It contains a summary of the terms of your requested loan (GFE components) and the expected costs over the life of your loan (TIL components) based on the best estimate at the time.
The Closing Disclosure replaces the HUD-1 form and updated TIL form. You receive it three business days before the closing settlement meeting when all of the legal documents are signed. It summarizes the final loan terms, financial information, and cash flows at closing.
The extra time to review the closing disclosure is an important change. Previously, this paperwork was supplied either the day before closing or at the closing settlement meeting. The forms have been revised to make them easier for consumers to read and compare the initial estimate to the final terms and closing costs. In the past, this was difficult to do because, while the information was included in the GFE, TIL, and HUD-1 forms, the difference in formats made it difficult for novices to see differences and spot questionable changes.
The TILA-RESPA page on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) website has many useful links on the origin, purpose, and use of the new forms, as well as copies of the forms for review. The most insightful way to use this information is to download the sample loan estimate and sample Closing Disclosure forms that cover the same fictional loan. Comparing them side-by-side, you can see that the categories align directly between the two forms and how information about changes are noted, highlighted, and explained.
The sections in both forms follow this format:
Basic Information – Contains the issue date, property, listed sale price, loan term and type, purpose (purchase/refinance), rate lock information, and borrower/buyer name as well as address. The closing disclosure includes the seller and lender information.
Loan Terms – The loan amount, interest rate, and monthly principal and interest (P&I), combined with information on prepayment penalties and balloon payments. Allowable changes are noted.
Projected Payments – Your estimated monthly payments including P&I, private mortgage insurance (PMI), along with any escrow payments (for taxes, homeowner's insurance, and any other necessary escrowed amount).
Closing Costs – The estimated/final closing costs plus the amount of cash that the buyer needs to provide at closing.
Closing Cost Details – This breaks down all the closing costs into categories such as origination charges, services that you can shop for and services that you cannot shop for, taxes, prepaid amounts, and any other costs. For the loan estimate form, these are ballpark figures. For the closing disclosure, they represent accurate values and are categorized by who paid the expense. It is a complete snapshot of all closing costs and who paid them.
The distinction of services that can and cannot be shopped for is important. Lenders are not responsible for bad estimates on services that homebuyers can shop for, but they have to stay within the defined limits on estimates for services that they cannot shop for (unless they use vendors that are not lender-approved).
At the end of this section, a cash summary is put together. It shows how the amount of cash to bring to closing was calculated. Then, the closing disclosure includes a summary of transactions including all monetary transactions involving the seller and the buyer — in short, a sort of balance sheet for both sides.
Additional Loan Information – This is the only section where the forms vary significantly.
In the loan estimate, this section contains lender details and information used to directly compare loan offers such as the annual percentage rate (APR) and the total interest paid over the life of the loan. The remainder of the form outlines terms on appraisals, insurance, late payments, and transfers (whether or not there is a mortgage assumption when you sell the property or if the bank can then sell your loan to another servicer).
The closing disclosure includes more detailed information on terms, escrow accounts, liabilities after closure, and more information on total payments over the life of the loan. Contact information for the lender, each broker, and the settlement agent are included.
The new forms are still a lot to digest, but they are easier to understand for consumers to shop around with and compare, as well as to understand the terms fully before signing. The only real question is whether lenders, settlement agents, and others with automated forms can smoothly adapt to these new procedures. Expect some difficulties in the beginning and look over your forms extremely closely to see if they match the corresponding CFPB template.
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NTA NEET 2021: Scanned images of candidates' OMR sheets released
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (UG) – 2021 was conducted in pen and paper mode on 12 September 2021 (Sunday) from 02:00 to 05:00 P.M in 202 cities at 3858 Centres throughout the country and abroad and the result of the same was declared on 01 Nov 2021.
The National Testing Agency has sent the Scorecard through e-mail on the registered e-mail address of the Candidates and the same is also available on the website https://ntaresults.nic.in/resultservices/NEET-2021-auth.
The Final Answer Key on which the Result of NEET (UG) – 2021 was prepared is available on the website https://nta.ac.in/Download/Notice/Notice_20211101205130.pdf.
The scanned image of the OMR Answer Sheet has already been e-mailed to the Candidates at their registered e-mail address. On receiving requests from the candidates not receiving the scanned image of the OMR Answer Sheet, the NTA is now providing an opportunity to view/download the scanned image of the OMR Answer Sheet of NEET (UG) – 2021 on the official website https://neet.nta.nic.in/.
This facility will be available from 09 November 2021 to 14 November 2021 (upto 09:00 P.M.).

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Autism Not a Gift for South Carolina Boy Who Jumped to His Death from a Moving Ambulance
"Shelley Hodge said nobody believed her when she protested her 16-year-old son's release from a state psychiatric hospital, warning that he could hurt himself or someone else. That teen, Ryan Emory of Greenville, was being driven back to the same hospital Sunday when he loosened a gurney's straps and jumped out of the back of an ambulance as it traveled down Interstate 85, authorities said.
Emory later died at Greenville Memorial Hospital "
- Greenville Online.com, Autistic Greenville High student dies after jumping from ambulance
The Greenville Online describes an autism reality unlikely to be portrayed on CNN, or the larger mainstream media generally, which prefers to focus on feel good stories about high functioning persons with autism and Aspergers and generally ignores the harsher realities confronting persons with low functioning autism disorders. Thanks to Claire Danes and the producers of the recent biopic about Dr. Temple Grandin the misleading image of autism as nothing more than a different way of thinking will likely be pushed more and more by a mainstream media that has no desire at all to burden its viewers and readers with darker tales of the dismal life prospects of those for whom autism is a serious disorder.
CNN has posted a video clip of Temple Grandin on its web site opinion page under the title Temple Grandin: why autism is a gift. In the video Dr. Grandin describes yet again her way of looking at the world and, apart from describing her way of thinking in very positive terms, she also offers the widely circulated opinion that Einstein and Mozart were autistic; a claim based purely on speculation . Many parents of autistic children would disagree with Dr. Grandin and CNN, which has in the past fawned over Amanda Baggs, a person with an autism disorder diagnosis who once attended a college for gifted youth . Many parents, including me, love our children and find great joy in them, but live with the reality that our children are not Dr. Temple Grandin, that they are much more severely affected by an autism disorder which will restrict and impair their lives. For the sake of our children, we have to be brutally honest when describing their condition to a world that does not always want to hear about the realities confronting those most severely affected by autism disorders.
The Greenville Online article reports that Shelley Hodge said nobody believed her when she protested her autistic 16-year-old son's release from a state psychiatric hospital, warning that he could hurt himself or someone else:
"The last six months have been particularly difficult, Hodge said.
Emory became more aggressive lashing out at relatives and others, she said. He was in and out of hospitals for fainting spells and his behavior.
Hodge said that when the psychiatric institute released Emory, she protested plans to send him home.
"I'm like, 'He's 250 pounds. I'm afraid for his safety and mine,'"
"And I wrote that on the discharge plan. Hodge said she believed her son's troubles went beyond autism and that he needed a thorough evaluation and to be in a controlled environment with "24-7 care."
A state mental health worker told her Emory's needs weren't critical enough, she said
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The media, and health care authorities, don't always put much weight on the information provided by parents of children with autism disorders. A world that prefers to see autism as just another way of thinking, as the way of Einstein and Mozart, does not always listen to parents who claim that their autistic child suffers from a serious disorder which causes harm to them and others. Shelley Hodge tired to tell them but it appears that no one listened.
Autism may be a gift for Dr. Temple Grandin. For others, like Shelley Hodge's son Ryan Emory, it is a disorder which can restrict their lives .... and even end them at an early age. You can read more fully about Ryan Emory at Greenville Online. You are unlikely to see his story on CNN.
Labels: Amanda Baggs, autism disorders, Claire Danes, CNN, Dr. Temple Grandin, Greenville Online, Shelley Hodge
They need to start being realistic about high-functioning people, too.
Most will never end up like Temple Grandin or Ari Ne'eman. Most of them end up like me or Jonathan or worse.
They always have to show the same people and it is really old.
I'm glad Temple Grandin is successful but her success isn't due to her autism as much as it is due to the fact that she had an enormous amount of support, treatment and money.
Most people with autism don't have these things and never will. And even if they do they will most likely still not end up like Temple.
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Additionally, Right Relevance provides an Insights offering that combines the above Topics and Influencers information with real time conversations to provide actionable intelligence with visualizations to enable decision making. The Insights service is applicable to emerging events like elections, conferences, product launches, breaking news developments, outbreaks like Ebola etc.
This report is a summary of graph analysis of engagements and conversations including retweets, mentions and replies of tweets from January 2017 on terms related to GMOs.
The report leverages tweets sampled from Jan 1st to Jan 31st 2017 and along with Right Relevance topics, topical communities' and articles data form the basis for the analysis.
The communities' graph (Fig 1) for GMOs, similar to our US election analysis graph, shows a strongly partisan split into pro-GMO (green) and anti-GMO (pink) supporters. This is probably not unexpected.
The retweets-only graph (Fig 2) is even more stark in bringing out the partisanship. It visualizes the echo-chamber like nature of the partisan groups. Also, it shows higher diversity and broader participation on the anti-GMO side.
We'll dive deeper into the sub-communities and the leading users driving each sub-community in the Flocks section.
The communities, users and tweets related to the top themes will be outlined and discussed in greater details below as we delve deeper.
The top three tweets in this timeframe are as show below in Fig 4.
Though the top themes seem overwhelmingly anti-GMO, the top 3 tweets during this timeframe are pro-GMO. As we'll see below, this is a potential sign of echo chambers coming into action.
Measuring influence is not deterministic. It's a subjective task with numerous different methodologies and is generally ephemeral in nature.
'engagement influence' by measuring quality and quantity of engagements (RTs, mentions, replies), reach of tweets etc. within the context of an event or trend.
Right Relevance algorithmically mines social media at scale to produce a measure of influence per topic termed as 'topical influencers' or Tribes. Unstructured text, network analysis, social signals along with semantic data, ML, NLP are leveraged to produce two sets of information; a set of 'structured topics' (~50K) with semantic information and; a connected graph of scored ranked influencers for each of these structured topics we call 'topical influencers' or Tribes.
For e.g. 'genetically modified organisms' is a structured topic in the Right Relevance platform with the following metadata (Fig 5) returned by the RR Topics Metadata API of the RR API offering.
The top related topics include veganism, vegetarian diet, healthy eating, gluten free diet, nutrition among others.
Right Relevance also identified ~4K scored ranked set of GMO influencers on Right Relevance. The top 5 are listed in Fig 6 below.
Fig 7 provides a connected graph view of the top 30 influencers for 'GMOs.
The graph view is available via the Right Relevance Enterprise dashboard.
We apply several methods including PageRank and Betweeness centrality to measure the quality and quantity of engagements (RTs, mentions, replies), reach of tweets, connections etc. within the context of an event or trend. This leads to a measure of Influence based on engagements, which is temporal in nature. We call the communities detected in this manner as Flocks considering the temporal contextual aka flocking nature of the behavior.
The several ways of ranking within this methodology are documented at Twitter Conversation Performance Measures.
The first two lists (Fig 8) are of the top 30 accounts by Overall & PageRank measures. Overall rank is a normalized rank to reduce the skew towards users with large numbers of followers or a single tweet having a large number of engagements/RTs (often referred to as becoming 'viral').
Both measures bring out @NonGMOProject, @GMWatch, @FarmFairyCrafts, @MonsantoCo, @realDonaldTrump, @DrThomasPaul, @HealthRanger as the top accounts. @RachelsNews, @saul42 and @kevinfolta are the main users bubbled up by the top overall measure.
@realDonaldTrump and @CNN don't have much to do with GMOs per se but still have a high rank due to the virality of a 1 or 2 tweets and/or high followers count. The high ranking of these accounts clearly show the susceptibility of PageRank to high followers count or high reach (RT etc.) of one tweet. Donald Trump's presence is explained by the inauguration falling during this timeframe along with the extremely high reach (followers) of this account. CNN's popularity is both due to the extremely high reach along with the virality of the tweet in Fig 9.
The top overall measure, in spite to the normalized nature, didn't bring up many new users to the top. This is possibly another clue of the echo chamber nature of the conversations and top heaviness of the total users involved.
Connectors list is based on Betweeness centrality, which is a measure of the degree to which a node forms a bridge or critical link between all other users. We use this as a measure of influence wrt value in being information and/or communication hubs.
The first thing to notice is how this list is very different compared to PageRank and Overall measures. Most of the well-known high followers count unrelated accounts like Donald Trump and CNN are absent. All the top accounts like @GMWatch, @RachelsNews, @FarmFairyCrafts, @NonGMOProject, @kimberlymontse1 are anti-GMOs and seem like big hubs of information dissemination for that.
The value of this measure lies in that it bubbles up accounts with influence in terms of news and information dissemination in this subject.
Another view to understand influence is to plot reach (followers) against a normalized measure we call rank. This is another great way to dampen pure follower based metrics and to bring out users that hold more sway within the community itself.
We had to trim @GMWatch, @FarmFairyCrafts and @NonGMOProject since they were off the charts wrt both reach (audience/voice) but especially rank (authority) to enable us to show the other users more clearly.
High followers count accounts like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates, Reuters Top News, President Obama, Bernie Sanders, Engadnet, Aj Jazeeram Huffington Post, CNN, Donald Trump etc. have extremely high Reach (audience) as expected but are either below or very close to the line diving Reach from Rank. Their influence in the GMOs space is marginal at best but when they do speak they get a substantial audience as expected.
Activists, Bloggers and GMO-related user accounts like GMWatch, Non GMO Project, Farm Fairy Crafts, Monsanto, Dr. Thomas Paul, HealthRanger, 8extremes, Rachel, Seattle March SEA etc., have much higher Rank. They've managed to gain a lot of traction in GMOs subject even with relatively far lower Reach (in terms of followers). This is probably because they are early movers and/or tightly integrated in this subject's community.
Flocks are people engaging in conversations around events esp. in context of a specific subject, which is 'GMOs' and related terms in this case. This "flocking" can lead to building of temporal communities with local influence that can lead to virality not obvious by the standalone influence of the individuals or without the context of the event.
One interesting fact is that engagement with Monsanto of anti-GMO is so high, it has been pulled into the anti-GMO side of the mentions graph.
Several viable flocks came up via graph analysis and visible in the Gephi graph. We'll outline 4 primary ones. Please email biz@rightrelevance.com for access to more in-depth analysis.
The flock names below are named on the user/account with most PageRank in the flock.
The 1st flock, tagged 'FarmFairyCrafts', forms an active community with primary focus on organic food, boycotting GMOs and Monsanto, labeling GMO products as seen by the trending terms in Fig 12.
The main push seems to be boycotting GMO products and promoting healthy and sustainable living including eating healthy, organic and non-GMO foods. Related hashtags (#righttoknow, #monsanto, #boycott, #organic) and topics (GMOs, Monsanto, veganism, gardening, nutrition, sustainable living, agriculture, healthy living, healthy eating etc.) (Figure 12) doubly confirm the focus of conversations for this community.
The top users for this flock have a healthy overlap with the top users as found by betweenness centrality (connectors) & Reach Vs Rank measures. This view provides more context around the areas of their influence and the topics of conversations they engage in.
Fig 14 is a snapshot of the 'FarmFairyCrafts' flock sub-graph.
'GMWatch' is another non/anti-GMOs flock with primary focus on Monsanto, studying GMOs effect, food safety along with a fairly big overlap with the 'FarmFairyCrafts' focused on organic and healthy non-GMO food. This seems like a more science, education and environmental activism heavy flock opposing GMOs.
The set of related hashtags are mostly same as the 'FarmFairyCrafts' flock above. The Right Relevance related topics have some distinct topics like ecology, permaculture, environment, environmentalism, food security etc. that show the slightly different focus though food and health remain a major theme.
The users also have a big overlap with 'farmFairyCrafts' but top users like Non-GMO Project, GMWatch, GMO Free USA are more anti-GMO activism, education and science information based accounts.
Figure 17 is the Gephi graph snapshot of the 'GMWatch' flock sub-graph.
Top user 'Science March – SEA' is an account to promote a pro science march in Seattle on April 22nd. Other top users like Kevin Folta, C. S. Prakash, Genetic Literacy, JM Mulet, Val Giddings, Keith Kloor, Stephan Neidenbach, Kavin Senapathy, Council for Biotechnology Information and mem_somerville are scientists, academics, educational sites, journalists, corporates in the biotechnology, genomics, agriculture science etc. areas with expertise in GMOs.
Looking at the graph snapshot in Fig 20, the engagements seem concentrated mostly within the flock with light interactions outside the related sub-communities. This is a sign of an echo chamber whereby the pro-GMO message is not reaching beyond the existing pro-GMO community.
We'll leave the analysis of this flock to the readers with the following graph snapshot in Fig 21 as a clue.
The 'trutherbotgray' flock, basically a series of anti-GMO bot accounts, has its own echo chamber with a vast majority of engagements within members of the flock. It does not have any real penetration in the overall GMOs conversations as observed from the complete graphs in Figure 1 and 2.
Twitter is a source of vibrant GMOs (and related terms) conversations with extremely well defined communities, influential users and critical discussions.
Easily identifiable and deeply partisan pro-GMO and anti-GMO communities with each having its own echo chamber.
Anti -GMO communities seem to be winning the information war on Twitter.
Anti-GMO communities seem to have greater diversity along with broader reach.
Both communities seem top heavy with a select set of users driving the conversations. This along with the echo chambers formed needs more analysis.
Please contact biz@rightrelevance.com for more details.


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Court finds Apple guilty of stealing Nokia and Sony's ring-silencing patent for its iPhone
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Apple asked to pay $3 million for patent infringement
Apple has lost a patent infringement law suit to patent licensing entity, Mobile Media Ideas LLC and has been ordered to pay $3 million in damages to the company, reported Ars Technica.
A Delaware federal jury on Wednesday ruled that Apple had infringed a patent, owned by Maryland-based MobileMedia Ideas LLC, for ring-silencing technology on mobile phones.
Apple apparently infringed MobileMedia's Patent No. RE 39,231, which is related to ring-silencing features on mobile phones. In 1994, Sony patented a method for users to control incoming calls on a mobile phone, whereby an alert sound would be either stopped, or the sound would reduce after the initial loud alert during certain user actions or as a result of user operations with the phone.
MobileMedia Ideas LLC, owned by Nokia, Sony and IP rights management firm MPEG LA, has been fighting a war since 2010 to get it legally declared that Apple has infringed Patent No. RE 39,231, together with 15 other patents, in its iPhone line of smartphones.
In 2012, the court made the first decision against Apple wherein it found the electronics giant infringing only four patents, which included call alerts, call handling, call rejection and the phone's camera. However, in 2015, Apple appealed again and an appeals court dismissed three of the patents but sent back the fourth patent (call silencing) to be reviewed by the courts.
This led to another trial in which Apple argued that the telephone ring patent was invalid because it was too vague. However, the federal court of Delaware disagreed, and decided that Apple was indeed guilty of infringing the patent on September 21.
Even though the $3 million verdict is hardly going to make an impact on Apple, it is likely that Apple will not take this lying down either and will appeal to the Federal Circuit.. On the other hand, this verdict is not a huge win for MobileMedia Ideas LLC, who was reportedly seeking $18 million in royalties from the trial.
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I am doing a very basic study, asking for the mass constraint fit for the Ds(2317)+, and plotting the full truth match value of mass and momentum, and the the combinatorial with "best" pid selection. When I run a similar decay chain, but no gammas were involved, the macro was running quickly. Now I have the same number of chain steps, but with photons. The speed of macro becomes worse and worse especially if I apply some selection cuts (e.g., I require for photons that the maximum candidate per event should not be larger than 100, or the momentum should be >0.150 GeV/c, in order to reduce noisy-gammas).
Just to give some numbers: to run a similar decay, but only charged particles got involved: 5000 events --->~4 hours (analysis macro, only); in this new case: in 4 hours I get 600 events only...is this a known problem or am I doing something really wrong here? Do you have by chance any suggestion how to modify this macro in order to run it faster? I attach my very simple macro to this email. There are many histograms initialized here, but only few of them are filled. I had to exclude many, because of problem with time.


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2017 Eminem Is Basically Rachel Maddow In A Hoodie
My God this is depressing.
The once artistically relevant hip-hop artist Eminem has caused quite the stir in establishment liberal circles today. Corporate Democrats across America are currently squealing with delight over a viral freestyle Marshall Mathers recently aired on the BET Hip-Hop Awards, in which he denounced the sitting president in a way that is indistinguishable from the innocuous neoliberalism-friendly criticisms leveled by the likes of Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Peter Daou.
In what is without a doubt the single whitest thing that has ever happened, Clintonist McResistance millionaire Keith Olbermann publicly praised Eminem's performance with the ejaculation that after 27 years of doubts about rap he is now a fan, adding, "Best political writing of the year, period. [clapping emoticons] #Eminem2020".
It's unclear why Olbermann singled out the seemingly arbitrary year of 1990 as the beginning of his rap skepticism. Equally perplexing is his inability to appreciate an immensely rich musical genre full of brilliant artists until he saw a caucasian man expressing opinions that can be heard daily on MSNBC. But it is not at all confusing why Olbermann found this particular piece appealing.
Just like every other pro-establishment corporate liberal partisan hack, Mathers voiced support for Colin Kaepernick only in the context of opposing Donald Trump, without saying a single word about the police brutality against African Americans which Kaepernick has been protesting.
Just like every other pro-establishment corporate liberal partisan hack, Mathers gave "props" to Wall Street crony and drone bombing king Barack Obama, decried the way Trump "tormented" and "slandered" Hillary Clinton, defended bloodthirsty neocon John McCain, invoked the "deplorable" pejorative of the Clinton campaign, and said he loves the US military.
Just like every other pro-establishment corporate liberal partisan hack, Mathers had nothing to say against the system which forced a nation to choose between an obnoxious billionaire reality TV star and a corrupt warmongering neocon under FBI investigation, nothing to say about how none of the evils Trump facilitates originated with Trump, and nothing to say about the way America's elected officials are essentially lackeys for an unelected plutocracy which thrives on a paradigm of economic injustice which hurts minorities and other disadvantaged groups worst of all.
There was once a time when Eminem was widely considered a legit artist and countercultural icon. In 2017, he's just Rachel Maddow in a hoodie.
Mathers wrapped up his embarrassing display of oligarchic sycophantry with the following verse:
And any fan of mine who's a supporter of his
I'm drawing in the sand a line: you're either for or against
And if you can't decide who you like more and you're split
On who you should stand beside, I'll do it for you with this:
Wow, like, boom. That's some dangerous wordcraft you're wielding there, Marshall. Be careful you don't cut yourself on all that edge.
I'm not including the above video by Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson because I agree with him ideologically, but because, in this particular instance, he is absolutely right. Watson is humiliatingly, infuriatingly correct when he says that conservatism has become the new counterculture because pro-establishment liberalism has become the dominant culture in western society. Corporate fauxgressivism is now the official ideology of the mainstream music industry, Hollywood, social media providers and other key areas of cultural influence, which is why you're now seeing Eminem regurgitating CNN talking points with pasty old oligarchic stalwarts cheering him on. If a young man wants to find something that'll piss off his parents and teachers, he'll now have much better odds looking to the Kekistanis on 4chan than to any famous hip-hop artist.
I'm not saying it's a good thing that conservatism has become the new counterculture, I'm just saying it's true. The corporate liberals are winning the culture war, the anti-establishment conservatives are winning the counterculture war, and meanwhile those of us who are on the actual left side of the political spectrum are sitting out in the cold while our presidential candidate gets one percent of the popular vote.
This has got to change. As long as the true left is allowing itself to be shouted down into silence and submission by the dominant mainstream liberal culture, we'll be lost in the margins while the establishment Democrats duke it out with the right-wingers. Nobody wins in that battle. If you recognize the status quo as bullshit and partisan politics as a farce, speak up! Make noise! Make art — for fuck's sake, please make art! And when they try to shout you down, shout louder! Speak your truth like you mean it, and say it like you're right, because you are.
Don't settle for Eminem, please. Let's create a real counterculture and usher in something fresh.
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PCA to weigh in on challenge to Vattenfall panel
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In a break from recent practice, ICSID has agreed to seek a non-binding opinion from the Permanent Court of Arbitration regarding Germany's attempt to disqualify the three arbitrators hearing its high-profile dispute with Swedish nuclear investor Vattenfall - in the wake of a complaint by the state that ICSID secretary-general Meg Kinnear prejudged the merits of the pending challenge. According to Investment Arbitration Reporter, ICSID agreed this week to solicit an opinion from the PCA after Germany...
Verhoosel resigns after ICSID challenge
Three Crowns partner Gaëtan Verhoosel has resigned from an ICSID tribunal hearing a claim against Peru over an airport concession after being challenged by the state. Tribunal chair Lucinda Low of the US and Peru's appointee, Jose Emilio Nunes Pinto of Brazil, consented to Verhoosel's resignation on 22 January, according to the ICSID website. A week earlier, Peru had applied to disqualify Verhoosel as the arbitrator appointed by the claimants, Peruvian-registered Kuntur Wasi and its Argentine shareholder...
Details of ICSID claim against Rwanda come to light
Two US companies are claiming more than US$95 million in an ICSID arbitration against Rwanda over the cancellation of mining concessions, it has emerged. Boston-based claimants Bay View Group and Spalena Company filed their claim in June last year under the 2008 US-Rwanda bilateral investment treaty. While public information about the case was scarce at the time it was filed, more details have emerged in documents published by ICSID this week, including the claimants' 2017 notice of intent and an...
Nigeria wins reprieve to contest mega-award in London
UPDATED: The Commercial Court in London has ruled that Nigeria should be permitted to present arguments against the enforcement of a US$9 billion arbitral award despite having missed a filing deadline - citing the size of the damages and the "major impact" it could have for the country's citizens and tax payers among other factors. Mr Justice Bryan gave an oral judgment on 21 December granting Nigeria's request for relief from sanctions over its failure to acknowledge service of the enforcement proceedings...
Service on states can't be bypassed, UK court holds
London's Commercial Court has partially set aside an order to enforce an award against Libya, holding that it cannot dispense with requirements for service of proceedings on a foreign state even in the "exceptional circumstances" of Libya's civil unrest. In a decision dated 18 January, Lord Justice Males found that English procedural rules allowing courts to dispense with service "cannot override" the requirement in the UK State Immunity Act 1978 that service of court proceedings against foreign...
Yukos bankruptcy denied recognition in the Netherlands
The Dutch Supreme Court has confirmed that a Russian judgment declaring the bankruptcy of Yukos should be denied recognition on public policy grounds, ending a long-running battle for control of the Russian oil company's international assets. In a decision dated 18 January, the court upheld a 2017 ruling by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal that the Russian authorities had deliberately sought to bankrupt the oil company. The ruling means that the Dutch courts will not recognise the authority of Yukos'...
Rwandan state entity takes investor to ICSID
In a rare example of an ICSID arbitration commenced against an investor, a Rwandan state-owned entity has brought a claim against the operator of a one-of-a-kind power plant on one of Africa's Great Lakes. ICSID yesterday registered the contractual claim by the Rwandan government-owned Energy Utility Corporation Limited (EUCL) against KivuWatt, a Rwandan subsidiary of London-listed ContourGlobal. EUCL is represented by London-based law firm Joseph Hage Aaronson, while KivuWatt is using Three Crowns....
ICSID compiles responses to proposed rule changes
ICSID has published a compendium of public comments on its proposed amendments to the centre's rules. The 458-page compendium, published today on the ICSID website, brings together comments on proposals unveiled in a working paper last August, which ICSID has called the most far-reaching amendments to its rules in over 50 years. ICSID says the proposals are aimed at modernising the rules governing arbitration, conciliation, mediation and fact-finding. They cover issues including transparency, appointment...
EU countries to cancel BITs post-Achmea
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With the addition of private shared channels, Slack looks to broaden its external collaboration tools. However, interoperability issues still nag team collaboration apps.
To access private Slack shared channels, users need to be invited to view or join the channel, and any content shared in the channel won't appear in search results to non-members.
Nemertes Research analyst Irwin Lazar said his firm's upcoming unified communications and collaboration study found that nearly 20% of organizations plan to use or are already using team collaboration apps for external communication with partners, suppliers and customers -- an increase from last year's study.
"There are still issues to overcome, like whether or not the external participant needs to archive the conversations," Lazar said.
Slack's private shared channels allow organizations to collaborate with external users.
While the beta boosts external collaboration for Slack users, it doesn't address the need for interoperability among team collaboration apps.
"Until social networking supports cross-product communication, communication with people that use different products will remain a challenge," Lepofsky said.
"This is common in the consumer space, where people routinely use multiple text and social apps for communication, but it creates governance and compliance headaches within enterprises," Lazar said.
How would Slack's private and public shared channels support external collaboration for your organization?


by Dr. Constance Chen M.D.
National Cancer Institute statistics indicate that about 12% of women in the general population will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. One of the most important factors that increase's a woman's risk is an inherited mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene that prevents the gene from performing its proper function, which is to produce proteins that help suppress tumors. Women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation have a much higher lifetime risk for breast cancer, and much of the risk occurs at a younger age.
Experts do not agree on the exact statistics for women with genetic mutations because different studies of families with BRCA and other mutations have identified different lifetime risks. Other gene mutations that increase breast cancer risk for women include PALB2, CHEK2, ATM, PTEN, TP53, CDH1, and STK11. There are also women with a very strong family history of breast cancer who may have yet unidentified non-BRCA genetic mutations that can seek genetic counseling to help determine their breast cancer risk. Factors that increase risk include a strong family history of breast cancer, particularly in a mother, daughter, or sister diagnosed before age 50; Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, previous radiation to the breast, and a personal history of certain abnormalities in the breast tissue that are markers of increased risk such as atypical ductal hyperplasia or lobular carcinoma-in-situ.
Breast reconstruction following prophylactic mastectomy can be done during or shortly after the mastectomy or it can be done months or even years later. A new breast can be formed with artificial implants or with the woman's own tissue, in a procedure known as autologous reconstruction.
The primary advantage of implants is that the reconstructive surgery is easier and faster. Implants are not a permanent solution, however, as they are foreign bodies that can cause various cosmetic and medical problems. Although implants in the United States have a ten-year warranty, many have to be removed or replaced well before that. For women who opt for implants, Dr. Chen will often place implants above the pectoral muscle using cohesive gel implants, which are a new type of implant that is softer than a saline implant and hold their shape better than a traditional silicone gel implant.
Autologous reconstruction provides the longest-lasting results and the highest levels of patient satisfaction. Since they are made of the patient's own tissue, the restored breasts are soft, warm, and look and feel more natural than implants. The most advanced type of reconstruction, called "perforator flap" breast reconstruction, uses microsurgical techniques to preserve the underlying muscle at the donor site while carefully transferring fat and skin along with a blood supply to create a new breast. Perforator flap surgery most often uses tissue from the abdomen but the thigh also serves as a donor site, usually when the abdomen is not serviceable.


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Politischer Bezirk Perg är ett distrikt i Österrike.   Det ligger i förbundslandet Oberösterreich, i den nordöstra delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Wien. Antalet invånare är . Arean är  kvadratkilometer.

Terrängen i Politischer Bezirk Perg är kuperad åt nordost, men åt sydväst är den platt.

Politischer Bezirk Perg delas in i:
 Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis
 Arbing
 Bad Kreuzen
 Baumgartenberg
 Dimbach
 Grein
 Katsdorf
 Klam
 Langenstein
 Luftenberg an der Donau
 Mauthausen
 Mitterkirchen im Machland
 Münzbach
 Naarn im Machlande
 Pabneukirchen
 Perg
 Rechberg
 Ried in der Riedmark
 Saxen
 Schwertberg
 Sankt Georgen am Walde
 Sankt Georgen an der Gusen
 Sankt Nikola an der Donau
 Sankt Thomas am Blasenstein
 Waldhausen im Strudengau
 Windhaag bei Perg

Omgivningarna runt Politischer Bezirk Perg är en mosaik av jordbruksmark och naturlig växtlighet. Runt Politischer Bezirk Perg är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.  Trakten ingår i den hemiboreala klimatzonen. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är maj, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är mars, med  mm nederbörd.

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Wild sign defenceman Spurgeon to 7-year, $53M extension
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The Minnesota Wild signed defenceman Jared Spurgeon to a $53.025 million, seven-year extension Saturday that will begin next season and go through the 2026-27 season.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild signed defenceman Jared Spurgeon to a $53.025 million, seven-year extension Saturday that will begin next season and go through the 2026-27 season.
The deal carries an annual value of $7.575 million.
The 29-year-old Spurgeon set career highs last season of 14 goals, 29 assists, 152 shots on goal, 91 hits and 82 games played. He led the Wild with 145 blocked shots and was second behind Ryan Suter in time on ice with an average of 24:09 per game.
The 5-foot-9, 166-pound Spurgeon was drafted in the sixth round in 2008 by the New York Islanders, but the Wild signed him as a free agent before the 2010-11 season.
He has blossomed into one of the team's indispensable players, ranking in the top 20 among NHL defencemen over the last four years in goals, power play goals, blocked shots and time on ice.
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Country Gift Ideas>Gifts>Ancient India Education
Ancient India Education
India has a rich tradition of learning and education right from the antiquity. The excavation of the sites of Indus valley civilization has brought to our notice the prevalence of written script that suggests people of that time had sufficient knowledge and education must have played a huge part in shaping up their lives. Unfortunately, the script of that time has not been deciphered, so nothing can be told more about the education system prevalent during the Indus Valley Civilization.
It was around 1500 BC, when the Aryans settled in Gangetic valley more elaborate system of education got evolved. The Hindu religion also evolved at this time and the compilation of the Vedas took place.
Initially the four Vedas were orally passed on from one generation to the other, but later they were written down.
It was the knowledge of acoustics that enabled ancient Indians to orally transmit the Vedas from generation to generation. The Rig Veda, the main religious and socio-economic text of Hindus was written between 1300 and 1100 BC.
Institutional form of imparting learning came into existence in the early centuries of the Christian era. The approach to learning was to study logic and epistemology. The study of logic was followed by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. In the field epistemology, Jains contributed the most.
Education in ancient India centred on three simple processes; Sravana, Manana and Niddhyaasana. Sravana was listening to the truths as they fell from the lips of the teacher. Knowledge was technically called Sruti or what was heard by the ear and not what was seen in writing was the essence of Sarvana.
The second process of knowledge was Manana that implies that the pupil has to think out for himself the meaning of the lessons imparted to him orally by his teacher so that they may be assimilate fully.
The third step was known as Nidhyasana meaning complete comprehension by the pupil of the truth that is taught so that he may live the truth and not merely explain it by words.
In ancient India the objective of knowledge was that it must result in realization of truth. The admission was made by the formal ceremony Upanayana or initiation by which the pupil left the home of his natural parents for that of the preceptor to gain knowledge. In this new home he had a second birth and was called Dvijya or twice-born.
Institutional Form of Education in Ancient India
The institutional form of education was first imparted through the Guru-Sishya system of learning. The training of the students took place at the home of a Brahmin teacher. The relationship between the student and the teacher was most important in shaping up the entire education process. In some texts, the teacher is depicted as the poor ascetic and it is the duty of the student to beg for his teacher.
In ancient India, the aim of education was to develop the pupil's personality, his innate and latent capacities as a process of one's inner growth and self-fulfilment. This view of education evolved its own technique, its rules, methods and practices.
The family functioned as a domestic school, an Asrama or a hermitage. Here, the teacher's constant attention and personal instruction developed the mental faculties of the students. The first lesson that was taught to the student was the performance of sandhya and also the reciting of gayatri mantra.
Education was treated as a matter of individual concern and not a method of mass production. The thinking principle or Manana Shakti was reckoned as most important subject of education in ancient India. The training of the mind and the process of thinking were essential for the acquisition of knowledge. Hence the primary focus of education was the mind itself.
The most important topic of Indian thought was Pramana or means of reliable knowledge. The Nyaya schools upheld four Pramanas – perceptions, analogy or comparison, word (Sabda), and pronunciation of Vedas as reliable knowledge. The Vedanta school later added one more to it i.e. intuition.
Ancient Indian education system postulated syllogism and recognized logic such as reduction and absurdum, circular argument, infinite regression, dilemma, and ignorance. There were not only two possibilities of existence and non-existence but seven according to ancient Indian education system and conceded that the world is more complex and subtle than we think.
Advanced Learning Institute in Ancient India
There were special institutions for the promotion of advance learning and research in ancient India. These were called as Brahmana-Sangha or Congress of philosophers in the Rig Veda.
In the Brahmana Sangha, academies, called Parisads, held learned discussions in refined Sanskrit to express their highest thoughts. In the Upanishads, there is a reference to the Pancala Parisad in whose proceedings even kings participated.
The codification of Brahmanical philosophy was done under the direction of the master philosopher, Yajnavalkya, after elaborate discussion at the Brahmana-Sangha.
There was equality between the sexes at the Brahmana-Sangha. The Rig Veda mentions women Rais called Brahmanavadinis participating in Brahmana Sangha. A lady- philosopher named Gargi was a prominent participant in the deliberations that finds special mention, besides men like Uddalaka Arni is also mentioned of taking part in the discussions.
Theses learning were also prompted by discussions at public meetings which were a regular feature of the rural life in ancient India. It was addressed by wandering scholars known as Carakas. These scholars toured the country to deliver public discourses and invited discussion with the local people.
Method of Teaching in Ancient India
The teacher would instruct handful of students seated on ground. At the beginning the main subject studied was to be the Vedas. For many hours daily students would repeat verses after verses of the Vedas till they attain mastery of at least one of them. To ensure correctness of memory, the hymns were taught in more than one way.
Soon the curriculum was expanded and six Vedangas were then taught – the performance of sacrifice, correct pronunciation, knowledge of prosody, etymology, grammar, and the science of calendar were the topics of study.
In the post-Vedic era, teachers often instructed their Brahmin students in the six schools of Philosophy. The writers of Smritis maintain that young women of upper class underwent this kind of training. Princes and other leading Kshatriyas were trained in all the manifold sciences to make them fit for government. Education was barred for the lower rung of the society and boys learned the trade through their fathers, while girls remain uneducated.
Centres of Learning in Ancient India
There were many places in ancient India that is associated with learning. Some of the centres of learning turned into towns and prominent among them were places like Varanasi, Taxila from the day of Buddha and Kanchi in the beginning of the Christian era.
Varanasi was famous for its religious teachings. At Varanasi there were about 500 students and a number of teachers. There were also universities at Taxila and Ujjain. They were centres for learning medicine, mathematics and astronomy. In the south Kanchi became an important center of learning. Then there was Vallabhi, Nalanda and Vikramashila.
Taxila was known for its secular studies. Some cities became renowned because of their teachers. Among the famous men connected with Taxila was Panini, the grammarian of the fifth century B.C. It is interesting to note that in Taxila even married people were admitted as students. A Jataka story tells of how a teacher of Taxila treated well the students who paid him money while keeping other waiting.
There were other learned persons like Charaka who was one of the leading authorities of Indian medical sciences. Kautilya, the Brahmin minister of Chandragupta Maurya was an expert in political science.
The ancient text Smritis maintains that a small number of students use to study under a single teacher; however this was not a rule. The whole establishment was maintained by charitable people. Ideally, the teacher took no fee, but the students repaid his debt by their service to the teacher.
Nalanda University – Ancient Universities of India
Among the seats of learning in ancient India, the University at Nalanda stands tall in every aspect. Nalanda University attracted students not only from different parts of India but also from Tibet, China, Korea and Central Asia.
Nalanda University had imposing structures in its sprawling campus. There were eight colleges in the campus each built in different patterns. One of the colleges was built by Sri Vijaya, the king of Sumatra. According to Hiuen-Tsang, one of the colleges had four storeyed high structure.
Every facility existed for studying various kinds of subjects at the Nalanda University. As per Tibetan records; there were three great libraries in the University at Nalanda.
The standard of examination was very stiff at Nalanda University. For all those who sought admissions, a prescribed entrance test was held at the University gates. Only candidates who could pass the test were admitted to the University. Also, for admissions, candidates were required to be familiar with the title and authors of old and new books.
Nalanda University was one of the earliest examples of residential cum-teaching institutions. It housed thousands of monks devoted to learning, philosophy and meditation. Over 10,000 students including teachers lived and studied at the university. They came from various parts of the world.
Though Nalanda was primarily a Buddhist university its curricula included Hindu scriptures, philosophy and medicine. According to Hiuen-Tsang, since students were expected to enter into dialogue with visiting scholars, logic and exegetics were preeminent subjects. This compulsion of public debate made both teachers and students become familiar with all systems of thought in accurate summary.
The Nalanda University had also succession of brilliant teachers. Dharmapala was a Tamil noble from Kanchi. Janamitra come from another country. Silabhadra, the saintly guru of Hiuen-Tsang, came from Assam.
A great achievement of the University was that it was able to continuously rejuvenate Buddhism in far off countries. Tibetan records mention a succession of learned monks from Nalanda University who visited their country. It is also mentions that Sudhakara Simha went to China and worked there on the translation of Buddhist texts.
The education system in ancient India was very rich in terms of human development and contributed to the growth of Indian civilization. The idea of Indian civilization continued to flourish as India transcended its journey from Ancient to Medieval to Modern times.
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for apparel were 190.58% higher in 2019 versus 1955 (a $11,434.60 difference in value).
Between 1955 and 2019: Apparel experienced an average inflation rate of 1.68% per year. In other words, apparel costing $6,000 in the year 1955 would cost $17,434.60 in 2019 for an equivalent purchase. Compared to the overall inflation rate of 3.57% during this same period, inflation for apparel was lower.
Therefore, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, $6,000 in 1955 has the same "purchasing power" as $17,434.60 in 2019 (in the CPI category of Apparel).


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By: Trevor Loudon | The Epoch Times
On the final day of the World Anti Imperialist Congress on Jan. 24 in Caracas, Venezuela, American communists watched as President Nicolas Maduro was awarded the Order of Lenin.
The "prestigious" award was bestowed by a group of Russians led by Yaroslav Listov—head of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on youth policy.
"We all have Lenin in our hearts. This is a commitment. A revolutionary commitment to build socialism in the 21st century," said the Russian comrades as they handed the medal to President Maduro, according to U.S. Maoist publication FightBack! News.
The Order of Lenin was established in 1930 as the highest Soviet civilian honor. Most domestic recipients have been Communist Party leaders, heroes of labor, or sporting figures. Past foreign recipients of the medal have included Ramon Mercader, a Spanish Soviet intelligence agent and assassin of Leon Trotsky; Cuban dictator Fidel Castro; Luis Corvalan, the secretary-general of the Communist Party of Chile; Armand Hammer, an American businessman and sponsor of U.S. Sen. Albert Gore, Sr.; Kim Il-sung, the president of North Korea; and the infamous Kim Philby, a British/Soviet double agent.
Maduro's award of the Order of Lenin at this time, when Venezuela is under huge pressure from the Trump administration, was a show of both international communist solidarity and Russian government support. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the number two party in the Russian parliament after the United Russia Party and generally supports President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy.
It was also validation of U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams' early January statement to reporters:
"We underestimated the importance of the Cuban and Russian support of the regime, which has proved, I think, to be the two most important pillars of support for the regime and without which it wouldn't be there, it wouldn't be in power."
FightBack! News also reported on Maduro's defiant address to the gathering:
"With a Syrian professor and member of Ba'ath Party at his side, Maduro began with a story of a visit he had alongside Hugo Chavez to Syria when thousands of Syrians surrounded his vehicle in Damascus and lifted the car in celebration of a brave anti-imperialist leader. Maduro followed this with a declaration of solidarity to the Syrians for surviving an imperialist intervention.
"After a brief comment on the vicious brutality of the capitalist system, Maduro stated: 'It is here that we are the vanguard of a model of socialism, of anti-imperialism that will transform the world for humanity.' He followed with a quote in reference to the decline of U.S. Imperialism: 'Mao Zedong called U.S. Imperialism a paper tiger.' And that 'we will build the new world that is coming.'"
Between 800 and 1,500 delegates from over 50 countries attended the event hosted by Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
Diosdado Cabello, PSUV's first vice president, opened the conference highlighting the importance of "solidarity among the countries resisting U.S. hegemony and also among the peoples resisting neoliberalism," according to the Orinoco Tribune. Cabello criticized the recent U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, "which was followed by a standing ovation by more than 250 delegates from 51 countries."
U.S. Maoist grouping Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) sent three comrades to the event—"peace" activist Sarah Martin, and "immigrant rights" activist Brad Sigal, both from Minneapolis, plus Jim Byrne, an Arizona-based Tucson Education Association activist.
Martin, Sigal, and Byrne have all been active in the anti-Trump protest movement in their respective cities.
This was the fifth FRSO delegation to visit Venezuela since April 2019.
The FRSO delegation talked with several local and national Venezuelan socialist leaders from the PSUV. This included an interview with Gladys Requena, vice president of Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly and the vice president of the Women's Commission of the PSUV.
The FRSO delegation visited the Bolivarian University of Venezuela on Jan. 20, speaking to political science classes.
Said Sigal: "Students asked about the movements for change in our country. They definitely had the impression people are protesting Trump, and movements are growing stronger. They are excited that socialist ideas are becoming popular in the U.S."
The FRSO delegates also visited a free medical clinic at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela where they met some of the many Cuban doctors working in the country, as well as "anti-imperialist delegates from a range of Latin American countries."
At the end of the Congress, the "working groups of delegates presented their resolutions containing many statements of solidarity and their plans of international collaboration against imperialism," according to FightBack! News.
International communist activity, backed by Russia, China, and Cuba, is approaching Cold War levels. Much of this activity is now focused on protecting Venezuela, as it was directed at defending communist North Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. The fact that American communists are openly supporting the Russian-allied Maduro regime should be of major concern to U.S. authorities.
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics.
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Med Hypotheses. 2013 Dec;81(6):1159-63. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.09.035. Epub 2013 Oct 11.
Is copper chelation an effective anti-angiogenic strategy for cancer treatment?
Antoniades V1, Sioga A, Dietrich EM, Meditskou S, Ekonomou L, Antoniades K.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentristry, Aristotles University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece; Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical School, Aristotles University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Angiogenesis and the acquisition of an angiogenic phenotype is important for cancer cell proliferation. Copper in an essential trace element that participates in many enzymatic complexes like the cytochrome c, superoxide dismutase and lysyl oxidase and it is involved in processes, like embryogenesis, growth, angiogenesis and carcinogenesis. In particular, its involvement in carcinogenesis was described for the first time in oral submucous fibrosis, where fibroblasts produce large amounts of collagen in the presence of copper. Copper's action in carcinogenesis is two-fold: (1) it participates in reactions with an increased redox potential that result in the production of oxidative products and oxidative stress. Through this mechanism, copper may cause DNA mutations in the nucleus and mitochondria or alterations to membrane phospholipids, (2) it participates in angiogenesis even in the absence of angiogenic molecules, as it was reported for the first time in rabbit cornea models with copolymer pellets charged with PGE1. Copper chelation regimens like penicillamine and tetrathiomolybdate are being described in the literature as having anti-angiogenic, anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory actions. Animal models of brain cancer that evaluated the anti-angiogenic properties of copper, have proven evidence of the reduction of tumor's microvascular supply, tumor volume and vascular permeability after plasma copper levels reduction. Interestingly, plasma copper levels reduction was shown to suppress micrometastases generation in mice models of breast cancer. We hypothesize that copper chelation therapy: increases oxidative stress in cancer cells to a level that does not allow survival because of the reduction of anti-oxidative enzymes production. It may also result in inhibition of angiogenesis and of the initiation of the angiogenic switch, because copper normally enhances endothelial cell migration and proliferation, improves binding of growth factors to endothelial cells and enhances the expression of angiogenic molecules. Copper chelation may also reduce extracellular matrix degradation and cancer spread, through reduction of MMP-9 production and probably of other collagenases and may inhibit propagation of micrometastases. However, copper chelation therapy may enhance angiogenesis through reduction of thrombospondin-1, that results into an increase in VEGF-VEGFR2 complexes and a high level of active MMP-9. These hypotheses help in understanding of the anti-angiogenic action of copper chelation therapies and of the complex network of interactions between copper and other molecules involved in angiogenesis. It may also stimulate further research regarding differences in copper metabolism, the effects of anti-copper regimens on organs, the development of resistance, and their possible angiogenic action through thrombospondin expression reduction.
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
10.1016/j.mehy.2013.09.035
Angiogenesis Inhibitors/pharmacology*
Chelation Therapy/methods*
Copper/metabolism*
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/physiology*
Matrix Metalloproteinase 9/metabolism
Models, Biological*
Neoplasms/drug therapy*
Neoplasms/physiopathology
Neovascularization, Pathologic/drug therapy*
Oxidative Stress/physiology
Cancer Chemotherapy - MedlinePlus Health Information
COPPER, ELEMENTAL - Hazardous Substances Data Bank


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 Сапёрный — посёлок, муниципальное образование в составе Колпинского района Санкт-Петербурга.
 Сапёрный — полуостров.
 Сапёрный — пруд в Санкт-Петербурге.

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Most self-employed persons have a more difficult time getting pre-approved for a mortgage. The ideal image of a borrower by most lenders is one who has a stable job and thus a consistent stream of income as part of a regular pay cheque. Self-employed individuals rarely have this luxury.
A respectable credit score will always provide a boost to your finances and enhance your chances of getting a good deal on your Canadian mortgage rate. However, self-employed individuals can benefit a great deal from a positive credit score – in some cases, a high score may even help them win the favour of some discriminating lenders. Therefore, keep close tabs on your credit. The better your score, the better your chances will be of getting the best mortgage rate, whether you're self-employed or employed full-time.
You need to be self-employed for a considerable period of time. Lenders are more apt to trust you with a mortgage as a self-employed borrower if you are able to show them your stability as a self-employed income-earner. Most lenders will require you to have at least a two-year track record working for yourself.
Your ability to provide sufficient documentation is also an important factor in getting a low mortgage rate. As much as possible, you need to be able to back up your income records with income statements and tax returns so you can qualify for a better mortgage rate.


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LETTER: Voters will settle impeachment debacle
President Trump was not working in the best interest of our nation when he spoke to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25.
He used veiled language to leverage public funds, withholding them for the purchase of defensive weapons needed to repel and contain Russian military forays into their country.
Trump was shrewd enough to be less than direct in making his request. The power dynamics between he and Zelensky allowed him to inflict doubt in Zelensky that he would receive funds unless he did Trump's bidding.
Trump was seeking a public announcement that Joe Biden and his son Hunter would be investigated as part of a wider campaign to expose corruption in Ukraine.
Trump, under the guise of aligning himself with the campaign to root out corruption and also ensuring that funds would be deployed only if Ukraine's new government could be trusted, cleverly aligned his political interests ahead of our nation's.
This was contrary to the will of Congress, and our national security was compromised. Furthermore, Trump obstructed the legal process by compelling White House officials not to testify. Simply put, Trump was up to no good. I can see it a mile away. He's guilty as sin.
However, this is my opinion. Along with the opinions of dozens of reliable and informed policy experts, foreign service bureaucrats, legal authorities, academics and military leaders, it is completely useless.
The framers of the Constitution organized the principles and procedures of impeachment as a last resort to jettison a president who has usurped constitutional rights from the people. Therefore, my only opinion that seems to fit here is that his removal should occur only if those thoughts stirring in the pit of my stomach can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
What if Trump was working to prequalify Zelensky to ensure the approved funds would end up in the hands of a government aligned with our national security?
What if Trump had a reasonable set of facts that would lead him to investigate the Bidens, not to benefit his political ambitions but assure integrity in our foreign policy? Who has the ability, or what science can be brought to bear, to reach into Trump's mind and know what his intentions were?
The Democratic House members have done an admirable job. They have brought a case forward to expose malicious intent that I subscribe to.
But I am equally impressed with the Republicans in both the House and Senate who are resisting the call to terminate a duly elected president.
Remarkably, the political divide has inserted an additional, reliable check-and-balance that was not written into the Constitution. Whether the case goes to trial or is dismissed by the Senate, the result will be that the voters will decide in November.
This is a painful chapter in our nation's history, but in the end the framers of the Constitution were brilliant enough to provide us with enough guideposts to lead to a conclusion.
If few people in Congress will vote their conscience, I surely will.
Joe D'Amore
Volodymyr Zelensky
Public And Administrative Law


She trained at the Birmingham Conservatory for classical training in between her first and second season at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Was the first woman of Indian descent to play a lead role in a Shakespearean piece on the main stage of the Stratford Festival in 51 years of the festival's history.
Got her first break at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival through an open call audition.
Born into the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism. She is one of the 150,000 Parsis in the world.
She and her husband, Carlo Rota have both appeared in 24 (2001), though in different seasons. Rota appeared as Morris O'Brian in seasons five to season, while Contractor played Kayla Hassan in the show's eighth and final season.


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Lib Dems welcome progress on Rotherhithe gridlock - but push for short-term changes
Local Liberal Democrats held discussions with Transport for London at City Hall this week to demand action to tackle the daily gridlock on Jamaica Road and the Rotherhithe peninsula.
Lib Dem councillors and representatives from Simon Hughes MP's office attended the talks on Tuesday (12 November), hosted by Leader of the GLA Liberal Democrats Caroline Pidgeon AM.
TfL used the meeting to discuss early ideas for changes at the roundabout after on-going complaints about queues going into Rotherhithe tunnel blocking access.
Local councillors have said they are pleased that action is finally being taken to look at this junction but expressed concern that work would not be done until 2015. As well as pushing TfL to do the work faster, they suggested ideas to ease the situation in the meantime.
Liberal Democrat councillors from Rotherhithe argued that right turns should be allowed from Lower Road into Surrey Quays Road as this would reduce the volume of traffic needed to come up and go around the roundabout.
And the Bermondsey Lib Dem councillors pushed TfL to look at the junctions on Jamaica Road, such as St James Road and Abbey Street, where there are currently no yellow boxes to stop cars entering when the road is blocked. They also asked TfL to look at allowing right hand turns into West Lane as this may help with some of the congestion.
The Liberal Democrat politicians also made the case for better safety for cyclists.
Summing up the meeting, Surrey Docks councillor David Hubber said:
"It's good news that TfL have started looking at new designs for the Rotherhithe roundabout. Local Liberal Democrats will continue to push them to take action sooner rather than later to get this problem dealt with. We are on the side of local residents and commuters who want to see this sorted out as soon as possible."


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Since 1974 Taylor Guitars have been crafting some of the most beautiful guitars in the world. Their attention to detail and focus on playability has seen the brand lauded as one of the best musical instrument manufacturers by leading musicians. 2015 saw the release of the gorgeous Grand Auditorium guitars and 2016 looks like another great year for the brand.
We spoke with Andy Powers, master luthier at Taylor, to discuss the new range of Taylor guitars released in 2015 and what the renowned manufacturers have up their sleeve for 2016 ahead of their NAMM appearance in January.
Earlier this year, Taylor introduced a limited run of Grand Auditorium guitars with tonewood options of quilted sapele, curly mahogany or blackheart sassafras. Could you go into a bit more detail about how these woods affect the tone of the guitar?
Each piece of wood is as unique as a fingerprint. This said, to a degree, woods can be generalized as if they fall on a continuum where working and sonic characteristics blend over into each other. These three distinct woods share some common musical traits-beautiful clarity, strong projection, a focused midrange.
Departing from their commonality, a player can hear an emphasized upper register brilliance from the sapele, a stronger low midrange warmth with the curly mahogany, and a more complex overtone component with the blackheart sassafras guitar. All three woods share a beautiful balance, with their own subtle distinctions. View the range of Taylor Grand Auditorium guitars here.
How has the recent update to the 900 Series improved the quality of these instruments?
The 900 series guitar has always been a luxurious instrument designed to inspire players. In the spirit of our desire to continuously improve our instruments, we took a fresh look at every detail of the 900 series guitars.
The aesthetic details to delight the eyes, the sonic attributes of new internal structures and construction methods, down to the tactile qualities of how the instrument feels to the player. All of these refinements were to enhance the player's musical experience by offering the most expressive instrument in every way.
How has the Taylor 300 series been expanded in 2016?
There have been a number of updates to all our guitars as we are dedicated to refining every instrument we produce. Two of the additions we are proud of are the 12 fret grand concert models as well as a dreadnought 12 string models. Both of these designs offer distinct and unique personalities to complement the music of a wide variety of musicians.
One other new attribute included in the 300 series line is the introduction of Tasmanian blackwood on the back and sides of our mahogany top models. Tasmanian blackwood has become one of my favourite tonewoods. It has a uniquely beautiful richness and complexity which complements nearly every playing style.
Could you give a run-down of what people can expect from Taylor at NAMM 2016?
Players can count on our dedication to making every instrument the very best it can be. They will see a selection of new models, notably a suite of unique 12 string guitars ranging from our largest body shape the grand orchestra, to our smallest grand concert. These different designs emphasize distinct aspects of a 12 string instrument and tailor the response to the varied playing approaches of guitarists.
As well, there are new 12 fret grand concert models throughout our line. Finally, there are significant changes in our 500 series guitars to further optimize the responsiveness and musicality of these mahogany instruments resulting in more volume, richness and projection than ever before.
How are these announcements unique compared to previous Taylor models?
In the past, we've focused more narrowly on a single series or model. This year, we've taken a more broad look at the instruments we are making and applied our efforts in refining each model to continue improving the musicality to enhance the artful experience of the players.
How do the new models at NAMM build upon what Taylor has done in the recent past?
We are fully committed to building the very best instruments we are capable of making, and doing it in a way that benefits both musicians and our forests. This year, that commitment is seen throughout all the instruments we offer. We recognize there are many varied approaches, styles, and musical tastes, and want to offer our best work to players of all backgrounds whose preferences lead toward different tonewoods and designs.
Lastly, how do you see the acoustic guitar industry progressing over the next 5-10 years?
I believe we'll see ever improving instruments as well as greater awareness and responsibility in caring for our forest resources. Now is a very exciting time to be a guitar maker and player. Never before has there been such blending of innovation, craftsmanship, and material awareness.
I firmly believe the guitar will continue to make strides forward into the future, as both builders and players challenge each other into reaching new musical heights. We are privileged and thankful to be part of the guitar's evolution.
To view the full range of Taylor guitars, click here to visit the Dawsons website.
Lee Glynn is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Liverpool, England. After moving to the UK from Perth, Australia, Lee enjoyed a successful career as guitarist in Liverpool based rock band Sound of Guns. After releasing two albums, a myriad of EPs / singles and touring extensively around the world for 6 years including stops at Glastonbury, Latitude Festival, as well as the coveted Reading & Leeds Festivals, Lee decided it was a time for a change of scenery. Utilising his experience in music journalism, Lee now works within the web team at Dawsons Music, where he can still relay his passion for music by producing great content for the Dawsons blog and social media. Lee is still an avid guitar player and writer.


This is the last of the photos donated and sponsored by Angela. Let's see if we recognise anyone from these.
Photo taken at Jeromes in Edinburgh. Is this Bertie again???
This photograph is now confirmed. Bertie Giulianotti, son of Joe Giulianotti and Susan Lam. With him is his wife Iris and their daughter Janice.
Yes, the last photo in this series is definitely Bert, Iris and Janice (Jan). Bert is the older son of Joe Giulianotti and Susan Lamb and still lives in Bedford, England. His younger brother, Fred, passed away a couple of years ago and both Iris and Jan passed away in the 1990s.
Note that in some of the other photographs, Joe's two sons are identified incorrectly as Raymond and Fred. In fact, they were Albert (Bert) and Fred. I believe Raymond was their cousin, younger son of Enrico Giulianotti and his wife, Bella. Raymond's older brother was also named Albert.


"The Bodega": breakfast sandwich with eggs, cheddar, house-made sausage on a sage black pepper buttermilk biscuit; turkey sandwich with green goddess dressing, lettuce, and tomato on a house-made kaiser roll; handmade smoked paprika mafaldine with braised rabbit, peas, and pecorino.
Originally from Philadelphia, the New York outpost of Ellen Yin and Eli Kulp's restaurant is open from morning to night, providing a respite from the chaos of Manhattan. No matter the hour, each visit should include bread from the exceptional in-house bakery. Whole loaves can be purchased to go, but we recommend sitting down for a breakfast sandwich like "The Forager," prepared with king trumpet mushrooms, sautéed kale, and eggs, or starting a dinner of "chicken in the woods" or vegetarian cauliflower steak, with an order of bread and butter.
Sustainability is front and center with the sourcing of ingredients from Pennsylvania and New York farms. Yin is also on the steering committee for a project called Food250, which aims to set goals for food accessibility, equity, sustainability, and hunger relief for the country's 250th birthday.


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Movie Review of 'Furry Vengeance' (2010)
Posted by Cal Knox | Dec 1, 2010 | Comedy | 0 |
The premise behind 2010's Furry Vengeance – a live-action cartoon featuring woodland mammals – is tolerable. However, the film is rendered insufferable due to its soulless, mean-spirited, moronic script as well as the repetitive, obnoxiously unfunny slapstick comedy, and the ill-conceived attempts to inject this cinematic stool sample with an environmental message. Furry Vengeance is a film with no redeeming qualities at all – it's the opposite of art, the opposite of entertainment, and the opposite of funny. It's not so bad it's good, but so bad that it'll make you lament how far Hollywood – and mankind in general – has fallen. If you reach the end of Furry Vengeance without being reduced to a depressed soul who has lost the will to live, it's impossible for you to be a sentient being.Dan Sanders (Fraser) is a dithering land developer who has moved to the middle of nowhere with his science teacher wife (Shields) and Jonas Brother clone son (Prokop). Trying to suck up to his boss Neal Lyman (Jeong), Dan reluctantly accepts the job of assuming control of a massive community expansion which necessitates the removal of all trees and wildlife from the area. Due to the demands of the plot, the animals become clued into Dan's plans. Determined to thwart his efforts, the animals declare war on Dan; tormenting and attacking him in secret, leaving his colleagues and family to assume he has lost his mind. Predictably, Dan has an epiphany towards the end of the film, as he realises that there's something wrong with demolishing a wildlife preserve and executing a bunch of animals. And the catalyst for Dan's epiphany is the sight of his raccoon nemesis with its family. Who knew raccoons were so monogamous and loving? This leads to a heartfelt apology to his family, an admonition of his boss, and a contrived career change.Without an ounce of hyperbole, it can be stated that Furry Vengeance is the most loathsome and moronic family film to hit cinemas in years. For goodness sake, the film consciously supports and encourages terrorism! It's apparently acceptable for the animals to murder if it means saving their habitat. In the film's opening moments, a land developer is sent careening off a cliff by the animals. Minutes later, a viewer gets treated to a disturbing photograph of a human corpse who has been bitten by a poisonous snake. Are you having a good time yet?! The animals are never cute or cuddly in this fucking awful movie, but instead outright monsters that are just as bad as the humans. Speaking of the humans, Dan is an absolute stiff and his wife is unsupportive and sassy. Dan's son, meanwhile, is an effeminate bitch of the highest order – he alters his perceptions to appease a girl he likes, and he complains like a 17-year-old slut unable to find her hair extensions. And Neal Lyman is a super-villain who flies around in a corporate jet with nothing but bad intentions. Everyone in this film is insufferable.Beyond the fact that Furry Vengeance is populated with unredeemable bastards, the film fails as a comedy as well. In order to generate "comedy", Dan is repeatedly bashed in the nutsack, and a raccoon takes a piss on his face. At one stage, a flock of birds machine-gun the forest-demolishing antagonists with runny, white globs of poo. This is all joyless, humourless slapstick, and every gag is repeated a couple of times just in case you missed it the first time around. This type of material constitutes a solid 80 minutes of the 90-minute runtime – the remaining 10 minutes or so are dedicated to arguments between Dan and his family, a soulless romance between Dan's son and a classmate, and an end credits montage wherein the cast frolics and sings along to a cover version of Cypress Hill's pop anthem Insane in the Brain. Meanwhile, the blend of CGI and live-action is appalling. At times the digital manipulation is decent, but this all breaks down during the scenes where there are a lot of animals – hardly anything looks real at all. One must feel sorry for Brendan Fraser, too, who is awkward and hopelessly out of shape with a pot belly. The only thing which can be said in the film's favour is that the director at least tried to make this bullshit palatable.One supposes that the intended moral of this empty, miserable, heartless cinematic abortion is the importance of forest and wildlife conservation. This notion is overshadowed, however, by the wrong-headed message that physical force and life-threatening violence is the answer for getting what you want. Furry Vengeance is also nothing more than another in the long line of family films which mistake stupidity for storytelling and noise for excitement. Children deserve far better than this dreadful movie, and they're far too smart for it. Furry Vengeance is an insult to anyone with a functioning brain. About midway through the movie, Dan's wife remarks "I just don't think this can get any worse." She was wrong.1.8/10
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