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Immunology/Hematology/Oncology
The Stem Cells and Immunotherapy course is designed to enhance the current knowledge of healthcare professionals on current and evolving clinical hematopoietic stem cell therapies to treat both genetic and acquired diseases.Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are derived from mesoderm and give rise to all the other blood cells. They are usually extracted from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation involves the intravenous infusion of autologous or allogeneic stem cells to reestablish hematopoietic function in patients whose bone marrow or immune system is damaged or defective.
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The Stem Cells and Immunotherapy course is designed to enhance the current knowledge of healthcare professionals on current and evolving clinical hematopoietic stem cell therapies to treat both genetic and acquired diseases.
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are derived from mesoderm and give rise to all the other blood cells. They are usually extracted from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation involves the intravenous infusion of autologous or allogeneic stem cells to reestablish hematopoietic function in patients whose bone marrow or immune system is damaged or defective. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantations are often performed to eliminate a bone marrow infiltrative process, such as leukemia, or to correct congenital immunodeficiency disorders. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation allows patients with cancer to receive higher doses of chemotherapy than the bone marrow can usually tolerate; bone marrow function is then salvaged by replacing the marrow with previously harvested stem cells.
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) provide an attractive target for immunotherapy of cancer and leukemia by the introduction of genes encoding T-cell receptors (TCRs) or chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) directed against tumor-associated antigens. HSCs engraft for long-term blood cell production and could provide a continuous source of targeted anti-cancer effector cells to sustain remissions. T cells produced de novo from HSCs may continuously replenish anti-tumor T cells that have become anergic or exhausted from ex vivo expansion or exposure to the intratumoral microenvironment. In addition, transgenic T cells produced in vivo undergo allelic exclusion, preventing co-expression of an endogenous TCR that could mis-pair with the introduced TCR chains and blunt activity or even cause off-target reactivity. CAR-engineered HSCs may produce myeloid and natural killer cells in addition to T cells expressing the CAR, providing broader anti-tumor activity that arises quickly after transplant and does not solely require de novo thymopoiesis. Use of TCR- or CAR-engineered HSCs would likely require cytoreductive conditioning to achieve long-term engraftment, and this approach may be used in clinical settings where autologous HSC transplant is being performed to add a graft-versus-tumor effect. Results of experimental and preclinical studies performed to are presented in this course.
Byrnes - Immunology of Stem Cell Transplantation
This unit provides the history and overview. It discusses graft sources, HLA System, HLA System wrt Graft Sources, Graft-Host Interaction, Roles for Mesenchymal Cells and the Future and iPS.
Byrnes - Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation
This unit reviews the history and currently accepted applications of autologous stem cell transplants. It surveys some of the applications of autologous stem cell transplant currently being explored in ongoing clinical trials. The unit examines some of the recent break-thru findings in preclinical studies that are likely to impact future clinical applications.
Maharaj - Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
The purpose of this unit is to understand what regenerative medicine is and what adult stem cells are. It will discuss which medical conditions may benefit from regenerative medicine and understand the sources of stem cells for regenerative medicine. This unit explains the clinical applications in Diabetes.
Cui - Immunology of Stem Cell Therapy
The unit describes the source of hematopoietic stem cells. It discusses the storage and manipulation of stem cells. It discusses the immunological reactions of graft vs host and Immunological reactions of host vs graft. The Present and future of xenotransplantation is covered.
Maharaj - Understanding the Basics of Cellular & Molecular Organization
The unit discusses the types and source of stem cells in peripheral blood. Their Specific Cell Surface Markers and Factors change their abundance in peripheral blood. It covers the role of peripheral blood derived stem cells in normal and pathological processes.
Porada - Hematopoietic Stem Cells
The concept of Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC), HSC phenotype, Testing the potential of HSC, Long-term and short-term engrafting HSC, Hematopoietic stem cell niches, Mobilization of HSC and the use of Cord blood derived HSC are discussed in this topic.
Lee - Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Cancer Treatment
The Microenvironment of a Cancer cell is described in this section. Mesenchymal Stem Cells Treatment and Clinical Studies are explained.
Maharaj - Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Tx Cancer in the Genomic Era
The purpose of this section is to understand Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. The treatment and Success for Cancer along with Cancer Prevention is discussed. This section also talks about harnessing the Power of the Immune System, Interfering with DNA repair Mechanisms, Altering the Tumor Microenvironment, Utilizing Metastasis Suppressor Gene Products and Attacking Cancer Stem Cells.
The source of hematopoietic stem cells and the storage and manipulation of stem cells are discussed. Immunological reactions of graft vs host and Immunological reactions of host vs graft are described. The Present and future of xenotransplantation are covered.
Cui - Natural Cancer Resistance in Mice and in Humans - Basis for a Novel Cancer Therapy
Cancer Resistance and a Clinical Study is covered in this section.
Maharaj - Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
The purpose of this section is to be familiar with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Allogeneic, Syngeneic, Autologous. The indications for stem cell transplant and complications of stem cell transplant are reviewed in this unit.
Lathia - Basics of Cancer Development
The purpose of this unit is to understand the role of environmental factors on the initiation of cancer. You will also understand the role of genetic mutations in the development of cancer. The viewer will become familiar with the major signaling pathways involved in tumorigenesis.
Lathia - Current Cancer Stem Cell Research - Moving to a Cure
The purpose of this unit is to understand the cancer stem cell hypothesis. With this, you will become familiar with how cancer stem cells contribute to a tumor and become familiar with cancer stem cell specific therapies.
Maharaj - Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation 2
This section will provide information on the indications for Transplantation. The phases of transplantation are discussed along with the symptoms.
Lathia - Laboratory Methods Commonly Used in Cancer Research
The purpose of this section is to become familiar with essential cancer research techniques and how basic techniques allow for the evaluation of cancer associated behaviors. You will be able to understand how new technology is contributing to cancer research.
Quiz - Immunology/Hematology/Oncology Quiz
Please answer the following questions regarding immunology, hematology and oncology.
Show course: Immunology/Hematology/Oncology

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Top Value in North Carolina — Again
U.S. News delivers good news for two of NC State's graduate programs in this year's ranking of the nation's top online degrees. Programs for veterans in business, education and engineering also score honors.
NC State Advances in U.S. News Rankings
NC State achieves its highest ranking ever on the annual Best Colleges list, joining the ranks of the top 30 public universities in the nation. The university gains ground in measures of value, reputation and student success.
Graduate Programs Rise in Rankings
This year's U.S. News rankings bring good news for graduate programs across the university. Three programs place in the top 10 nationwide while numerous other graduate programs advance.
NC State Moves Up in 2022-23 Military Friendly Rankings
NC State is the sixth-most "Military Friendly" school in the nation, according to new rankings.
NC State Named Best Large Employer in North Carolina
Forbes surveyed 60,000 Americans to find the best places to work across the nation. In North Carolina, the top choice is NC State.
7 Online Programs Rank Among Top 10 in U.S. News Rankings
NC State has long been recognized for the quality of its on-campus teaching, student support and research facilities. Now its online degree programs are on the rise.
NC State Rises to 4th Place on List of Best Employers
NC State's resilient faculty and staff keep their faith in the university's mission, driving the institution up five spots on an annual survey of North Carolina's best places to work.
SPIA Online Bachelor's Powers Up in Rankings — Again
The annual ranking of online college programs by U.S. News brings good news for NC State's graduate programs in business, engineering, information technology and education. But the online bachelor's degree in public sector leadership gets the headlines.
NC State Continues to Climb in National Rankings
NC State gains ground in the 2021 U.S. News ranking of America's best colleges. The university has moved up nine spots in the past five years, driven largely by student success.
NC State Among the Top 10 Employers in North Carolina
Forbes surveys 80,000 workers across the nation to find the best employers in every state. NC State takes its place alongside corporate giants Microsoft, Apple and Fedex.
Money Ranks NC State Top Public in North Carolina
NC State earns high marks for educational quality, socio-economic mobility and alumni success on a list of America's best colleges ranked by value.
6 Subjects in Top 50 Globally
Six NC State disciplines rank among the best in the world, according to the Shanghai Rankings. NC State scores among the top 300 institutions overall.
Online Programs in SPIA, Engineering Advance
Two of NC State's online programs jumped in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.
NC State Moves Up in National Rankings
NC State continues to advance in the annual U.S. News rankings, earning kudos for innovation, teaching and programs for military veterans. Business and engineering programs also made gains this year.
NC State claims the distinction of offering North Carolina college students the best value for their money for the second straight year. The annual list by Money magazine ranks schools based on quality, affordability and alumni success.


SUBNET's training programs provide a unique opportunity to achieve expertise in managing and administering your substation assets. Embracing open standards, and industry-leading solutions, our hands-on training will walk you through the steps to improve efficiency within your electric utility.
SUBNET offers a three day protocol training course that combines a DNP3 protocol training module with an ASE2000 Test Set module. To get the most value from your SUBNET training, the two modules must be taken in conjunction with each other and cannot be taken separately.
SUBNET's DNP3 Protocol Training is an intensive course that covers all aspects of the DNP3 protocol. Learn the open standards-based protocol that serves as the communication link between substation computers, RTUs (Remote Terminal Units), IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Devices) and master stations. SUBNET Solutions Inc. offers a comprehensive two-day training course focused on the DNP3 protocol.
SUBNET's ASE2000™ Version 2 RTU Test Set Training is a hands-on, one-day training course that offers a focused and comprehensive introduction to working with the ASE Test Set.
Everyone knows that the best learning experience does not come from a course; but rather from the hands-on immersion in a topic led by topic experts.
You're the expert in your utility systems, we're the experts in our SUBNET software and together we can develop the optimal design for your utility's needs.
The SUBNET One Architecture Boot Camp is an opportunity for you to engage with SUBNET Integration Engineers for an intensive week-long session that focuses on helping you to adapt SUBNET best practices, standards, and processes to YOUR system.
Reduce SubSTATION Server configuration efforts from days to hours.
Remove aspects of configurations that introduce errors.
Reuse engineering efforts by reapplying consistent patterns and processes to each system.
Simplify complexity and reduce the reliance on "expert users".
SUBNET's SubSTATION Explorer™ 2015 Operator Training is a hands-on course that provides operator Level instruction on using the SubSTATION Explorer 2015 Human Machine Interface (HMI). The application is an intelligent substation operator interface, enabling custom configurations for direct interaction with devices and equipment, with superior flexibility and control. Attendees will learn the benefits of having secure visual access to and control of all substation data, including devices, alarms, controls, value displays, and user-defined custom objects. This training is an introduction to the flexibility and versatility of the SubSTATION Explorer 2015 product, but is not intended to be a designer level course.
SUBNET offers a three day protocol training course that combines an IEC 101/104 protocol training module with an ASE2000 Test Set module. To get the most value from your SUBNET training, the two modules must be taken in conjunction with each other and cannot be taken separately.
SUBNET's IEC 101/104 Protocol Training is an intensive course that covers all aspects of the IEC 101/104 protocol. Learn the open standards-based protocol that serves as the communication link between substation computers, RTUs (Remote Terminal Units), IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Devices) and master stations. SUBNET Solutions Inc. offers a comprehensive two-day training course focused on the IEC 101/104 protocol.


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Tag Archives: Word Of Mouth
Portfolio Reviews – Photomonth at the Museum of Childhood with Citizen Skwith, Daniel Alexander and Dougie Wallace
Photos above © Citizen Skwith, Petting Zoo
The same day as the Tri-pod show PV took place at the Phoenix Brighton, I did a day of portfolio reviews at the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green for Photomonth. It's the fourth year that I've done this and I'm always happy to be invited back.
I never know what to expect from the people I see and there are always some surprises, such as Citizen Skwith's clever signs and wonderful sense of humour (see photos above). Plus, reviewers get paid which is not always the case.
I'm posting a few iPhone photos from Photomonth's recent portfolio reviews of some of the work that I came across, although I didn't record all of it. If you were there and want to let people know about your work, post a comment with a link to your website/work.
So, in no particular order, here are a few projects that I saw. More from the reviews to come in another post later next week.
DANIEL ALEXANDER
Daniel Alexander says of 1day6cities project. "Today it is exactly a year on from 11.11.11 when the films were all shot. The project is also being exhibited at Oxford House until the end of this month." This gives you all time to see it before it comes down.
1DAY6CITIES from 1day6cities on Vimeo.
"1DAY6CITIES is a global photography project that took place on the 11th November 2011 – 11.11.11, in London, Dubai, Shanghai, Auckland, San Francisco and São Paulo. Using word of mouth, email and social networks we put together an international team of photographers to create a unique twenty-four hour snapshot of this day across six very different cities around the globe. At exactly 00.00 Coordinated Universal Time (world time/GMT) photographers in each of these cities captured their first image in an event that saw photographs being taken every 30 seconds for the following 24 hours.
"The brief was for the photographers to shoot the most interesting thing happening in their city, at the time they had chosen to shoot. The cities were chosen because they are roughly an equal time difference apart meaning the films show the sun travelling around the earth through the course of the day." The edited film is shown above and the edited stills can be seen on the 1day6cities website. There is a full list of the contributors on the website.
Dougie Wallace arrives wearing a pale blue/grey and black ensemble and carrying his colour coordinated portfolio. He smells of fish. Well, his breath does, on account of the fish pie he ate for lunch. He shows me his work, see Mumbai Rickshaw drivers shot and the Stags, Hens and Bunnies (working title) project, which is near to completion, and documents the day and night antics of hen nights and stag parties in the north.
There's more than a hint of the Carry On about the subjects of some of these shots – all of which are well observed and captured with a wry sense of the absurd. Referring to himself as 'The Martin Parr of the Facebook' generation, take a look for yourself…
CITIZEN SKWITH
Citizen Skwith uses photography to document the signs that he makes and places in public places. Subverting and playing with the language of warning signs, Citizen Skwith's works are a clever form of street art made available for everyone to enjoy. His website features all of his work and is well worth a look. I've already ordered the time traveller Blue Plaque for my hallway.
Filed under: Photographers, Photography Festivals, street art, Visual Artists Tagged: 1day6cities, Citizen Skwith, Daniel Alexander, documentary photography, Dougie Wallace, Hens and Bunnies, london, Museum of Childhood, Petting Zoo, photomonth, portfolio reviews, Stags, stop motion, street art
This entry was posted in Contemporary Photography, HotshoeBlog and tagged 1day6cities, Citizen Skwith, Contemporary Photography, Coordinated Universal Time, Daniel Alexander, Documentary Photography, Dougie, Dougie Wallace, First Image, Fourth Year, Global Photography, Hens and Bunnies, Humour Photos, Iphone, London, Museum of Childhood, Oxford House, Petting Zoo, Photographer, Photographers, Photographs, Photography Festivals, Photography Project, Photography., photomonth, Portfolio Reviews, Pv, Reviewers, Sense Of Humour, Social Networks, Stags, Stop Motion, street art, Time World, Tri-pod, Visual Artists, Word Of Mouth, World Time on November 11, 2012 by mirandagavin.
Summer Songs of the Russian Riviera
In 2004, when photographer Rob Hornstra wanted to publish his first cohesive body of work in a book, he ran into a common problem—he couldn't find a publisher who was willing to fund it. Hornstra's solution was less than common: he decided to raise the initial funds himself by selling copies in advance via word of mouth and social networking. It took a month, but he succeeded. Hornstra decided to jump start the publication of his next two books the same way, with each volume of pre-orders selling out more quickly than the last. Hornstra is now on his sixth book (plus newspapers, postcards, prints and posters), and still relies primarily on his own crowdfunding efforts to fund them and their related projects. Crowdfunding and self-publishing are less rare these days, but that is thanks in part to pioneers like Hornstra whose distinctive eye and determination helped blaze the trail to get important work to receptive audiences without the backing of traditional journalistic and publishing outlets.
Hornstra's latest book is on the restaurant singers of Russia's favorite Black Sea resort town of Sochi. Any self-respecting restaurant on the coast has a live house singer to belt out sappy Russian chansons—take a vodka-soaked ballad and drop in a techno beat, all at full volume—from behind an electric keyboard or a laptop. Sochi is the center of the world, as far as this type of live entertainment is concerned, and Hornstra saw it as the perfect metaphor to depict the city and the region, traveling to more than 60 restaurants over 100 miles of coastline in 2011 to make the 37 photos for the book. The pictures mercifully strip away the noise of the music and cancel out the dark rooms and sharp flashing lights with Hornstra's trademark, even lighting, allowing the viewer to patiently examine every telling detail of the interiors, including the faux Greek, French, Roman, Slavic and American décor.
Sochi Singers is in fact only the latest installment of The Sochi Project, Hornstra's five-year commitment to exploring the region in the years leading up to the 2014 Winter Olympics Games, which Sochi will host exactly two years from this month. Partnering with writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen, who wrote the essay in Sochi Singers, his goal is to paint a more complete picture of the area than the public is likely to see during those few short weeks in 2014. They have already traveled to a Soviet-era sanatorium outside of Sochi and the troubled region of Abkhazia and the Republic of Georgia, located only 13 miles along the coast to the southeast. Next month they plan to travel to the Caucasus mountains to the east, and the infamous breakaway republics of Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechnya.
As Russia cycles into the news again next month when former president Vladimir Putin will likely be voted back into office, it is Hornstra's commitment to "slow journalism" that allows audiences to put the headlines in context, as well as to see past the propaganda and pomp and circumstance that will inevitably surround the Winter Games. By examining the stark contrasts contained within the small region of the world, and recording both what changes—and what remains the same—Hornstra's work reflects something deeper and more historic: Russia's continuing search for a post-Soviet identity.
Rob Hornstra is a Dutch photographer. Learn more about the Sochi project here. The Sochi Singers series recently won first place for the Arts and Entertainment—Stories category at the World Press Photo awards.
This entry was posted in Contemporary Photography, Uncategorized and tagged Black Sea, Center Of The World, Cohesive Body, Contemporary Photography, Crowdfunding, Electric Keyboard, Flashing Lights, In Progress, Initial Funds, Live Entertainment, Metaphor, Olympics, Photographer, Photographers, Photographs, Photography., Pioneers, Prints And Posters, Receptive Audiences, Rob Hornstra, Russia, Sea Resort, self-publishing, Slavic, Sochi, Social Networking, Summer Songs, Two Books, Vodka, Word Of Mouth on February 13, 2012 by Neil Harris.


On 2006 Boston Electrolyis announced the opening of metropolitan Phoenix areas first Boston Electrolysis clinic for patients with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and endocrine disorders that cause unwanted facial hair problems. Founded by Kimberly Williams, R.E. Dean and Barbara Lipschitz, M.D. of Central Phoenix Medical Clinic is for women who have a minor, moderate or severe unwanted facial hair problem. Until recently most women who have this type of unwanted facial hair problem and condition have believed that this particular endocrine disorder is hopeless and non-treatable.
Nevertheless, new advances in medicine and professional cooperation between the physician and the electrologist have made this specialized treatment a successful reality. Kimberly Williams, R.E., Dean of Boston School of Electrolysis™ of Scottsdale, Arizona and Barbara Lipschitz, M.D. of Central Phoenix Medical Clinic, Phoenix Arizona have combined their resources. In this joint effort we want all women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and other endocrine disorders to be aware that their unwanted hair problems are not hopeless. Kimberly Williams, R.E., Dean of Bostton Electrolyis® and Barbara Lipschitz, M.D. of Central Phoenix Medical Clinic Arizona want all women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome to be know there are new treatments, medications and procedures that will counter-act this endocrine imbalance that stimulates unwanted facial hair growth from minor severe.
It's a known fact that women with polycystic ovaries end up frustrated after trying every form of temporary hair removal such as waxing, plucking, shaving and even laser parlor treatments that can make your unwanted hair problem ten times worse than it was to begin with. Additionally, most residents of Arizona are not aware that there is no license and registration or required education to practice electrolysis and temporary laser hair removal in Arizona. It is known fact in professional circles that only experienced licensed and registered electrologists possess the basic education in theoretically applied medical sciences coupled with practical application to successfully treat minor, moderate and severe unwanted facial hair problems caused by Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and other endocrine disorders.So when you arrive at Boston School of Electrolysis I do a thorough medical evaluation using The Electrologists Diagnostic Case History© which includes and records a detailed medical status of your condition that causes unwanted facial hair problems. From there we can start your treatment although at same time you have a direct referral to Barbara Lipschitz, M.D., Internal Medicine Specialist who will implement your medical diagnostics, blood chemistry, medications and procedures and over all treatment program to correct and control the hormonal imbalance that started your unwanted hair problem.Women with polycystic ovaries and other endocrine disorders (glandular disorders) need to know that electrolysis has new methods and techniques. Example up until ten years ago most electrologists could only treat the symptoms of polycystic ovaries, which is, unwanted facial hair. However most women do not know why this causes their unwanted hair problem.
To state it most simply polycyclic ovaries interfere with or block the absorption of estrogen into your system. Additionally most women do not know, as part of their genetic character that women also produce male hormones. With the estrogen being blocked and your body being unable to absorb it into the system the male hormones become predominant and that stimulates excess FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormones). From that point on that's when your unwanted hair problem starts.Fact, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome causes male secondary characteristics such as unwanted facial hair, weight gain, acne, male receding hairline, deepening of voice and other complications. However with today's modern medicine the right diagnosis, medications, treatments and procedures polycystic ovaries can be successfully managed and the affects of the male hormones counter-acted with a diuretic and estrogen supplement. Once you have eliminated the root cause of your hair problem you will be amazed at how effective your electrolysis treatments become in addition your skin will become clear soft and supple.
Additionally, your energy level will increase and with this renewed energy coupled with diet and exercise weight loss becomes possible and your over all health improves. In my professional opinion nothing is more damaging to a woman's self-esteem and overall health and appearance when she has an unwanted facial hair problem caused by polycystic ovaries that are left untreated.They have always been my specialty. Additionally it is important for every woman with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome to be knowledgeable about her health. From past professional experiences I know when your electrologist and physician team up and coordinate your electrolysis treatments with medications your results can be from moderate to completely clear. It is known fact women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome who receive the right medical care often attain their goal of complete permanent hair removal, regained health and emotional well-being.On the other hand to successfully treat unwanted facial hair caused by polycystic ovaries effectively one must take the time and make the effort and be patient. Without one doubt I believe in my professional ability to provide you this specialized treatment that's is based on scientific fact, medical care and skilled practical application of my technique. For the record I know exactly how frustrating it is to have a minor, moderate or severe unwanted facial hair problem that's why I became an electrologist. If you are ready, willing and able to take the first step I'll be glad to be your electrologist.
Often student electrologists who question the need for theoretical sciences assume is not necessary because they have been led to believe that electrolysis is about treating the hair only. Wrong, the base knowledge of theoretical sciences that I learned provided me with the ability not only to use that knowledge but also to expand and build upon it. Fact, electrolysis is an exact procedure of attrition and when you eliminate, contain or reduce the root cause of your unwanted facial hair problem it can only expedite and reduce the amount of time needed to treat and permanently remove those unwanted hairs. In addition, patients with endocrine disorders not only rid themselves of their unwanted facial hair problem but also gain an improved complexion along with your health and well being. In my book, that is what professional electrologist is all about.For the record non-licensed electrologists who have recently become Certified Laser Parlor Operators do not have the ability and requisite education to comprehend the complexities of endocrine disorders such as polycystic ovaries.
Furthermore, Laser Parlor operators have no required educational curriculum longer than forty hours and in addition to that there are no required license or registration to use the laser for temporary hair removal in the U.S.A. Without one doubt this makes the licensed and registered electrologist the best and only choice for safe permanent hair removal. Furthermore I would like to acquaint you with your my professional education at Miss Kelly's School of Electrology, Quincy, and Massachusetts from 1975 to graduation in 1979 taught me that electrolysis is a bona fide medical profession. During that time my curriculum consisted of anatomy, physiology, endocrinology, histology, biology, microbiology, pharmacology, hygiene & sanitation, sterilization, electricity and ethics. In addition there was required 600 hours of practical training. After successfully passing the dual Massachusetts State Board examinations, which was a 2-hour written, and one-hour practical I received my license and registration as a Massachusetts licensed and registered electrologist.


My biggest project until now is my work about Dubai. In 2012 I spent five days there and then worked for 5 month on a book and website about my images and my experience.
My name is Johannes Heuckeroth, I am a photographer and designer from Germany. The central essence of my photographic work is the search for beauty. I define beauty for myself as an high presence of aesthetic. There are two essential parts to fullfil this goal: amazing places and my style of photography.
In the first place I am looking for destinations all over the world that are fitting my vision of beauty. This destinations can be cities or landscapes. If I have found my destination, it is my target to show my own vision of this place. It's not my target to show a realistic view of the world, I want to show a visually more intensive view, a parallel reality.
My biggest project until now is my work about Dubai. In 2012 I spent five days there and then worked for 5 month on a book and website about my images and my experience. The project is called Dreaming of Dubai, and shows the city as a place which has developed from a small desert town to a glittering, unbelievable metropolis full of utopias and full of surreal beauty.


The reality of a no-deal Brexit looms large over multiple disciplines, businesses and industries but for insurance intermediaries, registered pursuant to the Insurance Distribution Directive (Directive (EU) 2016/97) (the �IDD�) in both the UK and EU27, a no-deal Brexit has the potential to fundamentally shift the foundations underpinning its industry.
Currently, significant numbers of EU27 authorised intermediaries place risks through large UK based intermediaries in order to access certain insurance carriers for particular risks - the Wholesale / Retail Distribution Model. In recent months, as entities which rely heavily on this model looked to put in place their Brexit contingency plans, the extent to which a no-deal Brexit would impact the ability of this model to continue, has been discussed extensively with supervisors throughout Europe.
Up until 19 February, there were only suggestions of how Europe would approach this matter, however, on this date, EIOPA released its recommendations for the insurance sector in light of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the European Union (the �Recommendations�) and addressed the topic of distribution activities under Recommendation 9 of the Recommendations.
In short, it appears that Recommendation 9 is suggesting that if a UK only registered intermediary intends to continue or commence �distribution activities� with EU27 intermediaries for EU27 located risks following a no-deal Brexit, the only permissible way for such distribution activities to be carried out, is if that UK only registered intermediary is established and registered in the EU27 pursuant to the IDD .
Recommendation 9 also states that such establishments cannot be �an empty shell�, a position which the Central Bank of Ireland has long communicated since the Brexit referendum and most recently during its Insurance Sector Conference on 15 February last - see comments by Ed Sibley.
an EU27 intermediary will not be permitted to engage in distribution activities with UK only registered intermediaries in respect of EU27 risks.
Establish a subsidiary as an intermediary in an EU27 country to access EU27 risks and then use the reverse branch model to access the UK market, where required.
Establish a UK registered branch of the EU27 intermediary and refer EU27 risks to its UK branch to access the UK market, where required.
We fully appreciate that these options can be slow, complicated and expensive to complete and in the case of many small independent brokers, simply not viable. We also understand that neither do they present an immediate solution for 29 March. This is why we maintain that the fall out for the Wholesale / Retail Distribution Market is likely to be significant if EIOPA maintains the stance detailed in Recommendation 9.
2.�Recommendation 9 also recognises the right of each of the EU27 to adopt its own view on how intermediaries should be regulated, so long as the minimum standards of the IDD are met. Matheson hopes to see some guidance from the Central Bank of Ireland on the position of UK only registered intermediaries before 29 March. However, we anticipate that any such guidance will be broadly aligned with the Recommendations.
3.�It appears to Matheson that the Recommendations permit this approach which is consistent with that position taken by the Central Bank of Ireland in recent months, in the context of a number our large scale UK broking clients.


The unique newly-developed cleaning mechanism (patent pending) clears the dust on the filter, allowing the operator to continue to use the EMIA-Pro without maintenance cleaning for up to 200 measurements*.
A critical focus was to ensure that the EMIA-Pro was "easy-to-use". In particular, we focused on the layout, operating menus and functions.
We have included a self-diagnostic monitor checking capability to check the status of the connected device, an alarm function and we have expanded 3 navigations to facilitate daily operation.
This function proposes best measurement condition based on our experience and know-how, and sets up the measurement conditions.
Automatic diagnosis system and troubleshooting navigation.
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Q: Can you store an Ajax variable value from the previous request? I have the following jQuery Ajax code, and it would seem (unless I've misunderstood the problem) that without defining the page variable within the $("#imgNum").change(function(){});, the ajax call following the function will not fire.
Since the page variable is set based on when a button is clicked (which fire's its own ajax call), I'm wondering if there is a way of setting page to be equal to the last value it was set at? Unless there is another way of saving this value to call on it, and refreshing it every time a certain function is performed?
The jQuery:
function loadData(page, value){
    loading_show();
    gallery_hide();
    $.ajax
    ({
        type: "GET",
        url: "new_arrivals_data.php",
        data: {page:page, imgs:value},
        success: function(msg) {
            gallery_show();
            $("#gallery_container").ajaxComplete(function(event, request, settings)
            {
                gallery_show();
                $("#gallery_container").html(msg);
            });
        },
        error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
            // Tell the human that something broke.
        },
        complete: function() {
            // This is always called regardless of success or failure.
            loading_hide();
        }
    });
}
loadData(1);  // For first time page load default results
$('#gallery_container .pagination li.active').live('click',function(){
    var page = $(this).attr('p');
    loadData(page);
});
$('#go_btn').live('click',function(){
    var page = parseInt($('.goto').val());
    var no_of_pages = parseInt($('.total').attr('a'));
    if(page != 0 && page <= no_of_pages){
        loadData(page);
    }else{
        alert('Enter a PAGE between 1 and '+no_of_pages);
        $('.goto').val("").focus();
        return false;
    }
});

$("#imgNum").change(function(){
    var sel = $(this);
    var value = sel.val();
//THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO DEFINE THE PAGE BASED ON IT'S MOST RECENT VALUE
    var page = ?;
    loadData(page, value);
})
//You should store the current selected option in a cookie
//For the sake of the example i'll set the default permanently to 12
var imgNum_selected = 16;

//set the initial selected option and trigger the event
$("#imgNum [value='"+imgNum_selected+"']").prop("selected","selected").change();

Would this be possible to do by saving the current value in a cookie which is reserved whenever the value is changed? How do you store a value in a cookie, and then retrieve it?

A: It sounds like you have some state that you want to share across multiple functions.  One way to share this state is with a global variable.
A similar, but more controlled way, is to take advantage of lexical scope.  Create a function, and within that function's body, you create the shared variable.  Functions defined within the lexical scope of that body can access that shared variable freely.  Anyone outside of the lexical scope can't touch the variable directly.
For example:
var funcs = (function() {
    var sharedState = 0;

    var f1 = function() {
        sharedState++;
    };

    var f2 = function() { return sharedState; };

    return { 'f1': f1, 'f2' : f2 };
}());

funcs.f1();
alert(funcs.f2());
funcs.f1();
alert(funcs.f2());

// sharedState = -20;  // should error out, because sharedState can't be
// accessed directly.

In your particular context, you can do something like:
(function() {
   var page;

   // ... rest of your code, but in your loadData function, assign to page.
}());

See: How to have function recall private variable between invocations for more information.

A: I solved this by echoing the PHP variable into the attribute of an HTML tag:
<b id='cur_page' cur_page='" . $cur_page . "'></b>

I then set the variable in jQuery as follows:
var page = $('#cur_page').attr('cur_page');

I'm not sure if this is the best way of doing it, but it works. Any thoughts?

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Hear your favorite climbers share their stories.
Brady Robinson, formerly of the Access Fund, talks to Kevin Riley, host of Basecamp: A Climbing Magazine podcast, for the preview episode.
For every sentence included in a story, there's at least one left out that was just as compelling. More and more, media outlets are recognizing that their readers want to know the subtext and backstories that don't always make it to print. Tapping a new storytelling format, Climbing Magazine just launched a new podcast that will delve into the lives of athletes, writers and photographers, industry VIPS, and, the Climbing editorial staff. We caught up with Editor-in-chief Matt Samet to ask him why listening is complementary to reading the magazine.
Why start a podcast now? What spurred the idea?
Matt Samet: No one was like, "Hey, when are you guys going to have a podcast?" But I think seeing more and more climbing podcasts emerge, and seeing all the great storytelling they've been able to do, we decided to do it ourselves. Two or three years ago when Shannon Davis was editor of Climbing, he wanted to get something going. He bought a microphone and had some equipment, but it just never quite launched. It's an idea that's been around for a while. I've been listening to the climbing podcast, The Enormocast, since the early days and there are a lot of other lot of podcasts out there for training and beta. Other magazines are starting to do podcasts. It just seemed like the timing was right. Basecamp: A Climbing Magazine Podcast is a good way to complement our print and online content and some deeper storytelling that we wouldn't have space for in those other venues.
As you said, there's a bunch of podcasts on the scene. Why is yours different?
MS: Kevin Riley is hosting it. We've been friends and have worked together since 2006 when he did ad sales at Climbing an was the associate publisher for a long time. He left a few years ago and started his own podcast, Action in Solitude. I was listening to it and thought he was doing some great interviews with climbers and distance runners and mountain bikers. I thought, "Huh, Kevin would be a perfect host." We were thinking we could try to do it in house but ideally we'd have somebody with podcasting and interviewing experience, so we brought Kevin in. He's a seasoned podcast host who knows the climbing media space and the community.
Each episode is an hour. In the first 15 minutes we have a mini interview about timely, newsy things. In the preview episode, we talk about speed climbing, the new records, and the recent terrible accidents. The other 45 minutes of it will be longer form interviews. Because of the brand and its longevity, and because of our connections and being in Boulder, we're able to talk to a lot of really interesting people who are at the cutting edge of the sport whether it's in terms of athleticism or product design or some other form of creativity.
What's on deck that you're stoked about?
MS: Coming up, we have interviews with Daniel Woods and Matty Hong, both accomplished young climbers, who are doing pretty interesting stuff. Hong is a photographer and filmmaker. Woods has been pushing the envelope since he was 14 years old. He recently went through a divorce and got a DUI and he talks to Kevin about that stuff. He's up front and honest. I'm really excited about both interviews because we talk to the guys about their process and not just their accomplishments. We haven't lined up our third guest yet, but we hope to have that ready by July or August.
We're going to have a new episode every month no matter what. If we can get some support and momentum, hopefully we can come out every two weeks. I think everyone who's been working on it is just fired up. We're psyched to jump into this new form of storytelling.


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The dustbin of history
&c.
This is why I hate intellectuals
Vote for death
by Sam Kriss
General Election is, as everyone knows, the main character in the much-loved 1970s WWII sitcom Up The Army!. Gen. Bertrand Election started the show as a fussy, uncomfortable, endearingly incompetent bureaucrat, utterly devoted to the bigwigs at Allied Command, and subjected to constant, ambiguously good-natured ribbing from his men. But as is so often the case, as the show began to drag on and the writers lost creative inspiration, Election went from character to caricature. By the time Up the Army! was cancelled in 1979, he wasn't just incompetent but insensible: a sad, roving, pathetic, confused old man. He didn't seem to realise there was a war on. When he spoke with his officers there was always a look of veiled panic in his eyes, as he tried to work out who the person in front of him was. For most of the last series, he had trouble remembering his own name.
In fact, a similar set of transformations seemed to affect the entire cast of Up The Army!, one that became uglier the further it went down the ranks. Major John Spendings-Cutts grew gaunt, his weak and watery eyes peering out from two immense, dark, ridged concavities, his bony limbs thrashing about like treetops in a winter storm. Corporal Ned Punishment went from being a stern disciplinarian to an almost inhuman sadist. The beatings he administered to his disobedient subordinates were long, gruelling affairs; he'd slice away fingertips with a rusty knife or claw out an eyeball with his bare hands, all the while vigorously pumping on his long, thin, curved, barbed penis. The only one that didn't change was Private Property. He only grew. Private Property was an entity – although entity might be the wrong word – that swarmed and sprawled, a buzzing, violent mess of content without form. He was chirpy and polite, forever doffing his helmet to his superiors, and he had a charming, naive faith in King and Country, but he was insatiable. First he glooped over the mess hall, translucently, like an amoeba, and swallowed it up, then the briefing room, then the entire base.
What's strange is that nobody ever commented on any of these changes, the little weekly stories kept on going, just as they always had. The final episode centred around a teacup that'd been stolen from the officers' mess. In the end it turned out Private Property had taken it. He'd taken everything. The planes, the tanks, the guns, the Nazis over the hill, the hill itself. Everything took place just below the surface of Pte. Property's shimmering, iridescent skin, and when the A-bomb finally fell on Hiroshima, it left just the smallest of wobbling ripples on his surface.
The latest political news is disturbing. Labour leader Ed Miliband has erected an enormous stone obelisk, on which he's carved his election platform. The idea is that his promises are to be 'set in stone', and as a symbol of their permanence, his stele will be sailed down the Thames, out to sea, and stood among the pyramids at Giza, to take their place among the eternal testaments to human imagination. Hegel, in his Aesthetics, says of such structures that what is preserved naturally is also interpreted in its idea as enduring. Herodotus says of the Egyptians that they were the first to teach the immortality of the human soul. With them, that is, there first emerges in this higher way too the separation between nature and spirit. He also notes that we have before us a double architecture, one above ground, the other subterranean: labyrinths under the soil, magnificent vast excavations, passages half a mile long, chambers adorned with hieroglyphics, everything worked out with the maximum of care; then above ground there are built in addition those amazing constructions amongst which the Pyramids are to be counted the chief. Like the iceberg, what we see of Miliband's stone is not the entire thing; it extends underground. The stone has a buried double, an inverted image of itself: something cannot last forever without the incorporation of its antithesis, which is also its truth, into its totality. The shadow-stone promises the economic ruin of the ruling classes, vows to smash the NHS, and praises the undifferentiated tide of immigrants, all scowling, all crawling with fleas and disease, that will come to sweep away the rottenness of this country. And just as the sublunar stone is a monument to the Gods, in the form of the news media whose signals bounce around off satellites on the chilly edge of outer space, so too does the subterranean stone have its audience. After the election is lost and won, the obelisk will be set up, and beneath it there must be a tomb. Inside: the shrunken, dessicated corpse of Ed Miliband, his skin grey and stretched over fossilised bone, his body untold thousands of years old.
Russell Brand, marmoset rights advocate and the foremost political thinker of what will come to be known as the UKTV Dave Age, has reversed his former electoral pessimism and is now encouraging us all to vote. Disputes over the strange cultural practice tend to pit those who think voting is the sole mode of human self-realisation against those who think it's a spectacular distraction that has never once changed anything whatsoever. The answer isn't in the middle, but buried deep beneath both positions. The single vote, cast anonymously, for a single person instead of a course of action – these things aren't democracy, they're a quirk of the democratic system that has come to engulf the entire structure. In classical Athens, governmental positions were usually determined by lots, to counteract the advantages enjoyed by rich citizens and great orators. The only time as as a fifth-century Athenian citizen you'd ever actually vote for a politician, it was because you were casting an ostrakon: voting for them to be exiled from the city. If we're to extract the rational kernel from the parliamentary madness that surrounds us, this is a practice that must be reinstated. On polling day, your duty is to vote for the candidate you like the least.
This election is the tightest and most unpredictable in decades, but it's still singularly unexciting. Everyone is pretending that nobody knows what will happen after the 7th of May. Will there be a minority government? A grand coalition to save the Union? Will Scottish raiders once more descend from their barbarian highlands to steal our cattle? Will the Liberal Democrat front bench die on the way back to their home planet? It's a ruse, a shoddy imitation of the alliances and intrigues that They see us enjoying on TV, the Game of Thrones-ification of electoral democracy. We all know what's going to happen, whoever wins. The Mother of All Parliaments is falling apart; the Commons will have to relocate to a nearby conference centre for five years while repairs are made to the Palace of Westminster. There will be more cuts, more austerity, more privatisation, more war. There will be an expenses scandal, a corruption scandal, a sex scandal, a socks-and-sandals scandal. It's not just that. The newspapers keep making their probability pie-charts and speculative coalition Venn diagrams to cover up a terrifying truth. There can be no doubt what will happen after the election. After the election, sooner or later, you are going to die.
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The Governor, Dr Philip Rushbrook, is delighted to announce the appointment of Steve Townsend and Fiona Kilpatrick as the new joint Administrators of Tristan da Cunha. Steve and Fiona, who are married, will be filling the post on a job share basis. This approach has been adopted in other FCO postings in recent years.
Fiona will be Tristan's first substantive female Administrator and this will be the first time the post has been filled on a job share basis. They intend to take up the position in January 2020 and will replace Sean Burns, who with his wife Marina, will be moving to Ascension in March 2020.
Fiona Kilpatrick has worked in a number of British Government Departments since 1987, including the Departments for Work and Pensions; Education and Employment; and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Much of her work has been on European Union and international employment and social security policy, but she also helped establish the UK Government's Disability Confident campaign.
She has worked with various UN organisations on projects ranging from introducing health insurance in Ghana, to a programme to combat human trafficking in Bolivia and Argentina. She has also worked at the Holy See in Rome. She very much enjoys cooking, reading and watching films. She grew up by the sea in Scotland, and is keenly anticipating a return to littoral life!
Steve Townsend has been in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since 1980, and has wide experience across the world. He has served in Venezuela, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Spain (where he and Fiona met), Egypt, Bolivia and the Holy See.
In various roles in London, he has worked on desks covering Nigeria, Gibraltar, the evolution of soft power (including the British Council and the BBC World Service), and most recently he has been working in the Modern Slavery team in the Human Rights and Policy Unit. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and doing quizzes – but expects that he will have to add a number of outdoors pursuits to that list!
Steve and Fiona said; "We are delighted to be appointed as joint Administrator to Tristan da Cunha, and are very much looking forward to meeting the whole community and working with the Island Council. This will be a unique experience for us, and will bring new challenges – and some that are very different from any we have had before; and we are very excited by the possibilities."
On Saturday 07 September the Georgetown turtle ponds were reopened to the public following the completion of substantive restorative works.
Island Council recommend designation of an MPA covering 100% of Ascension's waters
50% off air fares between St Helena and Ascension
A number of fares between Ascension and St Helena are being offered for sale to the public at half the regular price.
Governor arrives on Ascension
This morning HE Dr Philip Rushbrook, Governor of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, arrived on island via the ATI operated USAF flight. This is the Governor's first visit to Ascension since taking office on 11 May 2019.
The Governor has a full programme of events planned for his time on island meeting with the island Council, employing organisations, voluntary groups and residents.
To kick things off the Governor was given an AIG infrastructure tour.
This was to allow the Governor to view various branches within AIG to get a feel of the breadth of work undertaken by the Operation Department, as well as some of the specific projects currently underway on Ascension.
As well as a number of bilateral engagements he will be hosting a town hall meeting on Wednesday 10 July between 18:00 – 19:00 at the Saints Club. The Governor will address the meeting and then take questions from the floor, followed by a drinks reception. We encourage members of the public to attend the meeting as the Governor is very keen to hear the public's views and to gain a better understanding of the issues currently being faced on island.
Dr Philip Rushbrook sworn in as Governor of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
On Saturday 11 May 2019, Dr Philip Rushbrook arrived to take up his role as the Territory's 69th Governor and the first to arrive by air.
Dr Rushbrook, accompanied by his wife, Mrs Rushbrook, was sworn in just after 4pm, on the Supreme Court Terrace in Jamestown. The Chief Secretary, Mrs Susan O'Bey, read the Royal Commission and the Sheriff of St Helena, Mrs Ethel Yon OBE, administered the Oaths of Office and gave the Address of Welcome.
The traditional ceremony included music from the Combined Brass Band and an inspection by His Excellency of delegations from the St Helena Police Force, schoolchildren, Customs Officers, Nurses, Scouts, Cubs and Beavers, Girl Guides, Brownies and Rainbows, Pathfinders, Religious Organisations and the Fire and Sea Rescue Services. The Rt. Revd. The Lord Bishop of St Helena, Dale Bowers MBE, gave a prayer and a blessing, followed by His Excellency receiving the salute.
In his Inauguration Address, His Excellency commented:
"I am deeply privileged and excited to become the Governor of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha – three unique and precious British territories in the South Atlantic. It is an honour to serve Her Majesty and to serve you. St Helena is the new home for my wife, Janis, and I and we look forward to being active members of the community on this jewel of an island."
Reflecting on his work preparing to take up the office of Governor, including meetings with Islanders, His Excellency acknowledged the "universal desire to see the territories develop socially and economically" and the Islanders' "powerful sense of mission to build partnerships and improve the opportunities for their islands to become more prosperous and contented places in which to live and work".
For St Helena, His Excellency endorsed the Economic Development Investment Programme funded by the UK and promised "achieving better connections to the outside world through wider air access and delivering the internet potential of a marine cable" would be matters receiving his constant attention; for Ascension Island to support "the runway work started and […] make this period of uncertainty as short as possible" and, for Tristan da Cunha to "protect its pristine status whilst maintaining its ability to diversify the economy and increase income from sustainable fishing".
His Excellency then proceeded to The Castle where he was introduced to dignitaries and members of the public followed by light refreshments.
Change of Governor of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha
Dr Philip Rushbrook is to succeed Lisa Honan as Governor of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in May 2019. Full announcement here.
Seamount Report Document
In May and June 2017 the Ascension Island Government Conservation & Fisheries Department, together with academic partners, conducted a research expedition to three seamounts within the Ascension Island EEZ. This research was facilitated with financial assistance from the European Union, the Darwin Initiative and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The research objective was to gather information to inform protection and management measures for these ecologically important structures, the results and analyses being compiled into a report document


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Can you imagine Ultra Pros or Dragon Shields or KMC sleeves doing this? Consider yourselves warned!


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Lawyer Employment Grows in 2014, Wages Flat
…Which is unsurprising.
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) updated its Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program data for 2014, and since the topic of what the BLS programs are actually measuring came up in the context of the latest analysis on the alleged J.D. premium, now is a good time to report on the data. Here is what lawyer employment looks like over time based on various BLS measures.
Aside from some growth in 2014, of interest is the discrepancy between the Current Population Survey's (CPS's) and the Employment Projection program's (EP program's) lawyer estimates. It's been there for a while. Technically, the CPS is considered more reliable, but when discussing lawyer projections, the EP program's numbers are appropriate. The CPS measures people in an occupation, not the number of job positions, which can be held by multiple persons. I think the CPS overstates the number of employed lawyers. Both measures include part-time lawyers and self-employed lawyers in all industries.
The CPS's full-time wage and salary lawyer measure is similar to the OES program's measure as they both exclude self-employed attorneys, but the OES program includes part-time workers. Finally, the number of legal sector attorneys is the subset of the OES lawyers working in the legal sector, and according to the link above, 71 percent of all lawyer positions are in the legal sector.
As for lawyers' wages, they're largely flat, but the median has fallen since 2009.
It's useful to compare lawyers' wages to paralegals'. This year, the top 10 percent of paralegals earned more than the bottom 25 percent of wage and salaried lawyers, but some of that is probably a comparison between full-time and part-time workers.
Detailed information on what the BLS programs measure can be found on the lawyer overproduction page, which I strongly recommend for anyone who is unfamiliar on the materials (*cough* law profs *cough*–Sorry, allergies). Although, it has not been updated regarding the BLS's proposal to alter the replacement estimate used in the lawyer projections. That will come later. Lawyer employment in and of itself is not a bellwether for the future of the legal profession; it's just worth tracking. Aside from the lawyer overproduction page, readers are advised to look at my criteria for predicting improvements in law graduate outcomes.
That's all for now. Peace.
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America's Doomed Democracy, or Vox's Adventure in the 'Prophetic Fallacy'
A few of my grad school buddies referred me to Vox's "American Democracy is Doomed," by Matthew Yglesias. My erstwhile colleagues crowed in agreement with the author about how everyone is complacent, believing that IT can't happen here, IT being a cataclysmic collapse of the U.S. government, possibly (hopefully?) including chaos, rioting, hyperinflation, etc. You know, the kind of stuff that only happens in other people's countries.
As a one-time student of comparative politics (obviously) I'm ambivalent of discussions of IT. On the one hand, yes, IT can happen here, and IT is more likely to occur when Americans think they're immune to IT for no better reason than "America the fuck-yeah." On the other hand, Vox's argument isn't nearly as persuasive as my colleagues wish.
To summarize: In times of political gridlock, presidential systems, characterized by their separation of powers between the executive and the legislature, are structurally weaker than parliamentary governments. The latter can rely on flexible legal mechanisms to form governments and do the people's work, or if not, elect a new government that does. Vox says that the current gridlock in the U.S. government is due to polarization over ideology rather than patronage opportunities as it was a century ago. Ideological polarization is more destabilizing because it's far less open to compromise. Consequently, it's no accident that we live in a political era of "Constitutional hardball," in which the parties (legalistically) break with existing political norms to move their agendas forward. Presidents expand their power via executive orders, senators use the "nuclear option" to abolish filibuster rules, and state legislatures redraw their Congressional districts mid-decade.
Vox then predicts that a crisis will cause the U.S. system to fail in 20 to 30 years, its long stability only an accident of history. Our fate shall be that of Latin American banana republics—the states where presidential democracy goes to die. Everyone with sense uses parliamentary systems.
I admit I'm sympathetic to the structural argument against presidential democracy, but allow me to raise a few contrary points.
(1) We have really bad cases here.
There are structural reasons in favor of the United States' future success. It's in a temperate (for now) chunk of North America, a continent that lacks an east-west mountain range to break up weather patterns to blight us with rainy and dry seasons. Thus, its climate is as favorable to industrialization as to just producing commodities, which tends to devolve into corruption. It's institutionally descended from competent British political structures, and its present government was founded by enlightenment junkies. The Constitution's underrated Equal Footing Doctrine has helped create a federal republic that prevents one or two states from dominating all the others. Finally, its biggest domestic and constitutional disaster, the Civil War, might have been prevented if James Buchanan had more aggressively confronted secessionism as Andrew Jackson had two decades earlier. State governments, founded along the same model as the federal government, rarely suffer constitutional crises that require federal intervention. There is little evidence that the unicameral Nebraska is a beacon of democracy compared to the other fifty states.
In short, as of 1800, I don't think betting against the U.S. was such a great idea, even if you allow for some variation in its leaders.
By contrast, Latin America is hot or mountainous. Its countries' institutions are descended from extractive Spanish colonial systems, which have contributed to their replacement with ineffective revolutionary Marxist, macroeconomic populistic ones. They're cursed with natural resources, including cocaine. Importantly, they also have a "size problem" vis-à-vis the United States. The U.S. is one large "successful" case compared to Latin America's many smaller failures. U.S. policies can influence Latin American states more than vice-versa, e.g. the cocaine. (Changes in U.S. drug policies would be quite beneficial to Latin America, irrespective of their governments.)
The best example of presidential failure Vox can offer is Honduras' 2008 constitutional crisis, but that's a chronically poor, hot country. Perhaps Egypt in 2012-13 would have been a better example.
In sum, it's not so obvious that parliamentary systems would serve these presidential countries better.
(2) Parliamentary systems don't always work well either.
Vox raises examples of imposed parliamentary governments and cites them as successes, including Japan's. Japan does not have a model parliamentary system. Its bicameral parliamentary legislature can cause needless gridlock, and the substantive organization of the more powerful lower house's districts ensure than rural voters have very disproportionate representation compared to urban ones. In fact, many of Japan's elections have been held unconstitutional by its own supreme court. Go figure. It is for structural reasons that the Liberal Democratic Party has been in power for decades and has so easily returned to power when it has lost it. During the Cold War, Japan could never be allowed to fail, despite its structural weaknesses ("over-strengths"?). The same goes for West Germany.
Parliamentary systems, for their part, have their own structural problems. Elected governments can recklessly enact damaging legislation that can't be undone, like Margaret Thatcher's government, which privatized many of the U.K.'s public utilities and left that country much worse off. Once privatized, utilities can't be so easily unprivatized.
Parliaments can collapse too. Weimar Germany was totally gridlocked without intervention by President Hindenburg. That might be construed as an argument against presidential power, but the gridlock occurred within the legislature first, not between the legislature and the executive, and the Weimar president wasn't a powerful, separate political institution as it is in the U.S., though he could select chancellors.
Finally, Europe with all its parliaments has done a worse job fixing their economies after the Great Recession. The U.S. response, while awful, has still been better. I hardly doubt anyone wants Hungary's rigged parliament for themselves.
(3) Gridlock is the symptom, not the cause.
The more accurate description of the issue Vox is respond to is that democracy's biggest problem, irrespective of systems of government, is when the minority rejects the legitimacy of the majority's rule. In other words, the system's failure doesn't lead to the collapse; rather, the collapse leads to the system's failure. The question we're concerned with, though, is how does that play out institutionally? In Japan, the system is so lopsided that minority parties have token political power. As long as the people are mostly satisfied, though, they grit and bear it. This is barely a success.
In the U.S., there was one attempt at minority secession. Now, it appears the minority wants to rule the majority against its will. It can't, so it digs its heels in at every turn. Here I found Vox to be straining to take the both-parties-are-responsible-for-gridlock line while feinting at self-satisfied centrists who regularly do so. Did the Senate Democrats use the filibuster to oppose judicial nominees in the mid-2000s? Yes. Does Obama assertively use executive orders (immigration prioritization) and existing legislation (the Clean Air Act on carbon emissions) to enact his agenda? Yes. Is that equivalent to Republicans who more recently threatened to default on the national debt or shut down the government to repeal a health care law? Ha ha. No.
When the parties are reversed, things work differently. If Democrats controlled Congress and faced a Republican president, they wouldn't obstruct the budget, prevent the president from appointing his officers, or threaten to default on government bonds just to defund popular legislation. They might be pushovers as an opposition party, but they're much more willing to patriotically compromise. Vox's counterpoint that George W. Bush was a gregarious fella (a debatable point) hated by Democrats ignores the fact that when Democrats did control Congress during his administration (barely), they didn't wage a scorched earth campaign to utterly undermine him.
If anything, the lesson for Democrats is that they need to articulate to the public that the Republicans' "Constitutional hardball" is selfish anti-majoritarianism, not principled opposition.
(4) Beware the "prophetic fallacy."
I think Vox uses its structural arguments to then advance vague, unfalsifiable predictions about the future, the "prophetic fallacy." Yes, some day every government will fall, and among them the U.S. will be appreciated as the nation-state that gave humanity popular sovereignty and the first lunar landings. But that's not the same thing as successfully arguing that the U.S. government will fail for structural reasons whereas a parliamentary one would not. Vox ignores too many variables like geography, climate, history, and external international factors to make that case.
To some extent, Vox's argument shoehorns political reality (the "symptoms" in the previous section) into its structural thesis without discussing the future of that political reality. For one, the Republican Party supposedly has serious demographic problems. Simultaneously, it's not an accident that Democrats' presidential candidates regularly win the popular vote and northern and coastal states. Aside from not confronting Republican obstructionism more publicly, their biggest mistake is their watered-down economic policies against abstract inequality and pro-trade for the corporate elite. (But hey, we all know there are clear ideological differences between the parties, right?) The biggest reasons they don't control Congress are gerrymandering in the House and slow turnover in the Senate. I don't think anyone seriously expects Republican control come 2017.
Vox then resorts to fear-mongering:
What if a disputed presidential election coincided with a Supreme Court vacancy? What if the simultaneous deaths of the president and vice president brought to power a House Speaker from the opposite party? What if neither party secured a majority of electoral votes and a presidential election wound up being decided by a vote of the lame duck House of Representatives? What if highly partisan state legislatures start using their constitutional authority to rig the presidential contest?
Okay, I can play this game too. What if demographics and odious Republic presidential nominees help Democrats take over Congress? What if Congress then amends the Reapportionment Act to require states with more than five representatives to draw multimember proportional representation districts? What if global warming shifts party alignments to the wet east versus the dry west?
Vox just assumes political gridlock will go on forever without discussing why, and then it sneaks this assumption into its incomplete structural doom scenario.
My principal point in today's frolic is to say that people shouldn't be swayed by the mediocre comparative politics (and international politics) or the rhetorical sleight-of-hand Vox uses to argue that the U.S. constitutional system is doomed to collapse for structural reasons. I'm in favor of structural reform in the U.S., particularly making Congress more representative of the country and the president more vulnerable to Congressional disapproval, whether by lighter impeachment/conviction standards or shorter terms of office. Regular readers might be surprised to hear this, but I'm optimistic about what the U.S. will look like 20 to 30 years from now.
What I don't want to see in 20 to 30 years from now is Vox writers—Yglesias or otherwise—using evidence of salutary political changes that contribute to systemic reform to vindicate this article. Vox promises humiliating crisis; the future had better deliver. IT ala Honduras does not equal "reform" like the Progressive Era. That's the "prophetic fallacy."
Posted in Predictions and tagged International Stuff on 2015/03/23 by Matt Leichter. 4 Comments
GUEST POST—Smokin' Bucketful of Awesome (Flow Chart Edition)
(Connecticut attorney Samuel Browning, a friend of The Law School Tuition Bubble, obtained permission from law professor Bernie Burk to create a flow chart version of a series of posts Burk wrote on The Faculty Lounge in June 2014 that characterized law school outcomes as between either "A Smokin' Bucketful of Awesome" or "A Smoking Pile of Scrap." Mr. Browning's chart appears here with only minor proofreading on my part, so any unclear points, variances from Burk's posts, or errors are his own. Actual hyperlinks to Burk's articles are included at the bottom. Click on the flow chart to enlarge it in your browser.)
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2014/06/more-thoughts-on-self-delusion-in-the-legal-academy-and-an-effort-to-engage-the-aals.html
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2014/06/self-delusion-spreads-from-professional-to-graduate-education-consternation-curiously-absent.html
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2014/06/still-more-thoughts-on-self-delusion-in-the-legal-academy-or-accepting-the-difference-between-a-smok.html
Posted in Guest Post and tagged Legal Education, Legal Education ROI, Versatile J.D. on 2015/03/16 by Matt Leichter. 2 Comments
Correction: 13 Schools Didn't Report Graduate Debt to U.S. News
I wrote in my post on 2014 law graduate debt that Seton Hall did not report graduate debt data to U.S. News. Due to an accidental error in my data collection I omitted it, and I have now updated the original post on the topic. Excepting Belmont, it appears that 13 law schools did not submit graduate debt data to U.S. News, so that's an improvement. I will not report any additional corrections, making changes only to the post itself.
Posted in Uncategorized on 2015/03/13 by Matt Leichter. Leave a comment
71 Percent of Lawyers Work in the Legal Services Sector
71 percent of employed lawyers, that is. We're not talking about people who are on the rolls but aren't working.
I haven't carefully read through all of Michael Simkovic's and Frank McIntyre's most recent analysis in law graduate earnings, but it looks like they're still uninterested in exploring the possibility that law grads' earnings are attributable to demand-side factors, like price or income elasticity of demand for lawyers' services. Because they don't show us that law students who complete all the required law school course work without graduating have the same earnings as law graduates, anything they say about a JD premium is premature. Such an analysis is crucial because one of their own citations, David Card's 1999, "The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings," indicates that law grads earn substantially more than the trend would suggest. This finding screams for testing, but Simkovic and McIntyre aren't careful enough researchers to do that.
Thus, it follows that their comparisons between law grads and college grads in "Timing Law School" are equally inadmissible. Indeed, I may not bother commenting on "Timing" at length at all.
However, I did decide that a little procrastination is good for the human spirit (and entertaining to the reader), so I poked around "Timing" to see what errors I could find. I'll showcase one.
On page 17 Simkovic and McIntyre write:
Based on initial outcomes for recent graduates and qualitative factors, Henderson and Zahorsky argue that the legal profession is experiencing a "structural shift" due to globalization and technological change.34 Others point to a decline in the size of "legal services" (law firms) relative to GDP.35 What this means for law school graduates is uncertain, since most legal services workers are not lawyers,36 and many law graduates work in fields other than legal services.37
Footnote 36 uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) database to show that "out of more than 1.1 million legal services workers, only 375 thousand were lawyers. Other occupations include paralegals, secretaries, bookkeepers and computer support and business specialists."
And footnote 37 says:
Around 60 percent of law graduates practice law. Simkovic and McIntyre, supra ["Economic Value of a Law Degree"] at 252. Of those working as lawyers, around 65 percent work in "legal services." United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, supra note 36. Some of the non-lawyers working in legal services have law degrees.
In other words, the authors bury in a footnote the fact that 65 percent of lawyers work in legal services, so they can claim that it's unclear how economic swings affecting the legal services sector would in turn affect law grads because most workers there aren't lawyers. Being mindful of the distinction between law grads and lawyers, it's nevertheless pretty bizarre to believe that the one industry law school prepares people for most would have a trivial impact on their earnings. The only alternative interpretation is for Simkovic and McIntyre to show that the legal sector is laying off everyone but its lawyers—and admittedly (again, in a footnote) malemployed law grads.
The foregoing aside, their math is still incorrect. It's true that 375,000 legal sector lawyers out of the 592,670 total in the OES equals 63 percent, but that's not the full number of lawyers. Why? Because the OES omits self-employed workers, which feature prominently in the legal profession. This is an pitfall that I either first noticed or was pointed out to me when I started writing on law schools nearly five years ago, so it's amusing to see Simkovic and McIntyre make it.
In 2012, the BLS's Employment Projections program found 759,800 employed lawyers, of which 374,900 were legal sector wage-and-salary employees. According to the BLS's estimate of the distribution of lawyers among industries (xls), 165,700 lawyers were self-employed workers. It's just about impossible for these folks to not be working in the legal sector, and indeed, if one looks at the Bureau of Economic Analysis' National Income and Product Accounts tables, one finds that self-employed workers are included in the category "Persons Engaged in Production by Industry" (Table 6.8D).
As a result, 540,600 lawyers out of 759,800 lawyers—71 percent—work in the legal services sector, not 63 percent. These scant 8 percentage points sure make it look more persuasive to me that what goes on in the legal sector influences law grads' earnings. (Oh, and I add that another 17 percent of all lawyers work in government. Is that sector robustly hiring lawyers?)
I don't expect those 8 percentage points to persuade Simkovic and McIntyre, though. They've gotten plenty of mileage asking the legal profession to accept on an untested, pure human capital hypothesis that law school pays off even if the legal sector implodes. They can at least include self-employed lawyers in their adverse footnotes.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged J.D. Overproduction, Legal Education, Legal Education ROI, Legal Sector, Versatile J.D. on 2015/03/11 by Matt Leichter. 8 Comments
13 Law Schools Didn't Report 2014 Graduate Debt to U.S. News, Again
[UPDATE: Seton Hall's average graduate debt datum is now accounted for in this post, lowering the number of non-reporting law schools to 13 this year. Without altering the substantive points of the post, please consider the necessary changes having been made.]
The record was 14 last year, which was still too high.
Each year U.S. News ranks law schools based on how much debt their graduates take on. The figure excludes accrued interest, but it's probably the best estimate of the cost of attendance at a particular law school. It's also, unfortunately, the only source for this information as the ABA does not publicize it in the 509 Information Reports. Here's this year's list of absentees and their debt levels in their last reported year:
Arizona Summit – $190,471 (2015, can be found on the school's Web site [Interestingly, no one took out private loans…])
New England – $132,246 (2014)
Seton Hall – $127,075 (2014)
Faulkner – $122,187 (2014)
Missouri (Kansas City) – $103,038 (2014)
Southern Illinois – $67,966 (2014)
Appalachian – $114,740 (2013)
Atlanta's John Marshall – $142,515 (2013)
Florida A&M – $96,934 (2012)
La Verne – $112,628 (2013)
Rutgers-Camden – $93,990 (2013)
Southwestern – $147,976 (2013)
Texas Southern – $99,992 (2013)
WMU Cooley – $122,395 (2013)
I'm excluding the three Puerto Rico law schools and Widener Harrisburg because U.S. News usually does too. In point of fact, Belmont had 119 graduates last year, so it probably should have been included as well, but I'll be lenient today. I'd hate to see the record broken.
These schools account for 3,361 3,076 graduates out of 43,118 (excl. Puerto Rico), or 8 7 percent of the total.
The unweighted average private law school graduate debt rose from $124,638 last year to $127,740 127,743 this year (2.4% 2.5%). For public law schools: $88,287 in 2013 to $89,471 in 2014 (1.3%). I haven't QC-ed this year's figures, but I'm confident they're right.
Other amusing facts:
Kudos to Barry and District of Columbia for correctly reporting their graduates' debt levels this year. In 2014, both schools reported what must have been their graduates' debt for their final year.
I'm curious why some schools saw large leaps in debt, e.g. South Dakota (45%), Arkansas (Little Rock) (33%), Baylor (30%), Elon (22%), and Pace (20%). It doesn't appear they blatantly misreported last year, but these are odd fluctuations, particularly given that some of these schools saw 15% drops in debt disbursed last year.
Big ol' raspberry to Howard for reporting what must be its graduates' final year of debt: $24,021. Last year, it reported $123,485.
Although the ABA hasn't "acquiesced" yet, it's nice to see Hamline's numbers reported. I expected them to not appear.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Legal Education ROI, U.S. News (& its loathed rankings) on 2015/03/10 by Matt Leichter. 13 Comments
LSAT Tea-Leaf Reading: February 2015 Edition
BOUNCE!
20,358 people took the LSAT in February, up 859 (4.4 percent) from 2014. Notably, that's growth in two consecutive testing administrations. Wow indeed.
This ends our LSAT year with 101,689 total LSAT takers, which is a record low going back to 1986. Back in those days, you said you were listening to Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. or Heart's eponymous album, but we all know you couldn't take Barbra Streisand's The Broadway Album and the soundtracks to Miami Vice and Rocky IV out of your tape deck. (Cultured readers from my age bracket will recognize how Rocky IV's villain's theme closely resembles that of Unicron's from the Transformers movie of the same period: Both were crafted by Vince DiCola.)
Back to less exciting 2015, I think there's a little room left for LSAT takers to drop, but applicants aren't shying away from law school as they were in the past. They're down a mere 7 percent from this time last year.
It's unlikely they'll weigh in at fewer than 50,000, so it looks like we're pretty close to the bottom if we're not there already. Who knows, though, maybe it's just people thinking they could get into elite law schools.
For some perspective on the law school crunch, here're the trends since the 1960s.
The only unobvious insight I can give you from this chart is how amazing it is that peak LSAT in 2009-11 just did not translate into peak applicants. Much of it is due to non-first-time test-takers, but it's a real harbinger for how things will look going forward. We may be at the applicant trough, but folks, they ain't coming back.
Posted in LSAT Tea-Leaf Reading and tagged Late Gen-X Nostalgia, Legal Education, ROCK 'N' ROLL! on 2015/03/05 by Matt Leichter. 1 Comment


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Q: Positive lookahead regex to tokenize text I am trying to tokenize the following text:
F.B.I. is an acronym. FBI is an acronym, c.i.a. could also be one. $1,000,000.00 is a currency value as well as 1.000.000,00£ for example. Here is a measure cm24.54 and 34.3cm...
like this:
F.B.I. | is | an | acronym | . | FBI | is | an | acronym | , | c.i.a. | could | also | be | one | . | $ | 1,000,000.00 | is | a | currency | value | as | well | as | 1.000.000,00 | £ | for | example | . | Here | is | a | measure | cm | 24,54 | and | 34.3 | cm | ...
I have started writing a regex to do this but I'm not sure how to keep acronyms and numbers together.
My regex looks like this: str.split(/\s|(?=[^A-Za-z0-9#@])/), it splits and throws away whitespaces and it splits on non alphanumeric characters (excluding # and @) without removing them by using a positive lookahead.
How do I modify my regex to split the text as described above?

A: It's much easier to pick out tokens than to pick out holes. Just go down the list, fix weird stuff, move subexpressions around till they do what you want. Remember that in A|B, A has priority. For example, this seems to work for the snippet above:

let re = /\$|\£|cm|\.{3,}|[0-9,.]+|(?:\w\.){2,}|[\w.-]+@[\w.-]+|[-\w]+/g;
let text = "F.B.I. is an acronym. FBI is an acronym, c.i.a. could also be one. $1,000,000.00 is a currency value as well as 1.000.000,00£ for example. Here is an email address email@address.com and a measure cm24.54 and 34.3cm...";
console.log(text.match(re));

However, note that this is very much an exercise of cataloguing exceptions. There will certainly be things that you'll miss, or that will end up wrong, or even cases where you need contradictory rules based on context.
EDIT: This was what I was talking in comments, but if you have it figured out great.

let re = /(\$|\£|cm|\.{3,}|[0-9,.]+|(?:\w\.){2,}|[\w.-]+@[\w.-]+|[-\w]+)/g;
let text = "F.B.I. is an acronym. FBI is an acronym, c.i.a. could also be one. $1,000,000.00 is a currency value as well as 1.000.000,00£ for example. Here is an email address email@address.com and a measure cm24.54 and 34.3cm...";
let theSplit = text.split(re);
console.log("The split:", JSON.stringify(theSplit));
let stuffBetween = theSplit.filter((e, i) => i % 2 == 0);
console.log("Just the stuff between:", JSON.stringify(stuffBetween));

A: I don't think you can do this just using a regex, as an example take .. It could be the end of a sentence, a decimal point, the thousands separator as used in several European languages or part of an ASCIIfied ellipsis ... instead of …. The CLDR project has some rules for breaking text into sentences.


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