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The new findings do not suggest investors make decisions purely based on their religion, a professor says.
Study links mutual fund decisions with religion
By Laura Koran, CNN
(CNN) - Faith plays a major role in many Americans' lives, affecting their outlook on morality, politics and even - according to a new study - investing.
The study, conducted at the University of Georgia and Southern Methodist University, found that the predominant religion in a community affects the decision-making process of mutual fund managers in that community, specifically when it comes to risk.
Mutual funds in counties with larger Catholic communities tend to embrace risk more than those in majority-Protestant counties, the study found. Earlier studies have found that Catholics are generally more prone to take speculative risks than the average population, while Protestants are more risk-averse than the average population.
The findings, which will be published next month in the academic journal Management Science, could help provoke a re-evaluation of how investing works, its authors said.
"One would expect that with very, very severe competition within the mutual fund industry, culture should play no role in mutual fund decisions because fund managers ... should adopt value-maximizing strategies," said Tao Shu, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Georgia and one of the study's authors.
"Surprisingly," Shu continued, "we found that despite the very intense competition within the mutual fund industry, mutual funds are still impacted by local culture."
Specifically, the study found that mutual funds located in predominantly Catholic areas are associated with increasing fund volatility, a measure of risk taking, by about 6%, compared to those in low-Catholic areas. Those in predominately Protestant counties have a 14% lower fund volatility compared with those in low-Protestant areas.
The study looked at 1,621 growth and aggressive growth mutual funds.
Shu conducted the study with University of Georgia colleague Eric Yeung and Johan Sulaeman of Southern Methodist University.
Howard J. "Rusty" Leonard, founder and CEO of the North Carolina-based mutual fund company Stewardship Partners, said he understands how cultural influences can play a part in investment decisions. Stewardship is one of a growing number of investment firms with religious missions, investing only in companies that he said meet specified moral standards.
Leonard said the study may speak to complex geographic trends that include religion but that also go beyond it.
"We have clients for what we do in the South and (in) other places in the country but almost none in the Northeast," he said. "And there just isn't the interest in screening and reflecting religious viewpoints in the Northeast, as much as there is in the South."
Leonard said the study seemed to speak to the greater degree of overall religious conviction in the Bible Belt, home to a higher proportion of evangelical Christians than any other region of the country.
"Churches in the South, being more conservative in nature in the first place - with the Baptist influence particularly - just make the whole cluster more conservative, and more suspicious probably of things that are promising great solutions and great returns," Leonard said.
Shu, for his part, said his findings do not suggest that investors make decisions purely based on their religion, pointing to earlier studies linking investment decisions to other cultural factors.
He also cautioned that a variety of factors can affect mutual fund performance, and investors should not make their investment decisions based on the faiths of fund managers.
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hippypoet
belief itself isn't a bad thing. i can say that honestly and believe those words. any belief that makes one want to be a better person is a grand belief to be sure! however, the belief in something unpovable full heartedly is what i find to be disconcerting. the real issue with religion is when those that believe full heartedly run a country or when the majority of the cizitens are religious. For as we all know, the majority make the rule. wether it be thru having more votes or greater numbers in your army the idea is the same, strength in numbers! But when this is the case what you get is oppession.
any religiously ran government is an oppressive one. All religions state what people should, should not, can, and can not do and even at times religions state when one should do these things. it is in its most basic function a form of social control that warps the mind of the creature being controlled so that the end result is a person who willin
gly acts in accordance to that very same oppressive government thereby making the government appear to be not controlling at all.
it is a very nice trick, but aren't tricks for children?
should we not grow up?
are dreams really worth giving reality up?
how is a hope greater then knowledge?
why aren't other things taken at face value with the same "faith"?
if anything then at least shouldn't the tenets of your faith be adhered to and be upheld?
should you stone your own children because they were dissrespectful to you?
should you kill those of differing cultures or beliefs because they have differing cultures and beliefs?
would you allow those that survive YOUR jihad to be enslaved and turned into property?
should women be viewed as property and treated as such?
how many commandments do you follow and how many do you think there are?
shouldn't the followers of the abrahamic faith know the answers to these questions?
was hope greater then knowledge?
did the dream live up to its reality?
Evolution favors the faithful
Don't be selected for destruction. Follow Jesus and live.
I live perfectly well without the so-called son of an imaginary being. Faith has nothing to do with evolution.
September 27, 2012 at 1:47 am |
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Never trust a study conducted by a religious organization. By definition they are biased and believe things based on faith, not facts.
September 26, 2012 at 4:26 pm |
oh, God please continue to bless mutual funds and thanks...
Now we know why mutual funds perform so well.
Atheism is Great for Kids and Grown-Ups Too!
It's really best for all people including children to have an agnostic approach to god, and an atheistic approach to all religion. It keeps things simple for kids, and lets them be all that they can be. They just need to be taught that some things, like all religion, were just made up by salesmen and politicians from long ago. (Yes, charlatan folklore and spam started long before the Bible; what would make you think they hadn't?) And they need to be taught that other things, like God, we really don't know a damn thing about.
Atheists have strong minds and don't need a religion. Many religious folk have the best intentions. But too often, religious folk run and hide their misdeeds within their religion (and by doing so, they disserve society). And too often, religious folk are easily offended when someone mocks their make-believe characters – and, as we can see they can get really CRAZY!
Although there are many religious folk with good intentions – some selflessly helping others, religions and religious organizations are, as a whole, just big old clubs – each trying to out do each other and inspiring hate and division (often disguised as love) along the way. The problem is that people too easily buy into religion and don't realize how unfounded it all is. And when they buy into it, they buy into a lot of really old, really weird tenets that are nothing but harmful for the human species.
Take Christianity, for instance. Just look at all the things that Christians argue about amongst themselves today – abortion, men's and women's roles in the church, celibacy, contraception, acceptance of gays, etc. Most of these issues have their roots in the conflicted, unfounded tenets of early Christianity. Non-Mormons harp on Joseph Smith these days. But we really don't have any more proof at all to believe that Paul, the self-proclaimed "apostle" was anything more than an ordinary man who needed to make up religious "sales literature" to survive and spread his own personal beliefs. And yet a good chunk of the NT is attributed to Paul and accepted by many Christians. And a lot of what he wrote about has to do with many of the issues I mentioned above that have Christians fighting amongst themselves hundreds of years later. It's way too unfounded to argue over.
Get a good cup of tea, and sit down and collect your thoughts. If you find it helpful to pray to a god, fine. But it is really healthier for the mind to leave behind all the characters that people over the centuries have invented or given powers to, for which there is little or no foundation. Because with those invented characters and powers – that's where division and hate join the little party in your mind. That's where, in your mind, you are inheriting the division and hate from ordinary politicians, lobbyists and salesmen from long ago. My goodness.
mama kindless.
Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things
Prayer changes things
I'm sorry, "Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things", but your assertions regarding atheism and prayer are unfounded. The degree to which your assertions may represent correct statements is 0.0. To help you understand the degree to which your assertions may represent correct statements, I will access my Idiomatic Expression Equivalency module (IEE). Using my IEE module, the expression that best matches the degree to which your assertions may represent correct statements is: "TOTAL FAIL".
I see that you repeat these unfounded statements with high frequency. Perhaps the following book might help you overcome this problem:
I'm Told I Have Dementia: What You Can Do... Who You Can Turn to...
by the Alzheimer's Disease Society
Prayer does not; you are such a LIAR. You have NO proof it changes anything! A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work and their children died. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested.
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn't work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!~.
What the f<uck is up w that avdberg person?
OBAMA 2012!
CLINTON – 2016 & 2020!
mama kindless
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn't work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs! *.
So pray for some imagination
AvdBerg
I feel so guilty about posting all this crap, and I'm really an atheist, but my bosses make me do it.
Rynomite
Somone needs to whip out the banstick on Advberg's IP.
When someone spams the same exact 4500 word essay 20+ times on a page, they are not contributing to any sort of discussion and need to be eliminated.
Yet another example of how religion makes this world a worse place - is there anything religion doesn't affect in a negative way?
NanH
I thought this was CNN not the religious channel
Then there is the money (and "souls") to be saved without religion:
Saving 1.5 billion lost Muslims:
There never were and never will be any angels i.e. no Gabriel, no Islam and therefore no more koranic-driven acts of horror and terror LIKE 9/11.
Money saved:
– One trillion dollars over the next several years as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will end.
– Eighteen billion dollars/yr to Pakistan will stop.
– Four billion dollars/yr to Egypt will end.
Saving 2 billion lost Christians including the Mormons:
There were never any bodily resurrections and there will never be any bodily resurrections i.e. No Easter, no Christianity!!!
Money saved and taxes paid:
– The Mormon ti-the empire will now become taxable as will all Christian "religions" and evangelical non-profits since there is no longer any claim to being a tax-exempt religion.
– the faith-based federal projects supported by both Bush and Obama will be eliminated saving $385 million/yr and another $2 billion/yr in grants.
– Saving 15.5 million Orthodox followers of Judaism:
Abraham and Moses never existed.
– Four billion dollars/yr to Israel saved.
– All Jewish sects and non-profits will no longer be tax exempt.
Now all we need to do is convince these 3.5+ billion global and local citizens that they have been conned all these centuries Time for a YouTube,Twitter and FaceBook campaign!!!!
What are you trying to say ?
Nietodarwin
Mutual funds who knows???. I know that I will NEVER eat at Chick fil A again, or buy Tyson chicken again, or stay at a Marriott again. I used all those products/services until a few months ago when the CEO's and such started talking about their "faith based" companies. I want these TALIBANGELICALS out of government, and they sure aren't getting any more money from me towards their sickening "faith based" enterprises.
TALIBANGELICAL
RAWR.
Let me feed you some chicken....
@ Nietodarwin
Well said. One very sad aspect is the average Talibangelicals don't realize they are on the wrong side of history. They are the "modern" equivalent of the southern racist defending Jim Crow laws and chauvinistic men that opposed the right of women to vote. Even worse are the ones that do know and don't care.
Towelie
I am so fub/bcking high.
PeaceBeWithYou
• What is the First Noble Truth?
The first truth is that life is suffering i.e., life includes pain, getting old, disease, and ultimately death. We also endure psychological suffering like loneliness frustration, fear, embarrassment, disappointment and anger. This is an irrefutable fact that cannot be denied. It is realistic rather than pessimistic because pessimism is expecting things to be bad. lnstead, Budhism explains how suffering can be avoided and how we can be truly happy.
• What is the Second Noble Truth?
The second truth is that suffering is caused by craving and aversion. We will suffer if we expect other people to conform to our expectation, if we want others to like us, if we do not get something we want,etc. In other words, getting what you want does not guarantee happiness. Rather than constantly struggling to get what you want, try to modify your wanting. Wanting deprives us of contentment and happiness. A lifetime of wanting and craving and especially the craving to continue to exist, creates a powerful energy which causes the individual to be born. So craving leads to physical suffering because it
William Demuth
Smoke much crack?
WachetAuf
To William:
The Neanderthals died out because they never evolved. They were too isolated from the rest of the world which was evolving at a more rapid pace. Some scientists do believe, however, that they have identified genes in modern man which could have been inherited from the Neanderthals. You may want to offer yourself for testing for those genes. It might explain why some people are more primitive than others.
• Do Buddhists Worship Idols?
Buddhists sometimes pay respect to images of the Buddha, not in worship, nor to ask for favors. A statue of the Buddha with hands rested gently in its lap and a compassionate smile reminds us to strive to develop peace and love within ourselves. Bowing to the statue is an expression of gratitude for the teaching.
• Why are so Many Buddhist Countries Poor?
One of the Buddhist teachings is that wealth does not guarantee happiness and also wealth is impermanent. The people of every country suffer whether rich or poor, but those who understand Buddhist teachings can find true happiness.
• Are There Different Types of Budhism?
There are many different types of Budhism, because the emphasis changes from country to country due to customs and culture. What does not vary is the essence of the teaching — the Dh</b am</b ma or truth.
• Are Other Religions Wrong?
Budhism is also a belief system which is tolerant of all other beliefs or religions. Budhism agrees with the moral teachings of other religions but Budhism goes further by providing a long term purpose within our existence, through wisdom and true understanding. Real Budhism is very tolerant and not concerned with labels like 'Chris tian', 'Mosl</b um', 'Hin</b du' or 'Bud</b dh ist'; that is why there have never been any wars fought in the name of Budhism. That is why Bu</b ddhi sts do not preach and try to convert, only explain if an explanation is sought.
• Is Budhism Scientific?
Science is knowledge which can be made into a system, which depends upon seeing and testing facts and stating general natural laws. The core of Budhism fit into this definition, because the Four Noble truths can be tested and proven by anyone in fact the Buddha himself asked his followers to test the teaching rather than accept his word as true. Budhism depends more on understanding than faith.
• What did the Buddha Teach?
The Buddha taught many things, but the basic concepts in Budhism can be summed up by the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path.
End Religion
The only Noble Truth is that all religion is a fraud. Your brand of delusion is no less crazy than anyone else's.
September 25, 2012 at 10:24 pm |


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Berber carpets are carpets hand-woven by the Berber people in North Africa and the Sahara. The carpets come in traditional and modern designs, which are distinguished by different knotting patterns, dyes and fabric textures.

History

The origin of carpet weaving by the Berber populations dates back several millennia. The hand-spun cloth they created was named after the individual tribe, and they used natural fibres to create cloaks, rugs and other fabrics.

Traditional and modern carpets

Modern industrialized Berber carpets are distinguished by a loop pile construction type that gives a similar appearance to the distinct knot of traditionally woven Berber carpets. The modern carpets usually contain small flecks of dark colour on lighter shades of background colours resembling a natural undyed version of the traditional carpets. They generally consist of a plain colour mix with no pattern, and are relatively cheap and durable. Popular for areas with significantly heavy use such as offices.  The distinctive knot texture and appearance of traditional hand-woven Berber carpets today are generally woven in brightly coloured designs that are different from other oriental rugs.

Handmade and usually homemade Berber carpets are still an active industry in many rural areas of Berber countries. Many Berber families earn their primary income from building-up carpets manually and selling them in local markets, merchants and tourists. Traditional Berber carpets differ from modern mass-produced Berber carpets that are usually found in industrialized markets. They often employ cultural designs and are typically made of natural materials

Today, there are numerous types of modern Berber carpet made from a wide variety of materials, Nylon, Olefin fibre and wool are the most frequently used materials. Tunisian Berber carpets and rugs, usually called "Mergoum", which still preserve techniques inherited from ancestral weaving methods. Tunisian authorities are still controlling every piece to guarantee quality and that 'Berber' spirit in designs, patterns and symbols knotted so only wool is permitted with a total ban of any synthetic material, then each rug or carpet is sealed with a red wax sign (of Tunisian handicrafts authorities).

In other countries, Olefin is the most frequently used and most affordable material, and carpets with blends of the different materials are also available.

Berber carpet is highly durable and is often found in offices, schools, and other high traffic areas. It is stain resistant as well, and is generally more affordable than thicker plush carpets. To care about it is recommended by most professionals that Moroccan Olefin Berber should be cleaned using a low-moisture or dry cleaning process. Traditional steam cleaning with high alkaline detergents can cause potential pH burns in the olefin. These appear as large yellow or brown splotches. Yellow or brown spots also may be tannin bleed from the sugars in natural fibre carpets that are drawn to the top by improper drying usually caused by overwetting. There are carpet chemicals that can remove most of this yellowing or browning but they are very expensive, and it would be better to not get the yellowing or browning. A better, but more difficult, method may be to dry the carpet from the bottom. This method would generally require lifting up some of the carpet to install a carpet fan under the carpet, and using hot air, not just room temperature air. Regrettably, many of these stains can be permanent if not corrected immediately by a professional carpet cleaner. As with all carpets, Berber should be cleaned every 6 to 12 months to prevent permanent wear patterns.

References

Bibliography
 Barbatti, Bruno; Berber Carpets of Morocco: The Symbols, Origin and Meaning, www.acr-edition.com, 2009,

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My mother called for one of the servants to bring rolls of different cloths.
"We must find something that will say 'This is your future queen.' It must be bold and beautiful, like you."
I smiled at the compliments. "I feel fine with what I'm wearing."
"While you do look flawless and I am sure entices your prince. You are a princess and will one day become queen."
She went over to an oak box. She opened it to reveal jewelry. It was all gold.
"I know I have it somewhere..." She frowned as she put out various pieces.
"Something that will look great with your hair. Here it is." She pulled out a thin circle of gold. It was about a fourth of an inch wide and large enough to fit around the crown of my head.
Long gold chains dangled around it.
"You will wear this. It is a crown of sorts. A bath has been ordered for you. Don't fight the girls when they wash you." She narrowed her eyes at me knowingly. I would have fought them.
"I promise to let them do what they want."
The servants came in with rolls of cloth in different shades of color.
"The bath is ready my queen." One of them approached us.
"Go to the bathroom." My mother ordered me. "I will choose the dress for you."
I wasn't sure how she was going to make a dress while I bathed but I would leave it in her capable hands. There was a lavish bath tub to one wall of the bathroom.
With trepidation I started taking off my clothes in front of the girls that were to help me bathe.
I got into the hot water and moaned. It felt deliciously good.
They quickly got to work on me. One washed my hair while another scrubbed my hands. I let them do everything.
The room quickly smelled of floral fragrances.
I had to say that being worked on felt great. One of the girls even massaged my shoulders.
I was helped out of the water and dried off with soft leaves that seemed to absorb the water from my skin.
A girl neared me with a bottle that held a clear liquid. She poured some in another's hands and it was put in my hair.
The smell was nice and smooth. After she was done I ran a hand through my hair. The soft ringlet of curl that wrapped around my finger wasn't frizzy at all.
I walked out into the bedroom where my mother was having the servants take the cloths she didn't need. On the bed there was a shimmering gold one.
With a smile she brought it up to me and started wrapping it around my body. A servant handed her gold pins that she put on each shoulder to hold up the material.
I felt that my back was exposed as low as could be.
My mother placed the thin band of gold over my head. She threaded the thin chains around my curls to hold them in place.
I was showed other bangles of gold.
"You put them on your arm. Choose whichever you like."
I looked at the different shapes and designs. I chose two that I really liked and they were placed through my arms. They fit right at each of my biceps.
Gold slippers appeared and were put on my feet.
My mother stepped back as did the servant girls. They all had looks of wonder and happiness.
"You look like a queen." My mother smiled and clasped her hands in glee. "Let's show your prince."
Zirk had spoken to Xinas extensively about what they should do. They were now waiting for their women to come down the stairs. One of the servants had told them that they were ready.
The queen showed up first after having changed into a red dress.
What Zirk couldn't do after he saw Xira at the top of the stairs was close his mouth. She was an image of beauty and near grace if she hadn't stumbled on the last step. He didn't care about that though.
She had on a beautiful gold gown that had been wrapped around well enough that accentuated her womanly curves.
Her hair was in delicate coils. She wore a thin crown around her head as jewelry that had gold links threaded through her hair.
"You know, it's not polite to drool." Her smirk reminded him that she was the same old Evelyn.
"Exquisite? Beautiful? The most gorgeous woman on Garzuk?" She teased.
"All of the above." He grinned and offered her his arm. She took it with a pleased expression.
"We should go around the village and see the preparations that have been made." Xinas suggested.
"I would actually like to go meet Zirk's parents. He has yet to introduce me and I don't want to be rude." Xira told them. "If that isn't a problem."
"It isn't. You are right. You must present yourself to them." Rasez, her mother agreed. "They were also invited to the festivities. The mating ceremony will take place tomorrow in their palace. Zamar should show you how that will be and to your liking."
"Zamar is my mother." Zirk explained to her.
"Alright. We will be back soon." Xira did an awkward curtsy.
"That isn't necessary dear. You are a princess." Xinas chuckled.
"Right. I am." Xira shook her head and turned red. "Come on Zirk, take me to my in laws."
"As you like, my princess." He winked at her and led her to the door of the castle.
She kept quiet until they were outside and alone. "Are you going to mock me, your highness?" She tried to keep a straight face.
"Was my tone mocking? I did not realize." He acted surprised. "Forgive me...princess." He made sure to say it sarcasticly.
"I will do you bodily harm if you mock me again." She glared at him.
He suddenly twirled her into a circle. While she was still dazed he swung her into his arms and kept walking like nothing happened.
"Zirk!" She managed to catch her breath. "I am going to kill you for that!" She punched him on the chest but otherwise stayed in his arms.
"You can try killing me later darling."
"What is up with you? Why are you lovable all of a sudden?"
"It isn't all of a sudden. I just realized how happy I am." He smiled tenderly at her. "Aren't you?"
"Well yes." She looked at her hand on his chest. "I'm actually enjoying myself here."
"You do realize that we might not return to earth right?"
She bit her lip. "I hadn't thought about that."
"Your parents are not going to want to let you go anytime soon. Do you have anyone you are going to miss?"
"Not really. Probably just Helen. The kids I grew up taking care off have their own lives now. Guess I won't miss earth."
"We can go visit if you'd like. Besides, there's still the council to think of. I don't know what my father is going to want to do about that. Hell, he might not want to have the alliance anymore."
"None of this bothers you?"
She shook her head. "Surprisingly no. It's kind of like I wouldn't care if we went back or not. I feel like I will be happy here."
He kept walking towards the sea clan's territory. He knew when they would enter it. Even the terrain changed.
There was more rock than grass. He could even smell the sea air.
"When will I be able to transform fully and how will it happen?" Xira suddenly asked him.
"It will take some time. Right now you are young in that and you will have to practice to control your half shifts."
"Will I really turn into a full on saber tooth?"
"So when you change...you're a real shark?"
"Yes. I have to make sure to turn in water. The lack of oxygen is horrible if I do it on land."
"How is this exactly going to work? I mean, you are sea and I am land. We won't ever shift together will we?" There was a sad note in her voice.
"We won't but that's not bad."
"I wish I could share that with you."
His heart thumped a little hard at her words. "I wish for that too but we have a strong enough bond not to let that affect us." He changed the subject by motioning with his head for her to look forward. "That's my home."
She turned her head and gasped. The rock structure amazed her. "It's almost fairytale like."
"I can see the appeal."
"Will your parents approve of me?" She looked back at him.
"You are the land princess, yes."
"Not because of that but I meant my personality. Do you think they'll like me?"
"My parents rarely like anyone so don't feel bad if they aren't excited about meeting and knowing you."
"That doesn't give me much consolation." She shifted in his arms. "You can put me down now. I'd rather walk then let them think I'm some kind of invalid."
"I like having you in my arms." He tightened his hold on her.
She grinned. "As much as I like it as well let me walk. Please."
"Did you just say please? I say, I am amazed." He laughed and let her stand on her feet.
"I'll have you know that I have impeccable manners only I chose not to use them. I wanted to hurt everyone before they could hurt me. I don't think I need that shield anymore. I'm the motherfucking princess now."
"And future queen of Garzuk." He reminded her. "We will reign the complete planet."
Her eyes widened. "What? I thought only one of the clans."
"Xira, you are princess of the land clan, I am prince of the sea clan. With our marriage and mating we have united both clans making this into one clan. The whole planet will be at our mercy when we are crowned king and queen."
"Unbelievable, I know." He could not believe it but it would be happening. As soon as his father and hers stepped down, which would still be another decade or so, they would rule everyone.
"I'm going to be the evil queen." She took in a big gulp of air. "I've been so mean everyone is going to think I will be horrible."
"You forget that it only was earth or rather the few people that knew you down there that you were mean. Here it's like you have a clean slate. All they remember is the cute little girl that everyone adored."
"I was cute?" She giggled.
"I thought so, yes." He smiled widely. "I thought you were going to be trouble as well. Guess I wasn't that far off."
She put her arms around his neck. "Guess you weren't. Kiss me, my prince."
"Should we really start something we can't finish?" He arched his brow but he was already leaning towards her.
"We're the freaking future king and queen. Let them wait." She locked lips with him.


Steven Carter, retired Professor Emeritus of English and award winning poet, has chosen critical historical locales and periods in Europe and America as the subject of his book of haiku, Morning Twilight (Cyberwit.net, 2012). The choice is both unusual and welcome, as it eschews the quietism, the escapism, of much haiku written in the past half-century. Steven Carter is politically engaged, not detached; he is aware of the tragedy of time and does not seek refuge in an imaginary haiku moment where time stops and the aspirant exists in an eternal moment.
The formatting of Morning Twilight itself has something to say about history. The author moves from periods in the past to the future, then to the long past and back to the future, not randomly, not to reduce all history to repetition, but certainly to disavow any lingering doubts that history is sequential, chronological, that humankind is moving towards a particular teleology: the perfection in time.
As George Kubler noted in his essay "Style and Representation of Historical Time (Annals, N.Y. Academy of Science Vol. 138, Art. 2 1967, pp. 849-855), the writing of history resembles the art of painting insofar as its selects among the complex of events what to represent and it figures it in a particular way. And, style of presentation has its own politics, its own truth.
Steven Carter begins his book in Zamosc, Poland, in Fall 1971. This first section is ironically dedicated in toto to All Souls Day or as it is more familiarly known as the Day of the Dead. It is a holiday celebrated throughout much of the world and it represents the respect and remembrance of the dead by the living. While one might expect a book of history, national or individual, to begin with a birth and move forward developmentally (the form of the bildungsroman) Steve Carter thwarts such a remote idea, as history is replete with death (though it naturally has its births to offset it).
Ironically, while every poem begins with the dirge The Day of the Dead, 1971 in Poland marked the very first time in history that the nation engaged in fully competitive democratic elections. The year marked the turning point of a nation that had been at war and under occupation (Nazis and Soviets) for over thirty years. This makes the celebration of the Day of the Dead all the more poignant, as many of the dead had known nothing but deprivation, hardship, brutality, and a lack of freedom; where, in one sense, death was a release from thralldom.
It is traditional in Poland on the Day of the Dead to hold bouquets downward, because the flowers have been picked, they are in the process of decay and death, and this is well balanced with the two "elderly Poles," who themselves are in a like situation, moving ever earthward. The poem also shows the endurance of rituals, even after thirty years of servitude.
Death is the "merry" danse macarbre, and even those lighting candles are unwittingly a part of this dance, in step in time in the march towards death.
The next section of the book takes place at Anne Frank House in October 1971. We all know the fate of the child Anne Frank. Hiding in the secret annex of the house of her father's factory in the Nazi occupied Netherlands, she and her family were eventually betrayed and sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she died of typhus. Her diaries of the times in hiding and the office building where she hid were both saved from destruction and the building is a visitor's site since the end of the war. Ironically, in 1971, the year Steve Carter writes about, the building was shut down for renovation for the first time since it opened. This was due to the wear and tear of 1,500 visitors a day to the site. The diary, of course, has been a staple reading even to this day. It represented, as Jan Romein, who wrote an article about it, titled "Kinderstem" ("A Child's Voice"), which was published in the newspaper Het Parool on 3 April 1946 that the diary "stammered out in a child's voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence at Nuremberg put together."
It is as if she were alive vividly in memory, in historical, racial memory, that we know what tree she had a fondness for above others.
Steve Carter then moves backward in time in the section Relocation Camp: Utah, June 1944. It is exemplary of another great injustice in history, the internment of the Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII. The section is further witness to the fact that history, though moments are select, repeats itself, at least inasmuch as it is fraught with brutality.
Mr. Carter first relates a personal vignette about his father, who was a social worker at these relocation camps. He treated the "prisoners" with dignity and the family received Christmas cards from repatriated Japanese for decades. But, this personal vignette does not offset the fact that merely because of their race, American citizens were placed in concentration camps based on racial bias and ignorance. In the following two haiku, we have evidence of just what the phrase "to the victor goes the spoils" means.
A Nisei is a second generation Japanese, born and raised in America.
So, what we see in these two haiku is the fact that the victor of a war always coopts the treasures of the historical past. It is why Walter Benjamin, the great German cultural writer, said "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another (On the Concept of History).
From the inexplicable loss of an entire people, Steve Carter "naturally" moves on to Auschwitz in September 1971. For here is the attempt of the complete genocide of a people, and though "reasons" are espoused, really, like the Anasazi before them, the Jewish People are systematically being eliminated without cause or coherence.
It is our history, too, not just the Nazis, because as Walter Benjamin noted supra, all the artifacts and treasures the victor receives contain the brutality that possessed them in the first instance. Benjamin has another dramatic representation of this idea from his Concept of History.
Then Steve Carter offers the following poem, so brief as to barely be noticed, and yet so poignant for all that.
Steve Carter then moves on to Majdanek, April 2010; Majdanek was a Polish concentration camp in Lublin Poland. The barbarity of history knows no limits. Even in the face of impending loss, the end of the war, the Nazi soldiers were ordered to kill Jews as quickly and efficiently as possible, and they did, without any sense that they were killing their fellow man.
Or, in these metaphoric poems, we see the triumph of the "redman" over the U.S. Cavalry and the pride and power of the Ghost Dance (a dance associated with an Indian religious movement that some saw as the reclamation of their land and the dispersal of the white man, although its founder, Jack Wilson, believed in peaceful coexistence).
While there does not appear to be any direct link between the areas mentioned above in the poems and the drift of radiation poisoning from Chernobyl in the Ukraine, the spread of toxic radiation has been significant from the epicenter of the disaster and has spread to numerous areas in and around Chernobyl.
From Chernobyl in 1986, Steve Carter moves to Flanders Field: July 2001, where he documents in his poems the impressions of WWI.
And the concurrence of such extreme opposites as "fondled" and "sweet fern" with the "headless torso" even exaggerates the carnage more, if that is possible. It is a poem that has all the violence of a Goya painting in it.
In place after place, time after time, Steve Carter has made a moving tribute to historical reality in this book of haiku. It is a rare work, indeed, that can make of carnage, cruelty, barbarity art. Some of the old masters achieved it as it has always been with us, accompanying us through history as perhaps our closest relative, if not friend. Mr. Carter's Morning Twilight adds a new dimension to the art of haiku. Although difficult subjects have entered into haiku before, never has anyone so single-mindedly stared the rending of life in the face and wrote of it. The author has done so with a loving hand, with a loving rejoinder to us. No need to lecture. No need to moralize. Just present the repetitions of war and violence and cruelty and barbarity in human life and if that does not move an individual to change, if they can, nothing will. It is a work of serious intent and a work worthy of serious consideration.


When Larry learned he had colon cancer at age 30, the diagnosis came as a shock for the young, active father of two. The only other incidence of cancer he was aware of in his family was his mother's uterine cancer, which had been successfully treated years earlier.
Now, prompted by his doctor, who noted how unusual colon cancer is in young people and suggested he seek out genetic counseling, Larry began to dig a little deeper into his family history. Conversations with an aunt revealed that his grandfather, who Larry had always been told had died in his thirties from a "stomach problem", in fact had colon cancer, as had his great-grandmother and two great uncles. Two cousins, he learned, had also recently been diagnosed with cancer—one with uterine cancer and one with colon cancer. Larry was amazed that all of these diagnoses had been kept so quiet all these years.
While undergoing genetic counseling UCSF, Larry shared this new family information and was told that this pattern might be indicative of Lynch Syndrome. Feeling the need for answers that could help the rest of his family, who might also be at increased risk for cancer, Larry underwent genetic testing. The results revealed that he was positive for a mutation in the MLH1 gene. This gene, he learned was the cause of not only his cancer, but of all those cancers in the family.
Larry's test results inspired other family members to also undergo testing—comprised of a simple blood or saliva test—to learn if they, too, had inherited the same genetic mutation. Testing in Larry's immediate family revealed that one of his sisters and one of his brothers were positive for the gene mutation; the other two were negative. The information provided powerful incentive for comprehensive preventive care among his family members, Larry says: his siblings, along with his mother, who also had the gene mutation, embarked on a screening protocol, and genetic counselors suggested that Larry's children undergo gene testing at age 18 to see if they inherited the gene mutation from him.


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Missouri man freed after murder conviction overturned
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - November 13, 2013
Ferguson was released Tuesday evening. But he first thought he was being sent to solitary confinement when he was told to gather his stuff in his prison cell. Even after his attorney held up a sign through a glass window declaring "It's over," it really wasn't.
Ferguson, 29, changed into civilian clothes then was ordered back into an orange prison jumpsuit to be transported from a state prison to a county jail. He feared he was about to be arrested again for the slaying of Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt. Instead, Ferguson rode to freedom from the jail in the backseat of his father's car - a black sedan emblazoned with a large photo of Ferguson and the words "Wrongfully Convicted. Time for Justice. FREE RYAN."
A week earlier a state appeals court panel overturned Ferguson's conviction, saying the prosecutor's office withheld evidence from his attorneys and that he didn't get a fair trial. The attorney general's office said Tuesday that it decided not to re-try Ferguson after reviewing the remaining evidence.
On Wednesday, the Columbia Police Department issued a statement saying it "will continue to follow-up on any new leads or information that is brought to the department" regarding Heitholt's death.
Ferguson's case gained national attention because his high school classmate, Chuck Erickson, claimed to have recalled through dreams years after the fact that he and Ferguson killed Heitholt in a late-night robbery after partying for Halloween. Erickson has since recanted his testimony and remains in prison.
Ferguson was greeted with cheers from dozens of supporters at a news conference Tuesday night inside a hotel ballroom - in a scene that resembled an election night watch party. Wearing blue jeans and a gray sweater over a white-collared shirt, Ferguson walked into the room with a big smile and raised his arms in victory in front of a bank of TV cameras.
He thanked his family, attorneys, his few remaining high school friends and his many new supporters for backing his quest for freedom.
"To get arrested and to get charged for a crime you didn't commit is incredibly easy, and you lose your life very fast," Ferguson said. "But to get out of prison, it takes an army."
Ferguson was a 17-year-old high school junior at the time of Heitholt's slaying. He was convicted in 2005 and had been serving a 40-year sentence for murder and robbery.
Erickson received a 25-year sentence as part of a plea agreement for testifying against Ferguson. At that trial, Erickson said Ferguson had suggested they rob someone to get money for alcohol and that Erickson had hit Heitholt with a metal tire tool before Ferguson strangled Heitholt with the man's own belt.
But during a 2012 court hearing, Erickson said he had been a heavy drug and alcohol user with hazy memories and had originally been persuaded by police and media accounts into believing he was guilty. Erickson said he no longer was sure of his own involvement and was adamant that Ferguson did not do it.
A panel of the Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals later overturned Ferguson's conviction.
Ferguson expressed sympathy Tuesday for Heitholt's family, saying "they've been lied to" by law enforcement authorities who pursued the case against him. He said he felt sorry for Erickson, who had been "used and manipulated" by police and prosecutors.
"I know that he's been victimized - he's an innocent man in prison," Ferguson said.
There was no physical evidence linking Ferguson or Erickson to Heitholt's death. Former Tribune janitor Jerry Trump was the only witness to testify that he had seen Ferguson and Erickson in the newspaper parking lot on the night of the slaying. Trump also recanted his testimony during the 2012 court hearing. But Ferguson's freedom ultimately hinged on the way authorities conducted their investigation.
Last week's appeals court ruling said an investigator in the Boone County prosecutor's office should have shared details about an interview he had with Trump's wife that would have raised questions about Trump's account. The appeals panel cited that as part of a pattern in which prosecutors failed to disclose evidence to Ferguson's attorneys.
Court documents filed by his attorney said Ferguson plans to live with his mother in Columbia and hopes to work for his father, who is a real estate broker. Ferguson said Tuesday that he has nearly finished writing a book about his experiences.
In an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Ferguson said he was starting his new life with nothing except the clothes on his back - the same clothes he wore at his news conference the night before.
"I'm going to just remain optimistic and see what happens and if nothing comes down the road, I'm going to create my own opportunities," he said.

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Genotropin
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European Commission final decision
The European Medicines Agency has completed an arbitration procedure for Genotropin and associated names. The Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) had been asked to arbitrate on a change to the marketing authorisation for Genotropin to include a new indication for the treatment of stunted growth caused by the long-term use of steroids in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The Committee concluded that the change to the marketing authorisation cannot be granted.
What is Genotropin?
Genotropin is a medicine that contains somatropin, which is a copy of natural growth hormone. Growth hormone promotes growth during childhood and adolescence, and also acts on the way the body handles proteins, fat and carbohydrates. Genotropin is used as replacement therapy in children and adults who have a growth hormone deficiency. It is also used to correct short height in children who have the genetic diseases Turner syndrome and Prader Willi syndrome, and in children who have long-standing kidney problems. Somatropin is produced by a method known as 'recombinant DNA technology': it is made by an organism that has received a gene (DNA), which makes it able to produce growth hormone.
Genotropin, also marketed under the trade name Genotonorm, is available throughout the European Union (EU). The company that makes the medicine is Pfizer.
Why was Genotropin reviewed?
In 15 Member States of the EU, Genotropin is authorised under a mutual recognition procedure on the basis of the initial authorisation granted by Denmark on 7 May 19871. In July 2008, Pfizer applied for a change (variation) to the marketing authorisation to add a new indication in Denmark (the 'reference Member State'). This variation was to be recognised in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom (the 'concerned Member States'). The new indication was the use of Genotropin in children on long-term treatment with steroids for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), a rare childhood disease causing inflammation of many joints. Genotropin was to be used to improve growth and body composition in children with severe JIA in whom the prolonged use of steroids to help control inflammation had led to a slowing down of growth. Because the Member States were not able to reach an agreement, the Netherlands referred the matter to the CHMP for arbitration on 28 October 2009.
The grounds for the referral were that fewer patients currently need to use steroids than in the past, because other medicines that do not affect growth have become available to control JIA. Another point was the fact that the company had presented too few data on the final height reached by the patients in the studies.
What are the conclusions of the CHMP?
The Committee looked at the studies presented by the company to support the new indication. It also looked at published information on the use of growth hormone in patients with JIA, and convened a meeting of experts, which included experts both in the treatment of hormonal disorders (endocrinologists) and in the treatment of joint diseases (rheumatologists).
Based on the evaluation of the currently available data and the scientific discussion within the Committee, the CHMP concluded that the variation to the marketing authorisation for Genotropin cannot be approved in Denmark as well as in all concerned Member States.
The European Commission issued a decision on 02 September 2010.
Questions and answers on Genotropin and associated names (somatropin injection) (PDF/61.19 KB)
EMEA/H/A-6(12)/001251
Approved name
Genotonorm
EMEA/H/C/A-6(12)/001251
Article 6(12) referrals (prior to January 2010)
This type of referral was triggered for a medicine that had been authorised by mutual recognition or via the decentralised procedure when there was disagreement between Member States on a variation (type II). This referral has been replaced by Article 13 referrals.
Opinion date
EC decision date
Genotropin - Article 6(12) referral - Annex I, II (PDF/97.43 KB)
Questions and answers (Q&A) - easy-to-understand summary of key issues and Committee conclusions
Summary of Opinion - contains the CHMP opinion of the referred medicine(s)
List of the medicines affected by the referral (Annex I)
Scientific conclusions of the Committee (Annex II)
The following two documents are sometimes available:
Changes to the summary of product characteristics, labeling or package leaflet (also known as Annex III) - available when changes havebeen recommended by the Committee
Conditions of the marketing authorisation (also known as Annex IV) - available when the Committee recommends measures to be takenfor the marketing authorisation(s) such as safety measures or extra studies


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unsigned long long int randULL();          // 64 bits random number
double   randUnit();                       // random [0,1)
double   randPMUnit();                     // random [-1,1)
int      randMod(int m);                   // random int in [0,m-1]
void     randMod2(int m, int &a, int &b);  // two random numbers [0,m-1] that are not equal
int      randMask(unsigned long long int mask);  // random in bit mask
bool     choose(double prob);              // true with probability prob
unsigned long long randCoinToss();         // 50:50 true or false
bool     choose8(int eigth);               // fast choose based on prob in 1/8 increments
bool     chooseMask(unsigned long long int mask, int prob);
double   randNorm(double stddev);          // normal distribution with (mean=0)
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Can I Register to Vote in Oregon?
What Is My Residential Address?
For students, your residential address can be your parents' or other family home, or your home where you are a student. You get to choose, but you can only choose one. Oregon residency requirements for voting are not the same as residency for in-state tuition purposes. Your residential address is the address that you consider home and the place you intend to return to. That address determines which candidates and measures will be on your ballot. If you live on campus and provide a campus address as your residential address, be sure to list your dormitory and room number; a PO Box is not a residential address.
Your mailing address is where your ballot will be mailed. It does not impact the ballot measures and candidates that appear on your ballot. Your ballot can be sent to you anywhere in the world. For example, you may list your parents' home as your residential address, but a campus address or other PO Box at college as your mailing address.
What If I'm From Out-of-State?
You may remain registered at your home address, or you may register at your Oregon school address. You get to choose, but you can only choose one. Contact your state's election office to receive information on updating your registration information and to request an absentee ballot if you would like to remain registered in your home state but vote while in Oregon attending school.
Update your mailing address online with MyVote or contact your county elections department.
You may vote or be registered to vote in only one state. Voting in two places is a felony. You may only vote once; you may only vote in one county in one state. Keep this in mind when deciding if you want to list your home or school address for your voter registration. Should you accidentally receive two ballots, vote only once. If you were previously registered in another state, cancel your registration in that state when you register in Oregon.
Update voter registration online with MyVote.


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THE BLACK SHEEP INTERVIEW: MATHIEU ROY (SURVIVING PROGRESS)
THE HIGH COST OF HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF
An interview with Mathieu Roy, director of SURVIVING PROGRESS
When you think progress, you immediately think good things. All the advancement that civilization has brought about - from the technological to the societal - are all clear indicators that human beings are capable of greatness far beyond their original scope. You'd have to be pretty crazy to argue the opposite, right? Well, call him crazy then, because Montreal filmmaker, Mathieu Roy, presents progress as something that could actually be the death of humanity in his new documentary, SURVIVING PROGRESS.
Six years ago, Roy read Ronald Wright's best-seller, "A Short History of Progress", and was inspired to make his third non-narrative feature. The book consists of a series of lectures that paint civilization itself as an experiment, and a failing one at that. The rationale is that the ever-growing global civilization, and all the resources required to maintain that continued growth, has reached a point where it will soon become unsustainable. Aside from grappling with that hard reality, Roy was also faced with the difficult task of translating it to film.
Still from Surviving Progress
"We tried many things. At some point, I even considered fictional characters," Roy explains of his process, revealing also that he debated taking the same non-verbal approach used in films like BARAKA and KOYAANISQATSI. Fortunately for Roy, his production team contained some pretty experienced names to help point him in the right direction, including none other than Martin Scorsese, whom he worked for, as an assistant, when Scorsese shot THE AVIATOR.
It was the film's executive producer, and director of THE CORPORATION, Mark Achbar, that suggested Roy speak with Harold Crooks, a co-writer on THE CORPORATION. This collaboration was so successful that Crooks would go on to become the co-writer and co-director of SURVIVING PROGRESS. "Harold and I met and he asked what was important to me, what was the essence of the film," Roy recounts. "We had numerous debates and conversations about it and we came up with a treatment that is not that far from the film we have today."
Roy photographed for my original Hour Community cover story
Crooks was excited to come aboard. "It's not every day you get the chance to make a film about the fate of civilization," Crooks declares with exuberance, yet still fully aware of the weight that opportunity carries. "We had to grow as human beings in our knowledge, and in our understanding of the issues." And grow they did. For Roy, surviving the intense depth of research necessary to make SURVIVING PROGRESS, brought about some of his life's most significant personal progress. "It was a heightening experience, an experience that has made me a better human being, someone that definitely understands the mechanism of the world better than I did before."
Roy again
The issues Roy and Crooks raise are all interconnected and span the full 5000 years civilization has been in existence, which represents but 0.2% of our evolutionary timeline (just one of the fascinating bits of information I drew from the film). They range from the developments in synthetic biology to the relationship between Wall Street and the destruction of the rain forest and even China's embracing of the capitalist mode of production. Crooks elaborates, "We didn't want yet another eco-collapse, Wall Street disaster film. Given that civilization is an experiment, there was no guarantee it was going to be a success. So, from that perspective, and with the lessons of previous civilizations that have run over the cliff, we identified key factors that pushed them over the edge, and tried to find them in the present. We then had to weave a tapestry of all of these issues cinematically."
It was important for Roy as well to differentiate SURVIVING PROGRESS from the mounting glut of docs preaching doom and gloom. "Our film digs deeper into human nature and tries to go way back to understand the patterns we create," he says. Crooks continues Roy's thought process as seamlessly as one would expect from two people who have been working together on the same project for five years. "From very early on though, we agreed that this would not be a historical film, that it would be rooted in the present and looking forward."
Speaking of forward, SURVIVING PROGRESS may not provide answers or solutions to the problems it points out in our modern design but, unlike many other fatalist forms of filmmaking, it does provide possibilities. "Technology will not solve the problem. Technology will only further aggravate the problem," Roy states with conviction. "It's simply about limits. We provide some solutions but we also show debate on these solutions. It was important for us to provide the audience with an array of different points of view."
A filmmaker interested in allowing audiences to come to their own conclusions? Now that's progress we could all survive.
SURVIVING PROGRESS is available on DVD now from Alliance Films.
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This manual is devoted to the study of macrozoobenthos - invertebrates that inhabit the bottom of bodies of water. The main idea of this lesson is to study these invertebrates in a local small river or stream and to determine water quality based on species composition and representation of various collected organisms.
Zoobenthos (from bentos – depth) all the invertebrates that inhabit the bottom of bodies of water (or the benthic zone), aquatic vegetation (or phytal) as well as other substrates including those associated with hydroengineering facilities.
The largest benthic specimens, with a body size of more than 2 mm, are called macrozoobenthos. The following make up the category Macrozoobenthos: worms (planaria, oligochaetae, leeches, round worms), mollusks (gastropoda and bivalves), Crustacea class (amphipods, isopods, decapods, etc), arachnids, and insects (midges, geleides, May-flies, stoneflies, caddis-flies, dragon flies and so on), etc.
Many of these living organisms also dwell in the water column (pelagic zone); they include insects, Crustacea class (mysidacea, pallacea and others), spiders, etc.
The lives of many other bottom organisms can also be connected with the water surface, i.e. surface film (neistalic zone).
According to its functions, macrozoobenthos represents an important part of the heterotrophic component of water systems. Macrozoobenthic organisms are particularly involved in the processes of converting outside energy sources (plant and detritus material) into available energy within the system.
Changes in the species structure of biocoenosis correlating with level of water pollution have attracted hydrobiologists' attention for a long time. The high stenobionicty (demands for certain environmental conditions) of a number of species, formation of complex multi-component systems, attachment to certain types of substrates, relative low motility (mobility) (in comparison with fast-spreading pollutants) allow the use of zoobenthic organisms as indicators for determining human (anthropogeneous) impact on aqueous ecosystems.
Different methods of water quality assessment, numerous articles and publications as well as the data of long-term observations within the hydrological network of environmental monitoring prove the importance of benthos for determining characteristics of water quality. Because macrozoobenthos specimens are relatively large, their detection and determination by young ecologists (environmentalists) is made easier.
The study of macrozoobenthos and fulfillment of this educational task can best be carried out at a nearby small river or stream with a slow current.
An ideal location for studying zoobenthos is a river valley, which is not too wide (5-20 meters wide) and not too deep (up to 1.5 meters deep), or a relatively flat section of a mountain river with a slow flow and well-developed high aqueous vegetation. A fast mountain river with a coarse-silted bottom and absence of high aqueous vegetation, or reservoirs with stagnant water are less suitable for this research.
In order to make sample collection easier it is recommended to choose a shallow river section to collect samples at different places by walking in the river (not from a boat or a bridge). Periods of sample collections are limited by the seasonal life cycles of benthic organisms. These life cycles occur year round and are not limited to the period from July to November.
Selection of sites for sampling in the river is the starting point of all hydrobiological studies.
For the purposes of this task, an average river section should be chosen. The best area will have favorable oxygen conditions, such as shade and high water vegetation. It is not advisable to collect samples at where ground water discharges, at stagnant sections, or other unfavorable river sites. These areas will not give a true indication of the entire river system.
Samples collected from the abyssal part of a river are also not suitable, because they may not characterize water quality but rather, the pollution of bottom sedimentation, which can greatly differ in chemical composition from the water in the river as whole.


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Runaway June Lands First Top 10 by All-Female Group Since 2005
Ryan Reichard
Ryan Reichard Published: September 8, 2019
Runaway June's latest single "Buy My Own Drinks" is burning up the charts. The song becomes the first Country Airplay top 10 song for an all-female group since 2005. "Buy My Own Drinks" also becomes Runaway June's first top 10 on the chart.
The trio, consisting of members Naomi Cooke, Hannah Mulholland and Jennifer Wayne, released "Buy My Own Drinks" as the lead single from their latest album Blue Roses. The album was a success for the group, as it debuted at No. 5 on Billboard's Country Album Sales Chart and at No. 36 on the Top Country Albums chart after its release.
The last single to reach the top 10 on the Country Airplay charts by an all-female group was all the way back in 2005, when SheDAISY's "Don't Worry About a Thing" peaked in the top 10 at No. 7 and would become their last appearance in the chart's upper region.
Runaway June also gains another distinction—namely, becoming only the fourth all-female group to have a top 10 hit on the Country Airplay chart since it was first introduced in 1990. SheDAISY notched a total of four top 10 singles, The Forester Sisters claimed two, and the Dixie Chicks hold the record for most Country Airplay top 10 singles for an all-female group with a staggering 14.
Prior to the group's smash single, Runaway June scored two top 40 hits on the Country Airplay chart with their songs "Lipstick" and "Wild West," which peaked at Nos. 28 and 36 respectively.
Runaway June is currently on the road with Carrie Underwood on her Cry Pretty Tour 360. Tickets for the remainder of dates are available here.
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Journal notes, Little Asby Hawthorn, June 17, 9.25pm: Grass dancing over limestone. Sunbiggin Tarn has taken on the colour of washed-out heather. From our tent we see for 360 degrees: Eden Valley, Alston, The Howgills and the eastern Lake District fells. Distant rain in curtains, coming, going. We are at the first of seven trees. We have closed the door on the house and all the commitments that typically keep us in place: parenthood, meetings, an attachment to comfort. Tomorrow, we will set off on a seven-day walk. It's 34 kilometres to the next tree.
Our long walk across the Lake District, marking the long days of midsummer, took us not between summits, but between seven trees. Rob and I have been visiting these trees in all weathers, night and day as part of 'The Long View', a two-year project collecting images and stories of the trees and their environments. The trees are spread from east to west like a constellation, the paths between them spanning a distance of almost 120km.
We have been getting to know these seven trees through repeated visits to each one in turn but we wanted to cover the ground between them to get a feel for the land – its highs, lows, woodlands, moors, lakes and rivers. We decided to do this during midsummer for the best of the year's light. To walk such a long distance, carrying all our gear and camping at the end of each day, would be a challenge to us both. But it wasn't just the personal challenge that lured us – walking between the seven trees gave us the chance, step by step, to become more in tune with the land they inhabit, slowing ourselves down more and more, day by day. There's a beautiful, gentle sense of freedom in this, a kind of sublimity. Even so, there were times when we questioned our decision to walk between 15 and 34 km a day, with average ascents and descents of 1000m, carrying heavily laden rucksacks – my bag weighed over 20kg, Rob's was close to 40kg.
Journal notes, June 20: Yesterday we arrived at the Troutbeck Alder in driving rain. Our spirits were low and our feet were soaking. Seeing orchids and tormentil in the grassland barely summoned a smile. For hours it had rained, and our feet were feeling the strain of our heavy loads. We put the tent up, dried it out as best we could and made camp. Got in and stayed in. It rained all night, relentless. It's 7am now, it's still raining, and the discussions have begun. Do we carry on? The challenge is tougher than we thought it would be. Our bags are heavy, our feet are sore and if we carry on there's another ten-hour walk ahead of us. But it's not all bad. The act of walking with a heavy load is one that demands a lot of the body and asks less of the mind, and from this comes a lightness, a semi-emptiness so that thoughts do not get in the way of the physical experience of being in contact with the land. We decide: we will continue.
The walk held a kind of magnetism - the draw of the tree ahead and the presence of the tree we had left. And this long stroll has granted us a new way of knowing the land, measured and memorised now in footsteps and gradients, birdsong, weather and views, and in the feelings, conversations and thoughts we've had along the way. Through it, we've gained a deep appreciation of our own and the land's vitality, and the simple pleasure of slowing down, and taking each moment as it comes. We called the walk the 'Light Walk' as we were walking through the year's lightest week, but on reflection there is another kind of lightness that came with this long stroll, and it is this that will spur us on to do the same again.
The seven trees are featured in The Long View – a two-year project of walking, photography, writing and art installations. The Long View exhibition is at Grizedale Forest Gallery from June 21st – August 31st 2017 and will be touring the UK in 2018. Read more here.


The other day I had a craving for pumpkin cheesecake which somehow morphed into the idea of pumpkin cheesecake bars which turned into pumpkin cheesecake bars with crumb topping. Unable to find a recipe I liked, I made up my own.
It actually turned out pretty good, or at least that is what the taste testers told me. Some asked for seconds, but I only brought a limited few to work. Sorry guys! Next time there is taste testing to be done, I'll make sure I bring extra samples!
Crumb mixture in the pan. Press in lightly.
Mix up the pumpkin filling.
Pour filling over cooked crust.
When cool, cut into bars. Serve immediately or refrigerate for up to two days - if they last that long.
If you want to make these even better, drizzle on a little (or a lot) of caramel sauce.
Then enjoy! Sharing is optional.
Combine oats, flour, brown sugar, salt, baking soda, and butter. Beat until mixture is crumbly. Reserve 1 1/2 cups of the crumb mixture, pressing the remaining mixture into a greased 13 x 9 x 2- inch baking pan. Bake for 10 minutes.
Mix cream cheese, pumpkin pie filling, sugar, egg, and cinnamon. Beat until well blended and smooth. Spread filling over hot crust then top with remaining crumb mixture. Return to oven and bake 25 minutes.
Cool and cut into bars. You can make this a couple days ahead of time but keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
If you want to get wild and crazy, drizzle the tops of the bars with caramel or chocolate sauce, or both. Also, try serving bars with Dulce de Leche ice cream. See if that doesn't make you melt in a puddle.
Note – if you like nuts, you can add 1/2 cup of finely chopped pecan to the crust mixture. You could also put toasted pecan halves on top of each bar before you drizzle with caramel.


Good Morning! I am posting the 'Thought for the Day' over at Woman to Woman today. Be sure to check it out. In fact, every Thursday I post a verse and a thought for Woman to Woman.
I know I haven't posted in quite a while. I apologize for that. Originally, this blog was titled "Nuggets from God" because I felt God would give me little nuggets of wisdom from time to time. Over time, I changed the name of the blog to "Treasures Found in Him" because every nugget He gives me is a treasure. Those little bits of wisdom don't come often but the do come. And...I don't always see them in the beginning.
I am so busy pastoring my church and being a wife and mom that I find writing has taken a backseat. I truly want to be better and start working on the blog again. Pray for me that I will be able to prioritize my day in such a way that I am able to post more often. I don't know that anything I post is beneficial but I do know that God will use whatever means to accomplish His will...and perhaps, at some point, a nugget He gives me will be just the means He uses to accomplish His will in someone's life!
Thank you for sticking with me. I will try to do better and with God's help, I will!


Although tissue type plasminogen activator (tPA) and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) have been extensively described to influence brain outcomes in a number of disorders, their roles during physiological aging are poorly investigated. In the present study, we investigated whether maintenance of mice in different environmental conditions could influence age-associated changes in hippocampal tPA expression and BDNF maturation in relation with modifications of their cognitive performances. Our data indicate that maintenance in enriched housing led to a reversal of age-associated decrease in expression of hippocampal tPA. A subsequent increase in the level of mature BDNF and an improvement in emotional and spatial memories were observed. Taken together, these data suggest that the tPA–BDNF axis could play a critical role in the control of cognitive functions influenced both by the age and housing conditions.
Environmental enrichment is an experimental model in which rodents are housed in complex environments that favor lower levels of anxiety-like behavior. PNU-282987 (PNU) is a α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist with beneficial effects on learning though its effects on anxiety are unclear.


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NEW YORK, March 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC announced today that it will host an investor call at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on March 31, 2015 in conjunction with the release of its financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014.
David Levin, President and Chief Executive Officer; Patrick Milano, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer; and David Kraut, Treasurer, Vice President - Investor Relations will discuss the fourth quarter and year end results.
The presentation is open to all interested parties and may include forward-looking information. A copy of the presentation along with the 10K report for the period ended December 31, 2014 will be filed with the SEC and available on the investor relations page of the company's website at MHEducation.com prior to the call.
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est un poète marocain de melhoun, né en 1795 à Fès et mort prématurément (assassinat) à l'âge de 33 ans en 1828. Son œuvre est passée à la postérité et ses qasida, au nombre près de 90, sont encore chantés de nos jours.

Biographie
Il fait ses premiers pas dans le Melhoun en tant qu'élève du poète Driss Benali avec qui il finira par se brouiller, ce qui donnera lieu à un échange vif de qasida. Il passera ensuite sous la protection du poète Mohammed Nejjar.

Sa capacité à manier le verbe était telle qu'on disait de lui : "Un verre de venin plutôt que Benslimane" (Kass chlimane ouala Benslimane).

Poèmes
 Zine el fassi (Beauté fassie)
 Erraâd (Le tonnerre)
 Saki Baki
 Mersoul Fatma
 Ya taleb
Warda (La fleur)

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Fouad Guessous, Anthologie de la poésie du melhoun marocain, 2008
Haïm Zafrani,Juifs d'Andalousie et du Maghreb, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1996, 182
 ʻAbd Allāh Shuqrūn, Patrimoine: Melhoun, anecdotes, contes, musique, danses, Najah el-Jadida, 2007, 13

Poète marocain du XIXe siècle
Naissance à Fès
Naissance en 1795
Décès en 1828


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Герта Спонер (1 сентября 1895 — 27 февраля 1968) — немецкий физик и химик, внесла вклад в современную квантовую механику и молекулярную физику, первая женщина на физическом факультете Университета Дьюка .

Жизнь и карьера
Спонер родилась в Нейсе (Ниса), Прусская Силезия, и получила высшее образование в Нейсе. Провела год в Тюбингенском университете, после чего поступила в Геттингенский университет, где получила докторскую степень в 1920 году под руководством Петра Дебая. Во время учёбы в Тюбингенском университете была ассистентом Джеймса Франка. В 1921 году она стала одной из первых женщин, получившей степень доктора философии по физике в Германии наряду с правом преподавать науку в немецком университете. В октябре 1925 года получила стипендию Фонда Рокфеллера, чтобы остаться в Калифорнийском университете в Беркли, где она проработала в течение года. Во время своего пребывания в Беркли сотрудничала с RT Birge, разрабатывая так называемый метод Бирге-Спонера для определения энергий диссоциации.

К 1932 году Спонер опубликовал около 20 научных работ в таких журналах, как Nature and Physical Review, и стал доцентом физики. В 1933 году Джеймс Франк подал в отставку и покинул Геттинген, а год спустя, когда Гитлер пришел к власти, она была отстранена от должности. В 1934 году Спонер переехала в Осло, чтобы преподавать в Университете Осло в качестве приглашённого профессора, а в 1936 году получила должность профессора в Университете Дьюка,. В этой должности она проработала до 1966 года, когда получила должность почётного профессора, которую она занимала до своей смерти в 1968 году.

Во время своей академической карьеры Спонер проводила исследования в области квантовой механики, физики и химии. Она опубликовала многочисленные исследования, многие из которых были в соавторстве с известными физиками, включая Эдварда Теллера. Она внесла большой вклад в науку, включая применение квантовой механики в молекулярной физике и работу над спектрами поглощения ближнего ультрафиолета. Создала спектроскопическую лабораторию на физическом факультете Университета Дьюка.

Спонер вышла замуж за Джеймса Франка в 1946 году. Умерла в Илтене, Нижняя Саксония.

Избранные публикации
 «Неупругие удары электронов с атомами ртути», Zeits. е. Physik , 7.3: 185 (1921).
 «Спектр спектров свинца и олова», Zeits. е. Physik , 32.1: 19 (1925).
 Спектры предиссоциации трехатомных молекул, Зейц. е. Физик с.   18: 88 (1932) с Дж. Франком и Э. Теллером.
 «Анализ ближнего ультрафиолетового электронного перехода бензола», J.Chem. , Phys. 7: 207 (1939) с Л. Нордхеймом, А. Л. Скларом и Э. Теллером.

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Выпускники Тюбингенского университета
Преподаватели Университета Осло
Выпускники Гёттингенского университета
Преподаватели Калифорнийского университета в Беркли
Стипендиаты Гуггенхайма
Физики Германии
Химики Германии
Преподаватели университета Дьюка
Химики XX века
Умершие в 1968 году
Родившиеся в 1895 году
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The government's plan to push people back into the office risks a return to "white middle-aged males" making important decisions in the office, while women and people from ethnic minorities are excluded at home, according to one of the UK's most senior business leaders.
In an interview with the Guardian, Chartered Management Institute (CMI) chief executive, Ann Francke, warned that without careful oversight "blended working" could result in a two-tier system where women without sufficient childcare to return to the office are left out of key decisions.
Recent polling by the TUC revealed that two in five mothers do not have the childcare they need to return to the office as some nurseries, childminders and wraparound care remains unavailable, while research shows women are more likely to do the extra childcare.
"The risk is when we go back into the office, the people that go back will be the senior leaders. And we know that those senior leaders are largely white men," said Francke. "That will reinforce the kind of exclusionary, lack of diverse culture at the top of organisations. I think that would be a very dangerous step backwards."
Francke also put herself firmly at odds with government messaging about the safety of returning to the office, stating: "I don't think it is the responsibility of companies to save the local sandwich shop […] The bottom line is, ultimately those businesses that are really affected in the long term will have to adapt. They simply have to adapt."
Before going back to work, people had to feel safe, she added. "And they don't feel safe. And anybody that has taken the tube into central London in normal times understands why."
In the CMI's most recent survey of managers carried out in August 2020 it found that 74% of managers cited the risk of contracting coronavirus as employees' most common concern, while a previous survey found that 91% of managers said "blended working" – a mixture of remote and office working – motivated them, 85% said it made them more productive and 77% said it made them more satisfied.
Exclusive polling by the CMI for the Guardian also reveals that nearly half of managers (42%) believe a lack of childcare caused by the coronavirus pandemic will have negative impacts for female employees, while only 20% believe it will be a problem for men. However, over half of managers (58%) said they did not think women's career progression in their organisation would be impacted by a phased return to work.
Francke does not share their confidence, and warned that there was a real risk of decades of female progress in the workforce being put into reverse without action from the government.
The "unfortunate" requirement on companies to report their gender pay gaps was lifted this year, but should be reimposed in 2021 alongside a requirement to report on the ethnicity pay gap, she said, adding that the Financial Conduct Authority – which investors and CEOs take note of – should be in tasked with fining companies that fail to address their gender pay gaps rather than the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
"It's a matter of importance for the Equality and Human Rights Commission of course, but they don't have the wherewithal or enforcement capability," she said. "You need to look at bodies that investors and CEOs listen to tend to be the financial regulators."
Significant fines – in addition to a dint in companies desirability to investors – would act as real incentives to companies who only paid lip service to addressing their gender pay gaps, she added.
"There must be consequences for those that don't make progress. Transparency is great, but transparency with teeth is better," she said. Companies should also be looking at their ethnicity pay gap – and take steps to close them, she said. "We know from many studies companies that have more diverse management teams outperform those who don't. So why wouldn't you want to make progress?"
The pandemic had been a catalyst for a shift in flexible and remote working that women's groups had been calling on for years, she added. "Suddenly, you know, what they were going to do in five years they had to do in five days. And they did it," said Francke. "And once people see what it can be like then that emboldens them to actually create those conditions that they prefer. I think the companies that offer flexible and blended working will benefit because they'll have a much broader talent pool."
She fired a warning shot to companies eager to return to factory settings: "There is no going back from the fact that flexible working works. And if you're going to take it away from people when they know it works, you're going to pay a price."
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