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Healthy diet, healthier planet
Author: Daniel Tan
Source: The Conversation
Date: 26 May, 2014
Your mum was right: it's good for you to eat your veggies. Yet a recent survey found one in four Australians ate none in a typical day. shashinjutsu/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA
The way we currently produce food around the world contributes up to 20-30% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for 70% of all human water use.
But is it possible to eat well and take better care of the Earth at the same time?
Knowing what's good for you
A healthy pie: what the experts recommend you eat. Department of Health, CC BY
The Australian Guide To Healthy Eating recommends eating a variety of nutritious foods including vegetables, fruit, grain and lean meat to achieve a balanced healthy diet.
This guide indicates the need to increase the consumption of cereals, legumes, vegetables and fruit, while consuming meat, fish and dairy products in lesser quantities.
Meat is an important source of protein and certain micro-nutrients, including iron, zinc and vitamins and milk is a rich source of protein and calcium. That's why the Australian Guide recommends two daily serves of milk and dairy products, along with two serves of meat, fish and eggs.
Protein intake is important for a balanced diet, as insufficient protein intake can lead to obesity due to excessive carbohydrate and fat intake to meet energy requirements.
Plant foods – including grains, fruits, vegetables and legumes – are also vital for keeping us healthy. That's why theAustralian Guide To Healthy Eating recommends a higher consumption of plant foods each day, along the lines of seven serves of cereals, five serves of vegetables and legumes, and two serves of fruit. Doing that can reduce the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer, and increase life expectancy.
The global impacts of our diet
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation defines sustainable diets as:
Those diets with low environmental impacts which contribute to food and nutrition security and to healthy life for present and future generations.
In developed countries like Australia and the UK, people tend to consume more meat and operate at a higher trophic leveling the food chain.
At the lowest level of the food chain (trophic level 1) are primary producers such as plants, followed by plant-eating animals such as cows, goats, horses and kangaroos. Then come animals that eat other animals, and then the apex or super predators at the top of the food chain (including carnivores like crocodiles, lions and killer whales).
Between each trophic level, there is a loss of energy. That's why, for example, production of livestock, on average, may require 4 kg of cereal grain for the production of 1 kg of meat.
The rearing of livestock for meat, eggs and dairy also generates 14.5% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from methane produced during digestion in grazing animals such as cattle and sheep. If people consumed more crops directly, rather than their processing through livestock, there will be a positive environmental impact.
The double pyramid, showing which foods are best for us as individuals and for the environment. Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, CC BY-SA
The Double Pyramid developed by the Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition in Italy shows the synergies between food that is good for our health and environment.
This model consists of two pyramids: one is the traditional food pyramid similar to the Australian guide, while the other is an upside-down pyramid ranking the environmental impacts of the same foods. In general, foods at the base of the food pyramid are also those with the lowest environmental impact.
Eat your cereal, beans and vegetables
Cereal grain crops are primary producers and have a lower water and carbon footprint.
Legumes such as chickpea and lentil have less than half of the greenhouse emissions of other cereal crops, as they are able to fix nitrogen naturally from the air and do not require any nitrogen fertilisers.
Compared with animal products, emissions from vegetables are lower on a per tonne basis. Most emissions associated with vegetable production come from fertiliser use, electricity use and post-harvest refrigeration and transport.
Even a modest replacement of energy-intensive animal products with less-energy-intensive grains, fruits and vegetables would be significant at the global scale.
Rethinking healthy diet advice
Given that fewer than 3% of people in Australia and the UKare vegetarian, it's unrealistic to suggest a meat-free diet for everyone.
Instead, it may be more realistic to encourage people to replace quantities of red meat and processed meat with lean, less environmentally-harmful meat options such as chicken, and plant-based proteins such as legumes.
In Australia and New Zealand, grazing animals are mainly grass-fed rather than grain-fed (more common in the US), which may play an important role in soil carbon sequestration in grasslands, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
If a healthy and sustainable plant-based diet is better for our health and environment, why is it that consumption of plant foods in many developed countries does not meet recommended levels?
In Victoria, for example, fewer than 8% of adults consume the recommended daily intake of five or more serves of vegetables, and fewer than 46% eat the recommended daily intake of two or more serves of fruit.
The recent Australian Health Survey found that one in four adults were eating no vegetables on an average day and only 7% were eating the recommended five servings.
An energy-dense diet made up of refined grains, added sugars and added fats may also be more affordable than a healthy and sustainable diet based on fruits and vegetables and lean meats.
Australian governments could help promote a healthier diet by considering educational and policy measures, such as reinstating the healthy-food star rating systems and restricting junk food promotion.
Given the rapidly rising costs to all Australians of our growing waistlines – 25% of us are now obese, one of the highest rates in the world – failing to act is already proving extremely expensive, in both personal and economic terms.
It's also up to each of us to make healthier choices, for our own sake, as well as for the environment that our children will inherit from us – and that starts with the food we eat today.
Read the article at The Conversation

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What would Hawaii be like if most all food was grown and produced locally instead of imported? M. Kalani Souza tells us thatʻs exactly how it used to be when Hawaii was a food exporter to the world. Joined by food sovereignty activists Kanakolu Noa and Hokuao Pellegrino we learn some of the secrets to making Hawaii once again self- sufficient. Filmed on Maui at the beautiful Ritz Carlton, you too will see why food sovereignty is one of the hottest and most important topics around today.


A summary of the legal basis for the creation of a new medical industry in New York. This includes legislation, regulation, description of the patient care process, and the interplay with federal law.
Williams, Karl G. (2015). "Medical Marijuana and Pharmacy Practice." New York State Pharmacist 89.5, 10-12.


As promised, the Nokia 3 Android smartphone is now available for purchase in India. It's priced at INR 9,499 ($147), and is only available through offline channels in the Asian country.
The device was made official for India earlier this week, along with the Nokia 5 and Nokia 6. The latter two aren't yet available in the country - pre-orders for the Nokia 5 will begin July 7 onwards, while the Nokia 6 will be up for pre-order starting July 14.


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Disorder resembling Guillain-Barré syndrome on initiation of statin therapy
Muscle Nerve. 2004 Nov;30(5):663-6. doi: 10.1002/mus.20112.
Yusuf A Rajabally 1 , Vivek Varakantam, Richard J Abbott
1 Department of Neurology, University Hospitals of Leicester, Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW, United Kingdom. yusuf.rajabally@uhl-tr.nhs.uk <yusuf.rajabally@uhl-tr.nhs.uk>
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20112
We report a disorder resembling Guillain-Barre syndrome, occurring on initiation of simvastatin, in a 58-year-old man, who had experienced a similar but milder episode after starting pravastatin 6 months earlier. This case suggests that acute polyradiculoneuropathy may represent a rare but serious side-effect of statin treatment. It also raises the issue of the pathophysiology of acute neuropathy on statin exposure, with a hypersensitivity reaction resulting in an immune-mediated process being possible instead of the hypothesized mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic cases.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome / chemically induced*
Guillain-Barre Syndrome / diagnosis*
Guillain-Barre Syndrome / therapy
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / adverse effects*
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / therapeutic use
Polyradiculoneuropathy / chemically induced
Polyradiculoneuropathy / diagnosis
Simvastatin / adverse effects*
Simvastatin / therapeutic use
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous


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AC Milan vs Inter Milan Serie A Match
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AC Milan vs Inter Milan Serie A Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This will be the 174th Milan Derby in Serie A: Inter have won 66 games against AC Milan, including four of the last five encounters.
AC Milan could win both encounters in a single Serie A season against Inter for the second time over the last 15 years, last doing so back in 2010-11, when they won 1-0 in the first game and 3-0 in the second.
AC Milan and Inter will meet in a Serie A game while holding the top two positions in the table for the first time since April 2011 when the Rossoneri won 3-0 - the season of their last title in the top-flight.
Inter (50) and AC Milan (49) have earned a combined 99 points in Serie A this term, 16 more than they did after the first 22 league games last season; they have won more combined points at this stage only in 1950-51: 102 (converting to three-points-per-win all-time).
Milan have lost three league games since the start of 2021, one more than they did over the entirety of 2020 in Serie A (2); indeed, the Rossoneri have lost three of their last seven matches in Serie A, as many as in their previous 41.
Inter have kept a clean sheet in each of their last two away games in Serie A, last going three away games without conceding in a single season in Serie A back in October 2012 (4).
Inter are the fourth side over the last 60 seasons to score 54+ goals after 22 Serie A matches, after Juventus in 2013-14 (54), Lazio in 2017-18 (57) and Atalanta in 2019-20 (59).
Gianluigi Donnarumma could become the youngest player to play 200 games in Serie A in the three points per win era; aged 21 years and 361 days, the record is currently held by Gianluigi Buffon (24 years and 83 days).
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored 10 goals in all competitions in Milan derbies, including eight with AC Milan.
Inter's Romelu Lukaku could become the first player since Romeo Benetti (1972-1973) to score in four consecutive Milan derbies in Serie A.
Inter's Lautaro Martínez has scored 11 goals in Serie A this season, at least two more than second-highest scorer of any other side in the competition.
My Hack Stuff: AC Milan vs Inter Milan Serie A Match
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Scotty James takes Silver in Snowmass Snowboard Halfpipe
Scotty James has claimed silver at the Halfpipe World Cup finals in Snowmass, Colorado following what was described by commentators as the "most impressive event in the history of Snowboarding".
After spending much of the day at the bottom of the leader board with American gold medallist Shaun White, the 2017 World Champion dropped into the pipe for an exceptional final run which would see him receive a best score of 96.25.
Japan's Yuto Totsuka finished the day in third place with 94.50 while a perfect score from White saw James finish second.
"It was a long day, a lot of nerves," the 23-year-old said.
"The switchback twelve is something I've been working on and something that's never been done before so it definitely got me mentally the past couple of competitions, but I was very stoked and over the moon to put it down.
"I was just happy to come away and land a run pretty much."
In typical James style, he donned his quintessential red boxing gloves for the final run.
"My red gloves are just a bit of a tradition of mine, just my boxing gloves – boxing kangaroo," he said.
"I wear them all the time, every finals I have them on – that's it, it's my mojo."
Referred to in 2017 as 'the most popular Australian sports star in America', James described how he felt it was "quite hard to beat these Americans at these US qualifying events".
Across a variety of different sports and events Australia's winter athletes are proving that they're a group capable of medal results against the very best.
"Australia, more now than ever in my career, I can really feel the energy and the camaraderie coming from them and I really appreciate it," James said.
It's been a great weekend in Snowmass for Australia, with 17-year-old Tess Coady claiming the country's first ever medal in a Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup.
Referring to Coady's achievement, James added that he can't wait to watch the young gun's career.
"It was so cool watching Tess Coady get third yesterday, I'm so happy for her and I know what that feels like when you get your first podium on a big competition," he said.
"I'm really happy for her and I'm really excited to watch her career, I'm just excited and it's only the beginning."
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Research shows the average professional attends 62 meetings a month. And, as employees are promoted and gain more influence, that number only increases, with meetings occupying the majority of CEOs' time.
People don't need more meetings. And that means you should only schedule a meeting when it's truly necessary.
But how do you determine that?
Well, in his class Leading Productive Meetings, Lynda.com course author and business coach Dave Crenshaw explained how to determine if you need to call a meeting, or if one-on-one conversations or email is a better option.
The four questions you should ask yourself before calling a meeting.
Crenshaw said the first instinct of employees is often to call a meeting. He advised fighting against that instinct by asking yourself the following four questions. Only if the question to all four answers is yes, should you then go ahead and call the meeting.
1. Do we have all the information we need for a meeting?
It's a waste of people's time to call a meeting without all the information necessary to make a decision. Likely, the action item out of that meeting will be to get all the relevant information and then meet again to make the decision. So wait until you have the necessary information to schedule a meeting.
2. Do we need to discuss and collaborate, or delegate and calendar?
There's no worse meeting than a group of people sitting in a room, while a person or two delegates out tasks. That's an inefficient use of everyone's time and could better be achieved via short one-on-one conversations or email.
The purpose of most meetings should be to collaborate and to make team decisions. It shouldn't be to assign out work, as that could be done more efficiently through other means.
3. Is it critical we are all on the same page?
What this means is that do all the parties need to know all the information being presented.
For example, if you have a project going on, it's doubtful that everyone on your team needs to go to every meeting. It's likely that members of the team will be working on unrelated tasks that don't overlap.
Only invite people whose work is directly related to the topic at hand in the meeting. Otherwise, you are going to waste people's time with information they don't need to know, and potentially muddle the decision-making process.
4. Is this meeting one of our most valuable activities?
Even if the answer to the first three questions is yes, you should still ask yourself this final question.
After all, a meeting takes people away from work they could otherwise be doing. Therefore, you should only use their time to discuss something that is going to have real impact to your organization.
Otherwise, if it isn't going to have that real impact, it isn't worth calling a meeting. In that case, it's best to handle whatever it is quickly and then move on to more pressing matters.
Meetings are inherently good. Getting everyone on the same page and weighing a diverse set of opinions when making a decision often leads to better results.
But too many meetings can quickly turn into a bad thing. Some people spend so much time in meetings, it prevents them from accomplishing any other work.
These four questions should remedy that problem. If you only call meetings when the answer to the four questions listed is yes, you'll only have productive meetings that'll yield real results.
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Connecting Brains to Robots: An Artificial Body for Studying the Computational Properties of Neural Tissues
Bernard D. Reger,
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Artificial Life (2000) 6 (4): 307–324.
Bernard D. Reger, Karen M. Fleming, Vittorio Sanguineti, Simon Alford, Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi; Connecting Brains to Robots: An Artificial Body for Studying the Computational Properties of Neural Tissues. Artif Life 2000; 6 (4): 307–324. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/106454600300103656
We have created a hybrid neuro-robotic system that establishes two-way communication between the brain of a lamprey and a small mobile robot. The purpose of this system is to offer a new paradigm for investigating the behavioral, computational, and neurobiological mechanisms of sensory-motor learning in a unified context. The mobile robot acts as an artificial body that delivers sensory information to the neural tissue and receives command signals from it. The sensory information encodes the intensity of light generated by a fixed source. The closed-loop interaction between brain and robot generates autonomous behaviors whose features are strictly related to the structure and operation of the neural preparation. We provide a detailed description of the hybrid system, and we present experimental findings on its performance. In particular, we found (a) that the hybrid system generates stable behaviors, (b) that different preparations display different but systematic responses to the presentation of an optical stimulus, and (c) that alteration of the sensory input leads to short- and long-term adaptive changes in the robot responses. The comparison of the behaviors generated by the lamprey's brain stem with the behaviors generated by network models of the same neural system provides us with a new tool for investigating the computational properties of synaptic plasticity.
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An important cornerstone to any organization's business success is a well thought-out marketing strategy. While the legal, accounting and investment banking professions may be steeped in distinguished tradition, the marketing world is dictated by vogue trends and cultural shifts.
The two worlds come together when firms determine the clients they want to attract and the messages they need to convey to engage those clients. The recent Ford Trend Report for 2015 focused on the new client powerhouse: Generation Z. This generation is prone to conduct independent research through social media, rather than asking peers and mentors for advice. They are more likely to take the risk and start a business and less likely to pursue an advanced degree than a Millennial (Ford Trend Report for 2015). The new Generation Z client will still need all the legal, accounting and investing advice that earlier generations needed, but they will seek it and conduct "pre-purchase" research from a completely different source.
Enter: World Services Group. WSG continues to develop new platforms to help members and their respective marketing groups to showcase businesses and leverage efforts across new media. WSG hosted the 'Join the Conversation' webinar series to help members understand the world of SEO, social media and content marketing, as well as rolled out the new Practice Group Blogs page and introduced a mobile app. All of these tools provide enhanced exposure to member organizations, create searchable content on the web, and ultimately help to increase business opportunities. Continue doing great business as usual and being part of the Network – We'll continue with our mission to stay in tune with the current trends and enabling member firms to remain competitive in today's global multidisciplinary services environment.


Yawn. … And Monday is here again! Sigh! Work begins on Monday! I'm soo soo tired wish the weekend could last forever. But, oh well, it's another day to also be creative.
Although my weekend was a busy one. It can't stop me from sewing haha!
So back to our weekday post for the week.
I'm sure everyone is familiar with a blouse. It's an integral part of the female dress style. It is worn at the upper part of the female body (it's not a bra).
OK this blog post is made up of some simple sketches and iv tried to make this blouse pattern cutting as simple as can be with step by step guides. It is the basic sleeveless blouse.
After you've folded you need to start using the measurements you've taken to cut out the blouse patterns.
Measure blouse length on fabric and mark with tailors chalk.
Measure neck depth and mark on fabric.
Measure arm hole (length). I usually use 9″ for adults, it can be altered to your desire.
Measure shoulder length (long) and mark .
Measure shoulder length (short) and mark .
Mark out 1″ curves from the angle 90 of the armhole and neck depth. (curved stencils can be used).
Measure and mark out all the vertical measurements on tour fabric.
Measure and mark out all the horizontal measurements on your fabric.
Dont forget to add and extra inch for seam allowance and extra 2″ at the below bust horizontal measurement to allow for darts.
Make ¹/²" from shoulder length (short) to make a slant.
Just place your already cut out front side pattern on new fabric remember to add an extra inch for zipper or buttons and with your tailors chalk. Mark out the pattern and cut out.
Make the back side neck depth about 3″ deep, it can also be as you desire. Then cut out the curved pattern just like you did for the front.
NB: You can do this pattern cutting on your brown paper, newspaper or unused calenders, after cutting out the patterns you can then mark out the patterns on whatever fabric you plan to use. So you won't waste fabric.
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Have Breakfast in the morning at the Lodge, depart with your packed lunch for a full day game drives searching for big cats and animals such as Elephants, lions, leopards, Buffaloes and so on. Later on venture towards the Mara River to look for hippo pools, giant crocodiles and the world famous crossing point for the wildebeests. Return back to the lodge for a rest in the evening before having your dinner and overnight stay (FB).
Leave Lake Naivasha after breakfast and drive to the home of many flamingoes and the sanctuary of both the white and black rhino and about 350 different species of birds. It is also known as 'Ornithological Paradise'. Upon arrival, go for the game drive and later on return to your campsite for dinner and overnight stay.
Have breakfast and then depart with your packed lunch for a full day game drive in the park. Look out for animals like as Grevy's Zebra, the long-necked Gerenuk, elephants and so many others. Return for dinner and overnight at the camp as above.
After breakfast, you will depart from Samburu and transfer to Mount Kenya. Upon arrival, you will have lunch and later go for the evening Nature walk and Visit the Mau Mau Caves where Kenyan Freedom Fighters could hide from the British Troops during the struggle for independence. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.
After an early morning breakfast, you will head for the game drive and look out for more big game animals like elephants, lions and cheetah. You will then transfer via Chyulu hills to Tsavo West national Park. You will arrive in time for late Lunch which you will have and in the afternoon go for the game drive. Dinner and overnight at the Campsite.
After breakfast at the Lodge, you will have a final game drive and then later return to Nairobi.


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The state has the power to revoke a license to practice medicine granted to a physician for good cause. The state power to revoke the license of a medical practitioner stems from the general police power to prescribe all reasonable regulations that necessarily affect the public health, safety, and morals.
A state can revoke a physician's license if it was improperly issued. Revocation is also justified in instances where the license holder has been guilty of improper or unlawful conduct. Courts have held that the purpose of an action seeking revocation of a doctor's certificate is not to punish the doctor, but rather to protect the public[i]. However, some courts have held that the provisions relating to revocation of a physician's license are highly penal in nature and hence must be construed in the physician's favor.
The state licensing board has wide discretion in the matter of revocation of licenses and may revoke a license without any terms or conditions, leaving no possibility for reinstatement. For instance, in one case, the Board of Medicine found that an acupuncturist, who was not a physician, fraudulently and deceptively used his license by adding initials "M.D." after his name on an acupuncture registration certificate from another jurisdiction[ii]. The court held that a regulatory requirement that an acupuncturist who is not a licensed physician must register his collaboration with a physician is integral to the licensure scheme for practicing acupuncture, and thus, failure to register is not merely a technical violation, but a valid ground for license revocation.
The general defenses against a revocation of license include denial of due process, violation of equal protection clause, compelling self-incrimination, etc. However, courts have held in a number of cases that the "state had a legitimate interest in protecting its citizens from incompetent physicians, and requiring doctors suspected of being incompetent to attend an investigatory hearing or submit to reexamination was rationally related to that interest, so neither a statute nor a board's treatment of a physician violated the equal protection clause[iii]." However, such revocation shall be done only after affording sufficient notice and hearing and courts have held that a substantially ex parte proceeding of revocation violates due process.
A statute empowering the state licensing board to revoke licenses shall not be vague and ambiguous. Courts have held that certain acts or conduct that are described in broad general terms are not prima facie objectionable if the general words are accompanied by more specific ones that may be properly construed to limit and make certain the general ones. The legislative purpose of the statute is protecting the public against the unauthorized practice of medicine and courts have held that the Board must be accorded authority to define the grounds for medical discipline on a case-by-case basis[iv].
The Board's power to revoke licenses includes the power to suspend an erring medical practitioner from practice. Upon a finding of unprofessional conduct warranting revocation, the Board has discretion suspend the practitioner from practice for the period permitted by the statute. The board can also impose conditions during the suspension period and may require a showing of professional competence before reinstating a license[v].
Professional incompetence, bad character, immorality, professional misconduct, dishonorable conduct, conviction of criminal offense, and gross negligence form valid grounds for revocation of license. The valid grounds for revocation of license may often be enlisted in the statute. Acting in excess of one's professional authority, like for instance, engaging in the general practice of medicine or surgery, or professing to do so, in excess of a license limited to the practice of special branch of medicine warrants the revocation of the limited license.
The board has power to initiate disciplinary action against a physician even in the absence of any complaints from the patients. The board may take action even in the case of a single act of violation and in the absence of proof of injury. For instance, in a Mississippi case, the court held that "if a nursing home resident under a nurse's aide's supervision was injured through the aide's neglect or lack of supervision, intentional or not, that aide was guilty of neglect and subject to removal by the health department from the active register and transfer to the Nurse's Aide Abuse Registry[vi]."
Courts have held that the revocation of a license is proper if the physician has been found guilty of drug abuse or was suffering from mental disability. Similarly, if a licensed physician's voluntary settlement agreement recites that the physician suffers from alcohol abuse and is in need of treatment, it is sufficient to establish probable cause for revocation[vii].
The procedure for revocation may be established by statute and state legislatures generally delegate to an administrative tribunal the power of revocation or suspension, together with the power to hear and determine charges. "A trial and conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction is not a condition precedent to a proceeding by the state board of health against a physician to revoke his license for any of the causes provided by statute[viii]."
Generally, statutes of limitation are not applicable to disciplinary proceedings and courts have held that due process does not require the application of a statute of limitations to such proceedings. However, due process requires the application of the doctrine of laches, albeit narrowly to license revocation proceedings[ix]. Courts have held that this has to be done without jeopardizing the public interest.
The physician must be given reasonable notice of the proceeding and reasonable opportunity to appear and make a defense. For instance, a court has held that a statute requiring hearings to be upon 20 days' written notice personally served upon the physician against whom charges are made, containing an exact statement of the charges and the date and place set for hearing, is reasonable.
However, the full protections of procedural due process will not be available to a physician in a probable cause hearing[x].
Moreover, the evidence must unequivocally indicate that the conduct of the licensee did not conform to the conduct of a member of the same profession exercising reasonable care and skill, supplemented by testimony to the effect that other professionals would have utilized a different procedure is insufficient to establish negligence or incompetence[xi].
The burden of proof is on the applicant seeking restoration of a medical license. The applicant must adduce sufficient evidence so ineluctable in its implications that it would compel restoration of license by the Board. There is conflict of opinion regarding the burden of proof. One view is that issues of fact in a revocation or suspension proceeding do not have to be shown beyond a reasonable doubt, but only by a preponderance of the evidence. On the other hand, some courts have held that the board is required to use clear and convincing evidence due to the plenary nature of the proceedings[xii].
Courts will review the conclusions of law de novo. While reviewing the sanctions imposed by the licensing board, the court defers to the board's expertise and will not generally substitute its discretion for that of the board. The physician can seek mandamus as an available and appropriate remedy for wrongful revocation if no other method of review has been provided by the statute. However, mandamus is not the proper remedy if the statute provides another adequate remedy, such as appeal.
[i] Younge v. State Bd. of Registration for Healing Arts, 451 S.W.2d 346 (Mo. 1969).
[ii] Faulkenstein v. District of Columbia Bd. of Medicine, 727 A.2d 302 (D.C. 1999).
[iii] Artman v. State Bd. of Registration for Healing Arts, 918 S.W.2d 247 (Mo. 1996).
[iv] State Bd. of Medical Examiners v. McCroskey, 880 P.2d 1188 (Colo. 1994).
[v] Board of Dental Examiners v. Hufford, 461 N.W.2d 194 (Iowa 1990).
[vi] Ricks v. Mississippi State Dept. of Health, 719 So. 2d 173 (Miss. 1998).
[vii] Paulson v. Board of Medical Examiners of State of Iowa, 592 N.W.2d 677 (Iowa 1999).
[viii] Bandeen v. Howard, 299 S.W.2d 249 (Ky. 1956)
[ix] Sinha v. Ambach, 91 A.D.2d 703, 457 N.Y.S.2d 603 (3d Dep't 1982).
[x] Artman v. State Bd. of Registration for Healing Arts, 918 S.W.2d 247 (Mo. 1996).
[xi] Sizemore v. Texas State Bd. of Dental Examiners, 747 S.W.2d 389 (Tex. App. Dallas 1987).
[xii] Painter v. Abels, 998 P.2d 931 (Wyo. 2000).
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The marathon took place on September 8, 2018 in the Park Pobedy on Krestovsky island. This is an annual event held by ther social charity entity called "Perspectiva" with the only aim to provide an all-around help to heavily invalidated children who live in the Pavlovsk orphanage.
Representatives from different departments volunteered to participate: the 5-km distance was attacked by runners from the architecture and construction department, those from internal audit and PR, business planning, accounting and technical departments. According to the runners, this action and its noble message pulled them closer to each other.


At the end of the dark ages, anatomy was taught as though everything that could be known was known. Scholars learned about what had been discovered rather than how to make discoveries. This was true even though the body (and the rest of biology) was very poorly understood. When the knowledge of antiquity was rediscovered during the renaissance, it was initially taken as gospel to be taught rather than a starting point from which further inquiry could continue. During dissections, a professor would stand and read from an anatomy book from antiquity (by Galen) and the students were meant to find in the body being dissected those features that were mentioned in the ancient text. The problem, though, a problem that seems silly in retrospect, was that the knowledge of antiquity was not perfect. If the students saw something in a body that was not in the text, that observation was to be discarded. The body could lie; the thousand-year-old book was true. Fortunately, beginning in the late renaissance, scholars began to add to and improve ancient knowledge rather than simply taking it as the complete and revealed truth. This break was revolutionary, but incomplete.
This lab allows scientists to learn from the thousands of animals that are dissected every year in biology, anatomy and physiology courses in both high schools and university labs. By completing several simple measurements and answering questions about specimens, students take a step that is 600 years overdue: we bring citizen science into the lab.
Ready to learn about animal anatomy? Follow these steps to participate in our dissection lab. Illustrations by Chris Hedstrom.
Download the "Frog Dissection" Presentation. Click on "Presentations" above to get started. Assemble the materials you need to get started.
Start your dissection. This activity is one that has been done in classrooms for centuries... but now we will collect data on those animals and learn something more. Photo by Lauren Nichols.
Send in your data. Complete the data form online (button below) with your students for each specimen and scientists will (finally) learn more about the digestive tracts of animals.
After completing the Measurements Form from this lesson, please input the written recorded measurements into this online form.
All around the world frogs, pigs and rats are dissected in classrooms. The number of animals that are dissected is immense, in the millions. When these animals are dissected, no data are collected, ever. The animals are studied like the bodies of Renaissance humans and then discarded. This is particularly tragic if one remembers that most of what is knowable is not yet known, even with regard to frogs, pigs and rats. New discoveries await in the bodies of dissected animals, discoveries students could be making but are not, likely because neither they nor their teachers have even considered this as an option. The most interesting of these discoveries are the ones we cannot anticipate, but there are some we can anticipate.
Among the most challenging diseases of humans, and mammals in general, to study are rare congenital diseases. Collectively these diseases affect many individuals, but the genetic underpinnings of these diseases are hard to understand because, in order to know which genetic variants might cause one of these diseases, one needs to study the bodies and genes of many afflicted individuals.
A simple answer exists. When students study frog dissections, if they were to look for frogs with congenital problems, document those frogs, and take tissue samples of those frogs (which they or someone else could sequence), we could start to understand the origin of such diseases. Instead, most rare congenital disorders are not well understood and will not be for decades, and nothing new is learned from the millions of dead animals. There are barriers to implementing this example, but they are surmountable with the citizen science approach.
Colleen Grant is a lab supervisor at North Carolina State University in the Biological Sciences Department. She has a masters degree in Horticulture Science and has worked in upper level biology teaching labs for 11 years. Courses she works closely with include Anatomy and Physiology, Animal Diversity and Ecology.
Amanda Hale is a graduate student in the department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University. She received her masters' at NC State for biological anthropology. Her research is focused on both the relationship between ecology and morphological diversity in primate evolution and the taphonomic changes to bone in varying depositions. She has taught both Animal Anatomy and Physiology and Human Anatomy at NC State.
Chris Hedstrom is a entomologist in Salem, OR, studying biological control for the Oregon Department of Agriculture. He's also an illustrator and photographer. Check out new drawings, photos and writing as they appear at chedstrom.tumblr.com.
Engaging students in the dissection so they have a better handle on identifying adaptive differences and/or anomalies in their specimens.
A) Have them collect the standard data (discussed more below) and determine which data are applicable to testing their hypothesis and B) Have them do literature research to interpret hypothesis or identify blanks in understanding.


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Sulfuric acid is the most-produced chemical in the world. In fact, it is so important that, together with chlorine, it is sometimes used as an indicator of a country's economic development. Historically named oil of vitriol, it has been known for a long time.
For most of these applications, the sulfuric acid must be of sufficient purity. Metrohm offers a series of techniques and applications to determine impurities. Read more below.
Ion chromatography is capable of determining fluoride, chloride, and nitrate in concentrated sulfuric acid (between 96 and 98% concentration). The method applied is conductivity detection after sequential suppression.
When it comes to water determination in chemicals, Karl Fischer titration is the method of choice. In principle, water can be determined in almost any chemical, no matter whether it is solid, liquid, or gaseous.
Here we focus on water determination in salts, liquids, and gases, and particularly on upstream derivatives. Given the countless chemicals for which KF water determination is feasible, it is beyond the scope of this page to provide a complete overview. If, however, you would like to know more, please download our comprehensive Karl Fischer monograph.
Chlorine ranks no. 7 on the list of the most commonly produced chemical substances. It is the basis for the production of numerous intermediate substances, which, in turn, are important feedstock materials in the petroleum, aluminum, paper and pulp, or pharmaceutical industries. For instance, chlorine is used in the production of a staggering 80% of drugs.
By far the largest part – about 95% – of the chlorine produced globally is obtained via the chlor-alkali process. In this process, chlorine and caustic soda are produced via electrolysis of sodium chloride brine. Caustic soda is another crucial basic chemical which is used in many chemical processes. Three electrolysis methods are applied for the chlor-alkali process, using either a diaphragm or a mercury or membrane cell.
For the process to be as efficient as possible, the brine has to be free of impurities. This makes chemical analysis necessary.
Read below what we have to offer for analyzing sodium chloride brine.
Ion chromatography is ideally suited for determining cations (lithium, sodium, ammonium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and strontium) and anions (chlorate and sulfate) in sodium chloride brine and alkali hydroxides. The detection method applied is conductivity detection.
Titration is a highly versatile method that makes a multitude of analyses possible. Metrohm has developed applications for the potentiometric, photometric, and thermometric titration of analytes in brine, e.g., sodium, halides, sulfate, or calcium.
In chlorine production, the most commonly applied electrolysis technique is the membrane process. This process requires high-purity brine in order to run efficiently. One of the main impurities that need to be monitored is iodide. The reason is that iodide readily oxidizes at the anode in the electrolysis cell. The resulting oxidation products precipitate inside the ion-exchange membrane and thus reduce the membrane's service life.
Voltammetry is predestined for iodide determination in brine. The method is straightforward and inexpensive and yields highly precise results.
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Abu Dhabi (UK:, US:; Arabic: أَبُو ظَبْيٍ Abū Ẓaby Arabic pronunciation: [ɐˈbuˈðˤɑbi]) is the capital and the second-most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (later Dubai). The city of Abu Dhabi is located on an island in the Persian Gulf, off the Central West Coast. The Majority of the city and the Emirate live on the mainland connected to the rest of the country. As of 2020, Abu Dhabi's urban area had an estimated population of 1.48 million, out of 2.9 million in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, as of 2016. Abu Dhabi homes local and national government offices and is the home of the United Arab Emirates Government and the Supreme Petroleum Council. The city is home to the President of the UAE, who's a member of the Al Nahyan family. Abu Dhabi's rapid development and urbanization, coupled with the gigantic oil and gas reserves and production and relatively high average income, have transformed it into a big, developed metropolis. It's the nation's center of politics and business, and a significant culture and commerce center. Abu Dhabi accounts for approximately two-thirds of the approximately $400 billion UAE economy.
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Super Mario Bros. (40.23 million)
SMB is the 4th game that features Mario as the main character, released back in 1985 it quickly became a hit for the NES and is a acclaimed by many game critics as one of the best games of it's time.
Super Mario World (20 million)
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Super Mario Land (14 million)
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Super Mario 64 (11 million)
SM64 released in 1996 for the nintendo 64 was the first M game in full 3D with large levels and also the firs one that isn't linear. The gamepaly is very fluid and there is a lot of level-exploring.
SMB2 is a redesign of ''Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic'' - a game that was only released in Japan. It had many new features and new playable characters however it didn't become as popular as SMB mainly due to It's gameplay changes.
Mario Kart 64 (8.47 million)
Super Mario Galaxy (8.02 million)
Super Mario Kart (8 million)
Super Mario 64 DS (7.5 million)
Mario Party 8 (6.72 million)
Mario Party DS (5.85 million)
Super Mario Sunshine (5.5 million)
Mario Kart: Double Dash‼ (4.876 million)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (4 million)
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (3.768 million)
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (3.4 million)
Mario Party 4 (2.003 million)
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Austin Monitor Radio: CM Greg Casar
This week, Council Member Greg Casar stops by KOOP to talk to Austin Monitor reporter Jack Craver about District 4, City Council and his ongoing battles with the Texas state Legislature. Tune in below!
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Austin City Council: The Austin City Council is the body with legislative purview over the City of Austin. It offers policy direction, while the office of the City Manager implements administrative actions based on those policies. Until 2012, the body contained seven members, including the city's Mayor, all elected at-large. In 2012, City of Austin residents voted to change that system and now 10 members of the Council are elected based on geographic districts. The Mayor continues to be elected at-large.
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Mayor Steve Adler's campaign still owes him more than $449,000 from loans he has made to his campaign starting when he first ran in 2014. When that race was over, the Adler campaign reported owing the candidate more than $418,000.…
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Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt is willing to give the city of Austin the historic Palm School building. But she wants a lot in return.In a July 3 letter addressed to Mayor Steve Adler and City Council, Eckhardt proposed a…
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Performances will be held in Dillard Fine Arts Center Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, February 22 through 24, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 25. Buy tickets here.
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The deserted library theme runs through the set and costumes as well. "Some set pieces are made out of books and the tree leaves are bookmarks, which really unified our design," Wittman said.
The musical's 23 cast members returned to campus early from winter break to jumpstart rehearsals with a theatre boot camp. "Having gotten a head start with boot camp at the beginning of this semester, I'm quite comfortable with where we are at right now and am looking forward to opening night," Austin Candler '20, who plays The Baker, said.
All told, about 60 people have worked for more than six weeks to bring the production to the stage. In addition to Wittman, the faculty/staff production team includes choreographer Loretta Wittman, set and lighting designer Christopher Otwell, and costume designer Savannah Ketchum.
Theatre major Georgie DeCosmo '18 described the musical's score as "challenging" and said, "I've learned to push myself and step out of my comfort zone to explore new things with my character, the Baker's Wife.
Wittman said Into the Woods was chosen because of its relatability to people from age 10 to senior citizens — an audience that has likely, at some point in their lives, encountered the storybook characters.
Into the Woods tickets, available here, are $15 for adults, $12 for age 60-plus, and $5 for students. For more information, call the LC box office at 434.544.8380.


Kathmandu, NIHWU has organized youth training for youth members on 7 April 2019.NIHWU president Cde. Surya Kunwar, Senior Vice President Cde. Banshi Bhattrai & Cde. Laxman Tiwari facilitated the training session.
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Stipa is a genus of around 300 large perennial hermaphroditic grasses collectively known as feather grass, needle grass, and  spear grass. They are placed in the subfamily Pooideae and the tribe Stipeae, which also contains many species formerly assigned to Stipa, which have since been reclassified into new genera.

Many species are important forage crops. Several species such as Stipa brachytricha, S. arundinacea, S. splendens, S. calamagrostis, S. gigantea and S. pulchra are used as ornamental plants. One former species, esparto grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), is used for crafts and extensively in paper making.

It is a coarse grass with inrolled leaves and a panicle patterned inflorescence.

Ecology
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Selected species
Stipa avenacea – black oat grass
Stipa baicalensis Roshev.
Stipa barbata Desf.
Stipa bavarica
Stipa borysthenica
Stipa brachytricha – Korean feather grass
Stipa canadensis
Stipa capensis
Stipa capillata L.
Stipa coreana Honda – Korean needlegrass
Stipa grandis P.A.Smirn.
Stipa joannis Čelak.
Stipa leptogluma
Stipa mexicana
Stipa milleana
Stipa mollis
Stipa pennata L. – feather grass
Stipa pulcherrima
Stipa speciosa
Stipa tirsa Steven
Stipa tulcanensis
Stipa turkestanica Hack.
Stipa zalesskii Wilensky

Formerly placed here

Achnatherum aridum (as S. arida)
Achnatherum calamagrostis (L.) P.Beauv. (as S. calamagrostis (L.) Wahlenb.)
Achnatherum robustum (Vasey) Barkworth (as S. robusta (Vasey) Scribn.)
Achnatherum splendens (Trin.) Nevski (as S. splendens Trin.)
Celtica gigantea (Link) F. M. Vazquez & Barkworth (as S. gigantea Link)
Hesperostipa comata (as S. comata)
Jarava ichu Ruiz & Pav. (as S. ichu (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth)
Macrochloa tenacissima (Loefl. ex L.) Kunth (as S. tenacissima Loefl. ex L.)
Nassella leucotricha (Trin. & Rupr.) R.W.Pohl (as S. leucotricha Trin. & Rupr.)
Nassella pulchra (Hitchc.) Barkworth (as S. pulchra Hitchc.)
Oryzopsis hymenoides (Ricker.) (as S. hymenoides Roem. & Schult.)
Nassella viridula (Trin.) Barkworth (as S. viridula Trin.)
Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth (as Stipa spartea Trin.)
Anemanthele lessoniana (Steud.) Veldkamp (as Stipa arundinacea Hook.f.)

See also
 Nassella

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Poaceae genera


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