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Emerging chemical risks in Europe — 'PFAS'
Briefing Published 12 Dec 2019 Last modified 09 Mar 2021
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Topics: Environment and health Water and marine environment
It is currently not possible to perform in-depth environmental and health risk assessments of all chemical substances in use in Europe because of the great variety of chemicals and their diverse uses. New and legacy chemicals continue to be released into Europe's environment, adding to the total chemical burden on Europe's citizens and ecosystems. Early identification of emerging risks is one of the activities of the European Environment Agency (EEA). This briefing summarises the known and potential risks to human health and the environment in Europe posed by a group of very persistent chemicals, the per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS).
Comprising more than 4 700 chemicals, per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of widely used, man-made chemicals that accumulate over time in humans and in the environment.
National monitoring activities have detected PFAS in the environment across Europe. The production and use of PFAS in products has resulted in the contamination of drinking water supplies in several European countries. In some highly polluted areas, concentrations of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorosulfonic acid (PFOS) in drinking water were above the limit value for individual PFAS proposed in the 2018 recast of the EU Drinking Water Directive (EC, 2017).
Human biomonitoring has detected a range of PFAS in the blood of European citizens. Though the levels for the most prevalent, studied and regulated PFAS, PFOA and PFOS are decreasing, levels of more 'novel' PFAS are increasing. In some areas, concentrations of PFOA and PFOS in the most exposed citizens were above proposed benchmark levels for adverse effects in humans.
Due to the large number of PFAS chemicals, a substance-by-substance risk assessment and management approach is not adequate to efficiently prevent risk to the environment and human health from a single PFAS or mixtures of them.
Taking precautionary risk management actions for groups of chemicals and promoting the use of chemicals that are 'safe-and-circular-by-design' could help to limit future pollution.
What are PFAS and what are they used for?
PFAS are a group of more than 4 700 man-made chemicals (OECD, 2018), the two most well-known of which are perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) (Box 1). PFAS are used in a wide variety of consumer products and industrial applications because of their unique chemical and physical properties, including oil and water repellence, temperature and chemical resistance, and surfactant properties. PFAS have been used in firefighting foams, non-stick metal coatings for frying pans, paper food packaging, creams and cosmetics, textiles for furniture and outdoor clothing, paints and photography, chrome plating, pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Very limited information is available regarding which specific PFAS are used in which applications and at what levels in Europe.
PFAS are a group of organic chemicals that contain a stable (unreactive) fluoro-carbon segment. Polyfluorinated PFAS contain both fluoro-carbon and hydro-carbon segments where the non-fluorinated part can degrade and ultimately form perfluorinated PFAS acids, such as PFOA and PFOS. While the long-chain PFAS accumulate in humans, animals and sediment/soil, the short-chain PFAS accumulate in the environment (German EPA, 2017, 2018) due to their persistency and high mobility in air and water. The OECD provides further information on groups of PFAS.
Why are PFAS a concern?
PFAS either are, or degrade to, persistent chemicals that accumulate in humans, animals and the environment. This adds to the total burden of chemicals to which people are exposed (Evans et al., 2016) and increases the risk of health impacts. Of the relatively few well-studied PFAS, most are considered moderately to highly toxic, particularly for children's development. Figure 1 summarises current knowledge of the health impacts of PFAS.
Figure 1. Effects of PFAS on human health
Sources: US National Toxicology Program, (2016); C8 Health Project Reports, (2012); WHO IARC, (2017); Barry et al., (2013); Fenton et al., (2009); and White et al., (2011).
People most at risk of adverse health impacts are those exposed to high levels of PFAS, and vulnerable population groups such as children and the elderly. Fewer studies have investigated effects on biota (Land et al., 2018). Throughout life, people and animals accumulate PFAS in their bodies. In 2018, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) re-evaluated the multiple lines of evidence of PFOA and PFOS toxicities, which resulted in significantly lower provisional 'safe' limits, known as the 'tolerable weekly intake' (TWI) (EFSA, 2018). The assessment concluded that a considerable proportion of the European population is expected to exceed the TWI due to intake of PFAS from food and drinking water.
Costs to society arising from PFAS exposure are high, with the annual health-related costs estimated to be EUR 52-84 billion across Europe in a recent study (Nordic Council of Ministers, 2019). The study notes that these costs are likely underestimated, as only a limited range of health effects (high cholesterol, decreased immune system and cancer) linked to exposure to a few specific PFAS were included in the estimates. In addition, PFAS pollution also affects ecosystems and generates costs through the need for remediation of polluted soil and water. Such costs are currently difficult to assess since information on the number and scale of sites contaminated with PFAS in Europe and on how PFAS impact ecosystems is lacking.
What are the main sources of environmental PFAS pollution?
Production and use of PFAShave been the main sources of PFAS contamination over time (Wang et al., 2014a, 2014b; Hu et al., 2016) for instance from fluoropolymer production installations and from the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foams (Figure 1). Other sources include PFAS produced and applied to textiles and paper and painting/printing facilities (Danish EPA, 2014). Less is known about potential releases of PFAS from other uses such as oil extraction and mining (Kissa, 2001), and the production of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and pesticides (Krafft and Riess, 2015).
PFAS in consumer products, such as textiles, furniture, polishing and cleaning agents and creams, may contaminate dust and air, while food contact materials can contaminate food (Nordic Council of Ministers, 2019; Danish EPA, 2018). Drugs and medical devices may be other sources.
Emissions to the environment occur via industrial waste water releases, as well as emissions to air from industrial production sites followed by deposition onto soil and water bodies. Industrial and urban waste water treatment plants are also a significant source of PFAS, via air, water and sludge (Hamid, et al., 2016; Eriksson et al., 2017).
Reuse of contaminated sewage sludge as fertilisers has led to PFAS pollution of soil (Ghisi et al., 2019) and water in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the US (Nordic Council of Ministers, 2019). The recycling of PFAS containing materials such as food contact materials and the formation of volatile fluorinated gases during waste incineration (Danish EPA, 2019) are other possible sources of PFAS pollution.
Where are PFAS found in Europe's environment?
PFAS are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment and organisms (Valsecchi et al., 2013) across Europe, and have been detected in air, soil, plants and biota (Houde et al., 2006). Areas around industrial production, manufacturing and application sites have been found to be particularly contaminated by PFAS. This has led to contaminated drinking water around factories in Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands, and around airports and military bases in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom (IPEN, 2018; Hu et al., 2016). The total number of sites potentially emitting PFAS is estimated to be in the order of 100 000 in Europe (Nordic Council of Ministers, 2019).
Generally, regulated PFAS have been substituted with other short-chain and polymeric PFAS. Regrettably, several of these 'novel' PFAS and their short chain degradation products are also persistent. In particular, short-chain PFAS accumulate in the environment and have been found to contaminate surface, ground- and drinking water (Eschauzier et al., 2012; Sun et al., 2016; Gebbink et al., 2017), and accumulate in plants (Ghisi et al., 2019), which may lead to increases in human dietary exposure.
Novel PFAS are increasingly detected (Xiao, 2017) in European surface waters. PFAS water pollution has been identified in countries across Europe, including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, as well as outside the EU. Several PFAS are sufficiently volatile to be considered long-range transboundary air pollutants, implying that emissions outside Europe are transported into Europe where they may accumulate in cold areas such as the Arctic (EEA, 2017). The well-known and regularly monitored PFAS (mainly perfluorinated acids) account only for a fraction of the chemical burden from PFAS present in human blood, the environment and wildlife (Koch et al., 2019).
While both well-known and novel PFAS have been detected in drinking water in non-EU countries (Xiao, 2017; Kaboré et al., 2018; Dauchy, 2019), at present there is little monitoring data available in the EU for drinking water. A case study by the World Health Organization (WHO) documents the story of PFAS contamination of the drinking water of 21 municipalities in the Veneto region of Italy. Industrial activity in the area had polluted both surface waters and ground water, as well as the drinking water of approximately 127 000 citizens (WHO, 2017). Monitoring conducted by the authorities of the Veneto Region found PFOS in 63-100 % of the locations sampled and PFOA in 100 % of the sites.
For comparison, the European Commission proposed a limit value of 0.1 µg/L for each individual PFAS in the 2018 recast of the EU Drinking Water Directive. This draft limit value was exceeded by a factor of 130 for PFOS and 66 for PFOA in samples taken in the Veneto Region.
PFOS and their derivatives are included as a priority hazardous substance under the EU Water Framework Directive (EU, 2013), with a much lower Environmental Quality Standard (AA-EQS) limit value of 0.65 ng/L (0.00065 µg/L) in inland surface waters and 0.13 ng/L in seawater. Member States are due to report on compliance with the PFOS EQS by 2021. Samples taken in 2013 in Northern Europe exceeded this EQS in 27 % of river sites and 94 % of Baltic Sea and Kattegat seawater (Nguyen et al., 2017).
What are the main routes of human exposure to PFAS?
The main exposure pathways for human and environmental exposures are shown in Figure 2. For the general population, PFAS sources include drinking water, food, consumer products and dust (EFSA, 2018). In food, fish species at the top of the food chain and shellfish are significant sources of PFAS exposure. Livestock raised on contaminated land can accumulate PFAS in their meat, milk and eggs (Ingelido et al., 2018; Numata et al., 2014). Direct exposure may also come via skin creams and cosmetics (Danish EPA, 2018; Schultes et al., 2018) or via air from sprays and dust from PFAS-coated textiles. There is little knowledge on uptake via skin and the lungs, which can be severely affected by PFAS (Nørgaard et al., 2010; Sørli et al., 2020). Consumer exposure may also occur via other routes such as via floor, wood, stone, and car polishing and cleaning products. Groups that may be exposed to high concentrations of PFAS include workers and people eating or drinking water and foods contaminated via PFAS treated food contact materials (Susmann et al., 2019). Though PFAS are used in drugs and medical equipment, there is little information on exposure via these routes.
Figure 2: Typical PFAS exposure pathways
PFAS are transferred in the womb from mother to child and unless exposure decreases with age, the PFAS body burden increases due to bioaccumulation (Koponen et al., 2018). Evidence of internal PFAS exposure in humans is available from several national human biomonitoring studies conducted inside and outside Europe. Men generally have higher PFAS body burdens and serum levels (Ingelido et al., 2018) because they excrete fewer PFAS. For the most regulated PFAS, such as PFOA and PFOS, consistent declines have been observed over the past 10-20 years in Europe (e.g. in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Spain and Sweden). This decrease in levels in humans is likely to result from reduced exposure as a result of regulatory and non-regulatory action on consumer products, such as food contact materials (Susmann et al., 2019) and textiles (Greenpeace, 2017).
Despite the decreases in long-chain PFAS levels in human blood, concentrations of PFOA and PFOS measured in human blood still exceed the EFSA benchmark dose levels (known as BMDL5). This is particularly true for children and highly exposed sections of the European population (Buekers et al., 2018). The BMDL5 reflect the concentration in blood at which critical effects occur (cholesterol effects for adults and immune-toxicity for children) and are the basis for the provisional TWIs for PFOA and PFOS (EFSA, 2018).
The above mentioned human biomonitoring study in the Veneto Region investigated human exposure to PFOA and PFOS in the period 2015-2016 among 257 Italian residents of contaminated areas and 250 residents of background areas (Ingelido et al., 2018). The PFOA blood concentrations of residents of contaminated areas were 9-64 times higher than those of the background population. For PFOS, the levels were 1.4-1.6 times higher. Levels of PFOA in the highly exposed population were 0.2 to 26 times greater than the EFSA BDML5, while for PFOS, the figure was 0.3-1.3 times. EU research projects, such as Human Biomonitoring for Europe (HBM4EU) (Box 2), are currently working to produce a representative picture of PFAS exposure for the European population, as well as investigating links between exposure and health effects.
The Human Biomonitoring for Europe (HBM4EU) initiative is a 5-year EU Horizon 2020 research programme designed to translate human biomonitoring science into policy-relevant knowledge. A main task within the project is to generate representative chemical exposure data for the European population through harmonised human biomonitoring. PFAS is one of the 18 HBM4EU priority substance groups investigated by HBM4EU to better understand exposure and effects on health.
How can consumers avoid PFAS?
It is difficult for citizens to totally avoid exposure to PFAS. Using PFAS-free personal care products and cooking materials and avoiding direct contact with PFAS-containing products helps to reduce exposure. Decreased exposure to PFAS may be achieved by using consumer products from green labels and buying brands free from PFAS. General and specific guidance to consumers and business on how to find PFAS-free alternatives is provided by consumer organisations and some national institutions (see Danish EPA, German EPA and Swedish KEMI).
Decreased exposure to PFAS may be achieved by using consumer products from green labels and buying brands free from PFAS
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What is being done in the EU and globally?
Measures to reduce PFAS pollution are in place, mainly addressing well-known PFAS substances and their precursors. PFOS and PFOA are listed under Annex A of the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), implying that parties to the Convention should 'eliminate the production and use' of the chemicals.
At EU level, PFOS is restricted under the EU POPs Regulation (EU, 2019). PFOA and its precursors are currently restricted under the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation (EU, 2006), including their presence in products made or imported into the EU. This will soon be replaced by a new restriction under the POPs Regulation, which will have more limited derogations, following a decision taken at the Stockholm Convention.
A number of other PFAS are on the REACH list of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs). In June 2019, GenX (a short-chain PFAS substitute for PFOA in fluoropolymer production) was the first chemical added to the SVHC list on the basis of its persistent, mobile and toxic properties posing a threat to drinking water and the environment. Several PFAS are on the Community Rolling Action Plan for evaluation over the coming years. As mentioned above, PFOA and PFOS are priority hazardous substances under the Water Framework Directive (EC, 2017; EU, 2000).
Across Europe, several countries have been active in monitoring PFAS in environmental media as well as in humans and products. Some countries have set national limit values for water and soil (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden), for textiles (Norway) and for food contact materials (Denmark). Several EU Member States have set drinking water limits for specific PFAS and for groups of PFAS (Dauchy, 2019). In June 2019, Denmark announced a ban on PFAS-treated food contact materials, to enter into force in 2020.
With more than 4 700 known PFAS, undertaking substance-by-substance risk assessments and comprehensive environmental monitoring to understand exposure would be an extremely lengthy and resource-intensive process. As a result, complementary and precautionary approaches to managing PFAS are being explored.
This includes the regulation of PFAS as a class, or as subgroups, based on toxicity or chemical similarities. The proposal to establish a new 'group limit' value for PFAS of 0.5 µg/L, in addition to limits for 16 individual PFAS of 0.1 µg/L in drinking water under the recast of the EU Drinking Water Directive is currently under consideration at EU level. Such measures can be supported by cost-effective and targeted monitoring of PFAS in the environment to provide early warning signals of pollution.
In June 2019, the European Council of Ministers (EC, 2019) highlighted the widespread occurrence of PFAS in the environment, products and people, and called for an action plan to eliminate all non-essential uses of PFAS (Cousins et al., 2019).
The move towards zero pollution requires that product life cycles are made safer from the start (Warner and Ludwig, 2016), based on the concept of safe-and-circular-by-design (van der Waals et al., 2019). This approach offers opportunities to protect the health of Europe's citizens and environment at the same time as driving innovation for safer chemicals.
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Briefing no. 12/2019
Title: Emerging chemical risks in Europe — 'PFAS'
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Article Living healthily in a chemical world We can categorise pollution by where we find it — in soil, water or air — or we can look at different pollution types, such as chemicals. Synthetic chemicals are all around us. Some of them, however, can also be very harmful to our health and the environment. How can we limit the negative effects of chemicals that have become a part of our current way of life?
News PFAS pollution is widespread in Europe but risks are still poorly understood People and the environment are exposed to a wide variety of extremely persistent chemicals known as PFAS, many of which are known to be toxic. A briefing by the European Environment Agency, published today, presents an overview of these chemicals, which continue to accumulate in people and the environment.
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We've already gotten a tease of the film, but now the real deal is here as the first official trailer for the 2011 Sundance selected film Sound of My Voice is here. Written by and starring Brit Marling (who also wrote and starred in another Sundance favorite Another Earth), the film follows Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius), a young Los Angeles couple, infiltrating the underworld of a cult led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (Marling). Intent on exposing Maaggie for a fraud, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective as they slowly unravel the mysteries of Maggie's past. Watch below!
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A journalist and friend get pulled in while investigating a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Sound Of My Voice is directed by Iranian-American filmmaker Zal Batmanglij, making his feature debut after the sci-fi short The Recordist previously. The screenplay was co-written by Batmanglij and the film's star, Brit Marling. This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year and was acquired much later on by Fox Searchlight. Sound Of My Voice will be arriving in limited theaters starting April 27th this spring. For more info on the film, visit their official website, where they'll reveal more leading up to the release.
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This looks great! i'm excited for it now, i really hope this doesnt get overlooked.
Zade on Mar 19, 2012
looks pretty good.
beevis on Mar 19, 2012
Damn, I want in the cult, have my house and all my televisions. Looks good, can't wait til it turns into the Matrix.
Crapola on Mar 19, 2012
Give me cheesy Hollywood films over this any day.
Christopher Batty on Mar 19, 2012
Peter on Apr 1, 2012

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Anime Recap Preview – Haikyu!! Karasuno High School VS Shiratorizawa Academy
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Haikyu!! Karasuno High School VS Shiratorizawa Academy
Production I.G
PREMIERE DATE
October 7th at 26:10 (JST)
TELEVISION STATION
MBS, TBS, CBC, RKB, HBC, TBC, and BS-TBS
STREAMING LINKS
Susumu Mitsunaka
Ayumu Murase, Kouki Uchiyama, Miyu Irino, Kaito Ishikawa, Yuu Hayashi, Toshiki Masudam, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Youshimasa Hosoya, Hiroshi Kamiya, Soma Saito, Satoshi Hino, Kazunari, Kaori Nazuka, Sumire Morohoshi.
NEW CAST ADDITIONS
Ryota Takeuchi, Teruyuki Tanzawa, Subaru Kimura, Takuma Terashima, Tsuchiya Shimba, Kenji Fukuda, Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Daiki Omori.
Junior high school student Shouyou Hinata gains a sudden love of volleyball after seeing a national championship match on TV. He creates a volleyball club and eventually, five other members join the team, but they suffer a crushing defeat in their first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of so-called "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama, in the first round. So, Hinata joins Kurasuno High School's volleyball team, vowing revenge against Kageyama. However, Kageyama is also on Kurasuno's team. The former rivals form a legendary combo with Hinata's mobility and Kageyama's precision ball-handling. Together, they take on the local tournaments and vow to meet Kurasuno's fated rival school in the nationals. After finally overcoming one of their biggest hurdles that is Aoba Jousai, Karasuno is now set to face their biggest obstacle yet: The strongest team in their prefecture, Shiratorizawa Academy. With a guaranteed place at Nationals on the line, both teams are set to go all out in this 10-episode special! – Anime News Network
WHY WE'RE WATCHING
Because…..Haikyu!! is bae. For real, I wish I were kidding. In nearly every new season of anime, there exists at least one sport related show. Unfortunately, there were never enough to truly impress me and so I took a long break from the genre. That is until Haikyu!! came along and showed me the light. Not only do I like volleyball, I love how even though the characters are 100% dedicated to the team and their sport, the comedy is first class and manages to fit in so well with situations. It also shows that they also go through times of self-doubt, vulnerability, depression, frustration and general concern as any other person would, particularly the third years on the team who want to see Karasuno shine on the national stage once more. There is also a cast of many different characters, all with different personalities from the over-energetic Hinata to the neurotic Yamaguchi, and who could forget the comedic relief duo of yakuza-talking tough guy Tanaka and Nishinoya, who forever watch over (*ahem* let's call it the welfare of) their beautiful team manager Shimizu. Even though season 3 is only going to be 10 episodes long compared to the first two seasons, it is set to be one of the most exciting showdowns to determine whether Karasuno will be able to get through to play their fated rival Nekoma after their promise at the training camp in season 2. There is much to look forward and I don't believe that I.G production will disappoint on that.
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Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) involves any manufacturing process that uses computer software to facilitate, "aid" or automate parts of the manufacturing process. This process is subsequent from the computer-aided designing (CAD) process. Since CAM follows CAD, both are strongly associated with one another. That is why many new designing software now include the capabilities of CAD and CAM all in one program (Gould 32).
Throughout the years, CAM has been proved particularly useful in the automotive and computer technology industries. However, CAM software has also been widely used in less obvious fields, including dentistry and textile manufacturing (Crelin 2). It has also been helpful in the creation of small, precision components in the medical field. The USGI Medical Inc. has proven CAM as a useful tool to create their specialized tool that is used during incisionless surgeries ("CAM Helps Medical Component Manufacturer Turn Ideas into Reality").
After designing an object using CAD software, a CAM program is used to manufacture the modeled object. The CAM program sets the toolpath of the manufacturing machines by using numerical control (CNC) (?ubo?ová 280). In CNC, instructions are transmitted to the manufacturing machine as a series of numbers known as G-code. Those instructions tell the machine how to move and what actions to perform in order to form the object. The types of CNC machines used may include milling machines, drills, lathes, plasma lasers and even 3D printers (Crelin 3).


"PLEASE NOTE: this is a PHONE-FREE show. No photos, video or audio recording devices allowed," reads a statement posted by Live Nation that can be seen on every tour stop's ticket page. "We think you'll enjoy looking up from your gadgets for a little while and experience music and our shared love of it IN PERSON.
It is not known, at this time, if the cell ban applies only to the singer's North American trek or if it will also be enforced during his brief European run that starts in late June.
Following the March 23 release of "Boarding House Reach", White will open an extensive North American run in his hometown of Detroit, MI on April 19.
Following a series of pre-sales this week, general public seats will go on sale Friday, January 26 at 10am local time.


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Graduate Students | Academic Responsibilities and Academic Grievance
It is the responsibility of faculty, staff, and students to create an academic community that is free from all forms of prejudice that negatively influence learning, such as those based on age, ethnicity, gender, mental or physical impairment, race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity. All faculty, staff, and students should treat one another with courtesy and respect.
Statement of Good Teaching Practices
Every instructor is responsible for:
Informing his or her students within the first two weeks of the course of the objectives, content, assignments, policy on return of student work, and examination procedure in each course and, within reason, abiding by those statements;
Specifying in writing within the first two weeks of the course the methods by which the instructor determines the final grade in the course;
Ensuring that all materials assigned are equally available to all students in the course;
Informing students of the generally accepted conclusion on the subject matter of the course when those conclusions differ from the conclusions of the instructor;
Giving adequate advance notice of major papers and major examinations in the course;
Providing assignments to permit students to benefit from evaluative experiences during the course;
Being fair and impartial in evaluating all student performances, i.e., evaluating all students according to common criteria;
Allowing students to review papers and examinations in a timely manner after those papers and examinations have been evaluated.
Making himself or herself available for conferences during announced, regular office hours;
Treating students with courtesy and respect at all times. Courtesy and respect do not prohibit strong criticism directed at the student's academic errors and scholarly responsibilities.
Endeavoring to ensure that the learning environment is free from all forms of prejudice that negatively influence student learning, such as those based on age, ethnicity, gender, mental or physical impairment, race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Adhering to the "Class Attendance Policy".
Adhering to the "Statement on Professional Ethics" policy: As teachers, professors encourage the free pursuit of learning in students. Teachers exemplify the best scholarly standards of their disciplines. They demonstrate respect for students as individuals and adhere to their proper roles as intellectual guides and counselors. Professors make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct and to assure that their evaluations of students reflect students' true merit. Faculty members respect the confidential nature of the relationship between professor and student. They avoid any exploitation of students for their private advantage and acknowledge significant assistance from them. Professors protect their academic freedom. No faculty member shall be obliged to make the academic work of students available for inspection by any third party in the absence of compulsory legal process without bona fide academic reasons or without the express written consent of the student.
Assuming the positive obligation to confront students of suspected academic dishonesty.
Statement of Student Responsibilities
The Divisional Academic Appeals Boards, in adjudicating any academic grievances, will take note of the following minimum standards of student responsibility.
Attending class in accordance with University regulations (see the policy "Class Attendance");
Being attentive during class, and participating constructively in class discussions;
Doing the work assigned in each course to the best of his or her ability, and submitting it on time;
Showing respect for instructors and fellow students at all times;
Abiding by University regulations prohibiting academic misconduct (see the policy "Academic Integrity")
Academic Grievance Procedure at Miami University
Each academic department has a specific departmental grievance procedure meant to facilitate the adjudication of most student grievances at the departmental level. Divisional academic appeals boards have jurisdiction limited to classroom relations between individual students and instructors as specified in the Statement of Good Teaching Practices.
Academic Grievance Procedure
A goal of the grievance procedure should be to effect reconciliation between instructor and student.
Any student has the right to question a grade he or she has received, but the student should recognize the difference between questioning a grade and charging an instructor with a violation of the Statement of Good Teaching Practices. The latter is a serious act and should neither be undertaken lightly nor should the desire to have a grade reviewed and changed be the primary motivation. A student initiating a grievance procedure should be aware that the University Senate has ruled that the final determination of a student's grade remains with the instructor, regardless of the outcome of any appeal procedure. While most instructors will consent to being advised by their colleagues and may change the student's grade on advice from a review committee, they cannot be compelled to do so by any authority in the University.
In all cases the student should first meet with the instructor to voice a complaint and to receive an explanation and possible redress. If the student is not satisfied with the explanation, he or she should confer with the chair of the department and ask for a review of the grade through the departmental grievance procedure. The student must at that time ask either for a grade review or may, additionally, charge the instructor with a violation of the Statement of Good Teaching Practices. If the student asks only for a grade review, the review of the grade will be handled within the department and the final decision will be made according to the departmental procedures.
Formal grievances against instructors for violation of the Statement of Good Teaching Practices must be presented in terms of the provisions of that Statement. Student charges must cite specific violations of specific provisions of the Statement, identified by number as well as by the wording of the accusation. Students should also note that basic issues of contractual obligation and competence are not covered by the Statement of Good Teaching Practices, and that issues related to instruction not covered by the Statement should be discussed with the department chair, the academic coordinator, the program director, or their designees. A student who is charging a faculty member with a violation of the Statement of Good Teaching Practices shall first utilize the departmental grievance procedure.
If the student wishes to appeal the decision beyond the departmental level, the student may submit to the divisional grievance committee a written, dated, and signed complaint stating the name of the instructor, the course, the provision(s) of the Good Teaching Practices alleged to have been violated, a brief description of the incident(s) giving rise to the grievance, and the remedy requested. The student should also provide any materials supportive of the complaint. Within ten working days after receiving this written complaint from the student, the divisional dean will request the chair of the Divisional Academic Appeals Board to convene a committee to consider and investigate the complaint, and to make its recommendations to the instructor within 30 working days after receiving the complaint. A divisional grievance committee will not adjudicate a violation of Good Teaching Practices unless the written complaint is lodged before 5 p.m. Friday of the eleventh week of the fall or spring semester that follows the term in which the alleged violation occurred.
In the event the instructor is deceased, no longer employed by Miami University, or is otherwise unavailable or incapacitated, the chair or the chair's designee as approved by the dean may act in place of the instructor.
The Divisional Academic Appeals Board will be constituted as follows
At the beginning of each academic year each divisional dean will request every academic department within the division to choose from among its members, with the approval of the department chair, one representative and one alternate to serve as members of the Divisional Academic Appeals Board for that year.
The dean of the division will appoint one of the department representatives as chair of the Divisional Academic Appeals Board for the academic year, and one as a vice-chair.
It will be the responsibility of the chair of each Divisional Academic Appeals Board
To appoint, on receipt of a written complaint from a student to the dean, a committee of five (5) members, appropriate to the case in question, consisting of the chair of the Divisional Academic Appeals Board as chair and four (4) representatives from departments related to the discipline in which the complaint originates (including, where appropriate or necessary, representatives from outside the division). No member of the department of the instructor against whom the complaint has been made may be a member of the grievance committee.
To convene the committee to consider the grievance and to preside over the hearing.
To inform the student that the burden of proof rests with the student and that he or she may attend the hearings (excluding executive sessions) and be accompanied by counsel if the student so desires.
To inform the instructor, when the committee decides to consider a case, that a grievance has been received by the committee, and provide the instructor with a full bill of particulars regarding the grievance and its supporting evidence; to request from the instructor in writing information germane to the case; to inform the instructor that he or she may attend the hearings (excluding executive sessions) and be accompanied by counsel if the instructor so desires.
To call for formal recommendations from the committee after consideration of the complaint, with majority vote of the members of the committee required for approval of each recommendation.
To maintain communication with the chairs of all other Divisional Academic Appeals Boards in order to ensure equity and consistency among the divisions in the adjudicating of grievances.
To fulfill the responsibilities listed in the section of this policy titled "It will be the responsibility of a Divisional Appeals Committee".
To keep accurate minutes and records of all hearings, including all written documents submitted as evidence, in a confidential file in the Office of the Secretary of the University, each file subject to review only by the chair of the Academic Appeals Board of the division in which the grievance was heard.
If for any reason the chair is unable to fulfill his or her responsibilities or to serve as chair of a grievance committee, the vice-chair shall fulfill these functions. Appointees shall excuse themselves in the event of potential conflict of interest.
It will be the responsibility of a Divisional Appeals Committee
To determine, prior to considering any case, whether frank and full discussions between the student, instructor, department chair, and dean have been exhausted as a means of resolving the grievance. If not, the case shall be referred back to the instructor, chair, or dean as appropriate.
To determine, when hearings are required, the most appropriate procedures to be followed.
To hold hearings to determine the fact (such hearings open to the student and the instructor and their respective counsels with the exception of executive sessions), and to determine, by majority vote of the committee, recommendations as outlined in the section of this policy titled "Committee Recommendations".
Committee Recommendations
If the committee finds that no violation of the Statement of Good Teaching Practices has occurred, or that a violation has occurred but recommends that no redress is warranted, these findings will be reported by the committee chair, in writing, to the student and the instructor with copies sent to the department chair and dean. In addition, a notation of this finding may be made in the student's permanent record file.
If the committee finds that a violation of the Statement of Good Teaching Practices has occurred and recommends any form of redress for the student, these recommendations should be reported by the chair of the committee, in writing, to the instructor with a copy sent to the student. The instructor will be expected to inform the committee chair of his or her compliance or noncompliance with the recommendations within ten working days after the letter of notification has been sent to the instructor (failure to respond within ten working days will be taken to indicate noncompliance).
If the instructor complies with the recommendations, the student will be informed in writing, by the committee chair, with copies to the department chair and dean.
If the instructor indicates noncompliance with the recommendations, copies of the recommendations and of the instructor's reply will be sent to the student and to the department chair and dean. All documents regarding academic grievances and requests for grade review shall be placed in the department's student complaint file.
Publishing of Statements
The Statement of Good Teaching Practices, Professional Ethics, and the Statement of Student Responsibilities will be mailed to faculty at the beginning of each academic year and/or will be published in The Miami Student and The Miami University Report.
Associate Vice President & Dean of Students
Senior Vice President/Enrollment Management & Student Success
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RADIO B&R EP. 2 – GOT COMPASSION?
Joe Sorah
The spiritual and physical needs in Tennessee are virtually overwhelming. With widespread poverty and other human needs at an all-time high, churches have a ripe opportunity to bridge the gap with their communities through compassion ministries. Radio B&R sat down with state missionary Joe Sorah to discuss how churches can serve their neighbors and lead them to Christ through compassion ministries.
Chris Turner: Hello and welcome into Radio B&R, the official news podcast of the Tennessee Baptist mission board. I'm Chris Turner, your host. And today I'm talking with Joe Sorah, one of our state missionaries that works with Compassion Ministry, and former pastor for a number of years in East Tennessee.
Joe, welcome to our podcast.
Joe Sorah: Thank you, Chris. It's an honor to be part of this broadcast. Well, Joe, one of the things we want to talk about obviously is Compassion Ministry. It's something that's been very close to your heart even as you were a pastor and [Phonetic][00:33] looked across your community.
And we're going to talk a little bit about the needs that are here in the state of Tennessee. And I'll let you get to that in just a moment. But really what I want to start with is when you say Compassion Ministry a lot of things come to people's mind.
How would you define Compassion Ministry?
Joe: You know, Chris, individuals would call me and ask me that kind of a question. And for me it starts with the two words. Compassion, caring about people, having pity for people, caring enough to act — and then ministry.
It's not just caring about people. All kinds of secular organizations care about people. But ministry, ministry means that I want to introduce them to Jesus Christ. I want to help grow them in their faith, helping them to come to the place where they can introduce others to Jesus Christ.
And so it's a combination of caring about people, caring about people that are hurting and suffering, lead them to a [Phonetic][01:27] faith relationship with Christ and discipling them in that process.
Chris: You have a quote that you like to quote that sums up Compassion Ministry. What's that quote that you use?
Joe: Well, Charles Roselle who is sort of the guru of Compassion Ministry stated that the church [Phonetic][01:46] administers to hurting people will never lack for an audience.
Chris: Yeah, and when you think about just what Tennessee looks like, what — Give us a picture cos I think a lot of people when they think about Tennessee they might have a lot of different — They might be from an urban center like the Nashville or the Memphis or Chattanooga and Knoxville area.
But really those are not necessarily a representation of what we are as a state. Give us an idea of what Tennessee looks like really from a human needs perspective.
Joe: Well, Tennessee has a population of over 6 million people. We have those, the number of those who are in poverty exceed a million. Realistically one out of every six people that you meet in Tennessee live in poverty. Eighteen percent had incomes below the poverty line.
Tennessee ranks 45th in overall poverty rates. Twenty-six percent of our children grew up in families with poverty. It is widespread. The needs are all across Tennessee.
Chris: As you look at Compassion ministry you see Compassion Ministry as reaching beyond just poverty into some other areas. What are some of those other areas that you feel [Phonetic][02:58] like it's an opportunity for the church to engage.
Joe: I personally feel like our model for Compassion Ministry is found in Luke's gospel, Luke 4:18-19 where Jesus actually quotes during the book of Isaiah — He states the spirit, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. What you hear what Jesus is saying there about the kind of ministry that he's called to, and if we're followers of Jesus then we would also do the kind of ministry that Jesus did, it does start with those in poverty —
Can't escape that. Uh, there's different ways of doing that. Obviously we want to care for people when emergency and disaster strikes. [Phonetic][03:52] Kind of things what's happened even recently in Gatlinburg and things like that.
But it's also more than that. We want to help people in development with job skills, literacy, GED, things like that, ESL, Christian Women's Job Core, Christian Men's Job Core, excellent ministries that we in our churches need to be doing to help the poor.
We have the brokenhearted Jesus talked about. And we think about "Well, what breaks hearts?" Well, things like death, divorce, abuse. We have ministries and churches in Tennessee that are seeking to administer to people in these kinds of situations.
Grace Baptist Church in Elizabethan, Tennessee where Travis Tyler is the pastor, they're ministering to people every week that are going through grief, having a grief support group, meeting at the local hospital. And they're reaching lost people through that, and of course divorce recovery.
A lot of our churches are doing those kinds of things. That's Compassion Ministry. That's caring about people whose hearts are breaking. And then Jesus talked about the captive. And we think about what holds people captive, well obviously addictions.
Addictions are powerful things that are holding people, uh, captive, addictions such as alcohol and drugs and pornography. But in Tennessee one of our greatest needs is to help people with prescription drug abuse.
And so as churches administer to families, not only the victims but also the family members that are going through these kinds of addictions, they're doing compassion ministry. What holds people captive?
And then, uh, Jesus talked about ministering to the blind. And I think about the sick, the diseased, ministering the sick. And a lot of our churches do a good job with hospital ministry. But it's more than just hospital.
It's also hospice ministry. How many of our church members, and I mean people in our community, are under hospice care and nobody ever visits them? We have many, many that would be receptive to the gospel, maybe unlike any other time than when they are or a family member are in the midst of hospice.
And so what a great opportunity to go minister to them, nursing home ministry, homebound ministry, things like that. And then Jesus said that he came to, to reach the oppressed, to set the prisoners free. And when you think about the prisoners we think about those with, uh, uh, [Inaudible][06:14] of justice; for instance jail and prison ministry.
At any time in Tennessee we [Phonetic][06:20] have over 125,000 people that are part of the judicial system. Human trafficking, setting people free, we have a huge problem in Tennessee with human trafficking. So there's a lot of, lot of different ways that we can take compassion ministry more so than just, uh, just poverty.
And certainly poverty is part of it. But there's a lot of different ways to meet the needs of hurting, suffering people.
Chris: Yeah, and you just, you just went through a whole list of ways that when we think about compassion and ministry I think we do think a lot about those that are less-advantaged than a lot of people. But really it's looking out across people and recognizing and seeing people who are hurting in some way.
How does a Compassion Ministry impact a local church?
Joe: Well, I think it's like, uh, what Charles Roselle said. The church administers that administers to hurting people will never lack for an audience. When I think about that I think about all the different churches that when it comes down we fill out the ACP.
And we finally realize we've not reached anybody with the gospel in the past year. Why is that? And it could be because we're only caring for ourselves and only caring about those under our roof. And if we open our eyes to see hurting people and [Phonetic][07:39] we start administering to those hurting people then opportunities will automatically, automatically open up for the opportunity to share the gospel.
So obviously I think it would impact evangelism in a local church. I think it impacts church revitalization. We are focused, which is often inward-focused — And we're always thinking about just ourselves. But when we start ministering to hurting people and we start getting outside the walls of our church and seeing people in need, our focus changes.
And that will change our very churches. It will change the way we look at things. It will change the way the church thinks. And so it impacts church revitalization. And then also think about the younger generation.
The younger generation wants to be involved in social ministry. And if we fail to involve them in our churches they'll go find other avenues. They'll serve through local agencies or something like that. But why would we want to let our younger folks go do that when we need them in our churches?
In addition to that, it's a great discipling mechanism for them where they learn to reach out to people in need and share the gospel. So, uh, I think you can impact a local church in many, many ways.
Chris: So a church hears this, a pastor hears it, you know — it's not necessarily always the pastor in the local church who is the champion for a compassion ministry. They may be someone within the church who has a burden for a particular aspect.
Where does, where does a church begin or somebody who might be listening to this, where would they begin to start to engage their church and their community in a compassion ministry?
Joe: That's a great, a great question Chris. Uh, the first thing I would say is we start with prayer. We really do start to ask God, "God what is it you want us to do?" Now we look around and we see what everybody else is doing and the tendency and the temptation would be "Well, let's just automatically do what others are doing."
But it could be that we're not supposed to do what they're doing. We need to say "God, what would you have us to do?" Also think about your passion. And it doesn't have to be your passion. It could be that, uh —
Like Henry Blackaby talks about, pay attention to those who God sends to your church. And it could be that God sent somebody to your church that really has a passion for human trafficking or God sent somebody that has a real passion for, for divorce care or something like that.
So your passion or somebody in your church, what's their passion? Be very sensitive to that. Also when I think about, I think about where do you start? You start by preparing yourself. Find out who else is doing the kind of ministry you feel like God's called you to and learn from them.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel. So learn from them. Also with that I think about that what Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians Chapter 1, that we're to comfort others with the comfort from which we've been comforted. In other words what have we experienced?
And what have the folks in our church, what have they experienced? And then those are the best-equipped [Phonetic][10:39] to minister to people going through like things. So what's God prepared us to do?
And then I think about the fourth issue that you think about is persistence. What continue, continues to come to your mind? What continues to haunt you? What keeps you up at night? What do you think about?
What ministry and what kind of suffering do you see continually that you feel like "We've got to do something. We've got to meet this need"? There's many, many, many millions. And so what the church would do —
To me you start, you start one at a time. And that's what Charles Roselle — When I asked Charles, I said, "Charles, what would you do?" And he said I would prayerfully start one ministry at a time. And I said, "Well Charles, where would you start?"
And Charles actually said I wouldn't start with like a closed closet or a food pantry. I would start with celebrate recovery because the time we spend with people, it's that time — The more time we spend with them the more evangelistically effective it is.
And it makes sense. And so I would prayerfully consider, "Okay God, what would you have us to do? And how can we invest ourselves in people's lives? And how can we minister to 'em with Your love and share the gospel through it?"
Don't just, don't just care for people. But share the gospel through it.
Chris: You know you hit on a lot of things there that are very practical ways to, to get started. Obviously you're not just kicking a church out the door and saying "Here, go do it." I mean you're here as a resource, as a missionary of the Tennessee Baptist mission board to help Tennessee Baptists in this area.
What, what are some things that the, uh, TBMB can help them with?
Joe: Absolutely. We're here to assist you. That's why we're here. That's, uh, it's our joy and privilege. You can contact me at JSorah@tnbaptist.org. And, uh, you can contact me that way by email, or you can give me a call at 4238951481.
And it would be my honor and joy to come and just sit and talk to you. Let's prayerfully consider what God would [Phonetic][12:42] have you to do. We can also come and help you to network with other churches.
We can help, help you discover other churches that are doing the kind of ministry that you feel lead to do. And we can learn from each other. We can come and help give direction like that. It would be our joy and privilege to come alongside you and help you in any way we can.
Chris: And, you know, another way that people can get in touch with us if they go to our — What is actually a new website, same web address at TNBaptist.org and scroll about halfway down that page. There is a place there that says "need ministry support. How can we help?"
If you click on that button it takes you out to a form and you'll see there that you can check the compassion ministry section. And that actually kicks directly to Joe so that he would be able to contact you in a very short period of time and get out and do that.
Thanks for taking a little time just to explain what the Tennessee Baptist mission board is doing as far as compassion ministry.
Joe: Thank you, Chris.
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Mia Khalifa Tells Lance Armstrong She Quit Porn Amid ISIS Threats
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Khalifa's work in adult entertainment had her fearing for her life.
Lance Armstrong is no stranger to controversy and questionable decision-making, as the seven time Tour de France champ was stripped of his medals and banned from cycling after a publicized revelation that he had used steroids before competitions. While not exactly in the same ballpark, ex-porn star Mia Khalifa has her own regrets about some avenues she'd once explored.
Opening up to Armstrong in a new interview on his podcast, Khalifa sits down with the disgraced-cyclist to speak about her short stint in adult entertainment, which saw her gain an unprecedented amount of notoriety in a short timeframe. Khalifa, who sometimes performed in scenes wearing a hijab, became a sought-after performer, but all of that ended quite abruptly once she reevaluated her position as a famous porn star.
Reminiscing on her decision to enter into adult entertainment, Khalifa admits that she didn't know what she was thinking, adding how she was "21 and dumb. As soon as I started to gain popularity that's when I was like 'get the f--- out of this' ... this was not what I was trying to do whatsoever. I just wanted to let loose and rebel a little bit. It didn't validate me. Nothing like that ever does. That's not what you should be doing to try and build your self esteem."
Khalifa was further inspired to hang up her gig as a porn star once ISIS got wind of her work. Hailing from Lebanon, residents of her hometown were particularly critical of her choice of work, especially after donning a sacred Muslim garb during her performances. Khalifa admits how "It all started to spiral out of control when the death threats from ISIS started coming in. That's when I stepped away."
She has since relocated to Austin, and is trying to start anew in a different industry. "The reason I moved here is because I gave up on just trying to lead a normal life. Now I'm going to try to rebrand and change the narrative," she admits. "Accept that I'm Mia Khalifa now and try to be successful at that, doing something else."
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New Bride Finally Has Sex With Husband On Wedding Night, Realizes What He Gave Her 8 Years Later
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A woman says her husband gave her HIV on the night of their wedding when they had sex for the first time.
The woman, whose name was not released, said she lived for eight years not realizing she had HIV, the Daily Mail reported. She accused her husband of playing "Russian Roulette" with her and their child.
The victim said she was a single mother in her 30s when she met her husband. She said she fell in love with him and married him soon after.
"I met my ex-husband through my social circle," she told Mamamia. "He was younger than me and I was flattered when he pursued me. He didn't drink or smoke; he was a quiet sort of man. I thought I could trust him."
The couple held off on having sex until their wedding night. Things changed after that night.
"As soon as I signed the marriage papers he turned into a different man," the woman explained. "He was domineering, controlling and not my Prince Charming at all."
She threw her husband out after a "violent episode," but took him back after she learned she was pregnant. When his behavior did not improve, she separated from him and focused on being a mother.
"Eight years ticked by; then I started getting sick," the woman said. "For eight months I kept going back to the doctor and being sent home with antibiotics. I was misdiagnosed with whooping cough but my health deteriorated.
"I had fungal nail infection, my skin turned sallow, my hair was falling out and I was rapidly losing weight."
The woman thought she had cancer, but doctors said it was unlikely.
"One week later, I had a seizure at work," the woman recalled. "I was wheeled around from test to test in [the] hospital.
"A CT scan showed I had five lesions and swelling on my brain. The doctors told me I had second-degree brain cancer.
"MRI scans revealed I had toxoplasmosis. As I wasn't pregnant, they said I must have a compromised immune system so I signed permission for an HIV test."
"Two days later, two doctors came and closed the curtain around my bed. They told me my test had returned positive. I took a deep breath in, sighed out, and said, 'At least I'm not going to die.' I knew HIV medication enabled people to live good lives.
"I didn't [realize] just how sick I was. I'd been living with HIV for nine years. If the CD4 count in your blood is below 250 you're prone to opportunistic infections. Under 50, a cough can kill you. Mine was 40.
"My first thought was for my son; I breastfed him. Thank God his test came back negative.
"I tracked my ex down and phoned him. Furious, I said, 'Do you [realize] what you've done? You played Russian Roulette; you put me at risk and our child. You fired two bullets, you got one hit.'
"He hung up. I never heard from him again."
The woman said she put her focus on being a mother.
"I was in [the] hospital for a couple of months," she said. "At my worst, I was taking 72 pills a day to treat infections the HIV had caused. I went blind in one eye where the infection had got in.
"Nine months later, my health finally improved; lesions on my brain cleared and my sight returned. It was a hard slog. The biggest celebration at my nine month mark was being able to pick up a pile of washing!"
Despite her illness, the woman said she looks forward to watching her grandchildren grow up.
"No one knows how long they're going to live for," the woman said. "I live each day with purpose. I'm grateful for every day I'm well and with my children."
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