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Q: Remember Previous Output in a Random Array I have an application with the following code listed below that displays random questions for the end user.  I am trying to figure out how to have a user be able to go navigate backwards in an array that is displayed randomly.  For instance, a user is going through the questions and accidentally advances past one and wants to go back, I want them to be able to just simply hit a back button.  Could you provide any guidance on how to do this?  Thank you very much!!!
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

  myArray5= [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
      @"Question 1",
      @"Question 2",
      @"Question 3",
      @"Question 4",
      nil];

  int chosen = arc4random() % [myArray5 count];
  NSString *item = [myArray5 objectAtIndex: chosen];
  label3.text = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@", item];
  label3.alpha = 0;
  label3.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
  [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
  [UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
  label3.alpha = 1;
  label3.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1, 1);
  [UIView commitAnimations];
  UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
  if (touch.tapCount == 2) {
  }
}

A: You could, of course create an NSMutableArray, which safes the indexes (int chosen) of your randomly chosen questions. You also might want to take a look at the UINavigationController which provides the means to navigate backwards in a series of views.
Finally, you should think about encapsulating your question-logic. It seems like you have both the code for your interface and the code for your Questions in one class. Once your app gets bigger, you will run into problems with this approach. Look at the concept of  Model-View-Controllers.

A: One possibility would be to pre-compute the indeces of the questions the user will be asked when your app initialises. However this would mean there would be a hardcoded limit on the number of questions you would ask, or perhaps if you reach the end of the array you go back to the start. I'm not familiar with Objective-C so bear with me
const int NUM_QUEsTIONS = 1000; // Arbitrary number
int questions[NUM_QUESTIONS];

init()
{
    for (int i = 0; i < NUM_QUESTIONS; ++i)
    {
        questions[i] = RandomNumber();
    }
}

and then in your event handler you simply increment a counter into this array and ask that question.
For infinite questions you should probably use a doubly-linked list.

A: Couple of ideas:
Idea 1. Store the ids for the chosen question in an extra array.
Idea 2. Randomize the array, and step through it.
Idea 3. If you want to avoid using a question twice, you could

*

*use an index to indicate how many questions are eligible for selection

*based on that index you create a random integer

*you display the question that is stored in the array at that random position

*you move the element at that position to the max index

*you decrease max index

Sort of like this:
  NSMutableArray *array = [NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects: @"a", @"b", @"c", @"d", @"e", @"f", nil];
 NSInteger maxIndex = [array count]-1;
 do {

  NSInteger randomIndex = arc4random() % (maxIndex+1);

  NSLog(@"%@", [array objectAtIndex:randomIndex]);
  [array exchangeObjectAtIndex:randomIndex withObjectAtIndex:maxIndex];
  maxIndex--;

 } while (maxIndex > -1);

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Another mixed-use development nears completion on the Sunset Strip.
The Witkoff Group and New Valley are wrapping up construction at the $300-million Edition Hotel & residences on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip.
Located on a hillside property at Sunset Boulevard and Doheny Drive, the project features a 13-story hotel tower fronting Sunset and a nine-story building cascading down Doheny.
The hotel tower will be operated as a 148-room flagship for Marriott's Edition Brand, with a fitness center, a spa, and a rooftop pool deck. Rooms are to be priced between $400 and $500 per night.
The back building will feature 20 condominiums, as well as parking and amenities such as a landscaped rooftop pool and terrace. The residential units will come in a mix of one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom floor plans, will come in ranging between 1,659 and 6,415 square feet.
Designed by John Pawson and Ian Schrager, the project is one of a handful of recent mixed-use projects along the Sunset Strip that combine hotel uses and condominiums.
The project will feature 148 hotel rooms and 20 condominiums.
The 20 condominums are being built as part of a Marriott Edition hotel.
The $300-million development features a hotel and condos.


An article in USA Today listed 20 science backed ways music is helpful to us. Among many other things it has the ability to induce a meditative state, improve sleep, lower blood pressure, improve blood vessel functioning and improve cognitive performance. Across cultures there is variety in what people like, but the type of music that is actually calming or exciting to our system is the same all over the world. I am sure you have at some time felt better after listening to a certain tune. I have my dinner music, my workout tunes and house cleaning music (need to play more often). On the flip side there are a few songs that make me cry almost every time I hear them.
Studies show improved athletic performance and the ability to workout longer when music with a beat is used. I know this from teaching, when my sound system does not work it is much harder to motivate students. Group fitness instructors are taught to set music to what our class members like. I switched up the music for one of my classes that I thought was kind of reserved. I played music from their youth and the energy of the room completely changed. People started dancing in their spots waiting to for class to start and they were bustin' out some pretty cool moves on their way to get weights. Studies have shown we have very strong associations with songs heard when we where young, as these were highly emotional times. We often never forget a song that was playing on a first date or at a school dance.
Many experts think our judgments about what we like in music is formed by our early 30's. They say when younger we like whatever is popular at the time. I did not meet that guideline. In my teens I fell in love with big band music. I went through a smooth jazz phase in my early 20's. I try not to get stuck in a style and Cajun/Zydeco is a more recent musical interest. I love the upbeat tempos. One way I keep open to newer sounds is to listen to college radio. Here in Minnesota the free summer music scene is starting soon, and I am planning some listening time.


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Visiting the Panama Canal
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"The creation of a water passage across Panama was one of the supreme human achievements of all time, the culmination of a heroic dream of four hundred years and of more than twenty years of phenomenal effort and sacrifice. The fifty miles between the oceans were among the hardest ever won by human effort and ingenuity, and no statistics on tonnage or tolls can begin to convey the grandeur of what was accomplished. Primarily the canal is an expression of that old and noble desire to bridge the divide, to bring people together. It is a work of civilization." – David McCullough
A couple months ago, I watched a video on Bill Gates's blog about his visit to the Panama Canal. He called it one of the Top 10 places he's been to, and given that he's been to a lot of places, this caught my attention. My Mom and I headed down there for a weekend to see the Canal and greater Panama City, and I'm happy to report that it is now on my Top 10 list too — even though my overall list is probably considerably shorter than Bill's!
The flight into Panama City at night was beautiful. Out my airplane window, I saw dozens of ships lined up in the water, waiting to enter the Canal Zone. The next morning we explored Panama City. It's the most developed city in Central America. Half of the tallest sky scrapers in Latin America are in Panama, we were told. The water is drinkable. The taxi drivers are professional and friendly. The malls are as fancy as anywhere in the world, and all the usual A-list hotel brands have outposts along a main strip. The old town is lovely to stroll around in, and it's one the part of Panama City that does feel genuinely Latin American, so long as you ignore the eye-catching streak of sky scrappers visible across the water.
The Canal is the main attraction, of course, and it's worth setting aside an entire day for the effort. Before going to the Canal — or even if you can't go — read David McCullough's book The Path Between The Seas. It's the authoritative account of how the canal got built against all odds. McCullough starts by recounting the French effort to build a canal in Panama. After 20,000 French died and untold tresaure expended, the French gave up. Then he masterfully recounts the debate in America's government about whether to attempt to build something that almost everyone said was impossible. Then he covers the actual construction, the enormous public health challenges that were overcome, and the eventual mind-blowing triumph — the most impressive civil engineering project in history.
There are so many stats about the construction and end result. Here are a few:
"Its cost had been enormous. No single construction effort in American history had exacted such a price in dollars or in human life."
With the $10,000,000 paid to Panama and the $40,000,000 to the Compagnie Nouvelle, the United States had spent more for the rights, privileges, and properties that went with the Canal Zone—an area roughly a third the size of Long Island—than for any actual territorial acquisition in its history, more than for the Louisiana Territory ($15,000,000), Alaska ($7,200,000), and the Philippines ($20,000,000) combined.
The Panama Canal construction cost approximately 26,000 lives. This includes lives lost during both periods of French and U.S. construction.
Largest overseas effort in U.S. history.
Construction of the canal would consume more than 61,000,000 pounds of dynamite, a greater amount of explosive energy than had been expended in all the nation's wars until that time.
"The spoil from the canal prism, it was said, would be enough to build a Great Wall of China from San Francisco to New York. If the United States were perfectly flat, the amount of digging required for a canal ten feet deep by fifty-five feet wide from coast to coast would be no greater than what was required at Panama within fifty miles. A train of dirt cars carrying the total excavation at Panama would circle the world four times at the equator."
But as McCullough says, no recitation of stats could do justice to the grandeur.
To be sure, the actual visual of the canal when you're there is not as breathtaking as the Grand Canyon, or even the Great Wall of China or the Sistine Chapel. The canal is alive and functional — a centerpiece of global commerce — it's not a national park or historical piece. That's why it's helpful to have the historical and political background to fully appreciate the impressiveness.
We went on a partial boat tour — you're in an actual boat in the canal and you cross through two sets of locks which raise up the ship by 85 feet by pumping 27 million gallons of freshwater into the locked off area in less than eight minutes. I'm glad we were in a boat and not viewing the canal from the Miraflores Locks museum, but I'm also glad we didn't spend the full seven hours riding across the entire canal. It's not necessary to get a good sense of what's happening.
As I learned about canal on the tour, I reflected on how little I knew before my trip. I cannot remember ever hearing about it in school. I remember studying the building of the Hoover Dam, and man-made flight, and entering outer space, and learning about other science achievements. Yet, even though the Panama Canal is as or more impressive than any of the above, it doesn't seem as prominent in the history books. Most likely this because the U.S. government has blood on its hands in Panama: it seized/stole the land from Colombia in order to ensure the Canal was built, an event which kicked off a series of shameful intrusions in Central America sovereignty.
It's worth learning more about. And given how easy it is to get in and out of Panama, it's worth visiting in person.
At the end of the McCullough book, there's a moving quote by John Stevens, who was chief engineer at the Canal from 1905-1907. His faith in the human intellect and its creative capacities remained undaunted, Stevens wrote soon before dying. The great works had still to come: "I believe that we are but children picking up pebbles on the shore of the boundless ocean…"
Other direct quotes from McCullough's book below.
The point he does seem to have stressed—the great lesson to be learned from his experience—was that everything, everything, had to be brought to Panama, including the men to do the work. The Panamanians themselves would be of no use. The poor were unused to heavy manual labor and were without ambition; the upper classes regarded physical work as beneath their dignity. There would be no home-grown labor force to count on, no armies of Egyptian fellahin this time. Labor had to be figured like freight, very expensive freight. Then every pick and shovel, every tent, blanket, mattress, every cookstove and locomotive, had to be carried by ship across thousands of miles of ocean. De Lesseps could count on Panama to provide nothing but the place to dig the canal.
For despite all de Lesseps told the press and his public, Panama had only one advantage over Suez: the distance to be covered. Everything else at Panama was infinitely more difficult. Panama was an immeasurably larger and more baffling task than Suez, just as Godin de Lépinay had warned.
The actual digging of The Great Trench—La Grande Tranchée—began at Emperador on Friday, January 20, 1882, with much champagne and dynamite.
When he departed for this, his second, tour of the Isthmus—for his first actual look at the Panama canal—Ferdinand de Lesseps was eighty years old. And in the minds of his thousands of shareholders this was the critical figure in the equation, more important than any stock prices or excavation statistics. It was not a company they believed in, or even a canal through Panama, so much as one man
nothing whatever would have been attempted or accomplished at Panama had it not been for Ferdinand de Lesseps, a point missing from the postmortems of the 1890's, largely since the actual work itself had been either forgotten or was assumed to be utterly without value. In France, as André Siegfried observed, no one seemed to recall that Panama had had anything to do with the building of a canal. "In the end one almost believed that The Company had hardly done anything at all in the isthmus . . ." The money, declared The Times of London, was "as clean gone" as if it had been sunk in the North Atlantic.
an American canal at Nicaragua was regarded as a certain thing, irrespective of the fact that one American attempt in Nicaragua—by the Maritime Canal Company, which had been chartered in 1889—had already gone down in defeat. It had been an underfinanced affair that collapsed with the Wall Street Panic of 1893.
A canal was beyond the capacity of any purely private enterprise; that much now was plain. It must be a national undertaking. The United States appeared to be the one nation ready to mount such an effort, and if the American people had drawn one overriding conclusion from the French disaster, it was that the place not to build a canal was Panama. The failure of the French—"the greatest failure in modern times"—was above all a lesson in geography. They had gone down to defeat not merely because they were French (and therefore incompetent, impractical, and decadent) and led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, but primarily because they—he—had chosen the wrong path.
The obvious differences in age and nationality aside, there were striking similarities between Theodore Roosevelt and Ferdinand de Lesseps. Both were the products of cultivated, worldly families. Both were raised on the ideal of patriotic service and the heroic exploits of adventurous kinsmen. There is the common love of the out of doors, of shooting, and of horses; the common joy in children, books, theatrics, popular acclaim. In his boundless love of life, his immensely attractive animal vitality, Theodore Roosevelt might have been a direct descendant of Ferdinand de Lesseps. There is even a kind of continuity to such traits as they were sometimes despised for—craftiness, self-glorification, self-deception.
The Philippines, Roosevelt foresaw, would affect America's future more than any other result of the Spanish war. He was not an imperialist, he insisted. It was inconceivable to him that Americans could ever be viewed as imperialistic. In all the United States he had never met an imperialist, he once said before an audience in Utah. He was personally offended by the charge. Expansion was different; it was growth, it was progress, it was in the American grain. He was striving to lead his generation toward some larger, more noble objective than mere moneymaking. ("For after all," the revered Mahan wrote, "if the love of mere glory is selfish, it is not quite so low as the love of mere comfort.") To each generation was allotted a task, Roosevelt knew. "I wish to see the United States the dominant power on the shores of the Pacific Ocean."
Speeches by others on the subject of the Nicaragua canal filled hundreds of pages of the Congressional Record. In the archives of the House and Senate were tens of thousands of pages of reports from special canal committees, testimony from explorers, engineers, sea captains, all supporting the fundamental wisdom of the Nicaragua route.
On January 28, Senator John Coit Spooner introduced an amendment to the Hepburn Bill. It authorized the President to acquire the French company's Panama property and concessions at a cost not to exceed $40,000,000; to acquire from Colombia perpetual control of a canal zone at least six miles wide across the Isthmus of Panama; and to build a Panama canal. If a clear title or a satisfactory agreement with Colombia could not be reached within "a reasonable time," then the President was
He ended on a warning. If the United States were to build a Nicaragua canal, what then was to prevent some other power—by which he meant Germany—from finishing the French canal? Our competitors then, he said, would have all the advantages.
If one traces back through the chain of events that led to the Senate vote, keeping count of who was influencing whom and when, and if it is remembered that Morison, unlike Hanna, Bunau-Varilla, or the garrulous Cromwell, made no effort to glorify his contributions, at the time or later, then Morison emerges a bit like the butler at the end of the mystery—as the ever-present, frequently unobtrusive, highly instrumental figure around whom the entire plot turned. The significant thing about
News of the landing was immediately telephoned to Panama City, and to those conspirators who had been kept in the dark this whole time, it was a crushing revelation. Word of a Colombian warship standing off Colón would in itself have had a devastating effect; but far worse was the realization that the American ship had made no move to prevent the Colombian troops—and assuredly a Colombian firing squad—from coming ashore. All the bravado engendered by the arrival of the Nashville the evening before was undone in an instant. The conspirators saw themselves as the victims of a diabolic Yankee betrayal.
And in all that time, throughout the entire second half of the nineteenth century, there had been no serious misunderstandings as to the critical agreements of the treaty contained in Article XXXV. In no way was the arrangement to impair Colombian sovereignty over the Isthmus; Colombia was to remain the sole protector of the Isthmus and of the isthmian transit against domestic obstruction. The clear specific intent was to safeguard for Colombia its sovereignty in perpetuity, a guarantee for which Colombia had been willing to grant to the United States the right to create an isthmian transit—rail or canal. The United States was obligated to maintain order only when requested by Colombia
But Panama was the lead story everywhere in the days that followed, and many powerful papers immediately commenced a blistering attack on the Administration, holding Roosevelt strictly responsible for what had happened.
The explaining, the affirmations of high purpose, would continue for weeks, months, indeed for years—in a special message to Congress, in private conversation and correspondence, in magazine articles, speeches, his memoirs. The United States had a mandate from civilization to build the canal, he told Congress on January 4, 1904, in a message devoted entirely to the subject. "The time . . . for permitting any government of antisocial and of imperfect development to bar the work, was past."
Others in the Cabinet fell into line, without apparent qualm, nor with anything approaching Roosevelt's solemn air of righteousness. Attorney General Knox, having been asked by Roosevelt to construct a defense, is said to have remarked, "Oh, Mr. President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality." At another point, during a Cabinet meeting, Roosevelt talked of the bitter denunciations in the press, then entered into a long, formal statement of his position. When he had finished, the story goes, he looked about the table, finally fixing his eye on Elihu Root. "Well," he demanded, "have I answered the charges? Have I defended myself?" "You certainly have, Mr. President," replied Root, who was known for his wit. "You have shown that you were accused of seduction and you have conclusively proved that you were guilty of rape."
For Colombia, already crippled by a costly civil war, Roosevelt's "most important action" meant the loss of what since the days of Bolívar had appeared to be its most valuable natural treasure, the Isthmus, with its unique geographic position "between two oceans." It meant also the loss of the $10,000,000 lump sum that was to be paid by the United States, the $250,000 annual payment by the Panama Railroad (for decades a crucial part of the national income), and the $250,000 annual payment that was to be forthcoming from the United States as part of the canal agreement. There were riots in Bogotá; desperate offers were to be made by special Colombian emissaries dispatched to Washington, including an offer to accept the treaty as it stood, which served only to satisfy the Administration conclusively that the earlier rejection of the treaty [was unjust].
The damage done to American relations with Colombia, indeed with all of Latin America, was enormous, just as John Tyler Morgan had prophesied. As an American minister at Bogotá, James T. Du Bois, would write in 1912, the breach worsened as time passed. By refusing to allow Colombia to uphold her sovereign rights over a territory where she had held dominion for eighty years, the friendship of nearly a century disappeared, the indignation of every Colombian, and millions of other Latin-Americans, was aroused and is still most intensely active. The confidence and trust in the justice and fairness of the United States, so long manifested, has completely vanished, and the maleficent influence of this condition is permeating public opinion in all Latin-American countries, a condition which, if remedial measures are not invoked, will work inestimable harm throughout the Western Hemisphere.
With the $10,000,000 paid to Panama and the $40,000,000 to the Compagnie Nouvelle, the United States had spent more for the rights, privileges, and properties that went with the Canal Zone—an area roughly a third the size of Long Island—than for any actual territorial acquisition in its history, more than for the Louisiana Territory ($15,000,000), Alaska ($7,200,000), and the Philippines ($20,000,000) combined. At the then
The problem in essence was that Admiral Walker, Governor Davis, and several others on the Isthmian Canal Commission, as well as a very large part of the populace and its political leadership, did not seriously entertain the notion that mosquitoes could be the cause of yellow fever or malaria. To spend time and money chasing after mosquitoes in Panama would be to squander time and money in a most irresponsible fashion.
The futility of mounting the largest overseas effort in the country's history, the largest public work ever attempted anywhere, by placing its fate in the hands of seven men in Washington had already occurred to Taft, as to Roosevelt.
"Mr. Secretary," said Wallace, "while there is a difference between us as to the point of view we take concerning my duty, I consider that there can be no question that I have performed my full duty up to this hour." "Mr. Wallace," Taft replied slowly, "I do not consider that any man can divide such a duty up to any one point where it suits him to stop . . . In my view a duty is an entirety, and is not fulfilled unless it is wholly fulfilled."
The trip to Panama to see the canal was one of those small, luminous events that light up an era. No President had ever before left the country during his time in office and so from the day of the first advance announcement in June the journey became the talk of the country.
Presidents of the United States had been photographed at their desks and on the rear platforms of Pullman cars; Chester A. Arthur had consented once to pose in a canoe. But not in 117 years had a President posed on a steam shovel. He was wearing a big Panama hat and another of his white suits. And the marvelous incongruity of the outfit, the huge, homely machine and the rain pouring down, not to mention his own open delight in the moment, made it at once an event, an obvious and inevitable peak for the man who so adored having his picture taken and who so plainly intended to see success at Panama. One of the photographs would quickly become part of American folklore, and as an expression of a man and his era, there are few that can surpass it
To a whole generation of Americans it was Theodore Roosevelt who built the Panama Canal. It was quite simply his personal creation. Yet the Panama Canal was built under three American Presidents, not one—Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson—and in fact, of the three, it was really Taft who gave the project the most time and personal attention. Taft made five trips to Panama as Secretary of War and he went twice again during the time he was President.
The illustrative analogies offered by editors and writers were of little help, since they were seldom any less fantastic. The spoil would be enough to build sixty-three pyramids the size of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. (To help its readers imagine what this might look like, Scientific American commissioned an artist to draw Manhattan with giant pyramids lining the length of Broadway from the Battery to Harlem.)
In the popular picture of life in the Canal Zone as it emerged in hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, that vast force of black men and women who were doing the heaviest, most difficult physical labor—some twenty-five thousand to thirty thousand human beings—could be but very faintly seen. As individuals they had no delineation whatsoever. They were there only as part of the workaday landscape. That they too were making a new life in an alien land, that they too were raising families, experiencing homesickness, fear, illness, or exhilaration in the success of the work, was almost never even inferred. In the United States the public had little if any conception of the part played in Panama by "pioneers" who were neither American nor white, or how very small numerically the white American force was by contrast. To judge by many published accounts, the whole enormous black underside of the caste system simply did not exist.
Five million sacks and barrels of cement were shipped to Panama to build the locks, dams, and spillways, all of it from New York on the Ancon and the Cristobal, and an idea of what such quantities amounted to is imparted by a single budgetary statistic: an estimated $50,000 was saved in recovered cement after Goethals issued a directive requiring the men to shake each sack after it was emptied.
The reason for having as many as seventy wellholes in the chamber floor was to distribute the turbulence of the incoming water evenly over the full area and thereby subject chamber and ships to a minimum of disturbance. It was the engineers' intention to be able to raise or lower a ship in a chamber in about fifteen minutes.
Among the more fascinating facts about the Panama Canal, for example, is that all hardware for the lock gates—the lifting mechanisms for the stem valves, the special bearings, gears, and struts for the gate machines, all ninety-two bull wheels—was made by a single manufacturer in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Across Europe and the United States, world war filled the newspapers and everyone's thoughts. The voyage of the Cristobal, the Ancon's crossing to the Pacific on August 15, the official declaration that the canal was open to the world, were buried in the back pages. There were editorials hailing the victory of the canal builders, but the great crescendo of popular interest had passed; a new heroic effort commanded world attention. The triumph at Panama suddenly belonged to another and very different era.
In August the following year the same thing happened again. On September 18, 1915, came the most discouraging break of all in what had been newly renamed Gaillard Cut—an avalanche that closed the canal to traffic for seven months. When the canal reopened, Goethals again insisted that the problem would be "overcome finally and for all time." But that day never arrived. Hundreds of acres of mud and rock slipped into the Cut as the years passed; dredging remained an almost continuous task and a huge expense. And the angle of repose has still to be found. One slide in 1974 dumped an estimated 1,000,000 cubic yards into the Cut.
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Fifteen years ago (give or take a few years) when the wipes market began its proliferation into new categories, touching more consumers lives than ever before, I figured at some point the ebb of new products hitting the market would slow down. Around this time we were seeing new applications for wipes from floor cleaning cloths to glass cleaners to makeup removal cloths to anti-aging products. These products played into the consumers' need for convenience, simplifying many daily tasks.
Of course, this proliferation led to many new blockbuster categories for wipes like the floor cleaning cloths and antibacterial cleaning wipes, and consumer product manufacturers—and their suppliers—have been working hard to find the next new "must-have" product that will transform consumers' lives and boost sales.
On the wipes front, companies have not stopped trying. The rate of new products in wipes continues to be impressive with everyone from large-scale personal and household care companies (like Unilever's new deodorant wipes and P&G's new Mr. Clean Magic Eraser cleaning cloths) to smaller entrepreneurial companies looking to fill a new niche in the market by introducing new products. For more new products, please check out our regular recap of introductions on page 31.
Outside of wipes, the market for facial sheet masks is starting to look like the next new blockbuster category that is increasing the use of nonwoven materials in the personal care category. Experts expect that this category will represent nearly a half billion dollars worth of sales in the next five or six years. These products offer benefits like deep cleaning, anti-aging, hydrating and more and are considered the fastest growing part of the skin care category currently. Find out more about this growing market on page 20.
The rate of new products within the global wipes—and now facial sheet masks—category continues to represent how important single-use wipes have become to consumers globally. Experts expect this importance will only continue as disposable spending levels rise in certain areas, more households have multiple earners and more product formats become available.
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Albion defender Uwe Hunemeier has agreed to return to Paderborn when his contract ends this summer.
The 32-year-old joined the Seagulls from the German Bundesliga 2 side in 2015 and made 36 appearances, scoring one goal.
The popular defender helped Albion win promotion to the Premier League last season but has played just once in the top flight this campaign, along with five cup appearances.
Paderborn announced Hunemeier has agreed to return to the club this morning.
Hunemeier had been linked with a move to Queens Park Rangers earlier this week.


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Stocks Fall as Trade Tensions Cause Jitters
U.S. stock markets slipped early Thursday after global markets were roiled by the latest twists in the trade war between the United States and China.
Posted 2:45 p.m. Aug 2, 2018 — Updated 2:48 p.m. Aug 2, 2018
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The S&P 500, Nasdaq composite and Dow Jones industrial average all declined in early trading, following losses in benchmark Asian and European indexes in the overnight session.
Foreign investors sold stocks following reports that the Trump administration proposed to more than double the proposed tariffs it has said it would levy on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
China's main stock index dropped 2 percent, and in Hong Kong, an index of China's biggest listed companies, ended down slightly more than that.
European stocks followed Asian markets, with indexes in Germany and Britain both edging lower.
Hours before, President Donald Trump instructed the U.S. trade representative to look into increasing tariffs on Chinese imports like fish, handbags and other goods to 25 percent from 10 percent, a significant step in a dispute that is beginning to take a toll on industries and consumers in both countries.
"If it had not been for the sideswipe on trade, markets would have been in much better shape this week," Hirokazu Kabeya, chief global strategist at Daiwa Securities, told Reuters.
A final decision on the size and scope of the tariffs is not expected before September, but any tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports would come on top of the existing penalties on $34 billion worth of products and an additional $16 billion that are scheduled to go into effect soon.
China has vowed to respond to any trade measures in kind, and it has already imposed its own tariffs on $34 billion worth of U.S. goods.
Also weighing on the markets in the region were rising U.S. bond yields. Yields on the 10-year Treasury note, which rise as prices fall, was near 3 percent, the highest level in weeks. Rising yields could make dollar-backed debt costlier to repay, especially for emerging markets.
Investors often rush to the safety of government bonds in times of market turmoil. But a stretch of strong economic data reports in the United States has recently encouraged investors. The Federal Reserve, as it held its benchmark interest rate steady, said Wednesday that economic growth was "solid."
The same may not be as true for China.
On Tuesday, Chinese officials called for further government spending to offset a slowdown in China's economy, which has taken place as the government tries to rein in surging debt.
The Chinese currency was little changed Thursday, but it fell to a 13-month low against the dollar earlier in the week.
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Are there time limits on the length of the funeral?
No. We do not conduct 'conveyer belt' funerals. We want you and your family to feel relaxed.
Can I leave flowers or plant bulbs or seeds on the grave?
We are working hard to ensure that the burial ground develops in to a nature rich woodland with as many disease-free plant species as possible, so we are unable to allow families to lay flowers or bring in any bulbs or seeds to the site.
If the grave is looking a bit overgrown, can I cut the grass?
The burial ground is not a manicured cemetery and is intended to remain a natural habitat for wildlife to thrive in so we require families to refrain from cutting grass or other plants on their loved one's grave. There is no need to do this as it will be mown by us in the autumn to allow it to seed, thus allowing a greater diversity of flora and fauna to thrive and to ensure we remain carbon positive.
Can people be buried next to each other?
Yes. Adjacent plots can be purchased at the same time as availability at a later date cannot be guaranteed.
Can I pre-purchase a plot?
Yes. Pre-purchasing a plot reserves your burial plot at today's price.
Do we have to engage the services of a funeral director?
No. However, your loved one will need to be cared for between the time of death until the funeral. Please ask us for advice.
Yes. You will find a list of these in the Resources tab along with recommendations for biodegradable coffins, local accommodation and after service facilities.
Will the site remain as a natural burial ground forever?
Yes. Each burial within the burial ground secures the land for the future. There is no likelihood whatsoever that any other development will take place on the site. It is protected from future development as the local planning authority have granted permission for the land to be used as a burial ground. Any other land use would require an application to the planning authority for development and such an application would be unlikely to receive consent.
Can we play music at the graveside?
Yes. Bagpipers, choirs, harpists etc are all welcome.
Can we hold a church service and then come to CairnBrae for the burial?
Yes. Your minister will hold the committal at the graveside.
Do we own the grave/land?
No. You own the exclusive right of burial. The freehold is owned by the company CairnBrae Natural Burial Ground Ltd.
Will you as the owner be buried there?
Absolutely – along with many other members of our family.
These are just a few examples of questions we are asked but please do get in touch if there is anything you are unclear about.


On the back of the photo are these names. Trenton Potter, Luta Catchum, Charles Van Kirk, Claud Perfect, Milfred Condit, Byrum Gorsuch, Leet Van Kirk, Harry Van Kirk, Charles Perfect, and Mr. Van Fleet.
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The empty tissue box that sat in the bathroom for a full week is an example of how no one else in the household feels responsible for its management.
Some trendy fashions of the 80s just should not make a comeback.
The "odd and uncomfortable bits of awful" slowly reveal themselves as you enter your mid-40s.
Kids do and say the darndest things — requiring parents to respond in kind.
Ten days at the ocean with family and friends. What could possibly go wrong?
Laurie Nigro: Can't retailers let us have a little bit of summer before back-to-school ads begin?
Back-to-school circulars arrive before the Fourth of July and by August, stores have Halloween costumes and even Christmas decorations on display.
Wrestling with thorny berry brambles and mugwort in the garden is not Laurie's idea of fun.
The end-of-the-school-year overscheduled-to-the-max month is exhausting.
Good dads figure out what their kids need them to be, and they become that guy, even if it means missing playoff football to take their princess to the ballet.
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Taking His Measure
A CONCEITED packman called at a farm-house in the west of Scotland, in
order to dispose of some of his wares. The goodwife was startled by his
southern accent, and his high talk about York, London, and other big
places. An' whaur come ye frae yersel? was the question of the gude
wife. Ou! I am from the Border!--The Border. Oh! I thocht that; for
we aye think the selvidge is the wakest bit o' the wab!
Taking A Hint
Tall And Short
Strange Jetsum
A THIN old man, with a rag-bag in his hand, was picking up a number of small pieces of whalebone which lay on the street. The deposit was of such a singular nature, that we asked the quaint-looking gatherer how he supposed they came there. Don't kno... Strange Vespers
A MAN who had a brother, a priest, was asked, Has your brother a living?--No.--How does he employ himself?--He says mass in the morning.--And in the evening?--In the evening he don't know what he says. ... Striking Reproof
IT being reported that Lady Caroline Lamb had, in a moment of passion, knocked down one of her pages with a stool, the poet Moore, to whom this was told by Lord Strangford, observed: Oh! nothing is more natural for a literary lady than to double dow... Subtraction And Addition
A CHIMNEY-SWEEPER'S boy went into a baker's shop for a twopenny loaf, and conceiving it to be diminutive in size, remarked to the baker that he did not believe it was weight. Never mind that, said the man of dough, you will have the less to carry.--... Sudden Freedom
A NATION grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set ... Suggestion
DO you know what made my voice so melodious? said a celebrated vocal performer, of awkward manners, to Charles Bannister. No, replied the other. Why, then, I'll tell you: when I was about fifteen, I swallowed, by accident, some train oil.--I don't t... Suggestive Repudiation
LORD BYRON was once asked by a friend in the green-room of the Drury Lane Theatre, whether he did not think Miss Kelly's acting in the Maid and the Magpie exceedingly natural. I really am no judge, answered his lordship, I was never innocent of stea... Suited To His Subject
THE ballot was, it seems, first proposed in 1795, by Major Cart-wright, who somewhat appropriately wrote a book upon the Common-Wheel. ... Summary Decision
MR. BROUGHAM, when at the bar, opened before Lord Chief Justice Tenterden an action for the amount of a wager laid upon the event of a dog-fight, which, through some unwillingness of dogs or men, had not been brought to an issue. We, my lord, said t... Swearing The Peace
AN Irishman, swearing the peace against his three sons, thus concluded his affidavit: And this deponent further saith, that the only one of his children who showed him any real filial affection was his youngest son Larry, for he never struck him whe... Sweeps
WE feel for climbing boys as much as anybody can do; but what is a climbing boy in a chimney to a full-grown suitor in the Master's office! ... Sydney Smith
SYDNEY SMITH was once dining in company with a French gentleman, who had been before dinner indulging in a number of free-thinking speculations, and had ended by avowing himself a materialist. Very good soup, this, said Mr. Smith. Oui, monsieur, c'e... Sydney Smith Soporific
A LADY complaining to Sydney Smith that she could not sleep,--I can furnish you, he said, with a perfect soporific. I have published two volumes of Sermons; take them up to bed with you. I recommended them once to Blanco White, and before the third ... Take Warning!
A BARRISTER who had retired from practice, said: If any man was to claim the coat upon my back, and threaten my refusal with a lawsuit, he should certainly have it; lest, in defending my coat, I should, too late, find that I was deprived of my waist... Taking A Hint
THE Bishop preached: My friends, said he, How sweet a thing is charity, The choicest gem in virtue's casket! It is, indeed, sighed miser B., And instantly I'll go and--ask it. ... Taking His Measure
A CONCEITED packman called at a farm-house in the west of Scotland, in order to dispose of some of his wares. The goodwife was startled by his southern accent, and his high talk about York, London, and other big places. An' whaur come ye frae yersel... Tall And Short
AT an evening party, Jerrold was looking at the dancers. Seeing a very tall gentleman waltzing with a remarkably short lady, he said to a friend at hand, Humph! there's the mile dancing with the mile-stone. ... Tell It Not In England
LADY CARTERET, wife of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in Swift's time, one day said to the wit, The air of this country is very good.--Don't say so in England, my lady, quickly replied the dean, for if you do they will certainly tax it. ... Telling One's Age
A LADY, complaining how rapidly time stole away, said: Alas! I am near thirty. A doctor, who was present, and knew her age, said: Do not fret at it, madam; for you will get further from that frightful epoch every day. ... Temperance Cruets
THE late James Smith might often be seen at the Garrick Club, restricting himself at dinner to a half-pint of sherry; whence he was designated an incorporated temperance society. The late Sir William Aylett, a grumbling member of the Union, and a tw... The Abbey Church At Bath
THESE walls, so full of monuments and bust, Show how Bath waters serve to lay the dust. ... The Aged Young Lady
AN old lady, being desirous to be thought younger than she was, said that she was but forty years old. A student who sat near observed, that it must be quite true, for he had heard her repeat the same for the last ten years. MLXXXVI--KE... The Amende Honorable
QUOTH Will, On that young servant-maid My heart its life-string stakes. Quite safe! cries Dick, don't be afraid, She pays for all she breaks. ... The Anglo-french Alliance
JERROLD was in France, and with a Frenchman who was enthusiastic on the subject of the Anglo-French alliance. He said that he was proud to see the English and French such good friends at last. Tut! the best thing I know between France and England is... The Angry Ocean
MOTHER, this book tells about the angry waves of the ocean. Now, what makes the ocean get angry?--Because it has been crossed so often, my son. ... The Best Judge
A LADY said to her husband, in Jerrold's presence:-- My dear, you certainly want some new trousers.--No, I think not, replied the husband. Well, Jerrold interposed, I think the lady who always wears them ought to know. ... The Best Wine
SHERIDAN being asked what wine he liked best, replied, The wine of other people. ... The Birth Of A Prince
JERROLD was at a party when the Park guns announced the birth of a prince. How they do powder these babies! Jerrold exclaimed. ... The Bishop And His Portmanteau
THE other day, a certain bishop lost his portmanteau. The circumstance has given rise to the following:-- I have lost my portmanteau-- I pity your grief; It contained all my sermons-- I pity the thief. ... The Candle And Lantern
DURING the period Sir Busick Harwood was Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge, he was called in, in a case of some difficulty, by the friends of a patient, who were anxious for his opinion of the malady. Being told the name of the med...


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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
by Robert M Sapolsky
The human animal in all its fascinating quirks of nature is showcased in this thoughtful and entertaining essay collection from America's most beloved neurobiologist/primatologist. In these essays -- updated for this volume -- Robert M. Sapolsky once again applies his curiosity, compassion, and generous insight into the human condition to make a case for the science of behavioral biology that tells us who we are, why we are, and how we are. The first section, "Genes and Who We Are," addresses the physiology of genes, featuring a dissertation on "The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World" and tackling the vital question: How did they wind up on the list? Another essay explains the invisible genetic warfare that takes place between men and women as they conceive a baby and that continues as the fetus develops. As Sapolsky says, "Warning: this essay does not make pleasant wedding-night reading." The second section, "Our Bodies and Who We Are," focuses on our physical natures and dwells on such diverse topics as why dreams are in fact dreamlike, why we are sexually attracted to one another, and why Alzheimer's disease tends to be a postmenopausal phenomenon. As Sapolsky writes, "Sometimes, all you need to do is think a thought and you change the functioning of virtually every cell in your body." In the third section, "Society and Who We Are," Sapolsky takes his interdisciplinary curiosity out into the wilds of civilization and poses such interesting questions as: When and why do our preferences in food become fixed? Why do desert cultures tend to be monotheistic and sexually repressed, whereas rainforest cultures tend to be sexually relaxed and polytheistic? Why do differentcultures think differently about dead bodies? "We are shaped by the sort of society in which we live," Sapolsky tells us, "and we would not be the same person if we had grown up elsewhere." In each of these investigations, we see a brilliant mind synthesizing his and others' research in a thoughtful, engaging, and witty voice that reveals the enormous complexity of simply being human. Charming and erudite in equal measure, this collection will appeal to the inner monkey in all of us. Read Less
The human animal in all its fascinating quirks of nature is showcased in this thoughtful and entertaining essay collection from America's most beloved neurobiologist/primatologist. In these essays -- updated for this volume -- Robert M. Sapolsky once again applies his curiosity, compassion, and generous insight into the human condition to make a case for the science of behavioral biology that tells us who we are, why we are, and how we are. The first section, "Genes and Who We Are," addresses the physiology of genes, ... Read More
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Under vitriolic attack from caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on its President N Chandrababu Naidu, the Telugu Desam Party is putting up a brave front in the Telangana Assembly polls.
The December seven election to the 119-member Telangana Assembly is seen in some quarters as a "do-or-die" political battle for the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister in the country's youngest state.
Senior TDP politburo member Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy sees Rao's repeated attacks on Naidu as a "panic reaction".
"On September six (after the Assembly was dissolved), he (Rao) said TDP has a mere 0.2 per cent vote share in Telangana. Now, he (Rao) is devoting 50 per cent of his speech time criticising Naidu and TDP. It shows his panic reaction and frustration," Reddy told PTI.
The Congress, the TDP, the Telananga Jana Samiti (TJS) and the Communist party of India have forged an alliance to take on the ruling TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samiti).
In alliance with the BJP, the TDP had bagged 15 seats with a vote share of 14.7 per cent in the 2014 elections.
In the ongoing election campaign, Rao and TRS leaders have repeatedly chosen to project the TDP as an "anti-Telangana party" and Naidu as the one who had tried to put hurdles in Telangana's development.
If the Congress-led alliance comes to power in Telangana, they have alleged that Naidu would call the shots.
The TDP has seen 13 of its Telangana MLAs deserting the party -- 12 defecting to the TRS and one to the Congress. But Reddy asserted that the party and its cadre are intact in Telangana.
"We are confident of winning the 13 seats that we are contesting now," he said.
As chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, Naidu had strived hard for all-round development of Hyderabad, particularly the information technology sector, Reddy said.
"Sixty-four per cent of Telangana's income is from Hyderabad only. This (pro-development, pro-investment) atmosphere is created by Naidu (during his tenure as CM)," he said.


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LiveConnections presents 20th century jazz with Joanna Pascale and Curtis 20/21
Entering its eighth year of bridging music and education with a focus on community involvement, LiveConnections will present its first event of the season at World Cafe Live on Friday, January 22nd. Local jazz vocalist Joanna Pascale will join Curtis Institute chamber ensemble Curtis 20/21 for a retrospective evening of jazz and classical music.
With a focus on curating diverse collaborations of artists that may not otherwise intersect, LiveConnections ensures a fresh, experimental take on traditional styles of music. This month's concert is just that. Pascale and the Curtis Institute's new ensemble will be reinterpreting songs by film composer Michel Legrand, legendary songwriters George Gershwin and Darius Milhaud, as well as giving the world premiere performance of a piece written by the Curtis Institute's Gabriella Smith.
Tickets and more information for the all-ages concert can be found here. Listen to Pascale perform "Wildflower" from her latest album below, followed by songs written by the featured composers.
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Mazella Case Retrial Settled after Frye Victory 2017
In 2014, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, MD was the medical expert in the case of Joseph Mazella vs. William Beals, MD, in Syracuse, New York. Mr. Mazella committed suicide by stabbing himself multiple times in an exceedingly violent death. The jury awarded $1.4 million to the surviving family.
Dr. Breggin testified that the negligent prescription of the antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) caused Mr. Mazella's condition to deteriorate, ultimately causing or contributing to his suicide. In addition, Dr. Breggin testified that Dr. Beals abandoned the patient, further causing or contributing to the tragic outcome.
In June 2016, the NYS Court of Appeals overturned the verdict and ordered a new trial. Citing Dr. Breggin's testimony, the Appeals Court specifically found that the evidence presented was sufficient to support the verdict. However, it also found that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting evidence concerning the defendant doctor's negligent treatment of twelve other patients. The court found that this information was irrelevant to defendant's liability in Mr. Mazella's case and unduly prejudiced the jury against Dr. Beals.
At the start of the new trial on May 8, 2017, the defense raised a Frye challenge, claiming that Dr. Breggin's opinions concerning Paxil during the original trial lacked scientific evidence. They asked the judge to exclude Dr. Breggin from testifying about any harm caused by Paxil. Frye refers to a standard for admitting scientific evidence at trial. In a Frye hearing, the court must determine if the expert's scientific technique or method for developing the evidence was consistent with methods generally accepted by experts in the particular field.
Before Dr. Breggin's rebuttal affidavit, the defense seemed certain they would disqualify his opinions as unscientific and they adamantly refused to settle the case before retrial. The Frye hearing centered on Dr. Breggin's report, which cited and presented copies of 37 scientific publications to bolster his opinions expressed in his affidavit.
The trial judge found that Dr. Breggin's report did present sufficient scientific evidence for all of his stated opinions, and the defense settled the case on the following day before Dr. Breggin could take the stand.
Dr. Breggin's successful response to Frye challenge marshalled the latest science on the following points:
(1) Scientific studies confirm that the SSRI antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) can cause suicide in adults;
(2) Scientific studies that also confirm that all SSRI antidepressants as a group can cause suicide in adults;
(3) Scientific studies that long-term exposure to SSRIs such as Paxil can cause a worsening of the patient's condition including sexual dysfunction, apathy, anxiety and worsened depression;
(4) Scientific studies that SSRI-antidepressants can cause especially violent suicides, such as the multiple self-inflicted stabbings in Mr. Mazella's case;
(5) Scientific studies that Paxil withdrawal can cause or contribute to suicide.
Mr. Mazella's primary care doctor referred him to defendant Dr. Beals who is an internist who presents himself as specializing in mental health and addiction issues. Dr. Beals prescribed Paxil for Mr. Mazella for 11 years without seeing with him and without having a telephone conversation or any other meaningful contact. Dr. Beals admitted in retrospect that he had been negligent in not seeing his patient for so many years; but he denied that Paxil could cause or contribute to suicide in adults or that he had been negligent in prescribing the drug to Mr. Mazella.
After 11 years on Paxil, Mr. Mazella experienced the abrupt onset of new psychiatric symptoms, and he phoned Dr. Beals who was on vacation. Without seeing Mr. Mazella or referring him elsewhere, and without having access to his medical records, Dr. Beals on the phone doubled Mr. Mazella's Paxil from 20 mg to 40 mg. He also added the potent antipsychotic drugs Zyprexa 2.5 mg and doubled it, again by telephone, on the following day.
Immediately after these dose changes, Mr. Mazella experienced severe worsening of his anxiety and depression, with fears of having a heart attack, and he sought treatment at an emergency room. After clearing him physically, the emergency room sent him to the city's short-term emergency psychiatry facility called CPEP. Doctors at CPEP changed Dr. Beals' treatment regimen by reducing Mr. Mazella's dose of Paxil. They also stopped his Zyprexa and added a benzodiazepine to calm his anxiety. This led to an improvement in his condition.
One week later Mr. Mazella and his wife finally saw Dr. Beals for the first time in 11 years. By then, Mr. Mazella was feeling better, probably due to CPEP's reduction in his medication, and possibly due to the addition of the benzodiazepine.
According to Mrs. Mazella, Dr. Beals was very angry that his patient had sought emergency treatment instead of calling him again or waiting for his return. He was especially angry that his existing treatment orders had been over-ridden with the reduction in the dose of Paxil, the discontinuation of the Zyprexa, and the addition of the benzodiazepine. According to Mrs. Mazella, her husband became very upset at Dr. Beals criticism, and Dr. Beals in turn refused to see his patient again, telling him to go back to CPEP for his treatment. Dr. Beals made no provision to follow up with Mr. Mazella until he could find another doctor to take over the case.
The meeting with Dr. Beals left Mr. Mazella in a state of extreme anxiety and depression, and Mrs. Mazella immediately took her husband again to CPEP. Two CPEP evaluations confirmed Mrs. Mazella's description of the alleged abandonment and its negative impact. The psychiatrist in charge concluded, "This rejection, abandonment, and invalidation by Dr. Beals has affected him greatly on an unconscious level. I believe this is an additional stressor that contributed to another setback."
It is very unusual for a psychiatrist to write into a medical record such a severe criticism of a colleague in his or her own community. Her language indicated that she believed Mrs. Mazella description of the abandonment.
Based on review of the medical records for the first trial and again for the second trial, Dr. Breggin concluded that Dr. Beals did abandon Mr. Mazella. Dr. Beals denied abandoning his patient; but he did not make or record a follow-up appointment. Furthermore, he did not arrange to discuss his patient's dire condition with CPEP or other healthcare providers, as would be expected after referring such a demoralized patient to an emergency service. He also admitted in a letter to Mr. Mazella's primary care doctor that Mr. Mazella was recently doing better until feeling "horrible" during the session with him.
The medical records document the futile efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Mazella, and their emergency providers, to find Mr. Mazella a psychiatrist. Some of the psychiatrists they contacted did not return the calls, some said they were full, and one offered a several-months long waiting period.
Mr. Mazella killed himself 25 days after last seeing Dr. Beals and 21 days after his Paxil was changed to Effexor (venlafaxine), another antidepressant that can cause or contribute to suicide in adults.
Mr. Mazella was an esteemed member of the community, first as the coach of his high school's state championship basketball team and then as vice principle of the high school. He had two previous, relatively short-lived, bouts of depression and anxiety, approximately 15 and 20 years earlier with complete recovery each time within a few months, once without taking antidepressants and once while taking them.
Ernest DelDuchetto was the attorney for the plaintiffs.
For More Information about Antidepressant Harmful Effects
Dr. Breggin has recently created the Antidepressant Resource Center, making an enormous amount of information available, including dozens of scientific papers as PDFs that are organized by subject matter. There are, for example, separate categories of articles on antidepressants causing suicide, violence, mania, withdrawal symptoms, and harm to fetus and newborn child of women exposed to the drugs during pregnancy. There are separate categories for articles about children and adults. For the Antidepressant Resource Center, go to 123antidepressants.com.
Dr. Breggin's most relevant and recent books are Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families.
May 10, 2017 Dr. Peter Breggin Legal


A uniformly bound collection of works from the Societa Tipografica de'Classici Italiani series of important Italian poetry and prose.
Lettere di M. Pietro Bembo, Volumes V - VII.
Opere del Cavaliere Lionardo Salviati, Volumes I and II.
Orlando Innamorato di Matteo M. Bojardo rifatto da Francesco Berni, Volumes I-II and IV-V.
Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco, Volumes I and II.
Rime di Gabriello Chiabrera, Volumes I and II.
The bindings are tight and firm. The hinges are just starting but still firm. There is some wear to the extremities, including some rubbing with loss to the top and tails of the spine, and the spine labels. Internally the pages are bright with scattered occasional foxing. Overall the condition is very good.


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For the past twenty years, the Wednesday Action Group has been holding public demonstrations around the Melbourne CBD to highlight public issues and to reclaim the shrinking public space.
La Porchetta Restaurant, 392 Rathdowne St. Carlton North.
Public housing should be an option for all Australians who cannot afford to access housing in the private market place not just those who are destitute and homeless.
Rallying at 1:00pm during April on the steps of the Victorian Parliament is a good way of highlighting the issue of public housing to a significant number of people.


I am fascinated by storytelling. I am a Moth podcast junkie and am a regular at story slams around Boston. Something about hearing other people's stories helps me place my own experiences within a meaningful context. They have the power to help me empathize with other people's perspectives. They can inspire and teach me.
"Humans live in a storm of stories. We live in stories all day long, and dream in stories all night long. We communicate through stories and learn from them. We collapse gratefully into stories after a long day at work. Without personal life stories to organize our experience, our own lives would lack coherence and meaning."
Storytelling isn't new. As a social and cultural activity, storytelling predates writing and began as an oral tradition. It is a distinctly human endeavor that serves to share and interpret experiences, teach, and entertain. We are drawn to stories for a good reason. Turns out, we are wired for it. "Stories powerfully hook and hold human attention because, at a brain level, whatever is happening in a story is happening to us and not just them," Gottschall writes. You see our desire to tell and consume stories in our love of television, movies, and books as well as our fascination with social media. Telling stories shapes how we interact with others not to mention well-constructed narratives are often behind compelling initiatives in advertising, business, and journalism.
Storytelling is woven throughout all aspects of our media and culture and is evolving as we do. With the digital era, we are also seeing our increased ability to participate in and have an effect on the stories being told. Though the exact extent to how much media can change our society and vice versa is still unknown, storytelling's capacity for creating empathy and shifting cultural attitudes is an interesting phenomenon to look at. While trying to convince somebody to change a belief is largely ineffective, telling them a story with characters they can empathize with can be more persuasive. For example, Gottschall argues that social scientists believe that storytelling might have had an impact on shifting American attitudes on homosexuality over the past 15 years with television shows such as Will & Grace, Glee, and Modern Family. That's some powerful stuff!
How has storytelling impacted your life? Have you changed a perspective on something because of a well-told story? How do you think storytelling will evolve in the future? Feel free to share your thoughts below!


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Episode #154 : Article 13's Potential Impact On The Music Industry
May 3, 2019 by willwatts 0 comments
While little attention was given by the U.S. population at large, the creative class, and musicians in particular, paid close attention to the wars waged over the EU's new copyright directive, known colloquially as Article 13. Although is has yet to be ratified, and passed into law by its member states, Article 13 has the potential to close the "safe harbor" loophole for UGC giants like YouTube, Soundcloud, etc., which would make them wholly responsible, and liable, for all previously copyrighted material published on their platforms.
Episode #152 : Kids Music and Smart Speakers
April 19, 2019 by willwatts 0 comments
As smart speakers, like the Amazon Dot and Google Home, take up residence in more homes across the U.S., kids' music has seen an unexpected uptick in its overall consumption, mostly due to the agency imparted to children via voice activated technologies. On this episode, we explore this trend with the president of Kidz Bop, Vic Zaraya, along with Grammy nominated singer/songwriter, Lori Henriquez, and senior Wired staff writer, Adrienne So.
Episode #147 : 2019 Trends
February 15, 2019 by willwatts 0 comments
From AI to to the EP, we discuss trends and innovation in the music industry. First, journalist Cherie Hu shares a few music tech developments to look out for in 2019. Then, Jon Chattman explains his recent article "How the EP Killed the LP Star." Finally, Eric "Skippy" Mueller of Pirate's Press updates us on what's happening in vinyl.
Episode #92: What Does Net Neutrality Mean For Musicians?
September 1, 2017 by willwatts 0 comments
The internet is a vital tool for artists, but without the protections that ensure a level playing field, creators' ability to earn a living comes under threat. On today's episode, we dive into the murky waters of net neutrality, copyright, and tech giants. We hear from Thirsty Ear Recordings Peter Gordon about why musicians should care about net neutrality. This point is echoed by Evan Greer of Fight for the Future, who goes on to explain the organization's controversial stance on copyright. Finally, Deerhoof's Greg Saunier shares his opinion on tech giants like Google and why musicians are so mad at YouTube.
Episode #85: Spotlight on CASH Music
A lot of money is spent in the music industry developing new tools and platforms, but today we spotlight a nonprofit committed to providing artists with educational and professional resources — all for free. In 2008, CASH Music started out of a desire to create a sustainable music industry. Since then, the platform has offered everything from download code generation and redemption to social feeds. We hear more from executive director Maggie Vail and Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh.
Episode #81: Upstream Summit Panel w/ Tunji Balogun and Amaechi Uzoigwe
How many "likes" did you get today, and does it even matter? On this episode, Portia leads an Upstream Summit keynote panel talking with Run The Jewels manager Amaechi Uzoigwe and RCA Records' Tunji Balogun, two industry insiders who have effectively mined the vast quantities of data and analytics available. Artists, managers and labels have all begun using data to amplify albums, sell out shows, and launch careers; and at May's Summit in Seattle, Portia and her panel of experts gave perspective on the types of data available and how best to harness it to reach your audience.


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October 25, 2011 News » Lone Star Green
Pro-lifer's war on the EPA a morally bankrupt case
By Greg Harman
In the nearly 40-year war that has been the battle over abortion in the United States, liberals have frequently complained about the hypocrisy of those who prostrate themselves before medical clinics and yet fail to turn out for a single state-sanctioned execution or war protest. Those criticisms widened during the last session of the Texas Legislature when the anti-choice contingent threw themselves against all things family planning, including cervical cancer screenings and birth control services at low-income clinics across the state, to score points for their cause.
The unapologetic pile-driving of young women of limited means had many paraphrasing comedian George Carlin circa-1996, who observed that so-called pro-life conservatives "are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. … No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing."
But there's another yawning hypocrisy being played out right now in the largely Republican war against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. You can see shades of it in Governor Rick Perry's willful ignorance on climate change science, his proposed carbon-centric "drill, drill, drill" national energy policy, Texas' lawsuits against federal efforts to regulate greenhouse gases or tighten air-quality rules, or even the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality censoring references to the troubling pace of sea-level rise in the Gulf of Mexico. All are part and parcel of the same desperate thinking that has allowed the coal-power lobby to claim status — if to nothing else — as a jobs generator.
While utilities across the state have been preparing for inclusion in a "cross-state" air-quality rule that considers one state's pollution impact on those living in neighboring states, North Texas' Luminant ignored the drum beat, according to Jim Marston, founding director of the Environmental Defense Fund's Texas office. "They played a game of chicken hoping they wouldn't get run over," he said.
It paid off. As the world dances on economic black ice, the coal industry, culpable in tens of thousands of air-pollution-related deaths per year — has succeeded in advancing a rollback on truly life-saving reforms under the Clean Air Act. "Perry says these regulations are 'job killers,'" Marston said. "The hard science says these emissions are child killers. Children and elderly."
When announced this summer the EPA said the new regulations would save as many as 1,700 lives per year in Texas starting in 2014. Yet when EPA rules threaten to shut down a coal plant that can't meet the thresholds protective of the public health, it's obviously time to shut down the EPA instead. That's the kind of thinking that led 15 state attorneys general, including Texas', to sue the EPA over the rule. The problem here is two-fold: not only is coal killing now, the undervaluing of the damage it does is holding back the next energy revolution — a full unveiling of a pollution-free energy infrastructure, what visionary Jeremy Rifkin calls the Third Industrial Revolution (see "Rifkin on San Antonio, the European Union," September 28, 2011).
Yet when Luminant — already staggering under a deteriorating credit rating and ever-diminishing natural gas prices — threatened to shut down two coal-fired plants and lay off 500 workers, it was the EPA who blinked, setting to work loosening those rules and offering more pollution allowances to Texas utilities. (Someone obviously forgot to tell the jobs-first crowd that the typical pollution-limiting scrubber represents 100 full-time jobs and two years of labor.)
Like our concluding national love affair with tobacco, we've known for a long time that coal power isn't really as cheap as we believe. We destroy mountains and smother valleys and streams to mine it. The pollution the plants give off is an early death sentence for as many as 36,000 U.S. residents annually, and we've only just begun to dramatically change the planet's climate in large part because of the burning of coal. But the soot from coal-fired plants isn't only clogging lungs and poisoning hearts. Increasingly diabetes and obesity, epidemic in San Antonio and beyond, are implicated. Mice fed a healthy diet in a lab at Ohio State University and exposed to fine-particulate air pollution akin to what exists in urban areas across the United States saw significant increases in their blood sugar, inflammation-related proteins, and fat cells. And that matters to roughly half of those lining up every day to have their prescriptions filled or blood levels checked at the brightly painted Davila Pharmacy on San Antonio's Westside. That's how prevalent diabetes is in this neighborhood, according to pharmacy assistant Isabel Salay.
Yet in Washington, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is taking on abortion with one hand while dismantling the Clean Air Act — rules aimed at protecting the born and unborn from smog damage as well as autism-suspect mercury and other air toxics — with the other. The White House estimates two of the bills Cantor has advanced represent a combined 32,000 premature deaths. And here in Texas? How to justify Perry's pledge to "always err on the side of life" against his campaign against public-health protections?
Clearly the champions of the unborn have morally flatlined. •
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Surface water is the common term used to describe water that can be found above ground on the land. Common sources include water from rivers and creeks or a water reservoir such as a dam or lake. This water is replenished from rainfall and run-off flowing into valleys and natural folds in the land.
Surface water is a limited resource so each state government in Australia have their own rules regarding its use, especially if taken from water ways and non-privately owned sources.
These rules ensure the sustainability of the water and exist to protect the environment and wildlife as well as other landowners who might depend upon the water supply also.
To make use of surface water you may need to enter into a water agreement with the state government or local water authority and obtain a licence that entitles you to use up to a certain amount of water.
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Pressure pump system – pumps can either be powered by electricity, windmills, solar or fuel (petrol and diesel). You will need to decide which is the best setup for your needs. Electricity and fuel powered might be less expensive initially, but more costly over time. Compared to windmills and solar powered pumps which may cost more upfront but are more cost-effective over time.
Gravity feed system – if your water supply is located higher than where you will use the water, you could implement a gravity feed system, which uses gravity to move the water without the need for electricity.
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According to a recent survey conducted by EASA, more than 85 European aerodromes have a surface heliport. At these airports, heliports are often of crucial importance, as used by governmental representatives, emergency medical services (HEMS), military and special forces, as well as to support general aviation and to improve air connectivity within the region.
As of today, the planning of heliports is regulated by ICAO Annex 14, Volume 2 – and its national implementation, which may differ among countries. In Europe, aiming toward a more harmonized approach, EASA published a Notice for Proposed Amendment 2017-14 (NPA) – "Certification specifications and guidance material for the design of surface-level VFR heliports located at aerodromes that fall under the scope of Regulation (EC) 216/2008" – which is planned to come into force in first quarter of 2018. This new regulation, once applied, will make aerodrome operators responsible for demonstrating and ensuring compliance of heliports located at airports with the applicable requirements – as for Certification Specifications (CS) and Guidance Material (GM).
A major European Airport, facing the necessity to relocate and expand its existing heliport, commissioned airsight to conduct a selection study for the new site and develop a first master plan and operational concept for the new main facilities – in-line with the upcoming EASA requirements.
As basic principle for this exercise, a heliport should always be located and designed based on future users' requirements, i.e. helicopter characteristics, performance, operations (IFR/VFR, day/night, winter, take-off and landing procedures: helipad / clear / short field / confined heliport), Helicopter Flight Manuals (HFM) and expected traffic volumes. Whereas a heliport is often requested to be situated near existing infrastructures, such as terminal buildings, it shall at the same time comply with numerous infrastructural operational requirements.
The core element of a heliport – and most difficult to design – is its Final Approach and Take-Off Area (FATO). It means "a defined area over which the final phase of the approach manoeuvre to hover or landing is completed and from which the take-off manoeuvre is commenced" (ICAO Annex 14, Vol 2 and EASA NPA 2017-14). A FATO should, amongst other, minimize the influence of the surrounding environment including turbulence (i.e. aircraft jet-blast or building-induced), protect other users from rotor downwash, have a bearing strength sufficient to accommodate a rejected take-off by helicopter, have a mean slope in any direction which should not exceed 3 per cent and provide sufficient drainage. A FATO generally includes a Touchdown and Lift-Off Areas (TLOF), as well as a surrounding Safety Area. This area, often neglected at existing heliports, has for objective to protect further the FATO – notably against obstacles (like a runway strip protects the runway).
Further to be considered are the helicopter taxiways and taxi-routes, the stands, the obstacle limitation surfaces as well as visual aids (e.g. wind direction indicators, markings, lights and markers).
Designing a FATO is therefore a complex iterative exercise, notably at large international airports where space is a scarce resource and any impact on runway and taxiway operations should be minimised.
The design proposed by airsight was developed in close coordination with the client and involved stakeholders, including current and future helicopter operators, air traffic control services, and other related departments.
If you or your colleague requires assistance in heliport or helipad design, please feel free to contact us!
The objective of this NPA is to introduce certification specifications (CS) and guidance material (GM) mostly in accordance with the ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) included in ICAO Annex 14, Aerodromes Volume II, Heliports, Fourth Edition (Including Amendment 7) and best industry practices.
According to airsight as well as many other experts' opinion, the new certification of heliports according to EASA regulations will undoubtedly bring many benefits. Nevertheless, it is well-known that many heliports yet do not meet the latest ICAO SARPs, partially due to the non-systematic transposition of the latest Annex 14 Volume II versions and amendments.
This situation will typically affect German airports. In Germany, heliports are still today governed by regulations dating from 2005, and consequently based on ICAO Annex 14 Volume II Second Edition (1995). While some airports may have proactively considered the Third and Fourth Edition of this Annex, many are not yet compliant – or not aware of potential non-conformities: a short look with Google Earth at some major airports regrettably confirms this assumption.
The introduction of the new EASA aerodrome regulations will represent a major change, as aerodrome operators will be required to demonstrate compliance to the responsible authorities.
Aerodromes within the scope of the regulation should therefore be prepared to the paradigm shift, and conduct a gap-analysis to anticipate possible investments to ensure compliance – or to develop alternative means to adhere with the rules.