1. Cook noodles per package instructions (usually 3-4 minutes), drain, rinse with cold water and toss with 1 Tbsp Sesame Oil. Keep aside.
2. Heat 2 Tbsp Oil in a large wok style pan on HIGH heat.
3. Add Ginger and Garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
4. Add Onions and cook for 30 seconds.
5. Add Carrots and allow them to soften just a little.
6. Add Cabbage, Bell Pepper and Baby Corn. Toss well and cook for 1 minute.
7. Push veggies to one side of wok and break an egg in the pan.
8. Scramble the egg until cooked and mix together with the veggies.
9. Add Black Pepper and mix.
10. Toss Noodles once before adding them to the pan.
11. Add White Vinegar, Soy Sauce, Hoisin Sauce and Red Chili Sauce. Mix well to coat all noodles.
12. Taste and adjust any of the sauces.
13. Garnish with Green Onions and serve hot.


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Congratulations to NASFL Museum member Gary Kilbride! On July 12, his father Bert was posthumously awarded the Mel Fisher Lifetime Achievement Award. In November 2013, Bert was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame in Grand Cayman. In 1985, Bert had received an award from the Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences for sports education. Bert Kilbride was a free spirit extraordinaire and pursued many endeavors throughout his life. He passed away January 8, 2008 and his ashes are interred at Neptune Memorial Reef off of Key Biscayne, Florida.


This art form is created from within. Your unique knowledge makes you the only person who can create art in your particular way. The single pure voice you have, no other. Once you find it, create unique paintings no one else can create. This art form is positive. Reflect the positive from the inside of you. Colors are so-called happy and forms are non-figurative. Energy Art painted to reach the inner nature which creates a positive feeling.
Magin is to find colors and shape that creates harmony. The movements in art are soft. Often fill a small picture an entire room of positivity and end up in eye shape center.
Creating Energy Art can be demanding for a non-van. The art form demands present moment attention. Being here and now. Not knowing what color to use or what the next stroke to be made. It goes more out to empty the brain of all impressions. Making sense of the body neutral without feeling anything. A kind of deep meditation, yet clearly set on making art.
Mikael Avatar is almost always here and now. According to Indian monks, he is so-called "enlightened". A condition in which he is aware of everything going on around him in the present. He knows the little toe have to do to keep his balance when he goes and knows all the little things on the ground where he puts his feet. It is in this state Mikael Avatar creates his art. Time and space do not exist. Food, need for sleep, and all other life-sustaining things stand still. Just as children. Children discover in the moment that they ar hungry, tired or emotional outlet. After a minute it's over. Sad to happy, angry to harmonic moving very fast. Children living in the present.
Under the Energy Art courses are many exercises to get to this state. Quantum physics and other medical discoveries do to a person with this condition is easier. Previously, it required years of training to be able to come into this meditative state.


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My traditionally cheery holiday social media feeds, usually populated by adorable children viciously ripping open presents like tiny animals, were littered instead this week with images of thwarted passengers in never-ending airport lines and real-time updates on the cascading meltdown of Southwest Airlines, which canceled 57 percent of its flights on Thursday alone, leaving passengers stranded all over the country. My family and I missed this chaos because we left Brooklyn for rural Alabama on Dec. 19 via Delta Air Lines, and I am mostly just grateful that we didn't go to Omaha, as we do every other year to visit my husband's family, via Southwest. For many Americans, air travel is the only feasible option to see relatives for the holidays or to take long trips for urgent reasons, like medical treatments and family emergencies, and when it's not cost-prohibitive, it's often simply miserable.
According to the Pew Research Center, more than half of Americans live within an hour's drive of at least some of their extended family members, but my husband and I are in the minority who live very, very far from our families. This year, a month before we planned to travel, I paid $2,544 for three plane tickets and two bags to Montgomery, which has the airport closest to my hometown, Wetumpka.
This means it is easier and cheaper for me to get to London from Brooklyn ($344 per round-trip ticket from Kennedy Airport when I last searched) than to where my parents live, and this is true every year. Now, tickets to Alabama are never cheap, but I paid about $1,000 more this time — a total amount that's beyond what I've ever paid for a month's rent in one of the most expensive cities in the country. (The Consumer Price Index for airline tickets overall is up 25 percent this year.) Airlines also experienced major staffing shortages because they couldn't rehire people they let go during the Covid pandemic fast enough to keep up with demand.
The comfort level of airline economy class seems, well, ever less comfortable as airlines choose to squeeze efficiencies out of their businesses, the cost of which partly falls on the customer. The pitch length (the distance between your seat and the same point on the seat in front of you) has decreased from a maximum of 35 inches in the 1980s to sometimes as little as 28 inches now. I'm 5-foot-1, rounding up, and weigh 120 pounds, give or take, and the only person in my family who doesn't feel cramped in economy is our 40-pound 7-year-old, who is roughly the size of a carry-on bag that would actually fit in the overhead space. (To his disappointment, we have not tried this. He said it would be "cozy" in there.)
Some airlines are worse than others, but these are industrywide afflictions and are dictated by airline executives who know families like mine have little choice but to pay through the nose and suck it up. Real pain is borne by fliers and staff members, especially desk workers and airline attendants, who are expected to be wait staff, safety monitors, therapists and often law enforcement.
Incidents of assault and harassment of airline attendants went up during the pandemic, when airline personnel had to enforce masking mandates and the worst people you know decided to try air travel, seemingly for the first time. No one really gets paid enough to do that, much less deal with abusive fliers who often take it out on frontline airline personnel because when people call the airline, they get 20 minutes of automated prompts and recordings and cannot get a human on the phone, sometimes for hours. I am generally fine with high-stress situations, but I have cried more on the phone with airline customer service reps than I have during multiple viewings of "Terms of Endearment," and I feel very strongly that the ratio should run the other way.
A family waits to get on a flight at the Denver International Airport on Dec. 27. Disruptions caused Southwest Airlines to alter about 60 percent of its flights.Credit…Daniel Brenner for The New York Times
Airline executives know this, though. Those systems are hard to navigate for a reason, and eventually a lot of people just give up or take it out on the desk attendants. They learn to tolerate how bad the experience is, because what are the alternatives? "Why can't you just drive?" you might ask — if you have a car and are accustomed only to driving reasonable distances to see your family.
The simple answer is that many of us lack a car, don't get enough time off for the drive or have other constraints that prohibit driving extremely long distances for a few days' visit. Driving is also not always the less expensive option. In our case, we'd have to drive a little over 1,000 miles, for over 16 hours. The cost of gas and car rental would be just under $900, assuming we return the car immediately at the destination and get a new rental for the drive back instead of keeping it the whole time (an additional $1,000), plus hotels coming and going because a 16-hour nonstop drive is not compatible with custody of a 7-year-old.
Now we're, conservatively, at a $1,600 cost to drive, which is a couple hundred more than the $1,400 we'd pay for plane tickets normally. The 7-year-old is prone to carsickness, and it's hard to quantify the specific misery of being in a car with a periodically nauseated child for 16 hours, especially when you're mostly on the interstate and it's not a fun take-your-time scenic trip during which you can stop somewhere off the beaten path and take a selfie in front of the world's largest ball of twine. You may not pay for these things literally, but you pay in sheer exhaustion and lost time. So instead I chose to pay through the nose for plane tickets and suck it up because it would be eight hours to reach our destination instead of 48, the 7-year-old wouldn't vomit on anything and at least I could have a bloody mary on the plane as a salve for my frayed nerves, which I can't do while driving on Interstate 85.
A lot of people have it far worse than we do on this front: more difficult itineraries, more kids, more constraints, less money to pay through the nose. Driving isn't even a possibility for some people dealing with disabilities, lack of access to a car or other things that simply rule it out. And per our trip to Alabama, it's not always less expensive. The first time I got on a plane was during my sophomore year of college, and the trip was precipitated by the fact that the 11-hour drive from Wetumpka to Durham, N.C., was going to be pricier to drive than to fly. I was a cash-strapped financial aid student, so I sucked it up.
In a sense, the benefits of airline deregulation have been undermined by its downsides. Low-cost carriers that made flying feasible for middle-class consumers emerged after Congress deregulated the industry in 1978. The lower ticket prices were offset by expanded markets but also allowed airlines to put in place new policies that eliminated amenities, and customers became accustomed to expecting less from air travel. But how low can consumer expectations go, and what does this mean if air travel becomes cost-prohibitive again?
We leave on Friday to go back to New York, and that means a flight with a connection and a long layover at a weird time, which saved me about $400 a ticket. As long as we can and as long as the 7-year-old has grandparents he needs to see, we will continue to do this every year — but not everyone will, or can, if airline service keeps degenerating while fluctuating in price. It's simply not sustainable for a lot of nonbusiness customers, in terms of both experience and cost. The result is that air travel may become the exclusive domain of first-class passengers and business customers. When driving is out of the question, the alternative will be far inferior, if cheaper and less miserable: FaceTime.
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Литовская хартия — программная декларация Всемирной общины литовцев принятая 14 июня 1949 года в Аугсбурге. Документ содержит 13 статей о значении народа, языка, семьи, государства, школы, общества, печатного слова на родном языке, национальной культуры и символики обязательных для каждого литовца в изгнании. Полностью опубликована на литовском языке в издании Pasaulio Lietuvių Bendruomenės keliu.

История принятия документа
27 мая 1949 года Верховный Комитет освобождения Литвы (VLIK) утвердил Положение о Всемирной общине литовцев (Lithuanian World Community, Pasaulio Lietuvių Bendruomenė — PLB). Две основные цели этой Общины формулируются как обязанность каждого ее члена сохранять свою националь- ную идентичность и выступать за государственную независимость Литвы. В июне 1949 года была принята Литовская хартия (хартия литовца), которая стала ключевым документом PLB.

Текст хартии

1 Нация — это естественная общность людей. Никто не может быть принужден к разрыву связи с национальным сообществом. Литовцы, разбросанные по всему миру, образуют единую мировую литовскую общину.

2 Человек имеет естественное право свободно исповедовать и развивать свою национальность. Литовец остается литовцем везде и всегда. Литовцы передают жизнь литовского народа, сохраненную их родителями, будущим поколениям, чтобы мы жили вечно.

3 Язык является самой прочной связью национальной общности. Литовский язык является национальной честью для литовца.

4 Семья — это жизнь нации. Литовец создаёт литовскую семью.

5 Национальная культура — это путь к международному признанию и общению. Раскрывая гений нации, национальная культура вносит свой вклад во всеобщие достижения рода человеческого. Долг каждого литовца — создавать условия для национальной культуры.

6 Государство есть высшая организация национального сообщества. Государственная независимость является условием развития и выживания национальной культуры. С работой, образованием, богатством и самопожертвованием литовцы борются за защиту и сохранение независимого Литовского государства.

7 Школа — очаг национального духа. Поддерживать литовскую школу — благороднейший долг каждого литовца.

8 Общество является действенным сторонником национальной культуры. Литовец создает и поддерживает религиозные, культурные, молодёжные, профессиональные и другие литовские общества.

9 Борьба и жертвы наших предков за литовскую литературу — это их завещание и наше обязательство перед всеми поколениями литовского народа.

10 История нации — лучший учитель. Литовцы дорожат прошлым своего народа и национальными обычаями. Литовец стремится быть достойным своих предков, чтобы оставить потомкам уважительную гордость.

11 Национальная солидарность — высшая национальная добродетель. Литовцы развивают национальную солидарность. Все литовцы равноправные дети одного народа, братья между собой. В знак национального взаимопонимания и литовского единства каждый литовец вносит постоянный вклад национальной солидарности.

12 Литовские национальные цвета: желтый — зеленый — красный. Литовский национальный праздник — 16 февраля. Литовский девиз: «Литовцами мы родились, литовцами мы должны быть!».

13 Литовец верен своей стране проживания. Отношения между литовцем и нелитовцем определяются любовью к ближнему и уважением к свободе, чести, жизни, здоровью и имуществу каждого человека.

Значение хартии
В свое время прелат М. Крупавичюс сравнил принципы Хартии литовцев с цементом, который скрепляет отдельные кирпичики рассеявшихся по всему миру литовцев в единое здание-крепость литовского духа.

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Markus Kallifatides, född 18 april 1972 i Täby församling, Stockholms län, är en svensk ekonom. Han är docent vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm och ordförande för den socialdemokratiska föreningen Reformisterna. Kallifatides är sedan valet 2022 riksdagsledamot för Stockholms stad.

Kallifatides politiska bana inleddes vid grundandet av den socialdemokratiska partiföreningen Reformisterna. Han har beskrivit sig själv som demokratisk socialist.

Kallifatides är son till den svensk-grekiske författaren Theodor Kallifatides.

Forskare på Handelshögskolan
Markus Kallifatides har sedan 1996 undervisat i organisations- och ledningsteori vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm. År 2002 publicerades Kallifatides doktorsavhandling "Modern företagsledning och omoderna företagsledare", en fyraårig observationsstudie utifrån en industrikoncern och deras högsta ledning.

Kallifatides tidiga forskargärning inbegriper frågor om nordisk företagsstyrning, företagens roll i globala relationer och företags samhällsansvar. Sedan 2010 och framåt har frågor om finansialisering av svensk och internationell ekonomi varit återkommande teman i Kallifatides forskning.

Jämte sin forskning har Kallifatides gett ut ett flertal rapporter om svenska ägande- och förmögenhetsstrukturer, bostadspolitik, lönebildning samt om det privata kapitalets roll i omvandlingen av den svenska välfärdsmodellen.

Politiskt engagemang
Kallifatides inledde sin politiska bana som ordförande och medgrundare till den socialdemokratiska partiföreningen Reformisterna. I sin roll som ordförande har Kallifatides drivit frågor om en investeringsdriven ekonomisk politik, genomförandet av en ny socialdemokratisk välfärdsmodell utan privat vinstdrift och ett mer progressivt skattesystem.

Markus Kallifatides stod på plats sju för Socialdemokraterna i Stockholms stad i riksdagsvalet 2022 och valdes in som ny riksdagsledamot. I riksdagen arbetar Kallifatides som ledamot av Civilutskottet.

Markus Kallifatides beskrev 2022 Tidöavtalet som "värdelös ekonomisk politik".

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Just several days after introducing his second studio album of the year "Woptober", Gucci Mane revealed a third album, "The Return of the East Atlanta Santa", scheduled for release in December.
"#Woptober in the streets right now. Coming right back with #TheReturnOfEastAtlantaSanta on 12/16! RT that!" the hip-hop singer wrote along the post.
The singer has reached his first No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with his release of "Everybody Looking" in August. "Woptober", which was released a week ago, included collaborations with Rick Ross and Young Dolph.
If the rumors are right, we could soon see the long awaited collaboration of Drake and Gucci Mane.


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Random samples, transformations, limit laws, normal distribution theory, introduction to stochastic processes, data reduction, point estimation (maximum likelihood).
Statistical methods for analyzing data from surveys and experiments. Topics include randomization and model-based inference, two-sample methods, analysis of variance, linear regression and model diagnostics.
Development of the theory and application of generalized linear models. Topics include likelihood estimation and asymptotic distributional theory for exponential families, quasi-likelihood and mixed model development. Emphasizes methodological development and application to real scientific problems.
Development and application of statistical methods for analyzing corrected data. Topics covered include repeated measures ANOVA, linear mixed models, non-linear mixed effects models, and generalized estimating equations. Emphasizes both theoretical development and application of the presented methodology.
Training in collaborative research and practical application of statistics. Emphasis on effective communication as it relates to identifying scientific objectives, formulating a statistical analysis plan, choice of statistical methods, and interpretation of results and their limitations to non-statisticians.
Computational approaches to learning algorithms for classifications, regression, and clustering. Emphasis is on discriminative classification methods such as decision trees, rules, nearest neighbor, linear models, and naive Bayes.
Basic Bayesian concepts and methods with emphasis on data analysis. Special emphasis on specification of prior distributions. Development for one-two samples and on to binary, Poisson and linear regression. Analyses performed using free OpenBugs software.
Introduction to the basics of sampling from both applied and theoretical perspectives. Methods covered include simple random sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, sampling with unequal probabilities, and multistage sampling. Ratio estimate, regression estimate, and methods to handle nonresponse will also be presented.


Life with Giggles: Fur Baby Friday!!
Time to show off the pups.
Let me give you a run down of what Sadie has done this week.
Went to Pooch Play grand opening and got to run around their day care facilities and got a whole shopping bag worth of free stuff!
The hubs failed to lock her crate when he left for the work the other day. She was roaming our house for eight hours doing whatever she wanted which included eating the hubs slippers, peeing on my bedroom floor, and dragging little foam pieces from slippers ALL OVER MY APT.
Has been getting up before 6am to use the bathroom and play. Ugh.
But besides that, she has been cute as always!
Exhausted from the doggy park. This is the ONLY time she ever fell asleep in the car ride home.
Taking a nap while hugging her toy before I left for work in the AM. Precious!
Make sure you all link up!!!!!
Sadie was a busy girl. I'm sure she just had to find something to do for that whole time. They're so cute...it's hard to get really mad at them. Hope Sadie can come over and share her picture with us at reinventingtheordinary.com on Monday. Its' our first Pet Photo Party...it'll be held once a month. Each month a prize to one linkee. This month the gift is a nice blanket. Hope to see Sadie there..by the way...Team Edward all the way.


For today's post I thaught it would be nice to do a "how to wear" one of my fave fashion item:black leather jacket!
There are so many ways of wearing black leather jacket. Even if your style is more sporty than classy or bohoo.
Secondly, I'm going to show you my fave looks.
⭐Girly look: leather jacket+dress+boots..OMG I think them together look absolutely fabulous!
⭐Rock look:leather jacket,leather leggings,shirt,sneackers. This look is perfect for an everyday look/day look/school.
⭐ Night-out look:cropped top,skirt,leather jacket. For me,this is the perfect look for a night-out. I think you will need a jacket because it's still kind of cold outside.
So,that's it for today! I hope you have enjoyed my post. I tried to show you 3 ways of wearing a leather black jacket:from an everyday look to night out and cocktail.
Stay tuned for more and feel free to leave comments!


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Toivonen – Pauli, Henri & Harri: Finland's Fastest Family
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When rally fans hear the name Toivonen, they immediately think of breathtaking performances and glorious victories. But it is also hard to forget the accident on the 1986 Tour de Corse that took the lives of Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto and which eventually brought Group B rallying to an end. Henri was one of the most exceptional rally drivers in history. His inspiring performances in the Talbot Sunbeam Lotus, Opel Ascona 400, Porsche 911 SCRS and Lancia Rally 037 are all well-remembered. But it was the Lancia Delta S4 that really showcased Henri's ability with victories in the RAC and Monte Carlo rallies, the latter twenty years after his father's own triumph in the Principality. This book tells the fascinating story of the Toivonen family in rallying and racing. It starts with father Pauli's heroic drives in the 1950s and 1960s, including winning the European Rally title of 1968 at the wheel of a Porsche 911. It moves on to include the first exploits of the next generation on frozen lakes right up to the contrasting careers and fortunes of Henri and brother Harri in motor sport. Author Esa Illoinen immersed himself deeply in the Toivonen family history and spoke to innumerable friends and witnesses of those days. Amongst them were with Pauli's widow, Ulla, Henri's widow, Erja, and even Henri's 95-year old English teacher. The result is an intimate and touching portrait of Finland's fastest family, wonderfully illustrated by the best images from the inexhaustible McKlein archive.
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said last Friday that he was planning to file a complaint against Citigroup, adding Citi to the list of banks accused by one state or another of misleading investors about the risks associated with auction-rate securities. All day yesterday we waited for Cuomo's press conference--the AG is not one to file suit quietly--but nothing happened.
For Citigroup's lawyers--Brad Karp of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Harry Weiss of WilmerHale--no news was good news. But Cuomo's auction-rate securities investigation still made headlines: UBS general counsel David Aufhauser, reportedly implicated in Cuomo's case against the bank, resigned his post. Aufhauser, who previously served as general counsel to the Treasury Department and was once considered a candidate to replace Harriet Miers as President Bush's top lawyer, has not been charged with any wrongdoing, but The Wall Street Journal identified him as "Executive A" in Cuomo's complaint against UBS. The complaint alleges that Executive A was one of seven UBS executives who sold personal holdings in auction-rate securities with inside knowledge of the market's problems.
We've been told that Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is representing Aufhauser, but Gibson's not yet commenting. Former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White of Debevoise & Plimpton is representing UBS.
John Quinn was right. The Quinn Emanuel Urquart Oliver & Hedges name partner, lead counsel for Mattel Inc. in the fight over the popular Bratz doll, told the Litigation Daily this weekend that he was confident he'd prevail against MGA Entertainment's motion to throw out a Riverside, California jury's finding that the MGA designer who conceived of the Bratz doll did so while he was on Mattel's payroll. MGA had asked federal district court judge Stephen Larson to invalidate the verdict after members of the jury revealed that one juror made racist remarks about Iranians during deliberations. (MGA's CEO was born in Iran.) MGA lead counsel Thomas Nolan of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom argued that his client had a constitutional right to an impartial jury and moved for a mistrial.
Yesterday, after a short hearing, Judge Larson denied MGA's motion from the bench. He called the remarks of the juror, who has been dismissed from the case, "grossly inappropriate," but said the other nine jurors were unbiased. And, like Quinn in his opposition brief, Larson distinguished between criminal cases, in which the Supreme Court has carved out exceptions to the rule of jury secrecy when there's evidence of racial bias, and civil cases. "At stake here is property--a lot of property. [Later] I'll be taking cases where people's life and liberty are at stake," the judge said. "That's not the case here. And there is a difference."
Nolan told the Associated Press that Mattel plans to appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Duane Morris hasn't heard the last of Robin Singh. For years, Singh, the owner of a California LSAT test-prep company, has been after the firm and partner Richard Redano for allegedly mishandling his trademark infringement case against a competitor. Duane Morris may have thought the long-running case was finally dead and buried after winning a summary judgment motion against Singh from a Houston federal district court judge, but last week, according to the National Law Journal, the Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's ruling. Singh now has the chance to revive his suit in state court.
The case has all the jurisdictional wrinkles of a bar exam hypothetical. Singh, represented by Daniel Sheehan of Houston, originally filed the malpractice suit in Texas state court. But Duane Morris and Redano, represented by George Kryder of Vinson & Elkins, removed the case to federal court. Houston federal judge Vanessa Gilmore denied Singh's motion to remand the case to state court and later granted Duane Morris' motion for summary judgment. But the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on July 30 that Judge Gilmore lacked subject matter jurisdiction and vacated her order.
The appeals court dismissed the case, but now Sighn can re-file in state court, which would prolong a saga that began more than a half-decade ago when Redano had represented Singh at a five-day, federal court trial against Test Masters Educational Services. Redano persuaded the jury that Singh's company, Testmasters, had firmly established its trademark, giving it "secondary meaning" in the market; and that TES infringed Singh's mark. But jurors didn't find TES liable because they found it was an "innocent prior user." Moreover, when the original verdict went up on appeal in 2002, the Fifth Circuit reversed the jury's finding on secondary meaning. In his suit against Duane Morris and Redano, Singh claims that Redano failed to introduce evidence that would have established secondary meaning. He's seeking $29 million.
Singh told The National Law Journal he's "excited" about the opportunity to re-file his case. Duane Morris general counsel Michael Silverman, on the other hand, is less thrilled. "[We] obviously felt that the federal district court had jurisdiction," said Silverman in a written statement to the NLJ. "We are reviewing the court's opinion and considering our next steps."
Show me the damages. That was the message a California appeals court delivered to 17 independent pharmacies that sued the world's largest pharmaceutical companies for price fixing. In a July 25 order, the appeals court affirmed the trial court's dismissal of the case on the grounds that the plaintiffs had passed on all of the claimed overcharges to their customers. It was the first time that a California appeals court has upheld a price-fixing defendant's argument that plaintiffs cannot recover damages they passed on and thus did not themselves sustain.
In Clayworth v. Pfizer, the pharmacies claimed that the big drug companies conspired to keep prices in California above those charged in Canada. The defendants denied any price-fixing conspiracy, but also argued that even if they had manipulated prices, the plaintiffs passed along every penny of the claimed overcharges to their customers.
The case has kept a fair share of the Am Law 200 well employed. Big Pharma's counsel included (in no particular order): Faegre & Benson; Hogan & Hartson; Arnold & Porter; Mayer Brown; Latham & Watkins; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold; Covington & Burling; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly; and Reed Smith.
But wait! There's more: Folger Levin & Kahn; Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Dickstein Shapiro; Nossaman; Drinker, Biddle; Hughes Hubbard & Reed; Winston & Strawn; Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg; Filice Brown Eassa & McLeod; and Kaye Scholer.
On this long, long list one firm deserves particular recognition. It was Davis Polk & Wardwell, representing AstraZeneca, that took up the pass-on issue. Partner William Fenrich argued the pass-on defense for all of the defendants before the trial court judge, and again before the appeals court. Joining him on the briefs were Davis Polk attorneys Amelia Starr, Arthur Golden, and Daniel Schwartz. Joseph Alioto of the Alioto Law Firm argued for the plaintiffs at the appeals court.
Among corporate law geeks, Vice Chancellor Leo Strine, Jr., of Delaware's Court of Chancery is a rock star. At the annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute in New Orleans, the man even has groupies. So we're sure that this week his fans are breathlessly poring over Strine's 70-page July 30 ruling on the advancement of legal fees in the Conrad Black debacle.
The Sun-Times Mirror Group (formerly known as Hollinger International), represented by Daniel Kramer of Paul, Weiss and William Johnston of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor (among others), sued former CEO Conrad Black and other executives, claiming it was not obligated to advance legal fees after their sentencing for the crimes they were convicted of in July 2007. Black, who was represented in Delaware by David Jenkins and Joelle Polesky of Smith Katzenstein & Furlow, insisted that the company was required to advance fees until his case reached a non-appealable conclusion. Vice Chancellor Strine, after some serious pontificating, agreed with Black. For some weekend analysis of the opinion, check out this post on the Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog.
The opinion is not only good news for Black and the other defendants, it's also a boon for Andrew Frey of Mayer Brown, who represents Black in his criminal-case appeal to the Seventh Circuit. We called Frey, who is just back in the office from vacation, and were a little surprised, given what we know about litigators on "vacation," to hear that he hadn't yet had a chance to read the opinion. He told us, however, that he's "not surprised" by Vice Chancellor Strine's ruling, given the reports he'd heard of Strine's irritation with the Sun-Times claim. And surely, we asked, Frey is happy that his work will not go unpaid? "We expect to be paid," said Frey.
We also called Johnston of Young Conaway, who we're told argued the case for Sun-Times, but he didn't call back.
The death of the IP boutique has been predicted so many times in the last decade that it has become a hardened cliche. But in the August issue of IP Law & Business, reporter Lisa Shuchman takes a chainsaw to conventional wisdom. (Subscription required.) She cites numerous examples of boutiques that have thrived just when they were supposed to be withering. Take Washington, D.C.-based Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, which started out with a handful of lawyers 30 years ago. Today it's a healthy 80 attorneys, and thumbing its nose at what firm cofounder Robert Sterne called the "prophesized demise" of its ilk. To be sure, these have been challenging times for boutiques, which have witnessed the sad end of such once-successful shops as Fish & Neave and Pennie & Edmonds. But others, including Fish & Richardson and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, are booming. Shuchman concludes that cost efficiency, specialization, and organizational advantages have allowed boutiques to compete effectively, especially in patent prosecutions, where law firm consultant Peter Zeughauser says general-practice firms have not been able to create a profitable model.


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package com.cognizant.devops.engines.platformdataarchivalengine.message.subscriber;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

import com.cognizant.devops.engines.platformengine.message.factory.EngineSubscriberResponseHandler;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformcommons.constants.AgentCommonConstant;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformcommons.constants.DataArchivalConstants;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformcommons.constants.EngineConstants;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformcommons.constants.MQMessageConstants;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformcommons.core.enums.DataArchivalStatus;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformcommons.core.util.JsonUtils;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformcommons.dal.neo4j.GraphDBHandler;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformcommons.exception.InsightsCustomException;
import com.cognizant.devops.platformdal.dataArchivalConfig.DataArchivalConfigDal;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.rabbitmq.client.AMQP.BasicProperties;
import com.rabbitmq.client.Envelope;

public class DataArchivalHealthSubscriber extends EngineSubscriberResponseHandler {

	private static Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(DataArchivalHealthSubscriber.class.getName());
	GraphDBHandler dbHandler = new GraphDBHandler();
	DataArchivalConfigDal dataArchivalConfigDal = new DataArchivalConfigDal();
	private Map<String,String> loggingInfo = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

	public DataArchivalHealthSubscriber(String routingKey) throws Exception {
		super(routingKey);
	}

	@Override
	public void handleDelivery(String consumerTag, Envelope envelope, BasicProperties properties, byte[] body)
			throws IOException {

		String message = new String(body, MQMessageConstants.MESSAGE_ENCODING);
		try {
			String routingKey = envelope.getRoutingKey();
			List<JsonObject> dataList = new ArrayList<>();
			List<JsonObject> failedDataList = new ArrayList<>();
			Boolean isFailure = false;
			String healthStatus = "";
			JsonElement json = JsonUtils.parseString(message);
			JsonObject messageJson = json.getAsJsonArray().get(0).getAsJsonObject();
			String agentId = messageJson.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID).getAsString();
			String toolName = messageJson.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME).getAsString();
			messageJson.addProperty(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME, toolName);
			String categoryName = messageJson.get("categoryName").getAsString();
			messageJson.addProperty(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY, categoryName);
			loggingInfo.put(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME, toolName);
			loggingInfo.put(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY, categoryName);
			loggingInfo.put(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID, agentId);
			loggingInfo.put(EngineConstants.EXECID,String.valueOf( messageJson.get(EngineConstants.EXECID)));
			log.debug(" Type=DataArchival toolName={} category={} agentId={} routingKey={} execId={} Received :{} {} {}",loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME),loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY),loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID),"-",loggingInfo.get(EngineConstants.EXECID), consumerTag, routingKey, message);
			if (messageJson.has("status")) {
				healthStatus = messageJson.get("status").getAsString();
				if (healthStatus.equalsIgnoreCase("failure")) {
					isFailure = true;
					failedDataList.add(messageJson);
				}
			}
			dataList.add(messageJson);
			String healthLabels = ":LATEST:" + routingKey.replace(".", ":");
			createHealthNodes(dataList, agentId, healthLabels, 10, "LATEST");
			if (isFailure) {
				String failureLabels = routingKey.replace(".", ":");
				failureLabels = failureLabels.replace("HEALTH", "HEALTH_FAILURE");
				String healthFailureLabels = ":LATEST_FAILURE:" + failureLabels;
				createHealthNodes(failedDataList, agentId, healthFailureLabels, 20, "LATEST_FAILURE");
				updateErrorStateInArchivalRecord(messageJson);
			}
			getChannel().basicAck(envelope.getDeliveryTag(), false);
			log.debug(" Type=DataArchival toolName={} category={} agentId={} routingKey={} execId={} Data Archival Health message processed.",loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME),loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY),loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID),"-",loggingInfo.get(EngineConstants.EXECID));
		} catch (InsightsCustomException e) {
			log.error(" toolName={} category={} agentId={} execId={} Error occured in Data Archival Health Subscriber.Health message: {}",loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME),loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY),loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID),loggingInfo.get(EngineConstants.EXECID),message,e);
			getChannel().basicReject(envelope.getDeliveryTag(), false);
		}
	}

	private void updateErrorStateInArchivalRecord(JsonObject messageJson) {
		try {
			if (messageJson.has(DataArchivalConstants.ARCHIVALNAME)) {
				if (!messageJson.get(DataArchivalConstants.ARCHIVALNAME).getAsString().isEmpty()) {
					if (messageJson.has(DataArchivalConstants.TASK) && "remove_container"
							.equalsIgnoreCase(messageJson.get(DataArchivalConstants.TASK).getAsString())) {
						dataArchivalConfigDal.updateArchivalStatus(
								messageJson.get(DataArchivalConstants.ARCHIVALNAME).getAsString(),
								DataArchivalStatus.ERROR_REMOVE_CONTAINER.toString());
					} else {
						dataArchivalConfigDal.updateArchivalStatus(
								messageJson.get(DataArchivalConstants.ARCHIVALNAME).getAsString(),
								DataArchivalStatus.ERROR.toString());
					}
					log.debug(
							" Type=DataArchival toolName={} category={} agentId={} routingKey={} execId={} Updated Error state in Data Archival record.",
							loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME),
							loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY), loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID),
							"-", loggingInfo.get(EngineConstants.EXECID));
				} else {
					log.error(" toolName={} category={} agentId={} execId={} Archival name not provided",
							loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME),
							loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY), loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID),
							loggingInfo.get(EngineConstants.EXECID));
				}
			} else {
				log.error(" toolName={} category={} agentId={} execId={} Archival name property not present in message",
						loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME), loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY),
						loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID), loggingInfo.get(EngineConstants.EXECID));
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			log.error(
					" toolName={} category={} agentId={} execId={} Error occured in Data Archival Health Subscriber.Health message: {}",
					loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME), loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY),
					loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID), loggingInfo.get(EngineConstants.EXECID),
					e.getMessage(), e);
		}
	}
	private void createHealthNodes(List<JsonObject> dataList, String agentId, String nodeLabels, int nodeCount,
			String latestLabel) throws InsightsCustomException {
		String healthQuery;
		healthQuery = "Match";
		healthQuery = healthQuery + " (old" + nodeLabels + ")";
		healthQuery = healthQuery + " where old.agentId='" + agentId + "' or old.agentId is null";
		healthQuery = healthQuery + " OPTIONAL MATCH (old) <-[:UPDATED_TO*" + nodeCount
				+ "]-(purge)  where old.agentId='" + agentId + "'";
		healthQuery = healthQuery + " CREATE (new" + nodeLabels + " $props) ";
		healthQuery = healthQuery + " MERGE  (new)<-[r:UPDATED_TO]-(old)";
		healthQuery = healthQuery + " REMOVE old:" + latestLabel;
		healthQuery = healthQuery + " detach delete purge ";
		healthQuery = healthQuery + " return old,new";

		JsonObject graphResponse = dbHandler.executeQueryWithData(healthQuery, dataList);
		if (graphResponse.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("results").getAsJsonArray().get(0).getAsJsonObject()
				.get("data").getAsJsonArray().size() == 0) {
			healthQuery = "";
			healthQuery = healthQuery + " CREATE (new" + nodeLabels + " $props)";
			dbHandler.executeQueryWithData(healthQuery, dataList);
		}
		if (graphResponse.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("errors").getAsJsonArray().size() > 0) {
			log.error(" toolName={} category={} agentId={} execId={} Unable to insert health nodes for routing key: {} error {}  ",loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.TOOLNAME),loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.CATEGORY),loggingInfo.get(AgentCommonConstant.AGENTID),loggingInfo.get(EngineConstants.EXECID), nodeLabels, graphResponse);
		}
	}
}

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An Airdrie school teacher charged with sexual interference has been arrested after he allegedly continued contact with the 17-year-old victim.
John Christopher Miller has been charged with 12 counts of breach of recognizance in addition to a sexual interference charge.
A patrolling RCMP officer recognized Miller's vehicle leaving the area of George MacDougall High School in Airdrie, where he used to teach, the RCMP said in a release.
"Concerned, the officer entered into an investigation and was able to determine that Miller had in fact continued contacting the 17-year-old victim," the release added.
The 35-year-old was charged in October of this year, after concern was raised about his alleged relationship with the female student. At the time, he was released under the condition that he would not be in contact with the alleged victim.
Miller is currently in police custody.


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Duffy reveals new details about rape ordeal but doesn't reveal who kidnapped her
Mon Apr 06, 2020 at 1:23pm ET
By Jerry Brown
Duffy has posted details online of her terrifying ordeal at the hands of a rapist. Pic credit: DuffyVEVO/ YouTube
Welsh singer Duffy (Aimee Anne Duffy) published details of a terrifying incident where she explains how she was drugged, raped, and kidnapped.
She says she was drugged on her birthday and taken to a foreign country where she was raped. She has not revealed the identity of her kidnapper and rapist.
The 35-year-old Grammy winner posted a link on her Instagram account to a website called Duffywords.com, where she spoke about the ordeal and what had happened to her.
She captioned the post "with love."
Duffy revealed last February that she'd been raped 10 years ago
In February, Duffy surprised fans after a lengthy social media hiatus by taking to Instagram to explain that the reason she suddenly disappeared from the music industry in 2011 was because of this rape.
She said then that she had been contacted by a journalist last summer, and that it had felt "so amazing" to speak to them about the ordeal.
"He was kind, and it felt so amazing to finally speak. The truth is, and please trust me. I am ok and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days," she wrote in February.
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Yesterday she said she was now making the details public to free herself of her emotional burden and help others who "have suffered the same."
With love, duffywords.com
A post shared by @ duffy on Apr 5, 2020 at 1:32pm PDT
She wrote: "It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks and traveled to a foreign country. I can't remember getting on the plane and came round in the back of a traveling vehicle."
"I was put into a hotel room, and the perpetrator returned and raped me. I remember the pain and trying to stay conscious in the room after it happened."
She said her attacker made "veiled confessions of wanting to kill me."
Duffy said she was able to escape the dreadful situation but that she "cannot remember getting home."
Duffy says identity of rapist is between her and the police
She also revealed she informed police about the incident, and "the identity of the rapist should be only handled by the police, and that is between me and them."
She concluded the outpouring by saying that she hoped sharing the details would bring her "the smile in my eyes, the light in my life, that has been absent for just so long."
"I can now leave this decade behind where the past belongs. Hopefully, no more 'what happened to Duffy questions,' now you know … and I am free."
Duffy became a hit across the world after shooting to fame with her single Mercy.
Many women (and some men) in the entertainment industry have come forward in the last couple of years to say they were sexually abused.
Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23-years in prison for his part in allegedly sexually assaulting actresses.
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Yes indeed a great feeling when all sorted. My issued was that scales I had purchased record and keep your weight, which is then stored on an app. After installing a new WIFI system I could get them to connect. They didn't like the mesh system sharing 2.4 & 5 Ghz. I had to create a new 2.4 Ghz just for the scales to work. Having done that everything works very well.


Welcome to Newark U16's home page for the forthcoming 2018/19 Season. This Section of the Web Site will provide you with information about the age group, including match reports, photos, news items and fixtures.
Newark RUFC's aim is to provide an opportunity for all to take part in and enjoy the game of rugby. The club provides excellent coaching through our highly qualified coaching team who will oversee player development across the whole youth section with the teams head coach providing support.
You will have the opportunity to continually develop your fitness levels and rugby skills whilst having fun at whatever level you choose become involved.
You will represent the club playing regularly for the age group and potentially being asked to play a higher level when the opportunity arises. Of course rugby tours are a must touring is a great tradition at any Rugby club, let alone Newark!!! It provides an opportunity for great rugby and great fun. We start the touring ethos in the Minis which transcends Junior and Youth and develops into Senior rugby. Rugby is arguably the most social sport in the world so hopefully there will be a chance to experience a 'rugby tour' which is a great opportunity to bond with your team mates.
Newark prides its self on being a family orientated club, its offers a great social life with many events being run throughout the year which we hope you would become involved with, keep an eye on the news and events page for details.


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6 Spider-Man Villains Who Don't Deserve Their Own Movie (Just Like Morbius)
At long last, the Morbius movie is scheduled to arrive in theaters this week (barring any last second delays!). Early reviews peg this thing as a total flop, and I expected nothing less. The trailers looked bad, for one, and for two, Morbius sucks. He just plain sucks as a character.
Don't look at me like that
Honestly, the behind-the-scenes studio meddling in the Spider-Man franchise is sometimes more interesting than the movies themselves. Sony is on this roller coaster of making good movies, then bad movies, then worse movies, then throwing Marvel a bone and making incredible movies, to getting a big head and making bad movies again. The idea that Sony is determined to make their own Spider-Man villain mini-universe of films is hilarious to me. They're already working on a stand alone Kraven the Hunter movie. When will it end?
Hopefully before any of the following characters get their own stand alone movies! Join me after the jump for six crappy Spider-Man villains who will hopefully never get their own movies.
As with all lists of this type, I like to give myself subtle guidelines in putting it together. This isn't just a list of bad Spider-Man villains. That list is too easy. Sony isn't going to make a movie based on The Ringer or Big Wheel. This is a list of Spider-Man villains who could, conceivably, in the minds of Sony movie executives, carry a movie, but who I think are too terrible to deserve that treatment. There are some bad Spider-Man villains who, I think, would make a great movie. White Rabbit would be a great movie star! And I'd love a film starring the Kangaroo.
But then there are dorks like…
6. The Answer
The Question is in another comic universe
The Answer is a really dorky villain with a really cool power. He has the ability to develop whatever super-power is necessary to overcome whatever situation he faces. He's like Darwin from the X-Men, just not nearly as cool. But a movie script could make a lot of magic with a super-power like that. The Answer, Aaron Nicholson, could whip out whatever powers are necessary to be big and cool on the big screen, be they psychological or physical or super-natural. But man, the Answer is a total dork. So no thank you.
5. Human Fly
No good pictures exist on the internet
There's an Ant-Man and a Spider-Man? Yep, and there's a Fly-Man! If Sony can't use Spider-Man in their solo villain movies, why not just supplement another bug character as a hero? The Human Fly is nobody special. Just another mook who got bug-based super-powers and went up against Spider-Man. But everybody knows about flies. They totally exist. And if Sony is desperate for a bug-based character for a stand alone movie, I bet somebody is going to consider Human Fly. But they definitely should not.
4. Styx and Stone
Again, very few good pictures online
Two villains for the price of one! Styx and Stone are a couple of 90s-era nobodies who don't deserve even a second of further thought. But they have a fun pun of a name, and that's two villains to star in your movie, so maybe Sony could see something happen? Styx has cancer-powers and Stone has rock-powers, and they're a couple of mercenaries trying to raise money to cure Styx's condition. That's a little bit compelling, maybe? It's definitely a pretty unique motivation for the bad guys. But nah, no reason to explore that any further in a full-on movie.
3. Man Mountain Marko
All the steroids
How do you get The Rock or John Cena into your Spider-Man Cinematic Universe? Make a Man Mountain Marko movie. Man Mountain Marko is just a really big, really tough, really strong dude. He doesn't wear a costume. He doesn't have any specific super powers. He's basically just a mountain of a man, and he fights Spider-Man a bunch. That's it. But the desire to cast one of the popular large human actors right now is probably really strong. Man Mountain Marko would be a huge step down from either Black Adam or Peacemaker.
2. The Rose
I'm too tired to make a joke here
The Kingpin is back in action in the MCU, so I'm sure Sony would love to capitalize on that by introducing the Kingpin's son as his own villain. The Rose is Richard Fisk, privileged son of the Kingpin who gets up to his own organized crime, only he wears a mask and likes keeping roses in his office, I think. Doesn't matter. Richard Fisk isn't much of anything, and he's definitely nothing without his famous father. But if Sony is willing to make a Venom movie without Spider-Man, they're definitely willing to make a Rose movie without Kingpin. Let's hope they don't.
1 Menace
I spared you the pregnancy picture
Once upon a time, when Menace first arrived, I read an interview with one of her creators where they hoped she would be the big screen villain in the next Spider-Man movie. Menace. The worst of all the Green Goblin knock-offs. She was a weird character thrown into Brand New Day that crashed and burned, much like many of those villains. But she's a goblin whose not the main goblin. She's got that name that could stand alone as its own thing. She's a female villain, and surely Sony wants to capitalize on that. I can just see those psychopaths thinking Menace was their ticket to a new stand alone movie. That would be just like them. Those psychopaths.
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Q: MD5Decrypter.co.uk reverses md5 hashes? There is a site called http://www.MD5Decrypter.co.uk where when you give a md5 hash, it gives the original string. How is that possible. As far as I know md5 is an irreversible hash algorithm or is it? Secondly, can salt be used along with md5?

A: md5 is a hash algorithme so it allows two words to have the same hashcode. I you do not trust me, I can hash a 5-letter word, 10-letter word, 128-letter word with md5 and it will give me 32 characters every time.
The probleme is that md5 is not cryptographicaly secured. One can analyse it and guess what could have been hash. But the technique used by the site you posted is the rainbow table.
It can also be a dictionary, but it is less common with md5.
If you use a salt with your md5, this generator will not find anything until the rainbow table with your salt is filled.
md5 is usefull to sign a file, a cookie, or the name of a cryptography algorithm. It is not secured to store passwords. Some languages advice you to use whirlpool, bloswfish, salsa20 or sha512 instead of md2/5 sha 1/2/256

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Research shows severity of tinnitus is related to emotional processing
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Last updated November 7, 2017 2016-02-25T00:00:00-06:002017-11-07T00:00:00-06:00
New research shows that the impact tinnitus has on your life could be a matter of how your brain processes emotions. 2017 921 Research shows severity of tinnitus is related to emotional processing https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/52626-New-study-shows-tinnitus-severity-is-related-to-emotional-processing
If you are one of the millions of people in the U.S. with tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, you might already know how debilitating it can be. Or perhaps you are one of those who considers tinnitus to be "no big deal," and who doesn't suffer any ill effects in their day-to-day lives. If you are one of those fortunate people who isn't bothered by your tinnitus, it turns out there is a reason for it. It all starts with the brain.
People with less severe tinnitus process
emotions differently in the brain compared
to those with severe tinnitus.
A study out of the University of Illinois revealed not only that those who have tinnitus process emotional sounds differently than those who do not have tinnitus, but also that among those who have tinnitus, there are significant differences in which regions of the brain are used when processing emotions.
Not a disease in and of itself, tinnitus is usually a symptom of another underlying health condition or the result of trauma such as exposure to loud noise or ototoxic medications. Basically, tinnitus is the perception of sound such as ringing or buzzing in one or both ears when no sound is present. And that perception of sound means that the brain is a key player in the presence and severity of tinnitus.
"We are trying to understand how the brain adapts to having tinnitus for a very long time," said Fatima Husain, University of Illinois speech and hearing science and neuroscience professor who led the research team.
The research study was especially significant given that, according to the NIDCD, 25 million people in the U.S. have experienced tinnitus symptoms lasting at least five minutes in the past year. There is no "cure" for tinnitus, only treatments and therapies that can reduce the severity of the condition.
Tinnitus and emotional sounds
During the study, the use of functional MRI allowed researchers to see changes in blood oxygen levels in the brain. Researchers first looked at the brain activity of those with tinnitus versus those without. The goal was to compare how the brain processes emotion in the two groups. During the fMRI, the participants in the study were exposed to 30 "pleasant" sounds, 30 "unpleasant" sounds and 30 "neutral" sounds. Types of sounds included children giggling, babies crying, and the sound of a water bottle opening.
The results of the fMRIs showed those with tinnitus had greater engagement in different areas of the brain when exposed to emotion-triggering sounds than those without tinnitus. As a result, the researchers took the next step: comparing the brain activity of patients with tinnitus to each other, the only difference between subjects being varying degrees of severity of tinnitus.
The reason for the comparison was that some patients adjust well to the ringing in their ears, while others do not. What this means is that the severity of the condition can vary greatly from person to person, because "severity" is based on the level of tinnitus distress that the individual reports.
Perceived tinnitus severity and the frontal lobe
Since tinnitus can manifest itself in many different ways, each patient's experience is unique. While some aren't bothered by their tinnitus, others experience a reduced quality of life negative consequences include depression, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, mood swings, irritability and even suicidal thoughts.
More: Tinnitus and suicidal thoughts: What to do when life feels overwhelming
Those with tinnitus were first given surveys with questions relating to hearing, attitude, emotion and sleep to gauge the severity, or perceived level of distress from their tinnitus. Following the surveys, the fMRI was repeated. The second round of fMRI revealed to researchers that those with less severe tinnitus, i.e. those who reported lower tinnitus distress, actually used a different pathway to process emotional information.
While conventional wisdom says the part of the brain known as the amygdala is the key to emotional processing, the patients who weren't as bothered by tinnitus used more of the brain's frontal lobe to process emotions. The heightened activity in the frontal lobe was notable because the frontal lobe is typically used more for attention, planning and impulse control.
Understanding tinnitus for better therapies
The takeaway for the researchers was that greater activation of the frontal lobe helped control emotional responses and reduce tinnitus stress, which could have far-reaching implications on possible interventions or therapies for tinnitus.
One group in particular that could benefit is the military, as both active and former members are disproportionately affected by tinnitus. The Department of Veterans Affairs reports that in 2011, tinnitus was the most prevalent service-connected disability, affecting upwards of 840,000 people. Fortunately, Husain plans to continue her research, and active duty service members will be a high priority. Ultimately Husain is hopeful that the results of the research will help doctors better understand tinnitus and lead to more effective therapies that could improve quality of life for all tinnitus patients.
Don't forget - tinnitus often accompanies hearing loss, too. Treating your hearing loss can bring back the wonderful sounds of life, improve your relationships and help keep your mind sharp. For some people who have both tinnitus and hearing loss, just wearing hearing aids can also alleviate tinnitus. If you need help with your hearing or tinnitus, find a hearing healthcare professional near you now.
Lisa Packer
Lisa Packer holds a bachelor's degree from Ohio University. She is a freelance writer and blogger with extensive experience in healthcare, law, organic practices and yoga.
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Air-conditioner makers such as Voltas, LG, Daikin and Godrej are expanding their production by up to 20% with warm temperature in west and south pushing demand by over 15% in February and Met office forecasting a harsh summer this year.
The white goods industry, which has been battling poor sales for over six months, expects air-conditioner sales to grow almost 20% this summer based on early sales trend and forecast by India Meteorological Department (IMD) of average temperature being above normal by more than one degree Celsius in most of the country from March to May.
Companies are now building up additional inventory pipeline as they were earlier expecting 10-12% sales growth. "We are ramping up production by almost 20% since we expect much higher sales growth now than what was initially expected," said Tata-owned Voltas managing director Pradeep Bakshi. "There is also a lot of pent-up demand of last year. We are gearing up our production to stock up," he said.
Godrej Appliances business head Kamal Nandi said the IMD projection has been the biggest positive development for the industry in the absence of any other indicator supporting growth. "Night temperature in west and south is 25-degrees plus since mid-February, pushing sales. We would now run our plant in peak capacity," he said.
The white goods industry has been battered with consumers holding back discretionary spending whereby several categories like television, refrigerators and washing machines reporting flat to low single digit growth since the introduction of GST. The airconditioner market last year too got hit due to GST and after-effects of demonetisation.
Daikin Air-Conditioning India CEO KJ Jawa said the company has ramped up production with target of growing faster than the market. "We have recently started production at our second plant which has increased the annual capacity from 7 lakh units to 1.5 million units. The target is to touch Rs 4,000 crore sales this year as compared to Rs 3,250 crore of last year," he said.
AC makers have also moved to a common energy efficiency rating, Indian Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (ISEER ratings) as mandated by the government for both inverter compressor models and lower-priced fixed speed AC models. The companies expect this will boost sales since consumers can compare the models on an even platform and realise higher savings on their electricity bills.
LG India business head (AC) Vijay Babu said the company can quickly increase production, depending on demand due to a strong manufacturing base. "We have already registered 40% growth in sales this year," he said.


Engineering classes can be daunting enough on their own, but add internships, research opportunities, and career plans to the game and you are sure to get a whole other story. Although searching for these can be frustrating and often challenging, there are so many resources for us Viterbi students that make networking and applications so much simpler! Here are a few tips you can use to help you make the most of your Viterbi experience.
1) Use your Academic Advisor!
Every semester you are required to visit your academic advisor for an advisement appointment in which you discuss the progress you are making toward your degree and lay out what courses you will be taking the next semester. While a lot of students stop their relationship with their advisor right there, building and fostering a meaningful relationship with them can make a huge difference in how you plan your academic course path. Viterbi academic advisors are there to help us figure out how to make our undergraduate experience the most enjoyable, so do not be afraid to stop by during walk-in hours and ask questions! My advisor, Chris Noll, has been extremely helpful in answering questions about the importance of adding an emphasis within BME, what technical electives best fit my personal interests, and what extracurricular activities I might be interested in. Your own advisor will be happy to do the same for you, and even more if you simply ask!
The Trojan family is no joke. USC Alumni absolutely love to hear from current students about their career interests and will gladly field any questions you have about their USC experiences and how they got to where they are today. Many engineering departments have their own alumni databases with a list of alumni who asked to have their contact information put down for the very reason to have students contact them. I have personally utilized the BME Alumni database to contact Alumni who work for medical device companies such as Stryker and Medtronic to get a better understanding of what I can do to prepare myself for internships, in addition to getting a feel for what an average day is like in an engineering job. All of the Alumni I have contacted have been tremendously helpful, and as soon as you conquer the initial nerves of reaching out to someone you have never met it only gets easier. On that note, don't simply ask for internships or jobs. While the Alumni are glad to hear from you, it is not professional or comfortable, and most do not directly work with their company's recruiting office.
The Viterbi Career Gateway is a very easy-to-navigate online database that allows Viterbi students to get involved in On-Campus Recruiting. Sign in with your USC email and password, upload a copy of your resume, Curriculum Vitae (CV), and sample cover letters, and you are able to look at which companies are recruiting USC students and can express interest in specific companies. This site is also very helpful during the Viterbi Career Fair as you are able to search every company that will be on campus, identify if they are hiring interns or full-time employees, and express interest in them, which notifies the recruiter that you are interested in learning more about their company at the fair.
There are many other resources available to Viterbi students to aid in the internship and job search and look for research opportunities, but these three are some of the most helpful and widely used. You can also check out connectSC, USC's campus wide job database, and sign up for the Career Center's weekly emails which keep you updated on companies that are on campus or looking to hire students. Although it seems like a lot, the earlier you begin your search the less stressful it becomes, and the more rewarding your experience will be!


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