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The Pros of Attending Cons
Dusting make up on her face and fitting her wig perfectly atop her head, junior Michayella Medrano gets ready to attend one of her favorite events of the year. With a bright smile, Medrano enters the anime con entrance, grabs her all access pass, and makes her way towards the artist alley. All the while, she can feel comfortable in the judgement free and welcoming community that anime cons host.
"I like to cosplay and I get to be someone who I'm not usually, like I get to explore other aspects of different characters," Medrano said, "[Cons are] very loud, but you can tell that everyone is having as much fun as they possibly can."
(Michayella Medrano (left) poses with her twin sister Mickayla Medrano (right), dressed up as characters from the anime Black Butler)
Comic and anime cons always have something going on-whether it's the artist alley or a cosplay competition-so you're guaranteed to never get bored.
"[They] have gaming sections where the people who put [the con] together bring video game consoles and then have people lined up, playing games," Medrano said, "[Cons] have the artist alley, which is artists all over the area and outstate that come over and show their art and sell it. And then we have dealer halls that sell merchandise, like hoodies and plushies and all that."
One of the highlights of anime/comic cons are the panels, which feature popular celebrities and cosplayers.
"For the most part, from what I've seen [panels are] really fun, because you get to interact with all the people on stage in cosplays, so you get to talk to them in character and ask them questions and stuff," Medrano said.
Junior Ariana Michaud also enjoys attending cons, but points out that some are better than others atmospherically.
"Wizarding World was kind of awkward, I don't know how to describe it, but I guess clinical; it wasn't great. But Alamo City was more of a community and everyone was cosplaying and super nice," Michaud said, "San Japan felt very hectic, I think the best one I've been to is Alamo City, because it is very structured, and it is very like-this is where everything is, this is how we're going to do things."
San Antonio alone has many fantastic cons, with prices ranging from high to low, depending on the size and relevance of the con.
Alamo City Comic Con
Date: October 26-28
Price range: $35 to $50 for day passes and $60 for three day passes (VIP/panel passes range from $150 to $1,250)
Guest stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Goldbum, Jim Lee, and many other artists, voice actors, and celebrities
San Japan
Date: August 30-September 1
Price range: $35 to $50 for day passes, $75 for three day passes, and $196.49 for limited gold passes
Guest stars: popular anime voice actors, J-pop bands, and artists
Other popular cons are spread throughout Texas, which are just as fun as the ones in San Antonio.
Fan Expo Dallas
Price Range: $25 to $50 for day passes, $55 to $110 for family passes, $89 for deluxe passes (for three days)
Guests: Ben Affleck, Karen Gillan, Jeff Goldblum, and many other artists, voice actors, and celebrities
Ikkicon
Date: December 28-30
Price range: $35 to $45 for day passes, $50 for Saturday/Sunday passes, and $60 for weekend passes
Guests: to be announced
Wizard World
Date: September 21-23
Price range: $29.99 to 34.99 for day passes, $49.99 for weekend pass, and $149 to $679.95 for VIP passes
Guests: David Tennant, Peter Capaldi, Ian Somerhalder, and many other artists, voice actors, and celebrities
Alamo City Comic Conanime conAriana Michaudcomic conFan Expo DallasIkkiconLauren LovelessMichayella MedranoSan JapanWizard World
Lauren Loveless is currently a junior. This is her second year on the journalism staff and she enjoys dancing, video games, and studying in her free time.

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It's been an interesting day for news, what with Bob Diamond having such an easy ride from the House of Commons Select Committee, and the Higgs Bosun particle making a very small wave in the sum of things. I'm sure that the two items aren't connected, but then again if Mr Diamond's body contains a few Higgs Bosun's I wonder how much tax will they be paying and will the trail go back to Gordon Brown's front door ?
I was, however, more animated by the "Grauniad" piece that the high priest of the environment, George Monbiat (Here) wrote yesterday. George tells us,with some apprehension that the oil is not going to run out as quickly as predicted. Now all of you driving Range Rovers may breathe a sigh of relief, and some of you living in, say, Brighton may not. Those of you in Blackpool, and I cherish some of my most devoted readers in that part of Lancashire, ( Hilda of St Lytham St Annes and Mabel of Poulton Le Fylde much as I love those sponge cakes, my wife is beginning to smell a bakery) will be concerned that the fracking for shale gas that caused a small earth tremor is only the start of our problems.
George Monbiot and James Delingpole of the Telegraph seem to have some wierd "thing" going on. No fracking going on ( Here ) then.


Seems that way…. thanks, though Molly!
Having lived in Chicago, I only really know the options there, and I used to buy my canvas at Vogue Fabrics in Chicago (http://www.voguefabricsstore.com/home.php). There are some options on the website, but I think calling them might be the best way to go. Word of caution – their customer service isn't ha… topnotch, but they have a fairly good selection of things! Also, Fishmans Fabrics could be worth a call too.
Depending on your project, Sunni's medium weight canvas could work with dense padstitching. Can't wait to see what you're making!
Thank you very much! I forgot about Vogue for this, although I am aware of them as being the one place I know of that has online sale of Thinsulate and flannel-backed lining for coats. I'd avoided both in favor of other materials this time around but it makes sense when you say they are actually located in Chicago that they stock these things- I hadn't realized they were in my nearest metropolis! Thank you very much for the references and advice, and I'm very glad to have discovered your blog also!
And I yours! My dad grew up near Fargo (I think he took clarinet or oboe lessons there as a kid/teen), and I've been there a couple of times, which makes it all the more cooler to follow your sewing adventures when I can picture your town!
Hehe.. hopefully that didn't come off as creepy. I didn't mean it creepy, I promise.
LOL No problem, I feel the same about Bergen, have some family there, what a lovely city!
I'm thinking you should try the mid-weight, also. Extra pad stitching, or even doubling up a couple layers of light or mid-weight? Though please realize that I've never used a synthetic, and only done samples of pad stitching. Can't wait to see what this is!
Don't think i'm going to be much help, i've never used hymo or tailored but my thinking would be along similar lines to yours – i understand tailoring to give form between the steam etc & stitching, have you time to try sampling Sunni's medium weight?
hehe yep me either, good times over here.


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Gary Gross is injured in Copake tractor-trailer accident
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Elizabeth O'Brien injured in tragic Liberty County bicycle accident
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Kerry O'Reilly, 30, sadly killed in Chestertown DWI accident
Kerry O'Reilly, 30, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, sadly was killed in an accident when the vehicle in which she occupied was struck by a wrong-way drunken driver on Friday, September 3rd, on Interstate 87 in Chestertown. Dennis Ford, 65, of Saranac ...
Gregory Doody killed in Boston multi-vehicle pedestrian accident
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Bruce and Susan Shepardson injured in Pittsfield head-on accident
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🎤 Shannon - Let The Music Play MP3
Shannon Germany Zyx Music House Hard House 2002
Performer: Shannon
Title: Let The Music Play
Record source: CD, Single
Style: House, Hard House
Label: ZYX Music
Cat#: GDC 2308-8
1 Let The Music Play (Full Intention Club Mix)
Remix – Full Intention
2 Let The Music Play (Full Intention Dub Mix)
3 Let The Music Play (Junior Vasquez X Beat Mix)
Remix – Junior Vasquez
4 Let The Music Play (Full Intention Radio Mix)
5 Let The Music Play (Radio Edit)
Mixed By, Producer – Charles Shaw , blizz
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Written-By – Chris Barbosa, Ed Chisolm
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Label Code: LC 06350
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A Brief History of 'Boobies'
A court case about whether wearing "I ♥ boobies!" bracelets is lewd and disruptive in school shines light on an old word
By Katy Steinmetz Oct. 31, 2013
AP Photo/Matt Rourke
Brianna Hawk, 15, left, and Kayla Martinez, 14, display their bracelets for photographers outside the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. The two teens took their fight over a school ban of their "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets to a U.S. appeals court and won. The Easton Area School District believes the bracelets have a sexual undertone that invites disruption in the classroom. But Hawk and Martinez say they merely hoped to promote breast cancer awareness at their middle school.
Boobies have been around for about 150 years. Female breasts, of course, have been around much longer than that. But it's this slang term for a woman's bosom that is at the heart of a case that may be heading for the Supreme Court.
In 2010, two middle school students in Easton, Pa., defied their school's ban on bracelets—meant to promote awareness of breast cancer—that said "I ♥ boobies!" After three years of legal battles over lewdness and free speech rights, the school district voted this week to appeal their so-far-losing case to the highest court in the land. And so it happens that Supreme Court Justices may find themselves focused on a word that has roots predating America.
According to Jonathon Green, a lexicographer who has published the most comprehensive dictionary of English slang to date, there are at least 212 synonyms for the female breast. Chugs. Wallopies. Grapefruits. Zoomers. Zogs. Cajooblies. All can be found in the pages of Green's Dictionary of Slang. As far back as the 1500s, breasts were called paps. In the 1600s, there came other names, like apples, globes and lily white balls. Then, around 1680, there arose a bit of slang that would outshine most all the rest in its various forms: bubby.
Bubby, Green says, may come from the Latin word bibere, meaning to drink. Or it may be onomatopoeic, echoing the sound of an infant breast-feeding. By the 1800s, that word had morphed into booby, which became boob. Since the rise of feminism in the 1970s, that word "seems to be the term of choice for many women," Green says in an email, partly because it has a softer sound than some of the alternatives.
The question of whether boobies is lewd and disruptive in the context of the bracelets—as the Pennsylvania school officials and their supporters claim it is—remains a matter for the courts to decide. In support of the school, the Pennsylvania School Boards Association wrote a brief arguing that while "one meaning [of "I ♥ boobies!"] is innocuous and simply promotes breast cancer awareness … [a]nother reasonable meaning has a sexual interpretation" that is inappropriate for middle school students and could contribute to a hostile environment. "The fact that this kind of language may hold little shock value outside of school does not mean that educators can simply permit such a manner of expression," they add.
Back when bubbies was first being used, the slang terms that were considered offensive and disruptive were largely blasphemous, not sexual. Author Melissa Mohr, who wrote a history of swear words, says that this is because religion was taken very seriously in the Middle Ages, but people didn't have much privacy. People shared beds and bathrooms, and obscene words didn't register on the horror scale because "people had a much less advanced sense of shame." As the Age of Enlightenment set in and "religiosity faded, at least in the UK," Green says, new taboos emerged, like terms referring to sex and parts of the body.
In their brief, the board association draws comparisons to T-shirts reading "I ♥ Va Jay Jays" that are meant to promote awareness of HPV. Green points out that for centuries, words referring to genitals have been considered much more frightening to conservative types. They're also much more abundant; his count is 1,200 synonyms for vagina—a word that has caused plenty of its own controversy, among adults no less.
"It is hard," Green writes, "to assess 'lewdness', which like so much else lies in the beholder's eye."


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By Christine Zeindler
Researchers tackle problems caused by a warming Arctic landscape
Top: PhD student Jill Lambden braves -40°C temperatures as part of her work with human nutrition professor Harriet Kuhnlein. Above: Wildlife biologist Murray Humphries paddles past a beaver dam on the Whirlpool River in Manitoba as part of his research on species migration
As the country shakes off its white blanket of winter and emerges, blinking and grateful, into the warm sunlight of spring, most Canadians are happy to swap their toques for T-shirts. But while their peers are locating their sunscreen, many researchers at McGill bundle into their woollies and chase the receding frontier of snow into Canada's Arctic, joining colleagues who visit the North year-round for their research.
The image of the stark, unchanging landscape of the North is firmly lodged in the imagination of Canadians as a part of our national identity. In reality, it is undergoing dramatic transformation, in both environmental and human terms. Understanding the nature of these changes is as pressing a need for the people who live in the farther reaches of the country as it is for everyone else.
Plumbing the Icy Depths
The frozen North holds keys to understanding climate change, and geology professor Wayne Pollard is digging deep to find them. From early spring to late summer, Pollard, an ice archaeologist in the Department of Geography, may be found drilling in the permafrost at McGill's High Arctic Research Station on Axel Heiberg Island in the Arctic Ocean.
"A lot of the ice is thousands of years old, so we can use it to interpret what the climate was like. Ice is a reflection of history," he says. "Understanding the history is important for prediction models."
More than 50 per cent of Canada's land mass is frozen year round, to depths of up to a kilometre. Knowing how much ice is present under the surface is a first step in predicting what type of changes will occur above ground as temperatures rise.
"As permafrost melts, it will expose the ice, which will also melt; landslides, big holes and depressions will occur. Stable ground will become unstable. The area will look as if somebody went over it with a bulldozer," says Pollard.
This cartographer's nightmare has a huge impact for northern communities: in the Yukon, Dawson City's municipal works budget has increased by 50 per cent, in part due to damage caused to infrastructure by shifting permafrost. If the melting continues, the streets of towns like Dawson City could become impassable swamps dotted by islands of half-sunken homes.
As part of the ArcticNet research consortium that evaluates the impact of this change on northern communities, Pollard might help stem the mucky tide. With funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), ArcticNet is developing models to predict the amount of erosion and better understand the impact of climate change on northern people.
The increasing impermanence of permafrost will have effects beyond broken sewer lines in the North. The frozen soil of the Arctic is a giant cold-storage unit of centuries' worth of natural and unnatural contaminants like soil carbon and mercury. Once the permafrost breaks down, it opens a Pandora's icebox, releasing these substances into the environment. Using a shallow drilling technique developed by PhD student Nicole Couture, Pollard's team is measuring carbon levels in the ground of Axel Heiberg.
The wind-lashed lands at the latitude of the island are hostile enough to life to qualify as Arctic desert. But surprisingly, beneath the surface, the permafrost is home to billions of micro-organisms, which thrive in unimaginable cold and darkness. Environmental microbiologist Lyle Whyte's research team is studying these strange and little-known organisms in the hope of discovering novel microbes that will give us a greater understanding of the low-temperature limit of microbial life on earth.
The desolate High Arctic is an excellent stand-in for extra-terrestrial environments. Wayne Pollard is collaborating with NASA to develop an automated, lightweight, low-power drill capable of acquiring samples from below the surface of Mars as well as carrying out sterile sampling techniques
Whyte's work is funded by NSERC, the Canada Research Chairs program and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, as well as the Canadian Space Agency and NASA—which are interested in the Far North because its harsh environs are an excellent stand-in for the frigid and barren surface of Mars for testing technology. He focuses on bacteria growing in two specialized environments: those that live in cold saline springs and those in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island. The high salt concentration—up to seven times that of seawater—in the springs means the water never freezes, even though the outside temperatures may reach –50ºC. Even more remarkable is that Whyte and PhD student Nancy Perreault have detected never-seen-before micro-organisms that produce hydrogen sulphide and methane, while others may be using those compounds as energy.
Permafrost micro-organisms could have a real impact on the environment, especially climate change. "It is possible that following permafrost melting, the activities and populations of these bacteria will increase. They will produce more methane and/or carbon dioxide, creating a positive feedback loop on global warming," says Whyte.
Animals on the Move
Warmer temperatures will also have an effect on the larger creatures that make their home in the North. The margin of survival is razor thin in the harsh northern environment, making animals there especially vulnerable to climate change. Wildlife biologist Murray Humphries studies mammal ecology and physiology in Canada's North, but the experience of working in the Subarctic goes beyond simple science for him.
"It's really about the wildlife and trying to understand the world on their terms, not ours. People will say that I can only view wildlife through a human lens, but I think if we all spent more time in the North, we might change our minds. It has a way of shrinking the human condition," he says.
Every species has its own range of climatic tolerance—a comfort zone that determines where a species can survive. Warmer temperatures mean that animals can thrive at higher latitudes than in the past. This includes the ever-industrious beaver, which has colonized areas as far north as Ungava Bay, Quebec.
"Normally, beaver are a boreal species surrounded by trees, but they are way up into the tundra landscape, in a narrow band of alder and willows along the rivers," says Humphries, who is funded by NSERC, SSHRC and ArcticNet. His students are doing surveys to predict how far north Canada's national rodent will get, and how quickly.
This migration might seem like a good thing—the animals are, after all, expanding their range to thrive in new environments. On the other hand, it amounts to your neighbour moving into your house because you set the thermostat higher. Beaver, along with red fox and moose that have also settled in like unwelcome guests in the living room of the caribou and polar bear, are effectively invasive species in their new environments. This infiltration of the North is an acceleration of what has been happening since the glaciers retreated, which Humphries says may be related to the onset of increased industrialization.
"Everything adds up pretty strongly that we have unprecedented rates of warming and acceleration of warming trends that are due to anthropogenic gas emissions in the atmosphere."
This territorial change of northern animals also concerns Harriet Kuhnlein and Grace Egeland, who are both affiliated with the McGill Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment. They are encouraging communities in the North to rely less on store-bought "southern" food and more on traditional food harvested from the land, which Kuhnlein says the local population deeply appreciates.
"Work on traditional food systems resonates well with communities, and especially with those still closely linked with their traditional food system," says Kuhnlein.
Delicacies like musk-ox steak are not something shoppers will find in the local IGA. Store-bought food might be more convenient than the traditional methods of hunting, but Egeland says that "market food has more trans- and saturated fat, lots of refined carbohydrates and less protein, and the usual shopping cart doesn't include many fresh fruit and vegetables." However, all recognize that market food is here to stay, and that better quality food in the stores, more income and wider education are all needed to use it in ways that don't have negative effects on people's health.
A diet composed mostly of today's store-bought food is causing higher rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, especially in younger individuals, as well as iron and vitamin D deficiency. According to Kuhnlein and Egeland, both of whom are funded by CIHR, many essential nutrients and vitamins are contained in the staples of northern cuisine. Whale skin, for instance, has levels of vitamin C equivalent to those of oranges, and dried whale meat has more iron than any food on record, according to Kuhnlein. Together with Inuit and Gwich'in communities, she and Egeland are developing plans to make traditional food more available to the community and to create education programs—including radio broadcasts—to encourage people to "eat North."
Murray Humphries near Raindeer Lake, Manitoba, in the sparse northern forests that beaver and other animals are now calling home
The pressures that make it difficult to cook a nutritious meal are the same for parents in the North as they are for those in the South. With the competing demands of work and school schedules, sometimes it's impossible to resist the temptation to throw some Kraft Dinner in the pot and call it supper, rather than chase down some caribou. Kuhnlein is hoping that northern community spirit might provide a solution. "We are exploring with the communities the possibility of having communal hunters who are compensated for their effort, and communal freezers where the meat can be stored."
McGill's northern researchers all speak poetically of the vast beauty of the North, the wilderness and the northern lights. And while Egeland may have come for the research, she has learned some unexpected skills to take back home, citing a meeting she had with community leaders on Baffin Island.
"It started with small talk on our families, the weather, the upcoming fishing derby and so on. Then the mayor abruptly switched gears—decisions were made quickly and decisively. I really admire that Inuit style—I wish I could transport some of that down South."
For her part, Kuhnlein has developed some pretty exotic tastes from her northern travels. "You'll never forget caribou stew once you taste it."


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MO' MONEY, MO' PROBLEMS: CROWDFUNDING
By Ryan Sahota | October 27, 2016
ACCOUNTING ECONOMY STARTUPS TAXATION TECHNOLOGY
"I don't know what they want from me, it's like the more money we come across, the more problems we see". As hard as it is to believe that tax and hip-hop could exist in the same sentence, the lyric's from The Notorious B.I.G.'s hit single Mo Money Mo Problems could not ring truer with regards to startups and the different techniques used to raise cash. While the golden age of hip-hip ushered in a new platform and direction for today's artists, it too can be argued that today's online world of raising cash, specifically crowdfunding, is setting the tone for the future while also bringing in new problems.
For those not familiar with crowdfunding, it is a way by which to fund projects, business ventures, or not-for-profit organizations through online websites made available to large crowds of people who will then "donate" or contribute money to the cause if it resonates with them. Crowdfunding has gained traction in the last few years, with 2016 seeing crowdfunding platforms such as Indiegogo, Crowdfunder and Kickstarter become household names in the startup world.
Currently, there are two types of crowdfunding methods, with the first model being more of a donation or contribution style and the second model being an investment or equity style based concept. The first model is usually where a large number of individuals will place differing amount of monies to finance a specific project in exchange for a reward or some form of recognition by the issuer (for example Kickstarter). The second model is where businesses seeking capital injection, source equity or debt stakes in their companies to venture capitalists or large groups of investors online (for example Crowdfunder).
With startups and business ventures raising financing from crowdfunding models at an estimated $34 billion US in 2015, it really hits home when you consider that B.C. is home to the second highest percentage of small and early-stage businesses in Canada. A good chunk of these businesses in B.C. use alternative sources of raising capital and equity with a good number of them using online crowdfunding platforms. While crowdfunding is a relatively easy way to obtain necessary capital to finance your business or ventures, it is also not without its legal and tax implications.
Currently, there is no official tax policy in Canada with regards to revenues and funding received by businesses or individuals for the use of business or income purposes. Depending on the facts and circumstances, income received by a taxpayer under a crowdfunding arrangement could represent a loan, capital contribution, gift, income, or a combination of these methods. Since the terms and conditions of these types of arrangements may vary greatly from one situation to another, the CRA's approach is to evaluate each situation on a case-by-case basis before making a determination on the income tax consequences of a particular crowdfunding arrangement. However, CRA has issued two specific rulings in 2013 and 2015 with regards to their view on the taxation of these monies received by businesses and individuals. Generally speaking, where funds are received by you as a result of crowdfunding for the use in a business or a business venture, the CRA generally considers such funds to be taxable income under subsection 9(1) of the Income Tax Act. The funds are not taxable if it can be shown that they clearly represent a loan, capital contribution or other form of equity. Interestingly under the equity method of crowdfunding CRA has no official position to date or any ruling letters.
From a legal perspective, B.C. is one of the few provinces in Canada that has adopted crowdfunding registration and prospectus exemptions aimed at non-public startups and early stage businesses. Startups and early stage issuers intending to rely on the new exemptions must use a funding portal that is either relying on the crowdfunding exemptions or is operated by a registered dealer. In B.C. registrants would have to comply with the Startup Crowdfunding Exemption and ensure that they meet ongoing disclosure requirements, annual financial statements, and annual disclosure on how proceeds are used.
While most certainly, the more money startups and businesses do come across the more problems they see, it is also a sign of the times where non-conventional methods of capital raising are perhaps ushering in a new era of financing for small businesses and startups. As always, depending on which method of crowdfunding you do proceed to use, please remember to consult a qualified lawyer and tax accountant on the pitfalls within securities regulation and tax compliance.


What is Opportunity Cost? Explain with the help of an example.
A consumer consumes only two goods X and Y and is in equilibrium. Price of X falls. Explain the reaction of the consumer through the Utility Analysis.
A producer borrows money and starts a business. He himself looks after the business. Identify implicit and explicit costs from this information. Explain.
Define an indifference map. Why does an indifference curve to the right show more utility? Explain.
A consumer buys 8 units of a good at a price of Rs 7 per unit. When price rises to Rs 8 per unit he buys 7 units. Calculate price elasticity of demand through the expenditure approach. Comment upon the shape of demand curve based on this information.
How should the following be treated while estimating national income" Give reasons.


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Male Victims of Abuse
18 September, 2018 | Marcella Rick
It is never easy to come out as an abuse victim.
It is understandably terrifying. We have all seen the way that victims are demonised. However hard it is to open up, speaking to somebody can be vital, both to the recovery of the victims' mental health and possible future victims.
Unfortunately, opening up seems to be harder for men, who typically take around 26 years to talk about the abuse faced as children, where it takes women an average of five years.
And the problem doesn't stop there. One in three victims of domestic abuse are men. However, men are over three times as likely to avoid speaking up about it. 1in6 is an organization that works tirelessly with the families and friends of male abuse victims. Along with the above harrowing statistics, they list many more on their website including the fact that at least one in six men have been sexually abused or assaulted.
This raises the question: why is it so difficult for men to come forward?
Tom, a male survivor of abuse who preferred to remain anonymous, said that he suffered in silence for twelve years before he finally decided to come forward, after being inspired by the #MeToo movement.
He told Daddy's Digest, "I really thought that it made me less of a man. That I shouldn't be so upset because I was supposed to want to have sex. But, at the same time, while I was telling myself that, I also lost interest in dating and in meeting new people. I started to find it hard to even hang out with my friends. I was just so hurt, so angry. I thought no one would understand what I was going through, and I was furious at them for it, even though they had no idea."
The ManKind Initiative, a UK based national charity supporting male victims of domestic abuse, have been supporting the cause for seventeen years by providing a helpline, training, and support for statutory agencies such as the police and local authorities. The charity believes that the way people think about abuse is generally focused on female victims.
Mark Brooks, Chairman of the ManKind Initiative said that there needs to be a real step change in supporting and recognising men, who make up one in three of all victims. Brooks has been working with the initiative to lobby for laws that are more inclusive of the male victims who often slip through the cracks and are not heard.
A 2011 study of child sexual abuse around the world showed that around one in thirteen boys globally are sexually assaulted. Although this equates to less male victims than female overall (around one in five globally), each and every one of these children have been hurt and they need to know that they are heard and that their stories matter.
Male victimization rates are rising globally, with 16% of high-risk boys falling victim to sexual assaults and attacks. Clearly, this is not an isolated issue, with boys all over the world who are greatly affected. They need to be able to feel as though they can speak out.
The way that the public perceives sexual abuse could be having a massive impact on the way that abuse victims see themselves, which is why charities such as Survivors UK have been working tirelessly to remove the stigma around sexual abuse for both adult and child victims. The charity aims to change public perceptions of abuse victims and help support those men so they know that they have somewhere safe where they can talk about what they have been through with people who understand.
Katherine Cox, Supervisor, Counsellor and Group Work Co-ordinator at Survivors UK is concerned that not being able to open up about their story could lead male victims of abuse to suffer from mental health conditions later on in life.
She said, "At Survivors UK, we support male survivors of sexual assault and rape. Contemporary and traditional gender norms and expectations mean that there are particular barriers to men coming forward to speak about their experiences. Our research suggests that it takes on average twenty-six years for a man to tell anyone about their abuse. This silence can compound and exacerbate the original trauma, leaving men vulnerable to being further abused, to risk-taking, addiction, mental health difficulties, self-harm and suicide. We find that when men feel able to speak about their experiences, they can begin to break down the shame, stigma and pain rather than merely surviving, they can begin to thrive."
Charities such as the ManKind Initiative and Survivors UK are popping up and growing in more and more places throughout the world, helping victims of abuse like Tom to process what they have been through and help them move forward.
But it is clear that a lot needs to be changed in the public perception of abuse, so that we can all support these men who are still finding it hard to come forward with their stories. Tom believes that had there been less stigma around the sexual abuse of men, the woman who hurt him could have been behind bars by now. "It just really infuriates me that had I had the confidence to come forward that night, maybe something would have been done about it, but now she just gets to live her life as though she's done nothing wrong. We need to fight the stigma so that nobody is in my position again."
Marcella Rick is a journalist based in Liverpool, United Kingdom. With a keen interest in censorship across the world, she aims to shed light on stories that would otherwise go unreported. Her reporting is focused on the way that families work and the effects that this can have on children in later life. She lives with her girlfriend and two best friends, and enjoys writing and video editing.


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4. Add 500 ml water and pressure cook till 2 whistles.
5. Heat a pan over moderate flame.
6. Add the remaining ghee.
7. Fry mustard seeds, jeera, roasted bengal gram, ginger and green chillies.
8. Add onions and pudina.
9. Stir well and cook for a minute or two.
10. Add the cooked rice and salt.
12. Transfer to serving plates and serve.
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Market research and market testing will help you get the right product for the least amount of money.
Ready to roll with your great idea? Don't make the leap 'til you know what you're getting into.
Note: 15 years after this story came NuMedics is a leader in diabetes management: www.numedics.com/products.aspx. The blurb below covers how NuMedics is being handled by Sure Scripts.
November, 2010 – Tigard, OR – NuMedics Inc. announced today that its Electronic Medical Record plus Disease Management product, CliniPro software system has received certification by SureScripts, a national prescription clearing house. E-Prescribe will empower medical professionals to deliver higher quality patient care, while greatly improving workflow efficiencies, and reduce prescription error. It is imperative for Providers to begin e-Prescribing in 2011. The Center for Medicare Services (CMS) began an Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program in 2009 to encourage Providers to implement e-Prescribe services. Although the incentive program will end in 2013, Medicare and Medicaid Providers who do not begin to e-Prescribe in early 2011 will face CMS financial penalties. Providers must e-Prescribe at least 10 times during the first six months of 2011, to avoid being penalized in 2012.
This story first appeared in the January 2000 issue of Entrepreneur. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
In the middle of the night, you realize you have a million-dollar idea and you can't wait to get to the market to cash in. Nothing can stop you, so you run out and get a patent, borrow money, start production and then worry about how you're going to sell your product.
Is that the right way to get started? Only if you have lots of money to correct your mistakes. The smart approach is to hold up for a while and do some research to be sure you have a product that can make money.
Kazi Ahmed of Beaverton, Oregon, did just that. In 1993, he came up with a new product–software for monitoring and managing diabetes patients' blood sugar levels–but before rushing to market, he put in many hours of research. If Ahmed had just gone with his initial gut feelings, he would have had many problems. But the research he did not only kept him from making a big mistake, it also helped him to develop his business, NuMedics, which produced its first $1 million in sales in 1999 and is poised for rapid growth.
Ahmed, 43, discovered he had diabetes when he was 36 years old. As he learned about the disease, he felt uneasy about his total reliance on his doctor's advice. He wanted to know more about his condition and treatment options but couldn't find any diabetes management systems on the market. So, using his experience as a programmer, Ahmed developed software to help him monitor the impact of certain foods and exercise programs on his blood sugar levels. His goal was to feel in control of his eating and exercise regimen, while keeping his blood sugar at safe levels.
Convinced that other diabetics would be equally interested in such a monitoring system, Ahmed further perfected software that could download blood sugar readings from readily available analyzers, then detail the effects various meals and activities had on them. He talked to his doctor, who thought the idea was terrific–not only for diabetes sufferers, but for their doctors as well. Doctors had a compelling need for a similar product, he said, that they could use as a management tool to help patients remember and implement their nutrition and treatment regimen.
Ahmed continued his research by spending several months at the library, learning everything he could about diabetes, its treatment and the overall market size for his product. By the time he was done with his library research, Ahmed could comfortably converse with medical professionals about diabetes patients–and his product idea.
Knowing he had to get more real-world information than medical journals could provide, Ahmed took his research to the next level by assembling an informal focus group of 14 people who treated diabetics, including endocrinologists, diabetes educators, nutritionists and nurses. He talked about his idea, then asked the participants for their input. The group's advice coincided with Ahmed's doctor's advice: The product was needed, but doctors had a greater need for it at this time than patients did. The group also gave Ahmed insight into the features his product should have and offered suggestions on how it could be improved.
Ahmed originally planned to introduce three products: the Diabetes Partner PC software program, which patients could use at home; CliniPro, a diabetes management system for medical professionals; and an online service that would transmit patients' readings to their doctors' computers. Although he first thought he'd concentrate on the patient software, after his research, he changed his initial market emphasis to the clinical software for professionals.
Further research helped Ahmed realize the doctors who needed his product most were pediatric endocrinologists. Children with diabetes are challenging for obvious reasons: They don't tend to like following a strict diet and medication regimen. That market, with its pronounced need, is where Ahmed ended up making his first sales.
Ahmed also carefully researched the pricing strategies used by other medical companies selling similar products. He found that downloading software from companies marketing blood sugar analyzers cost $60 to $100 and that medical record software systems typically sold for $3,500 to $5,000 per user. Ahmed set his pricing and terms similar to the norm, which helped him minimize price resistance.
Ahmed's current plan calls for him to concentrate first on setting up about 500 medical professionals with his software, and then using that medical network to help him sell his Diabetes Partner PC patient software and online record transfer system. Ultimately, this plan lets Ahmed enlist doctors as allies in selling the value of his software and also greatly reduces his marketing expenses.
It helped him fine-tune his product so it had all the features the market wanted.
It helped create early support from medical professionals.
It helped him target a market with a high level of perceived need.
It helped him create an effective introduction plan for his product.
All totaled, Ahmed's research played the vital role of convincing him his invention had real sales potential and that the product was worth the time and money he'd have to invest to make it a success.
I've found time and time again that inventors move slowly on their product because they're not sure they truly have a marketable idea. If they'd follow Ahmed's lead and do early research, they'd know when they should drop their idea and when they should move full speed ahead on getting it to market.
Did Ahmed predict every possible glitch in his product and introduction plan? Of course not. But he did find and correct enough glitches to enable him to successfully launch his product.
It's not uncommon for product or marketing mistakes to cost anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000 to remedy. So if you don't have deep pockets, follow Ahmed's example, and be sure you have a product the market wants before spending your hard-earned money.
During his diabetes monitoring product's research phase, inventor Kazi Ahmed set up a focus group with people who counsel or treat diabetics. But how could he be sure they'd keep his idea under wraps? Attorneys typically tell inventors to get a Statement of Confidentiality and Non-Use (which Ahmed used) from people to whom they reveal their idea. I find many people resist signing this statement, and that sets up an atmosphere of mistrust, especially with industry people who are just there to help you with informed product input.
Fortunately, there's another tactic for accomplishing the same agreement to secrecy. Ask people to sign a Technical Advisor Agreement in which they agree to provide you with occasional input regarding your product during its development stage. As part of the agreement, the advisor agrees to keep any proprietary information confidential. The end result? Your secret's safe with them.


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Diamond is renowned as a material with superlative physical qualities, most of which originate from the strong covalent bonding between its atoms. In particular, diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any bulk material.
The word carat comes from the Carob Mediterranean tree whose seed was used for centuries as the standard of weighing precious gems. Each carob seed weighs approximately one-fifth of a gram. A carat is one-fifth of a gram.
24 karat gold is considered pure gold, or 99.999% fine. 18 karat gold is 18 parts gold, 6 parts other metals. These other metals are called alloys. 14 karat gold is 14 parts gold, 10 parts other alloys. 10 karat gold is 10 parts gold, 14 parts other alloys.
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Confronting anti- Semitism
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Since 2009, the Jewish community of Moldova is constantly monitoring cases of anti-Semitism in Moldova and it takes active measures to investigate those.
For example, the Academy of Sciences came up with the initiative to proclaim 2011 - the year of Paul Goma (author of "Red Week", book which denies Holocaust), and regarding the proposal of the City Hall of mun. Chisinau to assign him the title of "Honorary Citizen of Chisinau" an official protest was sent on behalf of the Jewish Community of Moldova acting President of the Republic of Moldova, Mr. M. Ghimpu, Mayor of mun.Chisinau Mr. D.Chirtoaca, to the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, Mr. G. Duca. There were issued protest press releases to the media. In 2008 there was started a criminal case on the incitement of ethnic hatred related to the fact of publication and distribution of "Red Week" book.
Upon nomination of P. Goma as the nominee for the Nobel Prize in 2013 on behalf of JCM there were sent letters of protest to the Writers' Union of Moldova and the Nobel committee.
In 2013, upon the fact of "Holocaust victims" monument from Jerusalem street desecration there was sent a statement application to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office.
In 2013, upon the fact of ancient Jewish cemetery in Chisinau desecration posted in the Internet social networks, JCM has prepared and sent statements to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Prosecutor's Office. Statement applications were also submitted to the Police Inspectorate Buiucani mun. Chisinau, which dragged afterward a criminal case starting. As a result of this processes we have a verdict issued by the Court of Buiucani on delinquents conditional imprisonment.
More information on monitoring, you can find here.
The Jewish community of Moldova regularly participates in seminars and conferences on issues of discrimination and anti-Semitism in Moldova initiated by UN, OSCE and Council of Europe missions, as well as in those organized by the Ministry of Justice.
In November 2013 the Jewish Community of Moldova organized and hosted a conference "Anti-Semitism today: status and prevention." The conference resulted in a declaration sent to the government and diplomatic missions in Moldova. The declaration text on Russian is available here.
As a tool to confront anti-Semitism there are implemented a number of projects and programs aimed at education about the Holocaust among non-Jewish citizens of the republic thus also promoting development of tolerance in the society.
JCM together with the Coordination Council of ethnocultural youth organizations near Bureau of Interethnic Relations organized a flesh mob action to commemorate the "Kristallnacht" - Jewish pogroms that took place in Germany and Austria in 1938. More than 50 young people of different nationalities attended the action.
More information about this direction of our activities you can find in learn in Education and Projects domains of our web site.
If you have any information about recent cases of anti-Semitism in Moldova, please contact us!


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