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Watch for Heavy Smoking in Schizophrenia
Patients with schizophrenia who are heavy cigarette smokers are more likely to use substances such as alcohol than are those with the disease who are non–heavy smokers. Heavy smokers also are more likely to have elevated cholesterol, a retrospective analysis of 745 patient records has found.
In light of the health risks associated with heavy smoking and elevated cholesterol, "every effort to decrease cigarette intake or stop smoking should be made for smokers with schizophrenia as part of a multifaceted treatment plan," wrote Heidi J. Wehring, Pharm.D., of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, and her colleagues.
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"Every effort to decrease cigarette intake or stop smoking should be made for smokers with schizophrenia as part of a multifaceted treatment plan," wrote Heidi J. Wehring, Pharm.D.
The investigators reviewed the records of patients who had been admitted to inpatient mental health facilities in Maryland between 2003 and 2007 with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and a history of cigarette smoking. The number of records that met the criteria totaled 745 (Schizophrenia Res. 2012;138:285-9).
Patients were identified as either heavy smokers, which means they smoked one or more packs of cigarettes per day, or non–heavy smokers, which was defined in the study as less than one pack per day at admission. Records that did not specify the extent to which patients smoked were not included in the data analysis.
Dr. Wehring and her colleagues then looked at the records to determine patients' use of substances such as alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), phencyclidine (PCP), inhalants, and amphetamines. They also looked at other health risks, such as history of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, height and weight used to calculate body mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels.
A total of 43% of the smokers were classified as heavy smokers, and 57% were non–heavy smokers. Other factors between the two groups were similar, including average age (40 for heavy smokers and 42 for non–heavy smokers), gender, and race. In addition, no significant differences were found between the two groups in triglyceride levels, glucose, systolic or diastolic blood pressure, or mean BMI.
However, Dr. Wehring found that total cholesterol was significantly higher among heavy smokers (190.7 mg/dL), compared with non–heavy smokers (178.2 mg/dL). In addition, significant differences were found between the two groups in the use of alcohol, (68% vs. 58%, P = .01); cocaine, (35% vs. 25%, P = .01); and other substances of abuse, (34% vs. 23%, P = .003). Significant differences in the use of either cannabis or heroin were not found.
"This may warrant future attention to distinguish if use and abuse patterns may differ between various substances," Dr. Wehring wrote. "However, the increased use of alcohol and cocaine in the heavy smoking sample is of note for future research and clinical intervention, as use of other substances may also add to the challenge of tobacco cessation interventions for this population."
When asked about the study results, Dr. Samuel G. Siris said in an interview that the paper is interesting. "One tricky issue is that causality is not addressed – although the casual reader may be at risk of assuming it," said Dr. Siris, professor of psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital of the North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, N.Y.
"In other words, it is not established that more severely elevated cholesterol, for example, is the result of 'heavy' smoking as opposed to 'not heavy' smoking," Dr. Siris said. "But does this paper inadvertently tease the reader into thinking that cutting down on heavy smoking to non-heavy amounts would automatically benefit their health and/or substance use profile? Association does not necessarily imply causality."
Despite these concerns, Dr. Siris said the paper has the benefit of drawing from a large database and is a contribution to the literature.
Limitations of the study include its retrospective design and missing data points for some patients. Also, the generalizability of these findings is difficult because the participants were from an inpatient sample.
The study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Advanced Centers for Intervention and Services. Neither Dr. Wehring nor her colleagues reported having financial disclosures.


This weekend my son Kevin and I went on a road trip north to do prototype research on the Donner Pass route of the Southern Pacific. This was part of the original transcontinental railroad surveyed by Theodore Judah and finished by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1869. The CP became part of the Southern Pacific and then in 1996 the SP merged into the Union Pacific which operates the Donner Pass route today.
Track #1 required building four tunnels blasted with black powder through the granite a few feet at a time. A second track was added to Donner Pass by the SP in 1925 and included the building of 10,322 foot long Tunnel 41 on track #2 that passed under Donner Mountain and made an easier route over the summit. Track #1 was abandoned in 1993 and now all trains going over the summit in both directions use Tunnel 41. The UP also owns the Feather River route which offers easier grades over the Sierras and today the Donner Pass route sees less traffic than in its heyday under the SP.
The original tunnels and roadbed are still there and are used by dirt bikes and hikers for recreation. Quite a number of people visit the area to look at the historic transcontinental route.
I drove up to the summit Saturday afternoon to take some pictures. In particular I was interested in making a panorama of the summit tunnels. On my next layout I intend to build a layout design element of this area. I took seven individual shots panning from west to east and a couple of closeups. I stitched all of these together with the program hugin and made a 9000 pixel panoramic image which I plan to have printed into a large picture 30 inches wide at 300 dpi. There is a reduced version above - click on the picture to see a 1400-pixel wide panorama. The panorama goes from the western summit tunnel, Tunnel 6 on the right, past Tunnel 7 and 8 and their snowsheds to Donner Lake on the left, eastern side. On the left side you can see past the Truckee area towards Nevada.
I took a hike into Tunnel 6 (left upper). This turned out to be a mistake. A pickup truck roared through the tunnel when I was about one-quarter into the tunnel making it necessary to hug the tunnel wall to avoid being run down. Several dirt bikes also roared through the tunnel. I discovered it was a lot healthier to hike over the top of the tunnel. I took a nice shot from up there showing Tunnels 7 and 8 (left lower). I also found a historic plaque on the hill over the top of Tunnel 6 with some interesting facts about the tunnel (left middle).
I saw a few trains going over the pass pulled by big modern diesels on the trip. However, what I really wanted to see were some trains going over the top and through the summit tunnels pulled by giant Cab Forwards. Since time machines still aren't available, I'll have to wait until I get my HO scale Donner Pass LDE built to see that!


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Oracle enables default roles at logon without requiring the user to specify their passwords.
And if you do a similar examination of the 10g documentation, its pretty much the same, with some more elaboration.
Oracle Database enables default roles at logon without requiring the user to specify their passwords or otherwise be authenticated. If you have granted an application role to the user, you should use the DEFAULT ROLE ALL EXCEPT role clause to ensure that, in subsequent logons by the user, the role will not be enabled except by applications using the authorized package.


1、Deflection of flexible circuits and reliability of the current FPC are: single-sided, double-sided, multilayer flexible and rigid flexible board four boards.
Flexible single-sided board is the lowest cost, do not ask for much when the electrical properties of the PCB. When wiring the single-sided, single-sided flexible board should be selected. It has a layer of conductive chemical etching of the graphics, the flexible insulating substrate of the conductive surface layer for rolling copper foil graphics. Insulating substrate may be polyimide, polyethylene terephthalate, p-aramid fiber acetate and polyvinyl chloride.
flexible double-sided board insulation basement membrane in each of the two sides made of a layer of conductive etched graphics. Metallized holes on both sides of the insulating material to form conductive pathways connecting graphics to meet the deflection of the design and use features. The cover film can protect the single-, double-sided component placement of wires and the location of the instructions.
multi-layer flexible board is 3-layer or more layers of single-sided or double-sided flexible circuits laminated together by drilling larvae L, the formation of the metal plating of holes between different layers in the formation of conductive pathways. In this way, without using complex welding process. Multi-layer circuit at a higher reliability, better thermal conductivity of the assembly and provide greater convenience for performance of functions of great differences. Layout in the design, assembly should take into account the size, layers and flexible interaction.
traditional rigid flexible board is rigid and flexible substrates laminated together selectively composed. Structure to the formation of metal-based conductive connecting L larvae. If a PCB is, have negative components, rigid flexible board is a good choice. But if all components are in the side, the selection of double-sided flexible board, and laminated on the back of a layer of reinforcing material FR4, will be more economical.
hybrid structure is a multilayer flexible circuits, conductive metal layers of different composition. The use of an 8-laminate FR-4 as the dielectric layer, the use of polyimide as the outer layer of the medium, from the direction of the main board out of the three different leads, each lead by different metals. Constantan alloy, copper and gold, respectively, lead an independent. Most of the structure of this mixed signal converter used in the conversion and thermal and electrical properties of the relationship between the relatively harsh conditions of low temperature, is the only viable solution. Can be connected through the ease of design and evaluation of the total cost to achieve the best price-performance ratio.
2、Flexible circuit if the economy is relatively simple circuit design, the total volume of small and appropriate space, the traditional way in most of even a lot cheaper. If the line complex, deals with a number of signals or special electrical or mechanical performance requirements, flexible circuit design is a good choice. When the application size and performance beyond the ability of rigid circuit, the flexible assembly is the most economical. On a thin film can be made from within the hole with 5mil and 12mil pad 3mil lines and spacing of the flexible circuit. Therefore, in thin films direct mount chip more reliable. May be because the free ion source Desmear retardant. These may have a protective film, and at a high curing temperature, the higher the glass transition temperature. Flexible-rigid material than the material cost savings due to eliminating the connector. The high cost of raw materials is the flexible circuit of the main reasons for high prices. Larger difference between the prices of raw materials, the lowest-cost polyester flexible circuits used in the cost of raw materials used in rigid circuit 1.5 times the raw materials; high-performance polyimide flexible circuit is as high as 4 times or more. At the same time, the flexible material during the manufacturing process so that it is not easy to automate processing, resulting in decreased production; in the final assembly process prone to shortcomings, including off flexible attachments, fracture lines. When the design is not suitable for applications, such cases more easily. Caused by bending or forming in the high stress, often need to choose to enhance the material or reinforcement material. Despite the high cost of its raw materials, manufacturing problems, but collapsible, flexible and multi-layered puzzle features, will reduce the overall size of components, materials used be reduced, bringing the total costs of the assembly. Flexible circuits industry is in a small but rapidly evolving. Polymer thick-film method is a highly efficient, low-cost production process. The process in the low-cost flexible substrate, the selective conductive polymer screen printing ink. Its representation matrix for the flexible PET. Polymer thick film screen printing method conductors including filler metal filler or toner. Polymer thick film itself was very clean, the use of lead-free SMT adhesive without etching. Addition of Technology and its use of low-cost substrate, polymer thick film circuit is the method of copper circuits polyimide film prices 1 / 10; is the price of rigid circuit boards 1 / 2 ~ 1 / 3. Polymer thick-film method is particularly well suited to the equipment control panel. In mobile phones and other portable products, polymer thick-film method for the printed circuit board components, switches and lighting devices into law polymer thick film circuit. Both cost savings and reduce energy consumption. Generally speaking, the flexible circuit is indeed cost more than rigid circuits, and higher costs. Flexible plate at the time of manufacture, in many cases have to face the fact that many of the parameters exceeds the tolerance range. Manufacture of flexible circuits is the difficulty of the flexible material.
3、The cost of flexible circuits in spite of the cost of the above-mentioned factors, but the price of flexible assembly is declining, more rigid and traditional circuit similar. The main reason is the introduction of the updated materials, improved production technology and structural change. The structure now makes the product a higher thermal stability, very few materials do not match. Some updated materials from copper layer can be thinner and more sophisticated system of lines, so that components are smaller, more suitable for small load space. The past, the use of copper foil roll adhesion process will be coated with adhesive in the media today, you can not use the adhesive directly on the media to generate copper foil. These technologies can be a few micron thick copper layer, to be 3m. 1 and even more narrow width precision lines. After removing some of the adhesive with a flame-retardant properties of flexible circuits. This will speed up the certification process uL can further reduce costs. Flexible circuit board solder masks and other surface coatings to enable flexible assembly to further reduce costs. In the next few years, smaller, more complex and higher cost-assembled flexible circuit will require more innovative approaches to assembly, and the need to increase the hybrid flexible circuits. The flexible circuit industry challenge is to use its technological advantages, with the computer, remote communications, consumer demand, as well as synchronous dynamic markets. In addition, the flexible circuit in the lead up to play an important role. FPC is referred to as the Flexible Printed Circuit, also known as the soft circuit board, flexible printed circuit boards, flexible circuit boards, referred to as soft board or FPC, with a high density wiring, light weight, thin thickness characteristics. Mainly used in mobile phones, laptop, PDA, digital video cameras, LCM, and many other products. FPC flexible printed circuit is a polyimide or polyester film to a substrate made of a high degree of reliability, excellent flexible printed circuit. Features: 1. Be free to bending, folding, winding, three-dimensional space can be mobile and flexible. 2. Thermal performance can be used to reduce the size of FPC. 3. The realization of lightweight, small and thin to achieve component integration of devices and wires to connect. FPC applications MP3, MP4 players, portable CD players, home VCD, DVD, digital cameras, cell phones and mobile phone batteries, medical, automotive, aerospace and military field of epoxy CCL FPC become an important species with flexible features to epoxy resin for the substrate FCCL (FPC), has a special function as a result of the use of increasingly broad-based epoxy resin copper clad laminate is becoming an important species. However, late start to be in China to catch up. Epoxy Flexible Printed Circuit Board has been since the realization of industrial production has gone through the course of development for more than 30 years. 70s from the 20th century, the beginning of industrialization into a real large-scale production until the late 80's, as a new class of polyimide film materials available and the application of flexible printed circuit board so that FPC had no adhesive formulations The FPC (generally referred to as "second-type FPC"). Into the 90's developed the world's circuits and high-density coverage of the corresponding photosensitive film, made in the design of FPC has made significant changes. Due to open up new application fields, the form of its products have taken place in the concept of non-small changes, which it expanded to include TAB, COB with a wider range of substrates. In the 90's by the rise of the latter half of the high-density FPC has begun to enter the large-scale industrial production. Its circuit to the more micro-graphic extent of the rapid development of high-density FPC is also a rapidly growing market demand.
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This extension keeps browser tabs sorted in most recently used order (MRU), from left to right, just like a list of apps is organized on desktop OSes (while holding Alt+Tab). Tab Slider brings this behavior to Opera for your convenience. Try it!
For this extension to function naturally, disable the "Cycle tabs in most recently used order" Opera setting.
+ Pinned tabs will slide to the opposite side, from left to right. This behavior is intended, enabling you to conveniently switch between most recently used pinned tabs and most recently used normal tabs with keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+Tab switches to most recently used pinned tab, and Ctrl+Tab switches back to most recently used normal tab).
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Once you understand this concept, you will find such reordering of tabs absolutely natural and logical.


I can tolerate seeing Matrix-style speed ramping (a.k.a. "Bullet Time," the speedup-slowdown time effect, often with an abrupt transition from fast to slow) used in every other commercial for cars and roller coasters, but the way the effect was abused in When Animals Invade Your Home was just plain silly.
Some tips for you video editors out there: first of all, speed ramps don't look good with walking people or animals, and using footage shot on video rather than high-speed film makes it even worse. Indiscriminate speed-adjustments on video footage tend to create jarring, jerky movements, more so if your keyframes are out of sync at the transition between the fast and the slow clips. When slowing down your footage on lower-end editing machines, always do it at increments which maintain an integer of frames per second, else you'll get that same jerky movement effect caused by poor frame interpolation. When in doubt, use halfs and fourths.
Speed ramping for When Animals Invade Your Home?! Cheesy and inappropriate.
Also, if you want to get a decent speed change when you using video, use AfterEffects' "time" filter (the name of which I have forgotten).


I just came across this photo of my paternal great-grandmother (the original source of the Nonya recipes in this collection) and her daughter, my Koh Poh Florence, painstakingly making poh piah egg skins over charcoal stoves, c.1953. Note the stack of completed skins piled up on the crate in between the two ladies. An upside-down wicker basket is used to cool each skin before it's placed in the main pile – my grandmother taught me to do this too, only we used a plastic basket instead.
I don't have any other family photos like this so am overjoyed by this find :).
I really love Pong Piah, the flaky and soft mollase caramelized filling inside. Its tasty with sesame seeds and onion fragrant in the melt soft filling inside. I have been looking around for the recipe since 5 months ago, but nobody can give me any info. Does anyone know the recipe??
Thank you very much if you would mind to share me the recipe.
Pong Piah is real nice, love every bits of it. Like the olden days photo above very much, very authentic!
love the picture. such valuable memory. i wish i still could find my grandmother's picture in the kitchen. we were just bad at preserving memory back then.


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Def Leppard, Motley Crue and Steel Panther 2011 UK tour officially announced
Live Nation are thrilled to announce that two of the world's most legendary purveyors of Rock 'n' Roll, Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe, have joined forces for the first time ever, for a tour that will see them tear through six cities in the UK this December with very special guests, Steel Panther.
Def Leppard remain one of the world's biggest and most successful live acts. Before this year, the band last played the UK and Eire in 2009 – headlining Download festival that year after a hugely successful sold out UK Arena tour in 2008. June 2011 saw Def Leppard headline Download Festival for the second time in three years. 2011 has also seen the release of the band first ever live album, "Mirror Ball" featuring classic tracks, three band new recordings and a bonus DVD and Leppard's first coffee table book, titled "Def Leppard – The Definitive Visual History".
With more than 65 million albums sold worldwide and two prestigious Diamond Awards (Def Leppard are one of only five rock bands to have two consecutive 10 million plus selling albums in the U.S. The others are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Van Halen.) to their credit, Def Leppard – Joe Elliott (vocals), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick "Sav" Savage (bass), Vivian Campbell (guitar) and Rick Allen (drums)— continue to be one of the most important forces in rock music. Over the course of their career, the band has produced a series of classic ground breaking albums that set the bar for generations of music fans and artists alike. The group's spectacular live shows, filled with powerful melodic rock anthems, continue to sell out venues worldwide. Their epic live show and arsenal of hits have become synonymous with their name, leading Def Leppard to be heralded as an institution in both the music and touring industry.
Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott says, "I can't tell you enough how thrilled I am to announce this tour!! … We always strive to make our shows an event & to have Motley Crue & Steel Panther along for the ride makes this an event that just can't be missed for rock fans across the UK!! … Come join us on what will be the event of the year!!"
Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil , collectively Mötley Crüe, returned to the top of the charts with Saints of Los Angeles, their first studio album in a decade with the original line-up back in 2008. Based on the band's New York Times bestseller 'The Dirt', the disc debuted at #1 on the Independent Album chart and was the top debut of the week on the Billboard Top 200 albums at #4. "Saints of Los Angeles," which was nominated for a Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy Award was also noted as the #1 Rock Song of the Year by iTunes critics. The band also started Crüe Fest in 2008, which was the most successful touring rock festival and the number ten tour overall (according to Rolling Stone), playing for nearly half a million rock fans throughout North America. This was swiftly followed by Crüe Fest 2 in 2009, during which the band played the whole of the Dr Feelgood album every night in celebration of their 20th anniversary. Mötley Crüe has sold more than 80 million album copies worldwide,including 25 million in the U.S. ). They will also be releasing a brand new expanded Greatest Hits package which will include the Crüe Fest DVD in November.
Nikki Sixx had the following to say "Motley Crüe is excited to do some destruction with long time peers Def Leppard on tour this holiday season. We have never toured together so hopefully there will be some de-virginizing of each-others fans and in the end one fucking wild party together." Nikki Sixx
Steel Panther have recently confirmed that the release date for their highly anticipated second album, 'Balls Out', will be 17th October via Universal Records. The first single taken from the album will be 'If You Really Really Love Me' which impacts on 7th November.
Frontman Michael Starr commented "To rock with Lep and Crüe is a dream come true!! This will be the best tour package all year hands down – Now we got to learn our songs from the new CD" Not be outdone, guitarist Satchel added "Getting the tour with Def Leppard and Motley Crüe is the best thing that's happened to Steel Panther since we got the Viagra endorsement – we're hard already!"
This will, without doubt, be the rock show of the year, not to be missed by any self-respecting fan of all things loud and heavy. Tour dates are below:
Tuesday 6 Birmingham LG Arena
Thursday 8 Nottingham Capital FM Arena
Friday 9 Glasgow SECC Hall 4
Sunday 11 Manchester Men Arena
Tuesday 13 Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
Wednesday 14 Wembley Arena
Tickets go on sale 9am on Friday 2nd September priced at £47.50 London / £45.00 (subject to booking fee) and are available from www.livenation.co.uk
ReverbNation under 100 fans band feature: Modern Echo
Twin Atlantic announce The Free-ze UK tour

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Identification of Entomocidal Toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis by High Performance Liquid Chromatography
Takashi Yamamoto
First Published: 01 August 1983 https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-129-8-2595
SUMMARY: Entomocidal proteins produced by certain subspecies of Bacillus thuringiensis were isolated from purified crystals (parasporal bodies) by column chromatography using Sephacryl S-300. The crystals of most subspecies contained only one entomocidal protein (P-1), but some strains of B. thuringiensis which had been classified as subsp. kurstaki, subsp. thuringiensis, subsp. kenyae and subsp. tolworthi appeared to produce an additional protein (P-2) as a minor component of the crystal. The protein (P-2) was serologically similar to the mosquito factor previously discovered in the HD-1 strain of subsp. kurstaki. These entomocidal proteins (P-and P-2) were isolated and digested by trypsin. The peptides resulting from the trypsin digestion were mapped by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). HPLC patterns of the toxins, in particular P-1, were reliably reproducible and revealed differences in P-1 toxins between strains even in the same serotype. Analysis of P-2 by HPLC indicated that it is different from P-1 in protein structure.
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HJL est un sigle qui peut désigner :
 Hervé Joseph Lebrun (1963-), un photographe et réalisateur français ;
  (1924-1992), un économiste américain, le premier économiste à proposer la mise aux enchères des fréquences de diffusion comme moyen d'attribuer les ondes comme une ressource naturelle.

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Mother Dairy, set up in 1974, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) of India. Mother Dairy manufactures and markets a wide range of dairy products that include butter, ghee, cheese, milk, lassi and flavoured milk. However, Mother Dairy's long product range is incomplete without the mention of Mother Dairy curd. Mother Dairy's curd is delicious, creamy and well set which gives the taste of homemade curd without the hassles of setting curd at home. The curd is prepared in accordance with highest quality and hygiene standards.
Mother Dairy markets approximately 3.2 million litres of milk daily in the markets of Delhi, Mumbai, Saurashtra and Hyderabad. Mother Dairy has a strong presence in Delhi with market share of 66 per cent in the branded sector where it sells 2.5 million litres of milk every day and undertakes its marketing operations through 1,400 retail outlets and 1,000 exclusive outlets. Thus, the company derives significant competitive advantage from its unique distribution network of bulk vending booths, retail outlets and mobile units.
Mother Dairy curd has shown continuous growth over the years and today boasts of majority of market share in Delhi and NCR. Mother Dairy as a brand leads Delhi's milk and milk products market and has a significant presence in Mumbai too.
The processing of the curd is controlled by process automation whereby state-of-the-art microprocessor technology is used to integrate and automate all functions of the processing areas to ensure high product quality, reliability and safety.
The presence and appeal of Mother Dairy curd is boosted by the certification it has received, giving it credence as a quality dairy product company. Mother Dairy is an IS/ ISO 9062, IS 15000 HACCP and IS 14001 EMS certified organisation. Mother Dairy, Delhi has been awarded ISO 9001:2000s (Quality Management Systems), HACCP, 2002 f3A and ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental Management Systems) certifications. Its Quality Assurance Laboratory is certified by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratory (NABL), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
As health consciousness among the masses is on the rise, Mother Dairy curd's offering with energy, protein, carbohydrate, fat and protein is a complete nutritional package in itself that fulfills the promise of a healthy dairy product.


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Fort Myers road funds at issue
David D. Kirkpatrick, the New York TimesORLANDO SENTINEL
WASHINGTON -- It is no secret that campaign contributions sometimes lead to lucrative official favors. Rarely, though, are the trade-offs quite as obvious as in the case of Coconut Road.
The road, a stretch of pavement near Fort Myers that touches five golf clubs on its way to the Gulf of Mexico, is the target of a $10 million earmark that appeared mysteriously in a 2006 transportation bill written by Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska.
Young, who last year steered more than $200 million to a so-called bridge to nowhere reaching 80 people on Gravina Island, Alaska, has no constituents in Florida.
Connie Mack, the Republican congressman whose district does include Coconut Road, says he did not seek the money. Lee County authorities have twice voted not to use it, until Young and Mack wrote letters warning that such refusal could jeopardize future federal funds for the county.
The Coconut Road money is a boon, however, to Daniel J. Aronoff, a real-estate developer who helped raise $40,000 for Young at the nearby Hyatt Coconut Point hotel days before he introduced the measure.
Aronoff owns as much as 4,000 acres along Coconut Road. The $10 million in federal funds would pay for the first steps to connect the road to Interstate 75, exponentially increasing the value of Aronoff's land.
He did not return phone calls seeking comment.
A consultant who helped push for the project explained why its supporters held the fundraiser.
"We were looking for a lot of money," said the consultant, Joe Mazurkiewicz. "We evidently made a very good impression on Congressman Young, and thanks to a lot of great work from Congressman Young, we got $81 million to expand Interstate 75 and $10 million for the Coconut Road interchange."
Young's role, first reported by The Naples Daily News, has sparked a controversy. Environmentalists say that the interchange would threaten wetlands. The Lee County planning organization is debating what to do about the money.
And a Republican commissioner of Lee County, Ray Judah, is campaigning against the interchange, calling it an example of congressional corruption that is "a cancer on the federal government." He added, "It would appear that Don Young was doing a favor for a major contributor."The turmoil occurs at an awkward time for Young. A corruption scandal involving an Alaskan oil company has roiled the Republican Party in Alaska, and Young is among the biggest recipients of the company's campaign donations. House Republicans are in a public-relations battle with Democrats for the high ground on reforming "earmarks," the pet projects that lawmakers tuck into spending bills behind closed doors.
As they have exploded in number the past 12 years -- the 2006 transportation bill included more than 6,300 projects worth more than $24 billion, the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense says -- earmarks have proven ripe for cronyism, corruption and abuse. Though the House recently passed a rule requiring the disclosure of earmark sponsors, the flow does not appear to have slowed.
Until Democrats took control of Congress in January, Young was chairman of the Transportation Committee.


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Men in Kilts: A brief history of kilts in Scotland
{ Appearance & Fashion }
For many years preceding the invention of the kilt, woolen tartans had been popular in the Scottish Highlands. Trousers weren't quite ideal in the boggy parts of the country, and for both practicality and comfort, so the skirt-like garment proved to be the best option. The fact that the attire left their legs bare earned them the nickname "redshanks" (or "red legs) due to their exposure. Unlike today, however, these early kilts were seen primarily as sensible attire and didn't denote any kind of national identity or even clan identity, a concept that would not be adopted for hundreds of years after they were first worn.
The first kilts as we know them began with what was known as the "Great Kilt." Great kilts were garments that had developed from cloaks prior the 16th Century that were so large that they were worn about the waist and then thrown over the shoulder or tucked into the waist. This was also known as the "belted plaid" due to the fact that, over the following century, they grew in such size thanks to the abundance of wool that they started to be gathered up and belted. In some cases, they were so large that these early kilts could be worn like a cape or a cloak. In fact, the Scots word "kilt" was a verb meaning "to tuck."
By John Rabon, Anglotopia
Who Were Celts
There's a history of white supremacists interpreting government leaders' words as encouragement
Is the nude selfie a new art form?
A rare look inside the daily life of a rural African tribe
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.


Earlier this month, a New York State Supreme Court judge dismissed Amanda Schmitt's lawsuit against Knight Landesman, co-owner and former publisher of Artforum magazine.
In December 2018, a New York State Supreme Court judge dismissed former Artforum employee Amanda Schmitt's lawsuit against Knight Landesman, co-owner and former publisher of Artforum magazine, for alleged defamation and slander after she accused him of sexual harassment. Today, January 23, Schmitt's attorney, Emily Reisbaum, said they would be filing a notice of appeal combatting the judge's motion.
Schmitt's original lawsuit, filed in October 2017, says that during her employment at Artforum Landesman "singled [Schmitt] out for unwelcome sexual attention" including "touching her, uninvited, on her hips, shoulders, buttocks, hands and neck." However, Schmitt's employment with Artforum ended in 2012, and the statute of limitations for her case against Landesman had expired by 2017.
Schmitt's lawsuit details the May 2017 incident in which he allegedly berated her in a restaurant, calling her a liar. Schmitt calls his speech against her slander. However, New York Supreme Court Justice Frank P. Nervo ruled that Landesman had confronted Schmitt in a "purely social setting" in which he was allowed to defend himself.
Schmitt's appeal argues that Judge Nervo's dismissal can be undermined based on New York City Human Rights Law. Her attorney says that since Landesman was a public representative at Artforum, he was operating on its behalf at the time of his confrontation, and as a former employee, Schmitt is protected.
Artnet reports that Schmitt's lawyers will file a brief with the appeal's complete arguments in the coming months.


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COUNTY NEWS: Police seek two men after service station robbery
Police are seeking these two men in connection with a robbery
Ginny Sanderson
Police would like to identify two men following a robbery at a service station.
The two were reportedly seen on CCTV arriving at Applegreen services on the A23, Crawley, in a silver car at around 4.15pm on Tuesday (June 12).
Sussex Police say one of the suspects distracted the till staff while the other man took two cases of beer and the pair left.
The staff member chased after the suspects and one of them showed, what was believed to be, a gun.
Detective Constable Adam Tidy said: "We would like to speak to anyone who has information on these men.
"We believe this to be a targeted and isolated incident.
"We would also like to speak to anyone who may have information on the vehicle the pair arrived in.
"In particular, if you were driving along Crawley Avenue towards Cheals roundabout from 4.15pm until 4.20pm we are appealing for you to review the footage. o you have any dash cam footage of the silver car?"
You can report information online or by calling 1014 of 12/06.
Alternatively, you can visit the Crimestoppers website or contact the independent charity anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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This past Tuesday Barack Obama claimed victory as the Democratic presidential nominee. And in doing so he gave his wife something that's not unfamiliar to many brothers & sisters - he gave his wife Michelle some Dap (translate - fist pump, fist bump).
So then all the analysts and commentators went berserk trying to figure out what it meant, whether or not it was some sort of subliminal message or a so-called "terrorist symbol". Well it was none of those. It was just a little something we see in "our" community when two individuals want to congratulate one another on a job well done. Nothing less nothing more, nothing to read into. Just a little rock on brotha!!
Etiquette Expert Opinion: It's perfectly fine show show a moderate amount of PDA with your honey.


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That's a lot if miles! In fact I that is equivalent to going to the moon?
I'm not even going to try to beat that. You should be proud and set your sites for 300,000.


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T. Boone Pickens prefers Houston and SMU for Big 12 expansion, rips Boren, still not besties with Gundy
By Kevin McGuireSep 27, 2016, 8:40 PM EDT
If you though the rivalry between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State was strictly on the football field, think again. Bedlam reaches beyond the gridiron and now has T. Boone Pickens slinging mud at Oklahoma president David Boren.
According to Kirk Bohls of The Austin American-Statesman, the Oklahoma State donor shared some comments about the Big 12 expansion saga that continues to drag its feet. Pickens reportedly prefers the Big 12 to add within the current Big 12 foot print by inviting Houston and SMU from the American Athletic Conference. That's probably good news for fans of Houston and SMU, if they believe Boone's influence carries any weight in this process (it doesn't, but we don't have to pour cold water on this subject for now). But the interesting part of the report included a jab at Oklahoma's president, who recently appeared to suggest he was fine with a 10-team Big 12 only to respond by saying no decisions have been made where Oklahoma stands on expansion.
"I've known David forever. He likes to talk. He gets a little bit confused sometimes," Pickens said. He also suggested "maybe it's time for David to retire."
Pickens also updated his relationship status with Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy.
"I don't have any conversations with Gundy," Pickens said. In late December 2014 there appeared to be some friction between the head coach and top donor when Pickens proclaimed he didn't care who coached the team while suggesting he will always support the program and university, his alma mater. Gundy looked to make sure the two were on common ground. Things appeared to have smoothed over by the following spring, but the two are not exactly hanging out together in their spare time.
"I don't know, but Mike doesn't handle people relationships very well. And he gets mad about things," Pickens explained. "I've heard he's written some notes about me that weren't very complimentary."
Excuse me while I file away a Freedom of Information Act request for access to these notes…
Tags: David Boren, Mike Gundy, T. Boone Pickens
T. Boone Pickens and Mike Gundy are cool again, but for how long?
By Kevin McGuireApr 10, 2015, 4:19 PM EDT
Few question the loyalty and commitment to success T. Boone Pickens has for his beloved alma mater at Oklahoma State. When thew Cowboys are winning, Pickens is smiling. It was not too long ago Oklahoma State was among the top programs in the Big 12, but the relationship between Mike Gundy, the head football coach of Oklahoma State, and the largest donor to the school had reportedly become strenuous. In some worlds, this creates a divide that can go against the football coach, but the two seem to be trying to make things work.
"There's no question we kind of drifted apart," Pickens said in a story for The Dallas Morning News. That changed following a recent meeting and talk this offseason. "When we visited, we both agreed that we loved the university. We might not be identified as weekend fishing buddies together but the most important thing is Oklahoma State and we both understand that.
In other words, they both want what is best for Oklahoma State, even though they may see things a bit differently. In any event, they decided to let bygones be bygones. That's not a bad way to go about it. That said, Pickens still wants to have a presence around the football program, including coming and talking to the team at spring practice. That happened this afternoon.
Mike Gundy and Boone Pickens watching practice #besties pic.twitter.com/QQNzwKOx8c
— Kyle Fredrickson (@kylefredrickson) April 10, 2015
Gundy appears to be happy establishing a better relationship as well, and why not? Pickens has plenty of influence around Oklahoma State, and if he wanted to pay to bring in a new coach he could probably make it happen.
"My goal is for it to become great over six months to a year from now," Gundy said to The Dallas Morning News. "If you're trying to have a good relationship, it doesn't develop overnight."
As is the case with most sports teams, winning tends to have a way of patching up rocky relationships pretty quickly.
Tags: Mike Gundy, T. Boone Pickens
T. Boone Pickens prefers Houston and SMU for Big 12 expansion, rips Boren, still not besties with Gundy September 27, 2016 8:40 pm T. Boone Pickens and Mike Gundy are cool again, but for how long? April 10, 2015 4:19 pm


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U.S. researchers identify first human lung stem cell
Thread: U.S. researchers identify first human lung stem cell
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Agence France-Presse May 11, 2011 6:58 PM WASHINGTON - U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have identified for the first time human lung stem cells that are self-renewing and could offer important clues for treating chronic lung diseases.
Previous studies have shown researchers were able to create lung cells using human embryonic stem cells, but this lung stem cell was isolated using surgical samples of adult human lung tissue.
"This research describes, for the first time, a true human lung stem cell," said Piero Anversa, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-author of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"The discovery of this stem cell has the potential to offer those who suffer from chronic lung diseases a totally novel treatment option by regenerating or repairing damaged areas of the lung."
The finding qualifies as a true stem cell because it renews itself; can form different types of lung cells like bronchioles, alveoli and pulmonary vessel cells; and when injected into a mouse it could be isolated and removed and used to treat another mouse with the same results, the study said.
"These are the critical first steps in developing clinical treatments for those with lung disease for which no therapies exist," said co-author Joseph Loscalzo, chair of the BWH department of medicine.
"Further research is needed, but we are excited about the impact this discovery could have on our ability to regenerate or recreate new lung tissues to replace damaged areas of the lungs."
Stem cell therapy on lung diseases has long been elusive because the lung is a highly complex organ with a variety of cell types that can renew at different rates, experts say.
Lung disease is the third leading killer in the United States after heart disease and cancer, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Discovery of Lung Stem Cells May Herald New Treatments
More informative version.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news...new-treatments
But the research is preliminary, so human benefits won't come any time soon
By Amanda Gardner
WEDNESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- Contrary to current scientific thinking, human lungs do harbor stem cells capable of forming different parts of the lung, including blood vessels, a new study says.
The findings, reported May 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine, may open the door to eventual bioengineered lung tissue repair and replacement.
"These cells are very smart. They know what to do," said study senior author Dr. Piero Anversa. "The clinical implications are significant."
The findings could potentially offer a new avenue of treatment for patients suffering from respiratory conditions, such as emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or pulmonary hypertension, that currently have only limited treatment options.
"Now that we have identified these cells and have the potential of growing them, we know it's not science fiction," said Dr. Andrew Pecora, vice president of cancer services and a stem cell expert with Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. "A single cell placed in the right environment allows for the development of adult cells that can live for 80 years. The implications are potentially limitless."
Stem cells are those that first exist without organ-specific features but are capable of dividing and morphing into every other type of cell in the human body.
Stem cells are scattered throughout the body, and a growing cadre of scientists is attempting to harness their innate abilities to regenerate and repair parts of the human body, such as the heart.
The new findings challenge conventional knowledge about lung cells. According to an accompanying journal editorial, scientists had been holding on to the belief that no single cell in the lung could differentiate into multiple different types of cells, even though some cells do grow into specific cells, such as endothelial cells and the cells of the upper and lower airways.
For this trial, researchers were able to identify stem cells from 21 samples of normal human lungs, then expand them in a test tube.
The researchers coaxed the cells into developing into different types of lung cells, such as epithelial or vascular cells.
They next injected undifferentiated cells into mice whose lungs had been damaged.
"Over a period of about two weeks, we were able to regenerate a significant portion [of the lung] and essentially recreate various tissues," said Anversa, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. "The human structure was perfectly integrated with the structure of the mouse lung," he noted.
"The cells have the fundamental properties of stem cells," Anversa added. That means they could divide into new cells, form into many other types of cells and function when introduced into other environments.
But there's still a lot of work to be done before these cells actually have any implications for humans, the editorial cautioned. Anversa will study the cells in larger animals before initiating a phase I clinical trial.
"We're talking a few years from now," he said. "We're not talking about tomorrow morning."
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has more on stem cells.
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This is definitely the most promising news we've about lungs and stem cells to date. Now all we can do is stay as healthy as possible until this becomes available.
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Had autologous treatment March 19, 2010
Had bone marrow and adipose stem cell treatment (autologous) June 16, 2010
Don't hold your breath.
First treatment in 2007. Pioneering ever since.
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this sounds like good news. what do u really think, barbara? whyd u say dont hold ur breath? i think that if its profit oriented then at least we have a good chance. i cant wait.
This is why I said don't hold your breath. Statements such as these, to me, mean that any therapies for humans are at least 5-10 years or more away. (Unless you're a rodent and then you can take advantage of this new discovery right away.)
"But the research is preliminary, so human benefits won't come any time soon"
Study finds lung stem cells, likely to generate debate
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Globe Staff / May 12, 2011
In a provocative new finding, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital report they have discovered human lung stem cells, which they say can give rise to the many different types of cells in the lung and ultimately may hold the potential to regenerate and repair damaged lung tissue in patients.
The results, published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, challenge the current understanding of how the lung develops and will probably generate significant debate and skepticism within the field. Many scientists did not expect that a single human lung stem cell would give rise to all the many cell types found in the lung.
"Elements of the extensive experiments reported here are sure to be controversial, and some may even prove to be incorrect,'' Dr. Harold Chapman — a professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, San Francisco — wrote in an editorial accompanying the paper. "But the essential finding . . . is convincing.''
Starting with human lungs from a tissue bank, the scientists identified lung stem cells by looking for particular markers. Then they did tests to demonstrate those cells had the essential qualities of stem cells: they could make copies of themselves and also give rise to many different types of cells in the lung. They inserted the human cells into injured mouse lungs and found that the cells replaced the injured tissue, generating multiple types of cells that grew into the intricate structure of lungs.
In the lung, "there are several cells which have been claimed to possess the properties of stem cells, but don't have the biological characteristics,'' said Dr. Piero Anversa, a professor of medicine at the Brigham and coauthor of the study. "What we have found is . . . rather unexpected and seems to be, at least in the initial study, powerful.''
Dr. Joseph Loscalzo, chair of the Brigham department of medicine and also a coauthor of the study, said the team had not yet been able to determine whether the new tissue in the mouse lungs was functional.
The next step, he said, was to try the approach in animals whose lungs have been injured in ways similar to the damage that occurs in human lung diseases.
Scientists not involved in the work said the study was important but that it would be essential for the experiment to be repeated.
The paper is "addressing an important problem; it's daring in its conclusions,'' said Dr. Kenneth Chien, a stem cell biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. "At the same time, the technology being used has its own inherent limitations, which may make it difficult to draw firm conclusions and has led to difficulties in others easily replicating the work of the group.''
Anversa's work has fired vigorous debate among stem cell scientists before. A paper from his lab in 2001 found that bone marrow stem cells could transdifferentiate, giving rise to cells that could repair the heart. That work has been controversial, with some scientists disputing the validity of the findings.
The editorial noted that the find has tremendous potential but also that there are many unanswered questions.
"If this is true, the identification of these stem cells promises to overcome one of the major hurdles in human lung generation,'' Chapman wrote. "In spite of the many major uncertainties that presage translation of the current results into applications in the clinical arena, these new findings should energize the field.''
Several scientists said one way to follow up the study would be to use genetic markers to trace whether that particular stem cell gives rise to the other cells.
For example, Carla Kim, an assistant professor at Children's Hospital Boston who focuses on lung stem cells, said that after finding a stem cell in the mouse lung that her group thinks gives rise to epithelial cells that line the airways and air spaces, her group has been using genetic markers to unequivocally demonstrate that the stem cells were the source of the new cells.
Doing that type of genetic tracing method could help answer some of the questions that will be generated by the new finding.
The new paper will, scientists predicted, generate new interest in the field and spur further research.
"I think it's a remarkable paper in many ways; it opens up a whole field,'' said Dr. Alan Fine, a professor and lung biologist at Boston University School of Medicine. "I think the field will be advanced once some of these studies can be done in mice and be reproduced.''
Carolyn Y. Johnson can be reached at cjohnson@globe.com.
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When we were little, our mischievous selves enjoyed playing with frogs in our backyard or front lawn, especially when it is raining. Some of us may have also kept them as pets, gave them names, and placed them in jars. Weird as it seems, some of us may have even treated them as family.
Despite their 'cuteness' for some and usefulness for insect and termite control, did you know that certain frogs are deadly? There are species of this amphibian that are toxic and should never be played with or touched. Keep your eyes peeled for these beautiful yet poisonous frogs that could harm you!
The Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) uses its poison mainly for self-defense. The poison, called the batrachotoxin, is so intense that it can kill 10 grown men within seconds! It can cause paralysis and death when it enters the bloodstream. This frog species has a distinct bright yellow color. In 1978, local people used this frog's poison for hunting by dipping the tip of their darts in it, hence its name. It is considered to be the deadliest of its kind!
Don't let its intricately-printed body fool you! The Lovely Poison Frog (Phyllobates lugubris) is found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama where it prefers to live in slow-moving waters. Their skins also secrete batrachotoxin, but in relatively lower amounts. They are less toxic than other frogs in the same genus, but still not safe enough to be kept as pets after being taken from the wild.
The Golfodulcean Poison Frog (Phyllobates vittatus) can be found in Costa Rica. They are black in color with a blue and green pattern on their sides, and have two distinctive orange stripes on their backs. Neurotoxic alkaloid poisons are present on their skins which, when these frogs are provoked, could cause severe pain and seizures or paralysis if treatment would not be administered immediately.
If you're ever planning an adventure to the west of the Andes, you might not want to come face-to-face with a small but ultra-lethal animal—the Kokoe Poison Frog. Also known in its scientific name Phyllobates aurotaenia, this frog lives in abundance in the wet forests of the Chocoan region of Colombia. It is one of the deadliest in the species of poison dart frogs; the steroidal alkaloid toxin on their bodies targets nerve and muscle cells which could lead to instant death. They are black in color with green, yellow, brown or gold stripes on their backs.
It's only natural that you love all things blue if it's your favorite color, but what if we tell you that there is actually a blue-colored frog that is highly poisonous? Sorry, we are not even kidding—such frog exists! The Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus) can be found in forests in southern Suriname. It is medium-sized and can live for 4-6 years in the wild. It doesn't use its bright blue body to make it seem more beautiful or its poison to kill its prey; rather, these are mainly for self-defense. Every one of this species have unique patterns of black spots on their bodies that set them apart from each other.
Its name may sound yummy, but the Strawberry Poison Dart Frog (Oophaga pumilio) is nowhere near edible because it is very toxic. Its breed is common in Central America and is usually found in humid lowlands and forests. It is brilliant red or orange in color to warn its predators of its toxicity. The kind of poison that this frog has can interfere with normal cardiac function and can cause convulsions, paralysis, and death.
It's a bit impossible to see these poisonous kinds of frogs in our doorsteps especially here in the Philippines, but we should always be careful nonetheless. We never know when we might encounter these extremely lethal animals, so it's best not to touch frogs unless we can be sure that it's safe to do so!
Dang. Now i'm Dang. Now i'm thinking about gitnetg the canon powershot 780. I just bought a Flip MinoHD 2nd generation and the detail on this video blows flips out of the water.


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FACET THEORY ASSOCIATION [FTA]
FACET THEORY
Initiated by the late Louis E. Guttman, Facet Theory (FT) has been developed as a comprehensive research strategy for the social and behavioral sciences. FT integrates formal design of empirical observations, with intrinsic data analysis procedures, such as the Guttman Scale, Multiple Scaling by Partial-Order Scalogram Analysis, Smallest Space Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling, for the discovery of lawfulness and scientific measurement in complex systems.
For complex behavioral systems, characterized by multitudes of interacting variables, FT offers unique procedures to meet major challenges of behavioral research, such as how to sample a balanced set of observational variables from a content universe under comprising innumerable variables; and how to infer the structure of the content universe from multivariate but finite empirical data.
Facet theory has been successfully applied in a large number of disciplines such as psychology, education, sociology, political science, criminology, social work, business administration and the life sciences. It has contributed to theory construction and measurement in research domains such as marketing, information systems, the study of values, quality of life research, mental abilities—intelligence and creativity research, distributive justice and many more. Discoveries in areas of application have, in turn, contributed to FT as a meta-theory for behavioral cumulative science.
Louis E. Guttman
Louis Guttman (1916-1987) was one of the most influential psychometricians of the 20th century and a promoter of formalization in the social and psychological sciences. Guttman contributed to Scaling theory (including "Guttman Scale"), factor analysis, reliability theory, methodology & theory construction in the social and psychological research ("Facet Theory").
Louis Guttman was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 10, 1916, and grew up in Minneapolis Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1942 from the University of Minnesota with a thesis on the algebra of Factor Analysis. With his academic base at Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, Guttman served during World War II as an expert consultant at the Research Branch of the Information and Education Division of the War Department, where he developed the scale bearing his name [8].
In 1947 he immigrated to Israel where he founded and directed The Israel Institute of Applied Social Research (later: The Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research). From 1955 he served also as Professor of Social and Psychological Assessment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, until his death in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 25, 1987. Guttman published in numerous journals and books of sociology, psychology and statistics covering half a century from 1938, both as a sole author and in collaboration with others. Many of his earlier papers are still quoted as relevant to current statistical and mathematical advances. The development of scaling theory by Louis Guttman and Clyde Coombs is one of 62 "major advances in social science" for the period 1900 – 1965, identified and analyzed in Science.
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Seniors inevitably reach a point where freedom is reduced and they become more dependent on others for their everyday needs. Relinquishing driving privileges is probably the most difficult. When is a senior no longer safe behind the wheel? When is a senior no longer safe living alone?
When is the right time to move to a nursing home? Seniors move to nursing homes for various reasons. Failing health is not the only reason. In my mother's case, safety was the biggest concern.


Open a Primavera P6 XER file and view its contents, obtain some stats, print Gantt Charts. There`s almost no P6 viewers for free. A simple tool that can allows to understand what`s into the XER file as a Gantt Chart it will be helpful for those who does not have P6. Thanks -- HugoC.
I can't reproduce the error, can you please tell me the the line that gave you the error and your version of excel and windows.
Charles I can't reproduce the error, can you please tell me the the line that gave you the error and your version of excel and windows.
Please can you confirm if it is fixed !!
It would be very useful if you can add the option to include activity codes in gantt comlumns.
I'm having trouble loading a XER on Xer-Reader 0.79.6 and 0.79.3. I'm using Office 365 last version and I got VBasic error enclosed.
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Q: Firefox CSS3 transition not working when toggled from external js file I know there are bunch of questions already about CSS3 transitions not working in firefox. I think this one might be quite unique. As the transitions DO work when added into the relevant click functions within $(document).ready()  .  But once I've put the same code out into a basic js class and instantiated within $(document).ready it refuses to work in firefox 24. Works in all other major browsers.
Can anyone shed some light.
I've put up a test site here: http://test.gladekettle.com.au/modal/
var ModalApp = function  (options) {
    //default options
    var defaultOptions = {
        modalElem       : "#modalresponsive",
        z               : 99,
        overflowvisible : true,
        scrollbardelay  : 1000
    }

    for (i=0; i < options.length;i++){
        if(typeof options[i] === "undefined"){ options[i] = defaultOptions[i];
        }
    } //for - set default options if not defined.

    var $modalObj = $(options.modalElem);
    var zindex   = options.z;

    $modalObj.css('z-index', zindex);
    $modalObj.addClass('modalhidden');

    this.close = function() {
        $modalObj.removeClass('scrollvisible');
        $modalObj.removeClass('modalvisible').addClass('modalhidden');
        $('.modalactive').removeClass('modalactive');
    };
    this.open = function() {
        $('html').addClass('modalactive');
        $modalObj.removeClass('modalhidden').addClass('modalvisible');

        setTimeout(function() {
            $modalObj.addClass('scrollvisible');
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A: This has nothing to do with "external js files". The culprit is .modalactive { overflow: hidden; }, which gets set/unset to html on click and seems to be canceling out the transitions for whatever reason.
You may verify this by disabling the rule, either live on your site with the developer tools or see this fiddle.
You should file a bug and stop using that rule.


I don't know about you guys, but we had a really great year over here at DietsInReview.com. We certainly felt the love — hello you named us a Top 50 Health Blog for 2019! — and tried every day to show it to you, too. Together we celebrated some tremendous weight loss successes, fitness milestones, and met so many more of you out there who make this a fun place to be in here.
Along the way, we found a few people who made the Internet a healthier place to be, even enlightening and holding us to a higher standard. They should be recognized, and you should consider following them. There's a lot of brains, talent, and heart in this bunch of 26 brands and people in our 13 categories, covering food, fitness, and even social networks.
Without further adieu … meet our picks for the best of 2019!
It was Oxford's word of the year, you don't think we'd pass up a legitimate chance to use it, did you? We selected two individuals who are using their selfies to better themselves and those around them. Plus, their selfies are duck-face free, so we can actually stand to look at them!
One hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every MINUTE. It would take longer than four days to watch a single minute's worth of new video content – and no one has time for that! So we saved you the potato couchin' time and sorted through to find the very best new clips from this year. Honestly, you'll put them on repeat.
Anyone can write all day about wellness, but it takes some real vision to do so in a way that grabs people and makes them want to make the right changes for the right reasons. There's a big shift happening toward this – more heart, more brain – in the health space, and we think these guys get it unlike any other.
Look, we love a good snack. Someone in our office is always eating. But we're smart about our nibbles, and think you should be, too. From almond butter to zucchini chips (maybe we should try those together?), trust that we tried it this year. There was no doubt in our mouths minds which snacks were our must-have when all was said and done.
No one knows better than us (OK, maybe Amazon) how many new books came out this year, often contradicting the next or putting the sound bytes on repeat. Though in all of those published pages, two caught our attention and are actually doing a lot of good for the health of their readers.
We are self-proclaimed foodies, so it makes sense that we would seek out other foodies. But we have an insatiable appetite for the ones who share our proclivity for fresh, healthy, local – you know the food that's actually good. We love these food-focused bloggers so much, we introduce you to a new one every Sunday.
Getting and staying fit is as easy or as intense as you want it to be, which means finding a trainer who speaks your fitness language. Our interests are quite varied here, but there are two names who always draw us back in to their philosophy on life, moving on our bones, and enjoying both with vigor.
Anyone can have a voice online, but it's those who use it to affect real change in their communities who make the difference. In this vast wellness community, there are a few using their RTs, hashtags, and precious blog space to make real, necessary change happen, from brand board rooms to family living rooms.
From the parties to the simplicity, there's just something about this social channel that calls to us. Like the hoots and chirps atop the trees… #weird. There are some chirps from a couple of tweeps who keep us most entertained (and informed), and we're sure you'll wanna follow them immediately.
We know you have a lot of choices when it comes to liking pages, so we thank you for helping us break 13,000+ in 2019! We aren't just publishers though, we like to like pages, too. And when we do like a page, well, it's got to have the perfect combo of fun + substance. These pages have it!
A picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case, a thousand follows. We love these Instagram channels because they make you a part of their stories, truly engage with their loyal likers, and offer substance in a sea of media over consumption. Plus, they inspire the heck out of us!
Whether looking at a blog, newsletter, Twitter feed, or new recipe, some places just pack the one-two punch and have it all! We can't deny that we check these places out on the regular; they make us hold ourselves to a higher standard. All around good stuff can be found here, and you don't want to be the only one missing out.
Did we miss your favorite? Let us know at @DietsInReview.
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The other pressing challenge is immigration. America needs to secure our borders — and with your help, my administration is taking steps to do so. We're increasing worksite enforcement, deploying fences and advanced technologies to stop illegal crossings. We've effectively ended the policy of "catch and release" at the border, and by the end of this year, we will have doubled the number of border patrol agents. Yet we also need to acknowledge that we will never fully secure our border until we create a lawful way for foreign workers to come here and support our economy.
An Associated Press story in Monday's Register Guard noted that a group of businesses have united to oppose efforts to address the growing illegal immigration problem in Oregon and the United States. Not surprisingly, this group of businesses is dominated by those businesses benefiting the most from using illegals.
And finally, I recently received a response to my column of several weeks ago relating to the impact of illegal immigration on the working poor. The author noted that there was a recent article claiming that the crack down on illegal immigration might endanger harvest of the asparagus crop in Washington because of a lack of workers.
By turning our backs on the serious problem of illegal immigration for all of these years and allowing the population of illegals to grow to nearly twenty million people, we have effectively created a "black market" labor economy. Because the illegals are in no position to protest, organize, strike or make demands, they are forced to accept substandard wages and working conditions. I say that they are substandard because, apparently, those using illegal immigrant labor are unable to attract those legally here to perform that work based on the wages offered and the working conditions permitted. And because even these substandard wages and working conditions are better than they can find in their own countries, these illegals continue to enter the United States by the tens of thousands each month.
But the sheer number of illegals and the longevity of these practices by the businesses represented in this new coalition have created a seeming anomaly in the nation's workforce. These businesses argue that there are insufficient workers without the illegals. I doubt that is true, particularly in Oregon where the state's unemployment figures remain stubbornly above 5% – over half a point above the national average. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that there were 110,000 unemployed Oregonians last month and that those numbers hovered around 103,000 to 100,600 during the summer and early fall months of 2007 (the growing and harvesting seasons). There are more than sufficient bodies in Oregon receiving unemployment payments to staff these businesses' needs.
These businesses also argue that those legally here won't perform the work — that it is too hard. What that really suggests is that these businesses are unwilling to pay wages sufficient to attract the labor or that unemployment and welfare payments and rules are so generous that it is easier to loaf than to work with no significant economic difference between the choices, or both. The former is a problem for these businesses and they, like all other businesses must pay a wage that allows them to compete for legitimate labor. The latter is a problem for government. I don't favor a reduction in unemployment benefits or welfare for those actually in need. I do, however, favor a tightening of the rules such that you must work when jobs are available or lose your benefits.
Those Oregon businesses seeking to resist legitimate efforts to remove the incentives for the entry of illegals by imposing sanctions on employers and denying benefits to illegals (including driver's licenses) are simply wrong. Forcing the rest of the state's citizens to bear the burden of illegals so that their business practices are not interrupted is indefensible and immoral. Their efforts would be better spent lobbying Congress for an intelligent and manageable guest workers program as suggested by President Bush than fighting the efforts to stop illegal immigration. If these businesses are right and they cannot survive without foreign workers then a guest worker program will fulfill their needs without continuing the "black market" labor force and all of its attendant problems that currently exist.