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Grants will fund pre- and post-doctoral autism research fellowships
Posted in autism grants, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, Grants, tagged autism, autism grants, autism research, autism science, Autism Science Foundation, autism treatment on August 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Today we opened our applications process for the 2013 Pre- and Post-doctoral Training Awards for graduate students, medical students and postdoctoral fellows interested in pursuing careers in basic and clinical research relevant to autism spectrum disorders. In the past three years, ASF has funded over $700,000 in pre- and post-doctoral grants.
"Pre- and post-doctoral fellowships not only build our knowledge about what causes autism and how best to treat it, but also build our future by encouraging outstanding young investigators to dedicate their careers to autism research," said Alison Singer, president of ASF.
"We are so grateful to all our donors and volunteers who have come together to support autism research and who make these grants possible," said Karen London, co-founder of ASF.
The proposed training must be scientifically linked to autism. ASF will consider for training purposes all areas of related basic and clinical research including but not limited to:
Human behavior across the lifespan (language, learning, communication, social function, epilepsy, sleep, repetitive disorders)
Neurobiology (anatomy, development, neuro-imaging)
Human genetics/genomics
Molecular and cellular mechanisms
Studies employing model organisms and systems
Studies of treatment and service delivery
Applications must be received by November 16, 2012. Additional information about the RFA can be found at www.autismsciencefoundation.org/ApplyForaGrant.html.
Grant applications will be reviewed by members of ASF's Science Advisory Board (SAB) and other highly qualified reviewers. Current SAB members include Dr. Joseph Buxbaum (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine); Dr. Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom (UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School); Dr. Sharon Humiston (University of Rochester); Dr. Bryan King (University of Washington, Seattle); Dr. Ami Klin (Emory University); Dr. Harold Koplewicz (The Child Mind Institute); Dr. Eric London (New York Institute for Basic Research); Dr. Catherine Lord (New York Center for Autism and the Developing Brain); Dr. David Mandell (University of Pennsylvania/CHOP); Dr. Kevin Pelphrey (Yale Child Study Center) and Dr. Matthew State (Yale Medical School).
To learn more about the ASF's grant programs, and to read about projects funded through this mechanism in prior years, visit www.autismsciencefoundation.org
HHS Secretary Sebelius Appoints New IACC Members; ASF president Alison Singer reappointed
Posted in Alison Singer, autism, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, IACC, tagged Alison Singer, autism, autism research, autism science, Autism Science Foundation, autism treatment, IACC on March 29, 2012| 1 Comment »
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced the names of the fifteen individuals invited to participate as public members of the newly reauthorized Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). Among the 15 are Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation, who was reappointed for a second term. Dr. David Mandell, a member of the ASF Scientific Advisory Board and Matt Carey, parent of a child with autism and frequent contributor to the ASF blog were also appointed.
The committee was initially established in 2006 under the Combating Autism Act and was renewed in late 2011 by the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act. The committee's job is to advise the Secretary on research opportunities and emerging needs in the community and to write an annual strategic plan to guide federal spending on autism research.
"I am honored to be reappointed to this committee", said Singer. "The needs in our community are so great. We have so much work to do. We need to understand what is causing autism and we need to develop better treatments for children, teens and adults. And that means we need to increase our investment in autism research. We have learned so much about autism's genetic and biological underpinnings in the last few years. We have to understand more about what's going wrong in the brain that causes autism so that we can develop appropriate medical treatments. This is no time for the NIH to back down on autism funding; it's time to double down."
Dr. Insel, Chair of the IACC and Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, is eager to begin work with the new members. "The individuals that have been selected by Secretary Sebelius each bring with them a great amount of expertise and valuable insight," he said. "I have seen the committee's evolution since its early days and I am hopeful we will continue to build upon previous progress."
The individuals invited to serve on the renewed Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee include:
Idil Abdull
Ms. Idil Abdull is the parent of a son with autism and Co-Founder of the Somali American Autism Foundation. As a Somali-American mother, she has worked to raise awareness about the high prevalence of autism among Somali immigrants living in Minnesota and has helped to change autism policies in the state. She also has a special interest in serving as a voice for underrepresented groups more broadly, including those that are struggling with language, cultural, and economic barriers as they seek ways to help their family members with disabilities. Ms. Abdull holds a bachelor's degree in Health Care Administration.
James Ball
Dr. Jim Ball is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D) who is the President and CEO of JB Autism Consulting. He has worked in the private sector field of autism for more than 25 years, providing educational, employment, and residential services to children and adults affected with autism. He is a Board member of the Autism Society's (AS) Board of Directors and is currently the Chair of the National Board. He received his Doctor of Education degree from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Anshu Batra
Dr. Anshu Batra is a developmental pediatrician specializing in autism and early childhood developmental disorders and the mother of two sons with autism spectrum disorder. She currently works in a private practice that provides medical services to more than 600 patients with developmental disabilities, the majority of whom have an autism diagnosis. The practice is unique not only in terms of the racial, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity of its patients, but also in its scope. Dr. Batra has become an outspoken advocate to educate both the professional and lay communities about autism and considers how to best integrate a growing subpopulation of individuals on the spectrum into society. She received her M.D. from the University of Michigan and trained in Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Noah Britton
Mr. Britton was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome a decade ago as a freshman in college and has spent every year since working directly with people on the spectrum. He is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Bunker Hill Community College and has presented on autism as a guest lecturer at the University of Virginia and Tufts University. Prior to that Mr. Britton worked directly with teenagers on the spectrum as head counselor for the Northeast ARC's Spotlight program and as a drama teacher at the New England Academy in Massachusetts. Mr. Britton currently serves on the scientific/educational advisory board of the Autism Higher Education Foundation. He received his master's degree in psychology from Hunter College in 2010.
Sally Burton-Hoyle
Dr. Sally Burton-Hoyle, sister to a person on the autism spectrum, has focused her life and career on improving the education of people with autism and other challenging behaviors. She serves as area coordinator of the Masters of Autism Spectrum Disorders program at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). This program is based on Positive Behavioral Supports and family/community involvement. Dr. Burton-Hoyle has been at EMU since 2006 and was Executive Director of the Autism Society of Michigan prior to EMU. In addition, she has classroom experience as a special education teacher. Dr. Burton-Hoyle holds a doctorate in education from the University of Idaho and a master's degree in special education from the University of Kansas.
Matthew Carey
Dr. Matthew Carey is the father of a young child with multiple disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder, and is a frequent contributor to the Left Brain/Right Brain blog and the Autism Science Foundation blog. His writing focuses on reviewing current autism research in an understandable way for the public and he is deeply committed to communicating the importance of getting the science right for autism. He is also interested in analyzing trends in health and education public datasets. Dr. Carey is an active industrial researcher in computer hardware whose current research interests include magnetic thin films, spintronics, and magnetic nanostructures. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego, and his M.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Dennis Choi
Dr. Dennis Choi is the Executive Vice President of the Simons Foundation, the second largest funder of autism research, and he was previously a member of the Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board. Past positions have included Vice President of Academic Health Affairs at Emory University, Executive Vice President of Neuroscience at Merck Research Labs, and professor and head of Neurology at Washington University Medical School. His research experience has included work on the physiological mechanism of action of benzodiazepine drugs and the processes responsible for nerve cell death after ischemic or traumatic insults. His research on mechanisms of brain and spinal cord injury has been recognized with several awards. Dr. Choi received his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program, as well as a Ph.D. in pharmacology and neurology residency/fellowship training from Harvard University, before joining the faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine from 1983-1991.
Jose Cordero
Dr. Cordero is the Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Puerto Rico. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Cordero was an Assistant Surgeon General of the Public Health Service and the Founding Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. He served in this capacity from the time of the establishment of the center on April 16, 2001 until his departure in 2006. Dr. Cordero worked for 27 years at the CDC and has extensive public health experience in the fields of birth defects, developmental disabilities, and child health. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico in 1973, completed residency training in pediatrics at Boston City Hospital and a fellowship in medical genetics at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1979, Dr. Cordero obtained a Masters of Public Health degree from Harvard University.
Jan Crandy
Ms. Jan Crandy is a case manager for the Nevada State Autism Treatment Assistance Program (ATAP) and has been a leader in raising awareness and treating autism spectrum disorders in Nevada for more than 15 years. She is a dedicated advocate and parent of a child with autism. In her current position at ATAP, Ms. Crandy manages and develops programs for more than 65 children with ASD. In 2007, Ms. Crandy was appointed to the Nevada Autism Task Force by Governor Jim Gibbons. In that role, Ms. Crandy helped develop policy recommendations for state policymakers on ways to improve the delivery and coordination of autism services in Nevada. She also serves as Chair of the Nevada Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Ms. Crandy began her career in advocacy in 1996 when her daughter was diagnosed with autism. With the support of family and friends, Ms. Crandy started a nonprofit organization called Families for Early Autism Treatment (FEAT) to help parents of children with ASD in Southern Nevada.
Geraldine Dawson
Dr. Dawson is the Chief Science Officer for Autism Speaks, where she works with the scientific community and other stakeholders to shape and expand the organization's scientific vision. In addition to her work with Autism Speaks, Dr. Dawson holds the positions of Research Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of Washington. Dawson is a licensed clinical psychologist who has published extensively on autism spectrum disorders, focusing on early detection and intervention and early patterns of brain dysfunction. In collaboration with Dr. Sally Rogers, Dawson helped to develop and empirically-validated the Early Start Denver Model, the first comprehensive early intervention program for toddlers with autism. She has collaborated on numerous studies of brain development and function and genetic risk factors in autism. From 1996-2008, Dawson was Founding Director of the University of Washington Autism Center where she directed three NIH Autism Center of Excellence Award programs of research focusing on genetics, neuroimaging, early diagnosis, and clinical trials. Dr. Dawson has served as a public member on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee since 2010 and has been invited to continue her service. Dr. Dawson received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology with a minor in Child Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington.
David Mandell
Dr. David Mandell is a health services researcher and psychiatric epidemiologist who seeks to identify the best ways to organize, finance and deliver services to children with psychiatric and developmental disabilities. He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine. The goal of his current research is to improve care for children with autism and their families by developing successful interventions at the individual, provider and system levels to decrease the age at which children with autism are recognized and enter treatment, and to improve the services and supports available to them and their families. Dr. Mandell holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Columbia University and a Doctor of Science from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Lyn Redwood
Ms. Lyn Redwood is Co-Founder, Vice President and Board Member of Coalition for SafeMinds and Co-Founder of the National Autism Association (NAA). She became interested in autism research and advocacy when he son was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Ms. Redwood served on the Department of Defense Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program from 2007-2009 and was acknowledged for a decade of service by Spectrum Magazine as their Person of the Year in 2009. Ms. Redwood has served as a public member on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee since 2007 and has been invited to continue her service. Ms. Redwood holds a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Alabama and is a registered nurse in the state of Georgia.
Scott Michael Robertson
Mr. Scott Michael Robertson co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) in 2006 and currently serves as ASAN's Vice Chair of Development. Mr. Robertson, an adult on the autism spectrum, is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in information sciences and technology at Penn State University's University Park campus. His research pursuits in the fields of disability studies, human-computer interaction, and computer supported work/learning focus on understanding and improving the lives of people with neurological and developmental disabilities. Beyond his research, Mr. Robertson has actively served the cross-disability and autism communities as a mentor, teacher, advocate, public speaker, and writer. Mr. Robertson holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University.
John Elder Robison
John Elder Robison is an adult on the autism spectrum who grew up in the 1960s before the Asperger diagnosis came into common use. At age sixteen, Mr. Robison left high school to join his first band as a sound engineer. Within a few years he was building equipment for Pink Floyd's sound company, touring the hockey rinks of Canada with April Wine, and creating the signature special effects guitars for the rock band, KISS. John went on to design sound effects and other circuits for some of the most popular electronic games and toys of the era before moving into more conventional engineering management. In the late 1980s, John left electronics for a new career – cars. His company, J E Robison Service, grew to be one of the largest independent restoration and service specialists for BMW, Bentley, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes, and Rolls Royce cars. Mr. Robison is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, speaks publicly about his experience as a person on the autism spectrum, and is the author of popular books about living life with autism, Look Me in the Eye, My Life with Asperger's, and Be Different, Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian.
Alison Singer
Ms. Alison Singer is Co-Founder and President of the Autism Science Foundation, a not-for-profit organization launched in April 2009 to support autism research. The Autism Science Foundation supports autism research by providing funding and other assistance to scientists and organizations conducting, facilitating, publicizing and disseminating autism research. Ms. Singer is the mother of a daughter with autism and legal guardian of her adult brother with autism. From 2005-2009 she served as Executive Vice President and a Member of the Board of Directors at Autism Speaks. Ms. Singer has served as a public member on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee since 2007 and has been invited to continue her service. Ms. Singer graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics and has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
The committee is comprised of public members and federal memberes. The federal members of the committee (representatives of the federal government agencies involved in autism research and services) are expected to be announced shortly.
1 in 88 Diagnosed with ASD, CDC Reports (1 in 54 Boys)
Posted in autism, autism research, Treatment, tagged autism prevalence, autism research, autism treatment on March 29, 2012| 2 Comments »
From Autism Science Foundation
(March 29, 2012—New York) The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta today reported that 1 in 88 children were diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in 2008. That's a 23% increase from 2006 when the prevalence rate was 1 in 110. Autism spectrum disorders are almost five times more common among boys than girls – with 1 in 54 boys identified.
"One thing the data tells us with certainty – there are many children and families who need help," CDC Director Thomas Frieden, M.D., M.P.H said in a press release. "We must continue to track autism spectrum disorders because this is the information communities need to guide improvements in services to help children." On a noontime call with media and advocates, Dr. Frieden added "Doctors are getting better at diagnosing autism. It's possible that the increase is entirely the result of better detection."
The identified prevalence of ASDs in U.S. children aged 8 years was estimated through a retrospective review of records in multiple sites participating in the CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. Data were collected from existing records in 14 ADDM Network sites (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin) for 2008. Children aged 8 years met the case definition for an ASD if their records documented behaviors consistent with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria for autistic disorder, pervasive developmental disorder–not otherwise specified (PDD NOS), or Asperger disorder. Presence of an identified ASD was determined through a review of data abstracted from developmental evaluation records by trained clinician reviewers.
"These are not just numbers, these are real people with real needs" said Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation. "These are families that are exploding. We have to focus on building the infrastructure to provide education and services to all of these people and their families. And we have to focus on what is fueling the increase in prevalence, and that means investing in research. We have learned so much about autism's genetic underpinnings in the last few years. We have to understand more about what's going wrong in the brain that causes autism so that we can develop appropriate medical treatments."
"We need to accelerate research into causes" said Dr. Coleen Boyle, Director of the CDC's Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. "Tracking helps identify potential risk factors. Because of tracking we now know more about how advanced parental age and premature birth confer increased risk for autism."
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of developmental disabilities characterized by atypical development in socialization, communication, and behavior. ASDs typically are apparent before age 3 years and sometimes can be diagnosed as early as 14 months, with associated impairments affecting multiple areas of a person's life. Because no biologic marker exists for ASDs, identification is made by professionals who evaluate a child's developmental progress to identify the presence of developmental disorders.
Learn more at www.autismsciencefoundation.org. 646-723-3976
Read the full report from CDC http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6103a1.htm?s_cid=ss6103a1_e
CDC has also issued a Community Report that gives detail by site and has a useful FAQ section.
Send a Special Thank You to Your Favorite Doctor!
Posted in autism, Autism Science Foundation, fundraising, tagged autism, autism treatment, doctors, Fundraisers, physicians on March 21, 2012| 3 Comments »
Doctors care for us in our time of need. They work nights, weekends and holidays. They spend years preparing for careers of service and healing. Their focus is on you and your family.
Say "thank you" to the remarkable doctors in your life and show them how much you value their commitment to your family's good health. Make a donation in their honor on National Doctors' Day to express your gratitude. (more…)
Sleep and Autism: Melatonin Study Adds Options for Sleepless Families
Posted in autism, autism research, Jerri Sparks Kaiser, Treatment, tagged autism research, autism science, autism treatment, autism treatments, Jerri Sparks Kaiser, melatonin, Parenting, Sleep, Vanderbilt University on January 24, 2012| 6 Comments »
This is a guest post from ASF Science Writer Jerri Sparks Kaiser. Jerri, a parent of four children, one of whom has autism, blogs for ASF from a parent's perspective about the latest autism research. A former Congressional Press Secretary, Jerri is an experienced science writer and has written specifically about autism for many years. Before her life in PR, she was a trained researcher having earned her B.A. in Psychology at UCLA. She currently lives with her family in New York.
By Jerri Sparks Kaiser
Photo: jshj
A new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University about giving melatonin to autistic children to help them sleep was published a few weeks ago and it deserves some attention. Researchers gave 1 mg to 3 mg of melatonin to children with autism ages 3-9 years and noted improved sleep onset. They are now trying to conduct larger scale studies.
Sleep difficulties have always been a problem for my son Jared. One of the first things I noticed about his development was that he didn't sleep very many hours in a row. In fact, for the first 4 years he only slept 4 ½ hours at a time and after that it was still just 6 hours. I don't recall when he finally began sleeping at least 8 hours at a stretch (perhaps it was around age 7) but I know that it didn't happen without medications prescribed by doctors. Sleep deprivation was making it difficult for me and my spouse to conduct our daily lives and we resorted to sleeping in shifts. It is estimated that 50-80% of those with ASD are affected by insomnia and that impacts families as well.
I remember sleepily waiting in the elevator at UCLA Medical Center to take Jared to an early pediatrician appointment. He must have been around 10 weeks old. Beside me in the elevator was another couple with a young infant like my son and we exchanged pleasantries about each baby's cuteness and then I asked them how they were coping with the lack of sleep. They smiled at each other and said "She's already sleeping six hours in a row…" It was the first of many moments where I sought solace in parents going through the same thing I was going through only to have that hope – that need – dashed.[
Since that time my son has gradually learned to sleep a lot longer, but his sleep is still shallow at times. The slightest noise can wake him and then he's up for the day no matter how little sleep he had before he was awakened. When he is particularly excited about something that's happening the next day he can't sleep and will stay awake for 24 hours or more until the anticipated event has occurred. We are searching for something to help him with this latest symptom, not only for his own health but also for the sake of our family. Sleep disturbance affects everyone, not just the person experiencing it. I never thought I'd still be going through sleep deprivation 14 years later.
We did try melatonin for Jared when he was much younger. I remember it working but as fate would have it, other symptoms, such as running away and behavioral outbursts, took precedence over his sleep supplement and so we had to remove melatonin from his treatment. The new medications he was placed on took care of his sleep issue until just recently. This new study makes me wonder if perhaps we could introduce melatonin into his treatment once again and I am going to call his doctor about this.
Recently Jared asked me why he couldn't sleep. This is an emerging behavior because Jared is just now beginning to let us into his inner thoughts. It's very exciting! The fact that he's wondering about his own behaviors is encouraging to me. I didn't know what to tell him so I said the only thing a mother can say when she doesn't have the answer yet: "I don't know honey, but I'm going to find out and make it all better." And I will, someday, somehow.
ASF Strongly Supports Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011
Posted in autism, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, education, IACC, Treatment, tagged autism prevalence, autism research, autism science, Autism Science Foundation, autism treatment, IACC on May 26, 2011| 1 Comment »
The Autism Science Foundation (ASF) strongly supports the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011 (CARA) introduced today by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) in the United States Senate and by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) in the United States House of Representatives.
The new bill reauthorizes the Combating Autism Act of 2006 (CAA), which has played a critical role in advancing autism research and treatment. The original CAA, set to sunset on September 30, 2011, expanded federal investment for autism research through NIH, increased services, diagnosis and treatment through HRSA, and enhanced surveillance and awareness efforts by the CDC. The CAA authorized nearly $1 billion in federal research spending over five years—increasing autism research spending by almost 50 percent. This research has led to improved understanding of the causes of autism and has helped us begin to develop new interventions. Additionally, the research funded through CAA has increased the ability of professionals to more properly screen, diagnose, and treat individuals with autism. The Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011 ensures that the programs established under the original law continue for an additional three years, including CDC surveillance programs, HRSA intervention and training programs, and the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC).
The Autism Science Foundation strongly supports this new legislation and urges all members of Congress to act swiftly to pass it into law. We thank Senator Menendez, Senator Enzi, Congressman Doyle and Congressman Smith for their continued focus on the needs of individuals with autism and their families. We look forward to continuing to work with them and the broader autism community to ensure passage of this important legislation. At an IACC meeting earlier this year, the Obama administration pledged to support CARA and to sign the bill into law upon passage.
The Autism Science Foundation is 501(c)3 public charity. Its mission is to support autism research by providing funding and other assistance to scientists and organizations conducting, facilitating, publicizing and disseminating autism research. The organization also provides information about autism to the general public and serves to increase awareness of autism spectrum disorders and the needs of individuals and families affected by autism.
Response to Dr. Oz Show from Dr. Ari Brown
Posted in autism, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, Treatment, vaccines, tagged autism, Autism and Vaccines, autism research, autism science, Autism Science Foundation, autism treatment, vaccines on February 17, 2011| 24 Comments »
by Dr. Ari Brown, American Academy of Pediatrics
I am thankful, Dr Oz, for the opportunity to participate in your autism show. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and I hoped the show would help educate the public and move the conversation forward.
As a pediatrician who talks with families everyday in my office, I know parents want to know more about both vaccine safety and about autism. I'm also a mom. Like you, I need accurate information to protect my kids as best as I can.
I am concerned that viewers took away a very inaccurate view of vaccines. The most vocal audience members represent a small minority. Most parents of children with autism agree with the scientific evidence and do not believe that vaccines cause autism.
And, an overwhelming number of healthcare providers worldwide do not believe vaccines and autism are linked. What viewers witnessed on the show was far from the norm.
Also, most parents in this country support vaccinations. In fact, 99.4% of American children under 3 years of age are vaccinated. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5936a2.htm?s_cid=mm5936a2_w
I base vaccination decisions for my patients and my own children on science, not anecdotes or conspiracy theories. I'm passionate about vaccinations because I watched a child die from chickenpox—a vaccine-preventable illness. I refuse to let another child become a statistic because of hearsay. I'm compassionate towards families whose children have autism, because I have personally walked that road with several patients.
These are the messages that resonate with me, as a parent and a doctor. I hope they will resonate with you.
Multiple studies conducted by academic institutions worldwide—which are not funded by pharmaceutical companies—have shown that vaccines do not play a role in autism. Here are the studies: http://www.aap.org/immunization/families/ingredients.html. Vaccine safety concerns have not been ignored. In fact, they have been addressed appropriately.
Delaying or selectively choosing some vaccinations has absolutely no benefit and only risk. It does not prevent autism, but leaves the youngest children vulnerable to serious infections. The diseases that vaccines protect against can cause disabling health problems or death—and they are often the most severe in younger children. They are not minor illnesses. Here are the diseases preventable by vaccination: http://www.aap.org/immunization/illnesses/illnesses.html
The vaccination schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control has been studied extensively by the most respected group of experts in their field. The time frame provides the safest, most effective way to give certain vaccines together.
Dr Bob Sears, a panelist on the show who supports a delayed vaccination schedule, has said, "My schedule doesn't have any research behind it. No one has ever studied a big group of kids using my schedule to determine if it's safe or if it has any benefits." ("The Truth about Vaccines and Autism." iVillage, September 2009). Since that statement, a 2010 study http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/125/6/1134?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=neurodevelopmental+outcomes%2C+delayed+vaccinations&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT showed that children whose shots were delayed were just as likely to develop autism as those who were vaccinated on time. As one father on the show said so eloquently, the point of delaying shots seems to be just to make parents feel like they are doing something, when in reality, the decision puts their child at risk.
While it was not addressed on the show, the combination measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and its association to autism have been debunked. The scare began with a report in a British medical journal in 1998 that was recently retracted. Over the past decade, researchers dutifully tried to duplicate the findings of that report and no one ever could. The question was asked, and it was answered.
It's true—today's children get more shots than we did as kids. Modern medicine now provides protection against twice as many deadly, disabling diseases. That's a good thing! For instance, there is now protection against three different forms of bacterial meningitis. Infectious diseases are everywhere. No one can predict when a child will be exposed. And, even in the era of modern medicine—when someone becomes infected with a vaccine-preventable disease, it is usually too late or there is nothing to treat the infection. Prevention is key.
Parents, healthcare providers, and researchers all seek answers for autism spectrum disorders. We will be most successful by working together with the same goal–to discover the true causes of autism.
My advice to parents is to examine the scientific evidence for themselves. Your child's health is too important to base decisions on inaccurate information. Seek reliable sources for medical information. Go to the AAP website http://www.aap.org/immunization/families/families.html and talk to your child's doctor. As pediatricians, many of whom are parents too, we vaccinate our own children to protect them. We wouldn't do anything differently for your child.
For more information on autism see http://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/chronic/Pages/Autism-Spectrum-Disorders.aspx
Mix Up a Recipe4Hope to Support Autism Research
Posted in autism research, Autism Science Foundation, tagged autism, autism research, autism science, Autism Science Foundation, autism treatment on December 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Autism Science Foundation today announced the launch of its special year-end fundraising campaign, Recipe4Hope, at http://www.recipe4hope.org.
Donate Now to the Recipe4Hope Campaign
The centerpiece of the campaign is a short video that showcases a mother and children baking holiday cookies, mirroring the sentiment that sound scientific research takes the right ingredients, used the right way, to create the right results. Researching the causes of autism and finding treatments that work also requires the right blend of elements to be successful.
"We all know that autism science requires the right ingredients. Not necessarily sugar and spice, but insight, creativity, tenacity, hope and funding," said Alison Singer, President of the Autism Science Foundation. "Every dollar donated through this special year-end campaign will go directly to autism research."
This fundraising campaign will take place exclusively online through December 31, using social media tactics to reach donors and supporters. Beyond the video, supporters are encouraged to share photos or videos of their holiday cookie creations on the nonprofit's Facebook page and Twitter account. There is also a hashtag, #recipe4hope, to track the activity on social media sites. Donate now by clicking here.
To learn more about the Recipe4Hope campaign, visit http://www.recipe4hope.org. Follow the Autism Science Foundation on http://twitter.com/autismsciencefd and "like" us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/autismsciencefd.
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Yale University is building foundations in Southeast Asia, but critics say its liberal concepts won't work in Singapore's censored state
Yale's highly-anticipated Ivy League-backed liberal arts college in Singapore is on track for completion later this year, but whether the university's venture into the tightly controlled island state will be worth the investment is spawning a lively debate.
Working with the National University of Singapore (NUS), the multimillion-dollar Yale project is an ambitious deal expected to reaffirm the more than 300-year-old American university's image as a prestigious, global institution.
Yet bringing Yale's belief in an educational environment that encourages top students to question, analyse, challenge and critique beyond the status quo could prove a misfit in an authoritarian state with heavy restrictions on public speech and assembly, according to elite scholars.
"Yale's motto is 'lux et veritas', or 'light and truth'," said Michael Fischer, a Yale professor of computer science, as reported by Reuters. "We're going into a place with severe curbs on light and truth… We're redefining the brand in a way that is contrary to Yale's values."
Other educators within Singapore have dismissed censorship concerns, saying higher learning institutions are accepting of critical thinking even when it challenges the government.
Fuelling further concern for the viability of the project is the fact that Singapore has not always proved an ideal marketplace for higher education, despite having a relatively wealthy population. In recent years two renowned international universities have pulled out of the country because of low enrolment rates and financial trouble.
Yale officials have emphasised that the new institution is not a branch campus, but it will play a supporting role with NUS, and the degrees it issues will not be Yale degrees.
"Parlez-vous Anglais?" – Despite France's best attempts, Cambodia's higher education system is embracing English
"A guest wanted a bottle of ketchup to go with his foie gras"
By Southeast Asia Globe • Feb 20, 2013

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College to Develop Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship
The course will form a part of Trinity's recently-announced Strategy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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The University Times has learned that the college is planning to develop a certificate programme for undergraduate students with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. These plans were revealed in a recent interview with Provost Patrick Prendergast.
Commenting on the subject, Professor Vinny Cahill, Dean of Research, stated: "The planning is at an early stage so I cannot provide precise details now. We already offer a Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship through the Innovation Academy and we would like to provide similar opportunities to undergraduate students.
"This is one of the key features of our Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategy launched by Minister Bruton [Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation] last week."
"We already offer a Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship through the Innovation Academy and we would like to provide similar opportunities to undergraduate students."
Dr Prendergast said: "The strategy that we launched last week went about bringing together a coordinated set of actions that improve what Trinity does in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship. It involves developing our business school to be a component and driver of that strategy and it involves creating an innovation and entrepreneurship hub co-located with the new Trinity School of Business. This should lift the College's ability to develop entrepreneurial activities whether that be business formation or creative or social entrepreneurship."
He continued, "This is going to permeate in many ways the education that we offer in Trinity. There are educational initiatives that will be taken, such as the development of our Innovation Academy, the creation of an undergraduate certificate in entrepreneurship and so on. There is a great need for this in Trinity." He also mentioned that LaunchBox, an incubator programme offering funding and support for student business ventures, will run again next year with the possibility of increased funding, which Professor Cahill will oversee.
The Strategy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship document states the intention to "forge an entrepreneurial campus" and "further embed a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship right across the University…[the] Strategy will permeate the activities of Trinity's 24 academic schools, as well as integrating our flagship research institutes." This will also involve the establishment of a new "creative quarter" through a €70 million building project which will extend from Pearse Street to Grand Canal Basin.
The document also cites the forty-five start-up companies incubated on campus for 2013 and the 290 inventions from 2008-2013, as well as the 1,700 members of the Trinity Entrepreneurial Society (10% of the student population) as indicators of the College's focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.


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Chit Funds Act, 1982
Chit Funds Act
An Act to provide for the regulation of chit funds and for matters connected there with.
Chapter I - Preliminary
3. Act to override other laws, memorandum ,articles ,etc
Chapter II - Registration Of Chits, Commencement And Conduct Of Chit Business
4. Prohibition of chits not sanctioned or registered under the Act
5. Prohibition of invitation for subscriptions except under certain conditions
6. Form of chit agreement
7. Filling of chit agreement
8. Minimum capital requirements for the commencement, etc., of a chit, and chit, and creation of a reserve fund by a company
9. Commencement of chit
10. Copies of chit agreement to be given to subscribers
11. Use of the words chit, chit fund, chitty or Kurt
12. Prohibition of transacting business other than chit business by a company
13. Aggregate amount of chits
(1)This Act may be called the Chit Funds Act, 1982.
(2)I extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3)It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different States.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise require, -
(a)"approved bank" means the State Bank of India constituted under section 3 of the State Bank of India Act, 1955 (23 of 1955), or a subsidiary bank constituted under section 3 of the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959 (33 of 1959), or a corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertaking) Act, 1970 (5 of 1997), or a Regional Rural Bank established under section 3 of the Regional Rules Banks Act, 1976 (21 of 1976) , or a corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 (40 of 1980), or a banking company as defined under clause (e) of section 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949 ), or a banking institution notified by the Central Government under section 51 of that Act or such other banking institution as the State Government may, in consultation with the Reserve Bank, approve for the purposes of this Act;
(b)"chit" means a transaction whether called chit, chit fund, chitty, kuri or by any other name by or under which a person enters into an agreement with a specified number of persons that every one of them shall subscribe a certain sum of money (or a certain quantity of grain instead) by way of periodical instalments over a definite period and that each such subscriber shall, in his turn, as determined by lot or by auction or by tender or in such other manner as may be specified in the chit agreement, be entitled to the prize amount.
Explanation.- A transaction is not a chit within the meaning of this clause, if in such transaction, -
(i)some alone, but not all, of the subscribers get the prize amount without any liability to pay future subscriptions; or
(ii)all the subscribers get the chit amount by turns with a liability to pay future subscriptions;
(c)"chit agreement" means the document containing the articles of agreement between the foreman and the subscribers relating to the chit;
(d)"chit amount" means the sum-total of the subscriptions payable by all the subscribers for any instalment of a chit without any deduction of discount or otherwise;
(e)"chit business" means the business of conducting a chit;
(f)"defaulting subscriber" means a subscriber who has defaulted in he payment of subscriptions due in accordance with the terms of the chit agreement.
(g)"discount" means the sum of money or the quantity of grain which a prized subscriber is, under the terms of the chit agreement, required to forego and which is set apart under the said agreement to meet the expenses of running the chit or for distribution among the subscribers or for both;
(h)"dividend" means the share of the subscriber in the amount of discount available under the chit agreement for rateable distribution among the subscribers at each instalment of the chit;
(i)"draw" means the manner specified in the chit agreement for the purpose of ascertaining the prized subscriber of any instalment of the chit;
(j)"foreman" means the person who under the chit agreement is responsible for the conduct of the chit and includes any person discharging the functions of the chit and includes any person discharging the functions of the foreman under section 39;
(k)"non-prized subscriber" does not include a defaulting sub-scriber;
(l)"prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(m)"prize amount" means the difference between the chit amount and the document, and in the case of a fraction of a ticket means the difference between the chit amount and the discount proportionate to the fraction of the ticket, and when the prize amount is payable otherwise then in cash, and value of the prize amount shall be the value at the time when it becomes payable;
(n)"prize subscriber" means a subscriber who has either received or it entitled to receive the prize amount;
(o)"Registrar" means the Registrar of Chits appointed under section 61, and includes an Additional, a Joint, Deputy or an Assistant Registrar appointed under that section;
(p)"Reserve Bank" means the Reserve Bank of India constituted under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934);
(q)"State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator of that Union territory appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;
(r)"subscriber" includes a person who hold a fraction of a ticket and also a transferee of a ticket or fraction thereof by assignment in writing or by operation of law;
(s)"ticket" means the share of a subscriber in a chit.
Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act,-
(a)the provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force or in the memorandum or articles of association or bye-laws or in any agreement or resolution whether the same be registered, executed or passed, as the case may be, before or after the commencement of this Act; and
(b)any provision contained in the memorandum, articles, bye-laws, agreement or resolution aforesaid, shall, to the extent to which it is repugnant to the provisions of this Act, become or be void, as the case may be.
(1)Not chit shall be commenced or conducted without obtaining the previous sanction of the State Government within whose jurisdiction the chit is to be commenced or conducted or of such officer as may be empowered by that Government in this behalf, and unless the chit is registered in that state in accordance with the provisions of this Act:
Provided that a sanction obtained under this sub-section shall laps if the chit is not registered within twelve months from the date of such sanction or within such further period or periods not exceeding six months in the aggregate as the State Government may, on application made to it in this behalf, allow.
(2)An application for the purpose of obtaining a sanction under subsection (1) shall be made by the foreman in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed.
(3)The previous sanction referred to in sub-section (1) may be refused, if foreman, -
(a)had been convicted of any offence under this Act or under any other Act regulating chit business and sentenced to imprisonment for any such offence; or
(b)had defaulted in the payment of fees or the filing of any statement or record required to be paid or filed under this Act or had violated any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder; or
(c) had been convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude and sentenced to imprisonment for any such offence unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release :
Provided that before refusing any such sanction, the foreman shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
(4)The order of the State Government, and, subject to the provisions of sub-section (5), the order of the officer empowered under sub-section (1), issuing or refusing previous sanction under this section shall be final.
(5)Any person aggrieved by the refusal to issue previous sanction by a officer empowered under sub-section (1) may appeal to the State Government within thirty days of the date of communication to him of such refusal and the decision of that Government on such appeal shall be final.
No person shall issue or cause to be issued any notice, circular, prospectus, proposal or other document inviting the public to subscribe for tickets in any chit unless such notice, circular, prospectus, proposal or document contains a statement that the previous sanction required under section 4 has been obtained and the particulars of such sanction.
(1)Every chit agreement shall be is duplicate and shall be signed by each of the subscribers or by any person authorised by him in writing and the foreman and attested by at least two witnesses and it shall contain the following particulars, namely:-
(a)full name and residential address of every subscriber;
(b)the number of tickets including the fraction of a ticket held by each subscriber;
(c)the number of instalments, the amount payable for each ticket at every instalment and the interest or penalty, if any, payable on any default in the payment of such instalments;
(d)the probable date of commencement and the duration of the chit;
(e)the manner of ascertaining the prizing subscriber at each instalment;
(f)the maximum amount of discount which the prized subscriber has to forego at any instalment;
(g)the mode and proportion in which the discount is distributable by way of dividend, foreman's commission or remuneration or expenses for running the chit, as the case may be;
(h)the date, time and place at which the chit is to be drawn;
(i)the instalment at which the foreman is to get the chit amount;
(j)the name of the approved bank in which chit moneys shall be deposited by the foreman under the provisions of this Act;
(k)where the foreman is an individual, the manner in which a chit shall be continued when such individual dies or becomes unsound mind or is otherwise incapacitated;
(l)the consequences to which a non-prized or prized subscriber or the foreman shall be liable in case of violation of any of the provisions of the chit agreement;
(m)the conditions under which a subscriber shall be treated as a defaulting subscriber;
(n)the nature and particulars of the security of to be offered by the foreman;
(o)the dates on which and time during which the foreman shall, subject to the revisions contained in section 44, allow inspection of chit records to non-prized and unpaid prized subscribers;
(p)the names of the nominees of each subscriber, that is to say, the names of the persons to whom the benefits accruing to the subscriber under the chit may be paid in the case of the death of the subscriber or when he is otherwise incapable of making an agreement;
(q)any other particulars that may, from time to time, be prescribed.
Explanation.- For the purposes of this sub-section, it shall be sufficient if the signature of each subscriber is obtained in separate copies of the agreement.
(2)The duration of a chit shall not extend beyond a period of five years from the date of its commencement;
Provided that the State Government may permit the duration of a chit up to a period of ten years if it is satisfied that it is necessary so to do, having regard to,-
(a)the financial condition of the foreman;
(b)his methods of operation;
(c)the interests of prospective subscribers;
(d)the requirements as to security; and
(e)such other factors as the circumstances of the easy may require.
(3)The amount of discount referred to in clause (f) of sub-section (1) shall not exceed their per cent, of the chit amount.
(4)Where the prized subscriber at any instalment at any instalment of the chit is required to be determined by auction and more than one person offer the maximum discount, the prized subscriber shall be determined by lot.
(1)Every chit agreement shall be filed in duplicate by the foreman with the Registrar.
(2)The Registrar shall retain one copy of the chit agreement and return the duplicate to the foreman with an endorsement that the chit agreement has been registered:
Provided that the Registrar may refuse to register the chit agreement on may one or more of the following grounds, namely:-
(a)that the security offered by the foreman under section 20 is insufficient;
(b)that the foreman had been convicted of any offence under this Act or under any other Act regulating chit business and sentenced to imprisonment for any such offence;
(c)that the foreman had defaulted in the payment of fees or the filing of any statement or record required to be paid or filed under this Act or had violated any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made there under;
(d)that the foreman had been convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude and sentenced to imprisonment for any such offence unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release:
Provided further that before refusing to register a chit under the first proviso, the foreman shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
(3)Every endorsement made under sub-section (2) shall be conclusive evidence that the chit is duly registered under this Act and the registration of a chit shall lapse if the declaration by the foreman under sub-section (1) of section 9 is not filed within three months from the date of such endorsement or within such further period or periods not exceeding three months in the aggregate as the Registrar may, on application made to him in this behalf, allow.
(1)Notwithstanding anything contained in the Companies Act, 1956, but subject to the provisions of this Act, a company shall not commence or carry on chit business unless it has a paid-up capital of not less than rupees one lakh.
(2)Every company having a paid-up capital of less than rupees one lakh and carrying on chit business on chit business on the commencement of this Act, shall, before the expiry of a period of three years from such commencement, increase its paid-up capital to not less than rupees one lakh.
Provided that the State Government may, if it considers it necessary in the public interest or for avoiding any hardship, extend the said period of three years in respect of any company by such further period at periods not exceeding two years in the aggregate:
Provided further that no such company shall commence any new chit the duration of which would extend beyond the said period of three years or such extended period or periods under the first proviso unless it increases its paid-up capital to not less than rupees one lakh.
(3)Every company carrying on chit business shall create and maintain a reserve fund and shall, out of the balance of profit of each year as disclosed in its profit and loss account and before any dividend on its shares is declared, transfer to such reserve fund, a sum equal to not less than ten per cent, of such profit.
(4)No company shall appropriate any sum or sums from the reserve fund except with the prior approval of the Registrar and for the purpose of obtaining such approval, it shall an application in the prescribed form to the Registrar explaining the circumstances relating to such appropriation.
(1)Every foreman shall, after all the tickets specified in the chit agreement are fully subscribed, file a declaration to that effect with the Registrar
(2)As soon as may be after a declaration is filed under sub-section (1), the Registrar shall, after satisfying himself that all the requirements relating to sanction, registration of chit and other matters have been duly complied with, grant a certificate of commencement to the foreman.
(3)No foreman shall commence any auction or the draw of any chit or appropriate any chit or appropriate any chit amount unless a certificate of commencement referred to in sub-section (2) is obtained by him.
(1)A foreman shall, as soon as may be after he has obtained the certificate of commencement under sub-section (2) of section 9, but not later than the date of the first draw of the chit, furnish to every subscriber, a copy of the chit agreement certified to be a true copy.
(2)A foreman shall, within fifteen days after the close of the month in which the draw for the first instalment of the chit is held, file with the Registrar, a certificate to the effect that the provisions of sub-section (1) have been complied with.
(1)No person shall carry on chit business unless he uses as part of his name any of the words "chit fund", "chitty" or "Kuri" and no person other than a person carrying on chit business shall use as part of his name any such word.
(2)Where at the commencement of this Act,-
(a)any person is carrying on chit business without using as part of his name any of the words specified in sub-section (1); or
(b)any person not carrying on chit business is using any such word as part of his name, he shall, within a period of one year from such commencement, add as part of his name any such word or, as the case may be, delete such word from his name:
Provided that the State Government may, if it considers it necessary in the public interest or for avoiding any hardship, extend the said period of one year by such further period or periods not exceeding one year in the aggregate.
(1)Except with the general or special permission of the State Government, no company carrying on chit business shall conduct any other business.
(2)Where at the commencement of this Act, any company is carrying on any business in addition to chit business, it shall wind up such other business before the expiry of a period of three years from such commencement:
Provided that the State Government may, if it considers it necessary in the public interest or for avoiding any hardship, extend the said period of three years by such further period or periods not exceeding two years in the aggregate.
(1)No foreman, other than a firm or other association of individuals of a company or co-operative society, shall commence or conduct chits, the aggregate chit amount of which at any time exceeds twenty-five thousand rupees.
(2)Where the foreman is a firm or other association of individuals, the aggregate chit amount of the chit conducted by the firm or other association shall not at any time exceed,-
(a)where the number of partners of the firm or the individuals constituting the association is not less than four, a sum of rupees one lakh;
(b)in any other case, a sum calculated on the basis of twenty-five thousand rupees with respect to each partner or individual.
(3)Where the foreman is a company or co-operative society, the aggregate chit amount of the chits conducted by it shall not at any time exceed ten times the net owned funds of the company or the co-operative society, as the case may be.
Explanation.- For the purposes of this sub-section, "net owned funds" shall mean the aggregate of the paid-up capital and free reserves as disclosed in the last audited balance sheet of the company or co-operative society, as reduced by the amount of accumulated balance of loss, deferred revenue, expenditure and other intangible assets, if any, as disclosed in the said balance sheet.


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This year is shaping up to be a good one for our family…and its quite exciting!!
We decided at the end of 2014 that we would be making a massive change in 2015. There are numerous reasons for this decision, but our Bethy is the main reason for making this change.
Bethy struggles academically, and has done so since she started school. She's always been young for her age, and this year she's in year six (the last year of primary school). School life has been challenging for Bethy, and we have had many friendship issues along the way. On many occasions, over the years, Bethy would climb into the car at the end of the day and burst into tears. Her confidence was battered, she felt inferior to her peers, and we've reached the place where enough is enough! I have spent hours over the years helping Bethy at home with her school work, not to mention all the time we have spent calming her school and friend related anxieties!
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We have become a homeschooling family!
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I'll admit I was slightly nervous leaving the kids school on the last day of school last year, but the school holiday excitement helped me get over that quite quickly. I have a plan B for if it all goes belly up, but I don't think we will need that plan B because I am already seeing the benefits of our new homeschooling lifestyle.
We have just completed our third week of term. It hasn't been all smooth sailing, but we are enjoying the process, and the benefits of homeschooling out way the negatives. I'll admit though that we are enjoying this new life of ours. We have only had one really hard day in 3 weeks, so I think we must be doing something right!
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Concluding a five-game homestand that has seen the club win three in a row to break loose from the home-ice woes that plagued them through the first six weeks of the season, the Dallas Stars (9-9-4) will play host to the Minnesota Wild (12-9-0) on Friday night. Game time at the American Airlines Center is 7:30 p.m. CST. The game will be televised on Fox Sports Southwest Plus.
This is the third of five meetings between the Central Division clubs this season. Earlier this month, the Stars lost both games against Minnesota in regulation. On Nov. 1 in St. Paul, the Wild cruised to a 4-1 win. On Nov. 15 in Dallas, it was a 2-1 final.
The Stars enter this game coming off a 3-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. It wasn't always pretty but Dallas never trailed in a game that saw Kari Lehtonen make 35 saves to earn the win.
John Klingberg scored his third NHL goal as a fluky bouncing shot from the neutral zone eluded countryman Viktor Fasth. After yielding a shorthanded goal in the final minute of the first period to skate to the locker room tied 1-1 at the first intermission, NHL-leading goal scorer Tyler Seguin broke loose for a pair of second-period tallies to forge a 3-1 lead. The Stars nursed the lead through the remainder of the game. Taylor Hall drew the Oilers back within a goal with 14:01 remaining in regulation but Lehtonen stopped nine of 10 shots fired on his net in the final period to nail down the win.
Several key Stars players missed Wednesday's practice, including team captain Jamie Benn, Lehtonen and defenseman Alex Goligoski (flu). All three returned to yesterday's Thanksgiving Day practice, per Stars Inside Edge, and are available for tonight's game.
After tonight, the Stars turn around and play a road game in Denver tomorrow night against the Colorado Avalanche. Dallas head coach Lindy Ruff told the Dallas media yesterday that struggling and seldom-used backup goaltender Anders Lindbäck would start one of the two games this weekend. Lindbäck last appeared in relief of Lehtonen on Nov. 18 in Carolina, yielding a goal nine seconds into the third period before settling in. He last started on Nov. 8 in an ugly 5-3 home loss to San Jose.
Checking line forward Ryan Garbutt was suspended two games by the NHL for a knee-to-knee hit on Taylor Hall in Tuesday's game. He will serve the first game tonight. Colton Sceviour will return to the Dallas lineup with Garbutt unavailable.
The Wild had been playing very good hockey — reeling off a 5-1-0 stretch over six games — heading into Wednesday's clash with the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings in St. Paul. The results on Wednesday, however, were not what Minnesota coach Mike Yeo wanted to see from his club.
Very little went right for the Wild in a 4-0 loss against the Kings. Minnesota ran right into the business end of a four-goal buzzsaw in the first period. Los Angeles, which had just 12 shots over the final 40 minutes, but never felt in any jeopardy. The Wild made no dent in the huge deficit as backup LA goalie Martin Jones posted a 28-save shutout. For Minnesota, losing goaltender Darcy Kuemper (six saves on 10 shots) gave way to veteran Niklas Bäckström over the final 40 minutes of the game.
On Dallas injury front, second-year right winger Valeri Nichushkin (hip surgery) is out until the stretch drive, while rookie defenseman Patrik Nemeth (severe forearm laceration from a skate cut) is out for the season. For Minnesota, defenseman Jonas Brodin (illness) is questionable for tonight's game, while Matt Cooke (hip) is out.


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package org.http4s.blaze.channel.nio2

import java.net.{InetSocketAddress, SocketTimeoutException}

import org.http4s.blaze.testkit.BlazeTestSuite
import org.http4s.blaze.util.TickWheelExecutor

import scala.concurrent.Future
import scala.concurrent.duration.DurationDouble

class ClientChannelFactorySuite extends BlazeTestSuite {
  // The default TickWheelExecutor has 200ms ticks. It should be acceptable for most real world use cases.
  // If one needs very short timeouts (like we do in tests), providing a custom TickWheelExecutor is a solution.
  private val scheduler: TickWheelExecutor = new TickWheelExecutor(tick = 10.millis)

  private val factory =
    new ClientChannelFactory(connectTimeout = 1.millisecond, scheduler = scheduler)
  private val address = new InetSocketAddress("192.0.2.0", 1) // rfc5737 TEST-NET-1

  test("A ClientChannelFactory should time out") {
    for {
      _ <- factory.connect(address).failed.map {
        case _: SocketTimeoutException => ()
        case ex => fail(s"Unexpected exception found $ex")
      }
      _ <- Future(scheduler.shutdown())
    } yield ()
  }
}

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Q: Is there a way to control two instantiated systemd services as a single unit? I've got a couple python web services I'm trying to run on a Fedora 15 box.  They're being run by paster, and the only difference in starting them is the config file they read.
This seems like a good fit for systemd's instantiated services, but I'd like to be able to control them as a single unit.  A systemd target that requires both services seems like the way to approach that.  Starting the target does start both services, but stopping the target leaves them running.
Here's the service file:
[Unit]
Description=AUI Instance on Port %i
After=syslog.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/share/aui
ExecStart=/opt/cogo/bin/paster serve --log-file=/var/log/aui/%i deploy-%i.ini
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
User=aui
Group=aui

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And here's the target file:
[Unit]
Description=AUI
Requires=aui@5001.service
Requires=aui@5002.service
After=syslog.target

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Is this kind of grouping even possible with systemd?

A: Look at using the BindsTo option to tie the units together. The systemd.unit(5) manual page describes it like this:

BindsTo=
Configures requirement dependencies, very similar in style to
  Requires=, however in addition to this behavior, it also declares that
  this unit is stopped when any of the units listed suddenly disappears.
  Units can suddenly, unexpectedly disappear if a service terminates on
  its own choice, a device is unplugged or a mount point unmounted
  without involvement of systemd.

Which sounds like it should do what you want and tie one unit to the other so that whenever the master stops the slave stops as well and vice versa for starting up.
Don't forget that you can also use Before/After to specify the order in which they should start if necessary.

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shared_examples 'a base Youku API V2 requests' do

  it { expect(subject).to be_a Youku::V2::Request }
  it { expect(subject.ok?).to be_truthy }

  context '400 response code on request' do
    before do
      stub_request(:get, url).with(query: query).to_return(status: 404)
    end

    it { expect { subject }.to_not raise_error }
    it { expect(subject.ok?).to be_falsy }
  end
end


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Juan Manuel Cobo Gálvez (born 26 November 1984) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club S.S.D. Jesina Calcio.

Titles
 Arsenal de Sarandí 2012 (Torneo Clausura Primera División Argentina Championship), 2013 (Copa Argentina)

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Argentine footballers
Argentine expatriate footballers
Thrasyvoulos F.C. players
Elche CF players
Olimpo footballers
Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
Instituto footballers
Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
O'Higgins F.C. footballers
Argentinos Juniors footballers
Club Atlético Banfield footballers
Independiente Rivadavia footballers
U.S.D. Città di Fasano players
Football League (Greece) players
Chilean Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
Primera Nacional players
Segunda División players
Serie D players
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Chile
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Association football midfielders
Footballers from Córdoba, Argentina


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Q: How to allow a file download from a control wrapped under UpdatePanel? I have a Datalist control which display thumbnails and a download icon (ImageButton) under it, Datalist is wrapped under UpdatePanel, When user clicks on download icon I call the following function to allow file to be downloaded at user end
    protected void dtlSearchDetails_ItemCommand(object source, DataListCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.CommandName == "dtlImgDownload")
        {
            downloadFile(e.CommandArgument.ToString(), "~/uploads/primary/");
        }
}

function :
public void downloadFile(string fileName, string filePath)
{
    Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
    Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", string.Format("attachment; filename=\"{0}\"", fileName));
    Response.WriteFile(filePath + fileName);
}

Now since the ImageButton / Datalist is wrapped inside UpdatePanel, I have registered it as a postback control with the ScriptManager on Page_Load
if (dtlSearchDetails.Items.Count > 0)
{
    foreach (DataListItem li in dtlSearchDetails.Items)
    {
        ImageButton img = (ImageButton)li.FindControl("dtlImgDownload");
        ScriptManager.GetCurrent(this.Page).RegisterPostBackControl(img);
   }
}

Now when I click the download icon nothing happens and I get this following error in console :

Uncaught Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException: Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException: The message
  received from the server could not be parsed. Common causes for this
  error are when the response is modified by calls to Response.Write(),
  response filters, HttpModules, or server trace is enabled.

But,
There are other controls on the same page like search button, which are outside this UpdatePanel but I have registered them as
<trigger>
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnKeySearch" />
</trigger>

inside the same updatePanel.
When I click on this search button and then click the download Icon it behaves perfectly fine as expected (download's the file at client) without and error in console.
I am not able to find out the cause behind this workaround.
Kindly help me out.

A: your ImageButton is inside a DataList so you have to do the RegisterPostBackControl inside your DataList's ItemDataBound event.
protected void dtlSearchDetails_ItemDataBound(object sender, DataListItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
    {
        var imgBtn = e.Item.FindControl("dtlImgDownload") as ImageButton;
        ScriptManager.GetCurrent(this.Page).RegisterPostBackControl(imgBtn);
        // your other code goes here.
    }
}


Meet Squishy the octopus. He has eight arms and if he concentrates really hard he can let out a small puff of ink.
With the help of his friends, Swirls the Seahorse, and Shelley the Mermaid, Squishy learns how to remain calm and not lose his temper.


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Q: Install pyCurl in ActivePython-2.6? I have worked with pyCurl in the past and have it working with my system default python install. However, I have a project that requires python to be more portable and I am using ActivePython-2.6.
I have had no problems installing any other modules so far, but am getting errors installing pyCurl.
The error:
Searching for pycurl
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycurl/
Reading http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
Reading http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/download/
Best match: pycurl 7.19.0
Downloading http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/download/pycurl-7.19.0.tar.gz
Processing pycurl-7.19.0.tar.gz
Running pycurl-7.19.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-tfVLW6/pycurl-7.19.0/egg-dist-tmp-p1WjAy
sh: curl-config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/bin/easy_install", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c9', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1671, in main
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1659, in with_ei_usage
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1675, in <lambda>
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 27, in run_setup
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 63, in run
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 29, in <lambda>
  File "setup.py", line 90, in <module>
Exception: `curl-config' not found -- please install the libcurl development files

My system does have libcurl installed, but ActivePython doesn't seem to find it.
Any ideas will help!

A: Following dependencies are needed for installing pycurl:
apt-cache depends python-pycurl
python-pycurl
 Depends: libc6
Depends: libcurl3-gnutls
Depends: libgcrypt11
Depends: python2.7
Depends: python
Depends: python
Suggests: libcurl4-gnutls-dev
Suggests: python-pycurl-dbg
Conflicts: <python2.3-pycurl>
Conflicts: <python2.3-pycurl:i386>
Conflicts: <python2.4-pycurl>
Conflicts: <python2.4-pycurl:i386>
Replaces: <python2.3-pycurl>
Replaces: <python2.3-pycurl:i386>
Replaces: <python2.4-pycurl>
Replaces: <python2.4-pycurl:i386>
Conflicts: python-pycurl:i386

Run this command
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev librtmp-dev

Then you can install pycurl using
pip install pycurl

or
easy_install pycurl

A: I couldn't find a curl-config to add to the path, which makes sense as it's not a module that can be called (as far as I can tell)
The answer ended up being a bit of a hack, but it works.
As I had pyCurl working in my native python2.6 install, I simply copied the curl and pycurl items from the native install into the ActivePython install.

A: $ apt-cache depends python-pycurl
python-pycurl
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libcurl3-gnutls
  Depends: libgnutls26
  Depends: libidn11
  Depends: libkrb53
  Depends: libldap-2.4-2
  Depends: zlib1g
  Depends: python
  Depends: python
  Depends: python-central
[...]

So first install the dependencies via sudo aptitude install libcurl3-gnutls (or the package manager of your distribution) and then run easy_install pycurl.

A: It looks like curl-config isn't in your path. Try running it from the command line and adjust the PATH environment variable as needed so that Python can find it.


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Modoc Rural Trip Planning Tool Concept of Operations and Literature Review
Started: March, 2004 End Date: June, 2004 Project ID #425509 Status: Ongoing
To develop a Concept of Operations for a rural transit trip planning tool; to conduct a review of available applications for this tool.
Western Transportation Institute - Montana State University will produce for Modoc County Transportation Commission a Concept of Operations and a Literature Review for a Rural Trip Planning Tool (Rural TPT) to serve eastern California. These documents, to be completed by June 30, 2004, are being written to address the needs and concerns of the partnering regional transportation planning agencies and transit operators, who should benefit from the Rural TPT, Caltrans District 2 and Caltrans Headquarters. The documents will serve as the foundation for the Rural TPT project, to be contracted separately using funds from Caltrans Division of Research and Innovation, as described below: "Problem Statement - Rural transit providers struggle with high demand for trip planning services. The demand comes from many sources: rural residents traveling to regional medical centers for specialized health care; travelers having occasional vehicle problems or accidents causing them to leave or return to remote rural areas via public transportation; transit-dependent travelers making intercity trips for business, social or recreational purposes; and others who want to use public transportation instead of their automobiles. What's needed is a centralized system for intercity travelers, transportation professionals and social services agencies to access information to facilitate travel using two or more transportation providers. Existing trip planning tools have been developed for metropolitan areas. Research is needed to determine what type of system(s)) will meet the needs of rural transit operators and intercity travelers. Objectives - The objectives of this project are to research available coordinated trip planning systems; select a system for testing along the eastern Sierra corridor; then test and evaluate that system. Multiple rural transit operators will use the intercity trip planning tool for intercity travel, by social service organizations, and by the general public. "Multiple" is a key word, for in rural areas trips to regional centers usually require transfers between two or more operators. The envisioned coordination will allow access to schedule, fare and trip-planning information for multiple operators such as regular fixed route service; client-based or "dial-a-ride" service; and connections to Amtrak, Greyhound, and airports" (from the Revised Project Summary, February 6, 2004).
David Kack	- PI
Pam Couch	- Main External Contact
Phillip Deepu
Brandy Sularz
David Kack
Download this Report (2.64 MB)
California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) Sponsor
Part of: Mobility and Public Transportation
Project Tagged In: Rural Transportation, intelligent transportation systems, Rural Transit


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 Vladimir Ivanov, pallavolista ucraino
 Vladimir Ivanov, tennista estone
 Vladimir Ivanov, giocatore di badminton russo
 Vladimir Ivanov Ivanov, calciatore bulgaro
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Lowke, D.; Stengel, T; Schießl, P.; Gehlen, C.
Control of Rheology, Strength and Fibre Bond of UHPC with Additions - Effect of Packing Density and Addition Type.
This contribution illustrates the effect of additions different in type and fineness and maximum packing density on the macroscopic properties, rheology and bond of steel fibres of UHPC. The results show that the properties of the UHPC investigated were decisively affected by the particle size distribution of the additions rather than the type of material. A new packing density test for fine materials (< 125 μm) was developed to provide calibrated input parameters for the calculation of the maximum packing density of UHPC with different additions. The rheological properties, and therefore fresh concrete workability, were affected by the maximum packing density of the UHPC bulk matrix. The bond strength of steel fibres in a straight pull-out test was affected by addition exchange too. Again, this is explained by packing density effects. Based on packing density calculations as well as SEM and EDX investigations, higher fibre bond strength is explained by a larger proportion of very fine particles in the matrix adjacent to the fibre ITZ which leads to a decrease in the maximum packing density of the fibre ITZ.
Schmidt, M.; Fehling, E.; Glotzbach, C.; Fröhlich, S.; Piotrowski, S.