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Bad Fall – Part 46
While visiting his parents, Frank finds that his father is well aware of the relationship with Mabel.
"She's family," Tom replied. "She's always taken an interest in you. She would have helped with college, but you wanted to do ROTC. She never interfered. But you getting the job you've got, that was Mabel's doing. She sits on the board."
Frank laughed harshly, blinking back tears of frustration. "So, I didn't get that job on my own merits? Great!"
"You're more than qualified for that job," his father snapped. "Mabel doesn't believe in giving more than a man is capable of handling. If you notice, Ralph's not got the job."
"His people skills need polishing," Frank countered.
"They need to be replaced," his mother said, color rising in her cheeks. "You wouldn't believe the things he's said to us over the years. He's a nasty, mean spirited. . . ."
"Polly, shh. We all know what he's like."
"Do we have any idea what he might have been up to?" Paula asked suddenly. "Ralph's a snake. He's one of the stupidest men I ever met. Always sneaking around doing something underhanded. Cheap, tightfisted, no-count. . . .."
"Polly. . . ."
"Well, he is, Tom! Frank knows. He's got no illusions about it."
"Uncle Ralphie's a character for sure," Frank said.
"Don't ever call him that. He's no blood kin to you!" Paula's voice rose in pitch. "He's the Devil's Own!"
"Ralph's been horrid over the years. He was always threatening to reveal our secret. He even tried blackmail at one time—like we cared. We planned to tell you about all this and it didn't matter that my mother was really Evelyn's sister."
"What?" Frank gasped.
"Mabel didn't tell you that?" His father was stunned.
"No. She never told me her name. Aunt Marilyn is your real mother?"
"That explains a lot, doesn't it?" Paula replied. "Marilyn is Tom and Richard's godmother. She's always been a major part of our lives. She eventually married, but she never stopped loving Frankie."
"I always wondered why she looked at me that way. . . ." Frank murmured. "Such pain in her eyes. Do I really look that much like him?"
Paula went to a nearby shelf, pulling down a photo album. She carried it over to Frank. Sitting beside him on the sofa, she opened the book and flipped through a few pages. Laying it on his knees, she pointed to a photograph of a handsome young man in an Army uniform. His build and bearing were exactly like Frank's. The smile, dimples, hair and dark eyes bespoke of their relationship. He was smiling at the camera, his arms around twin boys. A beautiful blonde, whom Frank recognized as his Great-Aunt Marilyn, stood next to them, her arm around the nearest twin.
Frank felt like the wind was knocked out of him. "Oh, my God!" It was like looking in a mirror.
"You never put together that he was your dad?" Marka asked Tom.
Tom shrugged, shaking his head. "He was Aunt Marilyn's beau and Dad's best friend. He was as much a part of our lives as anyone else. Every time he had leave, he was here. He taught us to throw a football, gave us our first riding lesson on Mabel's horses. He lavished us with gifts and made a huge fuss over us whenever he could. Uncle Frank was a fixture. It was to honor his memory that we named you after him. It was Dad's idea."
"Was it a terrible shock finding out he was your dad?" Marka asked.
"Not so much. By then, we'd both been married a couple years, had a kid or two of our own. It was right after Jen's first birthday that they told us."
"Why don't I remember Tom Cortland?" Frank asked.
"You should. He was at all the family functions until his death. I think you were fifteen," his mother replied.
Frank shook his head. "I don't remember a thing. Some of my memories are hazy. Like I know Mabel was around too, but she's in this foggy bubble. . . ." He rubbed his nose, shaking his head. "It's crazy. Why would it be like that?"
"You called him Uncle Tommy," his mother prompted. "You loved him so much. . . .."
Tom Atherton took the photo album from his wife as she dabbed at her eyes. "I think this is enough for now, don't you? How about dinner? I bet you're starving. If I know my son, he missed lunch and scarfed a burger in the car."
Marka burst out laughing. "That's exactly what he did!"
"Let's see if we can improve on that meal. I was going to grill this weekend, but I've got all the fixings already. Blue cheese burgers?" He suggested, standing.
"Oh, Dad, does that sound good!"
"Hope you don't mind turkey," Tom said to Marka. "Some of us have iron trouble."
"Frank told me."
"Would you like to change, Frank? You can't help Daddy in that suit. You'll get it filthy."
"Sure! The great thing about having parents who keep everything. . . . Is they keep everything," he told Marka. "I could supply the Salvation Army with the stuff in my room."
"I have something that would fit you," Paula told Marka. "Let's find you something to change into. You can't relax in that. The suit is lovely, by the way."
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Sir David Lidington and Sir Patrick McLoughlin among 10 new Tory peers to be created by end of month
By Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent 11 January 2020 • 10:00pm
Former Cabinet minister Sir David Lidington Credit: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
Former Cabinet ministers Sir David Lidington and Sir Patrick McLoughlin are understood to be among 10 new Tory peers to be created by the end of this month, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
They will join Nicky Morgan and Zac Goldsmith as part of a bid to get a better balance in the House of Lords which already as a membership biased towards Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Others in the running for new roles in the House of Lords include Johnny Leavesley, the chairman of the Tory donor group the Midlands Industrial Council.
One Tory donor source has said the party wants to get "more specialists and business people into the positions" in the Lords so they can possibly help with the trade talks in some way.
Mr Leavesley, who runs the Burton-upon-Trent based mini-conglomerate the Leavesley group, is well connected through the Gulf states in the Middle East.
The announcement will be made by the end of this month in when details of new peers are unveiled in the traditional post-election dissolution honours list.
Most of the new appointments will be made after peers are expected to vote through Boris Johnson's Withdrawal Agreement Bill which is due to be debated by peers this week and next.
While former Cabinet ministers are normally expected to be elevated to the House of Lords, the honours for Sir David and Sir Patrick could raise eyebrows among some critics.
Sir David was Theresa May's de facto deputy when the former Tory Prime Minister tried and failed to persuade MPs to back a 'softer' Brexit deal in 2018 and last year.
Sir Patrick was party chairman when the Tories lost their majority during Mrs May's disastrous 2017 general election.
In other parties Jo Swinson, former LibDem leader who lost her seat at last month's general election, is understood to have missed out on a peerage.
This is because the LibDems are considered to be over-represented in the second chamber.
Nigel Farage, the Brexit Party leader whose campaigning created the conditions for the UK to leave the EU, is also understood not to have been given a seat in the Lords.
Earlier this month former Tory MP Anna Soubry suggested that Nigel Farage should have a place in the House of Lords.
Ms Soubry claimed that "there's actually a good argument that he should be in the House of Lords."
She said: "Because of that job of scrutiny, that job of legislation, that job of actually making sure the House of Lords is more representative.
"That's why there's a good argument that Nigel Farage, dare I say, should actually be in the House of Lords, so that that job can be done and it can better reflect society."
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Write What You Love
Of all the genres in all the world to write about, why Fantasy? Why do I write Fantasy instead of say Women's Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance, or Horror? Namely because the Fantasy genre is freeing. You can write anything, make up entire worlds based in magic, new races of people and animals. Anything you want can happen in Fantasy. Science Fiction is a close second but even that can be a little limiting do to the "science" aspect of the genre.
I love Fantasy and the people and monsters that populate those worlds. It inspires a sense of wonder in me even if the world has no magic. It stokes my imagination like no other genre could. I still enjoy Science Fiction and I won't say no to a good Romance or Horror story every now and again but it doesn't create that perfect storm within me that Fantasy does.
In Fantasy, I can create the world I wish was real. I can create fantastic characters doing awesome things that isn't possible in the real world or even any other genre of fiction. The people become deliciously complex. They deal with very real, very human emotions that get even more complicated when you push their fantasy element on top of them. Going deep into the limitations that may inflict on the main character and those that surround them makes for a rich story. Writing those scenarios is fun for me, even if it torments the people I create (I'm pretty sure the main character in The Monster of Selkirk hates me for what I put her through).
The biggest problem I run into is putting too many real world restrictions on my Fantasy. It's easy to base worlds or people on real things and places. Too easy. And there are a lot of amazing places in the world so why not use them as the basis? There is nothing wrong with that. The trick is to not let it limit yourself. Basing your world on a real place then having a great idea and wanting to add it in but stopping yourself because "this wouldn't have existed at the time" is bad. I do it sometimes and it's wrong. Fantasy is the genre of no limitations. So always err on the side of awesome.
That's why I love reading and writing Fantasy. I have some interesting ideas for a Horror story that I may write somewhere down the line but Fantasy is such a rich world to live in, I don't think I'll leave it anytime soon.
Journalism Saves Lives
There has been a lot of fear lately about the diminishing role of traditional journalism. You know, the guys who still write articles for printed newspapers, the thing most of us nowadays probably only use for paper to start the BBQ with (that can't be just me, can it?). As more of the traditional print newspapers move online and have to contend with diminishing ad revenue, journalists have to write more "click bait" worthy articles to attract more people to their site because showing advertisers that they attract X amount of millions is the only way they can get ad revenue to keep their doors open. And articles and lists about kittens get way more clicks then stories about the military coup in Turkey.
I used to work in advertising. You can say I am partially "guilty" for this shift that is killing newspapers and the reporting they are forced to do to keep their doors open. But if I can get on my soap box for just a minute, it's not ALL advertising's fault. Advertisers certainly do not determine what interests' people and attracts them to a website or article. Advertisers are what keep things free, like the internet. So for them to shell out hundreds of thousands of their clients advertising budget on any one medium in particular, it has to guarantee that a certain number of people see it. That's how we calculate the CPM (cost per million). If it's a premium website, or can get an audience deemed more "attractive" because of their relevance to the client, advertisers will pay a higher CPM to get in front of those people. When a CPM can get as high as $30, advertisers have to be very strategic of where they put their clients dollars to work. If the advertiser fails in doing that, it could be a disaster for the client. A big enough disaster can lead that client to moving their business elsewhere. Which means people lose their jobs. I've been in a situation like that before and it blows. So just keep that in mind for a second, advertisers are people too and they are not evil. The things we know about people's consumption habits can be considered creepy, sure, but not evil.
Anyway, back to journalism. Websites like Buzzfeed get a ton of advertiser dollars now because people love clicking their picture heavy lists. Buzzfeed occasionally covers news, reporting on "real" issues but it doesn't make them money. Their "30 most adorable cats" list brings in the bacon for those guys. So a lot of the investigative journalism, the stuff that uncovers corruption in our politics or conspiracies, gets lost in the shuffle for click bait.
There are exceptions to this though, and it's the thing that gives me hope that maybe journalism isn't dying like John Oliver says (watch the YouTube video if you haven't, it's good but incomplete mainly because it does ignore the advertising component and doesn't even touch why we care more about puppies then news). Investigative journalism has recently moved to places like HBO and Netflix, where these networks, so desperate for content to convince people to pay for their services, allow journalistic filmmakers to follow conspiracies to their conclusions. These people have agendas though, they are sensationalizing the stories to turn it into a drama in order to attract viewers. The meat of it is factual, showcasing the weird and the injustices alike so I don't fault the drama. People get invested in these stories, they flock to them, showing there is still a deep interest for such things, but maybe not on a global scale… but that may change.
Let me present exhibit A, B, and C. All examples of where dramatizations of real people and real issues lead to change because people were gripped by their stories. Exhibit A.) Adnan Syed of the popular "Serial" Podcast was granted a retrial in his murder case following the outcry following the podcasts investigation of his trial and conviction in 1999 of his girlfriend. Exhibit B.) Brendan Dassay has his conviction overturned less than a year after Netflix "Making a Murder" show is made available and public outcry ensues over the sketchy evidence and the dirty tactics police used when questioning a simple child. Exhibit C.) Robert Durst, the subject of HBO's "The Jinx" reveals things on the show that lead to his arrest for the murder of Susan Berman and show his connection to other mysterious deaths of those around him.
None of those convictions over turned or arrests would have happened without the podcasts or TV shows that told these stories. But these are small when you look at the world scale. Sure, things like Wikileaks and people like Snowden get the attention and movie treatment for their part in revealing global corruption but more often than not other things get missed or don't get the attention they deserve, the eyeballs they need, to make change, to end corruption and human suffering. That is the thing people worry about disappearing alongside traditional journalism, and I do think it's a legitimate fear. But the internet may not be the answer. Things like HBO and Netflix may be the answer, especially when people only care about cats on the internet. Hopefully journalists can adapt with the times, and I am hopeful they can!
Putting the "Suicide" in Suicide Squad
I don't normally like, nor want, to post movie reviews. I didn't go to film school. I have no technical eye for cinematography. Ultimately, I know what I like and sometimes get a bit critical because I am not so easily won over by pretty explosions and people, not always in that order. However, what I am is a comic book fan. Sure, mainly I focus on the Marvel Universe (it's a much better Universe, just saying), but I dabble with DC from time to time. So when I saw Suicide Squad this weekend, I had an opinion on it.
First off, let me say I didn't hate it nearly as much as the Rotten Tomatoes score did. It was entertaining and there were moments where it got so close to being what it should have been all along… But its misses were big ones and that comes mainly because DC is struggling to make their version of Guardians of the Galaxy or even Deadpool. Snarky, hilarious movies about a cast of misfits that don't fit in well with the powerhouse superheroes of the Avengers or Batman. The problem DC has is that they don't have the kind of funny, snarky characters that can stand on their own. The majority of the characters that make up their universe are morose and broody and pretty simple from a character arch standpoint. Superman is simple to understand. So is Batman and Wonder Woman. Hell, the most interesting thing about Batman is his moral code to never kill and how that conflicts with his cast of villains. But even Batman's cast of villains, Joker, Two Face, Penguin, etc. all need Batman or else their motivations start getting flimsy.
That was the starting issue with Suicide Squad. These villains they "recruited" are bad guys. They make sure to remind you of that fact over and over again during the film. You shouldn't start to feel like they are being redeemed through this ordeal. They aren't. They are selfish BAD GUYS who need to do a good thing or they will be killed. If you asked them nicely to do something good, they'd laugh and then probably shoot you in the head for good measure. These aren't a rag tag of misfits united by a common goal but are ultimately decent people like Guardians of the Galaxy and they never will be despite DC needing something a little lighter in their cast of characters. I think that keeping these characters true to their purpose would have been fine, but WB and DC needed a win, not another swing and a miss following Batman vs. Superman.
So, the directors and producers freaked out after Batman vs. Superman and decided to re-shoot massive sections of the movie and it shows. Oh man, did it show… Part of the movie was kind of a silly/serious music video montage of bad guys. The other half was dark fight scenes with supposedly heavy moments. I liked the music video feel. I thought that was done well, was visually interesting, and a great way for someone who isn't familiar with random minor villains in the DC Universe to get caught up. But the hodgepodge of movie styles had the whole experience falling apart at the seams and suddenly the whole reason the Suicide Squad exists is because the person putting the team together lost control of one of her recruits. Oops?
But all of that, all of it, is beside the point with how the films director used these DC characters. Throwing in random people into the Suicide Squad to blow them up and show "hey, we're serious about the whole 'obey us' thing." Which I get but it was done so laughably bad that it was just a waste of a moment. The Suicide Squad in the comics frequently have people dying, no one is safe. There is an inherent tension in that. The guys you love to hate may not make it because they are bad guys and if something goes wrong they won't be missed (theoretically). These are loners, selfish, distrustful villains forced to work together for a cause they don't believe in. Shit's going to hit the fan. Except this group became all buddy buddy three seconds into meeting? Bullshit. Great, you have a common enemy. But where is the infighting for how to go about overthrowing these overlords? The jockeying for alpha dog status? Glaringly absent this time around, I'll tell you that.
Then there was Joker and Harley Quinn. Some of the most anticipated characters in this movie were the ones that hurt me the most. Jared Leto's Joker was the worst Joker I've ever seen. He turned this twisted, evil genius who delights in mentally tormenting his foes as much as physically abusing them into a two bit pimp? Gangster? I don't know, he had the gold chains and ran a strip club and that is so not Joker. That's more Penguin or Two Face's shtick, not the Joker who delights in mayhem and attracts a similar following. Joker is a guy who can still throw Gotham into chaos while behind bars in Arkham. Jared Leto's Joker was not that. Jared Leto is a phenomenal actor in the right role, his interpretation of the Joker was nowhere near his finest work and makes me yearn for Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger's Joker all the more. Those guys got him 100% right.
Everyone was also very upset about the Joker and Harley's relationship but because of how abusive it was. Well, that was one of the few "comic book" factual things to the movie. Harley and Joker's relationship is insanely abusive. When Harley was treating Joker as a patient, she thought she was curing him. Instead, because he's an evil genius, he was driving Harley to madness where her only salvation was the Joker's love. Except Harley is always a pawn to the Joker. Always expendable and usually is. He'll leave her to make a quick getaway if he needs to and maybe he'll come back for her later, maybe. Harley loves Joker 1000x more than the Joker cares for Harley. That's how it's always been.
EXCEPT this film positioned it as Harley fell in love with the Joker while she was still his doctor. Just a silly girl with a crush. Then Joker turns her and he somehow gets as addicted to her as she is to him? Nope, just nope. Harley is a brilliant woman, a legitimate doctor. And they stripe that away (literally) to where she's a 50's-esque mobster's girlfriend who has an aversion to pants. Harley is sexy and uses that sexuality when it suits her. But she's not a doll whose sole purpose is to be eye candy. They got close once in this throwaway line where Harley psycho-analyzes Deadshot, that's the Harley she needed to be the whole time. Batshit crazy sure, but smart and brilliant. Someone who delights in the chaos and madness thrust on her but who uses the skills she once had to get people to do the Joker's bidding. It's what makes her valuable to Joker and she knows that and Harley ALWAYS wants to be needed by her abusive creator.
The rest of the characters… there were too many of them to feel like any were given the kind of air time they needed outside of Harley, Deadshot, and Commander Flag. I liked Diablo. His character and "redemption" story was interesting but ultimately wasted in a movie that didn't care about this character as much as they did ensuring Harely's ass was always on screen. I thought Commander Flag and Deadshot's banter was good though, it felt true to their characters. A trained soldier not getting along with a paid mercenary? Natural. Them finding out they aren't 100% so different and having a very uneasy, and dare I say, respectful, relationship at the end? I can buy that.
The rest? The other characters and how DC allowed the director to butcher them with "creative license" and the suffocating desire to have a lighter hearted movie? I'm sorry, no thanks. Suicide Squad could have been extremely interesting and amazingly good. The content for it is there. They just need a better director. One who understands the source material and respects it while putting a modern lens on it. That never happened which is ultimately WB and DC's failing, not Suicide Squads.
I'd like a do over, please and thank you.
Books on Books on Books
I should probably explain how I go about rating the books I read. I had a long conversation with some close friends and family and, generally, they were very confused when I said I would most likely read the next book in a series after giving the first book a 2 out of 5. I have my reasons.
Let me start off by saying I enjoy reading series. I like big and complicated worlds with deep characters. Generally, people and places like that mean you need more than one book to cover everything and I like that. I do read one off stories occasionally and enjoy those as well (The Martian and Ready Player One were awesome). But more often than not, the fantasy/fiction books I enjoy are series and if there is one thing I hate, it's not finishing a series. So unless a book is god awful, I'll usually slog through the whole series even if the first book gets a 2.
So what does my star rating really mean? It's pretty simple, which is why I stick to 5 rather than 10 stars. I also don't usually rate books based on the writing style unless the writing is just so bad or the grammar so off that it ruins the story. There have been two books I have read like this in the past and the bad writing and switching of the tenses was so aggravating that I was never really pulled into the story. Despite those being long series, I won't read another. And no, I'm not going to mention the books either. Despite me personally not liking them, there are tons of people who do and the author put a lot of work into it. I didn't enjoy it sure, but I'm not a fan of just bad mouthing authors either.
Those kinds of books by the way, are automatic 1 stars. The rest is usually based on how much I enjoyed the book as a whole. This means its characters, its world building, how relatable I find the protagonist (or antagonist), how original the book was, and the style (mainly that means if the author has a style that starts bugging me then it may affect the rating – like over using italics. That's meant to emphasize words but if you use it every sentence it loses its impact, just saying).
Books I give 2 stars to have weak or shallow characters, the world is not original (nor is the conflict), I don't relate to the main characters or find them to be people I want to root for… depending on how many of these elements are present or how much certain missteps bother me will dictate if it's a 2 or 2.5 stars. Because I've read books that were solid 2's but something about them made it so I didn't want to put the book down. That'll bump it up a bit and then I'm reading the next in the series (and probably regretting it after).
3's are all around solid books and I'll recommend them to friends who I am familiar with in terms of their reading style and genre preference. They aren't the best books in the world, but enjoyable and worth the money for sure.
4's have wonderful characters, interesting new worlds, unique stories, the style is refreshing, and I'm rooting for the main characters. I tend to give a lot of 4's these days because I know the kinds of books I like and stick to that genre. It does mean that I don't branch out much so if you have some book suggestions outside of my tried and true genres, please share!
I hardly give a 5 rating though. To me, this means perfection where everything comes together in a wonderful kitten and puppy wrapped package and maintains that all the way to the end. In a series, this is hard to do as some books are just about getting a character to a particular place and they fall into a bit of a slump.
5's are unicorns for that very reason. There is always something we can improve on, no one is perfect. I learned that in college when my university maintained that no one gets an A+ in anything because no one is perfect. I'm not bitter, really.
I gave more 5's when I was a bit younger too. I'm probably just cynical now or read too much (who am I kidding, you can never read too much!). It's been a long time where I've found a book that was so good it had me reading it in one sitting. I can't say for certain if life is more to blame for that with its endless torrent of adult related responsibilities. I just can't read all day long anymore. But I genuinely feel like I haven't found a story in a long time that holds so tightly on to my heart that I am desperate to keep going and then sad when it is over because it feels like I am saying good bye to friends. I have had experiences like that before and long for them again so, once more I implore you, if you have run across such a story, please share!!
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TEEN cannabis use is to blame for 60,000 people suffering depression in the UK, research reveals.
Scientists claim seven per cent of cases in young Brits are due to experimenting with weed.
Experts found dabbling with the drug before age 18 raised risk by 37 per cent.
Smoking joints also more than tripled a person's chance of attempting suicide between their teens and mid-30s.
Researchers said cannabis is not harmless, and parents and children need to be informed of the risks.
Every 90 minutes in the UK a life is lost to suicide, and it's the biggest killer of people under the age of 35.
It's rarely spoken about and is a taboo that threatens to continue its deadly rampage until more is done to speak out and raise awareness.
That's why The Sun launched the You're Not Alone campaign to remind anyone facing a tough time, grappling with mental illness or feeling like there is nowhere to turn that there is hope.
The new review by Oxford University and published in JAMA Psychiatry, is the first major study to look at marijuana use and depression – a major trigger for suicide.
It analysed 11 previous studies involving 23,317 participants.
Scientists think the teenage brain is more vulnerable to cannabis' active ingredient – THC.
They also warned the drug is up to ten times stronger than a generation ago, meaning any potential harm may be far greater.
Professor Andrea Cipriani, NIHR Research Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, said the link to depression risk was "robust".
He said: "We found 60,000 cases of depression in the UK would be avoided if adolescents no longer smoked cannabis.
"Our findings about depression and suicidality are very relevant for clinical practice and public health.
"The widespread use of cannabis among the young generations makes it an important public health issue.
"My bottom line message is… to avoid using cannabis.
Around one in 25 kids in England aged 11 to 15 have smoked cannabis within the last month.
Regular use by teens has also linked with lower school achievement, addiction and psychosis, and increased risk of motor vehicle crashes.
Fellow researcher Dr Gabrielle Gobbi, from McGill University in Canada, said: "A lot of adolescents, 80 or 90 per cent think that cannabis is herbal product so that it's safe, but it is not true.
"So it's very important to inform adolescents about the risk and about the kinds of cannabis they use.
One in 12 young Brits struggles with depression.
Professor Sir Robin Murray, from the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, said: "The finding that cannabis use is associated with a modest increase in risk of depression and suicide is probably correct.
"It does seem that cannabis use has a greater impact on increasing risk of schizophrenia-like psychosis than depression or anxiety.
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Dry weather set to continue for fortnight
The dry weather which has hit North Otago this summer is set to continue over the next fortnight.
The light drizzle which has visited the province in the past couple of days, which has caused a wee bit of respite for farmers, will be short-lived.
MetService communications meteorologist John Law said there was very little rain on the horizon.
"Unfortunately for North Otago which is very dry at the moment there isn't a lot of rain forecast, there might be a sprinkle or two on Sunday evening and a shower or two on Monday but other than that very little is around with the warm dry weather set to continue."
Mr Law said the pattern looks similar for the next couple of weeks.
"I can't see it changing so things could get even drier, there's just not that big amount of rain around which the area needs."
"It often all gets caught by the hills and doesn't make it over, but even down that way more there hasn't been a lot of rain," he said.
Between 10-20mm of rain has fallen in the area over the past couple of days and plenty more is needed to ease drought concerns.
Waitaki District Council Emergencey Management manager Jane Lodge said other than the potential for some wind on Sunday.
"All I've been told is that there's the chance of some winds on Sunday."
North Otago Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Lyndon Strang said the rain over the last couple of days has helped.
"People may not think it, but the drizzle which has fallen over the last couple of days has eased the pressures a bit."
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Council Planning
The Edge of development for Elmbridge
Epsom and Ewell Times has reported recently on planning dilemmas for our Borough. We are not alone in facing pressure on Green Belt land. 2 miles away from the edge of the Borough, Elmbridge Borough Council decided on a Green Belt development. Emily Coady-Stemp reports:
Studios for business start-ups and three new homes have been given the green light at the "gateway to Elmbridge" despite fears for the future of a golf club.
Image: Waffrons proposed development of studios area. From design and access statement.
One councillor claimed others "aren't concerned" about the borough's local welfare or green belt as the application was approved.
The application, submitted by the family who have lived at The Waffrons, in Chessington South, for 30 years, will see the current stables on the land demolished.
Surbiton Golf Club objected to the plans due to fears that potential additional traffic to the site, which is accessed through the course, would affect play on its first, fifth and eighth holes.
Elmbridge Borough Council's planning committee voted for the plans on Tuesday (September 6), having rejected a motion to refuse them that was put forward by Councillor Janet Turner (Hinchley Wood Residents' Association, Hinchley Wood and Weston Green). She was talked into putting forward the motion to refuse the plans by Claygate Councillor Alex Coomes (Liberal Democrats) who said she should do it "for completeness and for democratic reasons". Cllr Turner had previously said that listening to the debate she though there was "very little point" in her putting forward reasons for refusal for a vote. She added: "It's fairly obvious to me that people aren't concerned about our local welfare or our green belt, so that disturbs me quite a lot."
Her reasons included it being inappropriate development in the green belt, as well as traffic concerns along the single track lane. Cllr Turner described the site as "very important" because it was the "gateway to Elmbridge from Greater London" and a corridor of green land from Claygate and Hinchley Wood to Long Ditton.
Officers at the meeting said the bar was very high for assessing "harm" in green belt land that was previously developed, as this had been. The three planned houses on the site would all be detached bungalows, with an applicant's representative stating one of the homes was for the daughter of the family currently living there.
The 11 studios would be from 10 to 19 square metres each, with a communal area around a courtyard. The current use of the land for horses would stop, with commercial livery being replaced by it only being used for the private enjoyment of the new homes. BabyBarn, a shop for baby equipment currently on the site, would stay, with part of the stables being redeveloped for storage.
Keith Blake, chairman of Surbiton Golf Club, spoke at the meeting to object to the plans, which he called the "biggest threat to the future of the club and course". The club, which has been in existence since 1895, has around 700 members and membership fees of £1,900. Mr Blake said the club did not object to some development of homes on the site, but saw the commercial element as "perhaps a step too far" and that traffic needed to be reduced or limited. He added: "Otherwise, I see the members walking and joining other clubs. "If we lose 20 per cent of our membership, the club will not be in existence for the community in the future."
An officer's report into the application said the plans were not "considered to adversely impact upon Surbiton Golf Club to warrant a refusal reason". Conditions had been put on traffic entering the site both during the construction phases and once in use.
Many councillors were in favour of the small business units, saying they were in demand in Elmbridge and would be even more so when 60 offices in Weybridge were lost as part of a Regus site redevelopment.
Councillor Bruce McDonald (Liberal Democrat, Claygate) said he had "great sympathy" with the golf club and concerns around traffic on the road but like others saw no information to conclude there would be more traffic than currently on the site. He added: "I would have artisan studios everywhere, I think it's what we need. I think it'd be great for Elmbridge."
Councillor Rachael Lake (Conservative, Walton North) asked councillors to raise their hands if they had ever heard of a golf course going out of business or bankrupt, because she had not. She added: "I sympathise because it's all perception. "It's the fear of going to the dentist, when you get there, it's nowhere near as bad as you think."
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The exercises in this book will help students develop control when playing the drum set and give them a general understanding of the concept of limb independence. Students will learn many hand and foot combinations that will build a strong rhythmic foundation. The lessons begin with quarter-note grooves and finish by introducing eighth-note grooves.
"Studies in Drum Set Independence Vol.1". It is the perfect aid to help beginner to intermediate drummers learn four way coordination, or limb independence. Chapter One teaches students many eighth note drum set patterns, each one building on the next. Chapter Two adds sixteenth note bass drum patterns to the eighth note hand patterns learned in Chapter One. The drum set patterns are further reinforced by having the student play them in four-bar phrases. The student should not simply play the pattern written on the page, but should make it groove and come alive with emotion!
"Studies in Drum Set Independence Vol.2" is the companion book to "Studies in Drum Set Independence Vol.1". It is the perfect aid to help beginner to advanced drummers learn four way coordination, or limb independence. Chapter One teaches students many sixteenth note drum set patterns, each one building on the next. Chapter Two adds sixteenth note bass drum patterns to the sixteenth note hand patterns learned in Chapter One. The drum set patterns are further reinforced by having the student play them in four-bar phrases. The student should not simply play the pattern written on the page, but should make it groove and come alive with emotion!
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Q: Rewriting URLs with XDV We are using static HTML files as theme for our Plone 4 site with collective.xdv.
The static HTML files themselves are openable in a web browser making the theming process easy for the theme authors.
However, theme files use a file system resource directores which are referred in HTML like
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How it could be possible to rewrite these to be absolute URL when served through Plone, with a custom prefix? (Can it be done in rules.xml??
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to remove them from the theme template and pull all static resources back in from the resource registries (with the additional benefit of having them merged for production use). See collective.xdv for details.
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Individuals who "construct or alter" buildings and structures in California must be licensed by California's Contractors State License Board (CSLB). Prior to becoming a fully licensed contractor, applicants must have four years of work experience so that they can take the CSLB's contractor exam. Once licensed as a contractor, the applicant can add further specifications. One such specification is a C-33 license. This classification allows the person to work as a contractor on sites that require painting and decorating.
Be at least 18 years old and have at least four years experience in a construction business.
Contact the California CSLB and order an Application for Original Contractor's License and the Certification of Work Experience forms. You can contact the CSLB by calling 800-321-2752. Fill out the application and the work experience form and return them to the CSLB. The mailing address for the CSLB is P.O. Box 26000, Sacramento, CA 95826.
Pay the filing fee for the materials. As of 2010, the fee is $250 for the original contractor's license.
Wait for the CSLB to process your materials and to send you a notice to "appear for examination." Follow the instructions; take and pass the CSLB examination. Upon passing, you will receive your Original Contractor's License.
Add the C-33 classification to your original license. Once you are licensed, you can add as many qualifications as you want (so long as you are qualified for them). Contact the CSLB and ask them to send you an "Application for Additional Classification." Fill out the application and return it. The cost is $50 to add a classification as of 2010.
Take and pass the C-33 exam. Just as you received a notice of examination for your original license, the CSLB will do the same for adding the C-33 qualification. Follow the directions on the notice and pass the exam to obtain your C-33 classification.
Lawrence, George. "How To Get a C-33 License in California." , https://careertrend.com/how-6151584-c-33-license-california.html. 19 December 2018.
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FREE Online Bible, King James Version in HTML Psalms Chapter 78:1-72.
PS 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
PS 78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
PS 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
PS 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
PS 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
PS 78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
PS 78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
PS 78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
PS 78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
PS 78:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
PS 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
PS 78:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
PS 78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
PS 78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
PS 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
PS 78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
PS 78:25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
PS 78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
PS 78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
PS 78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
PS 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
PS 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
PS 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
PS 78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
PS 78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
PS 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
PS 78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
PS 78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
PS 78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
PS 78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
PS 78:42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
PS 78:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
PS 78:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
PS 78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
PS 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
PS 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
PS 78:48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
PS 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
PS 78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
PS 78:53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
PS 78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
PS 78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
PS 78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
PS 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
PS 78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
PS 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
PS 78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
PS 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
PS 78:65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
PS 78:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
PS 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
PS 78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
PS 78:71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
PS 78:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.


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Rural education
Published 1973 by University of Hull Institute of Education in Hull .
Education, Rural -- Great Britain.
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Statement guest editor, P. W. Warner.
Series Aspects of education -- no. 17
Contributions Warner, P. W.
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Four previous yearbooks of this Society have been devoted to a consideration of problems pertaining to the rural schools. The first three of these volumes dealt with a particular problem in each case, the problem selected being one of major importance in rural education at . A comprehensive study on the importance of ICT in rural education. and "left-behind" rural women. This book is a research result of the program "The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education for Rural Development (iERD)" that was initiated in by the UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural.
The purpose of this book is to highlight the work of teacher educators in the field of rural education. In this book, education faculty who work in teacher education study the ways in which one's identity impacts one's teaching and the partnerships with rural schools. An overview of rural education in India J.G. Sreekanthachari and G. Nagaraja1 Govt. Higher Primary School, Budapanahalli, HAVERI (KARNATAKA) INDIA (Email: [email protected]) 1Department of Economics, Sri Venkateswara University, TIRUPATI (A.P.) INDIA (Email: [email protected]) The real India live in villages', this saying is as true today as it was when the country got.
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Rural places and their schools have a long history of community-based traditions, political and cultural conservatism5/5(1). Thus rural schools have image problems because of this long-standing negative attitude, which persists despite the present heightened awareness of and sensitivity to cultural differences.
Demographic, economic and Rural education book trends also pose challenges to rural education. Rural schools are disadvantaged by demographics.
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These are a few reasons why schools have failed to educate rural India. Quality and access to education is the major concern in rural schools as there are fewer committed teachers, lack of proper. This book examines the educational history of the Midwest during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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This book examines challenges associated with the education of teachers in and for rural places. It offers a new perspective with respect to how Canadian educators are shifting the conversation toward a hopeful discourse concerning how educators can foster meaningful rural learning environments.
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Harvard women rally against single-gender clubs policy
By Travis Andersen Globe Staff,May 9, 2016, 8:12 p.m.
Protesters walked past the statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard.Barry Chin/Globe Staff
CAMBRIDGE — More than 200 female Harvard University students pushed back Monday against a new policy to discourage participation in single-gender clubs at the Ivy League school, a move that will affect sororities and other women's groups.
During a raucous rally on Harvard Yard, student demonstrators from an organization dubbed the Crimson Women's Coalition used a hockey stick to unfurl a banner across the facade of a campus building that read, "Hear Her Harvard."
That brought a cascade of cheers from demonstrators, who say the university's policy to crack down on single-gender clubs, which will take effect with the freshmen class in 2017, will deprive them of a community of women who gather to assert their rights, in a world where female voices are often marginalized.
"My women's organization has been more than a social organization," said graduating senior Whitney Anderson during the rally. "It has been a mental health respite, a place to discuss sexual assaults . . . where I became a feminist, and where I refound my voice."
The demonstrators were protesting against a plan that Harvard announced on Friday to bar members of 14 so-called final clubs, as well as nine fraternities and sororities, from receiving recommendations for prestigious scholarships from undergraduate dean Rakesh Khurana.
In addition, the plan will bar club members from leading campus organizations and sports teams.
The policy will apply not only to the university's eight all-male final clubs, but also its six all-female final clubs, five fraternities, and four sororities. Many final clubs maintain off-campus houses in Harvard Square where members have meals and socialize.
Because the clubs are highly secretive, it is not yet clear how administrators will identify individual members. Harvard officials say implementation will be worked out by an advisory group that will be appointed.
The policy is a culmination of a push over the past year by Khurana and other administrators to persuade the male clubs to accept women. So far, two have.
The restrictions were announced amid a mounting standoff between the elite clubs and college administrators, who say the organizations foster a culture that leads to sexual assault.
But during Monday's rally, demonstrators said that by targeting female clubs as part of the plan, administrators were ultimately doing a disservice to women on campus.
Demonstrators gathered outside Massachusetts Hall Monday before their rally and march around Harvard Yard.Barry Chin/Globe Staff
To illustrate the point, protesters held signs bearing slogans such as, "Women's Groups Keep Women Safe," and "Collective Punishment Is Not a Harvard Value."
They also chanted slogans that reverberated across the august yard, including one mantra that went, "What do we want? Female spaces! When do we want them? Now!"
But Harvard officials contend the new policy is part of a broader push to eliminate all forms of gender discrimination on campus.
"As we noted Friday, change is difficult and is often met initially by opposition," said Harvard spokeswoman Rachael Dane in a statement Monday.
"That was certainly true with past steps to remove gender barriers at Harvard, yet few today would reverse those then-controversial decisions. We continue to believe that gender discrimination has no place on Harvard's campus. At the same time, we support the right of every community member to express their views."
Among those voicing opposition during the rally was Caroline Tervo, an undergraduate who said women face discrimination in a variety of areas.
Those include the classroom where men are called on more often, the workplace where many women earn less than their male counterparts, and in social settings where females are "targeted and shamed for their sexuality," Tervo said.
Her women's groups, Tervo said, "have been invaluable parts of my experience."
"They have introduced me to leadership positions and given me confidence," she said.
After the speeches, which were repeatedly interrupted by loud cheers and chants, the demonstrators walked a single lap around the yard in solidarity.
And while criticism of the new policy was vociferous at the rally, Dane, the university spokeswoman, said reaction has varied.
"In recent days, we have received messages of support from many members of the broad College community," Dane said. "We have also, as you know, received messages of concern and opposition."
Demonstrators hung a banner outside Massachusetts Hall before the rally and march. Barry Chin/Globe Staff/Globe Staff
Laura Krantz of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.


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Danish drugmaker reaches settlement with US authorities
Copenhagen, Denmark — Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk says it has reached a $46.5 million settlement with U.S. authorities over allegations that it hadn't properly communicated safety information when marketing a medicine to treat type 2 diabetes.
Novo Nordisk says it also will pay $12.15 million to resolve a complaint filed by the government on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in federal court.
Douglas Langa, head of Novo Nordisk's North America operations, said late Tuesday that the Copenhagen-based company denies "any wrongdoing" but was pleased with the case's resolution.
The Department of Justice said the settlement resolved allegations that Novo Nordisk failed to comply with the FDA-mandated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy for its Type II diabetes medication.
It said U.S. authorities had required Novo Nordisk to provide information regarding the potential risk of a rare form of cancer associated with the drug named Victoza, which was approved by the FDA in 2010.
The Department of Justice said "Novo Nordisk sales representatives gave information to physicians that created the false or misleading impression" that the FDA-mandated warning "was erroneous, irrelevant, or unimportant."
The "actions unnecessarily put vulnerable patients at risk," said Channing D. Phillips, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. "We have sent a strong signal to the drug industry today."


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Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Overview
The umbrella term "Inflammatory bowel disease" (IBD) includes a spectrum of chronic inflammatory disorders which recurrently affect the gastro-intestinal tract. Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are the two main clinically defined manifestations of IBD, each with distinctive clinical and pathological features (see Table 1) (1).
Table 1: Clinical and pathological features UC and CD
Disease UC CD
Mucosal inflammation non-transmural transmural
Location generally begins in the rectum and extends proximally to the colon entire gastrointestinal tract: from the oral cavity to the rectum
Inflammatory pattern continuous area patchy area
Clinical symptoms bloody diarrhea abdominal pain with weight loss
Co-morbidities musculoskeletal, dermatological, ocular, and hepatobiliary co-morbidities similar to those described in UC
Immune response atypical T helper cell (Th) 2 response mediated by secretion of IL-13 by natural killer T cell Th1 and Th17 cytokine profiles are dominant
From Titz B et al., Int J Mol Sci 2018 19 2775 (1)
Figure 2. Pathomechanisms and selected biomarkers of IBD. The main pathogenesis-associated changes are shown for UC and CD. For both diseases, changes in gut microbiota, disruption of the epithelial barrier function, and chronic immune-activation are observed. Differences have also been reported, such as for immune-regulatory processes and epithelial effects.
IBD Worldwide Prevalence and Incidence
A systematic review of population-based studies from 1990 to 2016 provides information on the incidence (the number of newly diagnosed cases in a population and given time period) and prevalence (the total number of cases in a population at a given time) of UC and CD around the world (2).
Europe and North America show the highest prevalence values worldwide, e.g., 505 and 286 UC subjects per 100'000 in Norway and USA, respectively and 322 and 319 CD subjects per 100'000 in Germany and Canada, respectively. While the incidence of IBD has stabilized in western countries, IBD has become a global disease with accelerating incidence in newly industrialized countries (2).
IBD Diagnosis
Endoscopy constitutes the gold standard for the diagnosis and monitoring of IBD (3). The diagnosis is usually confirmed by biopsies on colonoscopy and complemented with the measurement of molecular biomarkers including fecal calprotectin, serum C-reactive protein (CRP), and serum antibody markers including autoantibodies and microbial and peptide antibodies (4,5). However, their low sensitivity and high variability limit the clinical efficacy (Supplementary Table S2. "IBD biomarker products" in Titz et al. (1)). Thus, there is a need to identify novel molecular biomarkers that could be assessed with less invasive methods, and could benefit IBD clinical management and treatment.
IBD and Microbiome
IBD comprises complex genetic disorders, with multiple contributing genes (6). However, not all subjects carrying mutations in those identified genes develop IBD. Indeed other components, such as diet and microbiota, seem to play a role in the etiology of the disease (7,8). The human microbiome composed of various microorganisms colonize different body sites, such as the gut, mouth, genitals, skin, and airways, and vary in compositions. The microbiome is recognized to play a positive role in host supporting the maintenance of homeostasis, by contributing in the metabolism of nutrients, detoxification, helping immunity, preventing the propagation of pathogenic microbes for examples (9,10). A balanced interaction of microbes with the host plays an important part in preserving health. The dynamics and function of the microbiota can be influenced by many host-related and environmental factors, such as age, gender, diet, and drugs. Dysbiosis, a disruption of this balance, is associated with skin and neurological disorders as well as many diseases such as immune-related diseases, metabolic diseases, inflammatory bowel disease (8).
The link between pathogenesis of IBD and the intestinal microbiota has been established in: (i) animal models of colitis showing that germ-free conditions prevent inflammation (11); (ii) human studies, showing that probiotics or surgical diversion of the fecal stream help the management of IBD and improve inflammation (12,13). Evidence also points out that microbiome dysbiosis may cause an inappropriate immune response that results in alteration of the intestinal epithelium barrier integrity. An increase of epithelial permeability allows further infiltration of microbial organisms that, in turn, provoke further immune responses (14).
The characterization of the microbiome relies on 16S or shotgun sequencing of metagenomes from fecal or intestine biopsy samples. Recent cross-sectional and longitudinal studies investigated microbiome changes in CD and/or UC compared to non-IBD using metagenomics sequencing data, and reported differences in composition and abundances between subjects suffering from IBD compared with non-IBD subjects (15-17).
The analysis of raw metagenomics data consists in converting sequence reads by clustering or mapping into relative abundances of operational taxomonic units (OTUs) which can be annotated with taxonomy ranks, pathways, or microbial genes. A plethora of approaches exists to analyze shotgun metagenomic sequencing data for taxonomy and pathway profiling (18). The taxonomic or pathway abundances matrix constitutes the starting point for downstream analyses, visualization, and interpretation (10), or possibly, for machine learning and the identification of discriminative metagenomics features and model predictive of IBD status (Figure 3). Our new sbv IMPROVER Challenge aims to explore this new avenue.
Modified from Poussin et al., Drug Discovery Today. 2018, 23(9), 1644 (18)
Figure 3. Schematic view of possible analysis paths and methods used for metagenomics data processing and downstream computational evaluation.
1. Titz, B., Gadaleta, R. M., Lo Sasso, G., Elamin, A., Ekroos, K., Ivanov, N. V., Peitsch, M. C., and Hoeng, J. (2018) Proteomics and Lipidomics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research: From Mechanistic Insights to Biomarker Identification. Int J Mol Sci 19
2. Ng, S. C., Shi, H. Y., Hamidi, N., Underwood, F. E., Tang, W., Benchimol, E. I., Panaccione, R., Ghosh, S., Wu, J. C. Y., Chan, F. K. L., Sung, J. J. Y., and Kaplan, G. G. (2017) Worldwide incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in the 21st century: a systematic review of population-based studies. The Lancet 390, 2769-2778
3. Bernstein, C. N., Fried, M., Krabshuis, J. H., Cohen, H., Eliakim, R., Fedail, S., Gearry, R., Goh, K. L., Hamid, S., Khan, A. G., LeMair, A. W., Malfertheiner, Ouyang, Q., Rey, J. F., Sood, A., Steinwurz, F., Thomsen, O. O., Thomson, A., and Watermeyer, G. (2010) World Gastroenterology Organization Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of IBD in 2010. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 16, 112-124
4. Mitsuyama, K., Niwa, M., Takedatsu, H., Yamasaki, H., Kuwaki, K., Yoshioka, S., Yamauchi, R., Fukunaga, S., and Torimura, T. (2016) Antibody markers in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease. World J Gastroenterol 22, 1304-1310
5. Takedatsu, H., Mitsuyama, K., Fukunaga, S., Yoshioka, S., Yamauchi, R., Mori, A., Yamasaki, H., Kuwaki, K., Sakisaka, H., Sakisaka, S., and Torimura, T. (2018) Diagnostic and clinical role of serum proteinase 3 antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in inflammatory bowel disease. J Gastroenterol Hepatol
6. Bonen, D. K., and Cho, J. H. (2003) The genetics of inflammatory bowel disease. Gastroenterology 124, 521-536
7. Ananthakrishnan, A. N., Bernstein, C. N., Iliopoulos, D., Macpherson, A., Neurath, M. F., Ali, R. A. R., Vavricka, S. R., and Fiocchi, C. (2018) Environmental triggers in IBD: a review of progress and evidence. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 15, 39-49
8. Scotti, E., Boué, S., Lo Sasso, G., Zanetti, F., Belcastro, V., Poussin, C., Sierro, N., Battey, J., Gimalac, A., Ivanov, N. V., and Hoeng, J. (2017) Exploring the microbiome in health and disease: implications for toxicology Toxicoloy Research and Application 1
9. Koppel, N., Maini Rekdal, V., and Balskus, E. P. (2017) Chemical transformation of xenobiotics by the human gut microbiota. Science 356
10. Lloyd-Price, J., Abu-Ali, G., and Huttenhower, C. (2016) The healthy human microbiome. Genome medicine 8, 51
11. Powrie, F., and Leach, M. W. (1995) Genetic and spontaneous models of inflammatory bowel disease in rodents: evidence for abnormalities in mucosal immune regulation. Ther Immunol 2, 115-123
12. Ganji-Arjenaki, M., and Rafieian-Kopaei, M. (2018) Probiotics are a good choice in remission of inflammatory bowel diseases: A meta analysis and systematic review. J Cell Physiol 233, 2091-2103
13. Larson, D. W., and Pemberton, J. H. (2004) Current concepts and controversies in surgery for IBD. Gastroenterology 126, 1611-1619
14. Maloy, K. J., and Powrie, F. (2011) Intestinal homeostasis and its breakdown in inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 474, 298-306
15. He, Q., Gao, Y., Jie, Z., Yu, X., Laursen, J. M., Xiao, L., Li, Y., Li, L., Zhang, F., Feng, Q., Li, X., Yu, J., Liu, C., Lan, P., Yan, T., Liu, X., Xu, X., Yang, H., Wang, J., Madsen, L., Brix, S., Wang, J., Kristiansen, K., and Jia, H. (2017) Two distinct metacommunities characterize the gut microbiota in Crohn's disease patients. Gigascience 6, 1-11
16. Santoru, M. L., Piras, C., Murgia, A., Palmas, V., Camboni, T., Liggi, S., Ibba, I., Lai, M. A., Orru, S., Blois, S., Loizedda, A. L., Griffin, J. L., Usai, P., Caboni, P., Atzori, L., and Manzin, A. (2017) Cross sectional evaluation of the gut-microbiome metabolome axis in an Italian cohort of IBD patients. Sci Rep 7, 9523
17. Schirmer, M., Franzosa, E. A., Lloyd-Price, J., McIver, L. J., Schwager, R., Poon, T. W., Ananthakrishnan, A. N., Andrews, E., Barron, G., Lake, K., Prasad, M., Sauk, J., Stevens, B., Wilson, R. G., Braun, J., Denson, L. A., Kugathasan, S., McGovern, D. P. B., Vlamakis, H., Xavier, R. J., and Huttenhower, C. (2018) Dynamics of metatranscription in the inflammatory bowel disease gut microbiome.Nat Microbiol 3, 337-346
18. Poussin, C., Sierro, N., Boue, S., Battey, J., Scotti, E., Belcastro, V., Peitsch, M. C., Ivanov, N. V., and Hoeng, J. (2018) Interrogating the microbiome: experimental and computational considerations in support of study reproducibility. Drug discovery today 23, 1644-1657
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Listen: Nah. - "Vitamin D"
September 07, 2018 by Joshua Pickard in Track Spotlight
Washington, D.C.-based band Nah. cleverly constructs a specific strain of indie rock that exhibits a kaleidoscopic understanding of what makes these sounds so irresistibly engaging and catchy. They blend the inherent angularity of the genre with punk's raucous history and pop's effervescent personality. The resulting rush of noise is cohesive and allows for detailed exploration of its many influences. The band channels the angsty emotional turbulence of our formative years through the awareness of the impending future and our place in it. A mesh of inspirations, their work is more than the simple sum of its enamored aesthetics -- it's an eclectic and often weighted perspective on the details and consequences of our lives.
On recent single, "Vitamin D," the band lulls you into a rolling atmosphere of chiming guitar lines and laid-back percussion as singer Emma Bleker details the spiraling movements of a doomed relationship and how the process of picking yourself up afterwards can be empowering and even liberating. The song eventually careens into a summery jam where curlicues of guitar chords and enveloping melodies express a universal longing and introspection, and those feelings can be rooted in just about anything that fills your heart with love and loss. And there's a slight serration as well, evoking a spiky swagger whose job is to protect those vulnerable heart chambers.
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Home Industry Updates Press Releases Adaptive Biotechnologies, Microsoft Launch Immune Response Trial For COVID-19
Adaptive Biotechnologies, Microsoft Launch Immune Response Trial For COVID-19
Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft announced they will leverage their existing partnership mapping population-wide adaptive immune responses to diseases at scale to study COVID-19. Finding the relevant immune response signature may advance solutions to diagnose, treat, and prevent the disease, augmenting existing research efforts that primarily focus on the biology of the virus. These data will be made freely available to any researcher, public health official or organization around the world via an open data access portal.
"We can improve our collective understanding of COVID-19 by decoding the immune system's response to the virus and the disease patterns that can be inferred from studying these data at the population level," said Chad Robins, CEO and co-founder of Adaptive Biotechnologies, in a press release. "Immune response data may enable detection of the virus in infected people not showing symptoms and improve triaging of newly diagnosed patients, potentially solving two of the challenges we are facing in the current diagnostic paradigm."
To generate immune response data, Adaptive will open enrollment in April to collect de-identified blood samples, using a LabCorp-enabled mobile phlebotomy service, from individuals diagnosed with or recovered from COVID-19 in a virtual clinical trial managed by Covance.
Immune cell receptors from these blood samples will be sequenced using Illumina platform technology and mapped to SARS-CoV-2-specific antigens that will have been confirmed by Adaptive's proprietary immune medicine platform to induce an immune response. The immune response signature found from the initial discovery work and the initial set of samples will be uploaded to the open data access portal. Leveraging Microsoft's hyperscale machine learning capabilities and the Azure cloud platform, the accuracy of the immune response signature will be continuously improved and updated online in real time as more trial samples are sequenced from the study.
To expedite the development and relevance of the immune response signature across the global population, the companies are seeking additional participation from institutions and research groups around the world to contribute blood samples to this open data initiative. Providence, a large health system with 51 hospitals, including the one near Seattle that treated the first U.S. COVID-19 patient, is an initial clinical collaborator.
"The solution to COVID-19 is not likely going to come from one person, one company or one country. This is a global issue, and it will be a global effort to solve it," said Peter Lee, corporate vice president, AI and Research, Microsoft, in the statement. "Making critical information about the immune response accessible to the broader research community will help advance ongoing and new efforts to solve this global public health crisis, and we can accomplish this goal through our proven TCR-Antigen mapping partnership with Adaptive."
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nxtedition is top of the pack for Alfa TV's second studio
SWE: Finland's Alfa TV is going live with a second studio built around nxtedition's production automation solution. Based in Kerava, the commercial broadcaster serves the whole of Finland and will use its new studio to expand its offering with a news service as well as ensuring its facility is both futureproof and scalable. This latest studio deployment by Alfa TV joins a 2019 studio installation used by the broadcaster, also powered by nxtedition, and allows the broadcaster to engage with its audience across multiple platforms.
Majority owned by Christian media ministry IRR-TV, Alfa TV has been delivering a broad range of content, from music and entertainment to sports and political discussions, including live debates in the evening, via broadcast, cable and online starting with broadcast in 2013. When planning its second studio the broadcaster chose nxtedition for its proven reliability, customisation and cost-efficiency having first hand experience of the system from its existing studio.
nxtedition's production automation and asset management platform is built from a suite of microservices, running as virtual machines on COTS hardware. This allows the system to be highly configured to the specific needs of individual broadcasters, easy to maintain and use, and extremely cost-effective. Alfa TV is expanding onto social media as a key means of engagement with its audience and one of the strengths of the nxtedition platform is the speed with which video clips can be delivered to social media. The production team can simply define in and out points and publish with one click. This ensures social media is updated very quickly with interesting and relevant material from the broadcaster's output.
"We know nxtedition well and have full confidence in what the system can do for us; it is light enough to meet our current needs but powerful enough to grow with us," said Alexander Store, from the technical team. "It has a good price/performance ratio and most importantly, it is user friendly making it easier for more people to make great content and ensures we can engage with our audience on linear, online and on social platforms."
In an organisation with limited resources and staff but with a commitment to high quality programming, ease of use is a key requirement for the Finnish broadcaster. The configuration and workflows were developed by a team drawn from every part of the broadcaster's organisation.
"It is great to see Alfa TV come back to us for a second gallery," said Roger Persson, Head of Sales and Marketing at nxtedition. "The first studio is incredibly productive, and we were pleased to be able to help them develop their news strategy through the difficult times of the last year. Because nxtedition is virtualised it is perfect for remote working, and thanks to Alfa's experience with the system we got the second studio up and running without the need to visit the site in person."
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16,000 dead pigs found in Chinese river, threatening Shanghai's water supply
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Something is seriously wrong with China's agricultural system. Over the past month, around 16,000 rotting pig carcasses (as well as a thousand ducks...) have been fished out of the Jiapingtang, a tributary of the Huangpu river which supplies drinking water to Shanghai, a city of over 23 million people.
Standing on the quay, Mrs Wu jokes that there are more pigs than fish in Jiapingtang river. But she isn't smiling. The 48-year-old fisherwoman, who lives in Xinfeng, a sleepy country village, recalls splashing about in the river as a child on sticky summer days. Today it is inky black, covered in a slick of lime green algae, and it smells like a blocked drain. "Look at the water, who would dare to jump in?" says Wu. At her feet a dead piglet bobs on the river's surface, bouncing against the shore. (source)
Testing shows that the carcasses carry porcine circovirus, which thankfully isn't known to be contagious to humans. We can guess that some pig farmer decided that the easiest way to get rid of his sick animals was to dump them in a river... And that it was possible to get away with it. Can you imagine if this happened up-river from where you get your drinking water?
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Shanghai's municipal water department says the water meets the national standard, but that doesn't stop people from worrying. And with reason. Pollution is now so bad in the country that it is the #1 cause of social unrest.
Time to make some big changes. If it's true that Shanghai's water really is ok, this should still be a wake up call, because next time they might not be so lucky.
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Dig into this dining destination inside Sonesta Gwinnett Place, which is located north of Atlanta, Georgia.
Seasonal fare, local art, live musical performances.
As you surely have picked up on by now as an avid reader, I eat out at restaurants often. So when I say that the service at the new ArtBar, located inside the renovated Sonesta Gwinnett Place, has the friendliest servers that I've ever met—genuine smiles, eager conversation, thoughtful recommendations, attentive service without hovering—trust that the claim has merit.
It was hard not to love the fact that the server welcomed us with a hearty greeting. But the first bite of food cemented the fact that ArtBar is a pub worth frequenting.
When the trio of smoked brisket soft tacos was delivered to our table my husband said, "What artistic plating!" The colorful contrast of the watermelon radish and avocado atop the meaty tacos does underscore the appropriateness of the "Art" in the name of this place.
The just-right spicy meat and contrast of smooth avocado, crunch of radish and cabbage, and soft tortilla make for a scrumptious, addictive combination. Give a taco to your dining companion and you may regret that kindness.
But there's more to adore on the new menu.
ArtBar's Executive Chef Rocco Pisera and his team have created a menu that features local Southern favorites alongside popular favorites from other American and international traditions. So you'll find like truffled deviled eggs and stone ground grits, as well as Buffalo chicken wings, Cajun chicken and sausage gumbo, tempura-fried crab roll, fish and chips and other temptations.
Tabbouleh is minty and light; the generous serving makes it easy to share. Chicken bruschetta ala greque is a flavorful open-faced chicken sandwich. Crayfish bisque is rich, spicy and warms the soul as much as the palate. Peanut butter pie is big enough to satisfy multiple sweet teeth.
Signature cocktails impress, underscoring the appropriateness of the "Bar" in the name of this place. Light and bubbly, the "Watermelon Fizz" is crisp and refreshing, not sickly sweet as you might fear. "Peaches & Honey," made with Jack Daniels honey whiskey and lavender peach syrup, packs a punch. "Raspberry Julep" is a fruity spin on its minty cousin. "Georgia Mule" gives vodka an edge with peach, ginger and lime. The drink menu also boasts 12 draught beers and over 20 total beers to choose from, with an emphasis on local craft brews. There's also an extensive bourbon menu and wine list.
ArtBar features art installations that will change each quarter in partnership with a local organization that showcases local art and artists.
Live musical entertainment is staged each Wednesday evening, from 6 to 9 p.m., coinciding with Wine Down Wednesdays that pair featured wines with light appetizers.
ArtBar is a compelling reason to visit the hotel whether you're staying overnight or not.
Read our review of the hotel.
Featured products, services and/or travel arrangements may have been complimentary in part or in full; this affords the research opportunity but does not sway opinion. Thanks to Sonesta for hosting our visit.
Hope S. Philbrick is founder and editor-in-chief of Getaways for Grownups. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications nationwide. She's reviewed restaurants for several Atlanta-based newspapers and magazines for more than 12 years. When not writing, she can usually be found on the road or savoring something tasty.


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One of the main advantages of Nursing degree is guaranteed employment after completing a Bachelor (Associate, or Undergraduate Diploma) degree. Some institutions provide a guaranteed placement for nursing graduates in healthcare centers, hospices and hospitals, but even if a placement it not provides, the aim of every undergraduate study program in Nursing is preparing specialists in this particular area, so graduates holding a diploma in Nursing area can easily find a job in this area.
Although basic skills are similar for all Nursing specializations, the specialization defend the area of your future duties, for example, nurses, who wish to work with children, should undertake special modules dedicated to work with children.
Besides a career in Nursing area, graduates, holding a degree in Nursing, can also start a career in related fields. For example, all Nursing graduates can find a job of midwife, who work with pregnant women and recent parents. The duties of a midwife include advising future parents, monitor the course of pregnancy, and assisting during the birth.
Graduates holding a degree in Nursing area can also become paramedics and emergency nurses in emergency treatment. They can also find a job placement in various educational institutions, for example, schools, where their duties will include working with children and organization of immunizations and other healthcare events.
Note that most of these professions require completed courses in this particular area, but all these courses correlate with a degree in Nursing.