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Behavioral effects of chemicals in drinking water
Author: Rotton J, Tikofsky RS, Feldman HT.
Journal Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Publish Date: April 1982
Volume/Page: 67(2):230-8.
Type: Human Study
Categories: Brain, Behavior, *NTP2019
Two experiments were conducted in order to determine if challenge testing, a procedure developed by clinical allergists, could be used to provoke behavioral reactions to chemicals found in municipal waters. In one experiment, 10 male and 32 female volunteers tracked a moving target and monitored lights after
receiving sublingual drops that contained only water or varying amounts of sodium fluoride and nitrate. Dosage levels in this experiment equaled, exceeded, or fell below those found in municipal waters. In a second experiment, 20 females performed this task after receiving sublingual drops of the same test substances in a repeated measures design; dosage levels equaled or exceeded levels found in municipal waters by 100 or 500 times, Neither type nor amount of chemical affected primary task performance; however, after receiving sublingual drops in the first (between-subjects) experiment, subjects paid less attention to lights on their right. In the second experiment, subjects made more errors and had longer
response latencies after they received moderate and very high concentrations of the test substances. It was concluded that challenge testing is a safe but effective technique for provoking and studying reactions to chemicals when it is combined with a sensitive measure of sensorimotor performance.
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Dr Laura Simonds
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
L.Simonds@surrey.ac.uk
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I am a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I have provided research supervision and research methods and statistics teaching to doctoral students on clinical psychology training programmes since May 2003, first during employment on the Salomons Clinical Psychology programme and subsequently, from January 2008, at the University of Surrey Clinical Psychology training programme. During this period, I have held the roles of admissions tutor, examinations officer, convenor of research methods and statistics teaching, and coordinator of clinical psychology research degree examinations. I have been external examiner for the UCL, Liverpool, Essex, UEA, Staffordshire and Hertfordshire Clinical Psychology programmes. Prior to posts in clinical training, I taught social and clinical psychology and research methods to undergraduate psychology students.
My PhD work focused on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I studied how people with a diagnosis of OCD make sense of and seek help for this condition. I also examined the occurrence of obsessive-compulsive problems in different health attenders (e.g. dermatology patients, expectant mothers). At the heart of this work were issues of shame, stigma and concealment. Over time, I have extended this work to look at mental contamination and shame, the role of shame in non-disclosure during therapy for obsessive-compulsive and eating problems, and interventions to assist people to manage unacceptable thoughts and memories. With Mary John, Chris-Fife Schaw and several clinical psychology doctoral students, I developed a novel semi-idiographic of shame-proneness for use with adolescents. More broadly, I am interested in how people manage the identity consequences of having mental health problems, particularly those associated with moral conflict and violations. I am also interested in mental health recovery and particularly the identity changes involved in this process.
With Mary John (Psychology, Surrey) I am evaluating the effectiveness of 'recovery colleges' for young people with mental health problems. We previously received NHS funding to develop and understanding and measures of mental health recovery in young people.
With Mark Cropley (Psychology, Surrey), I am collaborating with the charity Rosetta Life to assess the effectiveness of song and movement interventions in increasing the psychological wellbeing of stroke survivors and their carers. This work is funded by Guys and St Thomas Charitable Fund.
Research Methods, PsychD Clinical Programme.
Departmental duties
Examinations Officer, PsychD Clinical Programme.
Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Journal Editorial and Reviewer Activity
Editorial Board Member (Statistical Consultant) for Arts and Health Consulting Editor for Archives of Scientific Psychology (American Psychological Association) I have reviewed manuscripts for Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Arts and Health, Dementia, and Nursing Ethics
Journal Articles:
Jackson, S., Simonds, L.M., & Smith, R.M. (2015). Pancreas and islet transplantation: psychological themes pre and post-transplant. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 20, 211-215.
John, M., Jeffries, F.W. Acuna-Rivera, M., Warren, F. & Simonds, L.M*. (2015). Development of measures to assess personal recovery in young people treated in specialist mental health services. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 22, 513-524. DOI: 10.1002/cpp.1905 (*Corresponding author)
Simonds, L.M., John, M., Fife-Schaw, C., Willis, S., Taylor, H., Hand, H., Rahim, M., Winstanley, H. & Winton, H. (2015, in press). Development and validation of the Adolescent Shame Proneness Scale. Psychological Assessment. doi: 10.1037/pas0000206
South, R., Jones, F., Creith, E. & Simonds, L.M. (2015, in press). Understanding the concept of resilience in looked after children: A Delphi Survey. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi:10.1177/1359104515577485
Simonds, L.M., Pons, R.A., Stone, N.J., Warren, F. & John, M. (2014). Adolescents with anxiety and depression: is social recovery relevant? Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 21(4), 289-298.
Kollinsky, L., Simonds, L.M. & Nixon, J. (2013). A qualitative exploration of the views and experiences of family court magistrates making decisions in care proceedings involving parents with learning disabilities. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 41, 86-93.
Futh, A, Simonds, L.M*. & Micali, N. (2012). Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents: parental understanding, accommodation, coping and distress. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26, 624-632. (*Corresponding author).
Newman, S., Simonds, L.M. & Billings, J. (2011). A narrative analysis investigating the impact of first episode psychosis on siblings' identity. Psychosis, 3(3), 216-225.
Hepworth, M., Simonds, L.M. & Marsh, R. (2010). Catholic priests' conceptualisation of scrupulosity: a grounded theory analysis. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 13(1), 1-16.
Simonds, L.M., Demetre, J.D. & Read, C. (2009). Relationships between magical thinking, obsessive-compulsiveness and other forms of anxiety in a sample of non-clinical children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 457-471.
Rendall, M.J., Simonds, L.M. & Hunter, M. (2008). The Hot Flush Beliefs Scale: A tool for assessing thoughts and beliefs associated with the experience of menopausal hot flushes and night sweats. Maturitas, 60, 158-169.
Simonds, L.M. & Thorpe, S.J. (2003). Attitudes towards obsessive-compulsive disorders: an experimental investigation. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 38, 331-336.
Thorpe, S.J., Patel, S.P. & Simonds, L.M. (2003). The relationship between disgust sensitivity, anxiety and obsessions. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41, 1397-1409.
Simonds, L.M. & Elliott, S.A. (2001). OCD patients and nonpatient groups reporting obsessions and compulsions: Phenomenology, help-seeking, and access to treatment. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 74, 431-449.
Lewis, A., Maras, P. & Simonds, L.M. (2000). Young school children working together: A measure of individualism/collectivism. Child: Care, Health and Development, 26(3), 229-238.
Simonds, L.M., Thorpe, S.J. & Elliott, S.A. (2000). The Obsessive Compulsive Inventory: Psychometric properties in a nonclinical student sample. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 28(2), 153-159.
Maras, P., Lewis, A. & Simonds, L.M. (1999). Young children co-operating to co-operate and co-operating to compete in two primary schools. Educational Psychology, 19(3), 245-258.
Simonds, L.M., Camic, P.M. & Causey, A. (2012). Using focused ethnography in psychological research. APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology. American Psychological Association.
Conference Papers and Invited Talks:
Rahim, M., John, M. & Simonds, L.M. (2014). Do shame and self-compassion predict variance in substance use in young people? BPS Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, Glasgow, 5 December 2014.
John, M. Jeffries, F. & Simonds, L.M. (2013). Measuring recovery for young people with anxiety and depression. Recovery Conference, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, Bournemouth, 6 September 2013.
John, M., Jeffries, F. & Simonds, L.M. (2012). Conceptualising and measuring personal recovery in young people. BPS Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, Oxford, 7 December 2012.
John, M. & Simonds, L.M. (2010). Measuring 'recovery' in young people. Recovery Research Network Meeting, London, 21 October 2010.
John, M. & Simonds, L.M. (2010). Development of a psychometric tool to measure 'recovery'. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust CAMHS Research and Development Seminar, Hove, 27 September 2010.

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Breakfast, FIVEaa – The Coalition's River Torrens Recovery Programme; costings; the Coalition's Productivity Commission inquiry into the childcare sector
Breakfast, FIVEaa – The Coalition's…
KEITH CONLON: Some good news – if the Coalition gets in then the Torrens might look a lot cleaner … in about … an hour and a half … a gathering of the Coalition people at the Torrens … You might be able to give us a tip …
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: … we'll be announcing a $1m commitment over two years to initiatives to help improve the water quality along the River Torrens … directed towards nutrient reduction activities to try to stem the amount of nutrients that flow into the river, bank stabilisation activities and will be undertaken, really, by working, of course, very much with local councils and local organisations who have the skills and expertise to undertake these types of work.
KEITH CONLON: Is there a list, so to speak? Is there a whole series of capital works that will make that happen that you can get off the shelf?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, Keith, we want to make sure that this is done according to the expert advice, so we will, of course, be working through with councils, if elected, to identify which projects will get the biggest bang for our buck initially. This is part of a national strategy of trying to deliver cleaner waters and cleaner rivers and, of course, the Liberal Party has a proud history there, having started the Murray-Darling Basin reform process and developing the Basin Plan that we're very committed to seeing implemented for the Murray-Darling but locally, at the urban level, we know the Torrens is such an important part of lifestyle in Adelaide, it should be a tourism icon for us and, of course, with the finalisation of the new stadium we expect to see many more people traipsing across that footbridge that's being built at present over the Torrens and it will be great if we can have better water qualities which will benefit from the Hills right through to the sea.
JANE REILLY: Senator, we know that it's an important focal part of our city area and it seems that every year, just when we have the Tour Down Under and we have the bikes going past, the Lake gets shut down once again because of outbreaks of blue-green algae. Is that going to be a key focus of what you do in cleaning it up to make sure that we can keep it open during those summer months?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: I would hope that we can make a real difference to the frequency or level of outbreaks of blue-green algae, Jane. The nutrient inflows really are an important factor there and, of course, that means tackling some of the issues upstream in terms of runoff from farms and properties; it means, of course, ensuring that we minimise the amount of garden waste and vegetation that flows into the River Torrens as well, so there's a range of very practical things that can be done and we'd be hoping that these efforts will be supported, as well, by a number of Green Army projects which the Coalition is supporting, where we get teams of young people working on practical environmental clean-up initiatives as well.
KEITH CONLON: Senator Simon Birmingham. As he said, he's been involved in the Murray-Darling Basin for a long time. Now, at lunchtime today, at the National Press Club, the Treasurer and Shadow Treasurer line up and the question will arise, as usual… it's not a big amount of million but… where does the money come from?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, Keith, we will be releasing fully costed programmes for this campaign and this Opposition's, our Opposition's, approach to costings is more rigorous than anything that an opposition has done before. We have had all of our policies costed by the independent Parliamentary Budget Office; we have a team of three eminent Australians – a former head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, a former Auditor-General from Queensland and one of the co-founders of Access Economics – independently verifying all of our costings. Now, this is a far more rigorous approach than we've ever seen from the Labor Party; it's a far more rigorous approach than any opposition previously; we will stand very much by the costings we produce during this campaign and have complete confidence that they will outstrip Labor's approach where we keep seeing thought bubble after thought bubble – whether it's shifting Naval bases or developing very fast trains or economic zones in northern Australia – that have absolutely no costings behind them whatsoever…
KEITH CONLON: So, it's maybe been this group that have advised you to change your tune? Suddenly it's not so important to be in deficit [surplus] so quickly? You've put it out over a much longer period. Is this a bit of reality setting in?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Tony Abbott's made it very clear all along that he wants to be a leader who under-promises and over-delivers and so we know that bringing the budget back to surplus is important but we're not going to make promises that we can't deliver on or don't have the confidence that we can deliver on, so once we get into government, see the books, have the opportunity to try to get the Budget back on track, then what we've committed is that by the end of the first term we will have given a very clear trajectory as to exactly how and when we'll get the Budget back under control but when you've got more than $300 billion of debt mounting up, as has occurred under this Government, we know it won't be an easy task but, like previous Liberal Governments, we'll get in there and clean it up if given the opportunity.
JANE REILLY: Senator, we've been hearing through the campaign that the paid parental leave scheme is a key policy for the Coalition but also what's really important to families out there, to parents, to working mums, is childcare. Is there a chance that you may soften and take that on and help the families of Australia?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, Jane, we've had a bit to say about childcare before and Tony Abbott's committed that we'll get the Productivity Commission to look at how that whole mix of childcare rebates and programmes and subsidies work so that we can try to get the most efficient allocation of childcare resources. We also…
JANE REILLY: The Greens launched a policy yesterday. What did you think of that?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, look, the Greens are promising to throw an awful lot of money at things, as the Greens tend to do in these areas. What we want to do, importantly, as well, though, is get the cost of childcare down in Australia. We have an awful lot of 'red tape' and bureaucracy that surrounds the childcare sector. They've really been weighed down by this over the years and we think it's important, if we can reduce some of those costs for childcare operators then it can be cheaper for parents as well but we're going to have a good, hard look to see how the childcare sector can work a lot more efficiently and government support for it can be delivered a lot more efficiently. I often find myself doing the pick-up or drop-off at childcare a couple of days a week, as well, so I'm acutely aware personally of the impact and importance it is to many families.
JANE REILLY: Senator, just before you go, the press release we have say it's a joint media alert with The Hon Christopher Pyne. Is there another announcement that we can expect from the Coalition today?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: No, look, we're going to focus on the Torrens today. That's the initiative there. Christopher, of course, is the senior shadow minister for the Liberal Party here in South Australia and I have an Environment responsibility, so we're doing this one together, with our candidates for Adelaide and Hindmarsh, Carmen Garcia and Matt Williams, through whose electorates the Torrens runs and to whom it's so very important.
KEITH CONLON: Simon Birmingham, thanks for your time this morning.
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks so much, Keith and Jane.
KEITH CONLON: Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham, and he's previewing the announcement at the Torrens at a quarter to ten this morning.
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Do you ever decide to do a project, thinking it will be quick & easy, only to find out you have thrown yourself into a huge "learning opportunity" instead? So goes the story of my bench makeover, and how I learned to refinish furniture.
After I got the bench to my house, I realized it was in worse shape than I thought. In some areas, the raw wood was exposed. There was also some water damage. Now, I could have taken the easy way out and just bought new slats, painted them, and been done with a great looking bench. But, I'm stubborn.
I decided to strip the old paint, sand, and reuse the original boards. Between the stripping and sanding steps, the old wood looked amazing. I really lost my mind and decided to stain the wood instead of painting it. Perhaps it was the paint stripper fumes? Staining meant adding even more steps to my "quick & easy" makeover.
Times like these, my stubborn nature is quite beneficial. I was determined to restore this bench! In the end, like many challenging things in life, all the effort was totally worth it! Plus, I learned all kinds of things to share with you.
1) Safety First – This process involves chemicals, dust, and some noise. Make sure you have appropriate chemical-resistant gloves, a mask, eye protection, and maybe even ear plugs.
2) Prep your work space – I knew I was going to be using the paint sprayer in the garage, so I grabbed a cheap plastic drop cloth to work on. What I didn't realize at the time was the brilliance of that plan! Stripping paint is pretty nasty, and made a big mess. When I was done with the project, I was able to roll up the drop cloth and trash the entire mess in a minute.
3) Read, read, read! I have this bad habit of assuming how to do things and jumping right in. I'm certain I wouldn't have learned the hard way that Citristrip eats foam brushes if I had read the full label.
HomeRight Finish Max Pro instructions for use & cleaning – If I hadn't read these, I would have missed the brilliant tip from HomeRight to use water in your sprayer to get comfortable with the spray before you switch to paint or stain! I did my reading while watching football.
Ideally, you should read each label the first time in the store so you don't have to go back over and over like I did. It seems like each step I started, I needed to go back for something else.
Before using each product, read the label again. I used the wood conditioner once before on my starburst mirror and almost messed up by planning to apply it one day and stain the next. No go – the product I had requires the stain to applied within 2 hours.
4) Proper tools & supplies will do 90% of the work – This one is SO important that I'm going to break it into sections.
When I was staring at the various paint stripper options at the store, I remembered that I had seen a product called Citristrip recommended over and over for being less stinky & more effective than other paint strippers. Yep, those bloggers were right. It's a miracle in a jug.
You'll also need something to scrape the paint once the stripper has worked. I found the paint scraper section and then was stumped. There were metal options, plastic, and then even some things called stripping pads. I got really lucky with my decisions and will go with the same tools next time – a multi-tool & pack of the pads.
I used the multi-tool to get rid of all the paint chunks, then used the sanding pad to get rid of the excess liquid. It was the perfect combo!
Possibly because I'm a wimp, I HIGHLY recommend getting a handheld sander. If your wood is in bad shape, you will have to go over each piece with different grits of sandpaper. A powered sander does the work for you. Mine was under $40 and worth every penny! I have since switched to this sander for most projects because you can use normal full sheets of sandpaper cut into 4 pieces instead of buying the special-shaped pieces. The shape of the Octo is still handy in some cases though.
I used a coarser grit paper, followed by a finer grit on each piece of wood until I was down to smooth bare wood. I reassembled by bench so I could spray it all at once and really test the sprayer's ability to get between the slats.
You'll need wood conditioner, stain, and a sealer for stain. All three will depend on what type of project you are doing (indoor/outdoor). Make sure all three are compatible. For example, there are separate wood conditioners for water based & oil based stains. Make sure you use the right one, with the right brush.
To apply the stain to a small project, you could use a foam brush. As I mentioned, when I was going to paint the bench, I was excited to use my paint sprayer. Did you know they can spray stain too?
Amazing! With a brush, it's hard to apply stain evenly. With a Finish Max Pro, it goes on beautifully. Not only is it even, don't blink or you'll miss the whole process. I was done painting the entire bench in about a minute. One. One minute. I was almost depressed because I wasn't done playing with my new sprayer! I wanted to spray more! But, it was hard to be depressed when I was so impressed!
PS: Did you notice how long the Finish Max Pro hose is? I could make circles around the bench spraying the front and back with no worry of running out of hose.
Outdoor projects like my bench need special varnishes with UV protection called Spar Varnish. Polycrylic is great for indoor projects. You'll also need a bristle brush made for oil based products. The varnish was like the secret sauce. I missed taking a pic of the dried stain, but it was a little dull. The varnish made everything shiny & beautiful.
I was afraid that having to clean the HomeRight Finish Max Pro would counteract the time saved during the staining process. I had read & heard from friends that it was easy, but I admit being a little skeptical. I used the tutorial from Katie over at Addicted 2 DIY for both staining & cleaning. She recommended mineral spirits and said they would instantly clean the stain from my sprayer. She was absolutely right!
Clean up was quicker than it normally takes to wash out a paint brush! Make sure you read Katie's full tutorial. You'll also want to have a disposal plan for your used mineral spirits. A glass jar with a lid works well. The product is EXTREMELY flammable, so treat it with respect!
Refinishing furniture is absolutely doable, and completely worth it. Taking your time and reading ahead will save you tons of time and frustration!
Don't forget that you are working with hazardous materials. Appropriate protective gear & proper disposal are vital.
The Finish Max Pro is pretty close to vital if you are going to be doing a big project or multiple projects. It is easy to use and easy to clean. Have I mentioned how fun it is? I'm a fan of instant gratification, and having a project completely transformed from raw wood to a stained beauty in under a minute was incredible. I've been looking at everything in the house differently now – I want to spray it all! Using the sprayer was truly the only step in this bench project that was quick and easy.
I'm still in disbelief that the gorgeous wood in the photo below was hiding under the chippy old paint. It just needed some love!
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Thanks soooooooo much for the chance!!!! I want one of those sprayers big time! I had no idea it could do stain! I am on a staining kick right now!
Great tutorial…I would love one of these babies! I have the exact same bench and I love it.
Thank you so much for showing us how you revived the bench! I have two of those benches that I've been wanting to restore sooooo badly!
If I win, I know it's possible to finish before next year!!!
Also, I Really appreciate your tip about thinking ahead on the clean-up! I am also probably going to have to do these projects in my kitchen! (No shop yet! That is about 4-5 yrs down the road!) So quick and easy clean up is going to be essential!
You are definitely one of my inspirational women I follow! Also to prove to my husband that other people have projects they've had to put off for a while!!!
Great tutorial, Melissa. I admit … I rarely read instructions and usually end up mad. Also, I need one of these. :-). Just entered!! Thanks for the giveaway!
Wow! That looks amazing! I love the transformation and those pillows look stunning on there! Just the pop the bench needs!
What a great job you did on this bench, it looks awesome! The whole setup looks perfect.
that's quite the job but it turned out great!
Amazing job on the chair. I feel your pain on the paint stripping…I had a similar mess when I decided I was going to redo my dining room table and had to take the paint off first, I used the same orange bottle of mess and boy was it messy…..it worked with perseverance but an hour into it and I was thinking "Oh dear what did I just start". Love the dark brown stain and how it all turned out.
I appreciate your tip on taking the time to prepare your workspace before you refinish your furniture. I would imagine that taking the time to properly prepare the space would make sure you don't end up causing an even bigger mess. We have some furniture that needs refinishing but it may be a bit out of my league so we may hire a professional to do it for us.
We love it for painting, but staining is extra amazing because you don't have to thin it!
So all you did to the metal was to brush with Spar Varnish to get that deep glossy finish on it?
Gosh, this is embarrassing, but I can't remember for sure. I'm pretty sure I used this product: http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog/consumer-brands/stops-rust/hammered-spray/ on the metal handles because I had some left over from spray painting our light post. I must have been so focused on the wood portion of the project that I totally forgot to talk about the metal. I'm so sorry for the oversight. I will say that the spar varnish needs to be reapplied to the wood at least every year if your bench is in the direct sun. We didn't reapply it to my parents and it's looking pretty shabby again after two years in the Oklahoma sun.
Not to worry about the oversight. The Rustoleum makes perfect sense. I know your article is older but I've got my eye on a decrepit bench almost exactly like yours so finding this tutorial was extremely timely for me. Thanks for your prompt reply. I'm looking forward to snagging this bench and having some fun with it. Thanks again.


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CUPERTINO, Calif. (KGO) -- This marks the 10th year ABC7 has celebrated student achievement with the "Star Scholars" program. Every year, we reward seven high school seniors with a $1,000 scholarship each toward his or her college education.
Tanay Tandon is an innovator who is inventing life changing apps.
"I just like building things whether that be using hardware, computer science, whatnot," Tandon said. "I'm a maker of sorts."
This ABC7 Star Scholar and recent Cupertino High School graduate uses his love of computer science to create new technology to help simplify and save lives.
"My grandfather was a pathologist in India," Tandon said. "He worked in rural areas and had his own clinic. People would line up almost every day to get blood samples taken. That sort of, I guess, from the beginning has inspired me that I want to work on things that impact world populations, especially in the health sector. I'm using computer science to mimic that the best way I can."
Tandon has already developed an award-winning smartphone-based malaria detection app system, which garnered a hand-shake from President Obama and investor interest in producing his low-cost, blood sampling creation.
"Tanay is super passionate about technology," said Eric Ferrante, Tandon's computer science teach. "He's super passionate really passionate about pushing those ideas out to others. He's really passionate about his ideas and he wants to share those things. He's the kind of person that can push through and hold those meetings and find the right people to put around himself to make something happen,"
That's why he's staying in Silicon Valley to continue his studies in computer science and math at Stanford University.
"It's such a cool feeling to see someone using something you've built that poured yourself into. I think it leaves behind a nice legacy in terms of whatever it is that you thought of and what you want to build," Tandon said. "That's my only goal, just continue building things and working on products."
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by PC Vinoj Kumar, Tehelka, January 30, 2009
"The national identity cards given to the Tamils are almost like the Star of David badges the Jews had to wear during the Nazi era." He alleges that the cards are meant to identify Tamils easily so the government knows "whom to kill".
Conditions have allegedly worsened over the last three years. People are abducted in "mysterious white vans" that have no license plates, Fein says. The abducted are never heard of again and are counted among the thousands of 'disappeared' persons. The genocidal intent of the Rajapaksa regime can be established through its various discriminatory policies against the Tamils. "The government has been creating conditions intended to promote their physical destruction," claims Fein, arguing that many Rajapaksa policies constitute genocidal acts under US law. The blockade on transporting essential commodities to Tamil areas is one example, Fein says, for the starvation it has caused to the north Lankan civilian population.
A former US diplomat makes serious charges of genocide against Lankan officials, which could go all the way to US courts
THE SRI LANKAN government is claiming an all-out victory in its recent campaign against the insurgent Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Even as the United Nations voiced concern over the increasing number of civilian Tamil casualties in the war between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan army, pressure is building on the nation's hardline Sinhala leadership over its allegedly genocidal acts against the Tamil minority. Former US Deputy Associate Attorney General Bruce Fein has compiled evidence he believes is sufficient to prosecute Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and army chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka under the United States Genocide Accountability Act. Gotabaya, brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is a US citizen and Fonseka is a US Green Card holder.
THE CHARGES
'The national identity cards help identify Tamils easily, so the government knows whom to kill'
'People are abducted in mysterious white vans, with no license plates. They are never heard of again'
'The government has complete authority over the perpetrators of genocide: army, police, thugs, army deserters'
The model document, if accepted in the US would make Gotabaya the first US citizen to be tried for genocide
Fein, associated with a US-based group, Tamils Against Genocide, was on a private visit to Chennai last week. Speaking to TEHELKA, Fein says he has prepared a 1,000-page model indictment against Gotabaya and Fonseka for submission to the US Department of Justice. "Since Gotabaya and Fonseka assumed office (in 2005), there have been virtually one to three extra-judicial killings daily in Sri Lanka," states Fein. These, he clarifies, do not include LTTE casualties. "My work has nothing to do with the LTTE," Fein says.
Comparing the present conditions of Tamils in Sri Lanka to the sufferings of the Jews under the Nazis and of the blacks during the apartheid era in South Africa, Fein says: "The national identity cards given to the Tamils are almost like the Star of David badges the Jews had to wear during the Nazi era." He alleges that the cards are meant to identify Tamils easily so the government knows "whom to kill".
GOTABAYA RETIRED from the Sri Lankan army in 1992, having served in it for 20 years. He then moved to the US and worked as a computer systems administrator at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He returned to Sri Lanka in 2005 to assist Rajapaksa during his presidential campaign. Ever since his brother became President, Gotabaya has been part of his core group and is urging Rajapaksa to pursue a military solution to the 25- year-old ethnic conflict.
Sri Lanka's Tamils have suffered repression at the hands of the Sinhalese since the 1940s. Soon after achieving independence from British colonialism in 1948, the Lankan government passed the Citizenship Act by which about a million Tamils lost their citizenship and voting rights. Later, Sinhala was made the country's only official language, placing Tamils at a disadvantage, particularly for government jobs. Moderate Tamil politicians failed to impact the government to change its policies. Finally, in the 1970s, Tamil youths took to an armed struggle.
In 2002, Rajapaksa's predecessor, Ranil Wickremasinghe, entered into a ceasefire agreement with the LTTE. Rajapaksa withdrew from the ceasefire in January 2008. Since then, the country has been plunged into bloodshed.
Accuser Bruce Fein is concerned about the systemic violence against the Tamils under Rajapaksa Photo: PRABHU K
In his model indictment document, Fein seeks to establish the motivational context and the processes of the genocide under the Rajapaksa regime. Detailing the charges against Gotabaya and Fonseka, the document notes that "the alleged acts or omissions were committed with specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such, under the pretext of counter-insurgency warfare". The document describes the victims of the alleged genocide as "Hindu-Christian Northeast Sri Lankan Tamils (HCNSLTs)". Different forms of genocidal tactics against the HCNSLT have been recorded, among them large-scale abduction, indiscriminate aerial bombardment, artillery shell attacks and systematic deprivation of essential foods, and medicines.
The army's powers to enforce ad hoc restrictions on "who and what goods can and cannot pass" over arterial roads to reach the HCNSLTs, media censorship on the happenings in Tamil areas, and the ban on petrol are part of Fein's genocide charges against Fonseka and Gotabaya.
Tamils face "complex bureaucratic procedure" to travel abroad or within the country, especially in government-controlled Jaffna peninsula. "The process takes two to three months, whereby the application may be rejected. The army or government-sponsored paramilitaries are known to have murdered the applicants, the majority of whom were male."
Fein's priority now is to satisfy the US Department of Justice that a prima facie case has been made out and get the US Government's support for forming a grand jury to prosecute Gotabaya and Fonseka. "I hope to have a grand jury set up in about three to four months time," he says. If the jury indicts the accused, then the stage would be set for bringing Fonseka and Gotabaya to stand trial in the US.
Meanwhile, the situation of journalists in Sri Lanka is turning worse. Media sources in Colombo said at least 10 Sri Lankan journalists have fled the country. Senior journalist Lasantha Wikramatunga was assassinated by unknown persons in Colombo earlier this month — government hit-men are suspected. Senior Sinhalese journalist Sunanda Deshapriya has taken refuge in Chennai, where media persons have formed a forum called Journalists Against War to protest the violence on the Press under the Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Just Took a Huge Bite Out of Predatory Lending
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By F. Paul Bland, Executive Director, Public Justice
Banks and payday lenders have had a good deal going for a while: They could break the law, trick their customers in illegal ways, and not have to face any consumer lawsuits. Armed by some pretty bad 5-4 Supreme Court decisions, they could hide behind Forced Arbitration clauses (fine print contracts that say consumers can't go to court even when a bank acts illegally), even when it was clear that the arbitration clauses made it impossible for a consumer to protect their rights.
But the free ride is coming to an end. After an extensive study, that proved beyond any doubt how unfair these fine print clauses have been for consumers, the CFPB is taking a strong step to reign in these abusive practices. In a new rule, the CFPB says banks can no longer use forced arbitration clauses to ban consumers from joining together in class action lawsuits. That means banks can no longer just wipe away the most effective means consumers often have for fighting illegal behavior.
This is a common sense rule that will go a long way in combating some of the financial industry's worst practices.
In recent years, for example, if a bank systematically cheated 10,000 consumers in the same way, the bank could use its arbitration clause to stop those customers from going to court together. Each individual had to figure out the scam, figure out what their rights were and then spend time and money fighting the bank and its expensive lawyers. Everyone was essentially on their own. Under most arbitration clauses, one or two customers (at most) would have the means and ability to fight all the way through the arbitration system to get their money back.
In contrast, a class action could offer all 10,000 people a fair shot at justice.
Exempting the financial industry from the normal legal system has had far-reaching – and terrible – consequences. Predatory lending and dishonest practices have pushed millions of people right into desperation. Far too many Americans have been tricked into taking out loans that were far more expensive than they realized.
But help is finally on the way. The free ride is ending.
When it passed the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress required the CFPB to study the use of forced arbitration clauses and take action if those clauses undermined the public interest. So the CFPB undertook a huge, data driven empirical study, which it released in March of 2015. The study found that, when consumers could go to court as part of a class action, they recovered billions of dollars in relief. Banks had to refund over charges, erase illegal or inflated debts, and correct inaccurate credit reports.
When consumers were subject to forced arbitration, though, nearly all of those wins disappeared. Almost no consumers actually fought their way through the complex and biased corporate arbitration system. They just gave up. Predatory lenders generally kept whatever money they'd taken, and could operate in a Wild West manner, unless a government agency intervened on behalf of the helpless consumer.
How did arbitration get to be so unfair? In the past, many state laws were clear that if an arbitration clause that banned class actions would undermine a consumer protection law, then a court should strike it down. But in a pair of 5-4 decisions, Justice Scalia wrote opinions that swept all that law away. As a result, corporations could write fine print contracts that would override actual laws. These decisions – one in 2011 and one in 2013 – were unmitigated disasters for consumers and they transformed the Federal Arbitration Act – in place since 1925 – into a Federal Predatory Lender Immunity Act.
But today, things are changing. The CFPB is living up to its name — the Bureau really is protecting consumers. CFPB Director Rich Cordray is probably the most effective agency head in the federal government. He is not afraid to stand up to huge and politically powerful corporations on behalf of the American people. He's worked hard to ensure the agency lives up to the vision that Elizabeth Warren had when she was advocating for its creation. It's no wonder why politicians who get huge campaign contributions from large banks hate the agency so much. Many House Republicans attack the CFPB almost as often as they try to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Today's action is probably the biggest step forward for consumers since Dodd-Frank itself. It's a huge step forward in the fight for common-sense protections. It's a new rule that says the financial sector doesn't get to re-write – or break – the rules anymore.
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CEPS Director Daniel Gros and CEPS Senior Research Fellow Cinzia Alcidi were invited by the Romanian Presidency of the European Council to contribute a paper on labour mobility within the EU for discussion at the Informal Meeting of Economic and Financial Affairs Ministers, Bucharest, 5-6 April, 2019.
This contribution analyses recent trends in labour mobility within the EU and considers the challenges it generates in sending countries. It finds that mobile workers abroad can make a significant contribution to the GDP of their host countries and that the incomes of mobile citizens abroad can be of considerable benefit to those who stayed at home.
However, large-scale (net) emigration could have negative effects on the source country. Negative effects of outward mobility can arise through brain drain and when emigration erodes the tax base, making it more difficult for governments to finance current expenditure and to service (a large) public debt. Within the EU, the evidence of brain drain appears limited to southern euro area countries. The negative impact of the erosion of the tax base through emigration is mitigated by lower expenditure needs and additional VAT revenues on the expenditure financed by remittances. For high debt countries, population ageing exacerbated by mobility, rather than mobility alone, is the main issue for debt sustainability.
A key finding is that with ongoing reductions in wage gaps, in the future, differences in structural factors may be more important than (after-tax) income in the decision to emigrate. States which struggle the most to enhance the quality of the life of their citizens, through effective public spending and provision of high quality public goods, may experience the largest outflows of workers.
This conference concludes a research project carried out by CEPS aimed at exploring the impact of low-cost carriers in Europe in terms of integration and patterns of mobility.


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I have dropped my lid multiple times and it hasn't broken.
I've dropped it, not on the top though. Its pretty sturdy in my opinion.
I'm not familiar with the Swing Savvy bottles but with this bottle the top seems to be made with the same plastic as the bottle. It feels very sturdy.


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Title: The Revolutionary
Author: Bhagat Singh
Topics: India, manifesto, revolutionary anarchism
Date: 1st January, 1925
Source: Retrieved on 2020-05-07 from www.shahidbhagatsingh.org
Notes: This manifesto of the Hindustan Republican Association was written by Shachindra Nath Sanyal somewhen in December 1924. It was distributed in almost all the major cities of north India in the night between December 31, 1924 and January 1, 1925.
The Revolutionary
Justice to every man Free of cost, be the High or low, rich or poor.
Equal real opportunity to every man, be he high or low, rich or poor.
An organ of the Revolutionary Party of India,
1st Jan., 1925,
(Every honest Indian should read the whole of it and circulate it among his friends.)
Manifesto of Revolutionary Party of India
"CHAOS IS NECESSARY TO THE BIRTH OF A NEW star."' And the birth, and is passing through that inevitable chaos and agony. Indians shall play their destined role, when all calculations shall prove futile, when the wise and the mighty shall be bewildered by the simple and the week, when great empires shall crumble down and new nations shall arise and surprise humanity with the splendour and glory which shall be all its own.
This new power, which is shaking the world from its very depths, this new spirit which is working miracles behind the scene, is also manifesting itself in the young blood of India and is taking the shape of a movement which is despised and ignored by the wise and the learned, and is being described as the wild dreams of a few mad men. This remarkable movement is the revolutionary movement in young India. The revolutionary movement has unnerved the weak, has inspired the robust and healthy, and has confounded the worldly wise and the learned. This movement can never be crushed just as much as the coming of the spring can never be thwarted. It will never die out until it has fulfilled the mission for which it has taken its birth. Tyrants will oppress it, the faithless will taunt at it, and the confounded will denounce it, but thoughts and ideas can never be crushed by the sword, and the noble impulse that has taken birth in the very depths of out being can never be ignored, nor taunted.
This revolutionary movement is the manifestation of the new life that has taken birth in the Nation. To denounce this life is to denounce one's own understanding.
Twenty years of ruthless repression has not been able to crush it. Scathing denunciation by the renowned public leaders has not been able to arrest its steady growth. The movement stands mightier today than what it was before. The prospects of this revolutionary party were never so bright as they are today. This future is assured.
Let no Indian deny the existence of this revolutionary party in order to denounce the repressive measures of the foreign rulers. The foreigners have no right to rule over India and therefore they must be denounced and driven out. Not that they have committed any particular act of violence or crime. There are the natural consequences of a foreign rule. This foreign rule must be abolished. They have no justification to rule over India except the justification of sword and therefore the revolutionary party had taken to the sword. But the sword of the revolutionary party bears ideas at its edge.
The immediate object of the revolutionary party in the domain of politics is to establish a federal Republic of United State of India by an organized and armed revolution. The final constitution of this Republic shall be framed and declared at a time when the representatives of India shall have the power to carry out their decision. But the basic principles of this Republic will be universal sufferege and abolition of all system which make the exploitation of man by man possible, e.g. the railways and other means of transportation and communication, the mines and other kinds of very great industries such as the manufacture of steel and ships all these shall be nationalised. In this Republic the electors shall have the right to recall their representatives, if so desired, otherwise the democracy shall become a mockery. In this Republic, the legislature shall have the power to control the executives and replace them whenever necessity will arise.
The revolutionary party is not national but international in the sense that its ultimate object is to bring harmony in the world by respecting and guaranteeing the diverse interests of the different nations. It aims not at cooperation between the different nations and states and in this respect it follows the footsteps of great Indian Rishis of the glorious past and of Bolshevik Russia in the modern age. Good for humanity is no vain and empty word with the Indian revolutionaries. But the weak, the coward and the powerless can do no good either to themselves or to humanity.
With regard to the communal question, the revolutionary party contemplates to grant whatever rights the different communities ma demand, provided they do not clash with the interests o other communities and they lead ultimately to hearty and organic union in different communities in the near future.
In the domain of economic and social welfare the party will foster the spirit of cooperation on as large a scale as possible. Instead of private and unorganised business enterprises, the party prefers cooperative union.
In the spiritual domain the party aims at establishing the truth and preaching it that the world in not Maya, an illusion to be ignored and despised at, but that it is the manifestation of the one individual soul, the supreme source of all power, all knowledge and all beauty.
The revolutionary party has its own policy and its own programme. It cannot for obvious reasons divulge all its secrets. But when it will become quite sure that the Govt. happens to know more than our own people, then the public will also be informed of its plan and methods without any hesitation at will.
This revolutionary party pursues the policy of cooperation when possible and dissociation where necessary with the Congress and its different parties. But this party views all constitutional agitation in this country with contempt and ridicule. It is a mockery to say that India's salvation can be achieved through constitutional means, where no constitutions exists.
It is a self-deception to say that India's political liberty can be attained through peaceful and legitimate means. When the enemy is determined to break the peace at his own convenience, the fine phrase "legitimate" loses all its charm and significance when one pledges himself to maintain peace at all costs.
Our public leaders hesitate to speak in plain terms that India wants complete autonomy free from foreign control. They perhaps are ignorant of the fact that nations are born through the inspiration of great ideals. The spiritual ideal which hestitates to accept the spirit of complete autonomy can hardly be called spirititual, though it may seemingly appear the most unmistakable terms and to place before the nation an ideal worth the name.
The ideal before us is to serve humanity in an organized way. The ideal can never be realised by India so long as India remains British India. In order that India may realise her ideal she must have a separate and independent existence. This independence can never be achieved through peaceful and constitutional means. Even a child can understand that the laws that govern British India are not made by Indians, nor can they have any control over them. British India can never be transformed into a federal republic of the United State of India through the British laws and constitution. Young Indians, shake off your illusion, face realities with a stout heart, and do not avoid struggle, difficulties and sacrifices. The inevitable is to come. Do not be misguided any more. Peace and tranquility you cannot achieve by peaceful and legitimate means. The following memorable words of a great English author Mr. Robertson may serve to make the wise men of India wiser still:
"The movement and programme of reform was mainly the achievement of Irish and Protestant leaders, to whom British statement had revealed the fatal secret that England could be bullied but not argued into justice and generosity" (English Under Hanoverians, p. 197).
Indian public leaders are still ignorant of this fatal secret, or else they are foolishly wise to remain ignorants.
The wise men of India say that it is absurd to cherish the hope that India can be reconquered by force of force of arms, though they forget that it is equally or more absurd to believe that a handful of Englishmen have kept under subjugation by the force of arms, though they forget that it is equally or more absurd to believe that a handful of Englishmen have kept under subjugation by the force of arms one-fifth of the whole human race. Posterity may well doubt the authenticity of this fact that a handful of Englishmen even ruled over India for a century; it is so inconceivable.
A few words more about terrorism and anarchism. These two words are playing the most mischievous part in India today. They are being invariably misapplied whenever any reference to revolution arises to be made, because it is so very convenient to denounce the revolutionary under that name. The Indian revolutionaries are neither terrorists nor anarchists. They never aim at spreading anarchy in the land and therefore they can never properly be called anarchists. Terrorism is never their object and they cannot be called terrorists. They do not believe that terrorism alone can bring independence and they do not want terrorism for terrorism's sake although they may at times resort to this method as a very effective means of retaliation. The present Govt. exists simply because the Foreigners have successfully been able to terrorise the Indian people. The Indian people do not love their English masters, they do not want them to be here; but they do help the Britishers simply because they are terribly afraid of them and this very fear resists the Indians from extending their helping hands to the revolutionaries, not that they do not love them.
The official terrorism is surely to be met by counter-terrorism. A spirit of utter helplessness pervades every strata of our society and terrorism is an effective means of restoring the proper spirits in the society without which progress will be difficult. Moreover, the English masters and their hired lackeys can never be allowed to do whatever they like, uninterrupted, unmodested. Every possible difficulty and resistance must be thrown in their way. Terrorism has an international bearing also, because the ardent enemies of England are at once drawn towards Indian through terrorism and revolutionary demonstrations, and the revolutionary party has deliberately abstained itself from entering into this terroristic campaign at the present movement even at the greatest of provocations in the form in the form of outrages committed on their sisters and mothers by the agents of a foreign government, simply because the party is waiting to deliver the final blow. But when expediency will demand it, the party will unhesitatingly enter into a desperate campaign of terrorism, when the life of every official and individual who will be helping the foreign ruler in any way will be made intolerable, be he Indian or European, high or low. But even then the party will never forget that terrorism is not the object, and they will try incessantly to organize a band of selfless and devoted workers who will devote their best energies towards the political and social emancipation of their country.
They will always remember that the making of nations requires the self-sacrifice of thousand of obscure men and women who care more for the idea of their country than for their own comfort or interest, their own lives or the lives of those whom they love.
Sd/-V.K.
President, Central Council,
R.P. of India.


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Q: A vector analysis question requiring multivariable calculus The question is taken from a Vector-Analysis worksheet as an extension exercise, here is the first part:
Let $\underline{v}$ be a vector field $\mathbb{R}^{2} \backslash (0,0)$ of the form
\begin{equation}
\underline{v}(x,y) = f(r)(x,y)
\end{equation}
where $r = \sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}}$ and $f: (0,\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ is continuously differentiable.
Find a scalar potential for $\underline{v}$ in terms of an integral involving $f$, given that $\underline{v}$ is conservative.
So far I have that since $\underline{v}$ is conservative, there exists a function $g(x,y)$ such that $\frac{\partial{g}}{\partial{x}} = xf(r)$ and $\frac{\partial{g}}{\partial{y}} = yf(r)$. Now I am a guessing that $g$ will in someway contain $F(t)$ where $F(t) = \int_0^rf(t)\,\mathrm{d}t$ since by the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus $F'(t) = f(r)$. However my knowledge of multivariable differentiation under the integral sign is not so good, and I am unsure how to take the partial derivatives of $F(t)$ with respect to $x$ or $y$. I am also unsure of the significance of $f$ being continuously differentiable. Any tips on where to go from here?

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Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader hopes that the Jatiya Oikya Front will not allow the Jamaat-e-Islami to join the dialogue with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
"I think there is no scope here (dialogue) for any party that has no registration," he said in a news conference at the Secretariat on Tuesday.
On Monday, five years after the High Court ruled that the Jamaat-e-Islami's status as a political party be revoked, the Election Commission has executed the orders in a gazette.
Meanwhile, the prime minister invited the Jatiya Oikya Front led by Dr Kamal Hossain to talks in an effort to break an impasse over the next general election. The dialogue will be held at Ganabhaban at 7pm Thursday, reports bdnews24.
Asked to comment on any possibility of a Jamaat leader taking part in the dialogue with the prime minister, Quader said: "It seems to me that there's no confusion. Dr Kamal Hossain said that he would not be with Jamaat. Didn't he? Let's see what he does. "
The AL general secretary firmly said that there was no option for dialogue with any political party other than the Jatiya Oikya Front.


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Q: Error in amsmath as primitive \eqno no longer primitive I am trying to typeset (with XeLaTeX) a simple Tufte-LaTeX example (http://tufte-latex.googlecode.com/files/Week5Lecture.tex) and getting an error message like the following:
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty:2496: LaTeX Er
ror: Unable to properly define \@@eqno; primitive \eqno no longer primitive.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.2496 \@saveprimitive\eqno\@@eqno

Is it obvious to an expert what the problem might be? Or should I supply more information?
Edit: The minimum nonworking example is:
\documentclass[bidi]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage{amsmath}

The [bidi] is significant, I suspect this means bidirectional and provides support for right to left Hebrew.

A: The tufte-common.def file does many wrong things about package loading when XeLaTeX and the [bidi] option are used.
The bidi package should be loaded last, while the file providing common structure to the tufte classes does it in a wrong way.