Amjad Bahnassi hasn't announced a tenant yet for the floors his mental-health business won't use in his new Shrewsbury Street office building, but he has been in touch with prospects.
Amjad Bahnassi's Worcester psychiatry practice has long outgrown its two buildings, both converted homes off Park Avenue, and not been able to keep up with growing demand.
Last November, the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration forecasted more than 10,000 additional mental health providers will be needed by 2025 to keep up with demand. In 2013, a survey by the administration found 20 percent of Americans reported having a behavioral health disorder but did not receive treatment for it.
The remainder of the building will be available for lease for other offices. Bahnassi said he's been in touch with prospective tenants but doesn't yet have anyone in place.
Mercantile Center is renovating former Worcester Center Galleria mall space into office use, including for UMass Memorial Health Care's 92,000-square-foot space.
Timothy Murray, the president and CEO of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, said his office is working hard with partners to attract tenants to Gateway Park near Worcester Polytechnic Institute and to a planned office building above the Worcester Common parking garage downtown.


Women who exercised just moderately saw breast cancer risk drop by up to 10 per cent.
"Exercise lowers risk of breast cancer after menopause" reports The Independent. This and similar headlines were sparked by a large study of postmenopausal teachers that found increased recreational activity was associated with a 10% decrease in the risk of breast cancer.
The study used questionnaires to estimate the levels of walking, cycling and sport the women did outside of work. Researchers found that women who exercised vigorously for seven or more hours each week were 25 percent less likely to develop breast cancer, compared to those who exercised less than one hour each week. Examples of vigorous activity include basketball, swimming, running and aerobics. The results were similar if women walked briskly, but there was no benefit for walking at normal pace. The results did not differ by the estrogen receptor status of the breast cancer. It also found that women who did the equivalent of walking at least four hours a week or doing sport for two hours a week had a reduced risk of breast cancer. Factors such as body mass index (BMI) did not change the results.
Recent Recreational Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women in the E3N Cohort, CEBP, June 8, 2014.
Recreational Physical Activity and Leisure-Time Sitting in Relation to Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk, CEBP, August 1, 2013.
Television Viewing and Time Spent Sedentary in Relation to Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis, JNCI, March 14, 2014.
Exercise may cut breast cancer risk, study finds, Edited by NHS Choices, analysed by Bazian.
Exercise for those who can get around can produce many excellent benefits. These rests are not so surprising to me.


On Friday, September 14th 2018, the Purdue College of Engineering Alumni Board presented Janet Goings and Abigail Moyer with the Purdue College of Engineering Alumni Loyalty Award and the College of Engineering Young Alumni Award, respectively.
Janet Goings, BSEE '82, was awarded the Loyalty Award for her service and dedication to the College of Engineering and her success within industry. Her contributions to General Motors, where she has spent her entire career, have included the development of advanced automotive control systems, new vehicle concepts, the launch of OnStar, growth market strategies, technology introduction strategies and the implementation of design thinking at GM. Janet has also served as a member of GM's Purdue University Relations team for years and returns to campus often to recruit students for co-op and other employment opportunities. In addition to being a regular recruiter for GM, Janet also regularly speaks with Purdue students in the Women in Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering programs. Janet is a loyal Boilermaker who never lets an opportunity pass to share her love for her alma mater. Her willingness to volunteer to speak about her experiences at Purdue and in her career speaks volumes to her dedication to future generations of Purdue students.
Abigail Moyer, BSCE '06, has shown rapid career growth in her 12 years at ExxonMobil by overseeing several megaprojects for ExxonMobil's Development Company. By 2014, she had moved up into a leadership position where she was responsible for a portfolio of projects and a team of around 30 professionals. Her projects and staff are located in eight countries throughout the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific. Abigail is currently a Strategic Venture Planner with ExxonMobil. In light of her impressive career at such a young age, Purdue Engineering awarded Abby with the 2018 Young Alumna Award.


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El Condado de Villalba es un título nobiliario español creado el 1 de mayo de 1617 por el rey Felipe III a favor de Bernardino de Ayala y Guzmán.

Su denominación hace referencia al municipio Villalba de los Llanos en de la comarca del Campo de Salamanca, en la provincia de Salamanca, Castilla y León, España.

Fue señorío de la familia "Enríquez", hasta que con Inés Enríquez y Manrique, IX señora de Villalba de los Llanos que casó con Rodrigo de Sande y Guzmán II marqués de la Piovera, pasó a pertenecer a los marqueses de Valdefuentes y por tanto a integrarse con el Ducado de Abrantes y el Ducado de Linares.

Condes de Villalba

Historia de los Condes de Villalba

Bernardino de Ayala y Guzmán, I conde de Villalba.
Casó con Francisca de Córdoba y Osorio. Le sucedió su hijo:

Bernardino de Ayala y Osorio, II conde de Villalba.
Casó con Luisa Osorio. Le sucedió su hija:

Francisca de Ayala y Osorio, III condesa de Villalba.
Casó con Manuel de Zúñiga, V marqués de Aguilafuente. Le sucedió su hijo:

Valerio Antonio de Zúñiga y Ayala (1612-1712), IV conde de Villaba, VIII Marqués de Aguilafuente.
Casó con Ana María Fernández de Córdoba.
Casó con Ana Pimentel María Fernández de Córdoba, IX marquesa de Távara, VII condesa de Villada. Sin sucesión de este matrimonio. Le sucedió, de su primer matrimonio, su hijo:

Valerio de Zúñiga y Fernández de Córdoba Pimentel,  V conde de Villalba, IX marqués de Aguilafuente, XII conde de Aguilar de Inestrillas.
Casó con María Petronila Pacheco y Téllez-Girón. Le sucedió su hija:

María de la Portería Osorio de Moscoso Zúñiga Guzmán y Pacheco (f. en 1776), VI condesa de Villalba, XI Marquesa de Aguilafuente, XIV Condesa de Aguilar de Inestrillas.

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Manuel Bernardino de Carvajal y Zúñiga (1739-1783), X conde de Villalba, XII Marqués de Aguilafuente, V Duque de Abrantes, V duque de Linares, V marqués de Sardoal, V marqués de Puerto Seguro, XV conde de Aguilar de Inestrillas, , VII marqués de Valdefuentes, IV conde de la Quinta de la Enjarada, VI conde de la Mejorada.
Casó con María Micaela Gonzaga y Caracciolo, hija de Francesco Gonzaga, I Duca di Solferino.

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Ángel María de Carvajal y Téllez-Girón (1815-1890), XIV conde de Villalba, IX duque de Abrantes, IX duque de Linares, IX marqués de Sardoal, XI marqués de Valdefuentes, X marqués de Puerto Seguro, XII marqués de Navamorcuende, VIII conde de la Quinta de la Enjarada, XX conde de Aguilar de Inestrillas, X conde de la Mejorada.
Casó en primeras nupcias con María de A. Josefa Fernández de Córdoba.
Casó en segundas nupcias con Josefa Jimena de Molina. Del primer matrimonio fue sucesor su hijo:

Agustín de Carvajal y Fernández de Córdoba (1848-1915), XVI conde de Villalba, XX conde de Aguilar de Inestrillas.
Casó con Isidra Quesada y Gutiérrez de los Ríos.Rehabilitado en 1921 por:Alfonso Agustín de Carvajal y Guzmán (1909-1956), conde de Villalba. Le sucedió su hijo:

Alfonso de Carvajal y Fernández de Córdoba (n. en 1943), conde de Villalba. Le sucedió su hijo:

Alfonso de Carvajal y Kindelán (n. en 1972), conde de Villalba'''.

Referencias

Villaba (1617)

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David Noble wins St Albans City's player of the month for November
Published: 9:43 AM December 5, 2018
David Noble has been named St Albans City's player of the month for November. Picture: LEIGH PAGE - Credit: Archant
David Noble has finally broken Ben Wyatt's monopoly by being named St Albans City's player of the month for November.
David Noble in action for St Albans City against Hungerford Town. Picture: Karyn Haddon - Credit: Archant
The young wing-back had won the first three awards this year but the performances of the Saints skipper during a difficult month have been enough to end that run.
Noble will receive his Harpenden Construction Limited-sponsored award on Saturday prior to the game against Wealdstone.
Doing the honours will be long-standing City supporters Michael Cheshire and Ryan Mann, on behalf of The Courtyard Cafe in Hatfield Road, who are the November sponsors.

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One among the most prevalent electrical wiring issues is on how to wire a swap. Though making use of switches in your house is quite effortless, wiring a single might not be that simple for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is in fact quite simple to wire. There are actually different kinds of switches, but for this example, let's say you happen to be putting in a single-pole toggle switch, an exceedingly prevalent swap (as well as the most straightforward).
You will discover 3 hues of wires in the regular single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and inexperienced. Splice the black wire in two and join them within the terminal screws - one particular on prime plus the other on the bottom screw with the swap. The white wire serves being a supply of uninterrupted electricity and it is ordinarily linked to the light coloured terminal screw (e.g., silver). Hook up the eco-friendly wire to the ground screw of the change.
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There are actually reasons why these are generally one of the most commonly requested electrical wiring inquiries. A single, a lot of believe it is really straightforward to complete, and two, these are definitely the typical electrical jobs at your house. But then you definitely must not set your basic safety in danger as part of your objective to economize. The stakes could even be a great deal larger should you try to save money and do an electrical wiring task with out enough know-how or experience.


Sunday was my birthday so thanks so much for all the wonderful wishes I received over social media. It was pretty low-key with just a nice dinner and a movie. But the hubs did get me a brand new camera so Amen to that.
Also, I just got back from WWDMAGIC in Las Vegas so I used my weekend as a time for total relaxation, even though I wish I still had one more day to do nothing. Oh, and by total relaxation, I mean watching the entire second season of American Horror Story: Asylum. Have you seen it? Let's chat about it on Twitter because I've got lots to say.
As far as the look goes, I picked up the hat just minutes before the shoot because I realized how good it would look with the gray in the pants. A few of the pieces I'm wearing are from brands I met at MAGIC, including the top from US-based brand Jaleh (don't you just love the back), the mint colored clutch from Urban Expressions, the eye-catching necklace by Suzywan Deluxe (everything they make is a color pop dream), the fun bracelet by Bombshell Accessories, and the Chinese Laundry beauties.
And in case you're wondering, I absolutely love the fit and feel of these Peter Pilotto pants. They will be a long time closet staple, along with the Jaleh top as well.
What do you muses think about this look?
And I saw some of the WWD pics on Instagram...what a fun event.
I'm so glad you had a nice birthday Cheryl and MAGIC sounds like it was so fun, but I'm sure exhausting too. I'd love to hear more. Also, this outfit is so chic, I love the patterns on the bottom of the jumpsuit too.
In case you don't know this yet, I think you are the fiercest of them all!
Your style is so inspiring in every look!
I didn't realize those are the Peter pilotto pants - they look great! The hat also works perfectly.
Happy belated birthday dear! I hope A treated you to a fab day!
Sounds like a fantastic birthday weekend and great that you received a new camera. Those joggers are very unique! :-) Enjoy the week, welcome back!
Definitely think the hat was the perfect addition!
Love the ensemble! I totally missed those pants, super cute! Happy belated birthday.
Happy Belated Birthday lady! I love your whole look and your hat adds a nice touch.
I thought you were wearing a fabulous jumpsuit at first glance! You have the best hats!
I love this look! so chic.
Happy Belated Birthday - looks like a fun day and kudos to hubby for getting you the perfect gift. I love Fedoras and this one definitely added to the entire outfit.
Those are definitely cool pants! I did you did the right thing by keeping the rest of your outfit in the same color palette!
Hope you had a magical birthday sweety, may you stay as warm and wonderful as you are. Love these pants, what a terrific buy, the fit looks splendid.
Happy Belated Birthday! You look adorable in your hat.
Happy belated birthday :) I've seen AHS: Asylum, it's so good! Oh and your check print pants have to be the coolest things ever.
I always love an all black look. I really like the detail on the back of that top. I've been seeing a lot like those lately.
Thank you for sharing and linking up with us at the #WWDParty - enjoy the rest of the week.
I love your pants and your heels - diva diva diva!
Happy belated birthday; I bet you had so much fun. You look great.
Happy belated birthday! Love the look!


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AHAVAT ISRAEL – LOVING EVERY JEW
A person who is purified, can never talk negatively about the Jewish people,
therefore a person who preaches to the masses (in different kiruv events etc..),
must be very careful not to count the sins of the Jewish people. If he is able to
not think positively about the Jewish people, it's a sign that he didn't merit to get
close to Hashem for real, even if it only exists in his thoughts, it's a sign that he is
far away from Hashem, even though from the outside, thank G-d he looks fine,
but deep inside he has decay and worse than that.
Because it is impossible for a person who got his soul purified to talk negatively
about Hashem. Meaning, as it is brought by the "Tanya," that when a person
talks about another Jew, in fact he talks about Hashem, Blessed Be He, because
there are 2 types of love, the love of Hashem, and the love of the Jewish people
(Ahavat Israel), Ahavat Israel is called a vessel, and the love of Hashem is called
abundance. Abundance can only come down to a place that holds a vessel, and
the vessel of loving Hashem is loving the Jewish people. Therefore whoever
didn't acquire the love for the Jewish people has no vessel to accept the
abundance.
Therefore it is prohibited to prosecute the Jewish people, even if you saw –
Don't say "This nation did so and so.." or "This person did so and so.."
"Do not inform on a slave to his master" (Proverbs 30 10), because the informing
of a Jew that informs below, gives power to great impure powers to prosecute the
Jewish people. When Prophet Issiah said: "..for I am a man of unclean lips, and
amidst a people of unclean lips I dwell.." (Isaiah 6 5), it is written in the holy book
"Reshit Chochma" (Gate of Holiness – Chapter 14) that right away an angel came
down from heaven with coals and it put them on his mouth, and it asked him:
"Why do you talk like this about the Jewish people? You have no permission to
talk like that", even though he was a very great prophet, and he was the prophet
of consolation, his merit didn't stand to protect him.
The main thing is Ahavat Israel. Therefore according to the "Tanya", whoever has
a love for the Jewish people burning in his heart, it breaks all the barriers
between the person and his creator, and when a person hates a Jew, all the
barriers return. Therefore King David, who broke all the barriers – and the
following will testify on him: The event with Shimi Ben Gera, and Avshalom his
son, and Amnon his son, and Yoav Ben Zeruia, and Sheva Ben Bichri – he never
responded back, because he knew that if he will get upset at another Jew,
All the spiritual illuminations that he acquired by loving Hashem will vanish. And
when Hashem saw that King David broke all the barriers, right away he
appointed him to become the 4th pillar of the "Merkava". He was the one who got
chosen over all the ones who were prior to him – Moshe Rabenu, Aharon
HaCohen, the Sanhedrin and all the prophets – Only he was chosen to become
the 4th pillar, and that is due to the love he had for the Jewish people.
Whoever follows the path of Ahavat Israel – will never be in a situation in which
he gets humiliated. Not by his household, not by his children, not by his
grandchildren, not by his grand-grandchildren, and not by any of his offspring –
Because all of them will be called "Offspring Blessed by Hashem". Therefore it is
always very beneficial to repeat this at the Shabbat table, and also at the family's
Smachot, and in every opportunity in which the family sits together. Because
during the weeks everyone is very occupied, but Hashem, Blessed Be He gave
us Shabbat and other important events, to take advantage of the opportunity to
pass along these little messages, which are very great. Because the message
resembles a seed of a date, even though it is very tiny, because after it gets
absorbed by the land it becomes a great tree, that can produce many dates.
Therefore it is mandatory to always talk at the Shabbat table about "Ahavat
Israel". If the children merit to acquire Ahavat Israel, words of gossip will never
come out of their mouths, nor words of mischief nor drollery. They will always be
careful.
On the same token. Even if a Jew harmed you or caused you any kind of
suffering try to forgive him right away, he is only a stick of the creator, Blessed
Be He. If a person harmed you, and you forgive him right away, and do not hold
a grudge against him, know that you have a great reward awaiting you.
Whoever can succeed in this test, and forgive entirely to the one who harmed
him, his virtue is very great. Hashem, Blessed Be He rewards and benefits
people according to their forgiveness towards others, and of course it is a very
difficult work, as it is written in "Mesilat Yesharim" (Chapter 11) – that a person
feels very strongly when he gets humiliated, and suffers a lot from it. And his
revenge is sweeter than honey, because it's his only comfort.
Therefore when he gets the power to abandon the power of habit, and his will
forgive, and will not hate the one who ignited the feelings of hate in him, and will
not take revenge on him, at the time that he could, and will not hold a grudge
towards him – But instead forget everything and remove if from his heart, as if it
never happened – such a person is strong and courageous – and he is compared
to the angels in heaven, who don't have these traits, and not people of flesh and
blood, that their foundation is made by dust. Therefore whoever can succeed in
this, his reward is great. (Be'Tzur Yarom, Part 1 Page 136)
TO HONOR EVERY PERSON
It is told in Midrash Tanchuma (Tazria 5) that there was a wicked gentile named
Turnus Rufus the Evil, this gentile was educated and he had questions about the
scriptures and the outlook on life etc..
A person who is purified, can never talk negatively about the Jewish people,therefore a person who preaches to the masses (in different kiruv events etc..), must be very careful not to count the sins of the Jewish people.
© hameir laarets 2019


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Vader closer to reclaiming water system after finding-free audit
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Vader officials are celebrating a recent audit of City Hall that reported no findings, stating the results are one more step toward fulfilling requirements to regain their water system from Lewis County.
Shared with officials on Dec. 10, the results of the audit, conducted by the State Auditor's Office during the last several weeks, show there were no findings in either Vader's fiscal or policy practices during 2012 and 2013, which had been the first such finding-free report for the city since 2006, according to the Auditor's Office.
"It represents a milestone in my own experience in the City of Vader," said Mayor Ken Smith to the City Council when sharing the results of the audit during their Dec. 11 meeting.
The significance of the audit is contrasted with events beginning in 2009, during which time the city encountered a shortfall of roughly $120,000 in their general budget, which had been the result, according to a 2010 report from the Auditor's Office, of invoices and billing records being withheld from city officials by the city clerk.
The Auditor's Office has since stated they believe no current members of city staff or leadership were responsible for this shortfall, and believe all outstanding accounts have been settled.
After a significant reduction in staff and services to pay off the deficit, Vader survived 2010 with $9 remaining in their general budget, and has since begun restoring funding for city departments as it becomes available.
While these events were unfolding, the city's water system was experiencing such a high level of infiltration of untreated water, a court mandated Lewis County take possession of the system in March of 2010 in order to protect public health, as Vader was not in a position to adequately make repairs.
An agreement between Vader and Lewis County was finalized in February of this year outlining the requirements Vader would have to meet in order to receive the water system back, which included proper management of the city's existing sewer system, as well as the completion of two audits without findings, the first of which the city just received.
"We're half-way home, is how I look at it," continued Smith, who stated the Auditor's report did suggest some administrative improvements for City Hall, but did not find any violations of state policy. "Any rumors to the effect that we're running afoul of state law or engaging in any improper malfeasance with revenue streams in the City of Vader is not based in any sort of auditorial fact."
Vader's last audit in 2012 did contain two findings, including their lack of financial reserves at the end of the year (Washington cities are expected to keep at least one month's worth of expenses in reserve to address potential shortfalls), as well as the hiring of contractors without verifying their state credentials. These have since been addressed by changes in practice and policy, and were not identified as concerns during the most recent audit.
Smith noted, if Vader can again pass their next audit in 2016 without any findings, they will begin entering the process of reclaiming Vader's water system, which the county has indicated will be given back to Vader in its entirety and without an expectation of compensation, should current requirements be met.
Those curious about the details of Vader's audit, as well as previous audits, may access such records for free at www.sao.wa.gov, and may call the Auditor's Office at (360) 902-0370 for additional information.
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Sclerophrys garmani, also known as Garman's toad or eastern olive toad (among others), is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is widely distributed in East and Southern Africa. However, populations north and south of Tanzania might represent distinct species. If so, the name Sclerophrys garmani would apply to populations from northeastern Africa. Furthermore, its southern boundary towards the range of Sclerophrys poweri in South Africa is also unclear.

Etymology
The specific name garmani honors Samuel Garman, an American ichthyologist and herpetologist.

Description
Males grow to  and females to  in snout–vent length. The tympanum is almost as big as the eye diameter. The parotoid glands are large. The back is tan to olive-brown and bears large paired markings edged with black. A thin vertebral stripe may be present. Dorsal skin has distinct warts that bear small, black spines. The ventrum is off-white.

The male advertisement call is a loud, low-pitched "kwaak", lasting for about a second.

Range
The range extends from Ethiopia and Somalia southward through Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, to South Africa and Eswatini and west to Namibia and Angola.

Habitat
Sclerophrys garmani in habits both arid and wooded savannas as well as agricultural areas at elevations below . A Tanzanian population was found entirely in woodland areas. Breeding takes place in temporary water, sometimes also in artificial pools and rivers.

Sclerophrys garmani is common in parts of its range. It can be threatened by habitat loss caused by human expansion, settlement, and agricultural encroachment. However, it is an adaptable species that is not seriously at risk. It is present in many protected areas.

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garmani
Frogs of Africa
Amphibians of Angola
Amphibians of Botswana
Amphibians of Eswatini
Amphibians of Ethiopia
Amphibians of Kenya
Amphibians of Mozambique
Amphibians of Namibia
Amphibians of Somalia
Amphibians of South Africa
Amphibians of Tanzania
Amphibians of Zambia
Amphibians of Zimbabwe
Taxa named by Seth Eugene Meek
Amphibians described in 1897
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot


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OP-ED: What I'm thankful for this season
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — I want to give thanks for a human right that shaped our country throughout the 20th century and that made Thanksgiving possible for so many Americans who, like me, didn't get here by way of the Mayflower. A human right that gives millions the time, the security, the good health and the ability to share this holiday with the people they love. Make that a globally recognized fundamental human right, and one written into our constitution that is known as Collective Bargaining.
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By Ray Curry, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW
Thanksgiving is here. Pass the turkey, slow down on the stuffing, put the kids, nieces and nephews at another table so the adults can talk, leave room for the pumpkin pie and leave even more room for, as the word suggests, giving thanks.
So that's what I want to do here. I want to give thanks for a human right that shaped our country throughout the 20th century and that made Thanksgiving possible for so many Americans who, like me, didn't get here by way of the Mayflower. A human right that gives millions the time, the security, the good health and the ability to share this holiday with the people they love. Make that a globally recognized fundamental human right, and one written into our constitution that is known as Collective Bargaining.
I know. Collective Bargaining doesn't sound festive.
But believe me, Collective Bargaining is responsible for a whole lot of the festivities that we enjoy this holiday. Trade unions and the collective voice that they speak to management with, have brought about so much of what we now take for granted. The 40-hour work week, for example, was almost 70 hours until unions rolled their sleeves up and said life also calls for family and R and R time.
Likewise, organized labor, not management, introduced the idea of weekends, paid vacation, sick days and paid holidays such as aforementioned Turkey Day. Union bargainers negotiate what wages will be set at, how safe a workplace environment must be, the healthcare provided you, the retirement you can look forward to. Oh, and the children at the kid's table? Unions pushed for the child labor laws that put them in chairs asking for second helpings instead of on a bench sewing shoes for countless hours a day.
What's more, unions and those they bargain for are as diverse as America is. Because of Collective Bargaining, auntie's mashed potatoes get passed down a long table. According to a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, an independent, nonprofit think tank that researches the impact of economic trends and policies on working people in the United States, roughly 10.6 million of the 16.3 million workers covered by a union contract are women and/or people of color:
About two-thirds (65.4 %) of workers age 18 to 64 and covered by a union contract are women and/or people of color.
Almost half (46.3 %) are women.
More than a third (35.8 %) are black, Hispanic, Asian, or other non-white workers.
Black workers are the most likely to be represented by unions: 14.5 % of black workers age 18 to 64 are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, compared with 12.5 % of white workers and 10.1 % of Hispanic workers.
Union workers are increasingly better educated. More than half (54.5 %) of workers age 18 to 64 and covered by a union contract have an associate degree or more education.
Two out of five (42.4 %) have a bachelor's degree or more education.
I am proud to say, at my Thanksgiving table the collective bargainers I am personally most thankful for are my brothers and sisters at the UAW.
As I write this during this bargaining season, we have ratified contract agreements with General Dynamics and Ford Motor Company, and took to the streets to get new contracts with Mack Truck and General Motors — sometimes justice and better working conditions means a picket line. I was so proud of my union family who stood strong on that line and showed Mack Truck and GM, once again, the power of our solidarity. We saw a historic outpouring of public support as well for the sacrifices our brothers and sisters made on those picket lines in the cold, rain and heat. Our negotiated contracts protected wages, health care and retirement benefits and job security.
Our institution is steeped in the history of how America's middle class was fought for and forged with roots going back to the Great Depression.
So, this is the perfect season to be thankful for unions across the land, for my UAW, and for the right of Collective Bargaining. Ours is a land of plenty — Unions work for all to share in its bounty.
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President, UAW
Ray Curry was elected President of the UAW on June 28, 2021 by the International Executive Board upon the retirement of UAW President Rory L. Gamble. Curry officially assumed the office of president on July 1, 2021 and will serve out the remainder of the term until June 2022. Elected UAW Secretary-Treasurer at the 37th Constitutional Convention in June 2018, Curry was instrumental in implementation of broad financial ethics reforms and oversight as part of the UAW's Ethics Reforms Initiative.
Curry was elected Director of UAW Region 8 in June 2014 at the 36th UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit after having served four years as the region's assistant director.
As Region 8 director, Curry was instrumental in securing new labor agreements with various parts suppliers. In July 2015, under his leadership, the region successfully organized the first gaming bargaining unit of Region 8 as part of a coalition of four other unions to represent the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore, Maryland. In October 2017, the combined coalition reached its first individual collective bargaining agreements. UAW Local 17 represents the table dealers. Under Curry's leadership, the region also won an election for representation at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, in June 2018, bringing 1,250 new members into the union.
A North Carolina native and military veteran, Curry served three years on active duty in the U.S. Army and five years in the U.S. Army Reserve.
He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration / Finance. He holds a Master of Business Administration, MBA, degree from the University of Alabama.
Curry joined the UAW in July 1992, when he was hired as a truck assembler at Freightliner Trucks in Mount Holly, North Carolina, (now Daimler Trucks, NA) and later became a quality assurance inspector. He remained in that position until 2004. He served on the local's civil rights committee and as a delegate for the area A. Philip Randolph Chapter. From 1998 to 2004, UAW Local 5285 members elected him to serve in numerous leadership positions, including as UAW Constitutional Convention delegate, chairman of the trustees, financial secretary-treasurer and alternate committeeperson. He also served as chairman of the UAW North Carolina State Political Action Committee, executive board vice president of the North Carolina AFL-CIO and as a UAW member organizer on the 2003 and 2004 Freightliner organizing drives in Cleveland, Gastonia and High Point, North Carolina.
In October 2004, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger appointed him as an International representative assigned to Region 8. His assignment as a servicing representative included aerospace, automotive (Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors facilities), heavy truck, and numerous automotive supplier locations in Alabama and Tennessee. He was responsible for collective bargaining, arbitration, organizing, political action and other bargaining-unit assignments. In June 2010, he was appointed Region 8 assistant director by then–Region 8 Director Gary Casteel.
Curry was elected as a 2012 Democratic National Convention alternate delegate on behalf of the state of Tennessee and later became a full voting delegate at the convention.
He is the 2017 recipient of the A. Philip Randolph Leon Lynch Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017 recipient of the Tennessee State AFL-CIO Presidential Award, the 2018 PR Latta Rank and File Award from the North Carolina AFL-CIO, as well as the 2019 National Newspaper Press Association's National Leadership Award.
A longtime grassroots activist, Curry is a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Nashville, a Silver Life member of the NAACP, and member of the national NAACP Board of Directors. He is also an active member of numerous community and social organizations including but not limited to the Michigan State Democratic Party, American Legion Post 177 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Unique Masonic Lodge #85, Charlotte Consistory #35, and Rameses Temple #51 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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World Health Day 2016: WHO calls for global action on diabetes
WHO is marking its annual World Health Day (7 April), which celebrates the Organization's founding in 1948, by issuing a call for action on diabetes. In its first "Global report on diabetes", WHO highlights the need to step up prevention and treatment of the disease.
Health-promoting environments reduce risk factors
Measures needed include expanding health-promoting environments to reduce diabetes risk factors, like physical inactivity and unhealthy diets, and strengthening national capacities to help people with diabetes receive the treatment and care they need to manage their conditions.
"If we are to make any headway in halting the rise in diabetes, we need to rethink our daily lives: to eat healthily, be physically active, and avoid excessive weight gain," says Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General.
Read: Poverty makes diabetes care tougher
"Even in the poorest settings, governments must ensure that people are able to make these healthy choices and that health systems are able to diagnose and treat people with diabetes."
Diabetes is a chronic, progressive noncommunicable disease (NCD) characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose (blood sugar). It occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough of the insulin hormone, which regulates blood sugar, or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces.
Key findings from WHO's "Global report on diabetes"
Among the key findings from the "Global report on diabetes" are:
- The number of people living with diabetes and its prevalence are growing in all regions of the world. In 2014, 422 million adults (or 8.5% of the population) had diabetes, compared with 108 million (4.7%) in 1980.
- The epidemic of diabetes has major health and socioeconomic impacts, especially in developing countries.
- In 2014, more than 1 in 3 adults aged over 18 years were overweight and more than one in 10 were obese.
- The complications of diabetes can lead to heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and lower limb amputation. For example, rates of lower limb amputation are 10 to 20 times higher for people with diabetes.
- Diabetes caused 1.5 million deaths in 2012. Higher-than-optimal blood glucose caused an additional 2.2 million deaths by increasing the risks of cardiovascular and other diseases.
- Many of these deaths (43%) occur prematurely, before the age of 70 years, and are largely preventable through adoption of policies to create supportive environments for healthy lifestyles and better detection and treatment of diabetes.
- Good management includes use of a small set of generic medicines; interventions to promote healthy lifestyles; patient education to facilitate self-care; and regular screening for early detection and treatment of complications.
Read: Cost of diabetes doubles in 20 years
Global commitments to reduce diabetes
"Many cases of type 2 diabetes can be prevented, and measures exist to detect and manage the condition, improving the odds that people with diabetes live long and healthy lives," says Dr Oleg Chestnov, WHO's Assistant Director-General for NCDs and Mental Health.
"But change greatly depends on governments doing more, including by implementing global commitments to address diabetes and other NCDs."
These include meeting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4, which calls for reducing premature death from NCDs, including diabetes, by 30% by 2030.
Governments have also committed to achieving 4 time-bound national commitments set out in the 2014 UN General Assembly "Outcome Document on Noncommunicable Diseases", and attaining the 9 global targets laid out in the WHO "Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs", which include halting the rise in diabetes and obesity.
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"Around 100 years after the insulin hormone was discovered, the "Global report on diabetes" shows that essential diabetes medicines and technologies, including insulin, needed for treatment are generally available in only 1 in 3 of the world's poorest countries," says Dr Etienne Krug, Director of WHO's Department for the Management of NCDs, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention.
"Access to insulin is a matter of life or death for many people with diabetes. Improving access to insulin and NCD medicines in general should be a priority."
Global efforts are underway to make medicines, including for NCDs, more available and affordable. Commitments from world leaders, including the SDGs, the 2011 "UN Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases",
the 2014 UN General Assembly "Outcome Document on Noncommunicable Diseases", and the work of the UN Secretary-General's high-level panel on access to essential medicines are aimed at improving affordability and availability of essential drugs for people living with diabetes.
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Welcome to the Brookfield NH Planning Board Meeting from July 9, 2012. The agenda was as follows. Call to order, Roll Call, Mail, Public comments, Review of Minutes for June 11, 2012 and June 25, 2012. The Strafford Regional Planning Commission was scheduled to give a presentation of The Granite State Future Agreement, also known as the Sustainable Communities Initiative- the Board received a letter from the SRPC Canceling the presentation, CIP, Conditional Use Application- proposed addition to appendix B of the Rules of Procedure, Clarification of Different types of Applications, New Business, Member Comments, Adjournment.


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Blending biblical characters into a deeply personal history, What We Ask of Flesh tells of women through time, their spirits borne through broken flesh, through wombs and memories. The body becomes an instrument as words explore the mystical connection between what was and is. "A tour de force and a story where nothing—no regret or rationalization can stanch the reality of what can happen to us, made of flesh. This is a surging book …"—Grace Cavalieri, The Washington Independent Review of Books "What We Ask of Flesh, like the flesh itself, is full of honey and fire. It's impossible not to feel called by these poems, summoned by their rich sound and vatic voice."—Amy Gerstler
2014 Finalist – Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry
No Hurry by Michael Blumenthal
No Hurry is a book of poems for the aging in body but youthful in spirit, for those interested in continuing to ask most meaningful questions as they head "downhill": What does it mean to be alive? What shall we make of this journey from birth to death? How can we find meaning and joy amid our mortality and suffering? "The finest collection of poetry I've read in a very long time."—Ron Hansen "What a terrific book this is! . . . [Blumenthal] thinks out loud for all of us, affirms and denies with wit, charm, and best of all, with what feels like hard-won accuracy."—Stephen Dunn "Michael Blumenthal's poetry never sits heavy on the reader yet is substantial, civilized, and capable of articulating the human condition, including its pains and losses, without melodrama, high sentence, or self-pity. No Hurry is a gorgeous book: the world of flesh, mind, and heart spoken through air and silk."—George Szirtes "Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more?"—Lynn Freed
The Football Corporations explores romantic conceptions of contemporary sports, powering its way into a post-catastrophe setting of dirty bombs in stadiums, tortured athletes, corporate domination, and cynicism on a global level. "In 60-plus poems, Heyen tackles the violence in sports, robotic athletes and coaches, steroids, teams controlling every message and the scourge of corporate takeover. He wonders where the romance went, when cheering for Willie, Mickey and Duke as a kid growing up on Long Island seemed so pure. Grab a beer, a seat in the stands, and prepare to cry."—Roth, Sports columnist for the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester)
Fast Animal by Tim Seibles
The newest collection from one of America's foremost African-American poets threads the journey from youthful innocence to the whittled-hard awareness of adulthood. Along the way it immerses the reader in palpable moments —the importance of remembering, the complexity of race, and the meaning of true wakefulness "Crisply comic, disarmingly frank, and aurally bold …" —Publishers Weekly
2014 — Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize 2013 — PEN Oakland Literary Award Winner 2012 — National Book Award Finalist
Chromatic by H. L. Hix
Chromatic bears as its epigraph the philosopher Baruch Spinoza's assertion that "Desire is the very nature or essence of every single individual." The three sequences of poems in Chromatic test that claim. Each borrows its title: "Remarks on Color" from Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Eighteen Maniacs" from Duke Ellington, and "The Well-Tempered Clavier" from J. S. Bach. Exploiting those predecessors, the poems in Chromatic explore the full range of effects caused by human desire, from ecstasy to despair. "Among the new writers who interest me most at the moment. . . . Hix is cerebral, ingeniously inventive, and often scary. He is an experimental poet whose experiments usually succeed—a rare event in contemporary letters."—Dana Gioia, Turnrow
[icon color="#dbb95c" size="16" type="icon-star" unit="px" ]2006 Finalist — National Book Award in Poetry
First Fire, Then Birds by H. L. Hix
H. L. Hix's poetry collections have not been merely collections. Each fulfills a vision that creates a whole greater than the sum of its parts: each poem contributes to a sequence, each sequence talks to another. For readers already acquainted with Hix's ambitions, then, the subtitle "Obsessionals" (instead of "Selected Poems") will need no explanation: from collections that don't just collect, what sense would it make for a selection just to select? Hix's poems were already at work rewriting and recontextualizing the language of others, language from sources as various as fragments of Pythagoras, apocryphal gospels, and speeches of George W. Bush. In First Fire, Then Birds, Hix keeps at the task, recontextualizing his own poems, creating a revision (seeing anew) and recomposition (putting together afresh) of an already distinctive body of work. "[H. L. Hix is] one of our most daring poets, his oeuvre a rebuke to timidity, apathy, and retreat in any of its manifestations."—Anis Shivani, The Huffington Post
Named by The Huffington Post as one of "The 17 Most Important Poetry Books of 2010."
Confessions of Doc Williams and Other Poems by William Heyen
Joyce Carol Oates once called William Heyen a "remarkable poet," noting that he "writes with the wild, radiant audacity of the visionary." W.S. Merwin praised "the urgency and authenticity" and the "plain directness" of Heyen's voice. The same voice rings true again in this collection, Heyen's eighteenth volume of poetry.
Free Concert: New and Selected Poems by Milton Kessler
A poet of international acclaim, Milton Kessler published five books of poetry during his lifetime. Kessler received numerous awards and distinctions, including a Robert Frost Fellowship, an Edward MacDowell Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment Program Grant. Several years ago, one of his poems, "Thanks Forever," was chosen to appear in London subway cars to be seen by as many as two million riders a day as part of the "Poems on the Underground" project. Milton Kessler died in April 2000, leaving behind a manuscript of new work. Free Concert: New and Selected Poems celebrates the life and work of a gifted poet of original voice, collecting work from each of his books together with his new poems. "A lyricist capable of lovely and musical effects."—Elizabeth Bishop "Kessler's sharp phrases catch the motion, textures, and strange, beautiful voices of a physical world we live in but never fully know."—Camille Paglia
The Fugitive Self: New and Selected Poems by John Wheatcroft is a tribute to a distinguished career spanning fifty years in American letters. At once meditative, whimsical, and hard-hitting, it illuminates the spiritual cost of American expansion. ". . . With 'more shapes than water' and 'more selves than the Trinity,' these poems explore the music of love and the weight of grief, while always being mindful of 'history in the making—brutal, bloody, bootless.' Here is a lifetime of poetry, a treasure house of what art can aspire to. With consummate skill, Wheatcroft probes the world for what won't be sentimentalized, falsified, and is willing to embrace nothing, if that's the final truth—but 'nothing' has never been so alive, moving, passionate, and compelling."—Betsy Sholl
Incident Light by H. L. Hix
H. L. Hix's Incident Light explores a life that became "instantly mythical" after a startling revelation. The artist Petra Soesemann learned at age forty-nine that the dad who had raised her from birth was not her biological father. Her dad had died some years before; her father was still alive. Her dad, like her mother, was a blue-eyed German blond; her father was Turkish, with dark eyes and dark hair like Petra's own. Incident Light is a biography: not an ordered account of the facts of a life, but an invitation into the dad's devotion, the mother's passion, the father's honor, and especially into the daughter's own embracing of her experience, newly understood. Incident Light testifies to the many lives that converge on one life to lend it beauty and mystery. "Hix's eighth collection is a fine addition to this protean poet's fast-growing (and critically lauded) body of work. Like C.D. Wright, Hix works both with highly wrought descriptive passages and with verse that sounds like regular speech cutting swiftly between them."—Publishers Weekly, starred review "Any new book by this inventive poet is cause for excitement."—The Kansas City Star
Legible Heavens by H. L. Hix
"Hix has written the most important poetic sequences published by an American poet during the last several decades. He is the most interesting American poet writing today, the least predictable and the most challenging."—David Caplan, Pleiades Legible Heavens explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns, and vice versa. Its four sequences act like compass points to orient a human landscape. On one axis, "Star Chart for the Rainy Season" laments love lost, appealing to the biblical assertion that "love is stronger than death, and passion more cruel," in contrast to "Material Implication," which celebrates love found, in sonnets of desire insistently "glowing against the dusk." On the other axis, "All the One-Eyed Boys in Town" treats love as perdition, the speaker imagining his life as "a match scratched down your wingbones," in contrast to "Synopsis," which treats love as salvation, reinscribing the biblical gospels (canonical and apocryphal alike) to "solicit a miracle I must not expect."
Parallel Lives by Michael Lind
Michael Lind's poems rather stand apart from most of what's published these days, one reason being that his range of experience goes beyond the purely academic or literary into the realm of domestic and foreign policy. His reading, furthermore, puts him in a congenial relationship with Latin and Greek literature, witness his brilliant use of alcaic meters in the poem "Maragheh and Alamut." Everywhere in this singularly distilled book you will find instances of special astuteness with respect to content, form, and imagery."
Peal by Bruce Bond
In Bruce Bond's seventh book, we see a sustained exploration of mortality and its embodiment in the consolations of beauty, most notably in music. "The poems in Bruce Bond's collection Peal probe music's deepest sources. These beautifully crafted lyrics lead us down into intricate and sonorous paths where we meet out own uncertain songs, at once ghostly, elegiac, and ecstatic. This is a work of exquisite complexity by one of our best poets writing today."—Molly Bendall "The speculative drive of these poems pushes the reader to the very limits of reflection."—Daniel Tiffany
A Poetics of Hiroshima by William Heyen
In A Poetics of Hiroshima, William Heyen has broken through to face full square what has been working its way to surface through several of his highly-praised earlier books including Erika: Poems of the Holocaust and Shoah Train (Etruscan, 2003): the interfusions, in art and in our desire for art, of beauty and atrocity. Heyen's lines claw their ways into an aesthetics of formful but obscene sound that may now be our century's only viable, or possible, home. "A remarkable poet in whom the 'visionary' and the unblinkingly 'historical' are dramatically meshed. He writes with the wild, radiant audacity of the visionary; yet his eye and ear are sharp, unsparing."—Joyce Carol Oates "William Heyen's music and meditations continue to amaze. I've now read and absorbed all the poems of A Poetics of Hiroshima. I am not ready to write anything about them, except to express my awe."—Cynthia Ozick
Saint Joe's Passion by J.D. Schraffenberger
Saint Joe's Passion seeks to reconcile the lyric with the narrative. In the tradition of Catullus's love poems and Berryman's The Dream Songs, the poems of Saint Joe's Passion recount the lonely lecherous life of Joseph Johnstone–cancer patient, classical music DJ, former voice-talent. The poems swing back and forth from Joe's hospital bed to moments of his past: a past of religion, little league baseball, music, and marital friction. The collection paints the portrait of a man who was never quite able to open himself up to genuine love and intimacy. "J. D. Schraffenberger's first collection is an often dazzling projection of masks over and under other masks, voices parodying other voices, or interrupting them, or guiding them into unanticipated channels, as though these poems were randomly selected in a still-evolving script. It isn't easy to say exactly what it all adds up to, but the adventurous reader should find the journey never less than engaging."—Charles Martin


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HIV Prevention: From Innovation to Implementation
Recent trends make it clear to all of us that HIV prevention remains paramount.
Mark Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D., is President and CEO of IAVI.
This week, thousands of researchers, clinicians, advocates, and leaders of the global HIV/AIDS response are gathering in Amsterdam for AIDS 2018, the 22nd International AIDS Conference. Recent trends will make it clear to all of us that HIV prevention remains paramount.
The latest report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released last week, indicates that in 2017, there were an estimated 1.8 million new HIV infections, bringing the total number of HIV-infected people to 37 million. This stubbornly high infection rate continues, with approximately 2 million new infections occurring every year since 2005, despite tremendous progress in providing those already infected with life-saving antiretroviral treatment. The UNAIDS report also notes that individuals in marginalized populations continue to lag behind in having access to available prevention options, with nearly half of all new infections occurring in these groups.
And the situation is likely to worsen. A Lancet Commission of experts on HIV/AIDS writing recently in the journal concluded that "without further reductions in HIV incidence, a resurgence of the epidemic is inevitable, as the largest ever generation of young people age into adolescence and adulthood," (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31070-5).
Fortunately, vaccine research and development is entering a new phase that holds great promise. A new generation of HIV vaccine candidates is entering clinical trials and these candidates are fundamentally different from those developed and tested in the past. These candidates are the result of a decades-long effort to understand the biology of HIV transmission and the nature of the immune responses mounted against the virus. They were created using the most innovative and elegant vaccine science. The newest vaccine candidates are designed based on hypotheses about how best to elicit specific immune responses, particularly broadly neutralizing antibodies, which scientists widely agree would be the best means of conferring protection against HIV.
While these first-generation candidates are unlikely to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies by themselves, the goal is to use data from the initial clinical trials to determine if the approach being pursued is working as intended. And because they are designed to test a specific hypothesis, researchers will then be able to refine and improve these candidates much earlier in the development process.
Meanwhile, scientists are making great strides in developing and testing monoclonal antibodies against HIV that can be used directly to prevent infection, a strategy referred to as antibody-mediated prophylaxis. Dozens of antibodies are now in preclinical and clinical development to determine if they are effective at treating, preventing, or even curing HIV infection. While we work to develop an efficacious vaccine, these antibodies may provide an additional tool to help reduce infection rates; one that could be available much sooner.
We need new ways to stop the spread of HIV if we are going to end this epidemic, and we need to ensure that all HIV prevention tools are accessible to those most in need. While we must continue to make sure that as many people as possible are accessing treatment, treatment alone is not going to end this epidemic, as the Lancet Commission concluded (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31070-5).
Ending AIDS will require maximizing treatment availability and developing and providing broad and affordable access to new innovations to prevent HIV infection. The only way an epidemic has ever been eliminated or eradicated in human history is with a vaccine. We will need one to end AIDS.
Learn about IAVI's activities at the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam.


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Where to launch entrepreneurial crowdfunding projects and other top tips for successful Indiegogo campaigns
Kye White
The amount of funds raised by Australian Indiegogo campaigns has increased by 40% over the past year.
It's a sign of Australia, like the United States and the rest of the Western world, embracing crowdfunding, and the head of international for Indiegogo, Liz Wald, says that after a slow start Asia is set to follow suit.
"Like the broader e-commerce market, the US and the West were quick to adopt crowdfunding whether because of infrastructure issues such as access to the internet, limitations on social media, or the use of credit cards or for more cultural issues such as celebration of entrepreneurship or a comfort with asking others directly for support," she says.
"While Asia may have been slower to adopt crowdfunding at the beginning, there's little questioning in my mind that it will be a dominant region in the future. The 2013 World Bank report on crowdfunding in the developing world makes this point in spades!"
According to figures provided by Indiegogo comparing Australian cities, Perth is the most likely to contribute to entrepreneurial campaigns, Adelaide to creative campaigns and Melbourne to cause campaigns.
Wald has been involved in the startup world since 1996, when she began working as a consultant to AOL, and going on to work at Etsy and now Indiegogo.
She encourages anyone with a startup idea to give it a try.
"If you have a passion for something, pursue it," she says.
"There's never going to be a "right time" or easier time or whatever. There are so many tools and people available to you today to pursue your dream. Don't wait."
Those tools include crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, and Wald has some advice for entrepreneurs planning on going down that path.
"Most important to ensuring success is having a strategy for before, during and after a campaign – that's where Indiegogo really stands apart," she says.
"We have loads of best practices and expert tips available from the Indiegogo Playbook on the website and from our downloadable Indiegogo Field Guide,
"These resources are packed full of information and stats drawn from the more than 200,000 campaigns we've hosted on Indiegogo.
"For example, campaigns with a video raise an average of 114% more than campaigns without a video. Offering something to your contributors, what we call perks, can drive more than 140% more funds.
"We also know that 70% of successful campaigns have 5-8 perks and that $25 is the most popular price."
Women are 61% more likely than men to hit their funding goals on Indigogo and Wald says crowdfunding has had a very positive affect on women in technology.
"In addition to awesome campaigns like Black Girls Code that are directly having an impact on girls (and minorities) or Muse and JIBO, both very cool tech products with women CEOs, we see that 47% of campaigns that reach their funding goals on Indiegogo are run by women – that's nearly four times higher than the number of female-owned businesses that receive venture capital," she says.
Last week, Indiegogo became the latest tech company to publicly release diversity figures, which showed women made up 45% of the company's overall workforce and 33% of its tech workforce.
"I was brought up to believe that I could do anything I want to but not everyone has that same opportunity," Wald says.
Crowdfunding entered the public consciousness this year with the success of the Potato Salad Kickstarter, which Wald says was silly, but has helped raise awareness about the opportunities crowdfunding can provide.
"The crowd will ultimately decide what is an awesome new idea – like the amazing Skully helmet – and what isn't all that serious," she says.
"In the end though, this might just give someone the confidence to launch their own Indiegogo campaign for something that compared to potato salad doesn't look that far-fetched!"
Liz Wald will be speaking at A Conversation on Crowdfunding, presented by Indiegogo and General Assembly at the HUB in Sydney on Tuesday night.


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Zoeva Rose Gold Luxury Brush Set!
Hey, friends! So sorry that it's been a hot minute since I've posted- I've been so busy that I barely have time to sleep, let alone blog. Sad face. In happier news, I started a YouTube channel! You can subscribe here if you so desire. But anyhow, let's get down to business (to defeat the Huns) and discuss this offensively lovely brush set.
I was ever so lucky as to be gifted the Rose Gold Luxury Brush Set from Zoeva Cosmetics. I mean, when I got the email I squealed - hello, yes, please. Since receiving the pretty little things they've become an integral part of my makeup routine, so I figured I'd walk you all through each brush and what I use them for. Get ready for gushing and gorgeous brushes.
First up is the Silk Finish (102) Brush, which lives up to it's name entirely. I use this bad boy to apply my foundation whenever I cannot be bothered getting up to wet my beauty blender (often), and it leaves me with an ever-desired airbrush finish. Seriously, your skin will literally look like velvet after using this. I highly recommend this if you prefer brushes over sponges, you'll adore it.
Next is a brush that I didn't expect to have much use for, the Concealer Buffer (142) Brush. This domed little beauty sat in my brush holder for weeks before I was finally like "Hey, why don't I buff my concealer in with this thing", and I'm so glad I did. It's perfect for spot concealing in that it doesn't absorb any excess product, because, hi, I need that excess product to cover up my giant zit, thanks. It buffs and conceals like a mighty shy bodybuilder and I'm in love.
In a similar manner, the Face Shape (110) Brush is great for concealing slightly bigger areas, like under your eyes or that giant patch of hormonal break out on your chin.
If there was a competition for the softest brush in the history of brushes ever, the Luxe Sheer Cheek (127) Brush would win. Have you ever rubbed a kitten against your face? This is what that feels like, but better. I use this for bronzer on the daily; I'll never go back to brushes that don't caress my cheek like angel kisses. Too far? Maybe.
The Powder (106) Brush is my least favourite in the set, but given that I still use it regularly, you can tell how bomb the rest of the brushes are. The reason for this ruling is simply that I have much better powder brushes, including ones that are much cheaper (*cough, Furless Cosmetics, *cough). This will 100 percent do the job, but I wouldn't rush out to buy it separately.
Zoeva created the greatest fluffy brush of all time in the Luxe Soft Definer (227) brush. I use this every damn day to apply my transition shade, as well as to blend the seams of my whole eye look. I cant say too much more about this, you just need to try it. The kit is worth it for this baby alone.
In a crazy turn of events, the Wing Liner (317) brush is incredibly useful for applying gel liner - would have thought, right? The bristles are tightly packed and firm so you can achieve the cleanest lines possible, plus the size is neither too big or too small. I love this thing.
Last but certainly not least is the Luxe Petit Crease (231) Brush - otherwise known as the brush that changed my blending life. Melodramatics aside, this brush is brilliant. It's small enough - hence the petit - to fit right in your crease, and soft enough to do all the blending work for you. I use this brush daily, even when it's completely dirty from the day(s) before, and can't live without it.
I hope this little tour was entertaining, and inspired you to whip out your tools to paint your pretty faces. For the record, although these brushes are gorgeous and I am eternally grateful to the Zoeva team, you do not need anything this luxurious to create a stunning look. I am a huge advocate of budget beauty and don't ever want to send a 'high-end-only' message!


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Network connectivity opens up a wealth of possibilities for medical devices, but it also exposes a minefield of potential liabilities. Devices transmit data on the user's condition to healthcare professionals, but can you be sure the information doesn't fall into unauthorized hands? Even more vitally, if a device can send data out, malware or hackers could possibly get in. How can you guarantee an attacker won't be able to affect its functionality?
Do you know the difference between "black hat" and "white hat" hackers? Do you understand how a hacker views a target, what motivates them and what makes a device a target? How can common malware — not necessarily intended specifically for devices — find its way into devices and connected systems?
Explore what you, as a medical device manufacturer, should be doing with your quality assurance strategies to protect your devices. Plus, take a deeper dive into how other industries are dealing with this issue through responsible disclosure policies. What does "responsible disclosure" mean to your relationship with regulators?
Take a look at bug bounty programs and how they might work for a medical device development organization. Would you be willing to have security researchers poke and prod within your products and code to identify weak spots? How would the FDA view these types of quality assurance measures?
Consider what security requirements hospitals use when they procure devices. How do they ensure their own systems stay up and running? Finally, consider how your company should view the information it receives. Should this be an extension of your formal complaint system?
Learn both sides of the facts, from two of the field's top experts – one in systems engineering and design, the other in hacking and reverse engineering – before you risk having your company's devices compromised.
Ms. Masters heads Battelle's DeviceSecure™ Services and has more than 12 years of experience in product development as a project manager, systems engineer and design engineer. She serves as the project manager and lead systems engineer on medical device development programs, as well as sustaining engineering programs. Her responsibilities include project management, task management, leading risk assessments, writing and testing system and subsystem requirements, testing of clinical and prototype devices and conducting clinical trials. Ms. Masters is a voting member of the AAMI working group on cybersecurity for medical devices and has published on a variety of cybersecurity topics in AAMI Horizons, Mass Device, ExecutiveGov.com and Fierce Medical Devices. In addition, Ms. Masters holds a Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC) and has a working knowledge of domestic and international regulatory requirements for medical devices.
Ms. Preston is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) in Battelle's Cyber Innovations team, where she focuses on firmware reverse engineering (x86, x86_64, MIPS, 8051), as well as application development (C/C++). She also serves as the team's intellectual property steward, and chairs the Battelle Vulnerability Disclosure Council. Ms. Preston is a registered engineer in training (EIT) in the state of Ohio, holds a (GSEC) Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Security Essentials certification, and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification. Ms. Preston has been published on multiple medical device cybersecurity topics in MedDevice Online. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Ohio State University College of Computer Engineering.


With degrees of MBBS and MD (Internal medicine), Dr. Ravindra Gupta is a Consultant at the Department of Internal Medicine. Awarded the Fellowship of the College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), he has profound knowledge and extensive experience in Preventive Medicine, especially Lifestyle Disorders like Hypertension, Heart Disease, & Diabetes. Prior to joining the Columbia Asia Hospital he was associated with other prestigious organizations, including the Umkal Hospital, Apollo Clinic, Artemis Health Institute, and the Max Hospital. Dr. Ravindra Gupta was awarded the Best Physician Consultant in Gurgaon in 2013, at the Global Healthcare Excellence Awards held in New Delhi. With a good clinical acumen, he has a wide experience in managing not only routine but also critical medical illnesses. He practices evidence-based medicine as recommended across the world. His knowledge and accomplishments in this field have been phenomenal.


Invader Zim is one of the most creative, off-beat animated shows I've ever seen! This week, I chat with two of the people who made it that way, Aaron Alexovich and Eric Trueheart, who are helping keep the new Oni Press comic based on the program as enjoyable as the series itself!
During episode 193, we have a fun chat about their involvement with the cartoon as well as the comic, discussing the characters, how their creative processes work and what the future might hold for them and the show itself. Don't miss this entertaining interview!
Comic News Insider: Episode 387 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Jimmy is joined in studio by fellow podcaster Charlie LaGreca (Indie Spinner Rack). They chat about Order of the Stick's Kickstarter, Katie Beaton answering your questions about the comics industry, and Charlie's adventures running the new Denver Comic Con. News includes: Jason's I Killed Hitler optioned for film, Jhonen Vasquez and Becky Cloonan on Fringe digital comic, Young Justice: Legacy and The Walking Dead video games coming, Angry Birds in space, andCommunity's Inspector Spacetime coming to the web! As always, listener feedback, the Top 3 and more! Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!


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Threads in libgit2
==================

You may safely use any libgit2 object from any thread, though there
may be issues depending on the cryptographic libraries libgit2 or its
dependencies link to (more on this later). For libgit2 itself,
provided you take the following into consideration you won't run into
issues:

Sharing objects
---------------

Use an object from a single thread at a time. Most data structures do
not guard against concurrent access themselves. This is because they
are rarely used in isolation and it makes more sense to synchronize
access via a larger lock or similar mechanism.

There are some objects which are read-only/immutable and are thus safe
to share across threads, such as references and configuration
snapshots.

Error messages
--------------

The error message is thread-local. The `giterr_last()` call must
happen on the same thread as the error in order to get the
message. Often this will be the case regardless, but if you use
something like the [GCD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch)
on Mac OS X (where code is executed on an arbitrary thread), the code
must make sure to retrieve the error code on the thread where the error
happened.

Threads and cryptographic libraries
=======================================

On Windows
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When built as a native Windows DLL, libgit2 uses WinCNG and WinHTTP,
both of which are thread-safe. You do not need to do anything special.

When using libssh2 which itself uses WinCNG, there are no special
steps necessary. If you are using a MinGW or similar environment where
libssh2 uses OpenSSL or libgcrypt, then the general case affects
you.

On Mac OS X
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By default we use libcurl to perform the encryption. The
system-provided libcurl uses SecureTransport, so no special steps are
necessary. If you link against another libcurl (e.g. from homebrew)
refer to the general case.

If the option to use libcurl was deactivated, the library makes use of
CommonCrypto and SecureTransport for cryptographic support. These are
thread-safe and you do not need to do anything special.

Note that libssh2 may still use OpenSSL itself. In that case, the
general case still affects you if you use ssh.

General Case
------------

By default we use libcurl, which has its own ![recommendations for
thread safety](http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-tutorial.html#Multi-threading).

If libcurl was not found or was disabled, libgit2 uses OpenSSL to be
able to use HTTPS as a transport. This library is made to be
thread-implementation agnostic, and the users of the library must set
which locking function it should use. This means that libgit2 cannot
know what to set as the user of libgit2 may use OpenSSL independently
and the locking settings must survive libgit2 shutting down.

libgit2 does provide a last-resort convenience function
`git_openssl_set_locking()` (available in `sys/openssl.h`) to use the
platform-native mutex mechanisms to perform the locking, which you may
rely on if you do not want to use OpenSSL outside of libgit2, or you
know that libgit2 will outlive the rest of the operations. It is not
safe to use OpenSSL multi-threaded after libgit2's shutdown function
has been called.

If your programming language offers a package/bindings for OpenSSL,
you should very strongly prefer to use that in order to set up
locking, as they provide a level of coördination which is impossible
when using this function.

See the
[OpenSSL documentation](https://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/threads.html)
on threading for more details.

Be also aware that libgit2 does not always link against OpenSSL
if there are alternatives provided by the system.

libssh2 may be linked against OpenSSL or libgcrypt. If it uses
OpenSSL, you only need to set up threading for OpenSSL once and the
above paragraphs are enough. If it uses libgcrypt, then you need to
set up its locking before using it multi-threaded. libgit2 has no
direct connection to libgcrypt and thus has not convenience functions for
it (but libgcrypt has macros). Read libgcrypt's
[threading documentation for more information](http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Multi_002dThreading.html)

It is your responsibility as an application author or packager to know
what your dependencies are linked against and to take the appropriate
steps to ensure the cryptographic libraries are thread-safe. We agree
that this situation is far from ideal but at this time it is something
the application authors need to deal with.


All Garmin navigation systems have been compatible with POIbase since its first version (including most outdoor sat-navs).
Thus far, speed cameras had only been announced with the Garmin-typical ding-dong. Now an alternative voice voice warning can be activated in the POIbase settings, which will annouce each speed camera individually, e.g. "Warning: Traffic light speed camera" (see image below).
So far, all POI categories on Garmins were listed under user POIs. Now there is the option of using the structure of POI categories and main categories from POIbase. Example: "Car & Traffic -> Aral Petrol Stations" (see image below).
The POIbase update will be offered as an optional update when starting POIbase and will be installed automatically if desired.


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MPI/IOM Panel Discussion and Asia-Pacific Launch of Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
A discussion with Dr. Noppawan Tanpipat, Vice President, National Science and Technology Development Agency; Frank Laczko, Head, Migration Research Division, IOM; Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, Regional Research Officer, IOM, and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute (MPI); and Kathleen Newland, Director of Migrants, Migration, and Development, Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
This discussion highlights the best practices and experiences of different countries in engaging and maximizing the contributions that diasporas can and do make to the development of their country of origin, and more broadly the experience of policymakers in both sending and receiving countries and the related challenges and opportunities they face.
Update on the 2012 Global Forum on Migration and Development
This discussion includes a status of preparation of the 2012 GFMD summit, including a discussion on the possible ideas and projects presently being contemplated that would fully integrate migration into the development framework, with a special focus on Africa.
The Role of National Governments in Promoting Immigrant Integration
A discussion with Rosario Farmhouse, Alejandro Mayorkas, Jasenko Selimovic, Peter Sylvester, and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
MPI Europe - IOM Brussels Event - Engaging Diasporas in Europe for Development
The launch of the Diaspora handbook and a joint panel discussion that explored the opportunities and challenges that governments face when developing strategies to engage diaspora populations.
How UNHCR Is Facing a World of New Protection Challenges
This discussion on the current global challenges of protecting refugees with Volker Türk, who directs UNHCR's Division of International Protection, and Kathleen Newland, Director of the Refugee Protection Program was organized around three main themes: protection gaps, burden-sharing, and reducing statelessness.
Labour Migration from Colombo Process Countries
The launch in Bangkok of an issue brief series on labor migration in Asia undertaken by MPI and IOM with speakers H.E. Phadermchai Sasomsub, H.E. Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, H.E. Linglingay Lacanlale, Andrew Bruce, and Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias.
Federal Update: A Conversation on Language Access with the U.S. Department of Justice
This MPI webinar features U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials discussing the department's efforts to improve communications with Limited English Proficient (LEP) communities in federal and federally-funded programs and activities.


It's like sunshine and moonlight in are gloriously happy gift! Soft yellow roses, white hydrangea and other favorites showcased in a dazzling Silver Reflections vase. She'll love it - and so will her envious friends.
The sunny bouquet includes white hydrangea, light yellow roses, yellow alstroemeria and white stock accented with fresh greenery.


Taewa are traditional potato varieties grown by early Māori settlers in New Zealand. Find out how researchers are now developing unique food products from taewa.
Taewa were introduced to New Zealand in the late 18th century and became a staple Māori food crop before the arrival of European settlers. Māori grew taewa commercially until the late 19th century. Although commercial taewa production ceased, Māori have continued to grow them.
Taewa have significant cultural and historical value in New Zealand. Traditional varieties of taewa have been preserved by Māori and passed down through generations so they're still available today in their original form. Māori treasure them as a link to their early ancestors. Find out more in this article, The cultural value of taewa.
Why can't you buy them in supermarkets?
Taewa have self-selected over generations, making them hardy and disease resistant. However, they produce fewer tubers than modern potatoes, so they've never been grown in the large amounts needed to supply supermarkets, whereas modern potatoes have been bred specifically for their high yield.
Dr Nick Roskruge, an agronomist at Massey University, has started a taewa seed bank, so eventually it will be possible to grow enough taewa to sell.
Find out more in this article, Growing taewa: Research and development.
Dr Jaspreet Singh and other researchers at the Riddet Institute in Palmerston North are studying the physical and chemical properties of taewa. Their research shows that taewa have significant nutritional value compared to the modern potato.
Find out more in this article, The benefits of taewa.
Learn about some other research into taewa in Taewa and psyllid resistence.
The food industry in New Zealand are looking for unique New Zealand foods and value-added products for local and overseas markets. Taewa – as an indigenous food with unique characteristics and nutritional benefits – makes a good starting point. Researchers are developing new ideas for food products that use taewa to sell to local and overseas markets. Can you think of any new food products that could be made out of taewa?
Find out more in this article, Developing novel foods from taewa.
There are two unit plans to support the taewa resources. Develop a novel taewa product guides students to investigate opportunities for new products using taewa and to develop a prototype taewa product for a specific market. Design a label for a taewa product helps students develop knowledge of prototype taewa products and design a label that reflects the cultural value and specified market for the product. It makes use of the activity What's on a label?
Visit the Tāhuri Whenua – National Māori Vegetable Growers' Collective website ro read about their team, crops and projects.
The Vegetables.co.nz website has taewa information for retailers and consumers.
The High-Value Nutrition National Science Challenge harnesses New Zealand's world-class scientific expertise to create knowledge that will deliver a competitive advantage to New Zealand's food and beverage exports.


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The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. Using a United States Geological Survey estimate for how the fault responsible for the earthquake slipped, research scientist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., applied a complex model to perform a preliminary theoretical calculation of how the Japan earthquake-the fifth largest since 1900-affected Earth's rotation. His calculations indicate that by changing the distribution of Earth's mass, the Japanese earthquake should have caused Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second). There are about 86,400 seconds (86 billion microseconds) in a day, so the impact of the earthquake is quite small. The calculations also show the Japan quake should have shifted the position of Earth's figure axis (the axis about which Earth's mass is balanced) by about 6.5 inches, towards 133 degrees east longitude. The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis in space, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph. The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced.
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In comparison, following last year's magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile, Gross estimated the Chile quake should have shortened the length of day by about 1.26 microseconds and shifted Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches. A similar calculation performed after the 2004 magnitude 9.1 Sumatran earthquake revealed it should have shortened the length of day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted Earth's figure axis by about 7 centimeters, or 2.76 inches. How an individual earthquake affects Earth's rotation depends on its size (magnitude), location and the details of how the fault slipped.
There are many other factors that affect the length of the day. For example tidal friction (caused by the Moon)slowly increases the length of the day over millenia.
Earth's rotation period relative to the Sun (true noon to true noon) is its true solar day or apparent solar day. It depends on the Earth's orbital motion and is thus affected by changes in the eccentricity and inclination of Earth's orbit. Both vary over thousands of years so the annual variation of the true solar day also varies. Generally, it is longer than the mean solar day during two periods of the year and shorter during another two periods.
Gross said that, in theory, anything that redistributes Earth's mass will change Earth's rotation.
"Earth's rotation changes all the time as a result of not only earthquakes, but also the much larger effects of changes in atmospheric winds and oceanic currents," he said. "Over the course of a year, the length of the day increases and decreases by about a millisecond, or about 550 times larger than the change caused by the Japanese earthquake. The position of Earth's figure axis also changes all the time, by about 3.3 feet over the course of a year, or about six times more than the change that should have been caused by the Japan quake."
In some ways the Japan earthquake is part of the more general phenomena known as continental drift which is typically measured in centimeters per year. However, the drift rate varies and the earthquake in Japan is part of the same tectonic process that moves the continents. Some scientists have determined that the temblor's force may have moved parts of eastern Japan as much as 12 feet closer to North America and that Japan may have shifted downward about two feet.
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Structural studies of Vibrio cholerae virulence gene regulators.
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Structural studies of Vibrio cholerae virulence gene regulators
Rukman S. De Silva
Call No. QR201.C5 D48 2007
Author De Silva, Rukman S.
Title Structural studies of Vibrio cholerae virulence gene regulators.
Abstract Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The disease is acquired by oral ingestion of contaminated water or food. In order for Vibrio cholerae to cause the disease cholera, it must produce two important virulence factors: the toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) and cholera toxin (CT). The expression of these virulence factors is controlled by a transcriptional cascade that is initiated at the tcpPH promoter by the regulatory proteins AphA, AphB, and quorum sensing regulator HapR. Therefore, the aim of this research was to investigate how these molecular switches are regulated to control virulence gene expression. The AphA native crystal structure has been reported to 2.2 Å resolution. It reveals that the AphA is a dimer with a unique C-terminal antiparallel coiled-coil dimerization domain that serves as its primary dimerization interface, and an N-terminal winged helix DNA-binding domain that is architecturally similar to that of the MarR family of transcriptional regulators. To further characterize the interactions between AphA and the tcpPH promoter, we have obtained 3.3 Å resolution data for AphA-DNA cocrystals. The thermodynamics of the AphA interaction with its target DNA data revealed that the binding of AphA to DNA is endothermic. We have determined the crystal structure of the quorum sensing regulator protein HapR to 2.2 Å resolution. The overall structure of HapR is strongly conserved with members of the TetR family of transcriptional regulators. The N-terminal DNA-binding domain is composed of a three-helix bundle that contains a helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif formed by helices α2 and α3. The C-terminal dimerization domain contains a hydrophobic cavity, which by analogy with other TetR regulators, may serve as a binding pocket for an as yet unidentified ligand. This raises the possibility that in addition to its regulation by quorum sensing, the DNA-binding activity of HapR may be influenced by a small molecule ligand. Finally, we have obtained 2.2 Å data for native AphB crystals. The data reveal the presence of three monomers in the asymmetric unit. In addition, a second crystal form of AphB was determined to 4 Å in which six monomers were predicted to be in the asymmetric unit. We have used molecular replacement methods in an attempt to obtain a solution structure using the known X-ray crystal structures of LysR family members as the search model.
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 175 leaves) : illustrations (some color)
Advisor Kull, Jon F.
Subject Vibrio cholerae -- Molecular genetics. ; Virulence (Microbiology) -- Molecular aspects. ; Genetic regulation. ; Viral proteins.
Degree Thesis (Ph.D)--Dartmouth College.
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1349/ddlp.3050
Title desilva2007 1
Full Text Structural studies of Vibrio cholerae virulence gene regulators A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry by Rukman S. De Silva DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Hanover, New Hampshire March 30, 2007
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When Egypt's first democratically elected president was tossed out earlier this year, the White House stopped short of calling it a coup. Doing so would have forced an end to the $1.3 billion that the U.S. sends in military aid every year — and changed the course of its relationship with its strongest Arab ally in the region.
But that was before Wednesday, when the military-led interim government stormed two camps full of former President Mohamed Morsy's supporters. More than 525 people were killed and 3,717 wounded in the bloodiest day in Egypt's recent history, officials there said.
Will the carnage in Egypt change the U.S. policy toward the most populous Arab country? The short answer: We'll have to wait and see.
To understand why, one needs to appreciate the importance of Egypt in U.S. foreign policy. The United States helps Egypt because it's one of only two Arab countries — along with Jordan — that made peace with Israel. In return, Egypt gets a billion dollars each year of U.S. taxpayer money for military and civilian programs. No other country except Israel gets more. That aid buys Washington an ally to depend on in a turbulent region.
It's not just the peace process and regional stability that the United States is interested in. Egypt controls the Suez Canal, a crucial sea route used by more than 4% of the world's oil traffic and 8% of all seaborne trade. So far, the canal is running smoothly. But a disruption there could end up hitting Americans in the pocketbook, not to mention impact the safe passage of U.S. military ships and equipment.