Today I am coming back to you with one of my most favourite, comforting winter recipes. And I don't say "favourite" for the sake of making this recipe sound more appealing to you but I truly mean it when I say that it is one of my most favourite foods in the world! It is winter stew perfection with a combination of flavours so delicious, so satisfying that you will want to make it again and again!
2) you should use good quality Hungarian smoked sweet paprika for this recipe. The Hungarian paprika is what makes goulash goulash!
3) Caraway seeds are another essential ingredient in goulash making, they enrich the flavour of the meat while lending a distinct freshness to it.
4) German-style sauerkraut is also a very important part of this dish. Try to find one that is sold in a pack or a jar. The real German-style sauerkraut contains only cabbage, salt and sometimes caraway seeds.
5) Serve the goulash with some sliced red onions on top. It really adds to the real goulash experience!
So, let's get to the cooking!
1) First – the meat. I use about 800 grams of turkey thigh meat. You need to give the meat a rinse under cold water and pat dry with a kitchen towel. Next, you need to remove the meat from the bone, remove the skin and cut the meat into 2-cm/1-inch chunks. Set aside.
2) Take 3 medium onions, peel the skin off and cut them into half rings.
3) Take a large pot, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil and put the pot on medium heat. Add the onions and cook for about 15 minutes, stirring frequently, until the onions start to caramelise. Personally, I think that the magic of good goulash is in the caramelised onions, so don't skip this step.
4) Add the meat to the pot and give it a mix. Add 2 tablespoons of caraway seeds (yes, that is tablespoons!) and 2 bay leaves and fry for 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently.
5) Add 1 tablespoon of smoked paprika and stir. Cook for 1 minute but not longer, other the paprika will burn and taste bitter. After 1 minute of frying, add 2 tablespoons of tomato paste (not canned tomatoes and not fresh tomatoes, the recipe is best when you use tomato paste) and 1 cup of water.
6) Add 1 teaspoon of salt and a sprinkle of black pepper. Cover and turn the heat to low. Cook for 50 minutes, until the meat is tender when pierced with a fork.
7) If the sauerkraut is really sour, you can place it in a colander and give it a wash with cold water. Squeeze as much water out of the sauerkraut as possible. Some people prefer to give the sauerkraut a chop but I really like the longer pieces of cabbage in my goulash so I skip this step.
8) Grate 2 large cloves of garlic. When the meat is tender add the sauerkraut and the grated garlic to the stew and stir. Continue cooking on low heat, lid removed, for 5 more minutes, then turn the heat off.
9) If you want to add the sour cream, I would recommend adding it at this point, as adding it during cooking may cause the sour cream to curdle. Alternatively, you can just serve the goulash with a dollop of sour cream on top.
10) Taste and adjust the seasoning to your liking. Serve with dumplings or sourdough bread (if you have no dietary limitations) or with baked potatoes for a Paleo, Whole 30 approved meal! And do not forget the sliced onions on top!
1) Heat a large pot on medium heat. Add the olive oil and the sliced onions. Cook the onions for 15 minutes, stirring frequently, until caramelised.
2) Add the turkey meat, the bay leaves and the caraway seeds. Stir and cook for 2 minutes.
3) Add the smoked paprika and cook for a further 1 minute, stirring. Do not cook for longer as the paprika might burn!
4) Add the water and 2 tablespoons of tomato paste. Stir.
5) Add 1 teaspoon of salt and a sprinkle of black pepper.
6) Cover, turn the heat to low and cook for 50 minutes, until the meat is tender.
7) Remove the sauerkraut from the pack and squeeze as much liquid from it as possible.
8) Grate 2 large cloves of garlic.
9) When the meat is cooked through and soft, add the sauerkraut and the grated garlic, remove the lid and cook, uncovered, for 5 more minutes.
10) Serve with some sliced red onions on top with a side of baked potatoes.
Happy Christmas Holidays dear friends!
This is going to be my last post before the Christmas break as I decided to take a little time off from social media to enjoy the holiday time at home with my family!
Today I am bringing you a slightly tweaked version of my Cottage Cheese Bake (here's the original version) – I used desiccated coconut instead of coconut flour, added berries and baked it in muffin forms! These turned out just as great as the original version with the exception that they are even more portable in muffin form and the berries add a lovely sourness/sweetness! This recipe is sugar-free, gluten-free and Keto Diet compliant as they are very low carbohydrate. They make the perfect healthy breakfast or snack option! And with the addition of berries, they really taste like dessert!
Delicious breakfast muffins made with cottage cheese, eggs, coconut and berries that make a perfect low carb breakfast or snack!
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius/392 degrees Fahrenheit.
Grease the muffin forms with some oil or butter (I use olive oil).
Transfer about 3 heaped teaspoons of the mixture to each muffin form.
Bake at 200 degrees for about 35 minutes or until the muffins have a slightly golden crust.
Let the muffins cool for about 10 minutes before taking them out of the muffin forms.
- I used silicone muffin trays for baking the muffins but you can use regular tin muffin sheets or individual muffin forms. If using the regular tin forms I would advise to grease them well before placing the mixture in them or lining them with baking paper beforehand.
- The muffins will deflate after you take them out of the oven, that is normal (they have the structure of souffle more than of traditional muffins made with flour).
November is coming to an end and we are fast approaching December (how did the last month fly by so fast?!) The weather has been getting a lot frostier by the day and I find myself eating far fewer salads and craving foods that are more substantial and comforting. I find it sensible to eat with the seasons and, during the colder months, I switch to a diet of warming foods to keep my digestion in top-notch condition and my body happy and healthy.
With this in mind, I would like to introduce to you my really effortless One-Pan Chicken which is sauteed in a lusciously creamy, dairy-free garlicky mushroom sauce. The chicken is first cooked with onions, garlic and mushrooms in a little olive oil and then I add my secret ingredient to get that creamy sauce and that is…coconut cream! The coconut cream adds a really lovely, silky smoothness to the sauce sans the dairy, which makes it a perfect dish for people who cannot tolerate it or are allergic to it. Adding oregano creates that perfect flavour combination with the mushrooms and the garlic, which is so reminiscent of creamy sauces that are so typical for the French cuisine (although other herbs such as dill or thyme would be lovely too). The final addition of full-fat mustard adds a slight punch and a little more creaminess to the sauce. For those of you who don't really like the taste of coconut, I promise you, you cannot feel its taste in this dish. But I do promise you this: that you will love it and will want to make it again and again! This dish makes such a simple yet elegant meal and I am confident that it would completely please and satisfy your guests or that special someone you've been wanting to invite for a home-cooked meal.
I serve this dish over a bed of rice or baked herbed potatoes. If you want to go the extra mile, I suggest you make some gluten-free gnocchi to stir through the sauce for a mind-blowing food experience!
The coconut cream gives this sauce a smooth and creamy texture which goes perfectly with the flavour of garlic and mushrooms.
Remove the skin from the chicken leg quarters and give them a rinse. Remove any visible fat with a sharp knife and cut the chicken leg quarters into drumsticks and thighs. Set aside.
Slice the onion into thin slices. Slice the mushrooms and the garlic.
Put a medium sized pan to medium heat. Add the olive oil and the onions and fry on medium heat for about 5 minutes, until the onion starts turning a little golden. Add the mushrooms and the garlic and fry for a further 5 minutes. The mushrooms will release a little liquid, that is fine.
Add in the chicken. Fry for 5 minutes, then turn the meat to the other side to make it get a little colour. Finally, add in the coconut milk, the mustard, the oregano, the salt and the pepper. Cover with a lid and simmer on medium heat for 15 minutes. Move the chicken pieces around the pan to cover them in the sauce and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
Serve with a simple salad, over rice, herbed baked potatoes or stir some cooked gluten-free gnocchi into the sauce.
Hi friends! Today I am coming back to you with a Russian classic – Cottage Cheese Bake (Творожная Запеканка – [Tvorozhnaya Zapekanka]), which is an absolute childhood favourite for many people. It is a typical breakfast food and is enjoyed with a dollop of smetana (sour cream) and a spoon of something sweet, like jam or honey. It is made up of 4 basic ingredients – cottage cheese, eggs, coconut flour and baking powder! All the rest is optional but I love adding vanilla extract and lemon zest, which give an unbeatably enticing aroma to the bake. When the Zapekanka is ready, I make a simple syrup made out of lemon juice and a bit of honey to pour on top – the syrup gets absorbed into all the nooks and crannies and the end result is a slightly moist and slightly sweet delicious lemony cottage cheese goodness!
You can use just about any type of cottage cheese for this – I personally get the very creamy (almost cream cheese-like consistency) cottage cheese from the local supermarket in Austria (it's called Speisetopfen in Austrian German and Quark in German German). If using a drier cottage cheese, mix in a couple of tablespoons of sour cream into the mix. Make sure to get a full-fat cottage cheese (I used 20% fat) because a low-fat Zapekanka is just… not so tasty! The full-fat version tastes so much better and is so much healthier for you that you really needn't be scared of the fat! I should also note that the original recipe uses semolina flour but I found (through years of testing with different gluten-free flours) that the coconut flour works perfectly well to replace it and the swap doesn't affect the end result in the slightest – the Zapekanka is just as fluffy and delectable as the regular version!
A few notes on the nutritional profile of this Zapekanka: the combination of full-fat cottage cheese, eggs and coconut flour make this a superb low-carb, high-protein, high-fat food, which is excellent to have for breakfast or a snack throughout the day (particularly post-workout). The fact that it is high in fat means that it will keep you satiated for a longer period of time without your blood sugar levels plummeting. There is absolutely no sugar in this dish, which makes it suitable for low-carb, high-fat dieters. If you want a little sweetness, you can add a tablespoon of honey or maple syrup to the mix prior to baking, or leave it out and use fresh/cooked berries on top when serving.
A delicious Russian classic - healthy high-protein, high-fat and low-carb breakfast food.
Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celcius/392 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a large bowl, combine the cottage cheese, the eggs, the vanilla extract and the lemon zest. Mix well. Add in the baking powder and the coconut flour. Give it a good mix and set aside for 5 minutes.
Line your cake tin (or small baking tray) with parchment paper. I used a 24 cm/9 inch diameter cake tin. Grease the baking paper liberally with olive oil.
Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake at 200 degrees Celsius/394 degrees Fahrenheit for approximately 40-45 minutes or until the bake is starting to brown.
Combine the lemon juice and honey in a small pot. Stir and cook for about 5 minutes on medium heat.
When the Zapiekanka is ready, pour the hot syrup on top and leave to rest for at least 30 minutes before slicing.
Delectable easy Paleo meal ready in under 30 minutes.
Add 2 table spoons of olive oil to a frying pan and add the sliced onion. Add a small pinch of salt (this will make the onions caramelise faster). Fry on a medium heat for about 5-7 minutes, until the onion is dark and caramelised.
Add the garlic to the onions. Fry for 1 more minute.
Add the liver, the oregano and the tomatoes. Add salt and pepper and cover with a lid.
Cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Remove the lid and cook on high heat for 5 more minutes until the extra liquid evaporates and the dish has a sauce like consistency.
This coconut milk fish curry is really flavoursome and so simple to prepare with just a handful of ingredients, which makes it a perfect weekday meal. I recommend doubling the recipe to use for packed lunch the next day because I promise you will love the simplicity and the taste of this dish.
Simply wash and slice the pumpkin into preferred size pieces. I use a Hokkaido pumpkin but you can use any other pumpkin too. Drizzle with a tablespoon of olive oil, sprinkle salt and pepper and put in an oven at 200 degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes. You can test the readiness of the pumpkin by piercing it with a fork - if it goes in easily, the pumpkin is ready.
First, if using frozen fish fillets, put them on a plate and let them thaw. I put the fillets under running (room temperature) water and they thaw in about 5 minutes. Then, you need to pat the fish fillets dry with a kitchen paper towel. This step is important, because the fish fillets won't fry well if there's too much water on them.
Put a frying pan on medium heat and add in the oil or ghee. Add the curry powder/ paste and the crushed garlic and let it fry for about 30 seconds, just so the flavours can release. Put the fish on the curry paste/powder and oil mixture, skin side down. Fry for 3-5 minutes, and then flip the fillet to the other side. Add in your coconut milk and salt and pepper. Add in the spinach, if using fresh spinach cook for a further 3-4 minutes, if using frozen spinach cook a bit longer, 5-8 minutes, until the spinach is unfrozen and the sauce is thickened.
I serve this curry with baked pumpkin because I love the colour variation of this dish and plus it's a great grain-free option. But if you do eat grains, then by all means you can serve this with rice, quinoa, bulgur or couscous, I am confident it will be delicious either way.
Bone broth has been a staple food for many cultures all over the world for many centuries. It is extremely nourishing, gut-healing, simple to prepare and very soothing on a cold day. What is most important to me is the fact, that by using left-over bones, you use (almost) all parts of the animal, which, in my opinion, is a sign of respect to the animal whose flesh you eat and a way to cherish the gifts Mother Nature gives us.
Bone broth is extremely healing to the body, especially if you suffer from gut-related diseases like celiac disease or gluten intolerance. There's no better remedy after getting "glutened" than to leave out all food for a day or two and sip a mug of warm bone broth instead.
There are a lot of different recipes for making bone broth on the internet which all use different aromatics to flavour the broth. The most common aromatics used are celery, onion, carrot and garden herbs which will give you a wonderful European cuisine flavour broth. Today, I want to show you how to make an Asian style flavoured bone broth. The inspiration for the choice of aromatics came from making pho, I just love the flavour and the aroma of this broth so much. Pho broth uses five basic aromatics (charred onion, garlic, ginger, cinnamon and star anise), but today I will show you that even using the first three of the aromatics can give your broth a deep and wonderful flavour. This broth is also wonderful to make congee – an Asian style rice porridge.
I used turkey bones and meat for this recipe, but feel free to swap it for chicken, fish, beef or any other organic bones you can get. The soup pack I purchased contained a turkey neck, turkey wing and turkey meat. I find that using the neck gives the broth a gelatinous consistency, which you wouldn't get with using wings or legs alone. If you have turkey backs then add that in too, it will also give great flavour to the broth.
As you can see from the pictures, I used an onion, which I cut in half, a piece of organic ginger, which I put with the skin on (if you can't get organic then just peel the skin off) and two cloves of garlic.
- Peel and cut the onion in half.
- Cut up the ginger sideways. If using organic ginger, leave the skin on, otherwise peel the ginger beforehand.
- Peel the garlic cloves and cut them sideways as well.
- Take a large pot and put in the vegetables and the ginger. Give the turkey pieces a rinse with cold water and add them to the pot.
- Add the water, the salt, the vinegar or the lemon juice, cover and bring to the boil on high heat. Reduce to low and simmer for about 6 hours.
- The liquid will keep evaporating, so depending on if you want a stronger broth leave it as it is, if you want a weaker one, add a bit of water during the cooking process.
- After about 5 to 6 hours of simmering, your bone broth should be ready. Turn off the heat and let the broth cool to room temperature.
- After the bone broth has cooled a little, strain the bone broth through a colander. Pour the liquid into mason jars and leave to cool. When already at room temperature, put covered jars of bone broth into the fridge. The bone broth will keep for about a week in the fridge and almost indefinitely in the freezer.
- I used lemon juice in this recipe, but feel free to replace it with apple cider vinegar. The acid helps extract the minerals from the bones.
- I add only a small amount of salt during the cooking process. When the broth is ready, you can add more salt to your taste or even add some fish sauce or tamari sauce (gluten-free version of soy sauce).
- I don't skim my bone broth because I don't care if the broth is not clear but if you want clear golden broth, then skim off the foam from the top of the liquid during the boiling process.
- Serve the plain bone broth with a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, chopped spring onions, freshly minced ginger and fresh herbs, such as coriander.


The CHI 2012 notification emails are out.
We are happy to announce that the following 8 papers came from authors from the Exertion Games Lab.
Mueller, F., Vetere, F., Gibbs, M.R., Edge, D., Agamanolis, S., Sheridan, J.G., Heer, J. 2012. Balancing Exertion Experiences. CHI 2012. Long paper. 10 pages.
Graether, E., Mueller, F. 2012. Joggobot: A Flying Companion as Flying Companion. CHI 2012. Interactivity. 4 pages.
Wilde, D. 2012. hipdisk: Understanding the Value of Ungainly, Embodied, Performative, Fun. CHI 2012. alt.chi. 10 pages.
Wilde, D. 2012. hipdisk: Experiencing the Value of Ungainly, Embodied, Performative, Fun. CHI 2012. Interactivity. 4 pages.
Wilde, D., Cassinelli, A., Zerroug, Alexis. 2012. Light Arrays. CHI 2012. Interactivity. 4 pages.


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Here is the way that the Stettin Lichtspiele Theater promoted the film in 1933:
Blutendes Deutschland
BLUTENDES DEUTSCHLAND (Director: Johannes Haußler, 1932, Terra-Film, running time: 36 Minutes / 978 meters.) The film depicted Germany from the establishment of the Reich by Bismarck in 1871, through to WWI, the Red uprisings, Ruhr occupation by French troops, Germans in the throes of the inflation–ridden Weimar Republic, and the rise of the NSDAP. It is considered an important film of "Zeitgeschichte" made prior to Hitler becoming Chancellor. A second longer version of the film was quickly released on 30 March 1933 running 68 Minutes / 1855 meters to incorporate footage of Hitler's assumption of power on 30 January '33 and the celebrations across Berlin by the Nazi Party and its members –– and was the very first feature–length film of the Third Reich. The famous iconic scene of the Sturmabteilung men and others marching through the Brandenburg Gate with torches is depicted on this poster.The film is today lost and only an 17 minute fragment exists in the Bundesarchiv. The poster was designed by graphic artist Erich Meerwald, who designed few motion picture posters, and is most famous for his postage stamp designs for the Reichspost and post–1945 for the Bundespost.
When the film was imported into the United States via the Port of New York City, in 1935, it was subject, as per all foreign films, to American censorship. The importer had to translate the sound track/narration/dialogue into English, side by side with the German original text, and submit that translated film script along with the German print for censorship review. Here we present two pages from the American censorship office in NYC to the German importer, demanding changes and deletions to the film print shown in Nazi Germany in early 1933.
After the film was censored according to the US demands, the altered film print was then approved for public screenings across America.
There were 17 cinemas scattered across America which imported German films and screened them to German populations and to non-German speaking audiences as well. ( It was common practice in the larger cities such as New York to import film prints without subtitles, as well as the film's prints with English subtitles; to cater to both audiences simultaneously.) As America did not enter WWII officially until after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Blutendes Deutschland was shown in these US cinemas in 1940.
In Manhattan, there was the 96th Street Theatre in Yorkville, the Garden Theatre on 81st Street; the 79th Street Theatre at 79th St. and 2nd Ave; the 78th Street Theatre at 78th Street and 1st Ave (also known as the "Tobis Theatre.") Other cities with such cinemas were in Newark, N.J. (the Hindenberg Theatre), in Buffalo, NY; in Milwaukee, two cinemas in Chicago, and then those in Los Angeles and in San Francisco.
The 96th Street Theater handbill, written in German for German–Americans, explains the plot of the film thusly:
"This fact-filled film was produced by National Socialists in 1933 shortly after the seizure of power. And when seen by today's eyes, it is as interesting and contemporary as it was then. The newspapers daily are full of war reporting and full of unfriendly commentaries. One cannot really understand much, one cannot know the deep causes....(but) here you see VERSAILLES ! Germany senselessly dismembered, disenfranchised, patronized, sucked dry, the Ruhr occupied by the French, 46 political parties - hopelessness - despair. The struggling youth marches to Germany's future. Adolf Hitler speaks. Dr. Goebbels speaks.
Both of these speeches are perhaps the most interesting, given by the men of the New Germany. They were held long before the seizure of power. And they are just as fresh as then, yes, even more interesting, because in the meanwhile we have seen how serious and honest their words were really meant.
The last great public mass gathering before the seizure of power. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor.
BLUTENDES DEUTSCHLAND is an historical document in the true sense of the word, which no German should miss. "
Shown here for background information, from the Gillespie Collection, are: a very rare B&W original still from this lost film, showing the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm alighting a horse–drawn carriage in WWI, an exceedingly rare original 96th Street Theater cinema handbill advertisement for the film in 1941 in Manhattan, the Illustrierter Film–Kurier program for the film, and a German newspaper page heralding the new film and its storyline.
[SCROLL to the bottom of this page to see the 96th Street Theatre handbill!]
The film's festive premiere at the UT-Kurfürstendamm in Berlin (Deulig Tonwoche newsreel, 1933)
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Dr. Perin: Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is a devastating and debilitating disease characterized by reduced blood flow to the legs, frequently as a consequence of atherosclerosis. Patients with CLI have a poor prognosis and live with chronic pain and disability. The disease manifests clinically as pain during rest and compromised wound healing, often resulting in ulcers that don't heal, which can lead to amputation. Moreover, Critical limb ischemia is a deadly disease, with an annual mortality rate of about 20%. The only effective treatment option is revascularization, but not all CLI patients are good candidates for this approach, and even for those who are, procedures can fail. These patients face a dismal prospect as no other effective treatment options are available. Clearly, new therapeutic strategies are desperately needed for this group of patients.
One of the most exciting new approaches for Critical limb ischemia patients who have no options is the concept of therapeutic angiogenesis—improving regional blood flow by facilitating the growth of blood vessels. This can be accomplished by delivering angiogenic factors to the area in need of improved blood supply. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a promising novel biologic for use in this way because it's a powerful angiogenic agent that stimulates cell proliferation and migration. Delivering HGF into the ischemic limbs of patients with CLI may result in beneficial effects that help restore compromised blood flow to the area and encourage better healing of wounds. VM202 is a plasmid DNA that simultaneously expresses two isoforms of HGF, mimicking the way the body produces HGF. On the basis of favorable results from phase 1 clinical trials showing that gene therapy with VM202 was safe, well-tolerated, and potentially beneficial in patients with ischemic diseases, we conducted a phase 2, dose-escalation clinical trial in patients with Critical limb ischemia.


Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK (SMB) aren't really fond of the idea of UK leaving the European Union. According to new research by Swiss data bank Artmotion, less than a quarter of SMB owners and managers believe Brexit will have a positive impact on data privacy, and almost half (44 per cent) believe it will have a negative impact.
Another third (34 per cent) were unsure.
That's despite the fact that the UK government announced a £2 billion investment in cyber-security.
"While views seem to be polarised, both sides of the in-out coin offer data privacy risks for the UK. The latest EU data protection legislation offers US agencies a 'back door' into data, while the UK government offers few guarantees on data privacy. But there are other options for UK companies," said Mateo Meier, CEO of Artmotion.
The UK is polarised over the upcoming referendum, less than six weeks away, about the country leaving the European Union.
On one hand, there are many companies, including UK's unicorns, that believe nothing good would come out of the UK leaving EU, while others claim the country would become more competitive in the global stage if there were no EU regulations to follow.


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Immigrants using sex-selective abortion?
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Apr 17, 2012 • April 17, 2012 • 2 minute read
A new study of Ontario births shows women born in India are more likely to have a boy as their third child, lending credibility to the theory that sex-selection abortion is common among immigrant communities.
The Canadian Medical Association study found that the third-child births of Indian-born women were at a ratio of 136 boys to 100 girls, compared to 105 boys to 100 girls for Canadian-born women, which is close to the worldwide average.
The theory is that in cultures in which boys are preferred, parents who already have girls will abort subsequent female babies until they can conceive a son.
While the study's authors don't explicitly say sex-selective abortion is the reason for the uneven gender rations, it's heavily implied and no alternative theory is offered.
"Our findings raise the possibility that couples originating from India may be more likely than Canadian-born couples to use prenatal sex determination and terminate a second or subsequent pregnancy if the fetus is female," the study states.
The authors point to previous research that shows a sharp increase in the male-to-female ratio among second children in India when the first is a girl, but no similar spike for girls when the first born is a boy.
The study comes on the heels of a controversial Canadian Medical Association Journal editorial calling on doctors to hide a fetus' sex from parents for the first 30 weeks of pregnancy, after which abortion becomes very difficult to access in Canada.
"Canada has a unique opportunity to address this problem. It's a major form of discrimination against women. If Canada cannot do something to address this problem, what hope do India and China have?" Dr. Rajendra Kale, who penned the editorial, told QMI Agency at the time.
The suggestion sparked a vocal backlash from abortion rights activists and gynaecologists.
"People have the right to knowledge and they should be treated like responsible adults, and can decide for themselves what to do with information like that," Joyce Arthur, executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada said at the time.
"We're pro-choice not because we love abortion, but because women have the right to decide what's best for their own lives for their own reasons, and we don't have to agree with those reasons."
She acknowledged that "nobody likes sex-selective abortion," but said that's not a good enough reason to ban it, instead suggesting education and outreach.
"The root problem is how society views women and girls, and that's what we need to work on," she said.
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada also rejected the idea, saying that disclosing the sex of a fetus falls under "the Canadian standard of care."
- With files from Sheena Goodyear and Sherry Noik
Immigrants using sex-selective abortion? Back to video


The worry these days on the eight-member Supreme Court is finding five votes on a controversial issue. But so far the justices have been unanimous in staying out of the political upheaval that has engulfed their court.
And they received a stern warning last week from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) to keep it that way.
It seems beyond question that Judge Merrick Garland is respected by the justices and a friend to many; the next step for the bright young lawyers who clerk for him at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is often a coveted move down the street to a spot in someone's chambers at the marble palace at 1 First St. NE.
And there is little debate that, as Justice Elena Kagan noted last week, there's a reason that courts work better with an odd number of judges. Stalemates and tie votes already have become an issue in the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia's death in February.
But so far, at least, no justice has been willing to publicly comment on Garland's qualifications for moving from the second most important court in the land to the first, nor to render an opinion about the Republican Senate's refusal to consider President Obama's nominee in this election year.
Before Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke and answered questions at St. John's College in Santa Fe, N.M., last week, for instance, audience members were told not to ask about either Garland or the nomination process.
Kagan also refused to talk about her old friend at an appearance at New York University Law School. As dean of Harvard Law School, their shared alma mater, Kagan had lauded Garland and ribbed him about making it to the bench before she did.
She had the last laugh, of course, but has demonstrated her regard for Garland by hiring eight of his former clerks since she joined the Supreme Court in 2010.
It is the justices' natural inclination to try to stay out of the political fray, of course. But it is not unheard of for them to venture an opinion about a nominee. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for instance, came to Sotomayor's defense before she was confirmed in 2009.
But University of Chicago law professor David A. Strauss, who interviewed Obama last week as Obama made the case for Garland, said the silence from the justices is not surprising.
"I think their inclination would be to avoid doing anything that takes sides in this political fight," Strauss said.
That made the unusual preemptive warning from Grassley even more surprising.
He was reacting to remarks that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. made before Scalia's death about the nomination process.
Roberts lamented the public's growing perception of the court as a political body, and the chief justice said the blame started with the Senate confirmation process.
"When you have a sharply political, divisive hearing process, it increases the danger that whoever comes out of it will be viewed in those terms," Roberts said in a speech to law students just before Scalia's death.
"If the Democrats and Republicans have been fighting so furiously about whether you're going to be confirmed, it's natural for some member of the public to think, well, you must be identified in a particular way as a result of that process," he said.
Roberts noted that the last three nominees — Alito, Sotomayor and Kagan, all of whom he called highly qualified — were confirmed on largely party-line votes.
"That suggests to me that the process is being used for something other than ensuring the qualifications of the nominees," said the 61-year-old chief justice.
Roberts has been silent since Scalia's death and Garland's nomination, and in his speech on the Senate floor last week, Grassley warned the chief justice should keep quiet on the subject.
Grassley, 82, and running for what would be his seventh term in the Senate, noted a New York Times column in which a law professor said it would be an important move for Roberts, nominated by President George W. Bush, to call for the Republican Senate to make the court whole.
"That's a political temptation the chief justice should resist," Grassley said.
Grassley didn't mention which of Roberts's votes "reflected political considerations, not legal ones," but apparently he is among the conservatives who feel let down by the chief justice's votes on the Affordable Care Act.
Obama was partly to blame, too, Grassley said. "Not surprisingly, [the court's] approval rating has dropped most drastically in recent years following the president's appointment of Justices Sotomayor and Kagan," he said.
The confirmation of Sotomayor and Kagan to replace Republican appointees David Souter and John Paul Stevens, respectively, have not changed the balance of power on the court that would accompany Garland's ascension to Scalia's seat.
It would make a court where Democratic presidents have installed five liberals, while Republican presidents have named the four who are most conservative.
But the next president is likely to make a mark on the court as well, and Obama warned Republicans to think of the future if they recapture the White House.
Obama, of course, is an imperfect messenger. As a senator, he voted against Roberts, who he said was qualified for the court but lacked empathy for the little guy. And he was part of an effort to deny a vote on Alito.
He says now that he regrets that decision.


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WATCH: Conte wants more Chelsea signings to cope with Champions League
Reigning Premier League champions have signed four players so far and Italian manager is looking to improve squad further.
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, right, would like a few more strategic acquisitions. Frank Augstein / AP Photo
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says the club need more signings to cope with the added demands of playing in the Uefa Champions League and warned his players they will have to work even harder than they did during last season's title-winning campaign.
Chelsea, who were not in Europe but won the domestic title by seven points in Conte's first season in charge, have signed four players so far, including striker Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid.
Goalkeeper Willy Caballero joined on a free transfer from Manchester City, with defensive midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko and centre-back Antonio Rudiger the other additions.
"I think these are good signings for us," Conte told Sky Sports on Wednesday. "We solved a lot in this summer, and for this reason it's very important to try to improve our squad because we have one more competition.
"We have to play Champions League. It's not easy. It's very important to try to find the right solution, to try to improve the squad, to improve the quality before [we] start the season."
Read more: Premier League 2017/18 predictions
Chelsea have sold midfielder Nemanja Matic to Manchester United and Diego Costa is also poised to leave. Conte was reported to have irked the club's hierarchy when he informed the striker via a text message that he was not in his plans.
British media reported that the text was not appreciated because it weakened Chelsea's bargaining position after it was made public, but Conte denied there being tension between himself and Roman Abramovich, the club's owner.
Also from Richard Jolly:
Conte must be careful of following in Mourinho's steps
Team-by-team guide and top half predictions
Man City now shaped in Guardiola's image
"I think I have for sure a good relationship with the club, with my owner," he said. "I like to work, I like to work very hard and my owner appreciates a lot this characteristic."
Chelsea begin their title defence at home against Burnley on Saturday and Conte expects tougher campaign than the one before.
Chelsea duo play a game of 'who tweeted what... '
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"It won't be easy to repeat an amazing season like last year," he said. "Because to finish with 93 points, to finish with 30 wins, it won't be easy. But for sure we want to try to fight, to fight until the end, to try to retain the title.
"We have to know that only through the work we can improve a lot and that we must work harder than last season ... For sure it won't be easy to win, but we want to try to fight to win something this season."


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This is a heavy day, especially for our transgender siblings. I am a cisgender woman, but many, many of my family and closest circle are trans/gnc/nb, and this day always provides me with a sobering reminder of just how targeted so many of my beloveds are just for expressing their humanity in its fullness. Every November 20, I take time to make space for the feelings of fear and loss and anger that emerge for me on this day, and I make a point of reaching out to my beloveds to make sure they're doing okay. I hope you do the same.
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Attend a #TDOR service or vigil near you. If you are in the Twin Cities, the annual service here is held tonight, 11/20, at Living Table UCC, at 7pm. If you are unable to go in person, take a moment with your family or alone tonight to pray for and speak aloud the names of the nearly 400 people killed across the globe this year due to transphobic violence, including the 23 people murdered here in the United States.
Make a commitment to solidarity with trans UUs. TRUUsT is our national UU organization for trans, non-binary, genderqueer and gender-expansive Religious Professionals. They have issued a call for ALL Unitarian Universalists to make personal and congregational commitments to supporting the trans UU community, and they have generously developed this resource with five critical ways we can act in solidarity with trans UUs today. In particular, TRUUsT is urging every UU to take a few minutes to fill out this survey with concrete ways we may be able to support our trans siblings in faith. Please read this list, and commit to taking action today.
Take the time to listen to the voices, experiences, and celebrations of the trans community–also and especially the ones that highlight resilience and strength. If we only pay attention to trans issues on #TDOR, we will miss the incredible beauty and power of the trans community every single day of the year. Spend some time celebrating trans joy–the art, prayers, and reflections highlighted at Transgender Day of Resilience are a wonderful place to start.
Donate to Minnesota organizations working to support the thriving and wellbeing of trans children, adolescents, and adults. We particularly recommend giving to the Minnesota Trans Health Coalition, and the Transforming Families Minnesota.
May we all work together to create a world in which we never again have to memorialize another trans person lost to violence. And on our way there, may we hold one another in deep love and tenderness, and fierce protection and solidarity.


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「Dropped」An Overlord Fanfiction
17 「Shadows」
Author :ZGearCecil
"Can't I take my time with just one of them?" Clementine brought the blade towards her face, licking it while keeping a wide smile across her lips. Those smiling eyes were like those of the devil's.
Khajiit brought his staff forward just as Peter charged forward with his weapon at the ready.
Clementine parried his blade to the side with her own, and with a step forward, elbowed him in the chest; causing him to stumble back. "Hah!" With the widest grin, she went to drive her weapon into his chest, but just as he was about to do so a shadow demon burst out from the ground and received the blow.
"What!?" She'd snarl as Khajiit opened his mouth slightly seeing the Shadow Demon protecting a human being. He was admittedly quite confused.
However as she tore through the shadow demon, she went to attack Lukrut as Peter backed off to assist Dyne on his assault on the man behind them.
"We have to get Nphirea out of here!"
"You're right. We can't let them turn the City into a mass of the undead!"
Lukrut tried to parry Clementine's jab, causing the blade to rip through his leather vest, and just graze his skin. Wincing as he took a few hops back, he kept his dagger at the ready.
Khajiit frowned as the swordsman and the Druid closed in on him. "「Acid Javelin」!" He'd cast a bolt of acid towards them. The Druid deflected it away from his face with his mace, not being able to get out of the way due to the lack of room. The acid splashed in all directions, burning his arms and legs.
Peter lowered himself and lunged forward with the intent of running the necromancer through.
However just as he attempted to do so, "Gah!" He felt the heavy butt of the wooden staff buried into his chest and he was thrown backward with the breath knocked out of him.
"Rah!" Dyne brought his mace up from a lower angle in an attempt to hit the bald man with the blunt force of his weapon.
Lukrut who was almost back to back with Dyne now trying to avoid being stabbed, was kicked directly into the back of the druid.
This caused his attack to fumble and Khajiit wasn't dull enough to not take this opportunity seriously.
"「Acid Javelin」" A bolt of acid left the evil sorcerer's hand, splashing onto the Druid's face. Causing him to scream in agony as he was being burnt by the acid. He fell to the ground, trying to hold his face as he started to convulse.
Peter called out for his friend, "Dyne!" As he got back to his feet, he ran for the enemy, tripping over Lukrut who was sit on the ground after being knocked into their spell caster friend.
"Mister Dyne..." Nphirea could hardly handle what was going on. They were trapped, this was a massacre.
Cashing into the nearby table, Peter turned to look at the woman running directly at him. Just what level was she? His eyes rested on those copper and low ranked badges from adventurers which acted as decorations for her armor.
Anger boiled up inside of him.
He didn't want to die here, and he knew if he died here, plenty of others would die as well.
Would Momon come here and save the day?
Would Cipher, Jack, make a sudden appearance and save the day?
Lifting his weapon up from the surface of the table, he swung it hard with one hand intending to tear her head from her shoulders. However with ease the hero-level villain smacked the weapon with her Stiletto, causing his arm to cross his chest. With wide eyes he could do nothing before she rammed her weapon in through his chest, pinning his arm to his torso.
Letting out a gasp of pain, blood began to trickle down from his mouth. She had missed his heart, but she had gotten one of his lungs.
His vision began to blur, he couldn't hold back a cough. His free hand he felt for his sheathed dagger.
He couldn't close his mouth, he couldn't concentrate. The pain shot through ever pore in his body. His eyes, his thoughts, they were slowly losing their cohesion. No, that wasn't it... He looked down at the weapon and it was still in his chest, but she was no longer holding it any longer.
"Draw your sword," an extremely large smile was across her face. "And kill your friend," she'd gesture towards Lukrut who was pressingh is back against the wall.
Dyne was on the ground, he wasn't moving.
Peter, his eyes were glowing a reddish pink. He was smiling, happy, it looked as if he was feeling really good despite blood soaking his shirt. He brandished the short sword, the very symbol of their friendship and camaraderie.
"Peter!" Lukrut shouted as he pushed himself up the wall with his own dagger at the ready. His eyes moved to the two villains in the room, and then to the slowly encroaching friend of his. He swallowed hard. "Peter, get a hold of yourself! We're supposed to meet up with Ninya later!"
Wadding side to side as he was coming closer and closer to him with complete disregard for what his words even meant. Peter held the weapon above his head, ready to dig it into his friend's body.
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"Peter..." Lukrut rushed forward, which caught his friend who was being mind controlled off guard.
However just as he was about to put his friend down out of his misery, Clementine came back into the picture. The blond would yank the blade out of his friend's chest and arm, before plunging it into his gut.
It started as searing pain, before he was in complete ecstasy within seconds. However, that wasn't the end of it as she began to take the weapon out and shove it right back into him. She did it over and over again.
Peter had collapsed on the ground, choking on his own blood. Gurgling as his eyes watched in horror as his friend was being murdered so unfairly.
Turning his head slowly, Peter watched as Dyne's corpse was beginning to rise from the ground in front of a kneeling Khajiit. Trying to roll onto his side and reach out to his friend, he stared up at the leathered face of his friend. The multiple colored skin tone from the acid burns, and the zombification spell used to create the undead.
As the light all around him was beginning to fade, all he could hear was the maniacal laughter of the madwoman and the sloshing of warm flesh being penetrated by a sharp knife.
Just as he was about to lose everything, with his eyes on his friend and the door, a singular tail-like appendage tore through the door. It skewered the evil spell caster, having caught him off guard, and decapitated Dyne in the process.
"Mister... Momon..." Was the only thing he was able to say, and everything was gone, he was dead.
Lukrut had already been dead quite a while now, his body twitching and convulsing everytime the woman stabbed it. However when the Wise King had taken down the door, Momon came storming into the building.
"Mister Momon!" Nphirea who had been cowering from watching his friends die, now took the chance to run for the door, ducking out and taking shelter behind Nabe and the Wise King of the Forest.
Clementine turned her weapon towards the Dark Hero, but as she was doing so, his long cleaver like weapon tore downward through her right shoulder and down to her left hip.
Blood splattered in all directions as the newly bisected corpse crumbled to the floor like a broken toy.
His eyes rested on the men which lay about on the ground. They were clearly dead, their bodies were getting cold. For Dyne, there was no true return for him. He stared at the zombified corpse, to his comrades he was going to use in order to make a greater name for himself.
There were only two left and they weren't even here.
Anger that had once filled Peter was now boiling over inside of Momonga. He had lost a very valuable set of tools and information. These people, he could bring them back, but was it worth it?
Lowering his weapons, he turned to leave the Pharmacist's residence, moving slowly with his eyes on the ground. As he stepped outside, his eyes glided on over to Nphirea as he shealthed his weapons on his back.
"The threat has been eliminated..."
Just as he was about to walk back over to the giant hamster, Nphirea's grandmother arrived.
"Nphirea!" She shouted the moment she saw the blood and the broken door. She rushed over to her grandson before looking into the house. It appeared the door had been destroyed and there were bodies inside. Just who died and why?
Checking over her grandson for any damages.
"I'm.. I'm not hurt, Grandma."
In a way this was a relief, at the same time it was a curse.
She looked over towards the body of Khajiit that was laid out on the ground with a gaping hole through his front and back. Her eyes moved to the bloodied tail of the giant hamster. As she went over to the door to peer inside, she covered her mouth and took a few steps back.
A woman bisected in two, still holding onto her blood covered stiletto blade.
The three adventurers were dead, one of them was even zombified and missing its head.
She closed her eyes and went back over to her grandson, holding onto him as they both stood together.
Momon let out a quiet sigh. The only reason why he had even known to come back was because of the Shadow Demon activating something after it perished to the Hero level woman he had killed right then and there.
It was like it beaconed for him to come, to save the adventurers. "But who could have..." He looked off in the direction of the North. He was sure Jack had sent the Shadow Demon to protect the party. However it seems they were still under prepared.
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-2 Archlich Physiology
-1 Jack "Cipher" Graham
1 「The Beginning」
2 「Swords of Darkness」
3 「Guardians Assembled」
4 「Learning Migraine」
5 「Carne Village」
6 「To be or not to be」
8 「Appraisal」
9 「Braggart」
10 「Momon & Nabe」
11 「Interests」
12 「Journey」
13 「The Road to Carne」
15 「Dubious Cabbage」
16 「Oh My Darlin'」
18 「Zurrernorn's Atonement」
19 「Just Another Memory」
20 「The Scripture of the Dead」
21 「Divine Chant」
22 「Precedence」
23 「Days of Passage」
24 「Theocratic Power」
25 「Peeper」
26 「Archetype」
27 「WakeUpCall」
28 「Out of the Box」
29 「Benefactiary」
30 「Word to the Wise」
31 「Late Night Visit」
32 「Mornin' Neighbor」
33 「PriceOfAPrince」
34 「Sorcerer Kings」
35 「TheHuntBegins」
36 「Climb Above It」
37 「Savior」
38 「Envy and Animosity」
39 「Popcorn」
40 「Six Dead Arms」
41 「Elimination Round」
42 「Valkyrie's Downfall」
43 「BloodFallen」
45 「VillageLife I」
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Q: How to troubleshoot badly rendered PDF file I have a small PDF file, which is supposed to display just the string "Hello World!".
Unfortunately, it displays black boxes instead of the characters. I suppose there is some problem with the fonts, but I am not sure.
Is there a way to diagnose and troubleshoot this issue? All I see on the Internet is advices to do this and to do that, which helps to some and does not to others (nothing helped me). Looks like shooting in the dark to me.
Here is a concrete example. Why does this PDF display black squares instead of the string Hello World ?
EDIT
A bit of the context. I am trying to convert a trivial HTML to PDF using the wkhtmltopdf tool. It is an absolute frustration, because according to the Internet searches the tool is supposed to work and do it quite well. But the thing does not work for me and nothing I do changes this! Unfortunately, this tool seems the only free tool to convert HTML to PDF. This is a huge bummer.

A: If you want to find out whether a PDF is valid or what is wrong with it, there are a few general steps you can take:
1) Open it in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader (on a desktop platform, not a tablet device). For a very long time the PDF format was owned by Acrobat and the way their software handles PDF is still close to the gold standard. However, there is a caveat with this; Acrobat is very, very smart in the way it handles PDF files and it will overlook or actively correct a number of mistakes other PDF engines might have a problem with...
2) Get yourself a preflight tool. These tools were invented for use in graphic arts, but have applications outside of it too. Popular examples are callas pdfToolbox (warning, I'm affiliated with this vendor!) or the "Preflight" plug-in you'll find in Adobe Acrobat Pro (which is actually also callas technology under the hood). Then preflight specifically against the PDF/A-1b or PDF/A-2b standard.
That last point deserves some more explanation. You should pick a PDF/A compliant preflight profile because the PDF/A (or PDF for Archival) standard is extremely picky. It's goal is to make sure that PDF files will still be readable in exactly the same way 50 years from now and to ensure that it tests a whole range of properties of the file itself and the different components in it. You might be able to ignore some of the errors you get (because some of them will be connected to the fact that the PDF/A identification isn't correct for example) but I wouldn't ignore any other errors unless you understand exactly what they mean and why they aren't relevant.
PS: Can you make your test file available some other way? The file you shared in your question is useless I think. When I do "Download" I get a PDF file that doesn't contain text and doesn't have fonts in it. Those rectangles you see are exactly that - rectangles. So this PDF renders fine - it's the PDF generation process (or the fact that you stored the file on Google docs - I really have no clue what that might do) that went berserk apparently.

A: In addition to David's hints (first using a known good viewer and then some preflight tool), there is a third level in the inspection process:
3) Inspect the PDF with your own eyes and with the PDF specification (made available by Adobe here) at hand in a text viewer (for a first impression) and (if the cause of the issue at hand is not immediately visible) then in a PDF browsing tool (for in-depth analysis).
This step is quite cumbersome at first but after some time you learn your way around in the PDFs.
A sample for such a PDF browser tool is RUPS but there are others around, too.

A:
'Small PDF file supposed to display "Hello World!"'

Not correct. The file you linked to does not contain any code that could render pixels on screen or on paper that a human brain would read as "Hello World!". The file indeed does only contain vector drawing operations which result in 12 black boxes.
The command line tool pdffonts does not indicate any font being used in the file:
pdffonts so-file-#15858199.pdf

What could still cause the "rendering" of the words you are looking for: some vector or pixel drawing code contained in the PDF. To find out about this, you'll have to look into the low level source code of the PDF.
The original file is 1.570 Bytes. So this task looks not as being overly huge.

'Is there a way to diagnose and troubleshoot this issue?'

Using qpdf, a "command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files", you can expand all contained streams (which are normally compressed):
qpdf --qdf --object-streams=disable so-file-#15858199.pdf qdf-#15858199.pdf

The resulting file, qdf-#15858199.pdf, is 3.875 Bytes. Now open it in a text editor. PDF object no. 6 (lines 66-219) contains the contents of the page. Lines 123-194 contain only the operators m (moveto), l (lineto) and h (closepath). These lines contain 12 different groups of drawing commands, where each one represents the path for one of the 12 black boxes you see rendered on screen or printed on paper:
102.400001 12.8000001 m
268.800004 12.8000001 l
268.800004 179.200002 l
102.400001 179.200002 l
102.400001 12.8000001 l
h

Line 196 contains
f

which is the fill operator to actually fill black color into so far constructed (closed) path. Nothing in the other lines (which I didn't analyze in detail) does any drawing that may resemble the shapes of any glyphs.

'Unfortunately, this tool seems the only free tool to convert HTML to PDF'

Not correct either.
1.
Assuming your "free" is meant as free as in liberty, then an alternative option is HTMLDOC.
HTMLDOC does not support specific fonts which may be assigned to your HTML input via CSS, but it does a good job in converting one or multiple HTML documents into a single PDF book containing chapters, page-numbering, page headers and footers and more. For all options available, see its full documentation.
2.
Assuming your "free" is meant as free as in beer, then an alternative option (for private usage only) could be PrinceXML.
PrinceXML does an extraordinarily good job when it comes to support almost all CSS features your HTML document may be using. See its documentation and also some of the sample PDF files produced by PrinceXML.

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Later that day health investigators spoke to Mr. McWherter and other ill Toast of Dilworth customers identified through the list Mr. Burchill had provided. MCHD staff collected information about foods eaten at the restaurant and meal dates. Anecdotally, ill persons reported consuming egg dishes with hollandaise sauce with meal dates beginning the weekend of March 24-25. Tyler Ashe followed up with Toast of Dilworth chef, Julio Heras, requesting information about eggs used and how the hollandaise sauce prepared. Chef Heras described a sauce made with egg yolks and butter that on weekends was prepared ahead of time and hot held. These findings were shared with state health department officials during a late afternoon conference call and a foodborne illness outbreak was declared.
Health investigators conducted a case/control study of Toast of Dilworth patrons. In total 30 persons were identified as having symptoms. Nine patients were laboratory confirmed with Salmonella serotype Enteriditis. Ill persons included in the case/control study reported eating at the Toast of Dilworth on March 25, 2012. Foods statistically associated with illness included eggs (Odds Ratio 20.0, 95% Confidence Interval 2.0-170.0), undercooked eggs (Odds Ratio 35.0, 95% Confidence Interval 7.0-176.0), and hollandaise sauce (Odds Ratio 115.00, 95% Confidence Interval 7.0-176.0). The majority of persons experienced symptom onset on March 26. Eventually MCHD staff identified ill Toast of Dilworth customers who ate at the restaurant through March 28.


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The structural and magnetic properties of CoFe2O 4-SiO2 nanocomposite porous aerogels have been systematically investigated by XRD, TEM, and SQUID magnetometry. The preparation of the samples was performed by a cogelation sol-gel route which allows one to obtain nanocomposites with high purity and homogeneity and to control the composition of the sample in terms of ferrite loading in the nanocomposite. In particular, the compositional effect on both the structural and magnetic properties of the nanocomposite was investigated in two nanocomposites with relative CoFe2O4 amounts of 5 and 10 wt %. The characterization shows both similarities and differences in the structural evolution of the nanophases within the amorphous porous matrix of the two nanocomposites as a function of the calcination temperature. In both samples the ferrite nanoparticles are formed above 750 °C; however, a slower structural evolution is observed in the nanocomposites with 5 wt % CoFe2O 4. The nanocomposites display superparamagnetic behavior with blocking temperature that increases with both the ferrite amount and the calcination temperature. The importance of combining information from different techniques is also discussed, with particular reference to nanocrystal size determination. The results provide insights into the characterization of innovative materials and on how the compositional and microstructural features affect the properties of magnetic nanocomposites.


B. Prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any rule or the adoption, increase, or decrease of any fee, the agency shall submit a report relative to such proposed rule change or fee adoption, increase, or decrease to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature and the presiding officers of the respective houses as provided in this Section. The report shall be so submitted on the same day the notice of the intended action is submitted to the Louisiana Register for publication in accordance with R.S. 49:953(A)(1). The report shall be submitted to each standing committee electronically if electronic means are available. If no electronic means are available, the report shall be submitted to the committee's office in the state capitol by certified mail with return receipt requested or by messenger who shall provide a receipt for signature. The electronic receipt by the committee, return receipt or the messenger's receipt shall be proof of receipt of the report by the committee.
(b) The office of state parks and the State Parks and Recreation Commission shall submit the report to the House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs and the Senate Committee on Natural Resources.
(7) Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 451, §5, eff. Jan. 12, 2004.
(11) The Department of Natural Resources and all of the agencies made a part of it shall submit the report to the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment and the Senate Committee on Natural Resources. However, for exercises of the commissioner of conservation's rulemaking authority pursuant to Chapter 13-A-1 of Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, the department shall submit the report to the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment and the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality.
(16) The Louisiana Department of Health and all of the agencies made a part of it shall submit the report to the House Committee on Health and Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare.
D.(1)(a) The chairman of each standing committee to which reports are submitted shall appoint an oversight subcommittee, which may conduct hearings on all rules that are proposed for adoption, amendment, or repeal and on all proposed fee adoptions, increases, or decreases. Any such hearing shall be conducted after any hearing is conducted by the agency pursuant to R.S. 49:953(A)(2).
(ii) A summary of all comments received by the agency, a copy of the agency's response to the summarized comments, and a statement of any tentative or proposed action of the agency resulting from oral or written comments received.
(2)(a) Except as provided in Paragraph (H)(2) of this Section, any subcommittee hearing on a proposed rule shall be held no earlier than five days and no later than thirty days following the day the report required by Subparagraph (1)(b) of this Subsection is received by the subcommittee.
E.(1)(a) Each such determination shall be made by the respective subcommittees of each house acting separately. Action by a subcommittee shall require the favorable vote of a majority of the members of the subcommittee who are present and voting, provided a quorum is present.
(b) No later than three weeks before the deadline for legislative oversight action, the chairman of the subcommittee may request, by letter, the consent of the subcommittee members to have a mail ballot instead of a meeting to consider a proposed rule or proposed fee action. If no objection is received within ten days of the chairman's request, the chairman shall cause a mail ballot to be sent to the members of the subcommittee. In order for the subcommittee to reject a proposed rule or proposed fee action, a majority of ballots returned to the chairman at least twenty-four hours prior to the deadline for legislative oversight action must disapprove the change. Any determination by the subcommittee shall be made within the period provided for oversight hearings in Paragraph (D)(2) of this Section.
H.(1) If both the House and Senate oversight subcommittees fail to find a proposed rule change unacceptable as provided herein, or if the governor disapproves the action of an oversight subcommittee within the time provided in R.S. 49:968(G), the proposed rule change may be adopted by the agency in the identical form proposed by the agency or with technical changes or with changes suggested by the subcommittee, provided at least ninety days and no more than twelve months have elapsed since notice of intent was published in the Louisiana Register.
(2) Substantive changes to a rule proposed for adoption, amendment, or repeal occur if the nature of the proposed rule is altered or if such changes affect additional or different substantive matters or issues not included in the notice required by R.S. 49:953(A)(1). Whenever an agency seeks to substantively change a proposed rule after notice of intent has been published in the Louisiana Register pursuant to R.S. 49:953(A)(1), the agency shall hold a public hearing on the substantive changes preceded by an announcement of the hearing in the Louisiana Register. A notice of the hearing shall be mailed within ten days after the date the announcement is submitted to the Louisiana Register to all persons who have made request of the agency for such notice. Any hearing by the agency pursuant to this Paragraph shall be held no earlier than thirty days after the publication of the announcement in the Louisiana Register. The agency hearing shall conform to R.S. 49:953(A)(2)(b), and a report on the hearing shall be made to the oversight committees in accordance with Subparagraph (D)(1)(b) of this Section. The agency shall make available to interested persons a copy of such report no later than one working day following the submittal of such report to the oversight committees. Any determination as to the rule by the oversight committees, prior to gubernatorial review as provided in Subsection G of this Section, shall be made no earlier than five days and no later than thirty days following the day the report required by this Paragraph is received from the agency.
K.(1) Each year, no later than thirty days prior to the beginning of the regular session of the legislature, each agency shall submit a report to the appropriate committees as provided for in Subsection B of this Section. This report shall contain a statement of the action taken by the agency with respect to adoption, amendment, or repeal of each rule proposed for adoption, amendment, or repeal during the previous year and a report of the action taken by the agency with respect to any proposed fee adoption, increase, or decrease during the previous year.
(2) The report required by Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall also contain a recitation of each petition and submission, if any, received by the agency pursuant to R.S. 49:953(C) during the previous calendar year and the agency's response to each petition and submission, if any were received.
L. After submission of the report required by Subsection K of this Section to the standing committee, a public hearing may be held by the committee for the purpose of reviewing the report with representatives of the agency.
Acts 1990, No. 312, §1; Acts 1990, No. 938, §1; Acts 1990, No. 1085, §1, eff. July 31, 1990; Acts 1991, No. 21, §2, eff. June 14, 1991; Acts 1991, No. 938, §5; Acts 1992, No. 377, §4, eff. June 17, 1992; Acts 1992, No. 447, §3, eff. June 20, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 119, §1; Acts 1993, No. 733, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1057, §1, eff. June 29, 1995 and Jan. 8, 1996 (1/8/96 date is applicable to Dept. of Health and Hospitals only); Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 36, §3, eff. May 7, 1996; Acts 1997, No. 1, §5, eff. April 30, 1997; Acts 1997, No. 1001, §1; Acts 1999, No. 568, §2, eff. June 30, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 8, §16, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2001, No. 9, §8, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2001, No. 300, §3; Acts 2001, No. 451, §5, eff. Jan. 12, 2004; Acts 2001, No. 1178, §7, eff. June 29, 2001; Acts 2003, No. 49, §3, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2003, No. 116, §3, eff. May 28, 2003; Acts 2003, No. 183, §7; Acts 2003, No. 358, §1; Acts 2003, No. 850, §3; Acts 2003, No. 1049, §1; Acts 2008, No. 580, §6; Acts 2008, No. 743, §4, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2010, No. 777, §1; Acts 2010, No. 861, §21; Acts 2010, No. 877, §3, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2012, No. 549, §1; Acts 2012, No. 725, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2013; Acts 2012, No. 744, §1, eff. June 12, 2012; Acts 2013, No. 220, §23, eff. June 11, 2013; Acts 2014, No. 640, §3, eff. June 12, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 832, §7.(A); Acts 2018, No. 454, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2019.


Full papers for all oral and poster presentations are due by April 30, 2013. Please read the information concerning submission of papers below.
The submission should be in pdf format, up to 6 pages long, and could be in colour. They will be distributed to all registrants in electronic form. Following extensive discussions and consultations, the Organizing Committee decided not to provide printed volumes of the full papers. Below are links to templates for the full paper, in MSWord and LATEX formats. PDF files are provided for comparisons.


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