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Afrin N. Kamal
Bio Afrin Kamal is a board-certified gastroenterologist, who trained at Washington University in internal medicine, Cleveland Clinic in gastroenterology/hepatology, and most recently Stanford University in esophageal and motility diseases. Afrin shares a clinical passion in esophageal motility diseases with an an overlapping interest in health services and outcomes research.
Ahmad Kamal MD
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated) [Scvmc], Medicine - Med/Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Gwansuk Kang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gastroenterology
Takahiro Kawagishi
Kian Keyashian
Bio The management of inflammatory bowel disease has changed dramatically especially over the past 5-10 years, with the introduction of biologic and small molecule therapies and new goals of treatment, with an emphasis on healing the bowel. My career goal since my graduation from IBD fellowship in 2012 has been to improve the outcomes and quality of life of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. In line with these goals, my research has focused investigating new noninvasive diagnostic test, finding factors early in the disease course that might predict a more aggressive disease course and need for different therapies, and investigating new promising effective medications with less side effects.
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Bio I am clinically trained as a physician specialized in gastroenterology and hepatology. My research has focused on clinical research of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and obesity-related gastrointestinal diseases with a specific focus in population-based study. In addition, my research was not only focused on gastroenterology and was expanded to cardiology, endocrinology, and neurology (sleep medicine). I have experience with large epidemiologic cohort studies as well as clinical trials. This work has resulted in over 150 published papers, including major journal such as Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Gut, Journal of Hepatology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, etc. (as the first and corresponding author). These publications have been cited over 4000 times.
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Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology) at the Stanford University Medical Center
Bio Chronic liver disease is one of the most common causes of premature death in Americans. My career goal is to improve the outcome of individuals with chronic liver disease by identifying the optimal means for diagnosis, monitoring, treatment and prevention. The path I have chosen to achieve this goal is through engagement in clinical epidemiology and patient-oriented, effectiveness research.
Since the development of the MELD score which recognizes the importance of renal function in the prognosis of patients with end stage liver disease, one of the areas that we have had intense interest has been acute and chronic renal injury in patients undergoing liver transplantation. Liver transplantation represents a unique opportunity for research, because of the potential for reversal of the renal injury as well as access to biological materials.
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CPJ Insider, November: Face-to-face with Pakistani border control and a northern Syria crisis
By Shazdeh Omari on November 5, 2019 8:18 AM EST
On a strange 'stop list,' CPJ staffer is refused entry to Pakistan
Cartoon by Afraid Canvas.
The man at the Lahore airport customs point looked puzzled. Steven Butler, CPJ's Asia program coordinator, was holding a U.S. passport with a valid, newly issued visa to enter Pakistan. But the computer showed he was on a "stop list" from the Interior Ministry.
It was highly unusual. Local officers told Butler he was added to the list after receiving his visa. Butler, who was traveling to address an annual human rights conference, had never had trouble entering Pakistan before, though he has criticized its press freedom record often. "This seemed designed to draw attention," he says. The Foreign Ministry could grant a visa, but the Interior Ministry could take it away.
The officers tried calling higher-ups, but it was the middle of the night and they learned no further information. Soon, Butler was back on the same plane he'd arrived on and was returning to Doha, where he was put on a flight to the United States. The flight crew held his passport and boarding pass.
Butler quickly made contact with CPJ colleagues, and on his return flight helped coordinate a response. The moment he was safely in the U.S. and in possession of his passport, CPJ was ready. We issued a public statement, contacted the Pakistani embassy to demand answers, and reached out for support from the U.S. government. "The staff came together very well as a team to support what I was trying to do," Butler says. "That was a very good feeling."
Media coverage of the snub was enormous, and there was an outpouring of solidarity on social media from CPJ board members, peers, colleagues, and friends. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells expressed concern, as did Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Conference organizers condemned the Pakistani authorities for barring Butler's attendance, but he participated anyway, delivering his remarks via Skype.
In a Washington Post op-ed, CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon—citing growing safety concerns for traveling CPJ staff—asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to make clear to Pakistani authorities that Butler's treatment was unacceptable and that support for press freedom and the rights of journalists is an essential U.S. value.
Throughout, Pakistani authorities have remained silent.
CPJ Emergencies steps up as US pulls out of Syria
Smoke is seen billowing from the sites of airstrikes in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, on October 13, 2019. Two Syrian Kurdish journalists were killed in the attacks. (AP/Emrah Gurel)
When President Trump made the surprise announcement that the U.S. would pull out of Kurdish-held territory in northern Syria and make way for Turkish troops, we knew many journalists were in imminent danger.
María Salazar Ferro, CPJ's Emergencies director, immediately gathered our cross-organization Emergencies Response Team to prepare for whatever might come. A large number of journalists were working in this once-safe area, but now they faced a perilous situation. "It's a complicated conflict scenario where a lot of players are involved. On the ground are the Turks, Kurds, Assad forces, Russian forces, Islamic State fighters, and other militias," Salazar Ferro says. Journalists risk severe injury, arrest, kidnapping, and worse.
The team believed that Kurdish journalists, fearing arrest, would eventually try to flee to Iraqi Kurdistan. They had already identified about 200 Kurdish media workers through partners, and began organizing a joint fund to help cover evacuation costs.
Another major concern was international freelance journalists, who don't have the kind of security, support, and financial resources that staff journalists do. Freelancers have been going in and out of the area daily, and the Emergencies Response Team has been in constant communication with various teams preparing to enter Syria. In addition to risk of injury, they could be arrested if stopped by the arriving forces of the Syrian government. CPJ reactivated a 2017 partner network to share changing tactical safety information with these journalists and published a safety note on war reporting in English, Arabic, and Kurdish.
In the face of fast-moving crises, CPJ Emergencies creates structures that allow it to respond quickly to events. Our readiness was tested on Sunday, October 13, when a civilian convoy was decimated by a Turkish airstrike. Minutes after the strike, the team's phones began to buzz about journalists who were riding with the convoy. Within an hour, CPJ's Middle East representative, Ignacio Miguel Delgado Culebras, reached two French TV crews and a freelancer reporting for CNN who were on the scene. Sadly, two Kurdish journalists, Saad Ahmed and Mohammed Hussein Rasho, were killed in the blast.
Soon, the team was fielding queries from multiple freelancers about the security situation. We became an unofficial information-sharing center, able to give freelancers the same kind of information that well-equipped international crews were receiving, and allowing them to make educated decisions about how to safely cover this changing story.
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Marking 2 years since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia
CPJ's EU representative, Tom Gibson, stands with representatives of the European Commission, European Federation of Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Article 19, European Parliament, and Transparency International at a vigil in Brussels for slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. (Photo courtesy of the office of European Parliament Member Roberta Metsola.)
October 16 marked two years since Malta's best-known investigative journalist and anti-corruption campaigner, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was assassinated in a car bombing. Candlelight vigils were held in London, Malta, Brussels, and elsewhere to honor her memory and to call for justice. Although three men have been charged with her murder, a trial date has not yet been set and those who ordered her killing remain at large.
However, we have new hope now that the Maltese government has finally announced a public inquiry. "The fact that the government said, 'Okay, we're going to start it,' I think is a victory and shows how effective advocacy can be," said Caruana Galizia's son Matthew in a moving video interview with CPJ. "If we can show that people are prepared to fight back, then I think that makes it a little bit harder to murder a journalist." The U.S. embassy has offered to help with a probe.
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In June 2018, Jarrod Ramos entered the Capitol Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, and gunned down five people in what was the deadliest single attack on the media in recent U.S. history. The dead included journalists Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, and Wendi Winters. Rebecca Smith, a sales assistant, was also killed. Police arrested Ramos, who had been enraged at the newspaper for reporting on his criminal prosecution for stalking a former high school classmate. He had made repeated threats against the paper. CPJ decried the attack, demanded justice, and called for a public defense of the vital role journalists play in keeping the public informed. On October 28, a week before trial proceedings were set to begin, Ramos pleaded guilty on all counts, as well as not criminally responsible, the equivalent of an insanity plea.
Over the last year, CPJ has reported on powerful mobile surveillance software called Pegasus sold by the NSO Group that many governments have abused to spy on journalists and critics. We reported that Pegasus may have helped the Saudis surveil Jamal Khashoggi, who was later murdered by officials in their consulate in Istanbul, and how Mexico and Morocco used malicious mobile links to target journalists for infection. To date, NSO has responded to the abuse claims with spin, so CPJ has advocated for export controls and other measures that might curb the sale of its products in the international market. There was a major break when WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against NSO on October 29, claiming users of its messaging app became infected with NSO malware after receiving video calls they did not even have to answer. The illegal attack, WhatsApp said, targeted at least 100 human-rights defenders, journalists, and other people around the world.
Twelve years ago, independent journalist Alisher Saipov was shot dead at close range in a street in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, bordering Uzbekistan, by an unknown gunman using a silencer. Saipov, 26, was the founder of the Uzbek-language newspaper Siyosat, and covered Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan for U.S.-funded broadcasters Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America, and for the Central Asia news website Ferghana. He had interviewed members of banned Islamic groups and covered mass killings by Uzbek troops. In 2010, Osh authorities convicted a man of the murder, but released him in 2012 after proof of an alibi emerged. CPJ has long advocated for justice in the case, publicly and in meetings with Kyrgyz officials, and offered support to the family. In August, Kyrgyz authorities quietly reopened the investigation into Saipov's assassination, which CPJ reported in October and called for an open and thorough reinvestigation. "We long for official information revealing who or what was the reason for my brother's assassination," Shohrukh Sapiov told RFE/RL.
Moroccan security forces in August arrested Hajar Raissouni and charged her with sex outside of marriage and having an illegal abortion that she said she never had. A reporter for independent news website Akhbar al-Youm, she was arrested as she left her doctor's office with her fiancé in Rabat after being treated for internal bleeding. Her fiancé, doctor, and two medical staffers were also arrested. Raissouni sent a letter from prison saying that authorities interrogated her about topics including her political writing and her colleagues, according to reporting by Akhbar al-Youm. Raissouni's arrest sparked an international outcry; CPJ included her in October's One Free Press list of "Most Urgent" cases, which are given a spotlight by a large coalition of media partners. On October 17, King Mohammed VI granted pardons to Raissouni, her fiancé, and her medical team, which "put right an unjust process," Raissouni told AFP.
Iranian authorities have arrested multiple labor and economics reporters since the beginning of the year. CPJ called for the release of Amirhossein Mohammadifard and Sanaz Allahyari, a married couple who started Gam, a news channel on the Telegram app that covers labor issues, and their colleagues Amir Amirgholi and Asal Mohammadi, who were all arrested in January. We also covered the May detentions of Kayvan Samimi, editor-in-chief of Iran-e-Farda magazine, and Marzieh Amiri, economics reporter at Tehran-based newspaper Shargh Daily. They were arrested while covering a May Day demonstration. "Jailing journalists who cover protests will not erase the underlying issues that drove the protesters onto the streets," CPJ's Sherif Mansour said. In August, we strongly condemned a court's cruel sentence for Amiri–10 and a half years in prison and 148 lashes–and we regularly featured her in the monthly One Free Press list of "Most Urgent" cases. Domestic and international pressure continued to mount, and Mohammadifard and Allahyari went on hunger strike for more than 60 days. On October 26, Iran released Mohammadifard, Allahyari, Amiri, and Amirgholi on bail until their appeals are heard. The first three are pictured in a tweet posted after their release from Evin prison. Mohammadi was released on bail on Nov. 3.
#مرضیه_امیری، #ساناز_اللهیاری، #امیرحسین_محمدی‌فر، #امیر_امیرقلی, #سپیده_قلیان و #عاطفه_رنگریز امروز با سپردن وثیقه از زندان آزاد شدند. pic.twitter.com/4e1zfObkk6
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Early on October 17, unidentified armed, uniformed men raided the Baghdad home of Iraqi blogger Shojaa Fares al-Khafaji, detained him, and seized cell phones, computers, and surveillance camera footage, all within sight of Iraqi security forces, according to his blog, Clean Brotherhood. Al-Khafaji, among other prominent journalists, had been accused in an online smear campaign of working to normalize relations with Israel. CPJ called on Iraqi authorities to disclose whether they were holding al-Khafaji and, if not, to immediately open an investigation. The next day, al-Khafaji was released. He told CPJ that he was held by a militia. In a Facebook post, Iraqi researcher Hisham al-Hashimi thanked everyone who spoke out, including Iraq's president, interior minister, and national security advisor.
On October 23, security officers raided the offices of Algerian daily Le Provincial and arrested its editor-in-chief, Bendjama Mustapha. CPJ demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Mustapha and multiple other journalists arrested after covering nation-wide protests demanding reform. The next day, Mustapha was released, Le Provincial said in a Facebook post.
Nigerian authorities in May again arrested Jones Abiri, editor-in-chief and publisher of the Weekly Source newspaper. CPJ urged authorities to release him immediately and drop the cybercrime, anti-sabotage, and terrorism charges against him. We also featured him on the One Free Press list of "Most Urgent" cases. Abiri was previously imprisoned on similar allegations in July 2016, and was released in August 2018 following a major international campaign to free him. In the current case, prosecutors set difficult bail terms and sought to call secret witnesses, actions CPJ protested. Nigerian authorities later modified the bail terms, and on October 25, Abiri was released. He is required to appear in court in December.
Authorities in Ethiopia arrested journalist Mesganaw Getachew on August 9 after he recorded an interview outside a court in Addis Ababa. In an attempt to avoid notice while reporting on the case of a group charged with breaking Ethiopia's anti-terrorism law, Getachew, a reporter for the privately owned Ethiopis weekly, used a camera installed in his eyeglasses. CPJ demanded his unconditional release. He was freed on October 29 along with journalist and activist Elias Gebru.
Amid a broad crackdown, the Indian government has enlisted Twitter to "withhold" accounts that share news and information out of Jammu and Kashmir from readers in India, CPJ's Avi Asher-Schapiro and Ahmed Zidan report. An opaque legal process "is being misused to target journalists, and kill free expression that's supposed to be guaranteed in the Indian constitution," a digital rights advocate says.
The Nigerian military is targeting journalists' phones and computers to conduct "forensic searches" for information about their sources, CPJ's Jonathan Rozen reports. At least two companies that produce digital forensics tools—Israel-based Cellebrite and U.S.-based AccessData—are operating in Nigeria, where security forces regularly arrest and interrogate journalists, CPJ found. One journalist told CPJ that officers who raided his newspaper in January asked for his phone so they could "scan it." "They said [they] just want to see the contents and then maybe the numbers of the people I talk to—I said no," the journalist said.
CPJ in the news
"Trump's rhetoric towards the press has real-world implications," WNYC's "The Takeaway"
"Murdered journalists more than a Trump meme," Albuquerque Journal
"How Arizona State University's student-run newspaper broke a major Donald Trump–Ukraine story," Teen Vogue
"Twitter removes almost 1 million tweets in Kashmir, accused of bowing to Indian censorship," Newsweek
"Pakistan moves to install nationwide 'web monitoring system,'" Coda Story
"More than 50 days into the Kashmir lockdown: Latest updates," Brown Girl Magazine
"Journalist says she was blinded in one eye by police rubber bullet," Asia Times
"Cambodian reporters' legal limbo traumatizes their families," Voice of America
"Nigerian military using surveillance technology to spy on Nigerians – CPJ," Premium Times
"The challenges of navigating Ethiopia's new media landscape," Al Jazeera
"Deadly risks for journalists in Mexico," Public Radio International's "The World"
"Killing the Messengers: Rising violence against journalists and indigenous leaders defending the Amazon," CounterPunch
"In Nicaragua, attacks on journalists are part of Ortega's survival strategy," World Politics Review
"Journalist shot and killed in Haiti, inciting more anti-government protests," New York Daily News
"Rights groups call on Egypt authorities to free journalist," The Associated Press
"Iraqi military admits to 'excessive force' in crackdown against protesters," The Washington Post
"Panel discusses James Foley, the safety of American hostages," The Michigan Daily
"Doxxed journalist reveals perils of working in Hungary's hostile media environment," First Draft
"Uzbekistan urged to stop using 'totalitarian' practices after blogger sent to psychiatric clinic," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Shazdeh Omari is CPJ's news editor. Former copy chief for The Village Voice, she has worked as a reporter and editor in the United States and Greece. Omari was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, where she learned to read, speak, and write Urdu.
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All of the aforementioned reasons and motivations are what makes the Supported Employment Program at Trilogy so important. The Supported Employment Program provides individualized, client driven services to persons with mental illness and substance abuse disorders. Gone are the days the days of the traditional 'face and place' vocational supports model, where clients were merely placed in jobs just because a position happened to be available. Individuals who are referred to Employment Services at Trilogy begin the process of searching for a job by completing not only a detailed assessment of their preferences, skills and interests, but by also completing a detailed employment search plan and retention plan with the assistance of their entire mental health treatment team. The goal is to assist the client in identifying what his or her dream job would be and then creating a plan to find that job and keep it.
Trilogy's employment program utilizes the Dartmouth College researched and developed evidence based practice known as Individual Placement and Supports (IPS). The model is guided by eight principles including: advocacy for an individual's desire to work; supporting personal preferences; providing time unlimited job supports; and close integration with an individual's mental health team members. Dartmouth's research gives evidence to the success of the IPS model. In just one of the studies completed by researchers, 22 randomized controlled trials saw significantly higher employment rates (56%) for persons with mental illness participating in an IPS supported employment program versus individuals in a traditional vocational program. Dartmouth's website (http://www.dartmouthips.org/) offers more evidence for IPS, and an abundance of user friendly and easy to understand resources regarding the IPS model. I am proud to say that Trilogy has been ranked as one of the most successful IPS programs in the state of Illinois. We currently partner with more than twenty businesses across Chicago that support the IPS model including Mariano's, Target, Maaco Automotive, and Home Depot.
Trilogy's Supported Employment Program supports the organization's mission by assisting individuals in their recovery from serious mental illness. Employment is a powerful tool in one's recovery, as it can foster personal growth in multiple facets of a person's life. As mentioned earlier, having a job provides people with a sense of purpose. That purpose might just be the motivating factor that provides a person with the self esteem they need to get out of bed and start making life choices that will improve their overall wellness.


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Outcome measures at each measurement point for the three groups
DSMP total score
SC 53.0 ± 10.8 — 52.1 ± 8.8 — 51.6 ± 11.0 — 53.3 ± 10.9
ES 55.1 ± 9.5 — 54.7 ± 10.3 — 55.6 ± 11.7 — 55.3 ± 11.2
BFST-D 55.4 ± 10.8 — 57.1 ± 7.6 — 58.2 ± 9.1 — 57.3 ± 10.4
DRC scale family composite score
SC 25.7 ± 6.8 — 29.2 ± 10.2 — 25.0 ± 11.1 — 23.6 ± 10.1
ES 29.1 ± 6.8 — 31.7 ± 11.4 — 27.7 ± 8.9 — 28.8 ± 9.8
BFST-D 27.2 ± 7.6 — 26.3 ± 8.8 — 25.7 ± 11.0 — 25.4 ± 10.4
A1C (%)
SC 9.6 ± 1.5 9.2 ± 1.7 9.1 ± 1.8 9.5 ± 1.7 9.6 ± 1.6 9.6 ± 1.6 9.6 ± 1.7
ES 9.7 ± 1.6 8.8 ± 1.5 8.9 ± 1.2 9.5 ± 1.3 9.3 ± 1.4 9.6 ± 1.4 9.5 ± 1.5
BFST-D 9.6 ± 1.6 8.9 ± 1.6 8.8 ± 1.5 8.7 ± 1.3 8.9 ± 1.4 8.6 ± 1.3 8.8 ± 1.5
Data are means ± SD.


A delicious low carb keto shortbread cookies recipe. Great for shortbread pie bases also.
Keto shortbread cookies are a great snack, staying low carb when enjoying them couldn't be easier. Check out more Tasty Cookie Recipes.
One batch of these keto cookies make the perfect base for our Low Carb Jello Chunk Cheesecake.
Make yourself a double batch so you've got a tasty keto snack to eat while you wait.
This low carb shortbread cookie recipe makes 16 cookies, 1 serve is equal to 1 cookie.
Ready to eat Keto Shortbread Cookies.
Keto Shortbread Cookies - Low Carb Vanilla - EASY to make!
These Keto Shortbread Cookies are the closest I've come to a low carb buttery, crumbly and sweet pastry base as well. They make an excellent snack and a great base for our low car pie recipes.
We make a lot of different keto cookies through using low-carb flour alternatives and natural sweeteners.
If you want to make a larger batch of low carb vanilla Keto Shortbread Cookies, simply adjust the serving amounts in our easy to use recipe card above.
I made these this morning and used good coconut flour from the health food shop. They were very dry. It was all I could do to keep them in a ball on the cooking pan. No spreading in the oven. No sticking to the hands. I liked the look of the recipe because it didn't have a lot of eggs (ugh) in it. Didn't work for me but hopefully they will taste ok.
Sorry that the cookies didn't work out for you. The recipe does call for almond flour, using coconut flour would explain why they were so dry. For best results, make them using almond flour; coconut flour requires using less and adding extra eggs and liquid and can't be substituted for almond flour without making adjustments to the recipe.
I just made these so so good! Except when I imput all the ingredients into my tracker it's nutrition facts are way off!! Did I do something wrong!?
I ate 3 thinking 1 carb each but my fitness pal recipe maker says 6.5 each!! Help!
why do people always substitute other ingredients in recipes, then when things don't turn out right, they complain about the recipe? Makes no sense at all.
Oh doh! That will teach me to try to cook early in the morning. You know I even checked that! Of course that's the problem! The second bake with added egg and water wasn't much better and still crumbly as you would expect but do you know it tasted quite nice so I have put the biscuits in the freezer and I reckon it will make a lovely tart base if I mix it with some more moisture and bake it again. Thanks for replying Gerri and know that I promise to triple check recipes from now on!
Can l use Stevia better?
I haven't tested the recipe using stevia, but I'm sure that a granulated or powdered version would work fine.
Hi, l'm going to make it today but l have a question. Can l use almond meal flour?
Almond Meal will work fine, your cookies may be a little bit grainy due to the large grind of the almonds.
I just made these for my hubby. They are delicious. Reminds me of a Christmas cookie. He will love them. Thank you very much.
How do we know how many carbs in ea serving ?
The nutritional information is listed under "Recipe Notes" at the bottom of the page. If you can't see it than you might be viewing our page as an AMP page, just scroll to the bottom and click View Non-AMP to see the nutritional information.
can you substitute Splenda for the erythritol?
I haven't tested it, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work!
I just made these! Delicious!! I put a dab of avacado pudding that I kept a bit stiff for spreading. Awesome treat with my evening tea! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for you kind words Maureen!
COMMENTThese are really good! Thank you so much! Perfect with my coffee!
Has anyone tried these without xylitol or erythritol? My leaky gut doesn't handle sugar alcohols yet so I usually use a smidgeon of honey (for flavor) with stevia and monk fruit. Hesitant to try these in a cookie, as well as it works for pies and cakes.
The erythritol adds some bulk to the cookies as well as sweetness. I would recommend replacing it with a granulated sweetener that your gut can handle.
I made this recipe yesterday…very good result and I used Stevia brown same amount as you had indicated with erythritol.
Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed them!
I made them with erithrytol this morning and found them just a bit sweet (not used to sweet stuff on keto). I would reduce to a quarter cup and then they'll be perfect.
That said, the recipe is excellent.
Just wondering how long and how to store these? Thank you!
You can store them in an airtight jar or container at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
I've just finished baking them and they are absolutely amazing! I used peanut flour instead of almond and powdered Stevia and it came out delicious! Thank you for the recipe.
Thank you for your kind words Keila!
How many cookies are in a serving?
These were insanely good. Change nothing, and they will blow your mind. My family of 5 will eat these in no time, and I'm the only keto in the group. INCREDIBLE!
That's great to hear Lori!
I just made this and they were great! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
These are Amazing!! They taste even better straight from the freezer.
Thank you for your kind words Alannah!
Thank you, Heidi, so glad you enjoyed them.
This is a perfect keto shortbread recipe. I used powdered swerve (erythritol blend) and added a little stevia to add sweetness. I also used a high quality Irish butter called Kerrygold. The results amazing!!! It did not crumble, it was moist and decadent.
We love Kerrygold too! I'm glad you enjoyed the shortbread.
Awesome recipe! I used almond extract instead of vanilla (I was out!) and Lakanto monk fruit sweetener with erythritol, and they tasted like almond paste shortbreads! Next time, I'm trying lemon extract, and I'll dust them with some powdered Stevia. Thanks for a delicious recipe!
Glad you enjoyed it. I'll pass it on to Gerri and see if she can't make some like yours, they sound very tasty.
Hi! I have no erythritol in my country.. can i subtitute it with 3 grams of sucralose sweetener?
This recipe needs a granulated sweetener as it provides some bulk to the recipe, you could use xylitol instead. If you want to experiment with using the sucralose, please let us know how the cookies turn out.
Was not sweet enough for me. Rather like a biscuit. I dusted them with a good quality Stevia powder and they were good. Great pie crust dough.
I just tried them with Stevia. They turned out great but are a little too sweet with the Stevia. So if you're using Stevia instead I would use 1/6 cup stevia. I'm going to also cut the vanilla down a bit next time. I love the recipe though and the cookies turned out great. Thank you so much Justin time for Christmas!
Did you use powdered or granular erythritol? Can I use Swerve instead?
Granulated and yes, you can substitute for swerve.
Just made these cookies and they tasted delicious. Just was wondering if it was supposed to be cakelike soft or crispy?
The cookies are similar to shortbread, a little crispy on the edges and soft, but firm in the centre. I hope that helps.
Thank you for your kind words, Randi!
Hi Gerry, thank you for opening this recipe! Do you happen to know if this dough can be used in a cookie press? Or is it too sticky?
I don't think it would be suitable for a cookie press when the dough is raw. If you are determined to press them, you could try stamping the cookies halfway through the baking. If you do try, let me know how it turns out.
This is very similar to several keto "sugar cookie" recipes that I've seen, but this one has about double the butter. Wondering your about your thoughts on whether these would be good cut out cookies. I don't see why not, but I figured I'd ask if you've tried it.
More butter makes a better shortbread cookie! The cookie dough is quite soft and is not suitable for cookie cutters.
Thank you for your kind words and Merry Christmas to you also!
Made these tonight and they were SPECTACULAR!!!!!!
Made These tonight and they were Spectacular!!!!!
Delicious! I just made these, and they're very good. For reference, I used granulated Pyure (it's a erythritol and stevia blend) which I think is sweeter than plain erythritol, so I went just shy of 1/3 C. I also used salted butter and just omitted the extra salt. They're wonderful cookies!
First if all, I DON'T bake. I'm on my 8th day of Keto and was hAngry for something with Pecans. Bought most of the ingredients on Amazon (I DON'T like shopping either)… I was thrilled to come home to everything today and have everything I needed. J was hopeful but not sure if they would fix my craving. Well HOTT Da*n, they we're no less than a decadent . I wish I could show a photo of how they turned out. I HIGHLU recommend trying these. Huge Fan!
I'm so glad you liked them Dayna! Thank you for your kind words, you've made my day!
Third time making these cookies. Absolutely love them, and I get them stolen by the "none keto" members of the family, who "mock" my keto diet plan. Eat your own biscuits I say, and keep your hands off mine!
These cookies are delicious. I made them with monk fruit sugar, added a little extra vanilla extract and about a tablespoon of ghee. They came out perfect. Thank you so much for this recipe. I have been able to stick to my lazy keto diet because of sweet treats like this.
A great keto biscuit recipe so glad I found this, curbs the cravings!


Hi Katja. Great to see some later news.I have made several attempts to send an email to your email address, but it keeps getting rejected. I am back in Aust. now, got back yesterday morning, and I have big heap of paper work to get through.
My stay with my friend in Macae was a chance to relax and take things easy. With Cecilia having a 2 year son meant no more boozy nights and racing around during the day.
In the last week I have read just about every word on your website re your travels in the past and into the future. My plans for the trip to the 4 "stans" are not looking very promising, many visas and not much time in hand. Enjoy your stay Brasilia. Bob.


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How nations develop their human capital can be a more important determinant of their long-term success than virtually any other factor. By "human capital" we mean the knowledge and skills people possess that enable them to create value in the global economic system. Human capital is not defined solely through formal education and skilling. It can be enhanced over time, growing through use—and depreciating through lack of use—across people's lifetimes. The Global Human Capital Index featured in this Report thus treats human capital as a dynamic rather than fixed concept.
The Global Human Capital Index 2017 ranks 130 countries on how well they are developing their human capital on a scale from 0 (worst) to 100 (best) across four thematic dimensions—capacity, deployment, development and know-how—and five distinct age groups or generations—0–14 years; 15–24 years; 25–54 years; 55–64 years; and 65 years and over—to capture the full human capital potential profile of a country. It can be used as a tool to assess progress within countries and points to opportunities for cross-country learning and exchange.
The Capacity subindex quantifies the existing stock of education across generations; the Deployment subindex covers skills application and accumulation of skills through work; the Development subindex reflects current efforts to educate, skill and upskill the student body and the working age population; and the Know-how subindex captures the breadth and depth of specialized skills use at work.
The Report's key findings are:
On average, the world has developed only 62% of its human capital as measured by this Index. Or, conversely, nations are neglecting or wasting, on average, 38% of their talent. Across the Index, there are only 25 nations that have tapped 70% of their people's human capital or more. In addition, 50 countries score between 60% and 70%. A further 41 countries score between 50% and 60%, while 14 countries remain below 50%, meaning these nations are currently leveraging less than half of their human capital.
The top ten of this year's edition of the Human Capital Index is headed by smaller European countries—Norway (1), Finland (2), Switzerland (3)—as well as large economies such as the United States (4) and Germany (6). Four countries from the East Asia and the Pacific region, three countries from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region and one country from the Middle East and North Africa region are also ranked in the Index top 20.
The leaders of the Index are generally economies with a longstanding commitment to their people's educational attainment and that have deployed a broad share of their workforce in skill-intensive occupations across a broad range of sectors. Unsurprisingly, they are mainly today's high-income economies. Creating a virtuous cycle of this nature should be the aim of all countries.
At a regional level, the human capital development gap is smallest in North America, followed by Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa. The gap is largest in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
From North America, the United States (4) ranks in the top ten and Canada (14) ranks in the top 20. In Western Europe, the Nordic countries Norway (1), Finland (2), Denmark (5) and Sweden (8)—as well as Switzerland (3) and Germany (6)—dominate the rankings, collectively taking the region's top spots. Twelve countries have crossed the threshold of developing at least 70% of their human capital. The Netherlands (13) and Belgium (15) rank ahead of the United Kingdom (23) and France (26) to make up the mid-range of the regional league table, while three Mediterranean countries—Portugal (43), Spain (44) and Greece (48)—take the bottom ranks.
Three countries from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region rank in the top 20: Slovenia (9) Estonia (12), and the Russian Federation (16). The Czech Republic (22), Ukraine (24) and Lithuania (25), all score above the 70% threshold. The bottom-ranked countries in the region, Macedonia, FYR (67) and Albania (85), are held back by high unemployment and underemployment rates across all age groups.
In East Asia, the best-performing countries in the region, such as Singapore (11), Japan (17), and Korea, Rep. (27) are global strongholds of human capital success, while countries such as Lao PDR (84), Myanmar (89) and Cambodia (92) trail the region despite their very high degree of human capital utilization across the Deployment subindex.
The gap between the best and worst performers in Latin America and the Caribbean is smaller than for any other region. The two best-performing countries in the region are Argentina (52) and Chile (53). The region's two largest economies, Mexico (69) and Brazil (77), rank in the middle and lower half of the Index overall along with Peru (66) and Colombia (68). The bottom ranks of the region are made up of Venezuela (94) and Central American nations such as Honduras (101).
Only one country, Israel (18), from the Middle East and North Africa makes it into the top 20. Three gulf states—the United Arab Emirates (45), Bahrain (47) and Qatar (55)—outperform the rest of the region's Arab-speaking countries and score in the mid-range of the Index overall. Turkey (75) has developed 60% of its human capital against the theoretical ideal. Saudi Arabia (82), the region's largest economy ranks ahead of Egypt (97), its most populous one. Algeria (112), Tunisia (115) and Morocco (118), make up the lower end of the rankings, ahead of Mauritania (129) and Yemen (130).
From South Asia, Sri Lanka (70) is the top performer, while Nepal (98), India (103), Bangladesh (111) and Pakistan (125) lag behind. With the exception of Sri Lanka, the rest have yet to reach the 60% threshold with regard to developing their human capital.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest-ranked region in the Index. Rwanda (71), Ghana (72), Cameroon (73) and Mauritius (74) have developed more than 60% of their human capital. South Africa (87), the region's second largest economy, places towards the middle in the region. Nigeria (114) ranks in the lower midfield and Ethiopia (127) is the lowest performer, fourth from the bottom on the Index overall.
There are significant opportunities for economies with already high talent capacity and development, such as France, Greece, Italy and United Arab Emirates, to boost their human capital performance through a focus on the Know-how subindex, including opportunities for high- and medium-skilled work as well as broadening the complexity of the economies in question through sectoral investment. In North America, Western Europe, Middle East and North Africa and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, more can be done to improve the deployment of their countries' high capacity talent. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia need much better investment in developing their current and future workforces in order to expand beyond their relatively low current capacity.
Core to the Index is the concept that investment in developing talent across the lifecycle—through education and employment—enhances human capital. Even with similar levels of upfront educational investment, on-the-job learning is critical for generating returns on the initial investment as well as ensuring that people's skills grow and appreciate in value over time. Data from our research partnership with LinkedIn confirms that individual's specialization and capacity expands as they enter the labour market, highlights new opportunities for identifying and analyzing similar talent pools and points to opportunities for stronger design of reskilling and upskilling efforts. More broadly, this unique data also suggests that there is an opportunity for policymakers to use dynamic labour market information to enhance their workforce planning and decision-making.
Because human capital is critical not only to the productivity of society but also the functioning of its political, social and civic institutions, understanding its current state and capacity is valuable to a wide variety of stakeholders. It is our hope that this Report can support governments, businesses, education providers and civil society institutions in identifying key areas for focus and investment.


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Korean Journal of Anesthesiology 2010;59(1):1-2.
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea.
Corresponding author: Seonghoon Ko, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School, 634-18, Keum-Am dong, Jeonju 561-712, Korea.
Lee et al.  had reported that regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO2) decreases neither with an episode of arterial desaturation nor overt hemodynamic compromises during emergence in children. Following their study the authors suggested that the decrease of rSO2 may correlate inversely with the fraction of anesthetic concentration (FE) and the duration of anesthesia, and positively with the use of sevoflurane. This is the first report published on the change of cerebral oxygen saturation during the emergence of pediatric anesthesia.
Although brain is the primary target of general anesthetics, it is still the least monitored organ during general anesthesia. Anesthesia is usually managed by using indirect parameters of adequate brain oxygenation because central nervous system (CNS) monitoring is technically difficult and demanding. Furthermore, most CNS monitors are designed to monitor cerebral hemodynamics or electrical activity, including the measurement of intracranial pressure and cerebral blood flow and electroencephalography. Despite the existence of some invasive monitoring systems measuring brain oxygenation, the monitor cannot be performed routinely for all anesthetized patients because of its severe complications. In some surgical field, cardiovascular- and neurosurgery, postoperative neurological complication remains an important cause of increasing morbidity and mortality. Neurologic complications in the anesthetized patient can be followed by a devastating result for the patient and their family. Therefore, monitoring and prevention of neurologic complication are important.
Ferrari et al.  reported the studies about first human cerebral oximetry, using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in 1985. Technology of NIRS has developed to allow continuous, non-invasive, and bedside monitoring of rSO2 by providing information on the balance between brain oxygen supply and demand. Cerebral perfusion is a major factor for regional and global imbalance in oxygen supply and demand, which may result in brain injury. Similar to pulse oximetry, cerebral oximetry is the method to monitor regional cerebral perfusion. While pulse oximeter measures oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in arterial blood, cerebral oximeter measures oxygen saturation in the brain tissue, arterial, and venous blood. Since the ratio of arterial and venous blood is about 15 : 85, NIRS primarily measures cerebral venous saturation, which reflects the oxygen balance in the brain. Several studies reported normative rSO2 ranges from 55 to 77% [3-5]. Because of wide individual variation of baseline rSO2 values, the percentage decreases from baseline of 15-20% seems to be the best threshold indicating the occurrence of cerebral ischemia . Several studies also have shown that there is a significant increase in the incidence of cognitive impairment or neurologic injury in patients whose rSO2 values declined below 50% even in brief periods [7,8].
General anesthesia has the potential to disrupt the cerebral oxygen balance. The results of cerebral oxygen imbalance may range from slight change in cognitive decline to severe neurological complications such as acute brain ischemia with serious permanent functional impairment. Unfortunately, however, these risks remain totally undiagnosed during anesthesia if we do not specifically monitor it. The incidence of neurologic complications is particularly high in patients undergoing cardiovascular operation. For instance, more than 40% of patients undergoing cardiac operations develop cognitive and functional impairment [9,10]. Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is a human model of regional cerebral ischemia, providing an ideal opportunity for validation of cerebral oximetry. Perioperative incidence of stroke in CEA is 5-7.5% [11,12]. Patients with neurosurgical problems, such as vasospasm, stroke, or head trauma, are at risk of cerebral ischemia because of the oxygen imbalance. Moreover, elderly patients are at increased risk for postoperative neurologic complications. Casati et al.  reported that the occurrence of cognitive dysfunction was associated with a higher incidence of intraoperative cerebral desaturation in aged patients. There are many publications supporting that the use of cerebral oximetry in several clinical conditions to guide treatment can result in cost-effective reduction of neurologic injuries and hospital stay. However, further large clinical trials should be required to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of routinely applying this new technology.
If arterial oxygen content and cerebral perfusion are normal during general anesthesia, cerebral oxygen balance is maintained. In general, rSO2 may show upper normal value or higher than the preanesthetic value during general anesthesia because most anesthetics decrease cerebral metabolism (cerebral oxygen demand) while it effects the cerebral blood flow independently. Lee et al.  have reported that rSO2 decreases during emergence in children. Although the decreased rSO2 result is within normal range in the study, it means as increased cerebral oxygen consumption during emergence. It is a predictable result because cerebral oxygen consumption is increased at emergence in comparison with anesthesia maintenance period while the cerebral perfusion is maintained. However, relationship between the decreased rSO2 and FE, and its relation to duration of anesthesia, and use of sevoflurane are questionable. In the reported study, the authors bring up a number of questions worth discussing. As for example, Is the phenomenon observed with intravenous agents? Is it seen in adults too? Does the rapid recovery from general anesthesia intensify the decrease of rSO2? Does the type of volatile anesthesia have a different effect on the rSO2? And is the cerebral desaturation related to the key clinical outcomes, such as emergence delirium/agitation, convulsion, and ischemic events, particularly in children are at cerebral risk? Although the decreased rSO2 is not a clinically significant value in this study, the results give clues to many anesthesiologists about unsolved and unanswered anesthetic problems including emergence delirium/agitation. Therefore, further studies are needed on the change of rSO2 using cerebral oximetry for answering these questions.
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Equinix Goes to Mexico
The colo giant confirms the Axtel data center deal, continuing to position for growth in emerging markets.
Yevgeniy Sverdlik | Oct 08, 2019
Equinix last week confirmed that it is indeed buying three data centers in Mexico from the telecommunications company Axtel. The announcement came a day after Bloomberg reported the deal was imminent.
The Redwood City, California-based global data center services giant has agreed to pay $175 million cash for the facilities, with Axtel retaining a minority stake. All three are carrier-neutral colocation sites and together generated about $21 million in revenue last year.
Related: Wave of Cloud Data Center Growth Forecasted for Emerging Markets
Emerging markets in Latin America, EMEA, and Asia are expected to see a big wave of data center growth, as hyperscale cloud platforms accelerate expansion of their infrastructure there. In some cases the cloud giants will build their own facilities in those markets (see Amazon Web Services' Argentina announcement last week, or Google's Poland announcement the week before). In other cases they will lease space from providers like Equinix. But regardless of how they expand their own building footprint, the customers they serve will need to connect to their networks, and those connections are increasingly done in facilities like Equinix's.
Several recent moves by US-based data center providers show them positioning to benefit from this anticipated growth. Equinix last year partnered with a local ISP to build a data center in Oman and this year announced plans to build a facility in Seoul, its first in South Korea. Digital Realty in 2018 acquired Brazilian data center operator Ascenty and this July announced its entry into the Seoul market.
Equinix's then CEO Steve Smith said in January 2018 that India and South Africa were also on the list (hello there, Google's upcoming Lisbon-Cape Town subsea cable). Equinix also recently expanded capacity at its NAP of the Americas building in Miami, a crucial interconnection point for markets in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Mexico, Latin America's second-largest economy, Equinix expects a boom in data center and interconnection services enabled by former president Enrique Peña Nieto's 2013 antimonopoly telecommunications reform. Newly open competition in the country's telecom markets creates opportunities for more service providers, businesses of the kind Equinix is best at serving.
"As a result [of the reform], Equinix believes there is uncaptured market demand in the region for interconnection and data center services if bandwidth requirements and end-user demand continue to increase as expected," the company said in a statement.
The Axtel facilities are a good fit for Equinix's model. Two of them, serving the Mexico City metro, are in Querétaro, each home to five network service providers. The third, in Monterrey, is a "key connectivity gateway between the US and Mexico" and hosts 10 service providers.
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(-) 1 Corinthians
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The Scandal of Equality in First-Century Christian Teaching
By David Instone-Brewer | September 05, 2004
Gender Equality in Marriage
By Christina Landman | October 20, 2016
Lecture from 2016 international conference "Truth Be Told" in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Symbol of the Veil in the Ancient Near East and Today: Subjugation or Honor
By Cynthia Long Westfall | July 28, 2013
Reframing: An Architectural Design Thinking Process of 1 Corinthians 11:11-12
By Gricel Medina | July 20, 2017
How can we better serve and inform a growing diverse community with an egalitarian theology message that is clearly understood? What are better ways to create bridges of conversation that are not intrusive or divisive?
Why Did Paul Ask Men Not to Cover Their Heads while Asking Women to Cover Their Heads? An Interpretation of 1 Cor. 11:2–16 (Finnish, English)
By Anne Mikkola | October 23, 2018
The workshop offers participants an opportunity to discuss themes according to their interests relating to the details of the passage, its meaning, the culture of Paul's time, and even Paul's theology.
Historical and Cultural Contexts in the Women Ordination Debate
By Philip Owasi | July 22, 2012
The ordination of women has been a contentious issue in the history of the church. For almost nineteen centuries, churches have debated whether women should hold leadership positions within the body of Christ. Despite what women have done in the history of the church, some churches have found it difficult to ordain women to the Ministry of the Word and Sacrament based on cultural tradition. In fact, the question of ordination is still unanswered in many churches today.


"A curious occurrence in an area or two of music and culture is the way in which folk music and folkloric-orientated work, of the underground, acid, psych, wyrd and otherly variety, has come to share common ground with synthesised work and electronica, of a left field and hauntological variety.
"…looking back to some of the early cultural explorations that would lead to A Year In The Country, three of the first albums that provided some of the seedlings, wellsprings or inspirations were The Owl Service's The View from a Hill (2010), Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witchcults of the Radio Age (2009) and the compilation Gather in the Mushrooms (2004).
These wander respectively from a subtly experimental revisiting and reinterpreting of folk rock that has taken the name of a seminal otherly pastoral book and television series (Alan Garner's book and Granada Television's TV adaptation of The Owl Service from 1967 and 1969 respectively), to an overtly experimental sample and synthesiser-created phantasmagorical vocal and dreamlike cut-up exploration of hidden cultural layers and transmissions via a delving and unearthing of late 1960s and early 1970s underground British acid folk.
While often being set rurally, in contrast to much of popular culture which concerns itself with towns and cities, they have come to be touchstones or lodestones that seem to invoke a hidden, layered history of the land but which also encompass and intertwine with a wider hauntological, parallel, alternative version of Britain.
"In the above list the "patterns beneath the plough" are soundtracked by imagined and re-imagined folk music (The Wicker Man), synthesised elsewhere explorations by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (The Changes, Doctor Who and The Stone Tape), spectral yet beautiful choral nightmares (Children of the Stones) and quite frankly still unnerving and experimental collaging (The Owl Service).
All quite different musically/aesthetically and yet all conjuring both (to again quote the A Year In The Country website) "an underlying unsettledness to the bucolic countryside dream" and a Midwich-ian take on the landscape.
If you should consider the descriptions of the above soundtracks, you may well find that a line could be drawn between them, the earlier description of three early A Year In The Country wellspring albums and much of more recent work that could be called hauntological and/or which explores the outer reaches and undercurrents of folk music.


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Scientific photographers produce precise and detailed photos of industrial events and processes. These photos are used by scientists and engineers for training, to monitor industrial processes and for legal purposes, etc.
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An eye for detail, shape, form and colour.
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To be precise in your work and pay attention to detail.
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To keep up to date with changing technology.
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Bonuses may be awarded on top of a salary.
Incidents of unpaid work are high amongst photographers.
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Opportunities occur for scientific photographers to work on a self-employed, freelance basis.
Vacancies are advertised on all the major job boards, on Universal Jobmatch, at Jobcentre Plus and in scientific journals.
It's a good idea to build up a network of relevant contacts, as not all photography jobs are advertised.
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Photographers may be able to move to larger organisations or work overseas.
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GCSEs at grade C and above in your A level subjects.
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A BTEC level 3 National Diploma in Art and Design.
The International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBD).
2/3 A levels. Passes in Photography and Art will be useful.
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To get onto an Advanced Level Apprenticeship, you'll usually need 5 GCSEs at grade C or above, including English and Maths, or to have completed an Intermediate Level Apprenticeship.
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Some universities accept the Welsh Baccalaureate as equivalent to 1 A-level.
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Bayandelger (, Rich expanse) is a sum (district) of Sükhbaatar Province in eastern Mongolia. The population (as of 2009) of the sum is 4,569 including 1,169 in the sum center.

Climate

Bayandelger has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk) with warm summers and very cold winters. Most precipitation falls in the summer as rain. Winters are very dry.

References

Districts of Sükhbaatar Province

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The Dutch Port of Rotterdam witnessed an increase of 3.9% in throughput during the first six months of 2017, mainly driven by the container segment.
The volume of containers handled increased by 9.3% in TEU terms and by 10.4% in tonnes, thereby making it the determining factor for the overall growth in throughput.
Eight out of ten market segments at the port witnessed an increase in volumes, while the only falls were recorded in the volumes of mineral oil products and other liquid bulk.
As dry bulk volumes rose by 5.2%, liquid bulk saw a slight decrease of 1%. Additionally, the port's break bulk volumes flourished with an increase of 10.8%.
A total of 238 million tonnes of goods were handled in the first half of the year.
The market share of Rotterdam by comparison with the other ports in the Hamburg-Le Havre range increased from 29% reported in the first quarter of 2016 to 30.9% in the corresponding period of 2017 in the container sector.
Sea port dues decreased by 0.4% (EUR 0.6 million) to EUR 146 million, while throughput increased by 3.9% because of a fall in some market segments of the average price per tonne due to the prevailing price structure.
Posted on July 21, 2017 with tags Port of Rotterdam, Throughput.


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A: map determines what projection of the table is returned, so you can pick the fields you need and pack them in a tuple:
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With the first weekend of the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival well underway, hopefully most of you have had the chance to catch a show or two already. However, in the event that you are undecided about what you'd like to see this year, need a little more incentive, or have already broken your fringing budget, here's a chance at winning two free tickets to one of the following FIVE shows! Enter to win for any or all the shows you'd like to see and Fringe for Free with a friend! Here are the five shows that are we are giving away tickets for on Sunday, July 8th, 2012.
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From press release: S-27 is a searing drama drawn from testimony of events in the Khmer Rouge's S-21 prison, now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia. Photographs of former prisoners now covering the museum's walls inspired the characters and story of this historic fiction. While the ongoing trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders try to establish responsibility for the events of the 1970s, this play explores personal choice within a society.
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From press release: Bringing together the best of theatre with the best in sketch comedy, Sad People explores the mental illness, depression and general sadness that surrounds our lives – in an unexpected, hilarious format that is one part performance art, one part support group. And with different special guests with new material each night, every performance is a unique therapeutic experience.
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Hangman Theatre is an emerging company from St. Catharines, Ontario – the newly appointed Cultural Capital of Canada. Members include: Gillian Fournier (Toronto Fringe 2011); Geoffrey Heaney (Toronto Fringe 2011, London Fringe 2010); Nathan Tanner Mac Donald (Toronto Fringe 2011, 2010); Michael Pearson (In the Soil 2011); Caitlin Popek (Solar Stage 2011). Crashland was written by Fournier and directed by Mac Donald.
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The Sisters of Salome are a constellation of stars who Belly Dance. The lead Sister and choreographer in this endeavor is Sarah Skinner, an accomplished Belly Dancer who recently re‐located to Toronto after an illustrious 20 year career in New York City.
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Written and directed by Brian Kennington (George and Gracie, The Dream), and featuring a cast of Toronto actors including: Edward Kennington(Dark Water), Roger McKeen (Tamara), Ryan McKeen (The Dream), Brendan Shoreman (Misprint), Gehan Kolamba Tantrege (Like An Old Tale), Sarah White (The Border) and Maya Woloszyn (The Dream).


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DENMARK A nation in northwestern Europe consisting of the Jutland peninsula and many nearby islands in the Baltic Sea. Denmark is part of scandi-navia and shares a common history with norway, sweden, and iceland. They are all home to norse mythology. The vikings are the ancestors of the peo-ple in these modern-day nations.According to a story by snorri sturluson, the goddess gefion plowed the island for Zealand Sjael-land in Danish from the mainland of Sweden, using the strength of her four sons, who were giant oxen. Important archaeological finds concerning Norse myths have come from this country Zealand, for example, has an important collection of rock carvings from the late Bronze Age, which began around 1000 b.c., that portray religious scenes. Two elaborately carved little wagons, which would have carried the gods, came from a site near Dejberg on the Jutland peninsula. Also a tree coffin, where the trunk was carved out to make room for the body, was found near Egtved. The National Museum of Denmark houses many Norse artifacts.
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DENMARK in Norse Mythology. .DENMARK A nation in northwestern Europe consisting of the Jutland peninsula and many nearby islands in the Baltic Sea... Denmark is part of scandi-navia and share. Virtually all of the saga literature came out of Iceland, a relatively small and remote island, and even in the climate of religious tolerance there, Snorri was guided by an essentially Christian viewpoint. The Heimskringla provides some interesting insights into this issue. Snorri introduces Odin as a mortal warlord in Asia who acquires magical powers, settles in Sweden, and becomes a demi-god following his death. Having undercut Odin's divinity, Snorri then provides the story of a pact of Swedish King Aun with Odin to prolong his life by sacrificing his sons. Later in the Heimskringla, Snorri records in detail how converts to Christianity such as Saint Olaf Haraldsson brutally converted Scandinavians to Christianity. Greek goddesses,mythology,norse culture