Kinvara cattle fair was held on Wednesday last, March 4, and must certainly be allowed to be voted the most successful since the fair was first held some twenty years ago. The street was packed about eleven o'clock, and the cattle were something splendid to look at, every one of them being in the pink of condition and of the best description. Buyers were present from all parts of the country and to Mr.Culligan, of Briarfield, belongs the honour of securing the biggest lot of well finished animals. He purchased over eighty, and was accompanied by Mr John Clune. Several other buyers were present from Limerick, Maynooth, Dublin and other places throughout Ireland, and prices unheard of for years were paid for two and three-year old cattle. In fact people were astonished with the prices they obtained. Dealers from Gort, Kilbeacanty, and Scariff made large purchases for other fairs. Many hundreds exchanged hands in a few hours at fancy prices. Even local dealers offered strong competition. The success of the fair now seems to be well assured for all future time.
Kinvara horse and calf fair was held on Wednesday last in February and was better than people expected. A big supply of colts and working horses, which were selling so cheaply for the past twelve months changed hands at prices very much enhanced in value for the approaching spring. The demand for the show horse is coming back to take his usual place in the farm again, notwithstanding the attempt that was made to oust him on the farm and road. A big number of calves from six months to twelve months brought from Limerick and Cork, found a ready market, and good prices seemed to rule all round.
Kinvara markets are just now going strong, and are well supplied with potatoes of the best kind. A great variety of new seed, notably Kerr's Pink, whose name as disease resisters is famous, are now raised in the district, and command big prices, followed up by Arran Victors a good second, and Aran Chiefs, and a variety of others too numerous to mention. The Department of Agriculture is purchasing largely in the district, and sending the seeds all over the country. Early potatoes are realizing up to 3s per stone, and there seems to be an abundant supply of all kinds.
Kinvara pig fairs have taken a most decided upward tendency. The last one showed a most decided improvement in prices, the only fault being that people did not ask enough. Pigs paid over 70s per cwt and a hundred were disposed of at that price. A great number of buyers were present from Limerick, Cork and Waterford, and Galway is now sending its quota to swell the number and promises to continue it. The monthly fairs are a great boon now for years, and people are more than satisfied with results and competition. The fairs and markets' committee should now hold monthly fairs and markets all the year round. Large bonham markets are now held as a result and prices have gone up as high as £2 10s each, and in some cases more.


You wake on the morning you're scheduled to give your MFA graduation residency lecture with severe double vision and dizziness. The room is spinning as you plant your feet on the floor. Not good. You've experienced bouts of imbalance and an inability to coalesce your eyesight before: the episodes started three months earlier, but were temporary, lasting just a few minutes at most. As you dress and prepare to head to campus for a day of lectures and workshops ahead of your own lecture, the disorientation continues unabated and your anxiety swells, not just from the expected nervousness in anticipation of public speaking, but from the distinct possibility you will be unable to read your script, see the PowerPoint images on your computer screen, or worse, keel over in mid-presentation.
The title of your lecture is "How to Own a Short Story: Tobias Wolff's Bullet in the Brain." In retrospect, the choice of subject story proved ironic.
You start by recollecting the ailments suffered during each semester of MFA study: Atrial flutter, detached retina, fractured elbow, and you joke not to worry if you pass out at the podium, your doctor is certain it wouldn't be from a stroke or heart attack. Nervous laughter…you know you look like hell. But somehow you make it through, even the Q&A, and, gradually over the next week your balance and vision improves — and you graduate!
No, your retinas are fine.
You head off for four days of golf and fun with your golf buddies, a hard-earned break before focusing again on the novel-in-progress you nearly completed during MFA studies.
By the last day of golf a severe numbness starts in your left arm. It feels like the arm "fell asleep" while pressed too long in a funny position, but rather than correcting itself with stretching and motion, the discomfort persists. You meet your wife the next day and the numbness switches to your right arm. You try to ignore it and go to sleep.
When you awake you know something is seriously wrong: your right side is numb from face to toe. Your brother-in-law, the neurosurgeon, tells you to get to the hospital—NOW!
You lie on your side, fetal position, the IV dripping away, sterile environment: the doctor wears a mask, your wife banished from the room. You feel her hand exploring the indentations of your vertebrae, the Novocaine syringe at the ready. "This will pinch," she says. It does, followed by pressure, and then she massages the area, working the anesthetic into position. You don't look at the needle—whatever the gauge—that she readies. The area is fully numb, way beyond the loss of sensation from the lesions (three in the brain and one in the neck), and you feel only the pressure of her steady fingers, framing the vertebrae where she guides the needle. You only peek once to see the clear fluid flowing slowly into awaiting receptacles. It takes a while, your spinal fluid taking its own sweet time, but before too long it is all over, and soon the IV is done as well and you are discharged to a new reality.
The steroids will ease the worst symptoms, but you will have another flare-up one week later. It will settle after a couple days, but the instability, right torso numbness, and eyesight too often seeming like you're peering through unfocused binoculars, will persist, along with fingertips unable to register a pinprick. You will go through another round of MRIs, this time "enhanced," and more blood tests, your health insurance deductible blown away (the out-of-pocket bills still weeks from delivery), and you will fly to DC to consult an specialist MS neurologist (a friend of your brother-in-law, the neurosurgeon, whose advice—and sister!—you literally now can't live without) who will confirm the diagnosis and recommend you begin monthly infusions of Tysabri, a highly effective medication at stopping disease progression, may even reduce or eliminate the lesions, three in the brain and one in the neck. But that will have to wait until your appointment with a hometown neurologist; the earliest available slot scheduled the week after Labor Day.
You know you need to get back to work on your novel, be disciplined—write something. You were warned before graduation how easy it is to experience a post-MFA letdown; you knew something was physically wrong, but this is ridiculous. Still, with magnifying glasses you can read your computer screen, books too; hopefully the worst is over, your brain will rewire, and it can't hurt to get back to work…right?


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Police: Couple charged with having sex at 150-foot SkyStar on Cincinnati Reds Opening Day
Sarah Brookbank Max Londberg
Cincinnati Enquirer
A couple was arrested Thursday after police said they had sex in front of children at the SkyStar Wheel at The Banks in downtown Cincinnati.
Michael Mathisen, 30, of Florence, and Lauren Wilder, 31, of North College Hill, were taken into custody at about 6 p.m. on Opening Day at the SkyStar Wheel, a 150-foot observation wheel that is temporarily in Cincinnati.
Todd Schneider, a SkyStar managing partner, said by phone Friday evening that staff members spotted the couple as their gondola completed its revolution and neared the ground.
"The couple made eye contact and continued doing what they were doing," Schneider said. "They weren't thinking correctly. It's a festive day, festive environment."
The incident occurred a few hours after the first pitch of the Cincinnati Reds' 150th season.
Court documents said Mathisen and Wilder were both intoxicated.
More:SkyStar wheel at the Banks staying for 6 more months
The couple "engaged in sexual intercourse in the open in front of children and adults," a complaint states.
Children were in the vicinity of the crowded area as the couple's gondola approached the ground, Schneider said, but "it was over in just an instant."
The couple rode their gondola alone.
"The gondolas being all glass, fully exposed – it was just a bad situation. ... There's really nowhere to hide in there."
Staff hit an emergency "kill button" to stop the ride, and an off-duty police officer responded. The officer was hired "in anticipation of any type of incident like this or a rowdy crowd," Schneider said.
Similar incidents have occurred at other SkyStar locations, he added.
Coverage of this incident has prompted multiple cities to reach out inquiring about the SkyStar, Schneider said. One person even called from Brussels.
Wilder was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct and booked into the Hamilton County Jail at around 6:30 p.m. She was released on her own recognizance at about 11:30 p.m., jail officials said.
Mathisen was arrested on one count of disorderly conduct while intoxicated and was housed at the Hamilton County Jail. He was released from jail Friday afternoon.
SkyStar continued operations after the incident.
Crews clean the gondolas regularly, Schneider said. The company once considered installing cameras in the gondolas but decided not to because "people do weird stuff in a closed space."
"I think we're probably lucky if that's the only thing that happened," he said. "Nobody got hurt."
The SkyStar Wheel has 36 enclosed and climate-controlled gondolas, each holding up to six passengers. The rides will last 12 minutes and include four revolutions.
More than 100,000 people have ridden the wheel since its arrival in September 2018.
SkyStar extended its agreement and will remain in Cincinnati until June and possibly later.
"We'd love to stay there longer," Schneider said. "We think it's a great location, love the town."
Enquirer media partner Fox19 contributed to this report.
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Q: How to draw a representative gaussian random walk? I would like to draw (as in, with a pen on paper) a line chart that is representative of a Guassian random walk defined as the sequence of random variables $(Y_t)$ where $t = 0, 1, 2, \dots$, such that for $t \geq 0$, $Y_{t+1} = Y_t + \epsilon_t$, $\epsilon_t\sim \mathcal{N}(0, 1)$ and $Y_0 = 0$. That is, start at $y = 0$, and to find the $y$-position at every subsequent integer time-step, draw a variate from the standard normal distribution and add it to the current position.
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I am not sure whether this is a good drawing or not. How should a visualisation of a random walk be constructed?
For example, one study that asked people to write down sequences of coin tosses found that people underestimate the number of times the same toss comes up in a row. Two quotes from the study:

Can you decide, in sixty seconds or less, which of the sequences is more likely to have arisen from actual coin tossing and which one is the imposter?

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In students' simulated patters, the longest run of consecutive heads or consecutive tails is almost invariable too short relative to that which tendsto arise from actual coin tossing.

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3 males under age 5 (William, Andrew and James).
1 male age 20-30 (John).
1 female age 20-30 (Rosannah).
John Hanshew, age 39, born in Tennessee; farmer; $600 real estate; cannot read or write.
Rosanna Hanshew, age 38, born in Kentucky; cannot read or write.
William Hanshew, age 14, born in Indiana.
Andrew Hanshew, age 12, born in Indiana.
James Hanshew, age 10, born in Indiana.
Barbary Hanshew, age 8, born in Indiana.
George Hanshew, age 6, born in Indiana.
Amos Hanshew, age 4, born in Indiana.
Margaret Hanshew, age 3, born in Indiana.
Samuel Harbit, age 21, born in Kentucky; laborer.
Living nearby in 1850 were brothers Jacob and Amos.
1850 census, Madison Township, Tipton County, Indiana; roll M432-176, page 266, line #37, dwelling #416, family #416.
1850 census, Madison Township, Tipton County, Indiana; roll 176, page 266, dwelling #416.
James R. Hanshew death certificate.
George J. Hanshew death certificate.
Margaret Jane Hanshew death certificate.
Counties Indiana", Vol. 1, Page 478; Lewis Publishing Co., 1898, Chicago.
Indiana Marriages to 1850; http://www.ancestry.com.
1840 census, Walker Township, Rush County, Indiana; roll M704-93, page 192.


A couple of years ago, there was not a good place for fairies at the Mountains Branch Library. There were some flowering trees and a few bushes behind the library, in Rutherford County, east of Lake Lure. But, the ground used to be pretty bare, says seven-year-old Delaney Cullen.
"I didn't like that it was just red clay," she says. She thought there could be something better there—a garden. They would grow food for people. There would be stepping stones and tunnels. Birds, bees, and butterflies would come. Lizards could live among the rocks. There would be hidden gnomes for people to find. And a fairy garden.
At the time, she was just five. How was a little kid going to do all that?
In this video from 2017, five-year-old Delaney talks about her vision for the garden.
Delaney's mom, Cathleen, is an early childhood educator and her dad, John, is an environmental educator. Together, they founded Life Roots, LLC. Originally from Massachusetts, they had been living in Charleston, SC—but they wanted to move closer to the mountains. Four years ago, they bought five acres in Sunny View, in Polk County, where they pursue their interest in permaculture, raising chickens and a garden. "We have our own piece of heaven," John says.
During the Party Rock fire, John wanted to go up the mountain to fight the blaze but he wasn't trained for that, so he and Cathleen coordinated donations of supplies for evacuees and emergency workers instead. Afterward, John says "I wasn't done giving to the community"— so, he joined the local volunteer fire and rescue squads. The family, with Delaney, also volunteered fostering shelter animals and supporting food plots in low income neighborhoods.
Sitting at a picnic table at the library this March, John described how, when Delaney was four, she wanted to take part in a workshop with local cartoonist Steve Barr.
Meanwhile, the family frequently visited their local library. They talked with Joy about her vision for the library as a community hub that engages people with reading, nature, and art. John was leading environmental education programs at the library and thinking about how to enhance natural areas on the site. There was a steep mowed bank beside the parking lot—maybe they could plant an orchard there?
Delaney asked why they couldn't grow a garden by the back door instead. "Well, why not?" John responded.
So, when Steve let them know that the Pollination Project—which gives small grants every day to change-makers across the world—was looking for young people with positive ideas, they applied for a grant. At six, Delaney was the youngest person in the world to receive a Pollination Project grant.
They called her idea "The Little Garden That Grew." Delaney wanted to make a garden at her library, then a garden at her old school, then a garden at her new school. But to create even one garden, they'd need some support.
Two grants—from the Pollination Project and the the Hickory Nut Gorge Foundation—provided $1,800. But plans for the 1,400-square-foot library garden would take $8,000 in materials alone: wood for a pergola, plus gravel, pavers, benches, stones, weed control fabric, organic soil, plants, and more.
Businesses donated materials. People hand-painted pavers, illustrating concepts like shapes, numbers, butterfly life cycles, or phases of the moon. Volunteers helped build the pergola, make paths, and grow plants. Last summer, the garden was producing flowers, herbs, berries, watermelons, tomatoes, peas, squash and much more—even loofahs.
The little garden might keep growing. Delaney still wants to start gardens at her schools. And the local health district is interested in creating more gardens like this one that offer people fresh produce for free.
A number of toy gnomes are hidden in the garden, but Delaney commented with disappointment that there was not a fairy garden.
There were plenty of things you could make one with, though. There was a slanting rock that fairies could slide down. Specks of white quartz gravel, if you lined them up, made a path. The velvety leaves of lambs-ear were perfect for sofas and beds. Carefully placed moss in a tiny plug of dirt would help entice the fairies to this spot. If she was a fairy, Delaney said, she would come out at night. And her name would be Midnight.
Delaney picks lambs ear for a fairy garden.
This article is by Rose Jenkins Lane, the communications director for Conserving Carolina. She writes the monthly Stories of the Land series which is published in the Hendersonville Times-News.


The Minister of Education is hereby authorized to charge ₱10, ₱15 and ₱20 as fees from persons applying to teach in the elementary, secondary, and collegiate schools, respectively, before granting them a license to teach, which fees shall constitute a special fund to be known as "Teachers' Certification and Licensing Fund" to be disbursed by the Minister of Education, with the approval of the President of the Republic of the Philippines, for expenses entailed in the examination, certification and licensing of teachers, and for such other expenses as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of Executive Orders Nos. 10 and 44, dated November 30, 1943, and March 31, 1944, respectively.
Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of the Republic of the Philippines, the first.


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Four youth gangraped by feeding sleeping pills to a teenager in Gujarat
Women's Commission chairperson seeks report from police chief in gang rape case
Ahmedabad. The case of rape by a dalit girl in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, was still not resolved. Meanwhile, two embarrassing cases were reported from Jamnagar and Mahisagar districts of Gujarat. A 17-year-old teenager was raped by four men in Jamnagar. Police have arrested three accused in this case. The incident of gangrape from Jamnagar has caused a lot of outrage among the people. In Mahisagar district, a woman was raped by two youths. Two of its accused have also been arrested by the police.
It has been reported that four youths raped her in Jamnagar on 17-year-old minor by feeding them sleeping pills. The teenager is admitted to the hospital. A police complaint has been filed against four people in this case on Sunday. Police have arrested the three accused on the basis of the complaint. While one person is absconding right now.
The second incident is reported Saturday. A poor woman was raped by two youths in Santrampur town area of Mahisagar district. For the last 15 days, two youths were threatening a poor woman of Santrampur Nagar Tehsil area. It is alleged that both the youths called the woman to her house and raped her. The victim alleged that the youth threatened to kill her along with both her children. The victim has lodged a complaint at Santrampur police station. The Santrampur police have arrested both the accused. It was learned that both the accused had raped. Both the accused were repeatedly blackmailing the victim and repeatedly raping her against her will.
These incidents of rape have been taken seriously by Gujarat State Women Commission chairperson Lilaben Ankolia and ordered an inquiry. He has sought the report of the gang rape case from the Mahisagar police chief.
Also read this news: Hathras scandal: The chief secretary and director general of police said with folded hands to the victim's family – you can stop the ruckus, then the father gave this answer


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Dr. Nicole Patton Terry is the Olive & Manuel Bordas Professor of Education in the School of Teacher Education and Associate Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research at the Florida State University. Her research, teaching, and scholarly activities concern young children with and without disabilities who struggle to acquire language and literacy skills, in particular, children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and children living in poverty. Focused primarily on children in pre-K-3rd grade, her work includes experimental, intervention, and evaluation studies of reading, writing and oral language development, achievement, instruction, and professional development. Dr. Terry's research has been supported by various organizations, including the Spencer Foundation, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Institute of Education Sciences, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the United Way of Greater Atlanta.
As an associate director in the Florida Center for Reading Research, Dr. Terry directs The Village—a center responsible for creating and maintaining research-practice partnerships with diverse community stakeholders, including early childhood education centers, schools and school districts, state departments, philanthropic and nonprofit groups, and civic and business leaders. Taking a collective impact approach, The Village strives to promote reading achievement and school success among vulnerable children and youth.


So You Think You Know Oil. Maybe Not.
I hang around educated and talented people. Each individual has at least one university degree. Most read, watch, or listen to more than one news source every day.
They span generations with ages ranging from the 20s to the 70s. Yet, not a single person among them knew the answers to some basic questions pertinent to the growing discourse regarding the rising price of oil. A few knew some of the answers, and some knew a few of the answers. To be fair, I had to look up the answers, or else I would have been among the shoulder shruggers.
For instance, how big is a barrel? Answer: 42 gallons. So, now you know that when the price for a barrel of crude oil hits $140, that's the same as $3.33 a gallon without refinery costs or taxes.
What nation supplies the most crude oil and petroleum products to the United States?
According to the Energy Information Agency (www.eia.doe.gov) our country supplied 41 percent of the oil we consumed in March of this year. What nation, other than the U.S., supplies the most crude oil and petroleum products to our country?
Our northern neighbor accounts for 12 % of our nation's oil usage and 20 % of all the oil we import. The rest of the top five include Saudi Arabia (7 % and 13%); Venezuela (6% and 11% ); Nigeria (6 % and 10 %); and Mexico (5 % and 8 %) that leaves 23% usage and 38% of imported oil from all other countries.
How much oil do we import from Persian Gulf countries?
I'm glad you asked. Persian Gulf countries accounted for only 16 percent of our foreign oil imports each year from 2005 to 2007. In fact, our Persian Gulf imports declined most of this decade, from a 15-year high of a little more than 1 billion barrels in 2001 to 791.9 million barrels in 2007.
What's the difference between crude oil and petroleum products?
Answer: Crude oil provides, among other products, gasoline, diesel and jet fuels, heating oil, lubricants, asphalt, plastics, synthetic fibers, detergents, fertilizers, ink, crayons, bubble gum, deodorant, tires, and heart valves. One barrel of crude oil (which is 42 gallons, remember?), yields about 19.6 gallons of gasoline. The other 22.4 gallons go into the products just mentioned.
How much of the cost of oil goes into the price of gasoline?
Answer: A bunch. We consumed about 390 million gallons of gas a day last year in our cars, trucks, recreational vehicles, boats, farm implements, and construction and landscaping equipment. Back when crude was $68 a barrel (that was just last year), it accounted for about 58 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline. The rest of the price came from refining costs (17 percent), federal and state taxes (15 percent), and distribution and marketing (10 percent). By the way, the price of crude accounts for about 77 percent of the cost of gas at $4 a gallon.
Here's a little something you may not have considered. What products that you buy on a regular basis are sold with tax included?
Answer: Gasoline. For everything else, you add the tax at checkout.
The folks in California pay 63.9 cents a gallon in state and federal fuel taxes, the most in the nation. That's just the base, though. Motorists there also pay an additional 6-percent state sales tax, with some paying another 1.25-percent county sales tax plus applicable local sales taxes. Same in Illinois, where Chicago motorists pay 12.75 cents per gallon on top of the 57.9 cents per gallon in state and federal taxes.
Some Illinois motorists also pay a 6.25-percent sales tax.
Politicians, pundits, and other TV talking heads don't like to provide these answers, because facts get in the way of positions that pander to the mob. We don't point fingers at Canada, because it's de rigueur to paint the Saudis with the broad brush of blame. Folks float the idea of a moratorium on state and federal gasoline taxes without explaining its minimal impact on gas prices or without mentioning the $3 sales tax some motorists pay on top of a $50 fill up. Policy makers don't explain that oil trades in the dollar, which is weak vis-Ã -vis the Euro, because that would require solutions for strengthening the greenback. And, it's easier for simple minds to convince simpler minds to impose windfall-profit taxes on pension funds and owners of Individual Retirement Accounts who invest in oil companies than to take on credit card issuers charging double- and triple-digit interest rates to the millions of people using plastic to pay for food and fuel.


We currently have multiple active and vibrant committees that welcome participation and are inducting the positions of Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer – if you can serve as either let us know.
We are also using this event as a donation drive for the homeless shelter and Valley youth house. Economic difficulties are daily occurrences for persons and are all too common in the realm of impermanence and uncertainty. As practicing Buddhists we vow to embody generosity, simplicity, compassion and gain understanding at the deepest roots of interdependence.
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1) Georgetown Law Library, Statistics & Empirical Legal Studies Research Guide, (Updated June 2010)
2) Chicago-Kent School of Law, Empirical and Non-Legal Research Resources Guide, (Updated August 10, 2010)
3) While not specifically providing a research guide, the Empirical Research Support site of Goodson Law Library at Duke University provides links to training tools, data-sets, and other information to assist empirical legal researchers.
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Empirical Research in Law, Empirical Legal Studies or Scholarship? Why is empirical research in the law important?
While there has been some debate regarding the proper name for and definition of empirical research in law, for purposes of introduction, this guide accepts the explanation put forth by John Baldwin and Gwynn Davis in Chapter 39 of the Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies:
"...empirical research in law involves the study, through direct methods rather than secondary sources, of the institutions rules, procedures, and personnel of the law, with a view to understanding how they operate and what effects they have. It is not a synonym for 'statistical' or 'factual', and its intellectual depth and significance are not determined by the empirical label ...
Pauline Kim, University of Washington School of Law, put it similarly:
Empirical legal scholarship involves methods developed in the social sciences and is different from traditional legal research in that it "systematically explores facts about the operation of the law and legal institutions."
Empirical research is important because "there are important questions in the law and about legal institutions that can't be answered" through the traditional textual analysis methods of research. For example, if a researcher is interested in researching the impact of selecting a particular rule of law on the decision making of individuals and businesses. Textual analysis would not shed light on a topic. However, we can certainly understand how an argument for a judgment accepting a particular rule of law would be strengthened by including evidence on the likely effect on "actors in the real world."
Pauline Kim, Do We Have the Numbers? Empirical Research in Law – International Law as a Case Study, Program at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting (July 10, 2006)
Funding for Empirical Legal Research
Conducting empirical research often involves significant costs, including the costs associated with collection or accessing data. As a result, empirical researchers may need to seek funds from grants awarding organizations and other funding sources. Academic researchers may find the institutional Office of Research can provide assistance in locating information about grant awarding institutions as well as assistance in preparing grant proposals. If the services of a Research Office are not available, some of the resources below will assist the researcher in seeking funding.
American Bar Association Section of Litigation Research Fund
The Litigation Research Fund was established by the section to support original and practical scholarly work that significantly advances the understanding of civil litigation in the United States. Projects addressing issues of low-income individuals' access to civil justice are of particular interest to the section and legal academics as well as social scientists and scholars from other disciplines are invited to apply for funding of their research.
All discretionary grants offered by federal grant-making agencies can be found on Grants.gov. Federal grant applications can also be submitted online via this site.
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Insitutional Review Boards
Empirical researchers are often required, before they begin the research, to obtain approval of the research from an Institutional Review Board (IRB). They may also be required to submit periodic progress reports to the IRB. Academic researchers may find that the Office of Research can provide useful information or guide the researcher through the IRB Process.
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Swift Current woman reaches out to those grieving the loss of a child
Thursday, January 3, 2019 in Maternal Services, Volunteers
Diana Donaldson's plans to raise her first son, Ethan, were shattered when he was delivered stillborn at 36 weeks old.
To honour her son, the Swift Current woman supports other women who have lost a child at the Cypress Regional Hospital, as she did.
Diana Donaldson, her husband Jason Elder with their sons Bryden, Burton and Ryder (from left).
Donaldson and her husband, Jason Elder, found out they were pregnant with a boy in 2007. They were thrilled after having a miscarriage in 2006.
At 36 weeks pregnant, Donaldson went to see her doctor for a check-up and everything was fine. But by the next day, Donaldson no longer felt her son moving in her womb.
"The doctor confirmed there was no heartbeat. The next morning I had to be induced," said Donaldson. "He was a baby. A fully-formed, six-pound, 13-ounce baby."
Ethan Donaldson-Elder was delivered into the world on Nov. 1, 2007. He never took a breath, never saw his parents with his own eyes— it was complete heartbreak for the couple. Donaldson was not prepared for this to be her reality.
Fast forward 11 years and Donaldson and Elder have three healthy sons— Ryder, Bryden and Burton.
"If someone asks me how many kids I have, I usually say four. If they ask further details though, it can be hard to explain."
To teach her sons compassion, empathy and to shine a light in Ethan's name, Donaldson has made several donations over the years to the Mother and Baby Unit of her local hospital on or around Ethan's birthday.
Diana Donaldson (seated, right) with the blankets she donated to the nurses of the Mother and Baby Unit at the Cypress Regional Hospital. Staff will distribute the adult-size blankets to women grieving the loss of a child and the baby blankets to new parents. Back row (from left) :Tiffany Wilkins, Lauren Wells, Brandi Zacharias, Brianne Radtke and Lacey Duncan. Front row: Stacie Empey and Diana Donaldson.
This year she donated handmade blankets for new babies to go home with and adult-sized blankets to comfort women like her, who have lost a child.
"That way they can have something to take home from the hospital."
One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage and nearly 10 per cent of babies were delivered stillborn between 2014 and 2017, according to Statistics Canada.
"That's why I'm so open about my story. When it happened to me, I didn't know how to process it. The day before I had had a healthy check-up — this is not what's supposed to happen. But it does happen, and I want these moms to know they're not alone."
It's not always blankets Donaldson donates. Once, she donated engraved jewelry that said, "I'll hold you in my heart until I can hold you in heaven." Sometimes she just visits the staff and brings coffee.
This year, along with blankets, Donaldson and her boys brought bags of toys for staff to give to children who have to be in hospital on Christmas Day.
Her sons are actively involved in these projects and know about their brother Ethan. Donaldson has always been open about her loss. She hopes these kinds of conversations can make things a little easier for other grieving mothers. Improvements made by the Cypress Regional Hospital have certainly made things a little easier, she said.
Donaldson nurtures her relationship with staff on the Mother and Baby Unit and has participated in some pregnancy- and infant-loss ceremonies.
"The nurses know they can always contact me if one of the moms is going through a hard time. I don't shy away from telling it like it is and sharing my story because I know it can be lonely."
Staff on the Mother Baby Unit now offer to take pictures for grieving parents. Donaldson took her pictures of Ethan at the funeral home.
"It was just unheard of back then to do that, but now it's different."
Lastly, the hospital has a cuddle cot that is cooled by a small, quiet, refrigeration appliance. This gives new parents the gift of precious time to spend with their children in their room. As this was not available in the past, babies were swiftly whisked away to the morgue.
Despite the trauma Donaldson endured, she can't say enough about the care she received in 2007, and since then, delivering her three boys, and once more, when she suffered complications from a miscarriage in 2008.
She's also thankful for the "top notch" care she and her family continue to receive today. The young family visits their hospital frequently. Just recently Donaldson's youngest had his tonsils removed.
"I always feel very grateful for the care we receive. They're so good here. We're so blessed to have these doctors and nurses, as our journey to being parents was not an easy one."
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Sometimes life just throws lemons at you and you start to feel off track. Here are 8 principles to consider to help you create more balance in your life and how to develop a healthy living routine.
Ensure that 50-70% of your diet is fresh fruit and vegetables. In particular, eating fruit and vegetables in their raw state provides increased nutrition. Eating a wide variety fruit and vegetables, rather than the same ones, will help increase a diverse vitamin and nutrition intake. Although fried fatty foods to some are irresistible, try to avoid them if you can.
Park the car further away and enjoy a short walk.
Get off the bus one stope earlier and walk the rest of the way.
Meet friends for a walk instead of coffee and cake.
Drink 8 glasses of water a day. A handy way to ensure you get your liquid intake is to have a sipper bottle with you the whole day.
The sun is our primary source of Vitamin D, so aim to get 10 minutes a day. When you are out in the sunshine, it makes you feel really good!
Temperance is considered a virtue and it is all about controlling one's self. For a healthy lifestyle, drinking in moderation and avoiding cigarettes and drugs is a great start to creating balance. Essentially, we want more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff!
Breathe is essential to life. For many, breathing too quickly may lead to anxiety and hyperventilation. 6-10 breaths per minute from your belly is optimal, so it is best to slow down if you are faster than this. A good book to read is "Breathing Matters" by Jim Bartley.
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The National Primate Research Centers have been responsible for groundbreaking advances in pluripotent stem cell research since 1995. (See timeline.) Scientists use pluripotent stem cells as a basic research tool to understand the human body, for pharmaceutical development and drug toxicity testing, to screen for environmental compounds that may be harmful to humans, and for preclinical tissue and organ transplant studies. Embryonic stem cells come from leftover lab-fertilized embryos donated by patients at in vitro fertilization clinics. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) are genetically reprogrammed skin, fat or other mature cells that act like embryonic stem cells but can be derived from an individual's own cells to study and potentially treat a particular genetic or degenerative disease in that individual.
As pluripotent stem cell research moves from bench to bedside, large animals such as nonhuman primates, pigs and sheep are becoming more important for preclinical studies. For example, researchers are using heart, bone, and retinal cells grown from both ES and iPS cells to regenerate healthy cardiac tissue after myocardial infarction, lost bone and cartilage due to joint injury or degeneration, and retinal cells to restore vision in patients with juvenile and age-related macular degeneration.
Pluripotent stem cells can also be used to grow mesenchymal stem cells, which are normally found in bone marrow but are difficult to extract in large quantities for basic and preclinical research. Clinicians hope to grow large numbers of mesenchymal stem cells from a patient's own iPS cells, to regenerate bone marrow for cancer treatment: There are not enough matched bone marrow donors and even autologous (self) bone marrow extraction, cryopreservation and transplant after cancer treatment is a risky process and not always successful. Mesenchymal stem cells and related types of stem cells are showing potential for therapeutic, protective and regenerative benefits in other tissues and organs as well.
NPRC scientists are also using iPS cells to grow dopaminergic neurons for researching Parkinson's disease therapies, pancreatic beta cells for diabetes studies, and motor neurons to study ALS. One NPRC scientist is interested in using iPS cells as a source of cells to produce oocytes for fertility treatment in cancer survivors who suffer from ovarian insufficiency. Nonhuman primate models will be the critical stepping stone between many of these basic stem cell research studies and human treatments.
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Vodyanik MA, Bork JA, Thomson JA, Slukvin II. Human embryonic stem cell-derived CD34+ cells: efficient production in the coculture with OP9 stromal cells and analysis of lymphohematopoietic potential. Blood. 2005 Jan 15;105(2):617-26. PMID:15374881. PMCID unavailable.
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Tarantal AF, Lee CC, Batchelder CA, Christensen JE, Prater D, Cherry SR. Radiolabeling and in vivo imaging of transplanted renal lineages differentiated from human embryonic stem cells in fetal rhesus monkeys. Mol Imaging Biol. 2012 Apr;14(2):197-204. PMID: 21479709. PMC4224287.
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There are currently 138 publications available for Induced pluripotent Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine.
Fine Tuning of Canonical Wnt Stimulation Enhances Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells Independent of β-Catenin-Mediated T-Cell Factor Signaling.
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Functional Heterogeneity of Endothelial Cells Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.
Stem cells and development 2018 Apr; 27(8): 524-533.
Leukemia inhibitory factor regulates marmoset induced pluripotent stem cell proliferation via a PI3K/Akt‑dependent Tbx‑3 activation pathway.
Int. J. Mol. Med. 2018 Jul; 42(1): 131-140.
Optimization of culture conditions for the derivation and propagation of baboon (Papio anubis) induced pluripotent stem cells.
PLoS ONE 2018 ; 13(3): e0193195.