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Jason Geis started the Collaboration In Memoriam: Finishing F*cking Forty panel at C2E2 with a touching video that gave the audience a warm introduction to Ed Siemienkowicz. The video showcased how light-hearted and fun Siemienkowicz was on camera with his friends and gave a glimpse as to why he was so influential to the Chicago comics and art community. Geis was joined by Siemienkowicz's partner Vanessa Walilko, Jill Thompson, Selena Marina, Ali Cantarella, and Darick Maasen to remember their friend and discuss their involvement in F*cking Forty.
F*cking Forty was Siemienkowicz's autobiographical comic about the worst year of his life that ended with him diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He started drawing thumbnails and going forward with the project, but he passed away in 2017.
"Ed talked about F*cking Forty the entire time we were dating," Waliko admitted. "It was something he thought was his life's work. He knew this was his important story to tell." Siemienkowicz was working with comic book cartoonist and Chicago-based creator Tim Seeley for notes and guidance with hopes that this book would propel him to do more professional work in the comic book industry. Sadly, Siemienkowicz was only able to complete one page from his project before the stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
"When Ed was sick in the hospital I promised him I would finish it for him," Waliko said. "Thankfully, everyone else Ed knew decided they wanted to finish this book too because Ed didn't just talk about this book with me but he literally talked about it with everyone." 150 comic book artist in Chicago and beyond have banded together to help finish this project for publication.
"When Ed Passed away nobody really knew what to do with themselves because Ed was in recovery — we had worked a lot with Ed to do fundraisers and seen him get better," Massen said. "Ed had this brave face when you talked to him all the time that gave you the feeling he was going to be OK. I saw him last and I could tell he look a little frail — he was still so brave."
When Siemienkowicz passed away, Maseen and Marina organized a memorial in their backyard where nearly 50 friends and cartoonist gathered to celebrate his life. The group quickly started organizing to help finish comic. Maseen and Marina are currently managing and developing the project alongside Waliko. The project has garnered some publicity in Chicago and they're currently developing a Kickstarter to raise funds to publish the anthology.
Cantarella was reluctant to join the project because she was romantically involved with Siemienkowicz during his one year. "We pursued a romantic relationship that did not go in a positive direction, but resulted then in an extremely positive friendship for the next four years," Cantarella shared. "I think that speaks to Ed that he was the type of person that you could potentially fail at one thing with and then result in something more incredible and much better."
Thompson volunteered to raise money for the Edstravaganza benefit when he was diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer. "The one thing that was true about Ed is that whenever you around him it didn't matter if you were with him for five minutes or knew him for five years — you felt immediately connected to him, and he made you feel better in general about anything," Thompson said. "Just being part of one page of this was an honor."
The F*cking Forty timeline can be followed on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for more information.
Additional reporting by Henry Barajas.

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- Keld Villadsen, Instructor (Patient Moving & Handling)
Operating Raizer requires only one nurse or careworker which can alleviate stressful situations, as the lift can be performed swiftly and easily without the helper having to wait for assistance.
The patient can be lifted from the floor to an almost standing position in just a few minutes - even in locations with narrow spaces. In this way, the nurse can quickly move on to the next task.
With Raizer you can perform a safe and comfortable lift and the helper avoids strain on e.g. back and arms.
The lifting chair ensures an automatic, stable and safe lift and thus is gentle for both the helper and the patient.
Raizer requires only a brief introduction training and is easy for the helper and any new staff to operate.
Raizer is easily transported using two handbags; one for the backrest and legs and one for the seat/engine. The bags weigh 28.6lbs in total.
Raizer can be transported with a trolley or carried on the back and/or by hand. If the Raizer must be transported up the stairs, you can click on stair wheels for the Raizer trolley.
Supplementary equipment: Bags, trolley with bike bracket and stair wheels for Raizer trolley
Raizer is easy to disinfect and clean after use. It is possible to purchase hygiene covers for the seat which can make the cleaning a lot easier as the cover is disposed after use.
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Fall Service Changes set to take your commute to the next level
Our busiest week of the year for commuters is the first week of September. That's why we're having one of our largest service increases to date! It's the first time we've ever increased all three of our modes at once!
We do quarterly service changes to accommodate the needs of our customers. This time around, we're rolling out more bus, more SkyTrain and more SeaBus service starting September 3.
By the numbers:
- 24 new SkyTrain cars (six trains)
- 40,000 more annual bus hours
- 50 per cent more SeaBus capacity
More Bus
More than 40,000 added service hours are rolling out through 12 permanent bus increases. Highlights of the permanent increases include:
503 (Langley Centre/Surrey Central):
We're upgrading it to limited-stop express service!
Monday to Friday
- Service every 8 to 9 minutes during peak times
- Every 10 to 15 minutes during day-time off-peak hours
301 (Newton Exchange/Brighouse Station)
- Every 30 minutes from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
- New double-decker buses are coming in October!
N17 (Downtown/UBC NightBus):
To help improve late-night connections to UBC
- 30-minute service until 5:00 a.m. (toward downtown)
- 30-minute service until 4:30 a.m. (toward UBC)
Other popular routes receiving permanent increases include:
5 Robson/Downtown, 6 Davie/Downtown, 7 Nanaimo Station/Dunbar, 19 (Metrotown Station/Stanley Park), 49 Metrotown Station/Dunbar Loop/UBC, 99 Commercial-Broadway/UBC, 112 Edmonds Station/New Westminster Station, 116 Edmonds Station/Metrotown Station and 342 Newton Exchange/Langley Centre.
Back to school! Post-secondary increases are coming to the following eight routes:
9 Boundary/Commercial-Broadway/Granville/Alma, 25 Brentwood Station/UBC, 28 Capilano University/Phibbs Exchange/Joyce Station, 125 Patterson Station/BCIT, 130 Metrotown/Pender/Kootenay Loop/Capilano University, 145 SFU/Production Way-University Station, 258 UBC/West Vancouver and 480 UBC/Bridgeport
More SkyTrain
The 24 new cars, or six trains will bring:
- 5 per cent more capacity on the Expo Line during peak times
- 9 per cent more capacity on the Millennium Line during peak times
More SeaBus
We're sailing away from 15-minute service and introducing 10-minute sailings during peak hours. That's 50 per cent more capacity during peak hours!
Peak hours are:
- Weekdays from 7 – 9:30 a.m. and 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Know before you go! Plan your trip using our Trip Planner at translink.ca/tripplanner.
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By Nav, August 19, 2019 @ 3:40 pm
For 112 what does permanent increase mean??
By Eugene Wong, August 19, 2019 @ 8:10 pm
Naw, for #112, the permanent increase is here to stay throughout next summer, and probably the 2 weeks around Christmas. Seasonal service is only for the summer or certain times of the year.
By Juan, August 20, 2019 @ 12:05 am
I am all in for the 503 upgrades. However, having the service leave from bay 10 at Surrey Central is a big mess waiting to happen. It's almost as if we built the new stationhouse for nothing.
By Britney, August 21, 2019 @ 1:54 am
It's about time the Millennium line is getting more trains
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Schizophrenia Drugs Market Worth $7.9 Billion by 2022 | CAGR: 2.5%: Grand View Research, Inc.
08 Nov, 2017, 11:00 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO, November 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
The global schizophrenia drugs market is expected to be valued at USD 7.9 billion by 2022, as per a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. The schizophrenia market is anticipated to be collectively driven by improved drug delivery technologies, availability of Long-Acting Injectables (LAIs) and increase in patients seeking treatment. The major features assisting uptake of novel drugs would be fast onset of action, accessibility to patients, efficiency and high patient compliance.
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Schizophrenia imposes substantial burden on patients, their families and the overall society. Increasing awareness among patients and physicians in the field of mental health, particularly schizophrenia is likely to increase the penetration of these drugs in the market. Currently, second and third-generation antipsychotics capture significant market share. Pipeline drugs, undergoing clinical trials intend to block specific subtypes of serotonin and dopamine receptors which would help minimize the symptoms, modulate increased dopamine levels and further improve memory.
The growth in schizophrenia market is anticipated to be primarily driven by the arrival of late-stage pipeline products, such as Intra-Cellular Therapies' ITI-007 and Alkermes' ALKS-3831 which are directed towards the treatment of negative symptoms; however, there are significant unmet needs in the schizophrenia treatment space. Poor understanding about the exact disease mechanism remains, preventing the discovery of a therapeutic breakthrough. Hence, there is a need for innovation in drug delivery technologies for the treatment of this debilitating disorder.
Browse full research report with TOC on "Schizophrenia Drugs Market Analysis, By Therapeutic Class (Second-Generation, Third-Generation Antipsychotics), By Treatment (Oral, Injectables), By Major Markets, And Segment Forecasts, 2016 - 2022" at: http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/schizophrenia-drugs-market
Further Key Findings From the Report Suggest:
- The global schizophrenia drugs market is segmented by therapeutic class into first, second and third-generation antipsychotics
- Few of the prominent players operating in this industry are Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb/ Otsuka Pharma, AstraZeneca, Sumitomo Dainippon, Eli Lilly, Alkermes, Vanda Pharma, Allergan and Pfizer
- Several market players are expected to work upon serving the unmet market needs, identifying new targets and consequentially develop stronger drug pipelines
- The market share captured by generics is expected to grow by 2022, due to branded drugs losing their patent exclusivity and becoming generic
- Regionally, among the EU5 markets, Germany captured the second position in the global schizophrenia drugs market. Japan is expected to witness the fastest growth over the forecast period
- China and India are emerging as an opportunity for market expansion
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- Antiseptics And Disinfectants Market - http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/antiseptics-and-disinfectants-market
- Inhalable Drugs Market - http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/inhalable-drugs-market
- Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Devices Market - http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/coronary-artery-bypass-graft-devices-market
- Hospital Acquired Disease Testing Market - http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/hospital-acquired-disease-testing-market
Grand View Research has segmented the global schizophrenia therapeutics market based on drug class and treatment:
- Therapeutic Class Outlook (% Market Share; 2016 - 2022)
- Second-Generation Antipsychotics
- Risperdal (Risperidone)
- Invega (Paliperidone)
- Zyprexa (Olanzapine)
- Geodon (Ziprasidone)
- Seroquel (Quetiapine)
- Latuda (Lurasidone)
- Aristada (Aripiprazole Lauroxil)
- Fanapt (Iloperidone)
- Saphris (Asenapine)
- Vraylar (Cariprazine)
- Third-Generation Antipsychotics
- Abilify (Aripiprazole)
- Others
- First-Generation Antipsychotics
- Generics
- Second-Generation Antipsychotics
- Treatment Outlook (% Market Share; 2016 - 2022)
- Oral Antipsychotics
- Injectable Antipsychotics
- Regional Outlook (% Market Share; 2016 - 2022)
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Spain
- Japan
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- B.S., Environmental Chemistry, Western Washington University, 1988
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When a schizophrenic woman arrived at the
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, she was nauseous, terribly weak, and confused. Several doctors tended to her and performed lab tests. Their patient was severely anemic and suffering from kidney failure. One of her family members said that she had swallowed some coins.
The physicians examined an X-ray image of the frail woman's abdomen and found a clump of pennies in her intestine. To help it come out, they gave her some laxatives.
Later, it became clear that the bunch of coins was still stuck, so the doctors used an endoscope to peer into her digestive tract.
The corroded cluster of coins was stuck in her stomach – not her colon. It was heavy enough to make the digestive organ sag deep into her abdomen, which made it look like the money was in her intestine.
They had to operate.
When the surgery was over, the medical team had found five hundred and eighty-five pennies, seventeen nickels, twelve dimes, eight quarters, one Deutsche mark, three screws, and a rock.
In a report to the Journal of Emergency Medicine, which is already available online, Saurabh Dhawan, Katherine Ryder, and Elizabeth Pritchard explained that the unfortunate woman had suffered from zinc poisoning. Pennies are coated in copper, but their insides are made from the toxic heavy metal.
Stomach acid had dissolved the shiny surfaces and exposed their cores. Once the metal was free to react with the gastric juice, it became zinc chloride, which passed through the lining of her intestine and played havoc with her liver, kidneys, pancreas, red blood cells, and bone marrow.


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It is obvious that at the time of writing this piece, both Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) and the Treasury, who are custodians of monetary and fiscal policies, respectively, are over the moon with this talk in town about Malawi's regained single digit inflation.
Over the past six years, authorities have been battling double-digit inflation—the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services rises— and only to win this war in August 2017 when headline inflation plummeted to 9.3 percent. This was, and is still good news worth smiling about.
Basic facts on the ground are clearly in tandem with such a trend largely because the country is in the midst of bumper yield. At the same time, there is still a ban on exports, thereby artificially suppressing maize prices, which traditionally dictate inflationary trends.
It was between 2007 and 2011, when Malawi enjoyed this single digit inflation due to a stable exchange rate during the fixed exchange rate regime and also owing to recurring good maize harvests then.
But since December 2011 (9.8 percent rate), it was apparent that both fiscal and monetary policy experts had lost plot and were grappling to maintain price stability. This did more harm than good as it saw purchasing power for many Malawians dwindling drastically over the past years.
Now going back to this news that we are back to the single digit lane, there is need to celebrate this with caution.
Going by a flurry of writings on social media, it is evident that there are some segments of society misinterpreting this single-digit inflation buzz.
Some are still smiling ear-to-ear thinking that prices of bread, cooking oil, sugar, maize and other basic goods and services will begin to go down, courtesy of single-digit inflation. This is economically absurd.
If this single-digit inflation is sustained in the short to medium-term, it simply means that the speed at which commodity prices would rise will be reduced. In economics, it is understood that with declining inflation, prices of basic goods and services would still increase, but at a decreasing rate.
In macro-economic lens, falling inflation rates generally pose as a conducive environment for monetary authorities to implement expansionary monetary policy which, among others, involves cutting interest rates or increasing money supply to boost economic activity.
Tellingly, this short-term period of disinflation has created room for other economic factors such as interest rates and the exchange rate to improve.
This year, RBM has slashed the policy or base lending rate twice from 25 percent to 22 percent and then to 18 somewhere in July. In response, banks have followed suit by cutting their respective lending rates, albeit with unsatisfactory small margins.
It is evident that in Malawi and elsewhere, prudent fiscal policy, when combined with far-sighted monetary policy, pays-off dividends.
High and persistent inflation over the past years was a creation of a disconnect between fiscal and monetary policy, combined with other exogenous (external) factors such as weak agricultural output, volatile international oil prices, among others. But a concoction of all these created a special kind of inflation called supply push inflation (as opposed to demand pull inflation) which has been tormenting Malawians hard, by eating into income levels of many.
Recent high inflation coupled with high interest rates that peaked to around 45 percent in some banks, created a weak private sector investment atmosphere, a slowdown in household consumption, and consequently, pulled down high economic growth rates trajectory.
Don't put into oblivion also that recent huge appetitive by treasury for domestic borrowing also played a role in delaying this much-anticipated single-digit inflation, while exerting pressure on interest rates, let alone crowding-out the private sector.
In my view, this single-digit inflation is one of the indicators that the Malawi economy needs to sustain over a long period of time for the economy to turn the corner or achieve stability. It should not be the ultimate policy goal but rather the desired path.
In other words, the attained single-digit inflation should be deemed by politicians as a necessary condition but not sufficient enough to stabilise the economy.
Economic stability entails a stable macroeconomy which has constant output growth as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), low and stable inflation as well as low public debt, among other macro-economic variables.
It is also high time monetary authorities moved the policy away from inflation targeting to interest rate targeting to spur production. By lowering interest rate, inflation tend to skyrocket in the short run because people access cheap capital. However, in the medium to long run, high output floods the market and this brings down inflation, ceteris paribus (holding all other things constant).
As it stand now, monetary and fiscal authorities cannot afford the luxury of being complacent with declining inflation rate. The onus is on fiscal and monetary policy experts not to exercise laxity but rather tighten all loose nuts.
Unless recent macroeconomic gains such as stable exchange rate, declining interest rates, and some level of fiscal discipline, are consolidated, the country may run the risk of falling back into the abyss of double-digit inflation pit.


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Our survey of more than 2,000 double glazing customers has revealed a big difference between the best and the worst double glazing companies.
We asked the customers of independent double glazing firms plus big brands Anglian, Everest and Safestyle to tell us about their experience of buying double glazing. The results may surprise you.
After crunching the data, we calculated a customer score for each double glazing company in our survey – this allows you to easily compare them to see which is the best. We discovered that the top-rated company achieved an impressive customer satisfaction score of 86%.
By contrast, the double glazing company at the bottom of the table scored just 56%. This is 30 percentage points lower than the top-scorer.
To find out who took the top spot, and who was left far behind, read our double glazing reviews.
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We calculate a customer score for each double glazing company in our survey. This allows you to easily compare the companies.
Our customer score combines how satisfied people are with the double glazing company and whether they would recommend it to a friend.
To dig deeper into each double glazing company, we also asked customers to rate a number of sales and installation factors. That includes quality of products and installation, customer service, value for money, knowledge of staff, and mess during and after the installation.
The highest-scoring company was rated as 'excellent' for all but one element, after sales support. Even then, it was still rated as 'good'.
But where it really stood head and shoulders above its rivals was for value for money, customer service and how well the installers communicated. The other double glazing companies scored 'fair' or 'poor', whereas our top-scorer was 'excellent'.
Buying double glazing
The majority of people we asked (53%) said the reason they chose the company they used was because the salesperson didn't make them feel pressurised.
We've heard of instances where a salesperson quotes a high price at the start, but drops it dramatically during the course of a visit. Don't let this persuade you to sign a contract there and then.
Instead, aim to get three quotes (35% of people we surveyed only got one) so you get a fair price and have some time to think. Ask that each quote includes details of all products, materials, work and costs, as well as optional extras, so you can easily compare them.
Choose an installer that's registered with a Competent Persons Scheme, such as Fensa, as it means they can self-certify that their work complies with building regulations.
Find out what sales tactics you should expect – read our full guide to double glazing sales and quotes.
(Online survey: August 2016. We asked 2,239 Which? members who had double glazed windows/doors installed in the past five years about their experiences.)
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Anthony Kay idolizes Steven Matz. One day, he may be able to call him a teammate.
The University of Connecticut left-hander from the same Long Island neighborhood and high school as the Mets southpaw was picked by his hometown team Thursday night in the first round (31st overall) of the MLB First-Year Player Draft.
"They were the team that was hottest on me going into the draft," Kay said in a phone interview. "It's awesome. It's probably one of the best days of my life."
Kay was taken by the Mets in the 29th round of the 2013 draft, but opted to go to college instead following a standout career at Ward Melville and developed into one of the best college pitchers in the country, a 6-foot lefty with a devastating changeup and fastball that tops out in the mid-90s. He's a fierce competitor, like Matz, to whom he has looked up for years. Matz, drafted in the second round of the 2009 draft by the Mets out of high school, set the bar for Kay.
"It was pretty cool to see him have a lot of success and bump all the way up to the first round," Matz said. "I'm really excited for him."
Matz attended Kay's starts on occasion and the two began working out together in the offseason. Kay went 9-2 with a 2.65 ERA for UConn this year, and pitched the Huskies to the NCAA Tournament with two victories in a four-day span in the AAC Tournament. Mets scouting director Tommy Tanous said while Kay's velocity spiked at UConn, his command also got better, which impressed the Mets.
"He made improvement in all facets of his game," said Tanous, in charge of his first draft.
Ward Melville coach Lou Petrucci said: "Steven Matz graduated [from Ward Melville] in 2009. The first pitch of the 2010 baseball season for us was thrown by Anthony Kay. It's just unbelievable. I don't think people [around here] would be happier if they won Mega Millions."
Kay and Matz were never teammates in high school — Kay was in eighth grade when Matz was a senior — but they could join forces in the major leagues one day.
"I'm very determined," Kay said. "It's just the start of hopefully a long carer."
Kay wasn't the only Long Island native the Mets took. With their first selection, No. 19, they selected Boston College right-hander Justin Dunn.
The 6-foot-2 Dunn features a fastball that has reached 99 mph with a put-away slider. A high-level scout said Dunn is "extremely athletic with excellent arm speed." He hails from Freeport, L.I., but attended high school in Connecticut, at the Gunnery School.
The move came as somewhat of a surprise, after the Mets were heavily linked to power-hitting Wake Forest third baseman Will Craig. Dunn and Kay are the first pitchers the Mets have selected in the first round since taking Matt Harvey in 2010.
With the trade of top prospect Michael Fulmer for Yoenis Cespedes last July and the promotions of Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Matz, the Mets' system has been light on high-end pitching prospects. But they hope they got two of them to add to the mix now.
Dunn was Baseball America's 22nd-ranked prospect, and he has progressed a lot in a short period of time, going from a reliever to a starter this year. He has gone 3-1 with a 1.34 ERA in eight starts while striking out 49 and walking 13 in 47 innings.
Tanous said the Mets' view of Dunn "changed quite a bit" once he became a starter and helped Boston College reach the NCAA Super Regionals, where the Eagles will face national powerhouse Miami this weekend.
With their final pick of the evening, the Mets took slugging University of Florida first baseman Peter Alonso in the second round (64th overall), using all three of their picks on college players.
"It just played out that way," Tanous said.
— Additional reporting by Ken Davidoff


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Here is my Spoilers Loot...Check it out...Yarn..Candy.."Trailer" Dishcloth..Candy..Pattern..Candy..Duduza Doll..Candy..Soaps and a Soap Caddy for the shower..Candy..My Swapper done me good! Love it all and I Thank You Maria, we will keep in touch...I do not know yet what I am going to fashion into the Blue Mission Cotton..You'll be the first I show! Shannon, you touched me with your words and pics of your loot, so Glad you enjoyed...You can stalk me anytime! We will keep in touch too!
I never win anything, I am just not lucky like that. I have purchased lottery tickets, raffles tickets, been a Good Doobie but I never seem to have the lucky number. Devon posted a little Contest,I answered all questions correctly...Low and Behold... I won the booty...A Skein of Debbie Bliss Cotton in my fav green and a Book of Monogramed Notepaper...Thank you so much Devon!...I found a beautiful "Vineyard" pattern, all leaves at different angles, I am going to knit and build into a pillow! I'll post it one day...
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This week in history
United States and North Vietnamese officials agreed to begin peace talks in Paris.
A general strike escalated in France, shutting down newspaper distributions, air transport and two major railroads and moving the country nearer to the brink of a radical leftist revolution.
Forward Pass, ridden by jockey Ismael Valenzuela, was declared the winner of the Kentucky Derby after Dancer Image was disqualified due to doping.
The Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship 4 games to 2 over the Los Angeles Lakers.
William Styron won a Pulitzer Prize for literature for his 1967 novel, "The Confessions of Nat Turner."
And on Shelter Island . . .
SIA eyes water woes
The Shelter Island Association (SIA) launched a water conservation effort 40 years ago.
The group took a three-pronged approach — retention and recycling; elimination of leachates that are substances, often pollutants, that leach into groundwater; and education.
The effort resulted after the Town Board received a report from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) that the water supply was for the population and even a slight increase at the time. But a large population increase coupled with concerns about septic systems polluting the water supply were concerns.
POSTSCRIPT: Forty years later, new Supervisor Gary Gerth has made water quality and quantity a top priority issuing a 17-point plan, some of which has already been implemented by the Water Advisory Committee and helped along by grants from the Water Quality Improvement Projects Advisory Board.
The USGS is still on the job, conducting water quantity and quality testing.
Island brush fires have some burning
The year was 1988 and burning of yard brush was still allowed by individuals, but the Suffolk County Department of Health Services issued a statement that it had concerns about the local burning affecting people with respiratory or circulatory problems.
Before permits could be issued by the town's two fire chiefs for burning of brush, there was a need to protect peoples' health.
Neighbors at a Town Board meeting complained that some brush burning taking place on private properties threatened to get out of control and they further questioned whether allowing permits to be issued by the two fire chiefs was sufficient protection.
Both chiefs — Larry Lechmanski and Bridg Hunt said they provided a list of conditions with permits they issued, including burning limited to brush with no use of accelerants and a requirement that such burning be attended to until the fires are out.
POSTSCRIPT: Today, the state limits burning for specific purposes and town code highly regulates what can be burned and how such fires must be supervised.
Lyme vaccine on the way?
Of great interest to Islanders who were besieged with ticks and suffering from tick-borne diseases, the Federal Food and Drug Administration was considering the release of SmithKline Beecham's (now GlaxoSmithKline) Lymerix vaccine.
It was finally sanctioned and released and widely hailed, but as the months passed and patients began reporting side effects, it was finally withdrawn from the marker after only a couple of years.
POSTSCRIPT: By the end of 2016, there were clinical trials being launched for a vaccine by a French company, Valneva. It is similar to Lymerix, but targets six types of ticks instead of the one targeted by Lymerix. It went into Phase II trials but has yet to be released.
Baxter, an Austrian company, had previously tested another vaccine candidate in a combined Phase I/II trial, but the company seems to have abandoned development.
Meanwhile, as a precaution, Island doctors have begun treating patients who have been bitten by a tick with antibiotics even before receiving confirmation that they have developed Lyme disease.
Residents concerned with Cablevision transition
Can it be just 10 years ago that a Cablevision representative showed up at a Town Board meeting to announce a transition from analog to digital programming? In fact it is and Islanders were told by Joan Kilroy, the spokeswoman for the company, they would be given free cable boxes for one year if they were current Cablevision analog customers
Anyone who chose not to take the offer would be losing access to several channels that would no longer broadcast in the analog mode, including Arts and Entertainment, C-Span, C-Span 2, The Learning Channel, the Animal Channel and Sci-Fi.
Residents weren't happy with the news.
POSTSCRIPT: Today, there are residents on the Island who still want the Town Board to negotiate a better contract with Cablevision. They complain about service here, including one of this year's nor'easters that knocked out their service. At issue was that many customers weren't on the Island when they were notified of a loss of electricity that proved not to be true. Instead, PSEG workers were hustling house to house, only to discover it was Cablevision, not the electrical lines that were out.
Further concerns arose when old poles that should have been removed by both Cablevision and Verizon were still lying on the ground or, in some cases, leaning toward trees, houses and other wires when they should have been removed. Some of that work is finally underway.


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Breaking News : Wenger To Sign 2 Free Agent Strikers
We all know Arsenal is short up front and we know how Wenger tried but failed to sign Luiz Suarez, Gonzalo Higuain, Wayne Rooney and on the very last day of the transfer Demba Ba. Although the window is closed but clubs can still sign players who are free agents and if reports from Spain and Italy are to be believed, Arsenal are on the verge of signing either Ciprian Marica or Joseba Llorente on a free transfer.
Ciprian Marica was a target for Arsenal in the just concluded transfer window but nothing came out it but after failing to land his more rated strikers, Wenger is now said to be considering signing the player on a free transfer. Marica is a 27-year-old Romanian international with 21 goals in 63 matches for his country. He was recently released by Schalke 04. Aside Schalke, he has played for Stuttgart and Shakhtar Donetsk.
Joseba Llorente on the other hand is a 24 year old Spanish. He is to some extend prolific having scored a total of 19 goals in 2008/09, 15 coming in La Liga for Villa real. He also had spent three years at Real Valladolid, where he scored a total of 57 times in 3 seasons.
The fact that both players will be coming on free and on wages that can be said to be cheap when compared to others may delight Wenger.


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The Canadian political scene is offering remarkable levels of drama these days. Four senators charged with fraudulent claims for living and travel expenses; a personal cheque for $90,000 given by Nigel Wright, the prime minister's former chief of staff, to help out Senator Mike Duffy; Prime Minister Stephen Harper accused of covering up his own awareness and tacit approval of the Wright-Duffy cheque exchange; the resignation of Senator Mac Harb amidst investigations; colleagues said to have had personal vendettas against Senator Pamela Wallin; Senator Patrick Brazeau claiming back-room deals . . . Hundreds of thousands of tax payers' dollars are alleged to have been misspent. And somehow, this is distracting attention away from the fact that former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's gas plant fiasco is costing taxpayers a billion dollars instead of the forty million he originally claimed it would cost. A billion is a thousand million in Canada, so it's costing twenty-five times more than Premier McGuinty said it would. Hmmmm . . .
I think I'm supposed to be feeling outrage. "How can they justify using our tax dollars so arrogantly?" is the expected response when politicians abuse the public purse. "He lied to us! He should be held accountable!" "Their story keeps changing. You can't trust any of them!" These types of comments make sense given the unfolding narrative – in all its variations. But the feeling that strikes me most when I listen to the news these days is a distinct lack of indignation about it all. I don't find any of it shocking.
Our journey out of debt has necessitated an honest look in the mirror. As I've acknowledged my own faults in dealing with money, I've learned to forgive myself and move on. Having done so, I'm not inclined to thirst for revenge when it comes to the faults of others – even politicians. Some senators have apparently overstepped the bounds of justified expenditures. I've done that countless times. Many powerful people are denying that they've done anything wrong. I know what it is to be in denial. Accusations are flying as different interpretations of complicated spending regulations are put forward. Didn't I just write about financial bickering last week? Senators are claiming they've followed the spending regulations as well as advice from their superiors. Their superiors are backpedalling, and the spending regulations are being exposed as a quagmire of confusion. I've contributed to the financial chaos that results when communication is lacking and understanding is uncertain. That's why I'm in debt.
I know that there are limits to a comparison between my personal financial foibles with those of public figures who are using public funds and who must be held to a higher standard of accountability. And of course I want justice to be served. Of course I believe that those who have breached public trust should receive appropriate consequences. But I also hope that there will be no politically expedient scapegoating. And I hope that we won't indulge ourselves in eager, bloodthirsty assassinations of character.
Here is my advice to our political leaders:
- Let the investigations continue.
- Let due process take its course.
- Clarify regulations regarding expenses and make sure they are effectively communicated.
- Acknowledge bad practice and formulate the remedy for it.
- Recognize systemic problems inherent in the current scandal. It's not just about a few lone senators.
- Mete out appropriate consequences to individuals, but avoid a witch hunt.
The mess surrounding this Senate Scandal is familiar to me personally. And given the fact that Canadians' average debt-to-income ratio is 165%, I think it should be familiar to most of us. Outrage misapplied does nothing but lash out its blame and accusations as it defends itself in stubborn denial. What's needed here is a disengagement from the chaotic rage-fest. What's needed is honest discernment and openness to change. What's needed is sober second thought.
Comments are welcome!
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Challenges and opportunities for a European cultural diplomacy strategy
In a recent policy brief, Tamas Szücs and Anna Triandafyllidou identify a number of challenges that need to be addressed in order for the EU to become more efficient in furthering its international cultural relations and to ensure a more profound integration of culture into its foreign, security and development policies.
First, coordination is key both at central and local levels during the whole process and among all actors concerned. Beyond governmental institutions, such as ministries and national cultural institutes, the process should also involve non-state actors at local and regional levels, such as cities, cultural associations, artists and curators, as well as international organisations, such as UNESCO and the Council of Europe. Their involvement should ensure smooth and efficient actions avoiding overlaps and duplications by the EU, the Council of Europe and UNESCO.
Second, the involvement from the beginning of all cultural stakeholders in the co-creation and co-curation of products and services, such as film festivals, art exhibitions, fairs and laboratories, should create a sense of co-ownership of projects and initiatives, which is a basic condition for their success.
There is no one size fits all model; each world region and country requires a different approach and pace. In some cases, for example, crucial demands, in terms of livelihood security, education and basic infrastructure, need first to be met before it is possible to engage in any cultural activity. In other cases, creative and cultural industries become the main sources of livelihoods for people who would otherwise remain unemployed and marginalised. In some regions of the world a city level approach works best, in others the emphasis should be more on engaging with regional or national players.
Co-creation presents important value challenges. The question that arises is whether the EU's cultural projects for development, mobility and exchange should focus on the issue of having a shared value basis between the EU and the third country involved, or if, instead, they should have a common set of cultural creation goals and seek to build bridges and forge common values between the participating countries.
In addition, one should not forget that countries are internally heterogeneous, as they may be composed of different regions and often embrace native and migrant minorities. In this context the role of diasporas deserves special attention. Most importantly, in both Africa and Asia borders have been drawn by colonial powers cutting across or bringing together different ethnic and linguistic communities. Taking into account such variety and complexity, and building it into cultural projects is a must for an EU strategic approach for international cultural relations to be successful.
Last, but certainly not least, sustainability, active communication and promotion should accompany all actions. Projects need to run for a certain period of time, or be repeated at regular intervals, in order to prove and measure their positive impact on community relations and development. Selected audiences, beyond the participants, should be informed about concrete projects using targeted messages, directly as well as via social media and through audiovisuals, in order to increase their impact and create a virtuous feedback-loop.
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I started this Tombstone cake with a Wilton 12×15 sheet cake pan and trimmed the upper edge to a curved shape. I iced the entire cake with light grey buttercream icing. The letters, angel, roses and leaves were molded candies made from Wilton candy melts. The angel was made from a plastic mold I found at Hobby Lobby. It's not a candy mold but worked perfectly.
The letters, leaves and roses were made from candy molds. I used dark chocolate candy melts and added Candymaker black coloring gel I found at Hobby Lobby. To make the black buttercream I used for the vine, I added Wilton black color gel. To get a true black (or red), you must use an entire small container of the gel and tint at least 24 hours prior to using as the colors deepen as it "rests".
The cake is really easy to make it's the candy decorations that are the most time-consuming but it's worth it for the depth it adds to the cake.Everyone who saw it said it gave them "the shivers" because it looked so realistic.


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Wednesday, May 16, 2018 | 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Renaissance Hotel | Alameda Santos, 2233 – Cerqueira César, São Paulo – SP, 01419-002, Brazil
Please join us for our second of a series of three executive events on Brazil to be held in 2018. Following our first event in January that set the expectations for the year ahead and explored some of the fundamental challenges that multinationals would face, this event will look specifically at the October 2018 election, providing scenarios and potential implications for multinationals operating in Brazil.
While the Brazilian economy is clearly in recovery mode, the election in October will be critical for determining the ultimate magnitude, speed, design, and duration of that recovery. Now is a critical time for multinationals to align on potential impacts of different electoral outcomes to prepare to succeed under varying market conditions.
We hope you can join us for a highly interactive discussion about risks and opportunities for your business with other key multinational players in the region.
Event Agenda:
✓ Brazil Business Outlook and Executive Sentiment – 8:00am
✓ Scenarios and Implications of Presidential Elections and Global Trade Disruptors – 8:30am
✓ Strategies for Winning in Post-election Brazil – 9:00am
✓ Closing Remarks – 9:45am
Please note that breakfast will be served
Space is limited – please fill out the form on the right to reserve your spot!


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The Wizards come from Bilbao in Spain. They were originally formed in the spring of 2013. After having recorded a four-track demo the band started gigging for earnest in February 2014. Since then The Wizards have released two studio albums and toured mainly in Spain but also in France, Portugal and Germany. »Rise Of The Serpent« is the bands third album. We are determined to carry the flag for hard rock and heavy metal all around the globe and make all headbangers happy, states guitarist Felipe.
We picked the name just because it sounded good, but also meaning what we do is kind of magical, explains Felipe. We don't seem to be very original picking names, but we will be the best wizards you can get! The bands slogan is "Occult Heavy Metal Warriors", what's that supposed to mean and how would The Wizards describe their overall musical style? What we play is a totally unconscious mix of styles we all share and like. There definitely is a strong and obvious heavy metal background in our music, but if you scratch the surface you will also find some 1970s hard rock, a piece of the doomy element and even some punk. We like rock n roll and blues music in all their forms. We are interested in occultism, spiritualism and all the alternative religions against mainstream monotheism. We feel our music is a weapon against the modern world and that our band is on a magical war against it. We are gonna win this personal battle against this rotten modern corporate society with loud guitars and catchy epic vocals.
Our city has many bands doing many different styles, but heavy metal or hard rock bands are not very usual right now in Bilbao, comments Felipe on the current state of his hometown scene. And there is not that many rock and heavy metal clubs to play downtown. Surrounding cities like Barakaldo are way more active and interesting than Bilbao. Barakaldo, where we have our rehearsal room, has a great rock/metal scene and many clubs to play. We wanna make Bilbao rock again, as it did in the 1980s, when the punk rock scene was wild and amazing. You just have to listen to bands such as Eskorbuto, M.C.D., Vulpess and Distorsión to understand how good the scene was back then.
Perhaps its indeed The Wizards who will make Bilbao rock again. The new album »Rise Of The Serpent« might turn out to be the most important tool for them to achieve their goals: We are very happy with how the record turned out. The main difference to the previous record is that we used a different studio to record the demos. Our producer wanted a big old room to record the drums the old way. You can really feel the difference sound wise on the drums. We also used old 1960's and 1970's microphones and gear. We recorded the best album we could. We honestly think this is our best recording so far, both musically and production wise.
"Age Of Man" is the stand out track on the new record. Felipe comments: Of course we love our Lizzy, and our UFO as well ha, ha. This is the boogiest song on the album album, for sure. We wanted the first single of the album to be catchy, rocky and with a 1960's poppy feel. I think we managed pretty well to make our wishes become reality with this song.
Bearing in mind the bands slogan, are The Wizards listening to Occult Rock by other bands at all, and if so, is it only old masters like Coven and Black Widow or also newer bands such as Lucifer or Blood Ceremony? We like all of those bands, but we don't usually go looking for some occult record to listen to, is the straight answer to this question. We just like rock and roll music in all its forms. We are really happy that we are gonna be sharing a stage with Coven soon, it's like a dream come true. Lucifer's new album is amazing, we would love to tour with them in the future as we are big fans of Nicke's other bands The Hellacopters, Entombed and Death Breath. He is one of our musical idols for sure. We also love the most famous current occult band Ghost.
Spain itself has a long and fruitful history of metal bands, starting in the late 1970s. Are there any classic Spanish bands of importance to The Wizards, like Baron Rojo, Angeles Del Infierno, Obus, Panzer, Zarpia, De Kalle, Trafalgar, or the like? I personally love early stuff by Baron Rojo, Obus and Angeles Del Infierno, but as a band our influences come from England, America, Germany and Scandinavia, says Felipe. This being said, we gotta admit that Muro and Santa are very interesting. Spanish bands from the 1980s that every metalhead should check. But if we gotta recommend any band from our land, the Basque Country, this has to be Su Ta Gar, the pioneers of the genre, the first ones to sing in our language Basque and being absolute masters doing it.
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" You have to have faith for it to work."
These words are from the movie – The Vampire Slayer. It was said by the main protagonist in the movie and since, has been the inspiration for me in everything I do or believe.
I believe that giving it back to the society is the greatest satisfaction one can get in fulfilling one's duties towards the nation. I recognize the virtues of honesty and compassion in evolving as a concerned and conscious citizen.
The HCN Trust and Educational Society, established in the name of my father Late Shri Harish Chander Nanda (IRS), is dedicated to social and spiritual causes. In the year 2008, the trust constructed the tallest statue of Hanuman Ji at the highest point in the world at the Jakhoo Temple, Shimla. It took two years to build the statue, and it was completed in 2010.
We also founded Health Charitable Trust for helping cancer patients. The health charity is committed to easing the pain of those who have cancer. It is my humble contribution in helping those who need it most.
I have been involved with many social events and was present at the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji during his visit to the US in September 2014 at Taj Pierre, Manhattan.
I was awarded entrepreneur of the year award in 2013 by Sh. T. K.A Nair, principal advisor to the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, and the chairman of Bank of India Smt. R. Iyer.
My new venture with a UK-based company for developing On Board Condition Monitoring (OBCM) for the Indian Railways was showcased to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi during his visit at the Rail Shivir 2016, along with the then Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar. We are the only exclusive partner in India to represent the JV.
I featured as a Young Turk in a CNBC list of first generation entrepreneurs.
We have been winning the award as the top exporter of toothbrushes from India for five years in a row. The award is given out by the PLEX Council promoted by the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.
I fully endorse the spirit of Swadeshi being propagated by Baba Ramdev, challenging the supremacy of the multi-nationals. I am fortunate to have been working very closely with Baba Ramdev Ji and his company which is India's largest FMCG enterprise. Baba Ramdev has proved that age-old local remedies can be turned into a successful health mantra. Looking inwards is a new philosophy in business introduced by Baba Ramdev who has worked wonders in transforming the FMCG sector taking the multi-national giants head-on and creating India's second largest FMCG Company and which is poised to take the Numero Uno position in the coming years.
Going forward and in the same spirit, we will set up Patanjali outlets at all the airports of the country, and the journey towards this commenced with the first outlet getting inaugurated on January 18, 2018, at the T2 terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Safety of passengers is supreme for the Indian Railways and the use of advance technology for fault detection is the hallmark of the world's fourth largest rail network undergoing rapid modernization.
On Board Condition Monitoring Systems (OBCMS) is the one-stop solution for preventing onset of bearing failures and detection of faults on the tracks to ensure safe rides for the passengers.
The wayside detection systems being used today have proved to be error prone. The advanced sensor-based OBCMS is attached to the wheels of the train for constant monitoring of the health of the wagon, locomotives and coaches.
How it works
The next generation self-powered Wireless Sensor Nodes (WSN) are fitted on each wheel of a wagon, coach or a locomotive. The sensors collect health data of the bearings and tracks and transmit it on 2G, 3G and 4G networks. The sensors record data pertaining to vibrations, oil analysis, thermography, audible noises, heat and smoke.
The Data Analystics delivers actionable intelligence by identifying degrading bearing, damaged wheel or track well in time. An alert is transmitted real-time to the maintenance units for replacement. The spike in vibration at a particular spot by successive passing of wheels leads to Urgent Track Attention alerts.
The advantages
It is powerless
It can be easily installed without any changes in the rolling stock
The data is produced real-time 24x7
Eliminates errors prevailing in the wayside detection systems
Increases availability of rolling stock assets
Increases revenue
Predictive maintenance means better safety and prevention of accidents
Lower cost because of efficient asset management
Decreases the work load of gang men who can straightaway concentrate on the serious faults instead of aimlessly checking the entire length of tracks.
The vision and the implementation
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Nikhil Nanda presented the system to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rail Shivir on 18 November, 2016 and 11 May 2018. The Indian Railways is pursuing the project for installation of smart sensors on the coaches under a Rs 113 crore project.


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Bulletproof – La Roux. Uplifting and not unlike the back track to an 80's computer game. Also see Hotel California which seems to have lent it's more vivacious moments to the game Hellfire.
Relax – Captain Sensible when I found this version of the Frankie goes to Hollywood song, I was so impressed it went strait on the list. The film references are good too. Does anyone think the use of Bad moon arising in An American Werewolf in London, was just so he could reinterpret the line to make it, "there's the bathroom on the right"?
Chain Reaction – Dianna Ross. What Diva, and an interesting interpretation of love as a thermonuclear explosion.
Coming into Los Angeles – Arlo Guthrie. Good all round folk song from Woodstock, the sixties live on.
Communication Breakdown – Led Zeppelin. The first of three in a row, each with a different message, but all kicking. This one reminds me of when the wrong words can sometimes send things pear shaped.
Don't Stop me Now – Queen. Sometimes you are all these things and more, it's a wonder you don't burst.
Flash – Queen. This heroic tale swells the heart. Buster Crabbe would be proud of this successor.
Nobody's Home – Pink Floyd. This and the next track really paints a picture of isolation that I sometime feel.
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd. I recognise those symptoms, but these days I Don't drink quite so much.
Fly Away – Lenny Kravits. Up lifting and a sentiment I sometimes feel.
Frankly, Mr. Shankley – The Smiths. Sometimes I get a complete feeling of alienation from that job I can't avoid, and it is only sheer bloody mindedness that will carry me through. This is how I feel then.
From Noon 'til Three – Elmer Bernstein. The lyrics are so true, no wonder it won an award. The film it is taken from is the only real case of identity theft I know of.
Funky Moped – Jasper Carrot. I hale from that corner of the world, so the phonetics speak out to me of childhood days, much in the same way a Slade song does.
Gabriel's Oboe – Ennio Morricone. Shut your eyes and relax, in divine contemplation.
Glorious – The pierces. An upbeat interpretation of the previous track.
Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis. His private life aside, a world without this man's contribution would be diminished.
Greyhound – Swedish House Mafia. I call this track Dalek rave, every Doctor Who fan should hear it. I always get ideas for the accompanying music video I'd like to make for it; when I hear this track.


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- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida, 2018
- M.A., Anthropology, University of Florida, 2012
- B.A., Anthropology, University of Central Florida, 2010
Cultural Anthropology
Dr. Pete Collings
Research Interests
My PhD research focuses on paranormal perceptions and the subcultural community of paranormal research groups in Florida. Dissertation research includes participant observation, surveys, and interviews of paranormal research groups colloquially known as "ghost hunters." Topics of ethnicity, gender, religion, community, narrative, ethics, the media, science and technology are incorporated to explore how Western culture portrays and perceives paranormal themes and experiences. This ethnography of ghost hunting groups explores how paranormal themes and uncanny experiences are interwoven with religious beliefs, orientations of the self, media portrayals, and investigated with methods of science and technology.
Selected Publications
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
- John M. Goggin Award, University of Florida, 2016
- FLAS Summer Fellowship, University of Florida, 2013
- Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Florida, 2010-2014
- William Carter Field Research Grant, University of Florida, 2011
This student has graduated from the program so the information on this page may not be current.


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These weekly blog posts explain the science behind Diabetes and health management in easy-to-understand words.
I look forward to your comments and questions!
Posted 16 September 2018
Glucose and other carbs
Explaining the biochemistry of sugars.
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Posted 9 September 2018
Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
Explanation of Glycemic Index (GI) and how it differs from Glycemic Load (GL).
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Posted 2 September 2018
Transcending diabetes with exercise
The heath benefits of being physically active; especially when you have diabetes.
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Posted 26 August 2018
The balancing act of diabetes
Managing your diabetes is like walking a tightrope.
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Posted 19 August 2018
The diabetic epidemic
The rise of diabetes in numbers and visuals.
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Posted 12 August 2018
False glucose readings
Situations when continuous glucose monitor (CGM) readings cannot be trusted.
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Posted 5 August 2018
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)
Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) reveal more about how you manage your diabetes than finger-pricks and A1c combined.
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Posted 29 July 2018
Hemoglobin A1c
A very clear and simple explanation of what (hemoglobin) A1c means.
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Posted 22 July 2018
Blood glucose
Interesting facts about blood glucose.
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Posted 15 July 2018
Timing for excellent diabetes management
The importance of timing food consumption with physical activities and insulin administration.
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Posted 8 July 2018
Insulin and Diabetes
How insulin functions to lower blood glucose, and what goes on in Type 1 and 2 Diabetics.
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Posted 1 July 2018
Stuck with a 200,000-year-old blueprint
Why we crave for sweets and fatty foods.
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Posted 24 June 2018
25 Bananas in my pockets
How to harmonize Snickers bars and cookies with a healthy lifestyle.
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Posted 17 June 2018
Having Diabetes and 10 Snickers per day
How I thrive with Diabetes.
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Posted 10 June 2018
The bitter-sweet truth
The importance of sugar and what they don't tell you about low-carb, high-fat, high-protein diets.
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Posted 3 June 2018
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In this article, I am inspired to provoke our understanding (or misunderstanding) of the idea of sustainability. The inspiration comes especially from various discussions, social experiments, and observations when it comes to understanding and doing sustainability, especially those that are by nature cross-cultural. Being cross-culturally aware means being aware of the socio-cultural processes of how we have come to practice something or believe in what we believe and value what we value, including the biases that have developed over the course of our lives, in relation to ourselves and others and our relationships as well as potential conflicts.
I attempt to connect many dots I can think of and at the end leave the readers with questions (of their own or of any kind), not answers. My thesis is that the notion of sustainability is a romanticized idea whose meaning remains dependent on who deals with it. Its resonance depends on socio-economic-cultural backgrounds of people. I shall present some evidence below. Nevertheless, this short article is not meant to be comprehensive.
From a discussion with some sustainability experts (in separate talks) from ETH Zurich, when we met in Zurich for a class on cross-cultural and conflict management, it became clear that the way people understand and approach the idea of 'sustainability' is different. When teaching a class on sustainability, for example, one professor would know whether certain viewpoints came from students of management or from students of natural and social sciences. Generally, they would have different concerns and interests, and specific ways of looking and projecting their thoughts. Education backgrounds present certain subjective cosmologies that detail how the world looks like and should look like. These are essentially cultural. Dealing with both Swiss and Indonesian counterparts, another professor would occasionally find disparity in the way he and these stakeholder groups and partners had in mind and practice when it came to sustainability. There were different expectations and standards. These are also essentially cultural. The notion of sustainability remains an abstract idea that is understood differently by different groups and individuals.
During one of my classes on cross-cultural and conflict management at the MBA Program in Bandung, I assigned students to do a role play in relation to the idea of sustainability. Students had to gather information about sustainability beforehand and integrated that to a role they played, with a specific national and industry background. What became part of our discussions was the fact that they had different ideas of what sustainability entailed and this was part of the 'conflict' that they had to pass through. They have lived in different worlds. Sustainability can mean something related to doing corporate social responsibility to some students but it may also entail something that a business entity does (or should do) in order to sustain itself or survive. Even 'corporate social responsibility' is philosophically and practically different across different institutional and cultural settings, as argued by Matton and Moon (2008). What was clear was that no one could claim a monopoly over a definition.
So, how does understanding the fact that we may understand the idea of sustainability differently impact our daily practice as a human being or a business person? I argue that it is important to unravel our assumptions about human relationship with nature, along with the power that governs natural and human entities that in English is called "God" One subjective assumption speaks about humans being superior to nature, while the other subjective assumption speaks about nature being superior to humans. For the former, the implication is that humans are driven towards either exploiting and changing nature or taking an active participation in preserving nature. For the latter, the implication is that humans are driven towards accepting nature as it is or taking a rather passive-submissive role in nature. What is perceived as a "bad" condition is not necessarily bad. In both assumptions, there is a likelihood that humans make something either constructive or destructive.
It has become a major argument that industrialization has led to destructions towards humanity and of nature. The exploitation mindset has prompted backlashes from multiple stakeholder groups that demand more balanced, humanized, environmentally friendly practices. In a way, an exploiting and a manipulative action has been balanced by a more human-centered and nature-aware decision and action. The cultural mode has been the same: action. Indonesia, which can arguably be characterized by openness to many different foreign cultural influences, has begun to embrace this cultural mode of thinking – that action is necessary. So, initiatives taking place in more industrially advanced societies such as splitting trash bins or cans for different kinds for trashes have entered the mindset of many Indonesian people. This culture of splitting things into parts has been what science is based upon, splitting the world into different kinds of concepts different from other concepts. In essence, it is a way of thinking based on the understanding that each entity has its own characteristics. From one side, this can be a good thing. On the other hand, from a different angle, it can be seen as a copycat approach to decision making and culturally-unaware. Overall, sustainability from one (cultural) approach can be seen as the human approach to live the life as we know it longer or more sustainable by making sure that social and institutional arrangements are in place to secure the sustainable life for our generation and for the generations to come. It is cultural because it is what people (as a collective) believe where human practices go along with the belief or at least are directed towards satisfying the belief. All efforts are believed to require efficiency. People want change now by acting!
The second assumption about human-nature relationship will paint a completely different picture about how this notion of "sustainability" entails, philosophically or practically speaking. In contrast to the first assumption, humans believe that they are not superior to nature. Whatever life takes us, it is where it is best for us. Regardless of whether we suffer or not, whether we die the next day or not, it is life beyond what one can imagine. Everything, every fate, is believed to be already written. People from the first assumption believe that humans need to create their own fate, while people from the second assumption believe that fate makes humans. Therefore, efforts are not directed towards reducing the suffering through various rather tangible innovations and inventions but rather towards the acceptance of whatever "bad" things happening in the world. Practically speaking, when it comes to trash management in its broader sense of the word (not necessarily in a technical sense), people may depend on nature to regulate (or manage) the trash. This may be conscious or subconscious. Whatever is from the earth belongs to the earth and it will be up to the earth to process it. Efficiency is not an issue here as time is regarded as relative. Whether it takes long or short for the earth to regulate trash, it does not matter. Concerns about the length of time are usually a human business. Living on the earth is after all temporary. From this point of view, the idea of sustainability from does not emphasize human approach to make our life sustainable or longer. Nature has its own way to regulate itself beyond the capacity of any individual being.
Speaking of trash, different societies may have different conceptions and realities when it comes to understanding what trash is or what constitutes trash. The nature of trash is different.
From these two perspectives, conflicts are then very obvious. But this is, I think, the challenge of talking about sustainability because it addresses our implicit assumptions about how the world works and should work. Cross-cultural knowledge speaks about the multiple ways in which humans think across space and time. Sustainability is not an easy thing and we do not want our mind to be colonized. But one thing we know, the earth has survived for as long as it has been, with humans on it, coming and going. Whether we believe that it is partly based on human efforts or the work of nature to a greater extent is part of our conversation. It is not merely a philosophical debate as the belief has direct implications on what we humans create or attempt to create or let loose. Even if we are religiously or spiritually inclined individuals, we may perhaps have different answers, depending on how much and how deep we have been exposed to these ways of thinking-thus our biases in decision making. This is where the objective world we live in is understood subjectively. In addition, I wish that the perspectives laid out above are not seen as absolutes. Rather, they are meant to provoke and enable for a reflective turn.
And as I have mentioned above, I intend to leave the readers with questions. If we have all the answers in the world and if we agree on everything, we won't perhaps have any conversation at all. If anything, many religious teachings point to the importance of seeking the middle path.
So, who gets to rule the world?
Author: Andika Putra Pratama
References for a Cross-Cultural Mind
Chen, Y. R., Leung, K., & Chen, C. C. (2009). 5 Bringing National Culture to the Table: Making a Difference with Cross?cultural Differences and Perspectives. Academy of Management Annals, 3(1), 217-249.
Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological review, 98(2), 224.


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Purpose – To identify the level of arrangement of the unit of description
Rule – Record the level of this unit of description
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This field has always been for the archivists and it is questionable if users have ever understood what it means. Where born digital material is being incorporated into existing arrangements it will be necessary for a decision to be made as to what 'level' it fits in at for the purpose of consistency with past practice. It is questionable however, whether this past practice is entirely appropriate or translatable to collections of wholly born digital material (e.g. Web Archives are often 'arranged' thematically – http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/collection/) and our attitudes to it probably need to evolve in the near future.
For the sake of consistency, where born digital material is being assigned a level, it is probably an idea to try to ensure that the level which is normally the deliverable unit for paper material (be that file or item level) is also the level which is normally the deliverable unit for born digital material.
My current feeling is that the difficulty of applying traditional arrangement practices to born-digital collections is over-stated. Hierarchical structures are certainly inherent in the way that many creators organise their digital records.
Where web archives are arranged thematically, I can't immediately see how these are different from any other artificial collections. Other web archives may have a more 'natural' arrangement. For cataloguing purposes, each website within the UK Government web archive is treated as a series and the catalogue entries fit quite neatly into TNA's Discovery system alongside other digital and non-digital records from the same fonds. Show more 4 years ago


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JAKARTA - A Singaporean, working illegally as a deejay in Bali, has been arrested for drug trafficking in the popular resort island in Indonesia, said local anti-narcotics authorities on Monday (Sept 19).
Muhammad Faliq Nordin, 32, was nabbed during a sting operation on Sept 10, after he picked up two packages at a local post office in the capital city of Denpasar.
The packages, which arrived separately from the Netherlands on Aug 29 and Sept 9, contained a total of 100.2g of methamphetamine, better known by its street name, crystal meth, and 30.3g of cocaine, said local customs and excise authorities.
According to Mr Syarif Hidayat, who heads the customs and excise office for Bali, Nusa Tenggara Barat and Nusa Tenggara Timur, the drugs have an estimated street value of 225 million rupiah.
"The illicit drugs were hidden in ceramic cups and filled over with candle," he added, describing how the drugs were masked in the packages.
Bali police director for narcotics Franky H. Parapet said Faliq had confessed that he was going to deliver the packages to a British friend identified as Kubo Raum.
"The suspect went to the post office carrying a proxy letter signed by Kubo Raum to pick up the package, he was also carrying Kubo Raum's passport," said Mr Franky, adding that the police are not searching for Kubo, who is at large.
Bali provincial police spokesman Colonel Anak Agung Made Sudana said Faliq is the first Singaporean arrested in Bali for drug trafficking offences.
Faliq has been living in Bali for the last four to six months under a tourist visa, and he had worked as a deejay, said Mr Franky.
He had also deejayed in the Philippines and Thailand recently and claimed he did not know what was in the packages and was collecting them as a favour for Kubo, whom he befriended about two to three months ago.
Mr Franky added that initial investigations indicate that Faliq was operating as a "drug-courier".
Indonesian law differentiates between a drug-user, -courier and -dealer, with the latter typically receiving the maximum death sentence if found guilty.
The amount of drugs seized during Faliq's arrest does not carry the death sentence, but if found guilty, he could still be jailed for life.
Indonesia has a tough anti-drug policy and the Joko Widodo government has stepped up executions of drug convicts in recent years, including several foreigners.


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