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Soarian Clinicals includes an Application Programmer's Interface (API). The API is utilized in the United States by patients and their designated proxies via one or more connected Application(s) that meet the API Technical and Terms of Use specifications. This section provides an overview of the expected interaction of the Application User, Application, API, and the Cerner Soarian Clinicals solution. This overview provides a foundation to understand the subsequent technical specifications of the integration between the Application and the API. It provides a summary of features expected of the Application that uses the API in an effort to facilitate clients' selection of Application(s). It summarizes the interactions of the Application and API to provide context for each detailed definition.
- Trusted connection
- Purpose
- Authorization
- Service Root URL
- Media Types
- Special information regarding date parameters
- Bundle Message Extension
- Pagination
- Common Errors
Trusted connection
All API requests will use HTTPS for data transfer. The SHA2 (SHA 256) encryption within HTTPS is intended to provide benefits like confidentiality, integrity and identity. Information remains confidential because only the browser and the server can decrypt the traffic.
The purpose of the API is to support patient engagement capabilities. Cerner clients may select and connect whitelisted Application(s) designed to allow patients and their proxies to query Soarian Clinicals, via the API, for C-CDA (consolidated clinical document architecture) documents and/or Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) CCDS (common clinical data set) data categories that are represented as FHIR® resources. This capability might augment the client's existing Patient Portal / Patient Engagement strategies. For example, the capability may provide a means for portals to become portals of portals, accessing data from a variety of clinical systems, thus reducing the number of portals with which a patient interacts which may increase his affinity to the remaining portal. The capability may encourage integration with a broader range of personal health management applications so that users can marry their health maintenance data with summary of care information such as medication lists, problem lists, and recent diagnostic results. The overall goal is to provide patients and their proxies with greater access to their health information, via means to which they have affinity, to stimulate them to be actively engaged in their health.
An Application is EHRT/HIT (electronic health record technology / health information technology) that provides capabilities to users who are or become patients and/or patient-proxies. A patient-proxy is a user who is expressly authorized by a patient to access his/her information. The Application is responsible for managing user access to the Application and providing the patient and/or proxy user access to the API capabilities via accepting the Terms of Use and successfully connecting to the API in accordance with the Technical Document. Applications are encouraged to provide healthcare related capabilities for HIPAA including activity logging. The Application may or may not be offered by a HIPAA business associate or be covered under HIPAA requirements. The client who elects to connect an Application is responsible for determining the capabilities of that Application for Privacy, Security, Accessibility, and functionality to patient / proxy users as appropriate for its use with the API as well as successful Application connection with the Technical Document. Once the Application is whitelisted and registered with the API and becomes a trusted API consumer, its users may begin interacting with the API for health information. Application whitelisting is performed by Cerner and Application registration and API enabling is the responsibility of the client.
The initial interaction between the user, Application, and API is to establish a common patient identity and link that identity to an Application user. The client must have a patient-facing identity provider (IdP) capable of the SAML interaction with the API services. One and only one IdP per client for all API instances is supported. Application users will establish user name and password in the IdP. The Soarian proxy and token management capabilities will be enabled and the Application users will enter their temporary linking token in the Application to establish an association between the user ID and the patient.
The Application interacts with the API using OAuth2 and the IdP with SAML for trusted user connections. When the patient is seen for a healthcare encounter, Soarian Clinicals establishes a temporary linking token which is provided to the patient. Individual tokens may also be assigned to patient-authorized proxy(ies). The Soarian Clinicals user is responsible for state and federal guidelines for interacting with the patient and managing proxies as entered in Soarian. The Application must provide a means for the Application user to establish themselves in an approved identity server and then enter the temporary linking token into the Application. The Application interacts with an authorization server to establish a trusted connection and user authentication and then passes the temporary linking token to the Soarian Clinicals ActivateLinkToken API and Soarian Clinicals establishes a user-patient relationship that is used in subsequent interactions. This interaction provides the Application a trusted link between the user definition used for authentication and the identity of that user as a Soarian managed patient or proxy thus authorizing each user for a specific patient's data. Each subsequent interaction between the Application and API utilizes the trusted connection and a patient scope selection that Soarian has authorized via the token exchange.
The below figure shows the interaction summary between Application, IdP, Authorization server and Soarian API.
Once the IdP, Application, and API are registered, API is enabled and the user-patient-proxy identity and authorization is established, the patient/proxy Application user can use Application capabilities to query the API for:
- One or more C-CDA SOEN (consolidated clinical documentation architecture summary of episode note) containing an authorized patient's health information
- Each category of health data such as a medication list, allergy list, problem list, diagnostic test results, or other specified information.
The Application is responsible for determining which of and how the API capabilities are exposed to the user. For each capability the Application offers the user, the specific resource pages define those API capabilities and, within each, which capabilities the Application must/shall support to be compliant with the API.
For details on authorization to the API, see the authorization section.
Service Root URL
URLs for the FHIR server vary by the tenant (datasource or client) being accessed, as well as other factors. The service root url is provided at registration time. FHIR calls will be made against URLs of the following format:
For example:
https://fhir-myrecord.sandboxcerner.com/dstu2/abcd1234/ is the the
Condition is the
:resource, and
patientId=4342008 is the
Secure Sandbox
The secure sandbox instance can be used for testing an application with authorization. The service root URL for the sandbox instance is:
Example for a resource call:
Media Types
Cerner supports the FHIR® standard defined media types for JSON content:
We encourage you to explicitly request one of these types via the
Accept header, or via the _format query parameter.
Special information regarding date parameters
All dates should be formatted using the ISO 8601 basic format as YYYYMMDD.
Dates are assumed to be formatted correctly. The API does not reject dates with out of bounds months or days. Instead, the API resolves them to valid amounts. For example, if a date of 20152101 is provided, MM is 21 or 12+9 months and the API will resolve 20152101 to 20160901.
While DSTU2 uses a letter syntax for date (e.g., ge, le, eq), the API utilizes symbols (e.g., >=, <=, =). Syntax for optional date parameter entry includes:
&date=YYYYMMDD. Exactly and inclusive of the specified date. Note that a date passed without a comparator (e.g., <) is interpreted as an exact date as per specification.
&date=<YYYYMMDD. Less than the date, not inclusive of the date.
&date=<=YYYYMMDD. Less than or equal to the date, inclusive of the date.
&date=>YYYYMMDD. Greater than the date, not inclusive of the date.
&date=>=YYYYMMDD. Greater than or equal to the date, inclusive of the date.
When searching with multiple dates, the dates must compose a closed range. The order that the bounds are provided in does not matter. Some examples of date range searches are below.
&date=>YYYYMMDD&date=<YYYYMMDD. Between date and date, not inclusive of either.
&date=>=YYYYMMDD&date=<=YYYYMMDD. Between date and date, inclusive of both.
&date=>YYYYMMDD&date=<=YYYYMMDD. Between date and date, inclusive of the high date, exclusive of the low date.
&date=>=YYYYMMDD&date=<YYYYMMDD. Between date and date, exclusive of the high date, inclusive of the low date.
An example of an invalid range: &date=>20160101&date=<=20150601. This set of query parameters represents two date ranges of dates less than June 2015 and dates greater than or equal to January 2016. These invalid date ranges will be returned in the response to indicate that there was an issue with the date search.
Bundle Message Extension
The URL for this custom extension is defined as
|Value[x] Type
|This is a complex extension that will be returned in a bundle, see sub-extensions below. This is used to communicate additional information about a search response.
|This can be
info or
warning to describe the severity of the message.
|The codified representation of the message.
|The detailed message for this result.
"url": "http://cerner.hs.fhir.com/StructureDefinition/bundle-result-messages",
"valueExtension": {
"url": "http://cerner.hs.fhir.com/StructureDefinition/bundle-result-messages",
"extension": [
"url": "Severity",
"valueString": "info"
"url": "Code",
"valueString": "papi006"
"url": "Message",
"valueString": "No relevant problems exist."
The pagination links are included in the Bundle when a resource returns more items than the Bundle page size. It is important to follow these Link header values instead of constructing your own URLs.
"type": "searchset",
"link": [
"relation": "self",
"url": "http://fhir-myrecord.sandboxcerner.com/dstu2/Observation?patientId=2A39DA0B-61D8-4F95-BE00-9CA30EE01819&_format=json&page=2"
"relation": "next",
"url": "http://fhir-myrecord.sandboxcerner.com/dstu2/Observation?patientId=2A39DA0B-61D8-4F95-BE00-9CA30EE01819&_format=json&page=3"
The possible
relation values are:
|Shows the URL of the current page of results.
|Shows the URL of the immediate next page of results.
|If paging, shows the URL of the previous page of results.
Common Errors
Descriptions of common errors can be found here.


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Hormonal status, creatine kinase and soccer: a need for research
Perfil hormonal, creatinoquinase e futebol: necessidade de pesquisa
Anthony C. HackneyI; Marco MachadoII
IApplied Physiology Laboratory, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
IILaboratory of Physiology and Biokinetics, UNIG Campus V at Itaperuna, RJ, Brazil
Soccer is a physically demanding sport in which muscular damage and trauma are frequent occurrences (1,2). These occurrences are especially true for those athletes involved in top-division clubs at national or international levels. Many factors may come into play when determining the degree of muscular damage that may occur during a soccer match, such as intensity of physical participation, environmental conditions, skill level, prior level of rest, and aggressiveness of the teams involved in the match (2).
It is well-established that a multitude of hormones influence the degree of protein turnover in the human body. These hormones are typically categorized as anabolic (promoting protein synthesis) or catabolic (promoting protein degradation) in terms of their influence on protein turnover. Cellular protein turnover status can influence the structural integrity of a muscle, and thus its potential for damage (i.e., less integrity → greater risk of damage) (3). The disposition of anabolic and catabolic hormones to influence protein turnover and, in turn, their influence on the structural status of skeletal muscles, led us to speculate as to whether the basal hormonal status of an athlete before a soccer match would be a factor that potentially affects their muscle response to damage. To address this assumption, we conducted a preliminary study to examine the relationship between basal levels of anabolic-catabolic hormones and muscle damage, assessed by creatine kinase response following a 90-minute soccer match. The study of muscular damage following sport activity is critical because of the influence such damage has on the adaptation and training responses of athletes and their ability to perform and compete in subsequent sport events (1,3).
Twelve healthy male soccer players were recruited to participate in this study. All of them signed a written informed consent form before starting the study. These players were all experienced sportsmen and had participated in top-division soccer for a number of years (minimum 2 years as professionals). Their physical characteristics were as follows (mean ± SD): age = 26.3 ± 3.8 yrs., height = 177.8 ± 2.9 cm, and body mass = 75.5 ± 8.3 kg.
Subjects rested and performed minimal physical activity in the 24 hours prior to the match. On the day of the match, basal, resting blood samples were collected from the subjects by venipuncture at 8 am in the morning, after a 12-hour fast. Collected blood samples were handled using standard clinical procedures to ensure they were viable for later hormonal-hematological analysis. The soccer match took place in the afternoon of the day of blood sampling, at around 5 pm. The average temperature during the match was 27oC. All 12 subjects participated in the 90-minute match for equal amounts of time and were allowed to consume water ad libitum during the whole match. Immediately following the match, a post-match second blood sample was withdrawn. For these athletes, the match represented the first competition of the season after a period of vacation and pre-season training (15 days).
Blood samples were analyzed for a selected profile of hormones and hematological measurements. In the basal resting specimens this consisted of: total (t) T3, free (f) T3, tT4, fT4, TSH, t-testosterone, f-testosterone, growth hormone, insulin, cortisol, creatine kinase (CK), hematocrit, and hemoglobin. The post-match specimen measurements were: CK, hematocrit, and hemoglobin. All biochemical analyses involved standard laboratory procedures.
Table 1 presents the hormonal-hematological responses of the subjects. All blood measurements were within clinically acceptable normal ranges. CK, hematocrit and hemoglobin were elevated in the post-match specimens (CK, p < 0.01; hemoglobin, p < 0.001; hematocrit, p = 0.059 [t-test]). To assess the influence (relationship) of basal hormone levels in the magnitude of CK increase after the match, a multiple regression analysis was performed. The change in CK (delta value [X ± SE]; 137.8 ± 44.2 U/L) was used as the dependent variable, and basal hormonal concentrations as independent variables with a forward stepwise inclusion for the regression model (α < 0.05). The following significant (p = 0.021) regression model equation was found:
CK delta = 1789.7 33.1 x (f-testosterone) 482.3 x (fT4)
This model indicates that the lower the basal f-testosterone and fT4 levels in the athletes, the greater the degree of CK elevation in response to the soccer match. This finding suggests that these athletes were experiencing greater degree of muscle damage during the match than those athletes with higher basal f-testosterone and fT4 levels. Such an interpretation would imply that having greater anabolic hormonal status could promote a more positive protein synthesis status, thus leading to a lesser an inclination towards muscle damage during a sport activity, such as soccer (i.e., this would be our a posteriori hypothesis from these findings). The anabolic actions of f-testosterone are well-established. But, fT4 also has such anabolic actions by both direct and indirect means; that is, via the conversion of T4 to T3 and this hormone's subsequent anabolic effects (4,5). Interestingly, the latter hormone (fT3) nearly reached significance to enter the regression model.
This preliminary study is limited in both scope and statistical strength of its findings. Nonetheless, the outcomes shed light on an area that, to our knowledge, has not been previously examined, and suggests the need for future research to address the hypothesis raised here. It would be interesting to develop studies in which the anabolic hormonal status is manipulated (i.e., by means of legal methods of nutritional supplementation; certainly not by means of drug doping) to robustly test the influence such a status has on muscle damage associated with sport activities.
Such research seems warranted, and an excellent pursuit for endocrinologists who study exercise and sport; this would seem especially pertinent with major sport events involving soccer in the near future, such as the 2012 Olympics (London), the 2014 FIFA World Cup (Brazil), and the rapidly approaching 2016 Olympics (Rio de Janeiro). Such major events always inspire young and old individuals alike to increase their participation in sport activities, which means sport medicine clinicians may have increased treatment opportunities for injuries and traumas in their practices. Well-conducted scientific research studies in the endocrinological aspects of exercise and sport may provide insights that perhaps could mitigate some of these injuries and traumas.
Disclosure: no potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.
Received on Feb/16/2012
Accepted on Apr/18/2012
- 1. Ekblom B. Applied physiology of soccer. Sports Medicine. 1986;3(1):50-60.
- 2. Lazarim FL, Antunes-Neto JM, Silva FO, Nunes LA, Bassini-Cameron A, Cameron LC, et al. The upper values of plasma creatine kinase of professional soccer players during the Brazilian National Championship. J Sci Med Sport. 2009;12:85-90.
- 3. Morton JP, Kayani AC, McArdle A, Drust B. The exercise-induced stress response of skeletal muscle, with emphasis on humans. Sports Med. 2009;39(8):643-62.
- 4. Bates PC, Holder AT. The anabolic actions of growth hormone and thyroxine on protein metabolism in Snell dwarf and normal mice. J Endocrinol. 1988;119(1):31-41.
- 5. Huang BK, Golden LA, Tarjan G, Madison LD, Stern PH. Insulin-like growth factor I production is essential for anabolic effects of thyroid hormone in osteoblast. J Bone Miner Res. 2000;15:188-97.
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Date of issue
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Could Street Furniture Save The High Street?
Between January and September last year, 964 town centre stores were closed across the UK. This exceeds the figure for the previous year, which was 60% lower. The largest drop was for clothing shops, compared to the rising number of betting shops thriving in the decline of the high street. It wasn't only retail which fell but also the number of pawnbrokers and travel agents across the nation.
The high street is beginning to look very different
One trend of the declining high street is the emergence of a number of coffee shops and cafés in town centres. In addition, more banks, charity shops, fast food restaurants and convenience stores have opened throughout 2014, replacing clothes stores and other retail outlets. Another newly developing niche in the former High Street is the presence of American-style restaurants and bars.
Preserving the high street
We live in an age that is digital and beginning to move towards online sales. This makes it favourable to visit larger retail centres and sees a change in the high street dynamic towards instant products and fast foods and services. But town centres don't need to become empty. Admittedly, when shops close down and are replaced, it can leave streets looking bare and run-down.
A revamp could boost local business
It doesn't have to be the end of the high street as we know it. Despite change, there are ways of bringing life back into town centres and giving their aesthetics new life. Waltham Forest is just one council which has brought back activity to their high street. They introduced new colouring of shops, embraced the café culture that had arisen, working with local businesses to achieve a result that they were happy with. As a result, Leyton High Road in Waltham Forest received the award for Best Town Centre Project at the 2014 London Planning Awards.
Street furniture – making the difference
Street furniture is just one feature that could save the future of the high street by making it a more pleasant place and encouraging people to visit there by improving the aesthetics. Whether the area needs to be modernised with features such as the concrete MESA Bench or simply made litter free with the ARCA Circular Litter Bin , there are many options to revamp any town centre.
Ways to rejuvenate your town centre
A key way to rejuvenate a town centre is to be consistent and create a new look for it – bring in elements of design and street furniture to suit the area. Things that you can change to make a big difference include: signs, benches, railings and plants. More practical things such as bins can dramatically approve a town centre if there is litter, making it a more pleasant environment.
For more information and advice about giving your town centre a new look, get in touch with Furnitubes today on 020 8378 3200.
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TNT launches its coverage of the 2016 PGA Championship this week.
Officials with Turner Sports announced today that TNT's coverage of the 98th PGA Championship begins this Thursday, July 28th at 1pm ET. The four-day tournament runs from July 28th to 31st and will feature some of golf's biggest names including: defending champion Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Henrik Stenson, and Phil Mickelson among so many others.
2016 marks the 26th consecutive year that Turner Sports has covered the PGA Championship and the 18th year that TNT has televised the tournament. TNT will carry 18 hours of exclusive live action on July 28th an 29th from 1pm ET – 7pm ET. The network will also carry coverage of the third and fourth rounds on Saturday and Sunday, July 30th and 31st from 11am ET – 2pm ET. Ernie Johnson will anchor the broadcast alongside Brian Anderson, who will be calling his first-ever PGA Championship. The pair will be joined by analysts Ian Baker-Finch and Billy Kratzert for additional commentary along with on-course analyst Mike Weir and Amanda Balionis, handling pre- and post-round interviews.
Along with its coverage on television, PGA.com, which is managed by Turner Sports, will offer expanded coverage of the event streaming live via PGA Championship LIVE. That coverage is presented by Mercedes-Benz and Edward Jones. PGA Championship LIVE will double its "Features Group" coverage this year, expanding that coverage to four featured groups each day. That expanded coverage begins Thursday morning with defending PGA Championship winner Jason Day, Phil Mickelson, and Rory McIlroy at 8:30am ET. Coverage of Adam Scott, Keegan Bradley, and Jamie Donaldson follows at 9:30am ET. Coverage of the afternoon groups begins at 1:25pm ET with Jordan Spieth, Sergio Garcia, and Bubba Watson. Danny Willet, Dustin Johnson, and Henrik Stenson follow at 1:45pm ET. Coverage of the afternoon groups will follow all 18 holes for the noted groups. The PGA Championship LIVE video player will be available across a number of platforms including desktop, iOS, and Android tablets, smart phones, and the PGA Championship TV App designed specifically for Samsung Smart TVs. Brian Anderson an Brian Katrek will anchor will co-anchor PGA.com's coverage of the PGA Championship. They will be joined by analysts Billy Kratzert and Michael Breed. Course reporters Brian Katrek an Annabel Rolley will be on hand for additional commentary throughout the tournament. Viewers can watch full simulcast coverage of the tournament on PGA.com by logging in with their user names and passwords provided by their TV service providers.
Along with its extensive coverage on television and via PGA.com Turner Sports' coverage of the PGA Championship will also extend to the network's social media outlets, too. Fans can follow all of the action in a variety of ways through those outlets, too. More information on the 2016 PGA Championship is available online now at:
Website: http://www,pgachampionship.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pgachampionship
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PGAcom
To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and "Like" it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil's Picks blog at http://philspick.wordpress.com.


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OTTAWA—More than 600,000 Canadian Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm that used that data to sell services to political campaigns in the United States and Britain.
Facebook Canada said Wednesday they estimate 622,161 Canadians had their data "improperly shared" with Cambridge Analytica. The U.K.-based firm, which had ties to both the Trump presidential campaign and Brexit, used data harvested through a personality quiz app that collected personal information about users and their social network.
In total, Facebook believes that as many as 87 million users — mostly in the U.S. — had their personal information shared with Cambridge Analytica. That's significantly more than the 50 million previously reported.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged users' expectations were "broken."
"Knowing what I know today, clearly we should have done more, and we will moving forward," Zuckerberg told reporters on a hastily convened conference call Wednesday afternoon.
"We understand ... we're not just building tools, but we need to take full responsibility for the outcomes for people who use those tools as well."
He confirmed he'll testify at U.S. Congress next week about how Facebook handles personal information and privacy. Zuckerberg said Facebook only finalized the scope of the impact a few days ago.
The ubiquitous social media company has been under fire in recent weeks over allowing third parties to harvest data not only from Facebook users who used their apps, but those users' friends and family members.
Cambridge Analytica has been accused of analyzing that data and selling their services to political campaigns and is facing parliamentary investigations in Canada and the United Kingdom and renewed questioning from U.S. lawmakers.
Acting democratic institutions minister Scott Brison said Facebook's latest update was "deeply concerning."
"While Facebook has begun to take initial steps to address these issues, it is clear that much more needs to be done," Brison said in a statement to the Star. He said he's reached out to Facebook and expects it will co-operate with the privacy watchdog's probe.
"Our government takes very seriously its fundamental responsibility to protect the private information of Canadian citizens, and we are taking a whole-of-government approach to this issue," Brison said.
The social media giant has been rolling out measures to improve users' privacy, including disabling a feature that up until Wednesday allowed someone to find another person by searching their phone number or email address on the platform, which was a default setting.
"It is reasonable to expect that if you have that setting turned on, that at some point in the last several years someone has probably accessed your public information," Zuckerberg said.
In a release Facebook said: "Malicious actors have also abused these features" and "given the scale and sophistication of the activity we've seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped this way."
Many Canadians have vowed to log off for good and joined the growing #DeleteFacebook campaign on social media.
"I wonder if I can even trust them not to exploit the content of my private conversations," Toronto resident Andrew Sosna, 28, tweeted in response to the latest update.
Sosna later told the Star he never expected his personal data to be used, without his consent, for political gain on such a large scale. He said he'll "absolutely" be deleting his account. That can be a tough call for average citizens who use the platform to connect with friends and family.
A recent public opinion survey by the Angus Reid Institute suggested nearly 75 per cent of Canadians would change the way use the platform, while 10 per cent said they would delete their profile, at least temporarily, because of the data mining scandal.
Cambridge Analytica reiterated on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon that it did not use the data in question in the U.S. presidential election.
"When Facebook contacted us to let us know the data had been improperly obtained, we immediately deleted the raw data from our file server and began the process of searching for and removing any of its derivatives in our system," the company said.
According to news reports and the testimony of Christopher Wylie, the Canadian-born whistleblower who helped found Cambridge Anayltica, the firm used Facebook data to advise political campaigns in multiple countries how to tailor their advertising and outreach efforts. The advice was not limited to identifying supporters, however – in one case, the company recommended voter suppression as a tactic.
Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix was also captured by British television outlet Channel 4 bragging about sending sex workers to politicians to discredit them.


text: Our work today involved thinking about solutions from a molecular perspective. Students briefly reviewed yesterday's Gummy Bear portion of the lab via the ChemCatalyst on slide 3 of the Lesson 81 PowerPoint. Students then received the Lesson 81 Worksheet and the Particle Views Handout. The handout was used in Part 1 of the worksheet. For Part 2, students did the mental work of thinking through how to prepare solutions with different volumes and molarities. They then observed the outcome of preparing those solutions. The lesson helped illustrate the connection between molarity (M), particle density, and the number of moles (particle number) in a solution. Pictures from the white board are shown below.


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Nicole Thieme is a Senior Staff Financial Planner at Galecki Financial Management. Nicole joined the team in July 2016. Nicole works closely with Kevin Chandler, assisting with his client relationships. Nicole performs Cash Flow and Risk Management analyses and assists clients with their financial needs.
Nicole graduated from Indiana University- Purdue University Fort Wayne in June of 2016 earning a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management. Prior to working at Galecki Financial, she worked at the Breast Diagnostic Center as a Client Service Representative. She also earned her Financial Paraplanner Qualified Professional™ designation in June of 2019.
Nicole enjoys spending her spare time with her family, listening to music, and dancing. She also enjoys traveling and meeting new people!


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Australian Internet Censorship
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In Australia, banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
Asher Moses
March 17, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks.
Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked document containing Denmarks list of banned websites.
The move by the Australian Communications and Media Authority comes after it threatened the host of online broadband discussion forum Whirlpool last week with a $11,000-a-day fine over a link published in its forum to another page blacklisted by ACMA - an anti-abortion website.
ACMAs blacklist does not have a significant impact on web browsing by Australians today but sites contained on it will be blocked for everyone if the Federal Government implements its mandatory internet filtering censorship scheme.
But even without the mandatory censorship scheme, as is evident in the Whirlpool case, ACMA can force sites hosted in Australia to remove prohibited pages and even links to prohibited pages.
Online civil liberties campaigners have seized on the move by ACMA as evidence of how casually the regulator adds to its list of blacklisted sites. It also confirmed fears that the scope of the Governments censorship plan could easily be expanded to encompass sites that are not illegal.
The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship, Wikileaks said on its website in response to the ACMA ban.
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I have mentioned that my wife feels that my creative impulses tend towards the redundant. There are many examples of this.
I was looking through some reviews of my music back in the 2006-2008 era, and noticed that one reviewer at Vital Weekly (an underground review newsletter), became increasingly frustrated with the similarities between my many releases.
I found some humor in this. I created a video, in which I read the reviewer's words, and responded with mini-reviews of his reviews. I included samples of the music on these releases, so that you can hear how consistent they are.
To me, when something works, I do it again and again until I grow tired of it (and this can take awhile). That may very well be a symptom of my schizophrenia– that I don't crave the continuous variety that many do. I find predictability to be reassuring.
Or, it may just be part of my personality type.
Either way, it really seemed to irritate the reviewer at Vital Weekly (and it continues to annoy my wife).


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Negotiations for the movie adaptation of BioShock have seen very little forward movement since its reveal back in 2008. Now the film appears to have taken another step back with the loss of its second director in four years.
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who signed on to direct after Gore Verbinski walked, has moved on to other work.
"To be honest, by now, I'm completely out of that, and developing other stuff," Fresnadillo stated to The Playlist. "Right now it's on hold. The studio and the video game company, they have to reach some kind of agreement about the budget and the rating."
Pre-production on the film has been in a holding pattern since 2009.
The project's budget and potential rating negotiationsare still ongoing, but it appears we're nowhere near seeing the crossover at the box office.


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Here's a fun (read: horrifying) story. Early in Alison Brie's career, the actress auditioned for a role in Entourage. Halfway through the audition, the former Community and Mad Men star was asked to take her top off. Just a normal day in Hollywood.
As Vulture reports, the story came up during a panel for Brie's upcoming project GLOW. Brie stars as the protagonist and newbie performer in Netflix's show about the world of female wrestling. During a panel following a screening, Brie was asked about whether she thought the experience of female performers going out for roles has improved in recent years. That's when Brie shared this cringe-worthy look into Entourage's casting process, so it's fairly safe to say no, Brie doesn't think things have changed much.
Just to make a horrible situation worse, Brie was instructed to go into the Entourage audition wearing a bikini or short shorts. (Update: Brie has since clarified that she was wearing a bikini under her clothes.) Also, all of this work and top-focused nudity was for a three-line gig. I'll let Brie take it away:
"Early in my career, I auditioned for three lines on an episode of Entourage that I had to go on in a bikini!" she said. "Or like shorts and the tiniest shorts. And they were like, 'Okay, can you take your top off now?'"
I can't imagine why Entourage has such a scummy reputation.
Season 1 of GLOW premieres on Netflix June 23.


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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Tureen, cover and stand
Object Number:
ca. 1820
Overall (a, b: Tureen and Cover): 5 7/8 × 7 3/8 × 4 7/8 in. (14.9 × 18.7 × 12.4 cm) Overall (c: Stand): 3/4 in. ×
painted: at center of roundels: "H"
Oval porcelain tureen with reeded entwined handles, cover with flower and leaf knop, and stand, decorated with pencilled trellis diaper and butterfly border ("Fitzhugh" pattern); on each side of tureen and cover and at center of stand is a roundel with spear and post border containing the initial "H".
Gallery Label:
This piece is part of a dinner service given as a wedding gift to John Hone II and Miss Marie Antoinette Kane (m. 1818). He was the nephew of Philip Hone (1780-1851), the prominent New York businessman, politican, and diarist.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Louise Starr given in memory of Mrs. W. Thorn Kissel
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.


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Scorporations are considered passthrough entities that pass the income and losses earned from the business to the shareholders, who are taxed on the business's income and losses on their individual income tax returns. However, an S corporation shareholder cannot automatically assume that a loss passed through from the company is deductible on his or her individual income tax return. The first step is to determine whether the shareholder has sufficient basis in the entity to deduct the loss.
A shareholder acquires S corporation basis through the original purchase of stock; additional equity contributions; and cumulative net income, less distributions passed through to the shareholder during the time the stock is owned. Additionally, a shareholder acquires debt basis from loans made to the S corporation. It is important to note that nondividend distributions (distributions other than from accumulated earnings and profits) reduce stock basis but do not reduce debt basis. Sec. 1366(d)(1) provides that deductible passthrough losses to a shareholder cannot exceed the shareholder's adjusted basis of stock in the S corporation plus the shareholder's adjusted basis of any indebtedness of the S corporation to the shareholder.
Basis is important because it is the first test to determine whether the shareholder has a deductible loss from the company. Shareholders must also pass the at-risk and passive activity loss tests before reporting the loss on their tax return. Sec. 1366(d)(2) provides that the passthrough loss can be carried forward indefinitely if the taxpayer lacks sufficient basis to deduct the loss in the current tax year. However, the taxpayer may lose the ability to deduct the loss in future years if sufficient basis is not created or restored before the company is sold or shut down.
Debt must meet two requirements to qualify as S corporation basis. First, the debt must run directly from the shareholder to the S corporation. Second, under Regs. Sec. 1.1366-2(a)(2), the indebtedness must be bona fide. Whether indebtedness to a shareholder is bona fide is determined under general federal tax principles and depends upon all the facts and circumstances.
The IRS adopted these "bona fide debt" provisions on July 23, 2014, when it issued final regulations providing guidance regarding basis for S corporation loans (T.D. 9682). Rather than adopt a judicial doctrine of an "actual economic outlay" that leaves the shareholder "poorer in a material sense," the regulations adopted provisions for determining whether a shareholder is entitled to debt basis under Sec. 1366(d)(1)(B).
Regs. Sec. 1.166-1(c) defines a bona fide debt as arising from a debtor-creditor relationship based on a valid and enforceable obligation to pay a fixed or determinable amount of money. Courts have looked to the intent of the parties at the time the loan is made to verify a debtor-creditor relationship. The shareholder must have a real expectation of repayment and intent to enforce collection efforts against the S corporation in the event of a default on the loan.
The definition of bona fide debt is met without a doubt when the source of the funds is an unrelated third party such as a bank. If the shareholder borrows funds from a bank and lends the cash to the S corporation, the bank will hold the shareholder to repayment terms. The conclusion becomes more uncertain when the loan is made between related parties or between the shareholder and entities with common ownership. In these situations, it is important to document the intent of the parties by characterizing the transaction as a loan in the corporate resolutions and accounting records. The parties should maintain written notes with a fixed repayment schedule and a fair market rate of interest at least equal to the applicable federal rate, similar to what a shareholder would execute with unrelated parties.
For a detailed discussion of the issues in this area, see "Tax Clinic: Structuring Loans for S Corp. Shareholder Basis Planning Opportunities," in the December 2017 issue of The Tax Adviser.
—Amy I. Kinkaid, CPA, J.D., and Charles E. Federanich, CPA
The Tax Adviser is the AICPA's monthly journal of tax planning, trends, and techniques.
Also in the December issue:
- A discussion of S corporation current developments.
- Part 3 of a comprehensive look at reporting foreign trust and estate distributions.
- A look at key considerations for tax engagement letters and organizers.
AICPA members can subscribe to The Tax Adviser for a discounted price of $85 per year. Tax Section members can subscribe for a discounted price of $30 per year.


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January 24, 2010
|Rev. Diane Dowgiert
The first step in confronting evil is one of recognition. Sometimes our liberal religious optimism leaves us unprepared to name evil when it happens. What is evil? Why does it exist? Where does it come from? What can and should be done about it?
© Rev. Diane Dowgiert


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Monday, February 07, 2011
The Earth was whispering loudly during the night.
It wasn't animals moving. Not the crunch of feet or the scurry of rodents in the pine needles. Ulrich never appreciated how many unseen things move in the forest at night, but this sound was very different than those. As he curled in his survival bag and begged for sleep, his ear pressed into the ground. It wasn't much, that imperfect contact, but it gave him a thin, direct line through soil and clay and rock formations, through never seen veins of minerals to the faraway boil of magma below.
The sounds were restless, making him restless. The cold made it worse. Bitter cold despite the Alaskan summer. It sounded random, but it was not. As he peeled back the layers in his mind, he caught a complexity deep within. Some kind of process was underway. A pulsing rumble flowed from the east. A snapping chattered in the west. The ground right underneath him was mostly silent. But once in a while, it shrieked. Like tears rending open under impossible pressure.
He sifted through the bottom of his pack for some breakfast after the long darkness. A branch snapped behind him.
Ulrich whirled, fearing another bear, even a cub. He couldn't spare to lose any more of his ravaged supplies.
Instead, he saw a man who looked oddly similar to himself. A certain newness clung to his clothes despite the terrible onslaught of the wilderness.
He didn't look like the bush pilot who left him to begin this journey. That man was worn and tested. Assembled piece by beaten piece. This man standing under the hemlocks still seem soft and vulnerable. But his eyes rippled a chill through Ulrich. Without any reason to think it, Ulrich heard the rumbles in the east when he stared in the man's right eye. The left eye reminded him of the snapping in the west. In the middle, the blankness of the man's face did not seem natural. At any moment, Ulrich expected hear the shriek.
(Another selection from Earthtide, my novel in progress.)
10 comments:
- Shadow said...
this reminds me of stephen king... superb, keep going!
- February 07, 2011 2:32 AM
- the walking man said...
It pulls quite well Jason. I particularly liked the sensations presented as i read of Ulrich trying to sleep but hearing the noises of the earth.
- February 07, 2011 4:21 AM
- Tabitha Bird said...
Wow. sounds like a great book Jason. Keep up that writing :) Love it.
- February 07, 2011 7:39 PM
- SzélsőFa said...
i'm glad to peek into ulrich's story again.
but wow. that man is creepy.
- February 08, 2011 9:01 AM
- Lee said...
Jason - You write so well. Glad you are continuing with your dream. Love the "imperfect contact" and other lines!!!
- February 08, 2011 11:44 AM
Shadow, that's a comparison I certainly appreciate! In fact, I'm happy to be compared with any well published author. :)
Walking Man, thanks! In this project, I'm really trying to embrace the plot/page-turner notion, yet keep my own voice.
Tabitha, I'm trying! :)
Szelosfa, yep. Something is up with him. ;)
Lee, I truly do appreciate your encouragement! Do you have a blog? Something not on Blogger?
- February 08, 2011 7:35 PM
- Lee said...
Me? No no blog. Why do you ask Jason?
- February 08, 2011 8:36 PM
Because I'd like to visit, if you did.
- February 08, 2011 11:10 PM
- Lee said...
Awww - ty ~.
- February 09, 2011 11:01 AM
- Geraldine said...
This just flows....I am looking forward to reading more.Well done Jason!
my new blog with blogger:
Hugs to you and Aine
- February 13, 2011 5:34 AM


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Remember when we used to write about food all the time? I have to admit that my pregnancy kind of took away some of my love of talking about food. Maybe it was the unsolicited opinions for strangers, but I think, honestly, it might have just been the sheer volume of constant eating that did me in. I love food, but spending so much time with my eating at the mercy of someone else made it less fun for me to talk (and think) about. It seems like just yesterday that our little RJ was a squirmy passenger in my belly, making all manner of demands about what I should be eating, and now here he is today, sitting up and crawling, and feeding himself avocado for lunch. Oh my, how time flies.
When he started out, we called him Blueberry Danger, because it was funny, and eventually it became clear that the thing he wanted me to eat was fruit. All the fruit. All the time. No, really. ALLTHEFRUITALLTHETIME. Like, pounds of strawberries in a day, or a whole pineapple, or several grapefruit one after another. It was both awesome and bizarre. But I obeyed! Because, hey, fruit! And also, the non-fruit cravings were so few and so specific that it seemed silly to ignore them. And then he was born, which was a whole thing, and I spent several more months eating all the food in sight, to fulfill my duties as a factory that turned food into other food.
Right about Christmas, RJ started figuring out that the big people were doing something with their mouths, and a week or so later realized that they are eating something that's not breastmilk. OMG, YOU GUYS! Being a baby and a jerk, as soon as he figured out that people were enjoying something that he wasn't getting, he wanted in on that action. I mean, seriously. During one lunch, Carlos and I had to trade him off multiple times just so we could each eat our sandwich, and he still ended up stealing a big piece of lettuce from Carlos's salad and trying to intercept the french fries of the woman next to us.
Now, finally, at six months old, we're starting to do the eating thing in the other direction: I wiggle around in front of him, and demand that he eat the things that I want! Okay, it doesn't go exactly like that. In reality, he tries to grab everything that anyone appears to be eating, and, if successful, proceeds to smear it in his eyebrows. He's not super great with the mechanics of eating just yet. But so enthusiastic!
So, we've started solid foods, which is awesome and also way more work than just making baby milk. On the one hand: sweet potatoes! THE SWEET POTATOES THAT WE EAT! I bake a sweet potato to perfection (thank you for reminding me how perfect they are, Mark Bittman), let it cool to warm-ish, and give him a pointy end like an ice cream cone and eat my own with him! I DO NOT HAVE WORDS TO ADEQUATELY EXPRESS HOW MUCH I ENJOY THIS!
His love of sweet potatoes is my favorite proof that he really is my child.
But there is another hand. And on that other hand: none of us can live on sweet potatoes alone, and now we have to take the digestive development of a tiny screamer into account when making dinner. Having just typed that, it kind of looks like I'm complaining about having to think about my kid while making dinner. File that under: well, duh, parenting is work. Thankfully, beyond sweet potatoes, he seems to really be enjoying most of the things he's tried, including green beans, jicama, and the drawstrings on my hoodie. We are starting to realize that the next stage (after "one new food at a time") is going to be pureeing up our dinner wholesale, and that we're probably going to need to cut out dairy products when we do that. Sad faces all around, but no cow's milk for babies just yet.
So! Pro: I get to eat ALL THE SWEET POTATOES and lots of other veggies and fruits and generally good foods. Con: I have to think about what I'm feeding us, and the prospect of giving up dairy. We'll call "pooping" a neutral, because, well, everyone poops. And I think my "Cons" are clearly actually "Pros," so, I'll quit my complaining.
During this process, I'm really enjoying having a big community of parents on Facebook, sharing the mundane stories of every day life. I like hearing about how your kids are doing! They give me guidance about my own kid! I can't wait until we get to have real time for them to play together (and us too!).
(The pictures are from his first meeting with something he didn't try to eat – grass. He was not particularly a fan, it turns out.)


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton said in January that the troubles within the Volunteers program must end.
They haven't -- violations, arrests and a bar brawl have been among an embarrassing list of incidents.
Now the NCAA is getting involved.
The latest black eye for Tennessee came Friday when men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl acknowledged publicly that he gave misleading and incorrect information to the NCAA about possible violations during a 17-month investigation of his program.
"People make mistakes, and we all make them," Hamilton said. "I've made them. I've made plenty. Bruce made one mistake in this incident, and he came forward to correct it. I'm glad he's our basketball coach."
Hamilton anticipates the NCAA to levy unethical conduct charges against Pearl and his staff, and as a pre-emptive punishment he is reducing Pearl's pay by $1.5 million over five years and prohibiting him from participating in off-campus recruiting for a year beginning Sept 24. Pearl's three assistants also had their pay reduced and cannot participate in off-campus recruiting for periods varying from three months to a year.
Pearl made his announcement less than 24 hours after Tennessee received a letter from the NCAA notifying the university of an official investigation into the entire athletic department. The probe includes possible recruiting violations by the men's basketball program and the football team during former coach Lane Kiffin's one-year tenure.
"This is a tough time, but we're going to get through it as an institution, as a basketball staff, as an athletic staff," Hamilton said.
An emotional Pearl apologized for his part in "letting everybody down."
He provided false information to the NCAA while being interviewed in June about allegations of excessive phone calls made to recruits. Pearl notified officials three weeks later that he had provided the NCAA incorrect information.
"I've made some serious mistakes, and for that I'm truly sorry," Pearl said tearfully at a news conference. "I provided incorrect and misleading information to the NCAA. I've learned some invaluable lessons. After I provided the false and misleading information, subsequently I went back and corrected the record.
"I learned that it's not OK to tell the truth most of the time, but you've got to tell the truth all of the time," he said.
Pearl's revelations also add one more blemish on Hamilton's seven-year run as the leader of the Volunteers men's athletic program. Most of the problems have come since his hire of Kiffin, who lasted one season before leaving for Southern California.
The NCAA has interviewed several current and former Tennessee football assistant coaches and recruits about possible violations during the 2009 season. Tennessee self-reported six minor recruiting violations by Kiffin and his staff and in December acknowledged cooperating with an NCAA investigation into actions by the school's Orange Pride athletics hostess program.
The Vols have also seen a string of arrests in both programs.
A trio of football players were arrested in November on attempted armed robbery charges. And in January, four basketball players were arrested on gun and drug charges, which prompted Hamilton to declare he had no more tolerance for wrongdoing.
Two more football players were arrested in July following a massive bar brawl that left an off-duty police officer with a serious head injury.
Jimmy Cheek, chancellor of Tennessee's Knoxville campus, asserted his confidence in Hamilton's leadership and said the athletic director has had the best interest of not only the Vols but the entire campus at heart.
"It's Mike's job to make absolutely certain that our coaches absolutely understand what our expectations are," Cheek said. "I am confident that he has faced this issue head on. He has been proactive in administering penalties, and he has made very, very tough decisions."
The NCAA has told Tennessee that they expect to wrap up the investigation by December -- if not sooner -- unless it learns of additional potential violations. Any violations uncovered in the investigation may be forward to the NCAA's Committee on Infractions in 2011.
Hamilton said he hopes the NCAA will take into account the punishments he's levied against the coaching staff when it concludes its investigation and decides on any additional penalty. Attorney Mike Glazier has been hired to assist the university during the investigation.
Hamilton said he was unable to find a similar case from another athletic program where a coach acknowledged wrongdoing before being punished by the NCAA.
"There needs to be more of that in college athletics," the athletic director said. "I hope part of what you get out of this today is this is a person that stood up and did the right thing in the end by coming back forward and saying, 'I want to correct this.'"


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Title : Good Trouble
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Episodes : 4
Episodes Title : Unfiltered
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Robinson Crusoe
Chapter I I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me. ...continua...
Start in life
I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards. What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulated very warmly with me upon this subject. He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure. He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind. He told me I might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing - viz. that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.
He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embarrassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly,
After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most affectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the station of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus discharged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persuasions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
I observed in this last part of his discourse, which was truly prophetic, though I suppose my father did not know it to be so himself - I say, I observed the tears run down his face very plentifully, especially when he spoke of my brother who was killed: and that when he spoke of my having leisure to repent, and none to assist me, he was so moved that he broke off the discourse, and told me his heart was so full he could say no more to me.
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
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Daniel Defoe was a pioneering novelist, pamphleteer, journalist, secret agent. He was the son of a butcher: James Foe, and Defoe used that form of his surname until he was about fortythree.
He studied at Charles Morton's Academy, London, and was educated for the Presbyterian ministry, but in 1682 he abandoned the idea and went into business as a hosiery merchant in Cornhill.
After serving briefly as a soldier in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, he became well established as a merchant and travelled widely in England, as well as on the Continent.
He tried his hand at different kids of work and went bankrupt.
In 1684 he married Mary Tuffley, they have two sons and five daughters.
Defoe gained his first literary success in 1708, with The True-born Englishman. It was a satirical poem which stressed the fact that the English are a mixed race and defended the protestant king William III against attacks on his foreign nationality.
This poem was followed by the pamphlet The Shortest way with the Dissenters; he mimicked the extreme attitudes of High Anglican Tories and pretended to argue for the extermination of all Dissenters. Defoe was imprisoned and pilloried, but he was regarded by the people as a martyr and, while in the pillory, he was pelted with flowers.
While still in prison he started his newspaper The Review, which he continued to publish unaided by other writers for more than nine years.
When he left prison, it appears he was employed as a secret agent and played some part behind the scenes in bringing about the union between England and Scotland in 1707.
He achieved literary immortality when in April 1719 he published Robinson Crusoe, which was based partly on the memoirs of voyagers and castaways, such as Alexander Selkirk. It appeared when he was about sixty.
Employing a first-person narrator and apparently genuine journal entries, Defoe created a realistic frame for the novel, which distinguished it from its predecessors.
By giving a vivid reality to a theme with large mythic implications, the story has since fascinated generations of readers as well as authors like Joachim Heinrich Campen, Jules Verne, R.L. Stevenson, J.M. Coetzee, and other creators of Robinsonade stories.
He than wrote and published in rapid succession a series of novels, mostly in autobiographical form, which bore some analogy to his masterpiece, as well as tales of rogues.
Chief among such works are: Capitain Singleton, containing a vivid account of travels in Africa.; Moll Flanders ; Colonel Jack; Journal of the Plague Year. His last great work: Roxana, appeared in 1724.
In 1720 Defoe had ceased to be politically controversial in his writings, and he produced several historical works, a guide book: A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-27), The Great Law of Subordination (1724) (ctr. non citata nel testo di Praz), considered, an examination of the treatment of servants, and The Complete English Tradesman (1726).
Defoe produced in his last years also works involving the supernatural, The Political History of the Devil (1726) and An Essay on the History and Reality of apparitions (1727).
Over 200 books and pamphlets are attributed to him.
He died on 26 April 1731 in his lodgings in Ropemaker's Alley, Moorfields.


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Monday, August 17, 2009
Views of Paris
I had taken a photo of my "to bring" pile of footwear when i was packing for Paris and thought it would be a fun photo to share. Although i did end up with a few extras. Oops.
5 comments:
- The Sydney Girl said...
so many sexy shoes!!!
helene you are absolutely
gorgeous you know that?
wow such gorgeous photos of
the Eiffel tower and the
ferris wheel!
- August 17, 2009 at 7:11 AM
- my empty closet said...
hey gorgeous lady, looking awesome, as usual - that is indeed quite the shoe collection and i'll bet u squeezed in more than that in your luggage lol! you make paris look like the place to be :)
- August 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- daniB said...
i am definitely jealous of your little trip!!
the fair looks like so much fun and the ferris wheel looks gorgeous!
not to mention you look lovely (:
- August 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- STEFANIE said...
So many gorgeous pictures :)! Wow and those are a LOT of shoes ^-^
- August 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM
- catalina said...
im in paris right now too! and i had the same problem trying to narrow down which shoes to bring. like you think you want comfy shoes for all the walking, but then youre like, im going to be in PARIS so i have to bring all the cute ones too! haha.
hope youre having fun!!
- August 31, 2009 at 2:46 PM


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Just posted this in the tropical section but I noticed after that there have only been 4 posts this year in that section so thought I should also post it here. Sorry if it breaks any rules (feel free to delete if this is a problem)
Anyway here goes (again)
Got a 120 liter fish tank for my birthday yesterday from the girlfriend but I am very new to keeping fish and need a little help. While my water sorts itself out in the tank I have been to the aquarium shops today and had a look at some fish which I think would suit my tank type, water temp and size and I made a list of the ones I liked. So to start with and before any questions here is the list I made of the fish that I figured could maybe work together and with my tank.
Molly (silver, dalmation)
Zebra fish
Sterba's corydoras
Siamese fighting fish
Dwarf gourami
Caridina shrimp
Ghost catfish
Agassizi's Dwarf Cichlid
I think those names are correct, it's tough to know as I live in sweden so have translated the names to english.
So those are the fish I have seen that I like and my tank is 120 liters, water temp is set at 26 degrees C. What I would like to know is how many fish I should start with in my tank and which of the above I should get and how many of which ones works best together and in time what would the max number be in my tank as I have no idea!
It is prob a tough question but if anyone could just write me an example list using my list above of what I could actually house in my tank and what would be a good mix to give me an idea of numbers etc then it would be of great help.
Oh and one more thing..... Can anyone recommend any algae eating fish that would work in my tank as I don't think I have any of those on my list apart from the shrimp.
Thanks in advance!


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Digestion is a function of gut health, which affects the gastrointestinal tract, including the mouth, throat, stomach, intestines, digestive and absorptive capacity, and the microbiome.
Experiencing Digestive Issues
It is normal to experience digestive issues from time to time, such as an upset stomach, gas, heartburn, constipation or diarrhea.
However, if these symptoms occur regularly they can be hugely disruptive to daily life.
If you're experiencing digestive issues frequently then it is important to visit a healthcare professional, who can conduct further testing and provide a diagnosis.
Ways to Improve Your Digestion
If you don't have a digestive condition but want to improve digestion, there are several diet and lifestyle changes that can have a positive impact.
These aim to boost gut health, which not only influences digestion but also provides other health benefits, such as supporting the immune system.
Eating prebiotic-rich foods can be helpful, such as
- asparagus
- bananas
- chicory
- garlic
- artichokes
- onions
- and whole grains
Healthy gut bacteria, called probiotics, feed on non-digestible carbohydrates called prebiotics, which encourages them to multiply in the gut.
Research has shown that prebiotics can help probiotics become more resilient to certain environmental conditions, such as pH and temperature changes (1).
Chewing food thoroughly is important because this is where digestion begins. Studies have demonstrated that poor chewing decreases nutrient absorption (2). Your teeth break down food into smaller pieces so that the enzymes in your digestive tract can break it down more easily.
Chewing thoroughly means that the stomach has to do less work to turn the solid food into the liquid mixture that enters the small intestine.
Chewing also produces salvia, such starts to break down the carbohydrates and fats in the meal. In the stomach, salvia acts as a fluid, mixing with the solid food to allow it to pass smoothly through the intestines.
Interestingly, chewing has also been shown to reduce stress, which is also beneficial for gut health (3).
Limit Antibiotics
Avoiding taking unnecessary antibiotics is also helpful because these harm the healthy gut bacteria, with damage lasting as long as 6 months after use (4).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have estimated that 30% of the antibiotics prescribed in the United States are unnecessary (5). It is therefore not a bad idea to explore alternatives with your healthcare provider before deciding to use antibiotics.
Quit Smoking
Quitting smoking is important for the gut, as well as for lung and heart health. A review found that smoking changes intestinal flora by increasing potentially harmful microorganisms and decreasing beneficial ones (6).
In addition to worsening digestive symptoms, this can also increase the risk of conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease.
Be Active
Physical activity can also improve digestion. This is because exercise helps food travel through the digestive system.
One study found that moderate exercise, such as cycling and jogging, was able to increase gut transit time by almost 30% (7).
Other research demonstrated that 30 minutes of walking per day was able to significantly reduce symptoms of constipation (8).
Also, relaxing around mealtimes is important to support digestive health. A study found that people who were anxious when they ate experienced more indigestion and bloating than those who were more relaxed (9).
In addition to making diet and lifestyle changes to improve digestion, there are several supplements that can be helpful.
These supplements can help to reduce negative digestive symptoms and promote positive gut health.
Although there are many supplements claiming to boost digestive health, not all have been demonstrated to be effective in scientific literature.
For example, digestive enzymes are commonly advocated as being beneficial but the majority of studies indicate that they do very little to improve digestion.
7 Most Helpful Supplements for Digestion and Gut Health
Here are the best evidence-based supplements for digestive health:
Psyllium Husk
Psyllium refers to the fibers from the plant Plantago ovata. It is water-soluble and gel-forming and can increase fecal moisture and weight.
How does psyllium boost digestive health?
Clinically, it is used as a bulk laxative and provides a more gentle alternative to caffeine or senna. The bulk occurs as a result of water and gas absorption in the small intestines and colon, which give chyme (digested food) more size and softness.
A study found that 8.8-15g of psyllium husk taken daily for one week was associated with an increase in fecal weight and moisture attributed to the gel-forming element of the psyllium husk (10).
Psyllium is poorly fermented, which means that bulk can be retained in the colon, rather than being metabolized by bacteria. It is one of the few fiber sources that does not seem to cause flatulence.
A study using intrarectal catheters measured less 'flatus boluses' following the acute ingestion of 30 g of psyllium (11).
Psyllium also seems to be effective for reducing digestive symptoms when taken long term.
One open-label study found that supplementation of 10 g of psyllium seeds twice daily for a year in those in remission from ulcerative colitis had improved remission rates compared to those taking 500 mg mesalamine three times per day (12).
Also, psyllium can improve transit time. A study found that taking psyllium husk daily for two weeks was associated with an increase in transit time and markers of fecal weight compared to a control (13).
How do I take psyllium?
Depending on the severity of digestive symptoms, as little as 5 g of psyllium taken with meals alongside at least 200 ml of water, can be effective.
It is recommended to start with 5 g at each meal and then increase or decrease the amount, depending on the results.
Doses up to 30 g seem to be well tolerated, as long as enough water is consumed at the same time.
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Yacon refers to the plant Smallanthus sonchifolius, which is a tuber vegetable similar to a potato that is commonly found in South America. It has a sweet taste so the syrup is often used as an alternative sweetener.
The syrup contains a large number of fructooligosaccharides (FOS), which are prebiotic fibers that are partially absorbed.
How does yacon boost digestive health?
Yacon is beneficial for both intestinal mobility and fecal moisture.
A placebo-controlled, double-blind study found that 20 g of yacon syrup taken daily for two weeks was able to reduce transit time to 64% of baseline levels, as well as increasing stool frequency and moisture (14).
Also, there was no bloating observed during the study, demonstrating that it was well tolerated.
How do I take yacon?
To obtain the benefits for digestive health, it is recommended to consume 20 g of yacon per day, in syrup form, around one hour before a meal.
Lactobacillus Reuteri
Lactobacillus reuteri is a species of probiotic bacteria. It can be found in the human intestinal tract although this is often not in high amounts.
It was initially used to treat necrotizing colitis, a gastrointestinal disease associated with infection and inflammation that is dangerous for babies and children, especially those born prematurely.
Interest in the bacteria grew after research demonstrated that the immune system could be influenced by changing aspects of the digestive system.
Although there has been a lot of interest in full-spectrum probiotic supplements (those with many different strains of healthy bacteria), research of the effectiveness of these for digestive health has been mixed.
There are some studies that have shown them to be beneficial, some that have found no difference and others that have even demonstrated that digestive symptoms get worse when taking them. It seems to be highly dependent on the particular gut bacteria profile of the individual.
From a scientific perspective, it is also difficult to know which aspects of a multi-strain bacteria are improving or worsening symptoms when it is taken as a single supplement.
For these reasons, recent research has tended to focus on particular strains of probiotics, such as Lactobacillus reuteri.
How does Lactobacillus reuteri boost digestive health?
Lactobacillus reuteri is effective in reducing symptoms of constipation.
A prospective, multicenter, double-masked, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial found that L reuteri DSM 17938 taken daily for 90 days significantly increased bowel evacuations and therefore reducing constipation as well as improving other gastrointestinal symptoms, compared to placebo (15).
It can also decrease symptoms of diarrhea.
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study found that taking L. reuteri 1×10 colony-forming units twice daily for four weeks was able to significantly reduce the frequency of diarrhea from 50% in placebo to 7.7% (16).
How do I take lactobacillus reuteri?
Particular strains of lactobacillus reuteri are more suitable for supplementation than others. Two that are known to be most appropriate are Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC 55730, DSM 17938, and ATCC 6475, which can all survive oral supplementation even without an enteric capsule.
The most effective dose is typically between one billion to one hundred billion colony-forming units taken over a day.
This can be taken in either a single dose or split doses, as both seem to be equally effective. Some studies have even shown that every other day may sufficient to provide benefits for digestion.
Lactobacillus reuteri can be taken with or without food but should not be taken alongside a hot drink as this will destroy the bacteria.
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Glutamine is one of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids in dietary protein. It is considered to be a conditionally essential amino acid, which means that it is normally produced in sufficient amounts in the body but in specific cases, additional supplementation is needed to meet requirements.
It is effective in improving both intestinal and immune health because the cells in these systems use glutamine as a preferred fuel source to glucose.
How does glutamine boost digestive health?
Glutamine has been shown to improve intestinal permeability.
A study found that glutamine preserves the gut barrier function and prevents the permeability of toxins and pathogens from the gut lumen into mucosal tissue and circulation (17).
It can also be effective in reducing the digestive symptoms of Crohn's disease.
A randomized controlled trial found that taking 0.5g/kg ideal body weight daily for two months was able to significantly improve both intestinal permeability and morphology (18).
How do I take glutamine?
To obtain the benefits of glutamine for gut health, it is recommended to start by taking 5 g per day.
There are risks to taking extremely high doses, such as excessive ammonia in serum. However, this is only of concern at doses of 0.75 g/kg bodyweight.
Glutamine can be taken either with or without meals and in one single dose or multiple doses.
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Senna Alexandrina
Senna alexandrina is a plant that contains sennosides, which have a laxative effect. It is a plant native to Sudan that grows to a height of between two and three feet.
It has a long history of use in ayurvedic medicine and is known as swarnapatri in Sanskrit.
How does senna alexandrina boost digestive health?
Senna alexandrina can increase intestinal motility and reduce constipation.
Research has found it to be effective in over 90% of cases, compared to placebo while causing minimal cramping (19).
Studies have also demonstrated that senna is superior or equal in effectiveness to all other herbal laxatives (20).
How do I take senna alexandrina?
Following clinical usage, the dose shown to provide desired effects of soft and easy-to-pass stools is 1-2 g of powdered extract taken daily or fruit, typically standardized to contain between 10 and 30 mg of active sennosides.
It is recommended to take it before bed to give the laxative effect time to work and to create a morning bowel movement.
Peppermint, also known as Mentha piperita, is a hybrid plant from watermint and spearmint. It is used for its taste and smell and is used both internally and externally.
The oil of the plant seems to be the medicinal element, which is due to its high menthol content, which is a bioactive ingredient.
How does peppermint boost digestive health?
Peppermint can reduce the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
A double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial found that peppermint oil taken three times per day for six weeks was able to reduce symptoms of abdominal pain by around 20% compared to placebo, without altering other symptoms (21). However, these benefits were no longer experienced two weeks after stopping supplementation, demonstrating the importance of taking peppermint continuously.
Peppermint can also prevent colonic spasm.
A double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial demonstrated that 0.2 ml of peppermint oil taken four hours before a colonoscopy significantly reduced colonic tension and spasm frequency compared with placebo, due to the relaxing properties of the oil (22). This resulted in reduced pain in patients and a shorter time needed to complete the procedure.
Also, peppermint is effective in reducing flatulence.
A randomized, double-blind controlled trial reported that 0.1 ml of peppermint oil taken three times per day for two weeks was able to significantly improve pain and flatulence symptoms compared to placebo (23).
Peppermint can also improve gastric emptying.
A randomized, two-way crossover study found that a 200 ml test meal of 200 kcal with 0.64 ml of peppermint oil significantly increased the early phase of gastric emptying compared to eating the test meal alone (24).
Symptoms of diffuse esophageal spasm (DES) may also be improved through peppermint supplementation.
A pilot study found that taking 5 drops of peppermint oil in 10 ml of solution eliminated esophageal spasms and reduced pain after 10 minutes of supplementation (25).
How do I take peppermint?
To support digestive health, it is recommended to take between 450-750 mg of the oil daily in 2-3 divided doses. This is equivalent to between 0.1-0.2 ml of the oil per dosage and reflects a menthol of content around 33-55%.
Although all forms of peppermint oil seem to be equally effective, for those experiencing heartburn, it is recommended to take an enteric-coated capsule to avoid the capsule breaking too early in the digestive process to provide benefits.
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Ginger, also known as Zingiber officinale, is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root, has traditionally been used in traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. The plant is part of the It Zingiberaceae family and is closely related to turmeric, cardamom, and galangal.
How does ginger boost digestive health?
Ginger is beneficial for reducing symptoms of nausea.
A meta-analysis that assessed the quality of conducted investigated the quality of six randomized controlled trials found that ginger was consistently effective, compared to either placebo or vitamin B6, which is often used as a reference drug (26). This is likely due to ginger's ability to improve gastric motility.
Ginger has also been shown to be effective in reducing lower esophageal pressure.
A randomized controlled trial found that 1 g of ginger was able to significantly reduce low esophageal pressure after consumption of a beverage without affecting resting lower esophageal sphincter pressure, which is likely the result of its anti-flatulence effects (27).
Also, there is evidence that ginger can reduce colon cancer risk.
A randomized placebo-controlled trial found that 2 g of ginger extract taken daily for 28 days significantly reduced pro-inflammatory eicosanoids in the colon compared to placebo, suggesting a protective effect against colon cancer (28).
How do I take ginger?
Doses of between 1 and 3 g tend to be most effective for reducing symptoms of nausea.
For other usages of ginger, 1 g is the standard dosage, which seems to be effective in increasing intestinal motility.
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Wrapping Up
Although digestive symptoms can be uncomfortable, there are several ways to reduce their severity.
This includes making dietary and lifestyle changes, such as increasing intake of prebiotic-rich foods, chewing slowly, reducing stress levels and increasing physical activity, as well as quitting smoking and avoiding unnecessary use of antibiotics.
In addition to making these alterations, adding supplementation can also help to boost gut health and reduce unpleasant digestive symptoms.
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If you are a young white man in America you have heard it before. Well, in truth, you have heard it all your life. You, as a white man (especially if you are not gay), are the embodiment of all sin. You get it daily from the media, and we even have major political figures that are "anti-white man".
Now it's true that you may not have even been aware of your devilishness (or even your whiteness for that matter!), but it is shoved in your face on a daily basis. You may have never treated a black person in a racist manner but you are still guilty because of the SYSTEM OF WHITE PRIVILEDGE!
After you have been bullied into being sorry for the sin of being white, you have to "engage the conversation". Oh yes, this is something we "need to talk about". We need "a social conversation".
Of course when I speak of having a conversation I mean you may only contribute by saying "we're not worthy" while flogging yourself. Then you need to vote for politicians with Marxist leanings because we will only have racial reconciliation when white men give their stuff to black people.
On top of all of this, the young Christian white man looks to his popular evangelical leaders and witnesses their capitulation to this social justice nonsense.
Enter the Alt-Right…
And people are mystified at the phenomenal growth of the Alt-Right (white nationalism). You can be as sharp as a bowling ball and figure this one out.
What I've written above is the perception of many young white men and they are getting quite sick of it and the only group that seems to identify with them are the white nationalists. Even if they don't want their first identity to be along racial lines, this culture just will not allow them that. "If I've got to be whitey, then I suppose I better join the group that has whitey's back"…or so it goes.
Don't be deceived my brothers in Christ. Whether it is the Critical Race Theory of the social justice Marxists or the white nationalist response to it, none of this is a Biblical response to the issues of our time.
God calls us to come out of the world and be a separate people.
I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.
—Leviticus 20:24
He has called us from all tribes and kindreds and nations.
…there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
—Colossians 3:11
He calls us to be one.
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
—John 17:11b
Now I realize there is much to consider regarding race relations in our day, but this is where we start.