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|Winter Term 2021 Applied Ethics: Introduction to Biomedical Ethics - 1110 - PHIL 120
Prerequisites/Notes: Recommended for freshmen and sophomores
Catalog Description : The course will examine moral dilemmas created or intensified by recent advances in medical technology and study ways of analyzing those dilemmas to make them more tractable. We will focus on examples such as euthanasia and the right to die, abortion, behavior modification, allocation of scarce medical resources, in vitro fertilization, genetic screening and engineering, and human experimentation.
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Asked by Trena, Cerritos, California
My baby boy died January 12, and my life has been a nightmare ever since. I have tried therapy, and I have been prescribed different antidepressants and nothing seems to help. I'm told I have post-traumatic stress disorder due to the nature of his death. Is there any natural alternative? Are there any other options out there, be it holistic or medicinal? How long does the grief last? I want to feel better for the sake of my other kids, but I just feel worse.
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Dear Trena,
My heart breaks for you and your situation. Having young children, it takes no imagination on my part to imagine the horror and heartbreak of losing such beautiful little beings.
So the first thing you should know is that your reaction, while problematic, is most likely not abnormal. I admire you wanting to find ways to put your suffering behind you enough to help your other children.
We know from many studies that the type of trauma that you are experiencing as the result of the death of a child can negatively affect the mental health of the dead child's siblings. So you are right to be concerned.
And I want to suggest to you that you utilize your caring for your living children as a reason to seek healing and as a path for recovering.
Before we talk about specific therapeutic options, I want to suggest that choosing to focus as much as you can on your children, on who they are and on what they need from you, may provide a path out of your heartbreak. Their lives may remind you of your lost child, which may increase your pain initially.
So it is important that you don't beat yourself up if you find it difficult, or impossible, to focus fully on your other children. Just try your hardest, cut yourself a break if you're not perfect and try again.
There are natural products that have been shown to help with depression and anxiety, although you should know that they have not been as well-studied as standard antidepressants and anti-anxiety agents.
In collaboration with your clinician, you might consider omega-3 fatty acids, SAMe (S-Adenosylmethionine, pronounced "Sammy"), St. John's wort or valerian.
Again, chemicals -- whether pharmaceutical or nutraceutical -- might be of some value, but I think your long-term best interests lie with behavioral interventions.
We've discussed therapy. In terms of less traditional options, there are many. What you are looking for is something that will help you make sense of your loss in a way that will allow you to continue to suffer but to return to full joyful engagement with the life that stretches before you.
I don't know you well enough to have a sense of what to suggest in this regard. Many people benefit from a spiritual practice -- be it church attendance, yoga or meditation.
For the sake of yourself and your children, you should also make a commitment to adopting the healthiest lifestyle you can in terms of diet and obtaining regular aerobic exercise.
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- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, melted
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme
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- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
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Position 1 rack in bottom third and 1 rack in top third of oven and preheat to 450°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with foil; butter foil generously. Arrange onion wedges cut side down on prepared sheets. Brush onions with melted butter. Mix thyme, salt, and pepper in small bowl; sprinkle over onions. Drizzle with vinegar. Cover baking sheets tightly with foil. Roast onions 20 minutes. Reverse baking sheets from top to bottom and continue to roast until bottoms of onion wedges are brown, about 20 minutes longer. Remove foil. Using spatula, turn onion wedges over; cover with foil and roast until bottoms of onions are brown and edges are slightly crisp, reversing position of baking sheets after 5 minutes, about 15 minutes total. DO AHEAD Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Refrigerate onions on sheets, covered. Rewarm uncovered in 350°F oven until heated through, about 15 minutes.


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Blog: How does R&D offshoring affect firm innovativeness?
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In a globalized world where talent and knowledge are no longer limited to just a few economies, firms are increasingly offshoring R&D activities to foreign locations. Often firms do so to source foreign knowledge and to increase their R&D efficiency. Practitioners and scientific researchers alike heavily debate the drivers of R&D offshoring, but how does R&D offshoring affect firm's innovativeness?


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Fat Trel and Young Moe drop off a NSFW video for their collaboration "Million Dollar Dreams," off Moe's latest mixtape Humble Hustle 2.
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On December 22, Tony Trischka and his bluegrass band 'Territory' will perform at Mexicali Live in his home state of NJ. Celebrated for its "adventurous spirit" (Washington Post), Territory features Tony, Michael Daves (guitar, vocals), Skip Ward (double bass) and Mike Barnett (fiddle).
In January, Tony and six of the world's most influential five-string banjo players including Béla Fleck - all with ties to New York state - will unite for the New York Banjo Summit, an unprecedented tour featuring (at times, all seven) banjos played in traditional and often unexpected ways.
Trischka is currently working on his latest album for Rounder Records and has recently produced 'Rare Bird Alert,' the album by Steve Martin featuring Paul McCartney and the Dixie Chicks. He is also the musical director on the PBS Special and DVD release of 'The Banjo Project.' The Grammy-nominated album 'Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular' in 2007 marked Tony's "return to bluegrass," and earned him featured segments on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, Ellen and the Late Show with David Letterman - with friends and collaborators Béla Fleck and comedian / musician Steve Martin.
Tony Trischka is of the instrument's top teachers with numerous instructional books, DVDs, CDs and the groundbreaking Tony Trischka School of Banjo; the online banjo home for students from all around the world.
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UCONN WOMEN: Huskies falter against Baylor
HARTFORD >> After an uncharacteristically quiet first half, Baylor's All-American tandem of Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims awoke in time to lift the top-ranked Lady Bears to a hard-earned 76-70 win over No. 3 UConn before a sellout crowd of 16,294 at the XL Center on Monday.
Griner had 21 points in the second half as the Lady Bears survived a stern test from the Huskies.
"We are just not good enough to beat these guys yet," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said.
UConn seemed to be control of the game with a 27-18 lead after a Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis layup with 3:29 to go in the half.
However, the Huskies didn't have another field goal the rest of the first half.
Baylor began to inch its way back with a pair of Jordan Madden free throws. Brooklyn Pope, who came off the bench for the first time since a Jan. 23 win over Iowa State, had a pair of baskets and Kimetria Hayden also had a hoop during the Lady Bears' 8-0 run which pulled Baylor within one point.
Mosqueda-Lewis was fouled with 1.6 seconds to go and hit both free throws to give the Huskies the 29-26 lead at halftime.
Mosqueda-Lewis, who came into the game with one double-double, had her second by halftime with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Mosqueda-Lewis finished with 26 points and 15 rebounds.
Baylor took its first lead on a Griner putback early in the second half before Morgan Tuck hit a hook as the Huskies regained the advantage. Kelly Faris followed with a backdoor layup.
UConn (24-2) seemed to catch its breath with back-to-back baskets by Faris and Hartley. When Hartley was racing up the floor following a Griner turnover, the Baylor All-American reached out and grabbed Dolson by the arm and pulled her to the ground. She was assessed a flagrant 1 foul and Dolson hit both free throws to put UConn up 41-34 with 15:34 to go in the game.
Baylor promptly ripped off the next eight points. Hayden tied the game with a 3-pointer, while Destiny Williams put the Lady Bears in front by hitting one of two from the free-throw line beginning a stretch of six straight lead changes. That pattern ended when Sims hit a 3 and then set up Brooklyn Pope for a basket to give the Lady Bears the 54-50 lead.
UConn got back within a point following a Mosqueda-Lewis 3-pointer before Griner had a pair of baskets and Sims a pair of free throws to stretch the lead to 63-56.
A 3-pointer by Tuck and pair of jumpers by Mosqueda-Lewis got UConn back within two points. However, Mosqueda-Lewis forced a shot on the next possession. Griner scored on the other end to make it a four-point edge. Pope hit a layup to make a 71-65 lead.
UConn was able to get as close as four points, but Griner had a pair of free throws, including one which gave her 3,000 career points, and Pope converted a steal into a layup to finish off the Huskies.
Griner had 25 points, nine rebounds and four assists, Pope had 18 for Baylor (25-1).
Hartley had 13 points while Tuck and Dolson added 11.
Neither coach was thrilled at the timing of the game. Mulkey said it was the least important regular-season game the Lady Bears would play for the rest of the season.
Auriemma wasn't about to go that far.
"We are all trying to win conference championships, not everybody can but we are all trying to," Auriemma said. "I don't know how a game is going to affect one way or the other our ability to win the Big East championship that way. I never look at it that way. I am almost at the point where you win the Big East regular season championship and you lose in the second round (of the NCAA tournament) and they are going to have a parade for you because you won the conference championship?


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Italy's prime minister, Mario Monti, surprised low-level earners in Italy with a tax cut in the midst of the country's austerity program. The government also announced that it was cutting in half a planned increase in sales tax rates to a single percentage point. Despite these less strenuous measures, Monti said that the country would stick to the austerity plan it had agreed to with the European Union.
Reuters reported Wednesday that the decisions were reached after an eight-hour-long meeting of the Italian cabinet that ended in the wee hours of the morning. Previously, everything had gone the other way as the country sought to ward off a Greek-style crisis; taxes were boosted even as pensions were cut and other belt-tightening measures made the recession even worse.
Now, however, the cabinet reversed some of those measures. In the report, Monti was quoted saying, "Today we can see that budget discipline pays and makes sense" because "we can allow ourselves some moderate relief."
Italy's lowest two income tax rates will each be cut, with those earning less than 15,000 euros ($19,309) annually paying 22% instead of 23% and those making between 15,001–28,000 euros paying 26% instead of 27%. The three highest rates will remain where they are.
The cabinet issued a statement that said Italy will balance its budget in structural terms in 2013, as its agreement with the EU decrees. It said that health care and other state spending will be cut a second time, and financial transactions and "fiscal interventions" for banks and insurance companies will both be taxed to help pay for the measures.
The government said that savings should total 3.5 billion euros a year when fully implemented, and that savings from the last batch of spending cuts will amount to 4.4 billion euros in 2012 and 10.3 billion in 2013.


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VANCOUVER - Premier Christy Clark went on the offensive during Friday morning's election radio debate, relentlessly pressing NDP leader Adrian Dix on his decision to oppose an expansion of Kinder Morgan's pipeline between Alberta and Burnaby.
"For Mr. Dix it's a different position every day depending on what the polls and the politics tell him to do," Clark said.
"You conceal your position on Kinder Morgan for months, you conceal your platform and what you want to do on the issues that matter to British Columbians for months," she said.
"If you're concealing those things from us, what else are you concealing from us?"
Dix responded that he made a clear pronouncement Monday on the Kinder Morgan pipeline. It came during a campaign event in Kamloops, where he said an NDP government would not allow a pipeline expansion if it meant turning Metro Vancouver into a major exporter of oil.
"What I'm saying is clearly, now, where I stand: That I don't think that this harbour, this port, should become an oil tanker export port," he said during the debate.
"The question really is: Do we want to transform the purpose of the pipeline?"
But he was unwilling to say when he had changed from his earlier position of wanting to wait for Kinder Morgan to submit its formal proposal before making any pronouncements on the project.
"Obviously — because as all of you know I take these issues very seriously, I've done a lot of work on them over time — obviously we've given considerable thought over time to them," he told reporters after the debate.
"But the time I made the decision was when I made the announcement (on Monday)."
Friday's radio debate focused heavily on the two controversial pipeline projects — Kinder Morgan's proposed expansion, and the new Northern Gateway pipeline project put forward by Enbridge — as well as approaches to budgets and the economy.
The sparring session provided a preview to Monday night's television debate, expected to be a high-stakes showdown over the same key issues.
That debate will put the four leaders on a stage together for 90 minutes during prime time, in a format that will allow them to ask questions directly of each other.
Dix landed his own punches during Friday's radio debate, taking on Clark over the budget her government tabled in February.
"The only person in B.C. who thinks the budget is balanced is Premier Clark," said Dix.
Green party leader Jane Sterk and B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins seized on the same issue.
"You don't balance a budget by a fire sale of government assets," said Cummins, who also sought to distinguish himself during the debate as the leader who supports both the Kinder Morgan and Enbridge pipelines.
"It's a safe way to move oil and to suggest otherwise is not responsible and untrue," he said.
Sterk called the Liberal budget an "election budget" that would have to be torn up after people go to the polls.
She said she believes the Greens are perfectly suited to be an effective watchdog for whichever party forms the next government.
"I think the people of British Columbia can make a decision about how they want to shape the next legislature, whether they want to continue that two-party antagonistic kind of system or whether they want a constructive alternative that brings a watchdog voice into the legislature," she said.
The debate was held as a poll shows the Liberals have gained slightly since the election began, but are still trailing the New Democrats by a major gap of 14 points.
Conducted by Angus Reid, the poll found NDP support is unchanged from mid-April, with support from 45 per cent of decided voters.
It found the B.C. Liberals have increased three points from that time to 31 per cent, and the B.C. Conservatives and Greens both dropped slightly, netting 11 and 10 per cent respectively.
Conducted April 24-25, the poll involved 812 members of an online panel. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.


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Carbon is the fiber
of our DNA Like all living organisms, Kestrel has a genetic code – a DNA – that is
at the core of everything we do. We focus on four critical elements
when we design our award-winning bikes: fit, material, testing, and
FIT- It's all about harmony between rider and machine. We don't use
"open molds" on any of our framesets, forks, or components. Us ing
our own molds allows for total design and performance integration. The
Kestrel design process begins with determining what body position will
help our riders perform their best. Kestrel's road and tri geometries have
been refined over two decades with input from athletes and fit experts
in the industry, and our geometries are designed to fit a wide range of
customers: weekend riders to full-time pros.
MATERIAL- Carbon is the backbone of every Kestrel—it has been since
1986. Kestrel uses two grades of carbon: 700K & 800K. The 700K is
all muscle. Less resistant to bending, it's utilized in high-stress areas
to reduce flex. And the 800K adds finesse. The lighter of the two, it's
utilized in lower stress areas to achieve the lightest possible overall frame
weight. Each model employs a unique blend of these two fibers to create a powerful yet light weight bike.
TESTING- Kestrels aren't just tested in the wind tunnel, they are designed in the wind tunnel. That means if certain standards aren't
reached, it's back to the drawing board. In facilities like the A2 Wind
Tunnel in Charlotte, NC, the numbers don't lie.
We use extensive 3-D solid model computer drawings to produce fullscale prototypes, which we meticulously review and evaluate to search
for every possible tenth of a second advantage. Testing begins at 0°
Yaw and goes up to 30°. Wind speeds are set at 10, 20, and 30 MPH.
And unlike most companies, we test more than just the bike – we put a
rider on the bike as well as different wheels, bars, and parts, all in an effort to create the best possible package for each Kestrel frameset. Once
the aerodynamics are nailed down, we simulate the most arduous riding
conditions so we can refine material lay-ups and structural shapes to
optimize stiffness and control.
ATHLETES- Kestrel has always been about positioning itself at the top of
the sport of triathlon, and that means working with athletes in the upper
echelons of the sport. From the early days when 2-time Ironman World
Champion Chris McCormack rode Kestrel's Airfoil to victory to our current Ironman Champion and U.S. Olympian Andy Potts and professional
cyclists Denis Menchov & Carlos Sastre, winners of two of cycling's
Grand Tours, Kestrel's partnership with world-class athletes continues to
inspire us to make better bikes. After all, it's in our DNA.
- bike-view: Yes
- bottom-bracket: Oval Concepts Integrated with BB30 Adapter
- brake-levers: Shimano 105
- brakes: Oval Concepts 500
- chain: KMC X10 Nickel Plated, 10-sp
- crankset: Oval Concepts 700 50/34T 47cm, 50cm: 170mm; 53cm, 56cm: 172.5mm; 59cm, 62cm: 175mm
- fork: Kestrel Custom Carbon Leg w/ 1 1/8" - 1 1/2" Tapered Carbon Steerer
- frame: Blend of 700 K/800 K Hi-Modulus Carbon Fiber
- front-derailleur: Shimano 105, Braze On
- Type: Sporting Goods > Outdoor Recreation > Cycling > Bicycles > Road Bicycles
- geometry:
- headset: Oval Concepts Integrated 1 1/8" Top, 1 1/2" Bottom with Carbon Top Cover
- pedals: N/A
- rear-derailleur: Shimano 105, 10-sp
- shifters: Shimano 105 STI
- stem: Oval 300 3D Forged 6061 Alloy, 31.8mm, +/-6 degrees (47cm: 90mm; 50cm, 53cm: 100mm, 56cm: 110mm; 59cm, 62cm: 120mm)
- tires: Hutchinson Equinox 700x23c
- wheelset: 700c: Oval Concepts 330 Alloy Clincher, 30mm F & R, 10-sp
- year: 2012