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Rational Temperance
ut how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
– Alan Greenspan 1996
PIMCO's dear friend and former counselor Alan Greenspan coined this now famous phrase in the midst of what turned out to be a fairly rationally priced stock market in late 1996. While the market was indeed moving in the direction of "dot-com" fever three to four years later, the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the time was a relatively anorexic 6,000, and the trailing P/E ratio was only 12x. For a central bank that was then more concerned about economic growth and inflation as opposed to stock prices, risk spreads, and artificially suppressed interest rates, the Chairman's query made global headlines, became a book title for Professor Robert Shiller and a strategic beacon for portfolio managers thereafter. Having experienced two and perhaps three bouts of significant market irrationality since Greenspan's speech (the 1998 Asian Crisis, 2000 Dot-Coms, and of course 2007's subprime euphoria), investors these days have their ears pressed to the ground and eyes glued to the tape for any sign of renewed irrationality. If the game is now musical chairs as opposed to Chuck Prince's marathon dancing, it pays to be close to a chair, even as the "can't miss" euphoria mesmerizes 2013 asset managers worldwide.
Into this academic but high-staked market fog has stepped another Fed official, this time not a Chairman but a relatively new yet similarly quizzical Governor. Jeremy Stein's February 2013 speech has not gained the attention that Chairman Greenspan's did, but it is remarkably similar in its intent and initial question: Governor Stein asks, "What factors lead to overheating episodes in credit markets?... Why is it that sometimes, things get out of balance?" Without mimicking Chairman Greenspan's phrase, Governor Stein renews the quest, asking nearly a decade and a half later, "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"
I suppose it's fair to criticize both queries on two grounds: 1) Although asked by Chairman Greenspan, it was never really answered in the 1996 speech. 2) If the Fed's so smart, why are some of us still poor? Why did our 401(k)s become 201(k)s in 2009 before recovering to near peak levels currently? If they're so smart, why the roller coaster ride, the 30% decline in home prices since 2006, and our current 7.9% unemployment rate?
Well to answer for the absent Chairman and the necessarily silent Governor Stein, the Fed incorrectly assumed that as long as inflation was benign, and future productivity prospects were near historical proportions, then asset price exuberance was an indirect and much less significant influence on economic growth. The Chairman admitted as much in a public "mea culpa" several years ago. We're not that smart, he seemed to intone. Sometimes we make mistakes. I'm with you there, Mr. Chairman. Sometimes we all do.
So let's approach this new paper with eyes wide open and pant bottoms close to those mythical musical chairs. Governor Stein's speech reflects importantly on the answer to the question asked by a recent Wall Street Journal headline: "Is (the) Bull Sprint Becoming a Marathon?" Is there indeed "A Boom Time" in markets as the Financial Times queried on the heels of Dell, Virgin Media, and then HJ Heinz?
Governor Stein, as does PIMCO, suggests caution. On a scale of 1-10 measuring asset price "irrationality", we are probably at a 6 and moving in an upward direction. Admittedly, Stein never ventures into the netherworld of stock market prices or leveraged buyouts. He appears to know better. What he does stake claim to however is a thesis for high yield spreads with the implication that other credit markets bear similar consequences. His initial starting point is that the pricing of credit is primarily an institutional as opposed to a household decision making process. Individuals may become unduly irrational when it comes to buying high yield ETFs or mutual funds, but it is the banks, insurance companies and pension funds, to name the most dominant, that influence the price of credit – high yield bonds – and by osmosis, investment grade corporates, municipals, and other non-Treasury risk credit assets. From this initial premise, he then points to recent research by Harvard's Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson that suggests that while credit spreads are helpful future guides, that a non-price measure – the new issue volume (and perhaps quality) of high yield bonds – is a more trustworthy input. To quote: "When the high-yield share (of issuance) is elevated, future returns on corporate credit tend to be low." And because of financial innovation and easier regulatory changes, institutional buyers such as banks, insurance companies and pension funds tend to match the mountains of issuance with an exuberance that eventually can be labeled irrational. Stein's bottomline is that recent evidence suggests that we are seeing a "fairly significant pattern of reaching-for-yield behavior emerging in corporate credit." In fact, investors bought over $100 billion of high yield and levered loan paper last year, a record level even exceeding the ominous levels in 2006 and 2007. Shown below in Chart 1 is a history of CLO issuance, admittedly a subset of high yield, but one which illustrates the supply pattern Governor Stein is leery of.
Now at this point, I suppose readers expect yours truly to jump all over the Governor's speech/premise and to advance my own more learned thesis. Not really. With previously expressed reservations about the prescience of the Fed (or any of us!) I applaud his attempt to answer the initial 1996 question. I think Governor Stein's speech was a little uni-dimensional, and a little too supply and model driven as opposed to behaviorally influenced, but I liked it, and PIMCO agrees with its conclusion. Corporate credit and high yield bonds are somewhat exuberantly and irrationally priced. Spreads are tight, corporate profit margins are at record peaks with room to fall, and the economy is still fragile. Still that doesn't mean you should vacate your portfolio of them. It just implies that recent double-digit returns are unlikely to be replicated and that when today's 5-6% high yield interest rates are adjusted for future defaults and recovery values, that 3-4% realized returns are the likely outcome. Just this past week the Financial Times reported that global corporate default rates are inching higher just as companies with fragile balance sheets sell large amounts of debt. Don't say Governor Stein didn't warn you.
But I would step now into the forbidden territory of equity pricing by presenting additional historical correlations compiled by Jim Bianco of Bianco Research – admittedly not a thickly populated academically staffed organization like the Fed, but a well-regarded one nonetheless. He points out in a recent daily release that high yield and corporate bonds are really just low beta equivalents of stocks. It appears that they are. The following charts show a rather commonsensical negative correlation of high yield spreads (and therefore future high yield returns) to stock prices.
The conclusion would be that where high yield prices go, stock markets follow, or vice versa. Narrow yield spreads in high yield credit markets appear to be accompanied by "narrow" equity risk premiums in the market for stocks, which is another way of saying that the course of future equity returns may not resemble its recent exuberant past. 3-4% high yield returns over the next few years? Why shouldn't that logically lead to a generalized 5-6% return forecast for stocks? Admittedly, returns for both high yield and equity markets have been unduly influenced in the past few years by Quantitative Easing, the writing of trillions of dollars of Federal Reserve checks and the exuberant migration of institutions and households alike to the grassier plains of risk assets dependent on favorable economic outcomes. It is what central banks encourage and to date it has been successful. If and when that support dissipates or if the economy remains anemic, investors should be cautious and temper their enthusiasm.
PIMCO's and Governor Stein's "rational temperance," in contrast to excessive historical bouts of "irrational exuberance," simply counsels to lower return expectations, not to abandon ship. PIMCO is a global investment manager – not one with a perpetual frown or even an ever-present half empty glass – but one which hopes to provide alpha and above market returns while still standing tall in the aftermath of future irrational bouts of exuberance. We join with Governor Stein and perhaps Alan Greenspan in encouraging not an exit but a reduced expectation. Credit spreads nor interest rates cannot be artificially compressed forever, nor can stock prices rise perpetually on their coattails. Be rational, be optimistic if so inclined, but temper it with a commonsensical conclusion that we have seen something similar to this before, and that previous outcomes seldom matched the exuberance.
IO Speed read:
1) Chairman Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech in 1996 posed an excellent question, and history provided the answer.
2) Fed Governor Jeremy Stein asks the same question in 2013 with a uni-dimensional but useful model.
3) Stein's paper, accompanied by correlations from Bianco Research, suggests caution in today's high yield market.
4) High yield bonds, stock prices and other risk spreads move in relative tandem.
5) PIMCO cautions "rational temperance": be bullish if you want, but lower return expectations on all asset classes.
William H. Gross
Managing Director
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Best Free VPN Services
Everybody wants the best, right? But is there any free VPN service that can serve you best and be a worthy opponent against a paid VPN? You certainly hope so. A better free VPN can usually be used, without major risks, to spoof your IP address to access geo-restricted web content or stay secure while using your banking app on a public WiFi hotspot.
However, if you want airtight online security and privacy, fast connections, and live support, most free VPNs may bleed out before you could shout, "Where's my anonymity?!" But there's still hope. Meet the best services we picked for you.
Top 4 Free VPNs
If you understand the risks of your unprotected virtual life and want to try out a free VPN, you should be aware that there's always a price to pay: Bandwidth and server limitations, slower speeds, or a lower level of anonymity and security.
Our top 4 Free VPN service picks are basically the best ones we can recommend right now based on our main criteria: security and usability. But, please note that they are in no way without mistakes or drawbacks.
ProtonVPN is the only tool that has both a good free version, and a good paid version. Unlike all other providers on this list, ProtonVPN Free doesn't limit how much you can download, how quickly, or how often you can switch servers. Instead, you'll just have fewer servers to choose from and fewer features to use. And they are nice features, so you wouldn't be a fool to pay for them. The Secure Core multi-hop VPN feature and Tor over VPN make Proton extremely secure!
You get these for free:
- Unlimited data and bandwidth
- Some of the best encryption
- User friendly app for Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS
- Torrenting
- A kill switch
- Decent speeds
You don't get these for free:
- All servers
- Secure Core and Tor over VPN
- The best performance
- More than 1 device
Windscribe VPN8.4/10
Although this VPN service is based in a Five Eyes country, Canada, which also has mandatory data retention laws, this provider has a strict no logs policy with a transparent Privacy Policy. Windscribe VPN may be good for browsing or streaming geo-restricted content safely as well as to provide extra layers of security when accessing sensitive content (social networks or banking) via unsecured WiFi hotspots.
You get these for free:
- 10GB data per month on 13 servers; you can earn extra free data by tweeting and referring this VPN to friends
- Good level of privacy: Ad Blocker, Anti-social, STunnel (Stealth mode), DNS/IPv6/WebRTC leak protection, Double Hop, and Timezone Spoofing
- Average speeds and occasional connection drops
- User-friendly and easy-to-use clients
You don't get these for free:
- Dedicated servers to access Netflix US or Netflix UK, but you may get lucky with other free servers
- Servers in 50+ countries and 100+ cities
- A bit faster speeds
TunnelBear VPN is usually the top choice for most reviewers; however, we can't turn a blind eye to the extreme 500MB monthly bandwidth cap. The free version is indeed a teaser for you to go for the paid version asap. With that said, TunnelBear VPN offers good security features, including obfuscation and a kill switch to make your anonymous web surfing quite safe. We recommend it for beginner VPN users to read and watch geo-blocked web content, to secure the internet traffic when using public WiFis, or to simply spoof the physical location.
You get these for free:
- 500MB monthly bandwidth cap; tweet about the company for 1GB extra
- Double encryption (GhostBear for obfuscation)
- Kill Switch (VigilantBear)
- OpenVPN, IKEv2, and IPSec protocols
- Genuine and easy-to-use clients
- Bearable speeds
- Unblocking geo-blocked websites (excluding Netflix and other media streaming services)
You don't get these for free:
- Unlimited bandwidth
- The Australia server
- The gamble to be able to unblock and watch Netflix US or other media streaming services (may or may not work anyway)
Hotspot Shield7.6/10
With its 600+ million users, Hotspot Shield VPN comes off as the most popular of all free services; however, numbers can be deceiving. This VPN claims to be "the world's fastest, free VPN" and, to be frank, it is certainly faster than the first top 2 picks. However, due to the huge number of free users, the servers may get overloaded and thus become slower. Because of its invasive data practices, we don't consider Hotspot Shield to be the best choice if you are concerned about your online security and privacy. Yet, you can still enjoy some basic IP address spoofing, geo-unblocking to read and watch geo-restricted content within your data limit.
You get these for free:
- 500MB daily bandwidth cap
- Limited number of servers (some of which are virtual servers!)
- Military-grade encryption
- Automatic public WiFi protection
- Third-party ads while browsing
- VPN for one device only
- Easy-to-use VPN app
- Fast connection times
- Relatively fast VPN servers
You don't get these for free:
- Unlimited bandwidth
- 2,500+ servers worldwide
- 24/7 live tech support
- Watching HD TV shows and films from Netflix or other media streaming services (mainly due to the data limit)
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How You Can Apply Free VPNs
There's an obvious difference in the quality of service when you go for a free VPN instead of a paid one. With that said, you may still find free services useful for certain activities when you may not need maximum security, privacy, or lightning speeds. You can mainly use a better service for:
Unblocking websites
to access geo-restricted content
Securing public WiFis
not to leak sensitive data
Gaming & Torrenting
if speed and latency allow
Hiding your IP
to fake your geolocation
This doesn't mean that with one single free VPN you'll be able to enjoy all of these features, although our top 4 picks should essentially cover them. Nevertheless, there may be other free services that are more suitable for a specific usage or platform while they fail at others. Find the best free VPN for your needs below.
If anonymity is crucial for you because you're a political activist, a hacker, or you simply don't want your ISP (Internet Service Provider), hackers, cybercriminals, or the government to spy on you or hold you accountable for your internet traffic, check out top VPN services we have found on the market
Free VPN vs. Paid VPN
Before watching this rather unequal box match in real time, let us travel forward into the future and tell you that – spoiler alert! – the paid VPN will win this match over and over again. Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that you cannot or should not use a free VPN service. But, it pays to know what you get when you don't pay for a service.
Free VPN
Paid VPN
|Anonymity and security
|yes *
|Military-grade encryption
|Public WiFi protection
|Unlimited data
|Fast speeds
|24/7 live chat support
|No bandwidth sharing
|no *
|No third-party ads
|no *
|No data logging
|yes *
|No malware included
|no *
Bandwidth limitations and sharing
Most free services offer you limited bandwidth, sometimes as extreme as 500MB per month, as well as a limited number of servers, some of which could be virtual ones, too. This may also mean slower speeds.
Therefore, you may not be able to watch HD videos without buffering or annoying lags. Your online activity could be limited to reading geo-blocked content or accessing your social media and bank accounts without the risk of being hacked. But, you may also get lucky and find servers that would work for you just fine even for larger file downloads or watching videos.
Sharing your bandwidth and IP address can lead to incrimination.
Some free VPN services like Hola VPN and VPN Gate also use your bandwidth for their services as well as your IP address to spoof other users' IP. This practice may have serious consequences since your IP address might be used for illegal activities and it would be almost impossible for you to prove yourself innocent.
Paid VPN services, however, provide you with unlimited bandwidth on multiple devices and possibly better speeds, too.
Annoying third-party advertisements
Some VPN providers choose to display their own or third-party advertisements to be able to keep their services free. However, this may also mean data sharing with third parties to show you customized ads instead of generic ones. This, of course, raises the question of privacy and anonymity. So, if your main goal for using a VPN is to be anonymous online, you should think twice before using a free service.
If you agree on being bombarded by third-party ads, your personal information may be sold to online marketers, which again, is not the kind of privacy you may want from your VPN provider.
Paid VPN apps have no annoying third-party advertising and they won't sell you out (unless they have personally identifiable log data and they are forced by law). But, you may get their own promotional emails from time to time about updates or other services.
Data logging, monitoring, and selling
One of the worst things about free VPN services is that they may keep connection or even usage logs as well as other personal data. While this could already mean security and privacy risks, it gets worse: Your personal data, including your browsing history, might be sold to third parties or shared with the government when forced.
You are never really anonymous with a free VPN.
You need to be very cautious about these logging practices and read the Privacy Policy before signing up for any free or paid VPN service.
IP address leaks
Unfortunately, a lot of free VPN services can leak IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, if they don't have proper leak protection as well as a kill switch. This means that your physical location can easily be identified and used against you if this information lands in the wrong hands.
Some of the best free VPNs offer leak protection.
In all fairness, sometimes even premium VPN services may have IP, DNS, and WebRTC leaks. If your online privacy is important to you, make sure you choose a VPN service that doesn't leak.
Free VPNs may contain malware
It's possible to install free VPNs that contain malware infections. As a matter of fact, according to a study, more than a third of free Android VPNs contain some kind of malware. These infections can be used to send targeted third-party ads onto your screen, steal your account logins and other sensitive information, or encrypt your data to extort money from you in return for the decryption.
Beware of malware coming with free VPNs!
Lack of support
To serve the needs of millions of free users, you must have a lot of money to burn. If a VPN service has no paid version, it is quite likely that there will be no or very slow and useless technical support. But, then again, what can you expect when you don't pay for a service, right? You can't really complain since you are using a very expensive network and features for free.
A paid VPN account usually comes with 24/7/365 live support.
On the other hand, if you are a paid customer, you can access 24/7/365 live chat support, send support tickets, and resolve your technical issues in no time. You need to do your research right because not all paid VPN services have exceptional customer service.
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The best free VPN alternatives
It's possible that your need for security and privacy is not satisfied by our best free VPN choices. But here's a chill pill for you: We have solutions in the "as good as free" category.
First off, you can choose any top-notch Premium VPN service that has a generous and "no questions asked" type of 30-day (or 7-day) money-back guarantee like NordVPN and ExpressVPN, which would be our top picks.
You need to pay for the service up front, but you can get your money back after you test your chosen VPN and find it unsatisfactory. Make sure, that you read the refund policy carefully – some providers may have limitations on how much bandwidth you can use to be still eligible for a refund.
Then, you can also use a privacy-friendly browser like the TOR browser. What's more, if your chosen VPN supports TOR, you can have the best possible protection by using them together for an extra layer of security.
Although not completely for free, but for the price of a Starbucks coffee you can actually get the best possible online security and privacy combined with premium features. We won't give up until you find the best and most cost-effective way to protect yourself and your online activities. This is your right and this is our mission, too; nothing less.
So, here's our top 5 best VPN choices based on price and value. The order doesn't reflect the overall quality.
Ivacy VPN9/10
Price from: $1.33
Ivacy VPN is a service with a great potential due to its good level of online privacy. Although not flawless, this VPN has temptingly low prices to make up for its issues.
NordVPN9.5/10 Top pick
Price from: $2.99
Last update: 06.12.2019Top-notch security, an absurd number of servers all over the world, great features and speed – all these factors make NordVPN's industry-leading status well-deserved.In today's context of growing threats ...
Price from: $2.50
CyberGhost is a case of "almost great", with shortcomings that keep this VPN from reaching the very top. We hope they'll up their game so we can rate them higher!
Price from: $3.82
PrivateVPN takes its no logs policy seriously. This VPN offers a good level of privacy and versatility for a good price.
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Crime SolversUncategorized May 27, 2015 Press release
The Chesterfield County/Colonial Heights Crime Solvers program is asking for your help this week to solve a cold case homicide.
Just before 12:45 a.m. on Thursday, May 15, 2014, officers responded to the 3300 block of Meadowdale Boulevard for a report of multiple shots fired. Upon arrival, officers located two adult male shooting victims. One of the men, David Emmanuel-Sinclair Copeland, 23, of the 3300 block of Meadowdale Boulevard, died at the scene. The second victim was transported to VCU Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
Copeland led the Chesterfield Community High School basketball team for four years and holds school records in several categories.
If you have information about any unsolved crime in, or a fugitive wanted by, Chesterfield County or the city of Colonial Heights, you can submit an anonymous tip through Crime Solvers: by phone at 804-748-0660, through the internet at crimesolvers.net, or by text, texting "WATSON" plus your tip to CRIMES (274637)**. If your tip helps law enforcement, you could receive a cash reward of up to $1,000.
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Committing small acts of art
Recently, a newly formed artist's collective/group (we're not sure yet exactly what we are) that I'm involved in had a discussion about art in the life of a Christian. When we began discussing our personal goals for our art, I shared a goal of mine that has remained unmet for many years (something common among many kinds of artists, I'm told): Publication.
But, as I told the group, I've recently accepted that publication might not be my highest goal. I've taken up writing music again in the past year and I've found great satisfaction in sharing that music with my small church group and community. I still have grandiose and mostly unrealistic desires of future success but I'm trying to remain focused on creating for the church, being open to something beyond didactic or formulaic writing, hoping to be a vessel for art that shows the truth and beauty of God.
I have many artist friends who, while some having had commercial success, are committing seemingly small acts of art in their homes and communities.
I am so moved by their visual art, their music, their poetry and essays. There are streams of light and color that are released into the world of my mind's eye when I encounter such true art.
And so I wonder.
Is there something just as significant in works of art that are only seen by a few if any at all?
I was very moved by just such an act of art done by a neighbor, a visual artist who spent hours taking apart his small store-bought sketchbook, dyeing it with tea and reassembling it into a beautiful aged-looking book of his card-sized sketches and drawings.
No one but his wife and the rest of us have seen such a book.
And yet, there is something important in that creation.
Madeleine L'Engle speaks about this act of art in her book Walking on Water. For L'Engle, the true artist must be willing to be one thing primarily:
For L'Engle, the artist becomes a birth-giver, a vessel for the work of God or the work of God in the world. And here L'Engle's picture of obedience is like Mary, the mother of Jesus in her obedience to the Spirit of God, who asked her to be his bearer of the Messiah.
When the "work of art...says, "'Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.' And the artist either says, 'My soul doth magnify the Lord.' and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses."
L'Engle says the artist should be "obedient to the work...whether it is a work of great genius or something very small."**
And so in these seemingly small acts of creation, obedience is a worthier goal. For if obedience is our job, the rest is up to God.
If we have publication, adulation and awards in our future, God help us through it.
And if smallness is His goal then maybe His are the only eyes and ears we need to worry about.
*The painting at the top was done by my grandmother, who took up painting in her sixties. Though never sold or seen by an audience, her works of art are priceless to her family
**quotes from Madeleine L'Engle's Walking on Water, 2001, Waterbrook Press, pg 9-10.


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In many ways, trust underlies much of what happens in school each day. The job of helping young people grow into well-educated and independent adults rests upon the relationship between teachers and students, teachers and their administrators, the community and its school staff. And yet many of the rules governing schools are about control.
— Katrina Schwartz
Game-based learning is especially useful because the presence of avatars encourages players to step outside of their familiar perspectives and embody alternate ones. Therefore, they nurture the kind of intellectual self-reflection that education psychologists call "metacognitive skills." Learning games make the question of identity development explicit and therefore truly empower students with the agency to construct their own personal narratives.
— Jordan Shapiro
— Jordan Shapiro
Project-Based Learning makes the best use of tech while avoiding tech for tech's sake.
— Thomas Murray
— Thomas Murray
The most recent leadership literature has been definitive on the point of school leadership: it matters for youth outcomes. When strong principals are at the helm of schools, they positively influence the school culture and the instructional quality of whole systems of teachers. Leaders' effect on students contributes to 25 percent of the total school influences on a child's academic performance.
— School Leaders Network
— School Leaders Network
After my own reflection on the subject, I see connectedness for educators as an accelerant for reflection. It promotes self-reflection, as well as reflection on education as a system for learning. It also stimulates reflection on the pedagogy and methodology within that education system. The whole idea of connectedness relies on the hope that educators are reflective. If they are not reflective, or lack the vision of the big picture of being connected, then we could have Connected Educator Month, every month for the next twenty years and never affect any change in the system.
— Tom Whitby
— Tom Whitby
People will feel more comfortable taking a journey to an unknown place if they know that the first steps have been taken by someone else. Although I believe in the idea of distributed leadership, the idea of "leaders" is that they are also ahead; they have done things that have not been done before
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SAP R/3 is a successful ERP software in SAP SE.
SAP R/3 is a system that still covers all processes of a commercial enterprise, where resources can be planned efficiently by digital mapping and where effectiveness problems can be identified. The system uses a system structure that is split into clients and server. Here the client requests a service from the server and the server responds to this request. The SAP R/3 client-server model enables the digitalization of business processes. SAP R/3 is a set of integrated business applications in which all business-relevant areas of a company are viewed in context. The application is the successor to SAP R/2, which was designed for operation on mainframe computers.
SAP R/3 provides for the storage, processing, analysis, and retrieval of company data (e.g. financial analyses, production processes) in various ways. The access to SAP R/3 applications and R/3 databases is possible via web access and web browsers. Business applications, such as Microsoft Office, can be connected via a defined interface.
SAP R/3 is compatible with all conceivable operating systems and platforms. The system can be used by multiple companies even if they are using different platforms. Integration and collaboration have been developed to make the system accessible for planning options and processes of companies in all possible industries and areas.
SAP Moduls in SAP R/3 - SAP ERP ECC
SAP ECC enables IT-supported implementation of a variety of tasks which occur in a typical commercial enterprise. The modular structure of the system maps the typical organizational structure of many companies.
In accordance with the SAP ECC system, multifunctional and flexible modules are assigned to the three business application areas supported by SAP ECC, accounting (SAP ERP Financial), human resources (SAP ERP Human Capital Management), and logistics (SAP ERP Operation). The most commonly used modules are accounting, controlling, HR, materials management, production planning, and sales.
Each of these modules handles a specific work operation and is, if necessary, linked with other modules to facilitate and simplify the work process. The main goal when using SAP R/3 continues to be the digitalization of work processes.
Strukture in SAP ERP ECC, SAP R/3
In December 2003, SAP R/3 was renamed mySAP ERP. Since 2007, the designation SAP ERP ECC (ERP Central Component) has been used.
SAP ECC differs from SAP R/3 in that SAP ECC is based on SAP NetWeaver. Here, integral components can be implemented in ABAP and in Java. New functional areas are frequently no longer created as part of the existing SAP ERP systems but as independent components or as a separate system.
Since 2006, the SAP ERP application is extended functionally by way of enhancement packages. These SAP enhancement packages guarantee the stability of existing functions and ensure easy, selective access to new functionality.
SAP R/3 client-server architecture
SAP R/3 uses a client-server architecture:
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This structure makes it possible, with growing requirements, to increase the performance of the overall system.
User interface SAP GUI in SAP R/3 - SAP ECC
Most of the applications are operated via the graphical user interface SAP GUI. Depending on the components, other clients are also possible: Web browser with or without Java, WAP or Java Web Start.
The client software SAP NetWeaver Business Client enables role-based display of all the applications developed by SAP.
SAP Customizing
In contrast to smaller ERP systems or non-SAP systems, numerous functions in SAP ERP can be set up simply using parameters. The adjustment of these settings is referred to as SAP customizing and this takes place on introduction of the SAP system or SAP module.
Most of the parameters are controlled via database tables which are evaluated during runtime.
If the settings options through the available customizing functions are not sufficient, the standard programs have several extension points where customer-specific program elements can be embedded in the standard system via defined interfaces (e.g. user exits, customer exits).
If these are also not sufficient, then it is possible to use almost any standard program. These modifications are all recorded automatically so that, in the event of error messages, responsibility can be assigned. Due to the increased follow-up effort involved, e.g. in update comparison of the standard programs, modifications should be avoided if possible.
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Crop hopes drying up
LOUISVILLE — Western Kentucky farmer Terry Rhodes isn't banking on his corn crop yielding a profit after suffering through a summer drought that has spurred a request for federal disaster assistance for a broad swath of the state's grain belt.
Rhodes, who farms in Daviess and Ohio counties, said Wednesday that his corn yields of 160 to 170 bushels an acre so far are down about 30 percent from last year's above-average crop.
"It's been extremely dry," he said. "It's going to put a hardship on everybody's income this year. Even though price is up, we just don't have the bushels to sell this year that we normally do."
With about 70 percent of his 1,900-acre corn crop already harvested, Rhodes was unsure whether he could muster a profit: "It may just be a break-even situation."
Drought conditions have lowered expectations for many Kentucky grain farmers, prompted livestock producers to dip into winter hay supplies and even forced some to haul in water to thirsty livestock.
Gov. Steve Beshear responded Tuesday by requesting disaster assistance for 35 counties, most of them in Western Kentucky.
Beshear said in a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that the dry conditions have "critically impacted" the state's agriculture sector.
Greg Henson, agricultural extension agent in McLean County, said it's shaping up as the worst drought in the Western Kentucky county since 1983. The result will be sharply lower corn and soybean yields, he said.
"We could easily end up with less than half a bean crop," he said. "And I'm expecting we'll end up with about 60 percent of a corn crop. ... So we're hurt pretty good."
Henson said he has yet to hear reports of a normal corn yield in the county. Later-planted corn has been especially hard hit since "its entire lifetime was spent in this drought," he said.
"Thank goodness for crop insurance and thank goodness we've got relatively high prices," he said.
"We'll survive this thing, but everybody will get some kind of indemnity on crop insurance — everybody who has got it. And the high prices help cover some of the yield loss. So it won't be as bad as it could have been."
Alex Dodd, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Paducah, said the Western Kentucky city endured 37 consecutive days of temperatures of 90 degrees or higher — the second-longest streak on record for the city.
Tom Priddy, a University of Kentucky extension agricultural meteorologist, said the "double whammy" of hot, dry conditions "took a huge toll on the corn." Priddy said the western third of Kentucky is in a moderate drought while portions of the central and bluegrass regions are abnormally dry.
Dodd said the state could get a soaking from the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine late in the week, but he said it's unlikely to put much of a dent in the overall drought conditions. Factoring in that September and October are generally the driest times of the year, he said, the "odds are it will get a little bit worse before it gets better."
In its weekly crop report Tuesday, the National Agricultural Statistics Service's Kentucky field office said the extended hot, dry weather is causing "widespread concern about how late crops will turn out."
The report said that 54 percent of Kentucky's corn crop was rated either very poor, poor or fair.
Meanwhile, 67 percent of the state's soybean crop was rated very poor, poor or fair. The state's tobacco crop was faring better, with 46 percent of the leaf rated good and 17 percent excellent, the report said. Pastures also have suffered, with 67 percent rated very poor, poor or fair.


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VMware Receives High Score in "High Security Unified Endpoint Management" Use Case in the New Gartner Report
VMware End User Computing (EUC) is pleased to announce that VMware scored highest in the "Secure UEM" use case in the inaugural "Gartner Critical Capabilities for High Security Mobility Management."
We believe this recognition validates EUC's investments made in multiple facets of security across the Workspace ONE platform, as well as the investments to deepen support for Windows, Mac, Chrome and Rugged/IoT platforms, enabling Workspace ONE to extend modern management beyond mobile for our customers. For those in high security industries such as banking and finance, aerospace and defense, federal agencies, healthcare, etc., we are pleased to provide access to the report here.
The below image depicts the High-Security Unified Endpoint Management use case scores:
Throughout the past two years, EUC has consistently rolled out new UEM and security capabilities, culminating in recent announcements at VMworld 2018 last month. These include:
- Workspace ONE Intelligence: a cloud service that aggregates and correlates data and events across the entire digital workspace -devices, users, apps, and networks -to provided data-driven recommendations and automations that reduce IT time and cost, ensure application performance and user experience, and improves security
- Workspace ONE Trust Network: an ecosystem of security partners leveraging Workspace ONE Intelligence APIs to send their threat intelligence feeds, detected compromised devices, attempted data access, and more for correlation and remediation as necessary.
- Win10 UEM Security Innovations:
- Derived Credentials: support for derived credentials for organizations using CAC/PIV smart cards to access applications
- Enhanced Boxer Secure Email: added FIPS encryption, classification markings, S/MIME support, CAC/PIV and MFA support for organizations requiring containerized email for BYO and COPE use cases
- Office 365 DLP and VMware Send: support for Microsoft Graph APIs for Office data loss prevention policies. Customers that use Workspace ONE secure containers through Boxer and other VMware apps or through integration of the Workspace ONE SDK with internally developed apps can persist Office 365 DLP policies associated with Office files in the Workspace ONE container environment using the VMware Send app
VMware EUC continues to invest in security across the Workspace ONE platform, applications, and infrastructure. In support of Workspace ONE security, VMware has attained many certifications and accreditations required by our customers, including FIPS 140-2 encryption, NIAP Common Criteria, DISA STIG, UK CESG, and Australia DSD. We encourage you to access Gartner's Critical Capabilities for High Security Unified Endpoint Management and look for more security-related news at VMworld Barcelona in November 2018!
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New Delhi, Nov 16: The controversy and protests surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Padmavati is intensifying with each passing day. Rajput organisation Karni Sena, which is spearheading the protests against the film, has now threatened Deepika Padukone to chop-off her nose if the film is released.
"Rajputs never raise a hand on women but if need be, we will do to Deepika what Lakshman did to Shurpanakha," Mahipal Singh Makrana of Rajput Karni Sena said. Makrana's threat came just hours after Lokendra Singh Kalvi, a senior leader of the Rajput group, called for nation-wide strike on December 1, the date Padmavati is scheduled to be released.
"We will gather in lakhs, our ancestors wrote history with blood. We will not let anyone blacken it. Will call for Bharat bandh on 1 December," Lokendra Singh Kalvi said.
Kalvi had earlier used derogatory word like 'naachnewali' for Deepika Padukone for her statement that the country is becoming regressive.
"The country is not regressing, you are making it so. I beg Deepika not to insult women. Deepika is seen dancing with fewer clothes in the film. How are you trying to portray the Indian women?" Kalvi told a TV channel.
"Deepika is like a daughter. She should exercise restraint," Kalvi said and while claiming that Sanjay Leela Bhansali's movie was financed by "underworld".
The movie which stars Deepika Padukone as Padmavati, has triggered a massive controversy with various Rajput groups, including the Karni Sena, threatening to disrupt the screening of the movie, accusing Bhansali of "distorting" historical facts.
Bhansali and his team have repeatedly assured that there are no romantic scenes between Rani Padmavati, played by Deepika Padukone, and Alauddin Khilji, played by Ranveer Singh. The movie also stars Shahid Kapoor in the role Raja Rawal Ratan Singh.
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The calendar has turned to January, and you've probably thought about what you want to accomplish in 2019. You even may have jotted down a list of resolutions. Goals like saving more money, losing weight, quitting smoking or volunteering in your community often top resolution lists.
We all know that making resolutions is easy, but keeping them is hard work. According to the Statistic Brain Institute, 27 percent of people abandon their goals within the first week, and U.S News says that 80 percent of resolutions are abandoned by the second week of February.
But if you're serious about achieving your goals, the solution may lie in re-wiring your brain. Consider this – pleasurable habits like drinking alcohol or eating release the chemical dopamine to your brain that floods your body with good feelings. Repeated "bad" behavior deepens neurological grooves in the brain, making these habits difficult to break. Just when we're trying to break bad habits and develop good ones, our brain is sabotaging us.
To chart yourself on a course for success, here are a few tips:
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Hi again! Looks like I neglected my blog - three weeks have passed since my last post. I've been busy working on my dissertation. Yes, seriously!
I mark the passing of a true, genuine American hero, Neil Armstrong. The first man to walk on the Moon died last week at the age of 82. This quiet, retiring man may have shunned his fame but no history book since has failed to mention his exploit. From earliest times, humans looked up at the Moon with amazement. Yet, in the Twentieth Century, the technology became available to place people on its surface. Armstrong was the first, Buzz Aldrin the second, and ten more followed in their steps, so to speak. It was a childhood dream of mine to meet him, and now I'll never get my chance. Oh well. One bit of trivia: he visited the town of Langholm in Scotland in 1972, where a law requiring the summary execution of an Armstrong upon entry still existed on the books.
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Fantastic Tips On Dealing with Your Skin
Your skin lasts you a lifetime, so it is important to take good care of it. Using sunscreen to minimize the effects of sun damage and applying moisturizer regularly to keep your skin hydrated, are a few ideas to help keep it looking its best. This article will give you some great advice for some skin care techniques that will keep your skin looking great.
Once in a while, take the time to use a facial mask. Facial masks will tighten the skin and draw out small impurities as they dry. You can spend a lot of money on masks, or you can make your own from beaten egg whites. Just put on beaten egg white (avoiding eye area), wait for it to dry and wash off gently with warm water. Your skin will feel fresh and brand new.
To best care for your skin, you should wash it at least daily. Some people will benefit from twice-daily washings. This cleans the dirt and oil off your skin and out of your pores before they can become clogged. It also washes away the toxins and pollutants that everyone is exposed to in their daily lives.
To avoid redness and broken capillaries in your face, avoid exposing your skin to extreme heat. The heat causes increased blood flow to the peripheral areas in your body, which includes the skin of the face. The key areas to avoid are saunas and steam rooms, which get much warmer than any normal hot day.
Using a sunscreen every day will help reduce skin damage caused by the sun. Most people will consider using sunscreen only if they are playing golf or visiting a beach. However, it is important to apply a SPF 15 sunscreen every day to protect your skin while doing anything outdoors and even on cloudy days.
Don't forget to moisturize your hands. Skin on the hands has fewer oil glands and is thinner than the skin on most parts of the human body. As a result, hands can often become itchy, dry and cracked during the winter months or when constantly exposed to water. To protect your hands, regularly apply liberal amounts of high quality moisturizer and always wear cotton gloves under rubber gloves when washing up.
It is important for men to prepare the skin on their face before shaving to avoid cuts and razor burn. Washing your face with warm water and soap prior to shaving will soften the skin and hair that is present. It will also prevent the razor from scraping against the skin.
Part of a solid skin care program is to pick out a good face cream. The best face creams will be thick and very creamy. They should make a thick barrier between your skin and the environment. Try to find a product you can continue to use on a regular basis.
Take care of the area below your knees for quality skin care. Since it takes a longer time for healing on your legs and below, it is important to make sure you are supplementing those areas. The worst thing you would want to happen, It's for an area to be infected, which could cause serious damage.
Banish the bad habit of smoking to get glowing skin. Smoking destroys the elements of your skin that keep it looking youthful: collagen and elastin. Also, the constant act of smoking increases the instance of wrinkles around your mouth and on your lips. Stop puffing on those cigarettes, and your skin, lungs and heart will thank you.
In order to maintain your clear, youthful complexion, it is important to have a good skin care daily routine. That routine should include drinking eight glasses of water each and every day. The water is important because it will flush out the toxins and impurities and keep your skin looking great. Drinking water every day is one easy tip to maintain that great looking skin.
If you want to maintain soft, radiant skin, make sure that you use body wash in the shower. Body wash is a great alternative to soap, as it will not only soften your skin, but comes in a wide variety of aromas to improve your overall aura. Try to avoid body wash from touching your hair and face.
Remove dead skin cells with an exfoliating scrub. Dead skin cells will build up and make your skin look dull and dry. You should use an exfoliation scrub in order to get rid of this skin. Also, you will help to get rid of the oil that is clogging your pores.
Use a humidifier to hydrate your skin in the winter months. Heating http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/health-disease/skin-health/vitamin-C systems send dry air through your home when it is cold out. A humidifier will keep your skin from getting too dry. Consider placing a few small humidifiers around your home to keep the entire area flooded with moist air.
Although it may not be noticeable all of the time, your skin is exposed to a lot of harsh conditions throughout the day. A good way to protect your skin is to wear sun screen whenever you plan on being outside for an expended period of time. This will give your skin the proper protective layer it needs to continue to stay healthy.
Ditch your bar soap for a fragrance-free body wash. 9 out of 10 times, a body wash or body cleanser is preferable to traditional bar soaps, especially for those with dry or sensitive skin. Soaps can leave the skin dehydrated and covered with filmy residue, which can then clog pores and lead to further irritation or body acne.
Get rid of the dead skin! Exfoliation is http://gogglebank.com/?authored-by-Mikey-Cannon-run-your-popular-health-tips-website-with-confidence-by-using-these-tips.html the key to healthy, glowing skin. When you exfoliate, you are taking the dead skin off of your face. Skin is constantly replacing itself, leaving dead skin on the top layer. Exfoliation should be part of your daily skin care routine.
Taking care of your skin in the winter can prove difficult. Use a quality moisturizer at least twice a day, and preferably every time you wash your hands. Keep a bottle near your sink to make it easier to remember. Moisturizing your hands regularly will prevent dry skin, and prevention is easier than resolving the problem after the fact.
To remove skin blemishes and lighten dark spots on your skin add a few drops of lemon juice to your facial scrub. Since the lemon is an acidic fruit, it naturally removes dead skin cells. Lemon juice also contains powerful antioxidant properties that gives your skin a younger, fresher look.
You can see from the tips in this article, that your best skin care routine is the one that is just right for your needs and leaves you with healthier looking skin every day. Your friends will wonder if you hired a personal skin care expert, when they see how great your skin looks!
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Joola Plymouth Table Tennis Club have been shortlisted for Community Club of the Year award from local sports clubs at the Herald Sports Personality of the Year Awards 2015.
THE shortlist of contenders for awards in the biggest night of the Plymouth sporting calendar has been unveiled – with a stellar line-up of candidates from across the city's sporting spectrum.
The Herald Sports Personality of the Year 2015 awards is already off to a great start having received more than 150 nominations, and the judges have pored over each entry to narrow down the list.
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Quartz worktops are made from a mix of pure quartz and epoxy resin. Natural quartz is the second most abundant mineral in the earth's crust (just Feldspar is more common) and contains the general formula of SiO2. Find out more details about Quartz worktops at http://www.stoneconnectionworksurfaces.co.uk/index.php/products/other-quartz/.
By blending synthetic polymers with the rock, all manner of benefits can be attained. The polymer is a sort of hard plastic (snobs and salesmen would call it resin!) That contrasts the quartz crystals together; much reducing it is brittleness without undermining its hardness. The mix is roughly 93% rock and 7 percent man-made stuff, although this does vary slightly from manufacturer to manufacturer.
Needless to say, as it's man-made, the additives can be any color or texture – giving rise to a welcome selection of colors, colors, and patterns to your kitchen worktop.
The manufacturing process supporting worktop quartz is highly automated, relying on the newest of machines to achieve success.
The raw materials are fed to the mixers and mixed. It's at this point that the pigments and dyes are added that give your worktop such a gorgeous luster. The crushed stone and additives blend is kept to a strict recipe, and just when the ratio is even and precise is it poured into a mold – that is a normal slab size as used by kitchen worktop fitters.


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This weekend was an extremely hard one for our family. I don't want to get into it here {and I'm sorry for the vagueness}, but I'm just asking for prayer for all of us. We need it.
I wore my {faux} fur vest to work on Friday...and while cute, that animal was hot. I immediately came home and stripped myself outta that thing faster than you can say "stripped."
I went to the grocery store, cooked supper and we all {Brandon, Oliver and me} fell asleep on the couch watching "Dateline." We're party animals, y'all. (Optional caption: "Welcome to marriage.")
We slept in on Saturday, lazed around the house and I got ready for Valentine's Day with a February manicure:
and heart-shaped Rice Krispie treats, dipped in pink white chocolate and topped with sprinkles. {Recipe here}
Sunday we went back to our new church, watched "Downton Abbey," I cleaned the house like a mad woman and I let Boston Market cook supper. And didn't even care.
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The fire was crackling as I sat there in a lawn chair staring at the stars, and listening to some of my dearest friends laugh in the background. I soaked in the cool, crisp fall air and wished I could take it back to LA with me. The conversation shifted and a few of us started talking to Nikki about her due date, and if her and Chris had decided on the baby's name (they had, and it's the best…Lennon). Meanwhile, I got the idea in my head that I would come back to Calgary and do a birth story for Nikki. Me being me, I excitedly blurted out my idea. And while everyone got a good little laugh, I was shut down. Nikki teased that with the way her labors go, I would never make it there in time, and I agreed that it would be near impossible to plan. So, sadly, I let my new little dream go.
A month later when Nikki messaged me about flying out there to do their newborn shoot I was all for it! I figured if I couldn't do a birth story for her this was the next best thing. So we planned it out, and booked my flight for what we assumed would be a week after baby Lennon was born. And as the days went by, that sweet little babe stayed in there. As Nikki started to worry about getting this kid out, I started bringing up the idea of me doing a birth story. I mean, I was going to be there in Canada after all so it would be awesome do to both, right?!? But Nikki wasn't having it. She laughed at me and I'm sure rolled her eyes a bit at my texts as I would bring it up here and there.
And then there I was, standing outside in the frigid cold of what is known as Calgary, waiting to be picked up from the airport by a still very pregnant Nikki. The next couple of days came and went…still no baby. By this point there was a little bit of panic in all of us. As I got an email telling me it was time to check-in for my flight home, I thought there was a decent chance that not only would I go home the next day without being able to do her newborn shoot but I wouldn't be there for her birth story either.
Luckily, baby Lennon really wanted to meet her honorary Aunt Lo 😉 That night (my last night there), things started picking up for Nikki. We all went to bed with hopes that we would be up in a few hours to head to the hospital…and sure enough that's what happened. And since I had won Nikki over with doing a birth story (actually I think logic won her over…I mean, she flew a photographer from LA out she might as well get something while I was there), I excitedly grabbed my stuff and hopped into the car.
Once we were at the hospital and knew that little Lennon was for sure on her way, we called and changed my flight so that I could stay and do her newborn shoot as well…yay! And then just like that, everything worked out. My little dream to do Lennon's birth story came true, and Nikki got the family newborn session she originally wanted. And then, as if that wasn't cool enough, Nikki's view on having a birth photographer totally changed. She loved it. And my birth photographer's heart exploded with happiness. You can read all about why she never wanted a birth photographer, here!
I love Nikki and her sweet family. It means so much to me that she valued my work enough to fly me to Calgary to be there for such a sweet time in her family's life! And even more so, that she trusted me enough to let me photograph Lennon's birth even though she had hesitations.
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BioMed Research International
Volume 2014, Article ID 235426, 14 pages
Local Overexpression of V1a-Vasopressin Receptor Enhances Regeneration in Tumor Necrosis Factor-Induced Muscle Atrophy
1DAHFMO Unit of Histology and Medical Embryology, Interuniversity Institute of Myology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via A. Scarpa 16, 00161 Rome, Italy
2Institute of Histology and Embryology, Catholic University School of Medicine, L.go F. Vito, 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
Received 27 January 2014; Revised 22 April 2014; Accepted 23 April 2014; Published 20 May 2014
Academic Editor: Marina Bouché
Copyright © 2014 Alessandra Costa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Skeletal muscle atrophy occurs during disuse and aging, or as a consequence of chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes. It is characterized by progressive loss of muscle tissue due to hypotrophic changes, degeneration, and an inability of the regeneration machinery to replace damaged myofibers. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a proinflammatory cytokine known to mediate muscle atrophy in many chronic diseases and to inhibit skeletal muscle regeneration. In this study, we investigated the role of Arg-vasopressin-(AVP-)dependent pathways in muscles in which atrophy was induced by local overexpression of TNF. AVP is a potent myogenesis-promoting factor and is able to enhance skeletal muscle regeneration by stimulating Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase and calcineurin signaling. We performed morphological and molecular analyses and demonstrated that local over-expression of the AVP receptor V1a enhances regeneration of atrophic muscle. By upregulating the regeneration/differentiation markers, modulating the inflammatory response, and attenuating fibrogenesis, the stimulation of AVP-dependent pathways creates a favourable environment for efficient and sustained muscle regeneration and repair even in the presence of elevated levels of TNF. This study highlights a novel in vivo role for AVP-dependent pathways, which may represent an interesting strategy to counteract muscle decline in aging or in muscular pathologies.


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INSECT WARNING: 'Kissing bug' infects 300,000 people in US with Chagas Disease
A kissing bug, known as the 'silent killer', has infected 300,000 people in the United States with Chagas Disease with sufferers at risk of heart failure and stroke.
The insect earns its 'kissing bug' name from its tendency to bite people on the face near their mouths, which can lead to Chagas disease with infections spread orally from kissing people to sharing utensils and crockery and resulting on chronic heart conditions.
The insect also known by its scientific name of Trypanosoma cruzi, carries a parasitic disease named Chagas, which can cause chronic heart disease in one in three of those affected.
The bug was first detected in Brazil and has now infected over 10million people worldwide.
However, the disease itself is not spread through the bits of an insect – but rather by infected faeces laid by the bug being absorbed by skin or human eyes.
The kissing bug can spread deadly Chagas disease
Triatomine insects are mostly found in Central and South America, with the American Heart Association (AHA) estimating around 300,000 people have been infected by the disease in the US alone.
People who show symptoms of the infection suffer from heart failure, stroke, life threatening ventricular arrhythmias and even cardiac arrest.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency under the US Department of Health, say that if not treated quickly, around 30 percent of those infected with Chagas can develop serious conditions.
But around 60 to 70 percent of those infected with the bug do not develop symptoms, which led to its nickname of 'the silent killer'. Travellers and residents of the endemic countries are at a low risk.
The AHA says the Chagas could be become more common – and said doctors in the US and Europe need to focus more energy on preventing the silent killer.
The Texas-based A&M Chagas research team, behind the research supplied to the AHA, said: "Transmission through these routes is a global problem and can occur wherever infected individuals reside."
The first reported case of Chagas in Europe was in 1981 and ever since then, sporadic cases have been detected in different European countries.


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Then she turned 4 three months later.
And we bought ourselves a little more time with a household rule of waiting til you're closer to 5 to sign up for any extracurricular activity.
In the mean time, Cate watched countless episodes of "Angelina Ballerina" and performed many shows for us in our living room. She'd occasionally ask about going to ballet class, but she mostly understood she had to wait until she was closer to 5.
Last week I decided to investigate the details of the ballet class. I'd heard good things about it -- the philosophy, the cost, the time. But, you know, I needed to find out for myself. And, you know, turns out my friends were right. It's affordable, offered at a time that doesn't over-commit our family and focuses only on ballet.
I told Cate last Monday afternoon that she could start the class in a week. She's a smart girl, but time is a hard concept to grasp. We counted down the days, and she was so excited to put on those leotard, tights and slippers. She was all smiles and jabber in the hours leading up to her first ballet class yesterday.
She was ready.
And she just danced her way right into a class. Because, you know, she's a ballerina.
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Alban Latremoliere, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Pain; Sleep; Neural plasticity; Nerve regeneration; Functional recovery; Translational Medicine
Alban Latremoliere is an Assistant Professor in the department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University (MD, USA). He graduated in Neuroscience from the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris, France) and performed his postdoctoral training at the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (MA, USA). Dr. Latremoliere's laboratory focuses on the neurobiology of sensory systems, with an emphasis on pain and regeneration. The main areas of research are: 1) Assess ongoing pain in rodent models of neuropathic pain in vivo and determine the mechanisms responsible, 2) Understand the relationship between reinnervation of target tissue after peripheral nerve regeneration and functional recovery/pain sensitivity and 3) Determine how acute and chronic pain alter sleep architecture.
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Departments / Divisions
- B.Sc., University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris (France) (2002)
- M.Sc., University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris (France) (2003)
- Ph.D., University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris (France) (2007)
Additional Training
- Postdoctoral training, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA (2010)
- Postdoctoral training, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital - Boston, MA (2017)
Research & Publications
Research Summary
Peripheral nerve injury can lead to neuropathic pain, a condition characterized by abnormal pain symptoms like hyperalgesia (more pain to noxious stimuli), allodynia (pain in response to innocuous stimuli) and spontaneous pain (pain in absence of external stimuli). The majority of treatments available are ineffective and display many side effects and most attempts to develop new analgesics have failed. There is, therefore a critical need to identify novel targets to develop new therapeutic approaches.
Our laboratory is studying the neural plasticity responsible for neuropathic pain using mouse genetics and behavioral/physiological approaches. Our goal is to find relevant ways to measure abnormal pain symptoms in rodent models of chronic pain and understand the underlying mechanisms to develop new treatments with improved translational efficacy.
One such pathway is the tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) production pathway, whose role in neuropathic pain was identified through Human genetic studies. Using different tissue-specific inducible transgenic mouse lines to visualize and modulate the cells engaging the BH4 production pathway, we showed that modulating this pathway could be a viable therapeutic strategy. We are now testing the efficacy of new compounds that safely modulate BH4 production on pain hypersensitivity and other nerve injured-induced changes.
Another major complaint reported by many neuropathic pain patients is poor sleep quality, which leads to constant fatigue and lack of restorative sleep. The exact nature of the sleep disturbances caused by chronic pain is unknown, and yet this represents a critical aspect of neuropathic pain. In collaboration with Dr. Chloe Alexandre we work to characterize these sleep disturbances in mouse models of chronic pain and determine the neural networks responsible using various transgenic tools to visualize, activate or inhibit specific neurons.
The Latremoliere lab studies the neural plasticity caused by peripheral nerve injury in mice, with an emphasis on pain and recovery of functional recovery.
Technology Expertise KeywordsPain behavior; Electroencephalogram/electromyogram (EEG/EMG); Optogenetics; Chemogenetics; Cell-specific transgenic mice; Peripheral nerve injury; Sensory/motor functional recovery
Selected PublicationsView all on Pubmed
Liu Y*, Latremoliere A*, Li X*, Zhang Z*, Chen M, Wang X, Fang C, Zhu J, Alexandre C, Gao Z, Chen B, Ding X, Zhou JY, Zhang Y, Chen C, Wang KH, Woolf CJ, He Z. (2018). Touch and tactile neuropathic pain sensitivity are set by corticospinal projections. Nature. 2018 Sep;561(7724):547-550
Alexandre, C*, Latremoliere, A*, Ferreira, A, Miracca, G, Yamamoto, M, Scammell, TE, and Woolf, CJ (2017). Decreased alertness due to sleep loss increases pain sensitivity in mice. Nat Med 23, 768-774
Browne, L.E., Latremoliere, A., Lehnert, B.P., Grantham, A., Ward, C., Alexandre, C., Costigan, M., Michoud, F., Roberson, D.P., Ginty, D.D., and Woolf, C.J. (2017). Time-Resolved Fast Mammalian Behavior Reveals the Complexity of Protective Pain Responses. Cell Rep 20, 89-98
Latremoliere A*, Cheng L*, DeLisle M, Wu C, Chew S, Hutchinson EB, Sheridan A, Alexandre C, Latremoliere F, Sheu SH, Golidy S, Omura T, Huebner EA, Fan Y, Whitman MC, Nguyen E, Hermawan C, Pierpaoli C, Tischfield MA, Woolf CJ, Engle EC. (2018). Neuronal-Specific TUBB3 Is Not Required for Normal Neuronal Function but Is Essential for Timely Axon Regeneration. Cell Rep. 2018 Aug 14;24(7):1865-1879
Latremoliere, A., Latini, A., Andrews, N., Cronin, S.J., Fujita, M., Gorska, K., Hovius, R., Romero, C., Chuaiphichai, S., Painter, M., Miracca, G., Babaniyi, O., Remor, A.P., Duong, K., Riva, P., Barrett, L.B., Ferreiros, N., Naylor, A., Penninger, J.M., Tegeder, I., Zhong, J., Blagg, J., Channon, K.M., Johnsson, K., Costigan, M., and Woolf, C.J. (2015). Reduction of Neuropathic and Inflammatory Pain through Inhibition of the Tetrahydrobiopterin Pathway. Neuron 86, 1393-1406
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Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
A Good Night's Sleep or a Cup of Coffee Makes Things Less Painful, Technology Networks (June 02, 2017)
To improve chronic pain, get more sleep (coffee helps too), Medicalxpress (May 8, 2017)
Before You Take Ibuprofen, Try This, Time (May 18, 2017)
Molecular Orchestration of Pain, The Science Network (March 25, 2011)
Rare vs. common gene variants as guides to pain mechanisms and drug development, Slideplayer
Targeting Sepiapterin Reductase to Treat Neuropathic Pain, (June 22, 2015)


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Hi everyone! It's time for another Submissive Journal Prompt!!! Today's prompt is:
"Have you ever been asked by your Owner to switch and play the top with another submissive?"
I have not!!! My Owner doesn't really feel like it's okay for me to really Top someone, unless it's a non-sexual kind of relationship. I have topped before. I topped a babygirl. The experience was kind of brutal and put me under a lot of stress. She was very cruel to me and actually mocked me at every chance she could. I'm not sure if she was trying to brat or what, but we clashed so much. I was happy just being her friend.
Since then, we don't speak. We've unfriended on fetlife and such. I see she is going to events and I do my best to avoid her. It's very rare we run into each other, so it's not really a big deal. We run in relatively separate circles. We'll wave and smile at each other if we see each other, but that's pretty much the extent.
I would like the chance to Top again. Maybe. I don't have a problem with it, especially if it was something that kind of filled the hole in my heart. I'm not sure why I have one. I suppose maybe all people get one at some point in their life. If you do, there are ways to fill it in a responsible manner.
Batdaddy and I have a very committed relationship and I would not want to jeapordize that. We love each other way too much. I don't know what I would do if something happened. Maybe He'll let me Top another babygirl later on, but right now.... We're just perfect.
So, what do you think? If you are a submissive, would you want to Top? If you are a Dominant, would you let your submissive Top? How about you switches, are you in a good enough relationship to let the other Top?
Just wondering.
-Harvest Hellion
Thursday, February 18, 2016
SJP---- Topping?
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I am generally a Dominant with occasional switchyness, I have on occasion allowed my submissive at the time to top me and try new things if they had the inclination. I feel that it is good to explore but I am laid back enough and ok with taking that submissive role from time to time also. Now every Dom is comfortable or secure enough to do such a thing, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that!ReplyDelete
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