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When identity is tied to former employer, unemployed report higher well-being
Unemployed workers who continue to identify with their former employer report higher well-being even after being fired or laid off from the company, according to a study published Nov. 9 in the Journal of Managerial Psychology. The study, conducted by San Francisco State University Assistant Professor of Management Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, is among the first to explore how organizational identification relates to job loss.
"These unemployed people have something to cling to by having had very positive associations with their employer in the past," Tosti-Kharas said. "If you never had a positive association with your employer, now you're out of a job and you don't have something positive in your past to make you feel better."
Tosti-Kharas surveyed 1,191 workers after recruiting participants through the alumni office of the university that they had attended. She surveyed the participants in June and December of 2008, and separated the participants into two groups: 45 who were unemployed at the start of the study, and 41 who lost their jobs during the course of the study. Workers who were self-employed, had willingly quit their jobs, or were fully employed throughout the study were discounted.
The unemployed professionals answered questions designed to measure their psychological well-being, self-esteem, continued identification with the company and their judgment of the reason for their job loss. Those who strongly identified with their former employer reported feeling more confident and having a greater sense of purpose and belonging during their unemployment. For example, when someone insulted their former employer, they reported it felt like a personal insult. When referring to the organization, they used the term "we" rather than "they." This strong sense of self that was developed in relation to their company appeared to offset the isolation that is common during a job loss.
The results held only for those employees who attributed their job loss to themselves or their position in the company, rather than blaming the company itself.
"It's well known that when an employee strongly identifies with the organization they work for, they're more likely to go above and beyond and be engaged in their work, which is great for the well-being of individuals and organizations," Tosti-Kharas said. "But that sense of individual well-being had never been assumed to extend to former employees."
"It's all mental," she added. "It's a question of how much is your former organization still a part of who you are and how you define yourself as a person."
Tosti-Kharas noted that the mental benefits the unemployed workers enjoyed were a result of their own perceptions about themselves, not necessarily a continued social connection or interaction with former co-workers. Their positivity and self-esteem extended to their job search as well, further showing links between well-being and success in finding a new job.
The sample of participants was highly educated, and nearly half had worked in the financial industry prior to their job loss. The global economic crisis of 2008 occurred between the two survey dates, possibly contributing to the amount of participants surveyed who had lost their jobs. The study was funded by the Management Department of the NYU Stern School of Business, where Tosti-Kharas earned her Ph.D.
Tosti-Kharas plans to extend the study in the future to a more diverse range of employment fields, economically disadvantaged workers and a longer time span.
Source: San Francisco State University
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The Florida state house voted Thursday to resurrect two bills vetoed by former Gov. Charlie Crist nearly a year ago.
The GOP has what's known as a veto-proof majority, or enough votes to override a governor's decision to kill a piece of legislation.
In this case, the House restored a bill that would give tax breaks to agricultural land owners.
The more controversial vote deals with legislation to create so-called "slush fund" accounts for legislative leaders.
Crist vetoed that bill, saying it would let special interests unfairly influence the political process by being able to contribute unlimited amounts of money to campaign accounts controlled by the speaker of the house and senate president.
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MILWAUKEE - It was a sight Diamondbacks fans have not yet seen: Daniel Hudson was getting rocked.
It was the Virginia state championship game and, the way Princess Anne High baseball coach Jimmy Hunt remembers it, Hudson had given up eight runs through three innings.
"They were hitting laser beams off him," Hunt said.
So they made an adjustment, switching to a steady diet of off-speed pitches, and Hudson allowed just one hit in the next seven innings.
"He doesn't come apart," Hunt said. "I'll tell you, it's the one character quality I think that's going to make him a big-leaguer for a lot of years. He's kind of unflappable. Under the surface, he might be getting upset. But he doesn't come apart when things go wrong."
So far, not much has gone wrong in Hudson's first two weeks with the Diamondbacks. Acquired last month in a deadline deal with the Chicago White Sox for right-hander Edwin Jackson, Hudson has allowed just four runs in 22�2/3 innings in three starts.
That Hudson, 23, is acclimating quickly to his new surroundings is nothing new. In his first full season of pro ball last year, he pulled off an unusual feat: He pitched at all four full-season minor league levels before reaching the big leagues in September.
"It really is rare," White Sox minor league pitching coordinator Kirk Champion said. "When we needed somebody at the next level last year, Daniel Hudson was pitching very well at the level below. It happened again and again."
Hudson called it a "whirlwind situation." From the sound of it, finding a place to crash was as much a challenge as getting hitters out. In Double-A, he was sleeping on an air mattress in the living room of his teammates' two-bedroom apartment. In Triple-A, he wound up at an extended-stay hotel.
But wherever he went, the results followed.
"I was just really grateful they were so aggressive with me and gave me an opportunity to do what I did," he said.
That kind of timetable is aggressive for a first-round pick, but it was even more unexpected for a fifth-rounder whose stock had slipped just before the 2008 draft.
Hudson calls his junior year at Old Dominion an "anomaly," saying that every time he made a bad pitch the opponent seemed to hit it out of the ballpark.
"There was no, 'I got away with that one,' " he said.
And so the expectations he had created with a strong performance in the Cape Cod League the previous summer fizzled, hurting his draft status.
Hunt says Hudson is, by and large, the same pitcher he was in high school, only with a few extra miles per hour on his fastball. Hudson still throws from the same low arm slot, which some believe gives him extra life on his fastball and creates deception for hitters.
"He's got a good fastball that gets on you," said Richard Dotson, Hudson's pitching coach this season at Triple-A Charlotte. "It moves. It jumps at the end. And he has a great change-up. That he has a good fastball and change-up right there put him on the fast track."
Hunt also remembers Hudson fluttering his glove before going into the windup the same way he does now. Hudson says he sometimes flared his glove before throwing breaking balls, so he started doing it before every pitch to keep from tipping.
Hudson says he needs to refine his slider, to make it more consistent, but he's not going to change his game plan drastically since the mostly two-pitch mix is working so well.
Whatever he does, Hunt says everyone in Virginia will enjoy the ride.
"We're loving this back home, getting to watch Daniel and the success he's having," Hunt said. "He's a great guy and I hope he's up there for a long, long time."
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Earlier today, politicians, bankers, and regular people screwed over by Wall Street gathered in the Ronald Reagan Building a hilarious choice of venue for a bill opposed by almost every Republican lawmaker for the signing of the financial-reform bill. "Because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes," Obama said. "There will be no more taxpayer-funded bailouts. Period." Then he signed the legislation, and everyone applauded his successful use of all eleven ceremonial pens. [NYT]


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BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp today announced she will host a listening tour across the state over the 4th of July Congressional Work Period to discuss the issues affecting our veterans. At the end of the tour, Heitkamp will relay what she learns to top Veterans Administration officials.
"I am looking forward to sitting down with North Dakota veterans, listening to their concerns, and finding ways that I can best serve them. When I took office, I pledged to work tirelessly to ensure we fulfilled our sacred commitment to veterans who served our nation so proudly. These men and women represent the best of our state and now it is my honor to represent them as a United States Senator," said Heitkamp.
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lol From that pale complexion I'm not so sure... XD Or are you talking about yourself? Heh.
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Definately like this new skin tone better than the darker one.
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She's one of gts's signature characters: Sierra. And yes, she's VERY pretty. He has a gift for making things pretty.
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> From: Peter Donald [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > > At 12:30 5/12/00 +1100, Conor MacNeill wrote: > > I was thinking that we could still shortcut it aswell. > > ie <property name="foo" value="hello" /> is equivelent to > above. However > <property name="foo" value="${myfileset}" /> would actually > assign foo a > FileSet object (assuming ${myfileset} evaluated to a FileSet). > > > >and what it would mean for > >non-string properties (equivalent to toString() method, perhaps) > > yep. See my latest proposal for what I think on that . > The two things above are inconsistent. Either "${myfileset}" is the result ot toString() method applied to the fileset, or something else. But it should not be different things depending of who is using it. I suggest modifying the interpretation of refid to also look at the property namespace. So when you say: <classpath refid="mypath" />. It will look also for properties called "mypath". Alternatively, we could say that ${mypath} and ${myfileset} return the ID of the datatype. An then we should write: <classpath refid="${mypath}" /> but this would imply that all datatypes need to have an ID, even if not declared explicity. So I prefer the former. Jose Alberto
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I want to add an word import function to our CMS, the only problem I cannot seems to find a good library for reading docx files (Word 2007).
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Simulated Screening Study of Combined Digital X-Ray, Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Breast Imaging (NCT01807754)
Digital mammography and hand-held ultrasound are commonly used to find and evaluate breast masses. However, they often result in false positive results, which require further follow-up tests. Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a new breast imaging system. Studies suggest it may help doctors more effectively pinpoint the size, shape and location of a breast mass. Three-dimensional automated ultrasound (AUS) is another type of imaging system. It uses sound waves to create 3-D images of breast tissue. Photoacoustic imaging, another technique, uses laser light to create temperature changes in the breast that can be detected by small microphones placed against the skin. In this study, women who have had an abnormal mammogram will have all three imaging tests—DBT, AUS and photoacoustic imaging. The researchers will compare the test results to see if the call back rate differs when using the DBT result alone compared to using the results from all three tests.
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Breast MRI in Women With Known or Suspected Breast Cancer and in Healthy Participants (NCT00474604)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a sensitive method for detecting breast cancer that has been useful in evaluating women who are at high risk for breast cancer. In addition to standard MRI, three new methods are currently being studied: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) provides information about the chemical make-up of the tumor tissue, Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) uses faster imaging and a contrast material to provide information about the tumor's blood vessels, and Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) creates images that provide information about the tumor tissue. This study will compare how well these three different MRI methods find and characterize breast tumors, compared to standard MRI. Women who have been recently diagnosed or suspected to have breast cancer, as well as healthy volunteers, are eligible for this study.
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Randomized Trial of a Mammography Decision Aid for Women Aged 75 and Older (NCT02198690)
It is not known whether the benefits of mammography screening outweigh the risks in women age 75 and older. To improve older women's understanding of the benefits and risks of mammography screening, researchers have developed a pamphlet that provides information about mammography specifically for this age group. This study is investigating whether the pamphlet improves older women's decision-making about mammography screening. To be eligible, women must be between the ages of 75 and 89.
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Researchers are trying to identify the best imaging technologies to use along with mammography. Breast ultrasound is sometimes used as an additional test. Studies have shown that it can detect cancers that are not seen on regular mammography. Contrast Enhanced Digital Mammography (CEDM) is an FDA-approved form of mammography. It uses a dye injected into a vein to "highlight" areas of increased blood supply, which may indicate the presence of cancer cells. CEDM has been shown to detect cancer cells that are not seen on a regular mammogram. This study is comparing the effectiveness of CEDM and breast ultrasound when used along with mammography. To be eligible, a woman must be scheduled to receive contrast enhanced digital mammography alone or with whole breast screening ultrasound or full field digital mammography on the same day or within 30 days of one another.
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Scientists are trying to identify effective new techniques for breast cancer screening. Researchers now believe that breast cancer cells can leave the breast and move through the blood stream to other parts of the body before the tumor is even clinically detectable. Reliable and accurate detection of these circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is now possible with a simple blood test. The goal of this research is see whether a blood test for CTCs could provide a simple, reliable, cost-effective form of breast cancer screening. The aim of this specific study is to evaluate whether individuals with CTCs and no other signs of malignancy have clinically undetectable breast cancer. To be eligible, participants must be military health care beneficiaries.
Breast Cancer Screening with Ultrasound and Mammography
Earlier Breast Cancer Detection Using Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound With Screening Mammography, Including Cost Comparisons (NCT00649337)
Abnormalities can be more difficult to detect on a mammogram when women have dense breast tissue. Ultrasound imaging is a noninvasive medical test that produces a picture of the internal structures of the breast and is used to complement other screening tests, such as mammography. SonoCine is an innovative exam that uses a standard ultrasound machine to take a video of the entire breast. The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding whole breast ultrasound with SonoCine to annual screening mammography is more effective in women with dense breast tissue than mammography alone. To be eligible, participants must not have had a screening mammogram within 10 months of study entry or have been diagnosed with breast cancer within the last year.
- 1 visit plus 2 mammograms over 1 year
Using DWI with MRI for Breast Cancer Detection
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is currently used to screen high-risk women. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) calculates a measure of how water moves through tissue. Because water moves at different rates through healthy breast tissue and cancerous breast tissue, incorporating DWI into conventional breast MRI may decrease false positives and reduce preventable biopsies. In this study, researchers will investigate the accuracy of MRI combined with DWI in women with breast tumors that were identified on MRI. The DWI will be done at the time of the MRI, adding an additional two minutes to the MRI procedure.
Contrast-Enhanced Spectral Mammography and MRI for Screening High-Risk Women
Dual-energy Contrast-enhanced Digital Subtraction Mammography (CESM) as a Tool to Screen High Risk Women for Breast Cancer: a Comparison to Screening Breast MRI (NCT02275871)
Mammography is the recommended screening test for early breast cancer detection. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is recommended as an additional screening tool for some women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer. Contrast-Enhanced Spectral Mammography (CESM) is an FDA approved tool used to identify inconclusive findings on a mammogram or ultrasound because it shows areas of increased blood supply that are typical of breast tumors. Early studies suggest CESM may be better than MRI for screening high-risk women. In this study, high-risk women will receive both MRI and CESM so that researchers can determine which improves early detection.
A New Type of MRI for Breast Cancer Screening
High Resolution 3D Diffusion-weighted Breast MRI (NCT01315106)
High resolution 3D diffusion-weighted breast MRI is a new technique for breast cancer screening. Diffusion-weighted breast imaging develops a picture of the breast by assessing the random motion of water molecules in breast tissue. Researchers have found that water diffusion is abnormal in breast tumors. This leads them to believe that diffusion-weighted imaging may provide a new way to identify breast tumors. In this study, women will have a standard breast MRI and then an MRI using the new technique. The images from both MRIs will be compared with the results of the pathology report, allowing the researchers to determine which technique identifies more breast tumors.


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Climate change and tourism
In recent months, extreme weather conditions have meant that several tourism patterns have felt the pressure. Mariëtte du Toit-Helmbold, CEO of Cape Town Tourism, comments on this state of affairs.Read more
Countering seasonality: The influence of air traffic on business and leisure tourism
Welcome news for leisure and business tourism to the Mother City: From February, Turkish Airlines increased the number of flights to Cape Town. Unfortunately, this coincides with an announcement by airberlin that it will run its last northbound Cape Town-Munich flight of the European winter season 2010/2011 on April 29, 2011. Cape Town Tourism CEO Mariëtte du Toit Helmbold comments.
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Tourism services update
Since the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, reports from our Visitor Information Centre (VIC) network and partners have indicated that the last quarter of 2010 was a promising period for the tourism industry.Read more
Tourism services update
The Cape Town Tourism Visitor Information Network received significantly more walk-in visitors during September than that in the previous month, in line with seasonal expectations.Read more
Visitor services update
The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) August 2010 barometer reports an 8% increase in international tourist arrivals to emerging economies in the first half of 2010.Read more
New provincial government plan to centralise tourism marketing in Cape Town – your views
The Provincial Government of the Western Cape has put forward a proposal to reorganise and centralise the ways in which Cape Town is marketed as a tourism destination, to re-establish CTRU (under a new name and constitution) as the primary marketing organisation for Cape Town and to realign all city marketing activity with the provincial marketing strategy. This proposal, if implemented, would have major implications for the future of tourism in Cape Town and for Cape Town Tourism (CTT).Read more
Tourism Industry Positive about the Impact of the World Cup on Future Tourism Growth for Cape Town
The City of Cape Town is in the process of conducting a comprehensive economic impact survey on the FIFA World Cup™ in Cape Town, which will be released at a later stage. In the interim, Cape Town Tourism conducted a series of five weekly tourism industry surveys, for the duration of the tournament, to assess the FIFA World Cup™ visitor footprint, behaviours, choices and trends from week to week, and to gauge industry attitudes toward the FIFA World Cup™.Read more
Cape Town Tourism visitor services update
Visitor information centre preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ are going as well as can be expected and those involved are making every effort to be ready in time for the big event.Read more


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Hi this is a really easy to implement request. Unfortunately I am not cool enough to implement it myself!
When making a post and choosing to add an image, you can currently link the image you've chosen. You can add an image link to the file itself, or the the image page. You cannot however, dictate the target. AKA you cannot choose whether the image link goes in a new window, the same window, etc.
Could you all add this feature? =)


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About the Arms Trade
In all parts of the world, the ready availability of weapons and ammunition has led to human suffering, political repression, crime and terror among civilian populations. Irresponsible transfers of conventional weapons can destabilize security in a region, enable the violation of SecurityCouncil armsembargoes and contribute to human rights abuses. Importantly, investment is discouraged and development disrupted in countries experiencing conflict and high levels of violence, which also affect their ability to attain the Millennium Development Goals.
A problem for the UN
The United Nations, in its work to assist people all over the world, is confronted with many of the negative impacts of lax controls on the arms trade. Think of peacekeeping, delivering food aid, improving public health, building safer cities, protecting refugees, eradicating poverty or fighting crime and terrorism. In all those activities we witness the consequences of armed violence and conflict, and that often lead to violations of international law, abuses of the rights of children, civilian casualties, humanitarian crises and missed social and economic opportunities necessary for development – often fueled by irresponsible arms deals.
How does the UN help in the regulation of the arms trade?
By supporting negotiations for a global arms trade treaty
By making information available on arms transfers between countries through the UN Register of Conventional Arms
By addressing the illicit trade in small arms
No global norms
Many areas of world trade are covered by regulations that bind countries into agreed conduct. At present, there is no global set of rules governing the trade in conventional weapons. An eclectic set of national and regional control measures and a few global instruments on arms transfers exist, but the absence of a global framework regulating the international trade in all conventional arms has obscured transparency, comparability and accountability.
Governments remain primarily responsible for providing security and protecting their populations, keeping to the rule of law. They take decisions on arms transfers across international borders. That is why governments are expected to show responsibility in their decisions regarding arms transfers. This means that before approving international transfers (e.g., exports) of weapons, governments should assess the risk that such transfers would exacerbate conflict or be used to commit grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law.
Concerned by the misuse of weaponry around the world, civil society organizations have successfully mobilized governments and parliamentarians to call for the global regulation of the conventional arms trade. Countries have discussed the matter within the UN since 2006 and are set to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty in July 2012.
Small Arms
Insurgents, armed gang members, pirates, terrorists - they can all multiply their force through the use of unlawfully acquired firepower. The illicit circulation of small arms, light weapons and their ammunition destabilizes communities, and impacts security and development in all regions of the world.
Programme of Action Implementation Support System: PoA-ISS
Website of the 2012 Review Conference on the Progress of the PoA
UN Meetings on small arms
Secretary-General's report on small arms (2011)
Secretary-General's report on small arms (2008)
A worldwide scourge
The illicit trade in small arms, light weapons and ammunition wreaks havoc everywhere. Mobs terrorizing a neighbourhood. Rebels attacking civilians or peacekeepers. Drug lords randomly killing law enforcers or anyone else interfering with their illegal businesses. Bandits hijacking humanitarian aid convoys. In all continents, uncontrolled small arms form a persisting problem.
Weapons of choice
Small arms are cheap, light, and easy to handle, transport and conceal. A build-up of small arms alone may not create the conflicts in which they are used, but their excessive accumulation and wide availability aggravates the tension. The violence becomes more lethal and lasts longer, and a sense of insecurity grows, which in turn lead to a greater demand for weapons.
Most present-day conflicts are fought mainly with small arms, which are broadly used in inter-State conflict. They are the weapons of choice in civil wars and for terrorism, organized crime and gang warfare.
General Assembly Resolutions
The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them
Observer status for the Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa and Bordering States in the General Assembly
Addressing the negative humanitarian and development impact of the illicit manufacture, transfer and circulation of small arms and light weapons and their excessive accumulation
Promotion at the regional level in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe of the United Nations programme of action on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
Taking their toll, violating rights
The majority of conflict deaths are caused by the use of small arms, and civilian populations bear the brunt of armed conflict more than ever. Also, small arms are the dominant tools of criminal violence. The rate of firearms-related homicides in post-conflict societies often outnumbers battlefield deaths. These weapons are also linked to the increasing number of killings of UN employees and peacekeepers, as well as workers from humanitarian and non-governmental organizations.
Small arms facilitate a vast spectrum of human rights violations, including killing, maiming, rape and other forms of sexual violence, enforced disappearance, torture, and forced recruitment of children by armed groups. More human rights abuses are committed with small arms than with any other weapon. Furthermore, where the use of armed violence becomes a means for resolving grievances and conflicts, legal and peaceful dispute resolution suffers and the rule of law cannot be upheld.
Development denied
Contemporary armed conflict is the main cause of people fleeing their homes, and is now the most common cause of food insecurity. Armed violence can aggravate poverty, inhibit access to social services and divert energy and resources away from efforts to improve human development. Countries plagued by armed violence are behind in attaining the Millennium Development Goals. High levels of armed violence impede economic growth. According to the World Bank, nothing undermines investment climates as much as armed insecurity.
Less information on small arms than on nuclear weapons
Reliable data sets on small arms can only be built if countries provide information on production, holdings, trade, legislation and use. But of all transparency measures on weapons systems, those on small arms are the least developed. According to the Small Arms Survey, "more is known about the number of nuclear warheads, stocks of chemical weapons and transfers of major conventional weapons than about small arms".
There are no accurate figures for the number of small arms and light weapons currently in circulation globally. Sources estimate the total to be at least 875 million. The majority of small arms - generally the only category of weapons not falling under Government monopoly of possession and use - are in private hands.
How do small arms become illicit?
Sources of small arms supplies to areas of crisis and conflict are varied. Domestically, small arms can enter illicit circulation through distribution, theft, leakage, divergence, pilferage or resale. Shipments of small arms to conflict zones from abroad are most often small-scale consignments - a steady trickle of weapons across porous borders. The cumulative destabilizing force of such small-scale trade is not to be underestimated, particularly in unstable regions where small arms are traded from one conflict to another.
Small arms and the UN
Governments have a responsibility to ensure public safety and they have an interest in providing human security and development to their citizens. So they should ensure that small arms from Government stocks or from private ownership are not misused and do not enter illicit circuits, where their use may contribute to instability and to exacerbating poverty.
To attain those goals, within the UN, countries have agreed on several commitments on small arms control: the Firearms Protocol, the Programme of Action on small arms - including an Instrument on marking and tracing - and the Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials.
The topic of small arms comes up in other discussions as well. Countries are giving separate attention to closely related issues, such as armed violence, child soldiers, the protection of civilians in armed conflict, ammunition, the arms trade treaty and the UN register of conventional arms.
The small arms industry appears to be fragmenting, bringing manufacturers closer to potential markets. More than 1,000 companies in about 100 countries are involved in some aspect of small arms production, with significant producers in around 30 countries. Conservative estimates mention 7.5 to 8 million small arms being produced per year.
Licensed production is now a common feature worldwide, sometimes leaving questions as to where responsibility lies with regard to the export of production techniques. Craft production, carried out in private workshops, is practiced in some regions and remains largely outside of control systems.
Marking and tracing
If national law enforcement officials were able to trace small arms back to their last legitimate owner, who might then be held accountable, this would form an effective measure against illicit trade and diversion. For that purpose, it is essential that the weapon be marked upon production and import, and that appropriate records be kept. Existing stocks should also be marked. Although many weapons are marked upon production and import, international cooperation in marking and tracing of small arms is in its infancy.
Traders and brokers
The vast majority of small arms are sold and transferred legally, but global patterns of supply of small arms and light weapons have changed profoundly over the past few decades. This has complicated controls. In the past, arms markets were relatively easy to survey, with far fewer supply outlets and less intermediate activity. Typically, closing a deal and delivering the goods were done by State authorities or Government agents. The use of private intermediaries has become common practice. These actors now routinely arrange transactions for defence industries, armed forces, law enforcement agencies and suppliers to Government as well as private entities, operating in a particularly globalized environment and often from multiple locations.
Contemporary traders, agents, brokers, shippers and financiers may well combine activities, making it difficult at times to distinguish small arms trade from brokering. Governments must assure that the shipments handled through these often complex networks are regulated according to the rule of law.
Investigations of arms embargo violations by the monitoring groups of the Security Council have exposed some international networks involved in the illicit trade and brokering of small arms. These brokers and dealers exploit legal loopholes, evade customs and airport controls and falsify documents such as passports, end-user certificates, cargo papers and flight schedules. Illicit activities by certain brokers and traders - and by the Government officials they collude with - have violated every UN arms embargo, with small arms and ammunition as the main items transferred.
A recurring problem concerning the proliferation of small arms, in particular in zones of crisis and conflict, is the absence of a normative framework for all States to guide decisions regarding arms transfers.
Information on global ammunition flows is difficult to obtain. More than 80 per cent of ammunition trade seems to remain outside of reliable export data. However, ammunition forms a key component of tackling the small arms topic in all its aspects. In contexts of sustained use, ammunition stockpiles are rapidly depleted. Preventing their resupply in unlawful situations should be a matter of prime concern. Furthermore, these stockpiles present a two-fold problem of security and safety - research shows that much of the non-State actors' ammunition are illicitly diverted from State security forces, and ammunition warehouses located in densely populated areas have exploded in a number of countries, causing thousands of casualties. Therefore, security as well as safety measures with regard to ammunition stockpiles need to be urgently addressed.
More on ammunition
Stockpile management
Stockpile management and control is one of the most acute small arms problems. "Leaking" Government stockpiles are prominent sources of illegal small arms in circulation. Generally, surplus and obsolete weapons are better destroyed than stored. In post conflict settings, the immediate destruction of surplus weapons and ammunition removes possible fuel for new instability.
The results of collection and destruction programmes are mixed. Often, projects have had only marginal impact on security, presumably because it is typically the obsolete weapons that are destroyed, and because affected communities do not always participate in the design and implementation of collection programmes. Also, disarmament programmes tend to focus on weapons rather than ammunition. Most importantly, for weapons collection programmes to have a lasting effect, they must be embedded in robust efforts linked to violence reduction, reconciliation, security sector reform and peacebuilding.
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UNITED NATIONS – A treaty being hammered out this month at the United Nations -- with Iran playing a key role -- could expose the records of America's gun owners to foreign governments -- and, critics warn, eventually put the Second Amendment on global trial.
International talks in New York are going on throughout July on the final wording of the so-called Arms Trade Treaty, which supporters such as Amnesty International USA say would rein in unregulated weapons that kill an estimated 1,500 people daily around the world. But critics, including the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre, warn the treaty would mark a major step toward the eventual erosion of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment gun-ownership rights.
Americans "just don't want the UN to be acting as a global nanny with a global permission slip stating whether they can own a gun or not," LaPierre said. "It cheapens our rights as American citizens, and weakens our sovereignty," he warned in an exclusive interview with FoxNews.com from the halls of the UN negotiating chambers.
"It cheapens our rights as American citizens, and weakens our sovereignty."
- Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association
The world body has already been criticized for appointing Iran to a key role in the talks, even as Tehran stands accused by the UN of arming Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's bloody crackdown on rebels. The Obama administration in 2009 reversed Bush administration policy by agreeing to take part in the talks. But in another exclusive interview with FoxNews.com, the top government official on the issue under President Bush says he's seen nothing new to convince him the U.S. should be at the table today.
While the treaty's details are still under discussion, the document could straitjacket U.S. foreign policy to the point where Washington could be restricted from helping arm friends such as Taiwan and Israel, said Greg Suchan, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs from 2000 to 2007.
Suchan also highlighted ongoing concern that the treaty may end up giving foreigners access to U.S. gun-ownership records.
On that score, LaPierre, who serves as NRA executive vice president, warns that the "UN's refusal" to remove civilian firearms and ammunition from the scope of the treaty amounts to a declaration that only governments should be gun owners.
But he revealed he was set Wednesday to tell the UN gathering that 58 U.S. senators had signed a letter saying that they would refuse to ratify any treaty that includes controls over civilian guns or ammunition.
Ratification by two-thirds of the Senate is necessary before an international treaty negotiated by the executive branch can become U.S. law. But the treaty could still go into effect elsewhere once 65 countries ratify it. Such a development could change the pattern of world arms transfers and reduce the U.S. share, which stands at about 40 percent of up to $60 billion in global deals.
The Bush administration opposed a 2006 UN General Assembly resolution launching the treaty process, but President Obama decided the U.S. would take part on condition the final agreement be reached by consensus -- thereby giving any of the 193 participating states an effective veto.
The safeguard is insufficient for opponents of the U.S. participation, not least because UN talks invariably involve compromise.
"The administration swears they have a whole bunch of red lines, and they will block consensus if anyone crosses them," said Suchan, now a government relations consultant as senior associate with the Commonwealth Consulting Corporation in Arlington, Va.
"But the dynamics of international negotiations are that once you get 90 percent of what you seek, you say, 'Maybe there is a way we can finesse the final 10 percent.'"
A clause permitting arms transfers solely between UN member states would allow UN member China to object to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, a non-UN member that China considers to be a renegade province.
This would be highly problematic for the U.S. at a time when Beijing is engaged in an unprecedented arms buildup.
Another fear is that Arab or other states critical of Israel may use any treaty language on human rights standards to argue against U.S. arms transfers to the Israeli government – much in the same way they currently use the UN Human Rights Council to repeatedly condemn Israel.
Suchan said U.S. arms trade law is seen as the global "gold standard" for regulating arms transfers, but doubted many countries would be willing to raise the bar that high. Instead, the treaty that emerges is expected to set a lower global standard – which Suchan said would have the effect of reducing Washington's ability to press for voluntary arms embargoes against rogue states.
"We might want to urge a country to not sell arms to a state whose government is particularly odious," Suchan explained.
"But that government could then ask whether the sale is prohibited under the Arms Trade Treaty – and if it is not, they would argue they are meeting the international standard."
U.S. gun lobby concern focuses on the emphasis the treaty places on governmental – as opposed to individual – rights to guns, LaPierre explained.
"They're trying to impose a UN policy that gives guns to the governments – but the UN doesn't in turn make moral judgments as to whether these governments are good or bad," he said.
"If you're the government, you get the guns, if you're a civilian, you don't. But this will just end up helping evil governments and tyrants."
For LaPierre, the emphasis he sees at the UN on governmental rights reflects what he believes is a wider international tradition that contrasts with the historical American emphasis on individual rights.
"The UN view is that governments – not individual citizens – ought to protect people," he said, signaling that this principle permeates the draft that negotiators are currently working with.
LaPierre says the treaty that is likely to emerge will have the effect of squeezing individual gun owners in the United States and elsewhere by imposing on them an onerous collection of regulations.
"If they get this through, then what comes along is the institutionalizing of the whole gun control-ban movement within the bureaucracy of UN – with a permanent funding mechanism that we [in America] will be mainly paying for," he said.
"The world's worst human rights abusers will end up voting for this, while the Obama administration has not drawn a line in the sand like the previous administration did. Instead, it is trying to be a part of this train wreck because they think they can somehow finesse it. But, to me, there is no finessing the individual freedoms of American citizens."
Steven Edwards is a UN-based freelance journalist
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I am a united states citizen and a native Texan. I'd like to see the government goons try to come to disarm texans. There's only one way the government or anyone else will take my weapons and that's when they beat me in a gun fight and take them from my cold dead hands. As for the united nations, since when do we take marching orders from other countries? We are the united states of America damnit! We give the orders not take them!
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KAudioCreator is an audio CD ripper, which uses cdparanoia as a
backend to extract the tracks and later it encodes them to mp3 or
ogg files (or many other formats supported).
- CDDB lookup to extract the album and track information
- Different encoding formats supported (ogg, mp3, flac)
- Different filename formats using tags
WWW: http://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kaudiocreator/
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/audio/kaudiocreator/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install kaudiocreator
cd /usr/ports/audio/kaudiocreator/ && make install clean
pkg install kaudiocreator
PKGNAME: kaudiocreator
SHA256 (107645-kaudiocreator-1.3.tar.bz2) = f0f13bea35ef5faf3fa3443701c0671f0fc89b5d3478fe286b32435df598ed70
SIZE (107645-kaudiocreator-1.3.tar.bz2) = 310937
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
===> The following configuration options are available for kaudiocreator-1.3_4:
NLS=on: Native Language Support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
cmake tar:bzip2 gettext qmake:_env
Number of commits found: 26
Remove expired misc/kdehier4 and update all of its consumers to not reference it
longer. This is a no-op because KDE4_PREFIX is equal to LOCALBASE
Fix up properties for misc/kde4-l10n/files/bsd.l10n.mk to make svn happy.
PR: 209014 (partial)
Submitted by: myself
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6542
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, Mk and categories a, b, and c.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Convert ports to use the options helpers in categories [abc]*, and minor fixes.
Sponsored by: Absolight
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3412?
- Remove deprecated USE_KDE4=kdehier
- while here, remove any reference to KDE in deskutils/charmtimetracker (Qt-only
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Cleanup plist
Update the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection from GCC 4.7.4
to GCC 4.8.3.
Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Tested by: antoine (-exp runs)
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Upgrade OpenEXR and ilmbase to 2.2.0.
GCC 4.2 in FreeBSD 8.X/9.X base is now too old to compile OpenEXR, so
GCC-based systems will upgrade to the default ports compiler (GCC 4.7
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at https://github.com/openexr/openexr/issues/130
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Proto-STAGE hugin-devel, and mark it IGNORE because hugin is newer.
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Most ports are updated infrequently so a single batch commit is preferred over
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- Bump PORTREVISION after KDE4_PREFIX change
Add stage support to audio/kaudiocreator.
- Convert LIB_DEPENDS to new format.
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
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Better to remove now, in one go, then forget about it.
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Make the port NLS aware and make portlint happier.
- bump version ;-)
1.2.95 (1.3 rc)
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Approved by: eadler,bdrewery (mentors, implicit)
Fix build of audio/kaudiocreator.
Missing dependency from split of kdemultimedia.
Reported by: miwi
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- while here clean up some ports from CMAKE_VERBOSE, which is intended
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- Bump PORTREVISION to chase the update of multimedia/libvpx
Update lame to 3.99.3.
Bump portrevision of all ports which depend upon it.
- Bump PORTREVISION to chase the update of audio/libdiscid
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Submitted by: Jason E. Hale <email@example.com>
Chase after net/openldap24-server update.
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ogg files (or many other formats supported).
WWW: http://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kaudiocreator/
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The Associated Press | May 16,2014MONTPELIER The administration of Gov. Peter Shumlin is gearing up for a task assigned to it by the Legislature: studying the financial and other impacts if the state were to legalize marijuana.
Shumlin agrees with lawmakers that its timely to do a study, said Administration Secretary Jeb Spaulding, whose agency is to report its findings to lawmakers by Jan. 15.
Were not going to prejudge what our position would be at the end of it, he said.
The bill removing the cap on the number of patients who can get medical marijuana in Vermont included an amendment. It called for a study of possible taxing systems for marijuana, any savings or costs connected with taxing and regulating the drug, and the experiences of other states that have legalized it, including Colorado and Washington.
Less than a week after lawmakers adjourned, Spaulding said the administration hasnt determined how to carry out the task.
I know that were going to take it seriously and well probably do a pretty thorough study, he said.
Shumlin has said repeatedly he wants to watch what happens in Colorado and Washington before deciding whether legalization is a good idea for Vermont. Spaulding warned that January, when his agencys report is due, may be too soon to give a definitive answer.
Advocates on both sides of the issue are already offering suggestions for what Vermont ought to consider.
Matt Simon of the Marijuana Policy Project, which supports legalization, said one issue in Colorado that perhaps wasnt foreseen was how edibles and infused products would be regulated.
Edibles have come under close scrutiny in Colorado after a Wyoming college student visiting Denver ate more of a pot-laced cookie than recommended and jumped to his death from a hotel balcony. Last month, a man fatally shot his wife after eating pot-infused candy.
Those two deaths since marijuana became legal in January are far fewer than the 161 drunken driving deaths reported for Colorado in 2011 by the group Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The MADD statistics didnt include suicides or homicides tied to alcohol.
Kevin Sabet, executive director of the anti-pot group Project SAM for Smart Approaches to Marijuana said states eyeing potential marijuana tax revenues should consider that the social costs of alcohol, ranging from lost workplace productivity to traffic accidents, usually outstrip revenues from taxing the beverages by 10 to one.
For the state to think theyre actually going to gain money when all is said and done I think is a very difficult proposition to make, Sabet said.
Rep. Kristina Michelsen, D-Hardwick, a legalization supporter who is leaving the Vermont House after one term, said she hopes that any legalization scheme in Vermont will allow not just for a commercial industry, but for people to be able to grow their own pot at home.
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Luggage and bags: New York is not like Europe in that we're not old enough to have many cobblestoned streets, so feel free to pack your rolling suitcases. However, if you plan on taking the subway, keep in mind there are stairs to deal with.
Women: bring purses that zip. I've never known anyone who's been actually "pickpocketed" but to be on the safe side, don't take a large -open- tote, especially if you think you might look too much like a tourist.
And those huge camping backpacks look silly! Who actually camps in New York! (Edit: Ok, so I'm just realizing that backpacks are fairly common in Europe. Bring them if you must. But just as Europeans don't wear shorts, New Yorkers don't wear fanny/bum packs. Fannypacks are definite tourist gear.)
Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: Whoever said that all New Yorkers wear all black was TOTALLY lying! I hardly ever wear ANY black! It's such a depressing color. Wear whatever YOU PLEASE! Actually, the weirder you dress, the more you might actually fit in! (Note: As ATLC and others have pointed out, I do own black clothes and I do wear them on occasion. Bring black clothing, but don't feel as though you need to wear black to fit in!)
Bring sensible flats...or at least kitten heels or wedged heels. Women: buy foot pads if you do wear heels. Well, buy foot pads no matter what. You could use the cushioning on the hard sidewalks!
Don't wear all white sneakers. It bothers me so much when tourists wear those. I still can't believe people actually wear those white sneakers, shorts, t-shirts, visors, and those "fanny packs". You'll look ridiculous. But don't be afraid to bring sneakers in general.
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Miscellaneous: Bring foot paddings, a fold-up tote bag for any souvenirs, a water bottle to fill up (bottled water can be expensive in certain neighborhoods), a book to read on long museum admissions lines, and try to find a SMALL map of Manhattan. (attempt to be discreet).
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Frequently Asked Questions About Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- What is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)?
Inflammatory bowel disease is a group of diseases -- ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease being the most common. These chronic illnesses can inflame the gastrointestinal tract, causing bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, and weight loss. Ulcerative colitis can affect the entire large intestine or the rectum. Crohn's disease mainly affects short segments of both the small and large intestine but can involve the entire gastrointestinal tract.
- What is Crohn's disease?
Crohn's disease is an ongoing disorder that causes inflammation of the digestive tract, also referred to as the gastrointestinal, or GI, tract. Crohn's disease can affect any area of the GI tract, from the mouth to the anus, but it most commonly affects the lower part of the small intestine, called the ileum. The swelling extends deep into the lining of the affected organ. The swelling can cause pain and can make the intestines empty frequently, resulting in diarrhea.
- Who gets Crohn's disease?
Crohn's disease affects men and women equally and seems to run in some families. About 20% of people with Crohn's disease have a blood relative with some form of inflammatory bowel disease, most often a brother or sister and sometimes a parent or child. Crohn's disease can occur in people of all age groups, but it is more often diagnosed in people between the ages of 15 and 40. People of Jewish heritage have an increased risk of developing Crohn's disease, and blacks are at decreased risk for developing Crohn's disease.
- What causes inflammatory bowel disease?
The cause(s) of inflammatory bowel disease is not known. However people believe that it may be genetically linked since IBD is known to run in families.
An environmental cause is also believed to play a role in developing Crohn's disease because it most often occurs in people who smoke, are residents of Northern European countries, and live in urban areas.
Other researchers speculate that the disease may be caused by an infection or virus.
Still others believe that the body's immune system is reacting to unidentified or unknown substance. This substance would cause the immune system to respond inappropriately against normal intestinal tissue, resulting in chronic inflammation.
- What diseases/infections or vaccines are thought to be linked to the development of IBD?
Measles, mumps, or rubella virus infection is not known to cause IBD. The virus that causes measles infects the respiratory system and then spreads to lymphatic tissue (an important part of the immune system). During the acute infection, lymph cells in the gastrointestinal tract are infected, but whether this can cause chronic inflammation is doubtful.
One theory speculates that measles virus may persist in the intestine in certain individuals and later trigger a chronic inflammatory infection; however, this has not been proven. Because the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine contains a very weak live measles virus it has been suggested that the vaccine could cause an inflammatory process in the intestine. This theory has not been proven and is speculative.
- What are the symptoms of Crohn's disease?
The most common symptoms of Crohn's disease are abdominal pain, often in the lower right area, and diarrhea. Rectal bleeding, weight loss, arthritis, skin problems, and fever may also occur. Bleeding may be serious and persistent, leading to anemia. Children with Crohn's disease may suffer delayed development and stunted growth. The range and severity of symptoms varies.
- How are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis diagnosed?
A thorough physical exam and a series of tests may be required to diagnose Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
The doctor may do an upper GI series to look at the small intestine. For this test, the person drinks barium, a chalky solution that coats the lining of the small intestine, before X-rays are taken.
The doctor may also do a visual exam of the colon by performing a colonoscopy. The doctor inserts a long, flexible, lighted tube linked to a computer and TV monitor into the anus. An upper endoscopy is often performed to view the upper GI tract from the mouth to the small intestine.
The doctor may also do a biopsy, which involves taking a sample of tissue from the lining of the intestine to view with a microscope.
- What are the complications of Crohn's disease?
The most common complication of Crohn's disease is blockage of the intestine. Blockage occurs because the disease tends to thicken the intestinal wall with swelling and scar tissue, narrowing the passage.
Crohn's disease may also cause sores, or ulcers, that tunnel through the affected area into surrounding tissues, such as the bladder, vagina, or skin. If an abnormal connection persists between these organs, a fistula develops.
Nutritional complications are common in Crohn's disease. These deficiencies may be caused by inadequate dietary intake, intestinal loss of protein, or poor absorption, also referred to as malabsorption.
Other complications associated with Crohn's disease include arthritis, skin problems, inflammation in the eyes or mouth, kidney stones, gallstones, or other diseases of the liver and biliary system. Some of these problems resolve during treatment for disease in the digestive system, but some must be treated separately.
- What is ulcerative colitis?
Ulcerative colitis is a disease that causes inflammation and sores, called ulcers, in the lining of the rectum and colon. Ulcers form where inflammation has killed the cells that usually line the colon, then bleed and produce pus. Inflammation in the colon also causes the colon to empty frequently, causing diarrhea.
- Who gets ulcerative colitis?
Ulcerative colitis can occur in people of any age, but it usually starts between the ages of 15 and 40, and less frequently between 50 and 70 years of age. It affects men and women equally and appears to run in families, with reports of up to 20% of people with ulcerative colitis having a family member or relative with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. A higher incidence of ulcerative colitis is seen in whites and people of Jewish descent.
- What are the symptoms of ulcerative colitis?
The most common symptoms of ulcerative colitis are abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. Patients also may experience
- anemia
- fatigue
- weight loss
- loss of appetite
- rectal bleeding
- loss of body fluids and nutrients
- skin lesions
- joint pain
- growth failure (specifically in children)
About half of the people diagnosed with ulcerative colitis have mild symptoms. Others suffer frequent fevers, bloody diarrhea, nausea, and severe abdominal cramps.
- What are the other complications associated with ulcerative colitis?
Ulcerative colitis may also cause problems such as arthritis, inflammation of the eye, liver disease, and osteoporosis. It is not known why these problems occur outside the colon. Scientists think these complications may be the result of inflammation triggered by the immune system. Some of these problems go away when the colitis is treated.
- What causes ulcerative colitis?
Many theories exist about what causes ulcerative colitis. People with ulcerative colitis have abnormalities of the immune system, but doctors do not know whether these abnormalities are a cause or a result of the disease. The body's immune system is believed to react abnormally to the bacteria in the digestive tract.
Ulcerative colitis is not caused by emotional distress or sensitivity to certain foods or food products, but these factors may trigger symptoms in some people. The stress of living with ulcerative colitis may also contribute to a worsening of symptoms.
- What are the treatments for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis?
Treatment for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis may include drugs, nutrition supplements, surgery, or a combination of these options. Treatment for Crohn's disease depends on the location and severity of disease, complications, and the person's response to previous medical treatments when treated for reoccurring symptoms. Many of the treatments are used for both conditions.
Someone with inflammatory bowel disease may need medical care for a long time, with regular doctor visits to monitor the condition.
- What drug therapies are available for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis?
Anti-Inflammation drugs. Patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis may respond differently to the various drugs in this class, so treatment regimens are unique to each individual. Most people are first treated with drugs containing 5-ASA, or 5-aminosalicylates, a substance that helps control inflammation. Mesalamine (Asacol, Pentasa, Lialda, Apriso) is the most commonly used of these drugs. Patients who do not benefit from it or who cannot tolerate it may be put on other 5-ASA-containing drugs, such as sulfasalazine (Azulfidine, Sulfazine), olsalazine (Dipentum), or balsalazide (Colazal, Giazo) Pentasa. Possible side effects of mesalamine-containing drugs include nausea, vomiting, heartburn, diarrhea, and headache.
Steroids. Corticosteriods are one of the oldest treatments and provide very effective results. Prednisone is a common generic name of one of the drugs in this group of medications. In the beginning, when the disease it at its worst, prednisone is usually prescribed in a large dose. The dosage is then lowered and usually discontinued once symptoms have been controlled. These drugs can cause serious side effects, including greater susceptibility to infection. Budesonide is another steroid drug that has less systemic effects.
Immune system suppressors. Drugs that suppress the immune system are also used to treat Crohn's disease. Most commonly prescribed for refractory inflammatory bowel disease are 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) or a related drug, azathioprine. Immunosuppressive agents work by blocking the immune reaction that contributes to inflammation. These drugs may cause side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea and may lower a person's resistance to infection.
Biologics. Infliximab ( Remicade) is the first of a group of medications that blocks the body's inflammation response. The FDA approved the drug for the treatment of moderate to severe Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis that does not respond to standard therapies (mesalamine substances, corticosteroids, immunosuppressive agents) and for the treatment of open, draining fistulas. Other drugs in this class include adalimumab (Humira), vedolizumab (Entyvio), natalizumab (Tysabri), golimumab (Simponi), and certolizumab pegol (Cimzia). Remicade, Entyvio, Humira, and Simponi are the biologics FDA-approved for use in those with ulcerative colitis. Biologics can have serious side effects and are usually used when more conventional therapy fails.
Antibiotics. In Crohn's disease antibiotics are used to treat bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine caused by stricture, fistulas, or prior surgery. For this common problem, the doctor most commonly prescribes ciprofloxacin or metronidazole.
Anti-diarrheal and fluid replacements. Diarrhea and abdominal cramps are often relieved when the inflammation subsides, but additional medication may also be necessary. Several antidiarrheal agents could be used, including diphenoxylate, loperamide, and codeine. Patients who are dehydrated because of diarrhea will be treated with fluids and electrolytes.
- What type of nutrition supplementation is needed for those with irritable bowel disease?
The doctor may recommend nutritional supplements for those with IBD, especially for children whose growth has been slowed. Special high-calorie liquid formulas are sometimes used for this purpose.
- Is surgery ever required to treat irritable bowel disease?
Two-thirds to three-quarters of patients with Crohn's disease will require surgery at some point in their lives. About 25% to 40% of ulcerative colitis patients must eventually have their colons removed because of massive bleeding, severe illness, rupture of the colon, or risk of cancer.
Surgery becomes necessary when medications can no longer control symptoms. Surgery is used either to relieve symptoms that do not respond to medical therapy or to correct complications such as blockage, perforation, abscess, or bleeding in the intestine. Surgery to remove part of the intestine can help people with Crohn's disease, but it is not a cure. Surgery does not eliminate the disease as inflammation tends to return to the area next to where the diseased intestine was removed.
In ulcerative colitis, surgery maybe needed to remove the colon and/or rectum.
- Is colon cancer a concern with ulcerative colitis?
About 5%-10% of people with ulcerative colitis develop colon cancer. The risk of cancer increases with the duration of the disease and how much the colon has been damaged. For example, if only the lower colon and rectum are involved, the risk of cancer is not much higher than normal. However, if the entire colon is involved, the risk of cancer may be as much as 32 times the normal rate.
Sometimes precancerous changes occur in the cells lining the colon. These changes are called "dysplasia." People who have dysplasia are more likely to develop cancer than those who do not. Doctors look for signs of dysplasia when doing a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy and when examining tissue removed during these tests.
According to the guidelines for colon cancer screening, people who have had pancolitis (involving the entire large intestine) for at least eight years should have a colonoscopy with biopsies every one to two years to check for dysplasia. Such screening has not been proven to reduce the risk of colon cancer, but it may help identify cancer early. These guidelines were produced by an independent expert panel and endorsed by numerous organizations, including the American Cancer Society, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, and the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America.
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Eons before the Green Lantern Corps, the Guardians of the Universe created an android race of interstellar police—the Manhunters. When corrupted programming made them punish all life, the Manhunters were exiled. Now they've returned, seeking vengeance. As gifted but cocky test pilot Hal Jordan and armed with a power ring charged by will, you are the newest recruit in the Corps, assigned to preserve peace and ensure justice.• MASTER THE RING: Choose from a range of defensive and offensive "hard-light" constructs such as missiles, the war hammer and the claw.• TAKE FLIGHT: Soar across the universe and destroy legions of enemies.• UPGRADES: Improve your stats as you progress through the game and unlock upgrades such as a health boost, an energy boost, and even more powerful attacks and throws.
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