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|An ingredients-based methodology was pursued in order to evaluate the likelihood of thunderstorms occurring in the presence of snowfall (i.e. thundersnow; TSSN). In order to properly distinguish from typical snowstorms (i.e. non-TSSN), the detailed examination focused on stability characteristics of wintertime convection across the central United States immediately leading up to the onset of the event. More specifically, the research primarily analyzed the value of the seldom applied growth rate parameter ([sigma]²). Identification of a separate collection of non- TSSN events helped to highlight the differences, and ultimately, the significance in the findings for the TSSN subset. The current work substantiated the premise that atmospheres were more unstable in episodes of convective snow with the analyses also revealing pronounced forcing mechanisms. The development of TSSN and any associated banding was correctly and most accurately predicted from trends in plots of [sigma]² analyzed at the level at which the highest significant growth rates occurred. An outlook can be more accurately issued by identifying regions where reduced values of equivalent potential vorticity (i.e. small symmetric stability or instability) are collocated with estimates of high [sigma]² (i.e. where small-scale slantwise perturbations will grow). Given the overall success, it is hoped that some of the conclusions established by this work will be implemented routinely in an operational environment and provide forecasters an additional, essential tool in dealing with snowcasting situations of hazardous winter weather events.
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text: The Department of Mathematics at Misericordia University recently hosted the Third Annual Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties Mathematics Symposium in Huntzinger and Alden Trusts Rooms of Sandy and Marlene Insalaco Hall.The Misericordia University symposium featured scholars from regional and local colleges and universities. The presenters, Dr. Pei Zhang, Wilkes University; Dr. Jason Graham, University of Scranton; Dr. Christian Laing, Wilkes University; Dr. John Best, Baptist Bible College; Dr. Michael W. Ecker, Penn State University/Wilkes-Barre, and Dr. Ken Monks, University of Scranton, each made 20 minutes presentations on topics in both research and teaching. Dr. Elizabeth McMahon, Lafayette College, served as the keynote speaker and gave a 50 minute presentation on mathematics in the game of SET.


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If some imaginative person had made a birthday cake for it, she – it would have had to be a she – might have put 100 million candles on it. For that represents the number of women around the world who start each day by swallowing it.
No, it is not a vitamin pill. It is a birth control pill – known generically as the Pill – and many celebrated its 50th birthday on May 9th with justifiable gratitude and fanfare.
May 9, 1960, is one of those days that will shine bright in American history: it is the day that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of the tiny pill that gave women control over their fertility. The FDA's "blessing" attested to the safety of hormonal contraception, or "birth control," in the words of Margaret Sanger. The Pill changed the world.
When it was approved, 500,000 women in the U.S. were already taking it, according to the recent Time cover story. This number would continue to swell rapidly, leading The Economist magazine at the end of 1999 to predict the far-reaching and wide-ranging impact that the scientific discovery had on women's – and men's – lives. In her book When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present, author Gail Collins called the Pill "the one invention that historians a thousand years in the future will look back on and say, 'That defined the twentieth century.'"A recently released National Survey of Family Growth study found that the Pill is "the most popular method [of contraception] in the United States, used by 10.7 million women between the ages of 15 and 44. The Economist's crystal ball seems to be working well.
The early years in the life of the Pill were relatively easy ones. Millions of women "embraced" it, whatever the public arguments were for or against its use. It was an effective and convenient way to avoid pregnancy.
Most saw its promise in offering a different life beyond child rearing. More women were able to imagine a life that included both children and job. The results soon became plain: more companies, no longer afraid that women would leave as soon as they conceived a baby, eagerly opened their doors. Congress passed Title IX in 1972, ending not only discrimination in college athletics for female undergraduates, but also throwing open the doors of law, medical, and business schools to women.
But in the 1990s, the recent cover story in Time reported, when the Pill was about 20 years old, a backlash developed. The impetus for the counter-revolution started, or was ramped up, by organized religions and conservative political advocacy groups. The Catholic hierarchy consistently opposed the Pill from its inception, even though in 1970, "two-thirds of Catholic women were using birth control and more than a quarter were on the Pill." Many Evangelical Christian denominations followed suit, framing their disapproval in the context of what "God intends in marriage." Church leaders proclaimed that "using contraception can weaken the marital bond by separating sex from procreation."
These pronouncements – and funded public policies like abstinence-only-until-marriage education school programs, which denigrate the use of contraception – may have had a serious effect on the Pill's current use. A National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy study recently found that 86 percent of young men and 88 percent of young women "say it is important to avoid pregnancy in their lives right now." But the same study showed that "63 percent of this group says they know little or nothing about birth control pills, and much of what they think they know is wrong."
On the eve of its 50th birthday, Katherine Spillar, Ms. magazine's executive editor, summed up the precarious situation in which the Pill currently finds itself: "We're still fighting those battles in Congress [like allowing hospital workers and pharmacists who have moral qualms about contraception to refuse to fill prescriptions]. To think that in 2010, 50 years after the birth control Pill, we still have to fight for access and effective family planning – it's painful."
If women gaining access to the Pill is painful in the U.S., it is infinitely more painful for women in the developing world. Investigative journalist Michelle Goldberg writes of this dilemma in her book, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. In her concluding chapter, "Sex and Chaos," she paints a frightening picture of what will happen if we do not provide women in the developing world with the family-planning help many so desperately desire.
She reports that 6.7 billion people share this planet and its dwindling resources of food, water, and energy. She writes of an increasing number of food riots, because of hunger and continued lack of clean water. "Despite falling fertility rates in many parts of the world, global population is still increasing by 78 million people a year," and it will add a number close to this one through 2020 if no interventions are planned. In 2050, adding only two children to every family, the population will reach 9.2 billion. If fertility remains half a child higher, there will be 10.8 billion people vying for the fundamental resources of life.
In developing countries overall, 15 percent of married women, and "seven percent of unmarried women have ... an unmet need for contraception," Goldberg writes. "This means they are sexually active, do not want to become pregnant, and yet are not using birth control." In sub-Saharan Africa, the number of unmarried women with an unmet need for contraception is 24 percent and in many Latin American countries, "more than 40 percent of births were unwanted."
The director of the population program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation tells Goldberg that "in some ways, contraceptive access is worse now [particularly in urban areas of Africa] than it was in 1979." Goldberg concludes by saying nothing less than "a massive investment in women's education, birth control access, and income generation would lessen the danger that the world's population would outstrip the planet's resources."
To honor its first 50 years of existence and plan for its future, perhaps we need to consider mounting a second revolution for the Pill: a revolution of access. First, we must get the message out in the U.S. – especially in school programs and health clinics in poor urban and rural areas – that the Pill is effective, safe, and does not cause cancer, strokes, or blood clots, as many of its opponents claim.
Then we need to stand shoulder to shoulder with our sisters around the world in their quest to gain access to the Pill. Perhaps our goal should be that in another 50 years, when the Pill marks its 100th birthday, every woman on the planet who wants it should be able to start her day by swallowing the tiny tablet.
Indeed to reach this goal would be historic, and a success that The Economist in 2099 might say "defined the twenty-first century."


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The taxonomy of what has until recently been considered as a single species, Hirudo medicinalis, has been revised dramatically during the first decade of the 21st century (Trontelj and Utevsky 2012 and references therein). In fact, it appears there are three species of European medicinal leeches and that most commercial and aquaculture specimens actually belong to the Eastern phylogroup of H. verbana, presumably due to the fact that commercial facilities obtain leeches from Russia and Turkey, the major leech exporters (Siddall et al. 2007; Kutschera 2012; Trontelj and Utevsky 2012). True Hirudo medicinalis is the northernmost species among medicinal leeches. It occupies the deciduous arboreal zone from Britain and southern Norway to the southern Urals and probably as far as the Altai Mountains (Trontelj and Utevsky 2012).
Siddall et al. (2007) note that some researchers see therapeutic potential for many protease inhibitors purified from leech saliva, and that, notwithstanding the historical association with quackery, Hirudo medicinalis has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a prescription medical device (although most leeches being used therapeutically are apparently H. verbana). Whitaker et al. (2012) reviewed available evidence on the efficacy of medicinal leeches in plastic and reconstructive surgery (mainly to prevent venous congestion) and presented what they considered to be current best evidence to guide clinicians. Yantis et al. (2009) provided guidelines for nurses for the safe and effective use of leeches.The use of leeches is not without risks, such as serious wound infection, but many medical practitioners and researchers believe the benefits often outweigh the risks and that risks can be minimized (e.g., with the use of prophylactic antibiotics).
- Kutschera, U. 2012. The Hirudo medicinalis species complex. Naturwissenschaften 99(5): 433-434.
- Siddall, M.E., P. Trontelj, S.Y. Utevsky, M. Nkamany, and K.S. Macdonald III. Diverse molecular data demonstrate that commercially available medicinal leeches are not Hirudo medicinalis. 2007. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 1481-1487.
- Trontelj, P. and S.Y. Utevsky. 2012. Phylogeny and phylogeography of medicinal leeches (genus Hirudo): Fast dispersal and shallow genetic structure. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 475-485.
- Whitaker, I.S., O. Oboumarzouk, W.M. Rozen, N. Naderi, S.P. Balasubramanian, E.A. Azzopardi, and M. Kon, M. 2012. The efficacy of medicinal leeches in plastic and reconstructive surgery: A systematic review of 277 reported clinical cases. Microsurgery 32(3): 240-250.
- Yantis, M.A., K.N. O'Toole, and P. Ring. 2009. Leech Therapy. American Journal of Nursing 109(4): 36-42.
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DETROIT — Americans want new cars and trucks, and they're not going to let higher gas prices or political dysfunction in Washington stand in their way.
General Motors, Toyota, Ford and most other automakers posted at least modest sales gains for February. Industry analysts estimate last month's sales rose about 7 percent from a year earlier as pent-up demand and cheap financing kept the U.S. auto sales recovery powering along.
GM sales rose 7 percent, while Ford's increased 9 percent. Chrysler and Volkswagen also reported increases, but both slowed from the torrid pace of the past two years. Chrysler sales were up 4 percent over a year earlier, while VW sales were up 3 percent. Toyota sales were up just over 4 percent, while Hyundai posted a 2 percent gain.
Of the major automakers, Nissan and Honda were down. Nissan sales were off almost 7 percent from a record February of 2012, while Honda blamed its 2 percent drop on the winter snowstorm in the Northeast.
Auto industry analysts say that higher Social Security taxes, rising gas prices and looming government spending cuts failed to keep buyers away from showrooms.
"I think these little speed bumps aren't big enough to slow down the momentum right now," said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting for LMC Automotive, an industry consulting firm.
That momentum comes from a number of factors, including the need to replace aging cars and trucks, historically low interest rates and steady improvement in hiring and hourly pay.
But while sales for 2013 are expected to top last year's figures, monthly increases are likely to be smaller than the double-digit gains the industry has regularly posted as sales recovered from historic lows following the recession.
Still, GM's sales were the best since February 2008, led by the Chevrolet Silverado pickup with an increase of 29 percent. Kurt McNeil, the company's U.S. sales chief, said the recovery in new home construction is helping to boost the economy and pickup sales. When home construction thrives, businesses tend to invest more to replace vehicles. The average age of a U.S. pickup truck is just over 11 years.
Ford also reported strong sales of its F-Series pickups, up 15 percent. The company also posted record February totals for the Escape SUV and Fusion sedan. Fusion sales were up 28 percent and Escape sales rose 29 percent. Together, the Escape and Fusion made up more than a quarter of Ford's monthly sales.
Ford also said it plans to increase North American production by 9 percent in the second quarter compared with the second quarter of 2012.


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Mexico: After the Election
September 27, 2006 // 6:30pm — 8:00pm
Mexico Institute
The Mexico Institute and the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth will host speakers Ambassador Jim Jones, Ambassador Andrés Rozental, John Authors, Roberto Newell and Roger Wallace in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
Brazilian Perspectives of the United States
September 18, 2006 // 10:00am — 1:00pm
Brazil Institute
This event marks the official launching of the American Studies Project, an initiative by the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, with the support of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, aimed at strengthening and deepening the field of American Studies in Brazil.
Brazil's 2006 Presidential Elections
September 15, 2006 // 12:30pm — 5:00pm
Brazil Institute
Video of this event is now available. On October 1, Brazilians head to the polls for their presidential election. Public surveys predict President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva winning reelection by a large margin. This two-part seminar will evaluate Lula's term in office and analyze contemporary developments to explain what this means for Brazil, its relations with the United States, and how this fits into the rise of the "New Left" in Latin America.
Whither Mexican Democracy? An Analysis of the 2006 Elections and the Way Forward
September 15, 2006 // 9:30am — 11:00am
Mexico Institute
The Mexico Institute, the Congressional Study Group on Mexico, and the Heinrich Boell Foundation will hold a roundtable discussion with Peter Ward, Professor at the University of Texas and C.B. Smith Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations and Denise Dresser, Professor at ITAM and Columnist for Reforma Newspaper and Proceso Magazine to discuss the future of Mexican democracy.
Mexico's Oportunidades: The Challenges of Self-Selection for Targeted Poverty Programs
August 18, 2006 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Mexico Institute
With César Martinelli, Professor of Economics, ITAM, Mexico City and Woodrow Wilson Center/Comexi Public Policy Scholar and Susan W. Parker, Professor of Economics, CIDE, Mexico City
Environmental Vulnerability in Haiti
August 02, 2006 // 9:00am — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
A Stakeholder Workshop to Discuss Findings and Recommendations with USAID's Technical Assessment Team
Higher Education in Brazil: Responding to the Global Challenges of the 21st Century
July 24, 2006 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Brazil Institute
With Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar and Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidade de São Paulo. Commentary by William K. Cummings, Professor of International Education, George Washington University
Unsilencing the Victims
July 10, 2006 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Latin American Program
Santiago Jaramillo, a lawyer with the Victims of the Armed Conflict Project in Medellín, Colombia, discusses the city government's efforts to respond to the needs and support the rights of the victims of the armed conflict.
Roundtable on Mexico's 2006 Election Results
July 07, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Mexico Institute
Speakers included Roderic Ai Camp, Claremont McKenna College; Alberto Aziz Nassif, CIESAS-Mexico City; Yemile Mizrahi, Casals and Associates and Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz & Woodrow Wilson Center.Andrew Selee, Director of the Mexico Institute, moderated.
The 2006 Mexican Elections: Perspectives from Washington and Los Angeles
June 16, 2006 // 9:30am — 12:00am
Mexico Institute
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the Mexico Institute, and the Mexican Society of Electoral Studies will be holding a seminar in Tijuana, Mexico with Andrew Selee, Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center and David Ayon, Senior Research Associate and Project Director of Focus Mexico at Loyola Marymount University


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Isla Fisher Reveals How She Lost 70 Pounds After Giving Birth to Elula in 2010
When Isla Fisher welcomed daughter Olive in October 2007, the pressure was on to get her post-baby body back in shape. After the August 2010 arrival of daughter Elula, however, the 37-year-old redhead took her time shedding the extra pounds.
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Fisher adds, "I had to shoot Confessions of a Shopaholic about three months after I gave birth to Olive, so the producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, hired a trainer to work with me three times a week. That was both inspirational and terrifying because I didn't want to let the trainer down. After I had my second daughter, I slowly lost the weight by breast-feeding, hiking [L.A.'s] Runyon Canyon and working with a trainer every couple of weeks."
Sacha Baron Cohen's wife now practices yoga five days a week. "When you're really focused on your breathing, you're able to clear your head, and all the worries of everyday life go out the window. I love that feeling of being connected with my own body," Fisher tells the magazine. "If I'm stuck in traffic or have a bad moment in my day, I go back to my yoga practice and I breathe."
The Australian actress says she loves how yoga has transformed her butt ("Every woman likes her tush in jeans when she's worked on it a little more!") but she's most proud of her stomach. "Even though it will never be flat again, it's still my favorite because it reminds me of my greatest achievement: my babies."
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ON AUGUST 6, 1945, the most dreadful of the weapons of mass destruction the atom bomb was dropped in the civilian area of Hiroshima. Three days later, another atom bomb was dropped in Nagasaki. In 1955, Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein issued their famous manifesto seeking the abolition of nuclear weapons and appealing to all inhabitants of Planet Earth: "Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way is open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death."
In 1957, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto led to the birth of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an organisation devoted to ending the nuclear peril and reminding scientists of their ethical responsibility for the consequences of their discoveries, particularly in the area of nuclear threat to human survival.
The Pugwash Conference held in 1995 in Hiroshima on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the advent of atomic weapons concluded, "the end of the cold war, and the beginning of deep reduction in the huge nuclear arsenals that the war spawned, have provided an unprecedented opportunity for the abolition of nuclear weapons as well as the abolition of war." Meeting again in Hiroshima in July 2005, the Pugwash Council observed, "The decade since 1995, when Pugwash last met in Hiroshima, has been one of missed opportunities and a marked deterioration in global security, not least regarding the nuclear threat. In that time, additional States have acquired nuclear weapons, there has been little tangible progress in nuclear disarmament, new nuclear weapons are being proposed, and military doctrines are being revised that place a greater reliance on the potential use of such weapons." The prospects for nuclear terrorism and adventurism have now become real. The voice of sanity of the survivors of the 1945 nuclear annihilation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is yet to be heard. This is unfortunate since only they know what hell on earth means.
Members of the Pugwash Council, meeting just steps away from Hiroshima's ground zero, have hence appealed to fellow scientists and citizens to confront the threat of nuclear weapon use that could materialise at any time, without warning, in any part of the world. To political and government leaders, our message is simple, but stark: as long as nuclear weapons exist, they will one day be used.
The Seventh Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), held in the spring of 2005 in New York, ended in a deadlock. The five original nuclear weapon states (the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China) showed themselves unwilling to take decisive action to implement their obligations under Article VI of the NPT to move decisively toward the irreversible elimination of their nuclear arsenals. All states must share the blame for missing a solid opportunity at the Review Conference to resolve problems such as equitable access to civilian nuclear technologies, as allowed under Article IV, while at the same time tightening protections to ensure that such materials are not diverted for military use.
The broad framework of nuclear weapons disarmament is in danger of collapsing. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has not entered into force, the U.S. and Russia need to accelerate and enlarge the reductions called for by the Moscow Treaty, and negotiations have yet to begin on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) to eliminate production of weapons-grade Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) and plutonium. Far more needs to be done to control and dispose of existing stockpiles of HEU that run the risk of falling into the hands of terrorist groups. Large numbers of tactical nuclear weapons continue to be deployed in Europe and elsewhere, having no military rationale whatsoever, while pressures mount from certain quarters for developing and deploying space weapons.
Next month, a U.N. Summit will be held in New York to review the progress made in achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals in the areas of food, water, health, education, and clean environment for all. The explosive progress in science and technology witnessed in recent decades has provided uncommon opportunities for realising these goals. Yet, most developing countries, including India, are falling behind the targets set. The extensive co-existence of unacceptable poverty and unsustainable lifestyles is not conducive to the creation of a climate for peace and harmony. What we urgently need is a shift in emphasis among militarily and economically powerful countries from military to moral leadership. At the same time, Einstein's advice to fellow scientists, "concern for Man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavours in order that the creation of our minds shall be a blessing and not a curse," should be the guiding motto in scientific laboratories everywhere in the world.
It will be useful to recall the role Jawaharlal Nehru played in mobilising scientific opinion against nuclear weapons. Early in 1954, he called "for the setting up of a Committee of scientists to explain to the world the effect a nuclear war would have on humanity." This idea was taken up by Joseph Rotblat, who along with Pugwash was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, and Eugene Rabinowitch, resulting in the organisation of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. The name of the organisation comes from Pugwash Village in Nova Scotia, Canada, where the first conference was held in 1957. Nehru was also the first foreign Prime Minister to visit Hiroshima. In 1957, he praised the atom bomb survivors for their determination to spread around the globe information on the enormous harm radiation can cause to both the present population and to the generations yet to be born. Even now, harmful mutations are being observed in children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thus, the genetic harm is as serious as the immediate harm. Nehru played a major part in getting the first U.N. Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy organised in Geneva in 1955. This conference was chaired by the late Homi Bhabha, the then Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission who outlined in his Presidential Address a strategy for harnessing the multiple contributions that nuclear tools can make to strengthen food, health, and energy security in the world.
Six steps
In my Presidential Address delivered at the Pugwash Conference held in Hiroshima on July 27, 2005, I outlined the following six steps to achieve the goal of a nuclear peril free world:
1) All nations with nuclear weapons should adopt during 2005 a legally mandatory policy of "no first use of nuclear weapons," as homage to the survivors of the nuclear tragedy of 1945.
2) Respect commitments to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, conclude a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty, and ban all research relating to the development of new nuclear weapons.
3) Conclude a Nuclear Weapons Convention outlining a road map for getting to zero by 2020.
4) Avoid prospects for nuclear terrorism and adventurism by eliminating all unsecured nuclear fissile material and by implementing the concrete steps proposed by Pugwash for the elimination of HEU; otherwise there is risk of nuclear power groups and individuals emerging, in addition to nuclear power states.
5) Because of the multi-dimensional threats posed to human security by climate change, and the consequent need for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, interest and investment in nuclear power plants are growing. The civilian uses of atomic energy are likely to grow. Hence, the U.N. may convene an International Conference on the Civilian Uses of Atomic Energy to develop a Code of Conduct to ensure that the non-military use of nuclear fuels does not get abused and to further strengthen safeguards and the inspection role and monitoring capacity of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
6) Democratic systems of governance are fast spreading in the world, which involve the holding of free and fair elections periodically. It would be useful to develop a Hiroshima-Nagasaki 60th Anniversary Appeal that calls upon all political parties in every country to include in their next election manifesto, a firm commitment to work for speedy nuclear disarmament with a view to rid the world of the nuclear peril as soon as technically feasible. Without global political commitment, this goal cannot be achieved. At the same time, it would be useful to introduce in school curricula information on the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, to bring home the immediate and long term disastrous impact of a nuclear war. Without public and political education, the climate for peace and nuclear disarmament will not exist.
Looking at the brighter side, nuclear weapons have not been used in 60 years. This is a tribute to the work of Pugwash and numerous civil society organisations. Unfortunately, the growing number of suicide bombing incidents indicate that we are now entering uncharted territory in human conflicts and retribution. At least to prevent the potential non-state use of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon states should not lose even a day in working towards the goal of totally eliminating such weapons.
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In the days leading up to a big conference, like Catapult 2014, in addition to thinking about your wardrobe, you should be thinking about your networking strategy. Whether you are a long-time legal professional, or a law student hoping to connect with potential employers, getting to know as many people as possible is always a good idea.
You never know who you are going to meet who is going to be able to help you in your career down the line, so it's important to go in with an open mind and a willingness to meet and engage your colleagues throughout the day. A successful conference is one where you leave with a handful of business cards and some real connections – that is, people you can contact after the conference and invite to coffee or lunch.
And that brings us to our fashion topic of the day – what to wear to those post-conference networking opportunities that will inevitably result from having attended the conference. Of course, your attire choice will inevitably depend on the type of meeting or networking opportunity that comes up, but we'll try to cover the basic scenarios.
In the event of a formal meeting, whether with a potential employer or a mentor in the community who you have solicited to assist you in some way in your career, err on the side of caution and wear a suit or business casual attire (this can sometimes depend on the setting – if they've asked you to meet in their office, a suit is appropriate; if you are meeting outside of the office for a coffee or a quick bite, business casual is likely appropriate). Often in these settings, a casual get together can turn into an impropmtu tour of the person's office, or an introduction to several of his or her colleagues. You'll want to look your best and feel your best, so as to impress anyone you may meet.
Oftentimes, connecting with someone post-conference is a mutually beneficial endeavor, where the objective is to explore ways you might be able to work together. If you have scheduled post-conference meetings of this sort, dress nicely and professionally (in the legal profession, optimizing the impression you make through your attire and demeanor is always a good idea) but opt for something comfortable that shows who you are. A great winter dress or slacks and a blazer for men is a reliable go-to when you are trying to make a good impression while also being yourself.
The best part about an in-depth, day long conference like Catapult is that you're bound to make friends, many who may be friends for life. These are going to be some of the most important connections you can make, not only because of the potential to help one another down the line, but because, in a profession like ours, the more people you have supporting you, the better. For a meeting that centers on developing a friendship, take it out of the business context entirely, including with your wardrobe. Jeans and a t-shirt, or whatever you might wear when you're hanging out with friends, is perfectly appropriate.
The most important take away here is to be proactive about meeting all sorts of people when you attend a legal conference, from potential employers and colleagues, to life-long friends. And with each connection, be sure to pursue follow up meetings to keep the connections flourishing, and consider the narrative you want to tell through your attire – your first opportunity to make a great impression.
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1. The meat and vegetables must be washed thoroughly.
2. Blanch the pork meat in boiling water for 30 seconds to 1 minute (This is done to take-out the unpleasant smell of the meat). Do not dip for too long. Drain the meat and set aside. Discard the water.
3. Add 2 liters of water into a stock pot and add the pork meat. Add the pork stock cube. Bring to a boil.
4. When boiling, add the ginger and onion. Simmer for 20 minutes or until meat is tender.
5. Add the sweet corn and simmer for another 5 minutes.
6. Add the potatoes, salt and pepper. Cook for 5-10 minutes or until potatoes are sof.
7. Add the cabbage and simmer for 30 seconds. Do not over-cooked the cabbage.
8. Lastly, add the green onions before serving.
9. Ladle the vegetables, pork corn and broth into large bowls.
10. Serve with crusty bread or with rice.


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Ceasar's Tacos
3166 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60657Map
+1 773 248 2835
Neighborhood: Lakeview/ Wrigleyville
Cuisine: Mexican
Lively. Hectic. Bustling. Delicious. These four words best describe Lakeview's best spot for Mexican food. You might find yourself making a meal of the homemade chips and salsa served before your entree. Watch out; restaurant charges for additional bowls of chips. Skip the next bowl and save room for Chile Relleno, Enchiladas En Mole Pablano, Tequila Flamed Steak and the usual tacos and burritos. Sometimes the waiter comes around after dinner with complimentary shots of tequila served in test tubes.
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By Toni Taylor | Posted 01/06/11
I remember Ceasar's when he first opened the restaurant. I would come there for lunch when I worked at Illinois Masonic Hospital and even for dinner. To know Ceasar is to love him. You've come a long way my friend. The food is awesome and the complimentary shots of tequila. The best margaritas in town!... Read More
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