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An employee of Sophia Natural Health Center in Brookfield will present a free lecture at C.H. Booth Library on Wednesday, July 30, at 7 pm. Kenneth Hoffman, medical director for Sophia, will present "Introduction to Chinese Medicine and Women's Health" in conjunction with his book, Essential Remedies for Women's Health — What Every Woman Needs To Know to Heal, Prevent Chronic Disease, and Design a Plan for a Healthier Lifestyle. Mr Hoffman will speak about holistic approaches and natural alternatives to women's health related to hormone imbalances, menopause, osteoporosis, heart and breast health, weight loss, and stress.
STORRS — Summer comes with the New England outdoor enthusiast's nemesis — the tick. These disease-carrying arachnids enjoy moist areas with long grass and will latch onto humans and animals alike. If you find a tick on yourself, your child, or your pet, remove it immediately. The Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (CVMDL) can test the tick for pathogens.
The Sandy Hook Promise Foundation Community Fund will host the 2014 second annual Newtown Yoga Festival on Saturday, August 23. The event will run from 9 am to 4 pm, and will again be presented at NYA Sports & Fitness Center. The festival has been designed to promote a positive well-being, health and community in an effort to help the people of Newtown move forward. Last year's yoga festival, which featured world-renowned yoga teachers Seane Corn and Beryl Bender Birch, was enormously successful, and drew hundreds of residents from the Newtown community. There will be adult yoga classes led by renowned yoga instructors, local health and wellness vendors, fresh culinary delights, live music and kids' activities featuring children's yoga with Newtown resident Karen Pierce.
A full week before "Arthur" was named the first tropical storm of the 2014 hurricane season, Connecticut sharpened its readiness skills by involving virtually every community, dozens of state agencies, utilities, hospitals, and hundreds of emergency responders in a "Category 1" preparedness drill June 21 and 23. On the morning of June 23, Newtown's Emergency Management Director William Halstead gathered in Newtown's Emergency Operations Center with colleagues from most of the town's major departments — Public Works, Police, Parks and Recreation, IT, Emergency Communications, and the Health District. A few days later, Health District Director Donna Culbert joined Mr Halstead, who is also the Sandy Hook Fire & Rescue chief, issuing a refreshed report they hope all residents and local business owners will review and use if necessary.
During her long journalism career, which included producing The Newtown Bee's quarterly Health Monitor, former associate editor Kaaren Valenta learned a lot about many conditions and maladies affecting individuals here in town and across the globe. But she never envisioned herself in retirement, becoming the primary caretaker for an elderly aunt who was afflicted with one of the most rare forms of aphasia. June is National Aphasia Awareness Month, and according to the National Aphasia Association (NAA), the condition creates impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. Aphasia can be so severe as to make communication with the patient almost impossible, or it can be very mild. It may affect mainly a single aspect of language use, such as the ability to retrieve the names of objects, or the ability to put words together into sentences, or the ability to read, the NAA website states.
Four older and outdated automatic external defibrillators in town have been replaced with new Philips HeartStart OnSite AEDs. An AED is an important lifesaving tool when used on a patient in cardiac arrest. The AED is able to read the heart rhythm of the patient and if needed, deliver a shock in an attempt for the heart to restart in a rhythm that will circulate blood around the body. These state-of-the-art and easier to use AEDs replace older versions that were at the end of their life cycle, according to the provider, David Larson, president of Defib Guy.
The Scholarship Committee of Newtown Visiting Nurse Association recently presented three scholarship checks to students who have met requirements for their respective honors. On June 5, members of the committee presented the final $4,000 Anna E. Clow Scholarship check to Abigail Blakeman. On June 10 Newtown VNA presented two more scholarship checks to students it had promised awards. Erin Begg received a $4,000 VNA Scholarship check, and Meredith Bridges received a $2,500 Janice Van Syckle Scholarship award.
Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) Affiliate Emergency Medical Services including Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps recently received the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline EMS Silver Award, currently the highest level recognition offered by the American Hospital Association. The honor recognizes WCHN's commitment and success in implementing specific quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who suffer a severe heart attack known as a STEMI (ST elevation myocardial infarction).
Newtown's Chief Building Official John Poeltl has joined state Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein in reminding local homeowners of the latest regulations that protect users, especially children, from swimming pool tragedies. Sadly, Connecticut has already seen a child's life lost in a swimming pool drowning incident this year. Mr Poeltl told The Newtown Bee this week that during inspections, he is still encountering homeowners who are not adhering to statutory guidelines regarding pools — large and small. "Any container capable of holding water in excess of 24 inches must be protected by a barrier, no matter how small, especially to protect young children who might wander or be tempted to lean or get into the water," the building official said. "There are numerous specific guidelines related to the proper construction and installation of pool barriers - we invite residents to call or visit our office for that information."
The keynote speaker at the 25th annual Newtown Chapter Hospice Breakfast Fundraiser, Wednesday, June 11, will be Chris Mastropietro, RN, certified hospice and palliative nurse. Ms Mastropietro is the case manager for the Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut for perinatal and pediatric hospice patients. The Newtown Chapter Hospice Breakfast Fundraiser takes place Wednesday, June 11, at the Waterview in Monroe, Route 111, from 8 to 9 am. Tables for eight can be sponsored for a cost of $125; or $500 sponsors a table for 12. Walk-ins are welcome, at $12 per person. Proceeds from the breakfast and raffle support Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut.


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Filner hangs on, opts for therapy
Embattled mayor plans to enter residential counseling, but will be briefed on city business
San Diego San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who has been dogged by calls for his resignation over sexual harassment allegations, called his treatment of women "inexcusable" Friday and said he would undergo two weeks of intensive behavioral therapy but not relinquish power.
"I must become a better person," Filner said in a statement read before a throng of reporters. "And my hope is that by becoming a better person, I put myself in a position to someday be forgiven. However, before I can even think of asking for forgiveness, I need to demonstrate that my behavior has changed. And that will only happen over time and only if such incidents never, ever happen again."
Filner, the city's first Democratic mayor in 20 years, has been under siege for two weeks but the scandal intensified in recent days as seven women stepped forward with accusations that he made unwanted sexual advances, including kisses, groping and derogatory comments.
The bad news kept coming for Filner throughout Friday as a formal effort to recall him began, the head of the Democratic National Committee called for him to step down, he was served with a subpoena in a sexual harassment lawsuit and a former male intern corroborated stories of Filner's inappropriate behavior toward women.
It has been a stunning implosion for the longtime politician who presented himself to voters as a progressive champion of the disenfranchised but now stands accused of using his authority to repeatedly demean and abuse women.
Filner's willingness to seek treatment and issue a second public apology did little to placate the growing number of accusers and critics because he won't meet their top demand: Resign.
"I view his decision to seek therapy as a ploy to stay in power and to try to gain sympathy," said attorney Gloria Allred. "If he feels he needs therapy, he should resign first and then seek it. It is ridiculous to think that he needs therapy in order to understand that women deserve respect and should not be treated like pieces of meat."
Allred filed a lawsuit Monday against Filner and the city on behalf of her client Irene McCormack Jackson, the mayor's former communications director and the first woman to go public with the allegations.
Filner's statement took less than three minutes Friday but was awkwardly interrupted for several minutes by a microphone malfunction. He started over once the problem was fixed and left without taking questions.
"Let me be absolutely clear: The behavior I have engaged in over many years is wrong," he said. "My failure to respect women and the intimidating conduct I engaged in at times is inexcusable. It has undermined what I have spent my professional life working on: fighting for equality and justice for all people."
Filner added, "I apologize to my staff. I apologize to the citizens and staff members who have supported me over the years. I apologize to the people of San Diego. And, most of all, I apologize to the women I have offended."

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Getting real numbers is critical to wildlife conservation efforts
July 19, 2013 at 7:31 am in Lake County News-Chronicle
Last fall at the beginning of the wolf hunting season, the DNR claimed a wolf population of 3,000. Since 413 were killed during hunting season this would leave a population of 2587. The DNR claims a present population of only 2211. What happened to the other 376 wolves? Wolves had a very good winter. Also, what happened to the pups born this spring which would bring the total present wolf population well over 3500. This is using a very conservative estimate on the number of pups born this spring. Continue Reading


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Pound-for-pound, it's the strongest organism ever. This mighty beast is the gonorrhea bacterium - the strongest creature alive.
These tiny creatures can pull with a force equal to 100,000 times their body weight - as though a human could drag 10 million kilos.
Many bacteria produce filaments called pili. These are a hundred times as long as they are wide and up to ten times longer than the bacterium itself. They can also contract. Scientists knew that Neisseria gonorhoeae bacteria use "type four" pili to crawl along a surface and to attach to cells and infect them.
What they didn't know was that these bacteria can bundle pili together to exert long, strong pulls. Michael Sheetz and colleagues at Columbia University in New York put the bacteria in a field of tiny gel "pillars" and measured the amount the bacteria could bend them as a way of measuring the force of their pull.
Short and long
They mostly saw a lot of short grabs. But one pull in a hundred started out at the same strength as these short pulls, then increased in increments about equal to the force of the original pull, as if the bacteria were calling in more individual pili to help out the first.
This eventually resulted in a pull that was up to ten times stronger than the initial short grab, and it could last for several hours.
See video of the bacteria pulling the pillars here and here.
Electron microscopic images confirmed the bundles. They also revealed that the reason scientists have not seen this before is because a protein usually added to bacterial culture medium happens to block it.
Great motor
The actual force the bacteria exerted was around a nanoNewton, or one billionth of a Newton, the force you would need to accelerate a kilogram by a metre per second squared.
Not a lot - but it means the bacteria can pull with a force equivalent to 100,000 times its bodyweight, and hold it. This, say the authors, makes the retraction protein in the pili "the strongest biological motor known to date".
"This constitutes a new paradigm for the generation of forces in the biological realm," Sheetz and colleagues say, and could completely change our understanding of the way gonorrhea bacteria muscle up to cells and infect them.
Journal reference: PLoS Biology (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060087)
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This report focuses on Next Generation Power Semiconductors Including GaN Transistors, Diodes & Rectifiers, MMICs and Applications in RF, UPS, Inverters, Converters & Motor Drives.
This research study on the GaN semiconductors market gives a detailed overview of the global GaN semiconductors market in the present scenario, and discusses the history, evolution, market by technology (substrate & epitaxy materials and transistor technologies), market by products and devices, market by application segments, and by geography. Each classification done for the global GaN semiconductors market has an extensive segmentation with market estimates and forecasts till 2022 for each sub-market in terms of both - revenue and volume. The major GaN semiconductor products – namely the power semiconductors and opto-semiconductors are analyzed in great detail throughout the research study in every type of classification.
The GaN industry's supply chain has been discussed and analyzed thoroughly, with emphasis on dynamics of both - upstream & downstream sectors, their processes and trends, front-end & back-end processes. A complete market roadmap for the GaN semiconductors market from its birth, till the last forecast year – 2022, is illustrated to give an insight into the total growth and development of the market over the timeline.
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The scope of this report includes only the market for semiconductor devices manufactured using Gallium Nitride, as their epitaxy or substrate material. Thus, it only comprises the market for core discrete devices (diodes & transistors) and ICs. The market statistics of more complex and typically used electronic devices such as modules, packages, electronic equipments, and the other similar devices are not included in any way in the market statistics mentioned in this report. The complete market viewed and analyzed in this report is only for GaN semiconductor devices in all the aspects and chapters.
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My life story hmm. that would be a good question.. There has been tons of stuff going through my life so its a bit hard to say and honestly I have done a lot as far as creating a better impact in the world. I have developed some cool apps I play drums even participated in a few in the past but, it really comes down to what is my life story? I don't know.. Its hard to tell and understand.
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The Farm Service Agency, which administers the Conservation Reserve Program, will rank offers for CRP signup 45 using the environmental benefits index, or EBI.
Through the index, a number of factors — including wildlife habitat benefits, air quality benefits and the per-acre rate that the owner will accept — are evaluated and assigned point scores. Each tract of land offered in the signup will receive its own EBI score.
After signup 45 ends on June 14, FSA will analyze and rank offers. Only offers that score enough points to exceed the "EBI threshold" will be accepted. The threshold, or cutoff, varies from one general signup to the next, and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will make the call on signup 45's threshold.
The FSA offers these general suggestions on how landowners can make their CRP offers more competitive:
n Discover which vegetative cover mix would give you the most points.
n Offer only the most environmentally sensitive land. (Keep in mind that FSA has a "highly erodible program," in which eligible land can be enrolled in CRP at any time.)
n Consider accepting a lower per-acre rate than FSA is willing to offer.
More information: Visit your local FSA office.
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Man, 90, found refuge with 'One Thousand Children'
Carlsbad retiree lost family to Holocaust but was saved in forgotten U.S. refugee effort during WWII
CARLSBAD On March 10, 1938, Ralph Ransenberg boarded a passenger ship bound for the U.S. from his native Germany. The 14-year-old Jewish refugee jubilantly waved goodbye to his father, not knowing it would be the last time he'd see him or most of his family.
Now a 90-year-old retiree in La Costa, Ransenberg is a survivor of the little-known rescue effort known as the One Thousand Children. From 1934 to 1945, about 1,400 European Jewish children were brought to the U.S. to live with American Jewish foster families. Most of the children, who ranged in age from 18 months to 16 years, would lose one or both parents in the war, and some — like Ransenberg — lost whole families and had no home to return to.
"It was difficult, but I was grateful to be in America," said Ransenberg. "In Germany, Jews were treated as subhuman. There was no future there for a Jewish boy of 14."
While a much-larger rescue effort known as the Kindertransport has been widely chronicled, the American foster program is a forgotten footnote of history.
That's something historian Iris Posner has spent the past 14 years trying to change. With her colleague Leonore Moskowitz in 2000, she coined the phrase "One Thousand Children" and has worked tirelessly with archivists at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York to conduct research, prepare reports and a book, and organize reunions for these former refugees. YIVO's archive contains more than 24 million documents on the history of Jews in Eastern Europe, Germany and Russia, including immigration records for all of the Jewish children and adults who came to the United States during World War II.
The Kindertransport was a government-approved program that brought 10,000 Jewish children to Great Britain between 1938 to 1940. But there was no such welcome mat in the United States.
In a 1938 poll published in Fortune magazine, 67 percent of Americans said they didn't want to provide aid to Jewish refugees. The Roosevelt administration also had strict immigration quotas, so the effort to bring children here from Europe was done at the grass roots level without publicity or public funds. A coalition of Jewish community, religious, youth and relief groups in the U.S. and Europe coordinated the program and Jewish housewives in the U.S. held bake sales and collected pennies and nickels door to door.
"There was a fear of anti-Semitic backlash, so it was kept quiet," Posner said. "The children came in small groups and were dispersed around the country so there would be no obvious concentration for people to complain about."
Ransenberg crossed the Atlantic Ocean with just 11 other German children. He carried with him little more than a 25-cent tin of Nivea skin cream, $10 in Reichsmarks and papers that would deliver him to his father's cousins in Kansas City, Mo.
Because he spoke no English, Ransenberg was placed in fourth grade with children five years his junior. But he made friends quickly, excelled in baseball and earned a trade degree as a machinist. In 1942, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served as a decorated tank commander in Italy during World War II.


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After sleeping mode I have te reset SnapVue to enable the connection again.
Before SP1 no problems.
I have a complete computer backup on DVD before SP1 , but till now it was not possible to restore the backup.
You have to start Vista from the installation disc, but I haven't got one or you have to use F8 while booting.
The menu does not have the option: backup restore.
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Onion farmers of Ngage Village, Loiborsoit Ward in Simanjiro District, Manyara Region have complained that traders from Kenya who use 'nets' to measure onions instead of weighing scales were exploiting them.
Speaking to reporters over the weekend, they said traders from Kenya were claiming that the measure of five 'nets' is equivalent to one sack of 200 kilogrammes for which they buy at Tshs. 70,000/= to Shs. 80,000/=
The aggrieved farmers have asked for Government intervention.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, one of the farmers alleged that they were being exploited by those traders and no one is protecting them.
Another farmer claimed that the Kenyans, entered the country contrary to Immigration Regulations and went to rural areas to buy the produce directly from farmers.
When the District Commissioner for Simanjiro, Brigadier General Cosmas Kayombo was asked about the matter, he said that he was not aware of such problem, but he would follow it up and find an appropriate solution.
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Know Your Meme's top Fandoms of 2012 list is out and Ten objects! Doctor Who may not be number one, but at least it made the list. Adventure Time was robbed! Sherlock was snubbed! And how could you forget Avatar: Legend of Korra?! Did your Fandom make the list? Let us know in the comments below.
From the submitter: Phoenix Wright shoes I did a few years back. They are so old now that they are faded and dirt covered.


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ForeverMap 2 has just been consumed by wanderlust.
The popular OpenStreetMap-powered global map app from Skobbler has just received another major update. And the new update adds a new Travel Guide functionality to ForeverMap 2.
With this new functionality, you can take advantage of the app's free wiki travel guide integration that offers information about thousands of destinations around the world.
Just select the new Travel Guide option in the app's sidebar menu and search the app's database to get information about your preferred destinations. Alternatively, you can browse the most popular countries or regions to discover your next destination.
You're free to browse and read travel guides while you're connected to the Internet. But you can also choose to download travel guides that are most relevant to you. While traveling, you can't expect to always have a working Internet connection, so it's nice to be able to access your preferred travel guides offline.
Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 5.1 or later, the new version of ForeverMap 2 is available now in the App Store.
ForeverMap 2 is normally priced at $2.99, but it's currently available free of charge in celebration of its new significant update, which, by the way, also includes some map improvements and visual tweaks.


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Brinda Rao Korivi, M.D., M.P.H.
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Degree-Granting Education
|Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Houston, TX, MD, Medicine
|University of Houston Health Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, TX, MPH, Public Health
|Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, BS, Cell and Molecular Biology
Postgraduate Training
|Clinical Fellowship, Body Imaging and Musculoskeletal, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
|Diagnostic Radiology Residency, University of Missouri-Columbia Hospitals, Columbia, MO
|Internship, University of Missouri-Columbia Hospitals, Columbia, MO
Board Certifications
|American Board of Radiology
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|American Medical Association/Texas Medical Association School representative for Dallas and Austin regional conferences
|Association of the American Physicians for India (AAPI) School representative
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|Barrett MO, Anderson JT, Rao BR, Vaslow D, Hoernschemeyer DG. Multilevel pediatric cervicothoracic intervertebral disc calcifications. Am J Orthop 37(7):E126-8, 2008. PMID: 18795190.
|Birnbaum M, Wright K, Rao BR. Functional role for SP1 in the transcriptional amplification of a cell-cycle regulated histone H4 gene. Biochemistry 34(23):7648-7658, 1995. PMID: 7779811.
Invited Articles
|Korivi BR, Elsayes KM. Current Imaging Techniques in Adrenal Imaging. World J Radiol 5(3):88-97, http://www.wjgnet.com/1949-8470/full/v5/i3/88.htm, 3/2013. e-Pub 3/2013.
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|Rao BR. Testicular Germ Cell Tumors. In: Oncologic Imaging. Ed(s) Silverman P, 2012.
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Hunter leaves Twins for lots of cash
Torii Hunter officially became an ex-Twin on Thursday when he signed a five-year contract worth $90 million with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, according to The Star Tribune. Talk about a having a lot to be thankful for on a Thanksgiving that Hunter and his family will be giving thanks for for many Thanksgivings to come. The Twins' offer of three years and $45 million didn't even end up being in the vicinity of what Hunter got, and like the paper emphasized, I am shocked he got that much money. The Angels are now on the books to owe Hunter upwards of $18 million for his services in 2012 when he will be 38 and surely to have had his physical capabilites substantially diminished. $18 million for a gimpy center fielder with moderate power numbers is quite pricey, and the paper made more of a deal about how the Twins organization cannot be blamed for not coughing up that much dough than how much he will be missed. ESPN actually has more coverage on its website regarding what the Twins will do now with their other high profile star, Johan Santana. The coverage is on the front of the MLB section on the website, that can be seen here. I would not be surprised to see Santana go, and I agree with ESPN, when they say that the Twins should get what value they can for him now through a trade, than later when he will sign for a number that completely obliterates Hunter's gigantic contract.


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Cuba's highly-touted 'private' restaurants mostly owned by intelligence officers of the Castro regime
You have to admit it was a good storyline: Regular Cubans bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and opening up paladares (restaurants) to rave reviews. Unfortunately, like everything else in Cuba, nothing is what it seems. Turns out that the majority of these paladares, especially the most well known, are owned by intelligence officials of the Castro dictatorship.
Capitol Hill Cubans has the report:
The MININT's Paladares
It has been long-known -- though some prefer to ignore or mislead -- that Cuba's most famed "paladares" (supposedly "private" restaurants) are "connected" to the Castro regime's military or intelligence elite.
A cable from the State Department first noted this charade back in 2006:
(C) The [Government of Cuba] stopped giving licenses to new paladars (home-based restaurants) several years ago, raising questions as to what the remaining operations had done to stay open. An American specialist on the topic posited that all upscale paladars were in some way "connected." For example, a USINT officer outside the XXXXXX paladar XXXXXX spotted the supposedly "self-employed" owner drive up in a car with Ministry of the Interior (MININT) plates. A one-table paladar in the Santa Fe neighborhood (known as the "fish paladar") reportedly enjoys an elite clientele - Raul Castro. In these days of heightened state control, merely bribing inspectors is not enough to stay open.
Continuing this trend, Penultimos Dias has just revealed that "Star Bien," one of those famed (and supposedly "private") Havana "paladares" featured in travel magazines, is owned by the son of Cuba's Minister of the Interior, the infamous General Abelardo Colome Ibarra.
This is also a favorite stop of the Obama Administration's so-called "people-to-people" travelers.
More "reform" you can't believe in.


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I checked out the bees while I was home for lunch today. The sun was shining and it was 19 degrees Celsius in the backyard. I've never seen so many bees outside Hive #1. I could smell the honey, or the pheromones from the bees, from a distance. I could hear them from a distance too. Here's a quick video:
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I assume they're just really healthy bees and not bees getting ready to swarm.
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They could be baby bees orientating themselves, they tend to do this so they know their way home ! Lovely blog, I`m enjoying reading about your `bee` adventures !


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Motherhood outside marriage now varies by class about as much as it does by race, and changes in family structure have broadened income gaps and posed new barriers to upward mobility.
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, Eight of the nine classes are hidebound by backward-looking conventions, neofeudal and neocolonial arrangements and a spectrum of perverse incentives and false choices.
By Jamelle Bouie
C.H. at Democracy in America flags a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts on the effect of marriage on economic mobility for children:
Bhashkar Mazumder of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Climbing the income ladder occurs less often in the Southeast and industrial Midwest, the data shows, with the odds notably low in Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus. By contrast, some of the highest rates occur in the Northeast, Great Plains and West, including in New York, Boston, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Seattle and large swaths of California and Minnesota.
Angus has some thoughts, here is one bit:
Why do so many people think grammar schools are a way of improving social mobility? It's not because the social research says they are. I suspect instead that plain error is involved.
There's no doubt that shifts in family structure play a role in both inequality and in its inter-generational transmission. The gap in resources (but in terms of money, social capital, and parental attention) available to a child of two high-earning professionals, and those available to a kid raised by a lone working-class mom is much bigger than the gap that would exist if the inequality in earnings weren't intensified by the difference in family structure.
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez, 4 February 2014The US is supposed to be the land of opportunity. This column presents evidence that is better thought of as the 'lands of opportunity'. Economic mobility varies dramatically across US cities. Some have upward-income mobility comparable to the most mobile countries in the world. Others have rates below that of any developed country.
In an interview with Christian Broadcast Network's David Brody this week, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul evaded the question of whether he would ever support same-sex marriage, indicating that he recognizes the political climate has changed on the heated issue.
It's true that surveys indicate that gay marriage is wildly popular among DC whites and moderately unpopular among DC blacks, but I think it's a bit misleading to really see this as a "racial divide." Nobody would be surprised to learn about a community where college educated people had substantially more left-wing views on gay rights than did working class people.
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Decuriones or Curiales: members of the town councils in the Roman municipalities.
However, the ancient mortality rate was high and it was impossible to maintain a body of hundred people by adding only two men every year. (The minimum age was 25 years, and it is only possible to keep the body of hundred intact if the average life expectancy at 25 is fifty.) Therefore, the mayors selected respectable men to join the council; in several towns, these additional members were co-opted by the council itself. "Respectable" meant, in Antiquity, that one needed to have citizenship of the town and had to be wealthy. Of course former convicts and freedmen were excluded as well. The curia had to be a dignified body because it represented the community, which wanted to make a good impression on others.Becoming a member of the council was supposed to be a joyous occasion and new decuriones were therefore expected to celebrate it by a donation of money to the municipal treasury. On other occasions, the members of the council had to pay for the upkeep of monuments or offer money to the poor. The benefits of their position, however, were substantial, although symbolical. Decuriones had seats on the front ranks in the theater and amphitheater, which was a great privilege. They also belonged to the class of honestiores ("honorable men"), which meant that during a trial, they would not be tortured. Among the financial obligations of the decuriones was to advance the imperial taxes. This was in itself not a very heavy obligation, because the hundred members just advanced the money to the provincial governor and received their money back from their loyal tax-paying fellow-citizens. However, in the third century CE, the taxes started to rise, and advancing the money was increasingly difficult. At the same time, inflation destroyed the funds for the upkeep of public monuments, which meant that decuriones were forced to pay lots of money.
As a consequence, they started to evade their obligations. The emperors took countermeasures. The minimum age became eighteen years and people of sufficient means could be forced to become decuriones. There were many complaints about this.note[E.g., Synesius of Cyrene, Letter 100.]


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