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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ +16 years-old ] Drama set in the 80s, centered on a fourteen year old girl who adores her father, a successful French writer based in Buzios, near Rio de Janeiro. Young, happy to be part of a seemingly perfect family must face life differently when he finds his father's infidelities, while young crosses her own sexual awakening. You can watch A la deriva online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Portuguese at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2009.
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Runtime: 97 minutes
Vincent Cassel, Débora Bloch, Laura Neiva, Camilla Belle, Cauã Reymond, Max Huszar, Izadora Armelin, Matthew Rougé, Thiare Maia and Maysa Miranda.
97-minute film (full movie) directed by Heitor Dhalia.
The original audio of A la deriva has dialogues in or Portuguese, it was produced in Brazil.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2009.
Screenplay written by Heitor Dhalia.
Ricardo Della Rosa.
This film was produced and / or financed by Focus Features, Petrobras, Universal Pictures and O2 Filmes.
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About Araxi Restaurant & Oyster Bar
The culinary cornerstone in the heart of Whistler Village, Araxi enjoys a long held international reputation for excellence in food, wine and hospitality.
As an early pioneer of farm to table dining, Executive Chef James Walt's seasonally focused menus celebrate the excellence of locally sourced ingredients.
Walt's innovative and skillfully executed dishes–from savoury starters through delicious desserts–deliver intelligent compositions and unforgettable flavours.
Centrally located in the main square of the village, Araxi boasts a contemporary dining room coloured in warm earth tones – and a sleek Oyster Bar that exudes the passion and craftsmanship that lie at the heart of the restaurant. The lively lounge, which features a year-round indoor/outdoor bar, is Whistler's favourite gathering place for both locals and visitors alike.
Whistler, BC V0N 1B4
Dining Style:
Casual Elegant
Canadian, Seafood, Steakhouse
Hours of Operation:
Apres from 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Dinner from 5:00pm - Midnight
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Whistler Village Square
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Price Range:
CAN$31 to CAN$50
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Banquet, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Cocktails, Counter Seating, Full Bar, Late Night, Non-Smoking, Outdoor dining, Private Room, Wine
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Araxi: Roots to Shoots, Farm Fresh Recipes ($37.95 + tax)
Executive Chef James Walt's much anticipated second cookbook is now available! Following up on his James Beard-nominated first cookbook, Chef Walt and his culinary team have curated a collection of favourite recipes from Araxi Restaurant's dining room and signature Araxi Longtable Dinners, adapted for delicious home cooking. The book contains 80 recipes with striking photography from Page and Paper Studio.
Araxi: Seasonal Recipes ($45 + tax)
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Araxi Restaurant & Oyster Bar Ratings and Reviews
Was the 2nd last night of the fall dining special 5 courses for $36. Food as excellent we were out in jsut onver 1.5 hours. Our server was nit very attetive and our water frequently ran out and we had to wait a while before he refilled it although he walked past our table many times. I've been to araxi many times and we usually have great service this time however it was severly lacking which was a shame
Another excellent "set menu" occasion. While we come other times, this year's anniversary menu was excellent value. Entrees are a bit limited, barring a surcharge, but Arctic Char was a good choice. We skipped the wine pairing this time (one of us had to be able to drive...) - but another time might do one flight and a glass. Service - as ever - was excellent. A bit noisy (even though we were early), but not uncomfortably so.
Drove to Whistler just for this meal and it was totally worth it!! Was stuck in traffic for 5 hours and was almost about to turn back but luckily we didn't. Ordered the Araxi 5 course anniversary tasting menu and it was worth every penny! All of the 5 courses were amazingly good. I haven't had such a well rounded good meal for awhile. Araxi sure nailed this one. The steak and duck was so soft and moist. Chocolate mousse torte was very good as well. I'm normally not a chocolate dessert person because I find it too sweet but this one wasn't overly sweet and very smooth. Big thumbs up. Would drive back again in a heartbeat.
The food was good, a little over priced for the meals we got. The server was good but could barely hear him as the room was so loud. I couldn't talk to my boyfriend as it was so loud. Our table was uneven and our drinks almost spilled multiple times. Overall I don't think I will go back.
The room lacks intimacy. It is very loud and needs something done to help deal with sound bouncing everywhere. Most dishes were well done, but the handmade pasta was thick and chewy. The dishes don't show the care and creativity that the price point reflects. It's a bit of a factory.
Axaxi has been a Whistler staple for many years and I have eaten there many times. In the high end restaurant category it is sadly just fine. The food is tasty but not amazing and the service is adequate for a high end restaurant. I have never received bad service or bad food but I've never been particularly impressed with either given how the restaurant is positioned. Overall I wouldn't avoid the Araxi but I also wouldn't seek it out as there are better options for the same price.
Le service était excellent. La nourriture était bonne, mais je m'attendais à un peu plus vu la réputation de l'endroit
It was my third time here and I'd say my first two experiences were a lot better. Not sure if it's because they had a special $36 5 course menu plan, but I felt both the service & the food was not quite as good as usual. I'll still be back though as overall it's a great restaurant. Little things I noticed this time was our second course wine & food came before we had finished our first course. And then there was no wine with the third course which we weren't told till we received our third course so we only had water with that course. The waiter was apologetic about our second course coming too soon at least.
We love this restaurant. We have been coming here for the last 4 to 5 years. It has always been wonderful. Love the oysters. We also like that they use local ingredients. Tasting menu is always superb and delicious. The wait staff is wonderful and they know the menu. This place is good for their oyster happy hour and a great meal. A bit of a splurge but well worth it.
We reserved weeks in advance for a special birthday. We had the special 5 course dinner, and had a fabulous dinner to remember for a long time. Service was excellent, and everything was beautifully prepared and served hot! I would definitely come back - we all had a wonderful time!
Reception & service was very friendly & courteous. Food was great quality and tasted good-not amazing-just good. The bread was pedestrian -Keg bread is much better.
Seafood & fish tasted fresh slightly over priced value.
The washrooms-Starbucks has better washrooms.
Would not go back on my accord-nor would I recommend
Everyone at Araxi went above and beyond to give us a wonderful evening! The staff were so welcoming and our servers were very attentive and knowledgeable. An excellent farm to table menu and superb wine list. It was a very special experience and we want to thank you all!
Service was very, very slow, and it slowed as the night went on. After our dinner, I asked for a dessert menu and received it promptly. The promptness started and ended there. I waited for 35 minutes and our server did not return. We decided to start packing up and all of a sudden the server showed up and said, "Oh, not staying for dessert? I will just grab your bill then." It took another 15 minutes to pay for the meal. I only complain because this is fine dining and standards should be higher. I will probably return because I like the food.
Our second time eating at Araxi - we only go during the shoulder season $36 5 course tasting menu. We had a lovely evening, probably enjoyed the food more this fall than we did in the spring. The duck main course was cooked to perfection and the chocolate dessert did wonders for our sweet tooth!
Went in the off season so the 5 course meal was exceptionally priced. Every dish was interesting and creative yet good old simple ingredients. The wine pairings were mostly whites and not of our liking... They accumulated quickly on our table as 3 of four of us did the wine pairing and none of liked the choices. The waiter noticed the wines accumulating on the table and instead of asking if we'd like to change directions, just offered to clear the 9 barely touched glasses of wine. He brought our food on time, explained what it was in quick short terms and was gone before we could soak it all in. We did however get him to crack a smile by our dessert course... Which had become our tables goal for the evening... So mission accomplished. Next time I would be more assertive in requesting a different pairing selection after the first two glasses that didn't fit...not waiting until the 4 glass before thinking to do so. Otherwise, food was fantastic, as was ambiance, cocktails and service standards.... Just our waiter fell below standard, not the restaurant. Will return upon next trip to Whistler.
We pick the five course meal. I enjoyed all my dishes especially the mushroom soup and the steak in the middle Corus was a bit odd to having a piece of potato and broth with no spoon. My husband did not enjoy his pasta entrée it was worse than craft dinner and a very salty. We had to change our table from the main dining room back into the bar as it was extremely noisy and very irritating.
We had a fantastic dinner here. The food was amazing, especially the halibut feature of the night. Our waiter was excellent, providing exactly the kind of professional and genuinely friendly service that we were looking for. When we couldn't decide on a wine, he helpfully offered the services of the sommelier who found a wine that my girlfriend quite enjoyed. We would gladly recommend anyone looking for quality dining in Whistler to consider coming here.
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it's moments as this one that really melt my heart.
All cats are laptop cats!
Lucky, you are a sweet Laptop cat!
They should call them cat tops!
You look cute on your laptop.
My name is Oskar & I have a blog that I'd love for you to check out, www.PetBlogsUnited.com. It's a great place for pet bloggers to find each other and be featured. If you're interested you can e-mail me at PBU at comcast dot net.
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Nothing wrong with that. Great job, Lucky! :)
We like Sparkle's idea - CatTops!!
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Sparkle does have a great idea. We don't get to lie on the mom's laptop, as it on the small bar height "dining" table and is surrounded by way too much "stuff."
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Directed by Brad Rego, this full movie with audio in English (original language) was premiered in 2010. This movie, whose libretto belongs to Brad Rego, is an original production of USA. You can watch The Killing of Jacob Marr online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2010.
Rating: 5 by 96 users./
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Morgan White, Brandon Beilis, Alyssa Mann, Elizabeth Drake, Samantha Cooper, Chris Keating, Oleg Ossayenko, Josh Bednarsky, Gerard J. Savoy, Felicia Greenfield, Paul Weissman, Austin Mann, David Mann, Bruce Meakem and Christine Storino.
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This film was produced and / or financed by 221 Films.
Composed by Gina Zdanowicz.
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Without commercial breaks, the full movie The Killing of Jacob Marr has a duration of 110 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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ReviewI had to replace the locks because my jeep has one key hole and that door quit working so I would be locked out for weeks at a time, have to wait for the battery to go dead and triple A to send a locksmith to get me in. The heat coming from under my jeep when it is running is so tremendous I do not drive with my window open and nobody can stand next to it and talk to me through the window without feeling like they are being cooked. My back window does not open and the windshield wiper back there falls off if I try to use it. The heat takes an hour to actually get hot by then its
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Best FeaturesMy favorite features are the temperature displayed inside, and the rack on top but I am not tall enough to tie anything on it. My jeep gets up in speed pretty fast, and is good when it rains out. I like that the menu bar over the mirror tells me when maintenance needs to be done. I wish it said what maintenance it was though. For instance an oil change just says perform service.
Worst FeaturesI would improve that heat coming off that engine and I would put more than one key hole on the truck.
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My friend and I are in serious discussion on putting up an online store back in the Philippines. We have gone through several brain-storming sessions already on the best small business to start while still holding our day jobs. The one idea that really stands out is the online business of buy and sell which is big hit in the Philippines.
We wanted to start something that would involve small capital but higher yield. I told her that food would be the number one bet and next was clothing and beauty products. We all know how the Filipino yuppies this generation are with regards to overall appearance. The only problem is, how to get the supply. I want to sell original stuff and will not compromise on cheap and fake merchandise.
I hope this materializes soon. I know there are plenty of things to consider like splitting the costs, shipping of merchandise, what to sell, who to entrust the accounting of money flow, who to trust on monitoring the website, any fees to pay for permits, etc. It is a lot of work so we need to consider all those things before we go ahead on this venture.


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Economics can be deployed to understand everything from sexual behaviour in bars to the success of sports teams
THE Economic and Social Research Institute issues its latest quarterly report on the economy today. While the State's leading think-tank offered a preternaturally rounded picture of the economy, it presented few fresh insights into our economic problems and even fewer solutions.
A quick summary would be that the economy is close to the bottom if (and it's a big if) the world economy manages to avoid a double-dip recession. Exports will be our salvation. This is unlikely to be news to those with even the most cursory interest in the economy so perhaps it is time for this wonderful institution to take a fresh look at what it does and where it chooses to devote its resources?


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Mets fan, graphic artist, and general nice guy, Sean, of Condition Poor AND scary relic fame sent me a 2nd package to complete an earlier trade. Sean collects EVERY Mets card so filling holes in his collection is like shooting something in a barrel (as I am told that is easy to do, although I think the Mythbusters said the shockwave is what kills the unsuspecting fishes).
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"Islam is the solution," says formerly banned Muslim Brotherhood as it prepares to impose Sharia law on Egypt. Screw the Coptic Christians.
There is no such thing as "Islamic democracy," says Mohamed Morsi, one of three leading candidates for the presidency of Egypt, the American-educated engineer who leads the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
As Egypt's most powerful political movement, controlling half of parliament, winning the presidency would give the Muslim Brotherhood – and Mr. Morsi – sweeping power to control Egypt's future. A Morsi government would tilt toward a fundamentalist theocracy, reflecting the Muslim Brotherhood slogan – "Islam is the solution."


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With most of us depending on our phones for everything from telling the time to finding out the latest cricket score, mobile devices have now become a lifestyle statement. But when you are in a new area and want to know the best Italian restaurant there, what do you do? Don't worry there's an app for that! Presenting a small list of lifestyle apps that make living in the city easier and more fun.
1. Foodspotting – This is great app with a neat UI. You can look for most recommended restaurants in your neighbourhood and also know what's best on the menu. Craving for sushi? The apps tells you the best places for sushi based on your location. You can use the camera feature when you 'spot' a great dish or restaurant and recommend it to fellow foodies. (Available on Android, iPhone, Blackberry and Windows)
2.Nokia City Lens –This app is not too unfamiliar to the app mentioned earlier but along with restaurants you can explore by Shopping, Fun, Sights, Transportation and so on. The City Lens shows almost all the places in a 20 min time-frame when you point it in the proper direction. (Available exclusively on Windows)
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4. TuneIn Radio – TuneIn Radio makes it easier to listen to a diverse range of radio stations from around the world. You can sort by Local, Music genres, sports, trending, recommended etc. You can then bookmark you favourites and share your favourite stations through Twitter and Facebook. (Available on Android, iPhone, Blackberry and Windows)
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We sought to examine preliminary results of brain alterations in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD. The ACC is a central brain node for the integration of cognitive control and allocation of attention, affect and drive. Thus its anatomical alteration may give rise to impulsivity, hyperactivity and inattention, which are cardinal behavioral manifestations of ADHD.
Segmentation and parcellation of the ACC was performed on controls (n = 22), treated (n = 13) and treatment-naïve adults with ADHD (n = 13).
There was a 21% volume reduction in the left ACC of the treatment-naïve group relative to the control group. Also, there was a 23% volume reduction in the right ACC of the treated group relative to the control group.
These results raise the possibility that in ADHD there are volumetric deficits persistent into adulthood, that are independent of medical treatment.
ADHD is estimated to affect 5% to 10% of children and 4% of adults (Kessler & Merikangas, 2004). Emerging evidence shows that like its pediatric counterpart ADHD in adults is a highly morbid disorder (Biederman et al., 2006). Given its severe morbidity, understanding the neural basis of ADHD is of high clinical, scientific, and public health importance.
Convergent data from neuroimaging, neuropsychological, genetics, and neurochemical studies have implicated dysfunction of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and parietal cortex (together, the cingulo-frontal-parietal [CFP] cognitive-attention network), along with striatum and cerebellum, as contributing to the pathophysiology of ADHD (Bush et al., 2008). The ACC findings are particularly consistent, with many imaging studies reporting ACC hypofunction (Bush et al., 1999; Bush, Valera, & Seidman, 2005; Durston et al., 2003; Ernst et al., 2003; Konrad, Neufang, Hanisch, Fink, & Herpertz-Dahlmann, 2006; Pliszka et al., 2006; Rubia et al., 1999; Tamm, Menon, Ringel, & Reiss, 2004; Zametkin et al., 1990) or structural abnormalities (Makris, Biederman et al., 2007; Makris, Buka et al., 2008; Seidman et al., 2006; Shaw et al., 2006). The ACC plays key roles in cognition, attention, target detection, motor control (response selection and inhibition), error detection and feedback-based decision-making. Our own prior structural work has shown the ACC to have the largest volume reduction in adults with ADHD (13.9%) of any of the structures we investigated. However, because this literature is based on samples of largely treated subjects, uncertainties remain as to whether these findings reflect the neural underpinning of the disorder or the complications of its treatment. Thus, in this study, we focus in on the ACC in never-treated adults with ADHD.
To-date there is only one study showing volumetric decrease on the right ACC in treatment-naïve children with ADHD relative to treated children with ADHD and controls (Pliszka et al., 2006). However, there is currently no study to our knowledge regarding the nature of cerebral alterations in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD. This paucity of information represents a serious void in our knowledge base on ADHD calling for studies specifically addressing treatment-naïve subjects with ADHD.
The principal focus of this study was to delineate the nature of ACC alterations in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD. To this end, we hypothesized volumetric MRI reductions in ACC in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD compared to community controls using T1-weighted MRI. This is, to our knowledge, the first study reporting volumetric alterations in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD.
Methods are described in detail in Biederman et al. (2008) and Seidman et al. (2006). This study consists of a subset of ADHD subjects from the previous reports and a larger study of persons with ADHD varying on a number of dimensions, including use of medications. Briefly, males and females between the ages of 18 and 59 were eligible for the study. Treatment-naïve and treated subjects with ADHD as well as control adults were group matched to be comparable on age, sex, handedness, and education (Table 1). Exclusion criteria were deafness, blindness, psychosis, neurological disorder, sensorimotor handicaps, inadequate command of the English language, or an estimated Full Scale intelligence quotient (IQ) estimate <80 as measured by Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Revised (WAIS-R; Wechsler, 1981). We recruited ADHD subjects from referrals to psychiatric clinics at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and advertisements in the greater Boston area, and control subjects through advertisements in the same geographical areas. After complete description of the study to the participants, written informed consent was obtained, and all participants received an honorarium for participating. The study was approved by the MGH Human Subjects Institutional Review Board (IRB) committee.
ADHD adults were only included if they met full criteria for current ADHD according to the DSM-IV, with childhood onset and persistence into adulthood. We conducted direct interviews with all participants. Trained lay interviewers, blind to ascertainment status, interviewed all adults with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (First, Spizer, Gibbon, & Willians, 1997) supplemented with modules from the Kiddie SADS-E (Orvashcel, 1994) to cover ADHD and other childhood disorders.
Whole brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) images were collected on a Siemens Sonata 1.5 T scanner at the MGH Martinos Center (Charlestown, MA). A sagittal localizer scan was performed for placement of slices, followed by a coronal T2-weighted sequence to rule out unexpected neuropathology. Two sagittal 3DMP-RAGE (T1-weighted, nonselective, inversion prepared, spoiled gradient, echo pulse, no distortion correction) sequences were collected and used for morphometric analyses conducted at the MGH Center for Morphometric Analysis (CMA). The volumetric T1-weighted images, which were used for the analysis were as follows: TR = 2730 ms, TE = 3.39 ms, T1 = 1,000 ms, flip angle = 7°, bandwidth = 190 Hz/pixel, FOV = 256 × 256 mm2, sampling matrix = 256 × 192 pixels, 128 contiguous 1.33 mm slices, averages = 2.
The images were resampled into a standard coordinate system based on the bicommissural line (anterior commissure–posterior commissure) and the interhemispheric fissure (Filipek, Kennedy, & Caviness, 1988; Filipek, Richelme, Kennedy, & Caviness, 1994; Talairach, & Tournoux, 1988). Given this coordinate system, coronal slices were defined perpendicular to the bicommissural line and aligned with the interhemispheric fissure. This positional normalization procedure allowed the reconstruction of a new set of coronal images at the slice thickness of the original acquisition (1.33 mm). The images were not rescaled.
Neuroanatomic segmentation was performed using semiautomated intensity contour algorithms for external border definition and signal intensity histogram distributions for delineation of gray–white borders (Filipek et al., 1994). This technique allows for border definition as the midpoint between the peaks of the bimodal distribution for any given structure and its surrounding tissue. Segmentation was performed on coronal images and divided the brain into gray matter and white matter regions. The cerebrum was segmented into its principal gray matter and white matter structures and total cerebral white matter. Specifically, the cortical ribbon was defined by two outlines, one external outline between the sub-arachnoid CSF and the cerebral cortex, and the other between the cerebral cortex and the underlying cerebral white matter (Filipek et al., 1994). The total number of voxels in each brain region determined its volume.
At the neocortex, which was defined by the aforementioned gray–white matter segmentation procedure, we parcellated the anterior cingulate gyrus (ACC or CGa) parcellation unit (PU) bilaterally (Caviness, Meyer, Makris, & Kennedy, 1996). This was based on the configuration of a specified set of cerebral landmarks, precisely the cingulate sulcus (anterior and superior border of ACC), the callosal sulcus (inferior border of ACC) and the plane passing though the dorsocaudal endpoint of the precentral sulcus (i.e., plane K; posterior border of ACC), and addresses interindividual topographic variability by preserving the morphological and topographic uniqueness of the individual brain. This method is explained extensively in Caviness et al. (1996). Following cortical parcellation, volumes were calculated for each PU by calculating the volume of the PU on each slice and then summing all slices on which the ACC appeared. We selected a priori the ACC as the PU to investigate based on our previous work (Figure 1, Seidman et al., 2006).
First, we compared the three groups on demographic, psychiatric, and neurocognitive factors, using the Chi square test and one-way ANOVAs for categorical and dimensional variables, respectively.
We tested the hypothesis that treatment-naïve and treated adults with ADHD would have morphometric abnormalities in the ACC relative to the controls using regression models. In each model, we estimate the volumetric outcome as a function of group status. We present the mean volumes within each group. All models were estimated using linear regression, and all tests were two-tailed. The alpha level was set at 0.05.
The treatment-naïve group showed significant volume decrease in the left anterior cingulate gyrus as shown in Table 2, with a large effect size (d = .71, 21% smaller). On the other hand, the treated group showed significant volumetric decrease in the right anterior cingulate gyrus with a large effect size (d = .85, 23% smaller; Table 2). There were no significant group differences in whole brain or total cerebral volume or in the right ACC (Table 1).
This pilot analysis showed a volumetric decrease in the cortex of the left ACC in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD. This finding suggests that volumetric abnormalities in the ACC in adults with ADHD represent alterations reflecting the neural underpinnings of the disorder.
Consistent with our results are the results from a recent study by Pliszka et al. (2006) that showed an alteration in the right ACC of treatment-naïve children with ADHD. Although these two studies are not directly comparable given the determining influence developmental forces may have on brain structure as a function of time, it is interesting to note that both studies have identified a change related to the ACC.
The anterior cingulate gyrus is an important regulator of other cortical and subcortical brain regions, and its disconnection seems to be consistent with the symptoms encountered in ADHD. The ACC is connected with other cortical areas ipsilaterally and contralaterally as well as with subcortical structures. This mesh of connections converging to and diverging from the neuronal bodies of the ACC constitutes a central networking node within the overall connectional map of the brain critical for the interface of drive, emotion, cognition and motor function (Paus, 2001) as well as for the modulation of cognitive control (Cohen, Botvinick, & Carter, 2000). An abnormality of ACC could produce derangement of attention and executive neural networks in adults with ADHD. Importantly, a deficit of the ACC network may cause breakdown in modulation of cognitive control and allocation of attention, which may result in impulsivity, hyperactivity, and inattention.
The finding that in adults with ADHD the left ACC is abnormal volumetrically is critical to elucidate a concept that has recently been raised in ADHD clinical research. A study by Shaw et al. (2007) reported that children with ADHD show a "delay" in maturation of brain structures as compared to controls (Shaw et al., 2007). It is unclear from this study, however, whether the brain abnormalities will eventually "normalize" or not. In a previous study by Shaw et al. (2006), the authors showed that certain aspects of the morphometric profile of children with "better outcome ADHD" (such as the right inferior parietal lobule) tend to "normalize" as they progress into late adolescence (Shawet al., 2006). The results of our study, although preliminary, bear evidence that there are abnormalities in the anterior cingulate gyrus of ADHD participants that persist well into adulthood.
Our study showing abnormalities in the ACC in medication-naïve ADHD participants add to a very limited literature on this topic. Although the stimulant drugs have been proven to be relatively safe and highly effective for the treatment of ADHD, there is very limited and equivocal information on how they affect brain structure. Castellanos et al. (2002) found that medication-naïve children and adolescents with ADHD showed smaller white matter volumes relative to both ADHD children and adolescents with previous history of stimulant treatment and control participants (Castellanos et al., 2002). In contrast, a recent study by our group showed that white matter volume was increased in adults with ADHD relative to controls (Seidman et al., 2006). However, the two studies investigated different samples of individuals with ADHD, that is, Seidman et al. (2006) studied adults, whereas Castellanos et al. (2002) studied children and adolescents. Although Seidman et al. (2006) studied adults with ADHD, they did not investigate treatment effects in ADHD.
Regarding the effect of treatment on gray matter in ADHD, a recent study by Pliszka et al. (2006) showed bilateral volumetric decreases in the caudate nucleus in treatment-naïve and treated ADHD children relative to controls suggesting that medication may not have an effect on this subcortical structure in children with ADHD (Pliszka et al., 2006). However, they did show volumetric decrease on the right ACC in treatment-naïve children with ADHD relative to treated children with ADHD and controls. The treated children instead, did not show significant differences from controls suggesting a possible protective effect of medication on this cortical structure. In contrast, our preliminary data showing a significant volumetric decrease of the right anterior cingulate gyrus in the group of treated adults with ADHD would suggest that medication may not have a protective effect on this structure. More work in needed to be done to confirm these findings and clarify this important issue.
How a volumetric decrease of the left anterior cingulate gyrus in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD can be reconciled with the observation by Pliszka et al. (2006) of a volumetric decrease on the right ACC in treatment-naïve children with ADHD is a notion that needs further clarification. In a previous volumetric study of our group (Seidman et al., 2006) we documented statistically significant volume differences in treated adults with ADHD, in total anterior cingulate gyrus (13.9%) and right anterior cingulate gyrus (13.2%). Although it did not reach statistical significance, the left anterior cingulate gyrus was also much smaller in the adult ADHD group (14.8%). Thus a decrease in size left anterior cingulate gyrus would have been expected to be present in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD. A smaller total anterior cingulate gyrus may not be surprising in treatment-naïve children with ADHD as well. A developmental shift of laterality from childhood to adulthood would be also an interesting possibility, however, to the best of our knowledge there is currently no information to explain this scenario. More work is needed to confirm these findings and clarify this important issue.
Our findings must be interpreted in light of some limitations. One is that ADHD is clinically heterogeneous. We cannot test hypotheses about heterogeneity without markedly increasing the sample size of the study. Another issue relates to the limitations of the naturalistic treatment history used in our study. A naturalistic study design has some limitations inherent to it. Specifically, adults with ADHD will have been treated with several medications at the time of study entry, which could impact gray and white matter biology in different ways. However, the alternate study design, a randomized, controlled trial, has important limitations as well. A controlled trial would only be able to evaluate the effect of medications over a relatively short duration because attrition rates would increase to unacceptable levels, especially in a placebo group. Thus, we considered the naturalistic design to be the more efficient and feasible design to address our main aims at this point in time. Furthermore, given the absence of studies on treatment-naïve adults with ADHD and the small number of participants in the present study we are considering this result as preliminary until replicated in larger, better powered studies.
In this pilot study, we found preliminary evidence suggesting that in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD the left ACC is altered volumetrically, showing a decrease in its volume as compared with healthy controls. If confirmed in larger studies, these findings suggest that ADHD is associated with persistent brain abnormalities localized at the left ACC, a region central to cognitive control, drive and affect modulation that appear to be independent of medication treatments.
This research was primarily supported by a grant from the NIMH MH 62152 (LJS). Preparation of this article was also supported in part by grants from: The National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCAM (NM); the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Distinguished Investigator Award (JB), Janssen Pharmaceuticals and the Johnson and Johnson Center for the Study of Psychopathology (JB); the Fairway Trust (DK); National Research Service Award (NIMH F32 MH065040-01A1), Peter Livings-ton Fellowship through the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, and the Clinical Research Training Program Fellowship in Biological and Social Psychiatry MH-16259 (EMV); The National Center for Research Resources (P41RR14075); the March of Dimes Foundation (LJS), and the Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Institute (LJS).
Nikos Makris, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Center for Morphometric Analysis and the MGH Morphometric Analysis Center.
Larry J. Seidman, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology in the Harvard Medical School Departments of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Eve M. Valera, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Within the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH, she directs The Cerebellar Psychiatric Research Laboratory, which is dedicated to understanding the role of the cerebellum and associated cortico-cerebellar circuits in psychiatric illness. Additional work in her lab employs magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in conjunction with measures of cognitive functioning to assess the effects of physical abuse resulting in brain injury in battered women.
Joseph Biederman, MD is the Chief of the Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and ADHD at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the author and coauthor of more than 650 scientific papers.
Michael C. Monuteaux, ScD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Assistant Director of Research at the Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychiatry and Adult ADHD at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a psychiatric epidemiologist interested in studying the risk factors for aggression in children and the course and outcomes of disruptive behavior disorders.
David N. Kennedy, PhD, is currently Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Medical School and Director of the Neuroinformatics Program in Psychiatry at UMass Medical School.
Verne S. Caviness Jr., MD, DPHL, is the Giovanni Armenise Professor of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He served as Chief of the Division of Child Neurology from 1982 – 2007. He was a founding director of the Center for Morphometric Analysis with investigative work both in magnetic resonance imaging and the cell biology of forebrain development.
George Bush, MD, MMSc, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, serves as the Director of the MGH Cingulate Cortex Research Laboratory, Director of Neuroimaging Research at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at MGH, and Assistant Director of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program. His research combines functional neuroimaging and intracranial recordings to study how cingulate cortex contributes to normal cognitive, decision-making, reward, motor, and emotional processing. This knowledge is then applied to elucidating the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Katherine Crum is currently a PhD candidate and a Teaching Fellow at Boston Univeristy.
Ariel B. Brown, PhD, is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinic and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Stephen V. Faraone, PhD, a clinical psychologist, is Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience & Physiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He researches a wide range of issues in the area of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, including genetics, neurobiology, diagnosis and treatment.
Nikos Makris, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston University School of Medicine.
Larry J. Seidman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Eve M. Valera, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Joseph Biederman, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Michael C. Monuteaux, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
David N. Kennedy, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Verne S. Caviness, Jr., Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
George Bush, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Katherine Crum, Boston University.
Ariel B. Brown, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Stephen V. Faraone, SUNY Upstate Medical University.
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D.C. follies threaten Stonington student trips to Washington
Stonington - The federal government shutdown has forced Pine Point School to postpone a student trip to Washington, and has prompted Mystic Middle School to decide today whether to delay its trip next week until spring.
Both schools were to be among many from across the country to descend on the nation's capital in October to tour the monuments and museums, most of which are now closed because of the impasse over the budget and the Affordable Care Act.
Some teachers, though, have turned their students' disappointment into "teachable moments" by having them learn about how government's actions affect people's lives.
That's exactly what's happening at Pine Point, where 29 eighth-graders had researched the sites they planned to visit in the nation's capital and were prepared to make presentations when they arrived.
"Boy, I got some heat when I had to tell them last Friday," English and history teacher Gretchen Federici said of the postponement. "They were really disappointed."
So she and art teacher Maria Iacoi decided to come up with a way for the students to channel their disappointment in order to better understand the issue.
Students researched how the shutdown has affected programs and agencies such as the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program, Head Start and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and wrote letters their congressmen, including U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, as well as his Rhode Island colleagues. They also created artwork to accompany their letters.
"So it wasn't just about their own disappointment but how it has affected other people," Federici said. "I wanted them to take it beyond themselves, and they did."
Earlier this week, the students visited Courtney's Norwich office, where they talked to him in Washington via a webcam. They also left behind their artwork.
"This is very much a case where as educators, we recognized a teachable moment," she said.
Federici said it also shows students that as citizens, they can have an impact.
"It gives them a sense of empowerment," she said.
Federici said the plan is to reschedule the trip for March.
"They are so excited to see these things in person that they have been studying," she said.
Mystic Middle School teacher Lauren McGugan, who is one of the teachers organizing that school's trip, said that 92 eighth-graders along with teacher and parent chaperones are planning to visit Washington Oct. 22-25. The school has been making the trip for more than 25 years.
"We've been keeping our fingers crossed that it ends," she said of the shutdown Thursday morning.
She said if the shutdown is not over by this morning, the school will postpone the trip until March. She said hotels, bus companies and other businesses have been very accommodating about the need to reschedule.
McGugan said students have been taking the news well because the trip is being postponed, not canceled.
"If it was canceled, they would have been devastated," she said.
In October 2001, Mystic Middle School postponed its Washington trip because of post-9/11 fears. The next year, the trip was postponed again to the following March because of the sniper attacks in Washington that had killed seven people in the week before the students were set to leave.
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The Chicago Bulls won't have Loul Deng, Derrick Rose and possibly Kirk Hinrich in the lineup for Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal against the Miami Heat on Monday, but Rose said his status is "still up in the air. I might have a chance."
Rose was asked if he owed anything to his teammates, who are also battling through injuries and illness to play, Rose said: "There's no pressure at all. I haven't had any pressure from anyone – not in the organization, not from my teammates.
"They know I'm put everything I have into trying to come back as fast as possible. But just trying to be smart with the whole situation and just take my time.
Rose tore his ACL in Game 1 of last year's playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers. Since Feb. 18, he has been medically cleared to play and has been scrimmaging 5-on-5, but doesn't feel ready to play in games.
"It's definitely hard but I know that this will be over with pretty soon. Who knows when it's going to stop but I can't just get down on myself," Rose said Monday.
Miami Heat center Chris Bosh said he would be surprised if Rose played.
"I'd be surprised," Bosh said." But that's totally his decision. If he does, we're going to make it tough on him."
As far as Deng, he did not make the trip to Miami after missing the past two games against the Brooklyn Nets because of the flu. He was admitted to the hospital on Sunday but has been discharged.
"As a result of the spinal tap I suffered the worst headache I've ever experienced and been the weakest I've ever felt," Deng tweeted.
Hinrich has missed the past three games because of a bruised left calf, he is a game-time decision


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Coe backed to lead IAAF despite damning report
Lord Coe has received crucial backing to remain as IAAF president despite another damning report on athletics' doping scandal and admitting that he leads a "failed organisation".
Coe also apologised for some "clumsy" responses to the crisis which has engulfed athletics after a new report by the World Anti-Doping Agency's independent commission identified serious failures in the IAAF.
The commission said the IAAF Council — which included Coe — "could not have been unaware of the extent of doping in athletics".
It stated Coe's right-hand man Nick Davies, who stepped aside from his position as IAAF chief of staff last month, was "well aware of Russian 'skeletons' in the cupboard".
Despite those findings, commission chairman Dick Pound said the double Olympic 1,500m champion Coe remains the best man to reform the IAAF after years of corruption and nepotism under his Senegalese predecessor Lamine Diack, who orchestrated a conspiracy to secure bribes from athletes to cover up positive drugs tests and used his two sons to collect the money.
Speaking in Munich after the publication, Coe said: "The moment I became president in August, the IAAF was being criticised for all sorts of things.
"If, on occasions, my language has been clumsy, I apologise. It's never meant to be. I know how serious this is. The overall issue about whether or not we are in an organisation that has failed, I tell you we have. I know that. We are a failed organisation.
"I'm sorry if my language has in any way demonstrated a sort of a lack of understanding about the depth of this."
He added the corruption and extortion revelations had been "absolutely abhorrent", saying: "We have to make sure our sport can never ever return to the horror show that we've witnessed in the last few years."
The commission laid bare the influence of Diack, who created a cabal which took control of Russian doping cases, and then extorted money from athletes to cover up positive tests.
The report states: "The IAAF Council could not have been unaware of the extent of doping in athletics and the non-enforcement of applicable anti-doping rules. There was an evident lack of political appetite within the IAAF to confront Russia with the full extent of its known and suspected doping activities."
But Pound told a news conference in Munich: "This is a fabulous opportunity for the IAAF to seize this opportunity and under strong leadership move forward from this, but there is an enormous amount of work to do.
"I can't think of anyone better than Lord Coe to lead that.
"I don't want to lay the failures of an entire council at the feet of one individual. You learn from experience. And experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
Pound told reporters it would have been difficult for Coe to act alone even though all IAAF Council members would have been aware of the nepotism and problems with Russian doping.
He added: "For a council member to say at the time, 'Lamine, what the ****? You've got your personal counsel being paid, you've got two of your kids working here, this doesn't look good for us' — that's the sort of thing that's very hard to happen."
Pound's report was tougher on the IAAF Council, saying it was too easy just to blame the failures on Diack, who along with his son Papa Massata Diack and other officials is under investigation by French police.
It adds: "Failure to have addressed such governance issues is an IAAF failure that cannot be blamed on a small group on miscreants. The opportunity existed for the IAAF to have addressed governance issues. No advantage was taken of that opportunity."
In terms of Davies, the report states he did not mention any knowledge of the delays in reporting doping violations when he was interviewed by the commission in June. A subsequent leaked email from him to Papa Massata Diack showed Davies discussing a plan to delay the announcement of positive tests by Russian athletes.
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On Tuesday, me, Tami, and Anti went to PIM because we were craving for SUSHI!
Tadinya gue bener-bener mau ngabisin uang buat makan sushi, tapi ternyata gue cuma mengeluarkan duit Rp 32.000 saja (a plate of salmon maki and......... I forgot what, also the taxes of course), thanks Anti for buying me and Tami a plate of sushi LOL ;)
Duit gue malah habis buat beli makanan-makanan kecil yang sebenernya nggak begitu penting tapi menggiurkan di Food Hall.
Anti and I were done with our sushi, tapi Tami makannya kayak siput jadi gue fotoin aja dia haha.
(The first picture taken by Tami and the third by Anti, and they were stolen from Tami's facebook ;D)


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For those interested, the details of a recent bake of bialys can be found here:
For those interested, the details of a recent bake of bialys can be found here:
So it's called: "the double flour addition technique"... DFAT for short. Always wondered if it had a specific name. The technique is very familiar to me. With home mixers, the standard, at least I thought so. I more or less grew up with the method for a fine textured crumb.
One Question (or possibly three, no trick Q's, I just want your experienced opinion):
If I were to let the dough autolyze (I love to autolyze for the gluten's sake) and just let it sit there for 20 minutes, would it make more sense to do it before or after incorporating the second batch of flour? Or do both -- after wisking, let it rest 20 minutes and then incorporate the rest of the flour and rest again 20 minutes, then mix in the salt, shape and put aside for a bulk ferment? Or only do a "double autolyze" when hand mixing?
Thanks for the quick come back. Now that I have your attention... there is something that has been pestering me. The thought about high gluten flours needing more gluten development than low gluten flours puzzles me.
"Because doughs made with high gluten flour can be difficult to properly develop in a home stand mixer using conventional techniques,..."
Wouldn't it be just the opposite? Wouldn't low gluten flours need more attention to bring out the gluten structure? I seem to be missing something somewhere. Has it to do with low hydration high gluten mixing as opposed to low hydration low gluten mixing? Or am I confusing dough development with gluten development?
Hi Steve,
It's such a pleasure to read your blog and every time you update it, I'm awestruck by your perfect loaves (or bialys)!
I'm wondering about the use of high gluten flour in bagels and bialys. I believe bagels were first made in Krakow, and bialys, as you write, originate from Bialystok. Both are chewy rolls (that are excellent with smoked or cured salmon!). I'm wondering whether the original products were also made with flour of high gluten content, or if this is a "modern twist" on the classic formulas? Perhaps wheat from Poland/East Europe was quite high in protein in the old days too?
but the origin of winter wheat in the U.S. is said to have been with Slavic settlers who came here with what is known on this side of the Atlantic as the "Turkey Red" strain of winter wheat. If memory serves (and it so frequently doesn't!), that is a hard variety of wheat. It certainly seems possible that the people of eastern Europe were accustomed to hard wheats.
Back then, in the very beginning of the XX century when mass migration of Polish Jews started, and bagels and bialys arrived here the predominant variety of wheat grown in Poland was sandomirka, soft red winter wheat, with average gluten content in 9-10% range. There's also every reason to believe that the bakeries by and large were not mechanized. So that of course does not correlate well with how Glezer and others describe the modern bialy process. What most likely happened is that just like many other European immigrants, Jewish bakers discovered new and affordable ingredients and adjusted correspondingly.
Thanks! That's very interesting, suave.
hi. where did you get the info on the protein content of sandomierka, and does that same source say anything about ostka galicyjska wheat?
Thanks, Steve, for posting the topic and link to your blog. I don't always remember to check your blog every week so am glad you let us know about the bialys. They look terrific--just like everything you bake.
I've only made bialys once because I ate them all within a few hours! I'll have to find some people to be around when they come out of the oven next time.
by a friend if I knew how to make Bialys and that's how I came upon your recipe. I was wondering-as I was reading through it- if I can also hand knead the dough, since I am (almost) in the stone ages equipment wise-no food processor or stand mixer....I just recently inherited a hand mixer from a friend who moved back to Germany. And, since I am assuming I can hand knead, what conistency would I be looking for?


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Which constitutes Grades Pre-Nursery to 2. In these formative years, the focus is towards helping children adapt to the idea of spending the day at school along with developing conceptual knowledge, dispositions and values that will make them life–long learners. The focus of the teaching process in the Early Years Programme is to provide children with a wide range of experiences that facilitates learning and strengthening of concepts. These include role plays, simple experimentation, worksheets, games, thematic assemblies and presentations and many other fun-filled activities.
The curriculum in the early years programme is thematic and multidisciplinary as far as possible. Concepts learnt academically are re-enforced in the performing and visual arts. For instance, if protecting the environment is the theme of an Environmental Science lesson, then children learn songs, poems or engage in art and craft work on the same theme.
In Nursery, children are exposed to a lot of story-telling, both in Hindi and English to facilitate their listening and comprehension skills. Children have fun in making patterns with crayons before they are introduced to writing the English alphabet. Concepts such as 1-9 and bigger and smaller are part of the number work syllabus in Nursery. Children also explore the world around them through themes such as their families, houses and body parts.
In Kindergarten, children take a step closer towards reading English by learning how to read three letter words and then simple sentences. Writing skills also develop, along with thinking creatively. Hindi alphabets are introduced in KG through fun and games. In the mathematics programme our children find adding a fun activity along with learning concepts such as before and after and tens and ones. In the world around us, children understand the importance of plants, different seasons, festivals etc.
In classes 1 and 2, children take several leaps forward to the foundation that has been laid in the pre–primary years. In English and Hindi they learn to communicate effectively through reading, writing, answering questions, creative writing. They are now encouraged to use the school's library and read books. In Mathematics, addition and subtraction are taught through story sums, number lines, computer software's, worksheets and other activities. Children are also taken to the Environmental Science laboratory, wherein they are exposed to simple science experiments.


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Postal Service . . . that was objectionable to
the FCC has been cancelled, and 2) PRC itself
rejected several features of the Postal Service
electronic mail system proposal found objec
tionable by the FCC."I Thus, the court did not
rule on the merits of the case and the legal
jurisdiction of FCC over USPS involvement
in the telecommunication portion of EMS re
mains unclear.
USPS also petitioned the court for review
of that part of the PRC Final Recommended
Decision that designates E COM as an "ex
perimental" subclass of first class mail
authorized only through October 1, 1984.
Basically, USPS claimed that PRC far ex
ceeded its authority and sought to exercise a
power reserved to the USPS Board of Gover
nors.2"In June 1981, the court ruled for USPS
and remanded the matter back to PRC for fur
ther consideration.2'
However, two issues were still in dispute.
First, PRC believed it was proper to review
the entire E COM decision, not just the "ex
perimental" designation which was the sub
ject of the court proceeding. A number of com
munication carriers and others (including the
Departments of Commerce and Justice) who
filed statements with PRC took the position
that the court, in effect, vacated the PRC
Recommended Decision in toto, and that
USPS was not authorized to proceed with
E-COM on January 4, 1982. USPS maintained
that the court's remand, and therefore PRC's
reconsideration, extended only to the question
of "experimental" designation and that USPS
was otherwise authorized to initiate E COM
service in January. In December 1981, PRC
suspended the proceedings, leaving the legal
status of E COM uncertain. On January 4,
1982, USPS started E COM service. In April
1982, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict of Columbia denied a Department of
Justice petition to block implementation of
l'Oct. 14, 1980, Order, U.S. Court of Appeals.
'"Decision of the Governors of the U.S. Postal Service, Aug.
15, 1980.
"654 F 2d. 108 D.C. Court of Appeals 1981.
Ch. 8-Congressional Policy Considerations * 95
Absent clear direction from Congress, it
seems likely that USPS entry into EMS will
precipitate continued regulatory (and related
judicial) conflicts. Congress, through legisla
tion or otherwise, could clarify regulatory
jurisdiction over USPS involvement in EMS.
For example, this might take the form of the
amendment to S. 898 which stipulates that
FCC shall establish costs for the telecom
munication portion of any USPS EMS service
and shall assume that any such telecommu
nication services are offered by a separate
organizational entity within USPS. Apart
from these two provisions, the amendment to
S. 898 states that FCC shall not regulate
USPS.22As another example, Congress might
clarify through an amendment to the Postal
Act-the extent of PRC jurisdiction over a
USPS role in EMS.
USPS Subdivision for EMS
As discussed in chapter 7, a number of pri
vate firms and other parties have expressed
concern that USPS involvement in EMS
would constitute unfair competition between
an independent Government agency and the
private sector. This concern focuses in part on
the possibility that USPS might use public ap
propriations or revenues from other USPS
services to cross subsidize EMS services. In
July 1979, the White House proposed the crea
tion of a separate USPS subdivision for EMS
service in order to make cross subsidies easier
to detect and prevent. The original White
House proposal suggested "a separate entity
for accounting and ratemaking purposes.""
H.R. 2813 would require USPS to establish by
regulation "a separate organizational unit...
to provide for the management of all electronic
mail service of the USPS."24" S. 898 would re
quire "a separate organizational entity" for
any telecommunication services offered by
"Congressional Record-f% mate, Oct. 7, 1981, p. S.11211.
2sAdministration policy Statement, The White House, July
19, 1979.
"H.R. 2813, 97th Cong., 1st sess., Mar. 25, 1981, p. 2.
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Horrible background song tho, takes out all the feeling of her words.
wow. You described the feeling in a way that I felt I am actually there. very heart touching .
Haha, makes you wonder why we hear NOTHING about Ebola anymore.
Love this video. There is so much going on in the world, and I feel stuck in a materialistic bubble. It made me tear up, thinking of all those families there. And how fortunate I am, that my family is safe.
My husband is there right now... :(
Looks like we are back to ebola news now, step aside police shootings
Am I the only one who had trouble paying attention to what she was saying because of the background music?
I wonder what the government were trying to distract us from when all we heard about was Ebola? Why did one day we just stop hearing about it?
I honestly thought that this was gonna be about an ebola patient that has to live in one of those big bubbles...
That video was one of the most eye-opening thing I've seen in a long time!
I just got back from building an Ebola treatment facility in Liberia. We were face to face with locals. We had few working with us as well. We fed them and gave them water. Gave them clothes and some of us gave combat boots for them to use for work. It is accurate that we did not shake hands but we did fist bump or elbow bump. The local populous are are hard working people with high spirits and smiles.
The point about not being able to touch being a loss of a skill really resonates. Never considered how vital it is and how often I have utilised it pastorally.
The kindest thing that you can do you for yourself is a tiny ordinary kindness for someone else?? All this giving isn't being generous??
What does that even f***ing mean? Trying to sound deep and insightful but it just fails. Emotional video but very misleading. But I guess uninformed people will just settle for the emotion.
Another misleading video by buzzfeed.
I can't help but feel the music ruins this video
Ebola is a cover up
It is good to find a cure the Ebola or any other disease , but in Syria we have disease that killed more than 250000 Humans Kids Woman and men named Bashar Al Assad , and really only few People Bother to care about .. so much for humanity .....!!!?
Some of you people need to stop making jokes about this terrible deadly disease.
This virus has been around since the 1970s; with cases all over the globe. It then ended up settling in Africa and making it a "hot zone" and not ALL of Africa is infected, just small pockets.
It's outlandish that people don't know more about this virus, that's killed millions of people.
It's Ludicrous that people that don't know anything about it, think it's a joke, a distraction tactic, or a lie.
Educate yourselves people, before saying disgusting things about it over the Internet.
... I Watch This Cause I thought About the "Bubble" thing,,
Ebola should get Ebola and die.
They stopped talkin about it in the U.S.
Ryan Ferguson Ryan Ghb DinsmoreAlex Smd Spence Casey Magowan
Please do more news- related videos like this. Very well done
Got first chance to comment but did not know what to say :P
:o Vicky Dieu Vivian Diep
Saddest video I've watched in Buzz feed. Yet the most touching. :")
Sarah Grant Tegan Lewien
I thought it was informative from a side I had not already heard.
Yes we need a cure but till then, a little human kindnesss does help. Plus, this was about a journalist, not the CDC .
The background music could be softened but I thought it gave us a glimpse of what the people were like before dealing with this disease. Upbeat, happy and friendly.
World health organization. Stay up tuned to the world around us, just becaue it's not all over the news doesn't mean everything has come to a stand still. Knowledge is power
The red cross spread the disease in Africa. It didn't work and now it's vanished.
……well then
I was kind of hoping for more than that short video... You peaked my interest but I'm still waiting for more of that video.
Working in the medical field.
I thank you BuzzFeed for a beautiful video.
Thanks Sophie Ma. Very interesting
Alyssa Miller
The whole video I wasn't even listening because I was trying to wait for the moment she was about to scat
John Carey
El Oh El u hear tht?
Hard to imagine people with Ebola...
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Sophie Peters.
Gino Giovagnoli idk if this helps but I know this is your topic
Mariam Diab made me think of you because it seems like something you'd like to watch :)
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Nik Afifah , semoga dapat membantu dalam public speaking kau . Heee
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Create a fun and easy background using your acrylic block, in a technique we learned from our friends at Hero Arts®.
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Moving away from the impact of the new Sentencing Guidelines, we look at positive steps that Directors and Senior Managers can take to avoid a breach in the first instance.
January 2016, unlike many other Januarys before it presents Directors and Senior Managers across the country with an opportunity to make a real difference within their respective organisations. Related to the upcoming implementation of the new Guidelines for Sentencing of Health and Safety and Corporate Manslaughter Offences, this year's simple and effective New Year Resolution is read or revisit the joint IOD/HSE Guidance document, Leading Health and Safety at Work.
10 years since its initial publication, the Institute of Directors Guidance is no less relevant now than it was on publication. If anything, it's now even more relevant.
Not only are the new requirements under the Sentencing Guidelines encouraging Investigators and Prosecutors to look into organisations' systems of health and safety management, seeking to establish the potential role of systemic failures in this regard, but they are increasingly looking upwards at how the Board level decisions to set the tone of this approach.
The importance of Board level involvement in such issues is made unequivocally clear by comments such as those in the case of R v Southern Water Services Ltd where the Court of Appeal emphasised that the most senior levels of management and at Board level should be demonstrating that they have considered and are addressing the cause of any offending behaviours. The Court made clear that in cases of the greatest seriousness, this would fall the Chief Executive and main boards of companies to account for these areas.
As we move into a new landscape of health and safety enforcement, one that it is likely to welcome unprecedented levels of fines for such offences, we ask ourselves - what simple New Year's resolutions can directors, governors, trustees, officers and any other equivalent take to make a practical difference to their respective organisations?
Returning to the IOD Guidance, the essential principles when addressing health and safety are clearly stated:
- Strong and active leadership from the top
- Worker involvement
- Assessment and review
What do these mean in practice?
When translating these into your New Year's resolutions there is a clear four-point agenda suggested by the IOD for embedding those essential health and safety principles, supplemented by checklists and supporting materials:
- Plan
As with all others aspects of a business' management, the Board must set the direction for effective health and safety management.
Are you satisfied at present that Board members should take the lead in ensuring the communication of health and safety duties and benefits throughout the organisation? If not the case already, businesses should strive to ensure that health and safety policy emanates from the Board room, running throughout the company's practices. Whilst there is no quick solution to the above, the following steps will go a considerable way to assisting with this goal:
- Ensuring that health and safety matters appear as regular board agenda items
- Appointing one Board member as a Safety Champion
- Considering, where resources permit, the appointment of a Health and Safety Director to the Board
- Setting key targets for the business
- Tasking Non-Executive Directors with scrutinising performance
- Deliver
Delivery depends upon the effectiveness of management systems within your company. There is no quick fix and it is undoubtedly already taking up much of your day to day time.
On a practical basis one of the greatest aides is ensuring that there is an effective commitment of resource to health and safety management; both internally and externally where necessary. Boards must satisfy themselves that adequate risk assessments have been completed for the company's undertaking and that safe practices and processes are in place.
Additional key steps at Board level are:
- Equipping Board Members with training and understanding of principles of risk management on a practical basis
- Actively reinforcing policies through Board members' adherence whilst on the shop floor
- Considering individual commitment to areas when deciding upon appointments
- Monitor
Again, as with all areas of company policy, the success of health and safety management is dependent upon those systems for monitoring and reporting. If not already in place, companies regardless of their size should be considering how to facilitate relevant reporting at Board level and the degree of scrutiny to which they are subjected.
Beyond those routine reports regarding health and safety performance, top tips include:
- Collecting workplace health and safety data to benchmark performance against others in your sector. This can be a useful tool for informing company direction/strategy and, where bucking the industry trend, a valuable tool for demonstrating an effective management of these issues.
- Involving the wider workforce in monitoring exercises, encouraging both positive and negative reporting so as to create a culture of compliance.
- Review
A periodic review of your company's progress provides an opportunity to reflect upon how effective your system is at managing risk and protecting its employees.
As with the above section on monitoring, more important than identifying areas for improvement in the first place are those steps taken within an organisation to positively address them. Demonstrating a continual process of self-improvement can be extremely valuable should any questions be raised about the organisational, or even Board level commitment to the management of health and safety.
Be warned however! Nothing can serve as a greater aggravating factor in the investigation of a workplace incident than finding that the accident could readily have been prevented had a previous audit, review, near miss report etc. been picked up upon and rectified.
No matter how committed your organisation is to the principles of health and safety management, experience suggests that improvements can always be made. More importantly however, significant improvements can be realised from relatively few changes at the top.
On consideration of all of the recommendations above is the paramount role of senior individuals and the positive impact that they can have across all aspects of a company's operations.
As Regulators and Courts will increasingly be looking upwards within organisations following an accident, one of the most effective means of preparing for this and the likely increase in fines to follow is to reappraise your approach to leading health and safety at work, making use of the ever useful IOD guidance.


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Re: VALDEN -- Fairfield, CN - 1820's
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VALDEN -- Fairfield, CN - 1820's
There is a book on the history of Fairfield
County. I haven't seen it in years, but I,m
sure Maria is mentioned. I believe her father is my great-great grandfather, David
H. Valden. And yes, he did own a tannery.
If I can locate the book or any more infor-mation, I will post it.


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Farmland Sale Sparks Protests in China
Since Wednesday, Chinese farmers have been protesting the sale of over 800 acres of farmland to developers. The scene, writes Andrew Jacobs, is not entirely uncommon lately as concerns over environmental justice build.
"In Lufeng, the protests were just the most dramatic manifestation of a long-running battle over land that residents say their ancestors reclaimed from the sea. According to a local Web site, the Lufeng city government has already sold off more than 800 acres of the property for industrial parks and high-priced housing. The proffered compensation per acre, villagers said, has been barely enough to buy a new bed."
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