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Our liver is amazing!
The good news is ~
The liver is quick to heal itself, even when it has become burdened and sluggish.
More About How Does the Liver Work
When I had the diagnosis of pre-cancer of the liver many years ago, I got to work cleansing free radicals, excess cancer cells and other toxins. In a matter of months, the diagnosis was taken away. I am not a practitioner and cannot tell anyone what to do, nor do I know what others need, but the following is a little info to improve liver function.
When the liver is burdened, the wastes build up.
When the liver is overworked and cannot filter out all the toxins that come through in excess, these toxins move into the fat cells for storage throughout the body including the fatty brain tissue. As these organs are dealing with more than they were designed to, they can become overwhelmed. Most of the time, this happens slowly over time. Sometimes diagnoses present themselves, and we are stumped to understand why.
A few of the things our liver does all day long to keep us alive:
- Filters a liter of blood every minute. The average adult has 5 to 6 liters of blood in their body. (In this liter of blood there are lots of toxins that need filtering out.)
- Breaks down and metabolizes everything we swallow, inhale and absorb through the skin 24/7. Easy, peezy when we are younger.
- Produces red blood cells. Red blood cells transport oxygen to our lungs and throughout the body AND they also remove carbon dioxide from the body.
- Stores vitamins, minerals and sugars as fuel (glycogen) for later in the day. After we eat, the liver converts the protein, fats and carbohydrates into energy, storing it, and then releasing all back into the bloodstream whenever our cells need them.
- Creates bile to break down fat. The bile is stored in the gallbladder under the liver. If you do not have a gallbladder, the liver has to take over the job of the gallbladder.
- Manufacturers testosterone and estrogen hormones and helps regulate sex hormone levels.
Suggestions to support the liver:
The following ideas are offered for you to share with your practitioner.
Start wherever you are. No hurry about getting it right.
One step at a time and everything will start improving.
Milk thistle - is an herb that is well known to be therapeutic for the liver.
I either take one capsule twice a day or I drink VelociTea twice a day which contains milk thistle and other herbs that are healing and supportive for liver function.
VelociTea - is a beautiful detox/therapeutic tea one can drink twice a day ~
- Aids liver and gall bladder function.
- A daily gentle liver, kidney, colon and digestive cleanse.
- Helps eliminate parasites, pharmaceuticals etc.
- Can be used daily to flush the body of toxins
- With menopause - woman might notice diminished hot flashes or night sweats
If your practitioner gives you the "go ahead" for a liver detox, consider Liver Rescue at this link >>
(Check with your practitioner for their advice first before any detoxification and to be sure there are no contradictions with medications you are taking.)
What Else?
- Meat and animal foods are a bit harder on the liver than produce.
- What to add to your organic green salad: raw organic beet slices, cabbage, dark green leafy produce such as dandelion greens and kale. These build red blood cells and red blood cells carry oxygen to the lungs and throughout the body.
- If you're brave, EAT small portions of raw, organic beef liver - helps the liver heal from disease.
- The liver loves Spirulina, chlorella and blue green algae as long as they are derived from a good, clean source. These high quality powders are pre-digested, so easy for the body to assimilate. Add two or three tsp to your green drinks or smoothies.
Roto Rooter for the Blood - When the blood is like a swamp, this overloads the liver which has to filter all that debris. Neprinol breaks down blood clots, clumpy platelets and digests fibrin and more. I have used Neprinol daily for about 10 years. When my blood was viewed and magnified under a microscope, it looked like a swamp. Neprinol helped clean it up.
Repairing Tissue in the Body
There are specific cells contained within the bone marrow that assist the body in self healing. There is a patented product called StemEnhance Ultra. When two capsules are taken, our bone marrow is triggered to release approximately 4.5 to 6 million of these specific cells into circulation within a few hours. Once circulating, they seek out damaged or aging tissue, attach, multiple 2000 times and become new cells in the body. These cells can virtually become any tissue.
These are a couple of my favorites for destroying free radicals, parasites and other unwanted pathogens in the body. Found here >>


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In Brief: State Programs and Practices for Reducing Residential Property Taxes
States and localities face the challenge of collecting property and other tax revenues for financing public services and programs, while not creating unduly high tax burdens, especially for lower-income households. Of all local government revenue sources, the one relied on most heavily is the local property tax.
States and localities have a variety of programs and methods that reduce property taxes to homeowners and (in many states) renters. Chief among property tax relief programs are homestead credits, circuit breakers, homestead exemptions, and property tax deferral programs. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia offer homestead credits; 35 states and the District of Columbia offer circuit breaker programs; 40 states and the District of Columbia provide homestead exemptions, and 24 states and the District of Columbia provide property tax deferral programs.
Second, 42 states and the District of Columbia have established caps, limits, or freezes on assessed property values, property tax rates, or total property taxes. Third, many state assessment laws result in residential property owners paying lower property tax bills than commercial or industrial property owners because of differences in how property is valued or in property tax rates in the year 2000. Altogether, 18 states use lower legal assessment levels for residential property than for commercial or industrial property for calculating property taxes. Seven states and the District of Columbia apply lower property tax rates to residential homeowners, compared to commercial and industrial property owners.
When comparing and examining state and local programs and practices for reducing property taxes, it becomes clear that property taxes can, in some cases, be very complex. Property taxes can change for a number of reasons, including the frequency of property assessment, the imposition of caps or limits on annual increases of assessed property values, the imposition of caps on property tax rates, and statutory or constitutional assessment levels.
Homeowners wanting to compare property tax burdens of homes in different communities should not only consider current actual property tax liabilities, but also think about how property taxes could change over time. Moreover, homeowners need to discover and compare the various types of available property tax relief programs that they may be eligible for to get a more accurate picture of their property tax liability.
This paper serves as a guide to understanding how state laws, practices, and programs reduce property taxes for residential homeowners (owner-occupied households) and renters. This paper shows that states have a myriad of programs and practices for reducing property taxes. It was written for state policymakers, retirees, assessing officials, and others who want to know about the factors that influence how residential property tax liabilities can vary among the states.
Written by David Baer, AARP Public Policy Institute
May 2003
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"Start of Increases to Bank Interest Rates ?
Is this the start of bank interest rates increasing ?
Many market guru's have been saying it is quite possible that bank mortgage rates could begin to increase early in 2017.
Mortgage Business advised that as from 23rd November a leading non-major lender ME increased rates for new owner
occupier package home loans and some owner occupier/investor fixed rate home loans to 0.05 percent and 0.15 per cent.
This may have been brought about by the fact that Patrick Nolan ME head of loans said that "Despite the increase ME
variable and fixed rates are some of the lowest rates in the market'. Which could be interpreted as meaning that they had room to move upwards without affecting their share of the market.
Nevertheless with a huge difference in the positive real estate markets in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania compared to negative markets in both WA and NT anything is possible. The fact that despite the Federal Reserve repeatedly lowering interest rates to inspire spending the public have remained with 'hands in their pockets'.
The Reserve Bank is facing some uncertainty and the rising US $ dollar and a strengthening stock market is not making
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Have your say ! Express an opinion !
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Civil service job interview preparation – getting ready to talk with "the man"
Fortunately for job seekers, there are thousands of government jobs filled every year. That doesn't mean, however, that they're easy to land. You have to be prepared to jump through some hoops for these gigs. Should you get one, however, be prepared for a few unique perks....for example, the Pentagon has its own, private Best Buy inside! Essay service help is the best service.
Getting a choice Federal or state government job is the holy grail for some. Up until recently, layoffs were something the other guy had to worry about, the benefits were darn good, and the work, well it wasn't all that tough. That's changed somewhat with the advent of the new economy, but governments everywhere are still hiring, and if you've got the call for an interview, you should prepare diligently for it. This will reveal what steps to take in preparation for a civil service job interview.
Competition for government work has always been fierce, due to the aforementioned advantages, but never has that been truer than today. With the decline in government job totals on both the federal and state levels in many areas, and the relatively high unemployment in the private sector (9% nationally as this is written) you can bet you'll be up against some well-qualified people in your quest to land a government position.
Your best defense here is to ace the civil service test and interview, and here are some powerful techniques to make sure you're the last one standing when the dust settles. Yes, you'll want to take many of the same steps you would interviewing at a private firm, but be ready to take things a few steps further.
All Secure?
First of all, be able to pass a security clearance check. You may not need one for every federal government position, but in many cases, you'll need at least some level of security clearance. Since 9-11 and the gulf war, many heretofore unencumbered agencies have much stricter security protocols than in the innocent past. The DOJ will send people around to check you out, to the extent of asking friends and neighbors about you, should you be seeking a high enough clearance.
Determine if the job you're after is one of those you'll require clearance for, so you can get your ducks in a row, although if you've had some real skeletons in your closet, you're probably out of luck; unless you're running for Congress. That government job still takes about anyone, judging from some of the characters you'll find roaming the halls there.
It's The Same, But Different
Next, you'll want to do everything you would do for a private sector interview; arrive early, dress professionally, shake the interviewer's hand firmly and look in the eye when you meet. You'll also want to bring an air of confidence to the meeting, and have the bearing of someone who can handle the position with aplomb. Practicing for the interview, just as you would for any other job interview is a great idea, and can really help make things flow easily.
One note on arriving early; remember that going through security at some government agencies is akin to getting to the gate at your local airport. It can take a while to get through the checkpoint. After passing through, you may have to be escorted to your interview site, so it may take you some time to get there. Plan head for that, because arriving late is arriving late, no matter that there was a 50 person tour ahead of you at security.
Be ready to field some difficult questions. While it's not unusual for private sector employers to ask why you want to work for them, you'll have to be more convincing with a government interviewer. They are well aware that talented individuals can normally command a better compensation package in the private sector, and they'll want to know what draws you to civil service work. Replying "I hear it's real tough to get fired here." is not a good idea, even if, in fact, that is one of your primary motivations for seeking government employment.
Do Some Digging First
You may have to pass a pre-interview before you get to do the real thing, so be ready for this. This initial screening is just a weed-out process to allow the interviewer to concentrate on the better-qualified candidates. That is why knowing as much about the agency and position you're applying for is paramount. Check up on everything as much as possible, or you may not even make out of the pre-screening process. In addition, for mid level managers on down to entry level jobs, you may be screened over the phone, and not even have to go on the site.
Luckily, there is an abundance of information at your fingertips about almost every federal or state government agency, so your task is much easier than with some small or even larger, privately held private companies. There are entire agencies at the federal government dedicated to nothing more than outputting copious quantities of information on the agency in question. Use this, because the hiring managers expect it, and will question you accordingly.
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The Hon. Jill Hennessy MP, Minister for Health (VIC), officially announced the Gandel Philanthropy-Snowdome Foundation Innovation Fellowship today (Wednesday 24 August, 2016) at the world-renowned Walter & Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI). Research into new therapies
A new study looking at treatments for T-cell lymphoma will be going ahead at Peter Mac thanks to the generosity of Snowdome donors:- the Wolf Foundation, Vision Super (proceeds from the Murray to Moyne fundraising
Our 2015 Annual Review (with 2014/15 financials) is now available to view online. In less than five years, Snowdome support has enabled 13 clinical trials to commence resulting in 225 Australian blood cancer patients gaining access to treatment
Joining the 'Great Shake-Up' again in 2015, Brookfield Multiplex generously signed on as a Platinum sponsor and proceeded to invite building industry colleagues and friends to one of their Melbourne boardrooms to watch and participate in
Congratulations to Snowdome Board member and 2014 Melburnian of the Year, Professor Sharon Lewin, who received Research Australia's most prestigious award at their Annual Awards function on November 18. The Peter Wills Medal recognises an
Nicky Long, one of Snowdome's Directors since foundation in 2011, has resigned her Board position to concentrate on her new role as Chief Executive Officer of Snowdome's affiliate, Maddie Riewoldt's Vision (MRV). Although we are sad
Our 2015 virtual 'Great Shake-Up' event (the one that you don't have to leave the office for) has raised $400,000 to assist Snowdome's fight against blood cancers in Australia. There are not too many events that raise this
Snowdome-supported researchers at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have discovered how a form of leukaemia fights back against a ground-breaking treatment, providing vital new leads on how to outwit the deadly disease. Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)
Our annual 'Great Shake-Up' virtual event is fast approaching and we would love your support and involvement again in 2015 to help us raise $1million for blood cancer research. Streaming live from AFL Media at
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Souvenir Sunday, More Night Views
Here are two more examples of early souvenir images. No Panavues, thank you very much! The Carousel is quite a sight when the sun goes down and all of those kajillions of lights go on. Notice that most of the riders appear to be adults who should be ashamed of themselves. Fun is for children, everybody knows that. Oh, and it wouldn't be a GDB Carousel post if I didn't, for the millionth time, point out that I liked it better when there was a rainbow coalition of horses rather than the albino review (revue?) that's there now. But that's just me.
The Plantation House was a Frontierland icon for many years. I guess people didn't get hungry after dark back in the 50's, 'cause there's nobody there but ghosts waiting for somebody to build a mansion. I like to imagine what it would have been like to sit out on the upstairs balcony on a balmy evening. Frontierland was a lot darker and quieter in those days! Would you be able to see the burning settler's cabin from up there? If you were lucky, the Mark Twain might pass by with Dixieland music. Sounds like heaven to me!


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These are fierce theological times. It should come as no surprise that the Vatican and Islam are not getting along, or that their problems began long before Pope Benedict XVI made his unfortunate reference to the Prophet Muhammad, in a speech in Regensburg last September, and even before the children of Europe's Muslim immigrants discovered beards, burkas, and jihad. There are more than a billion Catholics in the world, and more than a billion Muslims. And what divides the most vocal and rigidly orthodox interpreters of their two faiths, from the imams of Riyadh and the ayatollahs of Qom to the Pope himself, is precisely the things that Catholicism and Islam have always had in common: a purchase on truth; a contempt for the moral accommodations of liberal, secular states; a strong imperative to censure, convert, and multiply; and a belief that Heaven, and possibly earth, belongs exclusively to them.
It is well known that Benedict wants to transform the Church of Rome, which is not to say that he wants to make it more responsive to the realities of modern life as it is lived by Catholic women in the West, or by Catholic homosexuals, or even by the millions of desperately poor Catholic families in the Third World who are still waiting for some merciful dispensation on the use of contraception. He wants to purify the Church, to make it more definitively Christian, more observant, obedient, and disciplined—you could say more like the way he sees Islam. And never mind that he doesn't seem to like much about Islam, or that he has doubts about Islam's direction. (His doubts are not unusual in today's world; many Muslims have them.) The Pope is a theologian—the first prominent theologian to sit on Peter's throne since the eighteenth century. He views the world through a strictly theological frame, and his judgments about Islam, however defiant or reductive they sometimes sound, have finally to do with the idea of Theos—God—as he understands it. Those judgments have not changed much, in character, since he left Germany for the Vatican, twenty-six years ago.
In 1997, when the Pope was still Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and beginning his seventeenth year as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, otherwise known as the Holy Office, or the Inquisition, he told the German journalist Peter Seewald, "Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything. . . . One has to have a clear understanding that it is not simply a denomination that can be included in the free realm of pluralistic society." In 2004, the year before his election to the papacy, he elaborated on that dismissive thought for the German secular philosopher Jürgen Habermas, during a long recorded conversation in Munich. Talking about the "normative elements" in human rights—rights that in the West, by consensus, are not subjected to "the vagaries of majorities"—Ratzinger brought up Islam. He said that "Islam has defined its own catalogue of human rights, which differs from the Western catalogue" and from the West's understanding of the "self-subsistent values that flow from the essence of what it is to be a man"—values that may not be readily apparent beyond "the Christian realm" or "the Western rational tradition." What he does seem to admire about Islam is its insistent presence at the center of most Muslims' lives.
Islam has been in Europe for thirteen hundred years. Arab armies were at the gates of Poitiers, in central France, in 732—only a hundred years after the Prophet died and more than three hundred and fifty years before the start of the First Crusade—and southern Spain was still under Islamic rule in the fifteenth century, some two hundred years after the knights of the Ninth Crusade straggled home. But Benedict is the first Pope to have developed what could be called an active theological policy toward Islam, as opposed to, say, a military or political one—"the first really functioning Pope in the post-September 11th world," Daniel Madigan calls him. Madigan, who is one of the Vatican's most prominent, and liberal, advisers on Christian-Muslim relations, runs the Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures at the Jesuits' Pontifical Gregorian University, arguably the most intellectually independent of Rome's Catholic institutions. It is probably safe to say that many of the faculty had been hoping for a more doctrinally liberated Pope. They acknowledge Benedict, though, as an intellectual, and, from a critical distance, recognize his purpose in what Madigan calls "laying down challenges to Islam, telling Muslims, 'We need to do some hard talking.' "
Still, not even a Jesuit could explain what the Pope intended when he addressed a group of theologians at the University of Regensburg in September, beginning a speech that could best be described as a scholarly refutation of the so-called Kantian fallacy—Kant's distinction between rational understanding and apprehension of the sublime—with a question posed by a fourteenth-century Byzantine emperor to a Persian guest at his winter barracks near Ankara. "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new," the emperor asked the Persian, "and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
The problem for people who actually read the speech (by most reports, very few did) was that the Pope chose not to dispute the emperor's statement. He allowed that the emperor had spoken with a "startling brusqueness," but he did not say whether he disagreed, nor, for that matter, did he acknowledge that Christianity had contributed its share of inhumanity to history. He quoted from the emperor's argument against violent conversion—"God is not pleased by blood, and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature"—and contrasted that with a modern scholarly reading of the Islamist argument for it: "In Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories—even that of rationality." After that, he did not mention Islam again. Marco Politi, the Vatican correspondent for La Repubblica, who heard the speech, says it was "like a typical Protestant Sunday sermon, with the quote as the proposition, the passage to be examined—only it wasn't examined."
People at the Vatican quickly covered for Benedict. Some said that he must have been talking a Regensburg shorthand; he had taught at Regensburg for most of the nineteen-seventies, and it could be argued that, in such a familiar academic context, his disclaimer was implicit. A few joked that, being an academic, he had simply given in to a professionally irresistible temptation to show off with an obscure citation. But many of the Vatican correspondents who, like Politi, travelled to Regensburg with Benedict doubt that there was anything accidental or inadvertent in the citation. They had received copies of his speech at six in the morning of the day he gave it, and, at ten, they assembled in the university's makeshift pressroom and informed the Vatican spokesman, a Jesuit priest and Vatican Radio director named Federico Lombardi, that the passage was going to be incendiary. "The point is that at 10 A.M. somebody got the message that the text was explosive," Politi told me, adding that when the Pope had gone to Auschwitz to speak, last May, "we got copies of that speech, too, and it never mentioned the Shoah, so we said, 'Hey, where is Shoah?,' and he changed it." Putting aside the obvious question of whether reporters should be in the business of saving Popes from embarrassment, the question remains whether Benedict got the message.


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From Adobe Reader, click File, Print, or press Control and P on your keyboard to open print options.All right every one, before we get started designing ur own poster with InDesign I want to show you some posters I made over the years in my studies as a biologist. Here we go with the posters. The poster you see here is the very first poster I made and this is really just this typical wall of text that you see so often. Every one just tries to get as much information on the poster as they can but on a conference no one will stand in front on a poster and read it for 10 minutes. Also you see here that the edge to the border of the paper is not very big. So, actually when I printed this thing and put it into the frame on the wall of our department it was cutting some text on the edges, because the frame was overlapping. So make sure you have also some distance from your text and the border. Also make sure that the color is really emphasizing something important. In this case here the color is emphasizing on something that is more background information and not really your own result. But your poster, it's your poster / your research and you should pitch your results to the person who is looking at your poster, and not some "boring" background information. The next poster was part of my bachelor thesis. As you can see in this poster, putting boxes around your text can give your poster a little bit more structure. However the layout on this poster is still very tight, there is not a lot of (free) space. And if you look clotser you will spot some small arrows that are pointing to the next box you should read. If your poster layout needs arrows to give the reader a guide which panel to read next, your layout is probably not very good. So the poster should have a natural flow and should be self explaining which way it should be read. I also think text wise this is still a little bit to much and you should cut down on the information. Here you see a poster from my bachelor thesis again. this one I made a few years later as part of an English course. And as you can see here, the amount of text is a lot less and also the bars on the side give the poster a nice structure and flow. So it's not confusing, you know where to start reading and which way to go. Actually I stole this poster idea pretty much from another poster. But thats not a big problem, because I think design is always redesign. Look at some posters and get inspired and just take the best parts from each poster for your own poster. At the end of the day, it wont look one to one the same you always will have your own style a little bit in there. I also want to point out that you have a picture of your organism which is always nice, because people might not be familiar with the organism in this case its some fungi on the anthers of the flower (the black dust). And then in the material and methods, you have a nice flow chart which makes it really easy to explain to your viewers what you actually did. And then the most emphasize is of cause on your results. And also the graph here is keep very very simple. And you have a map, which shows some population structure. So with a poster like this, it's really easy to explain the results of your work. This poster I made in my time in Sweden in a group project with some other people where we were working on sustainability. And actually I really like this poster because its very simple. We brought this poster to a conference and it was really nice to discuss the poster in front of people because you have only very little text and a few pictures so it's not overwhelming, it's very clear. And you can point out the important thing of your project very well with the pictures. So it's easy to pitch the main idea to the people who are interested in your poster. Whoever this really depends on the topic you want to present because if you have some scientific experiments and things like this you also need to include some background information and material and methods things. So in this case it was just a (small) project we were working on, not so much data more like a concept on a project that could be implemented in schools to get kids reconnected to nature. This next poster is also a little bit unconventional. This one is about a concept in developed for sustainability to visualise the main idea of sustainability in another way. I actually never had the chance to show this off somewhere but I think still it's a nice layout, because it's not your traditional layout in columns. I mean columns give you a very nice structure. But if we see this poster compared to your standard posters on a conference I'm pretty confident that people get interested in the poster because it just looks different, it stands out. And standing out should also be a goal of your poster to get people interested. However this is kind of a difficult thing because it is scientific data you can't do it like this most of the time. This is more like a louse concept and you don't have the typical structure of your normal poster. But maybe keep in mind that you should have one eye catching element on you poster, even if it's traditionally organised. I always like to look at some info-graphics on the web. So if you do a quick search on google for info-graphics, you will find a lot of them. The funny thing about info-graphics is, they also present some information to you but usually people really like to read them, because they are prepared in a nice visual way. And this is incredibly difficult to really make also with your scientific data because scientific data is a lot of the times very complex. But if you manage to break down your data and make it even a little bit like a info-graphic, I think it will look very nice. So you could set your goal to make an poster that looks like an info-graphic, or even a movie poster or an ad. And if you keep those ideas and concepts in mind, while you're making your poster you poster hopefully will not look like an info-graphic but it also won't look like a boring poster with a lot of text in it. So it really is something in between which which I think is very appropriate for a scientific poster. So it will be visible in the mass of posters you find on conferences but it won't right jump at you in a very negative "too manny colors" way. This one is the latest poster I made, and I had it on two conferences in 2012. And one one I actually won a poster prize YAAAY! ; ) This one is presenting the results of my master thesis. And as you can see here, I have basically two main figures with the results so you really want to cut down on your results, and only show the most important key things. And other than that, it's a pretty standard poster with a two column layout and with a eye catching Dinocras cephalotes, the organism I worked with, on the side here. Also notice again, we have a flow chart for our methods. And one thing I like, the main question and some key conclusions so if someone walks by your poster, he can read the question; what was the goal of the research and then the conclusions what did they find out. And then decide if they are interested in reading the poster further. What is maybe bad about the poster that it's a little bit clouded, could be a little bit less text a little bit more free space and also not every one might be a big fan of the colorfulness of this poster. So with colors it's kind of up to you which colors you like. But don't overdo it with to much colors keep it very consistent with the layout and also the text, don't mix to much stuff. Actually the secret, why I think I won did win poster prize is on the corner right here. I made a video for the poster, so people could take their smartphones and scan the little QR code down here to see a 3 minute video presentation about my work. And if you want to take a look at the video you can click on the poster right now to see that video. And actually as you are watching this video almost to the end, I shall give you another great tip how to win a poster prize. I went to two conferences where this hapend, it's quite funny. Because if you build a moddel of your organism this sounds very stupid, but like build an insect out of some paper or what ever and have it this size and just put it on your poster. Because this really helps your poster to stand out and on two conferences people who did this actually won a poster prize. So even if you don't study biology if you study physics or what not, you could build the star that you are working on of you could build a little house if you are an architect. just something that is sitting in front of your poster and this will really help your poster to stand out and I would say very likely help you win a poster prize. So if you are building something like this, make sure to send me a picture and tell me how it went on the conference. However, don't get to excited, don't get especially your hopes to high for conferences. Sometimes it really can happen that no one cares about your poste ror your topic and you just sit there for two hours and no one is talking to you. this pretty much hapend to one of my posters but then on the next conference I got a prize for it. But don't focus to much on those things, make a great poster because you enjoi doing it and because you think its fun to have a nice looking poster. All right I hope I was able to give you dome do's and dont's. We now going to get into much more detail when we are making the poster and I will point out all the little things you should take good care of. I have chosen to make a poster about how to make a poster, because I think this will help me personally to keep it to 300 words and tell you only the key things that you should really watch out for when you are making your poster. Because I could stay here for one more hour and tell you all the little details but in the end it's really important that the key points on your poster are right. However, I will also if I make a poster about scientific things, about my research again I will also talk about this a little bit more, so that you can also see what it is like to make a scientific poster about your research project. Because I think making a poster about your research, it's a little bit more difficult than making a poster about some arbitrary topic like "how to make a poster" or "what color is the sun" or what ever. So you can click here to go to the next step and there we will open up InDesign and start making our poster. However I really hope you have watched the first video, you can watch it here and check that you have checked of all points in the "What to do before making a poster" check list in the introductory video. So, let's get started!.
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Same Day Poster Printing in Marina District:Posters at the Capitol is an opportunity for undergraduate students who have undertaken research projects mentored by faculty to show off their work, to show it off in a very public location, and to show it off in a location where the money that often supports those projects comes from, the legislature. It's always nice to have some kind of recognition when you put this kind of time and effort into a project. Doing research with the University of Louisville as an undergrad has been a great opportunity for me. The fact that I have gotten to work so closely with other students, professors in the biology department and it's been a great talking piece for applying to graduate schools as well. This event is to call attention to the legislators, to the importance of undergraduate research, to the overall curriculum, and it's for their support for undergraduate curriculum and also for research. It's also important to engage students in research because it helps with retention and graduation rates. Research has been a great opportunity and like I've said it's been a lot of fun, I've really enjoyed it and it's definitely made my career as an undergrad better all around.
EFSA conference 2018 – Science, Food , Society: call for postersTable 1 lists courses we were able to identifyamong the top-ranked MD (research), DNP, and PharmD programs that offered medical communicationsas a main focus and also those that mentioned discussion of advanced topics related to publicationpractices. Rankings are according to US News & WorldReport. The course names and their respective schoolsare provided in the Table. For more information on how "main focus"was defined and the limitations of this analysis, refer to our full poster. We identified a total of 65 possibly-relatedmedical communications courses among 27 MD, 17 DNP, and 13 PharmD programs. The 9 courses listed here were taken fromthe 38 courses we were able to categorize. 6 courses had a main focus on medical communications,whereas 8 courses specifically mentioned advanced topics related to publication practices, suchas journal publication decisions, journal and audience selection, authorship guidelines,writing challenges, critiquing one's own and others' writing, plagiarism, and professionalstandards. Unfortunately we did not find any mentionof publication practice guidelines and the courses did not seem to follow any standardformat. To learn about the rest of our analyses andour conclusions, watch our other videos and view our full poster. The conference is a great opportunityto find collaboration for multidisciplinary approaches. I was presenting a poster based onbiotechnology and microbiology. I really enjoyed the possibility tolook for collaboration, to identify the people who are the most knowledgeablescientists in the topic that I'm working but also to look for new scientistsin other topics that I would like to develop in the future for future projects. I really encourage theearly-career researchers to come to this conference. They will have the opportunityto show their scientific outcome and to collaborate with othercommunity scientists. Don't miss the opportunityto send your abstract to the EFSA conference.
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Italian coordinator sends a message for Cyber Security Month
The European Cyber Security Month represents a great opportunity to raise awareness towards the problems of computer security.
Italy strongly believes in that event, well coordinated by ENISA, and also this year we enthusiastically have accepted to contribute, by raising awareness and encouraging the involvement of national stakeholders, public and private, in the area of networks and information security.
The Higher Institute of Communications and Information Technologies – ISCTI – of the Ministry of Economic Development has been particularly active in promoting this initiative at public events on NIS security and meetings with public and private organizations.
The response has been very positive and it is witnessed by the large number of events that have been organized.
In particular, CLUSIT - Italian Association for Information Security - has organized, in collaboration with 20 Italian universities, about 30 events addressing issues such as employees training, security of mobile devices, computer programming, cyber security exercises, privacy.
Moreover, this year the ECSM falls during the Italian Presidency of the EU, and several initiatives, that have been organized as part of the semester, have found a greater echo because the concurrence with ECSM. I would like to point out the meeting titled "Road-Mapping Cybersecurity Research and Innovation" organized in Florence by the National Council for the Research – CNR - in the context of the Working Group 3 of the NIS Platform. Another event, titled "The Role of Cyber Defence to protect and sustain EU economy" was organized by the Ministry of Defence, in collaboration with, among others, the Ministry of Economic Development.
Rita FORSI
Director General of ISCTI
Italian Ministry of Economic Development


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The second annual Alliance meeting for 2017 was hosted by Sponsor Member Verizon in Basking Ridge, NJ.
The day started off with a keynote from Srini Kalapala, VP of Technology Strategy at Verizon, and was followed by presentations on live OTT quality assurance and streaming latency, among others.
With Annual Board Elections held, Craig Knudsen, Dolby and Yves Boudreau, Ericsson were chosen by the membership to represent the Principal Members in the Board of Directors.
The Working Group discussions included new names for two of the groups and the creation of a new "Edge Storage" sub-group within the Open Caching Working Group, to create the functional technical requirements for storage and optimal architecture when streaming online video


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BLOG: I Am No Longer Afraid
By: Nikki, a BRCA positive previvor, TX
What I am here to offer you today is five generations that have been affected with cancer. We do not know exactly where the BRCA2 gene originated but I will share with you what I do know.
My maternal grandfather, Mike Koval, lived a prolific life. He farmed the North Dakota plains to provide a nice life for his wife and 12 children. In 1967 he was diagnosed with breast-cancer, four years later it took his life. This was a shock to his family and friends (if you didn't know, men can get breast cancet too. About 2000 men/year in the US) but they had no idea what was in store. Two of his sons and five of his daughters would find themselves in a similar fate. One of those seven children was my grandmother, Francis. Now I assume that most of us do not have a lot of memories at the age of four and five. Studies actually indicate that people have no memories prior to the age of three. My first memories involve my grandmother's struggle with cancer. I have memories as a child, driving with my mother to my grandmother's chemotherapy treatment. I remember seeing her loose her hair and I was afraid. My mother assured me it was not contagious. How was she to know that we also had the same gene that was proliferating itself throughout our family. I was five years old when I attended my grandmother's funeral. I remember the devastation on the faces of the seven children and husband that she left behind. I remember wondering, will my mom also die? I was afraid.
Four years later, at the young, invincible age of 29 - my grandmother's daughter, my mother's sister, Terri would hear a diagnoses her mother heard not so long ago – she had breast cancer. Five years later we buried a beautiful mother of two sons. The pain on the children's faces is something nobody should have to witness. How could I describe it to you?
Now I look back and wonder …if the Dr. and my aunt had decided against a breast conserving surgery and decided to move forward with a more aggressive approach, would Terri's life and death have been different? But how were they to know that their decision would ultimately cost Terri her life?
Two years later, another diagnosis rang throughout the family – another daughter, sister and mother heard the words that were now feared by everyone. My aunt Rosie had cancer. After the initial diagnoses, she had her left breast removed and kept her right breast. 5 years, 6 months later, the cancer reoccurred in her other breast. By the time it was detected, it had already spread to her lymph nodes. She fought for 4 more years before the cancer took her life at the age of 42. She left behind 2 daughters and a son.
Fear and sadness shook the family. Who was going to be next?
I was afraid that I would loose my mother like my cousins had lost theirs.
I think it is important to note, that from the initial diagnoses to the time of their deaths, the quality of their lives was less than optimal – to say the least. In both the cases I referenced above, the cancer matastized to their brains and they died a very long and painful death….while their families hopelessly watched.
As I look back, I now realize that a subconscious fear would awaken during certain milestones and moments of my life. I recall going through puberty and developing breasts. While my friends joyously celebrated purchasing their first bras, I wondered if and when my breasts would betray me as they had so many others within my family. By this point in my life, I realized that my mother had been mistaken, breast cancer was contagious, at least within our family, and I was afraid.
When I was 19 years old I went to a routine annual physical. The Dr. conducting my breast exam found something a bit suspicious, I remember feeling the blood drain from my face, was it already time for the inevitable to occur? I was afraid.
At the time, I did not realize that my mother was experiencing the same fear. Parents typically do not share their own fears with their children.
When my mother was 42 years old, a suspicious lump was found. She was tired. She was tired of being afraid. Right then and there she decided that regardless of the results of the suspicious lump, she was going to proceed with a mastectomy. Two Dr.'s refused the surgery; it was too radical and to extreme they said. She was not detured...only more resilient. She found a surgeon that had recently lost his sister to breast cancer and also had a strong family background of breast cancer in his family. Finally, my mother found somebody that understood and listened. Two months later she completed a risk reducing mastectomy with reconstructive surgery. The lump turned out to be benign…it was a wake up call that my mother gave thanks to. I also remember feeling a great sense of relief; I no longer had to feel afraid for my mother. This marked a turning point in my family history.
10 years later my mother's Dr. referred her to a genetic counselor to explore the possibility of genetic testing. After weeks of dialogue and fact finding, the genetic counselor advised my mother not to get the testing. There were a few reasons given for this recommendation. However, I call it paralysis by the analysis. One of the reasons that were given is that there is a possibility that the gene causing cancer in our family is different from the gene being identified in the test (the test identifies 85% of the genes associated with hereditary cancer). Thus, giving a false 'negative'. My response to that was…you have not lost anything you just remain where you are today…in the world of unknown. You have everything to gain and not much to lose.
We were fortunate that my mother had complications unrelated to cancer that prompted her to move forward with a complete oophorectomy regardless of the lack of the genetic testing.
Over the next 10 years we buried a few more of my mother's aunts to cancer. I proceeded to get married and have a beautiful daughter and the most handsome of sons. My fears shifted….I was now afraid of prematurely leaving my children.
When I was 30 years old a friend of mine in the health care industry told me a bit more about genetic testing and how it was advancing. I was interested in pursuing the testing but where do I start? What does the testing entail?
Stephen Covey states that it is human nature to focus on the urgent items in our lives – Urgent means it requires immediate attention NOW! Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. We react to urgent matters. Important matters, on the other hand, that are not urgent require more initiative. Genetic testing fell into this category. We must act to seize opportunity, to make things happen. Genetic testing was important; however the urgent things in life were taking a priority (career, kids, husband, etc.). For the next two years, my quest for genetic testing would surface during my annual OBGYN visit. I would inquire; my OBGYN would get a confused look on her face and give me a phone number to "try". The phone number would ultimately lead me to "nowhere" and once again the genetic testing would get placed on the back burner. On my 33rd birthday I decided that it was time to make this testing an urgent/important priority in my life. I had a very real understanding that I would turn 34 on my next birthday, the same age that my aunt died of breast cancer. I no longer could delay my quest for knowledge. I contacted my friend that was in the healthcare industry to see if she would do some research as to where I could get the testing done in my area. After doing some research she provided me with a name and number of a nurse practitioner that could do the blood test. Blood test? Is that all there is to it? If it is just a simple blood test, why was it so difficult for me to be led down the right road?
October 18th of 2006, my blood was drawn. Tuesday November 14th I received my results, I was BRCA2 Positive and I was NO LONGER AFRAID. I was no longer afraid because the unknown was now known. I was empowered with choices! I no longer felt like prey waiting for the inevitable.
I remember sharing the information with my mother. It was a difficult conversation to have. We both cried. My mother cried tears a mother cries when something is wrong with their children and because she knew the gene came from her.
We cried for the people that had passed before us that were not privy to this information.
I proceeded to weigh my options and decided to take a 2 stage approach. The first phase was to move forward with a risk reducing mastectomy with reconstruction surgery. The next step was to address my extreme ovarian cancer risk, which I now knew I had.
February 22nd of 2007, I underwent my risk reducing mastectomy with reconstructive surgery. My mother was there holding my hand and I felt so thankful that I still had her in my life – for yet another milestone. Four days after my surgery, my husband was driving me home. We passed by the Nurse Practitioners office that drew my blood and I asked him to stop. I went into her office, gave her a hug and thanked her for saving my life. I told her that she was my guardian angel.
A lot of people have asked me if my decision to have the mastectomy was difficult. The answer is no. The decision was not difficult. I knew the women in my family that lost their lives to breast cancer – I know that if they had been given the choice to see their children graduate high school, experience their first loves, get married, see their grandchildren, they would have done whatever necessary to make that happen. I feel sadness that they did not have the knowledge that I so gratefully have.
Now some of you may be interested in my sibling's response to the information that we have the BRCA2 gene in our family. I have two brothers. My older brother is your typical single male, resistant to Dr's. At this time, he has no intention of pursuing the test.
My younger brother, however, has a different perspective. He has children of his own. His initial question was, if I have the test and test negative, will I ever have to have this conversation with my children…I told him no, he would not. He then stated, I don't go to the Dr. much but the next time I have any blood work done, I will include the test for this gene. I informed him it was not that easy. We would have to do some research to find somebody in his area that could do the blood test.
Then I thought to myself, it should be and needs to be easier. It is the year 2009 and we have the ability to personalize medicine and prevent cancer in patients that have the highest risk of enduring this horrific disease. I felt and still feel; somebody has to do something. Then I realized…..the somebody is me and all of you. It is our generation that is going to make the difference in terms of the availability of these tests.
Roughly 56% of my great-grandfathers children have been affected with cancer. It now is affecting the generations of his grandchildren and great grandchildren. The statistics continue to startle me. I recently learned that his last remaining son – who is a breast cancer survivor, had four daughters. EVERY SINGLE ONE of them has had breast cancer. That is 100% of his children!
Think about the five generations of my family, how this gene has impacted 5 generations. Think of how many other generations are going to benefit from this knowledge. Earlier this evening, it was stated that this gene impacts 5-10 % of the population – which equals 20-40 thousand cases each year. However, that number only is indicative of one generation. We all know that this gene is not isolated to one generation. It continues to proliferate itself. You have the ability to make a difference to generations and generations of people that have this identified gene in their family. I implore you, to ask the extra questions to respond to your patients needs. My children, your children and your patients children are going to benefit or not from the decisions that we make today.
The picture behind me is a picture of my mother and her 3 sisters. They were all in their 20's with hopes and dreams of the future. In the earlier presentation, it was stated that a parent has a 50/50 chance of passing the BRCA gene onto their children. 50 % of the women in this picture are dead….the women on your right, in this picture, are gone.


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At Frame Awards 2020, Vitra CEO Nora Fehlbaum charted recent shifts in home design and offered her insight into where we're headed next.
Seoul – Balancing individual and collective needs, Berlin practice Kinzo turned the 21st floor of the David Chipperfield Architects-designed Seoul HQ into an employee hub.
Weil am Rhein – Virgil Abloh's key question behind his Vitra spin-off collaboration? 'What is the future if designers aren't brave enough to tackle new territory?'
Milan – Streaming video killed the TV star – that is, the former star of the living room. In Milan, design houses partnered with electronic manufacturers to counter that.
Cologne – From Mies van der Rohe to Gropius, from Thonet to Vitra, here are our favourite re-editions from the 2019 IMM Cologne fair.
Answering the need for escapism in turbulent times, a 'night fever' epidemic hits the retail, entertainment and hospitality industries.
MILAN – Pierattelli Architects pushes the boundaries of Milan's urban reclamation and ecological projects with an installation that's green in more ways than one.
Milan – In just a few days, the entire design world will be attending and contributing to the vibrant city-wide phenomenon. With so much to do and see, don't miss our editors' …
AMSTERDAM – Facilitated by Raphael Gielgen of Vitra, the hackathon takes place amongst the talks, workshops and exhibitions at Frame Lab on 21 and 22 February.
Amsterdam – Designers from across the globe are addressing critical issues and sharing their insights to the future of work and living spaces.
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates – The design of Chef Maroun Chedid's new restaurant by Pallavi Dean Interiors takes inspiration from the chef's multicultural concept and personal …
LONDON – London-based Swedish designer Pernilla Ohrstedt has a specific spatial vision. In the architecture, installations and experiences she designs, spaces are seen, sensed and …


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We showed you how to install the Google Play edition software on your HTC One, and we gave you five great reasons why you should at least try it. But we understand that stock Android isn't for everyone. And in regards to the HTC One, it comes with a handful of sacrifices, such as infrared support, much-needed camera optimization, and all the different software that made the HTC One such a great device.
Fortunately, going back to stock is just as simple as flashing the Google Play edition ROM. And if you took our advice and flashed a backup of your Sense ROM, it's even more simple. Watch this video to learn how to return your HTC One to the factory software!


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"Out of sight, out of mind." Right? Just put those clothes away, put your pens and paper back in the drawer and hey presto! Functional student workspace, right? Until your clothes actually prevent you from closing your wardrobe, or you can't shut your desk drawers due to an ungodly paper jam.
Perhaps you haven't experienced these exact situations, but we all know what a drag it is to clean up – especially if you're cleaning up in order to work. I stumbled upon some minimalist living blogs earlier this year, and they've changed my outlook in a great way.


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COLCHESTER -- Agriculture in Vermont depends more heavily on a single commodity -- dairy -- than in any other state. Yet despite efforts to diversify the farm sector, sales of most nondairy products have remained relatively flat since 1991.
These are among the findings of "Vermont in Transition," a 156-page book filled with data on everything from population and affordability to education, crime and energy use over the past two decades. The report suggests that popular fears of Vermont's youth brain drain might be exaggerated, and that Vermonters no longer fall far beyond the rest of the country in median family income -- thanks in part to an above-average employment rate for women -- but that Vermont still has a cost of living well above the national norm.
...Vermonters value the working landscape, poll results show, so one of the key challenges over the next 20 years will be to promote the growth of new agriculture, said Paul Costello, executive director of the Council on Rural Development. Yet in the face of a dairy-dependent sector accounting for about 77 percent of the state's agricultural sales, Kessel said, agricultural diversification still has a long way to go. Meanwhile, Vermont's dairy farms are dwindling, and those that remain are getting bigger on average, the data indicate.