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PETA has always been unwittingly plagued by massive inconsistencies in logic. Even its name exposes PETA to the pitfalls of equivocation. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. So, if animals are people too, then what does PETA even mean? Some Animals for the Ethical Treatment of Arbitrarily Chosen Other Animals? Are humans the only people? Or should animals be held to the same ethical standards as humans? Why should some animals be allowed to viciously "murder" and eat other animals, but humans should all be vegetarian? All of these questions are left conveniently unanswered by an organization built on emotional knee-jerk reactions over against sound ethical reasoning.
Because if humans are merely animals, then humans should be allowed the same ethical leeway that we allow animals. Or, conversely, if animals are people too, then we should hold them to the same standards of ethics we apply to ourselves. For instance, did PETA condemn orcas for hunting and killing a baby whale in one of the more vicious displays of cunning and violence ever recorded?
In comparison, Walter Palmer's hunting of Cecil the Lion is downright merciful. But that hasn't kept PETA from calling for Walter Palmer's execution. PETA posted this to their twitter account recently:
Because shooting #CecilTheLion in the park would have been illegal, he [Walter Palmer the Dentist Hunter] needs to be extradited, charged, &, preferably, hanged.
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Hanged? Are you serious? Let's talk about Cecil the lion. He hunted and killed animals right? He fought with collared lions and may have even killed some of his competitors. So why didn't PETA call for his execution? I fail to see why one animal hunter should get a pass when another animal hunter does not. Unless animals are not people. Or people are not animals. Either of which would put PETA in a logical pickle that it, of course, fails to acknowledge.
And here's the real shame of this whole situation. Leftist media outlets have said almost nothing about Planned Parenthood since shocking videos revealed some top Planned Parenthood people knowingly harvested and auctioned off the body parts of aborted babies. Trafficking human body parts is illegal by the way. And probably worse than shooting a lion someone lured out of a protected animal park. Can you imagine what PETA would say if some companies were bidding for the body parts of unborn lion cubs from protected parks? Yet almost none of the people weeping over Cecil the lion have shed a tear over the millions of dead babies Planned Parenthood has butchered and parceled out to the highest bidder. If PETA is so concerned for the ethical treatment of animals, why not the ethical treatment of humans? Are we not animals in their eyes?
Nope. No such luck. PETA is completely in favor of the death penalty for one animal species: human beings. They are appalled and aghast when a lion is killed, but they don't even hesitate to call for the execution of the lion's human hunter. An eye for an eye and a tooth and claw for a tooth and claw, I guess. So when will PETA be setting up court systems in the Serengeti to try vicious animal predators for murder? I wouldn't hold your breath.
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Two Police Officers Shot in Ferguson
Two police officers were shot early Thursday morning outside the Ferguson, Mo., police department, according to a police spokesman. Photo: AP
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Definition of Associates degree:
Two-year college degree from a community college, university, college, or career school. Associates degrees are normally earned with about sixty college credits, including general education courses, electives, and courses required toward a specific college major. Most associates degrees are awarded in business, health, engineering, information technology or early childhood education, and may include an Associate of the Arts degree, Associate of Science degree, or an Associate of Applied Science degree. The recipient of an associates degree can then transfer the credits toward a four year, bachelors degree program.
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Writers Bloc Hosts Conversation With Ruth Rendall
Literary and cultural series Writers Bloc keeps selling out events. We'd like to see discussions with John Irving and Matthew Weiner, but tickets are no longer available for either. If you're a fan of mystery writer Ruth Rendell, you might want to buy tickets now. From the event website:
Fans of P.D. James will love Ruth Rendell, creator of the terrific Inspector Wexford series of great police procedurals, also writes as Barbara Vine. Baroness Rendell is one of the most prolific of our favorite mystery writers, and her newest is The Monster in the Box: An Inspector Wexford Novel. Her novels are deeply psychological explorations of both the good guys and the bad guys. What makes her novels so thrilling and satisfying is that nothing is cut and dried in a Rendell or Vine novel – her characters and their situations are rich and complex. Rendell's strong sense of social justice lift her novels from genre fiction to the best of literary fiction. In conversation with April Smith, one of LA's favorite crime novelists.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at the ICM Screening Room, 10250 Constellation Blvd., Century City, at 7:30 p.m.
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I wasn't going to see Priest until I read Noah Berlatsky's critique. I could tell from the trailer that it wasn't offering anything new, nor was it going to even try. Indeed, it is cobbled together from clichés, tropes and designs borrowed from other films -- many of which would best be forgotten, as well. There's not one, but two "I won't let you / don't you let go" scenes as someone is dangling from the hero's hand. The villain conducts while his minions play a catastrophe on a town, just so you know how evil he is. Black Hat, the villain, is a former member of the superpowered priesthood, now corrupted by vampire blood, making him more powerful than both the pureblood vamps and the priests. The vampires are based on the same boring, wormlike design that was used in I Am Legend -- preferred, I guess, because it's generic and doesn't require eyes. Black Hat's main plan is get his old friend, Priest, to join him as a halfbreed and take over the world for the vampire queen. The worst offense is that the action is yet another uninspired appropriation of The Matrix's bullettime. Why, then, did I see it? Because Berlatsky argues that the film is virulently racist, and I can't stay away from films that unintentionally go horribly ideologically wrong. He had my hopes up for another 300 or the aforementioned I Am Legend, but is it a "racist piece of shit," or just shit?
The film's one innovation -- if you can call it that -- is borrowing the basic plot from The Searchers. In John Ford's classic, the Comanche kidnap Ethan Edwards' (John Wayne) niece, torch his brother's homestead and kill most of the family. The vampires do the same to Priest's (Paul Bettany) family, bringing him out of forced retirement to find his "niece" (actually, his biological daughter), and, thus, against the direct commands of the church state that he serves. The heroes are accompanied by the nieces' suitors, both of whom intend to keep the girls alive against the uncles' vows to kill their nieces if they show signs of infection -- cultural in the case of the Indians and genetic in the case of the vampires (or, I guess you might say, genetic mutation determines an ideologico-moral shift in the latter). It's the substitution of vampires for Indians in the plot that is central to Berlatsky's condemnation:
[I]f the Indians are vampires, suddenly you don't have to shilly-shally. One by one the Western set pieces are trotted out and stripped down to their primal level of racist hatred and fear. The (white) family of peaceful farming folk out on the frontier is beset, utterly without cause, by slavering, hideous eyeless beasts. The reservation on which the vampires are herded is an impoverished, backwards tract of dirt—surrounding a slimy, stinking pit of sub-human insectoid breeding and bloodletting.
[...] But, of course, where Ford's film at least intermittently sees Ethan's bloody-minded racial panic as a monstrosity, in Priest there is no such bleeding heart nonsense. Racial mixing deserves death, period, and even Hicks has to admit that Priest's absolute anti-miscegenation stance is the only true morality.
His hyperbolical reaction rests on one faulty assumption that seems to me fairly obvious: borrowing a plot doesn't entail the same intent or interpretation of that intent for the stories sharing the plot. As Roger Ebert put it, The Searchers has a nervous racial politics in the way it attempts to walk the line between the legitimate fear Euro-American settlers had for the Comanche and the genocidal solution that many, such as the character of Ethan, promoted. Berlatsky would have it that by substituting the vampires in the role of the Other, the nervousness is taken away, making genocide a moral solution to the settlers fear of the Comanche.
Even though he refuses to admit it (confer his article's comments section), the use of monsters of pure evil instead of humans from a different cultural tradition necessitates a different interpretation of storytelling intent. Granted, monsters often serve an allegorical role, but this role isn't merely determined by their placement within a plot. Rather, I suggest content of the villain role is crucial here -- i.e., the form doesn't determine (top-down) the way the content is to be interpreted. When Dirty Harry rails against the liberal bureaucrats in San Francisco, that suggests (regardless of the intent of the filmmakers) something about the realworld bureaucratic organization of a realworld city. It asks the audience to temporarily identify with a perspective (right-wing and reactionary) about something that actually exists for the movie to work the way it does. The vampires represent the Comanche (or Indians in general) only if one assumes that they do. And the only reason for assuming that they do is because of Priest's sharing a plot with a film about white settlers and the Comanche. But imagine a story where a girl is kidnapped by a Nazi group who intend on raising her with pure Aryan racialist beliefs (this idea shares similarities with the horror film Frontier(s)). Her uncle, a vehement Nazi-hunter, goes after her with the intent of killing her if she's been ideologically contaminated. I suspect his intention would find more sympathy from contemporary audiences than Ethan's, based as it is on a hatred that's considered more morally justified than hatred of Indians. Using Berlatsky's rationale, the Nazi-hunter would be just as bigoted as Ethan.
However, even for the individual who finds Comanche beliefs as insidious and heinous as the Nazi's, there would be a monstrousness to either of the uncles' decisions to kill his own kind that simply doesn't obtain in Priest's situation: the ideological change in the niece is psycho-cultural in the former two instances, but genetic in the latter. One doesn't learn the evil of vampirism; it's a cancer that rapidly takes over the mind and body with the exchange of blood. The person that you were is really dead; what remains is an evil simulation. A white girl raised as a Comanche or Nazi continues to possess agency and can, therefore, be responsible for her actions. Her beliefs could change again. Ethan's racism is shown in the way he takes the Comanche and their culture to be something like vampirism, robbing his niece of her agency and replacing it with an evil, inhuman mockery of her former self. He finds some redemption when he embraces her in the end, despite her Comanche ways. Contrariwise, Priest would be mistaken to assume a vampiric version of his niece still possessed moral accountability -- a mistake that would result in more people being killed as the undead virus spreads like the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The vampires in Priest represent a pure, evil Otherness, a group that shares no moral beliefs with and has none for the Orwellian church-state that the humans live under. (As dumb as this film is, it's actually a good deal more politically complicated than Berlatsky makes it out to be: many human ethnicities live under the totalitarian regime that probably isn't much better than the collectively minded existence of the vampires.) Whatever fear the filmmakers attempt to create using vampires is rooted in an abstract fear that underlies all fear of things we don't understand, or can't integrate within our own cultural codes. Who the hell fears the Indians these days? Racism enters the picture only when someone chooses to treat real humans as if they were these vampires. But the only person making that connection is Berlatsky.


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In a recent post I mentioned Mom's fascination with her aunt Laura's house and deceased family members. Starting last week while Mom was eating breakfast, she camly looked up from her plate and said, "I've been wondering about my mom lately, how's she doing?"
Well several seconds later, after the shock wore off, reluctantly I explained that grandma had passed away nearly 20 years ago. Surprisingly she calmly replied, "I thought maybe she had."
That brief conversation seemed to have put her mind at ease and put the issue to rest. Which it did, but only for a couple days.
Then it happened. Last night during dinner, Mom told us that they day before she had met up with her mom and they had taken the casino bus to the casino. OK, now that's not a cable car but I can understand the confusion. I asked if they had a good time together and she thought they did. She also mentioned that it was nice spending time with her mom again.
I'm not sure if mom is dreaming all of this or regressing while she's awake, so I'll do some research and see what I can lean.
About the second half of the title, I no longer sleep much. I slept less than three hours last night, one hour at a time. I gave up at 4:00 AM and started this post around 5:00 lol
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For years, the curling iron was the go-to for curling hair. Whether you wanted beachy waves or tight curls, the curling iron was your tool for everything.
With the introduction of the curling wand a few years ago, the curling iron began to take second place to this new, innovative heat styling tool for a few reasons – hair creases from the curling iron's clamp can be annoying and hard to get rid of, and curling irons tend to be capable of giving a very specific size of curl depending on the size of the barrel.
However, the curling wand offers a range of perfect curl types without either of the above problems.
The clamp-free design makes the process simple and crease-free: just wrap a section of your hair around the wand, wait a few seconds, and slide the wand out from within the curl.
It's that easy, and women all over the world began to make the curling wand their favourite hair tool. It's modern and effective in creating those gorgeous curls of any size.
If you're new to the world of the curling wand or clueless about how to curl your hair, here are a few simple tips that will go a long way to help you get stunning results every time.
- Deep condition your hair before curling it, when possible. Any time you apply heat to your hair, you're depriving it of water.
Curling already-dehydrated hair makes your strands more susceptible to damage, but deep conditioning your hair beforehand ensures that your hair is adequately hydrated to withstand the heat.
What's more, hydrated hair is less likely to frizz out!
- Heat protectant is not an option – it's a must. A good silicone-based heat protectant provides a barrier between your hair and the direct curl of the barrel of the curling wand.
This way, your hair won't develop split ends, lose its curl pattern or become dry and fried.
- Use the correct heat setting. Far too many times, women believe that the higher the heat, the more effective the result.
This isn't true and can leave your hair permanently damaged. Thick hair and fine hair aren't created equal, and every woman should test out heat settings before committing to one.
Start at the lower end of the spectrum and work your way upwards only if it is absolutely necessary. Don't sacrifice the health of your hair for a beautiful outcome!
- If you have short hair – learn How To Curl Short Hair with A Curling Wand
Now that you're a bit more knowledgeable on why the curling wand deserves all of its popularity and how to have a successful outcome, let's talk about some of the curling wands that deserve the spotlight.
These five curling wands are among some of the best available, and they certainly won't disappoint.
1Silver Bullet Fastlane Ceramic Curling Wand
This easy-to-use, ceramic curling wand is a crowd favourite. It's modern and sleek, but its features aren't just for show – it also gets the job done!
It comes equipped with 25 heat settings for maximum versatility, which means that whether you need high, medium or low heat for your hair type, you'll find exactly what you need.
Like many other curling wands, the Silver Bullet Wand barrel tapers. It's wider at the base and smaller at the tip.
You're perfectly in control when it comes to creating the curl size you want. Wrap your hair closer to the base for a bigger curl or closer to the tip for a tighter, springier curl.
It's easy to hold – no cramping after holding it for a long period of time – and even has a cool tip to prevent you from burning your fingers. Simple and quick, you'll love the results you get from this curling wand.
2Babyliss PRO Glitz Titanium Wand
There's not a conversation about high-quality heat styling tools that don't include Babyliss.
The brand has it covered when it comes to flat irons, blow dryers, curling irons and of course, curling wands.
This particular wand is certainly salon-standard greatness; perfect for pros and newbies alike. The barrel itself is made of a titanium-ceramic blend, which means durability and great heat-conducting abilities.
The ceramic also ensures that hair turns out smooth, bouncy and shiny, thanks to those negative ions!
You can achieve both tight and loose curls with this wand, and you're treated to eleven heat settings to choose from.
Every setting assures even, controlled heat distribution, ensuring that no particular spot on the barrel gets hotter than the rest and burns your hair.
Your curls won't drop before their time, either, so there's no need to worry! Say hello to perfection when you purchase the Babyliss Curling Wand.
Here's a curling wand that does its job regardless of hair type. Straight, wavy, curly or kinky, you can be sure that all strands can achieve great results across the board.
You will need to prep your hair differently if it's curly or kinky by detangling or blow-drying your hair before using the wand, but it's a small price to pay for the results that you'll receive!
Delivering body and flowing locks, the Cloud 9 Wand definitely places you on cloud nine when you look in the mirror and see just how gorgeous you look.
The heat settings only range from low, medium and high heat, but each setting delivers just the right temperature to ensure a stunningly perfect result.
Big, round movie star-type curls are a popular choice with this wand – achieve the old Hollywood look with little effort! With the addition of the swivel cord and the easy-to-use design, you're all set.
4Babyliss PRO Glam Titanium Wand
This legendary, iconic curling wand is yet another offering from the professionals at Babyliss.
Like with all Babyliss tools, quality barrel material is at the heart of this tool's success.
Titanium-ceramic comes into the spotlight to deliver that smooth, frizz-free finish you're looking for, and you won't be disappointed by dropped curls after just a few hours of wear.
Stubborn hair, fine hair, coarse hair or short hair – the Babyliss PRO Glam conquers them all with no damage when used correctly.
Auto shut off means that you don't have to worry about accidentally leaving it on, giving you much more room to focus on the more important things… like your brand-new hair and all of the stares and compliments, you'll be sure to get from it!
From another well-known name in the market of heat styling tools, this curling wand by Remington is another fan favourite.
Getting things started quickly with a 30-second heat-up time and temperatures up to 410 degrees Fahrenheit, this wand wastes no time in guaranteeing results.
Made of trusted ceramic, this wand is sturdy, durable and effective. In other words, it does its job perfectly!
You're sure to get a smooth finish, thanks to the quality of the ceramic barrel, whether your goal is slight waves, tousled curls or perfect spirals.
If you have thick hair or long hair and you're looking for a wand that can get the job done with no problem, try the Remington!
It tackles any length and thickness in a breeze. You'll be asking yourself why you had ever tried any other curling tool before this one!
You might be used to the old-school design of the curling iron, but it may be time to try something that can totally change the way you curl your hair and what type of results you get.
The tapered barrel of the curling wand and its simple design makes curling your hair a simple task no matter your length or thickness.
Every woman deserves to feel beautiful, and with the help of these five picks, you can make that dream come true.


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Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
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College of Agriculture, Communities, and the Environment
The College of Agriculture, Communities, and the Environment works to uphold the mission of the University through its commitment to research, Extension, and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences. The College is organized around five divisions:
- Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Aquaculture
- Environmental Studies and Sustainable Systems
- Food and Animal Science
- Family and Consumer Sciences
The CAFSSS works to resolve agricultural, educational, economic, and social problems of the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, especially limited-resource persons and families. The various programs of the College are supported by federal and state funds. Each of the five Divisions works to fulfill the requirements of the Morrill Act of 1890 by advancing the three pillars of the land grant mission: research, extension, and teaching which Land Grant programs nationwide were founded upon.
The CAFSSS has nationally and internationally recognized research programs in aquaculture or fish farming, organic agriculture, sustainable biofuel feedstock production, alternative fruit and nut crops, ecological entomology, alternative pesticides and water quality, goat production, obesity and human health, and apiculture. The Aquaculture Program, KSU's "Program of Distinction," is widely recognized as being a national and international leader in the areas of paddlefish culture, freshwater prawn culture, Koi breeding, production of largemouth bass on-feed, and fish meal replacement research for catfish and hybrid striped bass. Additionally, KSU boasts the largest multi-disciplinary team organic agriculture program in the 1890s Land Grant system; recently released its first pawpaw fruit variety, KSU-AtwoodTM; and created the "Shape Up-KSU" program for assessing risk factors for metabolic syndrome in African-American young adults.
These research programs provide mentoring opportunities for students in degree programs as well as faculty experienced in cutting edge research techniques in areas important to agricultural, aquaculture, food, and environmental sciences. The Atwood Research Facility contains 7,000 square feet of office space and 7,000 square feet of laboratory space, including a molecular genetics laboratory and nutrition laboratory. KSU's Aquaculture Research Center (ARC) includes 33 research ponds, a 3,000-square-foot hatchery houses spawning, holding, and experimental tanks, and a 4,000-square-foot office/laboratory building includes a state-of-the-art histology laboratory, offices, and conference/classroom space. Augmenting these facilities are KSU's 300 acre Research and Demonstration Farm and its 300 acre Environmental Education Center. The KSU farm has goat, beef, poultry, and fruit and vegetable trials, and 11 acres of certified organic land which hosts a range of projects in organic agriculture.
Extension and Outreach
The Cooperative Extension Program (CEP) provides education and technical assistance to limited-resource families and communities by meeting the needs of homemakers, farmers, youth, the elderly, and many others. Some Extension programs provide one-on-one opportunities where paraprofessionals work directly with family members. The CEP has nationally and internationally recognized programs in: family and consumer sciences, family development and management, family financial management and consumer education, Small farmer outreach training and technical assistance, apiculture, goat production, community resource development, entrepreneurship, 4H and youth development, and Hispanic initiatives. Program accomplishment include: the 3rd Thursday Sustainable Agriculture Workshop series, the Strengthening Kentucky Families (SKY Families) Program providing parenting education classes to persons who have lost custody of their children through the family court system, award-winning programs in financial management, and the Small and Part-time Farmer Program.
Extension program facilities include the new Center for Sustainable Farms and Families, a $5 million dollar, 12,000 square foot, 600-seat building at the KSU Research and Demonstration Farm and the Cooperative Extension Building, which also houses a television studio and state-of-the-art communications equipment available for use by all of CAFSS. The geographic information systems (GIS) laboratory is also located in the Cooperative Extension Building and is utilized by students, faculty and by agricultural research and extension staff to support their activities.
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Today's world needs people prepared to solve global challenges related to agribusiness,
climate change, a safe and reliable food supply, protection of natural resources,
improved nutrition, public health, and alternative energy sources. The United States
Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Labor predict significant job growth
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renewable energy, and environment. Increased demand is expected for agricultural
inspectors, environmental scientists and specialists, including health, agriculturists and food scientists, soil and plant scientists, conservation scientists, forest and conservation technicians, agricultural and environmental law, public and agricultural policy, biotechnology, fisheries, and wildlife, economic development, and agricultural communications. A degree from KSU"s CAFSSS will prepare graduates for a variety of jobs in these fields.
The CAFSSS baccalaureate degree program in Agriculture, Food, and Environment (AFE) with four individual Options in Agricultural, Food, Environ-mental, and Aquaculture Systems is offered to allow training of graduates in these growth areas in the U.S. economy. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students from diverse backgrounds will develop a broad understanding of relationships between agricultural and aquaculture systems, food safety, and the environment.
The CAFSSS also offers Masters degrees in Aquaculture/Aquatic Science, and Environmental Studies (MES).


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Mirena is an intrauterine device (IUD) that has been linked to a rare brain disease that can cause chronic headaches and blindness. Over 100 lawsuits have been filed by women who accuse Bayer of failing to warn about these risks.
What You Can Do & How We Can Help
The Schmidt Firm, PLLC is currently accepting Mirena induced brain injury cases in all 50 states. If you or somebody you know has been diagnosed with Pseudotumor Cerebri (PTC) or Intracranial Hypertension, you should contact our lawyers immediately for a free case consultation. Please use the form below to contact our Defective Medical Device Litigation Group or call toll free 24 hours a day at (866) 920-0753.
Mirena is a type of birth control known as an intrauterine device (IUD). Mirena is sold by Bayer HealthCare and it was approved by the FDA in 2000. Since then, more than 2 million woman have used Mirena. It is more than 99% effective at preventing pregnancy for up to five years.
How Does Mirena Work?
Mirena is inserted into a woman's uterus (womb), where it slowly releases levonorgestrel (a synthetic version of the hormone progestin). It thickens cervical mucous, which helps prevent sperm from entering the uterus. It also makes the lining of the uterus thinner, which reduces the chances that a fertilized egg will implant and grow.
Brain Injuries Linked to Mirena
In early 2014, Bayer was hit with nine lawsuits accusing them of downplaying risk information about brain injuries from Mirena, including:
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)
- Pseudotumor Cerebri (PTC)
- Benign Intracranial Hypertension (BIH)
Over 100 Mirena Brain Injury Lawsuits
Attorneys petitioned a panel of federal judges to centralize the litigation in May 2014. However, in August, the judges denied the petition because there were only 9 lawsuits. The number of lawsuit has grown substantially since then. In December 2016, with at least 116 lawsuits in 17 district courts nationwide, lawyers filed another request to centralize the lawsuits in one court.
FDA Warning Letters for Mirena
In December 2009, the FDA sent a Warning Letter (PDF) to Bayer due to a promotional program for Mirena. The marketing program featured parties hosted by experts who claimed that Mirena could help a woman "look and feel great," improve a woman's sexual relationships, and quality of life. According to the FDA:
"The program overstates the efficacy of Mirena, presents unsubstantiated claims, minimizes the risks of using Mirena, and includes false or misleading presentations regarding Mirena."
The FDA also pointed out that many women do not "feel better." In fact, about 5% of women who use Mirena actually reported a decrease in libido, which could potentially harm sexual relationships.
Failure to Warn About Side Effects
The FDA also sent Bayer a Warning Letter (PDF) in March 2009. This time, the FDA was concerned that Bayer's sponsored links on internet search engines are misleading because they make representations and/or suggestions about the efficacy of Mirena, but fail to communicate any risk information.
By law, advertisements for drugs and medical devices must include risk information. By omitting important risk information, including the most frequently occurring risks and side effects, the ads misleadingly suggest that Mirena is safer than it really is. By August 2013, the FDA had received over 70,000 reports of adverse events associated with Mirena.
Do I have a Mirena Lawsuit?
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Nobu is a high-end sushi restaurant chain intent on world domination. It has 26 locations around the globe including Cape Town, Hong Kong, Milan and Moscow, and will open its first Nobu Hotel in Las Vegas in the next few … Continue reading →
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An American in Parish
Eastside hipsters who live Downtown and in Silverlake are different from Westside hipsters in Venice, and not just in terms of hat styles and facial hair. So when I heard that Casey Lane, venerated chef of The Tasting Kitchen on … Continue reading →
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Farewell to Fine Dining
Nothing lasts forever and restaurants are certainly no exception. The first major restaurant casualty of the year is The Royce at The Langham Hotel in Pasadena, which will close its doors on January 26th. The sad thing about this shuttering … Continue reading →
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500 Days of Scones
Last year I rejected the hackneyed New Year's resolution to eat healthier and instead I boldly declared my resolution to eat more pie. That was so 2012. As we begin 2013, I feel we are entering a new era, an … Continue reading →
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So I recently wrote about the idea of having a purpose-built/created technology cluster or building(s) in London which I whimsically called "TechHub". (As London is a big city the tech scene has always been incredibly spread out, with no definable cluster). The post was inspired by my visit to the Digital Hub in Dublin, a series of old Guinness warehouses turned over to the task of stimulating Ireland's startup/technology ecology. The post attracted possibly the most comments we have ever had on this blog (63 at the last count), some supportive of the idea, some sceptical that there is any point in trying to "engineer" a cluster. It also inspired this detailed and thoughtful post about actually running a centre like this from Channel 4's Matt Locke. Literally at the same time – unknown to me – the Silicon Roundabout meme about the startups near London's Old Street was breaking on the FT and The Evening Standard. Talk about timing.
But what's it like to be part of a so-called technology "Hub"? I decided to ask one of the occupant's of Dublin's Digital Hub what their experience has been of the initiative and whether they thought it worked.
Joe Drumgoole (pictured) is CEO of PutPlace which we've covered before. Here's what he told me:
The Digital Hub has been a fantastic resource for the Irish tech sector and since its inception several years ago it has seen several "graduates" include Havok and Zamano. Its a good mix of FDI (foreign direct investment companies) such as Amazon and Moli and indigenous companies such as PayByMobile, PutPlace, Sentry Wireless and school space (among a host of others).
When we joined a year and a half ago I thought the cluster effect was oversold. But these days I find it hard to go to coffee without crossing paths with somebody relevant. The key value propositions that make the hub work in Dublin are:
• Enterprise Ireland sets a reasonably high bar on entrants to the space
• The fees are flat rate per desk, with options for single desk shared spaces at a reduced rate. Rates go up each year (55, 65 and 75 euros per desk for year 1 to 3) and after year 3 you're supposed to move out, but they don't run a hard clock on that. The flat rate includes, reception services, heat, light, electricity, furniture, telephone handsets, onsite facilities management and a shared broadband connection (which we used quite happily for the first 12 months).
• Extra services include, a machine room for hosting and higher bandwidth connections. Smaller rooms can be booked for meetings for free, larger rooms are billed at 16 euros an hour. Large rooms have projection facilities. There are also small open door break out areas at the end of each bay.
So that's what's good. What could be better?
Well they demand you get your own indemnity insurance which is something that it would make more sense to bake into the per desk price. They'd get a better price than each individual company having to negotiate that themselves.
They ask for safety statement but don't provide a template. I can't tell you how many companies I've sent my statement to and I in turn got mine from somebody else. They should just write a template and get the companies to sign it, job done.
There are two excellent cafes in each of the main Hub buildings but more "hang out spaces" that don't oblige you to buy coffee would be good to encourage more networking.
If some more thought went into creating the hub as a "social object" I think it would encourage earlier and more effective cluster effects. Currently the hub is split into many different buildings spread over the liberties area of Dublin. It's very hard to create links between companies in different buildings.


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Today we will see the Quick Launch Search option in Visual Studio 2012.
In my previous article, we discussed the "Code Structure Windows" in Visual Studio 2012. Today we will see the Quick Launch Search option in Visual Studio 2012.In Visual Studio 2010, it is difficult to get the way to change the IDE visual appearance like font color, size etc., but Visual Studio 2012 provides a better way to easily customize those things. What is Quick Launch SearchQuick Launch Search is an option given in Visual Studio 2012 to search the Actions for the IDE options like Menus, Options, Documents etc. We can find the Quick Launch box at the right corner of the IDE i.e. near to Control Buttons [Close, Maximize and Minimize] and it is accessible by pressing the Keys Ctrl + Q.We can't use the Quick Launch Search option to search for the Code and Symbols.If you want to search the Menu or Documents which starts with @, here the @ symbol can be used as an escape sequence character. For example, if you want to search the Menu which starts with @ like @Service, then you need to type like @@Service in the Quick Launch Search box.How to Enable/Disable Quick Launch SearchBy default, the Quick Launch Search option will be enabled in the Visual Studio 2012. If you want to disable it then you need to go to Tools –> Options –> Environment –> Quick Launch.In the Options, Under the Environment node, you can find the Quick Launch [#1] option. If you want to disable the Quick Launch Search option then just uncheck the Enable Quick Launch [#2] option in the window.There are four categories [#3] e Search Result namely Most Recently Used, Menu, Option and DocumentIf you enable the Show search results from the previous search when Quick Launch is activated [#4] you will be getting the search results from the Previous Search results i.e. the Search Results will be retained. There are four kinds of Quick Launch Providers in the Quick Launch option. Let us see in details about the Providers.Categories in Quick Launch Search ResultsAs we know, there are four categories in the Quick Launch Search Results, they are:
The preceding figure shows the Quick Launch Search Results categories Most Recently Used [#1], Menus [#2], Options [#3] and Documents [#4].Quick Launch in Visual Studio WindowsIn Visual Studio 2012, we can access the Quick Launch Box in various types of windows like Solution Explorer, Team Explorer, Tool Box, Error List, Reference Manager, New Project/File and Find Results windows.Quick Launch Box in Solution ExplorerSolution Explorer windows can be found in one of the following three ways: View –> Solution Explorer or Ctrl + Alt + S or Solution Explorer Icon on the Tools Ribbon.Here the Quick Launch searches the entire solution for the criteria given in the box. The Quick Launch box can be accessed by pressing the keys Ctrl + ;Quick Launch Box in Team ExplorerWe can get the Team Explorer window in one of the following three ways: View –> Team Explorer or Ctrl + \ + M or Team Explorer Icon on the Tools Ribbon.The Quick Launch Box in the Team Explorer can be accessed by pressing the Ctrl + ' keys.Quick Launch in Error ListThe Error List window can be accessed in one of the following two ways: View –> Error List or Ctrl + \ + E.Quick Launch in ToolboxThe Toolbox can be accessed from the View –> Toolbox or Ctrl + Alt + X.In the past it was difficult to find a particular control in the toolbox, but in VS 2012 the Quick Launch box makes it easy.Quick Launch in Reference ManagerDon't be confused about the word '"Reference Manager". Its nothing but the Add Reference Dialog box. The VS 2012 team has changed not only the Look & Feel but the name of the Window.Quick Launch provides the option here to search all the assemblies in the solution as well as the GAC.Quick Launch in New Project/FileIf we want to create a new JavaScript file, definitely we need to go through all the Nodes in the template panel. But VS 2012 provides the Quick Lunch Search option.We can invoke the Quick Launch box by pressing the Ctrl + E key combinations.Quick Launch in Find ResultsIf we are use the Find & Replace with Find in Files option to search the term in the Source file, it will give you the search results in the Find Results window.In VS 2010 or previous versions, there is an option to search for the term within the Search Results but in the VS 2012 version, its available by using Quick Launch box.Well, we are done with Quick Launch!SummaryToday, I have given you the ways to use the Quick Launch option in the Visual Studio 2012. If I have missed something or taken you in wrong way, please accept my apologies.Thanks for spending your precious time here. Please provide your valuable feedback and comments, which make me to give a better article next time.
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LLJ Twitter Followers Topped Industry Engagement this May
LoveLocalJobs.com was founded to provide a valuable service to local communities, and although the trophie cabinet has filled up, we never lose sight of why we're in the job! Over the years, our @LoveLocalJobs and @LLJobsFeed Twitter pages have become successful advice and recruitment portals in their own right, and we're pleased to announce that our engagement rankings with our followers stood out in the industry this May.
The @LocalLocalJobs Twitter feed ranked higher than the likes of LinkedIn, Fish4Jobs, Indeed UK and The Guardian jobs page with an engagement rate of 78% over a 15-day period.
If you're wondering what we mean by Twitter engagement, out of interest or for your own page, here's a quick definition. Valuable Twitter engagement expands upon the aim of engaging with general users on the social platform. Proper engagement connects with narrower, targeted groups online, for example UK job seekers following a recruitment feed, by posting frequent and relevant mixed posts that are both creative and dynamic. You'll find a diverse range of posts on the @LoveLocalJobs feed, from Be The Change updates and advice pieces from our job boards across the South East, to upcoming events and the latests news and job postings - it's all there!
Third of Twitter users use platform for professional purposes
Ever since the creation of Twitter in 2006, the micro-blogging platform has gradually evolved to join the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn at the top of the social media leader board. There are now 310 million active Twitter users across the globe each month, and a total of 1.3 billion accounts have been created. So, what are people likely to share online? Well, according to internal research ahead of a jobs fair this May, a third (62%) use the site for professional purposes - staying in touch with the latest company and industry news.
The research revealed some top-line statistics that give a real insight into what followers find useful for career progression: 80% said they have read career-related information on Twitter to either assist them with a job search or progress within their current role; and 42% follow companies to keep up to date with the latest career opportunities. Finally, 58% use a Twitter stream to form an opinion about a company, and are influenced by positive and negative posts in their job searches.
Brian Lavery, Twitter's european head of marketing for small and medium sized businesses, said: "What this research has also shown us is that there's also a great opportunity for people on Twitter to make an impact with potential employers."
The internal research follows an equally compelling study in 2014 by Nielsen which highlighted that 83% of business users surveyed would recommend Twitter to other SMEs, with 69% agreeing that the site is a valuable tool for business.
Twitter Tips for Job Seekers
The great thing about Twitter is that it is in the best interest of companies to post regularly to increase their follower growth and stay relevant in their industry. So how can candidates use these fast-flowing business streams to their advantage? In an age of candidate screening on social media to select the best job seekers for an interview, having a good Twitter profile can open up more opportunities than ever before. Here are our top tips on how to get noticed in the Twittersphere:
- Make your Twitter profile part of your 'brand'. The term self-branding may sound like a buzz term, but the process of replicating a polished profile across several prominent sites online does carry weight if you're on the hunt for your next job. Just having a Twitter handle isn't enough to attract attention. Include an identifiable photograph and an up-to-date bio that wouldn't sound out of place in an interview pitch. Once you build up your profile, and you can demonstrate that you are an engaged user in your chosen industry, include your Twitter handle in your resume so that companies and recruiters can gain access to your page quickly.
- Learn how to network effectively. Take advantage of how easy it is to freely interact with others on Twitter: if you see a piece of great content, share it; if a valued industry professional follows you follow back and maybe leave an introductory message; research local business networks and events; and join chats and initiate discussions.
- Separate work from play. It's easy to get distracted by big, bold headline or become interested in what has started trending that day, but all that won't help with your job search. One of the best ways to cut through the noise when you need to is to create lists of target companies and news so that you don't miss a potentially beneficial tweet from a specific company during the day.
- Research. Once you catch the eye of a hiring manager, and have been offered a first interview, use Twitter to research not only the company but also your interview and potential managers prior to the meeting. Recent industry tweets can give you clues about what these individuals are interested in and what the company culture is like. You can also uncover news items that can be used to either break the ice during an interview ("Did you read the news about X on Monday?") or promote your previous work if it is relatable.
Browse the LoveLocalJobs.com website to read our latest industry news, and simply follow our stand-out @LoveLocalJobs and @LLJobsFeed Twitter pages for the latest job opportunities and careers guidance.


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Master's Degree Programs (40 credit-hours)
Niagara University's offers the master of science degree in special education online that leads to initial/professional certification in teaching students with disabilities in grades 1-6 or 7-12. Core courses are offered that range from special education foundations, policies and practices to student assessment, classroom strategies and modifications necessary to enhance student learning.
Niagara University's master of science and certificate programs in special education have been approved by the New York State Education Department for individuals who possess a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution and hold initial teaching certification in an approved area.
Annotation in Severe & Multiple Disabilities Curriculum
The 12-hour program leading to certification in Teaching Students with Severe/Multiple Disabilities is designed for individuals who already hold New York state initial certification as a teacher of students with disabilities.


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After hearing a lot about Radical Hospitality you may be wondering, so what's radical about our hospitality at Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church? Something new we began this year is hosting a Visitor Luncheon.
Hospitality and friendship are our only goals for this event. We are not recruiting new members or trying to sign people up for our mission projects. We merely want our visitors to feel welcome, to share a meal and have an opportunity to get acquainted. We have had two so far and are planning a third for November 2.
Lunch is a delicious home cooked meal with fabulous, radical desserts. We spend our time together getting to know each other. We share how we came to be part of HPCUMC.
We are developing our list of invitees for the November luncheon now. We will have invitations in the registration pads. If you are sitting in worship with a visitor please make sure they receive the invitation. Join your hospitality team in becoming radicals for welcoming all people into our community.
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We were delighted to welcome Milena, the Producer of CNN International –The World Right Now Show & Nick Robertson – International Diplomatic Correspondent from CNN News with their cameraman to share 'The Art of Distilling' here at Speyside Distillery. We only use the finest natural ingredients in our hand-crafted Single Malt whisky and Distillery Manager Sandy Jamieson was delighted to share with them some of our industry secrets.
The programme they were filming for is framed around the Brexit issue and Scotch Whisky industry – and our Managing Director Patricia Dillon was asked to speak on behalf of the industry.
We hope to share the video with you very soon!


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Messages tie Christie aide to NJ traffic jam
Photo: AP
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie looks out at the crowd at a gathering in Union City, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. A top aide to Christie is linked through emails and text messages to a seemingly deliberate plan to create traffic gridlock in Fort Lee, N.J., at the base of the George Washington Bridge after its mayor refused to endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)


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Do You Know – How to Improve Your Credit Score?
If you are an Indian, your CIBIL score decides whether you are fit to finance for investing in a property. Undoubtedly, low-interest rates on housing property always attract buyers, but tight credit market may not allow you to opt for housing finance. Especially, your low credit score may jeopardize your ability to avail a loan.
In that case, you need to improve your credit score. Indeed, it's not that easy, but some ways can help you get through it and can boost up your score to a great deal.
How to improve your credit score?
- Did you check your credit reports earlier? If not, then you should do it now. At times, there are possibilities of discrepancies in the report. You just need to spend a little amount to get it reevaluated. If there are errors, it will reflect in the report, and the score will appreciate to some extent. For initiating the evaluation process, you can make an appeal on CIBIL website (www.cibil.com). It's as simple.
- Credit cards are the other commodities that are responsible for degrading your credit rating. If you have not settled payments for your old credit cards, you are running a risk of not getting further loans in the future. Mind you, if you are not working after closing the old debts, do not expect to get more in the future.
- Your history of making late payments further disgrace your reputation and make you a victim of bad credit score. Pay your EMI's on time and clear off the old dues as soon as possible for enhancing your creditworthiness
- If you have any old credit card in your name that is not in use, please get it deactivated. A thought might have popped up in your mind that why to disable a card that is not in use, then you need to know that any theft or misuse of the card may put your CIBIL rating in danger. So better beware than repenting in the future.
- Make it a point not to buy everything from your credit card. As 30% is the credit utilization limit, stick to it for maintaining your credibility.
- The great thing is that if your credit score is good, banks will automatically offer you higher credit limits. In that case, availing a home loan won't be a big deal.
Plan your strategy for improvement in such a way that gradually it starts to reflect your solidity and your dream of buying a home will get fulfilled.
Happy Home Buying
Team Unnati Fortune Group.
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Talking about the future of Fox's Wolverine movie franchise, executive producer Lauren Schuler Donner revealed some thoughts about what could happen following the second movie's ninja-filled trip to Japan... including an adaptation of a comic fans wouldn't expect.
Commenting that the sequel to this summer's X-Men Origins: Wolverine will be closer to Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's 1982 mini-series than the original movie was to comic continuity - In part because, according to the producer,
there was a lot of different source material, a lot of different legends in Victor Creed's relationship to Logan and Logan's background. There were some choices we had to make
- Donner talked about the potential longevity of the movie series:
There's enough comic book material to support [a long-running series]. If we were to make up our own story, which we've never talked about, personally I would do it with Chris Claremont. I would stick with the creator... Chris is writing an amazing series right now where Wolverine's killed, Storm is the villain. Sure, one day I'd love to [do] that.
Donner's referring to the alternate world series X-Men Forever, in which Wolverine dies in the second issue - just like Claremont always wanted:
I always planned to kill him [during Claremont's original 16-year run on the X-Men series], but The Powers That Be wouldn't allow me to walk down that story path. I am so glad that I can take the characters on this particular journey now. It allows for real growth and change, and exciting possibilities. Doors that were locked can now be opened. Unfortunately, the general consensus in comics is that a character's death means The End. It's my strong belief that through such an emotionally fraught event as one character's death, the characters, the storyline, and the concept find new regenerative power and can grow stronger, for the future.
But would Fox really kill off Hugh Jackman to refresh the X-Men movie franchise?
Gavin Hood and Lauren Schuler Donner Talk Wolverine Blu-ray and Sequel [Latino Review]


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Having been pursued, unsuccessfully, many times by his father in previous years, today Senator Rand Paul, together with Rep. Thomas Massie re-introduced legislation to "Audit the Fed", after a similar effort stalled in the last Congress.
While in the past such a proposal, which has been vocally opposed by Janet Yellen and Wall Street for obvious reasons, was quietly shut down it may face its best odds ever of becoming law in the current Congress according to the Hill. With both chambers controlled by Republicans long critical of Fed's policies, the legislation could end up being a test of Donald Trump stated resolve to putting the Fed to heel. In the past, the president elect has heaped scorn on the central bank, and demanded accountability from the "independent" Fed.
To that end, Paul specifically mentioned Trump in a statement about the bill Wednesday, making clear the measure's proponents believe they have an ally in their cause coming to the White House.
"The U.S. House has responded to the American people by passing Audit the Fed multiple times, and President-elect Trump has stated his support for an audit. Let's send him the bill this Congress," said Paul.
Under the proposed bill, the Fed's monetary policy deliberations could be subject to outside review by the Government Accountability Office. Proponents of the measure argue that the Fed is too powerful and lacks sufficient oversight for its interest rate decisions. But Fed officials from Yellen on down, as well as other critics, have warned that such a policy could subject the Fed to undue political pressure and discourage it from taking unpopular steps for the good of the overall economy.
While in the past, the proposal garnered bipartisan support and has passed the House several times in past Congresses, it usually stalled in the Senate. Senate Democrats refused to bring up the bill for consideration when they controlled the chamber, and senators rejected the bill in 2016 after it was brought up by the new GOP majority.
Two non-Republican senators — Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) — voted for the measure then. Only one Republican, Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.), opposed it. But the situation is different in 2017, as lawmakers who assumed President Obama would veto any "Audit the Fed" legislation in the past now are anticipating a White House with a vocal Fed critic at the helm. Furthermore, with Republicans controlling both chambers, any attempts to kill the bill will be more complicated.
During his presidential campaign, Trump frequently singled out the Fed, arguing during presidential debates that the institution was deliberately keeping interest rates low for Obama's political benefit.
Fed officials are fiercely protective of their reputation as pursuing policies free of political motivation, and Yellen has shot down any notion of partisan intent in its policymaking. But lawmakers hoping to overhaul how the Fed does business see an opening in 2017.
"It is time to force the Federal Reserve to operate by the same standards of transparency and accountability to the taxpayers that we should demand of all government agencies," said Massie.
Skeptics, however, note with Trump surrounding himself by numerous Wall Street scions in his new administration, and with the Fed an entity owned mostly by Wall Street (as Ben Bernanke's former advisor infamous suggested last year when he said that "People Would Be Stunned To Know The Extent To Which The Fed Is Privately Owned") it remains unlikely that any true change to the operational nature of the Fed will be implemented, especially if it gives Congress an upper hand over Wall Street in what to many is the most important decision-making process in the nation: setting the price of the money in general, and the US dollar in particular.


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We've received details of two exciting new titles from the Doctor Who Magazine team:
"Sports had a tremendous audience, and then suddenly there was a dramatisation of The Water babies or something – and everybody turned onto ITV or switched off! So my bosses thought maybe I ought to come up with another kind of children's drama that would hold the sports-loving audience. So I dreamed up Doctor Who…" Sydney Newman
For more than 25 years, Doctor Who Magazine has documented the making of this unique television series, interviewing every major player, be they actors, directors, producers, designers, writers… even monsters!
Now, for the first time, DWM has gathered together the best of these interviews, as the cast and crew themselves recall their part in the legend of Doctor Who, making for a frank, forthright and insightful memoir.
This first volume, covering Doctor Who's birth and the six years that followed, provides a complete primer for newcomers, and a valuable refresher for hardened aficionados. Find out how the TARDIS was designed and why the Time Lords were invented. Plus, almost four decades after the Doctor's appearance changed for the very first time, hear the story of how 'regeneration' came to be, and how the show survived the departure of its leading man.
Featuring contributions from William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Sydney Newman, Verity Lambert, Terry Nation, David Whitaker, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines, Nicholas Courtney, Wendy Padbury and hundreds more – plus an Afterword from Doctor Who's current Executive Producer Russell T Davies!
The magazine goes on sale from Thursday 17 November 2005 priced �5.99.
The latest volume of comic strips collected from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine is available now, including eight complete stories featuring the Eighth Doctor! Featuring the stories Endgame, The Keep, Fire and Brimstone, Tooth and Claw, The Final Chapter, Wormwood, and the bonus strips A Life of Matter and Death and By Hook Or By Crook.
With new companions sci-fi geek Izzy and super-cool spy Fey Truscott-Sade by his side, the Doctor must confront an armada of his deadliest enemies! Classic foes the Daleks and the Celestial Toymaker are joined by high society vampires, killer chimpanzees, psychic parasites, the dreaded Elysian Cult and the transdimensional conspirators known as the Threshold!
Plus a special 16-page behind-the-scenes feature, where you can discover unused story synopses, character designs by artists Martin Geraghty and Adrian Salmon, and a detailed authors' commentary by Alan Barnes and Scott Gray for every story!
On sale now – �14.99


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"Lifelong Effects of Good Parenting: How Experience affects Gene Expression" by Michael Meaney
"Good" rat moms (those who more frequently lick and groom their pups) produce offspring who, throughout their lives, explore more, are less fearful & less reactive to stress, perform better cognitively, and preserve their cognitive skills better into old age. It is the mother's behavior that produces these effects rather than genes: Pups of 'good' moms raised by low-licking-and-grooming moms do not show these characteristics, and pups of low-touch moms raised by high-touch moms do show this constellation. Here's an example of early experience (nurturing touch, or its absence) producing enduring, life-long effects.
Rats tend to raise their offspring the way they were raised, so these effects are transmitted intergenerationally, not through the genes but through behavior: The biological offspring of low-touch moms, cross-fostered to high-touch moms, lick and groom their offspring a lot, and thus the diminished stress reactivity and cognitive enhancement is passed down through the generations.
Maternal behavior produces these behavioral consequences through altering gene expression. Not all genes in an individual are expressed. Many are never expressed. Experience affects which genes are turned on and off, in which cells, and when. For example, lots of touch by rat moms turns on (for life) the glucocorticoid receptor gene in offspring, hence lower circulating glucocorticoid levels, so they feel less stressed.
Learning Objectives:
(a) To understand how experience can affect gene expression (epigenesis).
(b) To understand the profound effect parenting can have on cognitive and emotional functioning throughout life and through succeeding generations.
(c) To understand that most of our genes are not expressed and to understand something about the mechanisms that turn genes off and on.
This talk was given at the conference "Brain Development and Learning 2010 Meeting" in Vancouver. It was an interdisciplinary conference devoted to improving children's lives by making cutting-edge research in neuroscience, child psychology, & medicine. Further information available on http://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/bdl.html


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Activists Pour Concrete on Store's 'Anti-Homeless' Spikes, Win
A UK supermarket chain has announced it will remove so-called "anti-homeless spikes'' from outside one of its London locations after an image of activists pouring concrete on the metal protrusions went viral on social media Wednesday night.
The act of civil disobedience followed days of protest by homeless advocates outside of the downtown Tesco location, who decried the one-inch studs as an inhumane approach to combating spiraling homelessness in the city, which is up nearly 75 percent since 2011.
Activists Poured Concrete on 'Anti-Homeless' Spikes in London This Morning: http://t.co/PXLo9dVI2q pic.twitter.com/hFLLq6AND2— VICE (@VICE) June 12, 2014
Vice Magazine journalist Simon Childs said he received a tip that activists would stage a protest at the controversial site, and hung around until a group of men dressed as construction workers appeared:
They were all carrying buckets, which I soon found out were full of concrete. Tipping the containers all over the spikes, the stuff inside landed with a messy thud on the ledge. The activists then tried to spread the concrete out with some wooden slats, but it looked a little thick and wasn't really budging. When they dashed down a side street, I caught up and asked one what exactly they were doing. They explained that they were trying to drown the spikes in concrete, rendering the ledge non-spikey. "These [spikes] are in places where people are trying to find a cosy, less wet place to put their head down," one said. "These are places that the underclass rely on. We give [Tesco] our money and this is how they treat us."
A company spokesperson told The Guardian the next morning that Tesco would remove the spikes, but insisted they were not aimed at the homeless and instead intended to curb other "antisocial behaviors,'' like loitering and public drinking.
"Customers told us they were intimidated by antisocial behavior outside our Regent Street store and we put studs in place to try to stop it,'' a spokesman told the paper.
"These studs have caused concern for some, who have interpreted them as an anti-homeless measure, so we have decided to remove them to address this concern,'' the spokesman said. "We will find a different solution and hope this clears up any confusion.''
Tesco didn't comment on the incident directly, though it seems to go without saying something had to be done about that blunder of a concrete job.
"We massively underestimated the amount of concrete we had,'' one of the activists admitted in a follow-up interview with Vice. "The mixing was more difficult than we thought. We probably need some construction equipment to do it properly.''
"But we were quite pleased with it afterwards because we didn't want to make a nice concrete flat top over the spikes,'' an activist said. "We wanted to make a mess so they had to clean it up, or seriously think about putting spikes down again.''
The group, who call themselves the "Black London Revolutionaries,'' vowed to carry out similar actions against other sets of spikes on private property throughout the city.
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The Biblical story of David and Jonathan will forever remain a reference point for what true friendship should be. Jonathan, prince and son of Saul, was the heir apparent to the throne of Israel, On the other hand, David, the youngest son of Jesse, was a ruddy, bright-eyed shepherd boy. David's defeat of the giant Goliath signalled both the beginning of Jonathan and David's friendship and their falling from love and favor in Saul's eyes. David's courage and bravery affected Jonathan deeply; he was moved to love him as much as his own life. He realized that they shared much in common in the areas of courage, bravery, strength, loyalty, trust and faith in God. From that day forward, they were the best of friends. Jonathan was moved to the point of giving David some of his treasured items: his robe, sword, bow and belt, and even his armour. David, the musician, also played the harp for King Saul and thus endeared him the more to Jonathan.
Jonathan and David's bond was so strong that they promised to never let anything come between them. Jonathan told David of Saul's plans to kill him and urged him to go far away where he would be safe. He asked David to remember that they would always be friends. So great was their friendship that at one of their partings they kissed one another, and wept one with another. David reacted to Jonathan's eventual demise in this manner - "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places" - (2 Samuel 1:25). David even adopted Jonathan's son Mephibosheth.
The following are some of the qualities of a good friendship: honesty (telling each other the truth), unconditional love (love that transcends the "seasons" of life), service (friends help one another), loyalty (a friend sticks with you in good times and bad), receiving (when a friend helps the other friend, he receives by allowing the other friend to help him in return).
The tale of the other David and Jonathan is all about a political friendship. The fate and future of over 160 million human beings is currently tied to their actions and inactions. David was alleged to have once stated that telephones are not for the poor. While other patriots "stood", he was said to have "sat" on June 12. Jonathan on the other hand is the "shoeless" one renowned to have patiently and regularly benefitted from others' misfortunes. Some rascals find his choice of words unbefitting for his status but obviously he does not agree.
Can these qualities of good friendship be found in them? Has David ever tried to tell Jonathan the home truths or is he just another sycophant? Are the home truths not that the people want good, quality standard of living, adequate security of lives and properties and an enabling, corruption-free environment to utilize their God-given talents to the fullest? The people desire leadership by example, even if it means public assets declaration. They want free and fair elections rather than ballot snatching and scientific rigging. They are fed up with overbloated government machinery subsisting on fat salaries and allowances. They want moral compass to be regained, fairness, justice and equity. They want the corrupt to be ostracized and penalized. They do not wish the cabal well. They are tired of committees and special task forces. They want wastages and leakages to stop. They crave for accountability. They yearn for evidences of good governance. They long for the basic infrastructures - electricity, good roads, potable water, quality schools and functioning refineries amongst other things.
Since their faith is not in doubt, have David and Jonathan acquainted themselves with these scriptures? : Matthew 20:26 - But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant. Proverbs 29:2 - When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people. Proverbs 14:34 - Righteousness lifts up a nation, but sin is a disgrace in any society. 2 Chronicles 7:14 - If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Proverbs 31: 8-9 - Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. 2 Corinthians 5:10 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Have they shown unconditional love towards each other? Have they displayed service, loyalty and acts of service, as enunciated above? Only time will tell. In fact, 2015 is just around the corner. Will the mighty fall? Or is it rather a case of how?
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Used 2019 BuickEnclave Essence SUV
- Stock: PB7188
- Odometer
- 30,149 miles
- Fuel Economy
- 17.0/25.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Pepperdust Metallic
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- Dark Galvanized
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- 9-Speed Automatic
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Detailed Specifications
- Max seating capacity: 7
- Fuel System: Direct Injection
- Fuel tank capacity: 22
- Horsepower: 310
- Active Noise Cancellation
- Audio system feature, 6-speaker system
- Audio system feature, USB ports, 6 total first row includes 1 auxiliary, dual USB (1Amp charge and data); 2nd row includes dual USB charging (2.1 Amps); 3rd row includes dual USB charging in rear outboard positions
- Audio system, Buick Infotainment System, AM/FM stereo, SiriusXM, with 8" diagonal Color Touch Screen includes 2 USB ports inside center console, Bluetooth streaming for audio and select phones and Phone Integration for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability for compatible phone
- Buick 4G LTE and available built-in Wi-Fi hotspot offers a fast and reliable Internet connection for up to 7 devices; includes data trial for 1 month or 3GB (whichever comes first) (Available Wi-Fi requires compatible mobile device, active OnStar service and data plan. Data plans provided by AT&T. Visit onstar.com for details and system limitations.)
- QuietTuning Buick process to reduce, block and absorb noise and vibration utilizing ultra-dissipative acoustic materials and Active Noise Cancellation to create a quiet interior cabin
- SiriusXM Radio Enjoy a 3-month All Access trial subscription with over 150 channels including commercial-free music, plus sports, news and entertainment. Plus listening on the app and online is included, so you'll hear the best SiriusXM has to offer, anywhere life takes you. Welcome to the world of SiriusXM. (IMPORTANT: The SiriusXM radio trial package is not provided on vehicles that are ordered for Fleet Daily Rental ("FDR") use. If you decide to continue service after your trial, the subscription plan you choose will automatically renew thereafter and you will be charged according to your chosen payment method at then-current rates. Fees and taxes apply. To cancel you must call us at 1-866-635-2349. See our Customer Agreement for complete terms at www.siriusxm.com. All fees and programming subject to change.)
- Door handles, body-color with chrome insert
- Glass, deep-tinted
- Grille, front shutters, active upper and lower
- Headlamp control, automatic on and off
- Headlamps, LED, includes LED Buick Evonik signature accents with LED bi-functional projector, side marker and reflex, and LED Park lamp in fascia
- Lamps, turn signal indicator
- Liftgate, power, hands free with projected logo (Buick tri-shield)
- Mirrors, outside heated power-adjustable, manual-folding and driver-side auto-dimming, body-color with integrated turn signal indicators
- Moldings, bodyside, bright, chrome
- Moldings, rocker panel, unique accent color
- Roof rails, bright aluminized, integrated
- Spoiler, rear
- Tire, compact spare, T135/70R18, blackwall
- Tires, 255/65R18 SL, all-season, blackwall
- Wheel, spare, 18" x 4.5" (45.7 cm x 11.4 cm) steel
- Wheels, 18" (45.7 cm) aluminum, painted
- Windshield, acoustic laminated
- Wiper, rear intermittent with washer
- Wipers, front intermittent
- Air Ionizer
- Air conditioning, rear
- Air conditioning, refrigerant
- Air conditioning, tri-zone automatic climate control with individual climate settings for driver, right front passenger and rear seat occupants
- Air filtration system
- Compass display (located in the Driver Information Center)
- Cruise control
- Defogger, rear-window electric
- Door locks, power programmable with lockout protection
- Driver Information Center, enhanced, 4.2" multi-color display includes speed and trip odometer, fuel economy and range, oil life, tire pressure, battery voltage and timer
- Engine oil indicator
- Floor mats, all three rows
- Glovebox, passenger-side of instrument panel
- Head restraint, rear center seat
- Head restraints, front, adjustable (up/down)
- Instrumentation includes Driver Information Center, tachometer, speedometer, fuel, coolant temperature, battery, gear selector, outside air temperature and (U80) compass display
- Interactive Drive Control System includes Stability Control Button and AWD Button (Includes Mode button when (V92) Trailering Package is ordered.)
- Keyless Open
- Mirror, inside rearview auto-dimming
- Remote panic alarm
- Remote vehicle starter system extended range
- Seat adjuster, driver 8-way power
- Seat adjuster, front passenger, 6-way power
- Seat adjuster, power driver lumbar control
- Seat adjuster, power passenger lumbar control
- Seat, rear 60/40 split-folding third row bench, manual folding
- Seating, 7-passenger (2-2-3 seating configuration), includes 2nd row 40/40 Captains chairs with armrests featuring left seat fore/aft adjustment, right seat Pitch Slide for 3rd row access with fore/aft adjustment and 3rd row 60/40 split bench
- Seats, front buckets
- Seats, heated driver and front passenger
- Sensor, cabin humidity
- Sill plates, bright
- Steering column, tilt and telescoping
- Steering wheel controls, mounted audio controls
- Steering wheel, leather-wrapped
- Storage system, rear cargo area under floor
- Theft-deterrent system vehicle, PASS-Key III, engine immobilizer with content theft alarm
- Universal Home Remote, includes garage door opener, 3-channel programmable
- Visors, driver and front passenger illuminated vanity mirrors
- Windows, power driver with Express-Up/Down, front and rear passenger Express-Down
- Alternator, 170 amps
- Axle, 3.49 final drive ratio
- Brake, parking, electronic
- Brakes, 4-wheel antilock, 4-wheel disc
- Chassis, All-Wheel Drive System with Driver Select
- Electronic Precision Shift
- Emissions, evaporative system, level 3
- Engine, 3.6L V6, SIDI, VVT stop/start (310 hp [231 kW] @ 6800 rpm, 266 lb-ft of torque [359 N-m] @ 2800 rpm)
- Exhaust, dual-outlet stainless-steel with bright tips integrated in fascia
- GVWR, 6400 lbs. (2903 kg)
- Keyless Start
- Steering, power, electric
- Suspension, Premium Ride, 4-wheel independent
- Trailering provisions, 1500 lbs. (680 kg)
- Transmission, 9-speed automatic
- Driver Confidence Package includes (UKC) Lane Change Alert with Side Blind Zone Alert and (UFG) Rear Cross Traffic Alert
- Airbags, dual-stage frontal and side-impact for driver and front passenger driver inboard seat-mounted side-impact and roof-rail side-impact for all rows in outboard seating positions (Always use seat belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
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- Child seat restraint system, rear facing
- Daytime Running Lamps, LED
- Door locks, rear child security lock, manual child lock system (rear door latch)
- Horn, dual-note
- Lane Change Alert with Side Blind Zone Alert
- OnStar and Buick connected services capable (Fleet orders receive a 3-month trial. Visit onstar.com for coverage map, details and system limitations.)
- Passenger Sensing System
- Rear Cross Traffic Alert
- Rear Park Assist, Ultrasonic with audible warning
- Rear Vision Camera
- StabiliTrak Stability Control System with roll over mitigation
- Tire Pressure Monitoring System includes Tire Fill Alert
- Tool kit, road emergency
- Traction control, electronic
Dealer Notes
KBB.com Consumer Reviews
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Amazing redesign
By Aaron on Tuesday, December 26, 2017We had a 2015 Enclave and absolutely loved it. The quiet ride and comfort was great. The technology was lacking but we had the AWD for safety with driving in bad weather. Gas mileage for 3 years averaged 19MPG. Now we upgraded to the 2018 Premium and wow, what an upgrade. The ride is smoother and quieter which we didnt think was possible. More 1st row space, comfy seats, great technology package, push button parking brake, electrical folding 3rd row seats, and the 9-speed transmission really helps the acceleration which was lacking in the 2015. Its an amazing car and you should really test drive it. My wife and I are hooked. The only drawback so far is the 3rd row headrests. The block some sight lines when changing lanes. I just put those down and problem solved.
- 4.0
By dporter22 on Friday, March 22, 2019I did not want to purchase a GM product, but since the Enclave is the only CUV on the market which actually has usable 3rd row seating space and also decent cargo room behind the 3rd row, I decided to take a chance. So far I've been impressed. Pros: The ride and handling are very smooth and controlled, the power is sufficient, there are many advanced safety features, the materials are generally high-quality, the fit and finish are good, the tech features are useful, the infotainment screen is responsive, passenger seating is roomy, it's very quiet, and I like the interior and exterior styling. Cons: I enjoy the handling so much that I look for opportunities to drive, it's really that good, but I find the transmission to be less smooth than I expected. It tends to hunt around a bit and produces noticeable downshifts during deceleration. Then there is the idiotic gear shifter which has you hold a button and push forward and to the side to shift into reverse; a very poor ergonomic design and just not pleasant to use. Also, there are some lower-quality interior parts, there is almost no ambient interior lighting, and there is no button to turn off the engine stop/start function (which does not save any appreciable amount of gas and subjects the engine to thousands more start cycles than normal. Fortunately it can be deactivated by installing an aftermarket module). Summary: Although it has some minor shortcomings, the positives far outweigh the negatives and I've been very pleased overall.
- 5.0
safety was important and this vehicle made it !!
By art on Tuesday, March 27, 2018safety features are great to aide in driving safely. Helps make up for an aging driver reactions and vision. Comfortable suspension ! Plenty of space ! Driver seat could be more comfortable ! Chrome on dash glares in outside rearview mirror distorting image ! I placed black electrical tape over the offending strip of chrome ! In total it is a fine auto , but I will be more discerning on the seat comfort.
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Therapeutic Thursdays - ONLINE
Join Denver Botanic Gardens' horticultural therapists from your home or office as we share techniques used in the Therapeutic Horticulture program. Engage your senses as we guide you in how to connect with plants in your everyday life.
All ages and abilities are welcome to participate. Only one registration is needed per streaming device. Advanced registration required.
Details on how to join the program streamed live through Vimeo will be emailed 30 minutes before the start of the program. Program time is 2 p.m. Mountain Time. Sessions are between 15-30 minutes long.
October 29: The Restorative and Reflective Nature of Water
Join us for this very special co-produced episode with The One World One Water Center. Together with OWOW's Co-Director Jennifer Riley-Chetwynd, we discuss the history of the waterways at Denver Botanic Gardens and explore the therapeutic aspects of water. Joining us is Ken Wright, founder of Wright Water Engineers, and Alexandra Smith, our landscape operations specialist, who shares with us a little about maintaining all of the Gardens' waterways.
November 19: Traditional Uses of Infused Vinegars
Infusing vinegar is a great way to use homegrown or store-bought herbs and make thoughtful gifts. In this session we are joined by clinical herbalist Shelley Torgove, founder of Denver's Artemisia & Rue, who shares with us how to use fresh and dried herbs to infuse vinegars. Learn to make delicious dressings for salads or roasted veggies. Discover the health benefits and history of fire cider, a traditional remedy to combat colds and support the respiratory system.
December 17: Virtual Meditative Plant Tour of the Gardens
Take a mindful, virtual walk among plants. As we pause, we engage with the images of plants and use our sense memory to connect with nature: imagine the warmth of the sun on your skin, the sounds of birdsong and hum of insects, and the scents of flowers and earthy bark. There is an abundance of life all around us that we are sometimes too busy to notice.
This is also an opportunity to see what is blooming at the Gardens.
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The Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition proved insanely popular, so much so that developer/publisher Bethesda Softworks had to apologize when it couldn't meet demand for the plastic wrist-computer. You know who isn't saying sorry? Us at Engadget. That's because we're giving away the PlayStation 4 premium edition of this fall's most anticipated game during our Twitch broadcast today. All you need to do is hit the contest widget after the break. Join Sean Buckley and myself as we stream two hours of irradiated galavanting around the Boston Commonwealth starting at 6PM Eastern / 3PM Pacific. Sean's playing the PC version and you can watch us here on this very post, the Engadget Gaming homepage, or Twitch.tv/Joystiq if you'd like to participate in chat. How many hijinks will we get into? You'll just have to tune in and find out. So go grab a Nuka Cola Quantum and settle in. Oh, and good luck!
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Rowan Joffe to Write HBO's WikiLeaks Movie
Rowan Joffe has been tapped to write HBO's untitled WikiLeaks movie, while Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall have boarded the project as executive producers.
A co-production with the BBC, the project will focus on WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange, who in November published classified U.S. State Department diplomatic cables.
The project is being directed by Inside Job helmer Charles Ferguson, who will produce with Audrey Marrs if the production gets the green light. Kennedy and Marshall join Joshua Maurer, Alixandre Witlin and David Stern as executive producers.
Joffe (The American, 28 Weeks Later) is repped by CAA and Curtis Brown Group; Kennedy and Marshall (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) are repped by UTA.
Two feature films about Assange also are in the works, at DreamWorks and Universal.
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