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In our daily work as we deal with bicycle safety, technology and user manuals we come across lots of safety risks. The most frequent ones are published in articles of the leading German special-interest magazines TOUR – Europas Rennrad-Magazin Nr. 1, BIKE – Das Mountainbike Magazin Europas Nr. 1 and E-Bike – Das Pedelec-Magazin to make this information important for the sector accessible to a wider public.
For many years now the Eurobike Show Daily accompanying the annual international Eurobike Show has given us the opportunity to publish our perspective on major developments in the cycle industry in full-page articles.
We also speak regularly in independent lectures about all topics relating to bicycle technology and bicycle market. In addition, we are regularly cited by further special-interest magazines or trade journals as well as more and more by radio and television and in their media reports, which shows us that we are completely right with our information. The section NEWS informs you about the latest news from our specialist fields. The reports and publications of this section are listed chronologically or according to topics of interest.
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The important thing in the case of low step-through models is to design them in a way that there is no shimmy at a speed slower than 30 kmh / 19 mph. "This is a speed most cyclists of low step-through models do not reach", means Zedler. However, due to the fact that there are good and less good suppliers, the expert gives advice for the test run: "Riding stability is something you can find out relatively quickly. Take two loaded panniers with you on the test run and slightly shake the handlebar during the ride, then you will quickly sort the wheat from the chaff." Therefore. Go and see the bicycle dealer of your trust prior to buying and test the possible, new e-bike for riding stability. This does not only apply to low step-through models, but to all bicycles in general.
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We all have regrets, some big, some small. However, if we live our lives mired in them, we can never move forward. We must forgive ourselves. If it concerns behavior we did or didn't do, focus on what we can do now. If it concerns other people, we can only hope that they forgive us. We still have the future where we can atone by being good, kind, loving, giving. If we can't do it for one because he/she might be gone, the hurt was too deep, etc, then pay it forward and do it for another. In that theme, I have a guest blogger today, my friend Roger Trammell, who presents his blog in the form of a poem.
Happy to be
on the down-side
of the drama…
in the Dalai Lama head-space
on the pace
in the race nearly run
with worries few or none
No regrets
but some debts left unpaid.
Atonements made or not,
it's got to be enough
at this stage of the game
time passing
whence it came…
frozen in time…
recalls of falls
and risings
standing talls
and divings into pits
fit for drowning
when crowning achievements
came to the rescue
re emerging
submerging the doubting
and shouting
it was all worthwhile.
Roger Trammel 6-3-2014
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Can a landlord refuse to rent to someone? Absolutely. However, there are limitations on why. Therefore, it's important to understand a valid rental application denial reasons versus those that can get you into legal trouble. You got into property investment for the returns, not for the legal problems. To help you protect your investment, here's a look at the reasons why you can reject a tenant and the reasons why not, as well as other tips for getting the best tenants into your properties.
Reasons to Legally Reject a Tenant
While there are rules and regulations in place that guide what landlords can and cannot do, the list of reasons to deny a rental application is longer than the list of reasons why a landlord cannot reject a tenant. Here's a look at some of the most common rental application denial reasons:
- Limited Income: If a prospective tenant doesn't have sufficient funds to safely make his or her monthly rent, rejection should be a no-brainer. Most landlords have in place a formula that calculates debt-to-income ratio, and most have a threshold in place at which they will reject a prospective tenant
- Poor Credit: If your prospective tenant has a history of late payments, debts falling into collections, evictions and more, it's more than fair for you to reject them. In fact, your prospective tenant should expect it.
- Bad References: You can always ask prospective tenants for references as they seek to lease from you. When you call them, you should absolutely take into account what those references have to say. If you get any indication from a reference that the prospect is in any way not a good fit for your property, you can safely reject them.
- Smoking: There's no law that says you must accept a smoker on your property. If you're dealing with a prospective tenant who smokes, you're well within your rights to reject the application.
- Pets: The same goes for pets as for smoking — you don't have to allow a tenant who wants to bring a pet with them. However, it is important to understand the differences between service animals and pets.
- You Found a Better Fit: When landlords have multiple applications for the same property, they have the liberty to choose the best fit – whether that is due to willingness to pay a higher rent, a better credit score, or more references. You may reject an application if someone else applies that you think will be a better tenant.
When You Cannot Reject a Tenant
Most of the reasons why a landlord cannot reject a tenant are related to illegal discrimination. For example, it's illegal to reject a tenant on the basis of gender, age, race, religion and nationality. Another area of importance is physical or mental disability. You cannot discriminate against a prospective tenant on the basis of physical or mental disability, which includes a history of drug addition or alcoholism. You cannot reject a tenant based on whether or not they have children, and many states also protect marital status, gender identity and sexual orientation.
An Effective Screening Process
The best way to ensure you steer clear of any legal issues is to have a thorough screening process in place. Know how you will evaluate applications and the decision criteria you will apply to each one. Using a standard process will help you make the best possible decisions, secure top tenants and ensure you stay out of any legal trouble related to your acceptance and rejection decisions.
Get Comfortable Saying No
It's important to find a comfort level with rejecting a prospective tenant. No one likes to say no, and no one wants to crush a tenant's dreams. However, you have an investment to protect, and you must do whatever you can to secure that investment. The Landlord Protection Agency offers a number of resources, including the standard LPA denial letter, which you can use to deliver the bad news to prospective residents.
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When you're wondering how to screen a tenant application, turn to the experts at Harrisburg Property Management Group. We help property investors and landlords throughout central Pennsylvania make the best possible tenant decisions. We offer comprehensive services, which means we can help throughout the process — from marketing to screening to leasing to maintenance and more. When you have a property and you want the returns without the headaches, secure a trusted management partner like Harrisburg Property Management Group.
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Women's Casual Wear · Little Luxury · For Two · Small Groups
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Fun place to shop. Entrance is hidden behind a door inside a "convenience store".
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Founded in 2010, Simone's Closet Shop is a local bohemian lifestyle brand of clothes and fabric accessories. Denise Lunod, the woman behind Simone's, promotes a vision of providing comfortable and sophisticated pieces at affordable prices. Her team is composed of mothers that help craft all their unique pieces! They're also open to customized pieces, so feel free to approach them!
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WC is a bright, colorful shop in Harajuku that sells youthful clothing in the form of statement shirts, sweaters, bags, and the like. Go upstairs for secondhand clothes at cheaper rates! They have a cute little nook where you can pose for photos (see second pic). I believe the store is part of the WEGO umbrella of brands.
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Guillaume Canet's "Little White Lies" delivers a two-and-a-half-hour scolding to so-called "bobos," the term in France for affluent people who embrace a fusion of bourgeois and bohemian values. Although the word "bobo" has been used by David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times, to describe "members of the new information elite," in France it refers to overgrown Parisian yuppies in their 30s and 40s, like the group of bickering friends in "Little White Lies" who take a communal vacation every summer in Cap Ferrat.
They make the journey despite a life-threatening accident that lands one of them, Ludo (Jean Dujardin), in intensive care. While riding a motorbike after leaving a rowdy nightclub where he snorted cocaine and made crude passes at women, this arrogant sybarite is run down by a truck. His friends dutifully visit the hospital, then abandon him to go ahead with their vacation plans — a choice that comes back to haunt them.
"Little White Lies" ("Les Petits Mouchoirs") is Mr. Canet's third feature film and his much-anticipated follow-up to "Tell No One," the delicious noir thriller based on a novel by Harlan Coben that became an international hit four years ago. This new movie received a mixed critical reception in France and was successful at the box office. But because it doesn't peer very deeply into the souls of these spoiled, marginally sympathetic narcissists, whose ties to one another seem superficial, its commercial future in America seems problematic.
Leading a strong ensemble cast is François Cluzet, who starred in "Tell No One" as a kindhearted pediatrician and a hybrid of the Scottie Ferguson character from "Vertigo" and Richard Kimble from "The Fugitive." In "Little White Lies" he plays Max, a successful restaurateur and the oldest of the group, whose members gather each summer at his comfortable, though far from extravagant seaside home.
Short-tempered and controlling, Max, who brings along his wife and children, obsesses about every imperfection on his property. The sound of weasels scuffling behind one wall drives him into such a fury that he chops it down. His bad mood begins even before the trip, when his closest male friend, Vincent (Benôit Magimel), a mild-mannered chiropractor who is also married with children, confesses to Max that he is in love with him, then reassures him that he is not gay.
Still, Max shrinks in revulsion, and during the rest of the vacation he vents his disgust with Vincent in ugly behavior that becomes comical after the two men find themselves trapped for hours aboard a boat stranded on a sandbar at low tide. For a movie set in the present Max's unexamined homophobia feels wildly anachronistic.
So does the soundtrack. Mr. Canet has acknowledged that one of the biggest inspirations for the movie is "The Big Chill," and much of the music in "Little White Lies" consists of American oldies from the late 1960s and early '70s. But since most of the characters were not born or were toddlers back then, the songs — by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and others — seem crudely shoehorned into the film to appeal to an American audience.
"Little White Lies," however, is very well acted by a cast whose A-list stars include Mr. Dujardin ("The Artist") and Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose"), who plays Marie, Ludo's free-spirited, bisexual former girlfriend. An anthropologist recently returned from the Amazon rain forest, Marie is a promiscuous, self-pitying beauty who cannot commit to anyone, and Ms. Cotillard, an actress who seems incapable of making a false gesture, doesn't strain to make her likable. Her male counterpart and close friend, Eric (Gilles Lellouche), is a minor television actor and compulsive womanizer whose infidelities drive away his longtime girlfriend. He halfheartedly badgers Marie to sleep with him, but she refuses.
With the exception of Marie "Little White Lies" focuses mostly on the men: whiny, strutting little boys whose exasperated, tight-lipped wives put up with their bad behavior and sometimes have to act like mommies. Although these friends have some fun horsing around in the water, their conflicts and rivalries make for a tense, joyless holiday that is anything but relaxing.
The movie has an outspoken editorial mouthpiece in Jean-Louis (Joël Dupuch), a local oyster farmer who has known these people for years. In a ham-handed diatribe near the end of the film he denounces their materialism and self-absorption. He says nothing that we don't already know.


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We planned a birthday party, my second son ran a 1.59.65 in the 800 meter, earning him a state record (probably just for the week, but still … ), and my sixth-grade daughter won an honorable mention for an essay contest on character. We shipped our college sophomore back to school, and her older sister journeyed with her to Chicago so they could see a show together. The three-day weekend felt like a touch of Christmas even as we took the tree down. It's been a busy week. The hallmark of a Catholic life is joy in the midst of whatever one is in the midst of living. Every day I make a "to do" list which tells you the necessary things of the day, without noting whether they were done with joy or grimness. The birthday party planned doesn't tell you the struggle to pare down the list of guests or get their addresses. The track record doesn't show you the years he's spent running in every type of weather or all the early-morning trips out to drop him at a meet or give a sense of how many whole-wheat peanut butter sandwiches, sliced beets and extra bananas he's needed on a daily basis; it shows the result of all those years. The sixth-grader's award doesn't tell of her panic and frustration at the blank page or her struggles with rewriting. Each triumph has behind it a story of the effort it took to arrive at the success. They all took time, effort, and will -- even when the will wasn't feeling it. My victories include taking down the tree, writing two pieces and getting to the gym. The cleaner house doesn't tell the world the work it took to get there, nor does the scale indicating you weigh less boast about the sacrifice of the prior days. We have Small Success Thursday so you can brag a little, about those moments when something happened which otherwise would get lost in the next "to do" list of things one needs to accomplish. Your efforts matter. They result in a cumulative effect. Prayer erodes sin, love thaws indifference, and daily struggles against minutiae and clutter eventually clear away much of the minutiae and clutter. A book is written one word at a time, and a soul formed moment to moment by the love encountered and shared. We're all in the midst of shaping and letting ourselves be shaped by grace, by love, and by willingness to struggle. It will take a lot more cumulative effort to get the house cleared, grow in wisdom and capacity as a writer, and get fit, but one day, one moment at a time. Here's to cooperating with grace and being willing to struggle. Happy Small Success Thursday! What small successes are you celebrating this week?
Copyright 2018 Sherry Antonetti
Copyright 2018 Sherry Antonetti
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Sherry Antonetti
Sherry Antonetti is a mother of ten children, published author of The Book of Helen and a freelance writer of humor and family life columns. You can read additional pieces from her blog, http://sherryantonettiwrites.blogspot.com.


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Saturday, September 8, 2012
TIFF 2012: James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez & Rachel Korine at "Spring Breakers" Premiere
When writer/director Harmony Korine's name is attached to a project (Kids, Gummo), you know you're not going to get your usual teen angst film. Korine's kids are vicious, sexually-obsessed, drug-fueled, unruly and self-destructive. And, as you would expect, this familiar cocktail is served up again in his latest teen feature, Spring Breakers.
It's Spring Break and 4 Floridian college friends (Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez & Rachel Korine) are bored to tears on their deserted campus. Desperate and broke, they steal a car, don ski-masks and savagely rob the patrons of a fast food joint with heavy hammers and squirt guns. With cash in hand, they race to a party town to begin their wicked revelry, but the fun quickly comes to an end after they are arrested at a cocaine party. Unable to pay their high fine, they are sentenced to spend two days in jail, but a local wannabe rapper/drug dealer (James Franco) comes to their rescue and bails them out. That's when their adventure really begins.
Suddenly their world is introduced to automatic weapons, infinite cash, more drugs, gangsters, strippers and unadulterated sex. Half of them are scared off. The other half become gun-toting mob-girls and join the dealer's drug war against his rival. It's all a recipe for disaster, but that's just typical in a Harmony Korine movie.
Spring Breakers is destined to be Korine's first commercially successful film as a writer-director. Predominately because it stars some of today's most popular actresses -- specifically, Disney's Selena Gomez, High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens and Dirty Little Liars' Ashley Benson. Throw in Franco (Spider-Man, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and you've nearly cornered the market of every high school in North America. But star power is the only thing that Spring Breakers has got going for it.
Its myriad of scenes of drug use, innocuous girl talk and topless drunken beach dancing excruciatingly slow the pace down. Unlike the gritty reality of Kids, you get the sense that Korine is pushing the envelop less to reveal the struggle of youth and more to shock for the sake of shock value.
The film's only saving grace is Franco's overly-exaggerated and hilarious performance as a wigger gangster. It's so obvious that the actor is having fun in the role, and when he does, it's enough for us to regain consciousness. His most memorable scene comes when he sings a Britney Spears ballad to the girls by piano.
It's likely that Korine wanted the film's bloody climax to be epic because it's shot in slow motion to loud music, but its poor choreography and bad direction leave us empty. There's not much to like about Spring Breakers. More importantly, it's particularly unfortunate that a huge youth market will be subjected to its many shameful images of Black stereotypes. And that's probably the only thing I didn't expect from this Harmony Korine movie.
Last night at the Ryerson Theatre, during the film's Q&A on stage, Korine shared that he wanted the film to be a cross between a Britney Spears video and a Gasper Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void) film, which I think he reasonably achieved visually. Once again, Franco charmed the audience with his ultra-cool attitude and Selena Gomez noted that the film was a huge departure from her squeaky clean image and urged her young Disney fans to avoid seeing the mature film. How much you wanna bet they'll want to see it more now?
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An inconvenient truth about the media
George Crisp writes: Re. "Climate change in Fairfax op-ed: a response" (yesterday). John McLean's original article and his reply aptly demonstrate the asymmetry of the climate "debate" in our media. McLean would like us to believe that his opinion is as meaningful as any other and that he is suitably qualified, if such qualification even be necessary, to have an equal say.
But in fact he is making an extraordinary claim, one that flies in the face of established science and the "opinions" of the vast majority of genuine climate scientists and every peak scientific body. In making such a claim he must provide "extraordinary evidence" to be taken in the least bit seriously. But there is neither new nor significant data or interpretation in any of this.
Nonetheless, he cries foul when criticisms are raised, playing the victim, making out that it is he has been unfairly treated.
Rather than the critique of journalists he bemoans, it is the uncritical and "balance-seeking" media that continues to enable the ridiculous and undermining game of climate deniers to be played out ad nauseam. It is a fatal flaw, allowing the never-ending recycling of doubt, promoting inaction, perhaps leading us to the point where it really will be too late.
Take on climate deniers on science
Geoff Russell writes: Re. "The Big Oil-backed climate denier who hoodwinked Fairfax" (Monday). Much as I enjoyed Elaine McKewon's piece on climate change denier John McLean, it's mostly an ad hominem attack. The argument that McLean isn't an expert and therefore shouldn't be published would see more than a few journalists looking for alternative employment.
McLean's lack of qualifications should affect how (or perhaps whether) we read what he writes, but we don't actually need to know he's misrepresented himself in the case of his recent op-ed. We can shred it concisely by appeal to the facts.
McLean begins by asserting that the IPCC has no mandate to investigate "other causes of climate change" than human … but later goes on to claim: "It was the IPCC's role to investigate whether this [human's were changing the climate] was correct." Obviously you can't assign responsibility for change until you can measure and compare various causes. He then reckons IPCC had no evidence to claim in 1992 that humans were causing climate change and still doesn't.
This is false on both accounts. While evidence for a large and significant human role in the climate change process was rather weaker in 1992, it certainly existed, and it's huge now. James Hansen and others by 1988 had shown that current levels of warming were inconsistent with non-human causes, but could be fitted quite well once human causes were added. That's evidence.
Fast forward 20 years and chapter eight of the 2013 IPCC report contains 139 pages dense with evidence on this precise topic, and these 139 pages point to a mountain of large studies done by an army of well-qualified people using a wide range of methods. That's evidence. McLean is wrong because he's wrong, not because he's an oil-funded climate denier who misrepresents his expertise.
Media's complicity in asylum seeker silence
Romina Aquinchay writes: Re. "Abbott's asylum seeker policy an affront to our Jesuit education" (yesterday). Great article. Should be given a wider audience. Unfortunately the people you have to reach, mainly the unthinking bogans who voted for the Coalition believing the "stop the boats" slogan, think that as long as the news about asylum seekers seems to be falling, the numbers must be going down, too. It would never occur to them to think why the government is hiding information. If the ALP had done this when in power we would never have heard the end of it. However, the Coalition can act as it wishes and a compliant media says nothing. Nearly all media in Australia is shameful. Most of you should hang your heads in shame. Not a Woodward or Bernstein among any of you.
In regards to the articles and comments about privatisation, hear, hear to Les Heimann. To all the others who practically have wet dreams about privatising anything that moves, once the money derived from the sales is used up, what is left to sell? Taxes will go up, which is fine with me. I actually think that most of us want champagne service at beer prices, and we whinge about taxes but we are not highly taxed as, say, Scandinavia is, but taxes should go up for business as well. All of us are citizens, including the corporate world.


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Times change, and the people of this region knew they had to change, too. Manufacturing has long been a linchpin of the Stephens County economy. From furniture and caskets to textiles and machine parts, local workers made tangible products the rest of the world could use. As the global economy changed, so did Toccoa. Plants closed down. Now scattered around the outskirts of town, you can see their remains in empty buildings with crumbling parking lots and broken windows.
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Contemplating Shame ~ Consumentality ~ The History of Stuff
I wanted to jar you out of your "shame" mentality with the title (s) . Did I succeed? Only time will tell. It seems like an unrelated and possibly unintelligible grouping of words and discourses. The title may only make sense at the end…but we are at the beginning… and, we are really going to dare to talk about the evil, nasty, oft-vilified word SHAME.
Anyone who know me, knows one of my mantras.
"If I do something shameful, I ought to feel ashamed."
You can insert he/she/it does…They into the sentence at will. Anyhow, I am absolutely confounded by our shame doublespeak. A little obsessed, some may say. Suddenly, eliciting shame in an individual, who has acted shamefully is tantamount to dribbling hot oil in an infant's eye. "There will be lifelong injuries if you shame your child." We live in a world where everyone gets a medal because we are so frightened that our child will feel the shame of being a failure or getting picked last at P.E. It is abusive for your child to feel this sort of shame in any way, shape, or form.
We also live in a world where there is "fat shaming" and "skinny shaming" to be fair, rates of LGBT suicide are anywhere from 6%-8% to who knows how much higher than other kids. There is a lot of shame rolling around in the Ethernet but it all seems so wrong.
What I want to do with this series of blogs is to question this doublespeak idea of shame. I want to attempt to locate our brand of shame in time and space, specifically in the West. I will use the concept of Western culture knowing the rottenness of that word, and using it anyhow. Of course, "the West" is not homogenous. Of course, saying "the West" posits that there is an "other" outside of "the West". I use the idea of Western Culture because it is indelibly tied to consumerism and corporations in a way that culture groups outside of the West are not. That is not to say that those cultures are not tied to consumerism and corporations in their own way…just not in the way that people living in Western culture, mostly in America, are.
Again, back to the title, it crops up that somehow "the West" and consumerism and corporations are tied to shame. Yes…yes…we will get there. I thought that just as Foucault started with Discipline and Punish (1977) and then in the lectures in the years following grew up Governmentality, I would start with the tool, shame and grow it up to Consumentality. I am not positing myself as Foucault…Hell, No…he is a genius. This whole "shame" thing is a rabbit hole. I invite you to jump down, as scary as it is and rattle some deeply entrenched cages.
Some future blogs that I want to cover in some interesting fashion in the series are:
- Foucault-Governmentality-Discipline-Knowledge/Power ~ Consumentality-Shame-We Are Known
- Difference between Guilt and Shame – Semantics or Linguistics?, Is there bad and good shame? can we apply shame incorrectly? (inefficiently? hurtful to our soul? add your adverb)
- Short History of Shame
- Shame as Parental Control ~ Primary for Regret/Remorse
- Shame/Guilt in the church
- The Shame Swap – Individual vs. Corporation
- What happens when we flip flop?
- Places of Resistance
- Taking back shame ~ Empowerment
- Does this point to an even larger perspective, beyond shame.
Before I end this little introduction, I want to position myself in this conversation. Within the next couple paragraphs I will use my own words without adherence to the particularity I will use them in later discursive language.
With that said, I don't live with deep shame. I have experienced shame many times. At times these experiences were of my own creation. For example, when I was around seven, I had an older friend who was super into shop lifting. She would just take candy from supermarkets willy nilly. At that time, it had never occurred to me to steal from a store. I don't know why it didn't, but it didn't. First, I wasn't allowed to go to Alpha Beta, but we went anyway. We had an empty back pack ready for the stolen candy. I participated and stole my favorite candy…A Golden Almond.
Problem was, I was immediately ashamed. We didn't get caught. Nobody ever found out. Yet, I was wracked with guilt and shame. It was so bad that I never ate another Golden Almond again. (Another random picture for you to digest. hee hee)
There were times in my life when I behaved shamefully and I did not feel shame. My bad behavior continued unabated until….something else shoved me off my high horse…or not.
I am an Episcopalian, so we aren't a crew into guilt and shame but I grew up Latter-Day Saint (Mormon). Somehow, shame needs to be fitted into the world of religion, as well. I am deeply invested in my spirituality and my church family.
On the other side of things, I acknowledge a different ubiquitous shame. I can, at least, see it. That is the shame of our consumer world to be good consumers. This shame takes on a wide range of shapes from shame about your credit report, to your drug use, to your sexual orientation, to your weight, to your workout schedule. Especially, if for whatever reason, you are unable to embody consumentality, this shame takes over the shame of having done something shameful.
There is more to this shame thing than meets the eye.
Come along and see what we can learn about ourselves and the world around us when we dare to examine the scary concept of shame in our culture.
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I was just having a conversation about this a couple of weeks ago with a friend who is a life coach. You would have thought my acceptance of shame was "tantamount to dribbling oil in an infant's eye." She was adamant that shame causes lifelong damage, whereas, I believe that if someone does something wrong, shame is not a bad emotion. It relates to accountability, remorse, and guilt. These are not negative emotions, but rather they are emotions that prepare people to live within a society and play their part.
That being said, the idea of "fat shaming," "skinny shaming," and the like is another form of bullying. Being ashamed should happen when someone does something wrong, not for being who they are.
I look forward to more of your posts.
Well said! I look forward to reading your future posts!
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The Summer Scholar Communities Program differs from traditional undergraduate research in that students and faculty from various disciplines across the College of Sciences and Mathematics meet regularly over the course of the summer to share results, to learn from each other, to present their research findings and discuss challenges and commonalities. The students present their findings at a poster session at the beginning of the fall semester as well as at Belmont's Science Undergraduate Research Symposium (SURS) in the fall.
Since the summer of 2003, over forty research communities have been formed involving over one hundred students in the areas of Biology, English, Mathematics, Computer Science, History, Psychology and Sociology. Many of the communities continue year after year with the same faculty mentor but a new group of student participants.
Summer Scholars 2017
Summer Scholars Facilitate Research Across Campus
Belmont's Summer Scholars program, now it its 15th year, provides the opportunity for faculty to mentor groups of students throughout the summer as they conduct important research. Since it began, more than 60 research communities have formed among more than 200 students in English, mathematics, computer science, biology, history, psychology and sociology. This summer, 18 students and 4 faculty are participating in the programming.
This summer, a number of projects are underway. These include:
- A group of undergraduate researchers who are modeling Parkinson's disease and treating the Parkinson's-like worms (C elegans) with novel reagents to determine their effectiveness for relieving symptoms, led by Professor of Biology Dr. Nick Ragsdale. The group hopes their work may inform new therapies.
- Students who are growing cells that have been isolated from cancerous tumors to test potential treatments with the hopes of uncovering new chemotherapeutic agents. This team is led by Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Chris Barton.
- Biology Department Chair and Associate Professor Dr. John Niedzwiecki's team, a group of students who are characterizing predator-prey responses in local snail populations to explore differences in response of snail size, as well as native vs. non-native predators. This work seeks to understand stream health, an important ecological endeavor.
- A final group of students who are working alongside Professor of Biology Dr. Lori McGrew and measuring the effects of treatments on anxiety levels in zebrafish. These studies will add to a growing body of knowledge about zebrafish which will increase their usefulness for modeling human disorders.
The importance of undergraduate research opportunities are immense for student success. "Evidence suggests that undergraduate research facilitates student learning both by increasing student interest/motivation, and fostering critical thinking skills through the application of the scientific method," McGrew said. "Summer Scholars also develop a sense of community. While their projects differ, the shared experience of conducting research that they planned with all its successes and failures, creates a strong bond among the student participants."
This fall, participants will present their findings on campus during the Science Undergraduate Research Symposium and off-campus at regional or national meetings.
Summer Scholars 2016
Dr. Darlene Panvini's research group worked on two different projects.
Sargoel Rezanejad and Kelsey Saint Clair used DNA Barcoding, Biolog Ecoplates, and pitfall traps to compare the diversity of plants, bacteria, and macroinvertebrates on one of the JAAC green roofs to the McWhorter green roof. Anna Anderson and Gary Noel set up a six month study to analyze the decomposition of native and non-native leaves under different environmental conditions.
Dr. Chris Barton mentored a group of 4 students who explored the effects of multiple compounds on the growth of cervical and colorectal cancer cell lines. Our ability to identify, quantify and classify, genes that are specifically expressed is essential to our understanding of how cells respond to chemotherapy. Anna Margaret McDonnell, Kerry Sommers, Sarah Anderson, and Diana Neculcea exposed cell cultures to a variety of chemotherapy agents and then measured cell viability and examined the expression of specific genes including genes implicated in cancer.
Dr. Lori McGrew led a group of students utilizing Danio rerio (zebrafish) as a model organism and focused on assessment of anxiety or memory in the fish.
Austin Demaagd, Stephane Morin and Sam Zacovic measured anxiety in the fish following treatment with various pharmacologic agents. Curt Brown, John Longenecker and Mohamed Darwish used a T-maze to assess memory in zebrafish that had been exposed to different medications.
The Summer Scholars students will share their findings with the Belmont community during a poster session in the JAAC third floor atrium at 10:00 AM on September 3rd. Please come by to hear about their discoveries!
Summer Scholars 2015
The College of Sciences & Mathematics hosted a poster session for summer scholars and faculty members to showcase their summer research projects.
Dr. Chris Barton's research group -- Taeler Dahm, Robin Weyman, Eleyah Tanwar, Nelly Grigorian, Jeff King, Vian Pulous, Jasmine Mohn, and Morgan Turner -- explored the ways in which cells respond to environmental stresses. Human cells are constantly exposed to multiple forms of stress. Perhaps the most common stress encountered by our cells presents in the form of damage to our genetic material, DNA. DNA damage can be caused by numerous stimuli such as exposure to ultraviolet light (UV), radiation, or oxidative stress. Due to this, cells have a very large number of genes that are expressed specifically under conditions of cellular stress. Our ability to identify, and classify, genes that are specifically expressed during times of cellular stress is essential to our understanding of how cells respond to these potentially-damaging DNA mutations. By exposing cell cultures to a variety of stresses and then examining the expression of specific genes including genes implicated in cancer.
Dr. Darlene Panvini's research group -- Lindsay Millward, Katlin Stodard, Ayda Porkar Rezaeieh, Laura Horton, Sara Haney, and Walter Burn -- focused on two major studies: a study of the impact of restoration on water quality at Richland Creek and a study of the relative abundance of exotic invasive earthworms in a preservation area. The Richland Creek restoration occurred this past year as trees were planted in the riparian zone by a nonprofit organization. Two sites were chosen: a site with relatively newly planted trees and a site with mature trees in the riparian zone. This data will provide a baseline, foundation set of data of the restoration site for future studies as the trees mature. Water quality was assessed by two measures. First, a macroinvertebrate survey. Second, water quality was determined by examining nine variables that are used to determine a Water Quality Index (Q) and compared among the two sites. The nine variables are: temperature, pH, nitrates, turbidity, presence of E. coli, total dissolved solids, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand, and phosphates. The worm study team collected data on the distribution of worms and plants in different plots, removed the exotic species, and then re-sampled. The initial data collection serves as a baseline data set to compare to future studies at this site. By sampling the occurrence of the exotic species and then removing them, I can bring students to this site in future years to determine the recolonization rates of plants – both exotic and native – at this site.
Dr. Lori McGrew's research group -- Lindsey Cheek, Lindsey Dennis, Samantha Gould, Tessa Shupe, Araceli Garland, Donald Hoyle, Brandy Sweet and Melissa Wolf -- worked with Danio rerio (zebrafish) as a model organism and focused on assessment of anxiety or memory in the fish. Zebrafish are easily maintained and manipulated. Zebrafish, as vertebrates, have additional complexity that is useful for behavioral models. While these fish have long been used by developmental biologists, their utility for neuroscientists has only recently come to light. Their social structure and conditioned behaviors are beginning to be characterized. Experiments that test memory in the fish are performed in a T-maze, captured on video, and analyzed to determine how often the zebrafish chose the correct side and how long they took to make their decision. Our data suggest that fish treated with cannabinoids, tricyclic antidepressants and cholesterol-lowering medications in the statin family, all have impaired working memory.
Previous studies in our lab demonstrated that the antimicrobial agent, triclosan, had a negative effect on working memory in adult Danio rerio. Current studies examined the effect of triclosan on zebrafish embryos and larvae. We found that chronic low doses of this antimicrobial agent resulted in slower growth and development in the fish. Once the fish reached maturity, we compared their working memory to that of the control group. A second group of zebrafish embryos was exposed to video recordings either continuously or for several hours each day. We found that the constant exposure group had a significant increase in mortality. Taken together, our data suggest that a number of commonly prescribed medications and chemicals have a detrimental effect on working memory in Danio rerio, and potentially on humans. Because of the growing body of research and their cost effectiveness, zebrafish are gaining acceptance as a model organism for preliminary drug trials.
Summer Scholars 2014
Summer Scholars poster session for summer scholars and faculty members to showcase their summer research projects
Dr. John Niedzwiecki mentored a group of students whose research focused on predator avoidance behavior. These students collected snails from a nearby stream and measured the snails' ability to detect and avoid predators. The snails were able to detect differences in type and size of the predator as well as how long ago the predator was present. Students who worked with Dr. Niedzwiecki were Nicole Knowles, Taylor Mills, Raina Burley, Sonia Kadakia and Brielle Davis. These students will also present their findings at the Tennessee Academy of Sciences meeting at Walter State Community College and Belmont's Science Undergraduate Research Symposium (SURS) this fall.
Dr. Lori McGrew's research group used zebrafish (Danio rerio) to assess differences in memory and anxiety following treatment with various chemicals. The chemicals tested by this group included: nicotine, buproprion (an antidepressant), triclosan (an antimicrobial), a pre-workout supplement and a cannabinoid-like compound. The students were able to determine that both triclosan and the pre-workout supplement increased anxiety while the cannabinoid compound and buproprion decreased anxiety as measured in the Danios. Student researchers were Karah Parker, Iqra Wahid, Hensley Barnes, Jaime Wesley and Cassie Wyatt. These students will present their findings at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington, DC and Belmont's Science Undergraduate Research Symposium (SURS) this fall.
Dr. Darlene Panvini mentored a group of Biology and Environmental Science majors investigating the "Impact of Exotic Plants on Abundance, Diversity, and Distribution of Earthworms". The students participating were Sarah Gilmore (Environmental Science), Kari Morse (Biology) and Megan Swaine (Environmental Science).
Dr. John Niedzwiecki mentored a group of Biology and Environmental Science majors including Court Reese, Valini Ramcharan and Kyle Sullinger (all Biology) along with Hannah Martin (Environmental Science). Court worked to determine the relationship between two populations of salamanders by comparing mitochondrial DNA. Valini and Kyle studied the effects of size and predator cues on snail behavior. Hannah's project used Geographic Information System (GIS) to collect data about local environments.
Dr. Lori McGrew had a group of Biology majors who worked with Danio rerio (zebra fish) to explore the effect of different compounds on memory and anxiety in the fish. Allison McCoy and Jen Myer, used antidepressants to treat the fish and then measured the effect on the fish's working memory. Katie Farrell tested the homeopathic compound, Bacopa, to determine whether this herbal supplement had an effect on working memory or anxiety in zebra fish. Jordan Gann measured anxiety in zebra fish following their exposure to the pesticide glyphosate.
2012Dr. Nick Ragsdale's Caenorhabditis elegans Group - Liberty Foye, Anderson Webb, Brad Gill and Scott Kim; Rachel Garland continued work on the role of oxidants in the formation of Parkinson's like disease.
Dr. Darlene Panvini's Groups - Jessica Braden, Emma Ghulam Jan, and Anna Witherspoon compared rates of photosynthesis and stomatal density in leaves of exotic vines to native vines; Sylvia Alsup, Lida Ghulam Jan, and Lauren Land compared macroinvertebrate diversity in areas of the Little Harpeth River
Dr. John Niedzwiecki's Groups - Bellamy Hawkins and Breanna Poore worked on chemical detection of predation cues in an aquatic snail; Parth Majmudar looked for signs of "intelligence" in Orconectes crayfish; Janet Steen and Amy Nesius successfully developed microsatellites for use in Spotted salamanders;Rachel Chandler studied streamside salamanders -- She was able to present that work as a poster at the International Evolutionary Biology conference in Ottawa, Canada this past summer with Dr. Niedzwiecki.
McGrew Zebrafish Group: Alesya Borisyuk, Tristan Daniel, and Vishan Ramcharan
Niedzwiecki Behavioral Ecology of Snails Group: Abader Almosawi and Kelsey Grant
Ragsdale C. elegans Group: Samera Berhane, Sylvia Chac, and Roxie Musharrafeia
Murphree Medical Entomology Group: RaeAnne Lauffer, Rachel Serfass, Libby Thorndike, and Ryan Baker
McGrew Zebrafish Group: Taylor Andrews, Steven Avers, Taylor Beazley, and Katy Parsley
Niedzwiecki Behavioral Ecology Group: Caleb Binkley, Amy Fehrman, Mark McFarland, and Ati Osinusi
McGrew Zebrafish Group: Kelli Boone, Abby Murphy, Bao Nguyen, Ola Osinusi, and Alyson Singh
Niedzwiecki Salamander Group: Sara Bentley, Kendra Cowan, Chris Pilny, and Beth Schriner
Grammer Insulting C. elegans through Chemicals and Pathogens Group: Sachin Amin and Christina Inman
McGrew Zebrafish and Learning Group: Jeanna Bardin, Jackie Hunter, Roshni Patel, and Taylor Walter
Murphree Conenose Bug Group: Dana Halchak and Ludia Kim
Niedzwiecki Behavior and Ecology of the Streamside Salamander Group: Will Baugher, Ginna Beazley, and Lauren Oeser
Ragsdale Worms in Our Community Group: Josh Cortopassi, Cy Eaton, Robbie Gibson, and Brittany Myers
McGrew Zebrafish and Behavior Group: Adam Gilliland, Michelle Howell, Becky Repasky, and Jelena Stupar
Ragsdale C. elegans as a Model Organism for Studying Biology Group: Stephen May, Chelsea Wilson, and Bethany Woodard
Grammer Chemotaxis Group: Ananta Bhatt
McGrew Worm Brain Consortium Group: Stacey Apple, Adam Militana, Becky Repasky, Trisha Siewnarine, and Corey Winfree
Panvini Biology and Ecology of Exotics Group: Neely Osteen, Amanda Simpson, and Rejana Wells
Ragsdale Worm Group: Kelly Deweese, Ashley Dozier, Michel Mosby, and Kristen Sorensen
Grammer, McGrew, and Ragsdale Worm Brain Consortium: Jimmy Berthaud, Tuyen Bui, Trisha Siewarine, Kelly Deweese, Ashley Dozier, Ricky Patel and Meg Voss
Panvini Biology and Ecology of Exotics Group: Lee Griggs, Amanda Stinnett, and Rejana Wells
Panvini Exotic Plants Group: Kristin Furman, Alex Grzeszczak, and Jenny Pollard
Ragsdale Worm Group: Scott Russell


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Census records
What are they and how are they useful for genealogists?
Generally, census records are typically created by government entities to count (or enumerate) the people living within a particular area. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a census as, 'an official count or survey, especially of a population'. Censuses have been taken by bodies such as churches and individuals however these are not focused on in this article. For genealogists, they are very useful as they pinpoint your ancestors to a given location at a particular time and they often show people in family groups which can reveal relationships and previously unknown family members. They can include information on occupations, parental origin, year of migration, ability to read and write, religious affiliation and much more.
Why are they created?
Primarily so that governments know how many people are living in the area of enumeration; this helps with issues of funding allocation and to assess the number of legislators required for an area. Perhaps more interestingly, the characteristics of a population are also assessed and this is where we get information such as whether a person could speak or write a particular language, the value of any life insurance held, whether a person was deaf and so on. All of this information gave the government a snapshot of its population and thus could help answer particular issues of concern.
How are they created?
Nowadays, often by sending out a form in the post and then if a household does not reply, a census enumerator will come to your door. A number of countries are now doing away with a formal census and relying on data taken from various systems (education, taxation, national identification schemes, etc.).
Historically, enumerators were assigned a set route and they would deliver a form to each household on their route; the householder would fill it in and give it to back to the enumerator the next day. Be aware that if your ancestor was not literate, they would require help to fill in the form and this could lead to issues with the spelling of names.
Enumerators would then copy information from the householder forms into an enumeration book which would be sent onto a main office. For some censuses, the householder forms have been preserved and are available for genealogists to view but in most cases, it's the enumeration book that we see. So be aware that this information is copied from the original data.
Which level of government was/is involved?
The level of government, national, or state/provincial, responsible for censuses varies by country and also potentially by time period within a country. In most countries censuses involving a count on a national level will be the responsibility of the national/federal government. However, some countries have had censuses undertaken by individual colonies, states or regions such as in Australia, the United States and Canada. These censuses usually include different questions than the national ones and tend to focus on issues of local interest; they are also often taken in different years than national censuses (or they predate them) thus allowing you to expand the search for your ancestors.
When started and how often?
The very earliest censuses happened in ancient times but for genealogical purposes an early census of interest is that of Iceland in 1703 which recorded the name, age, residence, and social standing of every inhabitant; an index of this census is available.
It is usual for censuses to be taken every 10 years though some areas hold them on a 5 year cycle. Again, this frequency can change over time so do check your area of interest.
Particular issues with censuses & census substitutes
Some countries do not keep (or have not kept for particular years) the individual/family details taken as part of census enumeration, thus all that is available to us are the statistical outcomes. These can be interesting as they give a flavour of the area in which your ancestors lived but no information on a particular person will be available.
It's important to find out who was supposed to be included in a household as this varies by country to country and from time period to time period. In some places, only those staying in the residence on the census night were to be counted in that household and in others, those who were 'normally resident' were to be counted. Obviously knowing this could change your thoughts of who you anticipate being on the census at that address!
Substitutes for censuses can include local directories which list residents of an area, town or city by name and usually by address; voters rolls which only list people eligible to vote and are usually arranged by address; taxation rolls – these can include taxes based on property and an example of these are the Scottish valuation rolls which were produced yearly and list the names of the owner and if a property was leased or rented the main householder's name for each property. Also look out for taxation assessment lists which list people and businesses who were liable to pay tax; these are often arranged by area and then by name and are usually taken yearly.
The resources in the 'See Also' section below can be consulted for more information on the topic.
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text: Professor Alan McNally BSc PhD Institute of Microbiology and InfectionProfessor in Microbial Evolutionary GenomicsDirector of Institute of Microbiology and Infection within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences Contact details Telephone+44 (0) 121 414 email@example.com@alanmcn1 View my research portal AddressInstitute of Microbiology and InfectionCollege of Medical and Dental SciencesUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Alan McNally is a Professor in Microbial Genomics and works on the evolutionary genomics of pathogenesis and antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens. Alan has also been funded by the European Union, Medical Research Council and Royal Society. Alan has a strong belief in the collaborative nature of genomics research with active collaborations in the UK, China, Germany, France, Vietnam, and the US. During the COVID-19 outbreak, Alan was seconded to the Milton Keynes Lighthouse Lab as Infectious Disease lead at the Government's first flagship COVID-19 testing facility. Launched on 9 April 2020, the Milton Keynes Lighthouse Lab was the first of three Government 'mega-labs' to be set-up across the UK, vastly increasing testing capacity and allowing tens of thousands more patient samples to be processed each day. Qualifications PhD Molecular Microbiology, University of Edinburgh Royal (Dick) Vert Shool, 1999-2003 BSc Hons 2.i Molecular Microbiology with work placement, University of Glasgow, 1994-1999 Biography Alan McNally began his scientific career studying molecular microbiology at University of Glasgow, including a year's placement at SmithKline Beecham in Hertfordshire. He then went on to do a PhD studying gene regulation in E. coli O157 with Prof David Gally at University of Edinburgh. A short post-doc in microbial biochemistry at Bristol was followed by two post-doctoral projects at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Surrey. It was here whilst working on H5N1 avian influenza that Alan developed an interest in phylogenetics and evolution, which he developed in his first academic PI position at Nottingham Trent University. During 10 succesful years Alan established his group as an internationally renowned group studying microbial genomics and evolution, leading to him joining the IMI in September 2016. Teaching Teaching Programmes BMedSc - years 2 and 3 Postgraduate supervision Alan has successfully supervised 9 PhD students. He is interested to hear from students interested in undertaking a PhD in the fields of: Population genomics of multi-drug resistant E. coli Evolution of antimicrobial resistance in gram negative pathogens Evolution of pathogenesis in the Yersinia genus Experimental evolution of MDR plasmid carriage in gram negative pathogens If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Alan on the contact details above, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: firstname.lastname@example.com or call +44 (0)121 414 5005. For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings. Research E. coli We work on extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli, or ExPEC. These are now the most common cause of drug-resistant infections worldwide, and the most common cause of hospital associated infections. ExPEC Genomics We study population genomics of the predominant sequence types associated with extra-intestinal infections in humans, in particular ST131, ST73 and ST95. By doing this we hope to determine how these STs have become the dominant causative agents of human disease from the enormous population of E. coli. We also hope to be able to use this data to inform phylogenetic based epidemiology of these bacteria, better informing us how multi-drug resistant bacteria transmit in the hospital and community setting. Classical bacterial pathogenesis We also translate our genomic data into biological relevance, by attributing observations in our genome data to particular phenotypes. In particular we are interested in metabolic differences between ExPEC clades, and also differences in their transmission and environmental survival strategies. Yersinia We also work on the enteropathogenic members of the Yersinia genus. Again we use genomics data to investigate the evolution of pathogenesis in this model bacterial genus. We also have a keen interest in studying localised short term evolution in subsets of the enteropathogenic species. As with ExPEC our goal is to marry the genomic data with differential phenotype data across population sets. To do this we heavily employ classical bacterial genetics techniques with surrogate infection models, in particular Galleria mellonella. Other activities Elected member of the Microbiology Society Prokaryotic Division since 2012 Alan is now in his second elected term having organised several key symposia for the society annual conference Editor for the society journal Microbial Genomics Publications Liu L, Feng Y, McNally A and Zong Z. 2018. blaNDM-21, a new variant of blaNDM in an Escherichia coli clinical isolate carrying blaCTX-M-55 and rmtB. J Antimicrob Chemother. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky226. Zong Z, Fenn S, Connor C, Feng Y and McNally A. 2018. Complete genomic characterization of two Escherichia coli lineages responsible for a cluster of carbapenem-resistant infections in a Chinese hospital. J Antimicrob Chemother. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky210. Méric G, McNally A, Pessia A, Mourkas E, Pascoe B, Mageiros L, Corrander J and Sheppard SK. 2018. Convergent Amino Acid Signatures in Polyphyletic Campylobacter jejuni Subpopulations Suggest Human Niche Tropism. Genome biol Evol. 10 (3), 763-774 Seecharran T, Kalin-Manttari L, Koskela K, Nikkari S, Dickins B, Corander J, Skurnik M and McNally A. 2017. Phylogeographic separation and formation of sexually discrete lineages in a global population of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Microb Genom. 3(10):e000133. de Vos MGJ, Zagorski M, McNally A and Bollenbach T. (2017). Interaction networks, ecological stability, and collective antibiotic tolerance in polymicrobial infections. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 114:10666-10671. Harrison F, McNally A, da Silva AC, Heeb S and Diggle SP. (2017). Optimised chronic infection models demonstrate that siderophore 'cheating' in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is context specific. ISME J. 11:2492-2509. McInerney JO, McNally A and O'Connell MJ. 2017. Why prokaryotes have pangeomes. Nat Microbiol. 2:17040. McNally A, Oren Y, Kelly D, Pascoe B, Dunn S, Sreecharan T, Vehkala M, Välimäki N, Prentice MB, Ashour A, Avram O, Pupko T, Dobrindt U, Literak I, Guenther S, Schaufler K, Wieler LH, Zhiyong Z, Sheppard SK, McInerney JO and Corander J. (2016). Combined analysis of variation in core, accessory and regulatory genome regions provides a super-resolution view into the evolution of bacterial populations. PLoS Genetics. 12: e1006280. McNally A, Thomson NR, Reuter S and Wren BW (2016) 'Add, stir and reduce': Yersinia spp. as model bacteria for pathogen evolution. Nat Rev Microbiol 14(3):177-90 Alhashash F, Wang X, Paszkiewicz K, Diggle M, Zong Z and McNally A (2016) Increase in bacteraemia cases in the East Midlands region of the UK due to MDR Escherichia coli ST73: high levels of genomic and plasmid diversity in causative isolates. J Antimicrob Chemother 71(2):339-43 Reuter S, Corander J, de Been M, Harris S, Cheng L, Hall M, Thomson NR and McNally A (2015) Directional gene flow and ecological separation in Yersinia enterocolitica. Microbial Genomics 1 Reuter S, Connor TR, Barquist L, Walker D, Feltwell T, Harris S, Fookes M, Hall ME, Fuchs TM, DuFour M, Prentice M, Wren BW, Carniel E, Skurnik M, Falcão JP, Fukushima H, Scholz HC, Parkhill J, Achtman M, McNally A and Thomson NR. (2014). Parallel independent evolution of pathogenicity within the genus Yersinia. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 111: 6768-73. Zhao F, Feng Y, Lü X, McNally A and Zong Z. 2017. IncP Plasmid CarryingColistin Resistance Gene mcr-1 in Klebsiella pneumoniae from Hospital Sewage. 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How to Dye Seashells
Seashells are primarily calcium carbonate, like eggshells. Theoretically, Easter egg dye should work on seashells as it does on eggs, but shells from the sea are not as porous as shells from chickens. The exception is worn old shells, abraded enough to absorb dye readily. So, the challenge when dyeing seashells is to add an acid to the dye that will break down the shells and encourage them to absorb the color. It is not a precise science, and you will get varied results using leftover egg dye, food coloring and vinegar or fabric dye.
Prepare the egg dye according to the package instructions, adding vinegar to help the dye penetrate the shell. Add 1 tablespoon of white vinegar and 1 tablespoon of coloring to a cup of water if you are using food coloring. Use 1 tablespoon of dye per cup of water for fabric dye.
Wash and dry the shells before immersing them in the containers of Easter egg dye, food coloring or fabric dye. A dry shell absorbs more liquid. Cover the shells completely in the dye bath.
Keep checking to see if the dye is taking and how quickly the color deepens. Weathered shells with a bit of a chalky surface absorb more dye than newer, smoother shells. Most dyes deliver results in about 30 minutes.
Remove the shells from the dye containers and allow them to dry on a baker's rack or sheets of craft paper. Dispose of the dye bath responsibly.
Clear-coat the dyed and dried shells with lacquer to protect the color.
Things Needed
- Nonreactive container
- Measuring spoons
- Easter-egg dye kit
- White vinegar
- Food coloring or fabric dye
- Clean hand towel
- Baker's rack or craft paper
- Slotted spoon (optional)
- Lacquer
- Artist's brushes
Photo Credits
- Purestock/Purestock/Getty Images


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What the heck, guys? I mean, you pretty much know what you're gonna get when you hit a county fair — carnies with games you can't win, giant corndogs that cost an arm and a leg, and sweltering heat so bad you feel like you're melting. But I'm a total sucker for it all! Every last bit of it. The cotton candy, the ferris wheel, those cool misters that you walk through when it's just too hot, and the photo booths. Oh, those beautiful vintage photo booths!
I hadn't been to our county fair for probably a solid 15 years, and I was so pumped to go last weekend with Ryan and Henry I was about to burst. It turns out we forgot to pack dinner for the little dude (and oddly enough nobody was selling pureed green beans or baby cereal…), so we had to pack up early. But we were having such a blast we plan to go back this weekend with baby cereal blazing and spend a little more time running around in the dusty midway and checking out the prize winning pie/quilt/heifer.
Do you go to your county fair? You have to! Tell me your fair faves. I remember when I was a little kid bopping around, it was the Gravitron — hands down. Do you know that one? You get inside and the thing spins around so fast that centrifugal force pins you to the walls and you can't lift your head or your hands. I think if you put me in that thing these days I would probably liquify. Blech. But oh man back in the day you couldn't get me off of that thing.
Guys, go to the fair! xoxo


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HR Tech in Japan
Japan is currently a mixture of a traditional workplace and a modernized environment. HR Tech is already creating a change.
Thank you, Hitoshi Suzuki, for taking the time to answer some of our questions regarding the Japanese HR Tech market.
Q: Can you please tell us a little about yourself and how you got involved in HR Tech in Japan?
A: I am the Co-Founder and CEO of Hackazouk which provides Official-Alumni.com, Alumni Relationship Management System, in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni. I also frequently write and speak on HR Tech (examples here, here and here).
The turning point for me was after I moved to Singapore in 2011, having completed several HR/recruiting (Google) and consultant roles for a couple of years in Japan. I shifted from consulting to tech, since the government there was more supportive in digitalization of HR operations in terms of grants, etc. That's also when I started looking more into HR trends in the US and found out that HR Tech in Japan was lagging even more behind than I thought. Upon my return to Japan last year, we launched the Alumni Relationship Platform in Japan and in the Philippines.
Q: How big is the Japanese HR Tech Market?
A: The HR tech market in Japan is said to be somewhere around 80 billion US dollars, but the majority of this applies to traditional job portals, temp staffing, and recruitment agencies (note that agency fee is averaged at 30-35% of annual compensation in Japan, and agency still is the one of the top sources in Japan even for the entry level; more about that below).
It's hard to say how big the HR Tech market in Japan is because the definition of HR Tech isn't so clear.
According to MIC Research Institute Ltd., a Japanese research company, the HR Tech market size in Japan for 2017, ATS, HRMS, payroll and LMS sum up to somewhere around 200-300 million USD. This figure is only for SaaS, and I suspect this doesn't include non-Japanese enterprise ERP/HRIS like Oracle, SAP. It also excludes on-premise software. And that is one of the reasons that keeps the HR Tech in Japan lagging behind.
I will explain myself: for quite a long time, large conglomerate enterprises have had a huge market share in all industries, and most of them would have a system integrator within their conglomerate group. These system integrators develop tailor-made software for their group companies. This led to companies getting used to software adopting to their operation workflow and not the other way around, resulting in low productivity of Japanese workforce. As a result, many large enterprises were not giving HR Tech startups a chance. This is changing now and there are more and more opportunities for HR Tech startups to work with large enterprises.
The Japanese HR Tech map by HR Tech Navi, mentions 231 startups.
Q: What categories are more prominent?
A: It has always been recruiting and it still is, as companies are allocating a significant part of their budget for that. However, employee engagement has been a hot topic in Japan for the past few years, as they are trying "to plug the hole in the bucket", as good old Japanese customs of lifetime employment are collapsing. Automation, including RPA, is also growing very strong. The market is craving for innovative HR Tech products and is changing rapidly. 3 years ago, for example, the market wouldn't have been ready at all for alumni related services, as it is now.
Q: What would you say is special to the HR Tech market in Japan?
A: The language barrier keeps Japanese HR Tech vendors in Japan and we have a decent market size. It's not that easy for non-Japanese HR Tech vendors to enter the market. This increases the importance of finding the right local partner when foreign HR Tech vendors are to enter the Japanese market.
Another interesting thing about Japan is that recruiting was always more about employers assessing job seekers rather than both assessing each other. Partly because of that (although this mindset is changing too), many Japanese still prefer looking for a job "under the radar" so that their friends don't see them seeking and applying for jobs. Therefore, the referral recruiting app in Japan is designed with an emphasis to protect the candidate's privacy and candidates prefer sending resumes through this app rather than sending a CV via their friends.
Being active in the job market is considered a breach of psychological contract with your employer who expects long-term employment.
For the same reason, candidates prefer recruiting agencies, unlike perhaps, other international markets, where the trend is exactly the opposite.
Traditionally, companies don't specify the roles they are hiring new grads for, and new hires don't know whether they will start in HR, accounting, sales, etc. This created a situation where the companies are the ones to plan the career of their employees.
This is where Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare are playing a big role trying to change the mindsets of companies, individuals and educational institutes to empower individuals to take over and plan their own careers. This is already taking place and heading in the right direction, but the majority is still playing by the old rules.
Q: What is the status of adaptation of HR Tech applications? Are HR managers keen to try them out? Do they prefer local apps or international ones?
A: I would say many HR managers definitely have preferences for local apps even if they don't say it out loud. For some, it's a matter of preference, but in some, for example like HRMS with payroll, they sometimes have no choice but to choose a Japanese app since Japanese payroll is way too complex and localization of an international app just isn't enough. Having said that, more and more HR managers are keen to use effective apps regardless of whether they are local or international. Sadly, another reason companies use a new HR Tech service would be 'because everyone is using it". I'm sure this also happens in other markets, but this is more so in Japan.
I understand how this may sound conservative or negative to the Western world, but this is more of a cultural thing. This can apply in a good way too…If you manage to penetrate the Japanese market and do well with your first clients, many will follow exactly because of that reason.
Q: What are the activities (Meetups? Conferences?) of HR Tech in Japan?
A: There are many small HR Tech Meetups. One of them is "HR Tech 90", run by Ryoka Sakuragi, who also runs an online media website called HR Tech Navi.
There are few large annual conferences, part of which are HR Tech, but no large HR Tech specific conferences.
Q: And a question for you too Ryoka, can you perhaps recommend a few Japanese HR Tech applications?
(Editor's note: Many of these sites do not have an English version. This is when Google Translate kicks in..;-))
A: MOTIVATION CLOUD, WEVOX , Geppo, CYDAS, kaonavi, HR Brain,
Smart HR – Smart HR is cloud human resources work software that aims to automate procedures of social insurance and labor insurance that companies conduct.
Scouty – The Japanese version of people aggregation service like Entelo, Connectifier or TalentBin
Editor's note: We have also covered LUDO here.
And a very cool idea –
Unipos – It's a tool that enables PEER BONUS, which is like a "third salary" and is paid on a daily basis.
The system enables to see the day-to-day achievements that have been overlooked by management and HR. There's a mobile app and Slack is being used for it (among other platforms). Basic salary is paid from the company every month. Performance bonuses are paid several times a year and PEER BONUS is paid on a daily basis, as a thankfulness from colleagues! Achievers and Fond are similar
Hitoshi Suzuki can be reached at email@example.com
Ryoka Sakuragi can be reached at email@example.com


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Mike Moya is Manager of the ECN's Software Group. He has been a part of the ECN team since 1986 when he began as a student wiring technician for the hardware staff. He has two undergraduate degrees (Computer Science and Supervision) and is a MS candidate in Educational Computing and Instructional Development. In 1988, he became a UNIX systems programmer where he mainly did VAX, Gould, and Sun system administration programming. At that time he also coordinated the growing movement to put Macintosh and PC systems onto the network.
A typical morning at the office has Mike first checking the work queue. He takes on any emergencies that need immediate attention. Once those are finished, he wades through his email. Once completed, Mike either works on non-emergency work orders in the work queue or meets with his staff to check their progress with older work orders. He tries to eliminate barriers that can prevent work completion. It is not uncommon to see Mike working side by side with someone on his team or the hardware staff troubleshooting a problem. He tries to handle all tasks which might detract or slow the progress of his individual team. In that way, the group is able to function as a unit; large amounts of work are completed in a timely and efficient manner. Mike facilitates work with PDN to ensure seamless integration of the Purdue Data Network (PDN) wiring with older legacy ECN networks.
Outside of the office, Mike is a self-admitted golf-a-holic. He plays as often as possible in Spring and Summer by hitting the course before everyone else is even awake. He runs 40-50 miles a week and competes in several marathons or triathlons every year. He enjoys woodworking and restoring his house. Mike is married; he and his wife, Rhonda, have two daughters, Sandy and Jessica, and two dogs (Bear and Cocoa).


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|In the study room, Jeff proudly presents to the study group his pick for the "ultimate blow-off class" of the semester, Beginner Pottery. Britta, Troy, and Shirley agree. Meanwhile Annie and Abed join Jeff in his class where he swaggers into the pottery studio late. He immediately notices another student who seems very popular with the female students. The pottery instructor, Professor Holly, makes his presence known and explains the rules of the class. The one thing he will not tolerate in class is "Ghosting", the reenactment in any way shape or form of the Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore pottery scene from "Ghost". The popular student then goes on to create an impressive vase which earns him the praise of the professor and the class but also animosity from Jeff.
|In the parking lot on a real sailboat, the other study group members are waiting for class to begin joined by Star-Burns. The teacher, Professor Slaughter, arrives and explains that everyone will pass or fail as a team in this class. He names Shirley the leader and makes her the captain. Back in Spanish class, the study group reunites. Pierce is bothered about Shirley's "promotion" while Annie and Abed question Jeff's attitude towards the Rich. Jeff pretends not to care, but Britta senses that's not the case and teases him about it. Later in an empty pottery studio, Jeff tries to practice making a vase while flashing back to his childhood with his mom praising him. Despite his efforts, he can't seem to make a decent vase.
|The next day in boating class, Shirley and her crew try to "sail" the boat but are hindered by Pierce. He ends up making a mistake which gets the entire class a bad grade. Professor Slaughter suggests that Shirley get her crew under control while Pierce blames Shirley. Back in pottery class, Jeff tries to fake an injury to avoid participating. His plan is ruined when it turns out that Rich is actually a doctor and is able to determine his injury to be non-existent. Abed misreads Jeff's interaction with Rich and assumes he made peace with him, only to find out that Jeff's opinion of him has gotten worse: he now believes Rich to be a ringer, a pottery specialist taking a introductory class in order to get praise from everyone.
|That night, Jeff confronts Rich in the parking lot as he is leaving. He grills him about his past, trying to get him to admit that he has some past experience with pottery. The next day, Annie, Britta, and Abed arrive in the study room and are surprised to see Jeff already there. He admits to having spent the night there researching Rich online and trying to find a some reason to account for his pottery talents. The rest of the study group arrives with Shirley berating Pierce for his poor performance during class. Jeff snaps at them all telling them to quiet down as Abed observes that most mental health problems are activated in college. In boating class, Professor Slaughter has the class react to the conditions of a perfect storm.
|He causes the jib to swing wildly which knocks Pierce off the sailboat and into the sea/parking lot. When the professor warns her that stopping to rescue Pierce could endanger the entire crew, Shirley commands the rest of her crew to abandon him. In pottery class, Jeff is pestering both Annie and Abed about Rich. He sees Rich perform what he believes to be an advanced pottery technique and calls him out as a fraud. Professor Holly and the rest of the class watch on as Jeff tries to prove he was right. Standing behind Rich, he tries to force him to do the technique again and accidentally starts "ghosting" in the process. This act greatly angers the professor who demands that Jeff leave. In response Jeff starts singing the love song from "Ghost", "Unchained Melody", which sends the professor into a rage. Jeff quickly runs out before Marion can get his hands on him.
|Sometime later, Jeff finds Pierce in a campus tool shed working on a row boat. He asks him about a private investigator he once used, hoping to dig up more dirt on Rich. Pierce asks him what his obsession is really all about. Jeff deflects by asking him why he isn't in boating class, and Pierce tells him they let him drown to get a passing grade. Pierce steers the conversation back to Jeff who admits that he always grew up believing he was special. Not being good at something, even pottery, is difficult for him to accept because of that. Pierce tells Jeff how opposite his own life has been in comparison. Although he always fails, it doesn't deter him; in fact, he uses it as motivation to keep on trying. Pierce then jumps into the boat which has been modified with wheels. He asks Jeff for a push and then rolls off intent on rejoining the boating class.
|With Pierce gone, Shirley's crew is sailing the boat without any problems. Britta sees Pierce off in the distance rolling toward them in his modified rowboat. The crew mocks him as he accidentally runs over a ground sprinkler, causing a fountain of water to shoot up. Shirley has a change of heart and orders the crew to start rescue procedures. Britta objects, but Shirley tells her she can't abandon her principles or her friends. After successfully "rescuing" Pierce, Professor Slaughter promotes Shirley from Captain to Admiral for her dedication to her crew. He also awards them all an "A" for their efforts. In celebration, Pierce attempts to recreate a movie moment on the bow of the ship. He is stopped by Slaughter who holds up a crossed out picture from "Titanic" and says that its not allowed.
|Back in pottery class, Jeff shows up and apologizes to Rich for his behavior. He tells Rich that Professor Holly has allowed him back to class if he refrains from any further ghosting outbursts. Jeff admits that it annoyed him to not be as good at something as someone else and that he is working on dealing with that better. Rich sincerely wishes him good luck and Jeff goes to to his pottery wheel and begins shaping the clay. He re-imagines his early flashback with his mom and instead of blindly praising him, she is more honest with him this time. Annie and Abed look concerned as they overhear Jeff seemingly talking to himself. Meanwhile, Rich is flashbacking too. His happy demeanor disappears as he hears his mom's voice criticizing him and telling him that he should have died in the roller coaster and not his brother...
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Chancellor urges cautious optimism in light of federal funding issuesby Jim Patterson Apr. 7, 2011, 7:05 PM
Vanderbilt has dramatically increased its number of endowed faculty chairs and performed well financially through hard economic times, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced during his Spring Faculty Assembly address.
"We have and continue to build an outstanding faculty," Zeppos said April 7 in Langford Auditorium. Watch video of the assembly.
Zeppos also said the university's unique "One University" outlook is fast leading to breakthroughs in the use of robotics, the humanities, social sciences, biomedical sciences and traditional medicine to "prevent disease, improve health care outcome and reduce the huge social costs of our inefficient health system."
Zeppos spoke following the presentation of faculty awards and a presentation on charter schools by Ellen Goldring, Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair and professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development.
"While I am relieved and happy that our continued financial strength allows us to invest significantly in our missions of research, teaching and serving, I am always aware that financial strength alone is never enough," he said. "In our financial prudence and mutual support, and in our academic and research investments, we are truly 'One University.' This is more than a slogan. It is how we best learn and discover with our students and serve humanity."
The Shape the Future fundraising campaign will end June 30, Zeppos said, having resulted in more than 180 new endowed faculty chairs and $300 million in scholarship endowments.
"(Shape the Future) now stands at $1.9 billion, surpassing its original goal of $1.75 billion," Zeppos said. "This success is the foundation for the significant strengthening of our faculty and the increased ability to attract outstanding students that Vanderbilt has seen in the short span of eight years."
The university has also been able to add 73 new endowed faculty chairs in the past year, 13 more than the target set in 2010, Zeppos said. Thirty-three of those chairs have been awarded to faculty and more announcements will be forthcoming, he said.
Additionally, the university has been able to set aside $100 million for graduate education.
Zeppos cautioned that proposed cuts in the federal budget for education are still cause for concern at Vanderbilt despite healthy fundraising and investments.
"Universities may be asked to do our part, and it is hard to argue otherwise if others step up to define this public good," he said. "But dramatic cuts and underinvestment in education, science and innovation produce no long-term relief and surely will hobble our great nation and its future leadership."


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My Uncle Ruben died suddenly a couple of months ago.
In his will, he left me an old violin and a painting.
I went to the Auction rooms at Sotherby's and the head Auctioneer said he would look at my violin and painting.
Later that day, he rang me; "What you have, is a Picasso and a Stadevarius". I was over the fukin moon!!
"Unfortunatly", he continued; "Picasso was a terrible violin maker and Stradevarius was a rotten artist"!