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Keep track of Blood Pressure Numbers-Take the Charge for Heart Health
Diabetes and heart disease a risky combination both tend to live in each other's vicinity as suggested in many research studies.
Adults with diabetes are two to four times are more likely to die from heart disease compared to adults without diabetes. According to American Heart Association diabetes is one of the major risk factors for heart disease that is controllable or modifiable.
About 68% of people with diabetes over 65 years of age die of some form of heart disease and 16% from stroke from the same group.
There are proven ways to protect your heart such as consume a more plant-based diet, manage stress and nurture social contacts. Together, these can result in positive healthy changes in both the brain and the body.
Here, 'together' word is a 'cohesive approach' – just adding more fibers, guzzle ounces of water or add on more kilometer to your morning walk routine isn't enough to forestall heart attack risk.
The crux of our cardiovascular health and cardiac rehabilitation program is two keystones for heart health. Blood pressure is the leading risk factor for heart disease; about 1 in 3 people suffer from high blood pressure that is unnoticed.
When its numbers are high it can be disheartening and stressful as it doubles the risk of suffering a stroke.
The reason behind high blood pressure being overlooked or unnoticed is its no warning sign or symptom unless one goes through a heart attack.
Because of this high blood pressure is also referred to as 'silent killer' but you can make it 'sign-lent healer' with your skill power.
Keep track of high blood pressure numbers:
The best way to know about high blood pressure is to get it checked. At doctor's clinic if blood pressure numbers are high this could be due to stress, some drink or exercise before that day.
If already diagnosed with high blood pressure then one cannot be sure if the condition is worsening or under control, because you have reached clinic after crossing a heavy traffic have work pressure in your mind.
Firstly, buy a blood pressure machine having a cuff for the upper arm that inflates and gives the reading automatically. American Heart Association recommends not to go for finger or wrist blood pressure monitors as they are not reliable.
Secondly, for a proper blood pressure management suggests getting your blood pressure checked on your own at home. Once at home, begin with a check in the morning before taking blood pressure medications and then another reading in the evening daily for a week as guided. Keep a record of the reading.
Pros: Effective for people with white-collar hypertension and labile hypertension.
A word of advice: High blood pressure is a physical response to stress. Do not over stress when your blood pressure is high initially as blood pressure changes throughout the day.
Thirdly, measure blood pressure in both the arms, as it may reveal a higher risk of heart attack; with a difference of 10 points or more one can be at higher risk of heart attack by 38%. Consult your doctor for reference.
Fourthly, doctors primarily check for top number known as systolic pressure than lower number namely, diastolic pressure. Research suggests focusing on both the numbers although for people with 50 years or above systolic pressure is important to look for.
Reason: Systolic pressure is the pressure by heart on the arteries when blood comes out of the body. Whereas, diastolic pressure is the pressure in your blood vessels when heart at rest.The range for high blood pressure: 130/80 mmHg (AHA).
Manage high blood pressure with mindful eating without medications:
With a healthy diet plan, you can get rid of blood pressure pills. Foods high in calcium, potassium, and magnesium are a boon to heart's health with an add-on (MUFA- olive oil and fish) it improve heart health. Avoid saturated fats such as butter and red meat.
Foods high in Potassium- Prunes, carrot, passion fruit, plain yogurt (low-fat), tomato, sweet potato, salmon etc.
How to include them – low intake of potassium results from low intake of vegetables, fruits, and dairy. Focus on food choices high in potassium content to add in your meals such as such as salad, soups, and stew. Replace white bread and rice with a bowl of oats, quinoa or brown rice for a healthy breakfast.
Foods high in Magnesium – whole grains, spinach, quinoa, black beans, avocado, almond, peanuts, and dairy products. Magnesium regulates nerve function and maintains a normal heartbeat.
How to include them- can use yogurt in salad dips, sauces or in place of mayonnaise in pasta and macaroni dishes. You can add almond, spinach in a quinoa salad with a squash of olive oil.
Food high in Calcium- Tofu, almond milk, cheese, buttermilk, bok choy, broccoli, calcium-fortified cereals. Calcium regulates normal blood pressure levels in the body and heart muscle function along with the intake of magnesium sources.
How to include them – Low calcium is due to inadequate intake of dairy. You can replace sugar syrup and cow milk with almond milk in desserts.
Related post: The best ranked diets for a healthy heart of 2019- In a nutshell
MUFA (Monounsaturated Fatty Acids)-
Olive oil- drizzles of olive oil over pasta or vegetables in place of butter or as a salad dressing or during sauté.
Fish- buy fresh, frozen, or canned fish high in omega 3 content such as salmon, sardines, herring etc.
A research done by Global Organisation for EPA and DHA (GOED) reported adequate intake of EPA and DHA may decrease cardiovascular health in people with high levels of triglycerides.
There is an association between EPA and DHA intake on heart health.
To optimize cardiovascular health about 1000 mg of through dietary supplements and fortified foods.
250mg of EPA and DHA per day, in general, is recommended. 83 % of GLOBAL POPULATION suffer from omega-3 deficiency in countries where EPA and DHA intake is minimal.


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WASHINGTON — Looking thrilled to be among friends and colleagues, Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to Washington on Thursday to attend a Navy retirement ceremony for her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
The visit marks the Arizona congresswoman's second trip to the nation's capital since she was shot in the head last January while meeting with constituents in Tucson. About 30 people, including Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, greeted her and Kelly with a standing ovation as they entered the Secretary of War suite at the Eisenhower Executive Building next to the White House. Giffords walked slowly and with a noticeable limp, but she looked overjoyed to see some of her fellow lawmakers again.
Vice President Joe Biden emceed the ceremony, which included awarding Kelly two of the military's highest awards. Biden had a little trouble pinning the Legion of Merit on Kelly and blamed it on the dim lighting, but Giffords stepped up and had no trouble whatsoever pinning the Distinguished Flying Cross on her husband.Rep. Giffords making trip to White House
"Gabby did it better than I did," Biden said as the audience laughed and applauded.
Biden made note of Giffords appearance and her near-constant smile.
"You've been an inspiration, an inspiration to thousands of people who suffer from traumatic head injuries," Biden said. "... People look at you and say, 'I can make it. I can do this.'"Video: Rep. Giffords goes to Washington (on this page)
As the ceremony ended, reporters were quickly escorted from the room so there was no chance to ask Giffords questions or for her to make any statements. She did not have extended conversations with colleagues at the beginning of the reception, but she turned to them and waved or blew them kisses when they were introduced.
Aides said Giffords planned to conduct no congressional business and would return to Houston shortly after the ceremony, where she undergoes rehabilitation therapy.
Giffords has made few public appearances since the shooting. She has not yet made a decision about her political future, but colleagues are raising campaign money on her behalf in case she decides she does want to continue serving in Congress.
Kelly became a NASA astronaut in 1996 and made four trips into space aboard the space shuttle. He commanded three of those missions, including the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour.
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The Church of Saint Clare - Come Home to Your Faith
The Church of St. Clare is a Roman Catholic community that cherishes its faith tradition, celebrates the sacraments, and cultivates lives of gospel service and stewardship.
We have an extraordinary family! All are Welcoming and Friendly and would love to meet You and Yours!
Our members are active in our Catholic school, the local community and in giving back or helping the less fortunate.
New parishioners, especially the folks coming from another church or parish, frequently comment they have found a Home!
Stop by our web site: www.SaintClare.net and see all the ways we serve.
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My Tea Leaves Cardi is patiently lying in my basket while I work on this new design, it's called the Cotswold Cowl and I am really enjoying the design aspects of it. I love how maths can be incorporated into knitting, so I have based the design for this cowl on the 8x table. The double knitting Merino wool I am using is from Colourspun, the colour variances are wonderful, chocolate brown, pink, maroon and even a little red. I should have it finished to show you in a few days.
Update for my dad:
Thank you so much for the continued support you have shown me concerning my dad, I am thrilled to say, that he is more awake and is speaking to us, he is also able to sit up now, which is amazing!! He's going to be moved to a rehabilitation centre on Monday so that they can help him to gain strength in his arms and legs again. There has been a dramatic change and I am so grateful!! Spending time in the hospital has has left me humbled and filled with joy…
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text: The AUD/USD pair initially tried to rally during the day on Monday, but turned back around to show a bit of a shooting star. With this, we believe that the Australian dollar will continue to bounce around in this general vicinity and therefore we feel that the market should reach down to the 0.70 level over the next several sessions. We are sellers on a break below the bottom of the range for the day, but quite frankly just right here as the strain dollar will continue to struggle overall as risk is simply been abandoned.


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We live in the most autobiographical era of human history, documenting and sharing the minutiae of our daily lives. It's hard to know what impact this will have on memoirs yet unwritten: if you remember the sweet crunch of an apple you had in your lunch box on the first day school, but an old Instagram photo reveals it was an orange, which is truer -- the taste in your mouth or the picture of a fruit you do not remember?
While the taste that lingers in your mouth might be most salient, a sensory truth wouldn't be truthful enough for a memoir today. Memoir, as a genre, has been under intense scrutiny since that watershed moment in 2006 which saw James Frey tumble from Oprah poster boy to flailing pariah. Investigation into James Frey's best-selling memoir of addiction, A Million Little Pieces, resulted in the accusation that he had betrayed millions of people. At first Frey, asserted that the memoir reflected the "essential truth" of his life (it tasted like an apple, if you will), though later, under further pressure, he confessed to having fabricated significant portions of the book (it was actually an orange).
The fact that A Million Little Pieces was initially shopped around as a novel tends to be forgotten. When my first novel, Mouthing the Words, was about to be published in the UK, my British publisher asked whether it couldn't be promoted as memoir. But how could I possibly publish this story about a child who had been sexually abused as my own when it didn't reflect my own experience? Sure, I identified with many of the protagonist's feelings, but isn't that what writing and reading are about? From a publishing perspective though, I got the sense that if something read like truth and borrowed enough facts from an author's bio, it was legitimate to market it as such.
But that was in 2000, six years before Oprah spoke publicly of Frey's betrayal and his publisher offered refunds to those who felt they had been victims of fraud. Frey took the fall, yet all the interested parties were invested in, if not exactly the deception, the willing suspension of doubt. A lot of money was riding on it: five million copies were sold.
We make sense of our lives by ordering events in narrative form; we find and construct meaning and identity in this way.
The kind of scrutiny the Frey case raised has pushed us to go further in our attempts to both acknowledge memoir's conceits and work with and against them.
It's never been a secret that a writer uses narrative technique in the telling of his/her own story. There are ways in which our stories are framed and narrated for effect, there are moments of compression and expansiveness that don't necessarily reflect the time it took for certain events to be lived, we leave out the boring uneventful stuff and make omissions for reasons of poeticism or unity or preservation--of ourselves and the relationships we hope will survive the memoir's publication. We focus on what is salient to us at a particular moment, we link experiences through time, finding parallels and thematic resonance, we craft a story so that our lives have texture and meaning and are something more than simply a recollection or chronology of fact.
This has never been a secret because this is what we all do, whether we are are writers or not. We make sense of our lives by ordering events in narrative form; we find and construct meaning and identity in this way. At a minimum, when we tell someone else a story we give it a beginning, middle and end. We add humility, heroism, pathos, humour. Perhaps we end with a lesson we did not see in the moment of the event, but only find in the aftermath, in the telling.
David Shields, author of the manifesto "Reality Hunger" goes as far as to say that "anything processed through memory is fiction." He expresses disappointment with Frey, not because he "is a liar but [because] he isn't a better one. He should have said, 'Everyone who writes about himself is a liar.'"
So how then do we deal with this persist problem of truth?
Karl Ove Knausgaard and a number of other writers have confronted the challenge of factual representation by blurring genre distinctions. Knausgaard's six-volume My Life is a series of "autobiographical novels." By resisting the charge of memoir, he may be pointing to the impossibility of being anything but a flawed or unreliable narrator of one's own life. But he may also be having his cake and eating it too: I, for one, am tired of the metafictional pretension of novels with characters named after their authors.
Those who persist and risk the claim to memoir do so with all the awareness of the pains and pitfalls of the past decade. Often, they necessarily engage in some kind of metacommentary as they write the story, asking what truth is, acknowledging the conceits of memoir, interrogating themselves in the attempt to, as Mary Karr writes, seek "the truth of memory -- your memory and character -- not of unbiased history." Good memoir ultimately transcends its subject. By using personal material in order to speak to bigger ideas, it serves to illustrate and analyze aspects of human experience, which is experience shared.
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Chapter 1 – Born with Eight Fingers (III)
Diarra looked distracted. One should know that getting a baby's one month blessing from an Elementary Mage was already very difficult, not to mention from a Violet Rank Great Magister! Only powerful princes and princesses received such treatment!
"This……" Diarra looked towards Mei Ying. Because he was sixty-seven years old this year, he could tell that Qin Shang's expression had changed when he saw Mei Ying's child, and he couldn't help but be hesitant. Since Mei Ying was married, how could he explain things if their child was hurt?
Mei Ying's eyes showed a faint coldness, the pride deep in her bones more obvious. "Honored President, I would like to know why."
The calmness in Qin Shang's eyes changed when he saw the pair of little hands, and his eyes showed profound emotion. His voice even sounded a bit more magnetic. "It's because of his hands. He has the world's most perfect hands in my eyes. Miss Mei Ying, I meant no harm."
Mei Ying's coldness gradually disappeared. Indeed, in front of her was Qin Shang, a Magister of some kind. Although his eyes were filled with an eager light and radiance, they did not have the slightest bit of malice. Rather, they were full of intimacy. Her face couldn't help but twist once Qin Shang lifted her son's hands. "Master Qin Shang, why do you say that my son's hands are the most perfect in the world? Are you mocking me?"
Humans had two hands, each with five fingers. For a warrior, even a single finger was extremely important. Although Mei Ying was concerned that her child did not have his left and right little finger, it also greatly affected his ability to hold a weapon because he was unable to grip a sword properly. Which parents did not wish for their children to be born perfect? Mei Ying was no exception. The rest of her child was perfect, but the fact that he was born with eight fingers broke her heart. The eight fingers dictated that their child could not become a warrior of the sword, but he was the family's hope!
"Oh, no, no. Praise Falan. I swear on the name of Falan, I did not mean to mock you." Qin Shang's eyes brimmed with emotion as he looked at the struggling and crying baby, an incredible amount of loving kindness displayed on the surprisingly soft lines on his face. "Perhaps for others, these are incomplete hands, but for people like me, they are absolutely perfect. Wait a moment, and you will understand."
Diarra and Pirlo watched as Qin Shang slowly sat down crossed-legged in front of Mei Ying. A light flashed from his right hand. Mei Ying vaguely caught a glimpse of a ring on Qin Shang's right little finger; it was a space ring, the Magister's most important magical device.
A seven-stringed, reddish-brown zither appeared on his knees with a faint silvery glow. With both hands on the strings, Qin Shang's face changed dramatically.
His old face became dull and modest as his body filled with the breath of life. It was as if he had been sitting there, maintaining his posture since the ancient times. For a split second, he touched the white, silver-haired strings of the zither with both hands. Everyone and everything merged together in the Magic Guild hall. Subconsciously, everyone's eyes focused on his body.
His left hand lifted above the zither's string. He lightly hooked the string with his right thumb and index finger while lightly touching the fifth string with his middle and ring finger. His thumb relaxed, and, while raising his index finger to the sky, he lightly plucked the seventh string. He drew out a rich, deep buzz that spiraled and lingered through the air, and in an instant, the air seemed to freeze. The baby's crying quietly stopped.
The infant's bright, black eyes looked towards the sound and softly babbled.
Whether it was an Advanced Mage like Pirlo, a Mage Scholar like Diarra, or a warrior like Mei Ying, hearing such a clear and pure sound cleansed all of the impurities in their bodies and their blood with an unprecedented permeability. An indescribable feeling of comfort filled them.
"You can perform Withered Wood, Dragon's Roar…" All of the hidden hostility in Mei Ying's eyes vanished. She looked at Qin Shang, astonished and pleased.
Qin Shang simply smiled in response. Both hands began to move. His left hand lightly pressed down while his right hand swept to the side. A touching melody floated through the air. The zither's sound was exquisite and delicate. His fingers moved smoothly and lightly at a brisk rhythm, yet with control. His body swung back and forth, side to side emotionally, chanting in his heart. A faint violet light enveloped his hands as they moved rhythmically over the silver strings. The hall was filled with a halo of violet light, but the light did not spread.
Although a mage's spiritual force was undoubtedly more powerful than the average person's, Pirlo and Diarra were already moving, lost in the music. Their eyes were filled with joy and confusion, forgetting about time and space.
Mei Ying was the only one who remained clear-headed. She also didn't know that her spiritual force was far better than an Elementary Mage, hence she was able to remain sober. She could clearly see that the dim violet light was gathering towards the baby in her arms.
Mei Ying looked down at her baby to find that he was no longer crying. She was astonished to see that her son was smiling. Exactly when did this happen? Both of his hands, each with only four fingers, were gently waving in the air to the sound of the zither. His waving hands matched the music, and the faint violet light delicately worked its way into his body, causing it to go through bizarre changes.
Was this actually happening? Mei Ying became aware of her feelings and only recovered when the zither's sound quietly ended after what seemed like one's lifetime.
"Meandering brocade, dripping in the goblet. The chord loosens a treasured harmonic pillar. The roasted silver bamboo reed. The spring thunder of the zither, meld into the song <<Green Water>>. They were the most suitable sounds to baptize this child in." Qin Shang's voice pulled Mei Ying back from her dream-like state. Mei Ying lifted her head to see Qin Shang's eyes shining with silver light and that the zither had already disappeared. She looked at the baby in her arms to find that he was asleep. Even his breathing was pleasant and peaceful. The baby's skin seemed to become more shiny, and his face wore a little smile.
"Gifted! He is absolutely gifted! My judgment wasn't wrong. Even though he had just turned a month old, he could already sense my beautiful zither. I truly envy your ancestors! Why couldn't I have been in his place? Now you should understand why I admire his perfect, little hands. For a zither player, the left and right hand's little finger is forbidden from use, so this has no effect on learning the zither. The little finger is unnecessary and will definitely be an interference. As a Divine Music Mage, I know too much about this. There was a legend that a man with six fingers on both hands performed six-fingered zither magic, but that is completely made up. Playing with eight fingers is enough. Ah, being born with eight fingers is perfect!" Qin Shang sighed.
"Master, you……" Mei Ying attempted to ask something, but her proud words disappeared. It was not because the other person had released a violet light, but because of the <<Green Water>> being played on the Withered Wood, Dragon's Roar earlier.
Qin Shang spoke. "I am from Falan. If not for the Desolate Jade Sea, why would I come here? I wanted to find a disciple to pass on my legacy, but I didn't expect to meet such a genius from your family. Let's go, take me to your father-in-law. Ye Li ah, Ye Li, you have disappeared for ten years. I don't know if your body is still strong."
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Tuesday, July 17Generation Z Must Seek, and Find, Journalism It Can Trust
"Meet 'Generation Z.' The pundits are still determining what birth years that applies to, but most agree that it was between the late 1990s and the late 2000s. We grew up with developed internet, social media and convenience above all else."
Monday, July 16Program Offers Intro to Politics, Media
"Thirteen high school students arrive today at Franklin Pierce University for a whirlwind introduction to politics and how the media covers it."
Monday, July 16Students Follow the Road to the White House
"Over the course of this week, the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce University is partnering with the Boston Herald to lead high school and collegiate journalists and teachers on an exploration of the intersection between 'The Presidency and the Press.'"
Thursday, July 12New Scholarship Opportunity for Worcester County Business Students
Thanks to the efforts of Zachary Gianaris '89 of Dudley, MA, the Gianaris Family Scholarship Fund has been established to support students from Worcester County, MA who wish to attend the College of Business at Franklin Pierce.
Thursday, July 12Groundbreaking Research from Franklin Pierce Nursing Team
Nearly one in ten babies born in the U.S. requires some degree of intervention to take their first breaths. A tube may need to be inserted in the tiny airway within seconds or minutes of birth. This life-saving intubation procedure requires speed and precision - done wrong, it can cause life-threatening injury.
Thursday, June 2829th Annual Franklin Pierce University Golf Tournament Set for July 22
Franklin Pierce University, in conjunction with the Department of Athletics, is excited to host the 29th Annual Franklin Pierce University Golf Tournament, which is set for Monday, July 22. The event will be held at Keene Country Club in Keene, N.H.
Friday, June 15Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication Hosts NH Journalists
New Hampshire journalists convened at the Franklin Pierce University campus in Manchester on June 11 to explore potential for a news collaborative to produce in-depth reporting on complex issues of concern to communities across the state.
Thursday, June 07Prepare Yourself for the Transition to University Life
STEP Days are a one-day program, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. that provide information to make the exciting transition to life at Franklin Pierce University as carefree as possible.
Wednesday, June 06Join us for Alumni Reunion Weekend!
All Alumni are invited to attend and participate in a weekend full of as many activities and events as your schedule permits! For more information, visit the Alumni Reunion Weekend page.
Wednesday, June 06Doctor of Physical Therapy (NH), Class of 2019 Pinning Ceremony
On Friday, May 25, 2018, faculty, family and friends gathered at our Manchester NH Center to celebrate the Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2019 at their Pinning Ceremony.
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A total of 222 student-athletes in the Franklin Pierce University Department of Athletics have been named to the 2018 spring semester edition of the Athletic Department Honor Roll, as announced Thursday.
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Here's another one for the Brute Force File, always noting that brute repetitious force is what machines are here for. A joint MIT/Broad Institute effort reports on a platform for combinatorial drug screening in nanodroplets, in this case looking for known compounds that potentiate the effect of antibiotics on gram-negative bacteria. Testing drug combinations is a conceptually simple problem, simple enough that you can immediately see what a tremendous pain it turns into on scale. For instance, as the paper notes, there are about 2,000 drugs approved by the FDA. If you wanted to test each two-drug combination, that comes to around two million separate experiments, with each compound at a fixed dose. It would be even better to take each member of each pair through a dose/response sequence, but at two million runs per data point that gets out of hand real fast, if it wasn't at the very start.
In this case, they're doing 4,1600 drugs and known active substances combined with 10 different antibiotics, with a dose-response, which takes you out, with control experiments, to about four million individual wells. That's enough to keep a person occupied – more to the point, it's also enough to keep a conventional robotic screening system occupied for a bit, too, and the authors have come up with a different approach. Instead of setting things up to run each experiment through a defined sequence of compounds and concentrations, they have a more let-four-million-flowers-bloom approach.
First, they create stock solutions of the compounds, with a special twist: each of these also contains three fluorescent marker compounds (three different wavelengths) in a unique ratio. This fluorescent barcode will come in handy. That's because the next step is to emulsify a sample from each well into a haze of roughly 1-nanoliter aqueous droplets in a fluorocarbon oil/fluorosurfactant mix (a technique that's been worked out before). These emulsions get pooled and re-pipetted so that each new well has two random droplets in it, and then the array is read out by automated fluorescence microscopy, with those dye ratios determined for the two droplets in each well. Now you know which compounds are in which well, although you didn't dispense them out in an orderly array. (There will, naturally, be duplicate wells for each combination across the microarray). The droplets are then fused by an AC electric field, and cells (in this case, bacteria) are added to each well for the assay.
Now, there are several ways that this can go wrong, and to their credit, the team tried to control for them. One tricky bit with nanodroplets is the diffusion of compounds out of them (and into the fluorocarbon) and their possible re-entry into the droplets next door, which will mix things up pretty badly. They looked for this problem with test compounds and optimized their emulsion handling, washing, etc., to try to avoid it, and in the end, there seems to have been a low false-positive rate in the screen, which is a good sign. They also tested three common bacterial pathogens (P. aeruginosa, S. aureus, and E. coli) under the culture conditions with known antibiotics that were dispensed via the nanodroplet technique, looking for dose-response and overall reproducibility. And they also tested a pair of compounds that will absolutely synergize: ampicillin and sulbactam. That's a a beta-lactam antibiotic and a beta-lactamase inhibitor paired up, and the dispensing/fusion technique showed that they do indeed show up as a positive combination. That combination, along with an erythromycin/tetracycline one, was used as a positive control in each microarray, along with blank negatives.
With everything tuned up, they ran the four million experiment microarray screen, which took about ten days total. About 85% of the runs actually worked, and 49 compounds dropped out due to trouble with droplet formation, fluorescence barcoding, pooling difficulties, etc. Overall, there were 28 compound/antibiotic pairs that came out positive (representing 20 different compounds), and further screening with more stringent cutoffs narrow that down to six. Five of these have never had any reported antibiotic effects, and there were some interesting patterns. For example, many of the hits would synergize with erythromycin and/or novobiocin, but the combinations with vancomycin were all over the place, ranging from potentiation to completely wiping out the antibiotic's effect (!)
It's going to be interesting to figure out how these potential antibiotic potentiators work; their canonical mechanisms aren't too enlightening. And it shouldn't be too hard to test these combinations in vivo, since small animal models for this sort of thing are well established, and many of the compounds tested have been that far in development earlier on. Further on, there's no reason to confine this technique to antibiotics and bacteria. Many other cell types can be handled this way, and there is no shortage of potential combinations to try. It's actually quite rare to systematically look for such effects, and that means that there's a lot of unexplored territory out there, some of which could be quite useful indeed.


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Today's blog is in response to a few questions we're often asked about when clients should book their wedding bands. As anyone who is in the midst of planning their wedding knows, there are a hundred-and-one things to think about and organise: the venue, the service, the invites, the flowers, the photographer, the clothes, the speeches… and of course your wedding band.
The easy answer to the question 'when should I book my wedding band?' is of course: as soon as possible. Typically Paris by Night Entertainment is booked 6-12 months ahead of performance dates. This is especially the case for summer Saturdays. So, if you are getting married on a Saturday in December then ideally you should get in touch with us the summer before.
How far down the road do my plans have to be?
The only essential requirement is that you must know what date your wedding or event will be. As long as you know that, then you can make a simple deposit payment to secure book Paris by Night Entertainment as your wedding band for your big day. Once you have your venue booked, then we can fill in all the other details.
The post-Christmas rush
Whilst December is a busy month for Paris by Night Entertainment in terms of performing, it is January when we always receive a flood of enquiries from clients interested in booking Paris by Night Entertainment for their summer dates. Christmas is a busy time for most of us, so wedding plans often go on hold until the new year. With this in mind, if you get in touch with us before the Christmas period gets underway, you might just snap us up for your summer date before the rush.
What if I've left everything to the last minute?
There are many reasons why clients have to leave booking their wedding band in Melbourne until close to their wedding date: some weddings are spontaneous, some clients have to see through work commitments before they can be sure when they will be free, etc. If you are planning your wedding for just a few months in the future, as always, let us know as soon as you can. Although most summer Saturdays are booked a long way ahead of time, there is always a chance that we'll still be available for your date, even with just a few months to go. As always, the sooner you get in touch, the better.
Weekday weddings
Saturdays are by far the most popular days for wedding bands in Melbourne, but Paris by Night Entertainment is also booked for many weekdays throughout the year, with Fridays being the next busiest day of the week. There is certainly a little less demand for weekday bookings but it's impossible to predict when enquiries will come in. So, yet again, the advice is to try to contact us as soon as possible.
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After last season's debacle, the only place for the Tiger basketball team to go was up. Coaches Luther Mona and Jerry Thayer believed they would improve with the experience of the returning players and the success of the Sophomore team.
However, the injury bug hit the Tigers. Dave Huggins missed half of the season with a back injury. He returned as the District playoffs began. Stan LaBelle missed games because of a leg injury.
The Tigers opened the season travelling to Lindstrom-Center City. This is the hometown of Mr. Thayer. Both teams played a good game, with the Tigers coming out on top 77-73. South then took on St. Paul Harding. Again, this was a close game, however, the Tigers lost 53-50.
The Tigers then opened their conference season against Edison. The Tommies showed why they were the conference champions winning 72-57.
South won its first conference game against Vocational. This was an easy win, 53-40.
The next three games were losses. Central won 59-52 in a close game. Roosevelt won 75-54. Marshall added a 50-38 beating on the Tigers.
South doubled their wins from last season with a 20-point win over Southwest 64-44. They tripled their wins in the next came, defeating Henry in a close game, 51-47.
South lost their last four conference games. First came a loss to West, 68-45. Against North, the Tigers played tough but fell 46-41. Washburn gave South a thrashing, winning 69-38.
The Tigers also played four other non-conference games. They won all of the games. Against Austin, both team played and even game. The final was 77-73. South destroyed Minnehaha Academy 81-47. Again, the team played a tough game against St. Thomas and won 56-53. Against Howard Lake, the Tigers won 70-61.
In the District 17 playoffs, The Tigers won their first game, beating West 79-50. South's season ended against Roosevelt with a 73-60 loss.
The Tigers again finished in last place, tied with Southwest, with a 3-7 conference record. Overall, the team was 9-9. Even though the team finished last again, they improved and are expecting to improve again next season.
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I think the question is not proper, whether the will be free, but whether a man be free... This way of talking, nevertheless, has prevailed, and, as I guess, produced great confusion.Freedom of human action requires the randomness of absolute chance to break the causal chain of determinism, yet the conscious knowledge that we are adequately determined to be responsible for our choices and our actions. Freedom requires some events that are not causally determined by immediately preceding events, events that are unpredictable by any agency, events involving quantum uncertainty. These random events create alternative possibilities for action.
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(Determinists do not like this requirement.) Freedom also requires an adequately determined will that chooses or selects from those alternative possibilities. There is effectively nothing uncertain about this choice.
Adequate determinism is the "will" in free will.So there is also a determinism requirement - that our actions be adequately determined by our character and values. This requires that any randomness not be the direct cause of our actions. (Libertarians do not like this requirement.) Adequate determinism means that randomness in our thoughts about alternative possibilities does not directly cause our actions. A random thought can lead to a determined action, for which we can take full responsibility.
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Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with Andrew Kuchins of Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Kimberly Marten of Columbia University about how the end of the Cold War has led to current tensions around Syria, NATO and nuclear reduction.
MORAN: Welcome to Episode Seven of Diffusion: Russia in Focus, which this week lays out some context for understanding the troubled US-Russia relationship. Put simply: How did we get here? I'm Michael Moran, Visiting Media Fellow at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
To help me explain how a relationship that seemed to have enjoyed the ultimate reset when the Cold War ended a quarter century ago wound up where it is today I have two distinguished guests:
Andrew Kuchins is a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and a former director of the Carnegie Foundation's Moscow Center.
Kimberly Marten is a Professor at Columbia University's Barnard College and directs the program on US-Russian Relations at the Harriman Institute.
Welcome to you both. I'll start with you, Andy. In 1991, when Soviet Union fell, there was a promise of cooperation blooming. That path has taken many twists and turns, but is there any one thing you can put your finger on that suggests that we or the Russians got it wrong, and explains where we are today?
KUCHINS: I would point to a couple things from the outset. One of them goes back to the negotiations over the reunification of Germany, during which the George H. W. Bush administration – Secretary Baker and others - had explicitly said numerous times to Gorbachev that there were no plans for expansion of NATO. While the NATO issue didn't re-emerge until the Clinton administration, and the final documents assigned for the reunification of Germany did not contain anything written about 'no further expansion of NATO', in the negotiations this was a critical point in convincing Gorbachev to go through with the reunification of Germany, and support it. The Russian feelings about being deceived and aggrieved about NATO are therefore partly credible. And since the Russians have a real territorial sense of security – more land, buffer zones – that's especially important. That was a big poison pill through the relationship and especially to this day, particularly with the 2008 decision by NATO to not provide membership action plans for Georgia and Ukraine, but to guarantee that in the future they would become NATO members.
The second thing to point to is that, yes, there was a lot of hope at the time of the collapse of the USSR, but the economic legacy of seventy-four years of non-market considered decisions about the allocation of resources, where to build factories, and so on left the new team of reformers – Yeltsin, Yegor Gaidar, and others in trouble. The country was virtually bankrupt. When Gaidar got in there, he found out it was a worse situation than he had expected. Much of the reserves had been absconded by communist officials and others. Then Russia goes into an extraordinary economic tailspin, which naturally has political consequences, and within a year, Gaidar is thrown out of power, and already the economic reform program is deeply compromised. The government is very unpopular. By October 1993 there is practically a civil war in the streets of Moscow in a showdown between the legislative and executive branch. This gets to the larger point in that, with the Soviet Union, the Bush administration was negotiating with a super-power, albeit one in a quickly weakening condition, primarily because of economic problems, but it was still more or less an equal. With the collapse of the USSR and the emergence of the Russian Federation and all the other states, as well as the former Warsaw pact states of central and Eastern Europe, all of these new states became part of a large project of the expansion of the liberal democratic order. Russia was treated in a similar way as the others, and so the sense of being a great power, which is so significant for the Russians, was injured.…. So all of those things conspired to set the relationship off in a very difficult direction.
MORAN: Kimberly, would you agree?
MARTEN: I think it's a very bad mistake to say it's specific decisions. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of Russia did not mean that institutions emerged in the new Russia. So, the people who were responsible for foreign policy decision making and security policy decision making early on in the Yeltsin era, were not people who had broad societal support. They were not people who had come to positions of power because their viewpoints were ones that were reflected in society as a whole. At the same time, Yeltsin was facing terrible conflict from the legislature, including from within his own bureaucracy of people who were very resentful of what they saw as him giving up everything that Russia had left to it in the time that Russia was already in bad shape. This was made worse by his alcoholism, and that he was sometimes drunk during very important meetings, which again gave an unfortunate view toward the people he was dealing with about what was really happening in Russia.
On the U.S. side I think there was a lack of understanding of Russian pride , when there was pushback coming from Russia, it was interpreted as being hostile rather than being something natural to expect of a country that had just gone through a really stunning change in its power situation, in its place in the world, in all of the institutions that surrounded it, and also in the situation of its economic situation, where basically the entire population had its savings wiped out because of changes made in the early years of the Yeltsin administration in the domestic economy. I think that there was a failure to understand fully in the west what this meant in terms of how the west would be blamed for Russia's situation, so I'm not saying that the blaming of the west was fair or correct, but it was real, and I think that there was not enough of a sense of understanding and sympathy for what Russia as a whole was going through and therefore there was not enough of a sense of what would actually be needed to help Russia through this difficult transition period. Without understanding that, we cannot understand how specific decisions had an effect on the future of policy and how they were interpreted and misinterpreted.
MORAN: Over the years there have been periods of cooperation – in Afghanistan, nuclear non-proliferation … are there areas for cooperation out there today, that suggest the relationship is salvageable?
MARTEN: The areas where there were cooperation in the 1990s, in particular that lasted over long periods of time, were in areas where you had technical experts being the ones making the policy decisions. You had significant movement forward in arms control situations. For example, in the START treaty, in the following on of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty that had been signed under Gorbachev, working on the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, in the dealing with proliferation in other cases, including North Korea, and then eventually in Iran. In – including the Nunn-Lugar cooperation that dealt with trying to gain control over nuclear materials that may have not been under the strictest control as the Soviet system fell apart. There were also other times when you had cooperation when the people who were in charge were people who had a vision of Russia being more able to cooperate with the west, but I think what it really came down to was the individuals who were in place on both sides who saw cooperation as being something that was worthwhile to pursue. I think there's too much attention that has been placed on the NATO expansion decision. I think the evidence indicates that even President Putin did not start objecting to NATO expansion until the speech that he gave at the Munich Security Conference in 2007. As late as 2002 he said that NATO expansion to include the Baltic states would be no tragedy as long as there were no new major military installations put in the Baltic states. So I think too much has been made of that.
KUCHINS: It's going to be very very tough to pull the relationship from its currently openly adversarial nature, in which we are competing militarily and remilitarization of Europe after a couple of decades of demilitarization.
MORAN: Georgetown's Andrew Kuchins:
KUCHINS: It's not quite analogous to the old Cold War, but I think in some ways it's actually more dangerous, because we're not talking about how we manage this remilitarization process. Our military forces in Europe, in Syria, have been flying in very close proximity to each other and Russia is a fully fledged nuclear power and it seems like we've forgotten that nuclear war can really spoil your day. Right now the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock is at 3 minutes to midnight. The last time it was there was '83-'84. I think, however, there is some opportunity for the new administration to try to alleviate some of the tension and they absolutely should try to do so. I think we need to reconfigure our position in Syria. It's been very difficult for the Obama administration, of course, but we need to continue to do so. There are areas where we do share common interests, but on the nuclear side, it is the missile defense issue, on which the Russians and Mr. Putin have become much more hardened. It will be difficult to make progress there, and on the others, but we absolutely need to try, and the administration needs to set a different tone and be much more disciplined in how they talk to Russia and how they talk about Russia. We're so undisciplined in how we refer to Mr. Putin and the demonization of Mr. Putin. I'm not saying he's a good guy or anything, but if you want to try to deal with another partner, whether they're friendly or not, there needs to be a greater sense of respect. The single issue that Mr. Putin is most insecure about is his view that the United States wants to carry out regime change in Russia itself. So I think that Mr. Trump can massage that, and he can take some measures that show more respect to Russia as a great power, but, and it's a large but, the domestic political climate in our country is so anti-Russia, anti-Putin. I think there has been a market overcorrection, if you will, in the demonization of Mr. Putin, and the Trump administration is going to have as much, if not more problems in dealing with the congress and the bureaucracy in Washington in trying to defuse of the current level of confrontation and hostility in the bilateral relationship. It may be a bigger problem than actually dealing with Mr. Putin himself.
MORAN: Thanks to both of you.
And thank all of you for listening to this edition of Diffusion: Russia in Focus. Join us next week when we examine how the dispute over Russia's invasion of Ukraine may be going as a new administration congeals in Washington. My guests will be Harvard's Tim Colton and Sam Carap of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. For now, on behalf of my colleagues at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, this is Michael Moran. Thanks for joining.
Diffusion is the podcast of Carnegie Corporation of New York, promoting the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding around issues of peace, education and democracy.


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After two quarters of deteriorating results, department store operator Kohl's showed signs of progress in its second-quarter earnings report released this morning. Kohl's managed to beat analyst estimates for earnings while reversing a troubling comparable-store sales trend (though comps remain negative). With the all-important back-to-school season right around the quarter, the retailer is positioned to continue to improve results. Here is a deeper look at Kohl's second-quarter earnings.
Earnings rundown
Kohl's handily beat analyst estimates for EPS while coming up slightly short on revenue in the quarter ended Aug. 2. :
Average analyst estimate
Actual result
$4.28 billion
$4.24 billion
Operating income during the quarter was flat year-over-year thanks to a reduction in costs on par with the decline in revenue, and share buybacks allowed the diluted EPS to grow by 8.7%. Kohl's spent $392 million during the quarter on share buybacks, along with paying out $160 million in dividends.
Kohl's showed improvement during the quarter with respect to comparable-store sales growth, with a 1.3% decline being far better than the result from the previous two quarters.
Comparable-store sales growth
Source: Kohl's
While this decline is a deterioration from the 0.9% rise during the second quarter of 2013, it is a vast improvement over both the holiday quarter and the first quarter of this year. Management said the "most dramatic" improvement in sales came during July, which notched positive comps.
Kohl's gross margin fell to 39% from 39.1% during the same period last year, but operating margin managed to rise to 10.6% from 10.5% thanks to a reduction in operating expenses as a percentage of revenue.
Not the only department store with problems
While Kohl's has been struggling recently, competitor Macy's has been largely immune from the issues facing other retailers. During the first quarter, Macy's managed 1.6% comparable-store sales growth, and this accelerated to 3.4% during the second quarter. However, Macy's lowered its guidance for the full year, and this, along with the company missing second-quarter estimates, sent the stock falling more than 5% after reporting earnings yesterday. Macy's now expects comparable store sales to increase by 1.5%-2% in 2014, down from previous guidance of 2.5%-3%.
Macy's management blamed the uncertain economic environment, claiming that customers are uncomfortable spending more. Part of Kohl's problems are certainly related to the economy, but a shift toward private label brands , one which the company is now working to undo, is also at fault. In 2007, roughly 30% of Kohl's sales were private label. This number rose to 54% in 2012, and the dearth of national brands drove some consumers away.
While Kohl's suffered from negative comps during its most recent quarter, the number is moving in the right direction. Kohl's has the benefit of being a far more value-orientated department store compared to Macy's, and this should help during uncertain economic times. If Macy's can continue to consistently grow comparable-store sales, there's no reason that Kohl's shouldn't be able to do so as well, and it seems that the company is starting to get past the issues which have stunted its growth over the past couple of years.
Key takeaway
For Kohl's, strong expense management coupled with improving comparable-store sales numbers led to an earnings beat that should please Kohl's investors. The upcoming two quarters, with the back-to-school season followed by the holidays, will be the real test, but with comps growing in July, Kohl's is positioned to have a strong second half.
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Wohoooooooooo !!!! I have no idea how to make a grand entry into this world of majestic blogging….AGAIN! So let's have a mini dance party and here are some dance gifs to help you with some inspirational moves !
P.S try to look a little less retarded than these guys below.
Now that we have our mini dance party and excited screaming let's come back to discussing some changes. After One and a half month of final exams which were an absolute torture I couldn't wait to get back to blogging. I just noticed my last post was on Jun 13, 2014. so It's been almost 3 months since I left my baby here and all of you ! *starts sobbing*
I'm so sorry! *starts crying hysterically*
Nothing a dose of morphine can't fix ! I feel much better now. I've exactly 30 days to catch up on blogging before my new semester starts and I'll be caught up in the whirlwind of same hectic routine. You'll be seeing a lot of changes on my blog. Starting with the theme/layout. I'm thinking of changing it, although I changed it like 6 months ago but those were the darker days thus the dark theme. I'm not completely out of it but I've come out much better than before. I'm gonna try to make it a bit cheery and happy so bear with me as I make some changes. Feel free to give me some feedback on it too as I look forward to it. It will mean a lot
Coming to the content of blog, I'll be writing and sharing pretty much everything, meaning I'm not going to stick to one genre. There will be humor, poetry and some pretty depressing shit so If you are looking for something specific this blog is probably not the right place for you. If you like to read just humor or only the serious stuff you can just skip reading the stuff you don't like.I'll also be introducing some new categories and segments. I thought of making a separate blog for sharing serious stuff but the thing is I can barely keep up with one let alone two. So In short this blog is going to be about everything. I hope you guys don't mind.
Last but not least, The most important thing, out pouring support from everyone was overwhelming. I can't express how incredibly thankful I am for all of you. The 'checking up on me' messages and leaving loving comments here. Thank you so much to each and every single person. I'm nothing without your love. Also welcome to all the new followers and all the people who commented while I was on hiatus, I appreciate that you took time to read and leave here your thoughts. I'll get back to all of you. I can't wait to read everyone, to see what you guys have been up to while I was away !
One more announcement, Thank you so much for all the awards, It's an honor to see that you find me worthy of all of em. But I don't think I'll be able to catch up on all of them and I don't want them to go to waste. So from now on I won't be accepting any awards. Thank you for thinking of me anyways.
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It's a good thing when you and a major craft-brewery find yourself on the same page/ It seems that happened twice to me today, once with Driftwood's latest release and again with Phillips. All this convergence which makes me wonder if some people in the local brewing industry have been reading my blog. I doubt it, but it's nice to pretend. In any case, the second convergence between my thoughts and a brewers' product came in the form of Phillips latest limited release, known as Cabin Fever Imperial Black IPA.
Brewed in honor of the change of the seasons, and consistent with Phillips time-tested philosophy of combining two or more styles together, this beer combines the deep roasted malt character of a black ale with the bitter, hoppy kick of an IPA. And to top it all off, they fermented it for an extended period of time to make it especially strong. Yes, on top of its stout-like profile and heavily hopped character, it also weighs in at a hefty 8.5% alc/vol. And in the end, the flavors accent it each other very well, with the coffee notes of the dark ale playing well with the herbal, citrus bite of an IPA's worth of hops.
Appearance: Black as tar, opaque, good foam retention and carbonationNose: Deep roasted malts, discernible bitter hop presence
Taste: Immediate burst of citrus malts, tawny malt flavor, herbal notes
Aftertaste: Lingering bitterness of coffee-like malts and citrus rind
Overall: 8.5/10
All in all, this beer was quite the interesting combination, and certainly made for a good all around drinking experience. Though definitely not for the faint of heart or the delicate of palette, it was one of the best dark IPA's I've had of late. As I'm sure I've said before, this sort of combination has become quite popular in recent years, but this has to be the first time that it was so thematically consistent with the time of its release. Strong dark ale, citrusy IPA, it's like winter and spring all rolled into one!


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Do you like things that are big and black? Then I'm sure you must know Jack, the man behind "It's Big, It's Black, It's Jack!" series. Now onto volume 8 he is still rounding up the ladies to take on his giant penis. If you are a fan of his series then I'm sure you will not be disappointed with this. Me on the other hand was not really a fan of this movie. Just didn't do anything for me and I got a little bored at times because of that. But like I said it wasn't a crappy movie so you very well might enjoy it.
He interviews the girls before each scene, which can be cute but it went on for too long each time. It was kind of like lets get to the sex already! There was too much talking for me. I want to see people banging!
Katie Cummings was cute while getting pounded like crazy. I love how her eyes roll back into her head; you know she is really into it. I wasn't sure if Christine Michaels was going to be into it because she looked super nervous. They also talked about her boyfriend before the scene, which was random but she had a cream pie so high five to her.
Alex Love's scene was nothing special. I did laugh when she swallowed because she made this weird face. Maybe Jack need's to change his diet habits and eat something sweeter. Cover girl Charlotte Vale's scene was kind of average too. Also wearing red lipstick for a porn scene is never a smart idea. It's going to get all over your face like it did in this one, and it's not pretty.
Scarlett Pain's scene was the only interesting one only because after watching it I was like did that really just happen? She has great boobs but idiotic tattoos, but to each their own. She kept doing this wide-eyed look that was a little too much after awhile. I kept thinking she was just really surprised at what was going on. He picked her up to bang at one point, which was entertaining. But the greatest was at the end she was giving a bunch of shout outs to rappers, random.
Needless to say I won't be watching this again, I was not turned on by the end of it. I just got bored at points. But if you like his stuff you will enjoy jerking off to this sexual movie.
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Rules to Target Illegal Immigrants Worry Employers
Rules to Target Illegal Immigrants Worry Employers
The Bush administration is about to clamp down further on the hiring of illegal immigrants. It's expected within days to announce new rules that would effectively require employers to fire workers if they use phony Social Security numbers. But employee and business groups fear the change could also hurt many legal workers.
Millions of workers each year get notices from the government that the Social Security numbers and names they use for their jobs don't match government records. Often it's a mistake.
Former immigration commissioner Doris Meissner says that a worker might have put the wrong number on their job application.
"The employer may have made an error in transmitting the number to the government," she says. "The number and the name may not be connected in the government's records because the person got married and forgot to send in a change of name."
But it also can be a sign that an illegal immigrant used a phony Social Security number to get a job. For 13 years, the government has routinely notified employers who have more than 10 such "no-matches" on their payrolls. Now, the administration wants to make an employer's continued employment of these workers an indication that they've knowingly hired an illegal immigrant.
"Frankly, a lot of employers are going to play it safe and fire these employees," says Randy Johnson, who handles immigration issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He says that even an allowance of a couple of months or so to resolve mistakes might not prevent what he calls "collateral" damage.
"You might have some Americans ... and permanent residents who, for example can't explain the discrepancy and they have to go to Social Security to get the records for it, and they can't get it in time," Johnson says. "And the employer might say, 'Well, gee, I can't take the chance of keeping you on my rolls.'"
But the Bush administration says it needs the new authority to reduce illegal immigration, especially now that Congress has failed to enact more sweeping reform.
A spokesman for the Homeland Security Department says that the change will help the government go after some of the millions of illegal immigrants now working in the United States and those who employ them.
Many lawmakers have been pushing the department to increase workplace enforcement, which they believe is one of the most effective ways to address the problem.
But Meissner, who's now with the Migration Policy Institute, says this new step will have limited impact.
"The workers are likely to be able to find jobs elsewhere in the economy because what we're dealing with here is not just a question of enforcing the law in terms of employers and who they hire, but also the need for more workers in lots of occupations," she says.
Those occupations include farming and low-paying jobs that involve manual labor. Immigrant-rights groups and employee unions are concerned about the impact on legal immigrants and citizens, especially Hispanics, who might be targeted by employers.
Ana Avendano directs immigrant worker programs for the AFL-CIO.
"It's going to be another tool in their arsenal that they can pull out at any time they want to fire a worker who tries to enforce her workplace rights," she says.
Avendano notes the case of one legal U.S. resident in North Carolina whose name ended up on a "no-match" list.
"The employer told her to fix it. She tried. She actually did fix it. She came back with the correction from Social Security and the employer said, 'Oh this isn't good enough for me. You're fired.' There's nothing to prevent that."
Homeland Security officials say that's clearly not their intent. In fact, they delayed implementing the new rules — which were first proposed last year — hoping for congressional passage of a bill that would not only tighten enforcement, but expand temporary job opportunities for immigrants. But that didn't happen. And now they say, they plan to more aggressively enforce the existing law.


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These pillars have stood the test of time to pull off unforgettable, milestone events. They will help enhance your event by maximizing the four main experience checkpoints. When you can masterfully pull off each checkpoint with panache and style, you will see your return on investment skyrocket!
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How do you make your event stand out from others? The answer is simply said, yet more challenging to pull off: utilize your event's best experience strategy.
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Find a way in which you can WOW your guests, but also make sure they know you'll be reaching out after the event. This is the first attempt at securing a guest to become a loyal member of your organization.
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