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Registration is closed for 2020
Exhibit Installation Deadline: Midnight, March 31, 2020 (Please arrange for exhibit installation well in advance of the festival start date.)
Important other topics you may want to discuss with the venue representative in advance of signing this agreement: hours, reception date, how the venue benefits from being a SPARK venue, is the venue willing to share exhibitor costs (registration fee? cost of a reception?), cross-marketing opportunities, how you will market the venue, is the venue willing to use their social media assets to promote your exhibit and exhibit reception, comment books and promotional materials (do they have space?), if selling work how will the transaction take place (your role, venue role), insurance, type of installation, damage or theft of work, signage needs (see Signage Details or the SPARK Registration Package 2020 page 9).
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This post was creatively and affectionately written as my entry into a contest hosted by The Divine Miss Mommy, in which a trip to an event in Miami is at stake. I had a blast working on this post and I hope that no matter what it is enjoyed by others. Thank you for the chance to enter.
The truth is I had a hard time finding things I "wanted" to try but had not. I've ALWAYS wanted to sing. I envy those that do. The reason I've never tried, well that is because there is not one ounce of talent in this body when it comes to singing. Seriously folks if we had to sing to win this contest I would come in BELOW last place. They would have charged me a $1000 for entering. I'm very happy with my life and don't feel there is anything I "need" or "must" try so I've decided to list things that I would enjoy doing one day. I have always wanted to go to Italy and take a cruse to Jamaica with my husband and I live for the day that I can enjoy one whole day at the spa being pampered. The reason we/I have not accomplished them is for financial reasons and a shift of focus to raising children. This focus has changed how I see life and made me into who I am today. What I want most out of life is for my children to be successful. So that one day THEY can send me to Italy, Jamaica, and a day week at the spa! Though I do hope to one day try these things if I left this world today I can honestly say I've lived my life to the fullest and am happy with every moment. As for the product I would love to try it would be Olay ProX because we could all use a little help as we age, gracefully or not wrinkles are still wrinkles! Lines don't just disappear and I'm willing to take all the help I can get!

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BA (Hons) Business And Finance
The Enterprise and Finance programme is a specialist joint degree with equal emphasis given to the topic areas of business and finance. We enjoy shut hyperlinks with many professional accounting and finance bodies, such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) and Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI).
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Aug 24 2016
Stora Enso Wood Pellets from Imavere mill receives SBP certificate
Imavere mill receives SBP certificate
business.conbio.info/2016-08-24/ Imavare Mill has received SBP – Sustainable Biomass Partnership certificate for its pellet production. The first Stora Enso mill that was granted the SBP certificate was Näpi mill in July 2016, and also Nebolchi mill is currently finalising its certification. SBP certification is a tool, which has been developed for the biomass energy sector. It helps the biomass sector to verify sustainable origin of wood and the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in the biomass supply chain.
Read more and find the certificates: Sustainable Biomass Partnership
Stora Enso has pellet production in Sweden, Estonia, Russia and in the Check Republic. The largest plants are those in Gruvön, Sweden and Imavere in Estonia with 100 000 t/y each. In Ala sawmill in Sweden the company is constructing a new mill with approximately the same capacity based on equipment moved from the closed pellet mill in Norrsundet also in Sweden.
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The Martin Agency Is Closing Its New York Office After More Than a Decade
Geico shop's Manhattan branch started as a satellite
The Martin Agency will soon become the latest ad agency to close its New York office.
"Yesterday we announced to employees that, as part of a strategic decision to focus on growth in Richmond and London, we are reducing our presence in NYC," a spokesperson told Adweek today.
The Manhattan operation, which began as a satellite office, has been open for more than a decade. This summer, the team in New York will move into a shared space owned by parent company IPG, which acquired The Martin Agency in 1994. It is not yet clear how many employees will be affected by the move.
The agency's spokesperson pointed to a pending change in the agency's relationship with an unspecified client as part of the reason for the closing. Since winning Kayak's creative review in early 2016, the New York office's primary accounts have been the travel aggregator and Italian pasta and sauce company Giovanni Rana. (The team working on Martin's best-known client, Geico, is based in its Richmond, Va., headquarters.)
Representatives for Kayak and Giovanni Rana have not yet responded to related queries, but Kayak was The Martin Agency's largest New York client by far. According to estimates from Kantar Media, Kayak spends approximately $140 million on measured media annually.
Over the past two years, The Martin Agency made several moves to strengthen its Manhattan team, hiring its first executive creative director, managing director and lead strategist while significantly expanding its creative department.
The past eight-plus months, however, have included a series of setbacks beginning with longtime client Walmart's decision to consolidate its ad business with Publicis Groupe in August 2016. The following month, The Martin Agency went through a staffing reduction that affected nearly 6 percent of its workforce in Richmond and New York. Last month, another round of downsizing led to the dismissal of roughly 4 percent of its Richmond and New York employees.
At the time, CEO Matt Williams attributed the changes to "restructuring" that would "allow us to execute great ideas faster, respond to opportunities more quickly and better connect with consumers."
Other major agencies that closed New York City-based satellite offices in recent years include Leo Burnett and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.


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New To This:
Looking to potentially do a budget/small form (desktop) Socket FM2 build that for now would have 8GB DDR3 1600 with the capability of later going to 32GB. I have seen this particular model case with 400 watt power supply at Newegg for $37.98 (including shipping costs):
The reviews there are not bad, especially for something this inexpensive as a 400-watt Power Supply with 20A on the +12V (according to the pics on Newegg). Has anyone here done such a build, and if so, are those PSUs (SFX) any good?


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Why Content Is Struggling to Find Its Place at Cannes
Branded content is struggling to find its place on the awards circuit.
There were 11 Gold Lions awarded at Cannes for branded content
and entertainment this summer. But no one took home a Grand Prix.
It was the first time since 1995 that no top honor was awarded in a
category at Cannes. So what happened to the little category that
couldn't in its third year of existence?
First, the submission criteria was excessively broad; second, some contenders didn't meet the jury's definition of branded content; and, ultimately, the work submitted simply wasn't judged worthy of a Grand Prix.
Narrowing it down
The initial jury room debate was stuck on the definition of branded content. "It is so broad you could drive a truck through it," said jury president Doug Scott, exec VP-marketing and brand solutions at WME IMG.
"Cannes used to be just ads, and then it grew into PR and activation and media and film and so on, and it seems some people view 'branded content' as a repository for all of that," said Brian O'Rourke, director-production at TBWAChiatDay.
"Our responsibility was to start to define the category," said juror Jon Hamm, chief creative officer at Geometry Worldwide. "If we can't define it at Cannes, where can we?" And so, the jurors looked at what branded content was in relation to each sub-category among the 730 submissions -- music, cable, gaming, TV, feature films and integration. In some categories, it was easily defined as product placement. For the most part, however, content was interpreted as something culturally relevant that people invite or seek out.
Commercial vs. content
"There's no line between advertising and branded content, no straight line anyway," said Jennifer Golub, creative director-exec director of content at TBWA content arm Let There Be Dragons. "It's more of an ambling brook."
This proved to be the issue some had with Volvo's "Epic Split," a short film that featured actor Jean-Claude Van Damme straddling two Volvo trucks and then lowering himself into a split as the vehicles increased the space between them. The jury room discussion, said Mr. Scott, was, "Is it a commercial or is it a piece of content?"
That debate carried over to Chipotle's "The Scarecrow," a short film providing commentary on the "big food" industry backed with a haunting cover of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" tune "Pure Imagination," by Fiona Apple, and accompanied by an interactive game.
Another contender was Volkswagen. Following the automaker's
decision to discontinue production of its Kombi van in Brazil,
AlmapBBDO launched a farewell tour for the
bus' last edition. The campaign encouraged fans and longtime
drivers of the car to share their experiences on a microsite,
turning them into a collection of short docu-films. "It was a great
example of an integrated program that was built out of content and
cascaded into other marketing efforts. There was still a story at
its core," said Mr. Scott.
The jury then weeded out noncommercial contenders. "Two had to be dropped out because they were social issues or social-good programs," said Mr. Scott. "Then, out of nine, three [Grand Prix contenders] were Chipotle."
The 'great' debate
Then "Scarecrow" was picked apart by the jury.
"It was great, but was it original? They had done something a little similar a few years before," said Mr. O'Rourke. (Chipotle took home the Grand Prix in the category's first year.) "'Scarecrow' had the game and Fiona Apple song, but wasn't seamlessly integrated," said Mr. Scott. "It needed to be more than just a game and more than just a piece of film. You really want to elevate and raise the bar."
In the end the two contenders were Volkswagen Kombi and Honda's Drive-In project, a monthlong campaign to save drive-in movie theaters in the U.S.
But what truly did in the entries was that, unlike a commercial, branded content generally carries its story though varying forms of media and executions. And in the jury's estimation, the full body of work by the contenders was not Grand Prix worthy.
The jury reviewed every component submitted by the agencies -- in the case of Volkswagen, for example, there were eight mini-documentaries -- and in the end, found no contender's body of work consistently excellent.
The lesson? "We have to try harder," said Justin Wilkes president - media and entertainment at Radical Media. "Creatives, we can't just recycle stuff that's been done and seen before. For brands, CMOs or marketing directors should note that they can't just put any crap out there with a big media buy and expect people to watch it."


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Photo: Nabile Quenum
Often, the simplest of looks are the hardest to pull off, and Christine Centenera's gray-blazer-and-jeans combo is no exception. On the surface, the Vogue Australia fashion director's look speaks simplicity and practicality, but there are details hard at work that make this look extra special. For starters, the jacket's tailoring is superb. Add to that a winning combination of shearling lining, oversize silver buttons, and Celine flattop ombre sunglasses, and you've got the coolest spin on uniform dressing we've seen in a while.


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Cebu port body set to inaugurate PHP50-M passenger terminal
June 24, 2015 10:21 am
CEBU CITY, June 23 — The Cebu Port Authority (CPA) is set to inaugurate on June 26, Friday, the PHP50-million passenger Terminal 2 in Cebu Citys Pier 3.
CPA general manager Edmund Tan said the new terminal will decongest passenger traffic in Terminal 1 in Pier 1.
Passenger Terminal 1, which also cost PHP 50 million to build, was inaugurated last year by Transportation and Communication Secretary Antonio Abaya.
Terminal 2, just like Terminal 1, also has modern facilities, said Tan.
Terminal 2 will cater to all fast-craft shipping companies.
There are eight fast-craft companies operating in Cebu which are berthing in different piers.
He said that with Terminal 2, if a passenger will hire a taxi to take a fast-craft, the driver already knows where to drop him.
Tan said the two passenger terminals are fully air-conditioned, with gender-sensitive facilities such as diaper-changing stations, breastfeeding rooms, meditation rooms and first aid station or clinic with a standby nurse.
Tan said both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 have security screening, X-ray scanners for baggage and walk-thru metal detectors for passengers.
He said the terminal fee is waived for senior citizens, persons with disabilities and children below 12 years old. (PNA)


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During his undergraduate days at Swarthmore, Dan Hammer was arrested once for attempting to buy too much Vaseline from a Rite-Aid in Philadelphia. As is common with "speedcubers," Hammer merely wanted to keep his Rubik's Cube properly lubricated. It was just his luck that police suspected a homeless man of aiding and abetting a bank robbery the night before by hurling a Molotov cocktail.
"I'd just started coding, so I wasn't showering, and I had this big beard and long hair," recalls Hammer, now a well-scrubbed, respectable-looking Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley. "They thought I was this homeless person, and they put me in handcuffs and took me to the station."
It's been that kind of journey for Hammer, who, at 30, finds himself living under his parents' roof again, in the very house where he was raised. In contrast to the standard narrative, though, his current sleeping arrangements aren't due to a sluggish economy or lack of marketable skills, but to a rare alignment of the personal and professional. The reason he's back where he started is that he's spending a year in Washington, D.C., as an elite Presidential Innovation Fellow.
Like the quantum computer he works with for NASA, Hammer seems to inhabit a sort of extra-dimensional state, moving ahead to new, ever-more challenging problems even as he's returned to his childhood bedroom. Now studying resource economics at Berkeley, he's logged a remarkably high-achieving three decades on planet Earth. He's served as a volunteer firefighter — both at Swarthmore and, for two summers, in Bolivia — co-created the algorithm that led to Global Forest Watch, and taught at San Quentin, an ongoing passion. He's built and raced outrigger canoes in the South Pacific, and was part of the dragonboat crew that set the 500-meter world record in Sydney in 2007. He's conquered a well-lubed Rubik's Cube in 27 seconds, a personal best.
And, of course, there's that White House fellowship. The highly selective stint — he's one of just 23 fellows chosen in 2014 — has temporarily taken him from the Bay Area, where he shares a home with his wife, a third-year medical resident at UCSF who works with underserved populations in the Tenderloin and other low-income neighborhoods.
Achievement runs in the family. His father is a professor of development economics at Princeton, and his mother is a senior program research adviser with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
"They have a lot of degrees between them," says Hammer, back in Berkeley during a break from his D.C. duties. "I've yet to finish a graduate degree, but they have plenty to go around."
Hammer himself initially "hated" Swarthmore, his father's alma mater, finding it to be "a pressure cooker." He struggled as a freshman, then took a year off to work in Hawaii, building and racing boats and earning money as a landscaper.
"I think I just wasn't ready for college at the time," he says of his freshman year. After Hawaii, however, "I came back and loved it. So, since then, I've been focusing on those things that really get me going. I spend a lot of the day doing the things that don't require that much extra energy — things that are inherently energizing."
To Hammer, that's a broad category, and includes building and racing outrigger canoes, the thing he focused on immediately after graduating. He was awarded a Watson fellowship, "this boondoggle of a fellowship where you just do one year of whatever floats your boat. For me, that was actually a boat."
The hitch was that fellows had to agree not to return to the United States for the entire year, meaning he not only couldn't go home, but couldn't go back to Hawaii, either, where outrigger canoe paddling is the official team sport. He chose Polynesia instead, apprenticing with a traditional Tongan canoe carver and racing in Australia and New Zealand.
When his fellowship was up, Hammer started the D.C-based Center for Global Development, partnering with an environmental economist to investigate the economic drivers of deforestation. Hammer had "tried to get away" from what he himself calls a dismal science, but, like his father, "just spoke the language of economics." And, as an avid camper and hiker — including experience with programs like Outward Bound and NOLS, the National Outdoor Leadership School — environmental economics "seemed like a natural fit."
He got into coding by necessity. "It was like, we need to figure out where deforestation is happening, and the way to do that is with satellite imagery. But it's so big — there's so much information — that you can't do it manually. It was a way to engage with the computational power required to pick apart that data." The algorithm they came up with grew into Global Forest Watch, later adopted and expanded by the World Resources Institute.
It also laid more groundwork for his selection this year as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, which gives him the opportunity to "remote in" to one of the world's few existing quantum computers, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, from, say, a Capitol Hill coffee house — and to find ways to make it easier for others to engage with a form of computation he calls "totally wackadoo."
Taking on ones and zeroes, all at once
"It's basically harnessing this new and crazy way in which these quantum bits behave," he says, explaining that unlike conventional computers, which understand data in terms of ones or zeroes, quantum computers "can take on both one and zero at the same time."
"Big data basically means so much information that you can't use traditional tools to process it," he says. "This would allow for problems that could not be solved in finite time to be solved. It opens up a new class of questions to be asked, involving huge amounts of information."
From his office at NASA headquarters, he's also working to help developers manipulate the agency's spectacular images of Earth and Mars, and to help NASA itself understand how visitors to its website — some 31 million of them every month — interact with the agency.
"The role of government from an economics perspective is that it provides public goods, things that wouldn't ordinarily get provided by individual citizens. And I love the idea of information being a part of that," Hammer says. "This offered that opportunity in a very real way, in a position where policies are made about transparency in government, providing government information in a way that can be used by the public, in the true spirit of a public good."
If public-spiritedness helps explains why he applied for the White House fellowship, it also explains his passion for teaching, and particularly for teaching algebra, statistics and pre-calculus at San Quentin under the auspices of the Prison University Project, an initiative started by a Berkeley Ph.D. He's taught at the Marin County facility for four semesters, and plans to resume once he's back in the Bay Area.
"I knew I wanted to be a teacher, and I thought the only way to do that was to go down the academic route, to be a professor," he says. "And I'm realizing now that's not necessarily true."
Hammer, who's taught graduate econometrics at Berkeley, says grad students "don't really have to be there — they're sort of passively engaged. But these guys are on the edge of their seats. It's incredibly energizing in this way that's also totally exhausting, right when you get out. When I got back to my car I'd be dead."
At the prison, he says, he saw "stories of actual redemption — not societal redemption, but internal redemption" — an experience he calls "incredibly powerful, and absolutely humbling. It's something you carry with you all the time."
"You can engage abstractly with economic development, trying to think of ways in which to support public goods, or positive externalities, or any other economic term you can think of," he says. "But to really be a part of someone who's asking for help, and being able to give it — this is powerful stuff."
Hammer, though, isn't the binary type, willing to settle for either/or. He's a multitasker at heart. And it definitely helps that he doesn't spend much of his life sleeping, regardless of where in the world he lays his head.
"I'm an insomniac," Hammer admits. "I do get a lot of work done as a result."


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This little girl has a beautiful room, freshly done and waiting for her, featuring one of the MOST gorgeous mobiles I have ever seen. It's made of butterflies.
I have followed this couple for a couple of years. They got me with the first baby, "Bean", but I stayed for her honesty. They are very brave, this couple, and very grounded. She is clearly big and pregnant in the video, worn out, tired of even talking, and he is steadfastly videoing little details that he knows she wants you to see. This is a good picture of them as a couple. She does most of the talking on the blog, he takes care of the details, steadfastly and faithfully. So sweet, and then, it happened.
She pointed to a shelf full of dolls in Gracie's nursery. My heart stopped and I got tears in my eyes. Her sweet young voice explained how these were dolls that had been hers growing up, and sat on a shelf in her room when she was a little girl. I was bawling out loud by then.
You see, I have a redheaded daughter. Having a red headed child gives you a bond with anyone who has ever had red hair in their family. It is always the first thing remarked upon. By the time my daughter was 3 she would lean away from hands raised to touch her hair because everyone always did, first thing. "Don't let them touch my hair", she would discreetly request as they headed toward us, hands already outstretched. Not only do I have a red headed daughter, but Grace is her middle name. Is the bawling starting to make sense? Well, in her room, since before she was born, there has been a shelf. My mother started buying dolls for my daughter when she was born. Only redheaded dolls. Not expensive ones, not collector's items, just redheaded dolls, many of which have been displayed since her birth on that same shelf, where they are still sitting in her now basically abandoned room.
More than one shelf. Note to Katie, bookshelves lining the top of her room are really handy.
I went to her room. The dolls sit silently collecting dust and perhaps dreaming of days past us all now, like me. Do they look forward to another little girl, like me?
I laid down on my daughter's bed, on top of the quilt my mother made, feeling my connection to the two women who are closest to me in this life. Who always will be closest to me, in life or beyond. Life flows through us, as women and all we are is the conduit, the vessel, the link between. At times I find this a relief, other times it feels like the weight of the world. Always, it is a fact. Known. Unquestioned.
I looked at the Sunflower Sue quilt made by my grandmother, lovingly and prominently displayed on the wall. My Nana, mother to 2 boys and expecting her third to be her girl, made this quilt for what turned out to be my Uncle Melvin, who would be a big brother to her baby, my father. Four boys. So she threw the quilt up in the closet and drug it out when she really needed it, bound it in some blue she found lying around, and when I graduated from high school, I got the quilt. (Score!!) She laughed so hard telling me the story of her hopes for a daughter and the last-minute blue binding that she almost peed her pants. This quilt is one my most precious possessions. She had to wait for granddaughters, but she didn't mind.
I thought of Katie, at one end of a tunnel, expecting to meet her daughter any day, dreaming of what it will be like to have a daughter. I thought of me, at the other end of that same tunnel, reflecting on the reality of all those dreams I had harbored also, before I knew who my daughter really was, when she was just an idea in my head. A hardly dared, hoped-for wish that I made every day, never out loud.
I thought of what it means to be a link in the chain. The only thing that connects all that you are with all that you will be. You are no more important than any other link, yet at times you are the most important because you alone carry the knowledge of who you are, where you came from, and how you got here today. You have to be sure to make every effort to never leave your children alone spiritually. You may not be able to keep them from being alone physically but who among us is ever really alone spiritually when God is always, always with us?
You have to give them.......everything. You have to make them strong enough to stand alone if necessary and stay true to themselves. You have to somehow try to teach them to trust themselves, because they are worthy. To love themselves. To take pride in who they are. They are everything up to this moment of NOW, which will only last a very little while. When they are two you wonder if you can stand it and when it will ever end. Then in a very short (too short) time you are wondering where the years went and if you should throw away old prom decorations which look like trash to you, but.......it might have meaning for her.
I wondered when my daughter will finally take her room apart, what she will keep and how carefully she will pack it. What do all these things mean to her? Does she even know yet? Has she ever taken the time to think about it or will that happen some day still in the future? Will I be there? I thought about writing down all that I know in case I'm not. She comes from a long line of strong, smart, headstrong women. This is her birthright and I have no doubt it will, in myriad ways, be her salvation.
Until then, this will all be here waiting for her, undisturbed:
So I closed the door to the recently abandoned room, I have now blogged the whole thing, and I try to assure Katie that it will be all right. She will survive birth, joy, rebellion and finally abandonment. Soon, too soon, she will be laying on Gracie's bed, crying over the shelf(ves) full of dolls and missing her baby who is now an independent woman walking around in the world with her own opinions, hopes and dreams. And a room full of stuff that needs to be sorted into piles to throw away or pack really well, to wait for a baby to be born to inherit them.
Because in the end, children leave.
Of course they do. It is then your job to just be there. Waiting. Until they come back.
And they do come back, bringing you grandchildren. New links, to be loved and held and told their own story, the story of them. Who knows how that story will end?
It never ends.
That's the beauty of it.


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Reihan Action Figure?
No, actually it's a villain from Thunderbirds known as "The Hood." Trouble is, he's not wearing a hood.
The resemblance is, a friend pointed out to me, pretty damn striking. One thing I appreciate is that "The Hood" appears to spend almost as much time as I do combing and styling his eyebrows. Henceforth, I intend to spend my nights with my oblate head on a lathe to give it this more cone-like appearance. Also, I need to give my eyes a more diseased, yellowish appearance.


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The Comfort Button Jacket for chemotherapy or dialysis is the perfect solution to be warm, comfortable and looking nice while in the treatment room. Available in Black, Green, Light Heather Grey and Navy making the shirt easy to pair with any pants. You will look great and feel comfortable going to and from office visits and chemo or dialysis.
The Comfort Button Chemo/Dialysis Shirt allows you to deal with a variety of procedures from a simple blood test, chemo, dialysis to dealing with mobility issues. The sleeves can be opened as little or as much as needed - the sleeves can actually open all the way allowing for full arm access.
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Why SurvivorRoom love Comfort By Homa: Homa Adler is a breast cancer and kidney cancer survivor. Homa was unable to find comfort during her treatments. She was also cold and the hospital was always drab. She decided to create a stylish jacket that allowed her to not only feel comfortable and warm but also beautiful and confident. This product become known as the Comfort Jacket and was designed with patient comfort in mind.


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Give your old school API some love
If you're an assiduous reader of this blog, then you probably already heard about our vision around APIs, our Anypoint API Manager solution and all our RAML based stories. Those are our recommended way of approaching REST APIs and if you haven't already, we all highly recommend you to take a look at them. However, we're about connecting everything, everywhere. Thus we recognize that there are a lot of APIs out there built in plain old Java code and a migration process is not something you can do overnight. If you own such an API, this post is about us wanting to help you too. Anypoint Platform includes a Jersey module to allow embedding Jersey-based APIs into the runtime, reusing the Java code powering your API but still gaining access to all the other features of the platform. In Mule 3.6 we upgraded our supported Jersey version from 1.6 to v2.11 to give you access to the latest and greatest that Jersey has to offer.
A little bit about Jersey
Jersey is the reference implementation for the JAX-RS specification about RESTful services in Java. In their own words: "Jersey framework is more than the JAX-RS Reference Implementation. Jersey provides it's own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development. Jersey also exposes numerous extension SPIs so that developers may extend Jersey to best suit their needs."
For more information on Jersey and access to its user guide, you can visit their website following this link.
A quick tour
For those of you not really familiar with our Jersey support, here're a couple of quick examples on how you can use it. First, you declare a flow starting with an http inbound endpoint and then passing on control to the Jersey component:
The HelloWorldResource would look something like this:
You can also declare your own custom context resolvers:
Your own exception mappers:
You can even use interface bindings to invoke your very own Mule flows from your Jersey resource in a completely decoupled way!
So what's new?
For starters, you now have access to the features in Jersey 2.0 and the JAX-RS 2.0 specification. Notice that if you want to update an existent API build using Jersey 1.x, this might require you to perform some code changes since the latest JAX-RS and Jersey are not backwards compatible with the 1.x versions.
There're also some new features from the Mule namespace as well!
Your own properties
Now you can execute each resource passing your own set of server properties. For example, the following configuration specifies its very own set of language mappings:
Auto discover your extensions
Jersey is the proud owner of a very extensible Java API to allow developers modify almost every aspect of its inner working. A very popular request has always been to allow this from the Mule configuration. Because Jersey provides so many extension points, we choose to enable this using auto discovery capabilities. Per Jersey's own API, every class annotated with the @Provider annotation can be used as an extension point. From the Mule namespace, we now allow specifying a list of java packages to scan for classes with such annotation. Every discovered class will be automatically registered in the resource's context.
Here's an example of how to register your own JAXB body writers and readers for an hypothetical Person class:
Here the packages com.my.project.jersey.readers and com.my.project.jersey.writers are being scanned and, for example, the following providers would be discovered:
With this upgrade we hope to continue supporting as many API scenarios as possible. Hopefully, this will enable you to combine the goodies of Jersey and the Java APIs with the power of the AnyPoint platform. Nevertheless, you may want to consider trying out the Anypoint Platform for APIs in order to get a next generation experience in designing, exposing, managing and consuming your APIs.


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News Releases
SCDP: Nikki Haley Hypocrisy Alert
This afternoon, Nikki Haley presented a proclamation for Child Abuse Prevention Month at the Statehouse. Meanwhile, she continues to stand by her failed agency head as investigations show that children are dying and being kept in dangerous situations because the Department of Social Services is more focused on meeting quotas and lowering numbers than they are on child safety.
South Carolina deserves better than a governor who will stand by as this kind of devastating dysfunction occurs, then issue a ceremonial proclamation about preventing abuse. It's time for a change.
Haley's DSS fails to protect children in order to meet quotas. "Sens. Katrina Shealy and Joel Lourie are part of a subcommittee that heard Wednesday about an alarming number of child deaths where the Department of Social Service was already involved. The lawmakers also heard about a system of goals that encourages social workers to keep children out of or remove them from foster care even if it isn't the best thing to do…. The goals deeply bothered both Lourie and Shealy. 'They are talking about wildly important goals. Let's get the numbers down?' Shealy said. 'These aren't numbers. These are people.'" [AP, 1/15/14]
At least one child died after DSS placed them back in an abusive home. "A four-year-old child who was brutally murdered by his parents last week was placed in the home by the S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS), sources close to the family tell FITS. The young boy – son of 28-year-old Robert Antonio Guinyard and 25-year-old Courtney Shante Thompson – was killed last Monday by blunt force trauma to the head and body. According to WLTX TV 19 (CBS – Columbia, S.C.), Richland County Sheriff's deputies say 'the child was beaten throughout the day, and when his mother came home, she did nothing to help the child.'" [FITS News, 7/9/13]
Haley admin was aware of putting children at risk, did not step in to save them. "Heidt reached out to Shealy while her granddaughter was in state care. The senator, an ally of Gov. Nikki Haley who chose Koller to head DSS, said she spoke to the director and other agency leaders. 'I tried to get them to fix that problem,' Shealy said. 'They wouldn't help me. … They kept saying, 'We're working on it.' " [The State, 1/15/14]
Child Advocates Raise Concerns About DSS Injuries, Deaths. "We're repeatedly told by case workers who work at the Department of Social Services they're fearful of their jobs, that they can't take a child into foster care or they have to push that child to leave foster care because they have to get their numbers down," said Greene. "These are some of our most vulnerable citizens, and it's our job as a state to protect them and I think that the policies that Ms. Koller and the governor have implemented have failed the children greatly," said Lourie. [WLTX, 10/3/13]
Nikki Haley is standing by her failed DSS head…. "Haley loves Koller. In fact she's repeatedly referred to her as a "rock star," praising her earlier this year in the 2014 State of the State speech." [FITS News, 2/25/14] "Haley is standing behind Koller's leadership. Her spokesman cited numbers showing a decrease in deaths, increase in adoptions and more people moving from welfare to work since Koller took the agency's helm in 2011." [AP, 3/19/14]
…And uses the lower numbers that came at the detriment of children to defend her embattled appointee. "'All the numbers that I worked with her on have improved. Let's be clear, one child death is one death too many,' Haley said. 'Our job is to make sure we constantly improve those numbers. … Every member of that agency is committed to that under the leadership of Lillian Koller.'" [Columbia Free Times, 3/19/14]
(Editor's Note: The above communication does not necessarily reflect the editorial position of FITSNews.com. To submit your letter, news release, email blast, media advisory or issues statement for publication, click here).


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Jack Turner is making a ski movie for the times.
"The hard times," he explains.
Turner set out to spoof the ski movie genre and his effort appears to be gathering size and momentum like a snowball rolling downhill.
"As Austin Powers was to the James Bond series, we're going to be to the ski movie," Turner said.
"Basically the story in Cheap Ski Movie is that our two heroes, Jonny Van Easle and Lou Irons, want to make a movie, but it's not too long before they decide they can't afford to go anywhere, so they make cardboard stand-ups to go on the road and make the movie for them. It's a suspension-of-belief movie," he said.
The advantages to this approach are immediately obvious to the two young filmmakers: Travel costs are negligible, since the cut-outs hitchhike or are mailed. Plus filming can occur at multiple sites simultaneously, as there can be any number of cut-outs at work independently.
"The first half of the movie, they're just two plain guys. Then after the X Games they're wandering aimlessly and end up in Las Vegas, at the Trade Show, and decide they want to get sponsored. The second half, they're all sponsored." Turner said.
Turner wants to keep the 10 locations under his hat. He said that while some resorts in the project are major destinations, most are not. "But they are all the heart of skiing," he said.
"The budget is undisclosed," Turner said, "but the title - Cheap Ski Movie - tells it all."
The film is sponsored in part by the company that makes the cardboard stand-ups - Cardboard People - which also supplied a raft of extras for the filming, Turner said.
"They're totally into the concept of the movie, and have also given us other cut-outs of celebrities to use as extras. You might see a bar and see Homer Simpson or Hillary Clinton or the Terminator in the background," he said.
So far filming has taken place at the X Games in Aspen, with full cooperation of the resort and the Games, and willing participation of athletes and various celebrities who walked into cameo walk-ons.
"We have a lot of stars doing cameos for this, including famous athletes, X Games athletes, current athletes, well-known-from-before athletes, well-known ski industry personalities. Everyone gets the joke," Turner said.
"Everyone we asked to be in this movie eagerly said yes. In some ways it's like the Muppet Show or the Got Milk campaign; you have to be famous to be in it," he said.
He closed on this cautionary note: "It's a little premature to do too much about Cheap Ski Movie because it could be the world's biggest flop. I tell resorts we have a 40 percent chance of an OK movie, a 40 percent chance of a good movie, a 15 percent chance of outright disaster, and 5 percent chance of an outright hit. Which is better than most of the ski business."
Curious? Check out the movie's Web site which includes a link to the movie's Facebook page, where there are lots of pix from filming and more details on plot and so forth.
Turner, a member of the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team in 1976, involved in U.S. Olympic planning, and inspirational speaker, is probably best known for creating Snow Monsters, a program to entice tykes into safe, sound and fun skiing and snowboarding. He is a fifth-generation resident of Durango, Colo., and has a daughter, 18, and a son, 16.


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St. John's Wort Monograph
Scientific name of St. John's Wort:
Action of St. John's Wort:
St. John's Wort is used for these common wellness concerns:
An Overview of St. John's Wort
St. John's Wort is an aromatic perennial herb with an abundance of golden-yellow flowers. Tiny perforations filled with phytochemical-rich oils cover the aerial (above- ground) portions of St. John's Wort and yield an extract that gives the plant its primary health benefits.
Current usage statistics indicate that millions of Americans supplement their daily diets with St. John's Wort to promote positive mood balance. In the United States and Europe, St. John's Wort is primarily used to provide positive support for:
- Depressed mood and mild to moderate mood changes caused by everyday stress
- Occasional nervousness, nervous tension and anxiety
The medicinal components of St. John's Wort, which include Hypericin and Hyperforin, have been clinically shown to promote a healthy neurotransmitter balance, which can help to provide positive mood support following two to six weeks of continued use.
Science and Pharmacology of St. John's Wort
Contemporary research has identified a variety of medicinal compounds from the portions of the St. John's Wort plant that grow above the ground. There are at least 10 phytochemical constituents thought to contribute to the plant's natural neurotransmitter reuptake inhibition, its primary mechanism of action. These components include:
- Ad-hyperforin
- Dianthrone
- Hyperforin
- Hypericin
- Xanthones
- Flavonoids
Modern extracts of St. John's Wort are typically standardized to 0.3 percent Hypericin, because it is this compound which is thought to be more stable than its counterpart, Hyperforin. Recent scientific research indicates that Hyperforin extract, whether it is standardized to three percent, five percent or 10 percent, is highly unstable. Upon chemical analysis, St. John's Wort extracts containing Hyperforin derivatives showed evidence of rapid breakdown. Further study concluded that regardless of the particular standardization amount, Hyperforin extracts decreased to their naturally occurring level of three to four percent concentration or less in all cases.
Until recently it was believed that Hyperforin was primarily responsible for the emotional health benefits of St. John's Wort. However, further laboratory analysis has revealed that all the chemical components of St. John's Wort are required in order to maximize the effects of its natural reuptake inhibition in the central nervous system.
Research shows that Hypericin, Flavonoids and Adhyperforin, other important constituents derived from St. John's Wort, are also potent reuptake inhibitors of Serotonin, Dopamine and Noradrenalin. Additionally, St. John's Wort has been demonstrated to inhibit GABA and L-Glutamate uptake. Together, these compounds are believed to promote healthy neurotransmitter balance in the brain. This effect is thought to provide positive support for depressed mood and mild to moderate mood changes caused by everyday stress, occasional nervousness, nervous tension and anxiety.
St. John's Wort Safety and Usage
St. John's Wort maintains an excellent safety profile when it is used as directed. A dose of 200 to 600 milligrams taken for two to six weeks is recommended to promote healthy neurotransmitter balance. In certain instances, individuals may increase their daily intake of St. John's Wort to as much as 1200 milligrams to relieve depressed mood and mild to moderate mood changes caused by everyday stress, as well as occasional nervousness, nervous tension and anxiety.
What are the potential side effects of St. John's Wort?
Side effects are rare and have been documented as mild to moderate in clinical study. They may include headache, gastrointestinal discomfort, drowsiness, dizziness and sensitivity to UV light sources. In the event that you experience an adverse reaction, discontinue use of this herb. St. John's Wort does not cause withdrawal or discontinuation effects.
Is St. John's Wort safe for children?
St. John's Wort is generally well-tolerated when used by children between the ages of seven and 13. Because each child is unique, St. John's Wort should be administered under the supervision of a professional healthcare provider.
Does St. John's Wort adversely interact with prescription drugs?
Taking St. John's Wort in combination with prescription medications such as benzodiazepines, SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), or SNRIs (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) may cause drowsiness. St. John's Wort is also believed to decrease the effectiveness of certain prescription drugs, including oral contraceptives and medications used to treat high blood pressure. If you are taking a prescription medication, it is recommended that you consult with your prescribing doctor before making any changes or additions to your current treatment plan.
What precautions should I take before beginning St. John's Wort?
Consult with your healthcare provider before beginning a wellness plan that includes dietary supplements like St. John's Wort.
- Do not take St. John's Wort if you are pregnant or nursing
- Do not take St. John's Wort if you are currently taking a prescription MAOI
- Do not take St. John's Wort if you are currently taking a protease inhibitor for HIV/AIDS
- Do not operate vehicles or heavy machinery until you know how St. John's Wort affects you
St. John's Wort Clinical Studies
Clinical Study Meta-Analysis and Peer Reviews
1. Dietary Supplements and Natural Products as Psychotherapeutic
Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD and Jerry M. Cott, PhD
From the Department of Health Care Sciences (A.F.-B.), George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; and Adult Psychopharmacology Program, National Institute of Mental Health, MD.
[Read the Abstract] [Read the Full Text ]
Excerpt From This Meta-Analysis:
"Many studies have been performed on this herb in Europe, primarily Germany. A recent meta-analysis evaluated 23 randomized trials (20 were double blind) of SJW in a total of 1757 outpatients with mild to moderate depression. Improvement in depressive symptoms (usually measured by the HAM-D or Clinical Global Impression scale) was observed in all groups. In 15 placebo-controlled trials, SJW was found to be significantly more effective than placebo. In eight treatment-controlled trials, clinical improvement in those receiving SJW did not differ significantly from those receiving tricyclic antidepressants."
2. Clinical trials with hypericum extracts in
patients with depression--results, comparisons, conclusions for therapy
with antidepressant drugs.
Phytomedicine. 2002 Jul;9(5):468-74. PMID: 12222670
[Read the Abstract]
Excerpt From This Meta-Analysis:
"Results from 34 controlled, double-blind trials of Hypericum extracts in some 3000 patients, predominantly with mild to moderate forms of depression, had been published. An overview is given of the studies conducted since 1990. In the majority of them, the efficacy criterion (primary endpoint) was the score and/or response rate on the Hamilton Rating Scale of Depression (HAMD). In ten studies the dosages ranged from 300 mg to 1050 mg of extract per day. Five of the ten studies were placebo-controlled and in all five cases, the Hypericum extract was shown to be significantly superior."
3. St John's wort for depression--an overview and meta-analysis
of randomised clinical trials.
Linde K, Ramirez G, Mulrow CD, Pauls A, Weidenhammer W, Melchart D.
Projekt Munchener Modell, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany.
BMJ. 1996 Aug 3;313(7052):253-8. PMID: 8704532
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Objective: To investigate if extracts of Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) are more effective than placebo in the treatment of depression, are as effective as standard antidepressive treatment, and have fewer side effects than standard antidepressant drugs.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of trials revealed by searches.
Trials: 23 randomised trials including a total of 1757 outpatients with mainly mild or moderately severe depressive disorders: 15 (14 testing single preparations and one a combination with other plant extracts) were placebo controlled, and eight (six testing single preparations and two combinations) compared hypericum with another drug treatment.
Main outcome measures: A pooled estimate of the responder rate ratio (responder rate in treatment group/responder rate in control group), and numbers of patients reporting and dropping out for side effects.
Results: Hypericum extracts were significantly superior to placebo (ratio = 2.67; 95% confidence interval 1.78 to 4.01) and similarly effective as standard antidepressants (single preparations 1.10; 0.93 to 1.31, combinations 1.52; 0.78 to 2.94). There were two (0.8%) drop outs for side effects with hypericum and seven (3.0%) with standard antidepressant drugs. Side effects occurred in 50 (19.8%) patients on hypericum and 84 (52.8%) patients on standard antidepressants.
Conclusion: There is evidence that extracts of hypericum are more effective than placebo for the treatment of mild to moderately severe depressive disorders.
4. Cluster analysis of symptoms during antidepressant
treatment with Hypericum extract in mildly to moderately
depressed out-patients. A meta-analysis of data from
three randomized, placebo-controlled trials.
Kasper S, Dienel A.
Department of General Psychiatry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2002 Nov;164(3):301-8. Epub 2002 Sep 14 PMID: 12424554 [Read the Abstract]
Clinical Trials and Laboratory Tests
1. Hyperforin as a possible antidepressant component
of hypericum extracts.
Chatterjee SS, Bhattacharya SK, Wonnemann M, Singer A, Muller WE.
Pharmacology Department, Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co., Karlsruhe, Germany.
Life Sci. 1998;63(6):499-510. PMID: 9718074 [Read the Abstract]
2. In vitro receptor binding and enzyme inhibition by Hypericum
perforatum extract.
Cott JM
Pharmacologic Treatment Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA
Pharmacopsychiatry. 1997 Sep;30 Suppl 2:108-12. PMID: 9342770 [Read the Abstract]
3. Hypericum perforatum versus fluoxetine in the
treatment of mild to moderate depression.
Behnke K, Jensen GS, Graubaum HJ, Gruenwald J.
PhytoPharm Consulting, Institute for Phytopharmaceuticals, Berlin, Germany.
Adv Ther. 2002 Jan-Feb;19(1):43-52. PMID: 12008860 [Read the Abstract]
4. Comparison of an extract of hypericum (LI 160)
and sertraline in the treatment of depression: a double-blind, randomized
pilot study.
Brenner R, Azbel V, Madhusoodanan S, Pawlowska M.
St. John's Episcopal Hospital, Far Rockaway, New York 11691, USA.
Clin Ther. 2000 Apr;22(4):411-9. PMID: 10823363 [Read the Abstract]
5. Pharmaceutical quality of hypericum extracts.
Wagner H, Bladt S.
Institut fur Pharmazeutische Biologie der Universitat Munchen, Germany.
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 1994 Oct;7 Suppl 1:S65-8. PMID: 7857515 [Read the Abstract]
6. Step by step removal of hyperforin and hypericin: activity
profile of different Hypericum preparations in behavioral models.
Butterweck V, Christoffel V, Nahrstedt A, Petereit F, Spengler B, Winterhoff H.
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Universitatsklinikum Muenster,Germany.
Life Sci. 2003 Jun 20;73(5):627-39. PMID: 12770617 [Read the Abstract]
7. Hyperforin--antidepressant activity by a novel mechanism
of action.
Muller WE, Singer A, Wonnemann M.
Department of Pharmacology, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt/M., Germany.
Pharmacopsychiatry. 2001 Jul;34 Suppl 1:S98-102. PMID: 11518085 [Read the Abstract]
8. Adhyperforin as a contributor to the effect of Hypericum
p. L. in biochemical models of antidepressant activity.
Jensen AG, Hansen SH, Nielsen EO.
The Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Copenhagen.
Life Sci. 2001 Feb 23;68(14):1593-605. PMID: 11263672 [Read the Abstract]
9. Inhibition of substance P-induced cytokine synthesis by St.
John's wort extracts.
Fiebich BL, Hollig A, Lieb K.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Freiburg Medical School
Pharmacopsychiatry. 2001 Jul;34 Suppl 1:S26-8. PMID: 11518071 [Read the Abstract]
10. Effects of hypericum extract on the expression of serotonin
Muller WE, Rossol R.
Institut fur Physiologische Chemie der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz, Germany.
Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 1994 Oct;7 Suppl 1:S63-4. PMID: 7857514 [Read the Abstract]
11. Incidence and clinical relevance of the
interactions and side effects of Hypericum preparations.
Schulz V.
Phytomedicine. 2001 Mar;8(2):152-60. PMID: 11315759 [Read the Abstract]
12. Adverse effects profile of the herbal antidepressant St.
John's wort (Hypericum perforatum L.).
Ernst E, Rand JI, Barnes J, Stevinson C.
Department of Complementary Medicine, Postgraduate Medical School, University of Exeter
Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 1998 Oct;54(8):589-94. PMID: 9860144 [Read the Abstract]
13. Selected Physical and Chemical Properties of Commercial
Hypericum perforatum Extracts Relevant for Formulated Product Quality
and Performance
Susan H. Kopleman, Agnes NguyenPho, William S. Zito, Fran X. Muller, and Larry L. Augsburger
University of Maryland, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Product Quality Research, Saint John's University, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Pharmaceutical Development
AAPS PharmSci. 2001; 3 (4): article 26. DOI: 10.1208/ps030426 [Read the Full Text]
14. Mechanism of action of St John's wort in depression : what
is known?
Butterweck V.
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Universitatsklinikum Munster
CNS Drugs. 2003;17(8):539-62. PMID: 12775192 [Read the Abstract]
15. Efficacy and tolerability of St. John's wort extract LI 160 versus
imipramine in patients with severe depressive episodes according to ICD-10.
Vorbach EU, Arnoldt KH, Hubner WD.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ev. Krankenhaus Elisabethenstift, Germany.
Pharmacopsychiatry. 1997 Sep;30 Suppl 2:81-5 PMID: 9342765 [Read the Abstract]
16. No relevant interaction with alprazolam, caffeine, tolbutamide,
and digoxin by treatment with a low-hyperforin St John's wort extract.
Arold G, Donath F, Maurer A, Diefenbach K, Bauer S, Henneicke-von Zepelin HH, Friede M, Roots I.
Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University Medical Center Charite, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Planta Med. 2005 Apr;71(4):331-7 PMID: 15856409 [Read the Abstract]
17. The significance of "nonsignificance" in
randomized controlled studies: a discussion inspired
by a double-blinded study on St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum
L.) for premenstrual symptoms.
Hicks SM, Walker AF, Gallagher J, Middleton RW, Wright J.
Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition, The School of Food Biosciences, The University of Reading, UK.
J Altern Complement Med. 2004 Dec;10(6):925-32 PMID: 15673985 [Read the Abstract]
18. Treatment of somatoform disorders with St. John's wort: a randomized,
double-blind and placebo-controlled trial.
Muller T, Mannel M, Murck H, Rahlfs VW.
Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital Bochum, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Evid Based Ment Health. 2005 Feb;8(1):13. PMID: 15272100 [Read the Abstract]
19. St John's wort or sertraline? Randomized controlled trial in primary
van Gurp G, Meterissian GB, Haiek LN, McCusker J, Bellavance F.
Emergency Department, St Mary's Hospital Centre, Montreal, QC.
Can Fam Physician. 2002 May;48:905-12 PMID: 12053635 [Read the Abstract]
20. Acute treatment of moderate to severe depression with hypericum
extract WS 5570 (St John's wort): randomised controlled double blind
non-inferiority trial versus paroxetine.
Szegedi A, Kohnen R, Dienel A, Kieser M.
Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany.
BMJ. 2005 Mar 5;330(7490):503. PMID: 15708844 [Read the Abstract]
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Managing law enforcement stress through emotional intelligence
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Law enforcement emotional intelligence in the workplace is defined as the ability of the officer to manage and use his or her emotions in a positive and constructive way to manage healthy relationships within the department and with supporting agencies of the criminal justices system.
Officers who have a functional, high emotional intelligence level have higher satisfaction rates and better career success within their departments. Workers who have the ability to build healthy workplace relationships have reported lower stress levels at work and healthy off-duty activities that bring balance.
The main reason behind the higher job satisfaction reporting is the officer's ability to relationship-build within the department and their positive approach to conflict resolution with others.
Dr. Zafrul Allam noted emotional intelligence as having five distinct qualities:
1. Self-awareness: The ability to recognize one's own emotions as they are occurring to help guide your decision-making.
2. Self-management: The ability to control and manage your emotions in the moment and adopt to rapidly changing circumstances.
3. Self-motivation: The ability to harness ones emotions and use this energy to achieve goals.
4. Social awareness: The ability to recognize emotions in others and being attuned to the signals of others and what they might want or need. The ability to have empathy and compassion.
5. Relationship management: The ability to inspire, influence, connect and contribute to healthy conflict resolution through the groups emotions.
Here is a look at 10 benefits of officer emotional intelligence within the law enforcement workplace:
1. Better work and department attitudes and behaviors that lead to improved self-confidence and better job performance (fewer citizen complaints).
2. Ability to focus on real issues and not department politics (stays out of departmental gossip circles).
3. Better perform within team environment (active listening).
4. Ability to understand others viewpoints (empathy).
5. Positive influence on others and encourages teamwork (general good attitude, and avoid being a negative influence when unhappy).
6. Leads by example (on time, prepared for work).
7. Stays calm and effectively problem-solves (does not overact or allow bad decision to be made out of emotions).
8. Understands the bigger picture and is proactive with communications (supports departments initiatives and is a positive role model).
9. Optimistic attitude that helps reduce stress levels (sees the good).
10. Works towards removing communication barriers that affect morale and general attitudes.
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3. Stop the stinking thinking: Resist being negative and staying negative. It leads to poor job performance, complacency and career burnout.
4. Control: Do not stress about the things you cannot control, but focus on what you can control. Stay positive!
5. Set goals: Get in driver seat of your law enforcement career. Do the things that are required to make yourself promotable, and be proactive in your own career decisions.
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Department of Nursing
Accelerated Nursing Option (ANO)
Information specific for January 2021 Start Date ONLY
Metropolitan State University of Denver's Accelerated Nursing Option (ANO) is a 17 month Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. Students who have completed a previous Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and the nursing prerequisite courses may apply to this program. Students accepted into the program, complete nursing courses starting in the spring, and continue through summer, fall and spring semesters. Graduates are eligible to apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).
Application to Metropolitan State University of Denver
Interested students must first be accepted to the University. This requires an online application and official transcripts of all previous college level courses. This material is sent to the Admission Office at MSU Denver- NOT to the Nursing Department. Please apply as a degree-seeking student with a major of Nursing (undeclared). Once accepted to MSU, eligible students then must apply to the Nursing Program through the Department's website. Note the application opens July 1st and closes September 1st at 5 pm. https://msudenver.edu/nursing/
Multicultural Course
To be awarded a bachelor's degree from MSU Denver all students are required to complete a 3 credit Multicultural course. Multicultural coursework examines the interactions of values, beliefs, traditions, identities, and contributions of one or more of the following four groups of color in the United States: African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American, which may include the characteristics of gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability within these groups. This course may be taken at MSU Denver or transferred with approval.
Eight Required Prerequisite Courses for the ANO: (MSU Denver course descriptions, numbers and credits)
We recommend all prerequisite courses be completed within 5-7 years to enhance student success in the program.
- BIO 2310: Anatomy and Physiology I with lab* (4 credits) - This is the first of two courses addressing the structure and function of the human body. Topics include tissues, anatomy, the musculoskeletal system, and neurophysiology. (pre-req BIO 1080/1090)
- BIO 2320: Anatomy and Physiology II with lab* (4 credits) - This is the second of two courses addressing the structure and function of the human body. Topics include endocrinology; circulation; and the respiratory, digestive, urinary and reproductive systems. (pre-req BIO 2310)
- ITP 4600: Clinical Pathophysiology (4 credits) - This course is designed to familiarize the student with the nature of human pathophysiology using major conceptual areas. Pertinent biochemical and metabolic derangements are correlated with the cellular structure by applying systems theory. The course focuses on the effects of the disease process on all of the major bodily systems, pathogenesis, and related clinical manifestations. (pre-req BIO 2320)
- PSY 2210: Human Growth and Development (3 credits) - This course presents the development of behavior from conception through maturity and death and is intended to help the student understand the developmental characteristics of different age groups and the determinants of their individual and collective behaviors. (pre-req PSY 1001) Often referred to as Psychology over the Lifespan.
- NUT 2040: Introduction to Nutrition (3 credits) - This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the fundamental concepts of human nutrition, including digestion, absorption, metabolism, and function of nutrients as they relate to human health and disease.
- CHE 1100/1150: Principles of Chemistry (5 credits) - This course is a study of the fundamentals of chemistry. A survey of atomic structure, periodicity, bonding, nomenclature, stoichiometry, gas laws, and solution chemistry is provided for those students with no background in these areas. Plus lab (pre-req MTH 1110 or higher)
CHE 1800/1801: General Chemistry I (5 credits) - A comprehensive study of the facts, concepts, and laws of chemistry. This course meets the requirements of students majoring in chemistry, medicine, medical technology, biology, physics and other fields requiring a strong background in chemistry. Students enrolling in this course should have successfully completed high school chemistry or equivalent coursework. Plus lab (pre-req MTH 1110 or higher)
- MTH 1210: Introductory Statistics Course (4 credits) - This course is an introduction to the principles and techniques of descriptive statistics, probability, regression analysis, and statistical inference (estimation and tests of hypotheses). Students will work with data on problems related to their own interest or field of study. (pre-req appropriate test score)
PSY 2310: Introduction to Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences (3 credits) - This course applies basic statistics to measurement, analysis, and interpretation in psychology as well as other social and behavioral sciences covering distributions, probability, central tendency, variability, sampling distributions, and hypothesis testing.
- BIO 2400: General Microbiology with lab* (5 credits) - This is a one-semester introduction to the microbial world, including discussions of bacteria, Cyanobacteria, fungi, protozoans and viruses. (pre-req BIO 1080/1090, BIO 1081/1091, CHE 1100/1150, MTH 1210)
BIO 2000: Intro to Microbiology for Nursing* (4 credits) - This course is a non-majors introductory microbiology course specifically for pre-nursing. It will not count toward a biology major or minor. This course emphasizes the interplay between microorganisms and humans including infectious diseases and the immune system and has an emphasis on the control of microbial growth, spread of microorganisms, and their ability to cause disease and circumvent the immune system and antimicrobials. (pre-req BIO 1080/1090, CHE 1100/1150, MTH 1210)
Note: In some cases, additional courses may need to be taken prior to the required prerequisite courses.
Transfer courses
It is the student's responsibility to verify the equivalence of any transfer course brought into the University. If a course has not been evaluated to be equivalent to the required prerequisite, students must submit a syllabus of the course to the Nursing Department for approval. Do NOT assume courses are the same. Contact MSU Denver Transfer Services Office at 303?556?3774 for questions.
International Transcripts/Credentials
Students who have graduated from an institution outside of the U.S. are required to submit Official Transcripts with a "certified translation" into English. The Office of Admissions at MSU Denver recommends Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) for official translations (www.ece.org). Please reference the MSU Denver guidelines for admission of International Students and/or the transfer of foreign credentials.
Admission Requirements for Accelerated Nursing Option
To be eligible to apply applicants must:
- have completed a non-nursing baccalaureate degree in any field prior to application deadline.
- have completed all pre-requisite courses for the Nursing program. Students are allowed to take these courses in the fall semester if needed. If the course is in progress at the time of application, students must give permission to the course professor to send via email the mid-term grade to the MSU Denver Nursing Department between October 1 and October 15. GPA will be calculated with the mid-term grade in the course and if offered conditional admission, the grade must be maintained to the end of the semester and will be verified at the end of the semester. A lower grade that reduces the total point value will most likely eliminate the student from the program. The Nursing Department will require a transcript showing the final grade in the prerequisite course before nursing courses begin in January.
- have completed the HESI Nursing Admission Assessment Exam (HESI A2) within 24 months of the application deadline. Applicants are allowed to take the exam a maximum of two times in the 12 months prior to the application deadline. The HESI Exam is available on campus through the Office of Testing Centers. Students must make an appointment in advance. The subject areas tested are Reading Comprehension and Math and Anatomy & Physiology. The HESI exam may be taken at other testing centers- please use school code #200867.
- have transcript documentation of successful completion of prerequisite courses.
Applications that are submitted with any of the above criteria missing by the application deadline will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that all required documentation is submitted. Meeting the admission requirements does not guarantee admission.
Application to MSU Denver Nursing Program
Once accepted at MSU, students need to apply online through the Nursing Department website at https://msudenver.edu/nursing/. The application requires uploading the HESI testing scores, and reporting all previous grades for the 8 pre-requisite courses. There is no charge for the Nursing Program application. The Application opens July 1st and closes on September 1st at 5:00 pm. No applications will be accepted after the deadline. For the ANO, a cohort of 48 students are selected from all of the qualified applicants.
Conditional Acceptance
Applicants must successfully pass a criminal background check and drug screen prior to admission. The drug screen will test for controlled substances, including marijuana and marijuana derivatives. Re-testing is not allowed. If students fail the drug test or background check, their conditional acceptance will be negated. Admitted students must attend a required orientation with the Department of Nursing before beginning nursing courses. In addition to the academic requirements, the Department of Nursing requires other information for students offered admission. These include immunization records, and CPR certification. Candidates must be able to meet the rigorous physical, mental, emotional, and academic standards required to become a professional nurse. Please refer to the website for additional program information: https://www.msudenver.edu/nursing/programinformation/ The admission process does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, creed, gender, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Nursing Curriculum
The curriculum for the ANO is extremely rigorous and completed in 17 months. Students are admitted in the spring and complete the nursing curriculum in four academic semesters including the summer. Students are required to attend classes, complete laboratory experiences and fulfill clinical requirements. Students must be available for day, evening, and night assignments seven days a week.
Program Cost
The estimated cost of the ANO is approximately $43,500, which includes tuition, MSU Denver student fees, health insurance, uniforms, books, and supplies. Please note that program costs are subject to change. This program receives no state funding, so the cost is the same for in-state and out-of-state students. The COF stipend is not available for this program.
Financial Aid / Scholarships
Scholarships, stipends, and loan forgiveness programs may be available to help students with their educational expenses. Students may apply for scholarships after they have been accepted into the ANO through the MSU Denver Financial Aid
To earn a Bachelor of Science degree, students must satisfy all university graduation requirements, plus any others stipulated for the degree for which a student is a candidate. Please refer to the Academic Policies and Procedures in the Metropolitan State University of Denver catalog.
Admission Ranking Criteria Points Awarded
Valid for the Spring 2021 Start - Applications submitted from July 1 - September 1, 2020 at 5 p.m.
GPA Point Value 5 point maximum award
When multiple attempts are made in pre-requisite courses, all graded attempts in the last nine semesters (since Spring 2018) will be included in the GPA calculation. Pre-requisite courses:
A&P I, A&P II, Pathophysiology, Microbiology, Nutrition, Human Growth & Development, Chemistry and Statistics
3.75 - 4.0 = 5 points
3.5 - 3.74 = 4 points
3.25 - 3.49 = 3 points
3.00 - 3.24 = 2 points
0 - 2.99 = 0 points
Average Cumulative HESI Nursing Admissions Assessment Score 4 point maximum award
Scores are rounded to nearest whole number
HESI exam includes: Reading Comprehension, Math and Anatomy & Physiology
HESI exam is valid for 24 months from August 31, 2018 - Sept 1, 2020. It can be taken twice in a 12 month period.
Exam can be taken on-campus at MSU Testing Center. Call 303.615.1700 for appt or go to www.msudenver.edu/testing. Current cost $75.00
95 - 100 = 4 points
90 - 94 = 3 points
85 - 89 = 2 points
80 - 84 = 1 point
79 and below = 0 points
Credits taken at MSU Denver 1 point maximum award
12+ credits = 1 point
0-11 credits = 0 points
Criteria Total Points: (GPA of pre-requisites, HESI exam & MSU credits)
TOTAL SCORE 10 point maximum award
Applicants are advised to check the nursing website for changes in admission criteria
The ANO is approved by the Colorado State Board of Nursing and accredited by the
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, Georgia 30326
T: 404?975?5000 F: 404?975?5020 Web Site: www.acenursing.org


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- 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus additional for dusting
- 5 large eggs
- Salt
- 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter
- 8 ounces asparagus, woody ends trimmed, chopped
- 3/4 cup peas
- Handful green string beans, chopped
- 2 garlic scapes, chopped
- 1 yellow onion, chopped
- Salt
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- 1 cup grated Parmesan
- Big handful of fresh basil leaves, torn
Step 1
For the fresh pasta: On a clean work surface, make a mound with the flour, then create a well. Pour the eggs into the well and use a fork to gradually flick the flour into the eggs, whisking in thoroughly as you go. Once all of the flour and eggs have been incorporated into a very shaggy dough, form it into a ball with your hands. Knead the dough, dusting with more flour if the dough is too sticky, or moistening your hands with water if the dough is too dry, until it has the texture of smooth leather, about 5 minutes. Wrap it in plastic wrap and leave at room temperature for 25 minutes to rest.
Step 2
Use your pasta machine to roll out the dough and cut fresh linguine, following the pasta machine's instructions. Dust with flour and cover the freshly-cut noodles with a damp towel while you work, and until ready to cook.
Step 3
Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil, and season with a handful of salt.
Step 4
For the sauce: Heat a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the butter, and once it melts, add the asparagus, peas, string beans, garlic scapes, onions and a pinch of salt. Cook just until the onions soften and the scapes are fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add the cream and chicken stock and cook to reduce, about 3 minutes.
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Add the fresh pasta to the pot of boiling water, and cook until the pasta is just al dente, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove the pasta and transfer to the pan with the primavera sauce, then transfer everything to a serving bowl. Toss everything to coat, and taste for seasoning. Garnish with fresh Parmesan and basil and serve.


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GNU Finger is the collective name for a set of programs:
finger server. Returns the output from
the server.
finger connects to
in.fingerd on the host
specified in the command line. This is the only program you need to know
anything about if you're a regular user. You should refer to this
program as the finger client to avoid possible confusion.
in.cfingerd on the clients specified in the
`fingerdir/clients' file, to obtain finger data. This client data
is saved in the file `fingerdir/userdata'.
fingerd should
run on the host specified in the `fingerdir/serverhost' file.
fingerd should be started at boot time.
finger connections through
inetd. Should be
attached to the `finger' service via `/etc/inetd.conf'.
in.fingerd behaves somewhat differently depending on what host it
runs on: on the server host it reads the `fingerdir/userdata'
database, on all other hosts it forwards all requests (unless
`.local' is the target) to
in.fingerd on the host specified
in `fingerdir/serverhost'.
in.fingerd reads the `fingerdir/userdata' database, various
system files, and makes SMTP connections to the host specified in the
`fingerdir/mailhost' file.
fingerd by
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It should be configured to respond to the `cfinger' service
specified in the `clients' configuration file, or port 2003 if
nothing else is specified.
When the GNU Finger server receives a request for information about a user it looks to see if the user has a `.fingerrc' file in the home directory. If such a file exists, and is executable, then this file is executed, and the normal finger output is passed to it as input. Its output becomes what is returned for the request. Thus, it can be used to:
finger by ignoring its input. Below
is a sample script which could be put in `~price-info/.fingerrc'.
#! /bin/sh # # This sample script replaces the output of GNU Finger # echo Hack-O-Matic Consulting Services, Inc. " " `date` cat <<ETX Hi, thanks for asking us about prices on our newly introduced support services for Free Software. Below is a list of new services; for a list of our previous services, please send mail to this address and someone will contact you. Please don't forget to tell us how to reach you. ETX cat ~/info/new-stuff
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Various special targets can be added as executable files in the directory `fingerdir/targets'. Each file name in this directory starts with a letter describing when to execute it, followed by a hyphen and the target name. The three letters are:
For instance, the special-target file `x-.help' is run for either `finger .help' or `finger -l .help', whereas the special- target file `l-prices' is run only for `finger -l prices'.
The special-target file is run as super-user, and is given no input. By convention, all GNU Finger sites should support at least:
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Dear Expert, I have a 5 year old female Dalmatian that I adopted when she was 8 months old. I think she was abused, because she's always been very subbmissive, especially towards tall men. We've certainly had our issues, but she's come such a long way and is generally a very good dog. Recently, however, she's started digging… not outside, mind you, but through my carpets! She only does it after my husband and I leave, but she is terrified of crates (always has been) so crating her when we leave is not an option. I have tried giving her treats inside a toy that she has to work for just before we leave. It worked really well for awhile, but now she seems to be reverting back to the digging. Any suggestions? Thanks – A Dalmatian's Mom
Dear Dalmatian Mom,
Can you confine her to an area that she can't dig through? Like a baby gate in the kitchen? She sounds anxious. We have a handout on "Treating Canine Separation Anxiety." You could also try ComfortZone (DAP) and working to make sure that she has lots of exercise and enrichment before you leave so she is more inclined to sleep when you are gone.