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On November 24, the United States and five other world powers announced an interim agreement to temporarily freeze Iran's nuclear program. The six-month accord is meant to give international negotiators time to negotiate a more comprehensive pact that would remove the threat of Iran producing nuclear weapons.
The talks had reached an impasse in early November, when Iranian President Hassan Rouhani insisted on his nation's "right" to enrich uranium, as reported by Frank Rose in the New York Times.
"National interests are our red line," Rouhani insisted.
Western officials were confused by Iran's unwillingness to budge. After all, they were dangling what should have been a tempting carrot: the promise of lessened sanctions, which would provide significant financial relief to Iran. Yet the strategy of offering financial incentives in exchange for a concession related to national interests may have backfired, Rose reports, and psychological research on "sacred values" explains why.
In negotiation, virtually all of us have certain sacred values on which we are unwilling to compromise. Those values can be political, religious, or personal. When sacred values are in play, studies show, any proposal of economic incentives to make a deal is liable to backfire. And for the Iranian leadership, nuclear power appears to have become such an issue.
In the 1990s, psychologists Jonathan Baron and Philip Tetlock, both now at the University of Pennsylvania, found in their research that people who otherwise would be willing to alter their behavior in exchange for financial rewards (such as performing a job or task for pay) may suddenly refuse to do so when moral or ethical issues are highlighted.
For example, a marketing expert who advocates for gun control might refuse to take the National Rifle Association on as a client. Tetlock notes that "even to suggest such a trade-off is to invite moral outrage, along with feelings of contamination and a need for moral cleansing," writes Rose in the Times.
Conflicts over sacred values can often be alleviated by separating discussions of moral issues from those that concern money and finances.
Take the results of a 2004-2008 field study of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict conducted by researchers Jeremy Ginges (New School for Social Research), Scott Atran (University of Michigan), Douglas Medin (Northwestern University), and Khalil Shikaki (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research), described in the article "Break Down 'Sacred Barriers to Agreement" in the April 2009 issue of the Negotiation newsletter.
The team surveyed three groups of West Bank and Gaza citizens with strong opinions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Jewish Israeli settlers, Palestinian refugees, and Palestinian student supporters of Hamas.
The respondents were presented with a proposal that would require their side to make a concession on a key issue in exchange for lasting peace in the region. For example, the Israeli settlers were given a proposal that would require Israeli withdrawal from 99% of the West Bank and Gaza in return for peace.
Would financial incentives sweeten the pot? To the contrary, Israelis and Palestinians alike were outraged when significant economic assistance for their side was added to the peace proposals; they were repulsed by the notion of trading sacred values for money.
The team found a chink in their respondents' moral logic when they added a different type of deal sweetener to the proposals: a difficult concession from the other side on one of its own sacred values. Suddenly, nonnegotiable positions softened.
The Israeli settlers agreed to make concessions is Hamas and other Palestinian groups explicitly accepted Israel's right to exist, for instance.
"As the West Bank is to Israelis and Palestinians, nuclear power is becoming to many Iranians," writes Rose in the Times. Influential parties have succeeded in linking the issue to a foreign exploitation of Iran's oil resources, thus framing the nuclear issue as a matter of national pride.
In the end, the United States rejected Iran's claim to having a "right to enrich" but agreed to allow Iran to continue to enrich at a low level. Whether the parties will be able to come to a long-term agreement on Iran's "right" to enrichment remains to be seen.


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January 27, 2014 — Two bills (HB 1307, HB 1313) before the Missouri Legislature would require women to wait 72 hours before receiving an abortion, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Missouri is one of 26 states that require women to wait 24 hours prior to an abortion. The state also mandates that women hear a range of information about abortion and possible alternatives. If one of the bills becomes law, Missouri would become one of three states -- alongside Utah and South Dakota -- to impose a 72-hour waiting period.
State Reps. Kevin Elmer (R) and Keith Frederick (R) introduced the measures, both of which include language ensuring that the state's 24-hour waiting period will remain in place if the 72-hour requirement were overturned in court.
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State Rep. Sharon Pace (D) disputed the comparison, saying, "You know when you're pregnant, so 24 hours is not the only amount of time you have to think about this." She added, "You're considering this on an ongoing basis."
NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri Executive Director Pamela Sumners said additional time would not affect women's final decisions, adding, "Benevolent paternalism is still paternalism" (French, St. Louis Post-Dispatch , 1/22).
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What's good, Hollywood? We've got something great! This month, we're celebrating Broadway's re-opening. ("The show must go on!") While several shows on Broadway have already started performances, over a dozen musicals are re-opening on Broadway in the second half of September and honestly, we couldn't be happier about it.
With more and more musicals resuming as of this month, and a few highly-anticipated movie musicals premiering in the coming weeks, there's more Broadway chatter in Hollywoodland than usual! And for good reason—there are more Broadway veterans starring in hit films and television series than you may realize.
We recently explored the OGs of Broadway-to-Hollywood fame and the next generation, but there are still plenty of female A-listers who have graced Broadway stages before the silver screen and we want to make sure you know about them all (even the curveballs we'll be including in this list!).
Broadway Stars turned Hollywood's leading ladies: Sutton Foster
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster is one of the greatest living Broadway triple-threats of our time. She is a legend and she must be protected at all costs! (By the way, triple threat means that not only can Sutton act, but she can also sing and dance with equal impeccable skill and talent. In fact, she can do all 3 at the same time. With a smile!)
Sutton Foster made her Broadway debut as an understudy for Sandy in the 1996 production of Grease at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. However, she had her big breakout role in 2002 when she originated the titular character of the 1920s song-and-dance musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Sutton's performance as Millie Dillmount earned the performer her first Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in A Musical. Along with her win, Thoroughly Modern Millie swept the Tonys that year, earning 6 awards.
Sutton's performance as Millie received positive reviews from critics across the board. In their review of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Newsday wrote the following: "She has a smile that may remind you of Mary Tyler Moore, the gawky comic precision of the young Carol Burnett, the lyricism of a romantic heroine, and a smallish but vibrant voice as accurate as it is expressive." Fun fact for you: Kristin Chenoweth originally had the role of Millie in the pre-Broadway productions of Thoroughly Modern Millie but Sutton replaced her when the show went to Broadway and Kristin "went to Hollywood for a sitcom deal."
Following her success as Millie Dillmount, Sutton Foster soldiered on with a #booked&busy Broadway schedule. In the following years, she originated the role of Jo March in Little Women: The Musical (2005), starred in the Broadway premieres of The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), Young Frankenstein (2007), and Violet (2014), and originated the role of Princess Fiona in Shrek: The Musical (2008). In 2012, Sutton won her second Tony for her performance as Reno Sweeney in the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes. In the 12 years between 2002 to 2014, Sutton Foster was nominated for a total of 6 Tony Awards for Best Actress in A Musical. ( That's an average of 1 nomination every 2 years. I mean…whoa!)
In 2012, Sutton Foster began her first regular on-screen role as Michelle Simms in Bunheads, an ABC Family drama created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). In 2014, Sutton made her feature film debut in Angriest Man in Brooklyn, starring Robin Williams. The following year she starred in the leading role of 2015's horror-comedy, Gravy, directed by Psych star, James Roday Rodriguez.
That same year, Sutton Foster landed her second regular small-screen role starring as Liza Miller in the TV Land comedy/drama, Younger. The series, created by Darren Star (Sex and the City, Emily in Paris), ran for 7 seasons and also starred Debi Mazar and Hilary Duff.
no but sutton foster in younger dancing to sutton foster in thoroughly modern millie is so meta pic.twitter.com/Vmf4DZWG5I
— ً (@maisiepetcrs) April 26, 2021
Sutton Foster is currently starring in a West End production of Anything Goes, where she has reprised her Tony Award-winning role as Reno Sweeney. The show runs until November 6th. Up next, Sutton will appear as Marian Paroo in The Music Man opposite Hugh Jackman on Broadway. (If you put 2 legendary triple-threats together, do you get a sextuple-threat?) The Music Man begins previews on December 20th and officially opens at the Winter Garden Theater on February 10, 2022. We have a feeling this is going to be *the* show to see over the holidays; It's going to be huge!
Broadway Stars turned Hollywood's leading ladies: Lea Michele
Since we're celebrating Broadway babes turned Hollywood starlets, we would be remiss not to include Ms. Lea Michele on this list. Before her breakout role in the 2006 Original Broadway Cast (OBC) of Spring Awakening, Lea had already had herself a formidable Broadway career as a child and teen star. She made her Broadway debut in 1995, at the ripe old age of 8, playing Young Cosette in Les Misérables (1995-1996). Lea also starred in the Broadway revivals of Ragtime from 1997 to 1999, and Fiddler on the Roof from 2004-2005.
In 2005, Lea Michele was cast in a workshop production of the coming-of-age folk-rock musical, Spring Awakening, co-written by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. The show documents the lives of a group of teenagers in the conservative and rigidly oppressive society of 19th-century Germany as they experience sexual and ideological awakenings and aspire for greater freedom. Lea Michele originated the role of the female lead, Wendla Bergmann, alongside fellow future Broadway-to-Hollywooders Jonathan Groff and John Gallagher Jr. The 3 starred together in the Original Broadway Cast of Spring Awakening when it opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in December 2006 and the show was a smash hit (Spring Awakening swept The Tony Awards in 2007 with 8 wins). Lea ended up playing Wendla on Broadway until 2008.
Lea Michele began her first long-term small screen role the following year, starring as Rachel Berry in the iconic musical teen dramedy Glee. The role of Rachel was written specifically for Lea by the show's co-creator Ryan Murphy. She played the character throughout the show's 6 seasons.
During that time, Lea Michele also starred in Glee: The 3D Concert Movie released in 2011 and in Ryan Murphy's satirical slasher comedy series, Scream Queens, from 2015 to 2016, alongside Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Abigail Breslin. From 2017 to 2018, Lea starred in the ABC sitcom, The Mayor (with another Broadway to Hollywood guy, Daveed Diggs).
The triple-threat's last musical theater performance was in 2019 when Lea Michele starred as Ariel in the "live-to-film concert experience" of Disney's The Little Mermaid at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, co-starring Harvey Firestein, Cheech Marin, and Peter Gallagher.
As for Lea Michele's upcoming projects? She's currently in her first year of motherhood. (A different type of production entirely!) Lea and her husband, businessman Zandy Reich, welcomed a baby boy in August of 2020. She is currently promoting an album of lullabies for her son, Ever. The album, aptly titled Forever, covers popular hits by a variety of artists ranging from Guns N' Roses to Kacey Musgraves. Forever will be released sometime this fall (an exact release date is yet to be announced).
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Broadway Stars turned Hollywood's leading ladies: Renée Elise Goldsberry
Okay, Broadway fans who know their stuff definitely know the name Renée Elise Goldsberry as the 2015 Original Broadway Cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. Since originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, Renée has jumped from the stage to the film and television world. But before her Hamilton fame, she already had quite the Broadway tenure.
Renée Elise Goldsberry had her television big break starring in 43 episodes of Ally McBeal as a back-up singer from 1997 to 2001. Following her small-screen role, Renée made her Broadway debut as Nala in The Lion King in 2002 and originated the role of Nettie Harris in the 2005 Original Broadway Cast of The Color Purple (which we recently discussed at length here). She also starred as Mimi Marquez in Rent on Broadway in 2008. Three years later, in 2011, Renée received rave reviews in the Broadway production of the David Lindsay-Abaire play Good People starring Frances McDormand (#GOAT).
In 2016, following the smashing success of Hamilton's 2015 debut on Broadway, Renée Elise Goldsberry won a Tony Award for Best Actress in A Musical in the now-infamous 2016 Hamilton Tony's takeover (in which the hip-hop musical earned a historic 16 nominations and took home 11 Tony Awards in 1 evening!). She also won a Grammy, along with her castmates, for Best Musical Theater Album.
Renée Elise Goldsberry continued in the role of Angelica Schuyler on Broadway until September 2016 when she bounced back to Hollywood with a multitude of film and television projects. In 2017, Renée starred in the title role of HBO film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and later that year, she was featured in 2 seasons of the science-fiction series Altered Carbon on Netflix.
A year later in 2018, Renée starred in Eli Roth's fantasy comedy, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, alongside Jack Black and Cate Blanchett. In 2019, she was featured in A24's feature drama, Waves, opposite Sterling K. Brown. Last year, Renée also made multiple appearances on NBC's musical comedy/drama, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.
In December of 2020, Renée Elise Goldsberry reprised her role as Angelica Schuyler in the Disney+ film version of Hamilton, for which she was nominated for a 2021 Emmy for her role. The Emmys are Sunday, September 19th on CBS. If Renée Elise Goldsberry wins the Emmy, she will be one step closer to achieving an EGOT. All she will need is an Oscar!
Renee Elise Goldsberry is one step closer to achieving EGOT status after earning a supporting actress Emmy in the limited series or TV movie category for her performance in #Hamilton. https://t.co/vlXY8zV8sH pic.twitter.com/jnP0dHXRNq
— Variety (@Variety) July 13, 2021
![CDATA[ // ]]> Currently, Renée is starring in the Peacock musical comedy series Girls5Eva, with Busy Philipps and Sara Bareilles. The show premiered in May and a second season is already in the works. Upcoming projects for Renée include the Marvel series She-Hulk coming to Disney+ in 2022. She'll star in the superhero series alongside Tatiana Maslany, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Roth, and Jameela Jamil. Also next year, Renée is set to star in the highly-anticipated feature film What If? directed by Billy Porter in his directorial debut.
Renee Elise Goldsberry to star in Billy Porter's 'What If?' film https://t.co/3ECxZrH14r via @upi
— Karen Butler (@BlueDressButler) July 21, 2021
Broadway Stars turned Hollywood's leading ladies: Sarah Hyland
Here's a Broadway curveball for you, Hollywooders: Modern Family's Sarah Hyland! While Sarah might not have as many Broadway creds to her name as some other members of this list, her 2006 performance as Jacqueline Bouvier in Grey Gardens earns her the right to be included in this list! (So don't try to @ me on technicalities, Broadway trivia fanatics.)
Fast forward 3 years from Sarah Hyland's Broadway debut to the premiere of her smash hit television breakthrough in 2009. ABC's Modern Family, which ran for 11 seasons, became a beloved multi-generational family sitcom. On Modern Family, Sarah starred as Haley Dunphy, the oldest daughter of Claire and Phil Dunphy, played by Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell, and granddaughter of Ed O'Neill's Jay Pritchett. Sarah, along with her castmates, received Screen Actors Guild Awards annually from 2011 through 2014 for Best Ensemble Television Comedy Cast.
During her Modern Family chapter, Sarah continued performing in musical theater events and productions throughout New York and Hollywood including a 3-night limited run of Hair in 2014 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, as well as a cabaret performance of Kerrigan and Lowdermilk's The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown at the Kerrigan-Lowdermilk West Coast Debut in Hollywood in January 2013.
In the past few years, Sarah Hyland has moved further into the music world. In 2016, a cover of The Chainsmokers's "Closer" that she performed with Boyce Avenue went viral and ears perked up all over the internet.
Dream come true singing with these guys! Closer – The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey (Boyce Avenue ft. Sarah Hyland cove… https://t.co/APgamb6sw6
— Sarah Hyland (@Sarah_Hyland) November 13, 2016
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So, Sarah Hyland can sing…like *really* sing: https://t.co/Cjo8lArn5c pic.twitter.com/GVqaK5ujo6
— E! News (@enews) November 13, 2016
![CDATA[ // ]]> In 2019, Sarah gave a blazing performance when she debuted her single, "We Met At A Party" at the Teen Choice Awards with Jordan McGraw, proving herself as an actress-turned-songstress right before our eyes!
Currently, Sarah Hyland is in production on the rom-com feature My Fake Boyfriend with Dylan Sprouse and Keiynan Lonsdale, which is scheduled to be released in 2022. But honestly, we're waiting with bated breath to see if Sarah Hyland returns to her musical theater roots in the near future.
Broadway Stars turned Hollywood's leading ladies: Ariana Grande
Okay, everybody reading this has heard of Ariana Grande, but did you know that before the pop stardom and the Disney fame, Ariana made her debut on Broadway in 2008 when she originated the role of Charlotte in Jason Robert Brown's ensemble teen musical, 13.
Two years later, Ariana quickly ascended to Disney fame for her role as the red-headed, doe-eyed Cat Valentine in Victorious (2010-2013) and Sam & Cat (2013-2014), thus cementing her teen stardom. In August of 2013, she released her debut studio album, Yours Truly, and debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200. Immediately, Ariana Grande went from Disney star to pop star (hooray! every post-millennial teen star's dream come true!).
Since then, Ariana Grande has released an impressive 6 studio albums in 7 years, along with a live album from 2019. For her musical gifts to this world, Ariana has earned 3 Billboard Music Awards, 2 Grammy Awards, and 9 MTV VMAs, along with practically an entire trophy room full of other awards and accolades.
But! Ariana Grande's musical theater roots have never gone completely dormant! Once the final season of Victorious wrapped in 2013, she starred alongside Neil Patrick Harris in a production of the holiday musical A Snow White Christmas. In 2016, Ariana starred in the NBC televised production of Hairspray Live! as Penny Pingleton, alongside Broadway legends like Harvey Fierstein, Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Hudson, and Martin Short.
Now that Ariana has achieved legendary pop stardom, done live televised musicals, and even headlined Coachella, the starlet still has a long career ahead of her. We "couldn't help but wonder"™ if Ariana might make a limited-engagement foray back to Broadway in the future, now that the Great White Way has recently opened up for business once again.
ariana grande does broadway SO WELL.. UGH i love miss ponytail!!!pic.twitter.com/X0VO8eQApN
— jaa rule (@rambeaurogers) June 16, 2021
Broadway Stars turned Hollywood's leading ladies: Anika Noni Rose
Broadway-to-Hollywood's Anika Noni Rose is most widely-known for providing the voice of Tiana in Disney's 2009 animated blockbuster, The Princess and the Frog. But did you know that before her Disney princess fame, Anika Noni Rose achieved the ultimate Broadway success story? (Honestly, it in itself is worth writing a musical about!)
In 2000, at the age of 28, Anika moved to NYC without a job and "with big hopes of making it on Broadway." A mere 3 months later, she got cast as Rusty in the Broadway production of Footloose! Anika climbed to Broadway royalty 4 years after that when she starred in the Tony Kushner musical Caroline, or Change. Her performance as Emmi Thibodeaux earned Anika the 2004 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in A Musical.
Anika Noni Rose transitioned from Broadway to Hollywood stardom in 2006 when she starred as Lorrell Robinson (who was inspired by Motown legend Mary Wilson!) in the blockbuster musical film Dreamgirls, co-starring with Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson, among others.
Happy Birthday, Anika Noni Rose!
The Disney Legend has blessed us with iconic roles in DREAMGIRLS, POWER, and THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. In 2004, she won her first Tony Award for her performance in CAROLINE, OR CHANGE. pic.twitter.com/ssr0sxynS2
— black boy bulletin (@blkboybulletin) September 6, 2021
![CDATA[ // ]]> Anika Noni Rose returned to Broadway in 2008 starring as Maggie in the Broadway revival production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on A Hot Tin Roof opposite Terrence Howard and James Earl Jones.
Her most widely-known role as Princess Tiana came the following year with Disney's release of The Princess and the Frog in December of 2009. Needless to say, The Princess and the Frog was a box office blockbuster, earning $271 million in box offices worldwide. The film also has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 85%. Anika Noni Rose was lauded by critics and viewers alike for playing the first Black Disney princess and in 2011, she won the first ever Disney Legend Award.
After Princess and the Frog, Anika Noni Rose continued to excel in Hollywood, appearing in over a dozen movies in the following 10 years. However, she stayed loyal to Broadway. In 2011, Anika featured in a filmed concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Company with the New York Philharmonic, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Christina Hendricks.
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— moved 📌 (@xiumyeri) August 14, 2017
In 2013, Anika Noni Rose originated the role of Angelica Schuyler in the first workshop production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton at Vassar College in 2013. However, she was unable to continue with the show upon its move to The Public Theater in 2015 because she had accepted the role of Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival production of A Raisin In The Sun starring Denzel Washington. Anika Noni Rose was nominated for her second Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Keep your eyes peeled for Anika Noni Rose in the upcoming Netflix dramedy series Maid starring Margaret Qualley and Margaret's real-life mother, Andie MacDowell. The 10-episode series is executive produced by Margot Robbie and will be released on Netflix on October 1st. Check out the trailer below, it's definitely on our list of new shows to binge this fall.
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Dear Editors,
Re: "Queen's shouldn't pay for Aberdeen" (Journal, Oct. 19, 2007)
First, I agree with Eddie Ho's conclusion that the administration of this university is not responsible for policing costs associated with the Aberdeen Street party. However, I take issue with most of the rest of his assertions. If he thinks it is a fact that Queen's attracts "the top students and researchers from around the world," I fear he has swallowed a little too much of the Frosh Week Kool-Aid. Queen's is a great university, but it's a large-ish fish in a pretty small pond. He goes on to suggest that paying for the policing, an amount that reflects less than 0.2 per cent of Queen's annual operating budget, would turn this institution into a mediocre school. Further, he reckons that the average university employee costs the school around $45,000 annually, meaning either he's grossly underestimating the salary and benefits of Queen's employees, or this institution isn't providing a living wage to those it employs.
To get to the point, the administration of this university has, it seems to me, done a fair amount to discourage the Aberdeen Street party and should be absolved from the costs of policing it. Those responsible for the party and therefore the cost are, of course, the students of this university, past and present. Whether or not a majority of this year's participants were Queen's students is hardly relevant: no students, no Homecoming, no party. Although there is no legal obligation on the part of the AMS and the SGPS to pay for the policing, I think that the moral and ethical obligation is clear. I call on these two organizations to support a mandatory student "activity" fee to cover the bill, which should come to something like $20 per student. While some might argue against a fee on the basis that students would then feel entitled to get their "money's worth" next year and poison the relationship between students and the community, I would suggest that the respect accorded the Kingston community by the majority of partygoers is not something that could be easily reduced further.
Alan Brown
Ph.D. candidate, Biology
Professors, not technology, at fault for inadequate education
Re: "Technology diluting classroom learning" (Journal, Oct. 19, 2007)
Dean Carson's letter on Ms. Jemison's editorial has failed to mention a significant point: "... it seems that rather than being used to supplement course material, [technology is] being used as a replacement for actual teaching."
I don't think it's controversial to claim that technology has its place in the classroom if a professor can use it effectively. Good teachers are effective without technology, and using technology does not indicate an incapable professor.
However, using remote-control clickers in class to ensure "active learning" should not reflect poorly on technology; instead, this is a signal of a professor who can neither use technology effectively nor engage his or her students.
Rather than placing the blame of the ongoing decline of undergraduate education at Queen's squarely on the shoulders of technology, Carson should also be critical of the faculty members who use technology as a replacement for actual teaching.
Before I'm attacked by academics at Queen's, I would like to add that there is a further source of the decline in undergraduate education: the students. Though we are the ones paying the professors' salaries, we are equally responsible for our own education. Indeed, I will not claim to have been interested (or awake) for all my undergraduate classes. Disinterested students beget disenchanted professors. These professors exacerbate the problem. This vicious cycle is the source of what has undermined the personal connections that once made university classes special places to be.
Perhaps the challenge should be to both students and faculty to take a more active interest in learning and teaching.
Brennan Leong
ArtSci '07
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Recycling or reusing products is one of the simplest ways to help the environment. For most of us, the habit of recycling is little more than an everyday chore. But for others, finding creative ways to reuse old products is nothing short of an art form. Upcycling is a form of recycling in which old items are used to create something even better. Several artists along the North Shore create upcycled art, and their work shows how artwork can be a part of the effort to go green.
Brandon Thompson from Duluth is one such artist. A mechanic by trade, Thompson creates scrap metal art from extra parts in his shop. A spare piece might spark an idea for a sculpture, and he gets to work seeing what he can make out of it. By using old pieces for his sculptures, Thompson breathes new life into materials that would otherwise be considered junk.
Thompson has made a wide array of scrap-metal art, from lamps and clocks to figurines and sculptures. He's also used a wide variety of materials for his art, from gears and old gauges to chainsaw engines. The materials he uses gives his work a steampunk style, though he's done many different kinds of sculptures.
While he doesn't run an official shop for his art, Thompson attends several art festivals every year, where people find out about his work. And as word has spread about his art, other mechanics have offered old pieces for him to use.
With a growing movement toward sustainable and locally made products, upcycled art continues to draw intrigue from people looking to make environmentally conscious purchases. It can also be a way for a community to work together.
Jill Terrill is the owner of Joy and Company, a shop in Grand Marais that sells a wide variety of upcycled art, some of which she creates herself.
A walk through Joy and Company reflects Terrill's love for upcycled art: one can find art made of old records, wind chimes created from silverware, candle holders made from old wine barrels, and even a coffee table that was once an incubator. The building itself has undergone transformation, from a garage where cars were serviced to the art shop it is today.
A neat aspect of upcycled art is how it can represent the different businesses and artists in a single community. Some artists at Joy and Company use materials from the Cook County Recycling Center for their art, and Terrill has made ornaments out of woodworking scraps from Knotty Dawgs Woodworking in Grand Portage. She's also received sample pieces from 1010 Interiors in Grand Marais and has made them into signs and trivets so they wouldn't end up in a dumpster. By using materials that a local business would otherwise throw out, artists can help a community's sustainability efforts.
One artist who uses materials from local businesses is Tofte fiber artist Julie Arthur. Many of her projects utilize old materials, and she finds creative ways to turn old fabric into new products.
Arthur makes a habit out of looking for materials that can be reused instead of buying new ones. Some of her rugs are made from old blue jeans, and she's even hoping to make rugs from a collection of old tents, as tent material is very durable and could be used for outdoor or camping rugs.
One of the main materials Julie Arthur uses for her rugs are hotel bed sheets and towels.
Once Arthur gets the linens, she colors them with a method called snow dyeing. The snow dyeing process starts with laying out the warp, or the long threads of material, on a screen. She then covers the screen with snow and sprinkles the snow with dye. As the snow melts, the color comes out and blends to make different colors in the fabric.
To not waste any dye, she even reuses some of it by collecting the dye water after the snow has melted, using the hotel bed sheets to soak it up, and then using the dyed sheets as filler.
There are limitless options for using old materials to create new art. As these artists show, building a sustainable life doesn't have to be a chore.


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Watch Sixx: A.M.'s Video for New Single 'Gotta Get It Right'
Jeff Giles Published: August 6, 2014
A day after premiering the stream of their new single 'Gotta Get It Right,' Sixx: A.M. have debuted the song's official video.
Director Paul Brown, whose previous credits include videos for Meat Loaf and Paul Simon as well as Motley Crue and Sixx: A.M., uses the song's lyrics, about a relationship in crisis, as the backdrop for the story of two selfie-spewing lovebirds who use social media to try and pretend they're having a great time even after their breakup, all while the band plays on.
With its stomping beat, soaring chorus, and radio-friendly production, 'Gotta Get It Right' might surprise a few fans, which suits Sixx: A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx just fine -- and he says the rest of the group's upcoming album, 'Modern Vintage,' promises more of the same. "I think what's different about this record is we've opened up musically," he argued in a promotional video for the LP. "We've covered a lot more ground, and it was something that we actually put a lot of thought into. We looked at a lot of different genres of music as influences -- music that we all grew up with, and even modern music -- and we kinda took all of it and just molded it into this album."
"There are moments on the record that literally sound like they were writen and recorded in, say, the late '60s, early '70s, and then there's moments on the record that sound like they were recorded in a time that hasn't even happened yet," added singer James Michael. "So sonically speaking, it's a real journey, and I think that the title, 'Modern Vintage,' really describes that."
As for 'Gotta Get It Right' in particular, Michael says it's one of his favorite songs on the album, and argues that its combination of various elements makes it a fitting choice for the record's first single. "'Gotta Get It Right' was one of the last songs we wrote for this record and it really surprised all of us," he recalled. "I remember we just sat down and strummed a couple of chords; I guess I started singing this melody line to it that was like nothing else we had on the record. Nikki immediately responded, and DJ [Ashba]-- they both were just like, 'We gotta go there. I don't know where this is leading us, but we gotta go there."
'Modern Vintage' is due in stores on Oct. 7.
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Fifty years ago, a few dozen women gathered in a basement in Washington, D.C., to make history: they convened the first meeting of the National Organization for Women. In a photo of that day in 1966, Muriel Fox '48 is a few seats away from Betty Friedan, NOW's president, befitting her role as Friedan's chief lieutenant and the central part she would play in many of the most critical battles of the women's rights movement.
After two years at Rollins College in Florida, Fox transferred to Barnard because, she says, "I wanted the New York City experience." She fed her interest in journalism by serving as news editor at WKCR, Columbia's radio station.
In 1963, she invited Friedan to speak about her new book, The Feminine Mystique , to an organization for women in the media. A few years later, Friedan asked Fox to help launch NOW. Fox became operations director, orchestrating a publicity effort that introduced the modern women's movement to the world.
Fox also helped organize NOW's strike at the Plaza Hotel's Oak Room in 1969, during which women descended on the restaurant demanding service. They wore fur coats to "look as if we belonged," says Fox, who had tried to have lunch there and was told they didn't allow women.
She usually recused herself when clients of her firm became involved in disputes with NOW, but she jumped in to broker a compromise when NOW threatened a boycott over the lack of female role models on Sesame Street , which was a client of Fox's firm. Sesame Street agreed to make changes, Fox recalls.
Though Fox was a major player in many of NOW's seminal battles, she is not as well known as other feminists because she stayed out of the limelight to protect her career. "I stayed in the background," she says. "I wrote a lot of letters that Betty signed." Even as a behind-the-scenes player, Fox knew working with NOW could create situations that might put her job at risk, "but I thought I'd do it anyway because it was so important," she says.
Today, Fox remains as energetic as ever. She lives at the Kendal on Hudson retirement community near Tarrytown, N.Y., where she served on the residents council and started a ping pong club. She is chair of the board of Veteran Feminists of America, which documents the achievements of the women's movement. And she has passed on her penchant for activism: a grandson is a member of his college's women's rights club and a granddaughter is a labor union organizer.


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Q: How to disable Play! modules tests that get in the way when running an app in test mode? I've just started playing with Play! framework, and stumbled on such problem: modules that were added as dependencies fail to compile when running the application in the test mode.
The pattern of the error repeated 2/2 times up to now. A referenced class belonging to the failed test suite cannot be resolved to a type.
My dependencies.yml file looks like this:
require:
 - play 1.2
 - secure
 - crud
 - play -> cobertura 2.1
 - play -> paginate head
 - play -> messages 1.0
 - play -> i18ntools 1.0.1
#     - play -> scaffold head

As you can see I've already disabled the scaffold module, but the next in the line is paginate. The error appearing right after the first request is the following:
Compilation error
The file {module:paginate-head}/test/play/modules/paginate/MappedPaginatorTest.java could not be compiled. Error raised is : MockModel cannot be resolved to a type

In {module:paginate-head}/test/play/modules/paginate/MappedPaginatorTest.java (around line 16)

12:
13: public class MappedPaginatorTest {
14:     @Test
15:     public void testPaginateByKey() {
16:         Map<String, MockModel> models = new HashMap<String, MockModel>();
17:         List<String> keys = new ArrayList<String>();
18:

The MockModel class is placed in the same directory as MappedPaginatorTest. (The same situation was with the scaffold module.)
I use Eclipse to run the app in both modes, but the same error appears when running with play test from the commandline.
I don't insist on fixing the modules to enable their tests. But if it is the only way I can live with that.

A: I've found a quick hack that enabled me to disable the tests: just rename or delete the test subdirectory from the offending modules directory (play-1.2/modules/paginate-head in my case).
I'm leaving the question unresolved, though, to leave space for resolving it properly: by fixing the modules issue, as omitting the tests from the modules can also cause problems in general.

A: Well, one answer would be to post this question on Stack Overflow where the author of paginate and scaffold might stumble upon it.  Since that author happens to be me, the modules have been updated.  It appears that not all the class files were properly exported when the module distributable was built.

A: This must be a play 1.1 to 2.1 migration issue. Not all play modules migrated to play 2.1 yet. Deleting test directory can resolve the problem but be very careful doing this becuse the behaviour of the module can be different in test mode in 2.1.
We had same problem with guice 1.1.1 module and even if we deleted the guice test directory some of our test cases failed.
We decided to migrate back to 1.1 and wait a few weeks/months for the module updates.

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Kids Need Free Time to be Happy
Today's children are often "scheduled" to the point where many fear they become stressed out. Some new research suggests that these worries may be justified.
Polling firm Harris set out to find the right mix of scheduled and free time needed by developing young minds, by surveying 2,241 adults.
According to Harris, parents of K-12 students reported that their kids had a roughly 2:1 ratio of scheduled to free/leisure time on average.
Their children spent an average of 38.4 hours per week on scheduled activities during the school year (including school time, extra-curricular school activities and other scheduled commitments). At the same time, they had an average of 19.1 hours of free time.
Those were the averages discovered; some kids enjoyed a greater degree of free time, while others were even more scheduled.
Harris said that parents whose children have more free time in a typical week are more likely to say that their children are happy and imaginative.
While a full 91% of parents surveyed said it was important that their child be exposed to a broad variety of experiences, an almost-equally impressive number (88%) said it was important that their child has enough free time to do things they want to do.
Parents whose children have 15 or more hours per week of combined extracurricular and other "scheduled" time are more likely to worry that their child is "over-programmed," Harris found.
So, does this mean that less programmed children are happier? Not necessarily: these findings tracked the perceptions of parents, so they were not really an objective measure of how happy the children actually were.
But the findings do sound a cautionary note to parents about over-scheduling their kids. Sometimes, kids just need to be kids.


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DOJ Finds Pattern of Discrimination by Ferguson Police...Go Figure
Washington (CNN) A Justice Department civil rights investigation has concluded that the Ferguson Police Department and the city's municipal court engaged in a "pattern and practice" of discrimination against African-Americans, targeting them disproportionately for traffic stops, use of force, and jail sentences, according to a U.S. law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.
The probe is the result of an investigation ordered by Attorney General Eric Holder after the police shooting that killed Michael Brown last summer.
Among the findings, reviewed by CNN: from 2012 to 2014, 85% of people subject to vehicle stops by Ferguson police were African-American; 90% of those who received citations were black; and 93% of people arrested were black. This while 67% of the Ferguson population is black.
In 88% of the cases in which the Ferguson police reported using force, it was against African-Americans. During the period 2012-2014 black drivers were twice as likely as white drivers to be searched during traffic stops, but 26% less likely to be found in possession of contraband.
Blacks were disproportionately more likely to be cited for minor infractions: 95% of tickets for "manner of walking in roadway," essentially jaywalking, were against African-Americans. Also, 94% of all "failure to comply" charges were filed against black people.
The findings in the investigation are expected to be made public as soon as Wednesday, and the Justice Department is expected to pursue a court-supervised consent decree that requires the city of Ferguson to make changes to its police and courts.
According to the findings, reviewed by CNN, African-Americans were 68% less likely to have their cases dismissed by a Ferguson municipal judge, and were overwhelmingly more likely to be arrested during traffic stops solely for an outstanding warrant by the Ferguson courts.
The investigators found evidence of racist jokes being sent around by Ferguson police and court officials. One November 2008 email read in part that President Barack Obama wouldn't likely be President for long because "what black man holds a steady job for four years."
Another jokes that made the rounds on Ferguson government email in May 2011 said: "An African American woman in New Orleans was admitted into the hospital for a pregnancy termination. Two weeks later she received a check for $3,000. She phoned the hospital to ask who it was from. The hospital said: 'Crimestoppers.'"
Ferguson officials said in a statement that they were still reviewing the findings, and would make a statement on Wednesday.
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A woman in Dubai who reportedly "holds a high position in an international investments company" lent 5 million dirhams ($1.3 million) to her colleague after she was convinced he loved her.
A Dubai court was successful in proving the woman lent him 4.5 million dirhams out of the amount she claimed.
The woman had lent her colleague the huge money after she was convinced of his love and hoped for marriage, according to local news site Emarat al-Youm.
She lent him the money in installments and in different ways over two years, but instead of paying his debt, he married her other colleague.
The payment has been settled between the parties, but the amounts that weren't documented or paid in cash could not be proven entitled to the woman, hence why the final settlement was 4.5 million dirhams, according to Salem al-Qaiwani, general manager of the Expertise and Disputes Settlement Department in Dubai.
The man was supposed to pay back his debt when "he was in a better financial condition", but he did not, and she wasn't able to prove her relationship with the defendant, Qaiwani told local media.
He added: "What complicated the case is that there were no official documents or records of the payments, hence we had to resort to accepting whatever documents the two parties were able to submit".
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Gochugaru (고추가루) are Korean red pepper flakes that are another very common ingredient used widely across many Korean recipes to add spiciness to the dish. As with most things there are different types of Gochugaru available ranging from mild to hot and from fine to course.
The type of Gochugaru used across most of my recipes is the spicy & coarse type (pictured above).
Although not found in UK supermarkets (as far as I know!) you are almost certain to find this stocked in most Korean/Chinese supermarkets within the UK.
It can be stored in a cool dry cupboard before opening and then in the freezer once opened.


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All About Victoza: An Interview with Novo Nordisk's Dr. Alan Moses
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July 26, 2010 by Karmel Allison
Among the interesting studies announced at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions 2010 was a head-to-head comparison of two new incretin-based drugs for type 2 diabetics. The full, one-year data presented at the meeting showed that Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 analog Victoza outperformed Merck & Co's DPP-4 inhibitor Januvia. These findings were consistent with the 26-week results of this trial which were featured earlier this year in The Lancet.
Given these promising results, I was pleased to be able to ask Dr. Alan Moses, Novo Nordisk's Chief Medical Officer, a few questions about Victoza and its use in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
What are incretins?
Incretins are natural hormones made by special cells in the intestine that enhance insulin secretion in response to glucose. Incretin-based therapies work on the beta cell of the pancreas to increase insulin secretion which, in turn, lowers blood sugar. There are two major classes of incretin-based diabetes therapies are GLP-1 agonists like Victoza®, and DPP-4 inhibitors.
How does an incretin-based diabetes treatment differ from other treatments for type 2 diabetes?
Because incretin-based treatments target the beta cell and enhance the release of insulin based on the amount of glucose in the blood, they have some potential advantages over other currently available treatments.
First, they address one of the underlying problems of type 2 diabetes by directly working on the beta cell. Because of this, drugs like Victoza® have a major ability to lower glucose concentrations.
Second, since their action depends on the level of glucose in the blood, they have a very low risk of causing low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) which distinguishes them from some other commonly used diabetes medications.
Third, and unlike most other diabetes medications, they do not increase weight. And Victoza actually promotes weight loss.
What symptoms would suggest the use of incretin-based treatment? Is it (or could it be) used as a first line treatment?
Consensus statements from the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the American College of Endocrinology recognized GLP-1 analogs as an effective add-on treatment for patients who are not responding to metformin and lifestyle changes alone. That is, when blood sugar remains high for patients taking metformin, Victoza® or other GLP-1 analogs are appropriate choices for treatment. Victoza is not currently recommended for first line treatment.
What is a GLP-1 analog?
GLP-1 is a naturally occurring body hormone that helps to maintain normal blood sugar levels.Unfortunately, patients with type 2 diabetes have defects in their GLP-1 system that contribute to inadequate insulin release that, in turn, result in increased glucose levels. Human GLP-1 is broken down very quickly by the body and cannot be used as an effective medication.GLP-1 analogs, like Victoza®, mimic the action of naturally-occurring GLP-1 in the body and work to help the pancreas produce more insulin in response to the presence of elevated blood sugar. Victoza® lasts for more than 24 hours and has a potent effect in reducing elevated glucose levels, but with a very low risk of hypoglycemia.
How does Victoza compare with the other GLP-1 analog, exenatide?
Victoza® differs from exenatide or Byetta in a number of ways. Victoza can be administered once a day, at any time of day and not related to meals while exenatide should be administered twice a day and before each of the two major meals. Besides convenience, a recent study published in the journal Lancet in conjunction with the 2009 American Diabetes Association meeting (6/8/09) demonstrated that Victoza produced a greater decrease in fasting blood glucose and overall glucose levels as measured by hemoglobin A1c than exenatide. It also was associated with a lower rate of low blood glucose levels. Both drugs promoted weight loss.
There appears to be some confusion about whether Victoza is a weight-loss drug– the marketing material boasts that Victoza has the "added benefit of weight loss," but footnotes that with "Victoza is not a weight loss product." Similarly, Martin Jernigan of Novo Nordisk made the curious statement at the Victoza launch that Victoza is "really about getting A1c under control, so patients can also get the benefit of weight loss." Is Victoza a weight loss drug? If so, in what way does it aid weight loss? If not, how do patients get the "benefit of weight loss" from Victoza?
Victoza® is approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. In addition, to lowering blood sugar, in clinical trials, type 2 diabetes patients treated with Victoza also demonstrated weight loss superior to comparator agents including, sulfonyreas, TZDs and insulin. So some type 2 diabetes patients taking Victoza may also get the added benefit of weight loss – an important factor since 85% of people with type 2 diabetes are also overweight or obese. However, Victoza was approved for use as type 2 diabetes treatment because of its substantial effects to lower HbA1c– this was the primary basis for its approval. The studies that led to the FDA approval of Victoza for diabetes were not designed to prove that the drug produced weight loss, although weight loss was seen in the majority of those who took the drug. It is, however, important to note that because of the weight loss benefits we've seen with Victoza patients, liraglutide (the active molecule in Victoza) is currently in Phase III development for the treatment of obesity in non-diabetic patients.
For the studies that indicated patients lost weight as a result of taking Victoza, how long were patients followed? Was the weight loss persistent for the course of the study and any follow-ups, or did patients regain weight over time?
Some individuals with diabetes who were treated with Victoza in the clinical trial program were followed for up to two years. During that time, they lost the majority of weight within the first 12 weeks, but maintained weight loss for the duration of their treatment. There was no evidence of substantial weight regain during continued treatment with Victoza.
What about Victoza as a weight loss drug in non-diabetics? Are there studies planned for that?
Yes. Victoza® is currently in Phase III development for the treatment of obesity in individuals without diabetes, but these studies will take several years to complete.
What were the main side effects of Victoza? Did many people drop out of the study because of them?
The most common adverse reactions reported in patients treated with Victoza® are headache, nausea, diarrhea, and anti-liraglutide antibody formation. Immunogenicity-related events, including urticaria, were more common among Victoza-treated patients than among comparator-treated patients in clinical trials. The nausea that occurs with Victoza is relatively mild in intensity and disappears quite rapidly after starting treatment.
Is the fact that this is an injection a hindrance for patients?
No one likes to take injections but Victoza® is easy to administer because it comes in a prefilled disposable pen-like device with a very small needle attached. The dose can be adjusted on the device by dialing it up or down and the injection is easy and virtually painless to administer. Since Victoza can be administered any time of day at the convenience of the patient, it does not have to interfere with activities of daily living making it somewhat easier to use.
Can Victoza be used to treat type 1 diabetics? Can it be used in patients taking insulin?
Victoza® is not indicated for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Rather, it is approved only for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Your safety information states that Victoza has been found to cause thyroid tumors in some rats and mice and that it is unknown whether this could be the case in humans as well. What are the benefits of Victoza that outweigh such a potentially heavy risk?
While Victoza® does carry a boxed warning about its effects on a very specific kind of cell in the thyroid gland of rats and mice, there has been no evidence to date that Victoza causes the same problem in humans. Novo Nordisk conducted extensive experiments to see if Victoza had any effect in humans on a marker of thyroid C-cell disease known as calcitonin. In nearly 4,000 individuals treated with Victoza, many for up to two years, there was no evidence that Victoza produced a consistent duration-dependent or dose-dependent increase in this marker. Thus, at this time, although we cannot rule out an effect in humans, we have no evidence to suggest that an effect occurs. We are confident that the benefit/risk profile of Victoza favors its use in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The animal findings mean that Victoza is contraindicated in people who have a history of thyroid C-cell tumors, a very rare condition.
The drug warnings for Victoza note that in clinical trials, at least 8.6% of patients treated with Victoza developed anti-liraglutide antibodies (in other words, anti-Victoza antibodies). More concerning still, in the 52-week trial, 6.9% of patients treated with Victoza also developed antibodies against native GLP-1. Is there a risk that a type 2 diabetic patient treated with synthetic incretins will develop a previously absent autoimmune reaction to native peptides like GLP-1, further impairing insulin production and pancreatic performance?
Compared to the other GLP-1 agonist currently available, Victoza® produces a low rate of antibodies and there is no clear evidence that these antibodies affect the action of Victoza in controlling blood glucose. We have no evidence that blood glucose worsens in people taking Victoza which might happen if strong antibodies against native GLP-1 were to form.
Given the risk seen in these studies of developing antibodies against both native and analog GLP-1, are there any symptoms or warning signs that patients taking Victoza should look out for that would indicate they were developing an autoimmune reaction to the drug?
There is no evidence at this time to suggest that patients taking Victoza have experienced an "autoimmune reaction to the drug."
Alan C. Moses, MD is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has subspecialty certification in Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. In April 2004, Dr. Moses joined Novo Nordisk, Inc as Associate Vice President for Clinical Research and Medical Affairs – Endocrinology and in 2007 was named Chief Medical Officer, North America. In January of 2008, he was named Corporate Vice President and Global Chief Medical Officer. In this role, he is involved in the full spectrum of the diabetes focus of Novo Nordisk from drug discovery, through drug development, brand messaging, and the implications of diabetes for the company and for patients, healthcare professionals and for healthcare systems.
He has written over 100 papers and articles on the treatment of diabetes, is an Editor of the Fourteenth edition of Joslin's Diabetes Mellitus, and has been recognized both locally and nationally for clinical care in diabetes and for his research in diabetes and growth factors.
Karmel Allison
Karmel was born in Southern California, diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of nine, and educated at UC Berkeley. Karmel now lives in San Diego with her husband, where she is loving the sunshine, working in computational biology at the University of California, San Diego, and learning to use the active voice when talking about her diabetes.
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Coco Kelly
How do I find a physician who is familiar with and prescribes Victoza?
So far, the specialists I have spoken to, don't even know the name or drug classification. Please Help. I have known many people who have had success using this drug
hello, I am the same peson I wrote to you few days ago… I am still on my 0.6 Victoza dosage…I have faced constipation as a side effect, now after 6 days of use… still hope to loose some weight..I am a public figure, & face a lot of tension & stress over the nice looking matter….I am a little overweight & struggle continuously to keep that..by being strict with my diet sometime & binging some other time…Please I need your reply urgently…Does Victoza with dosage help me yes or no???? if not, what do you suggest please…. Thank you… Read more »
sorry I made a mistake in typing. I wanted to ask if Victoza can help in my case??
I am on Victoza since 4 days only. I am not diabetic but will to loose weight…I am a binge eater can Victoza help me??? I start with 0.6 and have nearly 0 side effect…I didn't loose any weight till now, and like to ask if Victoza can helo in my case.
Michael Wargacki
Michelle, my doctor put me on Victoza as a trial because my diabetes is out of control. I started with .3 and worked my way up to the full 1.8 dosage. All i have to say is incredible. I have been struggling for 26 years to keep my sugars stable but haven't had any luck. My A1C prior to starting treatment was 8.5 and I was taking about 65 to 70 units of novolog a day. I followed up with my doctor in March, lost 16 lbs, my avg bloog reading was 140 and my A1C dropped to 7.6 in just… Read more »
Michelle Donaghey
My husband was given a sample of Victoza and used it one day until we learned it was no tested with patients currently on insulin. I would like to know about the safety of the use of this drug along with insulin and if there are any patients who are using this drug safely with their insulin- he is now taking 85 units Lantus along with 2000 mg metformin and 10 glipicide. Please respond asap. Thank you.
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Hackers seek holes in B.C. Hydro power grid, auditor says
System meets standards, but local outages still a concern
B.C. Hydro's vast electrical grid is considered by international security agencies as part of North America's "critical infrastructure," protected against cyberattacks as well as vandalism and terrorism.
A new report by B.C.'s Auditor General finds B.C. Hydro is meeting security standards to prevent the nightmare scenario, a cyberattack that could trigger blackouts across the interconnected continental power grid. But smaller-scale disruptions are still possible and should be addressed, Auditor General Carl Bellringer says.
The audit notes that energy infrastructure is one of the most cyberattacked of all critical infrastructure world-wide.
B.C. Hydro "needs to expand its detection efforts because the standards focus on ensuring reliable operation of the power system as a whole, but don't cover all components of the system," Bellringer wrote. "Any components that don't fall under the mandatory standards may be vulnerable to cybersecurity threats and should be monitored."
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B.C. Hydro supplies electricity to 95 per cent of B.C. and is essential for the economy, from homes to hospitals to industry. The audit recommends additional detection mechanisms to monitor the rest of the system.
B.C. Hydro responded that it has invested more than $30 million over two years to its cyber and physical security programs, which are kept confidential. The utility accepts the recommendation to extend its monitoring, using a "risk-based approach to prioritize mitigation measures where needed."
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A team of 5 gymnasts from the Stamford Endowed Schools participated in this year's Girls Independent Schools National Under 9 Championships. The competition was of a very high standard with 15 schools taking part at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls.
The gymnasts competed different routines on floor and vault as well as a group routine, all of which contributed to the overall team score. The SES team finished a very creditable 8th place as a team but after an almost perfect performance of their Group Routine, they were delighted to be awarded 3rd place. They received bronze medals and a 3rd place trophy. This position was very much deserved.
Rachel Harte (8) performed particularly well individually to finish in 5th place out of 75 gymnasts. She received 5th place medal and it was a delight as she stood on the podium as part of the top 6 gymnasts.


I was having a bad day. Yes, it's true. I know I research, write and speak about Positive Psychology, but I was having a bad day. I admit it. I was sitting in my office by myself, and I wasn't feeling good.
Here's my first question: Where do we look when we're feeling bad? Most of us look down. And that's what I was doing in my office; I was looking down at my shoes.
At that moment I got it. The stickers my little girls had put on my shoes were a positive trigger for me.
So here's my second question: Where do we look when we're feeling good? We look up! And that's what I did in my office; I looked up and my day was reset. I had a second chance to make my day a good and productive one.
Here's my takeaway. If we were being chased by a bear, we should feel plenty of negative emotion! As my grandmother used to say, "Run like the dickens!" Otherwise, positive emotions help us think better, they help us problem-solve, and they help us build good relationships with others. People prefer to be around curious and creative people more than they do people who are always running away from bears! When I'm experiencing positive emotion, I know I do better work, I'm a better leader, I'm a better husband, and I'm a much better Dad to two little girls who like stickers.
The final question is, "What are your positive triggers?" What makes you smile? What makes you laugh? What puts you in a creative mood? What triggers your passion, excitement, and hope? For some of us it's looking at pictures of our loved ones. Some of us listen to a favorite song. Others go for a quick walk, or do a little dance. Some read a short, funny story. Others remind themselves of their goals. Now, take a moment to think about the things that trigger your positive emotion.
Think of the best entertainers, athletes, and teams. They all perform particular rituals to get them focused on their best selves; they all do things that trigger their positive emotion.
Consider it this way. When you enter a dark room, what do you do? You reach for the light switch. You flip it, and just like that you have light.
So what's your light switch? What positive triggers will help you look up when you're feeling down?
David J. Pollay is an expert in the cutting-edge field of Positive Psychology. He holds a Master's Degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an Economics Degree from Yale University. A former leader at Yahoo!, MasterCard, Global Payments, and AIESEC, he now runs The Momentum Project. Email David your thoughts and stories at david@themomentumproject.com, or call 561.265.1165.
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