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Itsy Bitsy Spider
Rosie, the tarantula, is used in Dean Acheson's arachnophobia pilot project supported by CTRI.
Arachnophobia Study Funded by CTRI
September 26, 2013 - Her name is Rosie. She is a frightful sight, sending shivers of fear through most humans who see her. For some, that fear is debilitating.
Rosie is a "large hairy Chilean rose-haired tarantula," said Dean Acheson, an assistant professor at UC San Diego. Acheson is using Rosie in a Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) pilot project to study if the drug oxytocin can strengthen the outcome of exposure therapy for patients with arachnophobia – the fear of spiders. If the pilot project gleans promising results, Acheson plans to conduct larger studies with more complex conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder.
"Exposure therapy uses fear extinction mechanisms," Acheson said. The patient, he explained, is gradually exposed to the object of their fear until they become comfortable with the object.
In the pilot project, oxytocin – called the "trust hormone" because it promotes social and emotional bonding – is combined with exposure therapy. "We have recently found that oxytocin, a mammalian peptide that modulates anxiety and cognition, may also facilitate fear extinction in humans," Acheson said.
Presently underway, the pilot project includes 24 patients with arachnophobia in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to assess how oxytocin may enhance exposure treatment. Four patients are presently participating in the study, with enrollment ongoing for the remaining 20 subjects. Acheson expects to conclude the study in March, 2014.
The study includes four sessions, beginning with a 45-minute initial assessment. During the treatment session one week later, the study patient receives oxytocin (or a placebo) through nasal spray, followed by 90 minutes of exposure therapy. The third and fourth sessions take place one week and four weeks after the treatment session. During each of those, the patient repeats the initial assessment with the addition of some questionnaires to assess patient experience of the treatment.
Acheson described the structured hierarchy of the treatment. "We start with a glossy print of a tarantula and wait until the patient's anxiety reduces. Next the patient holds the photo, until he or she is comfortable," he said. This is followed by the patient seeing the spider nine feet away in closed glass cage with a mesh top. Once comfortable, the patient moves to within five feet of the spider and eventually, if possible, to the spider.
Acheson said combining psychotherapy with pharmacotherapy "synergistically" is a newer way of looking at how to treat anxiety-related disorders. "With recent knowledge regarding the molecular processes and neurocircuitry involved fear extinction gained form basic neuroscience, the time seems ripe to pair these together," he said. "We hope that this paradigm can provide the next leap forward in increasing psychotherapy efficacy." The spider study is expected to demonstrate the effect of the drug on the mechanism of action underlying exposure-based psychotherapy. Essentially, does the drug make the therapy more durable? Do patients tested have a stronger memory of fear extinction? Most people are somewhat afraid of spiders, but for arachnophobia patients, that fear is much more debilitating. "Fear of spiders is universal. It is hard-wired," said Acheson, noting it likely had a purpose as a survival instinct in the evolutionary process. An image of a spider – flashed in a microsecond and imbedded within a series of benign images – will cause activation of the amygdala, a central component of the brain's fear network.
UC San Diego Assistant Professor Dean Acheson is conducting an arachnophobia pilot project supported by CTRI. Here he is with Rosie, the tarantula, and Assistant Mary Kamenski in the spider room at UC San Diego.
The patients Acheson is trying to help are those whose fear of spiders noticeably restricts their activities and quality of life. For instance, they won't go on camping trips because there are spiders in the woods or to a utility closet because it's in a basement or to their child's outdoor sports activities.
The CTRI pilot project program, which funds projects for clinical researchers early in their careers, supports Acheson in his goal, which is ultimately to help patients improve their lives. "When a patient comes to my office and is not functioning because of an obsession or a phobia, goes through exposure therapy, and, a few months later, is living a fuller life, it gives meaning to my research," Acheson said. "It is so rewarding. You understand where your research is going and why. The spider study helps to take that research to the next level, moving from basic science to clinical application."
"The pilot project program at CTRI was created to encourage young investigators to conduct clinical trials and other translational research early in their careers. We look forward to seeing the findings from Dr. Acheson's clinical trial," said Murray Stein, MD, MPH, Pilot Projects Director at the UC San Diego CTRI.
The CTRI pilot project award for the spider study is $25,000 for one year, covering the expense of the spider and supplies, pharmacy start-up costs, the drug, compensation for the subjects, and the salary for Acheson's assistant, Mary Kamenski. The exposure therapy takes place in the spider testing room at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest.
And Rosie? Well, she has the life, according to Acheson. She hangs out in a comfortable home with a live cricket that, when she is hungry, will be dinner. Click here for more information about the CTRI pilot project. If you are interested in enrolling in the spider study, contact Mary Kamenski at (619) 543-3582.
Written by Patti Wieser
About UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute:
UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI) is part of a national Clinical and Translational Science Award consortium, led by the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Science. Established in 2010, ACTRI provides infrastructure and support for basic, translational and clinical research throughout the San Diego region to bring discoveries from the laboratory to the bedside, and facilitates training and education of the next generation of researchers. ACTRI carries out its activities in collaboration with institutional and corporate partners and currently has more than 1,500 members.
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Our pastry chefs, technicians, packaging experts and quality specialists work every day to preserve our recipes and produce a large number of top-quality biscuits in packaging that ensures they reach you in perfect condition.
Creation of the Loc Maria Biscuits Group by Chairman Christian Tacquard.
Its mission is to unite and perpetuate the high-quality skills embodied by artisanal and regional biscuit factories to ensure their development. The group's first acquisition was the Gavottes® biscuit factory in Dinan that same year.
The Loc Maria Biscuits Group expands its expertise through external growth, acquiring several biscuit factories and pastry companies: Alizé in Plomelin, Les Galettes de Pleyben, Bulher in Besançon, Les Biscuits Mistral in Semur-en-Auxois and Jos Péron in Coray.
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CAAMFest 2016: Crush the Skull
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Zombie Popcorn is happy to announce that we are a Community Partner of CAAMFest 2016 and will be co-presenting a film. For the third time in a row Zombie Popcorn has been a Co-Presenter for a film at CAAMFest, we are very honor to play this role.
This year, we are co-presenting the Horror/Comedy, Crush the Skull, directed by Viet Nguyen. This is the U.S. Premiere of the film.
Crush the Skull
Viet Nguyen's comedic thriller CRUSH THE SKULL is a roller coaster of unexpected twists and calculated turns that take a couple of master thieves on the ride of their lives. This SAW-like anecdote shares bits of humor and plenty of uncertainty as master thieves Ollie and Blair soon discover what awaits them in the home they broke into.
After witnessing a horrifying suicide and getting arrested, Ollie and Blair are forced to cash in a favor and are left with nothing. Defeated, they attempt to step away from crime, but are offered another chance at a big score. They reluctantly accept and go into business with Blair's brother. What seems to be an easy job quickly escalates due to a sharp lack of experience and leads them straight into the lair of a deranged serial killer.
In trying to navigate the dark corridors and understand how to escape mysteriously locked rooms, dead ends and wrong turns, they eventually come to face to face with the killer and agree it's better to be safe than sorry.
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Two screenings are available.
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CAAMFest is the creation of The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
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CAAM presents CAAMFest (formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) every March, the nation's largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films, annually presenting approximately 130 works in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. Since 1982, the festival has been an important launching point for Asian American independent filmmakers as well as a vital source for new Asian cinema.
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It's official! Lupita Nyong'o is joining the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII.
She confirmed the news, which was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, on Instagram by sharing the photo below with the caption: "I can finally say it out loud and proud: I'm going to a galaxy far far away!"
And Nyong'o is not the only leading lady to nab a part in the much-anticipated movie. Gwendoline Christie, who stars as Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones, will also be in the film. Both actresses' characters have yet to be confirmed, but we're excited to see them join the star-studded cast, which includes Domhnall Gleeson and Girls's Adam Driver, as well as original members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill.
Take a look at Lupita Nyong'o's best looks ever in our gallery!


Barcelona International Airport is the second largest airport in Spain after the Madrid airport. The main port of Catalonia is located about 15 km southwest of the center of Barcelona and 3 km from the city's seaport. The port opened in 1918 and today has two terminals, which are most crowded in the summer season. Almost one hundred airlines fly from the airport. They support domestic, European connections, flights to countries of North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Asia, North America and Latin America. The port of Barcelona is the main base and hub for the Vueling Airlines line, a hub for Iberia Regional and the base for Ryanair, easyJet, Norwegian and Air Europa. In its history, it has won many Skytrax awards, also several times in a row. Annually, the airport serves over 39.7 million passengers. There are several hotels nearby, and their booking is possible at the T2 terminal.
Transit Bus – a free transit line between terminal T1 and T2.
Line 46: Barcelona airport – Plaza de España – El Prat de Llobregat – L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.
Line L77: runs every 20 minutes. from Sant Joan Despi – Cornellà – Sant Boi (FGC station) – Barcelona airport in hours 5: 20-22: 20, and from Barcelona – Joan Despi airport in hours 6: 10-23: 10.
Line PR1: runs every 30 minutes. on the route Barcelona airport terminal T1 – El Prat de LL. (Rodalies railway station) – Barcelona airport in hours 5: 35-23: 05, and the other way is Barcelona – El Prat de LL. (train station Rodalies) – airport Barcelona terminal T1 in hours 6: 20-22: 50.
Line PR3: runs every 30 minutes on the route El Prat de Llobregat – Barcelona airport in hours 5: 30-22: 45 on the T2 terminal and till 23:00 on the T1 terminal and the other way route Barcelona – El Prat de Llobregat airport runs from 6: 35 to 22: 35.
Line L99: runs every 30 minutes from Castelldefels to Barcelona airport (Gavà, Viladecans, Sant Boi and El Prat de Llobregat) from 5: 00 to 21: 30, and from Barcelona airport to Castelldefels in hours 5: 45-22: 15.
Line N16: night runs every 20 minutes from Plaza Cataluna to Barcelona airport (Ronda Universitat - Plaza Catalunya - L'Hospitalet de Llobregat – El Prat – airport) from 23:00 to 5:00 and from Barcelona Airport to Catalunya 21: 55-4: 45.
Line N17: night runs every 20 minutes from University – Plaza Cataluna – Barcelona airport – Castelldefels from 23: 30 to 5: 10, and the other way is Castelldefels – Barcelona airport – Cataluna Square (University) from 23: 00 to 4: 40. A ticket for all lines can be bought from the driver.
ALSA (airport) buses run between the airports of Tarragona, Reus, Figueres, Girona, Lleida, Barcelona.
The R2 Rodalies line connects the airport with the main train station Sants, from the city center, the Passeig de Gracia subway/railway station. From the airport, the train can also take you to every seaside town in the north, up to the Blanes station, about 60 km from Barcelona.
T-1: daily city rate in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, valid on weekdays from 8.00 to 20.00. Price: 1,07 EUR / 1km plus 2,10 EUR for slapping the door, for an hourly stop – 21,23 EUR.
T-2: night city rate in the Barcelona metropolitan center area, valid on weekdays from 20.00 to 8: 00, on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 6.00 to 20.00, and on Mondays and public holidays from 8: 00 to 00.00. Price 1.30 EUR / 1 km, plus 2.10 EUR for slapping the door, for an hourly stop – 21.70 EUR.
T-3: night city rate in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, valid on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 20.00 to 06.00. Price: EUR 1.40 plus EUR 2.30 for slapping the door, for an hourly stop – EUR 21.70. The minimum rate you pay per drive is EUR 20. The fee for the carriage of luggage over 55 × 35 × 35 cm (maximum 4 items) is EUR 1, and in the night tariff from 08:00 to 20:00 and on holidays, the fee is EUR 3.10. A wheelchair for the handicapped or a kid's pram, a bag of dimensions 55 x 35 x 35 cm and a guide dog of a blind person is transported for free.
From the south of Barcelona to the airport the fastest way will be the C-32 route, which crosses all coastal cities, including Castelldefels, Sitges, Vilanova, Tarragona, Vendrell. The slower option is the national road N-340 to El Vendrell and then drive into the C-31. From the northern part of Barcelona, you will reach the airport you by Ronda de Dalt or Ronda del Litoral streets.
The airport parking offers 19,679 parking spaces. There are 12,000 of them at Terminal T1, and the rest bon terminals and at Terminal T2.
Internet – you can use the wireless Internet access at the airport.


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What you have to do is to move the main mail folder and the local folders to the new machine. In my case, the main mail folder was D:\Mail and the local folders was D:\MailArchive\. Here's the steps.
1. After installing Thunderbird, create new account.
2. Go to Tools/Account Settings/Server Settings and change the local directory to D:\Mail. This is where your incoming mail will be stored. You will also get the existing mails and structures from the folder D:\Mail that you copied over. Nothing lost.
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Telstra's problems light the way for infrastructure reform
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Collaboration is key to community infrastructure investment
Failing to understand the economic and social opportunities that can come from investing in community infrastructure denies the creation of social cohesiveness and the enhancement of community health.
Infrastructure Australia's recently released Future Cities report raises the question whether they, and other policy makers, understand the importance of community infrastructure.
The report states that "Australian governments should routinely review the capacity of economic and social infrastructure within our cities and develop strategies to 'sweat' existing assets to extract greater value for communities".
According to Infrastructure Australia "new infrastructure will be needed to support growth, but governments should also maximise the return on investment from existing assets. 'Sweating' assets can be more financially effective and less disruptive to the community than building new infrastructure. This could include ensuring appropriate maintenance, renewal, technology upgrades and demand management strategies are in place".
Infrastructure Australia's thinking is flawed in a couple of areas. Firstly they fail to recognise the existing inadequacy of community infrastructure assets. According to the Australian Local Government Association, there is currently $47 billion worth of community infrastructure that is in poor condition. The State of NSW has identified a total infrastructure backlog for all NSW councils estimated to be $7.4 billion, or over $1,000 per head of the NSW population, at 30 June 2012.
One example in Australia of assets in poor conditions are aquatic centres. According to a review by the Victorian Auditor General, there are 153 aquatic centres in Victoria that are over 26 years old, with 41 that are over 51 years of age. More than half of Victoria's aquatic centres are likely to be in need of repair or upgrading and responses to the Auditor General's survey indicate that over a quarter of councils will conduct significant upgrades at a cost of more than $1 million over the next four years.
But the real issue is that Infrastructure Australia is failing to understand the economic and social opportunities that can come from investing in community infrastructure. Community infrastructure, should not be seen as assets to be 'sweated', but assets which create social cohesiveness, enhance community health and economic opportunity.
What Infrastructure Australia needs to understand is what the impediments facing community infrastructure are, and how can they be resolved.
Community infrastructure such as community sporting facilities are generally owned by local and municipal governments. The disconnection between clubs and facilities is one of the principal reasons that the funding and financing model is broken. The problem that we have today is that the informal partnership that previously existed between municipal authorities and communities is not so readily apparent today.
There were many examples of how this partnership operated in the past. One example is the growth of the Scouts movement which boasted a world-wide membership of around 25 million at its peak. Many scout halls were built on land that was, and is still, owned by municipal authorities.
As the Scout movement has declined, leaving many old Scout halls under-utilised, there is a need for governments to understand how community demand is shifting. An example is the rapid rise of AFLW and women's cricket teams. Cricket Australia recently estimated that the deficit of changing room facilities across the nation is $10 billion.
The loss of partnership between municipal authorities and community clubs, which was never formalised, is problematic. Municipal authorities need community clubs - and community clubs need municipal authorities. For municipal authorities, clubs bring the energy of volunteers that is necessary to activate spaces. An oval without a football or cricket club is simply open green space. But with a club, that open space is transformed into an active community.
For clubs that operate on land owned by municipal authorities, the lack of ownership results in an inability to finance development.
Australia's Productivity Commission examined the issues that Australia's 600,000 not-for-profits faced accessing capital, finding that whilst the sector contributed around $43 billion to the Australian economy, 8 per cent of national employment, and 4.6 million volunteers, the major impediments to accessing capital included the lack of collateral to guarantee loans and the lack of a suitable organisational structure which would allow organisations to raise equity capital.
Given the structural divide between ownership and operation, the model to unlock investment in community infrastructure has to be based on partnership and collaboration. If we can recognise that the benefits of community infrastructure are widespread, including sporting codes such as AFL and Cricket Australia that generate significant revenues off the back of the players that come through local competitions, then we can unlock new investment models.
In particular community bonds are a mechanism by which we can reinvest in community infrastructure.
As a nation we need to consider the infrastructure investments that we are currently considering. An example is InLand Rail which will require $8-9 billion tax payer investment (the likelihood that this is the final bill is doubtful).
I may have spent a little too much time at university playing football and engaging in student politics, but the one thing I understood from my economics degree was the concept of opportunity cost. In simple terms if we have InLand Rail there is a lot of other infrastructure investments we won't have.
Just think what $1 billion of Commonwealth investment into community infrastructure could unlock around the nation?
Such an investment could underwrite community bonds that could combine to bring in capital from other sources. A $1 billion investment from the Commonwealth could therefore unlock billions more investment.
We don't need to sweat community infrastructure assets, but we do need to use them in a smarter way that addresses the latency of assets during many periods of the week. If we build community assets with an understanding of their multiple uses there is the potential for community infrastructure to be the mechanism to deliver significant economic and social impacts for our communities.
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This article was first published on LinkedIn on Saturday 24 February 2018.
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Businesses are boarding up windows and pulling guns off the shelves in anticipation of widespread election unrest
October 29, 2020 October 29, 2020 by Michael Snyder
A storm is coming in, and soon it will envelop the entire nation. We are accustomed to seeing businesses board up their doors and windows in coastal cities that are about to get hit by a hurricane, but I can't think of another time when businesses all across America have been boarding up their doors and windows all at the same time. There is widespread fear that this election could be the spark that sets off another round of horrifying civil unrest in cities all over the United States, and business owners are taking measures to protect their businesses from the violence. The fact that we are even talking about the possibility of widespread violence after a presidential election shows just how much our country has fallen already. Our society is literally coming apart at the seams all around us, and at this point even Forbes is urging everyone to prepare for a worst case scenario…
If we don't have a clear winner, things could get ugly. Since we've witnessed months of mayhem, riots and civil unrest in large U.S. cities, it's reasonable to conclude that we'll have a frightening level of violence, destruction and unrest after the election. Both sides may claim victory, which could lead to actions that we don't want to even consider, as it would rip apart the country.
That paragraph was not pulled from some ridiculous tabloid. This is Forbes that we are talking about, and it is crazy that even they are warning that there could be "a frightening level of violence, destruction and unrest after the election".
How in the world is it possible that we have sunk so low?
Violence is not going to solve anything. It boggles my mind that so many Americans would be willing to engage in senseless violence, and we should all be grieved by what has been happening in the streets of Philadelphia over the past few nights.
Many desperate business owners are extremely concerned that their businesses could be vandalized and looted in the aftermath of the upcoming election, and they have been boarding up their storefronts to try to prevent that from happening. For example, here is what has been happening in downtown Washington…
Large swaths of downtown Washington, within blocks of the White House, resembled a coastal community girding for a powerful hurricane. Hotels, office buildings, coffee shops and restaurants were sheathed in plywood, with some of the makeshift barriers stretching nearly entire blocks.
And at this point large portions of downtown Chicago are boarded up as well…
Restaurants and luxury retailers are operating through windows covered in plywood or other barriers, and shoppers pass through entryway cut-outs. City officials have been holding workshops in recent months to prepare for possible civil unrest after Election Day.
If I owned a business in a core urban area, I would undoubtedly be doing the exact same thing.
When things get crazy, the looters are going to follow the path of least resistance, and they are going to prey on easy targets.
Just look at what looters just did to a Walmart in Philadelphia. Watching that footage should chill you to the core.
On Thursday, we learned that Walmart has decided to pull all guns and ammunition from the sales floors of all their stores nationwide due to concerns that the upcoming election could spark even more civil unrest…
"We have seen some isolated civil unrest and as we have done on several occasions over the last few years, we have moved our firearms and ammunition off the sales floor as a precaution," Walmart said in a statement.
There is still a small chance that there could be some sort of a landslide that would bring a quick end to the presidential race, but that does not seem likely.
Instead, it appears that the election results could be bitterly contested, and law enforcement authorities in some states are preparing for the worst.
For instance, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that he will be deploying National Guard troops to cities all over Texas prior to Election Day…
In Texas, National Guard troops are expected to be sent to Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio before Election Day. During a Wednesday news conference, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said during a Wednesday event that the Texas National Guard were being deployed "in the event that there are any protests after the elections are concluded, that we will have adequate personnel in place to make sure that we will be able to address any protest that could turn into riots." Abbott declined to reveal the number of troops being sent throughout the state.
I wish that more governors were taking similar steps, but a lot of politicians in blue states don't seem particularly eager to crack down on rioters, and that is extremely unfortunate.
Because the truth is that most Americans can see what is coming and they are extremely concerned about what may happen. According to one recent survey, three out of every four voters is "worried about possible violence"…
Across the country, Americans are increasingly worried about the possibility of violence over the high-stakes presidential election, which analysts say could be marred in chaos as an anxious country waits days or weeks for the results. Three of 4 voters say they're worried about possible violence, while only 1 in 4 say they're "very confident" the country will see a peaceful transfer of power if Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll finds.
Personally, I am still hoping that a way can be found to minimize the unrest and that we can get through this election with as little violence as possible.
But sticking our heads in the sand isn't going to do any good. There have been endless riots since the tragic death of George Floyd earlier this year, and this election has the potential to spark chaos that is unlike anything that we have seen so far.
Hopefully it won't happen.
Hopefully the votes will be counted as quickly as possible and the vast majority of Americans will be willing to peacefully accept the results.
But the closer that we get to Election Day the less likely that outcome appears to be, and at this point many of us are bracing for the worst.
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President Donald Trump has extended his executive order banning US companies from working with or buying telecommunications equipment from companies deemed a national security risk until May 2021, via Reuters.
While the ban doesn't explicitly call out specific companies, it's been used to virtually shut down US operations with Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE, which can no longer sell products in the US or work with companies like Google or ARM for critical software and licenses.
The White House issued its original executive order almost a year ago, barring US companies from doing business with Huawei due to national security concerns about the Chinese firm supplying equipment for network infrastructure (particularly as the US undergoes its ongoing rollout for 5G).
But since the order was issued in May 2019, the full ban hasn't actually taken effect yet. While Huawei hasn't been able to work with companies like Google on new devices, the company has gotten a series of temporary general licenses from the Commerce Department that have allowed it to still support existing hardware with software updates.
That state of affairs may be about to change: after receiving extensions in May, August, November, and March, the most recent 45-day extension for the temporary license agreement is about to expire on May 15th. Neither Huawei nor the Commerce Department has indicated yet whether another extension of the temporary license will be granted.
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Q: Materialize CSS Cards equal height and max 3 on row I have an Angular 4 App with Materialize CSS.
The webpage uses cards and can differ in height so i used flexboxes but then it doesn't maximizes till 3.
When the cards have the same length, there is no problem:
3 cards next to eachother when minimize, it becomes 2 and eventually 1.
But when the cards don't have the same height, I have a row with 3 cards then 1 card and then again 3 cards, this is not what I want.
How can i fix this problem.
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I now do this:

.d-flex {
  display: inline-flex;
}

So for each 3th element a row and display inline-flex.
It works but not for the last row if it hasn't 3 elements.
1 element/card -> the card is floated: right, instead of left...
2 element/cards -> One card is floated: right, the other one is placed in the middle of the 2 first cards above it, instead of two cards next to eachother

A: I think the problem is that you are putting all of the card elements in a single row. Try splitting them into multiple row elements, say every third card, based on the index provided by ngFor.

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Debate gets personal in the Tarheel State
Sen. Kay Hagan, left, D-N.C., and North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis greet prior to a live televised debate at UNC-TV studios in Research...
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By Michael LaRosa
It got personal in the third and final debate of the highly competitive North Carolina U.S. Senate race, between Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan and Republican Thom Tillis. The candidates accused each other of personal gains from votes they took in their respective positions that boosted their wealth.
Tillis said Hagan, North Carolina's incumbent Senator, should be fired, charging that she voted for the 2009 stimulus bill, which enhanced her husband's business, calling it "crony capitalism".
"These are the kinds of practices that need to end," he said.
Hagan defended herself from the charges and denied any impropriety.
"I have no role in my husband's business," Hagan said. "I have a job that keeps me busy."
When pressed further by the moderator, the Republican said he "doubted" that his Democratic rival voted for the stimulus package knowing she would profit.
But Hagan put Tillis, the Speaker of North Carolina's State House, on the defensive for questions over his own ethical issues. She accused him of supporting stimulus tax cuts for a bank he holds stock in.
"I never voted on stimulus," Tillis responded. "You did."
In continuing his line of attack from Tuesday night's debate, Tillis hammered Hagan for skipping fifty percent of her Armed Service Committee meetings, including a classified briefing about ISIS, which he says she missed for a cocktail party fundraiser.
"Senator Hagan thinks that a cocktail fundraiser hosted on Park Avenue by a Wall Street executive is a bigger priority than her job," Tillis said.
Hagan, again, turned the table on her opponent.
"Speaker Tillis' hometown newspaper called on him to resign because of the number of days he missed in the general assembly because he was out fundraising," she said.
Hagan dodged attacks on the President's record that Tillis repeatedly tried to tether her to, but slammed Tillis for not offering his own plans to defeat ISIS, for gutting education and for passing tax cuts for the wealthy. She also attacked him for wasting tax dollars defending the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
"I don't think the government should tell anyone who they should love and who they should marry," Hagan said. "Speaker Tillis wants to waste your taxpayer litigating a law that the Supreme Court has said to leave alone."
Tillis said Hagan is a rubber stamp for President Obama and what he calls the President's "failed policies" of over-regulation and an overreaching Environmental Protection Agency that kills jobs.
"Senator Hagan hasn't found a regulatory policy of President Obama's that she doesn't like," Tillis said.


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Sand is a 2011 novel by the German writer Wolfgang Herrndorf. It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2012. It is the last novel that Herrndorf was able to complete before his death in August 2013.

See also
 2011 in literature
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References

External links
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Happiness Is a Big Fat Paycheck
A new study's surprising conclusion about what money can buy.
By John Cassidy June 16, 2008
If you went out into the street and asked people at random how happy they were, what do you think you would find? That the healthy are happier than the sick? True, although not by as much as you might think. Young people are happier than the middle-aged and the old? False-happiness is remarkably stable over the life cycle. Religious people are happier than nonbelievers? True, at least according to researchers in happiness economics, a rapidly growing field that relies on opinion surveys rather than on government statistics to measure well-being and trace its causes.
In April, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, two enterprising young economists from Wharton, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, addressed the age-old question of what money can and can't buy. Drawing on a wide variety of surveys, the duo claimed that rich people are happier than poor people, rich countries are happier than poor countries, and as countries get richer they get happier. Within weeks, newspapers around the world had picked up on the findings, and Wolfers was appearing on CNBC to brief viewers.
Why all the fuss? Stevenson and Wolfers' paper runs counter to a large body of evidence suggesting that, especially in rich countries, economic growth has failed to translate into greater subjective well-being. In the United States, the first happiness surveys were carried out at the end of World War II. Sixty years later, despite the fact that people's inflation-adjusted incomes have quadrupled, reported happiness levels have hardly budged.
The U.S. isn't alone. "In China, between 1990 and 2004, per capita income went from 5 percent of the U.S. level to 16 percent," says Richard Easterlin, an economist at the University of Southern California and one of the founders of the happiness school. But happiness over that period stagnated. "Life satisfaction, if anything, seems to be declining. India, Chile, Turkey, Ireland-all of them show little or no improvement in happiness or well-being despite rapid economic growth.'
Stevenson and Wolfers argue that countries like these are exceptions to the rule. "Our results suggest that economic growth is a very powerful force for raising well-being," Wolfers says. "It is not true that only income matters, but on average it looks like economic growth is good for happiness, even in rich countries."
The new paper galvanizes an important debate about the purpose and effectiveness of economic policy-and about what has been the economic status quo for more than six decades. Governments around the world, including the U.S., have long made maximizing the gross domestic product-a measure of all the goods and services produced in the economy-their overriding economic goal.
The problem, if you buy into the argument of Easterlin and his followers, is that the endless pursuit of higher G.D.P. is largely self-defeating. People in nations with higher G.D.P.'s don't get continuously happier. As a result, governments might be better advised to concentrate on things that actually do have an impact on happiness, such as maintaining stable families and friendly communities, reducing joblessness, providing adequate health care, and guaranteeing more personal freedom. In his 2005 book, Happiness: Lessons From a New Science, Richard Layard, one of Britain's leading economists and a member of the House of Lords, advocated just such a policy shift, saying, "We should monitor the development of happiness in our countries as closely as we monitor the development of income."
I asked Layard if the promotion of happiness is a practical agenda. "Oh, yes," he replied. "We're very busy at it here in Britain." Many British government departments already have well-being divisions, and the Office for National Statistics, which tracks Britain's G.D.P., is gathering more information about subjective well-being. Last year, the British government, led by Gordon Brown, allocated more taxpayer money for mental health programs, which can have a big impact on reported happiness.
Other European countries are following Britain's lead. Frustrated with what he called "the growing gap" between official economic statistics and daily reality, French president Nicolas Sarkozy recently appointed a high-level commission to explore ways of quantifying happiness and well-being. The European Commission is also working on new economic indicators that will incorporate nonmonetary factors such as environmental progress into economic decisionmaking.
Here in the U.S., though, the happiness school has made less headway. "The political establishment is much more pro-economic growth, and it doesn't like this subjective well-being stuff," Easterlin says. "There is a feeling it is promoting welfare-state ideas such as families, health, and other human concerns." Also, despite the survey evidence, many economists refuse to accept that money and happiness don't go together. "People who have more income have more opportunities," Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist and an authority on the measurement of well-being, said. "How can you find that they are less happy? To an orthodox economist, it doesn't make sense."
If you believe Stevenson and Wolfers, the traditional focus on G.D.P. makes eminent sense. Using new data from a 2006 worldwide survey by Gallup, they find the correlation between income and life satisfaction is 0.82, which seems impressive. (One represents perfect correlation; zero is none.)
In a discussion session following Stevenson and Wolfers' presentation of their paper at Brookings, Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker praised the paper warmly, and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is now back at Harvard, said it had appended the conventional wisdom of the happiness school.
But is that really the case? Gallup asked people to imagine themselves on a ladder with steps numbered from zero to 10, with the bottom of the ladder representing "the worst possible life for you" and the top representing "the best possible life for you." The respondents were then asked to say which step they were standing on. If you instruct people to think about the best possible and worst possible lives they could be living, you are surely inviting them to compare their living standards with those of people elsewhere. This methodological quirk alone could easily explain why residents of poor countries report low scores and residents of rich countries report high ones, and it wouldn't have anything to do with money making people happier.
The Gallup survey is just one of many. Others show a much weaker link between income and life satisfaction. Using data from the World Values Survey, which dates back to 1980, Stevenson and Wolfers couldn't identify any statistically significant relationship between movements in G.D.P. and changes in life satisfaction. "I can't say I'm absolutely certain that greater growth in income causes greater happiness," Wolfers concedes. "And you can't say for certain that greater growth doesn't produce greater happiness."
Maybe not, but I can say for sure-because Wolfers and Stevenson confirm it-that as people and countries grow richer, each extra dollar of income buys less and less additional happiness. A $100 rise in average income in Jamaica, for example, has three times the impact on measured happiness as a $100 increase in the U.S. Moreover, other economists, including John Helliwell of the University of British Columbia, have shown that nonmonetary factors like working conditions appear to have a much bigger impact on happiness than income. "What we really care about is how big the effect of income is on well-being," Helliwell says. "The answer is it's small relative to other things."
Why is the relationship between money and happiness so complicated? Rivalry and jealousy provide a large part of the answer. What many people care about most is not the dollar amount of their income but their income relative to the income of others in their peer group. As H.L. Mencken put it many years ago, wealth is any income that is $100 more a year than the income of your wife's sister's husband. A recent example comes from the former East Germany. During the 1990s, living standards there rose sharply, but reported happiness fell. The likely explanation: After decades of belonging to the decrepit Soviet bloc, East Germans began comparing themselves with West Germans.
Also, as people become richer, they quickly grow accustomed to bigger houses, more powerful cars, and better-made clothes, but their possessions don't make them much happier. We humans are trapped on a hedonic treadmill. The faster we try to get ahead, the quicker we end up back where we started. Studies show that even lottery winners, after an initial period of adjustment, don't become much happier.
Fortunately, Helliwell and other researchers-even taking into account rivalry and habituation-have identified some things that make people feel better, such as getting married, being employed in a secure job, having a full social life, and playing an active role in the democratic process. Not very long ago, quality-of-life issues like these were largely beyond the purview of economics, and I, for one, was of the mind that economists should stick to things they know about, like inflation and interest rates. After delving into the happiness literature, I've changed my view.
In poor countries, where billions are struggling to eke out an existence, economic growth is the only route out of poverty and degradation. In rich countries, though, it may be time to supplement G.D.P. with other measures of progress. In his book, Layard calls on governments to promote family-friendly policies like flexible work hours and more parental leave and subsidize organizations that promote communities, such as sports leagues and good public schools. With more research and a bit of imagination, economists should be able to augment this list. What could be more important than promoting happiness and well-being? As utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham pointed out two centuries ago, the answer is nothing. John McCain and Barack Obama, take note.
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Growing up in Houston, Armstrong spent much of his youth on the baseball diamond, which allowed him to feel right at home Friday night at Kauffman Stadium, where the Kansas defensive end threw out the ceremonial first pitch as part of the Royals' "KU Night."
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"I'll bring what they saw in college,'' Beasley told The Post in a robust phone interview Friday from his home in Washington D.C. " I just need the opportunity to show that. Look at my nine-year career, I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket. Nobody can stop me, hasn't stopped me my last nine years. Every time I've touched the ball, the defender's scared. I'm at the point of my career I'm just tired of not getting the acknowledgment of being who I am.


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Major Residing Space Lighting Options- The primary gentle fixture must Deliver a weighty variety of mild. It can be unattainable to envision your final decision of seating without having consuming the cupboards toward complicate items.
Tables are far too important pieces of residing place furnishings. Make your mind up anything inviting, bold, or resourceful according toward your space decor and flavor, still make it possible for it be anything inherently decorative. Coffee and cocktail tables tend in direction of be put inside of versus of sofas though end tables sit at either facet of chairs or sofas. They can genuinely grow to be the key focal truth of the living area. Insert more layers with multi-tiered hanging lamps or wall/ceiling clean lights. Your self can on top of that acquire from designer parts for your contemporary impressive living room household furniture and receive the most straightforward for your property. It is the area that really should be as snug and intriguing as possible and it is for this purpose that the furnishings within just the area ought to be as exquisite and gentle as probable. If there was one particular point the Victorians ended up beneficial at, it was clutter. Anytime on your own are likely for the order of impressive residing space furniture you should guarantee that it blends and mixes properly with the décor and the colours of your property. Accessory pieces can be fixed from walls or in just the in general living region. The ground of your living room is in addition vital and this is the cause why yourself need to get the physical appearance of your area into account just before by yourself buy modern room home furnishings.
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Wall Sconces- Wall sconces Deliver fantastic ambient lighting, in particular bigger or a number of arm scones. Then oneself consist of a hefty preference of sectionals that your self can prepare towards healthy your house layout.
It is not normally easy towards envision how your final decision of home furniture would healthy into your room, and that is after yourself incorporate manufactured your choice against all of these kinds of alternatives. Feel it or not, this consists of the walls, rugs, curtains, and furnishings as well. Instead, wall sconces upon either facet of the mantel will possibly highlight the hearth and Deliver further lights for the finish place. The appearance of your residing area pretty much relies upon on the direction yourself set up the progressive furniture inside your area. By working with a living place planner your self can stay clear of getting Victorian and continue to keep your area and roominess although creating indeed that yourself acquire dwelling place furnishings that fits into the local yourself include available.
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Music: Waje ft. Zoro – Ngwa
Nigerian vocal powerhouse, Waje came through with a new ballad song titled "Ngwa", produced by Philkeyz.
The talented songstress collaborates with Nigerian indigenous rapper, Zoro who did justice on the new pop single.
Moreover, this serves as her second official release for the year, following her previously heard song tagged, "She Is" featuring female singer, Omawumi.
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BAFTSS Awards - call for submissions
Call for Submissions to the First Annual BAFTSS Awards
The British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) wishes to recognise the research achievements of its members through the BAFTSS Annual Awards. All BAFTSS members are eligible to submit work in the following categories (all submissions must be in the English language and must be on a topic in the field of film, television, and screen studies):
Best Monograph (a single-authored book, published between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011)
Best Article in a Refereed Journal (published between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011)
Best Postgraduate Student Essay (BAFTTS Student members enrolled during the period between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011 on postgraduate degree courses in Film, Television or Screen Studies at a British University). Submissions in this category should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Essays must not have been previously published, but should be of a standard that they could be submitted in their present form to a peer-reviewed journal. They can include work that has been submitted fully or in parts as an assessed degree requirement (coursework, dissertation chapter etc.). Essays written specifically for the competition are also eligible.
Deadline for all submissions is May 31, 2012.
Apart from submitting their own work, members may nominate the work of fellow members. In the latter case, contact details of both nominators and nominees must be supplied, and the nominated author must consent to being nominated. Publishers are welcome to submit the work of their authors, provided these are BAFTTS members. Publishers themselves do not need to be BAFTSS members. Only one item across all categories can be submitted by (or for) each member. The BAFTSS Awards Committee will determine the winners. The awards will be presented at a special ceremony during the BAFTTS AGM which we plan to hold on 20 September 2012. Details will be announced in due course. Award recipients will be notified prior to the event.
Membership of BAFTSS is open to anybody regardless of nationality, and book and essay awards are also open to any member who wishes to make a submission. Given the uncertainty regarding the volume of submissions – this being the first year the competition is running – we have decided to restrict the submissions in the category of student essays to UK only. We envisage that with increased financial and administrative support as BAFTSS grows, we will open this category as well to all members in future years.
Submissions should be sent via email in PDF format to the following addresses
1. For the monograph award
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2. For the award for an article in a refereed journal
Email: articleaward@baftss.org
3. For the award for best postgraduate student essay
Email: essayaward@baftss.org
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It's no secret that the average American is not the best with personal finances. According to the Motley Fool, the average American saves about a total of 5.7% (for things like an emergency fund, retirement, or longer term goal).
Let's say you're savvier than average (which, I assume many readers of this blog are, since you care enough about your personal finances to find this article). Perhaps, at some point in your adult life, you did take the initiative to meet with a financial professional. Could you re-explain, to an outsider, what you accomplished with this financial professional?
According to Michael Kitces (a financial planning industry expert, "most clients don't read financial plans after the meeting." Perhaps, too, you have never really explored your goals. Click here to check out our thoughts on goal setting (link to another blog we did).
Many financial professionals sell financial products, like annuities or life insurance. I want to start out by saying that these products, in the appropriate situation, can be vital to a family's long term financial situation. For example, if your spouse dies prematurely, or you live until 105, certain financial products can be financial lifesavers for your family.
However, trouble arises when the appropriateness of your situation is gray. Does the single person with no children really need life insurance? Maybe, or maybe not. Is a particular annuity product the best for you? Again, a gray area. It is crucial to discuss your customized situation with an advisor before purchasing a product.
How do you go about evaluating if a financial product is "appropriate" or "good"? Say you were going to buy a new car – you'd head to one of the many research websites out there, do your homework, go in for a test drive, and be fully armed with information before you signed on the dotted line.
No need to fear – we have some recommendations on how to "do your homework" when it comes to shopping for financial products.
It can be challenging for the average person to discern when a financial product makes sense or not. We'd advise asking certain questions to gain the best understanding you can about the product itself, as well as how well the financial professional has done proper diligence and correctly assessed suitability.
What are the fees associated with this product? How do they compare to other products available in the industry?
Tell me about the company that makes this financial product. How is their financial strength? How do they rank compared to peers in their industry? Are they a private or public company? (Public companies have to answer to shareholders, which may not always be in the best interests of their clients).
How will you (the financial advisor) be compensated, via commission or a fee, for this transaction? How much compensation will you and your firm receive?
Can you explain all riders attached to this product (if an insurance product)? What do they do? How much additional cost do they bring? Do other companies in this space offer similar riders?
How will I be informed when product updates are released?
What if I change my mind – can I cancel this product? What are the fees associated with cancelling or changing this product? Do those fees ever go away?
What if you quit the industry or switch firms – who will oversee my insurance/annuity?
This may seem like a bit of common sense since we live in the age of the internet, but we'd also advise that you "google" the company issuing your annuity/insurance contract before purchasing anything.
Also "google" the person selling you the product. Look up their track record – how long have they been in the business? Are there any disclosures against them?
Ask questions and then ask more questions. If you are made to feel embarrassed or rushed during this process, it's a sign that something is wrong. Your agent should take the time to fully explain everything you.
It's so important before investing your savings into a complex financial product that you get answers to questions like this. Many times, a good advisor will happily disclose all of this information and answer clearly and competently. But, if the advisor's answers still don't make sense to you, it's important to seek a third party opinion.


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Q: NVDA calls out incomplete error message and twice Use case : While gift cards are applied, NVDA should read out the error message for all error scenarios like, 'The card is already redeemed' or 'Error occurred while validating card' etc.
Issue : After applying code='alert' , the error message reads out, however NVDA partially calls out the error message one additional time. Please refer the speech-viewer snippet below for the exact behavior :

Alert Error while validating card

Shopping cart | Page title

clickable main landmark  validating card

Code snippet : Added element.parent().after(error).attr("role","alert"); in the JS file.
Can anyone help me understand why and from where is the NVDA calling once again that too partially in Chrome, Firefox as well as Edge browsers.
Whereas, the same error message is being called out correctly while using the Chrome screen-reader extension in Google Chrome.DOM structure

A: It's difficult to assess without a little more of the resulting markup, but one possibility is that NVDA is reading your message once as a live region and once as part of the focused element's associated label or description. It's quite common to see spotty live region behavior across browsers.
Setting role="alert" SHOULD BE equivalent to setting aria-live="assertive" and aria-atomic="true". This means that the error text should, IN THEORY, be read first (assertive) and completely (atomic). Any other announcements, such as a label, aria-label, or description of what's in focus should then proceed, and that could include the error message.
First see how it announces without the live region by removing role="alert" and any aria-live properties there.
If the focused element does not announce the error on its own, put back the role="alert" and try setting aria-atomic="true" on your alert so that all browsers read the complete text and not just the change in the text.


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Latest Results on Peanut Allergy Treatment Are In, And They're Super Promising
A pioneering new study is offering new hope to peanut allergy sufferers.
It may be possible to reduce the severity of allergic reactions to peanuts, research published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health suggests.
Peanut allergy is the leading cause of food-related anaphylaxis, the report states, with 6.1 million people suffering from the allergy in the US.
The number of sufferers has soared in recent decades, too, with a 2017 study suggesting prevalence in children had risen 21 percent since 2010.
The new study involved a trial, called the Artemis trial, undertaken at hospitals across Europe.
175 children with peanut allergies aged 4 to 17 took part in the research, which saw them given either increasing amounts of peanut allergen protein or a placebo every day.
Those who took the peanut protein were given a slightly higher dose every two weeks for six months, after which point the same dose was maintained for three months.
The researchers found that 58 percent of children who'd taken the peanut protein could tolerate at least three to four peanuts by the end of the trial.
It compared to just 2 percent of those given the placebo.
The researchers concluded that the treatment "led to rapid desensitization to peanut protein."
The research does not suggest peanut allergy sufferers will soon be able to eat peanut butter by the spoonful, however the researchers hope it could mean less severe reactions from accidental exposure to the nuts.
One participant, James Redman, 12, told The Times that he can now tolerate up to seven peanuts after previously suffering severe reactions to any peanut traces.
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"Taking part in the study was the greatest opportunity of my life," he said.
"The nurses and doctors were really caring and great fun. I didn't mind the taste of the peanut protein as I got to mix it with chocolate pudding which was great.
"I really hope the study leads to a treatment so that other children with a peanut allergy can benefit."
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