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Brokers of junk science?
by Jie Jenny Zou February 18, 2016 January 28, 2022
The National Library of Medicine in 2013. Wikimedia Commons.
Hardbound volumes of Critical Reviews in Toxicology and Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology spanning decades are shelved at the National Library of Medicine's subterranean archives — the world's largest medical collection — in Bethesda, Maryland.
About 'Science for Sale'
Science and opinion have become increasingly conflated, in large part because of corporate influence. As we explain in "Science for Sale," an investigative series by the Center for Public Integrity and co-published with Vice.com, industry-backed research has exploded — often with the aim of obscuring the truth — as government-funded science dwindles. Read more.
The peer-reviewed journals are among a select group of medical titles indexed by the National Institutes of Health, and they belong to international associations whose members pledge to uphold ethical and scientific standards. The titles come at a price: an issue of Critical Reviews retails for $372, while an annual subscription to Regulatory Toxicology costs $275.
Yet critics also claim the journals are purveyors of "junk science" — misleading, industry-backed articles that threaten public health by playing down the dangers of well-known toxic substances such as lead and asbestos. The articles often are used to stall regulatory efforts and defend court cases.
An analysis by the Center for Public Integrity found that half of all review articles written by top scientists at the consulting firm Gradient since 1992 were published either in Critical Reviews or Regulatory Toxicology. No other journal came close.
"You'd have to be delusional to not recognize that the issues they're dealing [with] and policies they're setting won't affect the profits of very powerful sources," said Canadian anti-asbestos activist Kathleen Ruff, who called both journals "egregious examples" of a deeper problem of industry influence. "Creating doubt is an endless activity and, in the meantime, people die unnecessarily."
Editorial boards at both journals are laden with scientists and lawyers employed by industry, making them easy targets for public-health advocates. Current board members include private consultants who have also received compensation as expert witnesses in court.
"The harm is that it actually muddies the independent scientific literature," said Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group. "They're stacking their weight on their side of the scale."
Those behind the journals deny that industry relationships compromise scientific independence.
"There is this prevailing issue, which is really unfortunate, that anything supported by industry is tainted," said David Warheit, a Critical Reviews board member and scientist at Chemours, which manufactures titanium dioxide, an ingredient in sunscreen. "Perceptions pervade everything."
Warheit said each submission to the journal is evaluated by four or five peer reviewers as opposed to the typical two or three. "I have reviewed some awful papers for [Critical Reviews in Toxicology], and they didn't get published."
Roger McClellan (Wikimedia Commons)
New Mexico veterinarian and Critical Reviews editor Roger McClellan declined an interview request from the Center, writing in an email that he was proud of the journal's 45-year history. "My scientific record speaks for itself," he added, providing copies of his 64-page résumé and biography.
Gio Gori, editor of Regulatory Toxicology, also declined to comment and referred all questions to the publisher, Elsevier. A spokesperson cited a 2003 editorial by Gori, which referenced the journal's objectivity and "more than 600 international scientists who generously assist in the journal's peer-review process."
Chaos and turmoil
Epidemiologist Philippe Grandjean was one of 42 scientists who signed a letter in late 2002 criticizing Regulatory Toxicology's frequent failure to disclose conflicts of interest and deep industry ties, starting with Gori.
A former director of the National Cancer Institute, Gori made millions as a tobacco consultant questioning the dangers of secondhand smoke in scientific journals as well as The Washington Post.
Gio Gori (Wikimedia Commons)
"Gori is the kind of guy who would write especially obnoxious editorials where he would castigate honest scientists as being out of their minds," said Grandjean, a Danish epidemiologist. "It was so blatantly biased towards industry and against open and transparent science."
Elsevier stood by the journal but implemented a disclosure policy in 2003.
A decade later, Grandjean found himself drafting another letter — this time airing his concerns about Critical Reviews, where he served as a board member.
An adjunct professor at Harvard School of Public Health and a pioneering mercury researcher, Grandjean said he joined the Critical Reviews board more than 30 years ago despite its reputation for being cozy with industry because he believes in collaboration and felt he could have a say in the journal's content.
That changed in 2012 when the journal published two articles rebutting research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health linking lung cancer to diesel fumes. Grandjean said the publication "wasn't science for science's sake," but a way to cast doubt on NIOSH's findings.
His complaints got no traction with editor McClellan or then-publisher Informa Health, which Grandjean said reneged on promises to conduct an independent review. Taylor & Francis, the current publisher, declined to comment. In 2012, McClellan defended the journal's disclosure policies and said that Grandjean's complaint had been shared with other members of the editorial board, "none of [whom] shared the views expressed by Dr. Grandjean."
Grandjean resigned in 2012, ending a positive relationship that began under founding editor Leon Golberg. "I thought if [McClellan] invited me, he thought my advice would be useful, but apparently this changed to a situation where it was useful to have my name on the masthead to justify this was a balanced journal."
Like the journal he founded, Golberg's career aligned closely with industry. A native of Cyprus who held academic positions in South Africa and Britain and spent the end of his career at Duke University, Golberg oversaw Critical Reviews from its inaugural issue in September 1971, published by The Chemical Rubber Co.
The journal was introduced as "the voice of reason" in an era of "chaos and turmoil."
"Never before have so many regulatory actions been taken or proposed — some too late, others prematurely — that have bewildered the consumer and had a crushing impact on industry," Golberg wrote.
That same year, a public health crisis unraveled when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning against diethylstilbestrol (DES) — a synthetic hormone used for decades by pregnant women to combat morning sickness and prevent miscarriages or premature deliveries — which Golberg had co-created in 1938. As many as 10 million people were exposed to DES before it was linked to a rare vaginal cancer and other fertility problems, spawning myriad lawsuits.
Golberg's role in the DES debacle is less well known than his later achievements. They include founding the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT), now the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, a research group "founded and funded by the chemical industry," according to the Research Triangle Regional Partnership. He also jump-started the British Industrial Biological Research Association, a consulting firm whose clients include ExxonMobil and Procter & Gamble.
In the 1970s, Golberg consulted for a now-discredited campaign for "safer" cigarettes by R.J. Reynolds, which still funds fellowships in his honor at Wake Forest and Duke. He died in 1987 from mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer linked to asbestos exposure.
McClellan succeeded Golberg as both Critical Reviews editor and CIIT leader, working with trade groups like the American Chemistry Council. Critical Reviews has since become one of the most-cited toxicology journals, at the same time drawing a spate of criticism.
Ruff, the anti-asbestos advocate, chastised Critical Reviews in May for what she alleged to be improper disclosure in a 2013 asbestos article. Testimony in a court case stated that an industry group paid the authors nearly $180,000 in writing fees, which were erroneously described as "grants." She cited the incident as a reason for stricter disclosure reporting and enforcement.
As Critical Reviews editor, McClellan has been outspoken against regulation. By his own count, he has testified before Congress 20 times. In 2011, he argued against a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to curb ground-level ozone, or smog, as too expensive, calling for lawmakers to recognize that "a healthy economy with people employed is the cornerstone of a healthy population."
Industry ties
Since its 1981 debut, Regulatory Toxicology has billed itself as a credible and objective source for a broad audience. Its co-editors promised to focus on science instead of politics and "mythology."
"Safety is relative, not absolute," AIDS researcher Frederick Coulston and FDA scientist Dr. Albert Kolbye Jr. wrote in the inaugural issue. "Safety is a moving target."
The journal has been sympathetic to industry from the start. In its first issue, an associate editor lamented: "There has always been a sense of competition between government and industry, but always a high degree of mutual respect. In the seventies that spirit changed from competition to an adversary posture and from respect to distrust."
Regulatory Toxicology is the official publication of the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology & Pharmacology, an association whose leaders include a Coca Cola executive, corporate consultants and lawyers.
In an email to the Center, President Sue Ferenc denied that the society plays any editorial role at the journal. Outside of the society, Ferenc heads the Council of Producers & Distributors of Agrotechnology, a pesticide group with its own political action committee.
But significant overlap at both the society and the journal has existed for years.
Gary Yingling, a former FDA attorney who now represents industry clients, has been an editorial board member of Regulatory Toxicology since 1981 while also serving as the society's general counsel. Fellow board member Terry Quill is an industry lawyer and former society president, who led the society's push against labeling chloroform as carcinogenic. The EPA has since classified chloroform, a byproduct of chlorinating water, as a probable human carcinogen.
Recipients of the society's achievement award include well-known journal figures like McClellan, the Critical Reviews editor who also sits on Regulatory Toxicology's board. The society credited the journal's growing popularity as the "major" source of its success and "esteem."
Responding to questions about industry's financial support of the society, then-president Christopher Borgert wrote in a 2008 newsletter, "Science has an objective means of evaluating information, but it has nothing to do with who got the money and why . . . The process of science removes the scientist, with his numerous biases and conflicts of interest, as far as humanely [sic] possible from the process of data generation and interpretation."
Regulatory Toxicology's editors have also made headlines. Chain-smoking through an interview with The Wall Street Journal in 1997, Coulston claimed nicotine wasn't addictive and smoking didn't cause cancer. In 2001, his New Mexico chimpanzee lab was stripped of federal funding amid animal abuse claims.
Gori became editor of Regulatory Toxicology following Coulston's 2003 death and has also served as society president. In 2013, he and 17 other toxicology journal editors penned an editorial criticizing the European Union's plans to regulate chemicals known as endocrine disruptors. Of the 18 editors, only one did not have industry ties.
'All that noise'
"If a call comes in and the number is withheld, you might become suspicious and ignore the call," Grandjean wrote in 2012. "Scientific authorship should be just as simple so that we can concentrate our attention on the sources we trust."
But representatives of the EPA, the FDA and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said their agencies treat science equally, regardless of the funding source. Disclosure is encouraged by all three agencies but isn't mandatory.
Speakers at FDA proceedings are asked to disclose relevant financial relationships but the agency doesn't bar those who don't comply from participating.
Science at the EPA and OSHA is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Study authors are asked to disclose "funding sources and other pertinent interests" at the EPA, while OSHA asks those who comment on proposed rules to provide disclosures with their submissions.
What should or shouldn't be disclosed is a matter of debate. "There is no agreement on what a conflict of interest is," said Arthur Caplan, founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center. "The disclosures currently say, 'I'm going to disclose industry funding because that is a potential source of bias. You, reader, have to decide for yourself whether it is or it isn't. Good luck to you.' " Current sentiment "demonizes the industry side," Caplan added, while ignoring potential biases created by private foundations or government money.
Disclosure policies don't exist to eliminate bias, said Sheldon Krimsky, a professor at Tufts University who studies science and public policy, but to allow the public to assess potential conflicts that can undermine findings. "Science is not a matter of this fact and that fact; there's all sorts of nuance in science," he said. "You can draw conclusions in science beyond what your data tells you."
Krimsky's own research has found that industry-backed studies typically yield findings that bolster a company's bottom line. "Companies want you to produce a specific result," he said. "They won't publish it if you don't."
Even with proper disclosure, assessing a study's credibility takes time, said the NRDC's Sass. "In the end we still have to go through it on its merits; so do the EPA, and [other] federal bodies," she said. "That leaves us with the task of addressing the substantive flaws each time, article by article."
In the federal regulatory process, this can mean additional public hearings and meetings where activists go head-to-head with, and are often outnumbered by, industry representatives.
"The system can't manage all that noise," Caplan said. "The science tends to get lost and the politics wins or the economics wins. When there's that much noise going on, other factors start to resolve the dispute and they're not factual."
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by Jie Jenny Zou, Center for Public Integrity

Brokers of junk science?

by Jie Jenny Zou, Center for Public Integrity
February 18, 2016

Hardbound volumes of Critical Reviews in Toxicology and Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology spanning decades are shelved at the National Library of Medicine's subterranean archives — the world's largest medical collection — in Bethesda, Maryland.

  <hgroup>
About 'Science for Sale'
 </hgroup>
Science and opinion have become increasingly conflated, in large part because of corporate influence. As we explain in "Science for Sale," an investigative series by the Center for Public Integrity and co-published with Vice.com, industry-backed research has exploded — often with the aim of obscuring the truth — as government-funded science dwindles. Read more.

The peer-reviewed journals are among a select group of medical titles indexed by the National Institutes of Health, and they belong to international associations whose members pledge to uphold ethical and scientific standards. The titles come at a price: an issue of Critical Reviews retails for $372, while an annual subscription to Regulatory Toxicology costs $275.

Yet critics also claim the journals are purveyors of "junk science" — misleading, industry-backed articles that threaten public health by playing down the dangers of well-known toxic substances such as lead and asbestos. The articles often are used to stall regulatory efforts and defend court cases.

An analysis by the Center for Public Integrity found that half of all review articles written by top scientists at the consulting firm Gradient since 1992 were published either in Critical Reviews or Regulatory Toxicology. No other journal came close.

"You'd have to be delusional to not recognize that the issues they're dealing [with] and policies they're setting won't affect the profits of very powerful sources," said Canadian anti-asbestos activist Kathleen Ruff, who called both journals "egregious examples" of a deeper problem of industry influence. "Creating doubt is an endless activity and, in the meantime, people die unnecessarily."

Editorial boards at both journals are laden with scientists and lawyers employed by industry, making them easy targets for public-health advocates. Current board members include private consultants who have also received compensation as expert witnesses in court.

"The harm is that it actually muddies the independent scientific literature," said Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group. "They're stacking their weight on their side of the scale."

Those behind the journals deny that industry relationships compromise scientific independence.

"There is this prevailing issue, which is really unfortunate, that anything supported by industry is tainted," said David Warheit, a Critical Reviews board member and scientist at Chemours, which manufactures titanium dioxide, an ingredient in sunscreen. "Perceptions pervade everything."

Warheit said each submission to the journal is evaluated by four or five peer reviewers as opposed to the typical two or three. "I have reviewed some awful papers for [Critical Reviews in Toxicology], and they didn't get published."

Roger McClellan (Wikimedia Commons)

New Mexico veterinarian and Critical Reviews editor Roger McClellan declined an interview request from the Center, writing in an email that he was proud of the journal's 45-year history. "My scientific record speaks for itself," he added, providing copies of his 64-page résumé and biography.

Gio Gori, editor of Regulatory Toxicology, also declined to comment and referred all questions to the publisher, Elsevier. A spokesperson cited a 2003 editorial by Gori, which referenced the journal's objectivity and "more than 600 international scientists who generously assist in the journal's peer-review process."

Chaos and turmoil

Epidemiologist Philippe Grandjean was one of 42 scientists who signed a letter in late 2002 criticizing Regulatory Toxicology's frequent failure to disclose conflicts of interest and deep industry ties, starting with Gori.

A former director of the National Cancer Institute, Gori made millions as a tobacco consultant questioning the dangers of secondhand smoke in scientific journals as well as The Washington Post.

Gio Gori (Wikimedia Commons)

"Gori is the kind of guy who would write especially obnoxious editorials where he would castigate honest scientists as being out of their minds," said Grandjean, a Danish epidemiologist. "It was so blatantly biased towards industry and against open and transparent science."

Elsevier stood by the journal but implemented a disclosure policy in 2003.

A decade later, Grandjean found himself drafting another letter — this time airing his concerns about Critical Reviews, where he served as a board member.

An adjunct professor at Harvard School of Public Health and a pioneering mercury researcher, Grandjean said he joined the Critical Reviews board more than 30 years ago despite its reputation for being cozy with industry because he believes in collaboration and felt he could have a say in the journal's content.

That changed in 2012 when the journal published two articles rebutting research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health linking lung cancer to diesel fumes. Grandjean said the publication "wasn't science for science's sake," but a way to cast doubt on NIOSH's findings.

His complaints got no traction with editor McClellan or then-publisher Informa Health, which Grandjean said reneged on promises to conduct an independent review. Taylor & Francis, the current publisher, declined to comment. In 2012, McClellan defended the journal's disclosure policies and said that Grandjean's complaint had been shared with other members of the editorial board, "none of [whom] shared the views expressed by Dr. Grandjean."

Grandjean resigned in 2012, ending a positive relationship that began under founding editor Leon Golberg. "I thought if [McClellan] invited me, he thought my advice would be useful, but apparently this changed to a situation where it was useful to have my name on the masthead to justify this was a balanced journal."

Like the journal he founded, Golberg's career aligned closely with industry. A native of Cyprus who held academic positions in South Africa and Britain and spent the end of his career at Duke University, Golberg oversaw Critical Reviews from its inaugural issue in September 1971, published by The Chemical Rubber Co.

The journal was introduced as "the voice of reason" in an era of "chaos and turmoil."

"Never before have so many regulatory actions been taken or proposed — some too late, others prematurely — that have bewildered the consumer and had a crushing impact on industry," Golberg wrote.

That same year, a public health crisis unraveled when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning against diethylstilbestrol (DES) — a synthetic hormone used for decades by pregnant women to combat morning sickness and prevent miscarriages or premature deliveries — which Golberg had co-created in 1938. As many as 10 million people were exposed to DES before it was linked to a rare vaginal cancer and other fertility problems, spawning myriad lawsuits.

Golberg's role in the DES debacle is less well known than his later achievements. They include founding the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT), now the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, a research group "founded and funded by the chemical industry," according to the Research Triangle Regional Partnership. He also jump-started the British Industrial Biological Research Association, a consulting firm whose clients include ExxonMobil and Procter & Gamble.

In the 1970s, Golberg consulted for a now-discredited campaign for "safer" cigarettes by R.J. Reynolds, which still funds fellowships in his honor at Wake Forest and Duke. He died in 1987 from mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer linked to asbestos exposure.

McClellan succeeded Golberg as both Critical Reviews editor and CIIT leader, working with trade groups like the American Chemistry Council. Critical Reviews has since become one of the most-cited toxicology journals, at the same time drawing a spate of criticism.

Ruff, the anti-asbestos advocate, chastised Critical Reviews in May for what she alleged to be improper disclosure in a 2013 asbestos article. Testimony in a court case stated that an industry group paid the authors nearly $180,000 in writing fees, which were erroneously described as "grants." She cited the incident as a reason for stricter disclosure reporting and enforcement.

As Critical Reviews editor, McClellan has been outspoken against regulation. By his own count, he has testified before Congress 20 times. In 2011, he argued against a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to curb ground-level ozone, or smog, as too expensive, calling for lawmakers to recognize that "a healthy economy with people employed is the cornerstone of a healthy population."

Industry ties

Since its 1981 debut, Regulatory Toxicology has billed itself as a credible and objective source for a broad audience. Its co-editors promised to focus on science instead of politics and "mythology."

"Safety is relative, not absolute," AIDS researcher Frederick Coulston and FDA scientist Dr. Albert Kolbye Jr. wrote in the inaugural issue. "Safety is a moving target."

The journal has been sympathetic to industry from the start. In its first issue, an associate editor lamented: "There has always been a sense of competition between government and industry, but always a high degree of mutual respect. In the seventies that spirit changed from competition to an adversary posture and from respect to distrust."

Regulatory Toxicology is the official publication of the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology & Pharmacology, an association whose leaders include a Coca Cola executive, corporate consultants and lawyers.

In an email to the Center, President Sue Ferenc denied that the society plays any editorial role at the journal. Outside of the society, Ferenc heads the Council of Producers & Distributors of Agrotechnology, a pesticide group with its own political action committee.

But significant overlap at both the society and the journal has existed for years.

Gary Yingling, a former FDA attorney who now represents industry clients, has been an editorial board member of Regulatory Toxicology since 1981 while also serving as the society's general counsel. Fellow board member Terry Quill is an industry lawyer and former society president, who led the society's push against labeling chloroform as carcinogenic. The EPA has since classified chloroform, a byproduct of chlorinating water, as a probable human carcinogen.

Recipients of the society's achievement award include well-known journal figures like McClellan, the Critical Reviews editor who also sits on Regulatory Toxicology's board. The society credited the journal's growing popularity as the "major" source of its success and "esteem."

Responding to questions about industry's financial support of the society, then-president Christopher Borgert wrote in a 2008 newsletter, "Science has an objective means of evaluating information, but it has nothing to do with who got the money and why . . . The process of science removes the scientist, with his numerous biases and conflicts of interest, as far as humanely [sic] possible from the process of data generation and interpretation."

Regulatory Toxicology's editors have also made headlines. Chain-smoking through an interview with The Wall Street Journal in 1997, Coulston claimed nicotine wasn't addictive and smoking didn't cause cancer. In 2001, his New Mexico chimpanzee lab was stripped of federal funding amid animal abuse claims.

Gori became editor of Regulatory Toxicology following Coulston's 2003 death and has also served as society president. In 2013, he and 17 other toxicology journal editors penned an editorial criticizing the European Union's plans to regulate chemicals known as endocrine disruptors. Of the 18 editors, only one did not have industry ties.

'All that noise'

"If a call comes in and the number is withheld, you might become suspicious and ignore the call," Grandjean wrote in 2012. "Scientific authorship should be just as simple so that we can concentrate our attention on the sources we trust."

But representatives of the EPA, the FDA and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said their agencies treat science equally, regardless of the funding source. Disclosure is encouraged by all three agencies but isn't mandatory.

Speakers at FDA proceedings are asked to disclose relevant financial relationships but the agency doesn't bar those who don't comply from participating.

Science at the EPA and OSHA is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Study authors are asked to disclose "funding sources and other pertinent interests" at the EPA, while OSHA asks those who comment on proposed rules to provide disclosures with their submissions.

What should or shouldn't be disclosed is a matter of debate. "There is no agreement on what a conflict of interest is," said Arthur Caplan, founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center. "The disclosures currently say, 'I'm going to disclose industry funding because that is a potential source of bias. You, reader, have to decide for yourself whether it is or it isn't. Good luck to you.' " Current sentiment "demonizes the industry side," Caplan added, while ignoring potential biases created by private foundations or government money.

Disclosure policies don't exist to eliminate bias, said Sheldon Krimsky, a professor at Tufts University who studies science and public policy, but to allow the public to assess potential conflicts that can undermine findings. "Science is not a matter of this fact and that fact; there's all sorts of nuance in science," he said. "You can draw conclusions in science beyond what your data tells you."

Krimsky's own research has found that industry-backed studies typically yield findings that bolster a company's bottom line. "Companies want you to produce a specific result," he said. "They won't publish it if you don't."

Even with proper disclosure, assessing a study's credibility takes time, said the NRDC's Sass. "In the end we still have to go through it on its merits; so do the EPA, and [other] federal bodies," she said. "That leaves us with the task of addressing the substantive flaws each time, article by article."

In the federal regulatory process, this can mean additional public hearings and meetings where activists go head-to-head with, and are often outnumbered by, industry representatives.

"The system can't manage all that noise," Caplan said. "The science tends to get lost and the politics wins or the economics wins. When there's that much noise going on, other factors start to resolve the dispute and they're not factual."

This article first appeared on Center for Public Integrity and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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So here are the praying hands which I was avoiding in the first part of this prayer series.
As I thought back over my reticence to portray prayer in any traditional way, I realized I was denying access to many people, a tenet which would never suit PATH Ministries. Since I was raised Episcopalian, and may have stayed Episcopalian if they had ordained women in those days--or at least given us some hope--I have to admit, there is a signal to the brain from the physical body when we kneel and fold our hands that something sacred is about to occur. Whatever your prayer position, traditional or not, it will become that signal to your whole self that it's time to pray.
Many people like to meditate or focus on a mantra or a lit candle or mandala as a way of centering themselves. I can still remember when I was a young girl growing up in a turbulent family that I would go to my room, pull the covers up over my head, and say the Lord's Prayer over and over to block out the yelling and screaming that was so upsetting to me. I found my comfort in the repetition of a familiar prayer; it somehow connected me with a power bigger than myself that could absorb the anger and rage in my household, and I felt safer.
As a writer, I am working on a book on sensory meditation, the introduction to which you can read on the meditation page on this website. As the book unfolds through me (and that is how it is happening), I am learning more and more ways to let my body be not only a signal but also a gatekeeper and welcoming committee to a state of prayer consciousness. Rather than trying to ignore all distractions incoming from my senses, I am using my senses to direct and enhance my prayer and meditation. It seems more in a natural flow, and I'll tell you more about it later as it grows.
Sometimes, my prayer is a song which I allow to sing through me. Perhaps it is a known chant, or often it is just a word or phrase that becomes my mantra and melody...sort of a song of my soul. It beats running around with "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner," from TV circulating through my head!
Whatever brings you to that awareness, to that interface with the Divine in you and in the world, is prayer for me. When I reach the point where I feel suspended in time and space in a consciousness of pure love, I try to stay there for as long as it is possible. I almost hold my breath, for fear it will leave or I will fail to maintain it. I suspect that true enlightenment is being able to walk in that Presence at will, or even perhaps all the time. In the meantime, there is that potential and possibility of frequent visits to this peaceful, loving land of prayer.
Divine Presence, I give thanks for my growing awareness that you are with me and accessible at all times as I remember to turn unfailingly to You.
What does a picture of an eclipse have to do with prayer?
After searching, searching on a quest for a visual symbol for prayer, and ruling out praying hands and angels, I came upon this. Prayer for me is an activity in which I let my own ego self be eclipsed by my higher spiritual Self and thereby touch the hem of the garment. Prayer is a state in which we are able to interface with the Divine and feel its presence take us over, blocking out all negativity, conflict, judgement, and doubt.
I also love the darkness and the light in this picture. It expresses for me the the Womb of the Universe and the Birth of the Light into the world. For me, this is the process of prayer in which we encounter the fullness of Creation in ourselves--the light and the dark of us--and the unlimited connection we have with Spirit.
How do we pray? There are as many ways to pray as there are ideas of God. I can only share what i have come to understand, and if that touches you, try it. Whatever you read in this blog is for your consideration and the not the truth of the universe. No one can dictate your prayer life to you, only encourage it.
How do I pray? I pray in several ways. I pray in many places, in many states of mind, and at all times. Even in the midst of turmoil and anger, I pray that my Higher Self will prevail. When I see someone else in trouble or despair, I pray that they may feel the presence of the Holy Spirit guiding and comforting them. When I am in Nature, I pray feeling my oneness with all life. When I am sitting in my living room, I center myself in the Silence, letting go of every distraction that enters my mind.
Often, in the middle of the night, I will pray the ancient prayer of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, descending with my mind into my heart and there encountering God. There it is safe to confront my demons, my pain, my negativity, my judgement, and my grief and losses.
The greatest and most constant path I pray is gratitude and thankfulness for all the blessings I have in my life...even those that feel like trials and tribulations. For I know, without a doubt because it has always been so in the past, that there will be a lesson that will prosper and bless me, and in turn, others as well.
I have a friend, Joanie Levenson, also a singer and minister, who professes to be a "promiscuous prayer," meaning that she will pray anytime, any place, with anybody. I feel the same way as she does. There is never a time, place, or occasion where prayer is not appropriate. Prayer honors everyone in every situation, no matter what their beliefs or lack thereof. At times, it may be a silent prayer for guidance, or a positive, powerful prayer for Divine Order or Intervention. Sometimes, it is an inner assertion that I am one with God and God is one with me and others.
Since I am a singer, I have a song for everything, according to my friends. When I think of prayer, I think of a line from an old Buffy Ste. Marie song...."Magic is Afoot...God is Alive." When we affirm the Presence and Power of that One Universal Creative Force, then there is a seeming magic. Of course, it isn't magic at all, but Divine Order and Power being displayed and demonstrated for us. But it often feels miraculous and magic, which brings us the elation of Oneness with something greater than ourselves.
Do you remember a song Michael Jackson recorded called, "Smile?" Let's replace the word "smile" with "pray."
There's never a way to predict what the universe will bring you at just the right time. Today was Richard's birthday. He is impossible to buy for, because he wants so little. After a lovely day which included a tasty Thai lunch with friends and then a trip to the Clay warehouse in Asheville, we came back home for a quiet evening. No cake. No party. No big hullabaloo.
Richard went out to work in the garden just before dusk with Lady Dog. Suddenly he came in the door with Lady yelling, "We've got bears! Bears!" I didn't particularly get excited, since we have three metal bears in our garden that our grandkids painted. But Richard insisted I get on my shoes and come out, so I did. He pointed down our street, and there next to a grove of trees I could barely make out a BIG BEAR!
Richard told me to call the Wildlife line, which I did. I told them there were some big bears in our +55 community. The lady calmly told me that there were bears all over North Carolina and hung up.
We hopped in our car to warn the neighbors near there, since many of them go out walking when it cools off around sunset. We saw one lady and told her about the bears, and by then we could see not only Mama Bear, but also two cubs by the trees. One cub was trying to climb the tree, but Momma quickly put a stop to that.
Fortunately I had grabbed my camera when I realized Richard wasn't kidding about live bears. I got one shot of Mamma Bear crossing the road, and Richard got the two cubs following right behind her! It was so exciting!
Now, why am I telling all of you this? Well, I hadn't known what to get the finest man on earth for his birthday, and the Universe, probably without much effort, delivered THREE LIVE BEARS...which just happens to be Richard's totem!!!
Thank you, Mother Nature, for making this a spectacular day for My Beloved!
Let me introduce myself to those of you who don't know me by saying that I am the veteran of many religious institutions. That has left me with mixed feelings about the purpose and reason for the existence of "church". In early adulthood, I came to the conclusion that I need to understand religion from a spiritual perspective. As a result, I investigated existential philosophers, Catholic mystics, theological perspectives, and Native American spirituality, in addition to Unity's teachings.
Unity provided an accepting environment for me to explore spirituality and through Unity I became acquainted with Sharon Poindexter, who was my business consultant. After she was accepted to USRS (ministerial school), she began to facilitate Bible, metaphysics, and prayer groups in her home. After her ordination in 1988, she formed PATH Ministry, where I was ordained by her as a Trailblazer in ministry to a community of people with AIDS. Rev. Sharon, in her short time on earth as a minister, mentored and encouraged me to explore ministry from different perspectives.
As a result of our involvement with PATH, over the years Eileen and I have conducted gatherings in our home, in parks, by streams, in churches, meeting rooms, and the residences of others, with the belief that one's spiritual journey is shaped by their life experiences, culture, history, sexual orientation and their willingness to create. We have both worked as hospice chaplains and had our own award-winning live talk radio show, and cable TV show, plus we facilitated a gang truce in a large city of the southwest.
Working together again in this resurrected, reinvented PATH Ministries, I have no doubt that Eileen and I will continue to grow spiritually and to minister to all who may benefit from our gifts.
Please read Rev. Richard's biography on another page in our website.
Rev. Richard may be reached a 360-606-2024, at Rev.Richard@pathministries.info or on facebook at Richard Talley or PATH Ministries.
Today I'd like to share with you an acronym written some years ago by a spiritually aware friend of mine from Kansas. I like acronyms because they help me remember important concepts that might otherwise slip out of my mind. This one is especially pertinent for this ministry and a good guide to pray or meditate upon. Thank you, Annola Charity for sharing this with those on the PATH.
And allow magic and miracles to happen in your life.
Yields according to the faith and measure of your belief.
Divine One, with your guidance I will stay on my PATH, wherever it may take me, as my life unfolds before me.
When you judge others, you're judging yourself.
"Ain't it good to know you've gotta friend?" James Taylor sang, so I interpret Liz Carpenter's observation to mean that age is my friend in learning not to judge. That's good news for me, as I know one of my greatest life lessons is to learn not to judge.
One of the things I know about judging is that it takes the one who judges a great deal of energy and doesn't necessarily affect the one who is judged at all. I shudder to consider how much energy I have wasted over the years in judging others needlessly. It never changes the other person. We canneverchange another person. We can only change ourselves.
Does that then mean we are to judge ourselves? No, however, it is important to realize that what we judge in others is most likely what we cannot see in ourselves...what we will not see in ourselves...what we don't want to acknowledge in ourselves...and so we project it onto others. That way, we can see it and hopefully heal it in ourselves. All too often, though, we don't claim it as our own and so we ignore and deny what needs to be healed in us.
Holy One, When I am quick to judge others, let me stop and look at myself first and see what part of me needs to be healed. Let me display compassion for myself and others, and in this begin the healing process.
Note: Judgement here is not the wise judgement written about by Charles Fillmore as one of the Twelve Powers of Man.
I have heard many definitions of hope. It seems to be a quality that is essential for the human soul to flourish in life on earth.
Winston Churchill believed, "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." Although he left hope for last, it is perhaps the most valuable, being a human emotion that motivates and encourages us in times of stress and negativity. In fact, we often think "hopelessness" is the end of the road.
When we have hope, as Shakespeare said, "Hark, there's hope in her soul," we are looking forward to better times and not wallowing in the past or even the present conditions. So hope propels us forward.
Albert Einstein put it another way, saying "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." With the addition of his advice to keep on questioning, we see hope as a vehicle for growth. As long as we are exploring and remain open to learning under any given circumstance, we have the opportunity to make even the worst condition a learning experience. In other words, as my friend Rev. Joy Young would say, "Another AFGO--Another Frustrating Growth Opportunity!"
Still turning to the wisdom of sages, I am enlightened and delighted by the words of Mark Twain: "Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms." If we can't grow and blossom from our inner core of being, then all the hope in the world cannot suffice.
I do believe that hope is generated by faith, and that it carries with it the belief that there is some spiritual truth to be had if we persist and pursue it.
My grandchildren, as most children will, express hope in things to come. Perhaps it is because they still believe in magic or because they haven't yet come to witness the cruelty and disappointment in our world. They are the ultimate optimists, and indeed, if we think about it, many of our world's greatest prophets, philosophers, and souls have had a childlike belief in the far-fetched and impossible. When he was just a little guy, my grandson Kyle would want to go places that we adults knew weren't open. He'd always say, "Maybe they are." Then his sister Ariel came along with a similar belief that things could go her way with, "You never know." Now the littlest one, McKenzie just goes about things as if they will, of course, go her way, no questions asked and no doubts!
Wise Spirit of Truth, open my mind and heart to all the blessings you have in store for me, as I continually commit to faith-filled belief in your goodness.
People are not always how they seem.
Words do not always mean what they seem.
How are we to know what's real and what's not?
How do we navigate the waters of life when we can't see the rocks?
Questions and doubts plague us on a daily basis, if we're honest about it. Who among us has all the answers?
I had a new little boy in my second grade class many years ago, and no matter what question I asked, he'd wave his hand wildly in the air to be called upon. When I called on him, he would always answer, "Jesus." One day privately I asked him why he did this. He replied, "Well, at church they say Jesus is the answer to everything!"
Of course his childish interpretation to what he had heard was cute, but I got to thinking....what if we could discipline ourselves in every circumstance, in every challenge, to turn to Spirit? If this was our baseline response, wouldn't the world be a much saner place? A less fearful place? A less daunting place?
When we feel like we're in a dark tunnel and the only light at the end of it is an oncoming train, perhaps we can gather our strength and turn to that power within us. Maybe, when people act unfairly or treat us poorly, we can remember to see them through the eyes of God. Even when the river of life appears to have submerged rocks in our path, sometimes we might be able to remember the Real Truth of who we are. PERHAPS? MAYBE? SOMETIMES? How about replacing these words with ALWAYS and FOREVER?
Mother/Father God, with strength I turn always to your Presence within me and my way is made clear.


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Cyprus' debt crisis puts Russian banks and companies at risk of losing billions of dollars. Russian businesses may reportedly lose over $50 billion should the island's government default on its debt obligations according to Moody's credit rating agency.
Earlier in February Moody's said that the scale of the country's debt may force its government to give in to the most radical mechanisms of slashing the debt, "including private-sector losses on Cypriot debt."
The first major risk for Russia is based on its banks' massive credit exposure to Cyprus. The amount of cross-border loans Russian banks issued to Russia-related companies registered in Cyprus totals between $30 billion and $40 billion.
According to Moody's analyst Eugene Tarzimanov "a potential Cyprus moratorium on external payments could block loan repayments [of up to $53 billion] to Russia, leading to some asset-quality pressures."
Most Russia's largest banks are somehow involved in crediting Cyprus-based businesses.
There are also indirect risks for Russian banks, associated with the Russian corporate deposits in Cypriot banks. An estimated $12 billion were held on deposit with Cypriot banks at the end of last year. Moody's latest estimates say now this figure is approaching $19 billion.
If Cyprus' banking sectors defaults and the corporate deposits are frozen or used to help save local banks, Russian banks may suffer major deposit losses. According to the agency Russia may also not be able to repatriate these funds, which may affect the servicing of the bank debt back in Russia.
The next risk is in amending Cyprus' corporate tax policy. Cyprus is widely regarded as tax haven for the Russian big companies, as with its 10 percent it has one of lowest corporate tax rates in Europe, vital to attracting foreign investment.
If Cyprus agrees to fulfill the requirements of the "Troika" (EU, IMF and European Central Bank) set as a condition for them to issue a 17 billion euro rescue loan, the tax rate may soon be increased from 10 percent to 12.5 percent, and will likely scare off business, Vedomosti daily reports. It may affect the attractiveness of Cyprus for the Russian companies. Cyprus currently ranks as the largest source of foreign direct investment into Russia, while the money Russia receives is largely of Russian origin.
Cyprus has been in talks with the EU and Russia on a 17 billion euros rescue package that would recapitalize its oversized banking sector and also aid debt and government expenses, Reuters reports. EU states' finance ministers are due to rule a bailout decision for Cyprus by the end of March.
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In the pictures, the device can be viewed as somewhat folded as well as completely folded.
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Meet The Next Female President of Afghanistan
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
Fawzia Koofi (born in 1975 or 1976) is an Afghan politician and women's rights activist. Originally from Badakhshan province, she is currently serving as a Member of Parliament in Kabul and is the Vice President of the National Assembly. She has also announced her intention to run as a presidential candidate in the 2014 elections in Afghanistan causing a global political earthquake.
Her story movingly captures the political and cultural moment in Afghanistan, a country caught between the hope of progress and the bitter truth of history and is documented in her brand new book The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father, brother, and husband, and numerous attempts on her life, she rose to become the first Afghani woman Parliament speaker.
Here, she shares her amazing story, punctuated by a series of poignant letters she wrote to her two daughters before each political trip—letters describing the future and freedoms she dreamed of for them and for all the women of Afghanistan.
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Born into a polygamous family of seven women, she was first rejected by her parents because of her sex. Her father, a member of Parliament, had married a younger woman, and Koofi's mother sought to have a son to maintain her husbands' affection. The day she was born, Koofie was left out to die in the sun.
She managed to persuade her parents to send her to school, making her the only girl in the family to attend school. She subsequently graduated from Preston University in Pakistan with a master's degree in business and management. Her father was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 25 years but died at the end of the first Afghan war (1979-1989), killed by Mujahideens.
Koofi originally wanted to become a physician, but chose to study political science and become a member of UNICEF. She worked closely with vulnerable groups such as Internally Displaced People (IDP) and marginalized women and children, and served as a child protection officer for the organization from 2002 to 2004.
Koofi began her political career in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban, promoting the right to education of girls in her "Back to school" campaign.
In the parliamentary elections in 2005, she was elected to the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the Afghan National Assembly, for the Badakhshan district in the northeastern part of the country and became its Vice-President.
She was the first female Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament in the history of Afghanistan. She was re-elected in the parliamentary elections of 2010 and then elected MP from a total of 69 female members of the Assembly.
She has survived several assassination attempts, including one on March 8, 2010, near the town of Tora Bora.
Koofi is currently running as a candidate in the upcoming 2014 Afghan presidential election. She is a running on a platform of equal rights for women, promoting universal education and the opposition to political corruption.
Women's rights engagement
Koofi has made it a priority to defend women's rights in Afghanistan.
Some of the key women's initiatives that she has championed during her tenure as an MP include: the improvement of women's living conditions in Afghan prisons; the establishment of a commission to combat the issue of violence (especially sexual violence) against children; and the amendment of the shia personal status law. Koofi also promoted education for women and children by advocating for access to good schools and creating opportunities for non-formal education for her constituents in Badakhshan province. In 2009, she was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Koofi was married to a man named Hamid, an engineer and chemistry teacher. Her marriage was arranged, but she did not disapprove of her family's choice. Ten days after their wedding Taliban soldiers arrested her husband and he was imprisoned. In prison he contracted tuberculosis and died shortly after his release in 2003. Koofi lives in Kabul with her two teenage daughters.
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"Koofi's story is one of determination and hope and shows the power of one person making the strong right choices every day to bring change … I ask you to read Koofi's book. See for yourself."—The Huffington Post
"Gripping." "Koofi's personal story is engaging and immersive…[she] deftly writes about changes in cultural customs and norms and how they affected women, with nuance that is sometimes absent from commentary surrounding Afghan women's lives…an inspiring and courageous story."–Muslimah Media Watch
"The Favored Daughter yields important background about a part of the world that we should not forget or dismiss." –The Minneapolis Star Tribune
"One of the country's most outspoken democracy activists . . .Koofi describes unflinchingly the wreckage she witnessed at the hands of Afghans of all ideologies and clans." – The Globe and Mail
'An affecting inside look at the making of an Afghan woman leader, in spite of the repression by traditional Islamic society and the Taliban . . . With moving letters to her daughters opening each chapter, Koofi delivers an important message.' – KIRKUS Reviews
"A gripping account of survival against the odds. A sometimes brutal and shocking read, The Favored Daughter is never anything less than inspiring. Read it – and be happy for the chances life has given you."—Andrea Busfield, author of Born under a Million Shadows
Fawzia Koofi is Afghanistan's first female Parliament speaker and a noted activist for women and children's rights. She is currently a leading candidate for the presidential elections in 2014 and has been quoted by the BBC, Time, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Globe and Mail, and many others. Koofi was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009. Before getting elected to Parliament, Koofi was employed by UNICEF as a child protection officer from 2002 through 2004. The mother of two girls, she lives in Kabul.Nadene Ghouriis an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. She is a former correspondent of both the BBC and Al Jazeera English
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Let's see how the MaxClients option in Apache affects the system when Full GC has occurred in Tomcat. Most developers know that "stop the world (STW) phenomenon" occurs when GC has occurred in Java (for more refer to Understanding Java Garbage Collection). In particular, Java developers at NHN may have experienced faults caused by GC-related issues in Tomcat. Because Java Virtual Machine (JVM) manages the memory, Java-based systems cannot be free of the STW phenomenon caused by GC. Several times a day, GC occurs in services you have developed and currently operate. In this situation, even if TTS caused by faults does not occur, services may return unexpected 503 errors to users.
The results show that Docker equals or exceeds KVM performance in every case tested. For CPU and memory performance KVM and Docker introduce a measurable but negligible overhead, although for I/O intensive applications both require tuning. Docker performance degrades when using files stored in AUFS, compared to using volumes, that have better performance. A volume is a specially-designated directory within one or more containers that bypasses the union file system, so it does not have the overhead that the storage backends may have. The default AUFS backend causes significant I/O overhead specially when using many layers and deep nested directory hierarchies.
Think carefully before you just start shutting off IPv6. Remember, it is enabled and preferred and if your existing production network is using IPv6 for some of its network traffic you will have a production outage while you disable IPv6. Furthermore, you might not even know all the applications that ARE using IPv6, have fun troubleshooting that one. Even after you think you have turned off IPv6 on your equipment, how often do you actually audit and check to see if it is running? Does it get re-enabled with OS patches and updates? What about third party equipment that runs on your network or wireless/wired guest network?
A dashboard camera in front of the driver is well-positioned to spot cell phone use. Their system processes the images from this camera in three steps. First, it locates the driver and crops the image to show just the face and area to each side of the face. The idea is to see the driver's hands should they be raised next to the ear in holding a mobile phone while making a call. Next, it identifies any skin pixels in the image and assesses the position of these pixels. It then segments the image into areas showing face and hands. Finally, it assesses the likelihood that the driver is on a call and issues a warning accordingly.
A key bone of contention in the dispute centers around the fact that Oregon hired Oracle on a time-and-materials basis, with the state serving as its own systems integrator. "That decision was akin to an individual with no construction experience undertaking to manage the processes of designing and building a massive multi-use downtown skyscraper without an architect or general contractor," Oracle said. Another alleged flaw in the state's approach: It decided to build Cover Oregon at the same time it was embarking on a major IT modernization project for other aspects of its health and human services operations.
This segment will introduce the concept of CT as well as provide a substantive demo (i.e., something better than a hello world example) of CT's functionality. CT was introduced with SQL Server 2008R2 and unlike Change Data Capture (CDC) is available for all versions of SQL Server 2008 (and later) including SQL Server Express. CT captures changes to database table rows over a period of time. It does not record each change during that period, but retains the net changes by tracking the individual rows (using the Primary Key) that have changed. Thus, it is great for data extraction/synchronization, but not for auditing (that is CDC's area of expertise).
Given functional programming has been around since the 50s, and until recently mostly disregarded by the mainstream, why has it become such a hot topic? My opinion is that it's because of its ability to easily process work in parallel taking advantage of multi-core processors, lazy (on-demand) evaluation, and ease of integration with other languages such as Java. Certainly the JVM has provided a good base for Scala which can even be embedded in a Java program, giving the best of both worlds plus an easier migration path for developers.
These are, of course, widely appreciated management methods for raising performance. But they're rarely put into practice. Perhaps it's because they feel counterintuitive to many managers. Even the leaders who use them, and whose enterprises benefit from the results, don't know why they work. So the value of these powerful practices is often overlooked. That's where neuroscience comes in. Breakthroughs in human brain research (using conventional experimental psychology research in addition to relatively new technologies like CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging) are revealing new insights about cognitive processes.


Drunk Driving in Everett, WA | Carter & Fulton, P.S.
In certain cases, drunk drivers can be held liable for damages over and above what they are insured for under their auto liability coverage. Depending upon your injuries and the losses involved, it may be possible to recover additional damages from a drunk driver's excess or umbrella policy or from your own uninsured/underinsured (UIM) coverage.
Additionally, if the drunk driver who hit you was under 21 years of age or was visibly intoxicated when served alcohol, the bar, restaurant, social/private host, or liquor store that served or provided liquor to him or her can be held liable, as well, under Washington's dram shop law.
At the law office of Carter & Fulton, we hold drunk drivers financially accountable for injuries and fatalities they cause in drunk driving accidents.
If you've been injured or have lost a family member in a drunk driving accident, contact personal injury attorneys at Carter & Fulton today and schedule a free consultation to discuss your case and learn how we can help you.
In drunk driving injury accidents, criminal charges are almost always filed. As a result, a drunk driver will appear in court and may claim to have changed his or her ways, providing proof of enrollment in an alcohol counseling program. Our attorneys may decide to attend the hearing of the drunk driver that hit you to see if any such claims are made or obtain the criminal file records for use in the civil personal injury action.
Often in such cases, using a private investigator or old-fashioned investigation by one of our attorneys, we locate the witnesses necessary to document the fact that the drunk driver was intoxicated at the time of the crash and/or visibly intoxicated while being served liquor by the bar, restaurant, or liquor establishment.
In the state of Washington, a bar, restaurant, or liquor store can be held liable for injuries and deaths caused by a person they served alcohol to who was visibly intoxicated at the time. Here, eyewitness statements, bar tabs, credit card receipts, and security camera footage can be used to recreate a timeline of when a drunk driver was served, how much he or she drank, and whether others observed slurring of speech, an unsteady gait, or lack of motor coordination.
Oftentimes, an alcohol expert witness will also be retained to testify about alcohol's effects on driving behavior.
In drunk driving accident cases involving a driver under the age of 21, the person or establishment that served the drunk driver may also be liable, regardless of whether the person was visibly intoxicated at the time.
Drunk driving injury accident claims are, in many ways, special kinds of cases that require knowledge of how to prepare and present them. At Carter & Fulton, our lawyers have years of experience in helping injury victims recover damages for medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering after a serious accident.
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Over at Prevention, I wrote about some of the ways I keep motivated to continue exercising.
What keeps you involved in an exercise program? What kind of goals do you set for yourself? What kind of rewards do you dangle?
I want to keep going, so I know that I have to constantly motivate myself to get going.
What keeps you involved in an exercise program?
The results! I feel so much better and do not want to feel old and tired any more.
What kind of goals do you set for yourself?
None really - except keeping regular with the Yoga. I need to practice at least 4 times a week, but work and weather sometimes make it difficult!
What kind of rewards do you dangle?


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using CooperationWithOther;
using NSubstitute;
using NUnit.Framework;
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Prig;
using Urasandesu.Prig.Delegates;
using Urasandesu.Prig.Framework;

namespace CooperationWithOtherTest
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class NSubstituteTest
    {
        [Test]
        public void ValueWithRandomAdded_should_raise_PropertyChanged_event_with_its_name()
        {
            // Arrange
            var notifyingObject = new NotifyingObject();

            var mockHandler = Substitute.For<PropertyChangedEventHandler>();
            mockHandler(Arg.Any<object>(), Arg.Any<PropertyChangedEventArgs>());
            notifyingObject.PropertyChanged += mockHandler;

            // Act
            notifyingObject.ValueWithRandomAdded = 42;

            // Assert
            mockHandler.Received(1)(notifyingObject, Arg.Is<PropertyChangedEventArgs>(o => o.PropertyName == "ValueWithRandomAdded"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void ValueWithRandomAdded_should_hold_passed_value_plus_random_value()
        {
            using (new IndirectionsContext())
            {
                // Arrange
                var notifyingObject = new NotifyingObject();

                var mockNext = Substitute.For<IndirectionFunc<Random, int>>();
                mockNext(Arg.Any<Random>()).Returns(10);
                PRandom.Next().Body = mockNext;

                // Act
                notifyingObject.ValueWithRandomAdded = 32;
                var actual = notifyingObject.ValueWithRandomAdded;

                // Assert
                mockNext.Received(1)(Arg.Any<Random>());
                Assert.AreEqual(42, actual);
            }
        }
    }
}


As potential franchisees make sense of all the information and start finalising their top picks, they often neglect key factors in the evaluation and viability decision-making process. Some potential and existing franchisees do not understand what is required to scope out the viability of a business model, locations or new business venture.
In any business, the formula for success includes not just the product but also the franchise system itself. During this webinar, BDO's Franchise Partner Jason Daniels will address the key components to reviewing the viability of a franchise and formulating good decisions.


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Thank you Michael Ableman for these beautiful images. All images are copyrighted by Michael Ableman: From the Good Earth (Abrams, 1993) and Fields of Plenty (Chronicle Books, 2005).
Brown skin blends with dark, moist earth.
A woman gleans small and damaged ears left behind from the main harvest.
Several crops may share the same field: one ready for harvest, one developing below, and one newly seeded.
The patchwork of small plots so common to China makes tractors impractical.
Garden of Eatin' thrives in a decaying neighborhood.
Inca legends say quinoa was the remains of a heavenly banquet.
The San Bruno Jail Horticulture Project helps inmates to recovery.
Farmers grow bean and barley on terraces that fed their Inca ancestors.
Ornamental kale with romanesco, beets, chard and spinach.
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Composer Bruce R. Smith received his degree in woodwinds from Indiana University where he studied flute with James Pellerite and Carol Kniebusch Noe. He also studied composition and arranging with Bernard Heiden, Thomas Beversdorf, and orchestration with Juan Orrego-Salas. Smith received his master's degree from Ball State University where he did further studies in composition with Robert Sherman. His appreciation for the skills and techniques of the flutist is demonstrated throughout this composition. This piece was a finalist in the NFA 2006 Newly Published Music Competition.
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February 2018 Research Roundup
Did you know? SfN's journals, JNeurosci and eNeuro, publish high-quality papers on a broad range of neuroscience topics written by scientists around the world. In this Neuronline series, explore some of the research recently published in JNeurosci and eNeuro.
These Carbon Dioxide-Sensing Neurons Wake Up Mice
Stimulating a population of neurons in the midbrain with carbon dioxide (CO2) awakens adult male mice without enhancing breathing, finds a study published in JNeurosci. These findings are relevant to understanding disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea, sudden infant death syndrome and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Rising levels of CO2 trigger the drive to breathe, and cause arousal from sleep. Disorders that interfere with this important signal can disrupt sleep and, in some cases, lead to death. The mechanism by which CO2 causes arousal from sleep — a reflex critical to survival — is not well understood.
Gordon Buchanan and colleagues demonstrate that activation of serotonin neurons in the midbrain dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) with CO2-saturated, artificial cerebrospinal fluid woke up sleeping mice. Activation of similar neurons in the medulla, on the other hand, increased breathing but did not wake the mice up. The study identifies a direct pathway through which CO2 induces arousal independent of changes in breathing.
Read the full article: Dorsal Raphe Serotonin Neurons Mediate CO2- Induced Arousal From Sleep
How Preterm Birth May Impact Language Development
Altered development of a part of the auditory cortex in preterm infants is associated with poorer language skills in early childhood, finds a brain imaging study of very early-born babies in a neonatal intensive care unit. The research, published in eNeuro, suggests that developmental disturbances to this brain region may underlie speech and language difficulties observed in this population.
The neural machinery that supports hearing is typically functional by 15 weeks before birth, making babies sensitive to speech and language while they are still in the womb. Brian Monson and colleagues used a magnetic resonance imaging technique to track changes in Heschl's gyrus, a part of the brain that contains both the primary auditory cortex (pAC) and nonprimary auditory cortex (nAC), in 90 infants born prior to 30 weeks gestation. They show that the pAC matures earlier but more slowly than the nAC, which changes rapidly in the last 10 weeks of the typical gestation period. Developmental differences in the nAC of preterm infants were associated with reduced expressive language ability, such as gesturing and vocabulary, in a follow-up assessment at two years of age.
Read the full article: Differential Rates of Perinatal Maturation of Human Primary and Nonprimary Auditory Cortex
Amphetamine Abuse Disrupts Development of Mouse Prefrontal Cortex
Recreational drug use during adolescence may disrupt development of an understudied part of the prefrontal cortex, according to a study of male mice published in eNeuro.
Brain cells that utilize the neurotransmitter dopamine are key players in the development of the prefrontal cortex, which continues to mature through early adulthood. During adolescence, the axons of these dopamine neurons extend from the nucleus accumbens to the medial prefrontal frontal cortex.
Cecilia Flores and colleagues show that this delayed growth of dopamine axons also applies to the orbital prefrontal cortex (oPFC), a brain region involved in complex functions such as decision-making, but the development of which is poorly understood.
Mice exposed to the stimulant amphetamine at doses similar to those obtained when the drug is abused by humans had fewer synapses in the oPFC, likely as a result of reduced axon growth, compared to control mice.
The researchers did not observe ongoing adolescent dopamine axon growth nor similar effects of amphetamine in a neighboring brain region, the piriform cortex. This suggests that the ongoing extension of dopamine axons and their sensitivity to environmental influences like drugs may be unique to the prefrontal cortex.
Read the full article: Dopamine Development in the Mouse Orbital Prefrontal Cortex is Protracted and Sensitive to Amphetamine in Adolescence
The Ins and Outs of Area 25
Neuroscientists have charted the incoming and outgoing connections of a brain region located deep within the monkey prefrontal cortex that has important roles in emotion and memory processes. The comprehensive, high-resolution map reported in JNeurosci provides new insight into how emotional regulation may become disrupted in psychiatric disorders.
By injecting dyes into subgenual cingulate area 25 (A25) of rhesus macaques, Helen Barbas and Mary Kate Joyce demonstrate strong connections between this brain area and others involved in emotional regulation and maintenance of body states like the stress response.
The researchers also found connections that may contribute to the emotional content of memories and a pathway between A25, which is activated during feelings of sadness, and frontopolar area 10, a part of the brain that has been implicated in depression. As depression is associated with excessive activity in A25, the link between these two areas suggests a possible mechanism underlying the persistent negative thoughts characteristic of the disorder.
Read the full article: Cortical Connections Position Primate Area 25 as a Keystone for Interoception, Emotion, and Memory
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News : USCIS Completed Data Entry for H1B FY 2019 – Next Steps after Lottery ?
Home » H1B Visa & Consulting » H1B Visa News » News : USCIS Completed Data Entry for H1B FY 2019 – Next Steps after Lottery ?
Many of you, who are yet to hear back from USCIS on your H1B petition, have been awaiting this news update. USCIS announced today that the Data Entry is completed for H1B Petitions filed for FY 2019 quota. Below is the quick summary and what to expect next.
This year's Data Entry Complete press alert is delayed by almost two weeks. Last year, it was released on May 3rd. Below is the summary.
H1B 2019 Lottery Selected Petitions : USCIS released a press alert today, May 15th, that they have completed data entry of all the H1B Petitions selected in Lottery that were filed for FY 2019 quota. All it means is that, if you were selected in H1B Visa Lottery for FY 2019 quota, your data is entered in USCIS System for further process.
Return of Unselected H1B Petitions in Lottery : USCIS says that they will return all the unselected petitions that were not selected in the total of 190,098 H1B Petitions that were in FY2019 H1B Lottery . They indicate that due to high volume of petitions, they do not have a specified deadline for the sending returned petitions. Based on past data, we can expect that this can be around mid-July or early August of 2018.
Reaching out to USCIS regarding H1B petition : For now, USCIS says that you as an employer or petitioner should not reach out to USCIS until you see a Receipt notice or rejected package. They will issue a press release once all of these unselected petitions are sent out so that you as an employer and petitioner would know the time frame and then may contact USCIS after that deadline. Based on historical data, for FY 2018 quota, they announced this on July 19th and gave guidance that employers can contact after July 31st. If we go by the timeline, this year, the data entry is delayed by about 12 days, last year this was announced on May 3rd. So, we may have the date for returning petitions to be pushed by a week or two to go to end of July or early August 2018.
Workload Distribution – Transfer of Petitions : Similar to previous years, USCIS may transfer some H1B Petitions between Vermont Service centre and California Service centre to balance load. If they transfer your case, you will get a notification in mail ( physical postal mail ) . You can contact that service centre, if any questions regarding your case. It would look like below, when you check online on USCIS site. In general, some worry, if it will impact your case approval chances. In fact, it does not really change anything, so nothing to panic, it is just an administrative thing for USCIS to distribute workload.
What does this Data Entry Update mean to you ?
This press alert is quite similar to the last year's one, just details on premium processing are missing in it. But, in general, if you have filed a H1B petition or you are the employee, all it means for you is that you should expect a receipt notice or a rejected petition package soon. It can take anywhere around 2 weeks for mail to arrive. You may see more of the remaining receipt notices sent out in the next 2 to 3 weeks and also expect to receive Rejected Packages soon. There is definitely no sequence as such. Based on past data, we can expect that USCIS will update on their returning of all petitions around end of July or early August, so there is a long way to go ! Don't be anxious, the wait is long. Take it with the flow.
What's Next Process in H1B Journey ?
What do you think of the timelines ? Did anyone get Rejected packages or Approval ?
Hi. My name is Anvar, I agree to term and conditions of your website.
Case number could not be recognized on status update website.
This is so weird. I'm unable to see the status on egov but can see in myaccount.
Anybody here with same issue and received any update so far? please share with us.
Dear Friends whose receipt number is not recognized. Did you get any update either approval or RFE?
Also please feel free to post suggestions. It will help everyone a lot.
Hi, I am trying to set up an interview for my visa stamp in my country of origin. I plan to do this in December when I go visit my family (my change of status already happened in the US, where I live). However, they only seem to have appointment openings for the current month (September). Nothing after that. I am wondering if this is because they won't open the appointment dates until the actual month starts or gets closer (the other option, that everything is taken from October to December, but there are openings in the current month, doesn't really make sense). Can anybody confirm this? Thanks.
PS. I contacted the embassy but they didn't clarify anything.
anyone is facing same issue?
should I wait for some more days ?
Same situation and still no news! What about you guys?
RFE 🙁 …. now am worried.
Wife got RFE; can I ask her to travel to US on h4 ." I am in US with h1. She works for CTS full time: proper US client. Can she work later once h1 is approved ?
Is there somebody with the same situation and got approved?
Even my case also showing as "Case Received", I am also waiting for approvals.
I received a confirmation from my employer today that my H1B petition was approved. Status on the USCIS website is still "Case was received". So I guess it will be updated in due course.
First time applicant – so I'm guessing visa stamping is the next step.
Suresh, Could you please share receipt date and processing centre.
I am in the same boat. Did you get any update?
We will notify you when your case status changes. We last took action on your case on June 26, 2018.
We are not even getting any mail from US IS, still showing status as Case Received. Not sure when it will update.
I got my case on May 9th from California. Still waiting for approval.
Did anyone attempted for H1B stamping this year?
Can you please publish a detailed article on this?
Sure, it is on the way. Stay tuned.
The Case Tracker shows my "Case is Approved" as of July 28th. But I have not received the approval notice. Can anyone tell how long it usually takes?
My attorneys received the case receipt document in May but the online tracker does not seem to be working with my case number. Is this normal? I still cannot track my case, just waiting for approval.
Just wanted to ask if you have any latest update.
My case is similar to yours.
my receipt notice is may 12 and i m unable to track the status online.
now its already august 1, did you receive anything?
I have not received approval or rejection for my case. Should i expect approval for my case anymore ? Is there a way from where i can check my case's status?
I think his question is, he received H1B receipt but status not changed still showing Case received. how long will it take to approve or reject the case?
Generally case rejection will not happen until your documents are not correct, if all the documents that you provided are correct it will be approved.
As per me it will take around 3 to 4 months, we need to wait until that, I know this is a very painful waiting.
By when can we expect receipt notices to get delivered ? It is almost 2 months since I am informed that my application is picked in lottery. But looks like they are yet to receive the receipt notice.
You should have got it by now. Wait for two more weeks, if you don't get it please ask your attorney to follow it up with USCIS. Good luck!
I got my Receipt notice on 2nd week of May, still my case is not Reflected on USICS Site, i get Validation Error when i tried to check the status.
Anyone else facing the same problem?
Did you check in https://myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov/ ??
Hello karthikeyan, i also have the same scenario. Getting validation error.
Even y case is similar to you guys.
Do you guys have latest update?
My was "Received" on 12-April-2018 and it is still in the same status. Could anyone please advise by when can one expect any movement in the status.
@Kumar..what does this mean ? Can clarify it why people are facing this issue for long time?
We cant say for sure. All cases are processed in random manner. Please be patient and keep tracking your case. You would get an update for sure.
My H1B got picked in lottery. Once stamping done, I want to travel along with my family but my daughter passport is going to expiry in 2 years.
My question is, I will get the Visa for 3 years and due to my daughter's passport expiry she will get dependency visa for 2 years only. So, can I renew my daughter passport before I go for my H1B stamping, so that even she will also get 3 years dependency visa.
Please suggest me on renewal on my daughter passport.
Also, passport can be renewed only before 1 year of expiry. The passports can be renewed from US also.
My case was very weird. Online case status remained "case was received", but both of my employer and my lawyer already received my approval notice… Is this ok?
Yes, fine. Sometimes online system is not updated…if you can see the approval notice and has it on your name, nothing to worry. You can call USCIS to check regarding the issue on the system.
My case status is changed from "case was recived" to "document was mailed". What does this status mean ? My employer didn't get the document yet.
It means your H1b is approved. Can you tell your application timeline? What date was your case received?
Case received on April 13 and the status changed to "document was mailed" on May 16.