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(Dallas – February 14) Jamelle Cooper, a sophomore, psychology major at Wilberforce University from Madison Heights, Michigan, this week was named a Tom Joyner Foundation "Hercules Scholar".
This future elementary school teacher wants to make a difference so students can have a teacher that looks like them. At Wilberforce, Jamelle works at the college radio station, is a member of the National Minority Male Health Project, and serves as a peer tutor.
Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio is the Foundation's School of the Month for February which is part of its on-going effort to help keep students in historically black colleges and universities.
The Hercules Scholarship is named after Joyner's father, the late Hercules Joyner, who was a strong supporter of higher education. To be a candidate for the scholarship, students must be male, attend a Foundation "School of the Month", have a grade point average of at least 3.5, and be a campus leader involved in the community with a career goal toward making a difference in the quality of life for his race. The scholars each receive a scholarship grant of $1,500 that is paid directly to their school to help offset their college expenses.
Founded in 1998, the Tom Joyner Foundation (https://tomjoynerfoundation.com) has focused on its primary mission of helping to keep students enrolled in Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs). The Foundation has raised more than $60 million to help keep students enrolled in black colleges, has assisted more than 25,000 students and worked with more than 100 HBCUs. Each week, the Foundation announces outstanding male student scholarship winners, called Hercules Scholars, on the nationally syndicated radio show hosted by its founder, Tom Joyner.

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Wharton doctoral candidate Alejandro Lopez Lira talks about his text-based approach to analyzing a company's risks.
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When analysts or academics want to assess the risks that a company faces, they usually look at macroeconomic factors or internal firm metrics such as a declining sales trend to calculate those risks. But research from Wharton doctoral candidate Alejandro Lopez Lira takes a different approach.
He asked this question: What if, instead of letting the outside world tell us what risks a company faces, we let the company tell us itself? After all, a company knows its business best. Lopez Lira used machine learning to read through the annual reports of all U.S. public companies to find out which risks they identified as the most serious ones they face. And the results can be surprising.
His findings are in the paper, "Risk Factors That Matter: Textual Analysis of Risk Disclosures for the Cross-Section of Returns." His research was supported by Wharton's Mack Institute for Innovation Management and the Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.
Lopez Lira recently spoke with Knowledge@Wharton about his paper. An edited transcript of the conversation follows.
Knowledge@Wharton: Tell us how you were able to look through the company's own words to find out what risks it faces.
Alejandro Lopez Lira: The usual way in which we study the risks firms are facing and how risky it is to invest in them is by checking their fundamentals — for example, sales, dividend yield or market conditions like volatility as well as the macroeconomic environment. This is especially true in academia.
However, publicly held companies file annual reports with the SEC called the 10-K each year. In that annual report, you can see how a company's business did in the past year as well as a detailed description of each company's business. And importantly, inside that report, there is also a section that lists all the risks that a company faces. That's where I decided to look.
Since there are thousands of public companies and years of data, I couldn't read each statement individually, but luckily there are techniques in machine learning that allowed me to go automatically through the sections listing the risk factors. It looked at all the words and organized them into 25 interpretable risks, without me having to read through any of them. It almost feels like magic. Examples of risks are China or the oil industry.
I ended up organizing them into four systematic risks that affect most firms, since the systematic risk is what investors care about anyways and we can describe a significant portion of the risks with these four.
Knowledge@Wharton: What are the four risks, and can you give us examples for each of them?
Lopez Lira: The first one is technological risk. For example, if a company invests in developing a better screen for its phone product, or in new features for its software product, there's always a chance that it will not work out as well as you expected. Naturally, firms in the tech sector, such as Oracle or Microsoft, are more affected by this risk.
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The second one is production risk. For example, if you're a hardware company like Samsung, there's always a chance something goes wrong in the factories or the supply chain and the final product doesn't end up as planned. As expected, firms with complicated production processes such as Intel or Nvidia are more exposed to this risk.
The third one is international risk. For example, if there's a recession in Europe, your products may not sell as well as you expected, or if the exchange rate goes sideways you may end up with lower profits than expected. Companies with a global presence such as Apple or Coca-Cola are especially exposed to this risk.
Finally, there's consumer demand risk, which means that your product may not sell as well as expected because of weak demand, possibly because of economic conditions or because of other competing products. Naturally, retail firms such as Walmart or Starbucks are more exposed to this.
Knowledge@Wharton: You used a text-based approach to identify the biggest risks each company faces. Tell us about some of the challenges of doing that.
Lopez Lira: The first thing I learned is that you can't just put text into the computer and expect it to understand it — you need a technique that transforms words into numbers that a machine can understand. This is where the machine learning part was crucial, although I will not bore you with the technicalities.
"My approach differs in the sense that it uses the information revealed by the companies … since they probably understand the risks they face better than we do."
The second challenge is that this is a huge database since I was working with all of the reports done by all public companies since 2006 — so naturally, it was a challenge to fit everything on my small laptop. Luckily, there are some techniques that allowed me to just work with fewer documents at a time.
Finally, languages are complicated, so sometimes just breaking up [compound words] will make some concepts lose their meaning — real estate becomes real and estate — so I had to put those back together. Also, there are many words that don't really convey information — such as the articles 'the, a, an,' etc. — and I had to dispose of them to make the results cleaner.
Knowledge@Wharton: Can you tell us about your findings?
Lopez Lira: Most of the risk in investing in these companies and the movements in the stock price can be explained by how much each company is exposed to these four interpretable risks. And some answers can be illuminating.
For example, one would think the risk Intel faces most is technology, but it turns out that the company, through its language in SEC filings, is telling us the biggest risk comes from international markets, followed by production risk, then demand and finally technology risk. Anyone looking at it from a traditional standpoint would start with technology risk.
Another example comes from Apple. We would naturally think that most of the risk comes from consumer demand, competition with Google and Microsoft, and some production risks. Well, it turns out that their biggest risk, according to them, is related to their international operations, and this of course makes complete sense if you consider that in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, Apple generated 62% of its revenue outside the U.S.
Knowledge@Wharton: Were you surprised by any of your findings?
Lopez Lira: Definitely. I think we are not used to, at least in academia, paying attention to the rest of the world and the international markets when assessing the risks that companies face. It turns out this is a great mistake, since most of the biggest companies in the stock market — for example Apple, Exxon and Procter & Gamble — operate on a global scale, and a huge part of their profits are derived from international operations.
"Using text analysis combined with machine learning is relatively new for the finance academic literature."
Knowledge@Wharton: What are some practical applications of your research? For example, would it make Wall Street analysts do a better job of assessing risks in companies they follow?
Lopez Lira: It certainly would make their work easier. You can quickly apply this technique and assess in a second what are the risks each firm is facing, and relate this to the return you expect to get when investing in them.
Knowledge@Wharton: What makes your research different from prior work in this area?
Lopez Lira: The usual approaches for assessing the risk of investing in a company are statistical or involve economic theory. My approach differs in the sense that it uses the information revealed by the companies and gives them the credit they deserve, since they probably understand the risks they face better than we do.
Using text analysis combined with machine learning is relatively new for the finance academic literature, despite the fact that it has been used extensively in the industry. One big exception is a working paper by Ryan D. Israelsen with a similar approach, trying to use text analysis to understand the traditional risk factors in finance. For example, it is well known that firms with a high book-to-market ratio earn higher returns, and they try to understand if this in any way relates to the risks that firms disclose.
I do feel that using new sources of data and techniques such as machine learning has a huge potential in improving our understanding of markets, and the area is substantially under-explored.
Knowledge@Wharton: How will you follow up this research?
Lopez Lira: I want to explore how the risks that each firm discloses are useful to predict the aggregate risks that the economy faces. Hopefully, this will improve our understanding of what causes economic crises and how we can respond and prevent them.
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 Istituto Geografico De Agostini. Il Milione, vol. VII (Regione iranica - Regione indiana), pagg. 547-550. Novara, 1962.
 Sarina Singh, Pakistan and the Karakoram Highway, Lonely Planet (2008). ISBN 978-88-7063-784-7.
 Istituto Geografico De Agostini. Enciclopedia geografica, edizione speciale per il Corriere della Sera, vol. 8, pagg. 319-326. RCS Quotidiani s.p.a., Milano, 2005. .

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The basic intention of the cognitive rehabilitation programme is to provide an appropriate level of both stimulation and intellectual challenge in a highly motivating form for patients suffering from brain injury. The rehabilitation suite consists of computer programs that are used to improve memory, concentration and logic There are several important features common to all programs. The programs are enjoyable to use, robust, and easy to operate. All of the performance measures are available for monitoring, additionally all of the more recent programs are automatically adaptable to the patient's current performance over a wide range of abilities.
Since 1985 we have spent an enormous amount of time and effort developing a microcomputer-based program for the cognitive rehabilitation of patients suffering from a brain injury. The basic intention of the cognitive rehabilitation programme is to provide the patient with material that will provide an appropriate level of both stimulation and intellectual challenge in a highly motivating form. The system as developed allows the patient to work on a controlled rehabilitation programme in the comfort and security of the home with the aid of personal computers.
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Cognitive (thinking, memory, reasoning, judgment, etc.) and behavioural problems following head/brain injury are usually more disabling than medical or physical problems. Lack of cognitive stimulation has been demonstrated to result in decreased cognitive abilities over time. Daily practice on computer programs can provide sufficient stimulation to maintain hard-won cognitive gains, fill leisure time, provide respite for caregivers, and allow interaction with family members and peers. Even basic level games can provide hours of enjoyment for survivors while providing respite for caregivers.
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In 1787 President Thomas Jefferson, then Minister to France, traveled to France and northern Italy. Jefferson was on a mission of diplomacy and also had a personal obligation to fulfill. Destination: Bordeaux.
"Jefferson drank France in with guzzling intemperance," writes Benjamin Wallace in The Billionaire's Vinegar – a book so incredibly fascinating and thorough in its investigation into the Jefferson bottles sold at auction in 1985 that you'll want to read it through in one sitting.
Wallace states that Jefferson's 1787 writings were incredibly important as his inquiries and note-taking positioned him as the, "greatest wine connoisseur writing in any language at the time." And who might be the modern day equivalent? Perhaps: Michael Broadbent, Robert Parker, Jonny Cigar, Hugh Hefner Johnson.
Dr. Benjamin Rush's "Moral and Physical Thermometer." From An Inquiry into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors (Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1790). Photo of page 15 from "From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America" by Richard Mendelson.
So good reader, today on President's Day, you are encouraged to strengthen your senses, nourish your blood and be cheerful, while indulging in a wine worthy of a President. I'll be drinking the 1982 Mouton-Rothschild that's been sitting in my imaginary-future wine cellar deep within the mountain of St. Helena, CA. Oh how lovely it will taste, I assume.


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Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion
Part of Ideas in Context
Author: Helena Rosenblatt, Hunter College, City University of New York
Date Published: May 2011
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Professor Rosenblatt presents a study of Benjamin Constant's intellectual development into a founding father of modern liberalism, through a careful analysis of his evolving views on religion. Constant's life spanned the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise and rule, and the Bourbon Restoration. Rosenblatt analyzes Constant's key role in many of this era's heated debates over the role of religion in politics, and in doing so, exposes and addresses many misconceptions that have long reigned about Constant and his period. In particular, Rosenblatt sheds light on Constant's major, yet much-neglected work, De La Religion. Given that the role of religion is, once again, center-stage in our political, philosophical and historical arenas, Liberal Values constitutes a major revision of our understanding of the origins of modern liberalism.
Of interest to audiences in numerous disciplines including history of ideas, philosophy, politics and religious history
A major contribution to the study of Modern Liberalism
Broad-ranging and revisionist account by an acclaimed scholar
"...a very readable and illuminating account of Constant's evolving ideas on the relationship between politics and religion, church and state, and liberal democracy and moral values. A valuable addition to any collection on the Enlightenment or political/religious liberty." --Choice
"Rosenblatt successfully excavates an unduly neglected stratum of Constant's thought...the way in which battles ofver religious ideas and moral instruction served as focal points in the political disputes of his time is brilliantly describes, and our understanding of Constant's progress as a political thinker is greatly enhanced. Both books are valuable and important contributions to the growing literature on French liberalism." --Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University: Political Theory Book Reviews
"Tightly organized around a few central themes and drawing upon a wide array of primary and secondary sources, Rosenblatt's book has an ambitious scope and agenda. It combines textual analysis with a close interpretation of the relevant intellectual and historical context...The great merit of Helena Rosenblatt's erudite and insightful book is that it sheds fresh light on how Constant achieved his goal and how he remained faithful to it to the very end of his agitated and controversial life."
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Part I. Constant's Education: the French, Scottish, and German Enlightenments:
1. Childhood
2. Edinburgh
3. Paris
4. Protestantism and the Enlightenment
5. Brunswick
6. Mauvillon, the new German theology and the idea of progressive revelation
7. Constant's 'The Spirit of Religions'
8. Madame de Staël
Part II. The Crucible of the Directory Years:
1. The see-saw policy of the directory
2. Catholicism and the need for 'Republican Institutions'
3. Catholic counter-arguments
4. Constant during the Directory
5. Critics of the Directory's Religious Policies
6. The second Directory and the renewed campaign for Republican institutions
7. Theophilanthropy
8. Lessons of the Directory: William Godwin and Des circonstances actuelles
Part III. Napoleon, or Battling 'the New Cyrus':
1. Napoleon and the Catholic Revival
2. Enlightened responses and the plan to 'Protestantize' France
3. Charles de Villers
4. Bonaparte's decision
5. Portalis on the Utility of Religion
6. The Concordat and the Organic Articles
7. Friends and foes of the Concordat: from the Génie du christianisme to Delphine
8. Constant's trip to Germany
9. The Sentiment/Form Distinction
10. Return to Paris (December 1804) and the Debate on a National Religion
Part IV. Constant becomes Constant: From the Principles of Politics (1806) to the Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation (1814):
1. Constant's Political Principles in 1806
2. 'Private judgement' in Protestant Polemics
3. Book VIII: On Religious Freedom
4. Constant's 'Corner of Religion': from the 'Letter about Julie' to the Correspondence with Prosper de Barante, a. The 'Letter about Julie', b. Adolphe and Cecile, c. Correspondence with Prosper de Barante
5. De l'Allemagne (1810)
6. Constant's return to Germany
7. The spirit of conquest and usurpation (1814)
Part V. Politics and Religion during the Restoration (1814–24):
1. Keeping Political Liberty Alive
2. Keeping Religious Liberty Alive
Part VI. The 'Protestant Bossuet': De la religion in Political Context (1824–30):
1. De la religion, volume I (May 1824), Reviews of volume I
2. Charles X and 'the invasion of priests', Constant's article 'Christianity', Professions of Protestantism
3. De la religion, volume II (October 1825)
4. The Problem with Industrie: Constant and religion seen from the Left
1. Saint-Simon's 'New Christianity' (1825)
2. Auguste Comte, Le Producteur, and the search for a new 'spiritual authority'
Part VII. Constant's Legacy:
1. The Revolution of 1830
2. Constant's declining reputation.
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Q: PDO's rowCout() is always zero The rowCount() method of PDO always returns zero value, even if there's results, according to:
count($sth->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) > 1
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How to fix this?

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Erica Lafferty, daughter of Sandyh Hook Elementary School victim Dawn Hochsprung, attends a town hall meeting with Senator Kelly Ayotte in Warren, N.H., on Tuesday.
WARREN, N.H. – Bringing the national gun debate to a tiny New England town on Tuesday, the daughter of the slain principal of Sandy Hook Elementary confronted Sen. Kelly Ayotte at the lawmaker's first town hall meeting since she voted against expanded background checks on all commercial gun sales.
Erica Lafferty, who first met with the Republican senator in Washington earlier this month after she opposed the compromise negotiated by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., was visibly angry as she spoke into the microphone at the meeting, which drew more than 100 people who came to condemn or support Ayotte's vote.
"You had mentioned that day the burden on owners of gun stores that the expanded background checks would harm. I am just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the halls of her elementary school isn't more important than that," said Lafferty, whose mother Dawn Hochsprung was gunned down by Newtown shooter Adam Lanza.
Ayotte responded at the Warren, N.H., meeting: "Erica, I, certainly let me just say -- I'm obviously so sorry."
Erica Lafferty, daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victim Dawn Hochsprung, confronts Sen. Kelly Ayotte at a town hall Tuesday.
"And, um, I think that ultimately when we look at what happened in Sandy Hook, I understand that's what drove this whole discussion -- all of us want to make sure that doesn't happen again," Ayotte said.
More tension followed at a larger event in Tilton, N.H., later in the day.
"Let the senator finish please!" said the moderator at the Tilton event as gun control advocates shouted from the crowd and waved signs which said "demand action to end gun violence," from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun control advocacy group.
Ayotte is one of a handful of senators -- others include Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Dean Heller, R-Nev., Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and Max Baucus, D-Mont. -- who are facing withering criticism from both sides of the debate.
Gun control proponents want the Senate to reconsider new gun laws, and pro-gun rights groups want the issue kept off the table. And they're using ads, lobbying, and organizing at events like Ayotte's town halls to get their points across.
Keeping center stage are the Newtown families, many of whom were on Capitol Hill for the failed gun vote, who have pledged to continue the fight for new regulations on firearms.
She said that addressing mental health and keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill were important going forward.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., is challenged by a man attending her town hall Tuesday regarding a question about gun reform.
Outside groups are focusing on Ayotte and others from swing states where polls show background checks are popular. From the TV and radio ads to these small events, both sides are mobilizing like it's a political campaign -- Bloomberg's group circulated printed signs reading "#ShameOnYou" at both town meetings, while Ayotte supporters held the kind of mass-hand-drawn signs often spotted at presidential events.
Poll data is also a focus -- and a point of contention. Some automated polls, which NBC News does not rely on, have shown surveys claiming dropping numbers for people who voted against expanding background checks.
But in the Granite State, Ayotte's supporters are pointing to a recent survey from the University of New Hampshire that shows just the opposite: high approval ratings in the wake of the vote.
Some Republican defenders in the state say that the controversy isn't real and say it won't matter in 2016, when Ayotte is up for reelection to the Senate.
"To the extent it's a controversial issue it's a manufactured one," said Fergus Cullen, a former chairman of the state Republican Party.
There's evidence to support the claim that some groups are using the issue to raise their profiles. In a yard nearby the Warren event, a local resident had placed a large, staked lawn sign with the handwritten message, "Thank You Senator Ayotte." Atop one corner was the Tea Party's preferred flag, the yellow snake with the words "Don't Tread On Me."
But others say it was a difficult decision that could have repercussions down the road.
"I think it was a tough vote. And it was a principled vote," said Jim Merrill, a longtime New Hampshire Republican strategist who worked on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. "And I think she understood that there would be some blowback for it. Let's just remember it wasn't just Republicans who voted against it."
Ayotte is clearly feeling the pressure, refusing to answer questions from national reporters at the meetings. Aides working on the gun issue on Capitol Hill say she's made it clear that she doesn't want to vote on it again any time soon.
She stuck with the PowerPoint at Tuesday's meetings, but this time, the opening slides had statistics defending her gun vote.
Members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America enter the office of Sen. Kelly Ayotte on April 17 in Washington, D.C.
At town halls, Ayotte typically receives notecards with the name of each questioner and their pre-submitted topic of interest. A selected moderator chooses and reads them. This time, though, that caused a stir. Right before Erica Lafferty spoke in Warren, Eric Knuffke, of Wentworth, N.H., stood and demanded to be allowed a question.
"You can't deny people the right to speak because they haven't filled out a card. I have a question," Knuffke shouted. Supporters of Ayotte shouted back at him.
As Knuffke yelled, Lafferty was sitting in the front row with her hand raised.
"Let Erica speak," said one attendee. "There's a Sandy Hook survivor here," said another.
She had submitted a question in the pile, and Ayotte made sure to let her speak. Lafferty thanked Ayotte for meeting with her the day after senators took the vote on the Manchin-Toomey before challenging her for her vote. After her exchange with Ayotte, Lafferty stood and stormed out of the town hall.
Asked afterward why she had done so, Lafferty said: "I had had enough."
NBC's Frank Thorp contributed to this report.


Best used 7-seater cars 2019 (and the ones to avoid) | What Car?
So you want to buy a used seven-seater. Or, to be more precise, as people tend to buy such things more through necessity than desire, you need to buy one.
Well, the good news is that buyers have rarely had a better selection of second-hand seven seaters to choose from – and with a variety of SUVs now coming with room for seven, providing a trendier alternative to more traditional MPVs for those who can live with slightly less space in the rearmost seats, there's plenty of variety in the market too.
Problem is, plenty of variety also means the potential for plenty of confusion too. As ever, though, here at What Car?, we've set ourselves the task of helping you to work out what's what. So without further ado, here's our pick of the 10 best seven-seaters over three years old.
Early versions of the current Hyundai Santa Fe are now making very tempting used buys. They don't come cheap, mind you; prices are on a par with some more prestigious cars.
But you do get plenty of equipment, a comfortable ride and a versatile interior. And of course, if you buy one new enough, you get the rump of the five-year warranty Hyundai attaches to all its new cars.
Quiet, comfortable, and endowed with a stylish interior, there's lots to love about Peugeot's 5008. There's plenty enough room for seven, with a versatile and practical seating layout, and a solid range of engines.
It's also great value, with used prices now looking very reasonable indeed. The only downside is that some of the switches are awkwardly placed and feel a little flimsy to the touch.
Why wouldn't you be tempted by the Land Rover Discovery? It's probably got the best image of any SUV; one which suggests you'll be able to climb any mountain and ford any stream. In a Discovery you probably will, but more relevant is the fact that it offers a comfortable ride, space for seven adults, plenty of equipment and a lusty range of engines.
Reliability is a concern and prices are pretty high, but that isn't enough to put off the plethora of buyers that choose a Discovery.
The Kia Sorento isn't the most sophisticated SUV around, with its slightly drab styling and a driving experience that's nothing to write home about. But what it does offer is seven seats as standard on almost every model and great value.
There are plenty of toys on most models, too, and newer examples will benefit from Kia's seven-year, 100,000-mile warranty.
Few MPVs prioritise their driving experiences, but the Ford S-Max is the exception to the rule. It's great fun to drive – and yet it still offers space for seven and a comfortable ride.
The downside is that there isn't quite as much space in the rearmost seats as in some seven-seaters, and you do get an interior that feels a little cheap in places. But if you need an MPV, yet still want something fun to drive, it fits the bill perfectly.
The Vauxhall Zafira Tourer is one of the most popular MPVs around, and big discounts when it was new means it's fantastically cheap to buy used. So while it isn't the most spacious seven-seater going, its price makes it a great value buy for those on a budget who don't need a full-size MPV.
The Zafira's a cracking car in its own right, too, with a brilliantly versatile interior and a classy dashboard. At this price, that makes it something of a steal.
Among family SUVs, the Volvo XC90 is king. That's partly because it's one of the safest around, but also because it came as standard with seven seats, setting a trend which other SUVs are only just starting to follow.
Granted, to drive it it's about as exciting as an old shoe, but you do get a comfortable ride, fabulous seats and an easy-to-use interior. It's even pretty good value as a used buy, coming in far cheaper than the equivalent Land Rover Discovery.
The Seat Alhambra is another one of those MPVs that will never win any fans for its looks. But that boxy profile means there's a world of space within; room enough for seven adults, for example, something not many other cars here can genuinely offer.
It also feels superbly built, it's well equipped, and in S or SE form it feels comfortable too, though the stiffer suspension fitted to pricier models is to be avoided if possible. Mind you, even the S and SE aren't cheap; most MPVs can be had for less cash.
Behind the quirky looks of the Citroën Grand C4 Picasso lies a car which prioritises its passengers, which is what makes it such a great MPV. Practicality, space, versatility and comfort are all strong points; the Grand C4 Picasso is also airy and pleasant to ride along in, with an attractive dashboard and great visibility.
It isn't particularly exciting to drive, mind you, but if you want a seven-seater that's truly great for its passengers, it should be on your list.
The Volkswagen might not be the most exciting thing in the world to look at, but under the skin it's a truly superb seven-seater. That boxy silhouette means it offers plenty of space even to passengers in its rear-most row of seats.
But it's not just practicality that the Touran has on its side; it's quiet, comfortable and has a truly upmarket interior, meaning it feels far less like a utilitarian MPV and more like a luxury car. It is, in short, a top seven-seater choice.


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Front Genet. 2018 Feb 16;8:236. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2017.00236. eCollection 2017.
Correlations between Risk Factors for Breast Cancer and Genetic Instability in Cancer Patients-A Clinical Perspective Study.
Paz MFCJ1, de Alencar MVOB1, Gomes Junior AL1,2, da Conceição Machado K1, Islam MT1,3, Ali ES4, Shill MC5, Ahmed MI6, Uddin SJ6, da Mata AMOF1, de Carvalho RM1, da Conceição Machado K1, Sobral ALP7, da Silva FCC8, de Castro E Souza JM8, Arcanjo DDR9, Ferreira PMP1,9, Mishra SK10, da Silva J11, de Carvalho Melo-Cavalcante AA1.
Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil.
Biomedicine Department, UNINOVAFAPI University, Teresina, Brazil.
Department of Pharmacy, Southern University Bangladesh, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Pharmacy Discipline, Life Science School, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh.
University Hospital, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil.
Department of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Piauí, Picos, Brazil.
Department of Biophysics and Physiology, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Brazil.
Cancer Biology Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences (Zoology), Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, India.
Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology Applied to Health Sciences, Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, Brazil.
Molecular epidemiological studies have identified several risk factors linking to the genes and external factors in the pathogenesis of breast cancer. In this sense, genetic instability caused by DNA damage and DNA repair inefficiencies are important molecular events for the diagnosis and prognosis of therapies. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze correlation between sociocultural, occupational, and lifestyle risk factors with levels of genetic instability in non-neoplastic cells of breast cancer patients. Total 150 individuals were included in the study that included 50 breast cancer patients submitted to chemotherapy (QT), 50 breast cancer patients submitted to radiotherapy (RT), and 50 healthy women without any cancer. Cytogenetic biomarkers for apoptosis and DNA damage were evaluated in samples of buccal epithelial and peripheral blood cells through micronuclei and comet assay tests. Elder age patients (61-80 years) had higher levels of apoptosis (catriolysis by karyolysis) and DNA damage at the diagnosis (baseline damage) with increased cell damage during QT and especially during RT. We also reported the increased frequencies of cytogenetic biomarkers in patients who were exposed to ionizing radiation as well as for alcoholism and smoking. QT and RT induced high levels of fragmentation (karyorrhexis) and nuclear dissolution (karyolysis) and DNA damage. Correlations were observed between age and karyorrhexis at diagnosis; smoking and karyolysis during RT; and radiation and karyolysis during QT. These correlations indicate that risk factors may also influence the genetic instability in non-neoplastic cells caused to the patients during cancer therapies.
apoptosis; breast cancer; chemotherapy; genetic instability; risk factors; toxicogenomics
10.3389/fgene.2017.00236
Correlation between smoking and karyolysis in buccal epithelium of breast cancer patients during radiotherapy. Spearman's correlation ∗p < 0.05.
Correlations between Risk Factors for Breast Cancer and Genetic Instability in Cancer Patients—A Clinical Perspective Study
Front Genet. 2017;8:236.
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Need to know employment law update (April 2014)
By: Forum of Private Business On: 10th April 2014
From 6 April, the first of the government's common commencement dates for several key changes to workplace legislation are due to come into force.
Changes to statutory sick pay, maternity and redundancy pay
As of 6 April the statutory sick pay rate increases from £86.70 to £87.55. Maternity pay, ordinary, additional paternity and adoption pay increases from £136.78 to £138.18. The maximum amount of a week's pay for calculating statutory redundancy pay will also change to £464 and the new maximum redundancy payment will be £13,920.
Sickness pay
The DWP has abolished the statutory sick pay (SSP) percentage threshold scheme (PTS) from the beginning of the 2014/15 tax year.
The PTS compensates employers for higher-than-average sickness absence. An employer is entitled to recover some of the SSP paid to their employees if the total SSP paid in a tax month is greater than a set percentage of their gross Class 1 NICs (employers' and employees') liability for that month.
Employers will have until the end of 2015/16 to recover SSP paid for sickness absences occurring before the end of 2013/14
The associated SSP record-keeping requirements will have also been abolished from the beginning of the 2014/15 tax year. Employers will, however, still be required to maintain records for PAYE purposes and to demonstrate they are meeting their SSP obligations.
The PTS has been abolished because an independent review of sickness absence showed that it has not encouraged employers to manage sickness absence in the workplace.
As a result, the Government has decided to abolish the scheme and reinvest the money in a new Health and Work Service which is set to be operational by the end of this year. This aims to provide an alternative form of support that will benefit employers by enabling employees on sickness absence to return to work (where possible) more quickly and by assisting employers to manage sickness absence better. We will provide further updates on this as soon as more information becomes available.
Employment tribunal changes
A significant tribunal development we highlighted last year was the introduction of fees for employees wishing to make a claim against an employer.
From the 6 April 2014 further changes will include :
The abolition of discrimination questionnaires. These allowed claimants to serve these on individuals that they believed had discriminated against them prior to bringing a claim or within a limited period thereafter, to enable a claimant to better understand whether they had a claim for discrimination. However a claimant will still be able to seek such information as part of the tribunal process.
From 6 April 2014, a new system will come into place which requires claimants, before bringing a claim, to send details of that claim to ACAS and they will then be offered pre-claim conciliation for a period of one month. If the parties enter into pre-claim conciliation then this will have the effect of stopping the clock for the presentation of a Tribunal claim for the period of the pre-claim conciliation. If either party refuses to partake in the pre-claim conciliation or if the conciliation is unsuccessful then the claimant may present their claim to the Tribunal.
From April an employer could face an additional financial cost beyond that of any compensation awarded to the individual. A financial penalty is to be introduced to the tribunal system and will be applied against a losing employer where the employer's breach has 'one or more aggravating features'. The penalty is not payable to the claimant but rather the Secretary of State with a 50% discount for payment within 21 days. The penalty must be 50% of the amount of any financial award ordered by the Tribunal to the claimant but is subject to a minimum and maximum penalty figure being £100 and £5000 respectively.
Changes to limits on tribunal payments and awards also come into force from April.
On the horizon – key developments to watch out for in the coming months
From 30 June 2014 employers could find themselves receiving flexible working requests from any employee, when the right to request flexible working is extended to all employees who have 26 weeks continuous service. At the same time the procedure for dealing with such requests will be more relaxed as the statutory procedure of dealing with these type of requests will no longer apply and instead an employer must deal with any request in a reasonable manner.
Changes to the National Minimum Wage
Following plenty of discussion in the headlines in the past few months the new rates for the National Minimum Wage have been agreed and will come into effect from October 2014. It is definitely worth flagging this up in your diary particularly with the introduction of stiffer penalties of up to £20,000 earlier this year.
The new rates will be:
21 years and over – £6.50 per hour
18-20 years – £5.13 per hour
Apprentice rate – £2.73 per hour
Shared parental leave is due to be introduced in April 2015 and is designed to allow parents to share care for the child in the first year from the date of the child's birth.
In essence both parents will be able to take shared parental leave and claim shared parental pay after the compulsory two week maternity leave period. Before taking a block of leave (an employee can make up to three requests to take leave), an employee will have to provide the employer with 8 weeks notice. The scheme will also provide each employee taking shared parental leave with 20 KIT style days. Further, provided that the employee has not taken more than 26 weeks shared parental leave, he/she will retain the right to return to the same job.
As with any employment law related issues it is worth seeking advice from an expert before deciding to take any action. Don't forget that forum members can contact our business advice team for further information and advice on a range of business issues including employment law. For further information call 0845 130 1722.
http://www.fpb.org/blog/post/04/2014/Need-to-know-employment-law-update–April-2014–
Joanne Eccles
Jo Eccles, Business Adviser at the Forum of Private Business, provides a need-to-know summary of the key employment law changes small business owners should have on their radar from this month and key developments on the horizon.
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Ozzie Wright's influence on style is one of the widest reaching in surfing. Ask gents like Dion or Creed and they'll praise Oz with showing them the punk 'tude they surf with. And his style continues to reach more generations, like here with Eli Steele. Eli is an 18-year-old gent from the Sunshine Coast, Aus and the conditions in this clip shot by Dylan Roberts are not too dissimilar from home. The footage was collected from two trips, one based around the SoCal area in January with Matt O'Brien shooting stills and another to Taiwan in May.


OAK HARBOR - Willard's Haylie Hamons launched a first inning home run off of Oak Harbor's Ashley Riley to give the Flashes a 1-0 lead in Monday's Sandusky Bay Conference Bay Division battle.
That must have lit a fire under the Oak Harbor bats as the Rockets used three long balls to overtake the Flashes early in the contest en route to an 11-1 victory.
Emily Lenke responded with a home run of her own in the bottom of the first to even the score before Riley and Kaytlynn Sandwisch sent shots over the outfield fence in the second inning as the Rockets led 5-1 after two innings of play.
Lenke and Riley would each finish with three RBIs while Sandwisch finished with two for the Rockets.
Oak Harbor finished with 11 hits in the contest as nine of them came from Lenke, Riley and Sandwisch.
Lauren St. Claire and Olivia Jensen added the other two hits.


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There are more than 50 known species of gulls, and many of these are well-adapted to living in urban areas and in close proximity to humans. But there are also less familiar species to discover, which keep their distance from beachgoers. This long-overdue addition to the New Naturalist library explains the thorny issues of gull taxonomy and classification, then introduces readers to what it means to be a gull, physically and genetically. Chapters are divided by larger gull groups, and within these, distribution, lifecyles and behaviours are examined, as well as acclimation to the human world. Colour photography throughout offers ample opportunity to get a sense of the variation within the gull group, and makes this book a pleasure to look through.
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Home » Our Work » Conservation » International Dark Sky Places » International Dark Sky Parks
International Dark Sky Parks
The Milky Way rises over Ancestral Puebloan ruins at Hovenweep National Monument, USA. Photo by Jacob W. Frank.
The Milky Way rises over Copper Breaks State Park, Texas. Photo by Koustav Sinha.
Watching the Milky Way rise above Big Bend National Park, Texas. Photo by Tyler Nordgren.
The Milky Way arches over Capitol Reef National Park's iconic Chimney Rock. Photo by Jacob W. Frank.
Hortobágy National Park, Hungary.
Orion Rising above Clatteringshaws Loch in Galloway Forest Park, Scotland. Photo by James Hilder.
The Milky Way over the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, California. Photo by Dan Duriscoe.
An IDA International Dark Sky Park (IDSP) is a land possessing an exceptional or distinguished quality of starry nights and a nocturnal environment that is specifically protected for its scientific, natural, educational, cultural heritage, and/or public enjoyment. The land may be publicly owned, or privately owned provided that the landowner(s) consent to the right of permanent, ongoing public access to specific areas included in the IDA designation.
Certified IDA International Dark Sky Parks
Albanyà (Spain)
Antelope Island State Park (U.S.)
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (U.S.)
Arches National Park (U.S.)
Ballycroy National Park and Wild Nephin Wilderness (Ireland)
Big Bend National Park (U.S.)
Big Bend Ranch State Park (U.S.)
Big Cypress National Preserve (U.S.)
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park (U.S.)
Bodmin Moor Dark Sky Landscape (England)
Bryce Canyon National Park (U.S.)
Buffalo National River (U.S.)
Bükk National Park (Hungary)
Canyonlands National Park (U.S.)
Capitol Reef National Park (U.S.)
Capulin Volcano National Monument (U.S.)
Cedar Breaks National Monument (U.S.)
Chaco Culture National Historical Park (U.S.)
Cherry Springs State Park (U.S.)
Copper Breaks State Park (U.S.)
Craters Of The Moon National Monument (U.S.)
De Boschplaat (Netherlands)
Dead Horse Point State Park (U.S.)
Death Valley National Park (U.S.)
Dinosaur National Monument (U.S.)
Dr. T.K. Lawless County Park (U.S.)
Eifel National Park (Germany)
El Morro National Monument (U.S.)
Elan Valley Estate (Wales)
Enchanted Rock State Natural Area (U.S.)
Flagstaff Area National Monuments (U.S.)
Fort Union National Monument (U.S.)
Geauga Observatory Park (U.S.)
Goblin Valley State Park (U.S.)
Grand Canyon National Park (U.S.)
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (U.S.)
Great Basin National Park (U.S.)
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (U.S.)
Headlands (U.S.)
Hehuan Mountain (Taiwan, R.O.C.)
Hortobágy National Park (Hungary)
Hovenweep National Monument (U.S.)
Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park (Japan)
James River State Park (U.S.)
Joshua Tree National Park (U.S.)
Kartchner Caverns State Park (U.S.)
Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park (U.S.)
Lauwersmeer National Park (Netherlands)
Mayland Earth to Sky Park & Bare Dark Sky Observatory (U.S.)
Middle Fork River Forest Preserve (U.S.)
Møn and Nyord (Denmark)
Natural Bridges National Monument (U.S.)
Newport State Park (U.S.)
Northumberland National Park and Kielder Water & Forest Park (England)
Obed Wild and Scenic River (U.S.)
Oracle State Park (U.S.)
Petrified Forest National Park (U.S.)
Petrova gora-Biljeg (Croatia)
Pickett CCC Memorial State Park & Pogue Creek Canyon State Natural Area (U.S.)
Rappahannock County Park (U.S.)
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (U.S.)
South Llano River State Park (U.S.)
Staunton River State Park (U.S.)
Steinaker State Park (U.S.)
Stephen C. Foster State Park (U.S.)
Tomintoul and Glenlivet - Cairngorms (Scotland)
Tonto National Monument (U.S.)
Tumacácori National Historical Park (U.S.)
UBarU Camp and Retreat Center (U.S.)
Vrani kamen (Croatia)
Warrumbungle National Park (Australia)
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (Canada/U.S.)
Weber County North Fork Park (U.S.)
Winklmoosalm (Germany)
Yeongyang Firefly Eco Park (South Korea)
Zselic National Landscape Protection Area (Hungary)
Designate an International Dark Sky Park
IDA designates International Dark Sky Places following a rigorous application process requiring applicants to demonstrate robust community support for dark sky protection and document designation-specific program requirements. Learn more and start the process here.
Download the current International Dark Sky Park guidelines
2018 International Dark Sky Park Guidelines
2019 Submission Deadline Dates
24 February 2020 25 May 2020
24 August 2020 30 November 2020
Resources for applicants
Sample Lighting Management Plan
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Guidelines for Outdoor Lighting
How to conduct a night sky quality survey
For current International Dark Sky Parks
Writing International Dark Sky Park annual reports