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Optometrists Form Group to Protect Newly Won Privileges
It's a 'ballot question committee to educate voters.'
INVISION Staff
Optometrists in Arkansas are organizing to fend off an initiative by ophthalmologists to undo recent legislation, the Arkansas Times reports.
The legislation, signed into law in March, permits optometrists to perform certain surgeries. But Safe Surgery Arkansas, a group of medical doctors, is trying to use a ballot referendum to roll back the legislation.
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Enter Arkansans for Healthy Eyes, which describes itself as "a ballot question committee to educate voters about the improved eye care options available to Arkansans under Act 579 of the 2019 legislative session."
"Act 579 gives Arkansas patients better access to quality care by allowing optometrists to perform more of the procedures we are absolutely qualified to safely perform," Dr. Belinda Starkey, an Arkansas optometrist and member of the Arkansans for Healthy Eyes committee, said in a press release announcing the formation of the group.
"Despite the fear tactics being used by opponents, we are actually only talking about a handful of minimally invasive procedures, done right in your optometrist's chair, and without the need for general anesthesia."
Amanda Story, spokesperson for Arkansans for Healthy Eyes, said: "The other side claims Arkansans' eye health is at stake if Act 579 goes into effect, but the truth is, the eye health of Arkansas patients will suffer if this law doesn't go into effect. For some patients, especially in rural parts of the state, being able to receive enhanced care from their optometrist, instead of having to go through the wait, travel, and added cost of a specialist visit, may mean the difference between getting a needed procedure, or going without."
The Times reports that in order to qualify for the ballot, the ophthalmologists' group will need the signatures of 54,000 registered voters by July 23.
R. Scott Lowery, president of the Arkansas Ophthalmological Society, has been quoted saying: "Every day the people of Arkansas rely on medical doctors who have the experience and training to perform medical procedures to ensure that they are getting world class healthcare in Arkansas. We are confident that when the people are heard on this issue, they will not allow individuals without medical degrees and without surgical residencies to jeopardize the precious eyesight of Arkansans."
Procedures that the legislation allows optometrists to perform include selective laser trabeculoplasty and Nd:YAG laser procedures, along with injections (excluding intravenous and intraocular), removal of lid lesions and chalazion incision and curettage.
The bill called on the Arkansas Board of Optometry to establish credentialing requirements for optometrists to perform these laser procedures, as well as require those doctors to report the outcomes of their procedures to the board.
Read more at Arkansas Times
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But the bill has drawn opposition from some ophthalmologists.
Proposed legislation in Idaho would give optometrists the right to perform laser eye surgery.
In order to perform laser procedures, optometrists would have to pass an examination by the National Board of Examiners in Optometry, East Idaho News reports. They they would be required to do at least five of the procedures under supervision of an ophthalmologist.
The proposal is a House bill supported by The Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licensing. It's currently being discussed in the House Health & Welfare Committee.
"We want to make sure that our laws and rules are as up to date as possible," said Julie Eavenson of the Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licensing, according to East Idaho News.
"And the reason that we're looking at them is because the governor has said — and the Legislature — 'You need to have minimum qualifications. You need to protect the public, but you need to remove barriers.'"
The bill has drawn opposition from some ophthalmologists.
The legislation "poses an incredible risk to Idahoans and ignores the importance of medical education and training to perform surgery," Dr. James Earl of Retina Specialists of Idaho said in a press release issued by from Eye M.D.s of Idaho.
The issue has been hotly debated in other states.
In March, the governor of Arkansas signed into law a measure allowing optometrists to perform certain surgical procedures. The operations included selective laser trabeculoplasty and Nd:YAG laser procedures, along with injections (excluding intravenous and intraocular), removal of lid lesions and chalazion incision and curettage.
At the time, the American Optometric Association stated that Arkansas was the fourth state to permit laser procedures and that Alaska was developing regulations for their use.
Read more at the East Idaho News
The U.S. Department of Justice gave its OK.
The U.S. Department of Justice has given the American Optometric Association the nod to expand its group purchasing activities to include lenses, frames and contacts.
The association and its subsidiary AOAExcel GPO LLC had asked the department for a business review letter on the matter. Law360 explains that such a document can provide "proactive assurances of non-enforcement."
The department explained in the Jan. 15 letter that it "presently does not intend to challenge the GPO's expansion to include optometric products." It noted, however, that it "reserves the right to challenge the GPO in the future if the GPO's operations are determined to be anticompetitive in purpose or effect."
Up until now, AOA's group purchasing organization has only offered non-optometric products, such as professional liability insurance, credit card processing, life insurance, general office supplies, general medical supplies and equipment. It uses Intalere, a third-party healthcare group purchasing organization, as its agent to negotiate discounts on products and services.
As of February 2019, 1,011 association member optometric practices had signed up to participate, and 251 practices had made at least one purchase.
The Department of Justice wrote: "Based on our investigation and your representations described above regarding the GPO [group purchasing organization] and its proposed expansion to include optometric products, the GPO expansion is unlikely to produce anticompetitive effects."
It's focusing on retinal and other ophthalmic maladies.
PARIS & FORT WORTH, TX — Eyevensys, a biotechnology company developing non-viral gene therapies for retinal and other ophthalmic diseases, has completed a $30 million funding round.
The company will use the funds to continue development of its clinical lead candidate — known as EYS606 — for the treatment of chronic non-infectious uveitis, including the launch of its Electro Study, according to a press release. This Phase 2 trial, to be conducted in the U.S., will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the candidate in patients with active forms of all anatomic uveitis subtypes.
The funding will also advance the preclinical development of the firm's other therapeutic proteins targeting ophthalmic diseases with unaddressed medical needs, such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. A product candidate known as EYS606 is currently in a phase I/II clinical trial in the European Union and has been granted an Orphan drug designation by the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of non-infectious uveitis.
The new Series B financing round was led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and included participation from existing investors Pontifax, Bpifrance, CapDecisif, and Inserm Transfert, as well as new investors, the Global Health Sciences Fund (Quark Venture LP and GF Securities) and Pureos Bioventures.
In conjunction with the financing, Eyevensys has added members to its board of directors. Neena Kadaba, PhD, director of science at Quark Venture LP, joined the board, as did Dominik Escher, PhD, managing partner at Pureos Bioventures and former founder and CEO of ESBATech, an ophthalmology biotech company acquired by Alcon in 2009.
Eyevensys has also recently opened a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary in Fort Worth, TX. All U.S. operations will be managed from this location, though the Eyevensys headquarters will remain in Paris.
Dr. Patricia Zilliox, Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are thrilled to have completed this Series B funding round with the strong support from both existing and new investors for the company. This funding will assist the further development of our technology and position Eyevensys as an innovator in the field of ophthalmology."
She continued: "As we launch the Electro Study, our first U.S. clinical trial, Eyevensys will also have an opportunity to connect with ophthalmology opinion leaders in the U.S. to gain further exposure for our groundbreaking technology platform. This will also move the company one step closer to providing a more effective and convenient treatment approach to ease the burden of managing patients with chronic ocular conditions."
As for technical specifics, the company states:
The Eyevensys technology is a non-viral gene therapy ocular drug delivery platform that uses an Electrotransfection System to deliver DNA plasmids encoding therapeutic proteins into the ciliary muscle. This turns the eye into a biofactory, allowing the ciliary muscle to express and secrete the therapeutic protein to the back of the eye at therapeutic levels for a duration of greater than 6 months.
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The eldest son of Adam Hewitt, John composed mainly for the vocal medium. Associated his dad on travels to southern metropolitan areas, John obtained a flavor for teaching, composing, composing and confirming as he journeyed. Nearly all his "resident" intervals had been spent in Baltimore. A lot of his tracks for which he's remembered had been sentimental. Typically the most popular included "All Calm Along the Potomac Tonight," and "The Minstrel's Return'd through the Battle." He also constructed an oratorio "Jeptha" in 1845.
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This is yet another post that could be off topic as far as the subject of some of my blogs are concerned. However, this is important nonetheless. This is about America, the country I live in and how the September 11th Disaster that occurred on September 11th, 2001 affected our whole country, and our whole world. Therefore, I decided to alert you that I have posted this entry on more than one of my blogs.
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Study Finds Volcanic Eruptions Impacted Global Hydroclimate
WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Jim Levulis
Published March 22, 2021 at 12:30 PM EDT
The eruption column of Mount Pinatubo on June 12, 1991, three days before the climactic eruption
A new study finds major volcanic eruptions significantly impacted the global hydroclimate. Those effects at times persisted for more than a decade and included abnormally dry conditions in tropical Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East as well as wet conditions in South America.
The study – published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – involved the work of two researchers at the University at Albany. WAMC's Jim Levulis spoke with Ernesto Tejedor of the school's Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences about the work.
Tejedor: This study started with a very general question, right? We imagined what will happen to the world, how would the world be impacted immediately and what would the impact be over the next decade if there is a very large volcanic eruption occurring tomorrow? So we asked that question to start this study. To do so, we had to look into the past, into the last millennium where there have been very large volcanic eruptions. We know that because we had a very large eruption in 1991, which was Mount Pinatubo in Philippines. And that time, we already had satellite information to see how the volcanic ashes went into the stratosphere, and then they were distributed around the globe very quickly. And we knew, because we had instrumental data available, that aerosols make like a layer that reflect the solar radiation. And so that reflection was sending back into space. So the effect on the air was one of cooling. So we knew that from the instrumental data, but Mount Pinatuba was not large enough to address the very large impact that this eruption could have. So we went into the past and looked into these very, very large volcanic eruptions to see what were the impacts in the long term, and in also the immediate impacts. So our main finding is one is the impacts of future volcanic eruptions will be superimposed on anthropogenic climate change in the future. But future climate change scenarios conventionally do not include volcanic forcings. Because we don't know when, where and in what form they will occur. So this inevitably means that there could be surprises in store to which we currently have no strategy. So that since our paper highlights that these two prices could potentially be severe and more persistent than previously thought, because we found that the impacts of these very large volcanic eruptions will be changing how the precipitation system works around the world, and not only for the immediate year after the eruption, but even for a decade. Planning for some places that will mean severe droughts, for example. And the second angle that this study has, is that I don't know if you know about the new engineering solutions to combat climate change. One of them is solar radiation management. That is commonly view as one of the new engineering strategies because they use volcanic eruptions as natural analogs. And so our paper showed that such strategies might come with risks of unintended changes in precipitation throughout the world. And that could last for a decade or longer. That will last much more than previously thought.
Levulis: So taking what this study has found, as you just detailed, how can the data be utilized to prepare for future volcanic eruptions?
Tejedor: There is no perfect result because we are studying it with proxy records and with models. In this case, we use the last millennium product. And this is a new product that combines it's called paleo data simulation product, and it combines natural archives such as tree rings, coral records, that can tell us how the climate of the past works. We combine that with climate models. So to have an idea of how the system works and how the system has worked in the past, also to learn about the future. So these reconstructions are not perfect. So, they have uncertainties. So, when we have our results, our results also have uncertainties. But we can certainly take the changes that we see that will happen in the future or if we have a very large volcanic eruption tomorrow, we can go to the places where these larger changes will happen and start taking precautions because, for example, we know with our results, that these past eruptions caused severe drying in tropical Africa and across Central Asia and the Middle East, they induce significantly wetter conditions over Oceania and the South American monsoon region. Here in the [United] States, we found also that the region of California will also have severe drying. Then if you ask me how they these regions can be prepared, this is tricky because it all depends on their socio-economic state, because for example, California since they have been under severe drought during this these years, and in the past day, they have been preparing for these events for a while and they have the means to do so. But there are other regions that they don't have the resources to be prepared for such an event. If they have a lot of things going on already in terms of drought or hunger or wars, these will be another risk to put on top of their already long list.
Levulis: Finally, I feel like a lot of people know how earthquakes are measured on the Richter scale. What measurements are used to determine the size of a volcanic eruption?
Tejedor: Well that there are different measurements and those are taken into account according to different things. One is the volcanic explosivity index and that would be one of the most common that is used. And it tells you the measurement of the explosiveness of the volcanic eruption, the volume of the products and the eruption cloud, how high it reaches into the atmosphere. And so it goes from zero to eight.
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The Warfare of Divided Allegiances: Civil War Collection - 40+ Novels & Stories of Civil War Including the Rhodes History of the War
Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Edward Everett Hale, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph A. Altsheler, John Esten Cooke, John William De Forest, Randall Parrish, Mary Johnston, Charles King, G. A. Henty, Robert W. Chambers, Winston Churchill, George Washington Cable, George W. Peck, Ellen Glasgow, Natalie Sumner Lincoln, John McElroy, Byron A. Dunn, John R. Musick, James Ford Rhodes, Jules Verne, Thomas Dixon Jr., B.K. Benson, Charles Carleton Coffin, Lucy Foster Madison, W.H. Shelton, Harry Hazelton, Edward Robins, Henry F. Keenan, María Ruiz de Burton
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A Daughter of the Union (Lucy Foster Madison)
Chasing an Iron Horse (Edward Robins)
The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale)
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)
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Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with making sense of their strange reality. One woman will be freed from purgatory once she writes the perfect book; another abides in a world devoid of physical contact. With wry prose and skewed humor, an emerging feminist writer explores twenty-first century promises of knowledge, freedom, and power.
"Bakic's stories are a dark delight—a treasury of forbidden pleasures, moments of resistance and resilience, and terrifying possibilities." —Strange Horizons
"At turns funny, surreal, and grounded in simple language but flung through twisted realities, the stories in this collection are provocative and utterly readable." —The Brooklyn Rail
"Skillfully disorienting." —BUST
"There's an immediacy to Bakic's offbeat worldview, sometimes strange and surreal, sometimes terrifying and upsetting, that pairs perfectly with the madness of the current political moment." —Locus Magazine
"Bosnian writer Bakic's debut teems with the oddball narratives of George Saunders, the eerie atmosphere of Edgar Allan Poe, and the feminist intellect of Marge Piercyc. . . Told in a straightforward manner that transports speculative fiction into almost realist territory, Bakic's collection imaginatively and strikingly examines sci-fi tropes from not only the point of view of women, but also from the voice of an effortlessly gifted writer whose future is much brighter than that of those depicted in her stories." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Sissy in the Woods - Forced...
Felicity Fyst
If you go down to the woods today beware of a sissy surprise . . .
Charlie Morris fantasies become a reality when he encounters a beautiful and mysterious woman in his local supermarket. Naturally dominant, he is immediately attracted to her and she begins his tuition in the art of submission in a local wood close to his place of work. He is slowly manipulated by his Mistress's guile and superiority and soon Charlie finds himself in a position of slavery and submission to this powerful dominatrix that uses her seductive charms and some well-chosen blackmail to push him into panties and become her outdoor sissy slave. But where will this lead, will his Mistress fully enslave him and make him hers or does she have other plans for him? Read 'Sissy in the Woods' to find out the fate of this forced feminised sissy slave.
One of Irelands most famous writers was James Joyce, a novelist and poet whos best known for his avant garde classic Ulysses, which was inspired by The Odyssey but written in a completely modern, stream of conscience way. Joyce was also acclaimed for his poetry, journalism, and novels like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.


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Brunilde – altro nome della regina merovingia Brunechilde
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About Ishant Sharma (ईशांत शर्मा)
Born: 2 September 1988 (age 31 years), Delhi
Test debut (cap 258): 25 May 2007 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 169): 29 June 2007 v South Africa
T20I debut (cap 21): 1 February 2008 v Australia
Last ODI: 17 January 2016 v Australia
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Aligned Modern Health at 910 Davis St. The clinic combines chiropractic physical medicine, acupuncture, functional medicine and clinical nutrition to promote holistic wellness.
A new integrated healthcare option, providing individualized treatment plans to produce overall wellness, opened its doors in Evanston last month.
Aligned Modern Health — which combines chiropractic physical medicine, acupuncture, functional medicine and clinical nutrition — opened up an Evanston clinic at 910 Davis St. in late September. The Evanston location is one of 15 Aligned Modern Health clinics throughout Chicago and its suburbs.
"We really wanted to create a place that people could go and get evidence-based outcomes through healthcare," said Bill Fiely, co-founder and chief marketing officer for the organization.
The clinic strives to be "patient-first," Fiely said, meaning that each individual patient is looked at as a unique case. A holistic medicine approach combines the different core areas of medicine to provide a plan for each patient to achieve wellness in a way specific to the individual's life.
Rather than simply prescribing medicine as treatment, practitioners at Aligned Modern Health work to create a healthcare plan addressing lifestyle adjustments specific to each individual patient, said Ryan Oates, the current clinic manager for the Evanston location.
Ever since the first Aligned Modern Health location opened in Wrigleyville in 2010, Fiely said he and the other founders have had ambitions to open a location in Evanston, due to the "tight ties" the founders have to the city.
Fiely (Kellogg '04) and co-founder Andrew Ingley (Kellogg '03) met at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. The third co-founder Brian Carey (Weinberg '97) attended Northwestern for undergraduate studies. The trio became friends through their Northwestern experiences, Fiely said.
"Evanston has always been a place near and dear to our hearts, somewhere we wanted to expand and grow," Fiely said.
The idea for Aligned Modern Health arose after each of the founders had found personal relief through alternative medicine treatments, Fiely said. Realizing they had this in common, they decided to found a clinic offering alternative medicine options. Rather than relying on pharmaceutical methods, their treatments rely on non-traditional methods like acupuncture and clinical nutrition.
Clients come to Aligned Modern Health seeking relief from a wide range of ailments, ranging from gastrointestinal issues and chronic pain to stress and anxiety, Fiely said. The Evanston clinic has seen a variety of patients, from community members to students, he said.
Fiely said Aligned Modern Health is in network with Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare and Aetna insurances. Students on Northwestern's insurance plan have Aetna insurance, which requires a referral for chiropractic medicine.
Aligned Modern Health is working with student health services on campus to create a collaborative relationship between the organization and Northwestern students.
The "holistic framework" of healthcare offered by the clinic helps give residents more choices when it comes to seeking treatment options, said Evonda Thomas-Smith, director of Evanston's Health and Human Services Department.
As an organization, and specifically in the Evanston clinic, Aligned Modern Health creates a culture balancing producing effective treatment plans for patients while having a "laid-back energy," Oates said.


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Q: how can I save a form with ModelMultipleChoiceField? I have a model Calendar and in a form I want to be able to create multiple instances of it.
Here are my models:
class Event(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)

class Group(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(_('Name'), max_length=80)
    events = models.ManyToManyField(Event, through='Calendar')

class Calendar(models.Model):
    event = models.ForeignKey(Event)
    group = models.ForeignKey(Group)

class CalendarInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = Calendar
    extra = 1

class GroupAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    inlines = (CalendarInline,)

Here is how I try to code my form:
class AddEventToGroupForm(ModelForm):
    group = ModelMultipleChoiceField(queryset=Group.objects.all(), widget=SelectMultiple())

    def save(self):
        for g in self:
            g.save()

    class Meta:
        model = Calendar
        fields = ('group',)

And here is a part of my view:
e = Event.objects.get(id=event_id)
calentry = Calendar(event=e)
if request.POST:
    f = AddEventToGroupForm(data=request.POST, instance=calentry)
    if f.is_valid():
        f.save()

If I try to submit that form, I get:
AttributeError at /groups/add_event/7/

'BoundField' object has no attribute 'save'

What is the proper way to create multiple instances of Calendar in this
situation?

A: That's not how to deal with many-to-many relationships in forms. You can't iterate through fields in a form and save them, it really doesn't work that way.
In this form, there's only one field, which happens to have multiple values. The thing to do here is to iterate through the values of this field, which you'll find in the cleaned_data dictionary (when the form is valid).
So, in your view, you do something like:
if f.is_valid():
    for group in f.cleaned_data['group']:
        calentry.groups.add(group)

Note you're not 'saving' the AddEventToGroupForm form at all. I would make it a standard forms.Form, rather than a ModelForm, as you're not really depending on any of the ModelForm functionality.

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Global Burning
3:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.
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Eve Darian-Smith, Professor and Chair, Global Studies, UCI
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The UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on Law and Climate Change, and UCI Environmental Humanities Research Cluster welcome Eve Darian-Smith to discuss her new book, Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis (SUP, 2022).
With comments from:
Dina Gilio Whitaker, CSU San Marcos
Julie Sze, UC Davis
James Nisbet, UCI
Fabio de Sa e Silva, The University of Oklahoma
Moderated by Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Keramet Reiter.
Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.
Darian-Smith looks deeply into each of these three cases of catastrophic wildfires and finds key similarities in all of them. As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice.
The fires in Australia, Brazil and the United States demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. Darian-Smith argues that these wildfires are closely linked through capitalism, colonialism, industrialization, and resource extraction. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges readers to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.
Eve Darian-Smith is Chair of the Department of Global and International Studies, Professor of Global Studies, and affiliated faculty in Law; Anthropology; and Criminology, Law & Society at UCI. Trained as a lawyer, historian and anthropologist, Darian-Smith is a critical interdisciplinary scholar interested in issues of postcolonialism, human rights, legal pluralism, and sociolegal theory. Her current work focuses on authoritarianism and crises of democracy. Her research has been supported by five grants from the National Science Foundation, as well as grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, American Philosophical Society, and the UC Center for New Racial Studies.
Darian-Smith has published widely, including thirteen books, edited volumes and special issues. Her first book, Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe (2009) was the co-winner of the Law & Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize. Her book, Laws and Societies in Global Contexts (2013) won the International Book Award in Law and the Kevin Boyle Book Award. Her book, coauthored with Philip McCarty, The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies (2017), is widely considered a foundational text in the emerging field of global studies.
Registrants will receive a code for 20 percent off book purchases.
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Lysorophus is a genus of Lysorophia, extinct Permian Lepospondyl tetrapods. Most of the specimens are found from North America and attributed to the first formally described species Lysorophus tricarinatus due to the lack of diagnostic characters, but several other species have been described. Lysorophus were small salamander-like amphibians. They lived in fresh water, aestivating in burrows during dry periods.

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Lysorophians
Permian amphibians
Permian amphibians of North America
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
Fossil taxa described in 1877


There are many options to illuminate your yard or garden, and installing a lamp post can be an interesting idea. These lamp posts are generally inexpensive and the outcome can be very unique. This method of lighting can reach a larger area with the use of a single bulb, making it a good solution for those who like to keep things simple.
Lamp post lights were originally used as public lighting along streets of housing areas and commercial district but increasingly more and more people is beginning to install them within their house compound. Most lamp post available in the market come in classical setting.
Having a lamp post like this in your garden can bring back old memories of olden times, giving your garden a nice nostalgic look. Most of these lamps have a metallic finish, as well as black cast iron type. Modern looking lamp post designs are minimal in design and are usually in silver finish while copper and brass finish ones can give a vintage look. Wooden type of lamp post can also be found.
Having a lamp post as a form of outdoor illumination is ideal for security purposes and looks. These are readily sold as complete kit in your local stores. Installing one can take some effort as you may need to dig a trench through the soil to conceal any unsightly wirings. Prepare for some serious digging as the appropriate depth for such trench is around 1.5 feet.
To prevent the wires from getting wet and protect them from other external factors, a conduit is necessary to wrap around the wires. Usually a conduit can be made of PVC or other durable material. A lamp post are usually six to seven feet high so it is necessary to give it a firm footing so it does not tumble easily when it rained. Use a concrete filler tube as a fast solution to plant your lamp post firmly to the ground.
For safety purpose, it is advisable to use a transformer in preventing accidental electric shocks. This is especially true when using current-conducting metal lamp posts. A transformer can usually be bought from the same store selling lamp post lightings. Other additional tool to consider is adding a timer in order for your lamp post to switch off on and off in your absence.
A newer invention in this type of lighting is solar lamp posts. A solar powered lamp post can work two ways. During sunnier months, it can absorb energy from sunlight can store them in its photovoltaic battery for night time use. During winter or cloudy days, the same lamp post can be powered by electricity. This means that wiring connection is still necessary unless it is only meant for usage during a certain part of the year.
A solar lamp post comes equipped with a light sensor for automatic on and off, so there is no need for a timer. Going away for holidays and long shopping trips into the night can be more relaxing as the yard and driveway will be lit when the time comes. Solar lamp post lighting is built convenience in mind. Most products in the market has a wide flat base plate that can be bolted to any existing solid foundation. The benefit of using a solar lamp post is the free energy and the fact that these lamps uses LED bulb that are not likely to need any replacement. However, a change of battery is necessary when it deteriorates or every two years on average.
Like any other lighting in the house, using different bulbs on a lamp post can create different outcome. Incandescent lights are yellowy, soft and warm but they are not the best choice when it comes to energy efficiency. White colored light like the LED, halogen and fluorescent lights each have its own advantages and disadvantage and can be used under different circumstances depending on the desired end result.
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Personally, I am less impressed by the power of disintermediated "emergent democracy" than I am by quite examples of Government 1.0 being used to bring those results about.
The most striking example, I think: Brazilian consumers are now able to buy Lintel and AMDux machines for about 3-6 months of a minimum salary.
And one reads that the Brazilian government will soon pass a law providing incentives for consumer technology developed in Brazil, by Brazilian firms, researchers and labor, using NEITHER AMD OR INTEL MICROPROCESSORS.
It seeks to acquire in the bargain the intellectual property that will allow it to develop its own processor industry.
Brazil, as you may know, is the world's biggest bathtub full of rare earths -- gallium arsenide, I think -- used in fast processors, but has had its own technological capacity held back by the beasts of no nation for decades.
And you know what? It was a democratically elected goverment -- armies of lawyers and policy wonks -- that managed to change that. Not a Smart Mob. An old fashioned "power of the purse" government. And not a Bolivarian revolution, either. A determined, dead serious monopoly-busting democratically-elected government counterweight to the predatory business practices of some of the same folks who sponsor the Creative Commons.
History tends to tell us that all the rest -- smart mobs, emergent democracy, disintermediation of markets, corporate social responsibility, business "ecosystems" -- is simply magical thinking -- or worse, if you will pardon me for stating the opinion in such strong terms. It is an opinion deeply held.
Colin : I don't think governments doing smart things and emergent democracy are mutually exclusive. In fact, they should support and enable each other. I think Brazil is doing some great things and some of the greatest things involve enabling more and more people to have voice and share. I've talked to Brazilian government officials, activists and business people and I a very encouraged by their understanding of open networks.
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The coverage of the investigation did include embarrassments—specious chyrons, tendentious talking heads, and retracted scoops, among them. Yet it does not follow that American journalism failed because the best-resourced newsrooms in the nation chose to report assiduously on the Mueller investigation and its subjects, only to learn that Mueller did not prove that Trump had conspired with Russia. Mueller was appointed in the first place because the Justice Department and the F.B.I. had uncovered troubling information about the campaign. According to Barr, Mueller found that there had been "multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign," and he did not exonerate the President of obstruction of justice.
Apart from that, the evidence, independently uncovered by journalists, suggesting that members of the Trump campaign might have colluded, if not conspired, in order to win the election, was newsworthy, and begged for additional reporting. So did the evidence of Russian hacking attempts to manipulate the vote to Trump's benefit; of campaign-finance violations committed by the President's personal lawyer; and of corruption and false statements made by Trump's former campaign aides. Mueller's investigation resulted in the indictment of thirty-four people, seven of whom have pleaded guilty so far. The country's major papers, magazines, and digital newsrooms published reams of accurate reporting about all of this. But the indictments and the reporting also built up outsized expectations for Mueller's report. As the investigation extended into this year, the portentous question of what new information Mueller's team, exercising subpoena power, might disclose remained unanswered. The mystery provoked fevered speculation, but Mueller's office, unusually for Washington, did not leak, and so arrived the March Surprise.
The media's role was complicated by the fact that revelations uncovered by professional reporters, once published, became engulfed in a toxic fog of hot takes, opinion masquerading as reporting, and hyper-partisan competition. The news organizations that employed the best workaday reporters on the Mueller beat are not entirely blameless in this regard. At the top of the Times desktop homepage, these days, as many opinion pieces appear as news stories, and the Washington Post has been expanding its opinion sections (though such pieces are careful about facts). Cable television, meanwhile, mixes field reporting and news-making interviews with personal asides from prime-time personalities and roundtables of bombast-mongers. Journalists have long harbored a belief that readers and viewers understand the difference between editorializing and reporting. It would be unrealistic to expect them to make such a distinction now.
The economics of news is partly responsible for this state of affairs. In an age of distraction, many Americans now get their news from social media. At the same time, Facebook and Google have broken the advertising models on which newspapers and digital newsrooms previously relied. The survival strategy adopted by many papers—persuading readers to buy digital subscriptions—requires them to publish content that readers find indispensable or, at least, touches on their sense of identity. In cable TV, channels that viewers feel they can't live without command the highest fees from distributors. Fox News's deeply devoted audience makes that network exceptionally valuable. As a result, the temptation in media businesses is to exploit political tribalism.
President Trump, for all his demagoguery, has yet to marginalize professional reporting. In many newsrooms, investigative journalism is enjoying a renaissance, and it is having a strong impact, within and beyond Washington. Last summer, while covering the Administration's "zero tolerance" policy of removing immigrant kids from their parents, Ginger Thompson, of ProPublica, obtained and released a recording of young children crying in a holding facility. Her work provoked a public outcry, and the Administration reversed its policy. Reporting by the Indianapolis Star helped bring to justice the child molester Larry Nassar, of USA Gymnastics. A series of stories in the Baton Rouge Advocate found that a Jim Crow-era law, which allowed defendants accused of felonies such as murder to be convicted by a split-jury verdict, fostered racism and mass incarceration. Louisiana's Republican-led state legislature approved a referendum to reconsider the law, and, in November, voters chose to require unanimous verdicts in trials involving felonies.


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By Jeff Clark@celticsblog Updated May 14, 2009, 11:16am EDT
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The Celtics are 32-0 when leading a playoff series 3-2. The Magic have lost the last 6 games where they faced elimination.
The Magic have all the traits of a team ready to implode. They've given up two 14 point leads in the playoffs and almost gave up a 28 point lead earlier this series. They have squandered 1-0 and 2-1 leads in the series. Their coach is complaining about the officials and blaming his players. Their star player is blaming the coach. They have no go-to guy in the clutch and their best player has no go-to moves on block (and is normally a liability from the line).
And you know what? None of that matters.
The Magic still out played the Celtics for much of the series. They have jumped out to first quarter leads in 4 of the 5 games. If you build a big enough lead, you don't have to worry much about who will score in clutch time.
History has shown that history means nothing in the present (except as a learning tool). Records are made to be broken and streaks are defined by when they end. This team has already given us a ton of memories this postseason. I just don't want the lasting one being that they were the first Boston team to lose a series in which they had a 3-2 lead.
I wish I could say with certainty that this team will rise to the occasion. But as Bulpett points out, this team has given us nothing to be certain about.
If there's anything we've learned through 12 Celtics playoff games, it's that we haven't learned anything.
Expectations seem to exist only so they can be mocked.
To wit: Ray Allen's going to light up J.J. Redick in this series. Try again. Allen is shooting .328 from the floor overall and has made just 5-of-29 treys. The Celtics will come out hard and fast in Game 5 and establish early and complete control. Sorry. They needed to score 13 straight points in crunch time to survive on their own floor.
You get the idea.
Now that isn't to say I'm not optimistic about our chances.
For all the reasons stated above, I don't think the Orlando Magic have what it takes to beat this Celtics team. I think we haven't seen the best out of the Celtics yet and if/when they put it together, look out.
I think Ray Allen's jumper is finally going to start falling tonight. I think Paul Pierce is going to get to the line and get their guys into foul trouble. I think Perkins is going to remind Howard why the Magic aren't getting him the ball on the low post more. I think Baby is going to keep making them pay for leaving him open for that midrange shot. I think, ...but I don't know.
Dwight Howard thinks he knows what is going to happen:
"We're in this series to win it," Howard said. "We are going to win this series."
The Magic are a good, hungry, desperate team. They are going to put everything they have into winning this game because they have to. Which means the Celtics need to play the same way.
"Confidence comes from experience. How many Game 7s have we been to? How many times have our backs been against the wall?"
Still, the Celtics might be better off if they didn't have to be frightened into greatness.
"Yeah," said Scalabrine, "it'd be great if we could play like that when our back isn't against the wall."
This team needs to (figuratively) punch the Magic in the neck early on. Don't let them get up early. Don't give them a foothold. Keep them at arms length and eventually they'll fold.
I'm tired of Game 7's. I'd like a nice, easy game 6 win tonight. We'll know early on if the Celtics are going to take advantage of a team that is realing or if we are going to need another late game comeback attempt. Here's hoping they come out strong. Stay thirsty my friends.


We don't always realize how much we're actively learning in our day to day work. We've gotten so used to the daily grind of web development, that perhaps finding answers to "gotchas" or successfully troubleshooting a problem, is something we celebrate with a fist bump in the air before we move on to the next thing. What helps me keep this blog going is taking a few seconds to write those discoveries down in a draft. While small, each new bit of knowledge levels me up. I want to share some of those with you today as quick WordPress tips.
The great thing about these 10 quick tips, are that they can be absorbed in this one read. No in-depth tutorials, no lengthy explanations – just small bits of knowledge that hopefully help you grow the same way they've enabled me to grow.
Half of these tips are for HTML or CSS, the other half, WordPress functions that I've found handy during front-end development. Let's start from the quickest tips down to ones that require a little more explaining.


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Consumer Electronics Show 2013
Nvidia launches Tegra 4 and Shield gaming device
by Adrian Covert @CNNTech January 7, 2013: 1:37 PM ET
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed off the company's new gaming portable, its first full-fledged consumer gadget.
When CEO Jen-Hsun Huang stepped on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show to unveil the new Tegra 4 CPU for smartphones and tablets, he proved Nvidia isn't messing around in the mobile space. It claims its quad-core system-on-a-chip will out perform any other around, including the A6X chipset powering Apple's iPad.
That means your next generation of mobile gadgets could be noticeably faster.
If you've never heard of Nvidia's Tegra line, chances are you've used it. Countless Android, Windows Phone and Windows RT products are built around previous-generation Tegra guts, including Google's Nexus 7, Microsoft's Surface tablet, HTC's One X smartphone and the Sony PSP handheld gaming device.
Like the Tegra 3 before it, Tegra 4 features four discrete cores, along with a low-power fifth core that is used for light processing tasks such as email or messaging. (That extra core extends the life of any device's battery.) But this time around, Nvidia used 1.9 GHz ARM A15 cores -- the new cutting edge for speed freaks -- as its reference design. That power boost ensures blazing performance with 45% less power consumption.
And unlike any system-on-a-chip before it, the Tegra 4 has 72 graphics cores. Nvidia says will that will fuel a 3.5x performance boost over its predecessor and make the Tegra 4 faster than the chipsets powering both the iPad 4 and Nexus 10 tablets.
These specs are impressive on paper, but the question always remains: Will we actually notice the boost?
Nvidia (NVDA) has some showcases ready. The Tegra 4 can push video to the latest and greatest 4K resolution TVs, meaning you could see the Tegra 4 chip running in the next generation of Smart TVs and streaming boxes, powering ultra-high-definition video rendering.
Related story: 14 gadgets we want to see at CES
Nvidia also went out of its way to develop a new high dynamic range (HDR) photo processing engine that enables better photos in difficult lighting environments. In an on-stage demo, CEO Huang showed off a new trick: live HDR preview, which allows you to see what effect HDR will have on your image before you snap the photo.
Devices such as the iPhone currently lack this feature, and save two photos to your phone every time you snap an HDR image. That eats up storage space and drives avid photographers nuts.
Nvidia's splashiest CES announcement, though, was its cannonball dive into the gaming gadgets market.
To illustrate the power of the Tegra 4, Nvidia went and built Project Shield, an entire portable gaming device crafted around the chip, which is capable of pushing high-definition (HD) graphics to a 5-inch, retina-grade display or a full-size TV.
The Shield is Nvidia's first foray into a full-fledged consumer product. It's got controller components that the company says rival any console game pad, 14 hours of battery life, and a stock build of Android, which means it can be updated as quickly as Google (GOOG) allows.
Nvidia is positioning Shield as a tool to enhance the gaming experience for the hardcore crowd, and it shows. In addition to functioning as a portable device, or connecting to a TV, the Shield can link up wirelessly with a PC and stream the visuals to your TV, effectively turning it into a giant PC gaming display.
In terms of design, the device itself looks like the victim of Nvidia's quest to provide a compromise-free gaming experience -- which is to say, it's cumbersome and unattractive. Then again, there aren't many ways to cram a full console controller and a 5-inch display into a portable without sacrificing something.
Nvidia's gaming ambitions don't end there. It's also working on Grid, a cloud gaming service it believes will succeed where other services, such as OnLive, failed.
Here's Grid gist: Anyone with an Internet-connected TV, tablet, or Shield will have access to PC-caliber games thanks to cloud processing. Your input from the controller is sent to a server tucked away in some remote data center, which will do all the heavy lifting that a PC or an Xbox or a PlayStation would typically do. It then streams the visuals back to you.
The company claims Grid is performance-maximized and lag-minimized to a point where it's on par with a console. It offered no details on when the Grid service will be available to consumers or how much it will cost, but the idea that someone could get an up-to-date gaming experience without having to shell out hundreds of dollars for the latest consoles is one that will forever entice.
CNNMoney (Las Vegas) First published January 7, 2013: 12:19 PM ET


Martin joined AVITAS in 2000 bringing over 15 years of aviation experience to the firm. He was previously the Editor-in-Chief at ITA Press, a biweekly aviation newsletter published both in English and French and was also involved in ITA's consultancy activities. Prior to ITA, Martin was a Senior Aviation Analyst at Airclaims Group in the consultancy division and he also served as the Editor for two of Airclaims' major publications, Airline Finance and Traffic and Jet Scoresheet. Prior to Airclaims, Martin worked at Qantas Airways and at the Department of Finance and the National Board of Science and Technology in Dublin, Ireland.
Martin is fluent in French and has been an ISTAT Certified Appraiser since 2004.


MALAYSIAN firms are looking into partnering with Mindanawon businessmen in a bid to explore markets outside of Malaysia.
Matrade trade commissioner Siti Azlina Mohd Ali Hanafiah said Philippines' population of over 100 million is a large market for Malaysian businesses as compared to the 30 million population of Malaysia.
"The size of the market is huge and we cannot neglect its importance," Azlina said. The Philippine population is also one of the factors that attracted the interests of Malaysian businessmen.
In order to tap this market, the Matrade held an exploratory mission to Davao City last November 7 to 9, 2018.
"This is our first exploratory visit to Davao City... It is very important for us to understand what businesses are viable for Malaysians in Davao City and Mindanao," Azlina said.
During their visit here, Matrade explored potential business opportunities and identifed market leades on fast moving consumer goofs, Halal products, information and communications technology, and construction.
Data showed that bilateral trade between Malysia and the Philippines from January to September 2018 grew by 9.5 percent to US$4.79 billion from $4.37 billion in the same period in 2017.
Malaysian exports to the Philippines from Janaury to September 2018 grew by 9.7 percent to $3.1 billion from $2.82 billion in the same period in 2017. Imports of Malaysia from the Philippines grew by 9.1 percent to $1.69 billion from $1.55 billion.
Top Malaysian exports to the Philippines include electrical and electronic products; palm oil and palm oil based products; chemicals and chemical products; petroleum products; and machinery, equipment, and parts. Top Philippine products imported by Malaysia include electrical and electric products; machinery, equipment, and parts; processed food; chemicals and chemical products; and natural rubber.
Aside from the Philippines, Nasaruddin said Malaysian businessmen are keen on further exploring the over 600 million market of the member states of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
"This is agood market not only for Malaysia but for the Philippines as well," he said adding that they are also holding similar exploratory missions in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam.


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"I have not seen a player like Tolgay "
By Volkan Çelik
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Besiktas born and raised ! Football coach in the making. - London, U.K
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Besiktas boss Slaven Bilic has heaped praise on Tolgay Arslan, and is very proud of his performance so far stating
"I have till this day not seen a player like Tolgay Arslan, signed in the winter transfer window, who can play so good in both attack and defense."
putting aside his ability to play both offensive and defensive aside, there is very few players with the ability to take the ball right to the oppositions goal area"
Besiktas competed heavily over the January transfer window, to sign Tolgay Arslan from Bundesliga side Hamburg SV, with Trabzonspor for the player's signature. At one point, it seemed as if Trabzonspor managed to convince Tolgay to sign for them by offering the 24-year old midfielder a very lucrative contract. But Tolgay did what many in today's football world wouldn't do and stuck to his word and signed with Besiktas for nearly half the money Trabzonspor had offered him. With his impressive performance against Liverpool in the UEFA Europa League and more recently against Trabzonspor he has surely convinced everyone that his value both on the transfermarket and his club will drastically increase. Besiktas paid only €500.000 for his signature from Hamburg three months ago.
"He will be vital"
Bilic, who is confident that we are yet to see the best of Tolgay Arslan, stated: "In the summer when we begin our pre-season camp for next season, he will improve more. And next season we will see an even better and improved Tolgay. He has already impressed a lot this season and next season I'm certain he will impress even more." Bilic was quoted as saying.
"At the moment he is only playing at 40% of his potential"
Galatasaray former chief scout Mahmut Alpaslan also believes the best of Tolgay is yet to come, speaking to Milliyet during the break, Mahmut Alpaslan mentioned Besiktas have signed a real gem of a player: "In Turkey, people are starting to see Tolgay now for the first time, I have been scouting Tolgay since he was a youngster. He is doing wonders at the moment for Besiktas. But believe me, I know Tolgay well, he is only playing at 40% of his full potential. Next season Tolgay will be one of the most talked about footballers in Turkey. Besiktas are doing a very good job at the moment, and if I could offer them any advice it would be to continue scouting players in Germany and Scandinavian countries. The players Besiktas were to sign from there will keep the club right at the top, Besiktas is on the right path." Alpaslan was quoted as saying.
Tolgay Arslan this season has played 17 games for Besiktas , 11 matches in the league and 3 each in the Europa League and Turkish Ziraat Cup. The 24 year old in these 17 appearances has managed to find the back of the net twice, not forgetting his wonderful goal against Liverpool which helped Besiktas reach the last 16 of the Europa League.
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