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Summer at Woolly Hollow State Park
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Woolly Hollow State Park
Woolly Hollow State Park is a state park to head where you can find prime summer activities to take on like fishing, boating, and swimming on 40-acre Lake Bennett. The 440-acre park is located in Greenbrier about 20 miles north of Conway and 50 miles from Little Rock.
The lake here was named after Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, the first director of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, today the Natural Resources Conservation Service. A sandy swimming beach at the lake has lifeguards on duty during the summer. Fishing boats, canoes, kayaks and pedal boats are available for rent here at the park or a free launch ramp is available for visitors who bring their own. Camping is also available at the park for those that want to stay the night and there are four trails here you can explore while here too.
Enders Fault Mountain Bike Trail is a 9.4 mile trail that both mountain bikers and hikers can enjoy. The trail is named after the area's active seismic fault line just north of the park. The trail takes you through valleys along creeks and also has views of Lake Bennett. Those on a bike can choose to ride the entire trail or divide it into two loops, the North Loop and the South Loop. The 3.5 mile Huckleberry Trail loops around Lake Bennett offering nice views of the lake. Near this trailhead is the 1/5 mile Gold Creek Loop, which is perfect for small kids. The loop travels along the banks of Gold Creek. The Cabin Trail is a 1/2 mile jaunt that begins at the Woolly Cabin. History buffs will enjoy the Woolly Cabin, an original 1882 one-room family homestead.
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Big Data Reveals Hidden Subtypes of Sepsis
UPMC - Much like cancer, sepsis isn't simply one condition but rather many conditions that could benefit from different treatments, according to the results of a Pitt study reported in JAMA involving more than 60,000 patients, featuring Derek Angus (BCHS '92), chair of Pitt's Department of Critical Care Medicine and Pitt Public Health's distinguished professor of health policy and management.
Deep Sedation and Controlled Paralysis Do Not Improve Survival of Critically Ill Patients with Severe Breathing Difficulty
Reversibly paralyzing and heavily sedating hospitalized patients with severe breathing problems do not improve outcomes in most cases, according to an NIH-funded clinical trial conducted at dozens of North American hospitals and led by clinician-scientists at Pitt -- including Derek Angus (BCHS '92), chair of critical care medicine and distinguished professor of health policy and management -- and the University of Colorado.
Garland to participate as lawmakers review clean slate law
WESA - BCHS's Richard Garland said that by expanding access to jobs, the clean slate law plays a crucial role in preventing low-level ex-convicts from committing future crimes. Before the law, he said, those individuals too often were defined by their criminal records when seeking work.
Albert's research leads to evidence-based approval for Pennsylvania's Healthy Steps in Motion Falls Prevention Program
ASPPH FRIDAY LETTER - Research by BCHS's Steven Albert put the HSIM falls-prevention program on the pre-approved list for future federal funding. The study showed a significantly lower incidence of falls in older adults who completed program workshops than in a comparison group at the same sites. HSIM participation reduced falls by about 28 percent.
Angus' Early Sepsis Indicator Receives 510(k) Clearance from FDA
MANAGED CARE - Pitt Med's Derek Angus (BCHS '92) contributed to a first-of-its-kind, hematology-based cellular biomarker that is designed to help emergency department physicians identify patients with sepsis or who are at increased risk of developing sepsis. Compared to the traditional method of reviewing white blood cell count alone, the Early Sepsis Indicator strengthens a clinician's suspicion of sepsis by 43 percent.
Albert comments on findings about aid-in-dying drugs
REUTERS - "This is an important paper, if a state has legislation that allows terminally ill adults to request medication to hasten death, there needs to be a policy from each hospital on how they will respons. This is one of the first studies to address that," said BCHS Chair Steven Albert.
Raviotta, Zimmerman, Nowalk on the best time to get a flu shot
BCHS's Richard Zimmerman and Jonathan Raviotta (BCHS '18) and Patricia Nowalk (EPI '81, '93) are among those who recently published research that says that hundreds of deaths can likely be avoided if older adults wait until October to get their flu immunization. Since the protection offered by the vaccine wanes as the season progresses, waiting until closer to the start of the season ensures greater immunity.
BCHS's Hawk and Gary-Webb participate in event honoring recently promoted women faculty
BCHS associate professors Mary Hawk and Tiffany Gary-Webb participated in the provost's recent event, "A Celebration of Newly Promoted Women Faculty." Sponsored by the Provost's Advisory Committee on Women's Concerns (PACWC), the event featured a panel of accomplished women professors offering perspectives and advice for successful academic careers and then introduced the recently promoted women among the faculty. The event was part of Pitt's on...
Examining the Impact of a Psychosocial Syndemic on Past Six-Month HIV Screening Behavior of Black Men who have Sex with Men in the United States
AIDS AND BEHAVIOR - Chandler C, Bukowski LA, Egan JE, Hawk M, Matthews D, Markovic N, Stall R revealed that tere were synergies among depression, problematic binge drinking, and poly-drug usebut these pschosocial factors cannot entirely explain testing patterns and excess disease burden among BMSM.
Multifactorial discrimination, discrimination salience, and prevalent experiences of internalized homophobia in middle-aged and older MSM
AGING AND MENTAL HEALTH - Meanley SP, Stall RD, Hawk ME, Surkan PJ, Shoptaw SJ, Matthews DD, Teplin LA, Egan JE, Plankey MW's study underscores internalized homophobia as a persisting concern among MSM in midlife and older adulthood. Their findings suggest that saliences, as a characteristic of discrimination experiences, may have a greater impact on internalized homophobia compared with exposure.
I Don't Want the Tray to Tip: Experiences of Peer Evaluators in a Multi-Site HIV Retention Care Study
AIDS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION - Dr. Mary Hawk and co-authors found that peers are well-positioned to collect client-level data, best practices, standards, and trainings for peer-based evaluation should be developed.
Elias receives Chancellor's Distinguished Service Award
Congrats to professor (and alum) Thistle Elias (BCHS '12) on winning the 2019 award - a major honor recognizing continuing work with Bridging the Gaps, a premier service-learning opportunity for Pitt students. The award "recognizes... efforts [that] far exceed the traditional duties expected of a faculty member and showcases the extraordinary impact that you have had in your own department and in the University."
Albert on program that helps seniors continue to live independently
REUTERS - "You really want to see people be independent and able to manage without help from their families or from paid services," said BCHS's Steve Albert. "Presumably if you can improve function with the activities of daily life, you reduce the risk of nursing home placement."
Maseru co-writes Birth Equity Consensus Statement
MARCH OF DIMES - BCHS's Noble Maseru co-authored "Birth Equity for Moms and Babies Concensus Statement" to advance social determinants pathways for research, policy, and practice. Among the recommendations: improve maternal death surveillance, expand research, engage in health system reform, empower communities through inclusion, and change social and economic conditions.
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Antwerp approves new cycle ramp to Park Bridge
The city of Antwerp has approved the construction of 140m-long steel structure designed to give cyclists better access to a bridge that has proved very popular since its opening in 2017.
Both the new ramp and Park Bridge - which is called Parkbrug in Belgium - have been designed by Ney & Partners.
Park Bridge, which carries cyclists and pedestrians, has known intense usage since its opening, said Ney & Partners. A ramp gives easy access for cyclists from the Spoor Noord Park to the bridge's eastern side. On the western side, cyclists currently use a staircase with a bicycle conveyor belt or a lift.
A new loop-shaped lightweight steel structure will be built above an underground car park. Production of the 140m-long steel ramp will get under way in the workshops of steel constructor Emergo in autumn 2019. The ramp is expected to be completed in 2020.
Critical constraints for the design of the new ramp have included guaranteeing a slope of maximum 4%, keeping an 8m distance to the adjacent facades, finding the widest possible radii and securing a logical connection between the bridge and the square. Steel was chosen for the main structure in order to reduce the weight on the existing underground structure and meet construction constraints.
In cross section, the adjacent parts of the deck are connected by V-shaped columns. The columns stand on top of the existing columns in the underground car park. The deck is a closed triangular box girder, capable of withstanding torsion. For the handrail, a transparent solution with slim posts and a handrail in stainless steel was chosen. LED lighting is integrated into the handrail. The bottom of the steel structure will also be illuminated, allowing indirect lighting of the square.
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What is 'middle class' in Virginia?
What defines Virginia's low- and middle-income residents is at the heart of a heated debate about taxes.
Democrats and Gov. Ralph Northam want to adjust tax policy to benefit what they've called low-income Virginians while Republicans want to focus on tax relief for the middle class.
But based on income data, both plans would benefit the state's wide-ranging middle class.
Northam, a Democrat, lasered in on people making less than $55,000 a year — lower-income Virginians, he's called them — while Republicans have focused on what they call the middle class: people like a couple that makes $110,000 to $130,000 a year, leaders have said.
However, according to available data on what Virginia's middle class looks like, Northam's plan is not just a fix for people with low incomes, it also affects members of the middle class in most parts of the state.
And despite criticism Republicans have received for presenting a plan that would only benefit high-earners, parts of their plan would benefit the same low-income earners Northam wants to help.
The administration's plan doesn't seem to have a way forward since House Republicans have advanced their own legislation and the Senate has an entirely separate plan moving through its chamber that will give tax relief to people of all income levels, Sen. Tommy Norment, R-James City, said recently.
There is no single official way to define the middle class, said Kathryn Piper Crespin, a policy analyst at the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The center makes population estimates that are used in official state reports.
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Why it's more important than ever to prioritize adaptabilities over capabilities
By Michael Palantoni | September 13, 2022
In Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, the mercurial Mike Campbell famously answers the question "How did you go bankrupt?" by responding, "Gradually, then suddenly."
Timeless in its observation of human behavior, Campbell's insight applies to many technological and business shifts throughout the ages — the rise of personal computers, the internet, smartphones and beyond. Today, we see one of these gradual-to-sudden changes happening in healthcare in the transition from software and services to platforms and ecosystems. As recently as two years ago, healthcare organizations that utilized flexible technology platforms were able to transition to alternate care delivery models within days. The result was better sustainability and continuity in patient care despite a global pandemic. The healthcare landscape has forever changed. But were you able to change with it — and will you be able to tomorrow?
Healthcare's platform moment is now, and the shift is sudden.
But first, it's worth examining how we got here gradually.
In the software world, products and services are traditionally installed, managed, and confined to an environment that functions mostly independently and unconnected to the outside world. A healthcare organization in this world is responsible for stability, security, access, connections to other systems, and technology — making it much more difficult to be nimble in the face of change.
Over the past 20 years, this model has been mostly replaced by software as a service (SaaS). Systems are operated in a central location that makes it easier to keep products up to date, scaled, and connected — but mostly for the organization that is the principal user of that product. You may no longer have a dark basement filled with servers, but you are still relatively isolated, connecting with other entities only where your IT team elects to build bespoke integration points. Whenever changes are made, there's additional risk to breaking those custom integrations.
In the platform world, products are designed specifically to enable interactions between other software, businesses and systems that are not just for the organization using that product. They are architected to serve their core users and enable interaction with the broader world around them. This allows others to build new features on top of this software; communicate directly and natively in the workflows of that software; or take components of a given product and use them in another product.
We've seen this quite a bit in our consumer lives when the food ordering app we use to order pizza delivery is interacting with dozens of other platforms to do its work — local restaurant point-of-sale systems, financial transaction processing systems, driver logistics platforms and more. We read news on apps that aggregate stories from dozens of content management platforms from publishers. We check in on financial markets via services connecting through dozens of systems to provide near-real-time transparency of the stock market. This is where ecosystems — many platforms working as an interdependent whole — come from. Healthcare is the next industry to experience this evolution.
So how does this ripple across the healthcare continuum?
Interoperability is another major catalyst for this monumental shift. "Interoperability" has traditionally been achieved by one software system spitting out a document in a format that can just barely be consumed and parsed by another system. This is transforming dramatically and moving toward a new world where EHRs are now accessing each other directly — platform to platform — to be interoperable, and athenahealth is building out teams to enable and support this interaction.
We see the same with value-based care (VBC) arrangements and payers — there is a tremendous variety of software to take claims files and data from multiple sources to compute quality measures, but new approaches are emerging where payers are providing platforms to manage the status and interactions of VBC measures in real time. This not only enhances operational efficiency by reducing the need for dozens of systems to track quality measures, but also supports better patient outcomes. Other recent integrations within athenaOne form a new type of value-based care ecosystem, enabled by direct access to payers' platforms. We may soon see others coming to the table in similar ways — labs, health information exchanges, patient transportation services, community resource brokers, and beyond.
One of the reasons why these innovations are so important is because most health systems are just catching up with what is required by the letter of the law. Patients have more access to their own data than ever before thanks to the 21st Century Cures Act, which went into effect in 2021 and stipulates that EHRs must act as platforms by allowing other applications to gain access to patient data when requested by a patient. The law also requires that those practices allow patients to bring whatever app they want to EHR platforms (with just a few exceptions). This means that the digital patient experience is no longer directed by a medical practice, but chosen by the patient.
For practices and providers, these changes are significant
Clinicians need to be open to many entities interacting with the platforms they use. Imagine a dozen disparate patient apps accessing health data from a single practice. This means investing in or possessing a platform that manages that lift on behalf of the practice or else there's a risk of significant IT overhead. Platform world products are designed to handle this easily, while software world products can quickly become overrun.
It's also important to elevate the expectations of what an electronic health record or practice management system is doing to innovate. It's incumbent on athenahealth and other solution providers to do more than build platforms; we must also actively connect as integral partners. That removes the burden of paper chasing and file downloads, a weight on the shoulders of care delivery organizations that should be enabled to focus on higher-level priorities.
Lastly, pairing this profound change in how healthcare technology systems work with today's challenges and opportunities makes now a more important time than ever to prioritize adaptability over capabilities. The proliferation of new care models, incentive programs, condition- and patient-specific care pathways — and events like the COVID-19 pandemic — require practices to avoid stagnant software. While the future is impossible to predict exactly, platforms that can adapt to an evolving ecosystem of payers, consumer apps, care models, patient expectations, and care delivery settings will be in a much better position to serve their customers and care teams than those designed for the needs of today.
Michael Palantoni is the vice president of product management, platform and data services, at athenahealth.
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YAY! Comedian and happiness expert Aidan Park.
Comedian Aidan Park Shares The Art of Being YAY!
by Daedalus Howell
Grammarly, the online writing assistant, says I'm a "vocabulary virtuoso," which is just a polite way of accusing me of thesaurus abuse, to which I readily admit.
Hence the tweet-ready stat provided to me that reads, "This week, I used more unique words than 98% of Grammarly users." There are two words I didn't use, however, which I've just learned.
The first, "acedia," comes courtesy of Jonathan L. Zecher, a research fellow at Australian Catholic University, who describes it as "an ancient Greek emotion" that aptly captures the "bored, listless, afraid and uncertain" feelings of our present moment. The second new word is "YAY!" The all-caps exclamation is more than a word, however—it's a kind of "art of being" that's been perfected by comedian and author Aidan Park.
Naturally, I've heard of "Yay" before, but not quite in the way Park uses it—effervescing with ardent, infectious enthusiasm for life that is simultaneously an adjective, noun and art form (take that, Grammarly). His new book, The Art of Being YAY!: The OMG NSFW Memoir and Guide to Authentic Joy, promises and delivers all that, plus much more.
His beginnings weren't auspicious—Park was basically air-dropped into the U.S. from South Korea as a kid with no English and tons of family dysfunction and facing prejudice galore, not least of which because he's gay. Since he was undocumented, work was hard to come by and surviving as a sex worker was cut short due to an HIV diagnosis. Instead of despairing, Park threw myself into the world of self-help and cognitive behavior—specifically, neuro-linguistic programming.
"So, then it was like, 'All right, I'm at the bottom,'" Park recounts. "So, it was at that point where a friend of mine saw my situation and pushed me into the world of empowerment. I went to this empowerment workshop and I loved it because it was actually my first taste of what empowerment felt like. From then on, I studied that a lot and I applied that to career concepts, money, relationships, communication and so on, using the tools that I learned over those years. I did neuro-linguistic programming and I literally just threw myself into that world. That's how I got to be an 'accomplisher.'"
Comedy became his bailiwick, and he worked his way to becoming a headlining standup (his friend, comedian Margaret Cho, wrote the forward to his book). Park found not only success but also love. Due to the unpredictable vicissitudes of life, however, Park eventually lost his husband of five years to cancer.
"It was a crazy loss, it hit me hard," Park says. "At that point, I was so miserable, I didn't care about anything. Like, who cares about my comedy career? …So, I was like, 'It's either do or die, man. It's like, 'Okay, let's crap or get off the pot here.' Like, 'If I'm going to stay, I refuse to stay feeling this bad.' Every day was so hard on me that I was like, 'There's just no way that I'm going to feel this bad.'"
Friends interceded with advice, some of which Park considered—at the time—"hippie, dippie bullcrap," but as he later reflected, "I think that when you're in enough pain, you'll do anything."
Park's grief fueled his inspiration to apply all he had learned in empowerment workshops regarding his career goals towards his new emotional goals.
"What if I apply those to an emotional result?" he asks. "The emotional result of feeling better, going after 'happy.' What does that even mean? What is the emotional satisfaction? How do I go after that directly? When I started doing that, that's when things really changed and it made me completely re-prioritize everything."
If the existence of The Art of Being YAY! is any indication, Park's plan worked. But could it help those suffering a bout of acedia?
"It's a really tough time right now, and nobody really talks about emotion, everybody just goes, 'Oh, you feel bad, here drink this or let's ignore it,'" he says. "And, speaking from the perspective of having dealt with extreme emotion, I've found that the best way is to address it and go into it. The joy is on the other side of that; you need to go within. You can't dance around it and think you're going to run forever, because it's going to sneak up. It will get you."
A complimentary Kindle version of The Art of Being Yay! is available to Bohemian readers at aidanpark.com/bohemian. Listen to the complete interview with Aidan Park on The Bleed podcast hosted by Daedalus Howell, at storygramme.com/the-bleed.
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HealthDay News — Almost half of older Medicare beneficiaries have high persistent spending throughout the full year before death, according to a study published in the June issue of Health Affairs.
Matthew Allen Davis, MPH, PhD, from the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor, and colleagues characterized trajectories of health care spending in the last year of life by applying a new methodology to administrative claims data for older Medicare beneficiaries who died in 2012.
The researchers identified 4 unique spending trajectories among decedents after adjustment: high persistent spending, moderate persistent spending, progressive spending, and late rise spending (48.7%, 29%, 10.2%, and 12.1%, respectively). Persistent high spending correlated with having multiple chronic conditions but not with specific diseases.
"These findings suggest that spending at the end of life is a marker of general spending patterns often set in motion long before death," the authors write.
Davis MA, Nallamothu BK, Banerjee M, Bynum JPW. Identification of four unique spending patterns among older adults in the last year of life challenges standard assumptions. Health Aff. 2016. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1419.


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The New York Times, Oct. 24, 2018
Even a 10-Minute Walk May Be Good for the Brain
"It was exciting to see those effects occurring so quickly and after such light exercise," says Michael Yassa, the director of the U.C. Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and senior co-author of the new study with Hideaki Soya of the University of Tsukuba. The findings show that exercise can change people's brains and minds right away, he says, without requiring weeks of working out. [Subscription required, campus-wide access provided by UCI Libraries. Sign-up here: AccessNYT.com]
National Geographic, Oct. 23, 2018
This iceberg is perfectly rectangular—here's why
Eric Rignot, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and a professor at UC Irvine, agrees that Larsen C's massive size created the rectangular shape. "The 'bergs detaching from Larsen C are so big, they look perfectly rectangular or with linear features because they were created from rifts that run across the ice shelf for hundreds of kilometers straight," he notes. "In Greenland, you would not find these rectangular bergs so much because it is warmer, icebergs break into smaller pieces and the glaciers are smaller as well."
Orange County Business Journal, Oct. 23, 2018
UCI Gets $14.7M Grant
UC Irvine's program, created by professor Carol Booth Olson, was one of three projects to be awarded the Education Innovation and Research expansion grant this year. Waterford Institute in Sandy, Utah and WestEd in San Francisco, Calif. were the other two recipients. [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci]
The California Aggie, Oct. 23, 2018
In speech at UC Davis, UC Irvine chancellor says universities cannot enforce hate speech codes
UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman [said], "The arguments for limiting hate speech are strong," and acknowledged how hate speech "hurts marginalized communities." … "However, he argued that censorship and the regulation of ideas is even more harmful, and claimed that universities have no jurisdiction over hate speech. "We argue that any viewpoint can be expressed on campus," Gillman said. "It is still not legal for public universities, such as UC, to enforce hate speech codes."
Hoover Institution, Oct. 29, 2018
China's Demographic Prospects to 2040: Opportunities, Constraints, Potential Policy Responses
Professor Wang Feng of UC Irvine and Fudan University and colleagues calculated that as of 2010 Chinese seniors earned less than 40 percent of the resources that were sustaining them at age 65; just 20% at age 70; and maybe 10% at age 75.
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Life Changingly Awesome Query Letter Part 6: The New York Times Book Review
Dear Mr. Sam Tanenhaus,
In my opinion, there are three things that every man should do before he dies: 1. Ride a jet ski 2. Write a harshly worded letter to an online retailer and 3. Read The Mummy, the Will and the Cryptby John Bellairs. As a frail, precocious, but obviously gifted youth, I read said book, the sequel to Bellair's first Johnny Dixon mystery The Curse of the Blue Figurine, and was enraptured by the excitement, enthralled by the intrigue, and en fuego-ed by chapter ending lines like this: "Johnny could make out what the woman was saying. And the words made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end." You're probably asking yourself right now: What were those words?!? Well, Bellairs made you wait till the following chapter to find out. And sometimes, depending on whether or not you'd had a nap after your snack, that could be the next day.
But despite producing Mach 3 Turbo sharp suspense like that in 15 young adult books, Bellairs, according to a fairly accurate sounding Wikipedia entry, died in relative obscurity in Haverhill, MA, where, according to its tourism website picture gallery, the most interesting thing to do seems to involve a statue of a woman captured by Native Americans in 1697. And perhaps more importantly, Bellairs work was never featured in the Times Book Review. "Until Sam Tanenhaus accepted an idea that would change his life forever. In a good way. From Kevin Alexander."
That idea, Samuel, is to write a 2000 word essay celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first publication of The Mummy, the Will and the Crypt. Although the essay will feature a lot of interesting behind-the-scenes tidbits about Bellairs and the book I mentioned before, especially why the illustration on the front of said book portrays the main character Johnny Dixon without a mouth and wearing embarrassingly tight, tapered blue pants, it will mainly re-focus on my childhood, and my painful but minor battle with slight iron deficiency. I can also do illustrations, for a nominal fee.
Now Sammy, I a fool am not. I understand that the literary rigors of writing for the Times Sunday Review are, um, rigorous. You, the Internet 2.0 has led me to believe, even had to write a book called Literature Unbound, and this while you were in your 20s! Although sadly my father didn't donate enough money to his alma mater Dartmouth to get me wait-listed at an Ivy League school, I too am cultured. I've heard of or asked Yahoo!Answers about nearly every classic American author, I've seen the movie version of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, and I own cuff linksand an English-French dictionary. But I'm much more than that. Because you don't have to be a Michael Crichton scholar or know the French word for grapefruit (pamplemousse!) to understand the American literary landscape, especially when most of what you're planning on turning in involves personal anecdotes.
In the movie Rounders, Matt Damon says something to the effect that--during a game of poker-- you must put a man to a decision for all of his chips. Well, Samson, all of my chips are on the proverbial table. You've heard my opening statement, you know my argument, you've seen the evidence. It's time you found me guilty of an invincible idea, and sentenced me to 2000 words, preferably at $2 a pop. My contact info will follow. And if you need to get in touch quickly, just friend me on Facebook, then write your message on my wall.
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My mom and I like to watch cheesy horror movies together. American Mummy passes cheesy and goes into bizarrely bad. Every choice made is bad, the mummy never shows up, and the acting is awful. As a side note, I'd say this is more of a zombie movie than a mummy movie, but at this par of movies does it really even matter?
If you enjoy the technical aspects of movie-making, watch it with friends and have a fun afternoon tearing apart a movie that is truly an accomplishment in poor film making.


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Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, June 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews
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Lycanthia are one of those bands you may well have heard of, with 17 years and counting of existence behind them, yet never actually heard anything by, thanks to a prior release catalogue comprising just one demo, one album and an EP - none of which are readily obtainable. Second album 'Oligarchy', initially released through Australia's Green Media Distribution in 2012 (a mere 13 years after the debut full-length 'Myriad'), was the start...
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*Google translation of Italian review
Every now and then from Australia comes out some gothic reality out of the norm, even though the Lycanthia are not exactly newbies since the first demo was in 1997 while the first full in 1999. Then the little or nothing for years and years (only an EP in 2006) until you get to this Oligarchy first self-produced, then backed by Hypnotic Dirge Records that could not let him perish rightly long in water...
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Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, June 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews
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"Oligarchy" is the second album from this Australian gothic doom band and it has a very 90s flavour to it. The band seems a bit obsessed with early Theatre of Tragedy. The mix of clean, melodic female vocals (done pretty well) with harsh, growled and rasped vocals and loads of violins and keyboards gives it a feel similar to late 90s goth-doom acts like The Sins of Thy Beloved but Lycanthia's sound is rougher and lacks t...


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Netanyahu's top ally can't be cabinet minister, top Israeli court rules, prompting possible government crisis
Israel's top court ruled 10-1 on Wednesday that Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party and a key ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, should not be allowed to serve as a cabinet minister because of a conviction in February 2022 for tax fraud.
Netanyahu should remove Deri from office, the court ruling said. Such a move would risk bringing the country into a political crisis.
Deri's Shas party – which won 11 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament, the Knesset, in November and is a key part of Netanyahu's coalition – immediately hit back, saying the court decision "irregular and unique."
The Sephardi religious party said the court "today threw away voices and votes from 400,000 voters for the Shas movement."
"Today the court has ruled that the elections were meaningless. The court's decision is political and corrupt," the party said.
The Supreme Court was asked to rule on whether it was legally reasonable to appoint Deri to positions in Netanyahu's cabinet despite his tax fraud conviction.
Judges ruled that his post "could not stand."
"This is, among other things, due to his background of criminal convictions," and his failure to retire from public life as he said he would when he was sentenced in a tax fraud case.
The underlying legal question is whether Deri's tax fraud conviction constitutes a crime of moral turpitude. Until the November elections, that would disqualify him from serving in government.
But Netanyahu and his allies changed the law after their election victory, clearing the way for Deri to become minister.
Deri was a member of the Knesset at the time of his tax fraud conviction last year.
He resigned as a lawmaker rather than allow the head of the electoral commission to rule on whether the conviction disqualified him from being a minister.
This means that the legal question of whether Deri's fraud conviction counts as a crime of moral turpitude remains unresolved.
Deri allies have been pointing out this week that the head of the Shas party would not resign from his ministerial position even if the court's decision was against him.
In a statement to his fellow members gathered at his home, Deri said on Wednesday that he would "continue the revolution even stronger and stronger," without going into detail.
His refusal to resign – or Netanyahu's refusal to sack him – could set up a constitutional crisis that will pit the government against the Supreme Court.
Netanyahu and his coalition partners have 64 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, a majority of four. Deri's Shas party holds 11 of those 64 seats, so ousting Deri would send the government into crisis.
On Wednesday night local time Netanyahu was seen visiting Deri's home, spending about 45 minutes inside before leaving again. Netanyahu made no comment to reporters outside.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin – a member of Netanyahu's Likud party – vowed to intervene on Deri's behalf.
"I will do everything necessary so that the gross injustice done to Rabbi Aryeh Deri, to the Shas movement and to Israeli democracy is fully rectified," Levin said.
Levin has already announced plans to reform Israel's justice system by giving the Knesset the power to control Supreme Court decisions and review appeals to the court.
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut – who was among the 10 judges who ruled on Wednesday that Netanyahu should dismiss Deri – said last week the changes recommended as an "unprecedented attack on the legal system."
Israel has been rocked by political instability in recent years, with Netanyahu narrowly winning Israel's fifth election in less than four years in November.
Netanyahu, who was sworn in as prime minister for the sixth time in his career at the end of December, has been a key figure in a period of prolonged political chaos.
His latest government appears to be the most right-wing in Israel's history.
Itamar Ben Gvir, a terrorist convicted of supporting terrorism and inciting anti-Arab racism, became minister of national security. Bezalel Smotrich, who has supported the abolition of the Palestinian Authority and the annexation of the West Bank, became finance minister.
Netanyahu's last term has gotten off to a rocky start, with tens of thousands of people protesting in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on January 14 against his government's proposed changes to Israel's judicial system.
Attendees held signs comparing Netanyahu to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and saying Israel was turning into the likes of semi-democratic Hungary and democratic Iran.
Activists told CNN that they came out of fear for the future of Israel and that they would send a message to Netanyahu that the public will not stand for what they see as the destruction of Israeli democracy.
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Amazon Marketplace offers merchants a wide range of functionalities. They can use the Amazon Marketplace as a new or additional sales channel, building on Amazon's brand. They can also purchase additional Amazon services such as warehousing their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, where Amazon handles the packing and shipment of the goods and provides customer service for the merchants. In addition, Amazon collects and transfers shopper payments to the merchants.
At the same time, Amazon is one of the largest online retailers itself. Depending on the product, Amazon's own retail offerings may directly compete with those of the merchants using the Amazon Marketplace. Due to the comparable platform and similar shopping experience, many shoppers may not recognize any difference between Amazon's own retail services and its marketplace activities for other merchants.
Over the years, Amazon's dual role as both marketplace sales representative and online retailer ("hybrid platform") has raised concerns both in the US and in Europe. Most allegations concern the manner in which Amazon collects and analyzes retailer data to learn which products sell well. Merchants have claimed that Amazon is using the data it collects to identify successful new product offerings on its platform to then market an Amazon-own version. In other words, Amazon is alleged to use the data it collects from the retailers using its Marketplace to compete against them with an own offering. To market its own version, Amazon is said to either approach the actual manufacturers of the original (successful) products with a view to reselling the products at a lower price or to even sell those products as so called "Amazon Basics"– its own brand. Amazon reportedly offers its own products at a price below that of the original merchant so that Amazon's offering appears as the lowest priced offer on its Marketplace platform – and thus as a first choice in Amazon's Buy Box.
Following the EC's findings in its e-commerce sector enquiry in 2017, the EC recently commenced investigating allegations that Amazon uses data from third-party transactions generated via its Marketplace to enhance its own online retail offerings.
"[I]f you as Amazon get the data from the smaller merchants that you host – which can be, of course, completely legitimate because you can improve your service to these smaller merchants – do you then also use this data to do your own calculations: as what is the new big thing, what is it that people want, what kind of offers do people like to receive, what makes them buy things?".
To shed more light on the matter, the EC sent formal RFIs to many merchants active on the Amazon Marketplace. With a deadline to answer until the 9th October 2018, the questions aimed at discovering any potential Amazon strategy to use merchants' data sets generated through their sales on the marketplace and to determine the respective value of that data for Amazon.
To this end, the EC asked whether Amazon ever started selling products that merchants had also separately sold within the previous five years. Merchants answering in the affirmative were requested to provide further details on Amazon's approach (e.g. whether it temporarily suspended the merchants' sales operations) and on the impact of that conduct on the merchant's business. The EC further inquired if Amazon ever approached the manufacturers of products sold by merchants on the marketplace.
A second string of questions related to the relevant types of data merchants would make available to Amazon, including (average) prices, quantities sold, specific conversion rates, rebate campaigns or quantities stocked. The RFI also seeks information on the respective producers and factors that are relevant for the positioning and displaying in "Amazon Buy Boxes". Finally, merchants are asked whether they use Amazon software such as "Amazon Seller Central" or Amazon (or third-party) price-monitoring software.
Following its own sector enquiry into online price comparison services in October 2017, in June 2018 the German Federal Cartel Office ("Bundeskartellamt") revealed to have "received a lot of complaints" and to be "looking at the role and market power of Amazon" with regards to Amazon's hybrid function. Germany is Amazon's second largest market after the US.
With the EC's initiation of proceedings for the adoption of a prohibition decision against Amazon, the Bundeskartellamt will lose its competence to further investigate the same conduct (Article 11(6) 1/2003). It is unknown whether it has yet referred the case to the EC. In any case, the Bundeskartellamt's preliminary findings and concerns are likely to also play a role in the EC's investigation.
Amazon's conduct as described in the EC's RFI raises several competition concerns. If the EC finds its suspicions confirmed, this could amount to a violation of Articles 101 and/or 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ("TFEU"). In banning anticompetitive agreements, Article 101 TFEU covers, inter alia, the exchange of competitively sensitive information between rivals. Article 102 TFEU prohibits the abuse of a dominant market position. In case of an infringement, the EC could impose a fine of up to 10% of Amazon's total turnover in the preceding business year.
Unlike other RFIs, the EC has left open whether it is pursuing the case under Article 101 and/or 102 TFEU, and what the relevant theory of harm would be. The EC has indicated that Amazon's dual position as merchant platform and online retailer is at the core of the concerns. The dual position allows Amazon to adjust its own offerings on the retail level to the success or failure of other companies selling identical or comparable goods via the Amazon Marketplace. The risk of a commercial failure regarding the recoupment of an investment is close to zero once Amazon has learned from its Marketplace data that a certain product sells well. By better positioning and/or pricing its own follow-on product, Amazon may possibly push all consumer demand (originally created by the pioneer merchant on the Amazon Marketplace) to its own "copy-cat" product.
Information exchange and coordination between merchants?
It is also possible that the EC assesses Amazon's collection and use of the market data gathered through its Marketplace as an "exchange of information" amongst competing merchants, triggering concerns under Article 101 TFEU. For that, Amazon's practice would have to amount to an "agreement between undertakings" or a "concerted practice" with the object or effect of restricting competition between Amazon and the merchants in retail sales.
In cases of an exchange of information, the EC views the making available of up-to-date, non-aggregated data as particularly problematic if such data is competitively sensitive. Relevant to competition are company data a competitor can take into account for its own strategic market behavior, in particular sales figures, market shares, prices/discounts/bonuses, customer names and costs.
With regards to Amazon, two different competitive relationships must be distinguished. In its capacity as a merchant platform, Amazon engages in a vertical relationship with merchants. In this vertical relationship, the market data can be used to improve the product search and matching functionalities of the Amazon Marketplace for merchants and shoppers alike. Any product-specific data allows Amazon to constantly enhance its search and ranking algorithms. The need to improve and innovate the service could thus justify the gathering of such merchants' data that is required for the matching of merchants with shoppers. Both sides of the market profit from more relevant product search results. In contrast, there is no apparent legitimate need to gather merchant data that is unrelated to the matching functionality of the marketplace but rather linked to Amazon's own activities as an online retailer.
Abuse of dominance on market for online merchant platforms?
The EC will likely also investigate whether Amazon's conduct amounts to an abuse of dominance on the (likely national) markets for online merchant platforms. Whether Amazon can be found to be dominant on these markets will depend on the extent to which other market players such as eBay Marketplaces, AliExpress, Fnac or smaller European and international companies actually compete with and restrain the Amazon Marketplace. It may well be that Amazon is dominant individually in some member states of the European Union while it forms a duopoly with eBay in other states – or lacks any dominance in yet other countries due to strong domestic competition.
In countries in which Amazon is found to be dominant, the crucial question will be whether its conduct can be considered an abuse of dominance. To that end, the EC is likely to first assess well-established theories of harm such as predatory pricing or exploitation. However, in lack of an exhaustive list of abusive practices, the EC may also consider the conduct to be a novel type of an abuse that is linked to the particularities of the markets in question.
One well-established form of abuse that has been suggested in connection with Amazon's strategy to undercut the prices of merchants on its Marketplace is predatory pricing. While it appears that Amazon has offered its own "copy-cat" products at prices below those of other merchants, this does not mean that Amazon is selling below cost. The competitive concern is not that Amazon offered its products at a lower price than the original seller (which may actually benefit shoppers). The concern originates from the fact that Amazon is only able to offer such prices due to its use of third-party data. The data excludes any risks regarding the launch of a new product and also makes it easier to adjust the scope of production to the actual demand. This is not about predatory pricing but more about its ability to benefit from economies of scale and scope because of unfairly obtained information advantage.
Exploitative and/or exclusionary use of data?
It could be argued that Amazon is abusing its dominance by exploiting merchants whose market data it collects without approval or against their will. In this respect the investigation has similarities with the German investigation into Facebook. In a preliminary assessment, the German Bundeskartellamt had found that Facebook abuses its dominance on the market for social networks by making the use of its social network conditional on the collection of unlimited amounts of user data from other sources and then linking it to the user's account for marketing purposes.
Amazon's impermissible use of merchant data appears even more problematic from a competition law standpoint than Facebook's practice because Amazon uses the extracted data directly against the commercial interests of its Marketplace merchants (which are also competitors), namely to outcompete them at the online retail level. In a competitive environment, one would expect that customers leave a platform as soon as they realize that the platform is using their data to place competing products.
One question may be whether small and medium-sized merchants have become so dependent on using the Amazon Marketplace to reach shoppers that they now cannot easily withdraw from the platform. Some recent studies would suggest that they have. In Germany, for example, almost one third of all merchants have claimed that they depend on online merchant platforms such as the Amazon Marketplace, and more than half of them were concerned about becoming too dependent.
There is also a link between Amazon's conduct and the EC's abuse of dominance investigations into Google's unauthorized use of third-party content such as news, images or reviews for its specialized search services (Google News, Images, Local).
Amazon has created a similar link. Severing this link (e.g. by means of a functional separation of the different Amazon units) would allow merchants to freely use the Amazon Marketplace without concern that it empowers Amazon to launch a competing product on the online retail market.
Amazon's conduct also bears strong resemblance to Google's favoring of its own services as prohibited by the EC in Google Search (Shopping). Both cases deal with a severe conflict of interest resulting from a company's dominance on an upstream intermediation market for downstream services which the company offers itself. Google was found to be active both on the upstream intermediation market for general search services (which it dominates) and the downstream markets for specialized search services such as comparison shopping services (which it sought to dominate). The EC found that Google abused its dominance in the upstream market by favoring its downstream comparison shopping service on general search results as compared to competing services.
Similarly, Amazon is active both on the upstream intermediation market for merchant platforms (which it may dominate) and on the downstream online retail market (which it may be seeking to dominate).
Ultimately, the overarching theory of harm relates to leveraging. Since 1974, the European Courts have consistently held that an undertaking with a dominant position in a given market may not extend that position to a separate but related market by means that do not reflect competition on the merits. If confirmed by the responses to the EC's RFIs, Amazon may be found to have used its dominance in the market for merchant platforms to extend that position into online retail markets by collecting and using its merchant customers' market data. Amazon was only able to acquire that data due to the dependency of those merchants on its marketplace. No competing retailer is in that position.
Raising various issues of market definition, dominance and abuse in several multi-sided online markets, the EC's Amazon investigation is both complex and highly relevant for the e-commerce sector. While having to address several novel issues, the EC will likely rely to a large extent on its findings in the Google investigation and the e-commerce sector inquiry. It may draw further conclusions from the German Amazon and Facebook investigations. In any case, the EC appears to be fully aware of the relevance of data being amassed in the hands of a few. The Amazon case may determine whether the established principles of Article 101 and 102 TFEU suffice to address this issue.
 See e.g. Greg Bensinger, The Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2012, Competing With Amazon on Amazon.
 See e.g. Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian, 23 June 2015, Third-party sellers and Amazon - a double-edged sword in e-commerce.
 The "Amazon Buy Box" is a box on the product's details page, where customers begin the purchasing process. Often, the same product is offered by multiple sellers (i.e. several Merchants, including in some instances Amazon itself). Thus, these sellers compete to be in the Buy Box. Amazon may select one seller among the eligible sellers based on algorithms and then grant that seller the Buy Box.
 Nicholas Hirst, MLEX, 27 June 2018, Amazon's 'hybrid function' catches eye of German antitrust enforcers.
 Bundeskartellamt, Competition restraints in online sales after Coty and Asics - what's next?, Series of papers on Competition and Consumer Protection in the Digital Economy, October 2018, page 6.
 Article 23 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty ("Regulation 1/2003").
 EC, Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to horizontal co-operation agreements of 14 January 2011, at para 86.
 Lina M. Khan, Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, The Yale Law Journal 2017, 710 et seqq.
 DHL, 25 October 2018, Onlinehändler im Spannungsfeld von Wachstum und Marktkonzentration.
 See EC, 25 April 2013, MEMO/13/383, Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Google to address competition concerns – questions and answers, available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-383_en.htm.
 Vice-President Almunia, 9 December 2013, SPEECH/13/1042, Intellectual property and competition policy, available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-1042_en.htm.
 Case AT.39740 Google Search (Shopping), on appeal: Case T-612/17 – Google and Alphabet v Commission.
 Joined cases 6 and 7-73, Commercial Solvents, ECR 1974, 223.
 See Case 311/84 Télémarketing (CBEM), EU:C:1985:394, para. 27; Case T-201/04, Microsoft, EU:T:2007:289, para. 1344; see in greater detail Hoppner, Monopoly Leveraging & Equal Treatment: the EU Commission's Google Shopping Decision, available at https://www.hausfeld.com/news-press/monopoly-leveraging-equal-treatment-the-eu-commissions-google-shopping.
*Prof. Dr. Thomas Höppner is a partner and Philipp Westerhoff is an associate in the Berlin office.


Objective: To investigate the proportion of skeletal/dentoalveolar components for correction of Class II malocclusion in relation to the pubertal growth peak (PGP) among patients treated with the mandibular advancement locking unit (MALU) appliance.
Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of 27 orthodontic patients (age range: 12–18 years; mean age 14.9 years) with skeletal Class II Division 1 malocclusion who were treated with the MALU appliance until they reached Class I occlusion with overjet and overbite within normal range. Pretreatment (T1) and posttreatment (T2) lateral cephalograms were analyzed using standard cephalometrics and sagittal occlusion analysis to assess changes in the dentoalveolar and skeletal complex. The cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) method was used to determine participants' skeletal maturation in T1 cephalograms. Based on this maturation, participants were divided into two groups: the peak group (treatment initiation before or during PGP [peak group, n=15]) or the postpeak group (treatment initiation after the PGP [n = 12]).
Results: No significant differences between groups were found at T1 for most of the skeletal and dental parameters investigated. At T2, the mean ANB angle and proclination of the mandibular incisors were significantly smaller in the peak group than in the postpeak group. In the peak group, skeletal correction comprised 54% and dental correction 46% of the total change at T2, while in the postpeak group the corresponding figures were 24% and 76%, respectively.
Conclusions: Treatment initiated before or during PGP seems to result in a more favorable SNA/SNB relationship and less tipping of the mandibular incisors than when treatment is initiated after PGP.


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World green economy leaders look for ways to spark a ...
World green economy leaders look for ways to spark a new green revolution
Leading economists, CEOs, ministers, heads of UN agencies and high-level representatives from nongovernmental organizations meet in Berlin to boost the green economy and set a path to the 2030 Agenda. Countries have donated close to €15 million so far while Uruguay and Guyana have joined the Partnership for Action on Green Economy.
Press release | 27 March 2017
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BERLIN (ILO News) – Around 40 ministers, CEOs, high-level representatives of UN agencies, nongovernmental organizations and trade unions as well as more than 300 sustainable development experts meet for the second global forum on green economy on 27-28 March here. They are joined by renowned economists, including Jeffrey Sachs and Pavan Sukhdev, to explore ways of fighting inequalities and environmental degradation, based on the transformational goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
During the two-day event, they will discuss the root economic causes of the growing exploitation of natural resources, climate change and pollution. They will also look at the increasing inequalities which are giving rise to radical populism in many parts of the world.
The second conference of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy – an alliance of five UN agencies and 11 countries – is being hosted by the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety.
"We don't have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy: we can have both," said UN Environment head, Erik Solheim. "Regardless of current politics, the irreversible global trend is to make our economies cleaner, fairer and more stable. What we need now is a great acceleration – a new green revolution – to make sure we achieve inclusive green economy while there is still enough green to go around."
"The Sustainable Development Goals will not become a reality until they are powered by decisive action of both governments and private companies, said Barbara Hendricks, Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of Germany.
"Our current economic practices are destroying our planet and hence the resources on which our lives depend. We have already exceeded several planetary boundaries. Climate change is the most obvious sign that things are getting out of hand.
"The time has come to reconsider our economic practices and our lifestyles. We need a different kind of growth – one which does not create social divides and which respects the planetary boundaries. Only real change can make the national economy of every country more sustainable and resilient."
"The concept of sustainability is a powerful tool, which takes into consideration the economic, social and environmental dimensions," said Edna Molewa, Minister of Environmental Affairs of South Africa. "Economies or economic growth will have to be socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable.
"South Africa is currently implementing programmes to promote energy efficiency, green transport, sustainable housing and climate resilient agriculture. Significant investments have already been made in different sectors – notably in the energy sector."
New funds, new members
The Partnership for Action on Green Economy, hosted by UN Environment, is set to step up its support for developing countries, thanks to new donations announced at the conference. Contributions from the European Commission, Germany, Finland, Republic of Korea, Norway and Sweden will add close to €15 million to the Partnership's budget.
The Partnership has been further enriched by welcoming two new member countries in its ranks: Uruguay and Guyana. Both states have shown unparalleled leadership on inclusive green economy by including green goals and targets into their national and local development and climate action plans.
Inclusive Wealth Index
UN Environment will release later this year its bi-annual Inclusive Wealth Report, which measures the wealth of nations in terms of progress, well-being and long-term sustainability. Going beyond conventional measures of economic performance such as Gross Domestic Product, the Inclusive Wealth Index takes into account all the assets that contribute to human well-being, including manufactured, human and natural capital.
A preview of the report, unveiled in Berlin, finds that between 1990 and 2014, more than 75 per cent of the 202 countries analyzed are depleting or barely maintaining their natural capital. It means that less than one quarter of the world's countries have managed to increase the value of their agriculture, land, forest resources, fossil fuels, minerals and fisheries. The preview concludes that countries are drawing down their natural wealth to create short term gains in GDP.
Virtual Solutions Centre for Green Growth
Also in Berlin, the Green Growth Knowledge Platform is launching the Virtual Policy Solutions Centre which builds on two new tools: the Best Practices Database and the Green Growth Expert Connect. It is generously supported by the Governments of Germany and Switzerland, as well as the Partnership for Action on Green Economy, and will provide policy makers with direct access to the world's leading green economy experts and over 150 case studies and best practices on how to ensure a stable, equitable and green growth.
About the Partnership for Action on Green Economy
The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) was launched in 2013 at the Rio+20 Conference in response to the call to support those countries wishing to embark on greener and more inclusive growth trajectories. PAGE seeks to put sustainability at the heart of economic policies and practices to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and supports nations and regions in reframing economic policies and practices around sustainability to foster economic growth, create income and jobs, reduce poverty and inequality, and strengthen the ecological foundations of their economies.
PAGE brings together five UN agencies – UN Environment, International Labour Organization, UN Development Programme, UN Industrial Development Organization, and UN Institute for Training and Research – whose mandates, expertise and networks combined can offer integrated and holistic support to countries on inclusive green economy, ensuring coherence and avoiding duplication. PAGE represents a mechanism to coordinate UN action on green economy and to assist countries in achieving and monitoring the emerging Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 8: "Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all."
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BANGKOK — A 14-year-old Thai boy was found dead in Tokyo hours after his family reported him missing while on holiday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday.
The police have yet to confirm the cause of Tien Sookhananonsawat's death, a ministry spokeswoman said in a statement. However, his mother posted online that Tien died in an accident.
Writing in another Facebook post last night, Yuwajitra pleaded for information concerning her son, who left their hotel room on the night of April 15 without any explanation. Yuwajitra said Tien wasn't carrying any money or travel documents with him.
The Thai foreign affairs ministry added that Japanese police contacted the Thai embassy in Tokyo at about 1am this morning to inform them that Tien was discovered already dead.
An autopsy is underway to ascertain how the teen died, the ministry statement said.


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I have tried to provide some perspective and analysis on how public policy and political elections can have an impact on mortgage shoppers in the San Francisco market. Even abroad, election results and policy decisions ultimately affect mortgage rates back here at home.
A reminder, that US mortgage rates dropped sharply last July in the aftermath of "BREXIT," which was the vote in which the country chose to leave the European Union (EU). The aftermath of this special vote was global investment clocking towards safer havens, specifically US mortgage backed securities. Considered to be some of the safest investments in the world, they are also the most popular whenever there is chaos or fear abroad. The more money coming into them, the lower US mortgage rates go.
France is holding their preliminary elections this week, and there is a chance that San Francisco mortgage shoppers could be in for similar rates as those from the Brexit result last summer. 11 candidates are running and the top 2 will advance to a summer run-off. The two that are likely to advance are Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.
Le Pen is riding a very similar wave of nationalist populism, similar to the one that elected President Trump here in the US. She is pledging to not only leave the EU (referred to now as "FREXIT"), but reform the economy by tackling immigration.
Macron is a bit of an outsider that no one really gave a chance to. He is running as a centrist and while very young, doesn't have any major party backing in the nation. He supports liberal but business-friendly policies to boost the lagging French economy and is not championing an exit from the EU at this time.
An French exit from the EU would sent European and other global markets into a bit of a spin, likely resulting in lower rates here for Bay Area homeowners and hunters. The choice to stay in the EU would likely level off investor nerves and restore some normalcy back into the conversation. Time will tell, but I will continue to monitor the primary results and lead up to the general election this upcoming summer and how it will impact people who want or already have a mortgage right here in the Bay Area. Email Me for more info or about rate quotes.


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We have a wide range of both mechanical and magnetic door catches to fit onto any door or window feature in your home.
Our door latches and catches are available in various finishes. Choose from a selection of brass, nickel, satin chrome and polished chrome catches to find the perfect style match to your doors. Looking to buy in bulk? Our door catches come in multipacks of 5 or 10.
If you need some added security, take a look at our cupboard safety locks. We stock brass plated cupboard locks and plastic childproof catches to keep your contents and little ones safe.
We have many different styles of latches and catches to suit your doors. Magnetic door catches, such as our white magnetic catch, are thin and an effective way to securely keep doors closed with magnetic force. The fitch fastener is an ideal closing mechanism for windows. Our double ball catch and bales catch allows you to adjust the engagement pressure. The showcase catch is a very easy-to-use closing system for users.
Spend over £10 online and receive free delivery with your order, or click and collect from your closest Toolstation branch.
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With the Titan Controls Atlas 7 - CO2 Controller you can select CO2 Parts Per Million (PPM) levels at 1000PPM or 1250PPM or 1500PPM. The integrated photocell only activates the controller in daytime period when CO2 is used by plants. The Atlas 7 is conveniently factory calibrated to for precise CO2 levels in your grow room and can be re-calibrated at any time with its built in 'calibration' feature.


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För ordet i betydelse av kärleksdikt se Mansöngr.
Mansöngr (plural: mansöngvar) betecknar inom rimadiktningen en kort lyrisk inledning till en rima. Denna inledning är till innehållet helt fristående från riman och kan därför i en rimacykel – där rimorna följer på varandra – ses som en paus i berättandet där diktaren själv tar till orda och lägger fram egna tankar och bekymmer. Återkommande teman i mansöngvar är olycklig kärlek, annalkande ålderdom och svårigheten att dikta. Ibland klagar diktaren också över åhörarnas oförmåga att förstå sig på dikt.

Troligen har rimor inte från början varit försedda med mansöngvar, utan detta är något som har utvecklats efter hand. I några av de äldsta rimorna saknas mansöngr helt eller bifogas bara den första riman i en rimacykel. De äldsta inledningarna är också mycket korta – ofta på bara en strof. Ju yngre rimorna är desto längre blir deras mansöngvar – men samtidigt blir de också mer schablonmässiga och stereotypa.

Beteckningen mansöngr för en rimas inledning antas hänga samman med att rimor ofta tillägnades kvinnor, vilkas namn kunde gömmas i texten. Rimacykeln Griplur är exempelvis dedicerad till en kvinna vars namn har tänkts framgå ur de för oss obegripliga uttrycken þúngi mikill ("stor tyngd") och þrettán bú ("tretton gårdar"). I Hjálmtérsrímur har diktaren dolt sin kärestas identitet i runnamnen áss, nauð och úr. Sitt eget namn har han lagt in i uttrycket hinn sterki áss og storðar bein ("den starke asen och jordens ben"). Han hette alltså Torsten (Þór + steinn).

De flesta dolda namn är dock numera omöjliga att tyda. Men i rimornas egen tillkomstmiljö, där alla kände varandra, har dessa anspelningar varit lättare att genomskåda – vilket kan ha bidragit till underhållningen.

Mansöngr och stef
En viktig skillnad mellan drapans stäv (stef) och rimans mansöngr är att stävet håller sig till ämnet medan mansöngr är en utvikning som inte har med det övriga innehållet att göra. Men det finns två drapor som överbryggar denna skillnad.

I Jómsvíkingadrápa, som handlar om slaget vid Hjörungavåg, jämrar sig diktaren i såväl  inledning som stäv över sin egen olyckliga kärlek till en hövdings hustru, och även i drapan Málsháttakvæði är det författarens kärlekssorg som fyller stäven. Båda dessa drapor förebådar rimornas mansöngr. Dessutom är Málsháttakvæði försedd med  slutrimmad vers – vilket ju också är fallet med alla rimor.

Jómsvíkingadrápa författades vid 1100-talets slut eller 1200-talets början av biskop Bjarne Kolbeinsson. Det är också han som brukar misstänkas för att ha skrivit Málsháttakvæði.

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Sacré bleu! Space Monsters magazine has crossed the Channel and is now being sold at the Metaluna Store in Paris, France! Metaluna Store is a veritable paradise for horror, sci-fi and cult movie fans selling books, magazines, DVDs, film stills, posters and more. They also publish the excellent French language horror magazine, Metaluna, which looks at every aspect of genre cinema from the cult underground to the latest releases. So if you're in Paris anytime soon, make sure you pop along to the Metaluna Store (7 Rue Dante, 75005, Paris, France) and say "bonjour" from all of us at Space Monsters!
TOP TEN GIANT MONSTER MOVIES AND MORE!
Godzilla fans are already going crazy over the brand new issue of Space Monsters magazine as we prepare for the release of Hollywood's Godzilla 2014 reboot! Space Monsters number 4 celebrates those classic creature features with our own Top Ten Giant Monster Movies (drop us an email at spacemonstersmag@yahoo.co.uk to let us know your top ten!), extensive coverage of the classic Godzilla films, Amicus Pictures' The Land That Time Forgot, Ultraman, Mothra, Gorgo and King Kong! There are also features and reviews on Logan's Run, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Space:1999 and Hammer's Frankenstein movies as well as scream queen Caroline Munro's exclusive new column where she discusses her time working with special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen.
You can order the print edition of Space Monsters from the Classic Horror Campaign website or you can download the full color digital version from the Dead Good Newsstand – no waiting for the mailman to arrive – you can read it straight away on your iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and all good PDF readers – just like out of a classic sci-fi movie!


Shiver me timbers, thar be treasure nearby! Create a pirate's paradise in your child's room with this fun Treasure Hunt peel and stick border. Featuring cute kid pirates, treasure chests, pieces of eight, and more, this RoomMates repositionable Pirates Treasure Hunt wall border is easy to apply and easy to reposition.
This RoomMates Pirates Treasure Hunt peel and stick border is repositionable, removable, re-usable, and easy to wipe clean... the perfect combination when decorating kids' walls. And when your child is ready for a new theme, you will love this Pirates Treasure Hunt peel and stick wall border even more as RoomMates repositionable borders are easily removable with no residue or damage to the surface.
Create a pirate's paradise in your kids' rooms with the fun wall stickers in this Treasure Hunt wall decals set.
Transform your room into a high seas adventure with these creative Olive Kids Pirates Wallies Big Mural Wallpaper Cutouts.
Transform your child's room into a high seas adventure with these repositionable Pirates wall decals.