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import com.google.gwt.event.shared.EventHandler;
import com.google.gwt.event.shared.GwtEvent;
import com.google.gwt.sample.dynatablerf.shared.PersonProxy;
import com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.shared.EntityProxyId;

/**
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public class MarkFavoriteEvent extends GwtEvent<MarkFavoriteEvent.Handler> {
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    void onMarkFavorite(MarkFavoriteEvent event);
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  private final EntityProxyId<PersonProxy> id;
  private final boolean isFavorite;

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    this.id = id;
    this.isFavorite = isFavorite;
  }

  @Override
  public Type<Handler> getAssociatedType() {
    return TYPE;
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  public EntityProxyId<PersonProxy> getId() {
    return id;
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  public boolean isFavorite() {
    return isFavorite;
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    handler.onMarkFavorite(this);
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}

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Mangue Seco is 220 km from Salvador in the extreme north of Bahia. It is the edge of a peninsula between the sea and a river among mangroves (hence its name Mangue Seco). No roads lead to this place. Coming from Salvador, we cross the Real River which separates the two cities in traditionally covered canoes for a 30 minute ride.
On the other side of the river you will board a buggy car for a crazy 40 minute ride through the sand dunes. We will make stops for photographs and the ride will finish at the top ranked beach in Bahia beach for swimming. We will stop at a beach restaurant with food and drinks (not included), showers and hammocks to take a nap.
The top beach in Bahia! At 3 pm we will leave the beach and head to the village to visit Tieta's House (famous character of a Jorge Amado´s novel). There we will enjoy ice cream.
Food; Beverages; Buggy car ride to hang out around the beach – US$ 12.00 approximately (Subject to availability); Gratuities.
Available: Wednesday; Tour Departs at 7:00am.


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January 23, 2018 by Gary Price
News Roundup (January 23, 2017)
1. List: The Top Five Most-Used eResources at the National Library of Australia, 2017
2. Stronger Focus on Research in New Ordinance to the National Library of Sweden (via OpenAccess.se)
3. Google Plans to Bring Browser-Based "Augmented Reality Experiences" to iOS and Android Devices in the Coming Months
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4. Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) & Secretary of State Announces 52 Digital Literacy and Broadband Adoption Grants.
5. Cornell University and Ithaca College Announce On-Site Library Borrowing Agreement
6. Penn Libraries Has Received Grants to Digitize Major Cultural Collections (via The Daily Pennsylvanian)
7. University of Oregon Library and Art Museum Awarded $300,000 Mellon Grant
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Poland's most powerful politician says the country's future is in the European Union and that there will be "no Polexit," but that Poland at the same time wishes to remain a "sovereign" country.
It follows some harsh comments last week about the 27-member bloc from some key members of his party which led many opposition politicians to accuse Poland's leadership of seeking to take the country out of the EU.
Some political observers in Poland, where support for EU membership is very high, also fear that harsh comments about the EU could put Poland on a path to leaving the bloc by accident.
Donald Tusk, leader of the Civic Platform main opposition party, said last week that "catastrophes" like Brexit often happen not because they were planned but because people didn't plan a wise alternative.
But Kaczynski told PAP that Poland won't follow Britain's example and won't leave the EU.
"There will be no Polexit. It's a propaganda invention that has been used many times against us," said Kaczynski, who is also a deputy prime minister. "We unequivocally see the future of Poland in the European Union."
Last week, two high-ranking Law and Justice officials made strong comments about the EU after the bloc moved to punish Poland financially for actions that increase the governing party's control over the judiciary. Brussels says they violate the rule of law.
Ryszard Terlecki, the party's deputy leader, said that if things don't go the way Poland likes, "we will have to search for drastic solutions."
"The British showed that the dictatorship of the Brussels bureaucracy did not suit them and turned around and left," he said.
Marek Suski, another leading party member, said that Poland "will fight the Brussels occupier" just as it fought the Nazis and Soviets in the past.
Suski added: "Brussels sends us overlords who are supposed to bring Poland to order, to put us on our knees, so that we might be a German state, and not a proud state of free Poles."
Tusk, the opposition leader, said last week that "such rhetoric, comparing ... the European Union to the Soviet Union or the Nazi occupation, such words are not without effect."
"They do not go unpunished. They are ruinous for our reputation in Europe," added Tusk, a former leader of the European Council.
Poland accuses the EU of infringing on its sovereignty by opposing changes to the country's judicial system introduced by the government.
Kaczynski argued that rule of law is an area of responsibility for the member states alone, and "cannot be the subject of the type of interference that is currently occurring."
In his opinion, member states aren't being treated equally, which goes against the bloc's principles.
"We want to be in the (European) Union, but at the same time we want to remain a sovereign state," he said. "We want what was agreed in the treaties to be very strictly observed."
The EU, however, argues that because the bloc's legal order is integrated, it is essential to protect the independence of courts in each member state.
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IRVINE, CA–(Marketwired – December 31, 2017) – Terra Tech Corp. (OTCQX: TRTC) ("Terra Tech" or the "Company"), a vertically integrated cannabis-focused agriculture company, today announced that it has received State of California Temporary Authorization to cultivate, non-volatile manufacture, distribute and retail cannabis for California's adult-use and medical markets, effective January 1, 2018. Terra Tech plans to commence adult-use cannabis sales to the California market immediately through its Blüm retail dispensaries located in Oakland and Santa Ana.
Terra Tech first started selling medical cannabis products to patients in California through its Blüm dispensary in Oakland. In anticipation of adult-use sales, the Company opened a second Blüm retail location in Santa Ana, California in September, 2017 and is currently constructing a Blüm dispensary in San Leadro, which is expected to open to the public in early 2018. The Company is also expanding its cultivation facilities through its 'Craft Cultivation' model, and has signed two craft cultivators, based in Honeydew and Salinas, to ramp production of the Company's IVXX-brand of premium cannabis. The Company's IVXX cannabis is grown and harvested under the safest and most beneficial conditions, free of toxic pesticides, harmful molds and chemical residues. All products are rigorously tested and certified to the highest standards of potency and purity.
The state of California Temporary Authorization to conduct medical and adult cannabis retail sales, manufacturing, cultivation and distribution will be valid for 120 days and may be extended for an additional 90 days. This transition period, from January 1, 2018 through July 1, 2018, allows for existing operators to apply for their annual permits and affords the industry an opportunity to align all business operations with new state requirements. During this time period existing operators with local approval are authorized to retail the inventory on hand as of December 31, 2017, so long as it is appropriately labeled and in controlled packaging. Terra Tech is required to submit further information and documents related to each of its respective business entities to the State of California in order to secure annual adult-use and medical licenses, including but not limited to incorporation documents, business operational plans, financial information, and leadership/executive information, labor peace agreements for operations with more than 20 employees, along with proof of local approval to operate.
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Zeina Kassem's Speech - Book Signing "Crossing" New York
It is a great honor for me to be hosted tonight at the Lebanese Consulate in New York and to have my book, "Crossing", introduced to English-speaking readers.
I would like to express my thanks and my deep gratitude to the Consul General of Lebanon in New York, Mr. Wagdi Ramadan, the renowned diplomat who holds high Lebanon's banner and whose tremendous efforts were key to organizing this gathering.
My heartfelt thanks also go to Mrs. Venesa Raphael Ramadan and to all of you present here tonight for taking interest in human experiences and their importance in the lives of individuals and society.
"Crossing" is an attempt to exit the cave of pain and start not only an internal dialogue, but also a dialogue with the community. It's an act of sharing with the people a personal humane experience that has become part and parcel of our daily life in Lebanon.
The untimely departure of loved ones is painful; however, "Crossing" has overcome the traditional to establish a new relationship with the community.
"Crossing" is not the recording of daily pains; it is a leap from the state of capitulation to a state of confrontation, refusing to succumb to fate and choosing daily struggle instead; a struggle to save people's lives through Roads for Life, the Talal Kassem Fund for Post Trauma Care.
Roads for Life is a mission of hope and a strong belief in the value of human life. We at Roads for Life endured our deep wound and in less than a year started the rescue training sessions with the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)course addressed to Emergency Room Doctors in public and private hospitals all over Lebanon. (ATLS) was followed by a new course addressed to nurses, the advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) and paramedics represented by the Lebanese Red Cross.
We have completed 6 years of diligent work setting the foundation for a culture of rescue and saving victims of severe injuries in the Golden Period, a period that is widely recognized and reinforced.
Since our course of action was one of continuous uninterrupted training, this prompted the American Board of Surgeons to present us with the award dedicated for countries who have completed five consecutive years of rescue training for doctors, nurses and paramedics.
Roads for Life did not stop at that point. During its course of action, it found out that the Lebanese Army and the Internal Security Forces are in dire need of equal training to rehabilitate their rescue teams and enhance their skills to meet international standards.
This is how Roads for Life Introduced the TCCC(Tactical Casualty Combat Care) course that targets army soldiers on the battlefield.
Roads for Life with the help of a specialized international team of trainers conducted the "Train the Trainer", course addressed to Lebanese Army soldiers, in Cyprus. Today, we are completely uptime to start training the Lebanese Army.
Our project with the Lebanese Internal Security Forces began with the "First Responder", a course that started for the first time in January 2017.
We are hoping to graduate approximately 100 trained first responder every year. Since the first responder is the first person to reach the site of accident, he needs to be qualified to rescue.
These training sessions revealed to us the existence of many loopholes and needs in both institutions when it comes to rescue care. Most notable is the rescue kit. Thank God, we have been able so far to provide 300 hundred such kits to the Lebanese Army deployed on all combat fronts.
At the moment, we are seeking sources of funding for similar rescue kits to provide for the Internal Security Forces. Thank you all for your time and presence.


In Chinese medicine, there are five different elements; Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Each element possesses certain properties which can coincide or align with a different personality type. Of course, we just aren't just one type, most of us posses two, one being a little more dominate then the other. For example, you could be mostly a Wood element with Fire element tendancies. I have seen some patients that posses three, but never four or all five elements, unless you had multiple personalities! Let's hope not, that's just plain confusing.
So, are you a Wood element? Read below and find out. If you are, SPRING is your season! This can be a great time for you to shake off the winter, start to implement new ideas and 'spring' forward… quickly and effortlessly.
The wood element is an energy that is expanding quickly and can build up under pressure.
The Chinese believe that the qualities of the wood element are strength allied to flexibility. It also has the characteristics of idealism, co-operation, is generous in nature and warm.
Wood element personalities are all action explorers with a social consciousness.
Wood element personalities tend to be ambitious and are explorers. They feel most content when they are traveling in some way. Whether it is traipsing around the global or on an introspective journey of the inner self the Wood personality will be happiest. Wood element types can speedily assess most situations and spring into actions. At their peak they can rush from one task to the next hardly taking a breath. Onlookers often feel exhausted just watching them in action.
Wood element personality types can become extremely frustrated by a lack of action or banal tasks or challenges. This frustration and being idle can be quite toxic for wood types. They frequently eat while doing other things and they tend to use stimulants such as caffeine, alcohol and even drugs to keep active or relax.
In full flow wood element personalities can be inspirational to those around them. They can motivate work mates and team mates with their all-action approach and good sense of humor. When they become frustrated by not being able to progress their plans their energy becomes blocked leading to feelings of anger and negative emotions. Unless the wood type can find a means of venting this frustration it can lead to headaches and emotional disorders. Physical activity such as sport or indeed a good row can help to unblock the energy channel. In such circumstances the wood element type will revert to their usual resourceful and humorous personality.
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Jazz Lives in Syria 2005 to 2010.
As told by Hannibal Saad the artistic director.
Jazz Lives in Syria, An Annual festival that started in 2004 and took place in several Syrian cities. The festival included series of festivals and other scheduled programs over a period of seven years, collaborating with numerous foreign musicians, embassies and cultural centers. This Syrian jazz festival, held annually in the Damascus Citadel and in other Syrian cities, became the largest musical event in Syria and generated a number of important initiatives, such as several music workshops for young and professional Syrian musicians, through collaboration with the international composers, musicians and trainers who came to Syria to teach, rehearse and compose for the Big Band. The outcome of this initiative was the creation of the first complete and standard jazz orchestra in the Arab world: the Syrian Big Band, as well as the creation of a dozen of independent small jazz bands which stemmed from it, providing the opportunity for a large number of Syrian instrumentalists to have their place on the musical map in Syria and the world, rearranging Syrian traditional musical lore in a jazz fashion and presenting it worldwide. The festival also featured many great jazz artists like Wayne Krantz, David Binney, Frank Carlberg, Alain Caron, Erik Truffaz, Ensembel Denada, Eivind Arrset, Jan Akkerman, Francis Colleta, Bert Joris, Kenny Wheeler, Christoph Lauer, Time Report, and Franco Ambrosetti.
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PREtector, a bathroom safety detector reducing the elderly's risk of falling in the bathroom, is the awarded work developed by two graduates of Information Management and one undergraduate of Infomation Communication. Mr. Ren-Hao Pan (潘人豪), Associate Professor of Innovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence, instructs Ting-Hao Liang(梁庭浩), Ho-Kuan Shen (沈和寬) and Chia-Chi Hu (胡家綺) in this project. The team wins the Honorable Mention and the Feature Far Eastern Group Award in 2016 IT City Application and Service Design Contest with total 140 thousand dollars and gifts. The app detects the falling risk for the elderly in the bathroom and sends the warning to the equipment.
Mr. Pan says the team wishes to the elderly's risk of falling in the bathroom located in hospitals, care centers, and residence. Moreover, the detector may prevent people at all ages from fall-related injuries in the bathroom.
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Q: when defining "fluid solid interface" in transient structural, the question mark keeps showing screenshot here
G'day, mates. I met a problem that I couldn't figure out. I built a simple model consisting of a cylinder(solid) and a cuboid(fluid) for simulating Kármán vortex street. And the cylinder is submerged in the fluid, so the entire surface of it should be selected in the Scope dialog box. But there is a blue question mark beside the icon of "Fluid Solid Interface." I don't know why. Any mistake did I make?
I hope someone can help me out; thanks. Oh btw, I'm a beginner.
To make the question mark vanish so that I can go on.

A: Once clicked "solve", immediately received a warning message saying that if the stiffness behaviour of the body is set "rigid", then it'll cause invalid "Fluid Solid Interface". So just set it to be "flexible". Okay, this problem has been solved!

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John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (4 July 1872 – 5 January 1933) was the twenty-ninth (1921–1923) Vice President and the thirtieth (1923–1929) President of the United States.
[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
— The Human Odyssey: Volume 2 by Tanim Ansary et al, p. 653.
— Telegram to AFL president Samuel Gompers (14 September 1919); concerning the 1919 Boston Police strike.
— Message to the National Security League in honor of Constitution Day, quoted in New York Times (17 September 1923) "Ceremonies Mark Constitution Day"
— Statement to reporters (2 August 1927); cited in Bartlett's Famous Quotations, 16th ed. (1992).
In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope — nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
— Address at Arlington National Cemetery (30 May 1925), in Foundations of the Republic (1926), Coolidge, Ayer Publishing, p. 228.


Repsol Honda's double MotoGP™ World Champion Marquez recorded his best time on the 62nd of 63 laps, whilst his teammate Dani Pedrosa was 0.483s behind in fifth place. Pedrosa had a crash late on at turn nine without consequences.
There was also a special new 'winter' helmet for Rossi featuring snowflakes and reindeer, neither of which are likely to otherwise feature at Sepang this week. Lorenzo was third fastest, 0.141s behind Rossi.
The new CWM LCR Honda team duo of Cal Crutchlow and Jack Miller got down to work with their RC213V and Open spec RC213V-RS packages, finishing the day 10thand 19th respectively. Miller focused on adapting to the Magneti Marelli MotoGP electronics package – the Australian aiming to achieve better performance with traction control, whilst for Crutchlow the test is simply about reacquainting himself with his new factory machine.
The Factory Aprilia Gresini pair of Alvaro Bautista and Marco Melandri (15th and 26threspectively) worked hard on their new machines – with pneumatic valve engines – after test rider Michael Laverty carried out an early morning shakedown on the Italian brand's evolving prototype.
Aleix Espargaro appeared not to be held back too much by a knee ligament injury sustained over the winter as he and MotoGP Rookie Maverick Viñales got back to work on the Suzuki GSX-RR. Espargaro ran off without major consequence at one point and ended up 14th – just under two seconds down on Marquez. Viñales lapped just under a second behind his new colleague in 21st place on the timesheet.
Drive M7 Aspar's new signing Eugene Laverty was 22nd will aspire to get as close to teammate Nicky Hayden's lap times on the Open RC213V-RS over the three days, with Hayden completing day one in 17th. AB Motoracing's Karel Abraham on the same spec bike concluded the day in 24th position.
Octo IodaRacing Team's Alex De Angelis will reportedly move onto Aprilia's factory spec electronics for Sepang 2, therefore still running Open Marelli software on the 2014 ART this week. He was 27th as the first day of 2015 tests came to a close.


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Former Wildcat Aaron Gordon uncertain for slam dunk contest with bruised foot
MRI test show Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon had suffered no serious damage but does have a bone bruise to his right foot.
Magic coach Frank Vogel said Thursday morning that Gordon is listed as day-to-day and will miss Thursday night's home game against Philadelphia. Gordon's return to the lineup will depend on how he responds to treatment.
In his absence, veteran Jeff Green will likely play at small forward and second-year wing player Mario Hezonja will see an uptick in his minutes. Gordon, the Magic's top defender, missed the second half of Tuesday's loss at Houston after complaining about pain in his foot.
It is still uncertain if Gordon's injury will prevent him from participating in next week's Slam Dunk Contest during All-Star Weekend.


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IS MICROALBUMINURIA AN EARLY MARKER OF DIABETIC RENAL DISEASE?
Fatema Jawad ( 7/6, Rimpa Plaza, M. A. Jinnah Road, Karachi. )
Involvement of kidneys as a late complication of Diabetes Mellitus is considered to be the most serious element of the diabetic triopathy — retinopathy — neuropathy and nephropathy. It is the only one which influences the life expectancy of the diabetic as it has a progressive course. How can diabetic nephropathy be identified at an early stage? What are the early markers to be searched? Can its progress be arrested, slowed down or reversed? All these questions have introduced new concepts and ideas in the field of nephrology and diabetology. 'Microalbuminuria' has been claimed to be a very useful parameter1 for tracing and tracking the very early cases of diabetic nephropathy especially in the insulin dependent diabetics. It is an established fact that, in normal individuals, very small quantities of plasma albumin are filtered by the renal glomeruli of which 95 to 98 percent is reabsorbed in the proximal tubules. Thus the urinary excretion of albumin does not exceed 15 micrograms per minute or 20mg in 24 hours. Proteinuria has been defined as a total urinary protein excretion of 500 mg per 24 hours or more. This is equivalent to a urinary albumin excretion rate of 200 micrograms per minute. Urinary albumin excretion Ehat is higher than normal but less than that associated with proteinuria or that between 15 and 250 micrograms per minute is labelled as "Microalbuminuria". It is detectable only by special sensitive assay methods2,3. Proteinuria and renal disease have been linked with diabetes mellitus since a centur4y. It was first described by Kimmeistiel and Wilson in 19364 as the nodular glomerular lesion or intercapillary glomerular hyalinoscierosis. Since then intensive studies alongwith the use of electron microscopy has enabled detailed and exact description of the changes appearing in the kidney tissue due to diabetes. Fibrinoid changes in the walls of both afferent and efferent glomerular arterioles with thickening of the capillary basement membrane are related to diabetes mellitus. As the process progresses more and more glomeruli become hyalinised and eventually functionless5, and the downhill course leads to end-stage renal failure6. The renal changes associated with diabetes mellitus have been described as hyperfiltration, nephromegaly and microalbuminuria. The abnormally increased glomerular filtration rate is encountered in 40 percent patients in the initial months or years after diagnosis of diabetes7. This is interlinked with nephromegaly and an increased renal volume upto 60 percent8. Microalbuminuria is a fairly new concept regarded as an early change of renal function and structure predicting the subsequent development of advanced disease of the kidney in the diabetics9. The pathophysiology of microalbuminuria is still debatable. It has been ascribed to haemodynamic alterations in the kidneys10, or in the glomerular filter11. The transcapillary escape rate of albumin is increased in diabetics with incipient nephropathy and these two factors have been attributed to be the causative mechanisms. Other theories indicate impaired properties of permeability of the glomerular basement membrane in these cases12. A rise in the arterial pressure which may still be within the normal range has been noted in diabetics with microalbuminuria13. When does this gradual rise of blood pressure begin? Observations have shown both the increasing blood pressure and U aib V (albumin excretion rate) to be closely time related. It has also been proved that the diabetic state may directly affect the blood pressure which is higher during poor metabolic control14. Therapeutic intervention in cases of microalbuminuria aims at preventing or delaying overt nephropathy. Metabolic control has its due importance in the prevention and progression of diabetic micro and macro angiopathy. Most studies have documented that the rate of progression of microalbuminuria is delayed by an improved metabolic control15. This was also supported by the correlation between HbA1c and the annual change of U aib V and the rate of decline of GFR in the studies conducted16. Antihypertensive therapy instituted in patients with incipient nephropathy or microalbuminuria has resulted in an improved renal status. The GFR increased and a reversal in the microalbuminuria was noted in the follow up studies upto ten years17. Diuretics, beta blockers and other conventional antihypertensive therapies have an important role in stabilizing blood pressure and thus improving the kidney function. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors seem to have taken a lead in this field. They have proved more beneficial because they simultaneously reduce glomerular hypertension18. Studies have also been conducted to see the effects of ACE inhibitors on normotensive insulin dependent diabetics with microalbuminuria. The results obtained were a reduction in systemic blood pressure, U aib V, fractional albumin clearance and total renal vascular resistance. This again indicated a decline in the intraglomerular pressure19. ACE inhibitors combined with diuretics especially in diabetics with a low supine serum angiotensin 2 level have proved very successful as they excrete the excess sodium without reactivation of the renin-angiotensin system. Protein restriction is known to modify renal haemodynamics thus proving beneficial in diabetics with renal disease20. Short term studies of three weeks duration with protein restriction on insulin dependent diabetics with microalbuminuria indicated a reduction in UalbV and fractional albumin clearance21. Other therapeutic interventions are still being studied and need time to prove their efficacy. Prostaglandin inhibitors have been found to exert a favourable effect on the functional abnormalities of diabetic nephropathy. Indomethacin causes a short term reduction in glomerular hyperfiltration and albuminuria in insulin dependent diabetics. Inhibition of aldose reductase by sorbinil has been studied in animals leading to regression of the glomerulopathy22. To place microalbuminuria as a prognostic factor for renal complications in diabetes mellitus is still a debatable topic. Much work is being done on the subject but it is an accepted fact that microalbuminuria is a sign denoting the presence of established lesions in the kidneys. Besides, all available evidence leads to the conclusion that improved metabolic control and antihypertensive therapy does either arrest or delay the late complications of diabetes especially the kidney related ones. A close monitoring of diabetic patients with microalbuminuria to keep their glycaemic control and blood pressure in optimal range will prove beneficial in the long run. Further long term studies on the subject are awaited which will provide a new horizon for renal complications of diabetes mellitus.
1. Mogensen, C.E., Chachati, A. and Christen, C.K. Microalbuminuria: An early marker of renal involvement in diabetes. Uremia Invest., 1985; 9: 85.
2. Laurell, GB. Quantitative estimation ofproteinsbyelectrophoresis in argarose gel containing antibodies. Anal. Biochem., 1966; 15:45.
3. Chavers, B., Simonsen, J. and Michael, A.F. A solid phase fluorescent immunoassay for the measurement of human urinary albumin. Kidney Int., 1984; 25 : 576.
4. Kimmelstiel, P. and Wilson, C. Intercapillary lesions in the glomeruli of the kidney. Am. J. Pathol., 1963; 12: 83.
5. Mauer, S.M., Steffes, M.W., Elles, E.N., Sutherland, D.E., Brown, D.M. and Goetz, F.C. Structional-functional relationships in diabetic nephropathy. J. Clin. Invest., 1984; 74: 1143.
6. Jones, RH., Hayakawa, H., Mackay, J.D.,Parsons, V. and Watkins, P.J. Progression of diabetic nephropathy. Lancet, 1979; 1: 1105.
7. Ditzel, J. and Junker, K. Abnormal glomerular filtration rate, renal plasma flow and renal protein excretion in recent and short-term diabetics. Br. Med. J., 1972; 2: 13.
8. Mogensen, C.E., Steffes, M.W., Deckert, T. and Christiansen, J.S. Functional and morphological renal manifestations in diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia, 1981; 21 : 89.
9. Viberti, G.C., Hill, R.D., Jarrett, RJ., Argyropoulos, A., Mahmud, U. and Keen, H. Microalbuminuria as a predictor of clinical nephropathy in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Lancet, 1982;1: 1430.
10. Parving, H.H., Viberti, G.C., Keen, H., Christiansen, J.S. and Lassen, NA. Haemodynamic factors in the genesis of diabetic microangiopathy. Metabolism, 1983; 32 : 943.
11. Deckert, T., Felt-Ramussen, B., Mathiesen, E.R. and Baker, L. Pathogenesis of incipient nephropathy: A hypothesis. Diab. Nephrop., 1984; 3 : 83.
12. Viberti, G., Keen, H. The patterns of proteinuria in diabetes mellitus. Relevance to pathogenesis and prevention of diabetic nephropathy. Diabetes, 1984; 33: 686.
13. Wiseman, M., Viberti, G., Mackintosh, D., Jarrett, Ri. and Keen, H. Glycaemia, arterial pressure and micro-albuminuria in type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia, 1984; 26 :401.
14. Ferris, J.B., O\'Hale, J.A., Kellcher, C.C.M., Sullivan, P.A., Cole, M.M., Ross, H., O\'Sullivan, D.J. Diabetic control and the renin-angiotensin system, catecholamines and blood pressure. Hypertension, 1985; 7 (Suppl. 2): 58-63.
15. Viberti, G.C., Pickup, J.C., Janet, J. and Keen, H. Effect of control of blood glucose on urinary excretion of albumin and Beta 2 micro. globulin in insulin-dependent diabetes. N. Engl. J. Med., 1979; 300:638.
16. Nyberg, G., Blohme, G. and Norden, 0. Impact of metabolic control in progression of clinical diabetic nephropathy. Diabetologia, 1987; 30: 82.
17. Christensen, C.K. and Morgensen, C.E. Antihypertensive treatment. Long term reversal of progression of albuminuria in incipient diabetic nephropathy. A longitudinal study of renal function. J. Diabetic Complications, 1987; 1 : 45.
18. Bjorck, S., Nyberg, G., Mulee, H., Granerus, 0., Herlitz, H. and Aurell, M. Beneficial effects of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on renal function in patients with diabetic nephropathy. Br. Med. J., 1986; 293 : 471.
19. Marre, M., Leblanc, H., Suarez, L., Guyenne, T., Menard, J. and Passa, P. Converting enzyme inhibition and kidney function in normotensive diabetic patients with persistent microalbuminuria. Br. Med. J., 1987; 294: 1448.
20. Wiseman, Mi., Bognetti, E., Dodds, R., Keen, H. and Viberti, G.C. Changes in renal function in response to protein restricted diet in type I (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients. Diabetologia, 1987; 30:154.
21. Cohen, D., Dodds, Rand Viberti, 0.C. Effect of protein restriction in insulin dependent diabetics at risk of nephropathy. Br. Med. J., 1987; 294: 795.
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Home Good Balita 8-hour film "Hele" wins Silver Bear at 66th Berlinale
8-hour film "Hele" wins Silver Bear at 66th Berlinale
"Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis (A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery)" by Lav Diaz won the Silver Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February, amid loud cheers and a rousing standing ovation at the screening of the 8-hour film.
Lav Diaz receives the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis [via Facebook]
"Hele" won the Alfred Bauer Prize, in memory of the festival head (1951 to 1976), and was cited "for opening new perspectives on cinematic art."
The lone Philippine entry competed against 18 other entries for the top Golden Bear Prize. Diaz's film was the longest festival entry.
The Berlin Festival jury president, Meryl Streep, was quoted as saying, "This film. This guy. He changed the molecule system in my body."
Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis is a black and white film adaptation of Jose Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo which follows the events of the 1896 Philippine Revolution. The 8-hour long film tackles the search for the body of Andres Bonifacio, the founder of the Philippine revolutionary movement against Spain. The film stars John Lloyd Cruz, Piolo Pascual, Assunta De Rossi, Hazel Orencio, and Ronnie Lazaro.
IN PHOTOS: 500 years giant solar art lights up 100 days countdown to Victory at Mactan
Campaign against online child pornography gets Globe support
Near-zero waste Feast of Santo Nino in Pandacan, Tondo praised by eco group


Indian tennis player Leander Paes, partnering Swiss Martina Hingis, entered the second round while his compatriot Rohan Bopanna, with Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova, crashed out from the first round of mixed doubles at the French Open here.
Eighth seeded Paes-Hingis totally outclassed Russian Alla Kudryavtseva and her Colombian partner Juan Sebastian Cabal 6-2, 6-3 to enter the second round of the clay court Major on Thursday. The Indo-Swiss pair next face Slovenian-Romanian combine of Katarina Srebotnik and Horia Tecau next at Stade Roland Garros.
It was an easy task for Paes and Hingis as they had full control right from the start winning 88 percent of first serve points and 62 percent of second serve points. They broke their opponents thrice out of seven opportunities to 53 of the 89 points played.
Earlier, Bopanna-Shvedova fought hard but their efforts went in vain as they were beaten 6-7(5), 6-0, 3-10 by Czech-Polish combine of Lucie Hradecka and Marcin Matkowski.


I wrote a couple of days ago about how there seemed to be an increase in the number of fairy-tale/folklore influenced alternative comics while simultaneously there being a decline in the overwhelming importance of autobiography. While this is true, I'd still say that autobiographic is the most popular genre for alternative cartoonists. Furthermore, there is a backlog of autobiographical comics that until now haven't been collected. For example, Dennis Eichhorn has had two books of his work collected, but has hundreds of uncollected pages. And he was one of the most prominent autobiographers of the 90s. Suddenly Something Happened by Jimmy Beaulieu is of more recent vintage, but it still took a long time for this book to appear. The stories in it date from 2002 to 2006 (and the events depicted are even earlier). They're excellent, so why did it take so long? Simple--they were written in French. Beaulieu is a French-Canadian artist. The French-Canadian scene is one of the best in North America, but we anglophones only see a little bit of it--Julie Doucet, Guy Delisle and Michel Rabagliati are the best-known. (However, our English-language exposure to French-Canadian alternative comics dwarfs our exposure to Mexican alternative comics.) Until now, Drawn & Quarterly has been the main conduit into English for these cartoonists. But Suddenly Something Happened was published by Conundrum Press with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the government of Canada. So thank you, our moderately socialist neighbor to the north!
Suddenly Something Happened is a thick (254 pages) book, but it flies by quickly when you read it. This is in part due to Beaulieu's sketchy, casual drawing style. It's not bold--indeed, it's primarily drawn in pencil. The first half of the book has grey tones added with marker (I think), but later on, he just relies on his trusty pencil to make all the marks on the page. I think we are seeing more comics artists willing to work with pencil only. Historically, comics have been "inked" to make them ready for reproduction. This was done because it was what turn of the 19th century technology required. Now we have scanners and digital cameras and computers, and inking isn't necessary. Some cartoonists use inking wonderfully as an expressive device--Jim Woodring, for example. But usually, I think cartoonists reflexively ink their work because it is the traditional way to do comics. Beaulieu dispenses with all that. It gives his work an immediate, diary-like quality which suits the subject well.
The first half of the book is about Jimmy the single guy, surrounded by beautiful women and always missing his cues or else falling for the ones he can't have. You can see that Beaulieu likes to draw beautiful women. In this regard, he reminds me of Roy Crane--his appreciation for beautiful, fashionable contemporary women is as obvious as it was with Crane in the 1930s. The trick is to not be overtly sexual. Beaulieu's women are not fantasy objects, but characters.
Like the girl who pops up just once in this little heartbreaker of a story. In a few short pages, Beaulieu takes us from a random flirtation, to a possible assignation with a prostitute, to a tragedy. It's moving and powerful.
About halfway through the book, Jimmy meets Melissa who becomes his girlfriend. A trip to meet Jimmy's relatives is an opportunity for him to think about his childhood, and how he ended up the way he did.
There's not much of a story arc here. Just the story of a young man getting older, finding love and companionship, and settling down. But Beaulieu uses this familiar material well. His work recalls Eddie Campbell's Alec, although Campbell includes more moments of high drama. It is interesting that they both work in a sketchy, hand-writerly drawing style.
I include this page in the review because I love it. But also because it suggests to me that Lorenzo Mattotti might be an artistic influence.
With a name like Renée French, you might expect this artist to actually be French or Franch-Canadian. But as far as I know, French is 100% American. Not that there would be any translation issues in her latest book, h day (Picturebox). It is completely wordless.
The book is structured as two parallel narratives. The left-hand pages generally feature a figure drawn against a white background. Things are happening to the figure's head. The back-cover copy says that the book deals with French's struggle with migraines, and the images on the left could be seen as visual metaphors for that condition. But if you didn't know that migraines were one of the subjects of the book, you still would likely interpret this as being about something bad happening in someone's head--mental illness, stroke, etc.
The right side is a disjointed narrative of a city. We see images of people, ants, and a dog, who we occasionally follow. But there are ruptures in this narrative.
Occasionally, as in the spread above, the two narratives seem to match up in some way. But typically it isn't really possible to link them in any obvious way.
h day's double narrative and concern with a head malady reminds me of Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent Into Hell. In it, the protagonist has had a serious mental breakdown and is now catatonic in a mental hospital. The double narrative is that we see what is happening in Charles Watkin's head--a bizarre series of dreamlike adventures--and what is happening in the hospital--two doctors arguing over which drugs with which to treat Watkins. Every time they change his drug regimen, Watkins' visions experience a drastic shift. As I read h day, I wondered if the ruptures in the "right hand" narrative also represented different stages or types of treatment for migraine.
The dog in the right-hand narrative in some ways appears to be a standard issue city stray. It wanders about and encounters several dangerous situations. It goes outside of the city into the hilly countryside. And at one point, it is wrapped up in splints and bandages, becoming kind of a mummy dog. It wriggles free of its restraints, though. In the end, it enters a large square boat (an ark?) and sails away. I am loathe to try to interpret the dog symbolically. We are certainly meant to sympathize with it (it's cute!), but at the same time, it leaves at the same time the migraine seems to go away.
But even speculating like this risks oversimplifying it. I spoke of ruptures to the narrative. In one section, the right-hand narrative just stops, replaced by images of strange wicker objects. They are quite mysterious. This layer of inexplicability, of the uncanny, places this work in the same school as The Cage. And like The Cage, it has one image per page. It seems superfluous to add at this point that the drawings are beautiful and quite powerful. h day is an incredible accomplishment.


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One thing that my closet is really lacking are great statement tops that are great for dressing up or dressing down. I have a lot of causal tops that are great for layering but not great for going out or if I decide to take off my jacket or coat at some point. You would think this would be an easy solution for me to fix right? Just buy nicer tops! But, it turns out I'm super picky about my tops, which is probably why I never buy them because I can never find ones that I love. However, one amazing top comes through every once and awhile and this & Other Stories top is one of them. First of all, I love the sequins. Second of all, ummmm…a SEQUIN TURTLENECK?! It's like the beautiful shirt goddesses made it just for me to enjoy. Lastly, it's actually comfortable. I'm sure we have all had that uncomfortable sequin top moment where we can't stop pulling at it because it's scratching the hell out of our skin. So annoying. However, this top doesn't do that, which is amazing. I know it's not the holiday season anymore, which usually equates the death of all sequins and velvet, but I'm over here breaking the rules…and I like it.
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HCM system changes are top of mind for HR. Here's why that matters
By Tom Starner
With apparent light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, HR leaders are looking ahead to recovery. For a slim majority (51%), that might include a switch to a new human capital management solution in the next 12 months, according to a new survey.
And, it appears they will have the resources to do it. The survey, Transforming Employee Experience: A SWOT Analysis of 500 Human Resources Departments, from HCM provider isolved, found that 53% of those same HR leaders report their budgets have increased in 2021.
The company surveyed 500 HR managers, directors, vice presidents and chief people/HR officers "to learn the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing their departments" after a year marked by extreme changes to the workforce due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the survey, the top reasons cited for switching HCM systems were security issues, undergoing a digital transformation project and service issues. When it comes to 2021 "opportunities," HR leaders say consolidating multiple HCM systems, boosting employee engagement and being able to recruit from anywhere due to remote workplaces were top priorities (all tied at 20%).
"There isn't an HR leader around who doesn't want access to the latest tools and technologies to serve employees in the way they expect based on their consumer experiences," says Amy Mosher, chief people officer at isolved, adding that the pandemic exposed many gaps in companies' digital readiness. The survey data shows that organizations are now prioritizing investments in employee experience to close those gaps, she says.
"One way to improve that experience is by reducing the number of technology tools in place in favor of a single system of truth for both the HR admin and the employee," Mosher says.
Industry analyst Josh Bersin, who will deliver a keynote, HR Technology 2021: Facilitating Big Changes in Work, at the upcoming Spring HR Tech Conference, explains that core HCM systems are stretched thin, with massive demand and investment in HR tech at an all-time high.
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"The question is, can core HR tech providers continue to provide the level of innovation and flexibility they need to address the pandemic? The answer is no," Bersin said during the fall HR Tech Conference, adding that traditional core providers have no choice but to shift into ecosystem structures–partnering with other providers to allow their solutions to integrate and address the myriad needs HR is seeking in tech platforms.
And as the pandemic continues to unfold through 2021, technology will play an increasingly important role in addressing the fallout for workers.
"The big theme [for HR tech]," Bersin said, "is figuring out how to reduce stress, anxiety, financial concerns, uncertainty and concerns about productivity when people continue to work under very, very ambiguous conditions."
In other isolved survey findings, on average, 55% of HR leaders reported using one to five different HCM software systems, while 29% use five to 10 systems. Companies with more than 500 employees are the most likely to use more than 10 solutions to manage HR.
HR leaders ranked remote work environments, stressed employees, overworked employees and negative attitudes among the top threats facing a positive company culture.
48% of HR leaders expect recruiting to be more difficult in 2021 than in previous years.
The top-three threats facing talent acquisition in 2021 include the remote work environment brought on by COVID-19 (40%), hiring freezes due to COVID-19 (27%) and competitors with larger budgets (16%).
44% will mandate that employees get a COVID-19 vaccine in order to return to work.
"To negate these challenges, HR leaders need to get to the root of understanding what employees need–moving away from wellness apps and shorter Zoom meetings–and toward enhanced flexibility, technology, training and transparency to support and build trust among the workforce," Mosher says.
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Grillo and Axley tied for lead in second Web.com Tour Finals event
Published on Saturday, September 19, 2015
DAVIDSON, N.C. (AP) – Argentina's Emiliano Grillo shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with Eric Axley in the Web.com Tour Finals' Small Business Connection Championship.
Axley had a 70 to match Grillo at 14-under 202 at River Run.
The tournament is second in the four-event series features the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour's FedExCup standings and non-members of the tour such as Grillo who earned enough money to have placed in the top 200 had they been eligible to receive points. The top 25 players on Web.com regular-season money list earned PGA Tour cards. They are competing against each other for tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting. The other players are fighting for another 25 cards based on series earnings.
The 22-year-old Grillo missed three putts inside 6 feet on his first four holes and struggled on the greens the rest of the afternoon. He two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th for a share of the lead,
"I think I could have shot 29 on the front very easily, but I couldn't make anything from short range or mid-range," said Grillo, a playoff loser in March in the PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open. "The best club for me today was definitely not the putter. I played solid on the back and had good chances and hit good putts, they just didn't go in."
Axley, the 2006 Texas Open winner, was 189th in the FedExCup standings. he hit only five of 14 fairways in regulation.
"I couldn't get it in the fairway," Axley said. "I didn't miss by much, maybe 3 or 4 yards, but you could not get it near the pins from the rough."
Brett Stegmaier, the leader after each of the first two rounds, had a 73 to drop into a tie for third with Kyle Stanley (65) at 12 under. Stegmaier was 69th on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list. Stanley, the 2012 Phoenix Open winner, was 181st in FedExCup standings.
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After the Bruce Jenner interview on ABC, in which Jenner came out as transgender and Republican, the conservative National Review…
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Reid staffer possibly coordinates with Nevada union "to put headlock" on voters
UPDATE: For an update on this story click here: Former official from the Federal Election Commission slams Reid.
Employees of casino giant Harrah's may have been pushed by executives to vote early in order to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid win his tough re-election campaign against Republican Sharron Angle according to emails leaked to the press. If true, this would violate Federal Election law, as coordinating "Get Out The Vote" efforts cannot be coordinated with a political candidate.
The Federal Election Commission prohibits coordination between companies, unions, and candidates for Get Out The Vote efforts:
No Coordination
Registration and GOTV drives beyond the restricted class cannot be coordinated with any candidate or any political party. 109.21 and 114.4(d)(2).
According to Elizabeth Crum at National Review, a Reid staffer sent an email to Harrah's top lobbyist Jan Jones, who in turn distributed the email to executives — offering any help possible to get out the vote for Reid. Upon learning that mid-level supervisors are not "cooperating with and listening to upper management," the Reid staffer even goes so far as to suggest that Harrah's execs "put a headlock on your supervisors to get them to follow through."
In her email to management, Harrah's Batjer requested of her colleagues to "PLEASE do whatever we need" to communicate to company supervisors that there is "NOTHING more important than to get employees out to vote."
She even issued an express endorsement. "Waking up to the defeat of Harry Reid Nov. 3 will be devastating for our industry's future," Batjer wrote.
On Friday, Western Regional President Tom Jenkin sent out a follow-up email showing a total vote count for Harrah's properties along with the percentages of employees who had voted at each property. Attached to the email was a spreadsheet showing employee names and at which property they worked. Supervisors were asked to fill in codes explaining why their employees had not yet voted.
That's right: Companies are passing around a spreadsheet of who did and did not vote, and coordinating with Reid staffers. The FEC's guide for corporations and unions also states that the mid-level supervisors and regular employees that Harrah's is attempting to get to vote for Reid are outside the restricted class and thus cannot be responsible for coordinating transportation to polls. Here's the language:
Express Advocacy
Corporations and labor organizations may conduct voter registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) drives urging the restricted class to register with a particular party or to vote for a particular candidate. 114.3(c)(4).
The corporation or labor organization may provide transportation to the place of registration or to the polls but cannot condition that service on support of a particular candidate or party. 114.3(c)(4).
Emails from Reid's campaign would likely qualify as coordination.
ThinkProgress made hay out of similar actions committed by the management of a single McDonald's franchise in Canton, Ohio, who wrote employees encouraging them to vote for specific Republican candidates — for which the owner later apologized. But Harrah's employs thousands and, in these emails, is alleged to be coordinating with a candidate. This is a bigger (and probably more predictable) problem.
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Dating Red Flags
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Why you should block him if he starts 'negging' you.
Did he compliment you but it seemed a little … off?
It's nice that he chose something specific about you to comment on.
He says you're not his usual type but he still just had to message you.
That means you're just so hot that he couldn't resist, even if you're not his usual type, right?
Maybe you could be the one to prove him wrong about his type?
We're here to explain why you shouldn't take the bait.
What Is Negging?
'Negging' is a pick up artist technique which is basically an insult wrapped up in a compliment. It's also used by narcissists and is a potential red flag for future emotional abuse.
"I usually only date models, but there's something really sexy about you."
"You're so hot. You'd look even hotter if …"
"I don't tend to go for smaller boobs but you pull it of really well."
The idea is to put you on edge and knock your self-esteem. The compliment it's wrapped in tricks you into thinking that he really likes you, but the insult plays on those little insecurities we all have of not being quite good enough.
'Negging' Is a Power Play.
He's trying to get the upper hand.
By putting you down, he feels like he's raising himself up.
This power dynamic is how he wants things to continue.
He's Trying to Damage Your Confidence.
Let's face it. Online dating is a shit show.
Rejection. Dick pics. General depravity.
All of this can wear down your confidence in men and in yourself. There comes a time when you start to feel like maybe you're not as great as you thought you were. Which is the exact feeling that 'negging' relies upon.
Negging Is a Tactic.
He's done this before.
He'll do it again.
He's a player. A pick-up artist. He sends these negs out to all the women he matches with. Then he sits back and sees who takes the bait.
He's Standard-Shaming You.
Oh, you think you're too good for him?
When he negs you, he's trying to remind you that you aren't a supermodel, so you shouldn't be holding out for one. (But trust us, they 'neg' supermodel types too!) So maybe you should lower your standards and give him a try?
No way! No one should be sinking so low as to give a 'negger' a chance!
He Thinks He's Too Good for You.
He's deluded.
This belief that he's better than you is just a coping mechanism to deal with deep insecurity. It's so deep down that he's even convinced himself of his own greatness in the same way that people can believe their own lies if they tell them enough times.
Or he's a narcissist and really believes he's better than everyone else. Either way, hardly a catch.
He Has No Manners.
It is HIGHLY unlikely that he doesn't know what he's doing, but there is a slither of possibility that he is just socially incompetent.
Maybe he thinks it's just 'banter'. That there's no difference between how he should talk to you and how he talks to the lads when he's drunk.
Do you really want to be treated like a 'bro' by your date?
He's a Negative Person.
OK, so we are reeally giving him the benefit of the doubt here.
'Negging' is such an established tactic that in the vast majority of cases, it's done with intent.
But if there is a possibility that his 'neg' wasn't intended in that way (he will obviously just lie anyway of course), starting off on such a downer isn't exactly a great prediction of the future.
What to Do If He Starts 'Negging' You?
INSTANT BLOCK.
Don't even call him out on it. Don't explain to him why it's wrong. There is no point at all in giving any time to men who don't respect you.
If a guy negs you before you've even met him, be grateful that he's shown you his true colours before you got all dressed up and wasted money on an Uber to meet him.
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Central Park Conservancy's network of young professionals celebrated with an evening of food, cocktails and live music. The Circle's network was also joined by members of CultureHorde who enjoyed a private tour of the gardens prior to the official event. The groups then mingled at a cocktail reception, complete with a brass band. The event has become somewhat of a staple on the summer social calendar, as it celebrates its tenth year.
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Alberta workers under the NDP, part one
The New Democrats were elected in Alberta nearly two years ago. What changes have the New Democrats brought forward on the labour front and what challenges lie ahead for Albertan workers and unions? To answer these questions, Rankandfile.ca's Doug Nesbitt spoke with Bob Barnetson, Associate Professor of Labour Relations at Athabasca University in Alberta.
In part one of this interview, Barnetson surveys the state of health and safety and workers' compensation reforms in Alberta, including Bill 6. In part two of the interview to be published next week, Barnetson talks about the challenges of union organizing in Alberta, the $15 minimum wage, and the politics of the province in a period of low oil prices.
Rankandfile.ca: What was the state of Alberta's health and safety laws before the New Democrats came to power in May 2015? How did these laws compare to other provinces?
Bob Barnetson: Alberta's health and safety laws are pretty much the same as every other province's laws in Canada. Yet, when you control for demographic and industry differences, what you find is that Alberta workers had the second highest risk of injury in Canada. I think that comes down to anemic enforcement of health and safety laws in Alberta.
Basically, employers have no chance of getting caught breaking the law, and if they do get caught breaking the law, there's basically no chance they're going to get penalized. In Alberta there are about 130 occupational health and safety officers for 160,000 businesses and maybe 2.2 million workers. What that means is that the chance of getting inspected in Alberta – the inspection cycle – is a once-in-a-generation thing. So, most workplaces are never inspected.
Over time, Alberta's prosecutions, which is really the only meaningful penalty under the health and safety laws, have declined, particularly over the last five years, both in number and the dollar value of the penalties.
So that was really the state of things when the New Democrats were elected in 2015.
From the outside, the first big labour issue that came up under the NDP was Bill 6. What was Bill 6 and what happened with it?
Bill 6 granted Alberta farm workers the same basic employment rights that everybody else in the province has: the right to know about workplace hazards, to refuse unsafe work without fear of job loss, the right to mandatory workers' compensation coverage, the right to join a union, etc. Basically, it moved Alberta from the 19th century into the mid-20th century in terms of farm worker employment regulation.
One of the several anti-Bill 6 rallies that drew several hundred supporters each.
Rural Alberta essentially lost its mind when this bill was enacted because they have been privileged by eighty years of conservative governments which have been reluctant to regulate farm employment. What you have is a quid pro quo: rural Alberta votes Tory, and then the Tories enacted policies favourable to rural Alberta, including essentially no regulation of farm work.
The real questions around Bill 6 are if and how the government intends to enforce it because there aren't enough staff to do that. And portions of the health and safety provisions, and the application of employment standards and the labour code, are not yet clear. Those details are being sorted out in a consultation with a variety of stakeholders, including farmers who seem quite opposed to even the most basic employment rights: things like child labour laws that would prohibit 12-year-olds from working on farms.
Farm work has changed a fair bit since World War Two. The role of agribusiness has become enormous. Is the popular image of the family farm outdated? Is that one reason there's a demand to modernize these laws?
Everybody talks about the family farm. In Alberta 95 percent of farms are still owned by families. But what we're seeing is a hollowing out of the middle. The traditional family farm is ma and pa and a plow, and a quarter section 160 acres of land. That type of farm is quickly disappearing.
Average Canadian farm size by acreage, 1931-2006. Source.
What we're seeing now is two kinds of farms: small farms where farming is not necessarily the main source of income. Sometimes we call those hobby farms, but they are farms but they're not very big and don't provide a very significant amount of the food we get.
On the other end, we're seeing giant farms and ranches; farmers who have ten or twenty sections of grain and oilseed. They hire employees and are highly capitalized operations. Those are what we think of as industrial farms. The farmer is more of a manager than the traditional jack-of-all-trades farmer.
On those larger farms, which seems to be the group that's most targeted by Bill 6, the government is basically saying "you have to have basic health and safety provisions. You have to have mandatory workers' compensation." These are pretty reasonable things. If you want a box factory, those are requirements. If you own a multi-million dollar farm, it also seems reasonable to have those requirements.
So the complaints about Bill 6 being incredibly onerous for farmers don't really hold up to scrutiny?
Most farms don't have any paid help. These laws only affect instances where you have paid farm work. And most of the paid farm work occurs on giant farms which are large enough to be able to afford, and sophisticated enough to be able to implement the same kind of health and safety and other employment laws that we expect of mom and pop cornerstores. In Edmonton, if [mom and pop cornerstores] have to follow all these rules, why shouldn't a multimillion dollar farm have to follow them?
Does Bill 6 extend the right to organize to farm workers?
That's an open question. Bill 6 said that farm workers would have protections or would have labour relations rights: the right to collectively bargain and unionize, but the exact nature of that has been left open to these consultations. So it could be the full deal everyone else gets, or it could be a much thinner model along the lines of Ontario's farm worker legislation. That's not clear right now.
Mushroom farm.
Practically speaking, most farm workers work in very small numbers. There aren't a lot of farm workplaces with more than two workers, and most farm workers are transitory so the likelihood that we'd see a significant number of unionized farm workers in the next five years is pretty slim. We might see them on feedlots. That would probably be the most likely place for organizing to occur, or maybe mushroom farms. But the average grain farm isn't going to see organizing. It's just not practical.
You've recently been writing about health and safety standards now under review. Can you give an overview of what's being examined, who's being consulted, and why?
The only health and safety change that's going on right now, that I'm aware of, is the government has introduced a private member's bill to add harassment into the occupational health and safety code. The nub is they require employers to have policies around workplace harassment and they allow the government to investigate under the health and safety code if employers don't address health and safety issues around harassment.
Really the questions there are around enforcement capacity: adding more to an already overstretched inspectorate is unlikely to generate any meaningful change on the ground. I think its laudable to include that in the health and safety act but really giving workers a right that they have no real way to access or remedy…that's a pretty hollow thing.
What about workers' compensation?
The other thing going on around workplace injury is the government reviewing the workers' compensation system for the first time in fifteen years.
Many injured workers claim the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) treats them terribly and certainly there's enough evidence to suggest that a significant minority of injured workers have a pretty rough ride through workers' compensation. They'd say the WCB's focused on denying claims and also limiting benefits around the claims that are accepted in order to minimize the premiums that employers pay.
That really sits uncomfortably with the Meredith principles that underlie workers' compensation in Canada: where we have a workers' compensation system, the sole purpose of which is to compensate workers for workplace injuries.
As I said, it's been about fifteen years since we had a review of the system and I suspect one of the reasons it's occurring now is that the volume of workers' compensation issues that individual Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) face is high. I've heard that with some MLAs, a third or sometimes half of MLA contacts with constituents is about the WCB system. I think that raises for MLAs a spectre of a systematic problem. That seems borne out by the interim report of the Workers' Compensation review panel that came out a few weeks ago.
Who is on the WCB review panel?
It's a three-person panel. There's a labour lawyer, an employer-side lawyer, and a neutral chair who is an arbitrator or mediator. Pemme Cunliffe is the employer-side lawyer. John Carpenter is the union-side lawyer and Mia Norrie is the neutral chair.
Reading your recent analysis of the WCB review consultations, one of the organizations you cite raises alarms. It was Merit Contractors, the same non-union alliance construction firms that was involved in Harper's infamous C-377 anti-union legislation. What was Merit saying at this consultation?
Merit's anti-worker propaganda
Merit has launched a public information campaign aimed mostly at employers raising concerns that the WCB review will result in higher WCB premiums because they fear the WCB will actually start believing injured workers. It's a pretty craven and self-serving employer-side campaign which is pretty typical of what you see from Alberta employer groups whenever the issue of improving the lives of workers comes around.
Just on the face of it, the idea that the WCB would be raising premiums is cockamamie. Last year the WCB returned to employers $500 million in surplus premiums. If there are changes it may cut down a little bit on the surplus premium cheques that employers get but it is unlikely that premiums are going to go up. In that way, the [Merit] campaign is quite misleading.
Are there any further labour reforms on the horizon that may come to the legislature in the next couple years during this New Democratic mandate?
The expectation was that over their first term, the New Democrats would also review the occupational health and safety act and code, the labour relations code, and the employment standards code. The labour code got changed for unions in 1987, but the employment standards code has not been meaningfully reviewed or reformed since about 1981.
It's just got incredibly archaic language that doesn't reflect the modern workplace. Over the years, the Tories tinkered with it in ways that make it difficult for workers to enforce their rights around wage theft.
All of those were thought to be open [with the election of the NDP]. We are now over 18 months into what we expect will be a four-year NDP mandate, so I wonder if they're starting to run out of time to open up all this legislation before they head into another election cycle. I haven't heard if there's been any prioritization or not. I'd think the labour code would be the logical one to open because that's the one organized labour is the most interested in seeing changed.
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