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pheromones work - Human Pheromones And Sexual Attraction: Not So Strange Bedfellows
Human Pheromones And Sexual Attraction: Not So Strange Bedfellows
Much of life is governed by what we cannot see. Viruses are microscopic, as are chemicals that can get rid of the virus. The microscopic universe has more to do with how we behave and feel than we would like to usually believe. We like to think that we are independent creatures with free will.
If you're looking for the woman or man of your dreams, remember that pheromones in your body scent are playing a large role in mate attraction. People who use commercial pheromone products claim that the product (pheromone perfume, cologne or oil) they use increases their attractiveness to members of the opposite sex. But it's not just sexual attraction that is increased by wearing pheromones. Users of pheromone perfumes report that people pay more attention to them and are generally more friendly to them.
Pheromones are chemicals that are released from animals and humans. These chemicals are attractants that tell other animals a wide range of things. Things such as type of animal, sex of the animal, social group that the animal belongs to and if the animal is in heat or not. These pheromones are found in bugs and aquatic life as-well. These chemicals are released by the body by excretions. The term pheromones came about in 1959 defining it as chemical substances excreted by animals to trigger reproductive behavioral response from a recipient of the same species.
Sulfated steroids are a social representation of the animal that produced it. This one is still being heavily researched. It is produced by females and is thought to give off the current level of stress in the animal. It is also found to give detailed report of the reproductive phase that the animal is in. This is why males do not produce this chemical.
In 2005, there were 4 classes of pheromones recognized. These 4 were territorial markers, mother-infant, menstrual synchrony and sex-attractant pheromones. Since then, scientists have discovered a fifth class. This class is sulfated steroids.
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The term pheromone comes from two Greek words: pherein ("to transfer") and hormon, which means "to stimulate". Pheromones are aromatic chemical compounds released by one individual that affect the sexual physiology and behavior of another individual.
Pheromones in other animals were discovered in the 1970s. These pheromones were used in insecticide traps to lure males of the species hoping for a good time to their deaths. It was not until 1986, in Philadelphia, that two scientists, Dr Winnifred Cutler and Dr. George Preti were able to discover human pheromones and sexual attraction in the opposite sex that they can trigger. All of us unconsciously put these pheromones in the air when we are healthy or on the make. Human pheromones, and sexual attraction, lure mates together.
Sex-attractant pheromones are the ones that marketers capitalize on in the adult industry. These pheromones are just what they sound like. They attract the opposite sex and give the sense to want to mate. These are also considered nature's way of reproducing. Most animals only mate in order to reproduce. So this is very key to species survival.
A 2006 study in Karolinska Institute in Sweden revealed that homosexuals respond differently than heterosexuals when exposed to the same human pheromones. Sexual attraction for lesbians for other women was aroused in their brain wave patterns and the same for gay men, who were attracted to mens pheromones.
Humans cannot consciously detect another person's pheromones, i.e. we can't "smell" them in the traditional sense. But, if pheromones are undetectable by the human sense of smell, how can people be influenced by pheromones? The answer is that pheromones are detected by an organ inside the nose called the vomeronasal organ (VNO). The VNO passes the signals that pheromones send, on to the part of the brain which governs some basic human sensations, like love, hate, anger and, of course, sexual arousal.
Bald Is Beautiful Human pheromones and sexual attraction bring big business. You can buy human pheromones to add to your favorite perfume or cologne in order to help encourage a prospective mate. It is also thought that bald men emit more human pheromones and sexual attraction than hair covered men. That is an urban myth and has not been scientifically proven. However, would you turn down a date with Sean Connery? I do not think so.
The truth is, we are often at the mercy of molecules that are millions of times smaller than ourselves. Why do we choose the mates we do, for example? It could be looks, it could be the phase of the moon, but big deciding factors are tiny scent cells called human pheromones. And sexual attraction just got more out of control than you at first thought.
Male pheromones play a role in maintaining the health of women, especially the health of the female reproductive system. Researchers have found that women who have sex with men at least once a week are more likely to have normal menstrual cycles, fewer infertility troubles and a milder menopause than women who have sporadic sex.
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Mother-Infant recognition helps the offspring to know who the mother is and identify it with feeding. Menstrual synchrony is probably one of the most commonly known class. This is where a group of females who have different menstrual cycles are placed together. But after a short period of time, all of the females will start to have their cycles shortened or lengthened for no apparent reason. Eventually all of the females will have their cycles at or very near to the same time, even though they started their cycles far apart.
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Pheromones in humans are largely not understood. Some researchers have claimed to be able to break down human excretions from arm pit sweat and vaginal secretions and turn them into marketable products. These products are widely available in adult novelty stores claiming to bring your partner into a wild craze. Some other researchers claim that science has not evolved enough to make this concept an actual reality. They claim that these products are just a marketing tool to sell customers products based on false advertising. One thing that is agreed upon is that the human body does produce and excrete pheromones. The first controlled scientific studies were conducted in 1986 to determine if humans did indeed produce pheromones. This test did conclude that humans do produce these chemicals. It was the first time that this theory was actually proved.
Since 1870 scientists have known about pheromones and recorded the effects of pheromones on mating in insects and other animal species. In 1986 the scientists proved the existence of human pheromones and began to document their effects on humans.
Love Is The Drug When a creature is ready for mating, they send out a lot of signals seen and unseen. One of the most effective way of advertising your availability is through scent. Usually this is put out through the creatures urine, glands or even sweat. But what is the chemical message the potential mates are looking for? Pheromones. They are tiny scent cells that trigger the sexual parts of the smellers brain. Human pheromones and sexual attraction are always one right after another.
Territorial markers are considered to ward off others. They can attract same species and same sex but are considered repellents to other species.
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The Loss of the Eastcliffe Hall
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Ship of the Month No. 10
By Skip Gillham
In the early hours of July 14th, 1970, tragedy struck on the St. Lawrence River near the Ontario town of Morrisburg. The bulk carrier EASTCLIFFE HALL, bound for Saginaw, Michigan, with a cargo of pig iron, struck a submerged abutment; within minutes, she was on the bottom, taking with her nine lives.
The spars of the sunken EASTCLIFFE HALL can be seen against the hull of the lighter MAPLEHEATH in this Sept. 16, 1970 photo by J. M. Kidd. Assisting are DANIEL McALLISTER and CAPT. M. B. DONNELLY
The EASTCLIFFE HALL (Can. 195604) story began in 1954 when she was built as Hull 262 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. of Montreal, Quebec. At the time of her completion, she measured 252.5 x 43.8 x 20.7. Her gross tonnage was 2140 and she had a deadweight capacity of 2900 tons. A four cylinder Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine provided propulsion. With the opening of the Seaway in 1959, the vessel was lengthened to 342.5 feet and her depth was increased to 24.6, Her gross tonnage became 3335 and her net 2614. The motorship's capacity was now 5750 tons.
EASTCLIFFE HALL served the Hall Corporation as a bulk carrier and moved a variety of cargoes. She generally operated throughout the shipping season, although in 1968 and again in 1969, she was late in fitting out. Better conditions saw her sailing early this year and the season was, for her, busy although uneventful until the fateful fourteenth.
After loading at Sorel, Quebec, the EASTCLIFFE HALL entered the Seaway at Montreal on her last voyage. At about three in the morning, she grounded on a mud bank near Crysler Park but she was able to free herself from the soft bottom. Some crewmen credit this early accident with saving their lives since they had not returned to bed.
The vessel then struck what was originally believed to be Crysler Shoal in the middle of the St. Lawrence, but later investigation revealed that she had struck a submerged object, reported to be a light standard. Her back was broken in two places and one diver stated that her hull resembled "a crushed beer can."
After striking the abutment, the vessel continued about two hundred yards and went down in seventy feet of water just over the Canadian side of the international boundary. The bow filled quickly and the men ran towards the stern. Because of the sharp angle of the deck, the lifeboats could not be freed and the crewmen were forced to jump into the water. Those in the engineroom could not escape due to the pressure , but this pressure came to their aid and literally blasted them through the skylight and into the cold water.
Twenty-one persons had been aboard the EASTCLIFFE HALL. The twelve survivors were found clinging to life jackets and debris. Many of the men, dragged under by the suction of the sinking ship, had to fight their way to the surface to avoid death. The survivors were taken to hospital for treatment of shock and lacerations, but were soon released.
The Captain, Albert Groulx,his sixteen year old son, Alain, the Chief Engineer, Willie Demers, and his family were among those who perished. Divers located all but one body within two days. The remaining crewman's body was presumed to have been washed downstream.
On July 27th, The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority ordered Halco to remove the vessel as it presented a hazard to navigation. Their alternative was to abandon the cargo and remove all the masts as well as to strip all the cabins to the deck. This would leave sufficient water over the hull for navigational purposes and the weight of the cargo would prevent shifting of the wreck. It is understood that Halco agreed to comply with the latter alternative but late reports indicate that McAllister Towing Ltd. will attempt to remove the cargo of pig iron, replacing it with other material.
The Canadian Department of Transport opened a public inquiry at Cornwall in late August to determine the cause of the sinking.

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Education standards have gone down in Delhi: BJP
Hans News Service | 6 April 2019 5:58 AM GMT
The Aam Aadmi Party did not react to the accusations and claims of the BJP leaders
The standard of education in Delhi government schools had "dropped" and four lakh students who failed were deprived of readmission in these institutions, alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday.
The AAP government had in recent times written to the parents of government school students inquiring them not to vote for BJP, the party also alleged.
Union minister Vijay Goel and party MPs Ramesh Bidhuri and Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma went along with a bunch of such students who recently failed in class IX and were not given re-admissions, at a press conference held at the Delhi BJP office.
Meanwhile, The Aam Aadmi Party did not react to the accusations and claims of the BJP leaders.
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Note: Irish War Cry won his first two starts as a 2-year-old at Laurel Park in a maiden special weight and the Marylander Stakes. He made his 2017 debut winning the Holy Bull Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream Park, upsetting 2-year-old champ Classic Empire by 8 3/4 lengths, but disappointed as the Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) favorite finishing 7th. For his final prep, he shipped up to Aqueduct where he won the Wood Memorial (G2) earning him enough points to draw in easily. He attempted to become just the third New Jersey-bred to win the Kentucky Derby, after filly Regret in 1915 and Cavalcade in 1935. In the Kentucky Derby (G1) he was the 5-1 second choice but finished 10th beaten 16 1/2 lengths.


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  url "https://s3.amazonaws.com/assetcache.io/CacheWarmer-#{version}.pkg"
  name 'CacheWarmer'
  homepage 'https://assetcache.io/cachewarmer/'

  pkg "CacheWarmer-#{version}.pkg"

  uninstall pkgutil:   'net.glencode.CacheWarmer',
            launchctl: 'net.glencode.CacheWarmer',
            delete:    [
                         '/etc/newsyslog.d/net.glencode.CacheWarmer.conf',
                         '/usr/local/bin/CacheWarmer',
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PS3 To Support LocationFree TV?
December 14, 2005 donut Rumors Comments Off on PS3 To Support LocationFree TV?
This may be old news, but if it is I completely missed it the first time around. In the latest issue of PSM, a reader writes in to ask about the Playstation Portable's LocationFree TV support and whether it can be used with the Playstation 3.
Back at E3 during the unveiling, Sony announced that the PS3 would be able to stream multimedia content to the PSP. PSM is saying that they've talked to developers who say that it will be done through LocationFree TV. In other words, don't buy a 0 LocationFree TV base station if you plan on purchasing a PS3, it will be a waste of money.
This explains why Sony has been so disinterested in talking up the PSP's TV-streaming capabilities. When I talked to the official Playstation folk, they told me to talk to the consumer electronics folk, who roundly dismissed me. I'm assuming they don't want to officially announce the capabilities yet, but also don't want to persuade people into buying unnecessary equipment.
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Whole Woman's Health: Hello Twin Cities!
We have some exciting news! Tomorrow, February 14th, 2012, Whole Woman's Health will begin serving women in the state of Minnesota. After almost 10 years of serving women in the states of Texas and Maryland, we are more than thrilled to now expand into the Midwest and to the homeland of our Founder and CEO, Amy Hagstrom Miller. Ya sure you betcha!
Most importantly, it is our honor to carry on the legacy of the famously feminist Midwest Health Center for Women. The work this center has done over their 30 years of business has been phenomenal. They have served the community kindly, effectively and passionately. They are fierce reproductive freedom fighters with a solid reputation, both locally and nationally. We are humbled and honored to take the reins from here.
Whole Woman's Health of the Twin Cities will continue to provide abortion care to 16 weeks, as well as low-cost gynecology care, including birth control and walk-in pregnancy testing. We welcome those women who have been long-standing patients of Midwest, as well as new patients.
We also want to extend a greeting to those women who may have seen Midwest as something more than a resource for healthcare. Clinic escorts, volunteers and fellow feminists of Minnesota, we cannot wait to shake each of your hands and work together with you to empower our community while serving the women and families who need us.
Today we're raising our glass to the Midwest Health Center for Women, the health of women and families in Minnesota, and to a new chapter (albeit, with thicker coats!) for Whole Woman's Health.
Will you continue a clinic in the style of "S.H.E." for LGBT clients?
Hey there – Fear not! Whole Woman's Health is absolutely on board the open, non-judgmental LGBT-positive healthcare train.
As of now, we're still getting our programs and fees together to begin our gynecology services in early March. However, we want to thank you for reaching out to us first. Leaving people without the healthcare services they relied on is not something we want to do and we encourage everybody to let us know what's most important to you, as we make this transition. We unfortunately do not have non-profit status, but our employees are really phenomenal at working with women's finances and fundraising on their behalf.
What a wonderful first day! Spending time with the WWH- Twin Cities team was the perfect valentine's. What a fabulous group of empowered women. We are up to greatness in MN!
What a terrible transition!!! whoever is leading this change has dropped the ball– there is no info to be found on the web for patients trying to reach their doctor, no info about the hand over, no info about when the change will be over, very little info about the name change. Worse yet, the phone line system found under the MWHCW search claims to allow for leaving voicemails yet an error message is received when that option is chose.
I'm not impressed, Texas company.
First of all, our apologies for your experience. I am sure it's frustrating to find out that your Doctor's office has closed, after the fact. I'm not sure if you were contacted by Midwest about the closing or not, but please know that we are doing our best to keep Midwest's established patients feel comfortable about the transition. We have access to Midwest patient records, so your files are still available. As well, there are many staff members and physicians still on board from Midwest – some of whom are appointed for Midwest-era billing, prescription and previous patient concerns. We can certainly connect you with them directly to answer all of your questions about the transition.
I'm not completely sure which MWHCW phone line system you're referring to. If you dial the Midwest Health Center phone number, you will reach one of our phone counselors who have been explaining the transition to those who have questions. If you're aware of another phone number, please let us know and we will do our best to route those calls as well, so that you and others trying to reach Midwest don't reach a dead end. Email us here info@wholewomanshealth.com if we can help you with something specific, or you can also call us here 612-332-2311, as well.
Nonetheless, there is no transparency: why no mention of Midwest Health Center at all? Why not keep the site live for a few months with a redirect message and a notice about what happened? Can't you see that people will be completely baffled when they go to http://www.midwesthealthcenter.org and there's NOTHING? There should be some kind of message on that page — we are now WWH, for example.
And on the WWH site, there's no phone number for the the local clinic. It's all Texas-oriented. Very much has the feel of operating remotely: the base is in Texas.
Thanks for your input. The .org domain was for some reason not re-directing properly for a bit of time, due to some server errors from our host. Apologies for the confusion, but this has since been fixed. If you try again, you'll see that it does re-direct to the Whole Woman's Health website where the first thing you see is a note that we are carrying on the work of Midwest, and to click on the twin cities link to the left for more information, including a direct phone number. We do have a lot of clinics in Texas, which is why it may seem "Texas-oriented." If this becomes too off-putting for a number of patients, we may consider designing a new website for each state, but as of now it hasn't been too much of a problem.


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Terrorism: Church may go into extinction in North soon, says Cherubim and Seraphim spiritual father
By Biola Azeez - Ilorin.	 On Apr 20, 2019
Prophet Samuel Adefila Abidoye
Spiritual Father of the Cherubim and Seraphim movement Church worldwide, Ayo ni o, Most Reverend Samuel Adefila Abidoye, has raised the alarm that the church may go into extinction in the northern parts of the country with the prevalent acts of terrorism in the area.
In his Easter message to Nigerians which was made available to journalists in Ilorin on Saturday, the nonagenarian cleric said that the church was yet to recover from the effect of the destruction of lives and property in the North East by Boko Haram insurgents, "yet, we are witnessing killings in Kaduna state.
"Many of our churches in the North have become redundant and unable to fulfil their obligations to the conference because of the parlous state of their finances. More importantly, membership in these churches have become scanty and there is a real danger that if care is not taken, we may find many of them shut down in the nearest future", he said.
The Spiritual Father, who appealed to the President, the National Assembly and well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on Kaduna state government to guide and guard constitutional provision for freedom of worship and association enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, added that it should recognize rights for Christians in the southern part of the state so that they can live a meaningful life.
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While commending and identifying with the present administration in the country on the successes recorded so far on the war against terrorism, the church urged the government not to relent on the tempo of the battle.
He also urged Christians in the country to intensify spiritual efforts on the menace, saying that they should assist victims of the terrorist acts.
"Our duty as co-members is to take their plights to our prayer answering Father and knock loudly on the door of heaven for divine intervention and revival. As we dance and celebrate Easter, some of these people will be despondent, hungry and lonely. I call on all members to remember these brethren and do all we can to help them survive the trying times.
"I also urge you to be praying fervently for the release of Leah Sharibu, that girl in captivity of Boko Haram, who refused to deny her faith in our Saviour Jesus Christ", he said.
Reverend Abidoye also called on Christians in the country not to allow the death of Jesus Christ to go in vain, saying that they should shun all vices that are not expected of anyone who wants to be part of the Last Call.
"It is in view of this that I call on all Nigerians, irrespective of religion, tribe or race to eschew bitterness and other characteristics that do not engender unity", he said, adding that, "lack of unity is dangerous and a threat to peace and togetherness".
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Conditions Of Admission
Applicants to the PhD program at IOT must hold the Lebanese Baccalaureate Certificate, or its equivalent.
Applicants must be holders of a Master of Theology degree (MTh; ThM) from an Orthodox institution of higher education with an overall graduation average of 85, or its equivalent.
Applicants who hold a Master of Theology degree (MTh; ThM) from a non-Orthodox institution of higher education may need to take bridging courses according to the assessment of the DAC.
Applicants who hold a DMin degree from an Orthodox institution of higher education are admitted in a shorter academic program according to the assessment of the DAC.
Applicants will be called for an interview with the DAC. This process may be done through video-conferencing.
Applicants who hold a DMin degree from a non-Orthodox institution of higher education are admitted in a shorter academic program in addition to bridging courses in Eastern Christian Theology.
Applicants who hold a graduate degree in a related field (MA; PhD; Doctoral degree) will have to take bridging courses according to the assessment of the DAC.
Applicants must show a good knowledge in at least one ancient language, which shall be defined by the DAC based on their field of study and dissertation project.
Applicants must demonstrate an adequate knowledge of English (TOEFEL 600 for non-native English speakers), as well as an evidence of proficiency in one additional modern language.
Applicants for the PhD Program are required to file a full application form and provide the following documents:
A detailed project of their study, according to the form provided in the application.
A reference letter from their Church Authority.
Two recommendation letters by faculty members, who are acquainted with the applicant, sent in a sealed envelope to the office of Admission and Registration.
A personal statement expressing their career goals and career objectives in seeking the PhD.
Copies of acquired diplomas or degrees.
Application form of admission.
Application to the PhD program is submitted to the Office of Admissions and Registration at the St John of Damascus Institute of Theology, which receives and processes all applications, evaluates credentials, and issues notification letters. Standards under which students are admitted for study in this program are established and monitored by the Institute of Thelogy.
Acceptance in the PhD program is based on the candidate meeting University admission requirements and on the recommendation of the Institute's PhD Admissions Committee.
Applicants must submit all the following to the Office of Admissions and Registration:
Three recent passport-size photographs.
A photocopy of your identity card or passport.
A certified copy of your Lebanese Baccalaureate Certificate, or its equivalent.
A certified copy of your Diplomas and transcripts.
A reference letter from Church authority.
Two recommendation letters (Forms enclosed).
An application Fee of 150,000 L.L. ( 100 U.S.D. )
Evidence of proficiency in English language ( for non native English speakers ), a minimum of 600 on the paper based TOEFL or 100 on the internet based TOEFL.
Evidence of proficiency in a modern language ( other than English ).
Evidence of proficiency in an ancient language.
The dissertation proposal ( form enclosed ).
The application must be submitted to the Institute of Theology before the published deadline dates. Incomplete or incorrect applications cannot be considered by the Committee. All submitted documents for admission are the property of the University and may not be reclaimed by the applicant.
Your application is valid only for the academic year to which you are applying. You must submit a new application to be considered for a semester which falls in another academic year.
Admissions Committee decision will be communicated by personal notification.
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Welcome to the 9th edition of inside_ON-COURSE . At the top you will find a column chart with the number of entered Master programmes, PhD programmes and Short courses (CPD) as of 15th February 2013 as well as the total increase of the entered courses since February 2012. Click on the legend symbol to see the particular series of data.
This edition's Statistics section is devoted exclusively to Master programmes published on on-course®. Here we show the distribution of costs (EU and non-EU) both within and between countries. This data emphasises the wide variation in costs across Europe and the role that on-course® can play in making course costs more transparent to course seekers.
We start our Service section with the Short courses (CPD) calendar for March 2013. In this month's Google map you will find more than 80 higher education institutions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Is there any correlation between tuition fee and the university ranking? Curious? Find out in our Service section. Also in this section is our new experimental interactive graph 'Tuition fee for home (EU) students vs. university ranking'.
Finally, the Share section deals with the URL shortening. What is your favourite URL shortener? Vote on our new LinkedIn poll.
How much does an university master's degree course cost for home (EU) students?
Tuition fee for home students, EURO. Based on 1,291 Master programmes from the on-course® catalogue. Only the programmes have been statistically evaluated in which the fees for EU students have been entered. The values in boxes represent the number of Master programmes.
Average fee for home students by country, EURO.
How much does an university master's degree course cost for international (non-EU) students?
Tuition fees for international students, EURO. Based on 1,072 Master programmes from the on-course® catalogue. Only the programmes have been statistically evaluated in which the fees for non-EU students have been entered. The values in boxes represent the number of Master programmes.
Average fee for international students by country.
Fees for home and international students.
Average fee (EURO) - EU vs. non-EU students.
30 days - one week - one day > on-course.eu visits by country. 81 People visited on-course.eu on 5th Feb 2013.
Is there any correlation between tuition fee and the university ranking? on-course® Masters in comparison.
Long url vs. shortened url: pros and cons. Your vote counts! "URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page."
This is especially convenient for messaging technologies such as Twitter which severely limit the number of characters that may be used in a message.
It is very useful for micro bloggers and for social media.
URL shorteners are used in Online Marketing regularly ~ and have been for years.
To use the shortened links of the URL you need a shortening service, Google, Bitly, etc.
Another use of URL shortening is to disguise the underlying address. Although this may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse.
When URL shortener companies go out of business, so do the links you shortened with their service.
Internet users are scared about viruses and other malware.
URL shortening services are not 100% reliable.


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Q: xcodebuild test-without-building. How to override test run parameters from command line I'm making macOS unit testing bundle (integration test for server software):
xcodebuild -project MyApp.xcodeproj -scheme MyApp.macOS build-for-testing

As result, xcodebuild generates xctest bundle MyAppTests.xctest and xctestrun file MyApp.xctestrun.
Now I can deploy xctest bundle on CI server and execute integration tests (by default targeted to release candidate version of server software).
xcodebuild test-without-building -xctestrun MyApp.xctestrun

Now I want to target another server instance (i.e. from development branch).
For doing this I can provide another xctestrun file MyApp-development.xctestrun with additional settings under TestingEnvironmentVariables key.
<key>TestingEnvironmentVariables</key>
<dict>
   <key>com.myapp.ServerKind</key>
   <string>development</string>
   ...
</dict>

Launch on CI server:
xcodebuild test-without-building -xctestrun MyApp-development.xctestrun

But maintaining several xctestrun files is not a good idea. I want to have default xctestrun file and override it's settings from command line.
Is it possible to pass additional settings (or override existing settings) in xctestrun file from command line?
Thank you!

A: Not sure if it solves your purpose, but if we wanted to override something like a User-Defined values in the Build settings of the target, i didn't find a straight forward to alter it while running test using xctestRun. So I tried directly altering the info.plist thats available inside the xctest bundle created with "build-for-testing" option before test execution and things seems to work well.
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Paul Courtin (né le  à Sallaumines) est un joueur de football français.

Formé au Racing Club de Lens, il y a passé le plus clair de sa carrière. Ses performances avec les Sang et or lui vaudront une sélection en équipe de France.

Handicapé par une blessure au genou à la suite de son transfert au FC Nantes, sa carrière ne prendra malheureusement pas l'envol qu'on pouvait espérer.

Son frère aîné, Jean-Marie Courtin, était également footballeur.

Carrière de joueur
 Carpentras
 Nîmes Olympique (1972 - 1973)
 FC Nantes (1967 - 1972)
 RC Lens (1959 - 1967)

Palmarès
 International A français : Une sélection, le , France-Pologne (2-1, qualification pour l'Euro 68)
 Vainqueur de la Coupe Drago avec le RC Lens en 1964.

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Footballeur international français
Naissance en mars 1942
Naissance dans le Pas-de-Calais
Joueur du Nîmes Olympique
Joueur du FC Nantes
Joueur du Racing Club de Lens

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FBI Finally Fires Strzok
Many months ago, evidence surfaced, from tens of thousands of text messages, that FBI official Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page were part of a conspiracy to block the election of Donald Trump and then to undermine his presidency. Page has since left the FBI, but Strzok was only re-assigned, leaving many to wonder why he wasn't fired for his illegal and unethical actions.
They need wonder no more as it was announced yesterday that Strzok has finally been fired. The only question left is why it took so long for officials to do the right thing for someone who so misused his position in the FBI for his personal agenda?
(Fox News) – FBI official Peter Strzok, who played a lead role in both the Russian meddling and Hillary Clinton email probes but became a political lightning rod after the revelation of anti-Trump text messages, has been fired.
Strzok attorney Aitan Goelman said in a statement Monday that his client, a 21-year FBI veteran, was fired Friday afternoon, claiming this was a departure from standard practice and politically motivated. Goelman said bureau Deputy Director David Bowdich "overruled" the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility to remove him.
"This decision should be deeply troubling to all Americans," the attorney said.
President Trump and his allies for months, though, have hammered the former FBI agent and cast him as the poster child for anti-Trump bias within the bureau and Justice Department.
Reacting to the firing, the president tweeted, "finally," while asking whether the Russia case will now be dropped:..
Strzok may have been finally fired, but that doesn't mean he is out of the woods. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is calling for a special counsel investigation of the FBI and the bureau's anti-Trump activities, including those of Strzok, Page, Ohr, McCabe and Comey, all of which could face jail time.
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December 21, 2017 7:05am PT by Eriq Gardner
Rolling Stone Settles Last Remaining Lawsuit Over UVA Rape Story
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A third settlement over "A Rape on Campus" means Jay Penske can acquire the publication free and clear of liability over that infamous article.
Rolling Stone, the storied magazine covering youth culture, had two significant developments on Wednesday. The first was news that Jann Wenner was selling his stake to Variety owner Jay Penske in a deal that reportedly values the publication at $100 million. But there's more. In New York federal court, Rolling Stone also wrapped up the last remaining piece of litigation emanating from its controversial and since retracted 2014 article about the gang rape of a freshman identified as "Jackie" at a University of Virginia campus fraternity.
The defamation lawsuit was brought by three members of the Virginia Alpha chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, where "Jackie" was allegedly raped. The claims were initially dismissed by a federal judge before being revived in September by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Now the parties have stipulated to dismissal in a court filing that quietly came as word was spreading about Penske's purchase.
The settlement is the third for Rolling Stone over that Sabrina Rubin Erdely-written article, titled "A Rape on Campus," which prompted a commissioned investigation by the Columbia School of Journalism over its faults.
The first settlement came after Rolling Stone lost a trial with Nicole Eramo, the university's former associate dean, who sued for being cast as the "chief villain" who "silenced" Jackie and "discouraged" her from reporting her alleged gang rape to the police. Eramo scored a $3 million verdict at trial, and the settlement announced last April headed off an appeal.
Then, Rolling Stone came to a $1.65 million deal in June with the fraternity itself. This settlement avoided a trial where $25 million in damages was being sought.
Now some of the fraternity members become beneficiaries of a settlement whose terms were not provided in court. According to the attorney representing the plaintiffs, the agreement included a confidentiality requirement that precludes comment.
Originally, a judge granted the publication's motion to dismiss claims, finding "the article's details about the attackers are too vague and remote from the plaintiffs' circumstances to be 'of and concerning' them."
The 2nd Circuit reversed this conclusion, at least with respect to George Elias and Ross Fowler. The federal appellate circuit did so with a nod to group defamation theory and how the fraternity was "sufficiently small" and how "a reader could plausibly conclude that many or all fraternity members participated in alleged gang rape as an initiation ritual and all members knowingly turned a blind eye to the brutal crimes."
The dismissal of this action obviously allows Rolling Stone to move into its next chapter under new ownership without the legal baggage caused by its most infamous error.
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The Strategy delivered a solid performance in the three months to the end of September. Asset allocation was a tailwind, since the portfolio maintained a sizable underweight in the UK, one of the weakest major markets in Q3. There was no particular theme behind this underperformance, just what appeared to be a general lack of excitement about UK-listed companies. Energy names were a small bright spot, supported by the ongoing recovery in the underlying commodity. Financials were sluggish, with Barclays being a notable laggard, despite activist interest in the name. Within Utilities, Scottish and Southern profit warned on the back of dry weather, poor renewable conditions and high gas prices (all are transitory factors), while National Grid remained relatively resilient. Telecoms were polarised as BT gained over 8% in total return terms in Q3, but Vodafone came under pressure on the back of dividend concerns and operational headwinds. The US was one of the best performing markets globally, reflecting strength of the country's economic growth. There were some impressive risers in the quarter – Eli Lilly (+25% in total return terms), Delta Airlines (+18%), HP Inc and Cisco (+15% each), and Financials. Collectively these stocks more than offset falls in Broadcom (in reaction to a surprise acquisition announcement) and Western Digital (the semiconductor industry de-rating on the back of weak pricing and recessionary fears). Performance of European names within the Strategy was well ahead of the main index, with particular strength coming from Pharma Stocks (Novartis and Roche) and Energy (Total and Eni). Emerging markets were also ahead as the Funds held were underweight glamour growth stocks, which were disproportionately hit by trade war rhetoric. On the contrary, Japanese exposure was slightly behind.
On a trade weighted basis Sterling fell a little under 1% over the past three months. The moves in Sterling continue to be driven by the strength or weakness of the US Dollar, as the wide interest rate differential favours America's currency. As the Brexit clock ticks down towards the exit day in March, we are likely to see further volatility in Sterling no matter the outcome – down towards parity against the Dollar if it is a "hard Brexit" and a strong rally above $1.40 if a benign Brexit agreement is duly struck.


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Monday: Slow cooker white chicken chili. See recipe here.
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DRESSING: grate the garlic in a bowl, add lemon juice, honey, ginger, and salt. Whisking all the while, stream in olive oil so that the dressing emulsifies.
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exRay Ray LeJog
my walk from Lands End to John O'Groats
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Day 9 Wednesday 22 June Montgomery to Llanmynech
exrayraylejog Offa's Dyke 12th Aug 2022 3 Minutes
This was an easy flat day along the Severn valley. It was sunny and hot. I rejoined the ODP by walking down to the Montgomery canal. This used to connect the Llangollen canal to Welshpool and was originally planned to form part of a canal that would extend the network up to Ellesmere Port. Only part of it is navigable now. There are said to be otters in the section near Welshpool but I didn't see any. The first part of the towpath was through Welshpool, passing the backs of houses and then an industrial estate, hidden by a high fence. Once outside Welshpool there were fields of sheep on the left bank. I walked under trees which gave some shade from the sun that was hot even though it was only 10am. A man in a small boat passed me, stopping to clear reeds from the side of the canal. He told me he was able to sail as far as the lock at Pool Quay but was then impeded by a low bridge. I watched him navigate a swing bridge.
After about 3 miles I arrived at the hamlet of Pool Quay. I left the canal here, crossing farmland to find a path built on a modern flood defence embankment built above the river Severn. The flow was very slow, it will get a shock when it gets to Gloucester and meets a Bore coming the other way (see Lejog day 31)!
Lock at Pool Quay
River Severn near Pool Quay
To the South I could see along Long Mountain and I could now appreciate the appropriateness on its name. To the North-east were the Breidden Hills, an old volcano. There is an iron age hillfort on the northernmost summit, partially destroyed by a quarry. On the summit I could just make out Rodney's pillar, commemorating Admiral Rodney's victory over the French in 1782. It was built by Montgomery Landowners who supplied oak for the fleet.
Breidden Hills
I followed the embankment for several miles. Most of the fields had cows grazing. Many of them were standing on the embankment but they let me pass without showing any interest in me. I walked past the village of Rhyd-esgyn where a cottage owner had placed a table and chairs in the shade of a clump of trees and there was homemade cake for sale. I sat in the shade and enjoyed a slice of light fruit cake. Delicious.
Not long after the village I turned off the river by a sluice gate to walk along the side of the New Cut to Derwas Bridge. There was no water in the cut so I assume it is there to protect the village in times of flood. In the next field farmers were herding cattle and driving them into an adjacent using 4 wheel drive vehicles. Not as romantic as the horses used in wild west movies but very effective.
Modern Day Cowboys
The way forward lay across fields and, for the first time today, I was accompanied by the Dyke. The path led to the village of Four Crosses. The village is said to get its name from the Roman Roads that used to cross the area. There is a legend that when the local saint (St Tysilo) died, there was an eclipse of the sun and the shadow of a cross fell on the four sides of the church. Sadly, like several that I passed on the ODP, the village pub is now closed but I was able to get a cold soft drink and an ice cream from the garage.
I left the village to the north, crossed under the A road and rejoined the Montgomery canal which took a 2 mile loop to get to Llanynynech. This was very pleasant. To the west, the hill of Bryn Mawr appeared, the hill fort on the top hidden by trees. I passed an old salt mill; now a private home, I think, with the old crane posts still intact.
The canal and towpath crossed the Vyrnwy acqueduct. Just after the acqueduct the canal appeared to come to an abrupt halt as it crossed the B 4398, only to re-appear on the other side of the road. It then continued past the locks at Carreghofa, the lock gate can be seen through the bridge.
As I curved round to the east the Llanmynech rocks appeared, I will go up here tomorrow. As I approached the village the chimney of the Hoffman Kiln came into view. Three are only 3 Hoffman Kilns left in the UK. These were huge chambers with multiple furnaces used for firing bricks. I continued along the canal to the village and the Dolphin Inn.
Approaching Llanynymech with the chimney of the Hoffman kiln
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GUILTY AZ - FBI found 'bucket of heads, arms and legs,' bodies sewn together, donation facility, Jan 2014
Discussion in 'Recently Sentenced and Beyond' started by owsley, Jul 26, 2019.
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GRAPHIC: FBI found 'bucket of heads, arms and legs,' bodies sewn together at Ariz. body donation facility, agent says
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Buckets full of body parts, male genitalia in a cooler and heads and bodies of different people sewn together and hung up.
This is new, disturbing evidence in a strange case against the Biological Resource Center in Phoenix.
The body donation and tissue bank facility was raided by the FBI in 2014, as part of a multi-state investigation into the illegal trafficking and sale of human body parts.
"This is a horror story. It's just unbelievable! This story is unbelievable," said Troy Harp, who is one of over 30 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the facility.
For years, Harp has been living a nightmare, after donating his mother and grandmother to Biological Resource Center in 2012 and 2013, with the understanding their bodies would be used for scientific purposes.
"Cancer, and leukemia and whatever else, using sample cells," said Harp. "That's what I was told."
The FBI conducted the raid in hazmat suits back in 2014, but for the first time, we're now able to see the testimony from one of the FBI agents who conducted the raid, and what he recounts is shocking.
He said he found a "cooler filled with male genitalia," "a bucket of heads, arms and legs," "infected heads" and a small woman's head sewn onto a large male torso "like Frankenstein" hanging up on the wall, one of the most disturbing findings called a "morbid joke" in the lawsuit.
"Who in their right mind," said Harp. "It's absolutely gross!"
The lawsuit also says the bodies were cut up with chain saws and band saws and "pools of human blood and bodily fluids were found on the floor of the freezer" with no identification tags on the bodies.
"Tools that are not appropriate for dismembering scientific bodies," said Harp.
Harp said his mother's ashes showed up by mail on his doorstep shortly after the raid, but he isn't sure they're her ashes.
He said his mom and grandma wanted to help medical research after their death. He doesn't believe they ever made it out of the BRC building.
The owner, Stephen Gore, pleaded guilty to illegal control of an enterprise, and was sentenced to one year of differed jail time and four years probation.
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'Cooler filled with male genitalia' found
in raid of Phoenix body-donation company
A head sewn onto a mismatched body, a bucket of limbs and a cooler filled with penises are among items found by FBI agents during a raid on a Phoenix body-donation business.
The now-shuttered, for-profit Biological Resource Center specialized in accepting the bodies of people after they had died, and in exchange offering their families free pickup of the bodies plus the cremated remains of the body parts the company did not sell.
Arizona is a regulatory-free zone for the body-parts industry. At least four body donation companies are operating in Arizona, in addition to a non-profit cryonics company that freezes people after they die with the intent of one day bringing them back to life.
An FBI special agent, during a January 2014 raid of the Biological Resource Center, stumbled on what he described as "various unsettling scenes."
'Frankenstein' head observed
In his declaration contained in the civil lawsuit's court file, former Phoenix FBI special agent Mark Cwynar said he "personally observed various unsettling scenes" while inside Biological Resource Center.
Many of the body parts he saw were piled on top of one another with no apparent identification to indicate what bodies they came from or to whom they belonged, he said.
In addition to a "cooler filled with male genitalia," Cwynar testified that he also saw a "large torso with the head removed and replaced with a smaller head sewn together in a 'Frankenstein' manner."
Cwynar said he saw:
Large male torsos with limbs and genitalia removed.
Buckets and coolers with various body parts, including a bucket of heads, arms and legs.
Body parts piled on top of each other throughout the facility, with no apparent identification.
Steel freezers with frozen body parts inside with no apparent identification.
Court documents included a report from two experts for the plaintiffs that referred to a 2013 request to use at least two Biological Resource Center bodies for the purpose of "plastination for education." The experts said plastination, which is a way of preserving entire human bodies, should require separate consent because the preservation is more permanent and the bodies are often publicly displayed.
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JURY deliberations have entered their fifth day at a trial against the owner of a now-closed Phoenix body donation facility accused of mishandling donated human remains.
Jurors resumed deliberations Tuesday morning in the civil case against Stephen Gore, owner of the Biological Resource Center of Arizona.
Gore is accused of deceiving donor families about how the remains would be used.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...ns-to-resume-at-trial-over-mishandled-remains
JerseyGirl, Nov 19, 2019
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OMG how awful!
My mother donated her body to a plastination institute last year. I hope they treated her body with more respect.
Elainera, Nov 19, 2019
The owner of a now-closed body donation facility was found civilly liable Tuesday for mishandling remains in about half of 21 cases filed by families of the dead.
A jury awarded $58 million to 10 of 21 plaintiffs in the case against Stephen Gore, owner of the Biological Resource Center of Arizona. The jury awarded $8 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages. It was not immediately clear why the jury did not rule in favor of 11 of the plaintiffs.
Jury rules for half of 21 plaintiffs in used body parts suit
Same horrific situation discovered in Paris, France at The Centre for Body Donations at Paris-Descartes University.
Bodies 'left to rot' at Paris donation centre
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Back To Dixieland
I am a native of Fayetteville. My love of music and cornet began in the fifth grade at Leverett Elementary School. I attended Woodland Junior High where I met one of my mentors, Bill Martin. He taught me how to play Dixieland and gave me the opportunity to play in a Big Band. We played Basie, Glen Miller and others.
In spite of an accident involving my front teeth, I continued playing through Fayetteville High School. During my senior year my mother signed me up for trumpet lessons with Dr. Lawrence Meyer, professor of trumpet at the University of Arkansas. As a freshman at UA, I was like most everyone else, trying to avoid the draft. Studying with Dr. Meyer and occasionally his good friend Carl "Doc" Severensin and with the help of Bill Martin, I made Navy bands.
After completing my hitch as a Navy musician, I went to Tulsa where I met Vernon Howard. Through him I met Ron Predl, director of music at Tulsa University and got a full scholarship to the University of Tulsa.
In 1974 I moved to the mountains outside Eureka Springs. There I met another of my mentors, Sam Routh Sr. Sam and I started a Dixieland band, which made a little money and had a lot of fun. Sam sent me to New Orleans, where I moved in with his son, Sam "Catfish" Jr. and played all-night jobs of Catfish's music.
During the day I listened to Dixieland bands. One day Frank Trapani was leading an 11-piece band at the Maison Bourbon. As usual, I was sitting on my trumpet case in front of the club. Frank asked me to sit in. He became another mentor.
But New Orleans was a union town. It was expensive and there was a waiting period to play so I decided to go to Houston. There I played with the Houston Jazz Society Big Band, which included such luminaries as John Parks, Jimmy Ford, Kit Reid and Bobby Welbourn. I was reunited with Claudia Burson, whom I hadn't seen since high school.
Next I went to Austin. I drove down Congress Avenue, parked and walked inside a bar where I sat in with a Dixieland band. When we stopped playing the piano player walked over, shook my hand and introduced himself as Robert "Beto" Skiles. He said he needed a trumpeter for his salsa band Beto y los Fairlanes.
In Austin I met Raymond Crisara, professor emeritus of trumpet at the University of Texas. Ray whipped me into shape by teaching me a modern approach to trumpet. It was no longer a physical, but a mental approach. Life was good. I was playing a lot of jazz and studio work on the side.
New Year's Eve of 1984, I was driving home, thinking about the weather and whether to drive or fly to Tulsa to play in a big band that Vernon Howard had put together. I never got there. A drunk driver hit me head-on and almost killed me. After a long recovery, I put together a new Dixieland band called the "Dixie Scat Cats." The Scat Cats played around Texas for four years. But Ray told me that my playing wasn't what it used to be, I needed a profession and why didn't I try teaching. I moved back to Tulsa and got a degree in education and taught for two years in Oklahoma.
In 1992 Sonny Gray, the great Tulsa jazz pianist, asked me to play the Eureka Springs Jazz Festival with him. Sam Routh and his wife Lee said my bed was ready. It had been 16 years and it was great to see the man who had sent me on my journey.
After I played with Sonny that night I went walking around Eureka. I heard a jazz band playing from the ballroom of the Basin Park Hotel where Betty Elkins was sitting at the band table. Betty and I had played in a jazz duo in the Montrose area of Houston for two years. At the Basin Park Ballroom she introduced me to the piano player Lee Tomboulian's sister Necia and it was love at first sight.
I left Oklahoma and came back to Fayetteville where I was co-principal trumpet with North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. One day I was playing with Jim Greeson when a group of young musicians sat down and listened. When we finished playing they asked me to join them. It was Keefe Jackson and members of Big World Quartet. It became Big World Quintet. I enjoyed writing and playing the eclectic music. After finishing graduate school at the UA, playing with the symphony, Big World and other jazz bands and substitute teaching for Fayetteville Public Schools, I wondered what was next.
I got a job as music teacher at Butterfield Trail Elementary School and taught there for 13 years, then taught at McNair Middle School for three and a half years. Last year, an infection almost killed me and I retired from teaching. I can still play, though mostly while sitting.
It seems that after any major turning point in my life I return to Dixieland. It's fun music and hard work. Earlier this year I asked Claudia Burson, Nathan McLeod, Steve Wilkes, Drew Packard and Greg Battista if they would like to play my Dixieland book on Fat Tuesday at Teatro Scarpino. They said "yes" and the West Avenue Dixie Ramblers were born. We will be playing at Scarpino's again at 8 p.m. April 27.
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Michael Nicholson '16
At UMass, Mike was a History and Political Science Dual Degree Student, in addition to working toward Departmental Honors in History, Departmental Honors in Political Science, Multidisciplinary Honors, and two undergraduate certificates in International Relations and Public Policy and Administration. He returned to UMass in Fall 2016 as a graduate student in the one-year Accelerated Master's of Public Policy Program at the UMass School of Public Policy.
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As a transfer student to UMass Amherst, Elena felt that she had limited opportunities, having missed almost two years of relationship-building in the department and at the school. However, she says, "the history department, along with the career development program, helped me to achieve my dreams and current career path."
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While at UMass, Nick pursued opportunities to enrich himself intellectually and culturally. He thrived in courses ranging from Latin American to LGBTQ History. Outside the classroom, Nick participated in the Shaha Diversity Theater group where he wrote and performed plays focused on issues of social justice. During the summer after his first year, he travelled to Peru to teach English to children. These experiences enhanced Nick's understanding of the world and confirmed his passion for education.
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From Germany to China to the Caribbean, Michael studied histories near and far. In the process, he learned to recognize and reevaluate the paradigms of his own culture and historical moment. He says: "History allows you to learn about a variety of places and people. You can gain specific knowledge about a particular culture while also developing a broader understanding of how that culture changed over time."
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Friday 23rd November 2018 – Australian Market Looks To Open Lower
OPENING CALL: The Australian market looks to open lower with SPI Futures down 24 points.
Australia's stock index had a positive day after hitting 21-month lows yesterday.
U.S. markets were closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Australian Market
Australia's stock index had a positive day after hitting 21-month lows yesterday. The S&P/ASX 200 rebounded into the close yesterday and saw that move extended today, closing up 0.9% at 5691.3 to break a four day losing streak. The health-care sector jumped a further 2.7%, moving into positive territory for the week. Consumer staples advanced 1.3% and most others saw gains of nearly 1%. But consumer discretionary rose just 0.2%.
Metals prices were mixed, with trading volumes lower than usual as the U.S. celebrated its Thanksgiving public holiday. The price of copper was down 0.2% at $6,221 a metric ton in midmorning trading. Gold, meanwhile was up 0.14% at $1,227.71 a troy ounce, with the U.S. dollar edging lower. The precious metal and the U.S. currency tend to move in opposite directions, and the WSJ Dollar Index was last down 0.1%. Copper futures have fallen 14% in 2018, largely driven down by the trade row between the U.S. and China. With China accounting for around half of global copper demand, investors have been concerned about the impact of those tensions on economic growth in the world's second largest economy. Citi's China Copper End-Use Tracker, an indicator of copper consumption, ticked down 0.1% in October, "a bleak reading and only the third negative print since October 2015," according to analysts at the bank. Supply has also risen, with the International Copper Study Group reporting a 3% year-over-year rise in copper mine output for the first eight months of the year. But underlying demand has also remained resilient. London Metal Exchange stocks have ground roughly 20% lower since Nov. 2, with local premiums in the U.S. having climbed. Copper inventories have fallen in other regions too, with LME, New York, and Shanghai combined stocks now at a two-year low of 407,000 tons, according to ING strategists in a note. When global copper-trading volumes return to normal next week, investors will turn their focus to the prospective meeting between President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires at the end of the month. The slated summit between European and U.K. leaders to discuss a potential Brexit deal will also be of interest, as will upcoming Federal Reserve board member speeches. Among precious metals, silver was up 0.07% at $14.51 a troy ounce, palladium was down 0.12% at $1,151.10 a troy ounce and platinum was down 0.06% at $845.50 a troy ounce.
IRON ORE: 70.63s + 0.57 (December contract)
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Oil prices wobbled, but clawed back losses from earlier in the session on jitters over U.S. supply data in a session thinned out by the Thanksgiving Day holiday. From a drop of over 1% at one point, January West Texas Intermediate crude CLF9, -1.10% fell 16 cents, or 0.3%, to $54.55 a barrel. The contract rose nearly 2.3% on Wednesday, after losing 6.6% Tuesday to settle at a more than one\ year low of $53.43. For the week so far, WTI is down 3.8%. Global benchmark January Brent turned higher from a loss of over 1% earlier, gaining 14 cents, or 0.2%, to $63.59 a barrel, after closing up 1.5% on Wednesday. Its finish at $62.53 Tuesday was the lowest settlement since February.
The British pound rose to $1.2872 from $1.2776 late Wednesday in New York. The euro rose to $1.1406, versus 1.1385 late Wednesday. Sterling surged on news that European Union and U.K. negotiators reached a deal on the outlines of future U.K.-EU ties, a feat that U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May hopes to use to rally much-needed domestic support for her Brexit deal. The announcement comes ahead of an official EU summit on Sunday in which leaders are expected to sign off on that draft text.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index ended down 0.7% at 352.57, with concerns about Italy's budget situation ensuring that equity sentiment remains negative, as U.S. markets are closed for Thanksgiving. Worries about Brexit uncertainty and the prospect of further selloffs in U.S. tech stocks also weigh on investors' minds. U.K. utility company Centrica is the biggest faller, down 9.2% after it warned of a hit to earnings. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 underperforms other European equities, ending down 1.3%, partly as a result of a stronger pound. Germany's DAX ends down 0.9%, France's CAC 40 down 0.8%, Italy's FTSE MIB down 0.7% and Spain's IBEX 35 down 0.6%.
Asian stock markets logged a mixed session on Thursday, struggling for direction in thin action ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. Japan's Nikkei finished up 0.6%, but banks were under pressure, with Mitsubishi UFJ down 1.4% and Sumitomo Mitsui eased 0.2%. On the positive side, beer maker Sapporo Holdings surged 7% . Hong Kong stocks trimmed an early solid lead, with losses for Chinese wireless firms. The Hang Seng Index closed up 0.2%, with China Mobile and Unicom both posting modest drops. Energy shares were again lower, while Tencent gained over 1%. The Shanghai Composite closed down 0.2%, and the smaller-cap Shenzhen Composite lost 0.6%.
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The FDA has identified the development of new biomarkers as one of the key opportunities to increase efficiency, predictability, and productivity in drug development. I provide below a description of the presentation, discussion and workshop activity for the session on Biomarker Discovery & Applications in Drug Development which will take place on Thursday 19th October '06 at the InnovationWell meeting at Bryn Mawr.
The session on the application of biomarkers in drug development will explore new advances and challenges in this area and will include a keynote from Keith Elliston, CEO (Genstruct), with Zentam Tsuchihashi (BMS) discussing Biomarker Roles in Tumor Immunotherapy, Darius Dziuda (CCSU) will cover the topic of Multivariate BioMarkers, Michael Jones (Novartis) will discuss Proteomics applications whereas Bernd Bonnekoh (Otto-von-Guericke University) and Ansgar J. Pommer (SkinSysTec) will provide perspectives for Multi Epitope Ligand Kartography (MELK) and skin disease applications. This latter work is being published in Nature Biotechnlogy and is featured on its mid-October cover.
Full abstracts are provided below.
Systems biology offers new conceptual and computational tools for integrative analyses of complex clinical data sets. These tools allow researchers to break through cognitive barriers caused by the magnitude of molecular profiling information, and help us systematically elucidate and represent new biological insights. Using a systems biology approach, we have developed an integrated technology platform and methodologies that enable the investigation and identification of disease mechanisms, compound efficacies and toxicities. Panomics analyses of biological responses over time are used to map the trajectory of activated molecular pathways, and computable models are created to define molecular mechanisms.
We will present the methods and technology used to model scientific knowledge, generate specific mechanistic hypotheses through automated reasoning, and build computable Causal System Models. These models define the mechanisms underlying diseases, compound efficacies and toxic effects, and provide a map of the biological system to enable the identification of candidate biomarkers. Biomarkers can then be evaluated for their performance in noninvasive monitoring of the progression of disease, the mechanism of compound efficacy as well as the onset and reversal of toxicity.
Based on the "Critical Path" document that appeared in 2004, FDA recently released two follow up documents, "Critical Path Opportunities List" and "Critical Path Opportunities Report". In these documents, FDA identified the development of new biomarkers as one of the key opportunities to increase efficiency, predictability, and productivity in drug development. In parallel, there is a recognition on the industry side that the identification of novel biomarkers and the actual utilization of them needs to be a key ingredient of the drug development. I will discuss the key considerations in the study of clinical biomarkers especially for the development of anti-cancer immunotherapy. For the treatment to be effective, enough quantity of the drug has to be present at the site of the action for enough time (pharmacokinetics), and then that needs to generate a sufficient amount of action (pharmacodynamics). And the latter, the pharmacodynamic process itself consists of multiple steps. First, there is a binding of the drug to the target, followed by a stimulation of the immune system. This leads to an anti-tumor attack by the host immune system, then ultimately there should be a destruction of the tumor cells. Different biomarkers can potentially monitor each of these steps, and they give us a more precise picture of how the drug is acting, complementing the clinical observations. This additional information from biomarker analyses provides us a critical tool for the key decisions in the development of this drug. However, despite the technological advances especially in the genomics area that can now create a flood of biomarker candidates, developing and 'qualifying' these candidate markers to generate a utility is still not a straightforward process, and it requires a careful thinking and well-planned clinical studies.
Life sciences are rapidly changing from disciplines that were dealing with relatively small data sets to research areas 'bombarded' with large and huge data sets. As a result of research sparked by the Human Genome Project, we have now growing library of organisms with already sequenced genome. Data sets generated by current microarray technologies consist of tens of thousands of gene expression variables. When protein chip technology matures, we may even see data sets with more than a million variables. Traditional "one-gene-at-a-time", or univariate approach, which has dominated life sciences for a very long time, is no longer sufficient. Different approaches are necessary and multivariate analysis should become a standard one. There is nothing wrong with using the univariate analysis, but if the research stops there (and this, unfortunately, is still the case in many studies), the huge amount of generated data may be heavily underused, and potentially important biomedical knowledge contained therein not extracted.
Biomarker discovery means selection of an optimal subset of variables, which together – as a set – can significantly differentiate the phenotypic classes of interest. Due to large numbers of variables, p, exhaustive search that would guarantee finding the best subset cannot be implemented, as the order of the search space is O(2p). Generally, many problems related to feature selection have been shown to be NP-hard. Because of these difficulties, many studies reported in the literature pretty much neglect this step and apply more or less arbitrary selection of features used then to build classification models. Usual approach is to find an ordered list of features (using simple univariate methods like ANOVA) and then use some number of the features from the top of the list. Such a univariate approach not only neglects correlations between variables but also usually results in removing from consideration important discriminatory information.
The presentation will outline and discuss current issues in biomarker discovery, especially multivariate approach to identification of genomic, proteomic or metabolomic biomarkers for medical diagnosis, prognosis, individualized medicine, and drug discovery.
Keywords: Biomarkers, Multivariate Analysis, Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Differential Diagnosis, Drug Discovery, Individualized Medicine, Classification and Prediction Systems.
The search for biomarkers has been intensified in recent years as the need for more accurate and less invasive methods for detecting disease progression, assessing drug efficacy and performing pharmacogenomic analysis has increased. In an attempt to discover surrogate molecular biomarkers in the background of complex disease states and population heterogeneity high throughput methods have been utilized. One popular high throughput biomarker discovery method is microarray analysis which requires obtaining patient tissue biopsies to extract the mRNA needed for profiling. Validation of discovered biomarkers is later done through more sensitive and quantitative methods in more easily obtained sources such as serum. Using tissue biopsies is problematic, since acquiring biopsies requires invasive techniques, and since the tissues may not be representative of the clinical method used for measuring molecular biomarkers. Biomarker discovery through proteomics has arisen as an alternative. Proteomics technologies have the potential to determine protein identity and quantity directly from body fluids. Potentially, with proteomics, the same tissue source could be used for biomarker discovery, validation and clinical use.
Several methods in proteomics have been developed for high throughput molecular biomarker discovery. We will discuss Mass Spectrometry (MS) related profiling technologies. Two commonly used techniques are the use of LC-MS/MS or LC-MS analysis of complex peptide mixtures. A third approach involves the direct measurement of complex mixture of undigested proteins. Each of these methods has advantages and deficiencies in the ability to produce quantitative profiles.
These methods will be assessed in terms of their advantages and disadvantages in the areas of quantitation, identification and sample preparation. We will finally discuss the technical hurdles that need to be overcome to make proteomic profiling competitive with microarray analysis for biomarker discovery.
We present a novel bioanalytical methodology called Multi Epitope Ligand Kartography (MELK) robot technology which basically represents an extension of multiplex immunophenotyping. The patented rationale of MELK consists in a repetitive three-step cycling process including 1) an initial incubation of a tissue section or cell preparation with a fluorophore-labeled tag (e.g. antibody), 2) a subsequent imaging of the fluorescence signal, and 3) a final soft bleaching. This process can be repeated up to at least 100 times with divergent tags. Resulting fluorescence images may be binarized with regard to internal and external positive and negative standards and overlaid by computational visualistic tools. This allows in an unprecedented manner to analyze the colocation of defined epitopes in microtopographic units defined by the pixel matrix of the CCD camera of the microscope. E.g. using a 20x objective magnification, such a microtopographic unit (i.e. a pixel) will correspond to a 450 nm2 area of the biologic specimen.
Given these basics of MELK robot technology, we have developed a special platform for analyzing in-situ-proteomics (i.e. toponomics) in skin tissue or blood specimens in the context of dermatological research. This was achieved by a close partnership as an university institution (Clinic for Dermatology, Otto-von-Guericke-University) and an industrial biotech company (SkinSysTec GmbH).
Until now we have initiated various projects aiming at the better understanding of the pathophysiology of common chronic, partly allergic skin diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis in order to find new treatment targets. A special aspect of our work is the creation of a new biological drug binding biochip assay which integrates a candidate biological drug after fluorophore-labeling into a MELK tag library for the purpose of a refined analysis of the drug´s binding sites. Another application field is diagnostics of skin cancer.
As a major future perspective our high-dimensional technology offers powerful additional options to conventional strategies of drug target identification and characterization.
We present our skin research-related platform of MELK robot technology. This break-through methodology allows to decipher the colocation of at least up to one hundred defined molecules (e.g. proteins) in subcellular spaces of biological specimens such as skin tissue sections or blood cell preparations. This opens new avenues for research and development in the fields of diagnostics, drug development and cosmetics.
MELK robot technology represents a highly advanced fluorescence microscopy. In principle it relies upon a sequel of i) incubation of a specimen with a fluorophore-labeled tag/antibody, ii) fluorescence imaging and iii) soft bleaching, allowing subsequent repeats of this cycling process. The point-precise overlay of the fluorescence images enables a mapping of the subcellular colocation of chosen molecular markers. Thus, a magnitude of molecular markers can be detected in a single specimen with a preserved histoarchitecture. This means a major advantage as compared to 1) conventional immunohistology (dealing rarely with more than 2 markers) or 2) cell- and tissue-disintegrating techniques alike conventional proteomics or array analyses.
Established applications of MELK robot technology are: a) the identification of pathophysiologic targets in inflammatory skin diseases, b) the monitoring of clinical treatments, c) the unprecedented in-situ-identification of rare cell types such as keratinocyte stem cells or d) the tracing of biological drugs (such candidates) for their tissue binding characteristics under the conditions of an ex vivo MELK biochip assay.
In front of this background the hardware and software components of our skin research platform of MELK robot technology and related service products will be presented. The workshop will be held in a questions & answers atmosphere and is addressing all interested representatives from research and industry in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceutics, cosmetics and medicine.


A pretty, large oval pendant in mother of pearl laser engraved with a damask floral pattern on a 32 inch Sterling silver chain with 2 inch extender. A lovely shimmery piece with a hint of mystery. The pendant measures one and a half inches across (3.6cm) by one and a quarter tall (3cm). It comes in its own high quality windowed presentation box and makes a rather lovely gift.


If we want to be Agents of Change for the Lord Jesus Christ then we need to love like Christ.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
I am becoming persuaded that the foundation to see change in people is not sound theology; it is love. Without love, our theology is like a boat without oars. Love is what drove God to send and sacrifice his Son. Love is what led Christ to subject himself to the cross. Love is what causes him to seek and save the lost. The problem is that we don't want ministry that demands love that is difficult. We don't want to serve others in a way that requires personal sacrifice. We prefer to lob grenades of truth into people's lives rather than lay down our lives for them. But this is exactly what Christ did for us: He laid down His life for us. Can we expect to be called to do anything less?
People are watching to see if Christians are for real and to see if God is for real. Research by George Barna for his book, Re-Churching the Unchurched, found out that only 2 percent of those who don't attend church do so because they don't believe in God. The other 98 percent stay away because they, for a variety of reasons, don't like what they see when they look at the church. Our actions toward people in need can go a long way toward demonstrating to the skeptics what authentic Christianity looks like, whether its seen up-close or from a distance.
If we have the truth and are not willing to share it, is that Love? If we want to be the Agents of Change for the Lord Jesus Christ then we need to love like Christ.
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