Some gorgeous heirloom tomatoes from my CSA. Ahhhh sweet summertime.
I have been so, so, so, so awful about posting lately. I've been crazy busy with life! Life is great and some awesome things are happening in my life. Hopefully more on that later- but in the meantime I came across something I wanted to share with you all.
I'll just preface this by saying that I am all for people eating healthy and improving their lives, but it breaks my heart and frustrates me to see them going about it all the wrong ways! There are 1000 ways out there that claim they are the "perfect" solution. I am a firm believer in eating as naturally from the earth as possible. No "low fat", "fat free", aspartame chocked full foods are "good" for you. Less calories? Sure, but the effects that the poisons, yes poisons that are the so called ingredients, in those things are down right scary. Lately I've been putting a HUGE focus on natural healthy eating for me and Jake. And the differences I've noticed are enough for me to never stop. So back to what I wanted to share.
Tanda Cook is an amazing person I cam across lately (read her book and visit her website) and I love her and her out look on pretty much everything. She posted this awesome article on her own blog today and I wanted to pass it on to all of you. She is an MD and a homeopathic/naturopathic. She shares her thoughts (very good ones at that!) on a list of foods that are often times labeled as "bad for you" but in all reality aren't (in their pure natural forms).
First off, why do we even need fat? (Cuz that's what butter is mainly, right?) We need fat to provide concentrated sources of energy, it's the building block for cell membranes and the precursor for a variety of hormones.
So we HAVE to have it to maintain health and balance.
Now lets talk about sources, in particular, butter.
Butter is awesome. Eat it.
Organic pasture butter is a short chain fatty acid, which means it does NOT have to be acted on by the bile salts (our gallbladder), it is DIRECTLY absorbed for energy use (and less likely to cause weight gain FYI).
It contains antimicrobial properties to help protect us from harmful microbs in the gastrointestinal tract. It is one of the greatest sources of fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K.
Butter is mostly saturated fat. And lets set this straight as to WHY we NEED saturated fat as it has been demonized in the modern American diet.
Saturated fatty acids constitute about half of our cell membranes giving them the rigidity and structure to function optimally.
These fats help our immune system, specifically our white blood cells and enhances their ability to recognize foreign invaders like certain bacteria and viruses.
Saturated fat protects our liver from alcohol and medications.
Saturated fat also is essential for bone health as we need it to properly absorb calcium.
How bout the fact that butter contains conjugated linoleic acid (a form of omega-6) that has strong anti-cancer properties as well as containing lecithin, which assists in the proper metabolism of cholesterol.
So go ahead and eat the stuff.
Oh, and what counts as butter?
So pass the pasture butter deliciousness, please.
I've already touched on a lot of this in the 5 Food Myths post AND I think its worth saying again.
Eat red meat. It doesn't cause heart disease. And meat is only as healthy for you as the health of the animal. So eat sick cows, you, most likely, will be sick too.
Eat healthy animals, you will bring in all sorts of nourishment, vitamins, minerals and essential nutrients into your life and body.
Red meat specifically contains saturated fat, which we have talked about the why around needing it. It also is a great source of vitamin B12 and iron.
B12 is needed to prevent anemia, nervous system disorders, helps with energy, feeding our adrenals, maintains fertility and natural growth. Early signs of deficiency usually is indicated when there is irrational anger.
We need good ol' iron for the health of our blood. And iron found in animal sources, aka: meat and eggs, is more readily absorbed than plant sources.
So, purchase 100% grass-fed, pasture raised, or grass finished meats. Or even better, raise it yourself if you have the time and space. OR go to your local farmer, shake their hand and buy and support them.
This I have noticed as a food that people either LOVE or Despise. I fall in the LOVE category.
And when I tell the closet-lovers-of-mayonnaise that there is no reason to be ashamed its like I have given them the moon.
Think about this. What's IN mayo?
K, ready…egg yolks, mustard, olive oil, lemon, sea salt, vinegar. Boom. Done.
Pasture raised egg yolks contain the fat soluble vitamins such as vitamin A, D, and A a fat soluble vitamin needed for healthy eyes, hormones, immune system and blood clotting. They also contain essential fatty acids, iron, phosphorus and zinc.
There is nothing in mayo that's not in homemade dressings. Its whole foods based, tastes amazeballs and goes well in my chicken salad recipe.
It won't make ya fat if you're worried about that.
Remember? Sugar has got that one covered for you.
Shhhpread away and enjoy it. And if you're in the DESPISE camp, well, then use avocados instead.
I think there are several crazed websites dedicated to the glorious food. And rightfully so, as everything's better with it.
And it has gotten a bad wrap mostly because of its fat content.
And I'm gonna say this again, fat doesn't make you fat, sugar does.
And pork in general has gotten a bad wrap, and no wonder because us Americans have taken a fabulous animal (the pig) and genetically mutated it so it grows super fast, is super lean, and is super unhealthy.
Pigs, like humans, synthesize vitamin D in their skin. So when pigs are raised outdoors, in sunlight and on grass, that meat and fat has a TON of awesome vitamin D in it.
Sodium nitrates and nitrites are used to preserve color and prevent botulism in cured meats and have gotten badmouthed. Nitrites are compounds that are naturally found in plants like celery and butter leaf lettuce. They are also found in our saliva, and the studies done in animals that showed cancer development after large exposure to nitrates/nitrites have been discredited by peer review. So take all that with a grain of salt…eh, or bacon.
I'm more concerned about WHERE and HOW the pig was RAISED than anything else.
Eat bacon. Eat it in moderation. And love every bite.
Eggs are the bomb. They are one of the most COMPLETE foods on the planet. And as I explained in the 5 Food Myths, if you have high cholesterol I can assure you it's not eggs fault.
High cholesterol just tells me that the body is under a lot of physical and emotional stress and cholesterol is being made in the liver to do damage control. Remember 80% of the cholesterol in your body is made by the liver and only 20% is dietary.
It's a precursor for hormones.
It's a precursor for vitamin D.
Cholesterol acts as an antioxidant.
It's needed for proper serotonin receptor function in the brain.
Eat. Eggs. Pasture raised farm eggs. Please. The whole part. Please.
Best option is to raise your own.
If that's not possible, find a farmer that does.
If that's not possible buy PASTURE raised eggs.
If you don't see that option buy organic.
If that's not an option pick up the cartons and turn them around to see where they are COMING from and buy the eggs that are CLOSEST to YOU.
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The fifth round of NAFTA talks ended last week in Mexico City, making limited headway on the renegotiations.
During the round, the parties made progress on certain technical issues of the trade agreement, including digital trade, telecommunications, anti-corruption, and customs procedures.
In digital trade, they established rules preventing all three governments from requiring the disclosure of a company's proprietary algorithms as a prerequisite for trade opportunities and developed a standard for websites' liability for third-party content.
In telecommunications, the countries are working to impose regulatory curbs in order to prevent companies from charging competitors for calls going through a competing telecommunications network.
Regarding anti-corruption, the negotiators are developing penalties and certain enforcement tools that will apply to persons suspected of engaging in corrupt activities.
The negotiators are also discussing streamlining customs procedures and ensuring full transparency for a number of related provisions.
The negotiators had previously extended the break between rounds to a month, rather than every two weeks, in order to allow for time to cool tensions and determine strategies for moving forward. The schedule for the finalizing of the agreement was moved from the end of 2017 to March 2018. The negotiators will be meeting in a so-called "intersessional" on December 11 in Washington without the top trade ministers, and Round 6 will begin in late January in Montreal.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative also released its new negotiating objectives this month, which can be accessed here.
For more information on how the NAFTA renegotiations could affect your business, please contact Robert Stang.
Bob focuses his practice on customs and international trade law. He brings 30 years of experience to a wide range of issues that affect inbound and outbound goods, including tariff classification, valuation, country of origin marking matters, free trade agreements, and special trade programs. He also has extensive customs compliance experience and regularly assists importers facing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) audits, penalties, seizures, redelivery notices and other agency enforcement activities. Bob works with importers and exporters proactively to achieve cost savings and structure programs that meet CBP "reasonable care" requirements. He also handles supply chain security issues, including Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) enrollment, verification and annual reviews.
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Adalia (such a pretty name!) and Tom had a beautiful, elegant and classic hotel wedding near Bath. They opted for white and green florals, their stationery had a touch of Art Deco about it and the fashion choices are spot on. Everything is beautiful styled but in a relaxed, understated way.
I'm loving the lace overlay on Adalia's dress, her 'something blue' shoes and her gorgeous jacket for those chilly evening couple shots. She looks like the perfect winter bride, complete with a touch of sparkle in her hair. As always, Jason Mark Harris has captured everything with such atmosphere and emotion, I've loved looking at the images.
It's been far too long since we shared a sunshiny yellow Spring wedding with you but never fear Cheryl and Matt are here to save the day with their awesomely bright wedding this morning.
And it is AWESOME. Completely and utterly take-your-breath-away awesome. I for one LOVE it…can you tell?
Captured by the uber talented Mister Phill, this 'I Do' has inspiration by the bucketload for you. And before you disappear off to start your pinning marathon, I really need to share some of the best things about this wedding if that's even possible.
And then there's all the paper pretty (such brilliant branding) and the chocolate Easter inspired wedding cake (just genius) and the Musical Bingo. Yes ACTUAL musical bingo. I think I just died and went to heaven.
Holly and Tom had such an incredible day at Upwaltham Barns that it has left me feeling somewhat alliterative. Divine dress, fabulous florals, beautiful blossom, delicious details and scores of smiles, that pretty much sums it up perfectly!
Tom & Holly live in Australia so their wedding allowed them to catch up with lots of friends and family from back home, it was a fun celebration with a cool laid back vibe.
As summer slowly sidles off-stage in the wake of Autumn's first flush of colour, cool drinks on the terrace and in the parks and pub gardens start to become a distant memory. But the inevitable drawing-in of September nights doesn't mean the party has to stop there.
Instead, we at RMW towers say, bring the refreshments inside with you as you reside by the fire and revel in the 'cocktail hour'. Be it due to the popularity of Mad Men or the influence of our cousins across the pond, we've seen the resurgence of cocktails and bar carts of late. And from your enthusiastic response to the lovely Lauren C's bar tray it seems that you can't get enough of them either.
It was William Morris that said 'have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful' and the bar cart is no exception. Whilst your bar cart serves a functional purpose there's no reason why it can't be aesthetically pleasing or sentimental too.
Top Row Left: Image via Camille Styles. Top Row Right: Image via Lonny. Second Row Left: Image via Camille Styles. Second Row Right: Image via Rue Mag. Third Row Left: Image via Design Wine Dine. Third Row Right: Image via Obaz.
If the budget allows it then it's worth investing in an actual cart – preferably one that moves on wheels since this makes it so much easier to 'take the party with you' as and when required. I'd recommend spending as much as you can possibly afford to boot – remember folks you really do get what you pay for.
Choose a cart that has a high storage capacity (there's nothing worse than a crammed bar cart where glassware and bottles jostle with one another for space) and a rail to hold everything in place. Better still are removable trays to allow easy transportation of drinks from cart to guest and inbuilt racks to enable wine to be stored on its side.
If space is at a premium or there's just no way that you're going to be able to afford the cart and that pair of shoes that you've had your eye on for the last two months, then consider creating a bar 'tray' using a vintage tray or a reclaimed side table instead. I particularly love this mother of pearl version from Zara below.
Top Row Left: Image via Houzz. Top Row Right: Image via Thriftdee.Second Row Left: Image via Zara Home. Second Row Right: Image via Elle Decor. Third Row Left: Image via Ginny Branch. Third Row Right: Image via Etsy. Fourth Row Left: Image via I Loves W Mag. Fourth Row Right: Image via Houzz.
If you want to be considered Queen of the Cocktails then make sure that you've got the necessary tools for the job; most cocktails utilise either a shaker, an opener, a stirrer and/or strainer at some point in their creation so it's definitely worth adding these items to your cart's inventory. On a side note, it's always a good idea to invest in an savvy ice bucket and tongs too.
One of the key components of a successful bar cart is gorgeous glassware. Be it a set of priceless cut crystal wine glasses that have been handed down through your family, some kitsch babycham saucers (LOVE those!) or a collection of mismatched colourful tumblers, it's always worth paying due care and attention to the vessels in which you serve your drinks. Alternatively pretty up plain glasses by entwining some blooms around then stem for a cheap quick fix alternative.
Speaking of glassware, try picking bottles that match the beauty of your drinking vessels when kitting out your cart – Hendricks Gin and Chambord are both examples of great design as well as taste. Alternatively if you're a fan of a particular type of spirit but you're not so keen on the design of its container then it's worth dispensing it into a different vessel such as a cut glass dispenser or these etched 'white' and 'red' beauties shown here.
Top Row Left: Image via Zara Home. Top Row Right: Image via Pressed Words. Second Row Left: Image via 100 Layer Cake. Second Row Right: Image via BHLDN. Third Row Left: Image via Rowen And Wren. Third Row Right: Image via Zara Home. Fourth Row Left: Image via Zara Home. Fourth Row Right: Image via Whimsical Raindrop Cottage.
Whilst we've talked about the tools of the trade and the glassware and the booze, you don't actually have to cram every single piece of 'barware' you've collected on the way onto the aforementioned cart. Talk about over-egging the… ummmm… eggnog.
Instead mix it up. Keep things versatile by choosing a variety of different liquor bottles, decanters and glassware as well as colours and textures too. Don't be afraid to play with the organisation and arrangement of the cart either. Ultimately in this case, it's all about balance – not so little that your bar cart looks as if someone's already been at the drinks cabinet the night before nor so full that everything goes flying when you try to mix a cocktail.
One of the easiest ways of changing it up is to opt for coasters, napkins and stirrers in a particular colour scheme or theme. Etsy abounds with plenty of examples that won't make a major dent in your pocket but if you're feeling crafty then it really is very simple to make your own stirrers and napkins by commissioning a bespoke stamp with your initials on or even a faux crest.
Top Row Left: Image via Austin Press. Top Row Right: Image via Revel. Second Row Left: Image via Betsy White. Second Row Right: Image via Style Me Pretty. Third Row Left: Image via BHLDN. Third Row Right: Image via Modern Wedding. Fourth Row Left: Image via Etsy. Fourth Row Right: Image via White Loft Studio. Fifth Row Left: Image via Mark And Graham. Fifth Row Right: Image via Etsy. Sixth Row Left: Image via Martha Stewart Weddings. Sixth Row Right: Image via Etsy.
Think outside of the box when it comes to styling your cart too; display a voluminous arrangement of sweet smelling blooms in a statement vase next to your glassware or light up your treasures with an oversized lamp instead. I particularly love to have a pot of mint (in a mercuried silver vase of course!) on my bar tray so that it's to hand when I'm making a mojito or two.
Above all, your bar cart – like all of your interiors – should be an extension of you, of your personality, your style and your life journey so far. Wherever possible try integrating items that either reflect your personal style and tastes – as Lauren did with her glitzy and fun pineapple forks. Such 'items' can include anything from favourite bottles of wine, a treasured set of glasses, monogrammed shakers or even vintage metal cocktail sticks.
Top Row Left: Image via Style Me Pretty. Top Row Right: Image via The Fuller View. Second Row Left: Image via The Jewels Of NY. Second Row Right: Image via A Crimson Kiss. Third Row Left: Image via Rock My Wedding. Third Row Right: Image via Pineapple And Coconut. Fourth Row Left: Image via Dustjacket Attic. Fourth Row Right: Image via Project Wedding.
So have we whet your tastebuds then?
Will you be integrating a cocktail hour into your big day?
And how many of you are already the lucky owners of glamorous drinks station already? And what component can't you live without?
And come and tell us what your favourite tipple is….I'm partial to gin and elderflower flavoured tonic water or two.
*RMW takes no responsibility for any violent cases of the green-eyed monster caused as a result of following these steps.


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Silence is golden: Heroes of the Storm adds mute penalty for verbal harassment
In the latest Heroes patch, Blizzard has reworked reporting features and added the new silence penalty for verbally abusive players.
by Perchance to Game
MOBAs are notorious for their toxic communities and every game invariably comes out with a system to combat it, to varying degrees of success. In the latest patch of Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard has further refined its reporting set-up as well as implemented a new penalty for players who are consistently reported for verbal abuse.
Changes to the reporting categories are mainly for clarification, though, the term "harassment" was expanded to the broader "abusive chat." The official statement assures players that Blizzard will evaluate the reports and take extenuating circumstances into account i.e. the announcement's example of an Abathur being reported for non-participation. Players who are too liberal with the report button will also be flagged.
Anyone who accumulates reports for abusive chat or spamming may find themselves on the wrong end of Sylvanas' Wailing Arrow and be silenced. This mute will last a long longer than the Banshee Queen's heroic, however, with an initial duration of 24 hours, doubling with each penalty received after that - potentially scaling indefinitely.
While Allied chat in-game will be disabled, a silenced player will still be able to use Party chat so pre-made teams won't be affected. However, they won't be able to contribute to chats in the General and custom channels or Hero League draft lobby or send whispers to non-friends (though they can reply). It's far from total silence but enough to provide incentive to follow the adage:
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
The announcement implied that, like all reports, receiving the silence penalty will be at Blizzard's discretion, so it's doubtful players will have to worry about being smacked with a 24-hour chat ban because they happened to argue with their teammates (provided it stayed relatively civil).
Many might think that chat moderation is resource sink and that players should simply grow a thicker skin. Without getting into the fact that a constant barrage of angry messages will wear on most people, this is especially important in Heroes of the Storm, which lacks a surrender option. If you're going to keep chaining themselves to four random people for likely 25 minutes at a time, it helps that their every communication doesn't grate on you. Too much vitriol and you're likely to find some other way to spend your time.
While League of Legends and DOTA 2 will likely remain the frontrunners in community moderation, Blizzard has taken some good first steps fairly early in the life of the game, which bodes well for future changes.
Perchance to Game
I'm a graduate of Northeastern University School of Journalism looking to inform and entertain like-minded gamers, that is to say, laid back, thoughtful and down for a good discussion.
Games Heroes of the Storm Genres ActioneSportsMOBA	Platforms PCMac	Tags gaming community
Source us.battle.net
Published Sep. 9th 2015
Rothalack
September 9, 2015, 11:25 am
Master O' Bugs
Thank god. Every person who just mouths off in chat gets a report from me. Especially if they call gg early. Dear toxic children, shut up and play the game.
September 9, 2015, 12:13 pm
I know right? Calling GG early is essentially a self fulfilling prophecy as well as ridiculously passive aggressive. While I'm not one to extol the virtues of positive thinking, saying GG when your team gives up a few kills mid-game is a much abbreviated way of saying "you all suck and there's no way our team can win the game because you're on it." The implicit insult is just as irritating as the explicit one.
The worst part is HotS is a game of throws, no game is unwinnable. All it takes is a dumb move on the other team and you can take advantage and steam roll from there. Was watching a pro match the other day, I think it was the EU qualifiers grand finals. Came down to the last match, all tied up and the one team was dominating the entire game, like 12-0 kills. The losing team went all in on the other team trying to take boss, they win the fight, take the boss and run straight to core and win. Crazy.
It's especially ridiculous considering that you die a hell of a lot more in HotS by design. Yes, the enemy gets experience and it's never GOOD to die unless it's part of a larger strategy but it's really not as important as in League (even there it's a little overblown by salty players).
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Q: load balancing requests/farming requests (concurrency and state - awkward) I want to write a simple load balancer for some requests coming into a C# web api app.
(I only use the C# stuff as a convenient way to create a web server).
Whats the best way to approach this? (I havent really done any mailbox stuff in F#)
If I were to use mailboxes/agents...then I post the request as a message, fine...but how do I get the response back to web api request handler?
Isnt it all fire and forget? (I have, ironically, done some erlang)
(I CAN have a simple mutable global index of which is the next worker service to handle the request...but this is my opportunity to do it nicely).

actually I think I may have done something very similar to this in erlang, and I think the initiator would pass a return address where to send the message back (and the return address was the process id of the initiator), it would then wait for the response, and when it gets it (or times out), it would then do whatever it needed to do.
Is that a sensible mechanism in F#?
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So, https://www.codemag.com/Article/1707051/Writing-Concurrent-Programs-Using-F
describes a similar set up and it seems I need to use, and actually this works,
but it ISNT quite the same mechanism as my Erlang suggestion about.
Here each client sends a PostAndReply, and then waits for the response before replying back.....that seems unnecessary, ideally the reply would go all the way back to the origin, and the intermediaries would fire and forget in between.
open System

type Message = string * AsyncReplyChannel<string>
[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv =
    let myFirstAgent =
        MailboxProcessor<Message>.Start(fun inbox ->
            let rec loop () =
                async {
                    let! (message, replyChannel) = inbox.Receive()
                    replyChannel.Reply (String.Format ("1. Received message: {0}", message))
                    do! loop ()
                }
            loop ())

    let mySecondAgent =
        MailboxProcessor<Message>.Start(fun inbox ->
            let rec loop () =
                async {
                    let! (message, replyChannel) = inbox.Receive()
                    replyChannel.Reply (String.Format ("2. Received message: {0}", message))
                    do! loop ()
                }
            loop ())

    let agents = [ myFirstAgent; mySecondAgent ]

    let replyAgent =
        MailboxProcessor<Message>.Start(fun inbox ->
            let rec loop index =
                async {
                    let! (message, replyChannel) = inbox.Receive()
                    let reply = (agents.Item index).PostAndReply(fun rc -> message,rc)
                    replyChannel.Reply reply
                    do! loop ((index + 1) % 2)
                }
            loop 0)

    let foo = replyAgent.PostAndReply(fun rc -> "Hello", rc)
    let foo1 = replyAgent.PostAndReply(fun rc -> "Hello", rc)
    let foo2 = replyAgent.PostAndReply(fun rc -> "Hello", rc)
    let foo3 = replyAgent.PostAndReply(fun rc -> "Hello", rc)
    let foo4 = replyAgent.PostAndReply(fun rc -> "Hello", rc)

    //myFirstAgent.Post "Hello!"

    printfn "Hello World from F#!"
    System.Console.ReadLine() |> ignore
    0 // return an integer exit code

A: D'oh, what I need to do is actually UNDERSTAND the example, rather than just hack together code!
if the reply agent just forwards it...then we're done.
let replyAgent =
        MailboxProcessor<Message>.Start(fun inbox ->
            let rec loop index =
                async {
                    let! (message, replyChannel) = inbox.Receive()
                    let reply = (agents.Item index).Post(message, replyChannel)
                    do! loop ((index + 1) % 2)
                }
            loop 0)

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VP SuperMart has many new features and it also comes with a very flexible template settings page.
A screenshot of the template settings is attached below for ready reference. As you can see in the screenshot the basic options are split into 7 separate heads and we will now explain each settings under these heads.
When you open the template from your template manager after installation, the first head that you will find is Basic Options of the template.
Select Template Style: VP SuperMart has three preset template styles - Default, Light and Dark. You can chose your desired template style here.


Good news to report here at Chez Moi; it rained yesterday, so I stayed indoors, went on an archeological dig and found my kitchen countertop! Carbon dating confirms the grunge to be roughly three months old.[i] Calculating the energy required to reverse the progress of entropy, I concluded it would be more energy efficient to detonate a small incendiary device. A little clean-up with the Dustbuster, and voila! One person's smoking crater is another person's clean kitchen.
Now that my kitchen is clean, I have a restless, uneasy feeling I ought to be doing something, but I can't remember what it is. I keep wandering aimlessly around the house feeling forlorn and slightly demented.[ii] The problem is that a certain amount of mess is critical to my organizational system, and without it, I have no metric by which to plan my day.
Professional organizers will advise you to invest in a variety of calendars, file-folders, leatherbound binders, and clearly labeled little plastic tubs and bins. This is equivalent to sweeping the dirt under the carpet.
It takes a delicate hand to cultivate a mess of this complexity. Allow it to run wild and get out of ecological balance, and you might find yourself one day smothered under a toppled pile of 100 year old National Geographics. Prune it back too hard, and it dies, reduced to a sterile, rotting stump of its former abundance.
Furthermore, any good organizational system depends for its success on procrastination. Procrastination, simply put, is the practice of putting off whatever you can get away with and, instead, engaging furtively in some unauthorized, socially stigmatized or outright depraved activity.[vi] Without mess, there can be no procrastination, hence no organization.
To that end, I have assembled this list of seven easy tips and tricks I use to keep the flow from overflowing. While they primarily apply to household organization, they can be easily adapted to meet your organizational needs at the office, in the car or in the yard and garden.
Organizational Tip #1: Once you finally locate the trowel/digital thermometer/eviction notice you have been trying to find for the last eight months, always, always return it to the exact place you found it NO MATTER HOW STUPID OR ILLOGICAL. The remembered angst of the last time you went looking for it will burn its location deep into your cerebral cortex, whereas if you move it[ix] you will never see it again.
Organizational Tip #2: Keep clutter under cover. For example, a 70 year-old quilt hand-sewn by your grandmother and never used can be artfully draped over a pile of dirty laundry. If anyone asks what it is, tell them a long, pointless story about your grandmother. Alternatively, put a chew toy on the floor beside the pile, cover the pile with one of those wooly acrylic blankets with a tiger or a bear printed on it, and ask houseguests to please not wake Fido.
Organizational Tip #3: Use your microwave.[x] The two minutes it takes to reheat yesterday's coffee is a perfect opportunity to tidy up the kitchen a bit. You never know. You might find the coffee-maker.
Organizational Tip #4: Use your coffee-maker.[xi] Four or five minutes while Mr. Coffee burbles and drips is perfect for dealing with the dishwasher. Tomorrow morning, you could have a clean coffee cup. Which might give you a whole new perspective on what coffee is actually supposed to taste like.
Organizational Tip #5: Get a dishwasher.[xii] And no, not the kind you call "Sweetheart" and henpeck[xiii] until he gets dishpan hands.[xiv] Dirty dishes are gross.
Organizational Tip #6: A pile for everything, and everything in its pile. Remember as I noted above, the important stuff will sift to the top. Anything at the bottom wasn't important anyway.
Organizational Tip #7: Watch television. A CSI marathon is the perfect time to pick through a pile and throw away anything that has been on the bottom too long. Anything that causes you to lie on the floor, breathing into a paper bag, should go to the top of the pile along with anything that stimulates a new and interesting idea. Ignore the stuff already on top of the heap. Remember, organization is all about procrastination.
[i] Please don't mention this to my mother-in-law.
[ii] That last part is more or less my natural state, so it's not actually relevant to the story.
[iii] No seriously, do NOT mention any of this to my mother-in-law.
[iv] It's quite possible I may have invented penicillin five or six times.
[v] Bills migrate to the top of the pile roughly every 26 weeks.
[vi] Anything from playing FreeCell at the office to writing novels. Although most people consider FreeCell to be relatively harmless.
[vii] The extinction of the Dinosaurs was probably due to procrastination—thus making room for mammals and, eventually, us.
[viii] Or washed in the first place, obviously.
[ix] On the theory that because it was so hard to find the last time, you had better put it in a more logical spot this time.
[x] In case of gardening, this would equate to throwing your compost in the worm bin and letting the red wigglers deal with it.
[xi] Never mind fertilizer; shovel the earthworm dirt on the garden and leave it to nature.
[xii] Turn the chickens loose to eat some of the worms and scratch the rest of the worm castings into the garden soil. Secondary benefit: eggs.
[xiv] It is acceptable to employ an automatic pre-wash cycle named "Spot" or "Fido" (not the Fido on the living-room floor with the chew-toy, obviously).
[xv] I am totally, freakin' serious; absolutely do NOT, under any circumstances, mention any of this to my mother-in-law.


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WHEN THE FOUNDER'S HAD ENOUGH
Leon Danco
Some business founders-very few, relatively-manage to succeed. When each of these founders started out, he was in business for himself. Later, with success, he becomes a ``private, independent businessman.'' He is one of the winners. He survived the battle while the losers were all shot out of the water. He can see the future and it no longer looks bleak. He has entered the foothills of his indulgent years.
In his eyes and in the eyes of most of the world the successful business owner has made it. Then one day, he discovers his immortality.
Of course, it's natural to forget about the future once you assume you're immortal. Why think about it? This assumed immortality has probably visited more havoc on family-owned businesses than anything that could be done to them by competitors, tax laws, labor unions or inflation.
The ``immortal'' business owner decides that maybe he's suffered long enough. He's been denying himself for too long. He's cut enough corners. He discovers his growing wealth like the boy who suddenly discovered he could talk to girls. His self-indulgence isn't outrageous right away. That takes a while. But he learns.
Earlier, while his goals were still off in the distance, he wanted to speed things up. That was the time of ``just a little bit more.'' He thought, boy, another half a million dollars in sales and I could do this or that. Growth was a consuming addiction. He wanted leverage from borrowed money, but there was a limit to how much people would lend him.
The last thing he wanted, of course, were equity partners. So the only other source of funds for the business were the customers. That's called ``growth,'' the simple dollar increase in size.
But invariably he gets the whole thing going too fast. As he gets that other half million, he begins to discover that his cash flow just doesn't carry the investment. He soon learns that the cash flow requirements will usually be greater than the immediate growth returns.
But returns are what he wants. What he wants are tax-free benefits. He wants the business to be efficient. He wants to keep the money rather than invest any more in capital assets.
Eventually, the founder starts putting on the brakes. He stops expanding except on sure things. He's reached 55 or 60 and in the back of his mind is this growing desire for some peace and quiet. He wants to live better, enjoy things, take a little time off. He starts to rationalize the concept of ``controlled growth.''
This is what starts to flatten out the growth curve in the family-owned business. It's the founder's lack of tolerance for risk.
He asks himself a reasonable question: Why risk what I have for more of what I don't want-worry, anxiety, work, harassment? He starts to become ``efficient'' instead of effective, to think only in the present, ignoring the future.
The owner-founder retires on the job, but usually unconsciously, and completely unknown to him or anyone else and in ways that are unintelligible to the outsider. As his growth curve flattens, he rides a wave that looks like success. He keeps more and enjoys more-but he's eating his bait.
He's collecting his receivables faster than he's generating them. His capital investment is lower than his depreciation. He worries about returns on certificates of deposit. The IRS is after him for 531 problems, and when his managers suggest that energies and funds be spent in new areas, he says ``not with my money, you don't.''
The permanent two-martini nirvana the successful business founder looks to as his just reward for all the years of toil and sweat is an unworkable pipe-dream-and in his heart he knows it.
It's unworkable because he is not designed for that kind of end. He became an entrepreneur and succeeded because he has a built-in need to achieve and build. This internal drive doesn't disappear once he becomes successful or older.
It's unworkable because, even if he could stand the years of inactivity and aimlessness that come with milking a successful business, the business couldn't.
A successful family-owned business is a better investment in these trying days than gold, diamonds, stocks or oil. It represents earning power. But that earning power will continue only if time, effort, dedication and commitment are invested in the continuity of the business and, therefore, in the people who will make the business work when the founder no longer can.
One thing remains certain: the founder's problems are only going to be solved by his heirs, by the successors to his dream, whether they are from his family or from someone else's family.
This requires that he have some confidence in the future and a willingness to take a risk on chosen successors in whom he has faith.
Mr. Danco is CEO and founder of The Center for Family Business, a national consulting practice in Cleveland that deals with the growth and continuity of the family-owned business.


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High-Scoring Blueliner, All-Star Kremer Re-Ups With Beauts
BUFFALO – The Buffalo Beauts announced today that alternate captain and PHF All-Star defender Dominique Kremer has re-signed with the team. This is a 2-year deal which brings one of the most integral members of the team back for both the 2022-23 and 2023-24 PHF seasons.
"Buffalo is a home away from home for me," said Kremer. "I love everyone in the organization, and I am happiest when I am with my fellow Beauts. There is no other team I would rather play for."
The 2021-22 season was a breakout campaign for Kremer. It saw her be named an alternate captain for the Beauts while proceeding to lead the entire PHF in goals by a defender and finishing tied for second on the team in points (6-5-11) in only her second PHF season. Those same 11 points placed Kremer at fifth-most among blueliners in the entire league. Her six goals also tied a Beauts' franchise record for most goals in a season by a defender.
"Dom really took her game to another level this past season," said Beauts GM Nate Oliver. "We knew that she was capable of this type of performance when she first joined our team two seasons ago.
That's why it was so imperative to bring her back into the fold. I think she is one of the best defenders in the game today, and I don't believe she gets enough credit throughout the hockey world as to how good she truly is. We are very fortunate that Dom is a Beaut for not one but two more seasons. It is very exciting to see the story of her career unfold and the best is still yet to come."
The 5-foot-6 right defender turns 25 years old on June 9. Originally drafted by the Connecticut Whale (fourth round, 17th overall) in 2018, Kremer has played her entire PHF career in a Beauts uniform going 6-5-11 in 26 regular-season games. She began her professional career in Sweden's SDHL for Djurgårdens IF in 2019-20. Kremer led all Djurgårdens defenders in points, with 16 on five goals and 11 assists that season. At the collegiate level, she scored 15 goals, 41 assists, and 56 points in 138 NCAA games for Merrimack College.
Kremer is determined to turn the Beauts into a winning hockey club in 2022-23.
"Buffalo absolutely has unfinished business to attend to," she said. "I look at last season as a solid foundation for us to build off of and use as sort of a chip on our shoulder. I am hoping to help shift the perspective this upcoming season into a complete winning mindset on and off the ice."
The Buffalo Beauts are a professional women's ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York, and competing in the Premier Hockey Federation (formerly the National Women's Hockey League). The Beauts are one of the Founding Four teams that stepped on the ice in 2015 and the 2017 Isobel Cup Champions. The team is owned and operated by NLTT Hockey Ventures Visit beauts.premierhockeyfederation.com to learn more.


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Q: How to prevent mysqli's constructor from triggering a warning I am attempting to extend the mysqli class in PHP. I would like to be able to handle all errors as exceptions so I can choose to recover from them if possible/necessary.
The issue I have is that the mysqli constructor insists on triggering a PHP warning if connection is not made (e.g. because incorrect password), in addition to having variables indicating that the attempt failed.
public function __construct()
{
    mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_OFF);
    parent::__construct(DB_HOSTNAME, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
    if ($this->connect_errno > 0)
    {
        throw new ConnectionError($this);
    }
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The warning is triggered where I call the parent constructor. Now it was my understanding that the first line of this function should disable the reports coming from the mysqli object, but either it doesn't work on the constructor or I am not using it correctly.
I also know I could prefix that function call with the error suppression '@' operator, but it is considered bad form to use that operator.
I'm also aware that I could define an overall error handling function which could be used to suppress warnings, but I want to be very specific in suppressing warnings coming only from that one line of code.
Therefore I was wondering if anyone knows how one might stop that warning from being produced in a manner that would be considered good practice or is the only way to use the '@' operator?


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RELATIONS WITH INDIA AND PAKISTAN, CLIMATE CHANGE
Editorial Quotes
1. U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS
"One third of the United States' latest report devoted to the
Chinese Navy"
Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao), a newspaper affiliated to the
official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (11/25) (pg 06):
"A report issued by a special U.S. Congressional committee (the
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission) seems to have
dumped cold water on the newly-established honeymoon relationship
between the United States and China. The report fabricated the
possible threat posed by China's Navy and cyber warfare
capabilities, which is misleading to the American public. Chinese
Embassy Spokesperson Wang Baodong said the committee has repeatedly
accused China without any evidence in its annual reports. The
Financial Times said that U.S. suspicion that China poses a military
threat is incompatible with the joint economic body that has been
established between the two countries. The goal of China's military
development is definitely not to compete for hegemony with the
United States, but rather to prevent the United States from harming
China's core interests. The American right wing has obviously
twisted the facts."
2. U.S. RELATIONS WITH INDIA AND PAKISTAN
"Where are relations between the U.S., India, and Pakistan heading?"
The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming
Ribao)(11/25)(pg 8): "The underlying problem in relations between
Pakistan and India is the Kashmir dispute. The two countries also
have differences over the War on Terror, and each blames the other
for launching terror attacks against it. Furthermore, the two
countries are still locked in an arms race with each other. As the
United States reviews its counterterrorism strategy, it is
increasingly obvious that the United States will play a significant
role in India-Pakistan relations. Both India and Pakistan are
hoping to gain the support of the United States in order to contain
the other country. Improved relations between the United States and
Pakistan have, to some extent, softened India's position vis--vis
Pakistan."
3. CLIMATE CHANGE
"Chinese delegation urges countries to reach a substantive agreement
at Copenhagen"
The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China
Business News (Diyi Caijing)(11/25)(pg A4): "Li Gao, the Director of
the International Negotiations and International Policy Department
in the Climate Change Division of the National Development and
Reform Commission and a member of the Chinese delegation to
Copenhagen, said that the Chinese delegation will push for a
substantive climate change agreement at Copenhagen. China will not
accept the meeting ending with an empty political declaration. In
order to promote such an agreement, China will take more initiatives
prior to the conference, many of which will be unveiled soon, such
as a kick-off ceremony sponsored by Sohu.com's green forum for the
Chinese delegation that will attend the Copenhagen conference. More
than 20 Chinese media outlets will go to Copenhagen to report on the
conference, which shows significant progress and attention to the
issue of climate change in China. Chen Ying, the Deputy Director of
the Center for Sustainable Development at the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, said that the Chinese government will not support
an international agreement that requires sacrificing the right to
development. Mr. Li added that verification is a controversial
issue, but without solving it the Copenhagen conference will be
fruitless. He noted, however, that China has been making continuous
efforts to deal with climate change."


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Frackers Outbid Farmers for Water in Colorado Drought
Rebecca Leber,
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Sections of drilling pipe and a drilling rig on a six-well pad in the Piceance Basin of Colorado. (Photo: Ecopolitologist) Colorado is facing drought not seen since 2002, following the fourth-warmest and third-least-snowy winter in US history. Colorado State University scientists report that 98 percent of the state is facing these drought conditions.
The drought comes after a record-breaking warm winter that left very low "snowpack levels" in water basins. "Even though the reservoir levels are still strong and northeast Colorado soil moisture is still pretty good, we just don't usually start out quite this warm and dry at this time — so this is very concerning," CSU climatologist Nolan Doesken said. "In 2002, things didn't seem that bad at the end of March, as March had been quite cool, with some snow."
Colorado's hydrofracking boom — a technology that heavily relies on water — only adds additional strain as farmers and drillers bid for a scarce resource:
At Colorado's premier auction for unallocated water this spring, companies that provide water for hydraulic fracturing at well sites were top bidders on supplies once claimed exclusively by farmers. […]
State officials charged with promoting and regulating the energy industry estimated that fracking required about 13,900 acre-feet in 2010. That's a small share of the total water consumed in Colorado, about 0.08 percent. However, this fast-growing share already exceeds the amount that the ski industry draws from mountain rivers for making artificial snow. Each oil or gas well drilled requires 500,000 to 5 million gallons of water.
A Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission report projected water needs for fracking will increase to 18,700 acre-feet a year by 2015.
Farmers who go to the auctions seeking to produce food — or maybe plant more acres — are on equal footing with companies seeking water for fracking, Northern Water spokesman Brian Werner said.
"If you have a beneficial use for the water, then you can bid for that water," Werner said. "We see the beneficial use of the water as a positive for the economy of the whole region. Fracking is one of those uses. Our uses of water have evolved over 150 years."
States including Colorado, Alabama, Florida, and Virginia have all faced raging wildfires before wildfire season even officially sets off, fueled by the winter that wasn't and the March madness powered by global warming pollution from fossil-fuel polluters like Colorado's frackers.
Rebecca Leber


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Workshop-Reading-Open Mic w/ Peter Ludwin & Sybil James
Workshop 4:30 to 6:00PM
Reading and Open Mic: 6:15 to 8:00PM – Peter Ludwin and Sybil James
Our Workshop (at 4:30PM) will be led by award-winning writer/poet Peter Ludwin. Topic: 'Donning a mask: Exploring the persona poem.' We'll go over examples of persona poems, discuss their advantages, when we might consider using them, and we will also write one.
6:15PM PoetryIsEverything Reading and open mic. Our guest features are Peter Ludwin and Sybil James!
Saturday March 17th, 2018
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PETER LUDWIN
Peter Ludwin is the recipient of a Literary Fellowship from Artist Trust and the W.D. Snodgrass Award for Endeavor and Excellence in Poetry. His first book, A Guest in All Your Houses, was published in 2009 by Word Walker Press. His second collection is Rumors of Fallible Gods (2013 Presa Press), was a two-time finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Award that was published.
His latest, Gone to Gold Mountain, (2016 by MoonPath Press) was nominated for a Washington State Book Award and in May, 2017 the Before Columbus Foundation nominated it for an American Book Award.
A fourteen-year participant in Mexico's San Miguel Poetry Week, Peter has studied under such noted poets as Mark Doty, Tony Hoagland, Joseph Stroud and Robert Wrigley, Ludwin was the Second Prize winner of the 2007-2008 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards. In 2010 Soundings Review named him its Reader's Choice winner in the spring/summer issue.
Most recently, he was the 2016 First Prize winner of The Comstock Review's Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, the Second Place winner of the 2016 Paulann Petersen Poetry Award, and a finalist in poetry for both the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and the Pangaea Poetry Prize. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, he received nominations in 2016 from MoonPath Press and Connecticut River Review.
His work has appeared in many journals, including Atlanta Review, The Bitter Oleander, The Comstock Review, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, North American Review and Prairie Schooner, to name a few. A world traveler who has journeyed by canoe to visit remote Indian families in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador, hiked in the Peruvian Andes, thumbed for rides in Greece, bargained for goods in the markets of Marrakech and Istanbul and survived debilitating illness in China and Tibet, he is also accomplished on acoustic guitar and autoharp. He lives in Kent, Washington, where he works
for the Parks Department.
SYBIL JAMES
Sibyl James is the author of twelve books--poetry, fiction and travel memoirs--including 'In China with Harpo and Karl' (Calyx Books), 'The Adventures of Stout Mama'' (Papier-Mache Press), 'China Beats' (Egress Studio Press), 'The Grand Piano Range' (Black Heron Press) and, most recently, 'Hard Goods & Hot Platters' (Last Word Press). She has taught at colleges in the U.S., China, Mexico, and--as Fulbright professor--Tunisia and Cote d'Ivoire. Her writing has received awards from Artist Trust and the Seattle, King County and Washington State arts commissions.
The "range" of the poems in Sibyl James', The Grand Piano Range, is not only geographic, but also political and personal. Geographically, many of the poems are grounded in the Pacific Northwest of the United States: Alaska, Oregon, and most often Washington, where James has been a longtime resident. Like another Washington-based poet, Richard Hugo, James is interested in the back roads, small towns, and good bars where a waitress "shares Wild Turkey on the house" and a neighbor is the guy who takes your shift the night your baby's born.
But this range extends beyond the Pacific Northwest with poems powered by political investigations. They protest the loss of squatter's rights in Appalachia. They speak of both the exuberance of Pele, goddess of volcanoes in Hawaii and the privations experienced by Chinese laborers there. They recount the disasters of the civil wars and U.S. complicity in them that ravaged Central America in the 1980s. Closer to home, there are poems that confront the American gap between rich and poor.
Of course, the personal is political, but in this collection they often clearly coincide. There are plenty of love poems here, but almost always embedded in larger contexts. The invitation of "Going Places" includes tramps on a train; "Blue Herons" pictures a wife watching her Spanish husband's military remembrance of marches; "Intersection" is the Platonic love of a Jewish tailor who wants to make a coat to protect his American client from pain.
Overall, this collection makes both a lyric and narrative account of the late twentieth century from a specific American point of view.
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口腔扁平上皮癌における細胞外基質への初期浸潤分子機構
大谷 朋弘, 中原 寛和, 三浦 康寛, 松岡 裕大, 山西 整, 上田 貴史, 能崎 晋一, 田中 彰, 山本 悦秀, 古郷 幹彦
Invadopodia are membrane protrusions into the extracellular matrix by aggressive tumor cells. Through reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, these structures are associated with sites of matrix degradation and invasiveness of malignant tumor cells in an in vitro fibronectin degradation/invasion assay. In this study, we examined cell morphology and invasive activity for three cell lines derived from human oral squamous cell carcinomas with different invasive modes. According to Yamamoto-Kohama's classification, OSC-20 was classified as grade 3, OSC-19 as grade 4C, and HOC313 as grade 4D. OSC-20 and OSC-19 showed pavement stone patterns, and HOC313 showed a fibroblast-like cell pattern. OSC-19 and HOC313 showed dot-like degradation in the in vitro fibronectin degradation/invasion assay, whereas OSC-20 showed diffuse-type degradation. Our results suggest that reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton and cell shape are related to the invasiveness of oral squamous carcinoma cells.
唾液腺腺様嚢胞癌の増殖・進展メカニズムに関する研究
NCAMの発現とその機能について
松原 完也, 福田 正勝, 草間 薫, 坂下 英明
Neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) is one cell surface glycoprotein and a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily. It has been reported that NCAM may be associated with perineural invasion by malignant glandular tumors, such as bile duct carcinoma or gallbladder carcinoma. However, it remains unclear whether NCAM is really associated with the development of salivary gland tumors. Previous studies have demonstrated that NCAM is constitutively expressed in the human salivary gland tumor cell line HSG in vitro. In this study, molecular mechanisms of perineural invasion were examined using HSG cells in which NCAM-mediated inhibition of salivary gland tumor proliferation is caused by homophilic binding. In addition, the localization of NCAM in adenoid cystic carcinomas (ACCs) was examined immunohistochemically. The levels of NCAM mRNA and protein expression were found to decrease in a dose-dependent manner on treatment with anti-NCAM antibody. The MTT assay revealed a significant reduction in the number of viable HSG cells. Confocal laser microscopy showed that HSG cells undergo apoptosis in response to treatment with anti-NCAM antibody. The activation of caspases 3, 7, and 9 was observed in HSG cells after treatment with anti-NCAM antibody, thus confirming the induction of activated caspase-mediated apoptosis. The up-regulation of TGF-β1-mediated NCAM expression seemed to lead to the activation of homophilic NCAM binding, further accelerating HSG cell proliferation. Immunohistochemical examinations revealed that NCAM was slightly to moderately positive in 9 of 13 cases (69.2%) of ACC.
These findings suggest that NCAM is associated not only with a cell-to-cell adhesion mechanism but also with tumorigenesis, including growth, development, and perineural invasion in human ACCs.
口腔扁平上皮癌細胞の浸潤能に及ぼすets-lの影響
田村 浩伸, 大西 祐一, 覚道 健治
Metastasis in invasive carcinoma is closely associated with the production of extracellular matrix catabolic enzymes such as matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), as well as with enhanced cell motility and growth. It is known that ets oncogenes exist in transcriptional regulation regions of MMPs, such as AP1 sites, and enhance or inhibit MMP transcription. In this study, we investigated the effect of ets-1, a member of the ets oncogene family, on the invasive properties of oral cancer from a molecular biological perspective. By means of lipofection, an oral squamous carcinoma cell line was transfected with ets-1. The invasive ability of the transfected cells was determined using a matrigel invasion assay, and MMP-9 production was measured using gelatin zymography. The results for the transfected cells were compared with those for normal cultured cells. Matrigel invasion assay revealed that the transfected cells had higher invasive ability than that of normal cultured cells, and gelatin zymography demonstrated that their MMP-9 production had increased. These results suggest that ets-1 is involved in enhanced invasive ability and increased MMP-9 production in oral squamous carcinoma cells.
口腔粘膜の難治性潰瘍および不明熱を呈した先天性無痛無汗症の1例
荒井 千春, 松本 有史, 古川 雅英, 佐伯 真紀, 水城 春美, 柳澤 繁孝
We report a case of congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), a intractable ulcer of the oral mucosa, and fever of unknown origin. A 4-month-old girl was referred to our clinic on May, 1999 because of an ulcer of the lower gingiva and the oral floor, accompanied by a high fever. The present episode of ulcer and high fever began 1 month before presentation. The patient was malnourished as an infant, and physical findings were essentially normal. There was an ulcer, measuring 3×3cm on the lower gingiva and the oral floor. We treated the ulcerative lesion, and she was admitted to the Department of pediatrics to improve physical status. Clinical examination did not reveal the cause. CT and MRI scans of the head showed no abnormal findings. While we were perplexed about the diagnosis, CIPA was suggested when the patient showed painless behavior at venipuncture, biting her finger. CIPA was diagnosed by the sweating test, biopsy of nerve and skin, and mutations in the TRKA/NGF receptor gene. The ulcer of the gingiva and oral floor rapidly improved in response to exercise restraint of an arm. Afterward, ulcers of inferior lingual surface and buccal mucosa appeared with teeth eruption, but the ulcers improved after milling the teeth.
下顎枝にみられた開花性セメント質骨異形成症と考えられた1例
松本 英子, 江崎 友紀, 畠山 大二郎, 山下 知巳, 土井田 誠, 柴田 敏之
We report a case of florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (FCOD) occurring in the mandibular ramus. The patient was a 21-year-old woman who had had discomfort in the right mandibular gingiva. Since a panoramic radiograph by her dental practitioner showed a radiopacity in the right side of the mandible, she was referred to our department. A radiographic examination revealed a massive radiopaque lesion, measuring approximately 3×3cm, involving the entire mandibular ramus. The lesion was removed under general anesthesia. The lesion was diagnosed as a FCOD or other cemento-osseous dysplasia. There was no evidence of recurrence 18 months after the operation.
口腔領域の末期癌患者におけるフェンタニルパッチの鎮痛効果
占部 一彦, 鏡内 肇, 谷口 佳孝, 北村 龍二
we evaluated the analgesic efficacy of fentanyl patches for terminal stage patients with oral cancer. In all cases (two cases of tongue cancer, one of gingival cancer, and one of soft palate cancer), we could assess effectiveness. We consider fentanyl patches to be a useful analgesic with high and continued effectiveness against pain in terminal stage patients with oral cancer.
上顎骨に発生した筋線維腫の1例
平島 惣一, 冨永 和宏, 堀江 彰久, 福山 宏, 藤田 弥千, 福田 仁一
Myofibroma is a rare benign localized or generalized proliferation of fibroblastic tissue occurring exclusively in infants or children. In the oral region, most lesions occur in the mandible, lip, buccal mucosa, and tongue, but and lesions arising in the maxilla are very rare. Myofibroma has an aggressive clinical presentation and is often over- treated because of an inappropriate diagnosis.
We report a case of myofibroma arising in the left side of the maxilla of a 9-year-old girl and describe the differential diagnosis from other spindle cell lesions. Surgical resection of the tumor was performed under general anesthesia. Immunohistochemical staining was very useful for establishing the diagnosis, since histopathological diagnosis with conventional staining could not distinguish myofibroma from spindle cell tumors, especially fibrosarcoma. Fibrosarcoma is positive for vimentin and negative for anti-muscle-specific actin antibody (HHF-35), but this tumor was positive for both vimentin and HHF-35. These features led to the diagnosis of myofibroma.
The patient has shown no signs of recurrence during 2 years of follow-up.
塩酸プロピトカインにより発症した新生児メトヘモグロビン血症の1例
田島 卓也, 根来 健二, 谷本 幸司, 平石 幸裕, 山中 敦生, 藤田 茂之
Methemoglobinemia is characterized by increased quantities of methemoglobin. Methemoglobin is useless as an oxygen carrier and thus causes a varying degree of cyanosis. An 18-day-old girl weighing 3.2kg was referred to our department because of congenital teeth (upper and lower). The teeth were extracted under general anesthesia. To reduce bleeding, the surgeon injected 0.8m1 of 3% propitocaine with felypressin at the surgical site. After approximately 1.5hrs, the neonate became pale and cyanotic. Arterial blood gas analysis revealed a methemoglobin plasma concentration of 43.9%. Methylene blue was given at a total dose of 5mg, and the methemoglobin level improved to 2%. The subsequent course of the neonate was uneventful, and she was discharged in a satisfactory condition.
口内法により摘出即時再建を行った下顎エナメル上皮腫症例におけるインプラントの応用
中村 美喜子, 佐野 和生, 北川 善政, 小笠原 利行, 宮内 和樹, 松浦 宙
Ameloblastoma often tends to infiltrate or recur, although it is a benign tumor with slowly expansive growth. Based on these features, extensive surgical resection similar to that for malignant tumors is considered the treatment of choice. However, such treatment sometimes results in functional and aesthetic disorders. This article describes three female patients with mandibular ameloblastoma who underwent marginal resection and mandibular reconstruction with bone grafts by an intraoral approach. The mandibular defect was repaired with an iliac bone graft combined with particulate cancellous bone and marrow in two patients, and with chin bone in one patient. About 7 months after the operation, endosseous implants were placed. After confirming osseointegration (about 6.5 months later), abutments were placed, and prosthetic reconstruction was carried out. In all patients, masticatory function was well restored by dental implants in the grafted bone, and good aesthetic results were achieved. We believe that intraoral resection and reconstruction with a bone graft followed by application of dental implants is one of the treatments of choice for mandibular ameloblastoma.
顎口腔領域の金属製迷入異物に対するインプラントファインダー®の応用
陣内 重雄, 山下 佳雄, 井原 功一郎, 野口 信宏, 式守 道夫, 後藤 昌昭
Many reports describe how a foreign body was accidentally inserted into oral soft tissue during dental treatment. Sometimes it is very difficult to locate inserted foreign bodies, without damaging adjacent tissues. This report describes the use of a metal detector to locate metallic foreign bodies, such as an inlay, file, and knifepoint fragments, lodged in the oral or maxillary region (or both). The metallic detector (Implant Finder®, Degussa AG, Germany) is routinely used to look for fixtures under the gingival mucosa at secondary implant operations. Detection of materials was possible within a 10mm depth in principle, of objects such as dental metal, bars, and suture needles. Use of an Implant Finder® facilitated removal of foreign bodies, thus helping to avoid unnecessary incisions and dissection of other parts. Postoperative recovery was excellent, without nerve damage or recurrence of inflammation.


This week was a little quieter as we did a mix of floor debate and committee work. This was the second funnel week of the legislative session. Much like the first funnel, we need to get bills out of committee for them to be considered for the rest of this session. This deadline moves the process along and helps us adjourn on time. We only have a few weeks left before we hit the hundred-day mark and we have a lot of work to do regarding our budget.
After this week, our work will focus on debating House bills, bills sent back to us from the House and budget bills.
House File 372, regarding turns against red lights made by vehicular traffic. The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 13, 49-0.
House File 203, authorizing the use of primary road fund moneys for the secondary road and municipal street systems. The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 13, 26-21.
House File 577, exemptions from disciplinary action for persons licensed to practice health-related professions based on their treatment of Lyme Disease or other tick-borne diseases, and including effective date provisions. The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 21, 49-0.
Senate File 376, disclosure of asbestos bankruptcy trust claims in civil asbestos actions, asbestos and silica claims prioritization, and successor corporation asbestos-related liability, and including applicability provisions. The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 8, 27-22.
Safe Haven: This week the Senate passed SF 360 unanimously, expanding Iowa's Safe Haven law. The Safe Haven Act is a law that allows parents – or another person who has the parent's authorization – to leave an infant up to 14 days old at a "safe haven" without fear of prosecution for abandonment. All states have safe haven laws, although provisions differ. In Iowa, a safe haven is currently defined as a facility providing medical or health services that is open 24 hours per day, seven days per week and is a hospital emergency room, a residential care facility, a nursing facility, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness.
This bill states that in lieu of the current options, a person may call 911 to relinquish physical custody of the newborn. The 911 dispatch would send the most appropriate first responder to care for the child. The child would then be delivered to the nearest institutional health facility, which in most cases would be a hospital.
Currently, a person can leave an infant up to 14 days old at one of these safe havens. This law would extend that age to babies up to 30 days. Additionally, in order to keep the mother's identity secret for fear of judgement or reprisals, all information, including the 911 call, are to be kept confidential and not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.
This bill would make it easier to find somewhere to safely leave a child, therefore giving the parent more of an opportunity to ensure the health and well-being of the child in the future.
Updating Iowa's asset forfeiture laws: The Iowa Senate approved legislation this week protecting the constitutional rights of Iowans by giving them due process as it pertains to their personal property.
Senate File 446 enhances property rights protections by shifting the burden of proof on law enforcement and prosecutors when it comes to civil asset forfeitures. Under current law, when someone is suspected of committing an aggravated misdemeanor or felony, civil asset forfeiture may occur despite if the charged individual is convicted of the alleged crime.
Presently, there is not a cap on the value of the property. The bill passed out of the Iowa Senate says asset forfeiture on less than $5,000 is prohibited unless the alleged crime leading to the forfeiture results in a conviction, the property owner is deceased, the property owner is unable to be located or the property owner has not claimed the property or expressed interest in the property.
SF 446 also requires law enforcement to keep specific records on seized assets in regard to the amount of property acquired: the date property was acquired; the disposition of the property; date of disposition; and detailed financial records concerning any property sold the name of anyone who received the property. This bill passed unanimously and now heads to the House for consideration.
Certainty, predictability and consistency for job creators: This week the Senate passed House File 295. While there have been many headlines about a minimum wage bill moving through the Legislature, this is not a minimum wage bill. By passing this legislation, the state is simply setting the requirements and letting businesses decide how they should operate their business. Arbitrary local government decisions on business operations creates inconsistency and uncertainty.
Known as the pre-emption bill, HF 295 reestablishes legal certainty and uniformity across the state of Iowa. There is nothing in the bill that forces an employer to stay at the minimum wage. It only evens the playing field and reinstates consistency across the state. As stated at the beginning of this session, we continue to focus on economic growth for our state and rural communities. We cannot grow if arbitrary regulations are scattered all over different jurisdictions to create a hodgepodge, patchwork framework to conduct business. Iowa will grow with consistent regulations and creating a positive job climate and trained workforce for the future.
Senate passes workers' compensation reform: During the first week of this session of the Iowa legislature, Senate Republicans charted a course to implement policies that increase economic growth in Iowa. On Monday the Iowa Senate passed workers' compensation reform. This reform legislation is a vital component to that agenda of promoting job growth in Iowa.
It is so important to job creators that a coalition of 250 businesses came together to promote this legislation which would undo many costly and anti-competitive decisions implemented by bureaucrats and judges. These costly decisions drove up the cost of hiring in this state and made our job creators less competitive. Ten years ago Iowa had the 5th lowest workers' compensation premiums in the country. Today, Iowa's rating has fallen to the 24th highest cost for those premiums.
This bill makes a number of common sense changes to the workers' compensation laws in Iowa. For example, if employees are injured in another state, they are no longer allowed to receive benefits in Iowa. Double dipping is prohibited in different ways, including prohibiting individuals from collecting unemployment benefits while also receiving permanent total disability benefits. It also prohibits individuals from receiving both partial and total workers' compensation benefits so the total of the benefits exceeds 100 percent.
I was contacted by several job creators in our district that indicated this was a top priority for them. It is well known that getting an injured worker healed, and back to work, is the best outcome for everyone. This is the primary goal of the legislation. Long, drawn out litigation slows everything down. We want to protect benefits for those injured and lower costs. Many hours of work went into this bill both before and during debate in an attempt to create the best policy possible. This legislation is a key component to getting workers healed and back to work, while improving the climate for job creators in this state.
As always, I want to hear from you. My senate number is (515) 281-3371 and my home number is (515) 432-7327 or write me at: State Capitol, Des Moines, IA 50319 or at my home address: 1313 Quill Avenue, Boone, IA 50036 or email me at jerry.behn [at] legis [dot] iowa [dot] gov.


The HR Consulting Business is starting to boom at its finest because no organization can work without the expertise of the human resource management. The main role of the HR department is to carry out organization throughout the people so they can perform their tasks and activities effectively. To be able to fulfill this role, they must view people as assets and not just mere costs to the organization. Regarding people as assets is part of human capital management and human resource management.
The human resources management team is the one who manages the people to act as a business resource. Their responsibilities include managing, recruiting, hiring, coordinating the benefits rendered to employees and suggesting necessary training and development strategies that would benefit both the employees and the company. This way, HR professionals act as consultants and not employees of an isolated business function, where they can send advises to managers regarding different issues related to the welfare of the employees and how they can cooperate in obtaining their goals.
Throughout different organizations, both HR professionals and managers work hand in hand to develop the skills of the employees. For instance, HR professionals direct managers to assign people to specific fields, where they can use their knowledge and skills in helping with the success of the company.
Because of the need to acquire the right Human Resource professionals, the HR Consulting business is seen boosting over the past years. Different firms offer their services to companies that need, with an aim of uplifting the targeted solution and organization's success.
HR professionals sent an HR Consulting business helps in suggesting strategies for the increase of employee commitment to the company they are working for. Their work begins in the recruitment process or the matching of employees into the right positions as per their qualifications. After being hired, they have tasked to uplift their morale and challenges them to pursue their goals.
The HR department is also there to develop the competitive advantage of the company's employees. They help build capacity which is beneficial so they can offer unique products and services to their customers. Private companies tend to compete with each other in the so-called "war for talents" just to build the much-needed effective human resources. The HR team does not merely hire based on their talents, they also want to keep people and help them stay committed to the company for a long period of time.
HR consulting business offers different services to assist the needs of thebusiness with a variety of human resources functions. This industry is expected to grow over the course of time mainly due to the increase of changes in the employment law as well as the underlying regulations. The need to reduce costs for personnel-related expenses of most organizations is also the reason for the rising demand for Human Resource employment. This just means that starting an HR Consulting Business will result in a fast Return on Investment (ROI).


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"Leo Ash Evens, fresh off a winning performance as Tulsa in Ravinia's August staging of Gypsy with Patti LuPone, distinguished himself in Houston with a charismatic, smoothly sung Riff who projected a natural leader's combination of grit, poise, and panache. A gifted dancer, Evens transformed the loose-limbed grace he displayed in Gypsy's "All I Need Is The Girl" into the coiled tension and barely-contained violence of Robbins' choreography for the Jets' commander. He effectively communicated the complexity of Riff's emotions, bringing out his bewilderment and frustration at Tony's withdrawal from the web of gang and neighborhood loyalties that define at the end of the moments of Riff's accidental death at the end of Act 1 and his reappearance in the Act II ballet."
— Christopher Weimer
The Sondheim RevueTony Howell August 13, 2017 Riff in WEST SIDE STORY
"Color, depth, enthusiasm... excellent"
OvationTony Howell August 14, 2017 Mark in RENT
"Effortlessly captures the bravado"
Indy WeekTony Howell August 13, 2017 Riff in WEST SIDE STORY


Prior to joining Burns & Levinson LLP, Mark was for many years a partner and chair of the Personal Law Group at Sherin and Lodgen LLP. Mr. Nowak's practice focuses on strategic estate and tax planning, estate and trust administration, the operation of non-profit organizations, and business succession planning. Additionally, Mark serves as a fiduciary for clients, helping to insure the proper implementation of their plans. He also has experience in corporate and health care law.
Mr. Nowak has been a contributing author of the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) practice manual "Drafting Wills and Trusts in Massachusetts" since its inception. He was selected by the MCLE to serve as one of the three co-editors in chief of the manual's 2007 and 2012 revisions. Mark has also been published in legal and business journals both regionally and nationally, and has lectured on estate planning topics.


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Lycaeides radiata är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Blachier 1909. Lycaeides radiata ingår i släktet Lycaeides och familjen juvelvingar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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No one wants to watch a boring interview – not the reporter doing the interview, not the producer in the booth, and not the audience. It's too easy for the audience to change channels. Add some passion and energy to your media interview and you could become a regular guest. That's free promotion for you and your organization you can't buy.


Recently we looked at Wolverine's appearance in Secret Wars Battleworld, in which the popular Marvel hero cast aside his violent ways and adopted a more compassionate demeanor. Now it's Deadpool's turn.
Deadpool, another Marvel superhero, has been making more waves than ever thanks to his new eponymous film, starring Ryan Reynolds. Deadpool and Wolverine have some traits in common: they're violent, they both can heal their wounds incredibly quickly, and they've both had experiences with Buddhism, though not entirely by choice.
Following the events of Winter 2014's "AXIS" storyline, Deadpool, along with other characters, found his personality reversed—and so adopted a path of non-violence — relatively speaking, that is. Instead of gleefully chopping his enemies to bits while cracking jokes, "Zenpool" (Marvel's term, not mine) can be found tending to his rock garden and trying to end his fights with as little violence as possible, leaving his would-be victims battered, but alive, and really more confused than anything.
Dharma-Burger or not, Deadpool's attempt at living without violence opens the character up to humor that's less dependent on massive amounts of blood and references to chimichangas.
To get a sense of the Deadpool that moviegoers can expect, can check out the green band version for the trailer here, bearing in mind that the movie seems to heavily feature Deadpool's particular brand of extreme, and occasionally comedic, violence.
And check out our comics archive for even more.


This post is a really special one. It's an interview with my lovely friend, Sophia Galpin.
Sophia and I first met at university almost 8 years ago now. Although not particularly close while studying we were brought together when ill health forced us both to give up jobs as Speech and Language Therapists. Initially we received different diagnoses but later found out that we both have Lyme Disease. Sophia has been there for me at every single up and down, virtually holding my hand from afar and cheering me on with every tiny achievement. Lyme Disease has been especially cruel to Sophia and it breaks my heart to see her in unthinkable levels of pain. Despite all the limitations it has put on her life though, she has never let it beat her. She is without doubt the most resilient person I know.
Sophia writes the blog Spoonie Sophia, where she shares delicious gluten-free/ dairy-free/ paleo recipes, beautiful and reassuringly honest posts about chronic illness as well as accessible, informative articles to help others understand the horribly misunderstood conditions she lives with.
I could gush about how much I love Sophia all day - she is endlessly creative, incredibly thoughtful and has real integrity (no recipe will ever go up on her website until it has been tried and tested to perfection). She is one of my closest friends and I do not know what I would have done without her over the last few years. To handle pain and ill health with the grace and humility that she has, all while looking out for others at the same time is nothing short of amazing. Sophia was recently nominated for a National Diversity Award as a Positive Role Model. It's a title that could not be more fitting and I'm incredibly proud of her.
My spoonie pals who continue prove that so much is possible despite chronic illness - crafts, jewellery making, blogging, fundraising, raising awareness, starting a business, you name it they've done it! Everyone in our little community is so supportive and always offering words of encouragement and advice to each other even when they're not doing so well themselves.
My silver lining is that I now appreciate the smallest things in life! I couldn't be more grateful for my friends/family & boyfriend and for the tiny things that bring me joy like the sun shining on my face, watching my little dog walking alongside my wheelchair, a phone call with a friend, a handwritten card and a good cup of fruit tea! Being grateful makes me feel happy. Also if I hadn't fallen ill we probably wouldn't have gotten a dog when we did - Copper has brought me an enormous amount of joy - he's always making me smile and laugh, even on the particularly bad days!
I'd say try not to panic about what your future holds, instead focus on the present moment and getting through each day as bets you can - you don't know what will happen and dwelling on it brings a lot of negativity and sadness. Hold onto hope as best you can as that will keep you going no matter how dark some days are. It's not going to be easy, and recovery will be a long slow balancing act but you have to believe you will get there! Also to seek out the spoonie community and take comfort in the fact that there are others who truly understand what you are going through.
Faye, I can't find words to comment. I love you both, from all my heart and so grateful to "know"you. Sophia is such a wonderful and incredibly strong girl. Hope that her pain will ease and that her campaign will bring enough money!


Voith Turbo, Inc. has named railway industry veteran Garrett Goll Director of Rail, North America. He will be based at the company's York, Pa., North American headquarters.
Prior to joining Voith, Goll, who is bilingual (English and Spanish), spent nine years at Dellner, Inc. as an Area Sales Manager for Dellner Train Connection systems throughout North America and the Caribbean; a Strategic Purchasing Manager, Aftersales Division; and an Assembly, Shipping, Quality and Inspection Technician. He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and holds a Certificate in Business Spanish from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Categories: Commuter/Regional, High Performance, Intercity, Locomotives, Mechanical, News, Passenger Tags: Breaking News, Voith Turbo Inc.


Strong sense of "shared purpose" can do wonders!
India celebrated Diwali – the festival of lights in the week of 20th Oct 2014. On this occasion, IDeaS Pune had organized a Bay Decoration Competition on 17th Oct 2014. It was a group competition and the teams were free to choose a theme to decorate their seating bay area. On 16th Oct, post working hours and on 17th Oct, I witnessed one of the most amazing team event ever.
The team competition gave all individuals a strong sense of shared purpose. All the members grouped right on time and agreed on the theme. Once the shared purpose & goal was understood and agreed on, no one was a manager, architect, tech lead, senior, junior or intern; everyone was equal, everyone started contributing to the best of their abilities. There was so much of energy flowing around, so much of excitement, fun, open communication, collaboration and trust. They were having their informal "stand-ups". No one had to be told what to do. Each member was able to figure out what to do next.
Slowly and steadily the bay was getting decorated. Members who are usually shy where all charged up and leading the effort in their own capacity. So many ideas were floating around and were getting converted into reality. Everyone was going the extra mile to ensure every detail was taken care off. Though they had little kids at home, members stayed back late night just to ensure their team accomplishes the goal. Not to mention, this was all happening without any one overlooking the shoulder to see if the work was being done or not.
Everyone was taking the ownership and everyone was being responsible for the quality of the deliverable.
That was an awesome sight! Such a wonderful hidden talent and so much of creativity!
Below is the G3 team Bay Decoration – The Village theme – They got the first price.
Look at the joy after winning!
Below is the G2 team Bay Decoration – The Indian Dhaba theme – They shared the second price.
Now imagine if organizations are able to create such a strong sense of shared purpose among employees for the products/services they work on daily; Imagine where those products/services would be!
I wish I could make the work environment more like what I witnessed during this event!


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'Dynasties,' a new BBC documentary series narrated by David Attenborough, is about the complex social structures of five different groups of animals. The show's executive producer Michael Gunton talks about the power struggles among animals that played out over years of filming. "One of the essential elements of the series is that you feel close to the animals," Gunton says.
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Die Resolution 1942 des UN-Sicherheitsrates ist eine Resolution, die der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen in seiner 6393. Sitzung am 29. September 2010 einstimmig beschloss. Sie beschäftigt sich mit der Situation in der Elfenbeinküste und einer Erhöhung des Personalbestands der Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) um zusätzliche 500 Militärs und Polizisten.

Hintergrund
Vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen 2010, deren erste Runde am 31. Oktober 2010 geplant war, stellte sich die Situation in der Elfenbeinküste gespannt dar. Die Wahl war ursprünglich für 2005 vorgesehen, wurde seitdem aber mehrfach verschoben.

Im Land bestand eine faktische Teilung. Die Rebellen der Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire (FN) hielten den Nordteil und Regierungstruppen beherrschten den Südteil der Elfenbeinküste. Die Teilung des Landes war das Ergebnis des zwischen 2002 und 2007 herrschenden Bürgerkrieges in der Elfenbeinküste, zu dessen Vorgeschichte wiederum der Ausschluss von Kandidaten und Wählern mit Migrationshintergrund aus den nördlichen Nachbarstaaten der Elfenbeinküste u. a. bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen in der Elfenbeinküste 1995 und 2000 gehört.

Die ONUCI bestand seit 4. April 2004  war berechtigt zum Schutz der Zivilbevölkerung von der Waffe Gebrauch zu machen. Sie hatte ein Mandat zur Unterbindung der Feindseligkeiten und der Bewegung bewaffneter Verbände im Land. Danach folgten Entwaffnung, Demobilisierung und Reintegrierung der Kämpfer, die Vernichtung aller Waffen sowie die Repatriierung und Wiederansiedlung der Zivilbevölkerung. Außerdem gehörte die Unterstützung durch humanitäre Hilfe, die Reorganisation staatlicher Verwaltung, die Organisation offener, freier, fairer und transparenter Wahlen, die Aufrechterhaltung der öffentlichen Ordnung, die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte und die Zugänglichmachung von öffentlichen Informationen zu ihren Aufgaben.

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Die Resolution bezog sich auf die in Resolution 1933 bekundete Absicht den Personalstand der ONUCI um 500 Mann zu erhöhen und auf die im Schreiben S/2010/485 des Generalsekretärs (damals Ban Ki-moon) vom 14. September 2010 vorgetragene Empfehlung einer Erweiterung von 8.650 auf 9.150 Kräfte.

Der Sicherheitsrat nahm außerdem zur Kenntnis, dass der Sonderbeauftragte des Generalsekretärs Choi Young-jin am 24. September 2010 das endgültige Wählerverzeichnis für die Präsidentschaftswahlen genehmigte.

Das Gremium folgte dem Vorschlag des Generalsekretärs und erhöhte den Personalbestand der ONUCI in den folgenden sechs Monaten von 8.650 auf 9.150 Mann. Die zusätzlichen Kräfte sollten sofort in Bewegung gesetzt werden.

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