Doing Intimate Relationships Right; VIDEO 4 (2012 Teleconference ...

Meet Marsha as she tells us about Doing Intimate Relationships Right.

Marsha is a Batterers Education Program (BEP) Coordinator for the State of Iowa. In her work of 20+ years, she has helped thousands of men and women who have been arrested for domestic abuse turn their lives around and learn how to start having healthy relationships.

Marsha has also worked for women?s shelters and mental institutions. In her work with domestic violence, she has created new systems that help all parties involved (including family and friends).

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In ?Doing Intimate Relationships Right,? Marsha tells us about the Moving On program through the BEP. She also tells us about the key elements to successfully having meaningful and non-violent relationships in your life. These elements include: learning how to communicate, having control over yourself, and learning that violence never helps.

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What is BEP? According to IowaCourts.gov :

Batterers Education Program ? When an abuser is found guilty of domestic abuse, the Code of Iowa requires the judge to sentence the abuser to the Batterers Education Program (BEP).? The Department of Corrections is responsible for BEP throughout Iowa.? In most areas of Iowa, BEP lasts 24 weeks.? The abuser is expected to pay for the program and is required to attend every BEP group session.? If the abuser does not follow the rules of the program, the judge may send the abuser to jail.? The Batterers Education Program tries to teach abusers how to have close relationships without using fear, intimidation, or violence.? The success of BEP depends upon the abuser.? Some abusers are ready to change their behaviors and others are not.? Simply attending BEP classes is no guarantee that the abuser will stop violent and abusive behavior.? Many abusers become more violent while attending BEP.? Still other abusers will stop being violent but will increase their threatening and intimidating behavior.? For a person with a history of violent and abusive behavior, long-term change is a process that usually occurs over a period of years.? BEP may start an abuser on the path to non-violence; however, continuing on that path will require a strong commitment from the abuser.? Victims should keep in contact with the BEP facilitator especially when they are still having contact with the abuser; however, the facilitator will not be able to tell you anything specific about the abuser?s discussion or behavior in group.? The facilitator can talk about if and when the abuser is going to group sessions, what topics are being covered during group sessions, if the abuser will be asked to leave the group, or if the abuser completes the group work successfully.

To find out more about domestic abuse and what you can do about it, see Marsha?s website:

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Source: http://www.doliferightinc.com/2012/10/04/doing-intimate-relationships-right-video-4-2012-teleconference/

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Bloggings: Comparing Obama's and Romney's Promises About ...

Mitt Romney made quite a stir on Monday, October 1 by telling the Denver Post that he would keep at least some of President Obama's DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) initiative in place if he becomes president. But how many people would actually benefit from Romney's plan? Let's take a closer look at his statement, which was as follows:

"The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid. I'm not going to take something that they've purchased. Before those visas have expired, we will have the full immigration reform plan that I've proposed."

What stands out about the above statement is that people who have aleady?received the "special visa" (which of course is not a visa at all, but only a two-year temporary reprieve from deportation), will be protected. Romney says nothing about what he would do in the case of the 100,000 or so people whose applications for deferred action are still in process, according to the NYT, or the more than a million eligible students who might want to apply for DACA in the future. He has made no promise to keep DACA protection in place for any of them.

According to the New York Times, as mentioned in Tuesday's ID (October 2), only 29 DACA applicants have actually had their applications approved so far, out of about 100,000 who have applied. About 63,000 cases are said to be in the "final stages of processing", whatever that means.?

There is an old joke by the Broadway comedy writer Neil Simon, about the difference between the weather in New York and Los Angeles. I repeat it here with all due apologies to my good friends in Southern California.?

According to Neil Simon's joke, "When it's 100 in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When it's 20 in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. However, there are six million interesting people in New York - and 72 in Los Angeles."

Transposing this joke into the DACA context, one could say that while Obama has already deported more than a million people, the number of times Romney has spoken out in favor of "self-deportation" is 29. And while the number of times that the Obama administration has said it would lower its target of 400,000 deportations per year is zero, the number of speeches Romney has made opposing any form of relief from deportation is 29.?

And if Obama is reelected, more than a million deserving young students have been estimated to be eligible to benefit from DACA. If Romney were to become president tomorrow, the number would be - 29.

Source: http://blogs.ilw.com/immigrationlawblogs/2012/10/bloggings-comparing-obamas-and-romneys-promises-about-daca-is-a-little-like-comparing-the-weather-in.html

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Four Qaeda militants killed in U.S. drone strike

ADEN (Reuters) - Four al Qaeda-linked militants were killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike on Thursday in a remote part of the south of Yemen, a security official and residents said.

The security official and residents said the militants were killed in an air strike on their vehicles in the isolated area of Maqbala in Shabwa province. They said it was a drone strike.

The militants were heavily armed, carrying weapons and explosives, said the official, who declined to be named. Two militants were wounded and another fled the scene after the strike, the official added.

Yemen, a U.S. ally, has been in upheaval since a popular uprising ousted veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh in February. Overlooking one of the world's busiest oil shipping routes, Yemen is plagued by poverty and lawlessness that the toppling of Saleh has done little to change.

Washington, which has pursued a campaign of assassination by drone and missile against suspected al Qaeda members, backed a military offensive in May to recapture areas of Abyan province - which borders Shabwa province - from Islamist insurgents.

But militants have struck back with a series of bombings and killings.

Earlier on Thursday, the Defense Ministry said two bombs went off at the gate of the local council headquarters in Yemen's southern city of Ma'ala, wounding two soldiers.

The attackers, whose affiliation was not immediately clear, fled the scene and security forces defused a third bomb found at the building, the ministry said in a statement on its website.

Islamist militants frequently attack government facilities and officials as part of a campaign against the state, and tribesmen also frequently bomb gas and oil pipelines and attack government buildings as a way to press their demands.

The Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is viewed by Washington as the most dangerous branch of the militant network established by Osama bin Laden.

(Reporting by Dhuyazen Mukhashaf; Writing by Rania El Gamal; Editing by Alison Williams)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/four-qaeda-militants-killed-u-drone-strike-104505638.html

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How alleged 'arsenic munching' bacteria survives in toxic Calif. lake

The bacteria, a member of the genus Halomonadaceae, live in California's Mono Lake, amidst concentrations of arsenic that would kill most other life forms.

By Jesse Emspak,?LiveScience Contributor / October 4, 2012

This scanning electron micrograph shows a strain of the alleged arsenic-eating bacterium called GFAJ-1.

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Bacteria that became famous for their alleged "arsenic-munching" ability, a phenomenon later proved unlikely, may have evolved to sport proteins that filter out the toxic element, new research suggests.

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The bacteria, called GFAJ-1, a member of the genus Halomonadaceae, live in California's Mono Lake, amidst concentrations of arsenic that would kill most other life forms. During a 2010 NASA news conference, Felisa Wolfe-Simon, then of NASA's Astrobiology Institute, announced?GFAJ-1 was incorporating arsenate?(a form of arsenic) into its DNA in place of phosphate (a compound commonly used by life).

Though the announcement was?met with plenty of skepticism, one argument behind the swap was the fact that arsenate and phosphate are chemically similar, as both are atoms bonded with four oxygen atoms.

Now, at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, a team led by Dan Tawfik and Mikael Elias found GFAJ-1 is equipped with a "filtering" mechanism that single cells are known to use for keeping out toxic arsenate. [Extreme Life on Earth: 8 Bizarre Creatures]

Blocking out arsenate

They found these proteins in GFAJ-1 are very specific ? they don't bind easily to arsenate at all, despite the similarity to phosphate. The reason? An arsenate ion has a slightly different shape than a phosphate ion. At the point where phosphate binds to the protein, the angle between the oxygen atom, a hydrogen atom and the protein is 179.1 degrees. The strength of the bond would be strongest if it were 180 degrees.

Meanwhile, an arsenate ion binds with an angle of 162 degrees, making a much weaker link. It isn't just the single bond, though, that makes the difference; there is more than one such hydrogen bond that links the phosphate to the protein. "Just one bond wouldn't be enough," Elias said.

When GFAJ-1 needs nutrients, it sends the protein out between its inner and outer membrane (called the periplasm). The protein picks up phosphate and delivers it to the inside of the cell. It doesn't link to arsenate as strongly, so it is much less likely to bring it in.

The selectivity is so good that the protein can be exposed to arsenate levels 3,000 times those in Mono Lake without binding to much of it at all, the researchers said. [Stunning Images of Mono Lake]

Refuting arsenic life

The findings, published in the Oct. 4 issue of Science, come after two other papers, published in July, called Wolfe-Simon's work into question.

One paper, from a team led by Marshall Reaves at Princeton and Rosie Redfield at the University of British Columbia, attempted to duplicate Wolfe-Simon's finding that?GFAJ-1 had arsenate in its DNA; they found none. The second study, a team led by Tobias Erb of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found that GFAJ-1 could grow on very small amounts of phosphorus ? smaller than those found by Wolfe-Simon's team.

All known life forms use six basic elements: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. A?new life formthat could use arsenic in place of phosphorus would be a major finding.

Reaves said the Weizmann institute paper isn't a complete?refutation of Wolfe-Simon's work, as it doesn't directly address the question of whether any life form can incorporate arsenic into its DNA. But it does show how GFAJ-1 might be so arsenate-tolerant, even though it doesn't have a typical set of arsenate-resistance genes. "GFAJ-1, living in abundant arsenate, evolved the commonplace [phosphorus binding proteins] present in other microbes towards ones with dramatically higher specificity," Reaves wrote in an email.

Elias said he hopes future research will reveal how such resistance evolved. Humans and other multi-cellular creatures don't show the genes that produce these proteins, probably because we get phosphates from our food, rather than directly absorbing them from our environment. But among bacteria there are many versions of these genes.

It was, in fact, Wolfe-Simon's work that inspired the experiments in the first place, though Elias had been studying the proteins already. "We saw that and my supervisor [Tawfik] and I said 'that can't be right,'" he said. They were pretty sure that bacteria couldn't use arsenic in their DNA the way Wolfe-Simon seemed to suggest. But coming up with a "filtering" mechanism proved harder to do.

There were three possibilities: either Wolfe-Simon was right, in which case she had found a life form that could operate with a?biochemistry unlike anything on Earth; there was some mechanism for expelling arsenate from the cell, or there was some way for the cell to block out the arsenate altogether.

For her part, Wolfe-Simon, via email, said the new research, "represents the kind of careful and interesting studies that aid the community. They have helped us understand molecular level discrimination between arsenate and phosphate in GFAJ-1 and other microbes." She added that her own work spoke to the presence of arsenate in the cells, and that "questions are as to how and where."

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to correct a quote, in which the researcher misspoke about the scarcity of phosphate in Mono Lake.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/science/~3/UYDhXLIRVSw/How-alleged-arsenic-munching-bacteria-survives-in-toxic-Calif.-lake

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Five more coveted Colorado music-industry jobs - Denver - Music ...

In our series of coveted Colorado music-industry jobs, so far we've covered a range of jobs, from being a guitar tech and handling publicity to being tasked with overseeing digital music delivery from a vast electronic music catatlog to band management. Today, we bring you five more coveted gigs. Keep reading to learn more about the positions and the people who help make up the music industry in Colorado.

See also:
- Five coveted Colorado music-industry jobs, first installment
- Five coveted Colorado music-industry jobs, second installment

Nightlife Photographer/Online Marketing (Jordan Loyd, Beatport)

Jordan Loyd creates images that make you want to go to experience the shows he's shooting. Following a random photo gig at Beta Night Club, he received a recommendation from Catherine Nguyen (profiled in an earlier installment of our coveted jobs series) that took him to Florida to shoot the Ultra Music Festival. From there, it's all history, as they say.

"After high school, I was real into ski and snowboard photography," Loyd recalls. "But Ultra was the real jump into music for me." The folks at Beta noticed some of his photos after a show one night at the famed club, and he was put at the top of the list for photographers. But why dance music?

"I think the culture surrounding the dance music industry is pretty cool," Loyd explains. "I don't think a lot of genres of music really hit that. It's all about that singular moment in the night, and the crowd goes insane."

Along with being photographing festivals and events all over the country, Loyd also recently started working for Beatport, the world's largest hub for dance music. "I work a lot on the email marketing campaigns, translations and analytics," he notes. "I went in as social media and marketing intern, but I don't really do that as much anymore."

These days, you can find Loyd's fingerprints all over the electronic music scene. From festivals in New York (Electric Zoo) to Miami (Ultra Music Festival), Lloyd's work is perused by some of the biggest names in the world. Chances are if you've seen a photo from any of these events pop up on your Facebook feed or your Twitter timeline, it's got Jordan Loyd's watermark in the bottom corner.

Source: http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2012/10/coveted_colorado_music_jobs_third_installment.php

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What is the difference between LMI and MPI? - Finance Blog ...

LMI and MPI are two types of home loan insurance that are necessary for home buyers, but for very different reasons.

Learning home loan jargon can be tricky if you are entering the property market for the first time and the use of acronyms tends to make things even more unclear.

Aussie founder and Executive Chairman, John Symond says it is common for home buyers to get confused.

?There is always confusion about what is referred to as ?mortgage protection?. Mortgage Protection Insurance (MPI) is similar to life insurance where if anything happens to the bread winner, MPI would pay out your loan. You can also take out insurance to protect your income in case of disability.?

?Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) protects the lender in case a home buyer defaults on their loan.?

So in a nutshell, one protects the lender whereas the other protects the buyer.

?Countries like the UK insist that you have to take out MPI to get a home loan. Yet in Australia, nearly 80% of home owners have no life cover? says Symond.

?If something were to happen to the bread winner the house would have to be sold off which is very sad. So it is really important for home buyers to have MPI?.

?In contrast, the great thing about LMI is that it enables those of us with less than 20% deposit to actually get into home ownership, so it is also very important.?

?Yes you may have to pay a high premium but if we didn?t have LMI, no one would be able to borrow more than say 70-80% of the purchase price. Not many people today have at least 20% deposit so it is extremely helpful?.

Source: http://blog.aussie.com.au/difference-lmi-mpi/

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FindmyPast UK adds international records - British GENES

The UK based FindmyPast website at www.findmypast.co.uk has now added international records to its site from Ireland, Australasia and the United States - but wisely appears to have kept its own search interface for the UK records on the site. For the overseas records, the same filter based system as used on the other FindmyPast websites around the world is deferred to.

To use the international records you will need to go for the UK site's new World Subscription, normally at ?99.95 for 6 months and ?159.95 for a year, but there is an introductory loyalty discount in play just now - ?10 off a 6 months subscription, and ?20 off a year. Full details are available at www.findmypast.co.uk/account/pay/anoymous/step0

(With thanks to @sheenatait via Twitter)

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