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  1. Mar 2018
    1. Paragraph showing that high con leads to individuals acting or abstaining from certain behaviors, which implies they feel personally responsible for their own actions. "prevention-focused individuals aim at reducing the discrepancy with their ought self-guide (their beliefs about their duties and obligations), are concerned with the presence or absence of negative outcomes, and when pursuing goals, are focused on abstaining from behaviors that could impair goal-attainment (Higgins et al., 2001)."

    1. page 1062- nice run down of in. loc. relating to behavior mildly related to con.

  2. Feb 2018
    1. Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquitoborne arbovirus in the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus.

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    2. Our findings support the hypothesis that ZIKV can be transmitted by sexual intercourse. Furthermore, the observation that ZIKV RNA was detectable in urine after viremia clearance in blood suggests that, as found for DENV and WNV infections, urine samples can yield evidence ofZIKV for late diagnosis, but more investigation is needed.

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  3. Jan 2018
    1. So uh, I had to download this extension for a class and now I think I've unlocked a whole new portion of the internet.

  4. Dec 2017
    1. I really kind of feel like I don’t know how to be myself around my family, especially since usually when I am around my family it’s around kids. And parents are really weird about their kids learning about that kind of lifestyle

      This is pretty sad but you're completely right. Some parents are just irrationally afraid of allowing their kids to find out that non-straight people exist. I think a small number would be open to a frank conversation about the subject, but that would only work for parents who are pretty open-minded. Hopefully by the time our generation is in that position, things will be different.

    1. Things will go how you would logically expect so please take my advice, tell anxiety to take a hike your family and friends love you, so let them love the real you

      This is really beautiful. "Let them love the real you." I think some non-LGBTQ+ people might not understand how important this is, not only to a family but to an individual's mental health. It feels awful to have to hide who you are, and nobody should have to.

    2. I know that right now you are nervous, but trust me you are for no reason we have yet to have a bad reaction from anyone yet and its been 5 years

      This made me smile; I'm happy you lucked out and had a really great experience. It makes me feel a little more optimistic when families actually handle situations like this very well.

  5. Sep 2017
    1. throughout these 3 years and a half, there’s been many unfortunate situations going on in the political fiel

      I had not stopped to consider the difference between being in high school while Trump is in office, versus my experience when Obama was in office. It must be terrifying to be in your most impressionable stage in life during a time when our political climate is full of hate and discrimination.

    1. most importantly how people in power see you

      This line is important because it claims that power relations are a major factor in racism. If the people leading our country are supposed to be an example of what Americans are like, then our leaders having racist thoughts or actions is detrimental to the health of the community.

    1. For me, racism is something that makes me uncomfortable to talk about

      I was immediately drawn to this article because of this opening line. Racism is something that makes most people uncomfortable, yet it's so important to talk about. According to Kelly Sue DeConnick, being uncomfortable is what helps us to grow. She claims it is her obligation to make people have the conversation that naturally make them shy away. It is the only way to make progress.

    1. DeAndre Harris, a black teacher's aide from Charlottesville, was brutally beaten by white supremacists in a parking garage close to Police Headquarters; the assault was captured by photographs and video footage.[69][99] The footage showed a group of six men[100] beating Harris with poles, metal pipe, and wood slabs,[69][101] as Harris struggled to pick himself off the ground.[101] Harris suffered a broken wrist and serious head injury.[102] The attack was investigated by Charlottesville police, with help from the Virginia State Police and FBI.[99] On August 27, Daniel P. Borden was arrested and charged with malicious wounding in connection with the assault.[100][103] Another man, Alex Michael Ramos, was also charged with malicious wounding in connection with the attack,[100] and was arrested the following day.[3] Separately at the rally, "a man was captured on video shooting at the ground in the direction of an African-American counterprotester."[100] Richard W. Preston, the self-identified imperial wizard of the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested on August 25 and charged with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school.

      There were so many occurrences that I hadn't known about before. Heather Heyer was widely discussed, but I was under the impression that her death was the act of violence that ended the rally. There were many acts, mostly racial hate-crimes, but also violence aimed at the LGBTQ community and others. The city had even attempted to reduce the damage by directing the rally away from the mall where a brawl took place, but they were limited in what steps they were allowed to take.

    1. Mr. Trump's reaction drew praise from neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, which wrote: "Trump comments were good. He didn't attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us... No condemnation at all." The website had been promoting the Charlottesville demonstration as part of its "Summer of Hate" edition.

      It's unlikely that the white house isn't aware of this group and what they're saying. That makes Trump's refusal to explicitly denounce them much worse. I've heard hate crimes on marginalized people have increased since the election, even in our incredibly diverse mid-Michigan city. More and more I'm seeing people flat-out proclaim that Trump is their scapegoat. Furthermore, this means people can no longer defend the actions of the alt-right; they formally declared that they are a group whose mission is to spread hate.

    1. Trump fires back at critics of his Charlottesville response

      In this video, Fox News journalists debate the pros and cons of Trump's secondary response to the Charlottesville riot. Among the arguments, one man attempts to imply that the left initiated the violence long before Charlottesville was even part of the equation. He even compares the left to a cult- while subsequently claiming that "make America great again" is not a divisive slogan. Even his biggest supporters say he will never admit when he's wrong, and I think it's disgusting that they're okay with that. I can't stand how the main reporter has so much patience to listen to the man on his right, but no patience for the woman on his left. The main reporter calls Trump's response a "PR Hit" instead of calling it what it is: a blatantly ignorant and hateful reply.

    1. egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides.

      The only word I can use to describe this unscripted quote is "nauseating." I'd like to know where Trump gets his news from, because I've yet to hear of any violence incited by the people who are just there to proclaim that their lives matter just as much as any other American.

    2. Fields' mother, Samantha Bloom, told the Toledo Blade, a CNN affiliate, that he told her last week he was going to an "alt-right" rally, but she didn't get involved in his political views. "I told him to be careful ... if they are going to rally, to make sure he is doing it peacefully," she told the newspaper. CNN's attempt to reach Bloom were unsuccessful.

      This poor mother must feel awful about not realizing how much anger resided in her son.

    3. Saturday's rally was the latest event drawing white nationalists and right-wing activists from across the country to this Democratic-voting town -- a development precipitated by the city's decision to remove symbols of its Confederate past.

      This situation would be depressingly ironic if I could get past the anger. Is there anything more un-American than confederate symbols? We're supposed to be a country of freedom- but clearly to these horribly misled people, you're only allowed freedom if you're white, straight and cisgender. We should be proud that the confederates weren't allowed to continue practicing hate after the civil war; these people want to celebrate an awful dark side to our nation's past.