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This was written in January of 2021. It started as a quick e-mail to a friend. But I've done that before. So, I put into this page for future reference.
I do not profess to be an expert on backups. But I've been in the computer business for 50 years and have picked up a few practical things. This contains some of those as they apply today.
Some backup techniques are:
MANUFACTURERS of removable storage:
"SanDisk" (sometimes written as Scan Disk) is, I believe made by Western Digital (WD). I've always had good luck and with WD devices.
As long as you stick with one of the major brands, you should be good. (Memorex, WD, SanDisk, etc.)
There are many 3rd party USB memory stick drives out there. They're so cheap that they become a good advertising medium. They also lend themselves to cutsie holders. Emily just ordered one that was built into a little robot. Really cute. I even made one for her that is in a tiny wooden book.
The question addressed here dealt with backing up a volume of video files.
The size of those files was given as the average playing TIME in minutes. That doesn't tell us much. We need to look at the size in bytes.
Videos take a ton of storage. Only the size in bytes is useful for deciding on a backup method.
USB sticks, memory cards, and external disks suffer the same problem as internal hard disks. They can go bad without warning.
If you have one huge external device you'll probably just keep adding to it. Should it go bad... well, you've lost everything on it.
DVD's have an advantage here. You can burn a DVD and put it away. You can burn two or more copies and store separately. They're dirt cheap.
DVD's use physical storage (microscopic holes burned in the plastic substrate). There's not much to go bad (other than fire or scratches or other physical damage).
Some "backup" software systems (tape and DVD in particular) will have separate COPY and BACKUP options.
BACKUP options may compress the data and that often uses a proprietary method. You might not be able to move these backups easily. You have to RESTORE them using the another option within the manufacturer's software.
COPY is typically reserved to DVDs. This method makes a standard, readable, copy of the files. You can take that DVD to almost any machine and directly read it just like any disk. (WE ALWAYS USE COPY).
For many years this was THE method everyone used. The user had to purchase a tape drive, but they did that.
Tapes were generally unique to a manufacturer. Each had its own format.
Many people used tapes to backup, but they had no idea how to recover from the tape if they needed it! NOT a good solution.
When we started using DVDs they were actually burnable CD's. They were fast and convenient, but limited in size. When DVD's became popualar that became the standard.
We use the "DVD+R" style. These holds 4.7Gb of data. (Other types include DVD, DVD-W, DVD-RW. Each has purposes and restrictions)
As great as DVD's are, Microsoft seems to have lost interest. On Windows XP, DVDs were fast and convenient. On average you could burn and verify a DVD is 25 minutes.
With Windows 7, then Windows 10, DVD's seem to have become slower and less consistent. The typical time to burn and verify is now about 30 minutes. About half of the time the verify becomes very slow. It can take up to two hours!
The benefit of DVD's is that they're still cheap (20 to 40 cents each).
We make many backups. For photos, which we retire from hard disk, we make TWO DVDs and store separately.
We set the burning software to BURN, LOCK, then VERIFY, all in one operation.
With photos, once on DVD, we view every photo on at least one copy and catalog them into another software system. We've often gone back to DVD's that are 10 years old to pull a photo. It's always good (so far).
Computer data and movies use entirely different formats. Most computers will both read and write either the movie format or the computer format. If you're going to play the DVD on your TV/DVD/BlueRay rig, it has to be a movie style DVD. You can tell the software to write that type of DVD.
DVD Downside 1: Limited storage. (4.7 gig). They're fine for my thousands of photos, but movies can be huge files!
DVD Downside 2: the DVD burning software built into Window's is a mystery to most people. We prefer a 3rd party solution. Our choice for a long time has been "Roxio". Before that we liked "Nero Burning ROM".
USB Memory Sticks:
These are pretty good. They're solid state devices (no moving parts). They can have very large capacity. They cost much more than a single DVD, but they're still cheap related to other devices.
We are not sure why, but on our HP Windows-10, the memory sticks are slower than DVD's.
Besides the speed, we find that there's no room to write on the sticks so they must be labeled in some other way.
USB sticks are generally meant to use and re-use. If you use a single stick for backups, you have no fallback should the stick go bad.
In our case we bought 5 sticks. We make master folders named with a date then put a full set of backups in that. We do the same on the next stick, and the next.
When we've made one backup on all five sticks we come back to number 1 and do another round using the date of that backup.
Eventually we fill each stick with dated folders. At that time we'll erase the oldest folder and add a new folder. The five sticks will contain many generations of backups. By rotating, should one stick go bad, we can revert to the previous one.
(DVD's avoid this because they are unique copies. Each is locked after use and never re-used. We can easily write notes on the front.)
These are the ones you put in a camera, drone, or similar device.
There are two sizes: the standard postage stamp size and the micro memory card (about a quarter inch).
These are about the same price as USB sticks. You can buy a bunch.
Almost all devices have a card reader built in. If not, you can buy an external, USB connected, reader.
Card speed varies. We usually try just one example of a brand and size. If it works well, we'll buy more.
Card Downside 1: Cards seem to go bad more frequently than other devices. That's just an impression, but we've sure heard stories.
Card Downside 2: The small size makes them easy to lose. (We know. We've lost several.)
Memory cards come in many capacities from a few K to many GIG. We usually buy several of the smaller ones rather than one large one. That's really important to people who leave their photos on the card. If the card goes bad they've lost months, or years, of photos all at once! If they used several smaller cards and one goes bad they lose fewer photos because the other cards have portions of the trip and they are probably still good.
(We don't keep our photos on the cards! When we return from a shoot we transfer the cards to our computer right away. The computer is normally much more secure. In our case, we frequently move our photos to multiple DVD's and thus have a relatively permanent copy.)
EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE:
These are very attractive because of the amount of data they hold. You can get one that holds a terabyte or more. That's massive. And even a terabyte will cost, generally, $50 to $100.
External drive also seem to be more durable, rugged and safe. (As long as you are not in the habit of tossing them into a bag or leaving them in a hot car.)
We have a couple of these drives that we plug into our laptop when on the road. Each day we'll copy all of our photos from the camera card to the external drive connected to the laptop. When we get home we plug the external drive into the desktop computer and burn DVD's from there. (We leave the photos on the external drive since it's just for photos anyway. The external drive and the DVD copies backup each other.)
External HD Downside 1: People usually buy one of these drives, since it stores so much data. They leave it plugged into the computer and just keep putting photos or files there. They don't make a backup of that drive so the data is no safer!
RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks): We don't hear about these like we once did. They are more common in large data centers. A RAID will link several disk drives in an array. Data is duplicated across the drives. Should one drive fail, the others have live copies of the data. There are usually warnings and the systems will allow a new drive to be "hot swapped" while the system continues to run.
This is the "latest thing" and can be PERFECT for backup solutions.
Cloud storage is simply storage residing somewhere out on the internet. All you need is internet connectivity to use it. In many cases it even works from your phone.
Cloud storage is provided by various companies: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Go-Daddy, Facebook, Verzion, Dropbox, etc. There are also many smaller companies and specialized companies.
Almost any device you buy these days (computers, tablets, phones, etc.) comes with free cloud storage. Of course, the providers give you the basic amouont of storage; they want you to buy more. But that's OK. Additional storage is amazingly cheap!
The desktop machine we use came with Microsoft's "OndDrive" solution installed. It just shows up in the Windows Explorer screen as well as any other screen with a SAVE option.
These cloud options can be deceptively simple to use. They just present another drive. Sometimes that is confusing and people don't realize where they've put data.
A somewhat common cloud solution is the free DropBox service. This provides a fairly large storage area that just looks like another disk drive with the usual folders and files.
As with all cloud solutions, you can purchase additional storage. We have free account several devices, but our company and some clients have commercial accounts with lots of storage! We share certain folders across all of those accounts.
To illustrate one use of Dropbox:
We set up a DropBox folder for each of several clients. We installed the free DropBox account on each of their computers and linked their folder specific to their office.
When a client has files to send to us they just drag and drop the files onto that shared folder. We can see ALL of the folders and we'd just go pull the files we want. Great way to share.
Dropbox is nice because it will connect to just about any device. We have it on all of our computers as well as our phones.
Dropbox folders appear just like any other file. That means that software we write can also read and write dropbox files.
DropBox also provides a way to send a file to someone else even if they don't have DropBox installed.
Whatever cloud service you choose, you have to study it just a little to understand how it works. They all do the same thing, but they have their own unique features, services, costs, and capabilities.
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HENLEY Bulls fielded a back division that included James Comben, Jack Bradford, Fred Pierrepont and Ellliot Cox
HENLEY Bulls fielded a back division that included James Comben, Jack Bradford, Fred Pierrepont and Ellliot Cox and looked likely to be able to cause hosts London Scottish Highlanders problems at Richmond Athletic Ground on Saturday.
The visitors enjoyed a significant amount of first half possession and it seemed that they would emerge victorious after forging ahead with a 11-0 lead with 37 minutes of the first half elapsed.
The Bulls pack had managed to dominate the scrimmage for much of the first half but had suffered a couple of penalties. However they created enough clean possession for Pierrepont to crash over on the left flank as he ran hard on to a well-timed pass from Jack Bradford.
James Comben’s territorial kicking was standing the Bulls in good stead and the pressure allowed them to create in the exiles half forced several penalties, two of which Comben landed with aplomb to see the Bulls stretch ahead.
Playing at such a tempo does not come without risk and the exiles managed to turn over possession with three minutes of the first half remaining and open their account with a try against the run of play, as their scrum half and fullback managed to jink and weave a path through a broken Bulls defence and score an unconverted try on the left wing.
The momentum seemed to swing in favour of the exiles from this point onward and despite several efforts to gain a foothold and retain their slender lead early in the second half the exiles scrum half became the driving force towards them regaining the lead within three minutes of the restart and then forging ahead further as they dabbed down from a driving maul. The hosts’ fly-half put two conversions over to add to their tally helped by the stiffening breeze which now thwarted any chance of the Bulls to revert to a territorial kicking approach.
Comben departed the action on 55 minutes replaced by Dan Hawkins but the amount of possession now being created and retained was diminishing.
Despite forcing a few penalties in opposition territory the Bulls squandered an attacking line-out and lost a scrum against the head in crucial positions. A yellow card late on for fullback Elliot Cox added to the exiles’ determination to kill the game off and as their flanker crossed for a bonus try on 70 minutes with the Bulls down to 14 men any desire to forge a comeback was dampened.
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Philippa Gregory possesses the happy talent of weaving historical fact with historical fiction, a true gift. Effortlessly, she takes us through the lives of notable women of history. Sometimes they are famous (Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn) and sometimes they are obscure. Either way, she treats their lives with compassion, teasing out all the tiny details that make them spring into vivid three-dimensions.
Gregory establishes the benchmark for any historical fiction writer. A historian herself (Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh), she uses her writing to take her readers into hitherto undiscovered territory. Much historical fiction has been written about the Tudors, but in The Lady of the Rivers, Gregory moves further back, before even the War of the Roses.
The star of The Lady of the Rivers is young Jacquetta (previously encountered in The White Queen). She has visions of the future, a hereditary gift for the women in her family. This gift puts her into the dangerous orbit of the powerful Duke of Bedford. He wishes for her to use her visions to help him discover the Philosopher’s Stone, which allows the transmutation of lead to gold. He wishes to use this gold to strengthen the English army and maintain their hold of occupied France.
Women and power, visible and invisible, is one theme that Gregory revisits in the book. The Wheel of Fortune can throw you very high and cast you very low; to illustrate this, The Lady of the Rivers opens with Jacquetta befriending Joan of Arc, who was imprisoned in her uncle’s home. Because Joan brought the English army to its knees, she must die as a result. As a writer, Gregory is constantly exploring the conflict between men and the women determined to live their own lives.
The novel follows Jacquetta through her life, notably highlighting her influential friendship with Margaret of Anjou that places her squarely in history’s path as the Lancasters and the Yorks begin to clash.
My one disappointment was that Jacquetta’s life, by necessity of historical fact, was an unending stream of battles. Her husband was constantly being sent off in support of his king. This coming and going occupies a great deal of the book. While Gregory handles this deftly, it allowed my attention to wander periodically. Nevertheless, I am avidly waiting for the next installment in The Cousin’s War series.
Visit Philippa Gregory’s website at: www.philippagregory.com.
Article first published as Book Review: The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory on Blogcritics.
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With cold and flu season fast approaching (just on the heels of allergy season), it is important to have a healthy immune system and to know what products are out there to help you combat the runny nose and ‘balloon head’ feeling from the common cold like decongestants, a Neti Pot, or home remedies.
Bio 101 – The Nose During A Cold
The common cold, often in the form of the rhinovirus strain, is a viral infection that is spread through the nasal and respiratory system. Your cold is not the virus itself, but rather the body’s immune system response to the virus. Head cold symptoms typically appear about three days after exposure and include sneezing, runny or stuffy nose, fatigue, aches, and occasionally a fever. The virus is contagious for about three days after symptoms appear and usually dissipates within a week.
The nose not only regulates the speed that air enters our system, but works as a filter for bacteria, viruses, dust, and allergens. The inside of the nasal passage is lined with mucus and a layer of cilia (thin, tiny hair-like structures) that protect you from pathogens entering into your system. If the bacterial or viral pathogens get past the mucus lining into the cell lining of the inner nose and throat, your body’s immune system sends out small proteins call cytokines, which deploy T and B cells to eliminate the foreign objects. The same proteins instruct the cells in the nose to generate more mucus to flush the system of harmful bacteria or viruses, give us rhinorrhea (aka: a runny nose).
For Better…or Worse?
Products for cleaning out the nasal system range from over-the-counter decongestants like Sudafed and DayQuil, to relief products that focus on physically removing the accumulated bacteria, such as Neti Pots. While a cold doesn’t often go away on it’s own, it is important to question whether the products we choose to use are helpful, or if they are causing more harm than good.
Frequently enough, a lot of the products that area available and claim to provide relief are not FDA approved or are intended as a placebo effect (meaning they are marketed to make you think they’re helping, but in fact, contain no effective ingredients). It’s always important to check the ingredients list and reviews when it comes to picking medicine not prescribed by a doctor.
The Neti Pot, or Jal Neti therapy is a nasal irrigation practice, which originated in Ayurvedic medicine in India and has been used for thousands of years. Ayurvedic monks that first came up with the Neti Pot did not use if with cold care in mind, but rather a means to clean the internal system of dust and particulates for better breath-based meditation. Net Pots can be a great tool for nasal irrigation, but are they helpful when it comes to the common cold?
Modern-day Neti Pot products hit the shelves as a cold remedy in 2006 after being featured on the Oprah Winfrey show via Dr. Mehemet Oz. With an endorsement like that, it’s no wonder so many turn to the Neti Pot when their head feels like it’s lost in a stuffy fog.
How They Work and Best Practices
Neti Pots are a gravity-based filtration system from which saline water is poured down one nostril via a teapot-like device, and then flows out the other nostril. The saline solution grabs mucus, bacteria, and dust on its way out, leaving the nasal passage open and clean.
While this product is beneficial is beneficial under the proper circumstances, there are a few important things to consider when going down this route for cold relief:
First: What is Your Body Doing to Protect Itself Against Viral Infection?
The excess mucus buildup we described earlier is your body’s immune system working to protect you. The excess mucus is not only carrying the immune system’s proteins and viral pathogens, but it is also creating a barrier between the virus and the inner cell wall of your nose. If you consistently and forcefully clear the nasal passage with saline, you remove the mucus carrying the foreign pathogens and any barriers protecting the cell wall. This means you have no barrier to protect you from any remaining viral pathogens still caught in the nose or new foreign ones around you. In short, using the Neti Pot during a cold might offer you some relief from congestion, but can also increase your chance for infection by removing not just the bad, but the good as well.
Second: Is the Neti Pot Product Safe to Use?
The Neti Pot should only be used with saline water or boiled water and the pot itself should be boiled before use to ensure that no bacteria are hanging around. Tap water should never be used for a Neti pot as it contains minerals, low levels of organisms such as protozoa, bacteria, and amoebas, and often chemicals meant for consumption.
Tap water can also contain the Nawgleria Fowleri Amebae, which as single-celled living organisms commonly found in freshwater lakes and rivers. It is fine to drink this water as your stomach kills off any problems, but it isn’t so great for the cellular wall of the nose. Dirty equipment or bad water is where he Neti Pot can be dangerous, as misuse can lead to unexpected bacterial infections.
According to Eric Mann of the Food and Drug Association (FDA), Neti Pots are “usually safe and effective products when used and cleaned properly.” The Center for Disease and Control (CDC) concurs with the FDA’s perspective on the Neti Pot product as long as the water has been boiled or sterilized and FDA-approved saline is used.
Natural Cold Remedies
When it comes to home cold remedies, there are always alternatives to purchasing the latest fad or using prescription meds.
Steam and eucalyptus oil have been relied upon as natural home remedies for generations without problems (unless you’re allergic to eucalyptus). Simply run a hot shower or boil a pot of water, add a few drops of eucalyptus oil, and breathe deep – no need to worry about amoeba! Inhaling tea tree oil steam also works and is a natural antiseptic. Saline nose spray is also a common option for nasal congestion relief.
If you’re looking for an alternative to nasal flushing but still want to protect yourself, consider using a nose filter. Small, unobtrusive filters, such as O2, fit just inside your nostrils and create a barrier to trap dust, pollen, viruses, and bacteria from entering your system.
Whichever method you choose, make sure you’re eating healthy, exercising, drinking plenty of water, and getting plenty of rest to ensure your immune system is healthy and can do it’s job to naturally fight the common cold.
Interested in trying O2 Nose Filters? Click here for a FREE (+S&H) sample pack to see which size works best for you!
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57% of cancer drugs uses approved by EMA show no benefit
A new study conducted by King’s College London and LSE has found that of 48 treatments approved between 2009 and 2013 for 68 different indications, but 39 of these uses were found to be ineffective at boosting quality of life or improving survival on initial application.
The research then attempted to determine whether there were potential long-term benefits, beyond the short-term data supplied by the companies behind the drugs. In follow-up studies, after an average intervening period of five years, 49% still failed to show any significant quality or quantity of life benefit.
So, why did these drugs manage to obtain approvals? Many of the approvals were based on surrogate endpoints, despite these not being a reliable indicator of potential improvements to patients receiving the drugs.
Additionally, some treatments received conditional marketing authorisations with the expectation that the drug companies would return with confirmatory data from further trials.
However, the study identified 10 drugs that were approved under the fast track system and had been on the market for four years without evidence that they provided an extension to life or improved its quality.
Dr Courtney Davis, a medical and political sociologist in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, lead author of the study, said: “We evaluated the evidence base for all new drugs entering the market over a five year period and found that the majority came onto the market without clear evidence that they improved patients’ survival or quality of life. A large number of people are undergoing treatment for cancer and little new information is available to guide patients and their treating clinicians regarding drug effectiveness. When expensive drugs that lack robust evidence of clinical benefit are approved and reimbursed within publicly funded healthcare systems, individual patients may be harmed and public funds wasted.”
The findings raise major questions about the EMA’s approval process. In a number of cases, there is significant pressure on the agency and later on national regulatory bodies to approve cancer drugs due to desire to give patients options for treatment.
It has led to patient support group campaigns to advocate the approval of certain drugs, even when national bodies find the drug not to be cost-effective.
BridgeBio Pharma has announced positive feedback from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and …
The technological pharmaceutical company IMIDEX has been granted clearance from the US Food and Drug …
Astellas Pharma has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the marketing authorisation …
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With its influences all over the globe, blockchain is not a new topic for most of the readers. However, for technology nerds, blockchain is not only an opportunity but another way to boost up one’s prosperity. Yes, to be more precise, blockchain is the heart of digital currencies. Being a digital ledger, it records debits and credits between individuals. Apart from that, the decentralized working system authorizes free financial functioning. However, before we explain to you about it, let us have a short glance at what blockchain is.
As mentioned earlier, blockchain is a digital ledger where the transaction is made for the use of any form of cryptocurrency. i.e. Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. The platform allows a designated number of users who have access to the database for the transaction. However, the total network size depends upon the number of users. As per the experts, blockchain renders safe passage for maintaining transactions and contracts. Besides, it offers a safe and verified digital ecosystem.
Blockchain is developed using specialized computer software. These are complex computing codes designed for each block which further links with one another thus developing into a blockchain. A validation process at each step makes the chain secure for the overall database. Besides, this platform ensures a swift and transparent transaction, therefore, making it free from corruption.
There has been a substantial development further bringing investment. Here, we enlist some of the industries that have used this platform.
SCM industry needs a well documented decentralized record that can be monitored while maintaining end to end encrypted transparency. This further helps to reduce human error and time delay. Meanwhile, blockchain can verify the authenticity and trade status at each step. On the other hand, hyper ledger technology benefits network industry such as real-estate, crowd-funding, cloud storage, messaging app, critical infrastructure and many more.
Blockchain is well known for its smart security thus banking and other financial institution have an upper hand when utilizing blockchain. The secure and digitalized environment injects the transfer and storage of critical information. Some of the leading banks such as Swiss-based UBS bank and Barclays of the UK have embarked successfully.
Blockchain catalyzes the growth of retail and e-commerce industries. It allows trusted database reducing impedance and further bringing clarity through the shared and immutable ledger. This not only establishes concrete trust among the business group but also creates a committed platform for invoice and payment system.
Blockchain renders an exclusive service making healthcare more flexible. The technology allows the interoperability of health data in a patient-centred ecosystem. This will be a unique model where health information exchange will orient electronic medical records
Blockchain technology offers a broad scope for industries. It is high time to look after its possibilities. Decentralized cryptocurrency can bring economic prosperity to a great extent thus transforming day to day life of an individual. While blockchain has its application in dealing with cryptocurrencies, its utilization can be also applied in other streams.
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- Richest Celebrities › Singers
- Net Worth:
- $1.5 Million
- Date of Birth:
- Apr 26, 1970 (53 years old)
- Place of Birth:
- Des Moines
- 5 ft 1 in (1.57 m)
- Actor, Singer-songwriter, Dancer, Author, Film Producer
- United States of America
What is Tionne T-Boz Watkins' Net Worth?
Tionne T-Boz Watkins is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and author who has a net worth of $1.5 million. Although she is probably most famous for being a part of the music group TLC, she went on to enjoy a career as a solo artist and an executive producer. During her time with TLC, T-Boz won four Grammy Awards.
Tionne Tenese Watkins was born on April 26th of 1970 in Des Moines, Iowa. Tionne had a tough childhood due to an early sickle cell anemia diagnosis. As a result, she was in and out of hospital. Her parents were professional performers, and she envisioned herself following in their footsteps one day. They divorced when Tionne was three years old. At the age of nine, she moved with her family to Atlanta, Georgia.
After linking up with Perri Reid through a mutual friend, Tionne was invited to audition for the group that would become TLC. Perri's husband Antionio was the head of LAFace Records, the company that would eventually represent the group. Watkins was chosen alongside Crystal Jones and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez. Eventually, Jones was replaced by Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas," and the group emerged in 1991 as TLC. They were one of the most successful music groups of their generation, selling over 65 million records and becoming a pop culture symbol of the 90s.
During her time with TLC, Watkins was already establishing herself as a solo artist. She started by contributing a number of songs to film soundtracks. Her single "Touch Myself" appeared on the 1996 film "Fled," and her track "My Getaway" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2000 film "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie."
She also collaborated with artists such as Da Brat, Society of Soul, Keith Sweat, Raphael Saadiq, and Paula Cole on tracks like "Ghetto Love," "Changes," "He Say She Say," "Different Times," and "Be Somebody." After a long hiatus, she also released a single called "Champion" in 2013, with proceeds going towards sickle cell research. In 2017, she released the single "Dreams."
Television and Film
In addition to her music career, Tionne Watkins has also become a successful actress. Her first film role was in the movie "Belly" in 1998. She then appeared in a number of episodes for the show "Living Single" and made a guest appearance in the show "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." In 2016, he landed a recurring role as a prison inmate on the show "Days of Our Lives." She then returned to the show in 2017 and 2018 as a completely different character.
In 2017, she established herself as a voice actor with a role in the animated film "Trollz." She also worked as a voice actor on the animated show "Black Dynamite." In addition, she was given her own reality show called "Totally T-Boz," although it only ran for four episodes. In 2016, she appeared in an episode of "Lip Sync Battle." Tionne is also an executive producer who has worked on movies like 2006's "ATL."
Over the next period, the group released a number of successful albums, selling over 65 million records. Tionne often performed as the lead singer of the group, and she helped TLC win four Grammys during its heyday.
In 2000, Watkins married rapper Mack 10. They had one child together shortly after their marriage. Four years later, Tionne filed for divorce and a restraining order against Mack 10. However, the couple later became amicable to the point where Watkins moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles so that her child could be closer to the father. In 2016, she adopted a child called Chance.
Tionne Watkins has struggled with a number of health issues over the course of her life. She has been repeatedly hospitalized for sickle cell anemia since the age of seven. She didn't reveal her affliction until 1996. Since then, she has struggled with multiple flareups of the disease.
In 2009, Watkins publicly revealed that she had been dealing with a brain tumor for the past three years. She also revealed that the growth was threatening her life and that it was a benign, grape-sized acoustic neuroma. The growth was interfering with her balance, hearing, sight, and facial muscles while causing other issues. To make the matter even worse, her sickle cell anemia made it difficult to operate on. However, a surgeon in Los Angeles eventually agreed to perform a procedure that removed the growth.
In 1995, the world looked on in bewilderment as TLC, one of the highest-grossing music groups of that era, filed for bankruptcy. That year, Watkins and her fellow TLC members declared debts of approximately $3.5 million and filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. At first, this made absolutely no sense – especially given the fact that TLC had a long history of releasing platinum albums with millions of record sales. They also released the album "CrazySexyCool" immediately before filing for bankruptcy, and that album sold 14 million copies worldwide and prompted an incredibly profitable tour around the globe.
When the members of TLC were pressed for details, they revealed that their contract with their producers and managers was incredibly unfair. Not only did their management team leave each member with annual earnings of just $50,000, but they also began charging the women for their flights, hotels, clothing, and even their food expenses while on tour. The more they toured, the more they were forced to pay out of their own pocket.
Even the album sales were quickly snapped up by the management and production companies. When all was said and done, the three members of TLC were splitting just 56 cents for each album sold. The studio execs and management employees took the rest. When you take all of this into account, TLC's bankruptcy declaration is hardly surprising.
In 2011, 16 years after filing for bankruptcy with other members of TLC, Watkins filed for personal bankruptcy. Court documents revealed that the singer had accumulated nearly $1 million worth of debt and that she was earning about $12,000 per month with $1,200 coming from royalties. She also claimed that her monthly expenses amounted to $9,000 per month and that she was paying off a $768,000 mortgage on a $1.2 million property.
When asked about the financial lessons she learned from this experience, Rozonda would later tell The Guardian newspaper the following:
"I have learned the hard way: sign your own checks, make sure your taxes are in shape and whatever your company is, it's always good to get it audited. If you don't have anything to hide, it's not a worry."
In the same interview Watkins relayed:
"It's not personal. It's business. Everyone in this industry has an agenda. Accountants, lawyers, people you think you know will keep running up the bill. You have to watch your back on every corner."
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Disney Dreamlight Valley is an adventure/life simulation hybrid. The developers of the game (Gameloft) have taken a risky gamble by making a game that requires hours and hours of grinding. Despite this, it has a huge player base, given that it is a Disney game. Apart from this, the game offers a very immersive adventure with multiple mechanics for you to master as a player.
The developers of Disney Dreamlight Valley have filled it with various mechanics and exploration elements you need to master. Cooking, and selling dishes are some of the important mechanics. In this game, you sometimes have to cook and serve dishes to NPCs and other characters as part of various friendship quests. These are vitally important to the game since you have to remember the recipe and have the ingredients on hand. Leek soup is one such commodity that is rare and hard to obtain. In this article, we are going to go over how to get and make this delicious leek soup in Disney Dreamlight Valley. So, if you are looking for information regarding the same, consider reading until the end.
Disney Dreamlight Valley Leek Soup: How to Craft/Cook?
Leek soup is, obviously, made from Leek. Leek is a hard-to-acquire ingredient in the game. Since this is a 1-star soup, it is low-cost, quite easy to prepare, and requires only one ingredient. However, that does not mean that ingredient is easy to come by. A 1-star soup is a type of soup that can be requested repeatedly for a friendship quest. This means it is better if you have the ingredients to make this soup on hand.
The primary hurdle to making this soup is the availability of Leek. Leek is a late-game material and is quite economically expensive to unlock. In order to get Leek, you will need to unlock the Sunlit Plateau and then unlock the Forgotten Lands biome. Each of these biomes represents a significant investment in terms of time and money. You will need to invest over 22,000 Dreamlight to unlock Sunlit Pleateau (7,000 Dreamlight), and Forgotten Lands (15,000 Dreamlights) and get Leek. Once unlocked, you can head to Goofy’s stall in Forgotten Lands and use Star Coins to repair it. Now, you can purchase leek seeds or the ingredient itself (based on your luck). The Leek seeds will take an additional 2 hours to mature before they can be used to cook the dish.
How to cook Leek Soup?
Once you have acquired Leek, making the soup itself is a simple process. Follow these handy steps below:
- Take some coal ore and head to the cooking pot. Once there, interact with it.
- Next, add Leek to the cooking pot.
- Once done, click Cook and wait for the dish to be ready.
You can then sell this dish for 370 Star Coins at Goofy’s stalls; however, consuming this dish will give you 414 Energy. This can also be used on characters that request it in friendship quests to make friends with them that way.
If you found this article helpful and would like to read more such content, make sure to visit Android Gram. Here, you will find daily guides on Disney Dreamlight Valley and other trending games.
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Ulithian, Woleaian, Nukuoro, and Kapingamarangi are also spoken.
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- How long do smoothies keep their nutrients?
- Do smoothies lose nutrients over time?
- Is it OK to drink green smoothies everyday?
- How long can a smoothie last in the refrigerator?
- What is the best time to drink green smoothies?
- Can you drink a smoothie left out overnight?
- Can I make a smoothie in the morning for lunch?
- Why is blending fruit bad?
- Is it bad to have smoothies every day?
- Why are smoothies bad for you?
- What fruits should not be blended together?
- Are smoothies good the next day?
- Does blending fruit lose nutrients?
- What happens to your body when you drink green smoothies?
- Is it OK to put raw kale in a smoothie?
- How do you know if a smoothie has gone bad?
- What should you not mix in a smoothie?
- Can you freeze smoothies for later?
- Does blending a banana make it unhealthy?
- Does blending kill nutrients?
- Do you put ice in a smoothie?
How long do smoothies keep their nutrients?
In general, smoothies keep longer than juice.
My rule of thumb is that juice will keep for about 12 hours using the method below, while a smoothie will keep up to 24 hours.
Just use your eyes and nose to tell – if it smells off or looks dark brown don’t drink it..
Do smoothies lose nutrients over time?
The longer they get from being harvested, the more nutrients they’ve lost,” says Alexander. “Then, when you blend them, they lose more. And if you don’t drink the smoothie after it’s blended, it loses even more. And, some juicers extract vitamins as well.
Is it OK to drink green smoothies everyday?
Green smoothies are a great way to get my daily recommended serving of fruits and veggies. I have difficulty eating enough throughout the day, but can easily consume them as a drink. … It has to be balanced out with whole grains, heart-healthy fats, lean protein, and fruits and vegetables.
How long can a smoothie last in the refrigerator?
1-2 daysHow long can you keep a smoothie in the fridge or freezer? A good rule of thumb for storing smoothies and/or smoothie ingredients is to keep them in the fridge for 1-2 days, and in the freezer for up to 3 months. They’re perfect for prepping ahead of time and enjoying week after week.
What is the best time to drink green smoothies?
When is the Best Time to Have a Smoothie?In the Morning. If you typically have a hard time getting started in the morning, prepping your smoothie ingredients in your blend cup or pitcher in advance makes things easier. … Before and After a Workout. … Lunch On-The-Go. … Satisfying Your Sweet Tooth. … For Sleep and Relaxation.
Can you drink a smoothie left out overnight?
According to the US Food and Drug Administration, perishable foods that are supposed to be refrigerated, like juice, can only be left out at room temperature for two hours before it’s considered unsafe to consume. … But really, it’s just good practice to keep your juice in the fridge at all times, unpasteurized or not.
Can I make a smoothie in the morning for lunch?
Place a thermos container in the freezer overnight. In the morning, fill it with your choice of smoothie and pack it into the lunch bag. It acts as a freezer pack, and by the time noon rolls around, the smoothie will be a perfect consistency. I like using thermoses to pack smoothies.
Why is blending fruit bad?
Smoothies are high in sugar. If you blend fruit, the natural sugars are released from within the cell walls of the fruit and become “free sugars”.
Is it bad to have smoothies every day?
Some smoothies, especially the ones you make at home from whole fruits and vegetables, are high in vitamins, minerals, and many other beneficial nutrients. But for losing weight, smoothies tend not to be a good choice because they’re liquids.
Why are smoothies bad for you?
Smoothies’ biggest pitfall is their propensity to contain large quantities of added sugar. Added sugar reduces the nutrient density of smoothies. Furthermore, routinely consuming too much added sugar may increase your risk of chronic ailments like heart disease, diabetes, and liver disease ( 4 ).
What fruits should not be blended together?
Avoid mixing your watermelons, muskmelons, cantaloupe and honeydews with other fruits. Try not to mix acidic fruits, such as grapefruits and strawberries, or sub-acidic foods such as apples, pomegranates and peaches, with sweet fruits, such as bananas and raisins for a better digestion.
Are smoothies good the next day?
Smoothies will keep in the fridge for 1-2 days. Separation may occur after the first day. This is completely normal. Just stir the smoothie and enjoy!
Does blending fruit lose nutrients?
However, “If you blend them, you are not losing any nutrients.” Still, she warns that fruit and veggie mixes can easily turn into dessert-like concoctions, so it’s important to stick with healthy smoothie recipes.
What happens to your body when you drink green smoothies?
Green smoothies are rich with chlorophyll which some natural health experts say enhances the immune system, purifies the blood and rejuvenates the body. It is one of the many reasons why these delicious drinks are touted by experts as being an excellent source of energy for the human body.
Is it OK to put raw kale in a smoothie?
It’s also a good source of vitamin C and iron. One cup of raw kale contains even more vitamin C than an orange! You can eat kale raw in a smoothie (no need to cook it first). The raw kale flavor is strong on its own, but the other ingredients mellow it.
How do you know if a smoothie has gone bad?
How can you tell if opened juice smoothies are bad or spoiled? The best way is to smell and look at the juice smoothies: if the juice smoothies develop an off odor, flavor or appearance, or if mold develops, they should be discarded.
What should you not mix in a smoothie?
Be it maple syrup, honey, agave, coconut sugar, or any other form of added sugar, too much sweetener is where many smoothies go astray. Other added sugars may come in the form of plant-based milks (sometimes even in original varieties) and flavored yogurts.
Can you freeze smoothies for later?
Whenever you have a hankering for a smoothie but you don’t have the time to make one fresh, you can pull your frozen smoothie out. Let it thaw or eat it frozen. The churning process in your ice cream maker and its airtight seal will keep your smoothie just as good as if it were fresh.
Does blending a banana make it unhealthy?
According to our experts, banana and milk do not go well together and may cause serious harm to our health. Therefore, it is better to avoid blending banana with milk and rather have them separately.
Does blending kill nutrients?
Blending works in a similar manner by breaking down the fibers within the fruit and vegetables and releasing the nutrients during the blending cycle. Blending primarily changes the foods texture and appearance by making them more liquid and drinkable. It however does not cause them to lose any nutrients.
Do you put ice in a smoothie?
Do you have to add ice? No, ice cubes are not necessary to make a smoothie, as long as you’re using frozen fruits. Replace 1:1 ice cubes to frozen fruit is recommended. The ice will create a smooth, thick, chilly texture, or frothy if only a small amount is used.
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There have been a number of reports, so far without any visual confirmation, that some 200 militants have switched sides and seized part of the city of Raqqa, which is usually referred to as the “ISIS capital.” One has to consider the distinctive possibility such reports represent an effort by local Sunni forces to establish a truce with at least one of the three forces marching in the general direction of Raqqa–the Syrian Arab Army, the Kurdish militias, and even the still more distant Iraqi forces which are currently aiming their offensive at Mosul. Given that ISIS has been declared beyond the pale by all the parties to the Syria peace process, it also means that the Sunni political actors in eastern Syria and western Iraq (and their foreign sponsors, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar) who have provided a considerable portion of both the expertise and manpower for ISIS have to shed their ISIS label if they are to have a place of their own at the negotiating table. Not unlike Austria which was a rather enthusiastic component of the Third Reich, and which contrived to be “liberated” rather than “occupied” by the victorious powers of World War II, here too the Sunni tribes have to make it look like they are being liberated.
We have seen a very similar process unfold less than a decade ago in Iraq. Alarmed by the growing power of the Shia militias and political parties in Iraq, and also by the 2006 success of the Hezbollah against the IDF, the US decided to make a separate peace with the Sunni insurgents. This became the “Sunni Awakening”. However, the Sunnis were hardly “asleep” for the previous three years–they were in fact the insurgents, with only a small smattering of foreign fighters. Once the US came around and sought out the Sunnis as allies, the foreign fighters were mostly evacuated, a few most odious ones were “promoted” (to martyrdom), and the story became how the brave Sunni tribes defeated al-Qaeda which supposedly held them captive for three full years! This led to a series of US-brokered power-sharing deals among Iraq’s major ethnic groups before the arrangement broke down and gave us the Iraqi component of ISIS.
Now it looks like the Sunnis might be poised to repeat that disappearing trick, except that now they will “defeat” ISIS just as they “defeated” al-Qaeda” in 2006. They really have no other choice: the tide of the war has turned against them decisively, they are rapidly losing their logistical lifelines and oil revenues, and the foreign fighter component is already being evacuated for redeployment in more promising theaters–perhaps Libya, perhaps Afghanistan and Central Asia… The only question is, with whom will the ISIS Sunnis strike their deal? There really are only two options: Assad and Russia on the one hand, or US and the Kurds on the other. Erdogan seems to have wanted to become the third option, because a Turkish land invasion down the ISIS-controlled corridor would have had the effect of “liberating” the Sunnis from ISIS as well, but that never came to pass for reasons well discussed elsewhere. Therefore the second (US-backed) option seems like a better deal to them since it would still allow them to salvage something of their original project, namely Sunni autonomies in the two countries so extensive as to make the national border between them irrelevant (which is what ISIS proclaimed a couple of years ago when it declared the Sykes-Picot Treaty moot), to the point of these two autonomies really representing two halves of a de-facto Sunni state. Since the US wants to create a Sunni state between Iran and Syria in order to isolate Hezbollah and create a “pipeline corridor” between Saudi Arabia and Turkey, it has refrained from genuinely fighting ISIS and now would likely jump at the opportunity to strike a deal with them. Assad and the Russians, on the other hand, would hardly agree to a deal like that which makes them less attractive as negotiating partners. And the more inroads the SAA makes into the pro-ISIS Sunni areas, the more likely are the Sunnis to “liberate” themselves and then prostrate themselves before their US “saviors.”
That is most likely the reason ISIS has been trying so hard to take Deir-ez-Zor in recent days, in spite of heavy fighting on other fronts, and to resist the SAA advance on Palmyra. The presence of the Syrian military right in the heart of ISIS territory endangers the idea of Sunni separatism. We can expect ISIS to continue these attacks and focus their defensive efforts against the SAA rather than against US-backed forces in the region, much as Nazi Germany did in the final months of World War 2. However, if the SAA manages to reach Deir-ez-Zor and Raqqa ahead of the competition, it will undo this last-ditch Sunni effort to snatch a victory out of jaws of defeat.
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VOLUME 8: HOW TO READ YOUR EYE PRESCRIPTION?Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Are you struggling to read your eye prescription? At Dresden Vision we know the importance of understanding your eye prescription to ensure that you get the correct glasses or contact lenses. We believe that understanding your eye prescription is crucial in selecting the right eyewear for your needs. In this blog post, we will provide you with 10 valuable tips on how to read your eye prescription.
Understand the Terminologies
The first step towards reading your eye or glasses prescription is by understanding the terminologies used. The abbreviations can be confusing, but once you know what they mean, it becomes easier to read and understand.
Familiarize Yourself with the Basics of Eye Prescription
Before diving deep into your eye prescription, it's essential to understand the fundamentals of eye prescription. This includes diopters, sphere, cylinder, axis, and pupillary distance (PD).
Spherical Errors and Corrections
The spherical error, also called the sphere, indicates the degree of nearsightedness or farsightedness. The number is indicated in diopters, with a minus sign indicating nearsightedness, and a plus sign indicating farsightedness.
Cylindrical Errors and Corrections
Cylindrical errors are present in people with astigmatism. It's indicated by a cylinder value, and an axis indicates the orientation of the cylinder.
Reading Addition for Near Vision
Individuals with presbyopia or the loss of near vision may have an additional value indicated in their prescription.
Pupillary Distance Measurement
Pupillary distance (PD) is the distance between the center of each pupil, expressed in millimeters.
Importance of Prescription Expiration Dates
Your eye prescription has an expiration date, and it's essential to keep track of it as it may impact the validity of your order.
Importance of Accurate Measurements
Having precise measurements of your prescription, such as pupillary distance (PD), cylinder axis, and astigmatism direction, is imperative in promoting the perfect fit for your glasses. The accuracy of these measurements involves an optometrist or optician's expertise and experience, ensuring your eyeglasses suit your complete prescription, resulting in flawless vision.
Notably, PD, the distance between your pupils, is a critical optical measurement that determines where the optical center of the lenses should be. An improperly measured PD may result in an off-centered prescription, leading to uncomfortable vision, poor optical clarity, and discomfort.
Optical measurements also impact your eye health, as vision problems may result in headaches, eyestrain, and blurred vision. So, it is paramount to book an appointment with a reputable optometrist or optician for professional optical measurements.
Seek Help From an Eye Care Professional
If you're having trouble reading your eye prescription, don't hesitate to seek help from an eye care professional. They can explain the prescription to you and answer any questions that you may have.
Most IMPORTANT tip of ALL
Order Your Glasses At Dresden Vision! In summary, understanding how to read your glasses prescription is crucial to ensure you get the right glasses to improve your vision. If you're confused or need help, don’t hesitate to come to us, your eyewear experts, who can assist you in interpreting the prescription and finding the right glasses or contacts.
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UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals to Guide Bahrain into the Future
Reducing dependence on oil is the main focus of the new economic strategies developed by countries across the Arab Gulf. Such strategies are embodied by the Vision 2030 programmes already under way in most countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). In the case of Bahrain, a sustainable development and economic growth model, as promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is complementary to the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 strategy and can positively impact future plans aimed at improving the lives of ordinary citizens. To explore the extent in which UNPD guidelines inform Bahrain’s government action, the Euro-Gulf Information Centre invited Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli, the Program Director for International and Geo-Political Studies at Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (DERASAT), Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and, previously, a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.
UNPD reports look beyond traditional purely economic data such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and industrial output indicators. Local UNDP offices are well known for looking carefully into the countries’ specific features, considering all variables, including the environmental and societal dimensions, and all other aspects bearing a considerable an impact on the quality of life.
Bahrain’s economy is in itself quite unique. Bahrain is an island state of which large portions are covered by the desert. As such avoiding to overexploit land resources is crucial. Another important characteristic is the socio-economic impact of expatriate workers, a feature Bahrain’s shares with other GCC economies. Out of a population of 1.6 million, around 75% of the workforce is made up by foreigners on short term visas. This allows Bahraini businesses to hire workforce only when needed for specific projects, thus reducing the pressure to find new strategies and invest on innovation. Bahrain’s exports are still largely reliant on oil, constituting some 80% of government revenues. This became increasingly problematic as after 2014 the oil price experienced a sharp decrease, ending Bahrain’s trade surplus and adding pressure on the currency. In Bahrain, energy overconsumption, a common problem in energy producing countries with highly subsidised energy prices, constitutes a serious economic and environmental concern. In addition, land reclaiming projects, often needed to sustain Bahrain’s growing population, have damaged the environment in the past.
On the other hand, Bahrain presents unique opportunities. Manama launched its Vision 2030 programme as early as 2008 in an attempt to attract foreign investments, develop the private sector and reduce dependency on oil. It was the first Gulf country understanding the need for a comprehensive economic diversification plan and the only GCC economy to commence diversification before the oil prices started to fluctuate in an unpredictable manner. Similarly to most small states, Bahrain is responsive to cooperation with UN agencies such as the UNDP and is keen to further develop regional cooperation. The result of such cooperation is well represented by the common GCC power grid which increases efficiency while reducing waste and consumption. Notably, as a result of the diversification efforts, Bahrain is performing increasingly well in the Information and Communication Technology and the Islamic Finance sectors. The Kingdom is also remarkably ahead of its GCC partners in terms of gender equality, an indicator of the UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals which is regarded as key by Bahrain’s authorities to minimise the loss of economic opportunity.
Despite Manama’s increasing commitment to UNDP guidelines for economic development, there are still areas to improve to ensure Bahrain can overcome current and future financial turbulences without overexploiting its resources and damaging the environment. Following the 2011 unrest, which was initially triggered by economically-related grievances, government efforts should aim at providing opportunities for the youth. The expansion of the already existing youth programmes is therefore recommended. Al-Ubaydli argued that this should go hand in hand with the development of new sectors of the economy linking the traditional export of natural resources to the needs of technological advancements, infrastructure development and oil derivatives for example, to secure an higher employment rate. Bahrain would also benefit from further GCC economic integration and the expansion of accessible markets. A comprehensive European Union-GCC trade deal and the resolution of the Qatar crisis are therefore two potentially beneficial outcomes. Education is likely to play a pivotal role to ensure the sustainable advancement of Bahrain’s economy: by investing on education on the basis of a skill-gap analysis to inform future generations on the skills and expertise that are needed by the local business community, the government could provide stimulus to economic growth. However, it is important that such growth is coupled with economic policies that are conceived with an environment sensitive approach, to safeguard the quality of life of ordinary Bahrainis and highly reduce the risks related to environmental emergencies.
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Fancy something truly unique on your walls that is totally different from pictures but still resembles art? Try framing moss!
Did you know there are two art markets? Where you buy art from is a big factor in the price you pay. Not only that but what you are paying for.
Popular artists sometimes collaborate with publishing houses for marketing assistance. One way they do that is to run a strict number of limited-edition prints. These are generally hand signed by the artist and include a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA).
Have you spotted an art print you would like to buy, then noticed the different pricing options? Rolled print, framed print, or a hand-embellished print - the price difference can be staggering. As an example, a rolled print may be priced at £284.99. Add a frame and the price jumps to £498.99.
There are a variety of gold leaf frames on the market. They also go by the name gilt frames because it is frame guilders that make them using an intricate process. The price is an indicator of quality. Genuine gold leaf frames use genuine gold ranging in quality from 12CT to 23.75CT.
For businesses with customers walking around premises able to take notice of poster displays on your walls, poster advertising is an effective way to promote your events, products, and additional services to customers.
The bigger your premises, the more posters that could be effective.
Canvas prints can be displayed framed or unframed. For some, the unframed display can feel like the print is somewhat incomplete.
How times are changing! Since 1986, The Picture Gallery has grown leaps and bounds and altered course numerous times as the print and framing industry transitioned through change.
Events photography is not the easiest gig. Professionals turn up with entire camera kits ready for anything the day might throw at them.
Not everyone has all the gear, and sometimes, the gadgets and filters actually distract from what could become terrific art.
Very few artists are lucky enough to possess the skills to make all of their artwork look spectacular on a standard gallery-wrapped canvas. Fewer have the natural talent to create gorgeous canvas paintings stretched on stretcher bars that look good anywhere. Most will need to deal with framing at some point, regardless of the base material used for painting on.
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I am PhD candidate in Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. My research intersects the fields of quantitative Economic History, Labour Economics and Economic Geography. I am especially interested in how labour market institutions and policies affect long-term decisions of workers and firms, and how these can shape the economy’s growth trajectory. I am on the job market in 2022/23.
In my PhD thesis, I study the influence of centralised collective bargaining on human capital accumulation, internal migration, and on firms’ organisational and technological change in Italy between the 1960s and the 1980s.
After showing that sectoral collective agreements after 1969 caused a steep increase in minimum wage floors and a significant compression of the wage distribution, the thesis argues that the resulting modification of relative factor costs and alteration of economic incentives for workers and firms caused structural misallocations that continue to affect the Italian economy to this day.
By digitizing and harmonizing a wide range of printed statistical sources at a detailed geographical level, I have created new datasets of labour market variables spanning the period from the 1950s to the 1980s, with annual frequency, that extend further back in time than commonly available data, allowing the implementation of credible research design.
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What is chapter 3 of the scarlet letter about?
What Led to Chapter 3 of The Scarlet Letter? Hester Prynne, a resident of Boston in Massachusetts colony, has been found guilty of adultery. She will not reveal the name of the baby’s father. As part of her punishment, she must stand on a platform for the town to come shame her.
What literary allusion is found in chapter 3 of the scarlet letter?
Chapter III, The Recognition
“Of a truth friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting,” answered the townsman. This is an allusion to Daniel, a wise and righteous prophet in the Old Testament of the Bible who interprets dreams and receives visions.
Who is the man in chapter 3 of the scarlet letter?
Summary: Chapter 3: The Recognition
Hester’s husband (whom we will learn, in the next chapters, is now calling himself Roger Chillingworth) gestures to Hester that she should not reveal his identity.
Why is Chillingworth called the black man?
In the Scarlet letter Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the Black Man to symbolize the devil and his messenger in the form of Roger Chillingworth who is the devil. The Black Man was important to this book because Hester’s scarlet letter was left by the black man (The Devil).
Why does Hester refuse to name her lover?
Why does Hester refuse to reveal her partner’s sin? Hester wants to protect Dimmesdale because she know that it would be much worse for Dimmesdale than it would be for her.
Why does Hester not reveal the father?
Hester keeps secret the name of her illegitimate child’s father (Reverend Dimmesdale) and the true identity of Roger Chillingworth (her husband). She will not reveal Pearl’s father to protect Reverend Dimmesdale’s reputation, as he is the minister of the church.
Why did Chillingworth marry Hester?
I felt no love, nor feigned any.” Chillingworth believes that Hester could not love him because of his deformity (one shoulder is higher than the other). Nonetheless, he was initially content to marry her because he appreciated her youth and beauty.
Does Chillingworth love Hester?
Roger Chillingworth married Hester into an unnatural and “pseudo” relationship. He did not love her and she did not love him. He married a wife a generation younger than he. Hester’s unhappiness, due to a mismatched matrimony, leads her to become an adulteress.
Who is the most evil character in the scarlet letter?
One of the most obvious characters to be considered evil to both the reader of The Scarlet Letter and the characters is Mistress Hibbins.
Why did Hester cheat on Chillingworth?
Hester’s unhappiness, due to a mismatched matrimony, leads her to become an adulteress. Chillingworth makes Hester to be unhappy. Her initial sadness, along with the three year absence of her husband, resulted in adultery.
Who is the most evil character in The Scarlet Letter?
What is Chillingworth’s most serious sin?
However, the sins of Chillingworth are far more serious, because, unlike either Hester or Dimmesdale, he is incapable of love and is therefore driven to hate. His hatred causes him to commit the harshest sin of “The Scarlet Letter,” that of seeking revenge against Dimmesdale.
Who is the real sinner in Scarlet Letter?
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is about a young woman named Hester Prynne, who has committed adultery and gave birth to a daughter named Pearl.
Does Chillingworth still love Hester?
What does Chillingworth symbolize?
Ultimately, Chillingworth represents true evil. He is associated with secular and sometimes illicit forms of knowledge, as his chemical experiments and medical practices occasionally verge on witchcraft and murder.
Why is Hester the biggest sinner?
One main reason why Hester was the biggest sinner was because she was an adulteress to begin with. Toward the beginning of the book, the townspeople had accused her of having a baby with another man because the husband was nowhere to be seen.
Who is most at fault in The Scarlet Letter?
Dimmesdale. The one person in this messy triangle who seems to escape the feeling of guilt is Chillingworth—but he gets plenty of blame. By the end of The Scarlet Letter, both Hester and Dimmesdale agree that Chillingworth is the real villain in this situation.
Who is the biggest sinner in scarlet letter?
Chillingworth is the Greatest Sinner in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. The world of Puritan New England, like the world of today, was filled with many evil influences.
Is there a villain in The Scarlet Letter?
Roger Chillingworth is the antagonist of the novel. As soon as he encounters Hester and learns that she has given birth to a child fathered by another man, he becomes obsessed with thwarting her plan to keep the identity of that man a secret.
Is Chillingworth a villain or victim?
A villain, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot.
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A pressure group is a group of people who take action to influence local or national government on a specific issue.
Ways of campaigning
- Media - Radio, TV, magazines, News,Newspaper
- Petitions (e-petition)
- Picket lines
- Contact local MP
Factors whichmake for a successful campaign:
- Gaining media attension
- Keep the issue alive so people don't forget
- Involving large numbers of people
- Talk to policy makers
- Public opinion (is the issue something people are for or against)
- Money (fundraising)
No publicity is bad publicity - Can turn people the campaign if the publicity is bad
Some campaigns may not seem to have been successful but they will have had an impact on people, the government and businesses which could influence future decisions.
Peaceful protest are usually alot more successful than violent protests.
Amersham Horses Campaign
In January 2008 the RSPCA rescued more than 100 horses, ponies and donkeys
from Spindle Farm, Amersham, Buckinghamshire becasue they were kept in bad conditions.
They launched an appeal in June 2010 to rehome the rehabilitated animals. It was called 'Amersham Horses Rehoming Appeal'. IT was very successful and 1700 people applied for one of the 37 horses. 80 other rescued horses and ponies also found homes through this appeal.
Why was it successful?
- It got alot of publicity and was broadcast on the BBC news along with an article on the BBC web page.
- A webpage was set up by the RSPCA to appeal for donations
- Another website was setup giving the latest news on the court case against the owner of the horses.
- Animal cruelty is something many people in the public disagree with therefore making it more successful
The Suffragettes: Votes for Women
Many thousands of women were involves in this campaign which was led by Emmeline Pankhurst.
It caused alot of debate, controversy and newspaper coverage. Some suffragettes chained themselves to the railings of buildings, smashed windows and took part in marches/demonstrations.
Some men also supported the campaign.
Many got arrested and imprisoned, some went on hunger strikes leading to them being force fed. Many women then became ill in prison so were released to recover then imprisoned again. This shortened many womens lives.
During WW1 because many women had to take on mens roles this greatly changed peoples view and eventually lead to women being allowed to vote in 1928.
Different Types of Pressure Groups
There are 3 types of pressure groups:
Promotional/ casual: Particular Cause e.g greenpeace, Amnesty International
Sectional/interest: representing a section of people e.g farmers union
Insider Groups: Groups the government consult regularly e.g police force, NSPCC
Federation of small businesses
Type of Group: Sectional/interest pressure group
Aims/Mission: There mission is to remain and be largest and most effective organisation promoting and protecting the interests of the self employed and small business owners within the UK.
To recruit continuously at a high level
To retain as many members as possible
To promote the interests of members
To protect members' business
To publicise the benefits of self-employed and business ownership
To identify the continuously changing needs of members
How are funds raised: When members join they pay £10. The FSB receives a mixture of sponsorship, commissions and other financial contributions from various service providers. This is in exchange for the service providers to provide services to FSB members.
Who is in charge: Each region has offices across the region.
How is it run: Members volunteer to do different jobs that are not paid. So the FSB is run by the members.
Who can join: People with small businesses.
Accountability: Holding someone responsible for something.
Pressure groups and the media ensure that our representatives(Councillors, MPs and MEPs (members of the european parilament) are accountable.
Since The Freedom of Information Act was introduced in January 2005 it has made it much easier to to get information on what you want to know as a reply or reason for refusal has to be given with in a month.
The media find out and publish what is going on for the public to see. This is done by researching documentation, talking to people and asking questions
Pressure groups are part of ensuring representative are held accountable. They do this by watching for there own interest/cause and bring attension to what goes on.
Combined the media and pressure groups ensure that our democracy is more open and transparent.
Public debate and policy formation
Pressure groups will research and present reliable and up to date information to advocate there cause this is because if it is misleading they would lose support and credibilitiy.
Public debates can be started by advertising, eye catching stunts or peaceful demonstations. These gain media interest.
When new policies are being formed in a council or in gorvernment experts will be consulted. Pressure groups are often part of this process as the have current research avaliable. The information they provide can: cause debate; inform opinion; and give consideration.
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On Sept. 14, 2013, a very young, very green Canelo Alvarez went toe-to-toe vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Canelo may have forgotten his notebook at home, but class was still in session: in the super welterweight bout, the undefeated veteran Mayweather taught Alvarez a lesson in fighting a damn near perfect fight.
The technically sound Mayweather did everything a fighter could do well in a bout. He kept his opponent off-balance, he was perfect defensively and he timed his jab and counter punches perfectly.
Some of that was on Canelo, as he didn't have the crisp stuff that we see now. He didn't box much then, he didn't seem to have a solid strategy and he was out-landed by Mayweather by a wide margin.
According to Compubox, it was utter domination: Mayweather landed 46 percent of his total punches, as opposed to Alvarez, who landed just 22 percent. Mayweather jabs landed 42 percent of the time while Alvarez scored just 15 percent of jabs thrown.
The numbers resulted in a (nonsensical) majority decision in favor of "Money" Mayweather for the first and only loss on Canelo's record.
Judge CJ Ross — in one of the most embarrassing displays of judging that boxing has ever seen — scored the fight a draw (114-114), while judge Craig Metcalfe scored the bout 117-111 and judge Dave Moretti notched a 116-112 score, both in favor of Mayweather.
Before Canelo vs. Gennady "Triple G" Golovkin, which Alvarez himself told Sporting News will be "much bigger" than his fight with Mayweather, we take a look back and score the Mayweather vs. Canelo fight (with full video below).
Canelo vs. Mayweather results
Round 1 to Mayweather (10-9, 1-0 Mayweather):
Surprisingly, Mayweather came out on the offensive and pushed forward, something that fight fans were unaccustomed to seeing. Mayweather likely knew that Alvarez's early plan was to really attack the body, and took away his strategy. That can be taking in junction of the veteran Mayweather wanting to rattle and intimidate the younger Alvarez.
Canelo also came into this fight really looking as the significantly larger fighter, as he looked to have 10-15 pounds on Mayweather.
It was the standard feeling-out round with Mayweather unable to find the distance on his punches, while Alvarez seemed pretty sharp defensively.
Still, round goes to Mayweather for landing a few more shots and taking control of the round midway through.
Round 2 to Mayweather (10-9, 2-0 Mayweather):
Mayweather was a little bit less active with his feet in this round, as he was still trying to find the distance on his offense.
Alvarez tried to force the issue, closing the distance on Mayweather, but doesn't throw a lot of punches. It looked like Alvarez was trying to bait Mayweather into throwing more (not a solid strategy, to be honest).
Mayweather seems reluctant to throw, and his defense is still sharp. He's prototypical Mayweather fast tonight.
Round 3 to Mayweather (10-9, 3-0 Mayweather):
Mayweather starts to pepper Canelo with the jab in a bit more, connecting on 20 percent higher rate than Canelo is to this point in the fight.
Alvarez seemed very interested in boxing Mayweather, which (again) doesn't seem like the best strategy, considering he's fighting arguably the best boxer of this generation.
Mayweather is just too fast in-and-out for Alvarez to land any kind of significant counter punch, and he's too quick to retreat into his defense to allow any kind of counter punch to land flushly.
A very close round, but it goes to Mayweather. Alvarez just isn't busy enough yet in the fight.
Round 4 to Mayweather (10-9, 4-0 Mayweather):
Things start to get chippy in this round, with Alvarez hitting Mayweather on the thigh coming out of a break. Mayweather goes to touch gloves with Alvarez coming out of the corner, but Canelo wants none of it. The disrespect! (Or lack of intimidation.)
Replays showed that during that hold, Mayweather pressed his glove into Canelo's face, which Alvarez didn't seem too pleased with.
Alvarez's punches just aren't crisp: they're very loopy and wide, and missing wildly. Seems unwise.
Alvarez showed fight in this round, but it wasn't enough, not yet. Mayweather still shells up defensively and too quick with the jab to give Alvarez any good windows.
Round 5 to Mayweather (10-9, 5-0 Mayweather):
This was the round that Mayweather started to really showcase his ability.
His defense is too good. He rolled out of Alvarez's punches consistently, and in the same motion, throws punches of his own, and with some juice on them.
Canelo showed some more signs in this round but it's still hard to see how he's going to figure out Mayweather.
Watching Canelo, it seems that he was a bit scared throw some really heavy punches. The left hook isn't there, partially because it's not accurate, but mostly because Mayweather sees it coming and bobs and weaves out of the way.
Round 6 to Alvarez (10-9, 5-1 Mayweather):
Alvarez isn't intimidated by Mayweather, hitting him with a shoulder coming out of a break (Alvarez wasn't pleased with Mayweather throwing some kidney shots in that same hold).
Canelo settling in a little more, letting his hands go a bit more, too. Alvarez trying to land some lefts but Mayweather sees it all coming and ducks and rolls out of the way consistently, still.
Alvarez's work in this round won it for him, but it was still Mayweather's fight to lose.
Round 7 to Mayweather (10-9, 6-1 Mayweather):
With under a minute left, Mayweather held Alvarez on the ropes and landed a few 1-2 combinations up top. Canelo came fighting back, but it wasn't enough to counteract the Mayweather flurry from earlier.
In that exchange, it looked like he was trying to bait Mayweather into a big counter punch. He threw one with steam coming off the ropes, but it just missed the mark.
Truthfully, Mayweather looked unchallenged. It's a complete domination.
Round 8 to Mayweather (10-9, 7-1 Mayweather):
Alvarez is trying to force Mayweather to the ropes and it's just not happening. Just when Mayweather is a step or two away, Mayweather counters and pivots, staying in the middle of the ring and away from the ropes.
At one point in the round, with Mayweather backed against the ropes, he rolled out of an Alvarez combination and transitioned immediately into a straight right hand.
Alvarez was just too green — and hadn't really fought many of note to this point — to take on the perfect technician that is Mayweather.
Round 9 to Alvarez (10-9, 7-2 Mayweather):
Alvarez worked hard in ths round and landed some good shots. Mayweather is a bit less active, probably knowing he has the fight in the bag by rounds.
Mayweather did land a huge right, but Alvarez shook it off and finished the round.
Good work from Alvarez, but he'll need a knockout to win the fight.
Round 10 to Alvarez (10-9, 7-3 Mayweather):
Alvarez walked forward with his hands down. He looked very tired. Maybe he was trying to bait Mayweather into a counter punch, or maybe his inexperience in the ring with elite fighters held him back.
Mayweather circled around from the ropes extremely well, and kept pot-shotting Alvarez with the jab, scoring points and snapping Alvarez's head back in the process.
Round goes to Alvarez, but it's really close.
Round 11 to Mayweather (10-9, 8-3 Mayweather):
Good for Alvarez to keep trying to walk down Mayweather, understanding he needs a knockout to win, even though that seemed unlikely.
Alvarez's jab just hasn't been there. On the contrary, Mayweather's has been there all fight long.
Canelo didn't try and work the body enough throughout the fight. Granted, not a really easy thing to do against a fighter as fast as Mayweather, but his lack of commitment to it is pretty astounding.
Round 12 to Alvarez (10-9, 8-4 Mayweather):
Alvarez was busier this round, and he won it, but it really wasn't that close of a fight as the rounds and scorecards indicate.
Looking at the fight again, it was an easy 116-112 win for Mayweather.
Mayweather played it a little bit safer in the later rounds, knowing he had the fight won and that Alvarez wasn't much of a match. Still, it was a stepping stone fight for Alvarez, who has never stepped into the ring with a fighter the caliber of Mayweather.
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Impossible to open a financial magazine or a blog without coming across an article related to “compliance”. It seems that the regulators have been particularly prolific these past few months. Up to a point that with Basel II for example, bank executives
are responsible for the implementation of a secure BCP plan.
However, can we explain this bunch of new rules only with the crisis or recent affairs? Not sure. The way traders are dealing today and the tools they are using has little to do with what was common 5 years ago.
Introducing new medias to trade like IM, which now counts for 70% of pre trade activity, means that finance company have to pay attention to all those exchanges. They need to register them as they were recording traditional voice exchanges
done via turrets. It’s the same with emails and mobiles. Also the removal of tap exemption on mobiles enforced recently by FSA is just the acknowledgement of a new trade practice.
And now that videos and social networks are more and more considered as potential tools for trading, we can bet that shortly the regulator will take measures to encompass those new medias and ensure their compliance and traceability. Incidentally, for the
videos, recording only voice stream is surely not enough to ensure good compliance since two third of human-communication is non-verbal…and even a greater proportion the more you go South…
But this brings up two interesting consequences: first, those new medias will generate a new format of data which will need to be stored, even compressed, as they may be greedy in terms of megabytes. Secondly, the huge amount of this new generated data will
mean the implementation of new analysis tools enabling to retrieve a specific record as easily as possible the day the regulatory authority asks you to do so. In fact, new solutions are becoming available: voice to text transcription, word tagging, and speech
analysis, to name only a few. But those analysis tools are still quite heavy to implement and require cautious preliminary studies.
So new media vs compliance: sword and shield?
Head of Marketing & Strategy, Orange Trading Solutions
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below-grade stabilizing system for newly planted trees and shrubs is:
How does it work?
- simpler (just hammer it in)
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- safer (no dangerous stakes or wires)
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- and better looking than stake and wire systems
Tree Staple stabilizers secure new plantings by the root-ball. This unique design provides notable cost savings through quick and easy installation with no need for removal, and results in a healthier, better looking tree.
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Yo, is there a skin or a mod that can make the Arachnids from Starship Troopers? If our clan, The Mobile Infantry, decides to do a video, it would be good to have them. If That wont work, what about The Elites from the Halo story? If anyone has any info on this plz write back.
Oh, n by the way, Can you use an Xbox 360 controler on the PC? i havnet got a Xbox 360, but if you can use their conttrolers on the PC ill get a controler. I still cant get to grips with the PC keyboard! (I know this hasnt got anything to do wiv mods or skins but I thought id just ask)
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El Niño refers to the phenomenon that occurs when warming waters in the tropical Pacific build up around Christmastime. It is a fairly regular occurrence (every two to seven years, but usually every three to four years, and with powerful ones every 10 to 15 years), and because it happens around Christmas, Spanish-speaking people called it El Niño after the Christ child. Meteorologists often refer to it as the ENSO, which is short for El Niño Southern Oscillation. The term Southern Oscillation was coined by Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker (1868–1958), a British statistician and physicist who was studying the pattern of Indian monsoon seasons. The El Niño effect influences weather not only along the Pacific coasts of the Americas, but also worldwide. The consequences range from colder-than-normal temperatures in the central and eastern United States to strong storms in Africa, Australia, and the coast of California, flooding in Europe, and declines in fish populations in South America. Climatologists increasingly believe that strong El Niños increase droughts in Africa and may be accelerating desertification there. A moderate El Niño effect was in action during the years 2006 through 2008.
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- What happens when a car is abandoned?
- How long can a car be parked on the street without moving?
- What can I do about a car parked in front of my house?
- How do I report an abandoned vehicle UK?
- What do I do if I think a car has been abandoned?
- How long can a car be parked on a residential street UK?
- Can I move a car parked on private land UK?
- Can you report someone anonymously to DVLA?
- Can police seize a car for no tax?
- Can I stop someone parking on my drive?
- How long before a car is considered abandoned UK?
- How long does a vehicle have to sit before it is considered abandoned?
- Can I remove a car parked on my land?
- Can I sell a car abandoned on my property?
- Should I report a car with no MOT?
- What happens when your car is stolen UK?
- Is it rude to park in front of your neighbor’s house?
- What can I do if someone blocks my drive UK?
- What do police do with abandoned cars?
- How long does something have to be on your property before it becomes yours?
- Is my UK car taxed?
What happens when a car is abandoned?
The general process is a citizen would notify the police department about the abandoned vehicle.
Once notified, the vehicle is identified and tagged.
If the vehicle has not been moved by the owner within a certain time frame, then the car is towed away and held until the owner comes to collect the car..
How long can a car be parked on the street without moving?
72 hoursThis regulation applies to motor vehicles, boats, trailers, or recreational vehicles that are left standing on a public street for more than 72 hours. If your vehicle isn’t moved within 72 hours, an officer or employee of the police department has the right to issue your vehicle a parking violation notice.
What can I do about a car parked in front of my house?
On the other hand, if you encounter a vehicle which is parking in front of your house for excessive periods of time without moving, you can call the police department and ask to have the vehicle checked out. (If you don’t recognize the vehicle and it hasn’t moved for a long time, it may be stolen.)
How do I report an abandoned vehicle UK?
Reporting an abandoned vehicle in a public place If you suspect that a car or motorcycle has been abandoned in a public place or road, the local council has an obligation to remove it free-of-charge. The easiest way to report an abandoned vehicle is to report it via the Gov.uk website by clicking this link.
What do I do if I think a car has been abandoned?
There are a number of ways you can report an abandoned vehicle: Telephone: 0330 135 8949 – please note that calls may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes….Dumped or untaxed vehicle?Its exact location.Its registration number.The make and model.The colour.The length of time it has been left.
How long can a car be parked on a residential street UK?
Most areas have a maximum time that you are allowed to park, which is typically two to four hours. This will also be advised on signs and / or information plates. You must park your vehicle entirely within the white bay markings on the road.
Can I move a car parked on private land UK?
There is no legislation for parking on private land. The protection of Freedoms Act 2012 placed a ban on vehicle clamping and removals on private land without lawful authority. Owners of private car parks cannot gain ‘lawful authority’ to clamp or tow a vehicle by obtaining the driver’s consent to doing so.
Can you report someone anonymously to DVLA?
You can report the untaxed vehicle online anonymously. You will need to state the vehicle registration number, make, model ,colour and the full address where it is parked. You can report by post by sending the details above to Enforcement Section, W070/D12, DVLA, Longview Road, Swansea, SA7 0XZ.
Can police seize a car for no tax?
The police, the local council or the DVLA can clamp and tow away cars or other vehicles parked illegally on roads or public land. The DVLA can act when it has the lawful authority to do so if a car is untaxed – unless it’s on your own property.
Can I stop someone parking on my drive?
If a car is parked on my driveway, can I block them in? If someone has parked on your driveway and you were to block them in, your vehicle may be causing an obstruction to the public highway and this is a criminal offence. The owner of the vehicle could therefore call the police.
How long before a car is considered abandoned UK?
15 dayThe 15 day notice period does not apply if the vehicle is abandoned on a road or highway. Authorities do not have to remove an abandoned vehicle from land in the open air if the cost of moving it to the nearest highway is high (for example, special machinery is needed).
How long does a vehicle have to sit before it is considered abandoned?
Any motorized vehicle left on private property for an extended period may legally classify as abandoned. Details will vary by location, municipality, state, and the codes and statutes of your area but any motorized vehicle left on your property for 48 to 72 hours or more is usually considered abandoned.
Can I remove a car parked on my land?
You can pursue a civil case for trespassing and if the civil courts rule in your favour, the vehicle would be removed from your drive. A solicitor could get the civil court’s permission to find the legal owner of the vehicle involved and the judge would make the removal an order of the court.
Can I sell a car abandoned on my property?
However if someone has abandoned the vehicle on your real property, you may lay claim against the title of the vehicle and sell it. This is usually called a lien sale. … If the owner cannot be located or if the owner releases interest, you may sell the vehicle, after acquiring a new title for it.
Should I report a car with no MOT?
You can only report a vehicle with no MOT or insurance to the police if it is being used on a road.
What happens when your car is stolen UK?
Call the police. If you’re certain that your car has been stolen, alert the police straight away. Make sure you know your vehicle’s registration, make and model, and its colour. You’ll then be given a crime reference number, which you will need when you inform your insurance company.
Is it rude to park in front of your neighbor’s house?
Public streets are just that – public – and a homeowner has no legal right to reserve the space in front of his house. That being said, many people would agree it’s rude and inconsiderate to have visiting guests park in front of a neighbor’s house when there’s space in your driveway or in front of your own home.
What can I do if someone blocks my drive UK?
Someone blocking your driveway If you can find the owner of the vehicle, we’d first recommend asking them politely to move it. If you can’t find them, try leaving a note on their windscreen. After all, they may not realise they have caused a problem. If this doesn’t work, please contact your local council .
What do police do with abandoned cars?
“If the California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer comes upon a car that is abandoned, a notice is placed on the vehicle. The driver or registered owner must remove the vehicle from the roadway within four hours. … The funds are then used to cover the towing and storage fees for the car.
How long does something have to be on your property before it becomes yours?
However, the statute of limitations on conversion is 3 years. If the tenant ever asked for it back during the 5 years, and at any time closer than 3 years ago, that could make you liable for the conversion as conversion can be considered a continuing tort, and on demand it restarts the 3 year period.
Is my UK car taxed?
Find out if a vehicle has up-to-date vehicle tax or has been registered as off the road ( SORN ). It can take up to 5 working days for the records to update. Use ‘askMID’ to check if your vehicle is insured.
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Migration, as a phenomenon, has shaped human history in profound ways. It’s a narrative of courage, hope, and the unyielding spirit of individuals seeking better opportunities. The upcoming screening of the globally acclaimed documentary film, “No U-Turn,” directed by Ike Nnaebue, is set to bring this story to life, showcasing the incredible journey of Nigerian citizens who venture out on a perilous path in search of a brighter future. The film is not just an artistic creation; it’s a reflection of the realities that countless African immigrants face. And what better way to experience it than at the Play Back big silent disco party?
A Glimpse into “No U-Turn”
“No U-Turn” delves into the personal experiences of migrants who leave their homeland behind, embarking on a journey that takes them through the heart of Africa and across the daunting Mediterranean Sea. The film isn’t just a travelogue; it’s a tapestry of stories woven together by sheer determination, the quest for a better life, and the challenges faced along the way. By portraying the unfiltered experiences of these migrants, the documentary opens a window into their dreams, struggles, and triumphs.
Silent Movie Technology: A Unique Viewing Experience
The screening of “No U-Turn” takes a creative twist by integrating silent movie technology into the experience. Hosted by the charismatic Sensei Uche at CCX by LP House of Creatives in Victoria Island, the Play Back silent disco party offers attendees a chance to immerse themselves in the documentary in a distinctive way. This novel approach amplifies the emotions and nuances of the documentary, ensuring a truly immersive experience.
Unveiling Realities and Promoting Dialogue
Migration is a complex subject, often marked by multifaceted issues and challenges. “No UTurn” doesn’t shy away from exploring these complexities. The film opens up a dialogue about the real issues African immigrants face, fostering a better understanding of the reasons behind their decisions. By bringing these stories to light, the documentary encourages empathy and solidarity, and perhaps even inspires viewers to take action to address these pressing concerns.
An Evening of Entertainment and Education
The screening of “No U-Turn” during the Play Back silent disco party isn’t just about watching a film. It’s about stepping into the shoes of migrants, understanding their journey, and gaining insights into the challenges they face. Let’s come together to celebrate the human spirit and expand our horizons through the art of cinema.
The screening of “No U-Turn” will take place as follows:
Date: Friday, August 18th, at
Venue: CCX by LP House of Creatives in Victoria Island.
Screening times available: 5:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 11:00 pm, 1:00 am
The event promises more than just screenings, following the 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm showings, there will be post-screening Q&A sessions with the director, Ike Nnaebue.
This provides a rare opportunity to gain insights into the making of the documentary and engage in meaningful conversations.
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In the forests north of St. Petersburg, Russia finds itself in a place of evil. For the past three decades, people have disappeared in these forests, then found dead and naked. Who is responsible for these disappearances? Why are the victims left naked? When it comes to this land, the locals believe that these atrocities are the responsibility of an evil spirit known as the Lame Widow.
The widow, directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, written by Natalya Dubovaya and Ivan Kapitonov, is a look at the horror of these forests. In its first minutes, The widow offers an attractive configuration; Between in-person interviews and outdoor footage, several people talk about this forest and the disappearances for which it is known. Cinematography provides a realistic and grounded look, nothing flashy or fancy. In this way, the conversations and images present a morbid curiosity for the public to cling to.
However, with an intriguing setup and all, the movie starts off on a slow note. The audience is introduced to the main cast of characters, a search and rescue team, who are also accompanied by a news reporter. Their introduction revolves around understanding their tactics and experience when it comes to missions, but these characters hardly have any personality. While that may confuse some viewers, it’s worth noting that The widow He’s not going out of his way to explore much with said characters, but rather, to make them exist for the sake of the plot. In that sense, they work quite well.
Once the viewer gets through all the smooth character introductions, The widow collect.
Upon receiving a call about a missing child, the team exits a training exercise and heads outside. While looking for him, they come across a woman in disrepair and naked. Time passes as the team tends to her, night falls on them. After walking for a while, they finally return to their vehicle, but soon discover that leaving the forest will not be easy. The woman awakens and shares the story behind the Lame Widow and why she stalks the forest. When problems arise that cause the team to be lost, the widow begins to advance them, using her powers to manipulate their minds and eliminating them one by one.
One of the strongest aspects for The widow it is his imagery of the forest. Like the opening segment of the film, there is a lack of cinematic glitz, which in turn creates a more ingrained and haunting vibe. There is a nervous air to see the team walking through the forest. A true sense of isolation hangs over them, the darkness threatening. Anxiety and fear consume them, panic drives them into more dangerous territory. The solid sound design further elevates this discomfort, with each random noise superimposing the distress on everyone.
In addition to being disturbing, the Widow proves to be a sinister force. His tactics to infiltrate the minds of each member and warp their sense of reality create great moments of suspense. There are some shocks and spooky visuals – a scene that takes place in an area called the hole is a great highlight. But predominantly, The widow it’s a more atmospheric experience when it comes to horror. Certain parts of the film involve a first-person perspective, these close-up segments create extra intense tension.
With such a strong and chilling presence for the most part, it’s a shame the movie chooses to end things. Literally, in its final minutes, a narrative decision arrives that feels barely developed. Given the randomness of this moment, coupled with how sudden other affairs occur, the ending drops the ball when it comes to sinister potential.
The widow It is not so much a slow burn, but its rhythm sets a dynamic in which the audience has to sit with the isolation and fear that engulfs the cast. The titular Widow’s abilities and the potent atmosphere’s abilities establish a prominent aura of unease at all times. Even with some rough narrative patches, The widow is a spooky story that will make one think twice before venturing into any forest in the dead of night.
The Widow debuts on major digital and VOD platforms and on DVD and Blu-ray in March 30, 2021 by Shout! Studios and Scream Factory.
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Need some workshop space a fortress of solitude or a place to house your beer fridge. The natural colored wood strip with the finish nail has been added to extend the window jamb so it is flush with the drywall.
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Did any one else notice that Hamilton and Button ran different front wings in qualifying?
Looks like Hamilton is using the higher downforce version which we’ve seen more of this season. Fits with his more oversteer driving style, and Button’s preference for understeer.
Ham ran the same wing in quali by the looks of things…
No, you are right. I checked the pics on F1.com, they are running different front wings.
They mentioned this in the one of the practice session commentary bits…
I think it’s driver prefrence, Lewis’s front wing is the one he ran at Silverstone and Jenson is on the newer version.
Lewis is actually running the pre Silverstone spec wing
Odd that Button would choose for a high downforce setup when Spa is more a low to medium downforce circuit.
I thought the sound of the McLarens was pretty odd too. Haven’t seen much information about it yet though.
What this does do it point the lie to McLaren’s line that Hamilton and Button are “not that different” in setup and the car suits both of them equally. The front wing is the most fundamental part of the car’s aero and for a team to run two totally different wings is something of a last resort, really.
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We all have the same hours a day, we all have bills to pay, family to feed and the immense desire to grow our business. However, some employers seem to walk on golden roads, filled with business customers, while others suffer the despair of having no customers. But this is what is happening that prevents you earn more money in your business? You need in your business arsenal to open the financial coffers? Or, rather, this is the reason why businesses do not grow? I know! Public effective, disciplined and consistent! How simple it sounds. The sad reality is that most entrepreneurs can not understand this simple concept, which is responsible for having a business full of customers. Not that I do not know that advertising is important. It is simply not doing enough advertising to attract customers they need. But this year, with sharp fingernails come back to the basics for making your business grow. This year, my unique approach is to fill your business customers. And start with the following suggestions to implement them immediately.
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The distinctive flavor of grilled, roasted and baked foods develops as a result of the Maillard reaction. This is a specific type of chemical reaction that occurs in hot and dry conditions between the nucleophilic amino groups of amino acids and the reactive carbonyl groups of reducing sugars.
In this case study, scientists used NMR spectroscopy to uncover an inhibitor of the Maillard reaction, which prevents the formation of visible color and flavor. The study may be used in further research to enhance the taste of food.
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Products of the Maillard reaction give foods that have been grilled, roasted or baked the characteristic taste that is quite different from if they had been boiled, poached or steamed.
A wide range of foods undergo the Maillard reaction, from seared steaks and fried fish, to biscuits, bread, and toasted marshmallows. The differences in cooking aromas arising from the different food types are caused by the reaction occurring between different sugars and amino acids.
The Maillard reaction is recognized as a key factor in developing the flavor of food, and chefs have devised numerous techniques to optimize this process. Since it is the products of the Maillard reaction that impart the desired flavor, researchers have been focusing on the identification of Maillard reaction products which could be used for flavor enhancement in the food industry.
Maillard reaction products
The Maillard reaction results in the formation of a wide range of compounds that contribute to both the flavor and appearance of food. These compounds are thus of interest to the food industry as additives that can be used to improve and preserve the appearance and flavor of processed foods1.
However, Maillard reaction products can undergo cross-linking and polymerization when subjected to heat, which makes them unsuitable for use as food additives. Once the food is heated during meal preparation the Maillard reaction products are likely to be lost, with detrimental effects on flavor2.
For this reason, stable Maillard reaction intermediates formed during the initial stages of the Maillard reaction are used instead3. When heated, such intermediates, for example, the Amadori rearrangement product, generate thermal decomposition products that cause desirable changes in food color and flavour4.
Maillard reaction intermediates are physicochemically stable and thus are considered ideal substitutes to Maillard reaction products for use as food additives that provide a fresh and desirable flavor on exposure to heat during subsequent food preparation5.
Isolating Maillard reaction intermediates
Since the final product will be destined for human consumption, it is preferable to use aqueous solution for the purification of Maillard reaction intermediates, rather than organic solvents.
However, it is difficult to determine the formation conditions of stable intermediates at a high reaction rate in aqueous conditions. Fortunately, the formation of Maillard reaction intermediates can be indicated indirectly using cysteine as a marker3,5.
Researchers have recently used cysteine as an indicator to show the critical formation conditions of Maillard reaction intermediates at varying temperatures6. The Maillard reaction was monitored in aqueous solution using L-cysteine as the indicator. Stepwise increases in temperature were used to identify the temperature at which the Maillard reaction intermediate 2-threityl-thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (TTCA) was produced.
Maillard reaction intermediates, TTCA and the Amadori rearrangement product, were purified and identified by ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography with mass spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometry. All NMR experiments were performed on a Bruker DRX 400 MHz spectrometer (now replaced by the Bruker AVANCE series).
Cysteine and TTCA were mixed into a solution and treated under various thermal conditions to investigate the mechanism of browning and flavor enhancement.
During the low-temperature reaction stage, the intermediates were gradually formed and result in the greatest accumulation of Maillard reaction intermediates. In addition, low-temperature thermal reaction reduced the decomposition of Maillard reaction intermediates and increased its reacting potency with added cysteine.
The browning of the final Maillard reaction products and concentration of downstream degradation products indicates that added cysteine reacts with TTCA to inhibit the formation of visible color. This was made possible by preventing the generation of dicarbonyl compounds derived from the Maillard reaction intermediates.
The addition of cysteine was shown to affect the normal reaction pathway from TTCA to Amadori rearrangement products and other downstream products by restoring TTCA to sugar and amino acid under heat treatment.
This study demonstrates that the addition of cysteine to TTCA can inhibit the progression of the Maillard reaction to a later stage, preventing the formation of visible color (and flavor).
- Nooshkam M, et al. Food Chem. 2019;275:644-660.
- Kaitano TE. Food additives: Flavors and flavor enhancers. In Encyclopedia of Food Safety, Motarjemi, Y.; Moy, G.; Todd, E., Eds. Academic Press: Cambridge, 2014:466-470.
- Cui H, et al. Food Chem. 2019;271:47-53.
- Haase PT, et al. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2017;65(9):1924-1931.
- Cui H, et al. RSC Advances 2017;7:45442-45451.
- Zhai Y, et al. J. Agric. Food Chem 2019. Epub ahead of print 16 Jul 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b04374
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Dave Chinner wrote:
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:47:44AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:Given that XFS relies on the page size for it's maximum block size, does switching to 1GB pages for kernel pagetables allow for larger page-size use in XFS -- and therefore, larger blocksize?No, it doesn't. The page cache can't use large pages so there's no path to allowing XFS to use larger blocks with them. As it is, you'd need a system that supports 16k or 64k page sizes for this to be useful, otherwise you just waste a *lot* of memory...Is it something that might be in the not too distant future? ;-)I have no plans to do this any time soon - there's no compelling reason to do so. I can't speak for anyone else, though...
--- No prob.. I admit a 1GB page size might be a tad large for my purposes... I actually was reading 1MB though even that would be large...but a GB/disk sector...um...-- at least I'd be likely to get full speed read & writes if I could fill them...(1GB/R or W gives me about the fastest overall throughput to my disks). Can't test higher (i.e. >=2GB) than that due to getting partial block read/writes (on a 64 bit machine??) Sounds like my LSI controller is only 32bits...but that doesn't seem right... Maybe it only supports consecutive read/writes up to the limit of the memory on the controller card.. All that talk about RAIDs recently, got me depressed a bit when I realize that while I can get fast speeds, type speeds in seeking around are about 1/10-1/20th the speed...sigh. Might that indicate that I should go with smaller RAIDS with more spindles? I.e. instead of 3 groups of RAID5 striped as 0, go for 4-5 groups of RAID5 striped as a 0? Just aligning the darn things nearly takes a rocket scientist! But then start talking about multiple spindles and optimizing IOP's...ARG!...;-) (If it wasn't challenging, I'd find it boring...)...
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7,400 years ago, Siberian dogs were much smaller than wolves, which made them more dependent on humans for food, including marine species, according to research released Friday (22).
Robert Lucy, Professor at the University of Alberta and Director study Published in Science Advances, he said the findings helped explain the early growth of the canine population, which humans turned to for housework, herding, and sledding.
Previous research focused on only two main ideas to explain how dogs changed from being wolves, a process that began about 40,000 years ago.
The first of these assumptions is that friendly wolves approached human camps during the Ice Age to search for meat, isolating themselves from their wild counterparts, and then were purposely bred as dogs.
The second is that some dogs developed a better ability to digest starch after the agricultural revolution, which is why some modern breeds have more copies of the gene AMY2B, which produces pancreatic amylase.
To study the diet of ancient dogs in greater depth, Lucy and his colleagues analyzed the remains of about 200 of these animals and 200 wolves that lived during the past 11,000 years.
“We had to turn to groups all over the SiberiaWe analyzed the bones, took samples of collagen and studied the protein in the labs.”
Based on the remains, the team made statistical estimates of the animals’ body sizes. They also used a technique called stable isotope analysis to estimate diets.
Scientists found that dogs from 7,000 to 8,000 years ago “were already very small, which means they can’t do the same things that most wolves can do,” Lucy explained.
This has led them to become more dependent on humans for food and hunting small prey rather than the large hunts of wolves.
Dogs at the time, he said, ate “fish, shellfish, seals and sea lions that they couldn’t easily get on their own.” He added that they ate fish “in regions of Siberia where lakes and rivers were frozen for seven to eight months a year.”
While the wolves of those times, as well as the present-day wolves, hunted in groups and ate basic types of deer.
Advantages and Challenges
New dog diets present both benefits and challenges. “The advantages are because they have access to human food, easily at first, but at the cost of new diseases and problems,” Lucy noted.
While the new bacteria and parasites they were exposed to may have helped some of them adapt, it is possible that entire groups of dogs did not survive.
Most of the first dogs in the Americas went extinct, for reasons that are unclear, and were replaced by European dogs, although colonization is not to blame for the process.
The dogs that survived gained more diverse gut microbes, which helped them digest more of the carbohydrates associated with living with humans.
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Chemical leavening agents like baking soda and baking powder can have a profound effect on your favorite baked goods – but what is baking soda vs. baking powder? How do they actually work? What are the differences between them?
Those are the questions I’ll be answering for you today, and guess what… I brought VISUALS! Let’s dive in!
Baking Soda vs. Baking Powder
What Are Chemical Leaveners? Can You Substitute Baking Powder For Baking Soda And Vice Versa?
Baking Powder and Baking Soda are both chemical leaveners that work to create light textures in baked goods. They release gases, primarily carbon dioxide, through chemical reactions between acids and bases – but both only work under the correct conditions. Although baking powder actually contains baking soda, the two leaveners are very different and cannot be simply swapped in recipes.
Baking Powder And Baking Soda Both Provide Three Similar Main Functions
- Leavening: Baking powder and soda release gases that form bubbles, which expand within the batter or dough during the baking process. The protein in the batter or dough then sets around those air pockets. This creates rise and lift in the structure of your baked goods.
- Tenderizing: As the gases form and expand, cell walls in baked goods begin to stretch and thin. This results in a more tender texture that’s easier to eat.
- Provide flavor: Small amounts of chemical leaveners can contribute a salty, sour flavor that is distinct to baked goods like biscuits, scones, or Irish soda bread.
Why It’s SO Important to Use a Leavener in Most Recipes
Take a look at the image below to see what happens when NO chemical leavener is used in my Ultimate Muffin Recipe, compared to using both baking powder and baking soda. The muffins without any leavener are extremely dense and almost taste unbaked, despite being baked for the exact same amount of time as the other!
What is Baking Soda and How Does It Work?
Baking soda, also known as bicarbonate of soda and referred to scientifically as sodium bicarbonate, is a natural pure alkaline substance, activated by moisture and acid present in the batter or dough, to produce gas. There must be some acidic ingredient in the recipe for baking soda to function. Naturally acidic ingredients that will activate baking soda include:
- Sour cream
- Lemon juice
- Natural aka unsweetened cocoa powder (NOT Dutch-processed)
- Unsweetened chocolate
- Brown sugar
- Fruits & fruit juices
Baking soda begins to leaven as soon as it touches the liquid present in the dough or batter. This means that if you wait too long before baking, you may notice a decrease in leavening effect (especially in wetter dough or batters).
In professional baking, this is referred to as ‘bench tolerance,’ or how long a batter or dough can be stored before it has lost its leavening. For recipes that rely mostly on baking soda for their structure which are also full of moisture, such as certain cake batters, they shouldn’t be stored too long before baking.
If you use too much baking soda, you may taste an unpleasant metallic, soapy, or bitter flavor in your food. This can happen by accident by mismeasuring or when making other changes to an established recipe.
How Baking Soda Changes Baked Goods
- Baking soda elevates pH.
- Baking soda helps add a beautiful browned color to baked goods by elevating pH levels.
- A higher pH in baked goods can affect color, flavor, texture, and gluten development! For example, baking soda in brownies or gingerbread enhances the deep dark color and smoothes out the chocolate flavor.
- Baking soda is also present in baking powder, but in a smaller amount, so it has a lower pH level which results in less browning.
- Baking soda in cookies leads to more spread and a crispy edge compared to baking powder, as shown in the photos below.
How to Test Baking Soda for Freshness
Since baking soda must be fresh to work properly, it’s important to switch out your container before the expiration date. However, baking soda can lose its effectiveness even before that date. Here’s how to ensure your baking soda is still effective:
- Place 1/4 teaspoon baking soda in a bowl and pour 1 teaspoon of distilled vinegar on top.
- If the baking soda immediately bubbles violently, it is fresh.
- If nothing happens, throw away the baking soda and buy a new package.
What is Baking Powder and How Does it Work?
Baking powder is a combination of:
- Baking soda
- An acid (usually cream of tartar)
- An anti-caking agent (such as cornstarch)
Because it contains both the acid and the base necessary for the desired chemical reaction, your batter or dough doesn’t require additional acidic ingredients to work properly. All baking powder needs to be activated is moisture and heat! This makes baking powder a complete leavening system.
Most products available in the U.S. today are double-acting baking powders, meaning it reacts twice. Its first reaction occurs when combined with liquid to help aerate the batter or dough, and a second more slow-acting reaction occurs when heated in the oven. This means that baking powder-leavened doughs and batters have a better bench tolerance and can be stored and baked at a later time. If using aluminum-free baking powder, I recommend looking for one that is also marked as double acting, for best results.
How Baking Powder Changes Baked Goods
- The small amount of cream of tartar in baking powder decreases pH and weakens gluten.
- In recipes like muffins, biscuits, and cakes, many of which rely entirely on baking powder, this results in a tighter, whiter, and delicate texture.
How to Test Baking Powder for Freshness
Baking powder can lose its effectiveness before the expiration date. Here’s how to check it’s still active:
- Place 1 teaspoon of baking powder in a small bowl with 1 cup of hot water from the tap.
- If it bubbles up, the baking powder is fresh.
- If nothing happens, throw the baking powder away and buy a new container.
Why do Some Recipes Not Call for Baking Powder or Baking Soda?
The recipes where you don’t need a chemical leavener are usually:
- Recipes using yeast, which is an organic leavener that also works by producing gas bubbles (like bread)
- Baked goods that whip lots of air into the batter, or use whipped egg whites to leaven (like certain types of cake, such as a Angel Food Cake)
- Or are custard-based (like ice cream or crème brûlée), where rich creaminess is the desired texture.
Strength of Baking Powder vs. Baking Soda
It’s important to understand that baking soda is four times stronger than baking powder. This means 1 teaspoon of baking powder will raise a cup of flour, whereas only a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda can produce the same effect. A general rule of thumb is that ½ teaspoon of baking soda is neutralized by 1 teaspoon of lemon juice or vinegar.
How to Store Baking Powder and Baking Soda
Purchase in the smallest size feasible based on how often you bake and use chemical leavening agents. Store in a cool place in an airtight container. Air and light can cause them to lose their effectiveness before their expiration date, which is why I included freshness tests above.
Which is Better: Baking Powder or Baking Soda?
Neither one is better than the other, they are simply used depending on the chemistry of the recipe, how it will be handled, and what the desired outcome is.
Take a look at some of the experiments Team Handle the Heat performed using baking powder and baking soda.
Below you’ll see the same exact base muffin recipe baked in the same trays at the same temperature for the same amount of time. The only difference is the chemical leavening agent used.
- Baking powder muffins: These were tall, light, slightly delicate, fluffy, and cakey. They were evenly domed on top. These were my favorite, followed by batch 3 which contained both.
- Baking soda muffins: These were slightly more browned, they had very tall peaks in the center, and they had an ever so slightly sour taste. Almost like there was sour cream in the batter (there wasn’t).
- Both baking soda and powder muffins: These muffins were the most browned and caramelized and had a more springy texture.
- No leavener muffins: These were leaden, dense, rubbery, and really just a doughy, inedible mess.
We repeated the same experiment with my Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe.
- Baking powder cookies: These were extra thick and tall, not chewy, more fluffy, and not quite as flavorful.
- Baking soda cookies: These cookies were well browned with slightly crispy edges, chewy interiors, and regular thickness. They didn’t stale as quickly so they were more shelf stable. They were my favorite!
- No leavener cookies: These were dense, heavy, and had a similar texture to Mexican Wedding Cookies.
Why do Some Recipes Use Both Baking Soda and Baking Powder?
As you can see above, sometimes we want the best of both worlds! Some recipes call for both baking soda and baking powder in order to have the highest effect of acid-neutralizing and leavening powers.
More Science of Baking Articles:
- Natural Cocoa vs. Dutch Process Cocoa Powder
- Active Dry Yeast vs. Instant Yeast
- How to Measure Flour
- Everything You Need to Know About Sugar in Baking
- Kosher Salt vs. Sea Salt vs. Table Salt
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Photos by Joanie Simon | The Bite Shot.
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Portland, OR is located in the north end of the Willamette Valley and along the south side of the Columbia River. Vancouver, WA is on the north side of the river from Portland. The area is dominantly a maritime climate keeping air generally too warm at the surface in low elevations to support extended periods of ice and snow. The Cascade range to the east blocks cold air from easily flowing west into the area if cold air is already sitting in the flatter portion of the Columbia Basin from Eastern Washington southwest into adjacent North Central Oregon. The Rocky Mountains extending from Southeast British Columbia and Southwest Alberta into Northeast Washington and south through Idaho block cold air from moving southwest out of the Western Canadian Prairies as a cold high pressure system slides south from the prairies into the Western Plains of the United States. Dense cold air must somehow squeeze its way through the mountain valleys to get into the basin.
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Once cold air gets into the area it is difficult to dislodge. The cold air is trapped between the Cascades to the east and the coastal hill and mountain ranges to the west. Any storm off the Pacific Ocean will likely produce one or a combination of snow, sleet, and freezing rain depending on the strength and depth of the cold air. Not unusual to get a series of snow or ice events before the air at the surface warms above freezing.
One way for cold air to enter the Portland area is through the Columbia River Gorge. If cold air already resides in the Columbia Basin, a high pressure system to the northeast can push low level cold air west through the gorge. A tightening pressure gradient caused by the approach of a low pressure system from the west can help suck the cold air through the gorge.
If cold air is not already positioned east of the Cascades then it has to somehow get through the Rocky Mountain barrier. The Columbia River Valley provides one path for cold air to enter the basin. The Columbia River extends east then turns abruptly north-northwest through central Washington, then northeast through the Rocky Mountains of northeast Washington. It then extends into Southeast British Columbia where meanders a bit. If a strong high pressure system with cold air pushed up against the Canadian Rockies sits to the east or northeast long enough, cold air will flow through the valley and eventually enter the Columbia Basin. From there it can spread south and west into North Central Oregon. Some other points of entry include the
The Pend Oreille River Valley Extends from Northern Idaho into Northwest Washington and the Canadian Border. The Oreille River connects to the Columbia River at the border with British Columbia.
The Okanagan River Valley extends from South Central British Columbia into North Central Washington. The Okanagan River connects to the Columbia River about one-third of the way south into Washington along the east edge of the Cascade Mountain Range.
Cold air can also spread south from the Puget Sound of Western Washington. The cold air is channeled south through Western Oregon between the Cascade Range to the east and the coastal ranges to the west. The cold air often originates from Southern British Columbia. In a process similar to the Columbia River Valley, cold air works its way through the Southern Canadian Rockies along the Fraser River Valley. The Fraser River flows into the Strait of Georgia at Vancouver, British Columbia. The Strait of Georgia connects to the Strait of Juan De Fuca and Northern Puget Sound. Cold air enters the Strait of Georgia then flows south into the Puget Sound region, including Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia.
Columbia River and Columbia Basin Information - Wikipedia
Fraser River Information - Wikipedia
Climatology of the Interior Columbia River Basin - Sue Ferfguson, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA
Garth, K. F., C. F. Mass, G. M. Lackmann, and M. W. Patnoe, 1993: Snowstorms over the Puget Sound Lowlands, Wea. Forecasting, 8, 481-504.
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You may or may not be aware, but today is National Doctors Day. This special day was created to acknowledge physicians and all the great things they do for us. Think about it. Where would we be without intelligent, compassionate doctors?? There are many incredible doctors scattered all throughout the world. On this special day, we want to share with you the story of an amazing neurosurgeon named Dr. Paul Kalanithi. His story is very special and unlike many other physicians’ life stories. You see, at the age of 37, Dr. Kalanithi died of metastatic lung cancer. The inconceivable part? He never once smoked in his entire life. He left behind a wife and infant daughter.
Dr. Kalanithi was a brilliant neurosurgeon and talented writer. He attended Standford University for his undergraduate studies and Yale University for medical school. During that time, he married his wife Lucy who is also a physician. Very quickly, he became a highly skilled and greatly respected neurosurgeon. In 2013, the unexpected happened. Dr. Kalanithi began to develop back pain and ongoing fatigue. He chalked it up to the many hours spent standing and operating on patients. After his symptoms worsened, Dr. Kalanithi visited his own doctor who ordered diagnostic tests. The 36-year-old physician was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
Kalanithi and his wife both understood the diagnosis as well as the prognosis that accompanied it. Dr. Kalanithi was faced with a difficult reality and a burning question: how would he live out the remaining days, weeks, and months of his life? What was his dying wish? For a time, Dr. Kalanithi continued to work. As the cancer worsened, he was no longer able to work as a neurosurgeon. During that time, he and his wife made the decision to have a child even though they knew his cancer would ultimately be terminal. He also decided to write an incredible memoir entitled ‘When Breath Becomes Air” in which he grapples with the question, “what makes a meaningful life?” You can learn more about Dr. Kalanithi and his book here. You can also read his moving essay, ‘Before I Go.’
National Doctors Day Story Of Very Special Doctor
On National Doctors Day, we remember Dr. Paul Kalanithi.
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Why backyard farming is the type of dirty work you want to be involved in
Is urban agriculture just a nice idea, or a plausible reality?
With half of the world’s population now living in cities, a number that is projected to reach two-thirds in the coming decades, people are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food both geographically and conceptually. Food travels greater distances, leading to increased waste, food miles, and supply chain vulnerability.
History tells us that during times of stress people turn to urban agriculture. Therefore, it is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic has seen a resurgence of urban agriculture for its contributions towards food security, health and wellbeing. Moreover, urban agriculture has been identified as a key strategy for adapting to climate change. Recent analysis identified it as a $4 billion growth opportunity for Australia.
So is urban agriculture just a nice idea, or a plausible reality?
Cosmos spoke to Isobel Hume, Dr Matthias Salomon and Professor Tim Cavagnaro from the University of Adelaide's School of Agriculture, Food and Wine about their new study showing why backyard farming is the type of dirty work you want to be involved in.
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That the poverty situation in the Philippines has not improved has been the cause of much concern lately. According to the National Statistics Coordination Board, 27.9 percent of the population currently lives below the poverty line, a figure that was practically unchanged from the figure of 28.6 per cent and 28.8 respectively in the first half of 2009 and first semester of 2006, respectively.
The figures are all the more disturbing because globally, the poverty situation has actually improved since 2005. According to the World Bank, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty — on less than $1.25 a day — fell in every developing region from 2005 to 2008. Moreover, the biggest recession since the Great Depression seems not to have thrown that trend off course. According to the Bank, “The progress is so drastic that the world has met the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals to cut extreme poverty in half five years before its 2015 deadline.”
Debating the causes of global poverty reduction
What accounted for this positive global trend since 2005? One school of thought is represented by Brookings Institution researchers Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz, who claim that the “stunning progress” is due to “the rise of globalization, the spread of capitalism and the improving quality of economic governance – which together have enabled the developing world to begin converging on advanced economy incomes after centuries of divergence. The poor countries that display the greatest success today are those that are engaging with the global economy, allowing market prices to balance supply and demand and to allocate scarce resources, and pursuing sensible and strategic economic policies to spur investment, trade and job creation. It’s this potent combination that sets the current period apart from a history of insipid growth and intractable poverty.” In short, the key for Getz and Chandy was market-oriented or neoliberal reforms, also known as “structural adjustment,” that radically reduced government intervention, eliminated barriers to trade and capital flows, and promoted privatization.
Seemingly convincing, this explanation, when subjected to close analysis, falls apart. There is another, and indeed, more credible way, of interpreting the results. The dismal period of little progress from the 1990s to 2005, occurred during the high noon of neoliberal reform and globalization. This was the period of widespread structural adjustment in the global South. As admitted by Chandy and Gertz themselves, this period of so-called economic reform had the following features: “Excluding China, the…decrease in global poverty becomes an increase of 100 million. In the world’s poorest region, sub-Saharan Africa, the poverty rate remained above 50 percent throughout the period, which, given the region’s rapid population growth, translated into a near doubling in the number of its poor. Similarly in South Asia, Latin America and Europe–Central Asia there were more poor people in 2005 than there were a quarter of a century earlier.”
So what accounted for the improvement in the global poverty picture since 2005?
What happened was that from the early 2000’s, governments the world over began throwing off the shackles of neoliberalism. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, Latin American countries were the most ardent followers of neoliberal reform. But with little to show for this except deepening poverty and rising inequality, many governments radically change course in the first decade of the 21st century. Government intervention, economic nationalism, redistributive populist policies that promoted both equity and expanded internal markets, and the commodities boom triggered by China’s development made up a potent combination that reversed trends in poverty.
In Africa and Eastern Europe, the story was much the same: a pragmatic shift away from neoliberalism. In East Asia, most countries, with the exception of the Philippines, managed to avoid comprehensive structural adjustment even as they rhetorically praised market reforms to high heavens. And in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998, most threw off or softened the neoliberal measures they had selectively adopted, like capital account liberalization.
Departures from orthodoxy
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What are the implications for the Philippines, one of the countries that bucked the trend towards reduced poverty? One lesson is that the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program is not enough. As Jose Ramon Albert, the secretary general of the National Statistical Coordination Board, has written, “(T) he CCT is not expected to immediately yield significant changes in incomes that will make the poor cross the poverty line, as it is investment in human capital—particularly in education and health, where the impact may be seen in five to 10 years.”
The CCT is meant to contain poverty, to prevent it from getting worse. It merely serves as a supplement to a more comprehensive strategy designed to spur development, create jobs, and reduce poverty. That comprehensive strategy is what is missing. It is the reason why significant gains in the war against poverty continue to elude the Aquino administration.
Encouraging signs, discouraging signs
Nevertheless, there are encouraging signs. Contrary to the views of ultra-neoliberal economists like Bernardo Villegas, passage of the Reproductive Health Law is recognition, albeit belated, that the gains of economic growth are for naught if they just get channeled to consumption by a rapidly growing population instead of serving as investment for expansion of the economy. Slowly, there is seems to growing realization that the neoliberal paradigm that we absorbed from the International Monetary Fund and the so-called Chicago School of Economics is fundamentally flawed. For example, the Department of Trade and Industry has created an “industrial policy” task force that envisions, rather timidly though, a greater government role in picking and supporting industries that would create jobs, diversify the economy, and trigger sustained development. Industrial policy is taboo among neoliberals.
For the most part, however, our policymakers are imprisoned in the neoliberal paradigm. The Central Bank and Department of Finance continue to see inflation as the dragon to be slain, biasing them against an active and flexible fiscal policy that would put the focus on job creation. Another article of faith is being a “model debtor.” Consequently, religiously paying the foreign debt according to the harsh terms of the creditor now regularly takes up 20-25 per cent of the government budget, restraining spending for infrastructure that has been identified by many as one of the key bottlenecks to sustained growth and leaving little fiscal space for funding pro-poor initiatives. Guided by the idea that it is foreign corporations and the rich that are the source of wealth, the government is stuck with tax, investment, and incomes policies that favor these groups while shifting the burden of providing revenue to the middle class and the poor via VAT and excise taxes. Structural reforms that would raise the incomes of the poor and make them a source of demand to spur economic growth are either stalled or moving at a snail’s pace: agrarian reform, for example, is scheduled to end in the middle of 2014, yet over 900,000 hectares nationwide remain to be distributed to land reform beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the World Bank-derived mantra of “inclusive growth” serves as the rhetorical canopy for a comprehensive proactive macroeconomic strategy that does not exist.
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The Computer Revolution
If there's one thing that galls me (as my old publisher would say), it's a Doubting Thomas. Especially one that moans when the medicine they are being given is for their own good! You see, I've been receiving a bit of unjustified flack of late from several Doubting Thomases, regarding the undue amount of coverage SOS gives to computers.
Let me dispel some fears by saying that Sound On Sound is not a computer magazine and never will be; it is a hi-tech music recording magazine. From its inception, Sound On Sound has devoted editorial space to music software and the computers used to run that software. If it appears that we are now giving greater emphasis to computer products, it is with good reason. If we did not, we would be failing to do our job properly.
How come? Well, doesn't it seem rather academic to review a sophisticated piece of software like C-Lab's Notator or Jim Miller's Personal Composer, with their emphasis on scorewriting, without discussing how you can print out your finished work? It does to us, that's why last month's issue carried a review of a Citizen printer and an overview of 24-pin printer technology.
Now you may well feel that if musicians want to know about "boring printers" they should read a computer magazine. Fine. Just find me a computer magazine that even mentions music printing, let alone discusses the incompatibility problems you will encounter when you attempt to print out your latest masterpiece. I wouldn't bother looking if I was you, because you won't find any! But when those Doubting Thomases are tearing their hair out because the printer driver supplied with their latest all-singing, all-dancing program will not drive that very expensive laser printer they just pawned their car phone for, I'm sure they'll be very glad SOS was there to help, don't you?
As technology advances, it is blurring the distinction between all manner of disciplines. Nothing is black and white anymore, just shades of grey. In such a climate, it becomes increasingly difficult not to discuss computers - especially in a magazine that deals with MIDI. Terms like 'bandwidth', 'sampling rate', 'Fast Fourier Transform', 'MIDI baud rate' and 'interpolation' are used with gay abandon by many of today's musicians, yet 10 years ago such phrases would never have been heard outside of an A-level Physics class!! My, how the world turns...
I can tell you now that 1989 will herald yet another revolution in an area related to computers and music - and Sound On Sound will be there at the start to help blaze the trail. Next month's issue will launch a major new force in the world of hi-tech music that will have repercussions throughout the industry. What is it? You'll have to wait and see!
Meanwhile, enjoy this issue, and on behalf of all at SOS may I wish you a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.
Editorial by Ian Gilby
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Java adult cyber sex chat
After a trial ended in a hung jury, Naughton struck a plea agreement where he took a reduced sentence and admitted that he traveled from Seattle to Los Angeles last September with a "dominant purpose" to engage in sexual acts with "Kris LA", an online chat buddy he believed was a 13-year-old girl.Cybersexual Addiction has become a specific sub-type of Internet addiction.People who suffer from low self-esteem, a severely distorted body image, untreated sexual dysfunction, or a prior sexual addiction are more at risk to develop cybersexual addictions.In particular, sex addicts often turn to the Internet as a new and safe sexual outlet to fulfill their compulsions without the expense of costly 900-lines, the fear of being seen at an adult bookstore, or the fear of disease among prostitutes.As a prototype, Naughton wrote a small browser, Web Runner, later renamed Hot Java.He was the author of "The Java Handbook", (ISBN 0-07-882199-1, Osborne, 1995) and co-author of Java: The Complete Reference, with Herbert Schildt (ISBN 0-07-882231-9, Osborne, 1996) In 1998, Walt Disney Internet Group acquired Starwave and amalgamated it with Infoseek in the Go Network company. Selector .selector_input_interaction .selector_input. Selector .selector_input_interaction .selector_spinner. The Stealth Project was soon renamed to the Green Project with James Gosling and Mike Sheridan joining Naughton.
Early studies show that men are more likely to view cyberporn, while women are more likely to engage in erotic chat.
Cybersex has become a popular activity in many chat rooms.
When all of the participants are adults, the use of a chat room to exchange sexually explicit messages or to arrange meetings is usually not illegal, but problems arise when one of the chat room participants is a minor.
Sexual compulsivity over the Internet is not just a result of deviant individuals engaged in acting out, but with remarkable speed, the mental health field has witnessed those with no prior criminal or psychiatric history engaged in such behavior online.
The ACE Model of Cybersexual Addiction is used to explain how the Internet creates a cultural climate of permissiveness that actually serves to encourage and validate sexually deviant behavior.
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"Being a proletariat doesn't stop me from saying the truth, my king" she studied his expression for the slightest Change but sigh in defeat then looked away when she found none "you can't force me to live with you, so just let me go"
"Oh, how sweet you are lollipop, seems to me you've forgotten"
"Forgotten what?" She asked tersely with a questioning frown whilst staring at him in the shadow he stood, the faint glimmer of light from the sun shining on his face, and the mischievous glint in his bright metallic eyes, a combination which made him looked no less than the devil he was.
"You were born to ruin me lollipop, you don't realize that, do you?"
Throughout eons, the spiritual power of both the earth and the underworld gave birth to chaos. Sent under the aegis of the Redgrave, an elite group of officials that guided the throne.
His power grew at an unstoppable rate. The divine and demonic being absorb power from the weaker creatures with only a touch. Making him no less hungry and thirsty for blood, an unbridled passion to cause bedlam.
Ascending the throne, he came to find out an immortal with hate for the crown and he that wears it eluded the blood feud—which he created— between the Vampyres, daemons, lupines, witches, and the being, prophesied to end his reign.
King Artrell Lucian Redgrave vows to stop at nothing until he brings this 'immortal' down. A task difficult for any creature.
An end to the chaos,
A touch of death......
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Between the ages of two and four, the human brain has an estimated one quadrillion synapses – the electrical connections between neurons.
That is the highest it will ever have, but as the world is not run by 3-year-olds, it shows that more synapses do not necessarily mean higher intelligence.
Pruning out extraneous synapses to enable existing ones to run more efficiently is just as important as forming new cellular connections.
An imbalance between synapse formation and removal has been linked to psychiatric disorders, including autism and schizophrenia.
UC San Francisco assistant professor Anna Molofsky, MD, PhD, is researching how these two processes occur normally during brain development in the hope of determining how subtle shifts in balance lead to neurodevelopmental disorders.
Her research was recently recognized with a prestigious National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award and a Pew Investigator award.
“Most of the psychiatric diseases that we deal with are in some form or another neurodevelopmental, whether it’s early childhood experiences that increase your propensity to develop depression and anxiety later in life or whether it’s abnormalities in brain development that lead to autism and schizophrenia,” explains Molofsky, who is a practicing psychiatrist and trained as a cell and molecular biologist.
The Immune System of the Brain
Instead of focusing on the neurons themselves, Molofsky, a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, is interested in glial cells, such as astrocytes and microglia, which are commonly thought of as the support cells of the brain.
Astrocytes have been shown to play a role in synapse formation, while microglia are implicated in pruning. Glial cells are also instrumental in the brain’s immune system, and immune signals communicate with the brain through receptors located on these cells.
The immune system can thus influence brain development by affecting glial cells that control synapse remodeling.
As a result, Molofsky says that glial cells and the brain’s immune system may be a better target than neurons to intervene during childhood development.
“It’s very hard to target neuronal wiring, but it’s much easier to target glia, which are fundamentally very plastic cells,” she says.
“In terms of designing treatments, it’s important to think about the cell type that’s the most malleable, and the immune system is a potential point of intervention.”
Immune Proteins and Their Role in Malleability
Molofsky is currently researching the immune signal interleukin 33 (IL-33), which is expressed in astrocytes and correlates with synapse formation. She discovered that as the brain matures, IL-33 expression goes up, thereby enabling more pruning of synapses.
Molofsky first identified IL-33 through a screen to see which genes astrocytes express. Coincidentally, her husband, Ari Molofsky, MD, PhD, an assistant professor at UCSF specializing in immunology, studies the same immune signal.
“It’s a bit of a natural collaboration because I’ve been a glial biologist for some time, and glial cells are some of the major actors in neuroimmune diseases,” she says.
The two are now collaborating to study how the immune system communicates with the brain.
Molofsky wonders if treatment with IL-33 or other immune proteins can make the brain more malleable in adults.
Increasing neural plasticity may help with conditions linked to pruning, such as autism and schizophrenia. It may also be beneficial for patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury where the brain is forced to rewire to cope with the trauma.
“Their brain is incredibly plastic, more plastic than we would think,” she says. “Understanding how these developmental mechanisms either exist in adulthood or can be coaxed into working to help the brain to remodel could potentially be beneficial for psychiatric diseases.”
Source: Dana Smith – UCSF
Image Source: Zuzana Krejciova.
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Updated: Nov 18, 2020
Projectile motion is a form of motion where an object moves in a bilaterally symmetrical, parabolic path. The path that the object follows is called its trajectory. Projectile motion only occurs when there is one force applied at the beginning on the trajectory, after which the only interference is from gravity.
What are the Key Components of Projectile Motion?
The key components that we need to remember in order to solve projectile motion problems are:
Initial launch angle, θ
Initial velocity, u
Time of flight, T
Horizontal velocity, Vx
Vertical velocity, Vy
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With the increasing rates of obesity and issues related to being overweight, people are inclining towards eating fruit instead of dessert when they long for something sweet. We are all aware of the goodness of the nutrition, fibers, minerals and vitamins that are packed into fruit. No wonder eating fruit grants you immense peace and satisfaction that you are safe from the unwelcomed side effects of white sugar.
Most health experts recommend including fruit in your daily diet to improve your overall health. But did you know that consuming more than the recommended amount of fruit per day is counteracting your efforts when trying to lose that stubborn fat?
Fructose is the Culprit
Fruits are composed of healthy nutrients such as fructose, carbohydrates and a simple sugar. Most dieticians suggest consuming moderate amounts of fructose when you are on a diet plan. Studies indicate that consumption of excessive amounts of fructose can drastically increase insulin levels, which interfere with the body’s ability to burn fat.
The liver helps to process fructose and stores it in your body as fat so that it can be used when you require energy. Diabetic patients and individuals who are trying to lose fat should be careful when eating foods that are composed of sugars, especially fructose.
What Do Studies Have to Say?
Numerous studies have been carried out in order to determine the effect of fructose on weight gain. One major study conducted by the Produce for Better Health Foundation concludes that most people in the United States usually consume less than a bowl of fruit each day. If you are not trying to lose weight, the increased fructose level may not do you any harm, especially if you are eating a moderate amount. However, if you are already overweight or obese, consuming large portions of fruit can make it difficult to lose those extra pounds.
What Other Foods Contain Fructose?
Fructose is found not only in fruits, but also in many other food products that you consume every day. Fructose is found naturally in agave, honey and fruit juices. Moreover, lots of processed foods on the market are sweetened with fructose. You will find that condiments, breakfast cereals, corn syrup, juices, yogurt and even bread contain fructose as one of the ingredients. If you are trying to shed weight, remember to read the labels on foods you are buying to check the ingredients.
Make Sensible Choices
If you eat lots of fruit, limit your daily servings to stimulate your body to lose weight faster. You can also look for fruits that are low in fructose. Choose your fruit sensibly so that you can remain healthy while trying to get in shape. The best bet is to choose dark fruits as they are thin skinned and full of antioxidants, as compared to thick skinned and light coloured fruits.
Some other fruits that you can include in your diet are green apples, raspberries, cranberries and blueberries. These can help to reduce glucose response and slow digestion. Berries contain polyphenols and when consumed along with the high-glycemic foods they can stimulate your body to produce a lower insulin response. If you feel like having sweeter fruits like cherries, dry fruits or mangoes, save them for special occasions.
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Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Gluten Free? Find Out Here!
High fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch and sugar, which has been processed to remove any proteins. The final product is then mixed with water.
So, corn starch does contain some gluten, so we recommend buying organic foods if you suffer from celiac disease, as regular cornstarch might be a trigger for allergies.
What foods contain high fructose corn syrup?
High fructose corn syrup is found in many processed food items – from bread and cereals to candy bars and soft drinks.
The government has recently passed legislation requiring manufacturers to label all sweeteners used in processed food products with the amount of added sugar they contain.
Some commercial food content changes their labels to say “no HFCS” or “HFCS-free”, but this doesn’t always mean that it’s completely free of HFCS.
If you’re concerned about your diet, try to avoid processed foods and stick to fresh fruit and vegetables instead.
How can I tell if my food contains high fructose corn syrup?
The supplier of food ingredients does not have to list the exact percentage of an ingredient on the packaging, however, they must state whether or not there are any traces of gluten present.
Some people with celiac disease may react to the presence of gluten in certain types of foods, such as wheat flour. If you suspect that you are sensitive to gluten, check the ingredients listed on the packaging carefully.
If you find that you cannot eat anything because it contains gluten, you should contact the manufacturer directly to see if they can provide you with a suitable alternative.
What is a food sweetener?
Food sweeteners are often used in baking, cooking, beverages, candy making, and other food preparation. They provide sweetness without adding calories.
Some examples include honey, molasses, agave syrup, maple syrup, brown sugar, barley malt syrup, rice syrup, sorghum syrup, golden syrup, xylitol, erythritol, stevia, aspartame, sucralose, and saccharin.
People having gluten-free diet must avoid this sweetener in food. The food stores stock gluten can be replaced by these sweeteners.
Is high fructose corn syrup safe for me?
Yes, high fructose corn syrup is perfectly safe for those who don’t have celiac disease. It’s important to note though that some people with celiac disease can still experience symptoms when consuming foods containing high fructose corn syrup.
It’s best to avoid using high fructose corn syrup in your diet if you have celiac disease.
How high is fructose corn syrup used in gluten foods?
Gluten food uses 1/3 less sugar than regular food. The remaining two-thirds come from fructose, which is about 50 to 60 percent fructose, 40 to 50 percent glucose.
These percentages don’t mean much for humans since we are not able to digest pure fructose.
Even though fructose is sweeter than glucose, when it is mixed with other sugars like lactose and sucrose, they blend together and create sweetness.
However, when fructose contains only one sugar molecule, it acts differently and creates different effects in your body than if it were combined with another type of sugar.
Fructose is metabolized differently than other sugars, so it affects metabolism differently. For example, fructose raises blood pressure more than glucose does.
This means that even though fructose is sweeter, it also causes more harm than good.
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Famous Comics Visualized as Dime Store Paperback Novels
There are many ways to pay homage to one's favorite comics, but I haven't seen anything I've watched to applaud recently as much as the paperback reimaginings of Steven Finch (a.k.a. Fonografiks). He's transformed comics like "Daredevil: Born Again," "Power Pack," "The Incredible Hulk" and "The Fantastic Four" into dime store novel designs, complete with the distressed covers you'd find at your local bookstore.
Finch says he has more on the way, but check out his current set after the jump.
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A distinction must be drawn between diseases specifically affecting the nervous system, and those which affect the whole metabolism, and produce nervous signs.
Many paralysis problems can be caused by birds flying into walls, windows or falling off furniture or its cage to the floor when wings are clipped too severely. This can cause brain, spinal and/or nerve damage or blood clots which can cause instant paralysis or slowly paralyse the bird. Read the guide for wing clipping before you attempt it to prevent the bird injuring itself.
Nervous signs indicating involvement of the functions of the nerve tissue, are extremely common in cage and aviary birds. At times they are so spectacular as to obscure the real reason for their appearance; the important lesions may often be in organs remote from the main centres of the nerves. Signs of nerve involvement can be divided into three main groups; those where normal function is lost or impaired, e.g., paralysis, blindness; those where activity is increased, such as excitement and twitching; and those where function is obviously deranged or abnormal, such as convulsions, throwing back the head, and asymmetrical leg or wing movements. The paradox of such a grouping is that all three types can be outward manifestations of the same disorder. The causes of nervous clinical signs can be listed as follows:
1. Pressure on the brain, spinal cord or a nerve-for example, by a tumor, inflamed tissue, blood clot or depressed fracture.
2. Inflammation or destruction of a portion of nerve tissue resulting from injury, infection or poison.
3. Tile loss of full nerve function involving brain and/or spinal cord and nerves. This can result from circulatory or respiratory disorders resulting in a lack of the oxygen vital to the health of nerve tissue, or from infectious diseases which cause a high body temperature or pyrexia and thus interfere with brain metabolism.
4. Abnormal development or functioning of nerve tissue due to a deficiency of vitamins or other nutriments.
5. Pain which causes reluctance to use a part of the body such as a limb or the neck, and is manifested as a type of paralysis.
6. Scarring or fibrosis and contraction around nerve tissue, resulting in the stretching or strangulating of a nerve.
7. Immobilization of a joint by fibrous tissue or bone proliferation, leading to degeneration of muscle then nerves, and finally nerve atrophy.
8. Abnormal levels of calcium or magnesium due to disorders of the parathyroid glands producing twitchings, or coma and death.
Other endocrine disorders may also be involved, but are mostly unproven: thyroid deficiencies and excess have been shown to cause changes in nervous, as well as chemical activity. Nervous signs can be divided into generalized and local; this is a practical approach, but by no means always a reliable distinction. When a leg is partially or completely paralyzed the cause generally lies somewhere between the spinal cord and the affected part. Convulsions and incoordination however, are generalized signs and suggest brain involvement, although paralysis may also be produced by quite a small lesion in the brain or brain stem.
Paralysis of The Legs And Feet:
This type of paralysis includes that of the toes and foot; "sliptoe"; clenched feet; "cage paralysis" and flaccid and spastic paralysis or paresis of the whole or part of a leg. A painstaking examination is necessary, not only of the limb but also of the entire bird, before the causes of most of these clinical signs can be elucidated. On many occasions the cause cannot be found during life, and even a detailed necropsy using laboratory aids seldom provides the reason for the symptoms. Nevertheless these disorders are extremely common in cage birds. Firstly, such external factors as cold, draughty or wet quarters, predisposing chills or inflammation of nerves, muscles or joints (neuritis, myositis or arthritis) must be ruled out. A viral infection, such as Newcastle disease or Marek's disease, or a dietary imbalance may sometimes be implicated. It must be realized that quite often a diet which contains the bare minimum of vitamins or amino acids, just adequate for the growth of young stock, can be made deficient in vitamins by adding a high protein food supplement. Conversely, adding high-energy foods such as oil-rich seeds, can adversely affect the enzyme systems of the body and increase the deficit of amino acids and vitamins in the diet. Some of these induced deficiencies may be recognizable in chicks and growing stock; but they are also believed to occur in adults, although little critical experimental work has been carried out on mature birds. Deficiencies are most likely to appear in growing chicks, breeding females and ailing or aging birds.
Specific lesions involving the spinal cord or nerves to the legs are difficult to pinpoint unless they are very large, and therefore they can usually only be suspected on circumstantial evidence. They include tumors of these structures (rare even in budgerigars); bony protuberances of the vertebrae which pinch the spinal cord, sciatic or other large nerves as they emerge from the spaces between the vertebrae; Marek's disease; injury; local infections and other inflammations of the nerve trunks or spinal cord.
In addition, there are conditions which appear at first sight to be paralysis of some kind, when in fact the lameness is due to interference with the functioning of bones, muscles, joints, ligaments or tendons. In this category can be included fractures, bony or other growths involving the muscles or the tendons passing over bones or joints, arthritis, sprains, perosis, cut or torn tendons or muscles, scar contractions, "bumble foot" and severe "scaly leg". In order to try and diagnose these disorders it is necessary to examine the posture, general health and mode of walking and flying. The hand should also be passed gently over the entire bird, particularly the loins and hip region. In the case of so-called "cage paralysis", "clubbed foot" and "sliptoe", which are sometimes different degrees of the same processes, nothing may be found by such examinations. The next step is to supply a vitamin supplement, either as an elixir or preferably by injection. It should contain riboflavin, nicotinic acid, thiamin, biotin, choline, vitamin B12, vitamin E and the amino acids, lysine, cysteine and methionine. If the cause of the paralysis is a dietary deficiency or imbalance, the bird will generally recover in from one to three weeks or sometimes in a few days after such treatment.
If in spite of combined medical treatment and supporting dressings the use of the limb does not return, it is likely that the paralysis has not only worsened, but that there is a spinal swelling or other deformity present, such as a tumor or bony masses (exostoses), causing pressure. With disuse, muscles will atrophy and they may even be partly replaced by scar tissue, so that the tendons will contract causing the limb to hang in a flexed position. A useful indication of true nerve involvement is when only one group of muscles, such as the flexors or the extensors of the knee, hock or toe joints is affected. Usually the muscles supplied by the damaged nerves are soft and flaccid, but sometimes they are tense, contracted fully or spastic. In complete, flaccid paralysis the leg will stay more or less in whatever position it is placed. In the spastic type, on bending or flexing the joint or limb and releasing it, the leg springs back to the straight or extended position. With a knowledge of anatomy of the nervous system, it is possible to determine which bundles of spinal nerves are involved and sometimes pinpoint the trouble. Unfortunately however, this does not indicate the type of treatment required, although it does tend to limit the cause to a local lesion rather than a dietary deficiency or other generalized disorder. Paralysis of both legs is serious, since birds are unable to take off without the use of their legs. However, unless the condition also involves the wings, a bird with paralyzed legs can fly quite strongly once launched.
Paralysis Of The Wing:
The procedure for diagnosing the causes of paralysis of the wings is similar to that for the legs, but wing paralysis is much less common. Frequently one wing tip or wrist joint is seen to be held higher than the other, and the wing tips are often crossed. When the bird is held by its legs in an upright position and lowered sharply, the weaker wing spreads less fully and may beat at a slower rate than the normal wing. This may be due to nervous incoordination or ataxia of the wing, but it may also be because of muscle injury, pain, fracture, sprain or dislocation of the shoulder or elbow joints, bone tumors or arthritis. Paralysis or weakness of both wings, strongly denotes a spinal or hind-brain lesion, or occasionally viral infections such as New-castle and Marek's diseases. Damage to one side only of the brain or spinal cord, will produce effects in only one wing. Most unilateral wing disabilities are due to lesions of the wing, and in budgerigars the various types of tumor associated with the elbow region come high on the list. In most other species, bone and joint injuries are the commonest causes.
In true paralysis involving some nerve tissue damage, medical treatment is generally useless. Provided the limb is rested, injuries will often heal without treatment. Tumors involving the brain or spinal cord are untreatable. When the brain lesion is a hemorrhage from cranial damage, or a disorder of the cardiovascular system, some arrest of the process may be possible through changes in diet, exercise or management. Usually, however, it is only a matter of time before the trouble is seen to be incurable and sudden death may follow at any time after the onset of signs. If breeding stock is involved, it is probably best to destroy affected birds unless the cause is dietary.
Paralysis Of The Neck:
Some signs of this are when the bird is constantly looking up or down or its neck is twisted sideways or even upside down. This is relatively uncommon in birds but does happen. The so-called "limber-neck" of some birds and waterfowl due to botulism, and the type of neck paralysis seen in turkeys due to deficiency of folic acid are rarely if ever met with in cage and aviary birds. Most cases are due to severe injury to the head or neck; concussion or hind-brain damage, general weakness or brain tumors. When brain tumors are present, however, twisting or torticollis "star-gazing" or other grotesque attitudes are more common than a lowering of the head. Generally treatment is useless. This can also be a result of a seizure or stroke where it has lost use of those muscles to straighten up properly.
Tremors, Shivering And Twitching:
These signs may indicate a highly nervous temperament, chilling, low blood magnesium as the result of parathyroid disease, other metabolic disorders or deficiencies in the diet. They may also occur in the early stages of infectious diseases; as the result of heat stroke, certain poisonings, particularly by insecticides containing phosphorus; carbolic acid poisoning, overdoses of some drugs an8 also when there is loss of body fluids caused by hemorrhage, exudations, diarrhea or vomiting. In order to ascertain the possible cause of these signs it is necessary to investigate all aspects of management, especially in relation to other birds kept on the same diet or with the sufferer. When there is a flock problem which has arisen over a short period, poisoning or dietary deficiencies such as calcium and/or magnesium, should be suspected. Slow rhythmic twitches of a part of the body, such as a wing are rare, but occasionally met with in parrots and budgerigars. The cause is unknown and treatment usually ineffective, although vitamin supplements and sedatives will sometimes produce some relief from the violent twitchings.
Fits, Convulsions And Epilepsy:
Convulsions of various types are quite common in cage birds and are sometimes a prelude to death. Birds may have short-lived but recurrent attacks, which subside after a week or two but recur months later. Some birds completely recover either with or without treatment. Usually, however, the convulsions become progressively more severe or frequent and the bird eventually dies. Epilepsy, or epilepsy-like convulsions are named after the well known but still incompletely understood disease of human beings. In cage birds only some of the characteristics of epilepsy occur. The bird may be sitting quietly on its perch when it suddenly cocks its head as if looking or listening for something: the eyes remain open and the muscles become rigid. This is followed by rapid vibration of the wings, these being raised a little from the body. In some cases the feathers are erected, the whole body becomes involved in the violent movements, the legs stretch out and the bird thrown off its perch, to lie unconscious and still convulsing. After several seconds the vibrations lessen, the wings slowly return to the closed position, the bird moves its head, and then struggles with difficulty to its feet. It usually sits on its breast some-what dazed for a matter of hours before returning to its former activity and alertness. Additional signs which are sometimes seen, include throwing back of the head (so-called "star-gazing"), deviation of the tail sharply upward or to one side, a croaking sound as if the thoracic muscles are forcing air out of the partially closed throat and temporary paralysis. Involuntary excretion of faeces or urine is uncommon; the salivation which occurs in man is unknown in avian "epilepsy".
Fits or convulsions of this kind can be caused in several ways. In young stock, deficiencies of riboflavin, thiamin, nicotinic acid, other vitamins and amino acids may be responsible. In older birds, hormonal imbalances may be at least contributory causes, or more rarely, tumors or other lesions of the pituitary gland. When birds of all ages and especially several species are affected, toxic seed dressings such as organophosphorus pesticide poisoning should be suspected. If a more limited number of birds appear sick and die after a series of convulsions, then an acute bacterial infection may be suspected. Toxemia from massive liver or kidney destruction--whether by infectious, metabolic or poisonous agents--is also a relatively frequent cause of convulsions prior to death. In the isolated bird, fed on a reasonably satisfactory diet, changes in the circulation, or more probably brain disorders resulting from an inefficient blood supply to the brain, are more likely causes. Inactive, middle-aged and obese birds, especially if pampered and fed on unnatural tit-bits, are most prone to convulsions. Even moderate exertion, such as a panicky flight around the cage brought about by the presence of a cat or strangers, may be sufficient to start a series of fits. Sometimes, however, they start spontaneously or when the bird is handled and can be immediately fatal. The cause may be oxygen starvation to the brain or even rupture of its blood vessels due to a sudden increase of blood pressure.
Convulsions may result from poor nutrition, poor oxygenation or local pressure on nerve cells. It is probable that, in addition to a weakened heart or blood vessel walls due to fatty infiltration, the adrenal cortical tissues of affected birds are incapable of adequate hormone production. Convulsions and other evidence of brain or nerve damage may sometimes be due to concussion. Flying into an object, or even tight wire netting, can cause severe hemorrhage inside the cranium and produce nervous signs, often only a short while before death.
In all cases, a full clinical examination is necessary before the cause of any type of fit can be found and treated. It is essential to provide affected birds with complete quiet, a dim light and a concentrated, balanced and easily digested diet. An adequate supply of fruit, green stuffs, yeast, egg, liver, and wheat germ is advisable, with meat or gentles in some cases. Perches should be placed across the floor of the cage. The temperature should be kept constant between 60° and 70°F (15° and 21°C). If recurrences of the fits are expected a mild sedative such as metoserpate hydrochloride or metomidate hydrochloride, an anticonvulsant drug or a tranquilizer, such as acetyl promazine or chlorpromazine, may be used under the supervision of a veterinarian. When an infectious disease or other organic disease is suspected antibiotic or other treatment may be necessary. In most cases, except those of dietary origin or as the result of a minor injury, the prognosis is poor.
Fainting And Vertigo:
Loss of consciousness without convulsions, is not infrequent. It may follow staggering or other types of incoordination, such as circling or rolling. It probably arises from causes similar to those which produce the epileptic type of convulsions. Vascular or cardiac diseases causing anemia or anoxia of the brain cells are among the reasons. Overdosing with certain drugs and affections of the balancing mechanism in the middle ear are occasionally responsible, hence the name "labyrinthine vertigo". Signs of dizziness or fainting should always be considered potentially dangerous. Although hereditary tendency to these conditions has been noted in canaries and some other birds, this has not yet been fully studied and the composition of the diet and general health should always be checked first.
Hysteria And Excessive nervousness:
Some individuals as well as certain species are notorious for their excessive excitability in response even to quite normal sounds or visual stimuli. Hyperexcitability is liable to be hereditary in nature, although a placid bird can be rendered excitable by subjecting it to irregular hours of artificial light, incorrect handling or frightening situations. Hyperexcitability is often associated with gasping and panting respiration's and many birds affected in this way are incurable. Others slowly recover after a period of repeated sedation or tranquilization. Hysteria is essentially a functional disorder and post-mortem examinations often fail to reveal the cause.
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On the use of a parallel object-oriented code for solving the heat transfer in hermetic reciprocating compressors
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The heat transport phenomenon in a hermetic reciprocating compressor is addressed in this work. This is far from straightforward. It involves several transient physical phenomena interacting to each other. The heat is exchanged between the refrigerant fluid and the solid parts of the compressor (suction muffler, cylinder head, crankcase, etc.). At the same time, the solid parts exchange heat to each other by means of conduction and radiation. Moreover, the phenomenon happens in non-symmetrical complex geometries and the solid parts are made of different materials. This is interesting from both the software engineering and the compressor design viewpoint. A parallel object-oriented software platform for the resolution of multiphysics problems is employed. This platform allows the use of partitioned strategies so that the compressor heat transport problem -a global problem- can be divided into several smaller parts -local problems-. This makes possible the use of multilevel modeling strategies for thermal systems analysis. Furthermore, in order to couple the several sub-problems in an integrated simulation, the platform provides data transfer tools -for matching and non-matching meshes- to exchange sub-domain state information. In particular, the work provides detailed information on the heat distribution and the temperature of the components of a test compressor. By means of comparative studies the thermal properties of some of its components are analyzed. This highlights the importance of choosing proper materials. For example, different suction muffler materials are tested to investigate their influence on the volumetric efficiency. Since the whole compressor is simulated, the consequences of altering specific component properties are also appreciated on the other components. In sum, the work presents illustrative numerical results of the three-dimensional heat transfer in a compressor that show the potential use of computer simulation to support design of components to attain feasibility and energy efficiency.
CitationLopez, J., Rigola, J., Lehmkuhl, O., Oliva, A. On the use of a parallel object-oriented code for solving the heat transfer in hermetic reciprocating compressors. A: International Compressor Engineering Conference at Purdue. "23rd International Compressor Engineering Conference at Purdue 2016: West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 11-14 July 2016". West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University, 2016, p. 1508/1-1508/10.
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- In South Africa, tobacco companies big and small use all sorts of schemes to dodge the taxman. Our reporter, Joan van Dyk, got the details of exactly how these scams work from Johann van Loggerenberg, a former executive at the South African Revenue Service.
- “Sin spies”, “travelex spies”, “fixers” and their impact on South African society are all documented in Van Loggerenberg’s 2019 book Tobacco Wars, along with other types of bad actors in industry, law enforcement, and the legal fraternity.
- This type of fraud has a human impact as well: Van Loggerenberg was the target of an organised smear campaign, and his family was spied on.
Danny Booysen is a freelance audio technical producer and has over 30 years of experience in the broadcast industry.
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But I still think of him everyday and miss the happy moment we shared.
I am not sad about the breakup anymore and have moved on with my life. I just can't stop thinking of him.
What can I do to change this? Or is it okay to miss him?
Is it stupid if I try to move to his city in the future?
Don't answer something like move on or date someone else, because I'm not looking for a relationship now...:/
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What is IIoT?
Terms like IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and predictive analytics have been buzzwords for some time. But many people seem to have different ideas of what these technologies are, how they relate to one another, and what they can achieve. To strip away the confusion, let’s take a closer look at IIoT and predictive analytics as well as the potential they hold for oil and gas companies, refineries, and petrochemical facilities.
First, let’s dive into IIoT. In simple terms, IIoT refers to devices that are embedded with technology which enables them to connect to infrastructure. Common examples include smart hubs that can automatically adjust lighting, air conditioners, heaters, and other devices, depending on when people are likely to need them. Sounds similar to a thermostat, right?
But unlike a thermostat, which is set to perform a command once the environment reaches a specific temperature, or an infrared sensor that turns on the lights when someone enters a room, IIoT technology can track behaviors and learn over time.
Download this whitepaper to learn more about IIoT and predictive analytics!
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Going to the Eye Doctor in NYC?
Come ready for your next eye exam with Dr. Alan Schlussel
Regardless of how old you are or your physical health, it’s important to have regular eye exams.
During a comprehensive eye examination with Dr. Alan Schlussel, your eye doctor will determine your prescription for eyeglasses or contact lenses, and will also examine your eyes for commonplace eye disorders. Dr. Schlussel will also evaluate how your eyes work together and assess your eyes as an indicator of how healthy you are.
Eyecare specialists suggest that you have a complete eye exam every one to three years, depending on your age, any risk factors you may have, and your physical health.
Children. Some eyecare experts estimate that approximately 5% to 10% of pre-schoolers and 25% of school-aged children have vision issues. According to the American Optometric Association (AOA), every child should have an eye exam at 6 months of age, at age 3 and again before school begins. Children who have no vision issues or risk factors for eye problems should have an eye exam at least every two years throughout school.
It’s important that children with current vision issues, or any risk factors, should have their eyes checked more frequently. Common risk factors for eye problems include:
- premature birth
- developmental delays
- turned or crossed eyes
- family history of eye disease
- history of eye injury
- other physical illness or disease
The AOA suggests that children who wear eyeglasses or contact lenses should have their eyes checked at least once per year, or according to their doctor’s instructions.
Adults. The AOA recommends that any adult who wears eyeglasses or contacts have an annual eye examination. If you don’t generally have vision problems, you should have an eye exam every two to three years up to the age of 40, depending on how quickly your vision is changing, and your overall health. Doctors often suggest that adults with diabetes, high blood pressure and other disorders have more frequent examinations as many diseases can have a negative impact on vision and eye health.
The risk of eye disease continues to increase with advancing age, so everyone over the age of 60 should be examined yearly.
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CDC/ Dr. Philip S. Brachman, 1961, ID #4509
I once heard it said, “Not everything is Lyme Disease, but Lyme Disease CAN BE EVERYTHING.”
Rashes are now a part of your life. Bizarre, hard to pin down, skin markings are your new norm. Sometimes they itch, sometimes they burn – but everyone, including your doctor, scratches their head.
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Slapped+face+disease One such rash is caused by the human parvovirus B-19, a member of the Parvoviridae family of viruses that lives in the infected’s nose and throat. It is spread via the air through coughing and sneezing, and is just one more pathogen that attacks the red blood cells. It can also be spread congenitally and through blood products.
There is a blood test that is 92-97% specific which tests for a particular antibody or protein the body produces in response to the infection. The patient has a bright red rash on the cheeks, and it appears as if the face were slapped. Also, note that there can be joint pain often in the hands, knees, and feet. Other symptoms include fever, headache, and a runny nose.
“Some people may get a second rash a few days later on their chest, back, buttocks, or arms and legs. The rash may be itchy, especially on the soles of the feet. It can vary in intensity and usually goes away in 7 to 10 days, but it can come and go for several weeks. As it starts to go away, it may look lacy.”
Other possible causes that need to be ruled out include: rubella, Mono, allergic reactions, Lupus, and yes – Lyme Disease.
Coexistent lyme disease and parvovirus infection in a child
Infectious diseases commonly cause illnesses that mimic rheumatic diseases. Both Lyme disease and Parvovirus B19 infections produce arthritis, rashes, and a systemic illness that may be thought to represent a chronic rheumatic disease. In the case presented, a child with both infections simultaneously exhibited arthralgias, aseptic meningitis, and a facial rash. The features of Lyme disease and Parvovirus B19 infection that may mimic systemic lupus erythematosus include a facial rash, often in a malar distribution, hematologic abnormalities, arthritis, neurologic disorders, and autoantibody positivity. Given the proper season and geographical location, one must consider the possibility of co-infection with these two organisms, especially in those with atypical rheumatic complaints.
Since this is a virus, there is no specific treatment, but there is much you can do to make your body a tough target. Read here: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/combating-viruses/ Also, please know that as you treat MSIDS, you are automatically making your body a tougher target for viruses as well. Often, those that have a high ANA (antinuclear antibody), which is indicative of Lupus, are pleased to find that as they treat MSIDS, their numbers return to normal. Even in a normal population, 20% have high ANA. Other conditions that are possible are: thyroid disease, certain liver conditions, and other autoimmune diseases (i.e. Lyme Disease). http://www.lupusny.org/about-lupus/ana-test
In the immunocompromised it can cause chronic anemia.
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The poor part of Medellin have got massive outdoor escalators, that brings the poor citizens up 28 floors. This is a gift for the poor citizens and the Mayor already noticed lower crime because of these escalators. The best thing, its free to use for everyone. Good work Colombia, and we at Distrita hopes that other countries does something good for their poor citizens also. Kudos for Colombia.
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MINERAL PRESERVED eDNA
Extracting ancient environmental DNA (eDNA) from soil and lakebed sediments has provided a whole new insight into mega-faunal demography, plant, animal and microbial diversity.
The starting point of the eDNA research is the extraction of DNA from associated sediments. The extraction procedures are optimized as far as the current knowledge allows, but the extractions still introduce a bias in the extracted data, simply because some mineral-DNA bonds are stronger than others and respond differently to extraction solutions. The few approaches taken to study the strength and stability of the DNA-mineral bonds treat the adsorption of DNA to minerals at the bulk level and the information obtained is mostly qualitative and, therefore, hard to extrapolate to systems outside the range of the experimental system and conditions. Additionally, this lack of understanding prevent us from quantifying if the extracted DNA is of primary origin or if has been remobilized and also limit our focus to well preserved deposits and therefore limit the scope.
My group and I are using nanoscale techniques in combination with environmental samples to unravel the DNA-mineral affinities at different environmental settings. Techniques include atomic force microscopy, FTIR and XRD.
Ioannis Kontopolos has started his postdoctoral experience
in April 2020 to work on reaction kinetics of DNA-mineral
associations in the environment. He was awarded a Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-
MSCA-IF-EF-ST) for our DENMARK project (below).
THE DENMARK PROJECT
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is trace amounts of DNA released by organisms into water and sediments. It has recently attracted a lot of attention as it can be a valuable tool for detecting present and past organisms without the need to directly sample them. However, biotic and abiotic decay has severe effects on DNA survival. The adsorption of DNA to mineral surfaces in sediments have been shown to protect DNA molecules and decrease the DNA decay rate. Understanding which minerals and environmental conditions provide the best preservation of adsorbed DNA can thus allow us to:
a) target such environments for paleoecological and palaeogenetic studies;
b) serve as a quantitative tool for assessing DNA migration, i.e. is the recovered eDNA autochthonous?;
c) significantly advance eDNA extraction and analysis protocols by targeting and extracting eDNA from specific minerals.
Ioannis approaches will include extraction techniques, atomic force microscopy, and in-situ liquid cell FTIR
I am looking for students with knowledge of
geology, chemistry, bioinformatics or microbiology
to look into different aspects of how to optimize retrieval of DNA from sediments.
We will be using surface science and a range of spectroscopy and microscopic approaches. No knowledge of those is required beforehand.
Send an informal email for for more info: email@example.com
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This workout is deceptively challenging. 'Officially' a level 2 if you take part without the weights, but probably a level 3/4 with the weights. Low Impact Intervals is a rounded cardio workout that boasts high duration and set length - but due to its low impact pedigree, is suitable for EVERYBODY to take part in.
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What is Yoga?
Yoga is Sanskrit term (yuj) meaning to yoke or to bind oneself to a practise of discipline. It unites the mind, body and spirit. The practice of yoga uses Asana's (physical poses) and Pranayama (breath work) designed to strengthen the core, provide flexibility to your muscles, calm the mind and reduce your stress levels.
What does OM mean?
Om is a mantra (powerful sound or vibration that is used to enter a state of meditation) and is known as the sound of the universe. You can hear it in the rustling leaves, the waves of the ocean and inside of a seashell. This sound is usually used at the end of a yoga class.
Is Yoga a religion?
Yoga is not a religion; it is an Eastern Indian philosophy that has been used for over 5000 years. Yoga can interweave itself into different spiritual practises such as Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is not necessary to follow these paths to practise yoga.
I’m not flexible, can I do
Absolutely!!! Yoga is not designed for a specific body type; it is created for everyBODY. The more you practice yoga, the more limber you will notice your body becoming. Start with a gentle class and work into a regular schedule and you will notice the change your body takes over a short period of time. Still unsure if this practise is right for you? Chat with your teacher and explain your apprehensions, they are trained to guide you through every posture and technique to ensure you get the most out of the teaching.
What do I need to begin?
You need patience with yourself, especially if this is a new journey, and an open mind. For a more comfortable practise it is helpful to bring the following:
- A non-glass bottle of water. We have water on the premises to refill reusable bottles, but in an effort to reduce our footprint, we do not provide disposable bottled water.
- A yoga mat. Mats are available for rental and purchase. (Must be a Yoga mat, not an exercise/foam mat).
- Loose, comfortable clothing such as leggings or shorts and a loose tee or tank
- Any props you have that may help you in your practice. (Note: The studio will provide props necessary for each class).
- A blanket, scarf and/or eye pillow for meditation and Savasana.
- A towel if you find you sweat during practise.
- Bare feet or yoga socks, the studio is a footwear free environment. (Note: Regular socks cannot be worn during practice)
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Nordkapp, also called The North Cape, has historically had an entrance fee of around 250 – 300 NOK per adult who wanted to enter the characteristic viewing deck that is mainland Norway’s northernmost point.
A 30 year long political and legal battle has recently concluded (hopefully!), and the verdict is clear: It is not legal for Scandic (the company who operates Nordkapp) to demand an entrance fee for access to a place that is considered a natural attraction. This means that you are now allowed to enter and enjoy beautiful Nordkapp for free!
However, Scandic really wants to make money, and they still have entrance booths were you are urged to pay.
You can choose to enter Nordkapp (The North Cape) without paying at the entrance booth, but you will not be permitted to enter the visitor center without paying. But you are completely free to decline to pay the entrance if you only want to see the monument and other outdoor structures.
The “entrance fee” at Nordkapp is made to confuse tourists
When you approach the Nordkapp area, you are greeted by what looks exactly like a toll booth. This was originally used to collect the entrance fee when Nordkapp did have an entrance fee, but the booth is still standing as before.
These days, the toll booths collect the entrance fee for access to Nordkapphallen, a type of visitor center that offers exhibitions, a movie, and includes the history of Nordkapp.
The big thing to keep in mind is that the entrance fee collection booths are fully optional if you just want to visit the outdoor installation at Nordkapp, but this is not intuitively clear.
You are free to pass these without paying, but many tourists end up paying at these, thinking that they have to. The people collecting the entrance fee is not going to tell you that it’s optional unless you actually ask them!
This behavior has gotten the company behind Nordkapphallen a lot of heat from the local government, but they are still doing it. They might be forced to change their ways in the future, but this is what the reality is like in 2023 at least.
That said, paying the entrance fee to Nordkapphallen might be worth it, since it’s a pretty cool visitor center! I would personally not recommend skipping it, but if you’re visiting Norway on a budget, you might just want to enjoy Nordkapp’s outdoor areas.
The entrance fee to the visitor center is 320 NOK for adults and 90 NOK for children. So many families of 4 who’ve paid over 800 Norwegian kroner ($80 USD) to get access, only to find out that it’s actually free, are obviously feeling like they’ve been scammed or tricked.
The local government has been very angry with Scandic for this deceiving entrance fee (as you can read about in the Norwegian newspaper NRK’s article here), and has even filed police reports against Scandic because they feel that tourists are tricked into paying.
A brief history of the legal battle of The North Cape
While there’s been a lot of debate over whether or not it should be free to enter Nordkapp, the company who held the rights to the area were allowed to collect an entrance fee to the area until 2019.
There has been many smaller legal and political battles until then, but things really took off in 2019 after Norsk Friluftsliv (The Norwegian Association for Outdoor Organisations) officially filed a complaint against the company responsible for the area (Scandic).
Norsk Friluftsliv argued that it is illegal to collect entrance fees to a natural area that is part of the public domain. All areas that are designated as unfenced land (called utmark in Norwegian) is public domain in a way that it allows anyone to use the land, so preventing people from entering would be illegal.
This has to do with Norway’s freedom to roam laws, allowing all citizens to use unfenced land in any way they wish, including harvesting berries, going on hikes, pitching your tent for a few nights, or go ocean fishing without having to pay for it.
The region government (Statsforvaler) agreed with Norsk Friluftsliv, and demanded that Scandic should stop collecting an entrance fee to the plateau.
But the conflict didn’t stop with that!
Scandic still wanted to make money of public land, and as the right holders to the area, they began charging 200 to 300 NOK parking fees for any cars who wanted to park near the plateau.
However, that did not sit well with the local government either, and they demanded for Scandic to stop collecting parking fees in 2021, after choosing not to grant Scandic a license to collect parking fees in the area.
While this might seem like a quick and easy story, Scandic has fought the government in the courtroom a total of three times, but have also lost all three cases.
It now seems like Scandic will even be forced to make it more clear that the entrance fee booths are optional, and visiting Nordkapp is once again completely free for anyone.
It’s also important to keep in mind that the actual law is pretty complex, and there’s a reason why the legal battle has been going on for 30 years now. So there is a lot more nuisance to the case than we’ve managed to include in this brief overview.
Local governments can also choose to make certain areas exempt from the public domain, even if they are utmark, which they have done to Nordkapp in the past, but this exempt has long expired.
Nicklas is the owner and editor of The Norway Guide, and is responsible for most of the content on the website.
He lives in Skien, Norway with his wife and two children. Nicklas is specialized in Norwegian ecology (including Norway’s geology, wildlife and flora) from his degree in Ecology And Nature Management at University of South-Eastern Norway, but has a particular interest in tourism and content creation.
His biggest hobbies are fishkeeping, going on hikes with his dog, and rooting for the local football team.
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The former Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation founded the RES in July 2006 as a response to the need of the Spanish scientific community for increased computation capacity and access to intensive calculation resources, considering the supercomputing resources as a decisive asset for the scientific and technological development of the country. The RES consists of a distributed virtual infrastructure of supercomputers located in different sites, each of which contributes to the total processing power available to users of different R&D groups. Currently, the supercomputers are located in Extremadura (Extremadura Center for Research, Technological Innovation and Supercomputing), the Canary Islands (Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias), Castilla y León (Castilla y León Supercomputing Center), the Universities of Cantabria, Autónoma de Madrid, Málaga, Valencia and Zaragoza, CESGA, and CSUC, with the coordinating body being the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). The RES not only provides supercomputing resources, it also offers service of technical support to users as well as specific training. Moreover it organizes users’ meetings and scientific seminars. The goal of these actions is to improve the efficient usage of the resources and expand the use of supercomputing to all the research areas.
The SCBI of the UMA, located in the technological park of Andalusia, hosts the Picasso computer which began operations in February 1997, serving since then to the scientific community. In 2007 there was a turning point, when the University complemented the supercomputing facilities with bioinformatics tools and experts. The services offered by the SCBI are as follows: access to High Performance Computers, assistance and advice on the use of scientific applications and programming, training courses for users, software adapted to the researchers needs and specialized support for bioinformatics data analysis. Picasso stands out because of its seven shared memory computers, each with 2TB of RAM and 80 cores, which enable dealing with problems that would be impossible to solve with a classical cluster architecture. It also has 89 computers, with different technologies, so each researcher can use seamlessly, through a queue system, the one most suitable for each problem. Picasso provides 27% of its resources to the RES.
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Immigration and STEM
When Vinson graduated college in 1988, India wasn’t producing enough jobs to employ all of the well-trained engineers pouring out of its colleges. Many of these graduates went to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, or the United States in search of work.
Like many immigrants, Vinson applied to study in the US and moved away from his homeland in search of a better economic future. “No one really wants to leave where they were born to [go to] a foreign land just for the sake of traveling,” Vinson says. “That is called tourism. [Immigrants] leave because they need to.”
In the 80s and 90s, America’s technological prosperity created more STEM jobs than Americans could fill. As a result, many other immigrants like Vinson flooded in, particularly from STEM-heavy Asian countries.
The Secret behind Smart Asian Kids
Today, as a result of America’s reliance on Chinese and Indian workers, many non-Asian Americans have stepped back from studying STEM. Unfortunately, public schools have also allowed STEM to take a back seat.
While American children as a whole lag behind the world’s STEM scores, Asian-American kids hold their own. This begs the question:
Are Asian kids inherently better at math and other STEM subjects than other kids?
Of course not, Vinson says. He believes the widespread success of Asian students is due to the serious approach of parents. It’s not that their kids are naturally good at math. Rather, Asian-American parents go out of their way—often with great financial sacrifice—to provide after-school education programs that focus on fundamental arithmetic and phonetic-based English.
Vinson suggests that integrating this approach into public education would go a long way in reducing the minority gap in low-income areas.
“Schools are supposed to understand what needs to be done for minority children; but instead of doing that, they’re saying we should distribute resources from the successful Asians….Why don’t we just figure out why they’re doing better? Schools are playing politics with this discrepancy,” he says.
“If we know that this is what’s needed for poorer areas to get better, then why don’t we use these techniques in public schools?” Vinson asks.
He continues, “I grew up middle class, my dad had a government job, and I attended public schools in India. My engineering degree was from a public institution in India. Quality public institutions make ordinary, middle-class people like me be able to cross over into more abundance and more success. We can do whatever we want now that we have moved up in the economy. [That is] all possible because of good public schools.”
He fears that America’s current preoccupation with racial outcomes will distract from true solutions and weaken STEM. “Why can’t we think beyond skin color and try to understand the root cause—and try to repeat it for other communities?”
“School boards are not doing this. Ordinary citizens have to step up to get into these school boards…so we can influence the policy and make change happen. I think a good public school system is so essential for America to remain on the cutting edge and to be the leader of the world.”
What Parents Can Do in Public Schools
Vinson believes that parents are the first line of defense for their children’s futures. Recalling his days as an involved public school parent, he confesses, “I didn’t understand how [the school system] operated…We have to pay more attention to what’s going on around us….If ordinary parents are sitting on these boards, then what they do will be in the best interests of the children and the community.”
While many people pay close attention to national elections, many forget that local politics influence everyday life—“kitchen table issues,” as Vinson calls them.
Unfortunately, as he points out, local elections typically have poor voter involvement. For example, only a third of Virginia voters participated in the last election for local officials.
“We should not wait until something boils over; we have to be aware before these things come,” he says of parental involvement in schools. “Parental input has to be the primary driving force for school boards to operate. What do the parents in your community want? That’s what the leaders in the system should be doing. That’s not happening because we don’t demand it.”
For parents who want to get more involved, he recommends a few strategies:
- Attend PTA meetings
- Get to know your school board representative and establish a relationship
- Find out how many board members serve your child’s school
- Talk to your school board member about education policy issues so they can present your thoughts to the school board
If you and other concerned parents want to get more STEM programs in your local public school, Vinson believes this is a great place to start.
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European film industry
The EFARN brings together researchers actively involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on the European film industry. This 15th anniversary publication presents a selection of studies from its members, giving an overview of current research topics, from VOD to gender statistics.
This report provides the key figures on: The weight of the UK within the EU audiovisual market; Co-productions between the UK and other EU28 countries; Import/ export of films between the UK and other EU28 countries; The circulation of audiovisual services between the UK and the EU.
This report presents the evolution of online video sharing, the main players, and the relationships with the programmes’ creators. It analyses the usage of video sharing platforms and their business models. It discusses the potential impact on the audiovisual sector.
"Focus 2018" contains all key figures of the film industry in the most important countries. It provides a concise analysis of results and tendencies country by country, together with recent figures.
This report defines international film co-production, describing the different legal instruments thereof available in Europe. Statistics on co-production volume, admissions and circulation of European co-productions through the different release windows (overall and by country) are also provided.
Recognized by professionals and decision-makers across the audiovisual industries, this publication provides the analysis and intelligence necessary to gain a comprehensive overview of recent key trends in the audiovisual sector.
This report gives an overview of the origin of films in TVOD and SVOD catalogues in Europe.
Commissioned by the European Commission, the analysis measures the Eastern European population with access to cinema theatres within a given catchment area, as well as the number of cinemas, theatres and screens by country. Moreover, it addresses the issue of cross-border cinema attendance.
How are European films and TV series promoted on VOD: key figures and detailed statistics by origin of content and categories of players.
The circulation of EU non-national films - A sample study: Cinema, television and transactional video on-demand
How do European films circulate in cinemas, TV and TVOD? This report presents a European overview and a country by country analysis of film exports and imports, including a focus on co-productions
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Mitzi Kart, West Linn, OR
I have been lampworking and working with fused glass for 16 years. I create fused glass functional artwork and art pieces to enjoy. My love of the Pacific NW inspires my art from abstract to impressionism.
As I design an art piece, I try to imagine it finished. How will my art interact in its environment and how will it elicit a response from the person viewing it? I use a variety of ground glass, called frit, to build layers in the glass. I also work on the glass torch, called lampworking, to make intricate components to create even more layers. The result is a complex degree of depth that plays with the viewer's eye, giving textures and images that you don't usually associate with fused glasswork.
I sell my work at art festivals in the pacific NW and at my Square Up Market Place and Etsy both under the name mitzi-kart.
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A new mathematical model has brought together the physics and chemistry of highly promising lithium-metal batteries, providing researchers with plausible, fresh solutions to a problem known to cause degradation and failure.
A mathematical model of the body’s interacting physiological and biochemical processes shows that it may be more effective to replace red blood cell transfusion with transfusion of other fluids that are far less in demand.
The ERE professor is collaborating with the University of Montpellier to study how newly developed subsurface temperature experiments can improve our ability to identify major fractures and estimate their properties.
New Stanford study describes a model for designing novel materials used in electrical storage devices, such as car batteries and capacitors. This approach may dramatically accelerate discovery of new materials that provide cheap and efficient ways to store energy.
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Once again, the bar has been substantially lowered. ADP is projecting employment gains of 64,000, to be released this Friday. The government is projecting a 100,000 employment gain number. The bar has been lowered sufficiently. It's a no-lose proposition. Any jobs gains should rally the markets. Anything less than these lowered expectations, or, should job growth be negative, the markets will rally anyways, as interest rate cuts will then be baked into the market cake. Statistics are fun and useful.
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Building strong relationships with customers is a crucial aspect of any successful business. Here are some tips on how to build strong relationships with your customers:
Provide excellent customer service:
Make sure your customers feel valued by providing prompt, courteous, and attentive service. Respond to their questions and concerns promptly, and go the extra mile to exceed their expectations whenever possible.
Be honest and transparent:
Build trust with your customers by being honest and transparent about your products or services. Be upfront about any limitations or shortcomings, and work to resolve any issues or concerns that arise.
Listen to feedback:
Encourage your customers to provide feedback, and actively listen to their suggestions and concerns. Use this feedback to improve your products or services, and to show your customers that their opinions matter.
Personalize your approach:
Treat each customer as an individual by personalizing your approach. Remember their name and preferences, and tailor your interactions to their specific needs and interests.
Offer value-added services:
Provide additional value to your customers by offering value-added services such as free samples, loyalty programs, or special promotions. This will help to build customer loyalty and encourage repeat business.
Stay in touch:
Stay in touch with your customers by sending regular updates, newsletters, or special offers. This will help to keep your brand top-of-mind and reinforce your relationship with your customers.
Overall, building strong relationships with customers requires a customer-centric mindset, a commitment to excellence, and a willingness to go above and beyond to exceed expectations. By following these tips, you can create a loyal customer base that will support your business for years to come.
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Nanomedicine is an interdisciplinary field, still in its infancy, where an accurate scientific assessment of potential risks and benefits is urgently needed, as is the engagement of end users and the public in this facet of the nanotechnology debate. There is increasing interest in improving our understanding of the interactions between nanomaterials and living systems, with regard to both the underlying chemistry and the physics of effects on the nanoscale. Ultimately, such knowledge promises new vistas for designing the ‘smart’ medicines of the future, of which targeted personalized drugs are the holy grail. Imaging and therapeutic components, including metallic radioisotopes, semiconductor quantum dots and magnetic materials, may be used to construct ‘nanocarriers’ (by encapsulation or conjugation) by rapid and simple (covalent and supramolecular) chemistry. The biomedical functions of the resulting materials are as yet largely unexplored. Encapsulation in nanocarriers could achieve delivery of the reagents (imaging and therapeutic drugs) to the sites of action in the body, while minimizing systemic toxicity and enzymatic degradation. These functional systems have the potential to become a general solution in drug delivery. Here we review recent developments concerning the applications of nanoparticles, including carbon nanotubes, as synthetic scaffolds for designing nanomedicines. This article will also focus on how understanding and design at the molecular level could help interdisciplinary teams develop research towards new diagnostics and therapeutics both in the short and the long term.
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Giardia heat resistance. Related Posts
- Teljes publikációs lista
- Biokémiai és Molekuláris Biológiai Intézet | Tudóstér
- Giardia Cyst Morphology
- HU0301939A2 - Új probiotikumok hobbiállat-eledel kompozíciókhoz - Google Patents
- Jelenlegi hely
- Colony enumeration and detection
- Enterobiosis hány illeszkedik
- Lista exportálása irodalomjegyzékként
- Fésüs László
Indication Abdominal cramps Constrictive intermittent abdominal discomfort resulting from the spasm of an internal organ. Abnormal sperm morphology Sperm with a double tail or no tail; a sperm head that is crooked, has double heads, or is too large. Abscess tooth A contained collection of liquefied tissue known as pus reacting as a defense to foreign material. Absentmindedness Preoccupation so great that the ordinary insistence on attention is avoided. Abuse trauma Trauma caused by being intentionally harmed or injured by another giardia heat resistance.
Ache Pain identifyed by persistent and usually limited intensity.
- Férgek, mint férgek az emberekben
- Giardia parasiet hond behandeling
- Kötelező paraziták azt jelenti
- Biokémiai és Molekuláris Biológiai Intézet | Tudóstér
- Enterobiosis hány illeszkedik. Kerek férgek (fonálférgek)
Acid reflux A chronic digestive disease occurring when stomach acid or content flows back into the food pipe irritating the lining of the esophagus. Acidosis Excess acid in the body due to the accumulation of acid or the depletion giardia heat resistance alkaline reserves. Acne A common skin disease identified by pimples that surface when pores of the skin become clogged.
Acromegaly Excess growth hormone production in the anterior pituitary gland after puberty. Giardia heat resistance keratosis A small rough reddish colored spot on the skin that comes from too much sun exposure. Addison's disease A long-term endocrine disorder in which the adrenal glands do not produce enough giardia heat resistance hormones. Adrenal fatigue A decrease in the adrenal gland's ability produce a diversity of hormones essential to life, commonly caused by chronic stress.
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Age spots Flat tan, brown, or black spots that vary in size that usually appear on the face, hands, shoulders and arms. Agitation A feeling of restlessness associated with increased motor activity. AIDS or HIV A disease in which there is a severe loss of the body' cellular immunity, greatly giardia heat resistance the resistance to infection and malignancy. Alcohol addiction The frequent intake of large amounts of alcohol, commonly noted by the impairment of regular functioning.
Alertness A measure of being mentally keen, active, and rapidly aware of one's environment. Alkalosis Uncommonly high alkalinity of blood giardia heat resistance body fluids.
A húgyúti fertőzések többségét Gram negatív baktériumok, leggyakrabban az Escherichia coli, illetve a Klebsiella, Proteus, Pseudomonas vagy Enterobacter fajok okozzák, bár más törzsek, így a Staphlyococcus és a Serratia is szerepet játszhatnak a kialakulásukban1. Noha a húgyúti fertőzések általában giardia heat resistance járnak szövődményekkel és rövid antibiotikum kúrával kezelhetők, fájdalmasak lehetnek és ki is újulhatnak. A húgyúti fertőzéseket egyre gyakrabban a gyógyszerrel szemben rezisztens baktériumok okozzák, ami miatt különösen fontos az érintett kórokozó és a rezisztencia mechanizmusának azonosítása, az antibiotikum terápia hatékony beállítása érdekében. A chromID® nagyteljesítményű táptalajjal való tenyésztéssel a kórokozó gyorsan és megbízhatóan izolálható és azonosítható. A kromogén szubsztrátok hatására a tenyészetek színreakciót adnak, amelyet még vegyes tenyészetek esetében is könnyű leolvasni és megszámlálni.
Allergies insect A hypersensitive reaction to an insect allergen. Allergies pet dander An overreaction of the immune system to ordinarily harmless pet dander resulting in skin rash, sneezing or wheezing. Allergies respiratory Uncommon reactions of the respiratory system that arise in response to otherwise inoffensive substances. Alzheimer's disease A progressive neurological disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions. Amenorrhea Women who have missed at least three menstrual periods in a row, as do girls who haven't begun mentruation by age Amnesia A partial or total loss of memory.
Anemia A condition in which there is an unusually low number of red blood cells in the bloodstream. Aneurysm Excessive localized enlargement or ballooning of an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall.
Anger Helminthic betegségek ppt strong feeling giardia heat resistance annoyance, displeasure, or hostility. Angina A condition marked by severe pain in the chest caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. Ankylosing spondylitis AS An inflammatory arthritis affecting the spine and large joints.
Anorexia An emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat. Anosmia Loss of the sense of giardia heat resistance, usually caused by a nasal condition or brain injury. Anthrax A rare but serious bacterial illness typically affecting livestock but can be spread to humans affecting the intestines, skin, or lungs.
Anxiety A mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, nervousness, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities. Apathy A lack of, absence, indifference, or suppression of emotion. Appetite loss of Absence of the desire to eat. Appetite overactivate Excessive feelings of hunger. Arrhythmia An irregularity in the strength or rhythm of the heartbeat. Arteriosclerosis A chronic disease involving the thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, occurring typically in old age.
Arthritic pain Inflammation and stiffness of the joints followed by pain, and swelling that can worsen with age.
Biokémiai és Molekuláris Biológiai Intézet | Tudóstér
Arthritis reactive A chronic form of arthritic joint pain and swelling triggered by an infection. Asthma A respiratory condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing. Typically results from an allergic reaction or other forms of hypersensitivity. Ataxia Loss of the full control to coordinate bodily muscular movement. Atherosclerosis The increase of a waxy plaque on the inside of blood vessels.
Athlete's foot A fungus infection that typically begins between the toes in which the skin starts cracking and peeling away, becoming itchy and sore. Auditory processing disorder A disorder affecting the giardia heat resistance to understand speech in noisy environments, follow directions, and distinguish between similar sounds. Autoimmune disorder A disease in which the body's immune system attacks healthy cells.
Giardia Cyst Morphology
Autointoxication Poisoning by toxins or metabolic waste formed within the body itself. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder A type of eating disorder where the consumption of certain foods is limited based on the food's appearance, smell, taste, texture, or a past negative experience with the food.
Previously known as selective eating disorder SED. Back pain A pain in the lumbar regions of the back varying in sharpness and intensity. Back stiffness Persistent throbbing or stiffness anywhere along the spine, from the base of the neck to the tail bone.
Bacteria Single-celled microorganisms that can exist either as independent free-living organisms or as parasites dependent on another organism for life that thrive in diverse environments.
Bags under the eyes The appearance of giardia heat resistance swelling or puffiness in the tissues under the eyes caused by fluid buildup. Balance problems Symptoms include light-headedness to dizziness and may be caused by viral or bacterial infections in the ear, a head injury, or blood circulation disorders that affect the inner ear or brain.
Baldness Having little or no hair on the scalp. Basal cell carcinoma A slow-growing form of skin cancer with a low metastatic risk. It is the most common skin cancer. Bed bugs Small, oval, brownish parasitic insects that live on the blood of animals or humans. Bed sores A painful reddened area of ulcerated skin caused by pressure and lack of movement.
Bed-wetting Involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control typically happens. Giardia heat resistance sting An injury caused by the venom of bees, usually followed by swelling and pain. Bell's palsy A weakness of paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face causing that giardia heat resistance of the face to droop.
HU0301939A2 - Új probiotikumok hobbiállat-eledel kompozíciókhoz - Google Patents
Usually the result of a virus, respiratory, cranial, nerve or blood sugar issue. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia BPH A noncancerous case of the prostate that causes overgrowth of the prostate tissue and obstructing urination.
Binge Eating Disorder BED A serious eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of compulsively consuming unusually large amounts of food quickly and feeling unable to stop.
Will not use compensatory behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting or over exercising after it. Bipolar disorder A mood disorder characterized by extreme episodes of mania and depression.
Individuals with severe episodes giardia heat resistance experience psychotic symptoms. Also known as manic-depressive illness manic depression MD. Bladder infection Inflammation of the urinary bladder, tipically due to a bacterial infection of the bladder. Bleeding The discharge of blood from the vascular system as a result of harm to a blood vessel.
Blisters from sun A local swelling of the skin that contains watery fluid, caused by overexposure to the sun. Blisters on leet A local protozoan paraziták leishmaniasis of the skin that contains watery fluid, caused by moisture or friction.
Bloating Any abnormal general swelling of the abdominal area with symptoms including feeling full, tight, or in pain.
Colony enumeration and detection
giardia heat resistance Blood clot A thickened lump in the blood formed to stop bleeding, such as at the site of a cut. Commonly known as hypertension. Commonly known giardia heat resistance hypotension.
Blood sugar high Hyperglycemia A condition in which the body does not handle glucose effectively. Blood glucose levels may fluctuate outside of the body's optimal blood glucose range.
Blood sugar low Hypoglycemia An uncommonly low concentration of glucose in the circulating blood. Blood toxicity Occurs when bacteria causing infection in another part of the body enters the bloodstream.
Body dismorphic disorder BDD A type of chronic mental illness in which one cannot stop thinking about a minor or imagined flaw in appearance. Appearance seems so shameful that the individual does not want to be seen by anyone. Body myositis Inflammation of a muscle, especially a voluntary muscle, characterized by pain, tenderness, and sometimes spasm in the affected area.
Body odor An unpleasant smell produced by bacteria on the skin that breaks down the acids in perspiration. Boils Painful, pus-filled bumps under giardia heat resistance skin caused by infected, inflamed hair follicles.
Bone pain Any pain that is associated with an unusual condition within a bone, such as osteomyelitis. Bone spurs Bony projections that develop along the edges of bones. Also referred to as osteophytes.
Brain fog A condition defined by decreased clarity of thought, confusion, and forgetfulness which may lead to minor depression. Brain injury A comprehensive term for any injury occurring in the brain that is typically traumatic. Breastfeeding milk supply Giving a baby milk from the breast, suckling or nursing.
- Bélféreg fertozo, Sütik használata Ezeket az állatról az emberre terjedő betegségeket nevezzük latinul zoonózisnak.
- Adatok a borjak bélflórájának alakulásához kórokozó coli baktériumokkal fertőzött környezetben.
- К немалому удивлению Макса позади платформы на полу обнаружился намалеванный голубой краской большой круг, из которого выбегала широкая голубая линия, поворачивавшая направо в начале лабиринта красных - Ричард и Николь не упоминали о голубой линии, - сказал Макс Роберту.
- Jó és olcsó tabletták férgek számára
Breathing problems A condition in which respiratory function is insufficient to meet the needs of the body when physical activity increases. Brittle nails Brittleness with breakage of finger or toenails.
Enterobiosis hány illeszkedik
Broken bone A break in continuity of bone. Broken capillaries Break in the tiniest blood vessels with the smallest diameter. Broken heart syndrome A severe but short-term condition in which extreme stress can lead to heart muscle failure, feeling similar to the sensation of a heart attack.
Bronchitis Inflammation of the lining of bronchial tubes, which carry air to and from the lungs, resulting giardia heat resistance hoarseness and giardia heat resistance vigorous cough.
Chromium has a role in the regulation of aki pikkelysomorrel rendelkezik metabolism. Creatine is an amino acid which is critically involved in the supply of energy to muscles, by converting ADP back to Rakos so that it can be re-used. Si rakos de una posible intoxicación, busque atención médica urgente de inmediato.
Bruise An injury appearing as an area of discolored skin on the body, caused by a blow or impact rupturing underlying blood vessels. Bruised muscles A deep bruise on a muscle can occur when the underlying fibers and connective tissue of the muscle are crushed without breaking through the skin.
Lista exportálása irodalomjegyzékként
Also known as a contusion. Buerger's disease A blood vessel disease with swelling and blockage from blood clots. Typically caused by smoking. Bulimia A chronic eating disorder involving repeated episodes of uncontrolled eating followed by self-induced purging.
Bunions A bony bump that forms on the joint at the base of the big toe. Burns Injuries to tissues caused by electricity, radiation, heat, friction, or chemicals.
Bursitis Inflammation of the fluid-filled pads that act as cushions to the joints. Calcified spine A spine that is hardened by calcium deposits. Calluses A thickened and hardened part of the skin or soft tissue, especially in an area that has been subjected to friction. Cancer bladder A growth of abnormal cells forming masses giardia vacuna tumors in the bladder.
Cancer blood Leukemia A cancer of blood-forming tissues, hindering the body's ability giardia heat resistance fight infection. Also known as Leukemia. Cancer bone A skeletal malignancy typified by giardia heat resistance mass of unusual cells growing in a bone.
Fergesseg tunetei embernel Jó minőségű paraziták A kerekesférgekben pedig annyira enterobiosis hány illeszkedik a szervezet szabványos alkata, hogy hogy hány sejt van a bélben, hánya kiválasztószervben vagy a kerékszervben, stb. Csupán a fonálférgekben szokott a hímnősség visszatérni és pedig némely. Körhúsok fonálférgek. A kerek férgek számos fajta telepesek az állat különböző belső szerveiben, gyakrabban a bélben. A szívférgek a legveszélyesebbek.
Cancer brain A mass or growth of abnormal cells in the brain or central spinal canal. Cancer breast The development of uncontrolled breast cells causing a malignant tumor. Usually only occurs in women but sometimes is present in giardia heat resistance.
Cancer cervical A malignant tumor of the cervix, the lowermost part of the uterus. Cancer colon A cancer of the colon or rectum, located at the digestive tract's lower end. Cancer follicular thyroid Occurs when cells in the giardia heat resistance undergo genetic changes mutations.
The mutations allow the cells to multiply and grow rapidly. Characterized by capsular invasion and vascular invasion by tumor cells. Cancer Hurthle cell thyroid An unusual form of cancer that affects the thyroid gland. Cancer liver A rare form of cancer that is either initiated in the liver or spread from another part of the body.
Cancer lung Malignant growths of the lung believed to be caused by inhaled carcinogens.
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I was born so long ago that electricity was generated by rubbing wooly mammoths together, and dinosaurs delivered it to the house in wooden pails. That said, I’ve managed to keep up with an amazing growth of technology. I can dinner-party intelligently discuss black holes, string theory and quantum entanglement. I think that the strides we have made have been great, but I occasionally see the Terminator/SkyNet drawbacks. Obviously this post is being done on a computer. Computers are fine, when they work. When they don’t, sometimes I feel we would be better off with the simpler life.
I learned to drive cars that had engines in the front, drive wheels in the back and three-speed, manual transmissions, complete with a clutch. Once upon a time, a 17-year-old kid, with two years of trade school, some spark plug gappers, a pair of Chan-L-Lock pliers and a Phillips screwdriver, could make any car hum like a bee-hive. Nowadays you need an M.I.T. PhD and five years with Apple, before you can get close to one. Everything, EVERYTHING, in cars these days is computer controlled. The small garages are gone, because, mechanics must have fancy, expensive electronic diagnostic equipment. After spending a hundred thousand, or more, for that, they still have to buy $2000+ modules for each new line of cars, from each manufacturer they wish to service.
I bought an 04 Chevy Impala in 05. Good solid, reliable car, or so I thought, probably the last one I will be able to afford to buy before I die. A couple of years later it showed off the first of several little tricks. I didn’t understand the significance then, but after a couple more years and a couple more tricks, I had a talk with my (apologetically expensive) mechanic and put it all together.
My car (most cars? all cars?) has a segment of the computer control system known as a Body Module. This little gizmo manages things like horn, headlights, door locks, etc. Mine has gone psychotic. Oh, when it’s on its meds, everything works fine, but when it’s not, adventure becomes a four-letter word.
The first inkling I had, was one day when I was on my way to work. Turned off the big road to the smaller side road where my plant was. Just around the corner, and opposite my plant driveway, was a Toronto Sun vending box. I stopped for a copy every day. I left the car running, (the car, not me) closed the driver’s door, and walked around the car and got a paper. I went back around to the driver’s side and tried to get back in, only to find that the door was locked. Shocked the hell out of me. What do I do now???
I can get to work, but my work shirt is in my carry bag, along with the food and drink for the shift. My work pants and safety shoes are in my locker, and the keys are in the car. If I walk away and leave it running, someone else might be able to get into it and steal it. If I leave it running, it will eventually run out of gas. When it does that, the lights are on, and the battery will go flat. I walked back around to the passenger side and prayerfully tried the door. IT’S UNLOCKED!! Saved! That company went bankrupt and I lost another job. How often would I need to close the driver’s door, but leave the engine running? It’s happened twice since. At least I know what to do, until the day it decides to lock all the doors.
The next little surprise it had for me was the dead speedometer. Apparently the sensor unit “forgets” to tell the computer controlled motor which drives the speedometer cable, how fast we’re going. This can happen at any time. It’s not too much of a problem if the needle suddenly flops down to zero. I can still drive by ear, the sound of the engine and transmission, the hiss of the tires on the road. All else fails, I just keep up with traffic. The potential problem arises when I’m doing 60, and the needle only falls back to 40. If I think I’ve slowed down and try to pick up speed, I could also pick up a ticket.
Next, it learned how to turn off the traction control and ABS brakes. Usually this only happens at low speed and/or when making a turn. Backing down my driveway and swinging out onto the street got real interesting there, for a while. When the brakes go out, it’s as if there was no power assist. It’s fun getting the big sedan slowed down, especially if you’re not expecting it. Sometimes I can just be feathering the brakes for a stop at a light, and the ABS kicks in. What the hell was that about?
The last little piece of drive-me-crazy conduct is that, the ignition forgets to work. Once in a while, anytime, anywhere, I climb in, insert the key, turn it, and listen to the silent laughter from a car which refuses to start. It doesn’t turn over. It just sits there, while I sit there, even though the wife and I should be on our way to a doctor’s office. Keep trying the key. It could take ten tries. It could take a hundred. Tried all kinds of things to wake the system up. Roll the windows down and back up, lock and unlock the doors, put the gear lever in neutral(and all other gears) and back to Park. If it’s on an incline, like the driveway, let it roll a foot or two and stop, and try it again, and again, and again. Eventually it works.
This has only happened six or eight times, but they seem to be happening closer together. My mechanic told me about a woman who also has an Impala, a year older than mine. She went through this too. It happened more and more often, until she just drove the car into the garage one day, and said, “Call me when it’s fixed.” It’s like the doctors chasing the cause of my vision problem. They think they know what’s causing it, but they can’t treat it ’till they’re sure. They can’t put it on the analyser until it’s broke. So the mech. essentially told me that whenever it won’t start, I should drive it in, even though the drive could make it start working again. If it is the Body Module, parts and labor run about $600.
I’m all for technology, when it does what I want and need it to do, but, if you see me driving past with my feet running under the car like Fred Flintstone, you’ll know what happened.
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Fear of delight
October 24, 2014
Paul KorzeniowskiFear of Joy
Fear of Happiness
" Unhappiness is often considered as something to be prevented, averted or taken away. Yet the latest studies uncover that for some people, feeling good is exactly what scares these people, ” (Rodriguez, 2013). An associate of my very own called me last week worried because every thing in his lifestyle was going right. Steven was frightened something poor was going to happen because he was completely happy. This experienced and brainy person said throughout life, whenever he became triumphant or perhaps ecstatic, he'd wait for anything to come over the hillside. That something unkind, unsatisfactory, or excruciating always generally seems to follow. I discovered with him how he might be having optional insight and was seeing negative events out of undesirable anticipation, instead of from an aligned reason and consequence in which the sensation of joy induced the bad what you should take place in his life. The moment did this notion start to appear in people's minds? For what reason all the unexpected are we afraid to be happy? It is a hard concept to wrap your brain around the anxiety about happiness several experience this kind of phenomenon. Anxiety about Happiness
Backdrop: I could appreciate being scared of spiders, clowns, needles and snakes but afraid of being happy? Today, people think that being pleased with the way their life is heading is a means of showing something wrong is just around around the corner. " Although we appear to idolize happiness as the be-all and end-all of life's desired outcomes, some people, particularly by certain ethnicities, actually dread the state of happiness. In cultures that believe worldly pleasure to be associated with sin, shallowness, and ethical decline will feel significantly less satisfied when ever their lives are (by other standards) running nicely, ” (Whitbourne, 2011). Present Study: People fear great emotions since they chop down like some thing bad will happen the moment they begin to experience happy. There have been two research done on the subject by Mohsen...
References: Whitbourne, S. (2011). 13 of Psychology 's Newest and Coolest Concepts. Retrieved coming from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201304/13-psychology-s-newest-and-coolest-ideasRodriguez, Capital t. (2013). Anxiety about Happiness Underlies Some Mental Illnesses. Gathered from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fear-of-happiness-underlies-some-mental-illnesses/Lambrou, P. (2014). Is Fear of Happiness Genuine? Retrieved coming from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/codes-joy/201405/is-fear-happiness-realStallings, A. E. (n. d. ). Poetry Journal. Retrieved from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/238824
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This Is Not Reform
WHEN THE Democrats took over Congress in November, they promised to legislate differently from their predecessors. Given the slimness of their victory and the voters' pronounced anger at Washington, they had a mandate to dispense with the worst manifestations of craven interest politics and to push for basic reforms in ethics and procedure. Now Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and the rest of the new House leadership are in danger of failing a major test of their commitment to change.
At issue is the massive system of farm subsidies -- federal giveaways that cost all Americans but benefit few -- that is set for reapproval on the House floor later this week. Currently, half of the cash the country pours into farming goes to only about 20 congressional districts. According to the Agriculture Department, in 2004 a third of agricultural payouts went to "very large" operations that boasted average annual incomes above a quarter of a million dollars. These subsidies have helped push rural land prices up and small family farmers out of the market. Other farm payments have been even more misdirected: A Post investigation found that the government gave $1.3 billion between 2000 and 2006 to landowners who did not farm at all. The billions spent on subsidies could be used for any number of other priorities, agricultural or otherwise -- food stamps, conservation programs or debt reduction, for example.
The system also has eroded America's influence abroad. The vital Doha round of trade talks continues to sink in part because of disagreement over American and European agricultural payments. In short, farm subsidies are a disgrace that any reform-minded politician, particularly any reform-minded politician with a big D next to her or his name, should be eager to address.
Instead, the House Agriculture Committee has produced a bill that essentially maintains current subsidy programs, with some minor tweaks billed as "reforms." Among them is a provision that would disqualify a farmer with an annual adjusted gross income of $1 million -- yes, $1 million -- from receiving subsidies. That's a pathetic five times the $200,000 cap President Bush proposed earlier this year. The bill also includes a small sop to fruit and vegetable farmers not covered under current commodity programs -- a move that could generate more support for the bill on the floor than it deserves. And it increases price targets for some commodity crops, worsening a wasteful federal liability.
So what is the speaker's take on this rotten bill? It "represents a critical first step toward reform," Ms. Pelosi said last week. That's the wrong answer. The House leadership should be pushing for significant reform of the crop subsidy system. It can start by supporting an amendment from Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.) that would lower the income cap and scale back some of the most egregious payouts. Mr. Kind's amendment is still too modest, but proposals like it, not the legislation on the table right now, are the critical first steps toward reform.
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It would appear that I am painting something nearly every day... which is great! I thought about doing one of those 'draw/paint one thing every day for 30 days' things, but as soon as I commit to something like that, the inevitable happens, and the very next day, I don't paint anything as some kind of internal rebellion.
So, here's to not doing a 30 day drawing challenge, and just drawing and painting when I feel like it!
a lovely decorated pot (today's painting)
A polar bear from yesterday
Keeping on with the search for agencies/illustration jobs/ day jobs... want to hire me? The time is now!
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“Buddha” means “one who is awake.” The Buddha who lived 2,600 years ago was not a god. He was an ordinary person, named Siddhartha Gautama, whose profound insights inspired the world. This is a beautiful statue of the face of Buddha. It denotes peace and wisdom. It can be used to decorate any shelf or your car dashboard.
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Viewpoint: Republicans at a crossroads
In the aftermath of defeat against a vulnerable president, an inquest is under way in the "Grand Old Party".
Surveying the smoking rubble of the Republican Party's election hopes, the right-wing talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh made a declaration.
"Conservatism, in my humble opinion, did not lose last night. It's just very difficult to beat Santa Claus."
Read those two sentences carefully, for they tell you a lot about the massive psychological problem the Republicans face - and why it will be extraordinarily difficult and painful for them to deal with reality.
On his popular radio show, the highly influential Limbaugh explained in detail how the election results prove that the American people have become weak-minded, jelly-spined degenerates.
Why, they even allowed themselves to be bought off by a welfare-state liberal Democrat who promised them the moon!
Though it is hard to see how one builds a successful democratic political movement around blaming the demos for its collective stupidity and bad character, one must concede that Limbaugh may be right.
That is, it is always possible that the people of any given polity could have become so corrupted by greed, sloth, spite, or by all manner of vice, that its judgment fails. Boobs and knaves win elections all the time; sages and gentlemen lose.
Democracy means only that the people are sovereign; it does not mean that they are infallible.
Limbaugh's analysis will surely find many sympathetic ears on the American right.
The problem, obviously, is this self-serving conclusion frees us conservatives from having to examine critically our own principles, arguments, and strategies.
However grounded in reality, self-righteousness rarely leads to clear thinking about the way out of a slough of despond.
Compounding the problem is the Limbavian dogma, widely shared on the ideological right - Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed.
It is interesting to contemplate how conservatism, or Limbaugh's version of it, can ever fail?
If conservative candidates or conservative policies are rejected by voters, or conservative government shipwrecks itself with bad policy or plain incompetence, (case in point: the disastrous Bush administration) - well, isn't that a pretty clear sign of failure?
It is far easier to dismiss voters as fools and unsuccessful GOP candidates as wretched sinners unworthy of conservatism.
It was only yesterday, it seems, that frustrated American liberals salved their wounds after electoral thrashings by convincing themselves that voters were too bigoted or stupid to know what was good for them.
Back then, it was so clear to conservatives how misguided and self-defeating the liberal pity-party was.
Along those lines, I'm old enough to remember when American conservatives snickered at delusional campus Marxists who believed communism - holy and immaculate! - had not failed, it had simply never been properly tried.
Roman Catholicism holds a doctrine declaring the Church to be the "spotless bride of Christ". To be sure, Catholics recognise that this is a theological claim, not an empirical one.
Limbaugh and millions of grassroots conservative militants approach politics as if it were a dogmatic religion. For them, conservatism is the Spotless Bride of Ronald Reagan and nothing about it can be falsified.
If voters reject the religion of conservatism, it's because they are too sinful to see and embrace the truth.
That, or particular conservative politicians and strategists lack faith. Activist American conservatism has a name for such slackers and heretics: RINO, which means "Republican In Name Only".
To be denounced as a RINO by the likes of Limbaugh is to be identified as a snivelling outcast who, if it were possible, would have deceived the elect into soul-destroying compromise with liberals.
To treat politics as if it were a kind of religion is to make a category error. It is also to lose touch with reality.
An extreme example. During the French Revolution, Robespierre, who was no Christian but who did have a fanatical religious temperament, conceived of politics as a high-pitched pageant of purification.
As he saw it, the Revolution was eternally threatened by enemies - none more deadly than the wicked artificers he might have deigned Revolutionaries In Name Only.
That business did not end well for anybody. Granted, the Republican Party is not facing its own version of The Terror.
The point is simply that imputing politics with moral grandiosity and quasi-religious fervour makes deviation from ideology an extremely risky proposition.
Several more moderate Republicans lost their political lives to hard-right Tea Party primary challengers, who later proved too radical to win in Tuesday's general election.
"I went to bed last night thinking we've lost the country," said Limbaugh, on the day after. "I don't know how else you look at this."
So a plain-vanilla Republican like Mitt Romney losing a close election to Barack Obama amounts to the Conservative Apocalypse? Good grief. Where does this pants-wetting hysteria end?
The true-believing conservative grassroots and leaders like Limbaugh have constructed a perfect system of epistemic closure.
Under their framework, there is no need to rethink what conservatism means or how conservatives behave in light of new facts or changing circumstances.
And how circumstances have changed! Eight years ago, same-sex marriage was toxic at the polls. This year, voters in three states - Maryland, Maine, and Washington - legalised it.
What's more, the "McGovern Coalition" - the melange of white liberals, college students, young adults, racial minorities, and labour - upon which Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern built his catastrophic 1972 campaign, has now become the majority.
In the wake of Obama's triumph, political professionals of both the left and the right credit this trend, and warn that it is unlikely to reverse itself.
The demographic tide, which includes a dramatic waning of religious faith among younger Americans, is coming in too fast.
The Republican Party is becoming a perversely rigid sect, more concerned with being militantly correct than being pragmatic and successful. With each passing election cycle, their purity will become the purity of the desert.
There are many American liberals who counsel conservatives that all would come right for us again if only we would jettison our principles and become liberals.
No, thanks. Conservatives must be conservative, but we must also recognize that conservatism is not an ideology, but a way of approaching the world, the chief virtue of which is prudence.
As the great modern conservative Edmund Burke taught, the act of governing - indeed, "every human benefit and enjoyment" - requires compromise.
The talk-radio Jacobins and the suburban sans culottes may not like that kind of treacherous talk, but it is the essence of the conservative political temperament.
Burke once observed that "a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
He might have said the same thing about the Republican Party. Then again, the old boy was probably a RINO.
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Lewandowski agent: "There is something on-going with Madrid"
Cezary Kucharski, the Polish strikers agent confirmed the news with this curt sentence when asked about developments between Lewandowski and the Spanish club.
"There is something going on with Real Madrid". Short and sweet but certainly informative as Robert Lewandowski’s representative, Cezary Kucharski, commented on speculation that the Pole is Real Madrid bound His brief deceleration was picked up by local Polish sports website: polsatsport.pl, at a ceremony as the Bayern striker was awarded with the ‘Polish Player of the Year’ award for the fifth time in a row.
During the ceremony, Kucharski was invited on stage to collect the award on the striker’s behalf as Lewandowski was involved in the 0-0 draw between his side Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen. When asked by the presenter if there was any truth in the Lewandowski to Real Madrid speculation, Kucharski replied that there was.
As the weeks go by, the possibility of the Polish striker moving to the Spanish capital gathers weight. AS yesterday reported on how Lewandowski has requested a salary of 18 million euro in order for him to remain at Bayern Munich.
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The Mountain Hardwear Mesa pants are close- light, Supplex-like material, no cargo pockets. My only beef with them is the pockets- I much prefer the front pockets of the less streetwear-looking MH Canyon pants.
A heavier pant that I really dig is the Mountain Hardwear Piero pant. Material is a light, unlined stretch-woven softshell rather than straight Supplex. A bit of stretch. They look more or less like a pair of khaki work pants- I wear them to work and for hiking. I've been wearing them in all seasons. They dry quickly as well- not as quickly as my MH Canyon pants, but fast enough for me. They deal with mud and dirt exceptionally well. Most days I do a 2-4 mile hike on the Superior Hiking Trail over my lunch break, and often enough I get some dirt or mud around my cuffs or on the calves of the pant. Not sure if it's the DWR, the weave, or some other property of the material but dirt seems to fall off once they dry. Sticks a lot less than it would to the cotton khaki-esque work pants I otherwise wear to work. I highly recommend them!
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Southern Lab School got some good news Wednesday from the board that governs high school athletics.
The school appealed its punishment over allegations of illegal recruiting. The board voted to reduce the school's playoff ban from two years to one. It also reinstated two players who had been ruled ineligible.
Fired football coach Marcus Randall was at the meeting with his lawyer, but they were not allowed inside. They said they've not been allowed to address the allegations against him, so they're taking it to court.
"I feel like my reputation has been tarnished, and ..." Randall started.
"We're going to fight back, that's right," his attorney, Jill Craft, said.
"Yeah, I'm still just baffled by the whole situation," Randall added.
Southern Lab declined to comment on Randall's firing. He's still facing a one-year suspension from coaching anywhere in the state.
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"Beauty is just kind of an accident. Beauty is just a happenstance. Beauty is the remainders of being a painter."
"I would do a piece that would be a diptych, so one rectangle would be the color but it would be photographed. And the other panel would be the name of that color, but it would be painted by hand. So the painting part would be the word. And what you expected to be painted would be photographs. It’s a device that I’ve used a lot. I try to confuse people."
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PurviewⓇ has a range of products designed to improve access to medical image viewing software, make it easy to securely share and store all types of medical records and connect patients to better care. When we talk to our customers about our offerings, many of them ask us about the similarities and differences between Purview Lite and Purview Image and how to decide which product is best for their practice.
Les Trachtman is the CEO of Purview, a company focused on disrupting the business of medical imaging. Prior to Purview, Les served as CEO of Force 3, Inc., a technology solutions and network security provider. Over the years, Les has also led other technology companies including Active Endpoints, e-OneHundred, Transcentive, and Metaserver. In his early career, Trachtman was responsible for creating the corporate development functions for both Progress Software (PRGS) and Hyperion Solutions, now part of Oracle. Les serves on the board of directors of The Metro Group and as the Entrepreneur in Residence at Union College. Les received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Union College and a JD and MBA from Emory University. He is currently authoring a book focused on helping founders and successors of entrepreneurial ventures.
Amid the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare institutions are seeing an opportunity to create formal remote second opinion (RSO) programs. Building and operating one can be complex, but some hospitals are already leading the way.
Suppose a specialist physician in California is corresponding with a patient in Texas who has an urgent illness. The physician wants to schedule an emergency appointment, but needs to review the patient's medical imaging studies to properly confirm and address the diagnosis. The patient could send a CD hard copy of their studies through the mail, but this is costly and wastes valuable time. The CD could also get lost in transit or arrive to the physician broken or unreadable.
If you work in health care, you need to protect the data in your picture archiving and communication system. It's critical to have good data backups because losing protected health information (PHI), including images, could be detrimental to your practice or hospital.
A full, consistent schedule is the bread and butter of any successful medical practice. Patients who miss their appointments, no-shows and last-minute cancellations can have a huge impact on your practice’s financial health.
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What is the purpose of using AI to expand album covers?
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in expanding album covers is a relatively new phenomenon that has gained popularity in recent years. The purpose of using AI to expand album covers is to enhance the visual appeal of the cover art and provide a more immersive experience for the listener.
Album covers have always been an important aspect of the music industry. They serve as a visual representation of the music contained within the album and can often be just as memorable as the music itself. However, with the rise of digital music streaming services, the importance of album covers has diminished somewhat. Many listeners now consume music through streaming platforms, where album covers are often reduced to small thumbnail images.
This is where AI comes in. By using AI algorithms, album covers can be expanded to much larger sizes, allowing for a more detailed and immersive visual experience. AI can also be used to enhance the quality of the image, making it sharper and more vibrant.
One of the main benefits of using AI to expand album covers is that it allows for greater creativity and experimentation. Artists and designers can use AI to create unique and innovative album covers that would be difficult or impossible to achieve using traditional design methods. This can help to make album covers more memorable and distinctive, which can in turn help to promote the album and increase its visibility.
Another benefit of using AI to expand album covers is that it can help to create a more cohesive visual identity for an artist or band. By using AI to create a consistent visual style across multiple albums, artists can create a strong brand identity that can help to build a loyal fan base.
AI can also be used to create personalized album covers for individual listeners. By analyzing a listener’s music preferences and other data, AI algorithms can create custom album covers that are tailored to the listener’s tastes. This can help to create a more personalized and engaging listening experience, which can in turn help to build a stronger connection between the listener and the music.
However, there are also some potential drawbacks to using AI to expand album covers. One concern is that it could lead to a homogenization of album cover design, with many artists using similar AI-generated designs. This could make it more difficult for artists to stand out and create a unique visual identity.
Another concern is that AI-generated album covers could be seen as less authentic or meaningful than those created using traditional design methods. Some listeners may feel that AI-generated designs lack the human touch and emotional resonance of hand-crafted designs.
Despite these concerns, the use of AI to expand album covers is likely to continue to grow in popularity in the coming years. As AI technology continues to improve, it is likely that we will see even more innovative and creative uses of AI in album cover design. Ultimately, the purpose of using AI to expand album covers is to enhance the visual experience of listening to music and create a more engaging and memorable experience for listeners.
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Interview: Ford's Doug Scott On Impact of EcoBoost, Future of Pickups
Atlas as Customer Feedback Tool, Possibility of Unibody Trucks
When it was unveiled at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show, the Ford Atlas Concept caught the eye of many a journalist, as well as those of Ford's competitors. The Atlas' dramatic debut was seen by many as a calculated move to steal thunder from GM's introduction of the new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. But Doug Scott, Ford's Truck Group Marketing Manager, said the unveiling of the Atlas in Detroit was planned well in advance of any knowledge of GM's announcement of trucks' debut.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, figuratively-speaking, Ford is making the most of its latest concept truck, using it as a customer feedback tool to validate that the brand is on the same wavelength as its customers in regard to product features and attributes. "When you've spent that much money, you might as well get it out there," he said. "That's what you're trying to do with a concept vehicle, is get people to react to it, so you understand what do they like, what do they not like, what are those opinions. We're paying attention to all that feedback."
Following the success of the EcoBoost V-6 in the F-150, Scott is confident that Ford is in tune with its customers. Initial internal forecasts for the take rate on the EcoBoost were in the low 20 percent range, with Ford having an all-V-8 F-150 lineup just prior to the engine's introduction, its dealers and customers both emphasizing the importance of a V-8 offering the lineup. But Scott said he thinks it was in some ways a case of "you don't want what you don't know."
"We put some of our key dealers from Texas and other major markets in some early development mules of the EcoBoost, and they were amazed when they realized it was a V-6," Scott said. "There was still some nervousness that we'd be able to hit that low 20-percent number. In less than a year, some of the same dealers asked somewhat tongue-in-cheek, 'Why do we still have the 5.0-liter?' They didn't see [the EcoBoost's popularity] coming, and didn't expect it to be so successful. Last year, the product mix was 43 percent EcoBoost. Everybody was surprised."
Of course, success always makes you a potential target. GM and Chrysler are wasting no time in comparing their new V-8 powertrains to Ford's high-tech turbocharged six. Scott said that as much as Ford's cross-town rivals may be thumping their chests about their V-8 fuel economy, they're hedging their bets with powertrains similar to EcoBoost in development. "I'm sure we're going to hear 'this is a V-8, not a V-6' when the 2014 GM trucks come out, and when the Hemi gets the eight-speed, but the point is, both GM and Chrysler have their own versions of a GTDI (gasoline turbocharged direct-injection) engine coming within the next few years."
Fuel Economy: Customer-Driven
Although federally-mandated fuel economy standards are rapidly tightening, Scott said he thinks the importance of fuel economy is driven as much by customers as it is by regulations. "The number one unmet need in full-size trucks for the last 20 years is the same as it is today -- improved fuel economy. There's going to be an insatiable appetite for better fuel economy. Forget what the regulations are. When you talk about fuel economy in the truck segment, you used to think something in the mid-20s would be incredible for a full-size. Buyers are influenced by other market segments, where if it doesn't start with a '3,' it's not a big deal. But capability and durability are always going to be key."
Unibody a Possibility
While it's easy to look at the full-size truck segment as a monolithic bloc, Scott said that within the segment, there are diverse buyers with varying needs, from the recreationally-oriented and occasional-use buyers to those than need heavy-duty, work-oriented trucks, and that in the future, there may be even greater differentiation and segmentation than there is already. Scott thinks there could be room in the full-size segment for a unibody truck, citing the upcoming Transit van as an analogous example.
"We have 10 different models of the F-150. For some truck customers, they'd be willing to consider a unibody. Let's talk about the vans. The Transit and Transit Connect are unibody. We think they live up to the Built Ford Tough standard, and the Transit has certainly lived up to that reputation in Europe. If you can deliver something that lives up to that standard of durability, it's a possibility," he said. But ultimate capability will continue to reign supreme in the heavy-duty market, and with less demanding fuel economy standards for HD trucks, the primary focus will remain on towing and hauling capabilities.
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China’s economy is on the cusp of a major transition from being a drag on the global economy to being neutral or positive, and investor sentiment toward China and the global economy could improve dramatically, Riedel Research says.
The premise for Riedel's outlook is a weakening U.S. dollar that helps China's exports. Riedel acknowledges the negatives: the Westpac MNI China Consumer Sentiment Indicator (CSI) in recent weeks showed "panic" domestically, due to temporary-but-severe August flooding in China that "did not reflect actual deterioration in the economy."
Meanwhile, Riedel notes, "a stabilization in property prices and subsiding strength in the US dollar greatly alleviated pressure on China’s economy, and the latest trends indicate "that international investor sentiment towards China is undergoing a paradigm shift. This has the potential to drive both Chinese equity and global equity markets to new highs." More from Riedel's latest research:
"Despite the improvement seen since early 2016, investor sentiment towards China remains at relatively depressed levels and widespread concerns over the state of the Chinese economy remain. Many investors still view a slowing China as a key threat to the global economy. Highlighting this, the IMF recently revised down its forecast for global growth citing spillovers from China’s ongoing economic restructuring as a key reason behind the downward revision.
We believe that the international mood towards China is set for a paradigm shift through early 2017.
This is set to occur as China’s economy transitions from being a drag on the global economy to either neutral or even a pull on the global economy. We expect the China Drag/Pull Indicator to continue to rise towards a level of 0 through early 2017 as the benefits of a surge in the real estate market continues to trickle through to the economy and as the US dollar begins to weaken helping to boost China’s export engine ...
Although China’s economy is strengthening financial imbalances are growing due to misplaced stimulus from the government. In the near term countries including Brazil, Chile, Peru and Malaysia are set to benefit the most from any further stabilization in China’s economy while limiting exposure to the growing risks in China ...
Local investors have become overly optimistic towards sectors of China’s ‘old economy’ relative to its ‘new economy’. In late 2015 the governments focus shifted from deleveraging back towards debt fueled stimulus. This put a pause on China’s ongoing economic transition and revived sectors of China’s old economy. As China’s policy makers continue to come under pressure to deleverage investor sentiment towards sectors of China’s ‘old economy’ can be expected to deteriorate relative to investor sentiment towards sectors of China’s new economy. In line with this we continue to expect sectors of China’s ‘new economy’ to outperform ‘old economy’ sectors ..."
Indeed, shares of Chinese companies invested in technology and the internet have done well this year: Netease (NTES) is up 40% this year, Baidu (BIDU) is up nearly 23%, Ctrip.com International (CTRP) is up nearly 39%, Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) is up 40% and Alibaba Group Holding (BABA) is up 29%. Those returns are much better than the performance of the iShares China Large-Cap exchange-traded fund (FXI), up nearly 8%, and the Deutsche x-trackers Harvest CSI 300 China ETF (ASHR), down 12%.
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The price to sales ratio, Price/Sales ratio, P/S ratio, or PSR, is a valuation metric for stocks. It is calculated by dividing the company's market cap by the revenue in the most recent year. It can also be calculated by dividing the per-share stock price by per-share revenue. The price to sales ratio is for trailing twelve months so the reported sales are for the four previous quarters. Longer time periods can be examined at times.
A smaller price to sales ratio is usually thought to be a better investment since the investor is paying less for each unit of sales. However, sales do not reveal the whole picture, as the company may be unprofitable with a low P/S ratio. Because of the limitations, this ratio is usually used only for unprofitable companies, since they don't have a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio). The metric can be used to determine the value of a stock relative to its past performance. It may also be used to determine relative valuation of a sector or the market as a whole.
Price to sales ratios vary greatly between sectors, so they are most useful in comparing similar stocks within a sector or sub-sector. Comparing P/S ratios carries the implicit assumption that all firms in the comparison have an identical capital structure.
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There are various types of tuners that may be built into a television:
NTSC (National Television System Committee) is the analog television broadcasting standard used widely in North America. It is referred to as a 525-line standard, but actually displays only 480 lines. NTSC is to be replaced with new DTV (Digital TV) standards in the coming years.
\r\nThe PAL (Phase Alternating Line) standard was introduced in the early 1960's and was implemented widely in Europe. It has a wider channel bandwidth than NTSC as it runs on 635 lines.
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\r\nQAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) tuner is present in some new digital televisions and similar devices. It enables direct reception of digital cable channels without the use of a set-top box. QAM tuners can be likened to the cable equivalent of an ATSC tuner which is required to receive over-the-air (OTA) digital channels broadcast by local television stations.
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On May 31, Turkish publisher Can Öz met with two trusted associates: the chief editor at his publishing house and the marketing manager. He wanted to tell them about a decision he had made.
Just a short walk away, on Istanbul's Taksim Square, people had been protesting for days against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Öz couldn't sleep. He was in the streets with other demonstrators when the police brought in water cannons, sprayed tear gas and beat citizens.
Nevertheless, he was euphoric. "I've been silent for a long time," he said. "That's over now." People inTurkey were protesting and demanding their rights. Öz told his colleagues that he was going to make a statement that afternoon, but they were worried. "Don't do it!" they warned, fearing that the government could exact revenge and shut down the publishing house.
Can Öz is a friend of mine. I have known him since I studied in Istanbul. He is 32, only a few years older than me, but he has been the head of Can Yayinlari, an important literary publishing house, for the last six years. He publishes works by the likes of Umberto Eco, Daniel Kehlmann and Jane Austen in Turkish translation.
In conversations with friends, he had long criticized the policies of the Erdogan government, but he had never voiced his concerns publicly out of concern for his family and his company. The Erdogan administration has had critical intellectuals and journalists arrested. Öz had stopped talking on the telephone, fearing that his conversations would be wiretapped. In recent years, he seemed increasingly distraught, eventually becoming bitter and resigned.
Breaking the Silence
The upheaval in Turkey changed all of that. Öz initially took the side of the demonstrators on Twitter, writing that they had every right to protest. Later, in an op-ed article published in the British newspaper The Guardian on June 11, he explained why he was no longer willing to put up with Erdogan's despotism: "I am not afraid to lose my business, my wealth, or even my freedom by being jailed and sentenced; but I can not bear to live a dishonourable life any more." (sic)
Öz is wearing a polo shirt and rimless glasses, and has a three-day beard. He went to school in Boston, and he speaks English and French. Prime Minister Erdogan calls demonstrators like Öz "terrorists."
A live stream from Taksim Square is running on two computers in his apartment in a historic building in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul. Since he spoke out publicly about the revolt, he has received hate emails and threats, but also messages of support. He keeps gas masks and construction helmets in a closet. Friends knock on his door, their eyes tearing and their shirts soaked with perspiration. Öz gives them water and tries to calm them down.
Many of the demonstrators are Öz's age or younger. Most are taking part in protests for the first time. Their parents experienced the unrest of the 1960s and 1980s, when Kurds and communists revolted and radical groups fought each other in the streets. The military intervened, overthrew the government in 1980 and had people executed. It wasn't until two decades later that Erdogan and his conservative Muslim supporters were able to break the power of the generals.
Öz's parents also experienced the coup. His mother, Samiye, grew up in an upper-class Istanbul family. Her ancestors include a foreign minister and the founder of the Galatasaray football club. As a young woman in the 1970s, she went to Ankara, where she met Erdal Öz, a writer from Anatolia. Can's father was critical of the military regime in his writings, quoting Marx, Lenin and Sartre. In 1971, he was sent to prison, where he was tortured and mistreated. A flyer from that period still hangs on the wall in Öz's office today. His father said nothing to his family about his treatment in prison until a few years before his death in 2006. He advised his son to steer clear of politics.
Polarization and Protests
Memories of the chaos and brutality of the political conflict have been burned into Turkey's collective memory. The generation of those born after 1980 was considered apolitical. "We grew up with the sense that politics was dangerous. We believed that we couldn't change anything, anyway, and that it was best to stay out of politics altogether," says Öz. "Occupy Gezi changed that."
As he walks the short distance from his apartment to his office on a side street in Beyoglu, Öz encounters police officers in riot gear and people wearing gas masks. Helicopters circle above the city, and the smell of tear gas hangs in the air. He is meeting his mother. She owns half of the publishing house, while Can and his sister each own a quarter. Samiye Öz wants to talk to her son about the uprising. She took in two dozen demonstrators at her apartment on the previous evening.
Occupy Gezi is the birth of a new Turkish protest culture, says Öz. "It's not the same thing you experienced in the '70s, mother," he says, because hostile groups aren't fighting each other in this case. Instead, a young civil society is finding its voice. Fans of the Beikta football club demonstrated alongside transsexuals and anti-capitalist Muslims, says Öz. "It's as if I were living in a dream."
Journalist and film director Can Dündar is part of this group. He is familiar with the conflicts of past and present. A few years ago, Dündar directed "Mustafa," a much-noticed film about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the modern Turkish nation, in which he portrays Atatürk as a drinker and waverer. As a result of the film, Dündar made new enemies among the Kemalists, who are devotees of Atatürk.
The dividing line in Turkish politics and society is often described as the antagonism between the secular-military elite, the Kemalists, and up-and-coming conservative Muslims. For decades, a secular class oppressed the pious in Turkey. Erdogan himself, who first became prime minister in 2003, invokes the differences in his speeches. We, the "true" Turks, he says, are the oppressed, while they, the generals and Kemalists, are the oppressors. Although Erdogan established democracy, he long ago appropriated the dirty methods of his predecessors.
Many Turks are tired of the polarization, especially because they themselves have no place in such an environment. Öz, for example, would never vote for Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP). But it was generals, the self-proclaimed heirs of Atatürk, who had his father arrested and tortured. Most young Turks are in a similar position. The Gezi demonstrators are opposed to Erdogan, but they also boo every opposition politician who tries to hijack their rallies.
A Self-Created Problem
A young, urban middle class is taking to the streets in Istanbul, Ankara and many other Turkish cities. They buy their clothes at Zara, and they fly to London on discount airlines for vacations. They are well-educated and non-ideological. Most of all, there are many of them. Istanbul alone has a population of 13 million.
Erdogan partly created the Gezi Generation himself. Many of the demonstrators who are now protesting him study at the universities that the government developed, or work in companies that cropped up during the economic boom of recent years. Öz also profits from the fact that, today, more Turks have money to buy books than a decade ago.
Erdogan wanted this progress, but he refuses to accept Turkish citizens' growing need for autonomy. And in contrast to past generations, today's demonstrators are not interested in imposing a particular worldview. On the contrary, they want people to be free to express their own worldviews. Öz believes that one of the reasons the resistance movement became united in the fight for Gezi Park, which was slated to be razed and developed, is that trees cannot be co-opted.
Mood Becomes More Agressive
It is Sunday, June 16, three weeks after the beginning of the revolt. Thousands of citizens are once again taking to the streets. The police have sealed off Taksim Square in Istanbul. Demonstrators try to reach the square through side streets. The security forces are shooting tear gas canisters, and people are stumbling, half-blind, through the alleys. When a man falls down on the street, police start to beat him.
Öz watches Erdogan's speech to hundreds of thousands of supporters in Istanbul on TV at home, together with his girlfriend, the actress Selma Ergeç. "Istanbul, are we united?" Erdogan asks.
Ergeç grew up in Germany. Her father is Turkish, her mother German. She lived in Oxford for a while, and she moved to Istanbul 10 years ago. She plays one of the lead roles in "Muhteem Yüzyil" ("Magnificent Century"), a historical television series based on the life of Suleiman the Magnificent that is broadcast in more than 45 countries every week. Despite its popularity, the government threatened to ban the program because Erdogan felt that the sultan was being portrayed as frivolous.
Ergeç says that the mood in the country is becoming more aggressive with every speech Erdogan gives. When the protests began in Taksim Square, she also took to the streets. But now she has become more careful, fearing that she, as a celebrity, could become the target of attacks. One of her fellow actors has taken a particularly strong stance against Erdogan. He has received so many death threats that he hasn't left his house in days.
The current events are the first severe test in Öz's life. In 2005, he had just returned to Istanbul from Boston, where he was studying sociology, when his father developed lung cancer. Erdal Öz was a brilliant publisher, and his authors held him in high esteem. He had founded the publishing house in Istanbul in the 1980s, after the end of the military coup, and had discovered many young, talented writers over the next two decades. He was also the publisher of books by Orhan Pamuk, who would later win the Nobel Prize in literature. But he was only moderately interested in the financial side of the business, and he had only made spoken contracts with many of his authors.
When Can Öz took over his father's job, he introduced structure to the company. Suddenly it had an accounting department, and Öz even hired a management consultant to provide him with weekly reports. Öz traveled to book fairs abroad and strengthened relationships with publishers, such as Suhrkamp in Germany and Penguin in Great Britain.
Öz says he is prepared for the government to take action against him. He has seen what has happened to fellow publishers, such as Aydin Dogan, the powerful owner of the daily newspaper Hürriyet, which is critical of the government. Dogan was almost ruined by a tax dispute in 2009.
"They destroy your credibility," says Öz. "They spread lies in their newspapers and on their TV stations, claiming that you are a crook or an alcoholic. Then they take aim at your company. They impose bizarre fines, and they call upon customers to boycott your company."
Öz says that he is willing to pay this price. He has an emergency fund set up in case business starts to plunge. In the worst case, he says, he might also go to prison.
A Movement Lacking Direction
On the evening of June 18, several hundred demonstrators gather in Cihangir Park, near Taksim Square. Now that Gezi Park has been cleared, citizens meet regularly for "open forums" in various places in Istanbul. They sit together, discuss issues and get to know each other.
The forum has already begun when Öz arrives at the park. The key question at the moment is how the revolt should progress. Very few demonstrators can imagine supporting one of the established parties, but establishing a new party is difficult. Who would pay for it? And what would be its agenda, other than rejecting Erdogan? A young woman proposes that the activists start by becoming exclusively involved in local projects, such as preserving historic buildings.
Öz believes that it's too early to define the movement's direction. "I have learned," he says, "that we are not condemned to silent obedience." People will probably be writing books and making films about the Gezi revolt soon, he adds.
The democratization of Turkey, Öz says, has only just begun.
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Understanding mania-A A +A
Monday, February 17, 2014
MOST of us are familiar with the phenomenon of depression: that kind of blue feeling that makes one weep in tears.
The feeling of sadness does not always mean one has loosened his or her screws.
But once this feeling becomes regular and pervasive, that it gets in the way of everyday living, consultation with a mental health professional may be a course best taken.
In psychiatric practice, depression is classified as a mood disorder.
On the other hand, mania, which is also a mood disorder, is the opposite of depression.
Actually, mania is derived from the Greek word for madness.
This description of an elevated mood was identified in mankind as early as the 5th Century B.C. by Hippocrates.
At present time, mania is a psychiatric condition that coexists with depression as in bipolar disorders, wherein a person slides back and forth depression and mania.
According to sources, mania (or a manic episode) may be described as euphoric, unusually good, cheerful or “high.”
Furthermore, this expansive quality of the mood is characterized by unceasing and indiscriminate enthusiasm for interpersonal, sexual or occupational interactions.
One good example shared by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition-Text revision (DSM-IVTR), was that of a person who spontaneously strikes extensive conversation with a stranger in public places.
What is striking in the mood of a person with manic episode is the predominance of irritability whenever the wishes of the person experiencing mania are thwarted.
Pressing further, the person in a manic state also demonstrates distractibility, which is manifested as the inability to screen out irrelevant external stimuli (example, being hypersensitive to the conversations of strangers in a hallway).
This feeling of elation may also be accompanied by an inflated self-esteem. Meaning, the manic person has uncritical self-confidence to marked grandiosity that usually reaches delusional proportions.
Likewise, a manic person has decreased sleep (feeling rested after three hours of sleep only) and racing thoughts faster than can be articulated.
These thoughts are further described as “flight of ideas” meaning, there is continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from one topic to another.
In severe flight of ideas, speech becomes disorganized and incoherent.
Overall, the combination of these distorted thoughts and behaviors lead to poor judgment that places the manic person at risk for the following: imprudent involvement in pleasurable activities such as buying sprees, reckless driving, foolish business investments that may have painful consequences; unusual sexual behavior that may include infidelity or indiscriminate sexual encounters with strangers; and impairment in occupational functioning or in usual social activities or relationships with others.
In worst scenarios, the manic person may need to be admitted to a mental health facility to prevent harming self or others.
As a matter of fact, in cases of bipolar disorders, once mania surfaces, the person may exhibit psychotic-like symptoms.
On the contrary, if admission is unnecessary, the person may be experiencing ‘hypomania,’ which is a milder version of mania that it does not also cause marked impairment in occupational and social relationships.
Literatures inform that mania is predominantly genetic or physiologic in origin and that psychosocial theories to explain causes have declined in the recent decades.
Psychiatrists manage this kind of mental disorder by administering Lithium, an anti-manic drug. It also remains the gold standard in pharmacologic treatment of mania.
However, other psychiatrists also consider anticonvulsants as mood stabilizers like carbamezipine that is also used for children with seizures.
For psychiatric nurses, however, interventions are related to specific behaviors manifested by the manic patient.
For example, if the patient manifests extreme hyperactivity that places him or her at risk for injury, management may include the following: reduction of external stimuli; removing hazardous objects and substances within reach; and provision of structured or scheduled list of activities to provide time for rest.
If the manic person demonstrates weight loss, it is appropriate that they be provided with high protein and high caloric food and drinks that are “on-the run.”
To ensure that the person consumes his meal, try eating together.
Lastly, if the manic person manifests impaired social interaction, the best interventions are: set limits to manipulative behaviors; do not argue or bargain with this person; provide positive reinforcement for non-manipulative behaviors; and help this person recognize positive aspects of self.
Sources: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th ed-Text revision; Focus on Nursing Pharmacology; The Hypomania Handbook; Essentials of Psychiatric Nursing; Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper on February 18, 2014.
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Mora’s legendary full-tang Garberg, the last word bushcraft knife, is now obtainable with a survival package: a first-class hearth metal paired with a sheath-mounted diamond sharpener. The Garberg is a “true full-tang knife” with a stable, full-width tang that runs all the size of the deal with and extends a bit past the pommel, making for a really stable, sturdy knife. It incorporates a medium-length, drop-point blackened carbon metal blade with a rubberized deal with with a checkered sample for improved grip. Furthermore, the deal with is generally symmetrical. This lets you maintain the knife comfortably with the blade edge both going through up or down. Moreover, this model comes with a well-crafted plastic sheath into which the knife firmly click-locks, with a removable belt loop. This “survival” model options an built-in firesteel, in addition to a diamond sharpener. Look no additional! That is the premier survival instrument!
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Rosuvastatin vs Questran
What to choose Rosuvastatin or Questran
Rosuvastatin is pill of type Statin while Questran is of Not a Statin type. Rosuvastatin is just a substance that pill can contain. Rosuvastatin is contained in the pill Crestor. Questran is a brand pill, manufactured by the company Par Pharmaceuticals. The main substance of Questran is Cholestyramine. The available dosage for Questran is 4gm.
The average price of brand Questran is $381 for 60 sachets.
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Today's Review: The Program
Second review for FilmTotaal released this week (but penned last month):
The Program - recensie
Whoever considers this 'the Lance Armstrong' film is wrong, despite it being the only non documentary feature film about the former sports legend thus far. Thing is, at its core it's not about the seven-time Tour de France winner. It's about the journalist who exposed him after years of persistent digging. It's even based on the guy's book. So naturally, Armstrong isn't depicted in a flattering way and that's putting it mildly. The infamous cyclist is portrayed as an absolutely single minded, appalingly arrogant fraud throughout the piece, with little to no redeeming character qualities. Simply said, a total dick. Now, of course nobody will deny that aspect of his character exists. But it can't have been all he ever was/is. After all, he became an inspiration for millions. With the solely negative traits he's endowed with in this film, it's not likely he would ever have been that widely admired. But to the brave, heroic journalist who risked his career and maybe even his life to bring the man down, Armstrong was utterly evil. So that's the Armstrong we get on screen. An Armstrong devoid of nuances, a character from somebody else's pages rather than his own book of life. Which rules The Program out as the biopic it claims to be. But then, history is written by the victors. Which Armstrong himself ultimately didn't rightly turn out to be.
More was to be expected from director Stephen Frears. His previous work showed him most interested in the human side of things, the choices and thoughts that make people who they are, rather than who they seem to be to the rest of the world. The Queen is the best example, where he showed the Queen of England to be just as limited a human being as the rest of us, and therefore a relatable character. The same doesn't hold true for Lance Armstrong, who is portrayed far too one sided and excessively obsessed a character to feel really real. Good performances not withstanding, since Ben Foster does an intense job at playing the star cyclist. Perhaps too much so, going over that top rather than staying right under it. Of course, Chris O'Dowd gives less of a notable performance, thus making him feel more real in the role of the intrepid reporter, which also makes him feel more human than his antagonist, as is the film's intention. And when you say O'Dowd, comedy is the first thing that springs to mind. The Program often feels like it is just that, especially in its first half. After all, we shouldn't take one of the greatest frauds ever too seriously, the film suggests. Too bad, I would have loved to have seen a movie that explains just why Armstrong did the things he did, rather than this film which only shows what those things were (which we basically already knew), rather than their motivations. But why would we need to know why a total dick does what a total dick does, right?
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The Permian Basin is experiencing its first natural gas problem. Gas production is starting to exceed pipeline capacity exiting the production region, and in-basin prices are falling as a result. Paradoxically, the second problem is a potential overreaction to the first: market fundamentals could attract too many pipelines, running the risk of having underused pipelines.
Permian gas prices will remain weak for the next few years despite nearly 2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of additional pipeline capacity coming online by 2020. This is because the Permian, predominantly a shale oil play, has large quantities of associated gas production. McKinsey Energy Insights (MEI) expects Permian crude and natural gas liquids (NGL) production to grow from 3.3 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2017 to 8.8 million bpd by 2025 — which in turn is expected to cause natural gas production to rise from 7.1 to 16 Bcf/d over the same time frame.
The Texas Gulf Coast and, to a lesser extent, Mexico are the most likely destinations for incremental Permian gas volumes. While the fundamentals support additional pipelines (i.e., large quantities of new gas being produced), there is a real risk that the Permian will become over-piped in the medium to long-term. As private equity looks to fund the next major pipeline project, they will be increasingly drawn to projects linking the Permian to demand centers in the Gulf Coast. This is because pipelines typically offer stable revenue, and the regulatory risk is minimal in an oil and gas friendly state like Texas. Combining favorable fundamentals, minimal regulatory risk and private equity, it’s possible that too much capacity will be developed in the long term.
Conventional Economics Don’t Apply
For all the excitement the Permian basin enjoys, it poses a major problem to gas markets. Depending on the year, an increase in oil production due to oil prices rising USD 10/bbl would also cause associated gas production from the Permian to increase by 1-2.5 Bcf/d. With sufficient gas pipeline capacity, this inexpensive associated gas would displace gas from other basins, causing U.S. gas prices to drop by about USD 0.10/mmbtu.
If pipeline usage exiting the Permian remains below 80 percent, in-basin gas prices are expected to be about USD 0.10/mmbtu cheaper than on the Texas Gulf Coast, because of the variable cost of transporting the gas (see Exhibit 1, D). Once pipeline usage exceeds 80 percent, in-basin prices start to decrease as Permian gas competes with other gas for access to limited pipeline capacity, causing in-basin prices to fall further. The Permian has already crossed that 80 percent threshold, and prices are starting to show the effects.
This scenario would usually result in operators reducing gas drilling, but only approximately a quarter of Permian gas production is not associated with oil and is sensitive to in-basin gas prices. If in-basin gas prices fall, the first to be affected will be the less than 5 percent of production that comes from new gas wells, which have a breakeven of between about USD 2-3/mmbtu (see Exhibit 2, C). Next would be the estimated 25 percent of Permian production from gas wells that have already been drilled, which break even at about USD 0.80-1.00/mmbtu (see Exhibit 2, B). The remaining 75 percent of gas production is associated with oil, and can even have a negative value, as oil revenue is what drives investment decisions for those wells (Exhibit 1, A). Since this associated gas is largely unaffected by in-basin gas prices, we can expect to see Permian gas production continue to increase even as the takeaway capacity approaches 100 percent.
Where Will Incremental Permian Gas Production Go?
There are two primary destinations for incremental Permian gas: Mexico and the Gulf Coast. Once bottlenecks are resolved, new pipelines to Mexico should add an effective export capacity of about 2.9 Bcf/d, a much-needed outlet until new pipelines to the Gulf Coast come online in 2020. The other destinations for Permian gas are to the west and north. However, both routes face problems. Building additional pipelines to the west is difficult, especially in California, while western gas demand is uncertain due to higher solar generation. Meanwhile, competing volumes from the Marcellus and SCOOP/STACK shale plays, as well as higher pipeline development costs for long-distance interstate pipelines, makes building a pipeline to the north less attractive.
Too Much of a Good Thing?
In other areas, anecdotal evidence indicates private equity money competing against itself, causing the required returns to fall. Additionally, Appalachia provides a good example of how excess pipeline can develop in response to wide basis differentials. (MEI models indicate there is more pipeline capacity exiting Appalachia than production until after 2026.)
Most of the proposed new pipelines linking the Permian to the Gulf Coast would be regulated as an intrastate (i.e., within Texas) pipeline and are generally easier to permit and build compared to interstate, or even northeastern interstate pipelines. Furthermore, private equity companies are increasingly attracted to stable pipeline revenues — especially when those pipelines are in an energy-friendly state like Texas, where a pipeline can be expected to come online 12-18 months after FID. As a result, it is more likely in the long term that excess new pipeline capacity will be built from the Permian to the Gulf Coast rather than too little.
LNG to Provide Added Demand
Assuming there is sufficient pipeline capacity, high oil prices may not depress prices in the Permian as much as expected. This is because a USD 10/bbl increase in oil price leads to an increase of about USD 1.20/mmbtu in oil-linked liquefied natural gas (LNG) — assuming a 12 percent slope — with no direct impact on Henry Hub-linked LNG prices. From 2020 to 2024, MEI expects about 2 Bcf/d of surplus capacity at U.S. LNG export terminals. If oil prices were to increase due to a decrease in Venezuelan crude oil production or some other unforeseen shock, then oil-linked LNG contracts would become more expensive. Demand for U.S. LNG would become more price competitive and provide an outlet for additional associated Permian gas. The Permian is in a unique position. High oil prices lead to additional gas production and put downward prices on in-basin gas prices. The Permian’s gas problem can be divided into two phases. The first phase is from now until about 2020 where there is insufficient pipeline capacity and in-basin prices are low. Despite building nearly 2 Bcf/d of additional pipeline capacity by 2020, additional capacity is needed. This leads to the second phase. Market fundamentals may attract too many pipelines, and the Permian is at risk of becoming over-piped.
Tags: McKinsey Energy Insights (MEI), Permian Basin, September 2018 Print Issue
Jamie Brick is a specialist at McKinsey Energy Insights, which represents the analytical and business intelligence arm of the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.’s oil and gas practice.
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Some people didn‘t get the memo what the 21st century is about. A lot of people are trying to heal themselves using herbal medicine, which in many cases is simply not effective. Furthermore, it can be dangerous. Scientists from the University of Adelaide are warning that deaths of health tourists due to tainted herbal medicine are heavily under-recorded.
Forensic pathologists have noticed long time ago that some deaths that can be linked to substance use are not just about drug overdose or some medical issues. Sometimes they occur due to tainted herbal medicine. It is quite a rare cause of death, which is why it is rarely checked during post-mortem examination. Now scientists are calling for more meticulous checks after post-mortem examination, because it is important to detect the presence of drugs and adulterants that originate from herbal remedies. For one, we simply have to know the cause of death. But it is also important to warn other health tourists that travel to exotic places just to use some herbal medicine products.
A lot of Western travellers go to Asian countries specifically to try traditional herbal medicine. There really is no shame in that as some of these people are just desperate for some hope. However, they should have all the information before making such a decision to move away from a more conventional treatment. Not only herbal medicines are often ineffective, but they can also be dangerous. This threat that is often overlooked because people think that by using herbs they are automatically avoiding dangerous substances. People in the herbal medicine business want to make more money by offering more effective products, which is why herbal medicine is often adulterated with approved or banned drugs and even toxic heavy metals.
Contents of these herbal drugs are typically unknown. You may think you are getting just a compound from one herb, but it can be mixed with various contaminants and pharmaceutical additives, some of which are actually dangerous. In post-mortem examination role of herbal medicine is usually underrated, which does not help determining the actual cause of death. Professor Roger Byard, forensic pathologist from the University of Adelaide, said: “When considering cases in which a person has died after taking herbal medicines sourced from overseas, forensic pathologists need to take extra care to consider the possibility that adulterants have played a role in the person’s demise”.
Herbal medicine can be helpful, but it should be held to a standard. You must know that no standards are applied to some of the old-school medicine in Asia and you are risking your health of even your life taking them.
Source: University of Adelaide
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Mother and daughter bakers still make bread in the traditional way using a wood burning oven.
Long Melford, Suffolk.
Exterior. Panning shot from the village green to a large pile of fire wood. Iris Adams enters and picks a bundle from the pile. C/U of Iris's hands picking up the bundle.
Interior. M/S of Iris pushing the bundle of wood into a faggot oven built into the wall. C/U of the wood being pushed into the oven. Top shot of Iris dividing a large lump of dough into smaller sections. Iris places the smaller sections onto a tray, her daughter Elizabeth then kneads them. M/S of Elizabeth taking the sections to a tray of tins for baking. C/U of the dough in tins. M/S of Iris lighting the oven, as Elizabeth fills the tins with dough. C/U of Iris poking the fiercely burning wood inside the oven - "as the temperature of the oven rises; the bricks darken and eventually go white. The exact temperature required is judged by the colour of the bricks. No thermometer is used". C/U of the flames.
C/U of the oven; the flames have died down and Iris rakes out the embers. M/S of Iris tipping excess ash into a nearby grate. Various shots of Iris and her daughter sliding the loaves into the oven using a palate on a long stick. C/U of a row of unbaked loaves ready to go into the oven. C/U of Iris mopping her sweaty brow. C/U of the loaves in the oven, Iris' hand is seen shutting the heavy iron door. M/S of Elizabeth shovelling ash in front of the oven door to prevent the heat from escaping - "Ye Olde Bakery, as it is called, is the only one of its kind left in the country. There is no shop. Local people call at the bakery for their bread straight from the oven". C/U of the freshly baked loaves been taken out of the oven. M/S of the mother and daughter as they take the baked bread out of the oven. Various shots of the rows of baked bread, Elizabeth adds more loaves.
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Cuts exist - please see separate record.
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Black Monday is a Stock Market Battle Bet Arena game for three - four players.
Black Monday is fast-pace local, arena brawler for 3 to 4 Players. In the first phase the players have to bet on the result of the next round. And in the second phase they have to try to achieve that result in the arena.
If you lose the round in Black Monday you can still win the game, as long as your bet is correct. Can you anticipate what your co-players are going to do?
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A doll's house essays - analysis of ibsen's a doll's house relationship analysis in henrik ibsen´s a doll´s house and the tv program the sopranos - and here pygmalion essay on a doll house by henrik ibsen - in henrik ibsen's play, a doll house. Background of a doll's house meaning that nora and torvald were still reaping its effects (larson) this boom can mainly be attributed to norway's success in foreign trade background of the play biography of henrik ibsen. Nora helmer of ibsen's a doll's house is one of the most complex characters of 19th-century drama: childlike, clever, desperate and transformed. This article discusses the motivations of the character nils krogstad in henrik ibsen's ground-breaking play, 'a doll's house. Line-by-line modern translations of every shakespeare play and poem get everything you need to know about the christmas tree in a doll's house analysis a doll's house by henrik ibsen upgrade to a + tap here to download this litchart (pdf.
The following analysis reveals a comprehensive look at the storyform for a doll's house because he would not have liked it he called me his doll child, and he played with me just as i used to play with my dolls (ibsen, 1879, p 185) interpretation overall story counterpoint overall. Free research that covers introduction this paper analyzes the character of nora helmer, the heroine of a doll's house, a masterpiece work of irish playwright henrik ibsen nora is por. About henrik ibsen: henrik johan ibsen was a major norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama he is often referred. Need help on symbols in henrik ibsen's a doll's house check out our detailed analysis from the creators of sparknotes. The title of a doll's house is symbolically significant as well as highly suggestive of the message that ibsen seems to have intended to convey through the play there are two important aspects of the play, which the title directly points to: the doll and the house. Act ii a dolls house which particular conversation are you referring to these papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of henrik ibsen's play a doll's house influence of antigone on a doll's house burning down the doll house.
A doll's house by henrik ibsen home / literature / a doll's house / a doll's house analysis literary devices in a doll's house symbolism, imagery over the course of the play, we watch the helmer family disintegrate faster than kool aid in water. A brief summary and analysis of henrik ibsen's a doll's house accompanied with visual references.
A doll's house [henrik ibsen] on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers reproduction of the classic, a doll's house this edition has been produced without the use of ocr(optical character recognition. A doll's house has 85,713 ratings and 2,975 reviews a doll's house is full of references to dolls, puppets, and playthings this is a brilliant play by henrik ibsen which is also my first introduction to the author. A doll's house is classified under the second phase of henrik ibsen's career it was during this period which he made the transition from mythical and historical dramas to plays dealing with social problems it was the first in a series investigating the tensions of family life written during the victorian era.
A doll's house is the play written by henrik ibsen, a norwegian playwright here in the play, the playwright uses various symbols which usually something concrete - an object, a place, a character, an action - that suggests for something abstract and universal he uses them to convey his expected meaning to his readers. A doll's house (bokmål: et dukkehjem also translated as a doll house) is a three-act play written by norway's henrik ibsenit premiered at the royal theatre in copenhagen, denmark, on 21 december 1879, having been published earlier that month the play is set in a norwegian town circa 1879 the play is significant for the way it deals with. An analysis on the importance of staging and symbolism in henrik ibsen's 'a doll's house' henrik ibsen's a doll's house is an exploration of the difficulty of obtaining and sustaining individuality in a constricting society that revolves around fixed stereotypes - an analysis on the importance of staging and symbolism in henrik ibsen's 'a.
The paperback of the a doll's house by henrik ibsen at barnes & noble free shipping on $25 or more i read a dolls house by henrik ibsen a doll's house is a three-act play in prose by henrik ibsen. Nora, torvald & ibsen's audience through the ages all of these answers have been given in reference to the marriage in henrik ibsen's a doll's house their interpretation was deeply influenced by the political climate of the 1890s. Analysis of henrik ibsen's play a doll's house and how it displays 3 viewpoints of marriage fantasy, security, and a model of a true marriage. Although it is easy to interpret a doll's house as a play promoting feminist ideals, a doll's house is about more than a woman fighting for her rights joan tempelton stated unknown, 'a doll's house', a play in 3 acts by henrik ibsen.
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Achal Kapoor or Boney Kapoor is a very famous Indian film producer born on November 11 1955 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Boney Kapoor is the eldest son of
, who was also a famous film producer. His father was the cousin of
, who was the veteran actor and director. He is the eldest brother of the actors
. Boney Kapoor was married to
Mona Shourie Kapoor
in 1983. Both of them spilt after their 13 years of marriage in 1996. They had two children,
. In 1996, Boney Kapoor married to famous Indian actress Sridevi. Boney made his debut in the film industry as a producer with the film Hum Paanch in 1980. Since then Boney gave many blockbuster movies in the Bollywood industry. Boney’s film Mr. India was his most acclaimed film which proved to be a milestone in his career. “Mogambo khush hua” became the most famous dialogue and Mogambo became the most famous villains in the era of Bollywood.
His debut film Hum Paanch established
in Bollywood industry. Boney also produced super hit films which include Pukar,
. Boney’s film Wanted was the blockbuster movie and shattered many the records in Bollywood in the year 2009 earning 440 million in its first week. Boney Kapoor is also the recipient of many prestigious awards including Producer of the Millennium Honour – TSR-TV9 Film Awards in the year 2013 and Lifetime Achievement Award in Cairo International Film Festival in the year 2009. He was also honoured with the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film in the year 2000 for Pukar. In his 26 years of career Boney did 27 films which are an achievement in itself including some blockbusters. Currently, he is working on No Entry Mein Entry and Mr. India 2 which is expected to come to the floor by the starting of 2017.
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After a few weeks of home improvement/trudging back and forth, I'm officially moved out to the outside apartment at my family's place, which was formerly my dad's work office. As he's retired and my mom no longer needs me in the house for company and a sense of security, it made sense for us to swap spots. Like many millennials, I'm enjoying that sweet spot of being gainfully employed, but also having too many student loans to even considering living without another person's income. It's not like there's easily accessible and quality apartments in this area either, however this solution should last us all until the next clear step becomes apparent.
A few thoughts during and after moving my crap:
I have so many journals I've purchased, thinking apparently that this one would be the one to unlock all the secrets of my mind. Unfortunately that hasn't been the case and I have a huge stack with half-finished drawings of torsos.
If my death doesn't involve being buried under a bookshelf, what was all this for?
It IS as nice to have a computer desk, drawing desk, AND writing desk as I'd dreamed!
Having a dedicated reading chair does mean you'll read more. It will also mean you'll sit around and play video games more.
December's going to involve putting a lot of little projects to bed in anticipation of 2023, which is going to involve a lot of horsepower to get through. Words and pictures are both in the works, if you forgot about me being able to do one or the other.
What I'm Reading - Milestone Compendium One by Various Artists
They don't make comics like this anymore. This is actually the most fun I've had reading superhero comics in a while. Static and the Denys Cowan drawn Hardware stand a cut above the rest, but these comics go down nice and smooth, having been crafted with care and attention. I also can't get enough of these watercolored pages, which have so much more personality than the blinding or muddy computer coloring we've become so accustomed to. By the end, the comics seem determined to add magic into the mix of their universe, which seems like such an eyeroll when Milestone seemed so cohesive and "believable" at the beginning, but that's not going to stop me from picking up the second one.
What I'm Reading - Intro to Video Game Theory by Frans Mäyra
I've grabbed bits and pieces to reference in essays, but finally reading this text in it's entirety has been a goal of mine while trying to whittle down the to-read pile. In my opinion, academics texts and theory are an important part of a creator's overall health, allowing the brain to grapple with concepts it might not even have known were possible to engage with, even with subjects they're well aware of. Aspects of this text are dated, but still a fantastic introductory read and provides a framework for other engagement with video game theory.
What I'm Watching - The Great North/Bob's Burgers
In complete contrast to the previous paragraph about engaging with rigorous academic theory, comfort is also something the artist needs to pursue to produce creative work. I think we all need approachable media to make us feel the possibility of joy in art. That's not to say that Bob's Burgers and The Great North aren't skillfully constructed, because they are made by far more competent creators than myself, but the broadly palatable yet quirky sensibility reinforces that art can just be what it is and not be the next great American novel.
What I'm Listening To - Christmas Songs by Jars of Clay
Despite all the best attempts by the secular music industry, Christian music artists still are the best at Christmas music. This time of year, there's just something about going hard for Jesus that makes a Christmas jam sound better. This older album by Jars of Clay is still my go to, no matter whether I'm reading, writing, or actively listening. "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a banger.
What I'm Playing - Pokémon Scarlet
I'm having a good time with this glitchy, but fun entry in the franchise. I'm now at the point pre-Elite Four where I'm trying to balance out my team and figure out which of these lovable dopes I want to level up to the point that they'll be heavy hitters. My standout of the whole game though? My gal Tinkaton and her big old hammer that takes up the entire screen from almost every angle. She's a beast!
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I remember a few months ago, the whole country was in a lotto craze. The prize was a hundred million or a billion or some number that you couldn’t really count anymore because it had too many zeroes. Seeing the winner announced in the newspapers all I could think about was: “What a waste…. It should have been me!” All kidding aside I really do think our current lotto system is a waste. There is just so much more we can do with it. I can’t believe we are wasting so much potential.
Before anything I need to write why I think the lotto is important. I wouldn’t make an article out of it if I didn’t think it was right? Lotto is one of the few sources of social and economic mobility in our country. Maybe even the world. Think about it. You are a worker or a jeep driver or some other comparable occupation, earning minimum or a little over minimum wage. Even if you work all your life you will not earn enough to buy yourself a house in a nice neighborhood. Let alone be wealthy enough to give your children a head start in life. With today’s rising costs I would be surprised if you broke even with expenses. I can’t even blame the low minimum wage. If we raise it foreign factories wouldn’t come here anymore and we would lose even more jobs. Sadly, the fact remains that if you are a minimum wage earner, you are likely to die a minimum wage earner.
Enter the lotto. In one fell swoop a person can receive enough money to set him up for life. Not just him, but his immediate family and any descendants as well. It happens all the time. We see a person win the lotto, buy a house and live the good life. It is not enough though. We have to engineer it so that the winner will be one of the poor who need the upward mobility. Not only that we also need a system where that person will keep the money, so he won’t end up back in the poor house through bad decisions.
The system I want to see in place is one where the lucky winner would NOT be able to spend his winnings. Yes, it does sound mean, but hear me out first. Lotto winners should only be able to spend five to ten percent of their earnings. They can spend it however they like. On celebrations, gifts, whatever. It should be enough to give their friends and family a little treat. The government or any other entity should then provide a financial planner. The sole task of this person is to help the winner invest the remaining ninety percent or so left of his wealth. This received money must keep on generating additional money keeping the winner comfortably well off. In our current system there is no control over what the winner does with his money. Making it very possible for the entire winning to be spent on things with no value returning the winner to his previous social state. I have very little tolerance for people who win huge jackpots and piss it all away. In fact I think they should be shot as an example to others. Actually that was a joke. Maybe.
Ahhh…. but is it feasible? There are many opinions floating around today and plenty of people convinced they know what to do. The rub is that when you ask them about how they would go about achieving it, they suddenly get blank stares. This might be one of those times (insert smiley here). Honestly it is impossible to place a blanket ban on the upper and middle upper classes from participating in the lottery. Another look at the problem and we can see that while it may be impossible to prevent them from joining, it is very easy to make it undesirable for them to do so. In effect they would be able to join but would not find it in their best interests to do so.
First off you start with the obligatory appeal to human kindness and understanding. Attempt to explain to them why we want people from the lower economic classes to win the lottery and we hope that they understand this is what best for the country. Hopefully some listen. Probably not though.
Second we move the lotto stations out of the malls and into street corners in poorer neighborhoods. We are basically moving our stands closer to our target market. This will keep some of those we seek to exclude out, but not all.
Third and this is probably the most important one. We institute a requirement for a person to declare his yearly income when he claims his lottery winnings. We then impose a tax of 95% of the lottery pot on the winner if his income exceeds x amount per year. The photo,name, and yearly income of the winner would them be posted on every major newspaper.
Last and as a fail safe we use the financial advisers. We tap them to calculate the income tax for the winner for the net couple of years. All his income. Not only from his winnings. After all we want the newly created rich people to pay the proper taxes right? Though this probably won’t do much as a deterrent except acting as another person or two that violators have to bribe.
Funnily enough this system is actually already happening in our country. People would enter organizations which is like a co-op. The people would then pay a monthly fee and they give all those monthly fees to one person. Till they all get one month. If there were twelve people in the group for example they would have to pay say one thousand a month. Then person A gets the whole twelve thousand for January. This is repeated for person B, all the way till December. The problem with this is in its scale. Sure the person may use the money to get a new TV or appliance with the influx of cash, but no real change happens. When the money disappears, and it will since it is too small to grow. They are back to their former standard of living. Whereas a national co-op or the lotto if you will is enough money to get a family out of poverty for generations.
I think this is the first, actual policy I have written an article about. The previous articles I made talk more about issues instead of any real concrete plan. In truth an actual national co-op system would work best. However I would assume that it would be greeted with skepticism by the public as a new tax. You also have the problem of how to pick the first winners. Better to transform something they already know and are used to. This way is purely voluntary as well. Will this solve our poverty problem? No. Not by a long shot. It might not even affect one percent of our poor. Still every little bit helps and those new winners can start businesses in our country providing more jobs to people. If you earn minimum wage and read this, I really do urge you to start entering the lotto every day. A ticket a day keeps poverty away.
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