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Warts are benign skin growths caused by a certain group of viruses known as human papillomaviruses (HPV). Warts are most common on the hands, feet and face. It can also occur in the genital and anal region. It is more common especially in children and adolescents. Although generally harmless, they are aesthetically disturbing and sometimes cause complaints such as pain, itching or redness. These HPV-induced swellings have been seen even in 3000-year-old mummies and are very old formations.
WHAT IS WART ?
warts; It can be defined as benign or benign lesions that occur on the skin and skin. These lesions, called HPV and caused by viruses, are divided into many subtypes. The spread of warts is through direct or indirect contact. In cases where the epithelial barriers known as the upper layer of the skin are damaged, wart development may be easier.
Although there are various difficulties encountered in the treatment of warts, such lesions generally tend to regress within a few years. Some types of HPV infection, which has more than a hundred subtypes, are quite dangerous. These; There is a predisposition due to the development of cancer in diseases with subtypes numbered 6, 18, 31, 35. Conversion to malignant formations is generally detected in individuals with warts on the genital area and immunodeficiency.
Symptoms of warts; may vary depending on the type of wart. In addition, the skin and the raised condition that occurs on the skin are among the most important findings of warts. These bumps can be brown or skin-colored. However, they come in different sizes. Warts on the soles of the feet; It may not be in a puffy state due to pressure. However, it is possible to give symptoms in the form of painful stiffness. What are the symptoms of warts?
The symptoms of genital warts, which is one of the most common types of warts, are; It's pretty faint at first. However, it gives symptoms in the form of a small or a few pieces of fluffy meat. In addition, it is generally not noticed or ignored by the patient. However, it starts to multiply in a short time and becomes noticeable for the patient.
However, in general, genital warts in women occur in the vagina, vulva and breech region. In women who do not care about their examination and treatment, warts sometimes cover the entire genital area. Sometimes cauliflower-shaped structures called large genital condylomas form. There is bleeding in these structures. But today, people who are conscious are treated without experiencing such things.
ARE WARTS CONTAGIOUS?
Warts, which can be seen widely throughout the world, are a disease that affects approximately 1 in 10 of the human population. Its incidence is 2 times higher in school-age children. Wart development is more common in people who deal with meat, such as butchers, or who have immunodeficiency. When the distribution of the disease between the sexes is examined, it is seen that men and women are equally affected by the disease. These hard and non-cancerous bumps occur on the surface of the skin, and contact with the infected skin area is the main factor in the spread of the disease to other people.
Warts caused by viruses are highly contagious. The viruses that cause these warts can be transmitted directly from person to person, and sometimes indirectly through objects such as towels or razors. For this reason, close contact with people with warts and joint use of personal items should be avoided. For example, it easily spreads to other individuals by wearing slippers belonging to the person with warts on the sole of the foot. Although wart formation is not always observed in a healthy individual who comes into contact with this region of an individual with warts, it is quite possible to contract the HPV virus. Each individual's immune response to this virus is unique, and this individual immune response determines whether warts will form or not. Genital warts with some HPV types are transmitted by sexual contact.
There is a period of four weeks to eight months between the introduction of the virus into the body and the appearance of the wart. If there is a wound on the skin, it becomes easier to become infected with wart viruses. At the same time, if the skin is moist or wet, it increases the risk of infection. For this reason, it is often transmitted in environments such as swimming pools, saunas and Turkish baths. It may not always be possible to prevent wart transmission, which occurs in quite a variety of ways, but keeping the hands clean regularly, cleaning the wound after any area of the skin is damaged, and avoiding contact with other people's warts are among the basic measures that can be taken to prevent the ways of interpersonal transmission. At the same time, a person who has warts anywhere on his body can spread it to other parts of his body. In order to prevent this situation, various precautions can be taken such as not scratching the wart lesions, keeping them dry, avoiding the contact of the blade with the wart during shaving, or using the objects to be used on the skin surface differently for the warty area and the unaffected area.
HOW IS STRETCH MARK DIAGNOSED?
Warts are often observed on the fingers, hands, soles of the feet and genitals. Warts are caused by a virus that enters the body. It can take two to six months for a wart to develop after your body has been exposed to the virus.
Typical Symptoms of Warts;
Observation as small, fleshy tubers
Available in tan, white, pink colors
Have small, clotted blood vessels
Warts mostly threaten children, young people, the elderly, people with organ transplants and people with low immune system against the virus such as HIV (AIDS).
The diagnosis of warts is not difficult for doctors under normal conditions. Usually, the diagnosis can only be made by examining the wart. In most cases of warts, the shape, structure and location of the lesion provide information about whether it is a wart or what type of wart it is. However, if the doctor is not completely sure of the diagnosis, he may request a tissue sample from the skin lesions to be examined in the laboratory. In some cases, tests to detect the causative virus in the sample may also be performed.
Structural proteins of HPV virus can be detected by immunohistochemical methods. The distinction of which type of HPV is can be made by examining the DNA, which is the hereditary material of the virus, especially the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) method.
TYPES OF WARTS
Warts come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, depending on their type and where they appear.
Verruca Vulgaris (Simple Warts)
These warts are round, coarse-textured, and yellowish or brown. They are usually found on the hands, around the legs and nails.
Verruca Plantaris (Sole Warts)
They are buried deep in the feet and cause pain. They are likely to be confused with calluses, the presence of black or red dots inside the wart should be checked to distinguish them. Depending on the weight, the warts on the soles of the feet may develop inward.
Verruca Plana (Flat Warts)
These warts are small and smooth in clusters of numerous warts on the face, hands, and legs. They can occur anywhere on the body, especially on the face, hair and hands.
Verruca acuminata, Condyloma acuminatum (Genital Warts)
Such warts occur in the genital areas and are usually transmitted by sexual contact.
Increasing in number over time, these viruses form a cluster of warts in a cauliflower-like structure. These warts, which threaten both men and women, are contagious and rapidly spreading.
Therefore, the number of warts, which is one or two at the beginning, will reach much higher numbers in a short time. For this reason, while the problem can be overcome with a very short-term treatment, a more difficult and longer treatment may be required with the proliferation of warts.
At the same time, this may cause aesthetic and functional problems. While some types of the virus can cause cervical cancer in women, cancer can develop on warts that cannot be treated for a long time in men.
TREATMENT OF WARTS
The treatment of warts should be approached depending on factors such as the patient's age, the extent and duration of the lesions, the patient's immune status, and the patient's desire for treatment. In some patients, the treatment may take a short time, while in some patients, repeated and long-term treatments may be required.
Cryotherapy (Liquid nitrogen)
Cryotherapy is probably the most common method used to treat warts. The wart is frozen with liquid nitrogen at -196°C. The main disadvantage of freezing is pain. In some cases, especially in which long freezing times are applied, it may be severe and may last for a few hours or even a few days.
It can be applied on scalp, face, neck, knee, elbow and mouth lesions. Local anesthesia is required. Creams are used for local anesthesia in children.
Warts (especially large warts in the anogenital area that do not respond to topical treatments and a small number of warts on hairless skin) can be curetted or surgically excised.
A wide variety of topical keratolytic agents can be applied, often in conjunction with cryotherapy. Mainly salicylic acid can be used in creams, gels, paints, ointments and 40-60% plasters and special gel patches in concentrations between 10-40%. In addition, some antimitotic agents such as podophylline can also be used.
Cutaneous viral warts are only temporary discomfort for most children, as most cases resolve spontaneously within 1-2 years. Flat warts have the highest rate of spontaneous remission among all clinical HPV infections.
The lowest-risk HPV types are HPV-6 and HPV-11, while HPV-16 and HPV-18 are the most common causes of HPV-related genital dysplasia. Condom use provides partial protection from genital HPV infection.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Should warts be treated?
At very young ages, warts can heal spontaneously over time without treatment. However, painful and rapidly growing warts, especially in the genital area, need to be treated.
How long does wart treatment take?
Each session of wart treatment can take between 5 and 20 minutes on average, depending on the width of the lesions. The full cure may vary depending on the patient's immune system and the structure of the wart and its depth. Sometimes a single session is sufficient, in some cases 4-5 sessions may be needed. The interval between sessions is 3-4 weeks on average.
Is wart dangerous?
It is very rare for the wart to go away on its own in adults. Warts seen in children may regress spontaneously within 1 year. When the disease is diagnosed, the best thing to do is to treat it. Cancer is very rare in skin warts. Especially the types that settle on the mucous membranes (in the mouth, genital and anal region) pose a risk for the formation of cancer. However, if the person is in an age group of 50 years or older and has warts or warts that grow and bleed rapidly, he should definitely consult a dermatologist.
Genital wart is a sexually transmitted infection caused by HPV. While about 40 types of HPV virus, which has more than 150 different types, cause genital warts, 15 types are associated with cervical cancer in women. It is now known that genital warts, which were previously thought to have little effect on men, cause cancer in men, albeit rarely.
How can warts be prevented?
The risk of wart contamination can be reduced by:
Support the body's immune system; do not smoke, eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly in the fresh air.
Carefully dry the spaces between the fingers and toes after bathing.
Regularly apply moisturizing lotion to dry skin, especially hands.
Breaking off pieces of skin around the nail results in small wounds where viruses can easily penetrate the skin. Avoid doing this.
Wear slippers in swimming pools, sports facilities, saunas and hotel rooms.
Do not share towels with family members who have warts
Wash towels and clothing that come into direct contact with the wart at a temperature of at least 60 degrees.
What Should Be Considered After Wart Treatment?
After wart treatment; It depends on the treatment of the wart. However, it is very important to keep the treated area hygienic. What should be considered after wart treatment? It is necessary for the warts not to collect water after the treatment, in order for the treatment to respond quickly.


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Anyway, Phosphorescent. Info from R5productions.com:
Phosphorescent - SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22nd, 8:00 PM
Matthew Houck, the Brooklynite behind Phosphorescent, is a rootsy singer-songwriter with a gothic sensibility and a way with a tune. But he also demonstrates an interest in pure sound. Stately countrified weepers dominated his 2005 album Aw Come Aw Wry, as dry production emphasized the Will Oldhamesque cracks in his voice. But then there were tracks like "Endless Pt. 2", which added Beach Boys-style harmonies and toyed with the structural conventions of song. These latter inclinations move to the fore on his forthcoming Pride, his third full-length and first for the Dead Oceans / Secretlly Canadian label.
At The First Unitarian Church's Chapel
Small Intimate Seated Space That Only Holds 50 People !
2125 Chestnut Street (22nd and Chestnut Sts)
$10 advance / All Ages
Info also from r5productions.com:
M83 - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15th 8:00 PM
We hosted these guys first show ever in America and we are thrilled to have them back after their sold out, amazing Sanctuary show a few months back! Hailing from France - We've been listening to them nonstop for the past few years. Imagine the post rave swirl of the Orb, mix in the muted warmth of Boards Of Canada, the lalala Neu-worship of Stereolab, the catchy new wave of New Order, then wrap the whole thing in a thick shimmery distorted haze a la My Bloody Valentine and you'll be close. Now imagine that concoction as the soundtrack to the love scene in some super bizarre Anime. You know, the part where the girl is going into space because she can't live on earth because her tentacles keep killing cute little pandas, and her boyfriend is a giant panda, but they love each other so much her tears turn into jewels that the pandas can eat to make them invincible. It's that heartbreakingly good. This will totally hit the spot for electro geeks, shoegazers, pop kids, and everyone in between. An absolute masterpiece. Kim & Jesse is the definite best song of 2008 - BEST BAND !!!!!!
Sound Clips :
1) Kim & Jessie | 2) Teen Agnst | 3) Graveyard Girl | 4) Don't Save Us From The Flames | 5) Dark Moves Of Love
School Of Seven Bells
Named for the infamous, clandestine, possibly nonexistent South American pickpocket academy, deserter's supergroup School of Seven Bells released was fbormed by ex-Secret Machines guitarist Benjamin Curtis and former On! Air! Library! twin-set Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, as well as James Elliott (who you may or may not know as Ateleia) and sometime Rhys Chatham drummer Joe Stickney.
Sound Clips :
1) Face To Face On High Places | 2) Limb By Limb
At The Starlight Ballroom
460 North 9th Street (Just Below 9th & Spring Garden)
$14 / All Ages To Enter / 21+ To Drink
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Pressure cookers are great at cooking food quickly, but they also pose a risk of explosion.
Why is the pressure valve so loose in pressure cooker?
A pressure cooker is a type of stovetop appliance that uses high heat to create steam under pressure inside a sealed vessel.
This allows foods to cook faster because water boils at higher temperatures than boiling point.
However, pressure cookers are dangerous because the pressure valve is often left open during cooking.
If the valve is left open, the pressure inside the pot can build up until it reaches a certain level, causing the pressure cooker to explode
Why Is The Pressure Valve So Loose In Pressure Cooker?
Pressure cookers are great tools for making healthy meals quickly. However, if you are not careful, you could end up with a damaged pressure cooker. Here are some tips to help prevent damage to your pressure cooker. Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions carefully. Never fill the pressure cooker with liquid until the correct level is reached. Do not exceed the maximum recommended filling level. Make sure the pressure cooker is filled no higher than two inches from the top. Keep the lid closed tightly during cooking. Never leave the pressure cooker unattended while it is heating up. Never place the pressure cooker directly on the stovetop burner. Never put hot items into the pressure cooker. Be sure to read the manual thoroughly before using any new appliance.
Tight Pressure Release Valve
A pressure release valve PRV is a safety feature built into every pressure cooker. It allows the pressure inside the cooker to build up slowly, rather than letting it explode when the cooker is opened. This prevents injury to people who open the cooker. A PRV works by allowing air to escape from the cooker when the pressure reaches a certain point. Once the pressure is released, the PRV closes again.
Too Loose Pressure Release Valve
If the pressure release valve PRV is not working properly, the pressure inside the cooker could build up quickly. This could lead to a dangerous situation where the cooker explodes. To check if the PRV is working correctly, press down firmly on the handle of the cooker. If the PRV does not move easily, it needs replacing.
means you haven’t put it properly OR it is designed to be loose
Question: Can I Use a Microwave Oven to Deep Fry?
Yes! A microwave oven can be used to deep fry. However, it is important to note that the microwave oven cannot be used to bake. It is only good for heating food.
A microwave oven is not recommended for deep frying because it does not provide enough heat to cook food thoroughly.
Why is my pressure cooker valve leaking?
Steam release valves are used to vent steam from the pressure cooker. Steam can build up if the pressure inside the cooker exceeds the maximum allowed level. This could happen if you open the lid during cooking or if the cooker gets overheated. In such cases, the steam will build up and escape through the steam release valve.
What do I do if my pressure cooker gasket is loose?
A gasket is a rubber ring that seals around the opening of the pressure cooker. It helps prevent air from escaping during the cooking process. Gaskets can become damaged if not properly maintained. This damage could lead to leaks and other problems. To repair a gasket, you will need to remove the top of the pressure cooker. Remove the screws holding the top in place and pull off the top. Next, take a pair of pliers and carefully pry open the gasket. Once it is removed, replace it with new gasket. Finally, reassemble the pressure cooker.
Can I use pressure cooker without pressure valve?
If your cooker rubber is loose, it could mean that the cooker is not working properly. This could be caused by many reasons such as; the cooker is old, the cooker is not plugged into electricity, the cooker is not connected to the wall socket, the cooker is not turned on, the cooker is not fully charged, the cooker is not cleaned well, the cooker is not stored correctly, the cooker is damaged, the cooker is not maintained well, or the cooker is not used enough.
How do you fix a rubber pressure cooker?
If you notice that your pressure cooker is releasing steam while cooking, it could mean that the pressure regulator is leaking. This could happen if the regulator is not properly tightened. To fix this problem, remove the pressure regulator from the top of the pressure cooker and tighten it back down. Make sure that the screw holes are aligned correctly. If you still experience problems after tightening the regulator, replace the pressure regulator.
Why is my pressure cooker releasing steam?
Rubber pressure cookers are not difficult to repair. It is very easy to replace the rubber gasket. Simply remove the top panel and take off the rubber gasket. Then put the new gasket into place and replace the top panel.
What do I do if my cooker rubber is loose?
Yes, you can use pressure cooker without pressure valves. But if you are using pressure cooker without pressure valve, you need to check the pressure gauge frequently. If the pressure is not increasing after 10 minutes, you need to release the pressure manually.
How do you restore a gasket on a pressure cooker?
If you notice that your pressure cooker gasket is not sealing properly, you can try tightening the screw that holds the gasket down. This will help prevent leaks from occurring. However, if the gasket is still leaking after trying to tighten the screws, you may need to replace the gasket.
Why is steam coming out of steam release valve?
If you see any leakage from the valve, it could mean that the gasket is damaged. It is important to check the gaskets periodically to ensure that they are not worn out. Also, if you notice any damage to the gasket, replace it immediately.


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Positive messages for tourism in Crete by the exhibition in Moscow!
Positive prospects appear for tourism in Crete by the international tourist exhibition "MITT 2012 Travel and Tourism" in Moscow, which opened its doors today, brought together jointly by the Region of Crete and tour operators-businessmen to the island.
"Positive are the messages, the prospects for increased tourism in Crete from the market of Russia and other Eastern European countries." said the district commissioner of Crete Stavros Arnaoutakis, who attended the inauguration and met with representatives of tourism organizations, and spoke to a business forum of tourism.
At the same time was "booked" through the Greek Embassy in Russia, the visit of TV channels in Crete, which will highlight the history and tourism of the island abroad. Also, there was an agreement for Crete to be advertised for one month in Moscow subway, where every day hundreds of thousands of people are traveling with.
Finally, Mr. Arnaoutakis in his speach to the tourist businessmen and also at the meetings with foreign delegations, sent an open invitation to the island, highlighting the history, culture, natural beauties and advantages, such as the excellent climatic conditions, sun and sea.

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nad 🔪’s review published on Letterboxd:
“If they got lost in them woods you might as well just go on home ’cause you ain’t never gonna find them.”
having the Wrong Turn name attached to this has both up- and downsides since on the one hand I went in expecting trash based on those last four installments of the original movie series and got a surprisingly put together attempt at a folk horror reboot (where was this writing before lmao) which only vaguely touches on the campy cannibal hillbilly premise and with a different approach to its atmosphere as well as seriousness.
this is decent lore! plus, it has really intense moments and gore shocks similar to the one from 2003 but an all around slower dread process. on the other hand it being tied to this franchise kind of keeps it from being seen as just that, a fun venture in its own right. and overshadows a fabulously awesome main girl with Charlotte Vega! love what they do with her and those final 30 minutes are wack! I’m down for another one if it’s anything as surprisingly intriguing as this, although I’ll also gladly take a good take on the campy frame again


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He must have known that the arrival of BiVio was near. The gracious, generous Italian restaurant is in business where East Jericho Turnpike and East Deer Park Road get acquainted.
The original Fred's, complete with its Teutonic diner design, used to send out the sauerbraten at this address. Once Fred's served its final strudel years ago, there ceased to be a reason to stop in.
But BiVio changes that. The polished, soft-hued and remade newcomer quickly has established itself as a local magnet. That's due to the very professional service, and especially to chef Pastor Alfaro, formerly of Luigi Q in Hicksville.
His dependable cooking takes in Italian-American staples and sometimes goes beyond them.
Savory calamari all'arabbiata is sauteed and sparked with hot cherry peppers in the marinara. Return to shore with an excellent special of tender tripe marinara, made a bit huskier with white beans.
Buttery clams casino is no gamble here, under a cap of pancetta. Even better: the multilayered baked eggplant, red-sauced, finished with four cheeses and not a trace of the bitterness that so often sabotages the melanzane.
Pappardelle alla Bolognese, wide ribbons of pasta in a light meat sauce, is a fine variation on the theme. The Bolognese sauce also stars with cortecce, similar to elongated cavatelli, and a pasta that's tasty with the house's pesto, too. Some tomato and ricotta salata relocate the pesto from Liguria, but you won't mind the move.
Sole a la BiVio is a very good, moist, snowy, thick fillet sauteed in white wine sauce, with a handful of pine nuts, shrimp and chopped tomato. Sauteed red snapper, in a light pink sauce strewn with capers, is equally recommended.
Chicken scarpariello comes on the bone, flanked by sausages and peppers, in a garlic-and-rosemary sauce with a vinegary edge. Roast duck, meaty and juicy, receives a two-fruit treatment, with raspberry sauce and a mantle of sliced plums -- one fruit too many.
Conclude with well-made Italian cheesecake, tiramisu or cannoli rather than the crepes with bananas Foster and Nutella.
Look for that fork. Remember Berra's advice: "If you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else."

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text: My 16 month old hates having his nappy changed, every single time he cries, turns/rolls over and tries to crawl away, when its a poo-ey napoy its a nightmare as it gets everywhere. He is so determined to roll over, to stop him I have to hold him down which must feel horrible for him and just makes him cry and struggle even more. I've tried everything I can think of; changing on a table, bed, floor or sofa, having TV on to distract him, giving him a toy to hold, my phone, a remote control! Singing to him, playing peekaboo as I change him, telling him off sternly, talking to him calmly and ignoring it, none of which have worked! Its now been about 5 months and it is still the same, it drives me mad and I dread changing him! Does anyone have any tips? Its worth mentioning he only does this for me and his Dad by the way, he lays beautifully for his grandparents and childminder yet they say they just give him something to hold which doesn't work with us!

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Spend $50.00 at Shop.Temptu.com and get free ground shipping! What a way to end the summer.
Something exciting for all you Airbrush junkies out there. Longtime publication Airbrush Action has just launched a new website this week and it looks great. The magazine’s site features Tips and tricks, Artist Information as well as Forums and merchandise. You can even download any issue you please.
Temptu’s Los Angeles Showroom was recently featured on the Racked LA Blog. Racked LA is part of the Curbed Network group, a collection of neighborhood blogs in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco featuring up-to-date news on real estate, restaurants, retail and fashion. Check out the full story Here!
Here at Temptu, we love to see Makeup Artist use our products and would like to present an oppurtunity to have some additional exposure for their work. We know that as artists, many of you love to be able to have your talent shown as much as possible. If you would like to submit some of your pictures, as well as an explanation of how you achieved the look with our products, please send your submission to Shannon@temptu.com.
Looking forward to seeing some of the amazing projects going on out there.
Vampires never looked so good! Makeup Artist Lauren Kaye Cohen used Aqua #101 to create Robert Pattinson’s Vampire complexion for the cover of Entertainment Weekly. What’s the buzz about? Robert will be staring in Twilight, the film adaption of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel. If you haven’t heard, Twilight has been penned as the next Harry Potter…only the scenes are steamier and the hero is a vampire! Set to release in December, we’ll be waiting with anticipation!
Check out the full story Here!
Temptu shares the cover with Ameber Valletta for the July Issue of Vogue Latin America. Check out the link to see the rest of the beautiful spread.


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When Britney Carson drove into a rural neighborhood in northern Kentucky in July, she had to double check her maps to make sure she had the right place. A wastewater pretreatment specialist, Carson was looking for a manhole that could give her access to the intricate sewage pipes below, but she couldn’t find it. She got out of her van and walked around until she finally spied the cover, obscured in someone’s yard. “It was half buried,” she says, and lifting the roughly 60 lb cover up took a pickaxe for leverage—plus a conversation with the yard’s owner, who was fine with her work there.
Carson’s job that day was to set up one of eight wastewater monitoring sites across Campbell, Boone, and Kenton counties along Kentucky’s northern border. Today, those sites are monitoring Covid-19 activity, searching for viral signals in several hundred thousand people’s waste.
Early in the pandemic, scientists discovered that fecal matter contains bits of the genetic material from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, up to a week before a person tests positive. Sewage couldn’t tell you exactly who is infected, but it could reveal if there were infections afoot in a region—potentially, even before people started feeling sick.
So a few months ago, Carson and her team in northern Kentucky’s Sanitation District No. 1 (SD1) teamed up with the local public health department and researchers at the University of Louisville to start a wastewater-based epidemiology program. They cranked open manholes, gazed down into the rusty sludge, and snaked down tubing that sucks up about a half cup of flowing waste. An autosampler—which Carson says looks a bit like R2D2 from Star Wars—sits near the manhole, slurping up a sample every half hour for 24 hours and storing the waste on ice until Carson or one of her team members picks it up to take it to a lab.
It’s too early for the Kentucky program to inform public health decisions just yet. There are no standards or procedures here; the methods are younger than the pandemic itself. So far, SD1 has collected two months’ worth of samples; they’re watching for the amount of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material to go up or down, and comparing that data with metrics like active cases and hospitalizations. They’ll make adjustments as they learn, all while the pandemic rages on. “It’s a bit like working on the engine while we’re driving the car,” says Ted Smith, an environmental medicine researcher at the University of Louisville also working on the project.
Wastewater monitoring is a bit of a long shot—but given the failure of other strategies to contain the pandemic, it’s an intriguing option. This month, more than 25 states broke records for new daily coronavirus cases as total cases in the country approached 9 million. Individual clinical testing has proven too expensive and logistically complex to slow the spread. Contact tracing is useful, but equally difficult to execute as cases soar. By providing a canary-in-the-coalmine metric, wastewater-based epidemiology could sharpen testing efforts to increase their impact; instead of testing everyone, the method could indicate which populations to test and proactively isolate.
“It’s extremely cost effective,” David Larson, an environmental epidemiologist at Syracuse University who’s been working with his local health department in Syracuse, New York to monitor wastewater, told Quartz earlier this year. “You get a population-level understanding of transmission in a single sample.” Networked collection could capture the majority of the population: Sewers serve over 80% of US residents. And its impact could last beyond the current pandemic: Similar systems could be used to track drug use, antibiotic resistance, toxic pollutants, and outbreaks of other infectious diseases.
It’s not surprising, then, that Louisville isn’t alone in trying to monitor its sewage. Hundreds of cities across the country are trying to get their own wastewater monitoring systems off the ground. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS, pronounced “news”) in August that is so far working with eight states. The goal is to organize a national project that turns sewers—one of the oldest public health tools—into a modern public health watchdog.
Getting there will require major investment, though. Sewers weren’t built to be monitoring systems. Not all public health departments have a large enough staff to take on extra roles, or nearby labs to analyze samples. And even those that do have the right resources have no idea what to look for: There’s no standardized way to measure the components of wastewater, which for now makes it impossible to compare data from region to region.
That’s the biggest obstacle facing the Kentucky group. An alphabet soup of federal agencies is brainstorming to get standards in place to make the NWSS a fully-operational public health tool, inciting a sewage turf war among the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), CDC, and even the Department of Homeland Security. “There’s a fair amount of confusion between federal agencies about whose purview it is,” says Smith.
That could spell disaster for the effort in the long run. “It’s really expensive to do this in an uncoordinated way,” he says. Without a clear national plan, the meager funding municipalities have scraped together will run dry before sewers have their chance to shine.
The secret’s in the sewage
In late April, the head of SD1, Adam Chaney, was on the lookout for ways to apply his knowledge of Kentucky’s sewersheds. He was worried about the economic effects of lockdown orders—and wastewater, he saw in the early research, could help tell his community if such measures were warranted. Scientists don’t believe the coronavirus is infectious in fecal matter; instead, it seems that our bodies break down the virus in our digestive tracts, and little bits of its genetic material show up in stool. And it seems that everyone with SARS-CoV-2 in their systems excretes it—regardless of if they show symptoms.
If northern Kentucky’s sewage showed low levels of SARS-CoV-2, Chaney thought, they could avoid unnecessary economic hardship while keeping people safe. “I just am a community resident,” he says. “I want the best, most unbiased data and the best decisions made for my community.”
Chaney eventually got in touch with Smith at the University of Louisville, who had been working with the local health department since June. This time last year, Smith had launched a wastewater-based epidemiology study in the greater Louisville area—except instead of tracking an infectious disease, he was looking for signs of air pollution. He wanted to see if extra trees planted in urban areas could reduce the fecal biomarkers associated with air pollution and improve cardiovascular health. “It’s the only drug trial in the US where if you look at the drug intervention [on clinicaltrials.gov], it says ‘trees,’” Smith says. (It actually says “greenness.”)
Smith and Chaney thought they could pivot that work. They could set up sites similar to the ones Smith had for his air pollution work and hunt for SARS-CoV-2’s genetic material. The best news, then just emerging, was that sewage could be an early indicator: Studies have shown that bits of viral genetic material appears in wastewater two to four days before people get sick, which means theoretically, it could act as an early warning system to help keep outbreaks small.
It wasn’t as straightforward as they hoped.
Not that the concept wasn’t good. Wastewater monitoring for public health has worked before: In the US, it’s been used to combat the opioid epidemic, revealing patterns of substance abuse in the metabolites of opium-based drugs. In 2013, scientists in Israel found evidence of poliovirus in the country’s wastewater, despite the fact that public health officials thought they had eradicated the virus; their investigational work led the Israeli government to require polio vaccines for all children under 10.
But while our excretions can tell all kinds of truths about where we’ve been and what we’ve consumed, they lose some of that value once they’re flushed down the toilet. “There’s a lot of data turned over to [public health departments] that we don’t know what to do with,” says Chuck Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona.
For one thing, scientists haven’t agreed on the best way to extract genetic material from wastewater. Broadly, they’re using a lab-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which copies signature snippets of SARS-CoV-2’s RNA and replicates them until they’re easily detectable. But there are disagreements over how to isolate that genetic material to begin with.
Some groups are using a solution that works best when the waste collected is solid; others prefer liquid processing, which requires the autosamplers used by the folks at SD1. Others are using a form of digital PCR, which is cheaper on a per-test basis, but requires expensive lab equipment typically found in state-of-the-art university labs—not local public health departments.
Scientists may yet agree on some best practices: A Colorado-based nonprofit called the Water Research Foundation has conducted a study with 33 laboratories across the country to compare methods. But their results (pdf) don’t agree on a set of standards; they just explain some of the differences. And once data collection becomes standardized, public health researchers will have to figure out how to interpret their results: It’s hard to tell if high levels of SARS-CoV-2 RNA are the result of many cases clustered together, or just one super-shedder who excretes more viral genetic material than others.
In the meantime, the Louisville and northern Kentucky group is working with the systems they know best. They isolate the RNA using polyethylene glycol and magnetic beads, and replicate it using a quantitative form of PCR. That’s okay for now, since the goal of their study is to see how trends in viral genetic material in sewers relate to the positive test results and hospitalizations they see above ground.
But if they want to turn their sewer systems into a machine for infection prevention, they’re going to have to figure out exactly where to look.
Mapping a community underground
When Ray Yaeger looks at maps of the sewer system serving the greater area, the University of Louisville health geographer sees veins in a body. “It’s kind of like, ‘What vein would I sample from if I wanted to determine how much of an infection exists in your hand?’” he says. If he skipped a body part, he could miss an isolated infection that could swell into a more serious condition. Instead of body parts, though, he wants to make sure he can catch pockets of Covid-19 in different neighborhoods.
A single sewershed can serve tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. So Yaeger, who has been working with Chaney and Smith, has been determining which sites in the Jefferson county and northern Kentucky sewershed serve which populations. It was important to him not to only find sites that reflect the greatest number of people, but the most diverse populations.
Once he figured out how to capture representative samples of waste, he had to pick sites that were physically appropriate to sample from; some were inaccessibly deep, for example. Others served industries that degraded the quality of their samples, like a distillery that dumped its warm water down the drain; those wastewater samples came in a full 40°F (about 20°C) warmer than others, and the high temperatures denatured the genetic material they were looking for. Wastewater that contained hospital discharge contained a mix of disinfectants and high levels of SARS-CoV-2.
Now, the team is monitoring about 24 different sites across northern Kentucky and the greater Louisville area. Some are wastewater treatment plants, some are smaller sewersheds, and two are prisons. At first, they collected samples once or twice a week and analyzed them in a virology lab at University of Louisville, but they’ve since switched over to a lab called EuroFins to allow the university scientists to get back to work.
This labor-intensive process will look different from town to town, because sewers are so diverse. When US civil engineers started building the first modern sewer systems in the 1800s, they were only thinking of a blossoming city’s immediate public health needs: to keep poop out of the drinking water. A secondary goal was to keep stormwater from flooding the streets; most sewers, therefore, also functioned as storm drains (they figured stormwater could even serve as a helpful cleaning for the sewers when the waters surged a few times a year.)
Even once that hard surveying work is done, that doesn’t mean you have a foolproof infection detection system—unless you install sensors for every household. There’s just one type of community where that’s happening right now: universities.
At the University of Arizona, where microbiologist Gerba works, the campus invested in sensors for each of its dorms, which it could install because it manages its own central sewage system. “I know where all the party dorms are and where all the nerd dorms are,” says Gerba. When they detect a spike in viral material, the college can test the entire dorm and isolate the students who turn up positive.
Gerba says they’ve done just that several times already; they’ve been able to pick out just two to three cases in a dorm of 500 and stop the outbreak from growing—keeping the party from getting out of hand, in other words. Other schools, like Utah State University and Syracuse University, are following suit.
The real world, though, is a lot bigger than just a few dorms. And few local governments have the resources to scale up a university-style preventative monitoring program. Even the 24-site Kentucky survey is only possible with funding from a handful of private grants. The Louisville area also got around $3 million through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act; the wastewater monitoring has spent hundreds of thousands of that budget.
To make it work, cities will need a crap ton of cash. And that’s not going to come until there’s a consolidated national network of pooper scoopers.
It’s 2020, and in a year full of seemingly improbable scenarios, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is deeply concerned with its citizens’ excretions.
“Our job is to ask what is the best available research and development that we can bring to homeland security challenges, and where we can leverage that,” says David Alexander, a senior science advisor for resilience at DHS. The work of countering pandemics is built into its DNA.
Along with Phillp Mattson, standards executive and director at DHS, Alexander has been working closely with Smith and the rest of the northern Kentucky group to develop standards for wastewater-based epidemiology so that one day, a national program can get off the ground. They’ve looped in scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the EPA to do some of the science, and the CDC for public health monitoring expertise. Representatives from each of these agencies meet once a month on a National Sewage Surveillance Interagency Committee.
The goal is to regulate wastewater monitoring so the science can get the federal funding it needs to continue. “Generally in the US, we only know the things we make money knowing or things that there are regulations saying that we have to know,” says Smith. It’s a catch-22: Without investing up front in scientific and methodological standards, it’ll never exist as the cheap public health tool it could be. And without proof that it actually works as a cheap public health tool, it’s less likely to get the necessary funding. That’s why it’s vital that localities collect as much data as they can while they have the cash.
The desire is there. At the beginning of the pandemic, Boston-based biotech company Biobot pivoted to testing wastewater for SARS-CoV-2. It decided to launch a pro-bono campaign for the first 100 cities willing to test their capabilities. These slots filled up within a week, and the company realized it had underestimated the demand for wastewater analysis. “We quickly scaled our operations,” says president and CEO Newsha Ghaeli. “We ultimately ended up onboarding about 400 communities in the US.”
Biobot’s distributed services are cheaper than Louisville’s approach: The company sends a testing kit with tubes for wastewater; people at the treatment plan fill them up and ship them back overnight with a prepaid FedEx return label; and Biobot’s labs analyze the sample and get results back in two or three days. “A community can sample once a week for $5,000 per month, or just over $50,000 annually,” says Ghaeli. But while they’re cheaper, they’re also less specific: They test single samples from wastewater plants that reflect the sewage of hundreds of thousands of people. It’s not a scalable solution.
At the moment, extra funding for wastewater monitoring is scarce and scattered; the funding for Kentucky from the CARES Act is set to dry up at the end of the year. And although the CDC just provided $2.5 million in funding to an initial list of eight states (California, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin) to kickstart their own statewide wastewater monitoring programs, that’s not nearly enough to bring others on board, or keep those programs going.
That’s why the work to develop standards is so important. Without shared guidelines, Covid-19 activity in wastewater can only be interpreted in binary: It’s either there, or it isn’t. Until national efforts establish standard methods—a single extraction technique, and a unified analytic approach that accounts for the population served by a sewershed—wastewater’s potential as a public health tool will be limited.
“Standards feel so bureaucratic, but for me the scientific issue is without some kind of harmonized process, I can’t make any progress,” Smith says. Right now, the hodgepodge wastewater-based epidemiology team of northern Kentucky is still looking for any way to make their data useful for their counties. If they can pull it off, their work could serve as the model for programs across the country.


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This work shows the practical application and the experimental validation of a procedure based on an algorithm, running in a finite element environment, able to operate inside a convex three-dimensional solid by replacing the continuous mass with an appropriate cancellous bone-inspired space frame sharing, with the solid, the border and organized for having the fibres oriented according to the boundary conditions. The purpose is to reach the maximum mechanical efficiency realizing a load adaptive space frame optimized in terms of weight. Young's moduli of a cubic virtual specimen were numerically estimated. Fifteen specimens were printed by a 3D printer using a titanium alloy. Numerical results were compared with experimental ones obtained by tensile tests. The simulation results confirmed the validity of the FEM “beam element-based” space frame.
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The Dragon Quest VIII is a pretty old game, all things considered. It was released in the U.S. back in November 2005 for the Playstation 2. When it was released, it included a demo for Final Fantasy XII. So wow.. it’s about eight years old by the time I’m writing this. Eight years old for what’s probably the greatest Dragon Quest game of all time. But if there ever was one RPG out there that I would recommend people play, it would be this game. Dragon Quest VIII. It’s a really, really good game.
I’m hoping you had the pleasure of playing this masterpiece. You see, I’m a total Dragon Quest fanboy. I’ve played every single one. This one was the absolute best of the series, bar none. It took everything that’s great about the series and made it twenty times better! But, there’s a caviot with all of this. The Dragon Quest series is not for everyone. It has to do with the gameplay….
There’s a chance that you won’t care for the type of game Dragon Quest VIII is. All Dragon Quest games are, at heart, hack and slash. You fight and fight, level up enough to enter into the next area safely. Fight and fight to get enough gold to purchase more weapons and armor. Fight and fight to get purchase better items. Fight and fight to get certain item drops.
And there’s not really much variety in the fights. You can press “attack” to use your weapon. Spells to cast a spell. Defend to take less damage. Items to use an item. Ability to use a spell-like ability (damage, healing, raise or lower stats, etc). Or you can pick Psyche Up for your next action to be far more effective (more damage, more HP healed, etc). Hundreds upon hundreds of battles, a lot of them using the same strategies. I know a lot of people who feel it gets repetitive. But, all Dragon Quest games have pretty much the same battle interface. You either love it or you hate it. I love it. But I get why others may not like it.
There are a couple of neat things in this game that’s a staple in most RPGs today and all MMOs. Item creation. You can mix certain items together, throw them in a pot, and wait to see what comes out. It’s the only way to get the best weapons and items in the game. Not to mention incredibly useful armor.
Yes, that is armor for one of the characters. And yes, that is the best armor in the game for her. It gives her killer immunities and unbelievably high defense. This is one of the many armors that can be made. That character’s name is Jessica. More on her later on.
The other other thing to really point out about this game is the simplicity of the interface. Most of the overworld can be interacted with by pressing one button. To some, that may be something laughable, or something to be avoided…. as there are some great games out there with really unique ways of interacting with the environment. Dragon Quest VIII keeps it simple in order to keep the focus on the story. That way, all the player has to do is hit a button. If the door is unlocked, it opens. If there’s a pot there, the character will pick it up and break it (to check for items). If there’s a chest, it opens. If there’s a person, there will be a brief interaction. I like the simplicity.
This was the first Dragon Quest that was in 3D. Dragon Quest I – VI was released in 2D. Dragon Quest VII was kinda in 3D.. in the same way that Final Fantasy Tactics was 3D.. meaning it was actually 2D, but the map was made all bumpy to give it that 3D look. This Dragon Quest looks like it is taking place in 3D. The castles have multiple levels. Like, when you climb up to the 2nd or 3rd level, it feels like you’re up higher. You can look down at the lower places easily. The environment in general feels a hell of a lot more immerse than any other Dragon Quest that came before it. Take a look at the following video for a taste of that.
And in case you haven’t noticed, the art design was done by the great Akira Toriyama of Dragonball Z fame (yes, and Dragonball as well). It’s why the main character looks like Teen Gohan. I think it’s kind of cool, gives this game that extra oomph. Plus… you get to see a Super Saiyan in this… kinda. When you Psyche Up enough times, you can get this:
That’s the protagonist right there. I like the look. Maybe it’s because I dig DBZ Abridged (Team Four Star guys… check it out, seriously). But when I look at that picture, I see a guy who is about to do serious damage to the enemy.
I know the graphics will look a touch dated when compared to today’s games. This game is from two console generations ago! So it would be a huge disservice if I didn’t emphasize that. Don’t go in there and expect super high-definition stuff that you get these days. The pictures you see on this blog is what you’ll get in the game. To me… it looks like an anime that I can play as an RPG. Maybe you’ll see it the same way! I sure hope so!
There are many, many story threads that run through this game, all tied together flawlessly. The main storyline deals with the cursed king. The protagonist was a castle guard (you can name him whatever you want). The castle was attacked by a strange man called Dhoulmagus. Dhoulmagus cursed everyone, turning most of the inhabitants into strange plant-like beings. The king was turned into a frog-troll-thinggy… and Princess Medea was turned into a horse. The only one not effected by the curse was the hero. The first part of the game was all about tracking Dhoulmagus down.
Creepy guy up there? That’s Dhoulmagus. A very powerful sorcerer who poses as a court jester. On the trip to track him down, you find out that he’s systematically killing specific people. You don’t learn why in the beginning, but you do try to stop him. On the way, you meet several people. You meet Yangus, a former thief/pirate who is loyal to the hero (calls him ‘Gov) because the hero spared his life. You learn Yangus was a man without a purpose, having lost the woman of his dreams. He becomes a better person because of the hero and eventually becomes worthy of his love’s attention. You meet Jessica, the token hot chick of this game. She’s… not what you’d expect. She’s a down to earth woman who wants to avenge her brother’s death… yes, he was killed by Dhoulmagus as well. And finally, you meet Angelo. Angelo was a monk at a local monastery. And the Abbot was killed by Dhoulmagus. So everyone comes together for their own reasons….
What gets me about this game is the sheer scope of it. Most Dragon Quest games were pretty straight forward.. maybe only one or two twists. This… this had more. There are a lot of unexpected plot twists and turns, leaving me guessing every step of the way. And not in a bad way, like twists were there for the sake of being there (like the TV show Alias). The unexpected was there mainly because the player couldn’t tell the future. We didn’t know what NPCs were thinking or what was behind the next corner. Political assassinations and plain old murders were an incredible touch. I know I’ve said before that some video games are hard to summarize. This is one of them. Every character is complex, each with their own motivation and storyarc. Plus, each town and area has its own stories with difficulties for the hero to help resolve. For example, one kingdom the group comes across is stuck in perpetual mourning because the king’s wife died. In order to help the king deal with his grief (important for getting a much needed item that the king possesses), you have to quest to meet with an other-worldly being that can reawaken dreams and memories. The king was able to see his wife one more time, remembering the strength that she gave him.
One of the stories that went through this entire game, that I loved to no end, was the relationship between the hero and Medea. Medea was supposed to marry a Prince… and the Prince she was supposed to marry was a total tool. He was a crybaby who hid from all his responsibilities. He whined and mopped around, doing everything he could to cheat and take the easy path in life. When the hero agreed to help the Prince on his coming of age mission (getting a gem… the king asked the hero for help with it), the Prince actually beat on Medea, calling her a stupid horse. I wanted to have the hero run a sword through that prick’s head so badly…
But after that, the hero and Medea grew closer and closer. They couldn’t marry. Heck, because of the curse, Medea couldn’t have any relationship at all. What was the hero going to do? Have sex with a horse?
Okay, that image is burnt into my mind forever. Damn Japanese sickos. Anywho, the hero learns that his father was actually the son of a Prince. The king (the one whose son you helped) learned of this and agreed to let the hero marry Medea rather than his no-good son. This was part of the “awesome” ending if you complete everything in the game including the optional boss at the end. It was a satisfying ending in every way, one that was building since the beginning of the game when you learned what happened to the Princess.
Look, I can go on and on about this game. The soundtrack is majestic while paying homage to the Dragon Quest games that came before it. The graphics are superb for their time. The story will draw you in within minutes, easily. Everything about the game is intuitive. The world is sizable, giving a lot of fun places to explore.
You really, really need to check this game out. Pick it up used from Amazon for like $15, or pay $30 to get it new. It’s well worth the investment.


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WWE superstar Paige, who is now known by the name Saraya, witnessed a major setback when her alleged sex tape along with a few nude pictures were leaked in 2018. The unfortunate incident left her feeling stupid and embarrassed.
The 29-year-old's latest confession came after her recent appearance on Renee Paquette’s podcast called ‘The Sessions’. ALSO READ | Ex-WWE Superstar Toni Storm To Join OnlyFans After Quitting Wrestling; ‘Exclusive Content Coming Soon’!
The WWE Legend got candid on the unfortunate incident and stated that it was the most awful moment of her life. The WWE star also added that she was completely mortified, and was constantly in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. She also explained that she hid herself fearing that other people might recognize her.
The popular wrestler shared the controversy that happened at a time when she was grappling with substance abuse issues with cocaine and alcohol use.
Elaborating about the same in Renee Paquette’s podcast, Paige
Speaking to Renee Paquette on her podcast, Paige spoke about her 2017 sex tape and nude pictures leak saying, “It was just the most awful moment of my life. Like I couldn't believe it was real at first because I was like, fu**ing 19, and I was like completely f**king mortified. I ran out the house land I just kept fu**ing running dude”, as reported by the New York Post.
She continued, “I never wish that upon anyone because that's the most vulnerable part of you. It's just like on the internet. I felt so fu**ing stupid and I felt so embarrassed and I was already like a f**king cokehead at this time and loved to drink and s**t like that.’”
Paige, who in 2020 announced her retirement from pro-wrestling, added, “I was like feeling like and that really fu**ing got me at rock bottom where I just like I didn't want to be alive anymore dude, it's f**king awful. I just was so f**king sad."
During the conversation, Paige also mentioned that she feared her father would be disappointed if he saw the leaked clip. Instead, her father extended his support and asked her to suck it all up. ALSO READ | WWE Anchor Kayla Braxton Says She was a 'Product of Rape'; Takes A Strong Pro-abortion Stand Defending Women's Right To Choose
“Well, what are you sorry for? Who cares?” said Paige’s father adding, “You had sex. Everyone’s done it. Unfortunately, you’re just in the public eye.”
The WWE star’s father stated, “It is what it is. You’ve got to suck it up. It’s gonna hurt for a little bit. People are gonna make fun of you forever. I just want you to know that I’m still proud of you and I’m not disappointed.”
The former WWE wrestler revealed this “instantly changed” the way she was feeling.
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There is an odd thing that beings do whilst acting around multiple beings; or a being that they do not know; or a crowd.
They like to put on this pseudo-real persona – a glaze – if you will, that hides their sober-realness.
It’s quite unattractive once you spy out The Glaze.
For some beings, it is overtly heavy.
For others, it is still unattractive.
It’s an ego-thing of some sort. Or perhaps, an anxiety-thing where the falsity of Ego deranges you to cover it up, with the Pseudo-Real Persona of Egoic Glaze.
This Character Amplification, if you will, is an unnecessary thing.
It’s an unconscious submittal to the fringe of
The Unconscious State of Being.
My, how much more alive and Completely There a being is when calmed, centered, conscious and sober of the
Anxietal Ego Character Amplification GLAZE!
You can see that the Sober Being is reacting by the Calm Heart,
and not from the quick Anxious Gut that the unconscious slip-ups take from.
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Networks and Pathways Bioinformatics for Biologists
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The second season of PUMA x PALOMO takes inspiration from both summer sports and vintage surf posters from Hawaii and the south of Spain. This reversible bucket hat celebrates the optimism and freedom of surf life, with a tropical psychedelic print on one side bringing the flair of the Spanish Riviera.
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CREATIVE WRITING PEDAGOGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
edited by Alexandria Peary and Tom C. Hunley
Southern Illinois University Press, 310 pages
reviewed by Lynn Levin
We live in an era of border crossings. In marriage, family, race, gender, and geographical boundaries, our world is more than ever about blending, bridging, transforming, and migrating. Frontiers are shifting in literature, too: the move is on toward hybrid and blurred genres—prose poems, flash fiction, videos, and other experiments in expression. Into this climate of mixing and crossing, comes Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alexandria Peary and Tom C. Hunley (SIU Press, 2015). The book details the many ways in which creative writing instructors are crossing boundaries: for example, using compositional strategies in the creative writing classroom. The twelve essays in this book are rich in theory, research, practical ideas, and in-the-trenches know-how. The contributors are academics who are also poets and writers. They all specialize in teaching creative writing, composition, and/or literary studies. Many of the essays captivate with inspired ideas. A few, aiming for the scholarly, rely a little too much on academic jargon and buzzwords. All in all, I found a raft of useful crossover and new-generation ideas for teaching creative writing and, as a by-product, some new ideas for teaching composition as well.
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text: So I loved the Alan Wake game, and this was incredible to play. I invited my friend to play it, and later I found out she bought the actual game. Though in the game, I hated Alan for his decisions... He makes dangerous ones and I have to live through them. Haha. Well, over all, nice job!

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I am looking forward to this movie adaptation so very much. This is one of my favorite books (ties for first with The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers) and I’m stoked about Mia playing Jane. I have high expectations! Oh, and isn’t the poster lovely?
I love books. If there’s one thing I feel like I can justify collecting, it’s books. Especially ones with pretty covers. But we’ll get to that shortly.
Today is my birthday. I took the day off work so I could enjoy turning 28. I woke up to three text messages (thanks bro for waiting until 6am!) and too many facebook notifications to count. I felt very loved. My two very good (you could say best) out of state/out of country friends even called me on the phone! I am not a big phone conversationalist, but, this was very special to me. I love you Britty and Kitty.
My twin sis (if you didn’t know I had one by now) and I met up for breakfast (thank you, Trader Joe’s), half-price-book shopping, Chai (thank you Cosmic Coffee), and a stop at Patina. I found THE BEST DEALS at Half Price Books and I’m so excited that I have to share my finds with you!
Among my good finds are books 5 & 6 of the Anne of Green Gables series: Anne of Ingleside & Anne’s House of Dreams; Organizing From the Inside Out, Old-Time Vinegar, Garlic, Baking Soda, and 101 More Problem Solvers, and Martha Stewart’s Good Things For Organizing.
I also found one of these two AMAZING 1943 Random House Publishing books. Dena had found Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte earlier and gave it to me for my birthday. Then today, we found it’s mate, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte today for a mere $2.00.
Isn’t this detail lovely?
I am absolutely in love with these nastalgic classics. They have beautiful wood engraved illustrations as the cover, and throughout the book, telling it’s story. Illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. Love, love, love these treasures.
Tonight, my In-Laws are taking my husband, Darin, and I out to eat at one of my fav restaurants. My stomach is already growling in anticipation. Thanks to everyone who has wished me Happy Birthday today.


How much does it cost to charge an electric car at a charging station Canada?
A new report from Uswitch states that the average cost of charging an electric vehicle in Canada is around $277.19 CAD per year.
Are charging stations free in Ontario?
The city of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, has 864 public charging station ports (Level 2 and Level 3) within 15km. 93% of the ports are level 2 charging ports and 60% of the ports offer free charges for your electric car.
How much is it to charge an electric car at a charging station?
If electricity costs $0.13 per kilowatt-hour, charging an EV with a 200-mile range (assuming a fully depleted 66 kWh battery) will cost about $9 to reach a full charge. To compare the fueling costs of individual models of conventional and plug-in vehicles, see the Vehicle Cost Calculator.
How much does it cost to charge an electric car at home per month?
Charging an electric car will typically add $30 to $60 a month to your utility bill. Electric cars are generally cheaper to fuel and maintain than conventional cars, although they may cost more to buy. Some utility companies offer discounts for electric car owners.
How much is electric bill for Tesla?
The Tesla Model X costs about $15.29 to fully charge, which comes out to about 4.5 cents per mile. It will cost around $7.65 to charge a Tesla Model 3. Depending on the variant, this is between 3 and 4 cents per mile. If you own a Tesla Model S, you can expect to pay about 3.7 per mile.
How much does an electric car cost a month?
To put this into perspective, let’s give an example. Let’s say you drive about 540 miles per month. For an EV, you will use 180 kWh in that timeframe. Using the U.S. household average from May 2021 of 14 cents per kWh, it would cost $25.20/month to charge an EV.
How Far Can electric cars go on one charge?
Current electric vehicles travel about 250 miles on a charge, though there are some, such as Teslas, that can do about 350 miles on a charge. Many automakers have announced plans to bring to market electric vehicles that promise longer range and even faster charging.
How long does it take to fully charge the average electric vehicle?
A typical electric car (60kWh battery) takes just under 8 hours to charge from empty-to-full with a 7kW charging point. Most drivers top up charge rather than waiting for their battery to recharge from empty-to-full. For many electric cars, you can add up to 100 miles of range in ~35 minutes with a 50kW rapid charger.
Do charging stations charge money?
Public Charging Costs
One popular public charging network charges members $1.50 per hour to charge on Level 2, and 26¢ per minute for DC fast charging in California. At these rates, charging a 40–kWh battery with a 150–mile range would cost about 8¢ per mile on Level 2, and 9¢ per mile for DC fast charging.
Are electric Cars Worth It?
Electric vehicles are also cheaper to own. A recent Consumer Reports study found that the average electric vehicle driver will spend 60 percent less to power the car, truck or S.U.V. and half as much on repairs and maintenance — no oil changes needed — when compared with the average owner of a gas-powered vehicle.


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For my card today I inked up Surprise Sophia and made a fun pink creation. I pulled some of the colors from this amazing DP to create a few layers and tied it all together with some ribbon, a bit of twine and a button. I do hope you like my creation Amber! I hope you have a fabulous birthday.
Your next stop on today's hop is Joni Mastronardi's Blog, so hop on over and enjoy the rest of the festivities. Be sure to hop on to Amber's Blog at the end and wish her a very happy birthday!
Stamps: Surprise Sophia from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Lily Pad, Chablis, Little Yellow Bicycle Cupcake Love DP; Ink: E00 Skin White, RV14 Begonia Pink, Y11 Pale Yellow, Y02 Canary Yellow; Accessories: Ribbon, Pop Dots, Baker's Twine, Glue Dot, Deckled Rectangles Nestabilties


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Hiking tour Bruggeralm
Family-friendly alpine hike in the Zerzer Valley above Burgeis.
From Burgeis on the old Roman road (Via Claudia Augusta cycle path) past the Bergsee lake to the Fischgaderhof farm. Slightly downhill to the Faulen See lake. On path 8 to St Martin's Church in Zerzertal and on to the Bruggeralm (1,921 m). Continue to the Oberdörfer Alm (2,057 m), which you reach on the wide forest path.
Descent: From the Oberdörfer Alm back to the Bruggeralm and via path 24 and 4 back to Burgeis.
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Through the Vinschgau Valley to Burgeis.
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The toy is based on a rabbit figure with distinctive tubular ears. The origin of the name dunny came from a combination of street slang and one of the early "Devil Bunny" prototype. Dunny comes in three sizes - 3", 8" and 20". The toy has three points of articulation; a 360 degree rotational head and two arms. Dunny usually comes with accessories that fit inside the sockets of the hand, such as a laser gun or an ice-cream cone. Sometimes the accessories can be as sophisticated as a gas mask, a crown or even a hoodie. With the success of vinyl toys as a medium for expression, many fans and artists have put their own design onto the dunny, known as "customizing".
Most 3" dunnys and some 8" dunnys are normally sold as "blind assortment". Especially since not all figures are sold in the same ratio, some figures are harder to find than others. This series contains many chase figures.


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The following is an excerpt of a WCIA-TV article published on Nov. 1, 2022
During the annual Trick-or-Treat for Canned Goods event, University of Illinois Springfield students helped to collect food on Sunday for Central Illinois Foodbank.
A total of 12 teams, consisting of 108 students, went door-to-door in several Springfield neighborhoods collecting canned goods and other non-perishable food items. They collected exactly 7,899 pounds of food.
The food will be donated to the Central Illinois Foodbank, who will then distribute supplies to food pantries, soup kitchens, residential programs and after-school programs in a 21-county region.


An “inverse” formulation is described for general problems of unsteady elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL). Spatial discretization gives an explicit initial-value ordinary differential equation (ODE) problem with (interior) nodal film thicknesses as state variables. Numerical results are compared with published experimental results for normal approach of a spherical surface to an elastic foundation.
Nodal Unsteady Inverse Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication: Axisymmetric Normal Approach
Contributed by the Tribology Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF TRIBOLOGY. Manuscript received May 21, 2017; final manuscript received November 6, 2017; published online February 6, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Mihai Arghir.
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Today, the EHRC report on antisemitism in the Labour Party was finally released, and it delivered a damning indictment of the party, finding it to have broken equalities law. Further to this the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, held a press conference pledging to implement every recommendation made by the report.
Jeremy Corbyn released his own response via his social media, and controversially claimed that:
'...the scale of the problem [antisemitism] was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media...]
This suggestion by Mr. Corbyn that the claims found to be accurate by today's report were in some way exaggerated have led him to both having the whip removed, and being suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation. He now sits as an independent MP.
A spokesperson for the Labour Party said that
'In light of his comments made today and failure to retract them subsequently, the Labour Party has suspended Jeremy Corbyn pending investigation. He has also had the whip removed from the parliamentary Labour Party.'


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Super Tax Day is Entergy’s kickoff event to the tax preparation season. Qualified customers who agree to save part of their total refund at Super Tax Day events will have an opportunity to win up to $50 in cash through a scratch-off card promotion and will be entered in other drawings including a $10,000 grand prize from the national Save Your Refund program. Upcoming Super Tax Day events include:
- Saturday, Feb. 8, Xavier University, 7910 Stroelitz St., New Orleans, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Saturday, Feb. 15, Goodwood Main Library, 7711 Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Saturday, April 4, Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., New Orleans, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Additional Super Tax Day events are scheduled throughout the state. A list of additional Entergy-sponsored events can be found by visiting https://eitclocations.com/. Federal tax returns must be filed by April 15.
At local VITA sites, IRS-certified volunteers from Entergy’s Louisiana utilities and community partners also will help determine if the taxpayers are eligible to claim federal Earned Income Tax Credits.
What To Bring:
- Valid photo ID for you and your spouse if filing jointly.
- Income documents including W-2s and 1099s.
- Social Security cards for everyone claimed.
- Previous tax returns (if any).
- Health Insurance Marketplace Statement, Form 1095-A.
- For direct deposit: checking and savings account numbers (cancelled or voided check)

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Friday 11th December 2020
This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Friday 17th May 2019
Batman and Robin are back working side-by-side to stop the villains of Gotham City, but is there tension appearing between them, especially when one villainess who calls herself Poison Ivy can make anyone fall in love with...
Friday 19th October 2018
Ashleigh Banfield, Joy Behar, Joe Biden, Barbara Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Vladimir Putin, Gwen Stefani, Donald Trump III, Donald J. Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump and George Clooney
Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald J. Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements.
Friday 24th November 2017
In the bosom of Suburbicon, a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals, a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However, as...
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Anna Wintour, Andrew Bolton, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Baz Luhrmann, Kar-Wai Wong, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Jessica Chastain, Cher, Amal Clooney, George Clooney, Bradley Cooper, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lady Gaga, Giancarlo Giammetti, Li Gong, Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Kendall Jenner, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Lawrence, Madonna, Julianne Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Pattinson, Katy Perry, Chloë Sevigny, Ben Stiller, Uma Thurman, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West and Owen Wilson
A behind the scenes look at the preparations for the 2015 art exhibit, China: Through the Looking Glass held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, commonly referred to as the Met Gala, which has become one of the hottest tickets in...


text: Insulin (INS) via INS receptor acts as a mitogen in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) through stimulation of multiple signaling mechanisms, including p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase (ERK1/2) and phosphatidyl inositol-3 kinase (PI3K). In addition, cytosolic phospholipase 2 (cPLA2) is linked to VSMCs proliferation. However, the upstream mechanisms responsible for activation of cPLA2 are not well defined. Therefore, this investigation used primary cultured rat VSMCs to examine the role of PI3K and ERK1/2 in the INS-dependent phosphorylation of cPLA2 and proliferation induced by INS. Exposure of VSMCs to INS (100 nM) for 10 min increased the phosphorylation of cPLA2 by 1.5-fold (p < 0.01), which was blocked by the cPLA2 inhibitor MAFP (10 μM; 15 min). Similarly, the PI3K inhibitor LY294002 (10 μM; 15 min) and ERK1/2 inhibitor PD98059 (20 μM; 15 min) abolished the INS-mediated increase in cPLA2 phosphorylation by 59% (p < 0.001), and by 75% (p < 0.001), respectively. Further, inhibition of cPLA2 with cPLA2 inhibitor MAFP abolished the INS-stimulated ERK1/2 phosphorylation by 65% (p < 0.01). Incubation of rat VSMCs with INS resulted in an increase of VSMCs proliferation by 85% (p < 0.001). The effect of INS on VSMCs proliferation was significantly (p < 0.01) reduced by pretreatment with MAFP. Thus, we hypothesized that INS stimulates VSMCs proliferation via a mechanism involving the PI3K-dependent activation of cPLA2 and release of arachidonic acid (AA), which activates ERK1/2 and further amplifies cPLA2 activity.


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Cycle quiet back trails and explore beautiful temples in the stunning and friendly Cambodian countryside
Embark on a 30km biking adventure of nature and temples
Dig into lunch at a local restaurant, plus enjoy fruit, snacks and water throughout
Listen closely to your local English-speaking guide who will tell you all about the area
Kids sized bikes are available too so the whole family can get involved
Escape the crowds, the busy roads and the well-worn trail at Angkor. After a riverside cycle to visit the amazing Angkor Wat, we then leave the road and spend the rest of the day on charming, quiet trails through majestic structures. Get up close to Ta Prohm, The Elephant Terrace, and Bayon as well as some less visited temples along the way. Finish by returning on a red dirt road and small rural village trail back to town. With a commitment to unique, carefully created tours, this is the authentic biking adventure you've been looking for. Led by an informative and entertaining Cambodian guide, you'll bike on countryside tracks and past stunning temples – it's suitable for anyone who can ride a bike and has a taste for adventure.
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This is the best day tour I have ever joined . The tour guide Thomson sem who is local was so nice and helpful . He told us lots of Cambodia histories n made us feel safe every moment . He n his assistant made my day rely happy ! Best tour ever !
Awesome!!!! Me and my friend enjoyed this activity so much! We also make new friends with the people who we are with during the tour. Off Road and On Road is Epic! a better way to explore Angkor What Complex is thru bike. Feels like one with the Local! :)
We joined the full day bike tour to Angkor & surrounding temples. The site is rich in cultural elements & our guide Som gave detailed explanation of the site. During the course of the trip, I accidentally fell down and Som came to my rescue me quickly. In addition, he chose another route so that I can catch up with the team. Very good tour. Highly recommended.
A v good experience to exercise myself on top of visiting the attractions. The guide is v nice and patience I booked the trip no more than 48 hours before the tour but received prompt feedback and staff is patient in answering my queries
A fantastic way to see the temples. The tour was very well organised and I felt completely safe for the entire 33km. The three main temples we visited were obviously impressive in their own right, but the bike rides to each of them made the whole experience more interesting and we got to see parts of the surrounding area that we would otherwise miss out on. The tour guide was very knowledgeable and always happy to take pictures! The food at the local restaurant was delicious (I recommend coconut amok), and water was constantly provided. An additional bonus was the wildlife we saw: elephants, bats and monkeys! A tiring but fulfilling day; I highly recommend this experience.
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The proposed budget for Student Government’s annual Casino Week was passed at the lowest amount in the past seven years.
Student Government Treasurer Anthony Fanucci proposed the Casino Night budget at the group’s Oct. 16 meeting.
Some prize items were eliminated to save money and other items were added at less expensive prices.
Items such as Coach purses and game system bundles were added at lower prices, which eliminated more than $1,000 from the overall budget. iPads, MacBooks, and gift cards are still among the prizes expected to be given away. The total cost was estimated at $11,339.
“This is lower than the past seven Casino Nights,” Fanucci said.
The board was also perplexed over the proposed budget for the Women of Engineering Conference in Baltimore, which is scheduled for Oct. 23-25.
The budget for the conference was initially set at $4,979, which would pay for lodging, food and the conference itself, with most of the budget being spent on lodging.
Six members of the WEC were slotted to attend the conference. Recording Secretary Kassi Bugg described the budget as “outrageous.”
After a brief discussion, President Ian Foley recommended a plan to “give the WEC a budget of $2,250 for the conference to pay for their lodging.” The motioned was passed 20-16-4.
Asian Cultural Society was officially recognized as a Wilkes club. The vote stood at 35-1-2.
“We are extremely thrilled to contribute Asian culture to Wilkes University,” accounting major Donachatch Kiangsiri said.
Loyhra Hong, a Thai festival paying respect to the river, is the club’s first event for the semester. It will be held on Nov. 17.
The presented budget report is as follows: All College: $7,844.11, Conference: $5,000 Spirit: $1,485 General Funds: $8,530.34. This brings the Student Government budget to a total of $22,859.45.
In committee reports, curriculum committee stated that a previously eliminated class, Public Administration, will be reinstated.
Student Government meets at 6 p.m. every Wednesday in the Miller Room in the Student Union Building.


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This serious introduction Creo Schematics course is either a two-day or five-day intensive. This course enables participants to experience and practice the fast and easy creation and modification of even the most sophisticated routed system wiring, piping, or block diagrams. This intense study multi-discipline workshop meets the functionality needs of piping as well as cabling design. The last days of this workshop will help users with Creo Schematics so they can not only drive the routing of cables and pipes but to make significant changes using re-output from Creo Schematics. This course is for both electrical engineers or CAD technicians who are tasked to manage teams or to rout cables from these schematics.


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