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Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1445-1510
Italian painter and draughtsman. In his lifetime he was one of the most esteemed painters in Italy, enjoying the patronage of the leading families of Florence, in particular the Medici and their banking clients. He was summoned to take part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, was highly commended by diplomatic agents to Ludovico Sforza in Milan and Isabella d Este in Mantua and also received enthusiastic praise from the famous mathematician Luca Pacioli and the humanist poet Ugolino Verino. By the time of his death, however, Botticelli s reputation was already waning. He was overshadowed first by the advent of what Vasari called the maniera devota, a new style by Perugino, Francesco Francia and the young Raphael, whose new and humanly affective sentiment, infused atmospheric effects and sweet colourism took Italy by storm; he was then eclipsed with the establishment immediately afterwards of the High Renaissance style, which Vasari called the modern manner, in the paintings of Michelangelo and the mature works of Raphael in the Vatican. From that time his name virtually disappeared until the reassessment of his reputation that gathered momentum in the 1890s Related Paintings of Sandro Botticelli :. | The Birth of Venus (mk36) | Domenico Ghirlandaio,Stories of St John the Baptist,The Visitation (mk36) | detail of predella of the St Barnabas Altarpiece (mk36) | St Eligius shoeing the detached leg of a horse | Details of Fortitude (mk36) |
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1824-1870John Seymour Lucas
(21 December 1849 - 8 May 1923) was a Victorian English historical and portrait painter as well as an accomplished theatrical costume designer. He was born into an artistic London family, and originally trained as a woodcarver, but turned his attention to portrait painting and entered first the St. Martin's Lane Art School and later the Royal Academy Schools. Here he met his French wife, fellow artist Marie Cornelissen, whom he married in 1877. Lucase artistic education included extensive travels around Europe, particularly Holland and Spain, where he studied the Flemish and Spanish Masters. He first started exhibiting in 1872, was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1876 and a full Royal Academician in 1898.
John Seymour Lucas was first and foremost a historical genre painter with a particular talent for realism in the depiction of costumes and interiors. Inspired by van Dyck and particularly Diego Velezquez, he excelled in depicting scenes from the English 16th to 18th century Tudor and Stuart periods, including in particular the Spanish Armada, Preparing for the Voyage, the English Civil War and the Jacobite rebellions.
His first major work to achieve widespread public acclaim was Rebel Hunting after Culloden, executed in 1884. It was praised not only for the obvious tension between the muscular blacksmiths and the redcoated forces of law and order (or repression) but for the extraordinary realism in the depiction of the rough smithy and glowing horsehoe on the anvil. In 1885 his next major work whas "Preparing for the Voyage".
As his reputation grew, Lucas increasingly mixed in society circles, and became firm friends with the famous society portrait painter John Singer Sargent who was his almost exact contemporary. A portrait of Lucas executed by John Singer Sargent is displayed in Tate Britain. Towards the 1890s John Seymour Lucas executed a number of major works for prestigious public buildings or royal clients. These include: The Flight of the Five Members (Houses of Parliament), The Granting of the Charter of the City of London (Royal Exchange), Reception by HM King Edward VII of the Moorish Ambassador (Royal Collection), HRH the Prince of Wales in German Uniform (Royal Collection)
Apart from executing over 100 major oil paintings and a host of drawings, Lucas was renowned as a set and costume designer for the historical dramas popular on the late Victorian and early Edwardian stages. One of his more unusual commissions was the "Duke of Normandy" costume for the ill-fated prince Alfred of Saxe Coburg-Gotha for the Devonshire House Ball in 1897. Lucas was also a prolific watercolour painter and was elected a member of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1877.
During most of his artistic career, John Seymour Lucas lived in a purpose-built studio in South Hampstead, London, designed for him by his friend and fellow artist, architect Sydney Williams-Lee.
He retired from painting towards the end of World War I, and moved to Blythburgh, Suffolk, where re-designed a house next to the church known as 'The Priory'. Lucas died in 1923 and is interred in Blythburgh church yard. His son, Sydney Seymour Lucas, was also an artist, and illustrator.
Robert Swain Gifford
(December 23, 1840 - January 13, 1905) was an American landscape painter. He was influenced by the Barbizon school.
Much of his work focuses on the landscapes of New England, where he was born. He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. His painting from the island, "Pettes Cove," is illustrative of his masterful marine work.
In the 1870s, he undertook several journeys to Europe and the Middle East and painted some subjects from those regions. In 1899, he was an artist on the famous Harriman Alaska Expedition.
Some of his works hang in the most prominent galleries in the USA, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. He was a member of the Society of American Artists.

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AI can not only automate the credit decision process, it can also make it more efficient and accurate. Machine learning algorithms can be trained on historical loan data to predict the likelihood of a loan being approved or denied; this can help underwriters make more informed decisions and cut down on the significant time and resources necessitated by a manual review process.
Additionally, AI can be used to identify patterns and trends in the data that would otherwise take a significant amount of time to appear to human underwriters. This can help improve the accuracy of the credit-decisioning process. However, it’s important to note that AI is only as good as the data that it’s trained on, so it’s crucial to have a clean and diverse dataset in order to achieve accurate results.
This blog will cover the three topics listed below:
1. Synthetic datasets for loan approval applications
2. Deep learning and its components (such as the neural network)
3. How to use LIME to interpret such a model and determine the features leading to the prediction
Deep Learning and its Components
For the purpose of this blog, I have used a synthetic dataset found online to demonstrate a deep learning use case.
The dataset contains the following columns:
- Application ID: The unique identifier of an application
- Gender: Gender of the applicant
- Married: Marital Status of the applicant
- Dependents: Stating if the applicant has any dependents
- Education: Stating if the applicant is a graduate or not
- Self Employed: If the applicant is self employed or not
- Credit History: If the applicant has any previous credit history
- Property Area: The property in discussion is urban or rural or semi-urban
- Income: The Income of the applicant is low, medium or high
- Application Status: Application Status is the target variable and signifies if the application was approved or not
For the sake of simplicity, I have not performed fairness bias testing on the gender attribute, even though it is provided in the data. However, it is generally recommended to examine the distribution of attributes such as gender to check for bias in the data. Unknowingly, bias can creep in the source data and can have serious legal implications.
What is Deep Learning?
Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning that seeks to replicate the pattern recognition abilities of the human brain by training artificial neural networks on large datasets. Deep learning aims to build more accurate predictive models and improve the performance of machine learning algorithms. Deep learning models are trained using neural network architectures and labeled datasets.
What is a Neural Network?
Neural networks are algorithms that attempt to simulate the way the human brain processes and recognizes patterns in data. They are composed of interconnected units called neurons, which process and transmit information.
The diagram below accurately depicts the architecture of a simple neural network. There are three main components to it:
- Input Layer: This layer stores and processes the input data. A neuron is the basic unit of a neural network (which are the dark blue circles on the left).
- Activation Function: The activation function decides whether the neuron’s input is essential in the prediction process. There are multiple kinds of activation functions, such as sigmoid or tanh.
- Weights: They control the strength of the connection between two neurons. In other words, a weight decides how much influence the input will have on the output.
I will further break down the concept of “weight” with the following example. Say that you are trying to make coffee. A standard coffee beverage requires just three ingredients (coffee, milk, and sugar). These ingredients can be referred to as the neurons, because they are the starting point of the process. The amount of each ingredient represents the weight. Once all the ingredients are mixed, they transform into another state. This transformation process is called “activation.”
- Hidden Layer: The hidden layer takes all the inputs from the input layer and performs all the calculations needed to generate the output. This is also called “hidden,” as the operations are hidden from the user.
- Output Layer: The calculations performed in the hidden layer are then sent to the output layer, where the user can view the results of the computations.
What is Classification?
Classification is a supervised machine learning task in which the goal is to predict class labels based on input data. There are various types of classification, including binary classification, which involves predicting one of two class labels (such as “approved” or “not approved”). In this case, we will use binary classification to solve the task.
You can click through here to check out a live example of how to solve this using the tensor flow classification method.
Before you proceed, ensure tensor flow is installed in your system. Here is a link that can assist you with that.


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The Sims team released a blog detailing how the objects for the latest Community Voted Stuff Pack go from concept to completion. Check it out!
Okay, so you’ve all voted on some objects for The Sims™ 4’s new Community Voted Stuff Pack. Cool. Now what? What happens next? Well, let’s go through the concept art process to see how the initial images you voted upon are going to get additional conceptualization and fleshing out, as well as what exactly that entails. Here we go…
This is an example of one of the objects the community voted on. At this stage, you can see we give it just enough detail to get the idea across. When an object like this is selected by the Art Director—or, in this case, you—it moves onto the next stage of concepting.
Now the concept artist creates a guide for the object. We do this so the modeler can understand what the Concept Artist and the Art Director think it should look like. First, we make orthographic drawings (front, back, and side view) so we can see the scale of the object next to a Sim. This is often when we make design changes. In this case, we adjusted the shelf heights so there’s enough room for players to place decorations. We also optimized the design to conserve polygons. For example, we removed a couple of round balls of yarn (round things cost lots of polygons) and replaced them with a stack of craft paper.
Next, the Concept Artist renders a polished three-quarter view of what the object should look like in the game.
Then we add reference images to make how each part should look clearer. If there’s a texture like the wood grain (or a graphic like this fox), we call out what image file should be used.
We also call out some technical details:
All of the color variants are also noted. We add color chips to tell the modeler exactly what colors they should use and whether that “set” has any patterns or textures.
That’s it for concept! If the guide has all these elements, the modeler should have all they need to make your object. We hope you’ve enjoyed this behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Stuff Pack!

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Mini Reuben Picks
Some of my favorite and most creative ideas come from last minute brainstorming. Like these two Easy Appetizers I’m sharing with you, the first being my Mini Reuben Picks.
Over the Labor Day weekend each year we have a group of my son’s friends up to the cabin for a weekend of fishing, food, fun, bonfires and many-many laughs. Mr. Spinner and I headed up the day before so I grabbed some corned beef, Swiss, kosher dills, and thousand Island dressing to make reuben patty melts for lunch (I sub kosher dills for the sauerkraut).
The next day as everyone arrived, we started a game of Jarts (the REAL Jarts…with the sharp point…it’s so much fun, they need to make them legal again).
With the warm weather and cocktails flowing, I figured I should set out some snacks. I rummaged through the frig looking for something easy to make, and I had everything for reuben sandwiches except for bread. Waaalaaaa, Mini Reuben Picks! Brilliant if I do say so myself, they are to-die-for good and soo easy!
It’s as simple as this:
- Roll up a slice of good quality gf corned beef and secure it on a long toothpick
- Add a cube of Swiss cheese
- Finish with a slice of kosher dill pickle (I buy the sandwich slices and cut in pieces).
- After they are all assembled, drizzle with thousand island dressing.
YUM! They were devoured quickly so I went back to make more. I’ve made them several times since, they’re different, lean, very low-carb (cheese), and they look pretty….definitely a keeper.
Mini Caprese Picks
We’ve all seen this appetizer on Pinterest, and a good friend of mine, Kim, made them for our couples weekend with her fresh grown basil. They were really good and so pretty, and speaking of low carb and healthy! I spun a few changes to the traditional recipe, I think it makes them even better.
- Use red and golden grape tomatoes (I like Cherubs)
- Cut the tomatoes and mozzarella in half, which makes it easier to eat
- I Kicked-up the glaze: Purchase a fig-balsamic vinegar, you should be able to find at most good grocers or online. I found mine at HomeGoods. You don’t need much, about 1/4 cup. Add about 2 tsp of vanilla bean paste for a little sweetness…taste and add more if you want…don’t make it too sweet though, the balsamic zing is needed. It’s amazing. Even people who don’t like balsamic vinegar will love this.
- To assemble, first skewer a golden tomato, then a mozzarella ball, then a red tomato, then a folded fresh basil leaf. Once all are assembled, drizzle with the Vanilla fig balsamic glaze. It’s that easy.
No words needed….they loved them.

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How do you feel about that?
I’m not that sensitive, but it’s hard to imagine why we are, so we didn’t have the chance to pitch. I like all the people in the room (laughs). It’s very strange that they think you have to take one on a dare, but it just shows my level of intelligence.
Are there any new games you’re looking forward to?
I think all the new games are cool and new. I’m looking forward to the upcoming release of The Crew, and there will be an Assassin’s Creed III one too, and I’m looking forward to the new IPs that come out. I don’t know why, but I think they’re great and I’m looking forward to them.
And you have new team-work commitments?
I have some projects that I’m working on. I think I can only play so many games before I get bored.
Why do people think that?
The problem is, it’s hard to make games. It’s difficult to convince developers, it’s impossible to bring them on because they want to make games, but it’s extremely difficult to build them.
That sounds like a typical job, isn’t it?
Yeah, the job is not all that glamorous. There’s so many things in your life that you don’t get to do. It’s such a privilege to play video games every day. You can’t help but like it just that much. It’s not a boring job, but it’s not a great one either. No one can take it seriously.
Well, it’s not like a good job for everyone either.
I’ve worked in that industry. I got to work on a great lot of stuff, but there are so many things that I wouldn’t do. You can’t tell me, OK, I’m going to make a game and then I’m going to have to have a job in production. If you have too many responsibilities, then everyone will be unhappy.
It’s the same thing in the games industry. There are so many things for me to do, but it’s not a bad job at all. I love games so much that I just want to work on them as much as I can.
So when are you going to do a game that isn’t just about playing games?
That’s one of the problems, because when you put a lot of ideas together the only one that anyone
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Consider the angsty aughts one bit nearer to the set of experiences books: Frenzy! at the Disco, the pop musical crew that went twofold platinum with its dramatic, fringe rococo 2005 collection “A Fever You Can’t Work Out,” will be no more.
Brendon Urie, the main performer left from the first gathering, declared the news in a post on the band’s Instagram page on Tuesday. “It’s been quite an excursion,” he composed.”Exploring Childhood in Vegas” I could never have predicted where this life would take me.Such countless places everywhere, and every one of the companions we’ve made en route”more news.
Urie, 35, shared that he and his significant other, Sarah, are expecting a child and that he intends to zero in on his loved ones.
Refer to it the last as “Death of a Single man.”
Perhaps it’s not surprising that a band named “Frenzy!”in its name started in a Nevada secondary school in 2004. It was a period of weighty dark eyeliner and similarly weighty opinions. The Scene kids were flourishing. The emotional children were whipping on sweat-soaked show floors. It was the time of Green Day’s “American Dolt” and My Substance Sentiment’s “Three Cheers for Sweet Vengeance.”
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In any case, Frenzy! at the Disco, with its tedious melody names, extreme emotion and way too tasteful that went toward the vaudeville and the rare, remained all alone.
While still in their teens, Urie and lifelong friends Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith, and Brent Wilson formed the band, which rose to prominence with the fretful, propulsive track “I Compose Sins Not Misfortunes,” which tells the story of a deceitful lady and an interfering wedding.
A period container from a former time, the tune’s music video includes the musicians in commonly erratic fashion decisions: Urie in a formal hat, red suit and enchantment stick, and his bandmates in outfits you would expect of chimney stack sweepers in 1875.
According to Urie, in their early days, they were blamed for having professional writers and were “abhorred” by various Las Vegas groups. “It made me so happy, the way everyone despised us so much,” Urie said. “‘Goodness, people are really paying attention,’ we recently thought. We’re going to have a great time with it.'”
“Commit to stir it up assuming you promise to tune in/Gracious, we’re still so youthful yet frantic for consideration,” Urie belts on “The Main Contrast Among Affliction and Self destruction Is Press Inclusion.”
Other early hits incorporate the retro, supper club motivated “However It’s Better Assuming You Do,” and “Nine in the Evening” and “That Green Courteous fellow (Things Have Changed)” — the last two from the hallucinogenic 2008 collection “Pretty. Odd.” and loaded down with maryjane subtext. (We as a whole knew why her eyes were “the size of the moon.”)more news
Throughout the long term, Frenzy! at the Disco has based on its initial achievement — even as its musicians have left and, surprisingly, as the Scene kids have become grown-ups with office occupations.
The first bassist, Wilson left in a muddled split in 2006. In 2009, guitarist Ross and substitution bassist Jon Walker withdrew, refering to imaginative contrasts.
Drummer Smith and Urie kept, welcoming on multi-instrumentalist Dallon Weekes. Smith left in 2015, saying he couldn’t show up for the band in the manner “he needed to be,” trailed by Weekes in 2017.
“Getting to see [Panic! at the disco] develop from 4 children in my folks carport to what it is presently has been unbelievable,” Smith said in a letter to fans that was distributed by Bulletin upon his flight.
Urie conveyed “Frenzy! at the Disco” through its last years. He has depicted his persuasions as Sovereign meets Honest Sinatra, and he told the Night Standard that he kept the name since it conveys a fervor that he — a moderately low-profile figure — couldn’t coordinate.
Urie plans to wrap up that performance project after the impending European visit advancing his latest collection, “Viva Las Retaliation.”
The last event date, Walk 10 in Manchester, Britain, is sold out.
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The popular holiday resorts of Ayia Napa and Protaras are flooded with visitors just like the good old days in 2019, key tourism players told Philenews.
And the good thing this year is that French and Polish tourists have given thumbs up to these resorts in addition to Cypriots from other districts – especially Nicosians.
Famagusta Tourism Development and Promotion Company (ETAP) represetative Lakis Avraamides said that demand in August for hotels, apartments and holiday villas was quite high.
And that the occupancy rate of hotels in operation was over 80%, with many being overbooked until the end of August.
The increased arrivals this year from not so traditional markets such as the French and Polish were also welcomed.
“We had arrivals from these countries in previous years as well but never so many. Our goal is to build on these markets so as to have them next year and the years to come,” he said.
“However, despite the increase only a percentage of the Russian loss was covered. It will take time to fill this market,” he added.


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CHILDREN at Fernhust Primary School spent a whole week focusing on books, language and reading.
It started with a ‘vocabulary dressing-up day’ where pupils and staff went into school dressed as an interesting word.
Headteacher Jennifer Thornton said: “The focus on language is a really important part of learning. The thought and creativity that went into the costumes was fabulous but the best part is the children were learning new vocabulary in a fun, engaging way.”
Two authors, Steve Clifford and David Fuller, visited the school. The children heard about how these authors were inspired to write, and how they planned and created their stories. The children also took part in writing workshops to help them create their own stories of a similar style.
English leader Sarah Allen was impressed with the level of creativity the children showed.
She said: “We have some budding authors at Fernhurst – one day we will be using their stories in classrooms.”
The school has an indoor fiction and non-fiction library, as well as an outside reading area.

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Starting on Wednesday June 18, Larkinville will once again be hosting a summer concert series featuring some of the area’s most talented musicians. All told there will be 29 bands performing at Larkin Square this summer. Last year over 2000 people attended each show, creating a social scene like no other in Buffalo. “It’s been incredibly fun and fulfilling to welcome so many Western New Yorkers each week to Live at Larkin,” said Larkin Square Director of Fun Leslie Zemsky. “With the lineup of bands refreshed and the hula hoops refurbished, we’re excited to see how our flagship event will continue to grow this summer!”
Live at Larkin showcases the talents of two bands each week. This summer an arrangement has been made with the musicians to conclude each show by performing together as a grand finale of sorts.
Live music fans can also look forward to another performance showcase this summer. Larkinville is experimenting with lunchtime concerts. Called Lunchtime Live at Larkin, four dates have been chosen where local bands will entertain the hungry crowds on select Thursdays (see monthly schedule below). I have a feeling that this could lead to even more dates in years to come. This is another way that the folks at Larkinville are creating a well-rounded experience for visitors to Larkin Square, no matter what time they choose to pay a visit to the grounds.
*All Live at Larkin concerts are free and open to the public, with plentiful free parking available in Larkin Square event lots, located off of Seneca and Exchange Streets. Food and drinks will be offered by the Larkinville Grill and select food trucks. For more information on Larkin Square as well as weekly updates on other events such as Food Truck Tuesdays and the upcoming Thursday night Larkin Market, please visit www.larkinsquare.com.
Who: 29 bands with Buffalo ties
What: 2014 concert lineup for Live at Larkin presented by First Niagara & sponsored by Independent Health
When: Wednesdays, June 18th through September 17th, 2014, 5-8:30 PM; monthly Lunchtime Live at Larkin, Thursday, June 26th through September 25th
Where: Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street, Buffalo
Why: Celebrate summertime in Larkinville with outdoor concerts featuring local musicians
2014 Summer Live at Larkin Concert Series | Wednesdays 5 – 8 pm | June 18 – September 17
June 18 Neville Francis & the Riddim Posse + Vitamin D
June 25 The Albrights + Aircraft
July 2 The Ragbirds + The Doyle Brothers
July 9 John & Mary and the Valkyries + Michael Oliver & His Sacred Band
July 16 Dive House Union + Jony James Band
July 23 Aqueous + Jeff Miers Band
July 30 Argyle Street Band + Leroy Townes
August 6 The Steam Donkeys + Shaky Stage
August 13 Alan Evans’ Playonbrother + Forealists
August 20 South Buffalo Night!
Brian Higgins & the Exchange Street Band + The Jack Mahones +
The Charlie O’Neill Unplugged Club
August 27 Back to School Night! with WNY high school musicians & Music is Art
September 3 Mary C & the Stellars + Drea d’Nur
September 10 Peter Case + Tom Stahl & the Dangerfields
September 17 Total Request Larkin Lance Diamond & the 24 Karat Diamond Band + Caitlin Koch
Lunchtime Live at Larkin:
June 25th Lancaster Carnival Kids Steel Orchestra
July 24th Hot Club of Buffalo
August 21st Crikwater & Clann Na Cara
September 26th George Caldwell Trio


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Using the Wii Balance Board in this workout game is not only fun, it’s a way to burn calories. The Nintendo crew continues to find ways to make the Wii a must-have for the non-hardcore gamers.
Grand Theft Auto IV
The game lived up to the hype. The mature-rated “Grand Theft Auto IV” features Niko Bellic, an eastern European lured to Liberty City by the promises of his cousin. His cousin, however, has oversold his own importance, and Niko must dig through the city’s underbelly to reach his goals. Excellent visuals and an engrossing storyline make “GTA IV” a must-buy for those who don’t mind the rough content.
Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair a ship in deep space. But once there, he finds the ship overrun by zombies.
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Left 4 Dead
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Explore the world of the Dark Knight in this adventure game starring LEGO versions of Batman, Robin, the Joker and more.
MLB 08: The Show
Excellent graphics and multiple gameplay options make this among the best sports games available for the PS3.
NCAA Football 09
The addition of online dynasty mode to this always-solid college football simulation made “NCAA Football 09″ among the year’s best.
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6 Tips for Effective Use of Anti Seize
Anti-seize compound is commonly applied to fasteners to prevent the threads from becoming galled or damaged - especially when dissimilar metals are involved. For people that live in locations where corrosion is a persistent issue, anti-seize is an invaluable tool to have, helping to prevent thread damage and contamination from corrosion. Keep these tips in mind when reaching for the tube of anti-seize next time you're working on a car.
- Use Anti-Seize Sparingly
The goal of using anti-seize is to coat the threads with the compound - this prevents corrosion and adhesion between the thread and the fastener. Too much anti-seize applied to the thread can attract debris that may contribute to contamination the thread and preventing the fastener from being removed cleanly.
- Reduce Torque Values by 25% - 30%
Commonly forgotten - torque ratings on fasteners are based on their target clamping force. Anti-seize will act as a lubricant - the lubricating properties will significantly decrease the required torque to achieve the desired clamping force. In extreme situations, using anti-seize without reducing the required torque value can strip the threads or stretch the bolt. The exact value of torque reduction varies with material.
- Use the Right Type of Anti-Seize For the Application
Most people are familiar with the ubiquitous silver tube of anti-seize made by Permatex, which is stable up to 1600F. Permatex also makes a copper compound anti-seize which is stable to 1800F, and a nickel compound anti-seize that is stable to 2400F. The copper compound also conducts electricity, and the nickel compound is designed to be used when fasteners must be kept free of copper contamination since the plain anti-seize and the copper anti-seize contain copper.
- Know When Not to Use Anti-Seize
While anti-seize can seem like an excellent idea on some stubborn fasteners or as a shortcut to a proper repair of damaged fasteners, some applications should not use anti-seize. If the thread is already damaged or cross-threaded, do not use anti-seize to help install the fastener. The threads need to be chased, re-tapped, or repaired. Do not use anti-seize as a lubricant such as on caliper slide pins or on threads for a bushing press or any mechanical assembly that requires a lubricant. Don't use anti-seize on exposed threads because the compound can attract contaminates that may contribute to thread damage when the fastener is removed.
- Know When to Use Anti-Seize
Anti-seize should be used when dissimilar metals are involved (steel bolt into an aluminum brake caliper), when threads may be exposed to corrosive effects (suspension fasteners), where high-heat may accelerate corrosion (manifold, turbo, and exhaust fasteners), and on fasteners that frequently get removed (underbody trays covering the oil pan).
- Clean Excessive Anti-Seize After Assembly
When putting your component back together and installing the fasteners, wipe off excessive anti-seize that is exposed. As mentioned above, extra anti-seize will attract contaminants that may damage threads. The only part of the fastener that needs anti-seize is where the two materials meet, under the head of the fastener and in the threads. For through-hole applications, clean the exposed thread as well.
About the Author: Andrew Peng
Andrew is an aerospace engineer and car fanatic that enjoys working on his garage of Volvos and Subarus. When he's not busy attending car meets and shows or taking things apart, he enjoys driving his cars and finding interesting new ways to break them. He can be reached via his personal website at http://andrewpeng.net, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, or Twitter.
Andrew is an aerospace engineer and car fanatic that enjoys working on his garage of Volvos and Subarus. When he’s not busy attending car meets and shows or taking things apart, he enjoys driving his cars and finding interesting new ways to break them. He can be reached via his personal website at http://andrewpeng.net, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, or Twitter.


Oklahoma is looking to attract more professional sports teams with a new bill that aims to benefit the state’s current NBA team. HB 3959 would expand a program in the Quality Jobs Act to include professional sports teams, providing job incentives for franchises considering a future in the state.
The incentive program in the Quality Jobs Act is designed to promote job growth and improve companies’ bottom lines by injecting cash back into businesses as they expand and create new jobs in Oklahoma. State Rep. Jon Echols, who grew up in Oklahoma City, believes this is an opportune moment for the state to pass the bill as Oklahoma is now being looked at by other entities for potential franchises.
While there is no certain pro-sport expansion at the moment, the passage of this bill would create pro-sport incentives across the entire state, not just in Oklahoma City. State leaders hope to build momentum for the sports industry in Oklahoma and believe that this bill will help attract more professional sports to the state.


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Ronlin Foreman is a nearly mythological figure. He has taught a countless number of students and the stories that are passed around about his teachings and other students’ encounters with him are endless. I have heard that in time gone by he was much more fierce than he is now. I have heard that he was kicked out of some teaching positions for slapping his students in the face. I have been slapped by him in the face. There was the story of the man who had a 10 foot pole with a medicine ball on it duct taped to his head by Ronlin, and the woman who quit after he threw his shoes at her head. He is notorious for his enigmatic and profound diatribe, always confusing and perplexing but surely words of truth that many hours of conversation are spent unwinding. He is known for crying in the midst of recounting a story, reading a quote, or relating a personal memory. His tumultuous and colored past creeps into the edges of the tales he tells his students, alluding to institutionalization, abuse, and miles of self-torture. He is a giant, a seer, a clown, an asshole, a provocateur.
I spent three years under the tutelage of Ronlin, and was witness to much of his madness. I saw students who couldn’t even stand on stage blossom into forces of nature under his watchful eye. I saw students driven to the edge of dangerous madness under his provocative pushing. I felt myself driven by his passion and ferocious belief in the work of the clown to believe in the impossible. I loathed and loved and longed for more of Ronlin.
I have been out of Dell’Arte (where he taught me) for two years now, and I am just beginning to understand how deep the roots of the seeds are that Ronlin planted in me. I recently returned home to Canada after being asked by my high school drama teacher to teach a clown workshop to his acting students. Not only did I reach back to the tools and exercises that Ronlin used in our clown classes, and not only was I teaching through a lens colored by his vision, but I could observe my friends and family (who hadn’t seen me for years) witnessing me as a changed being whose entire drive in life has been altered by the teachings of Ronlin Foreman.
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Ronlin is not a saint, nor is he always a model of his own testament. But what he does for his students lasts. And whether he sends them into rage or love, Ronlin moves people. That is the bottom line. Ronlin has the power to move us all.


Tower Hamlets operates 280 CCTV cameras on public, says Big Brother Watch
The public is under surveillance in the East End with 280 CCTV cameras operated by Tower Hamlets council round-the-clock, privacy and civil liberty campaigners have discovered.
This is in addition to police and TfL cameras, as well as the council’s mobile CCTV unit monitoring drivers.
Tower Hamlets has spent �3 million on cameras in four years, according to data collected by Big brother Watch under Freedom of Information requests to local authorities up and down the country.
“Britain has an out-of-control surveillance culture,” said the organisation’s director Nick Pickles. “It’s doing little to improve public safety, but has made our streets the most watched in the world.
“There is no credible evidence that more cameras reduce crime, yet local authorities have poured enough money into CCTV in just four years that would have put more than four-thousand extra police on the streets.”
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But the number of cameras operated by Tower Hamlets council is insignificant compared to south-west London, where Wandsworth has 1,158 local authority cameras.
Britain has a fifth of the world’s public CCTV cameras—watching just one per cent the global population. The average Londoner is caught on camera 300 times every day, says Big Brother Watch.
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It was not cold enough to keep her whole
when Spring sprung anew to curdle her soul,
so he wept just like the castle walls
as they shed their sorrows at the thaw
and the ice around her heart did melt
as much as any love she’d ever felt
when confronted with his face and gait
so apposed to the words he’d carefully placed
in letters crafted on cold summer nights
in rooms empty of laughter, or of life.
Now she lay among her sisters past,
flowers sullied, bloomed all too fast,
victim to the warming months
where little for her condition could be done
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her skeleton to rise
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I might have gone a little off target with today’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “writing a poem in which a villain faces an unfortunate situation and is revealed to be human (but still evil)”.
I’m not sure I managed to make Bluebeard sound in any way, shape or form human, but the prompt did inspire the poem so I have that at least.
Apologies if I sound croaky in the audio recording, I woke up feeling a little under the weather today. Nothing terrible, just a slightly sore throat and a stuffy nose.
P.S – I’m still looking for NaPoWriMo participants to take part in a series of guest posts in May showcasing their favorite poems from the month and a review of how they found the April challenge. You can find more info here.


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Press a button to call a map scene that displays an image of the current map the player is on. (You create this image yourself).
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Assuming you’ve made the map image the same scale as the map:
– automatically displays a marker with the player’s location
– automatically displays markers with vehicle locations
– script call to make events display as markers for different maps (possible use for this is quest objectives, maybe visited towns on the world map, etc.)
– script call to remove event display markers (quest finished).
– comment in event to display text under it
– make player require an item to view certain maps.
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Albert L. Judson, Sex:
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Fraud: Unlawful conversion of money; Grand Larceny (common law); Public officers: Unlawful conversion of money;
John F. McIntyre;
John B. Stanchfield; Max D. Steuer;
Proceedings on motion to inspect minutes of the Grand Jury. Eugene M. Travis was Comptroller of the State of New York.
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“The increasing wildfire risks we face as a state mean we simply can’t wait until a fire starts in order to start deploying emergency resources,” Newsom said in a statement, the Sacramento Bee reported. “California needs sustained focus and immediate action in order to better protect our communities.”
The order enables the state to contract for help to clear forests without the typical bidding requirements and suspends environmental rules.
Through the declaration, the governor hopes to complete the 35 fuel-reduction priority projects recommended by Cal Fire before the peak of the wildfire season in the fall.
The priority projects and today’s emergency declaration comes in response to the deadliest and most destructive back-to-back fire seasons of 2017 and 2018, during which more than 150 people died and tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed.
In November, the Camp Fire killed 85 people, making it the state’s deadliest wildfire, and wiped out the town of Paradise.
The priority projects span nearly 147 square mile in areas near Big Sur, Orinda, Aptos, Woodside and Los Gatos. Also included are areas near the city of Redding, which was devastated by the deadly Carr Fire last year, and in Butte County, where Paradise is located.
Critics of the plan say they fear the state will clear too many trees, which could cause damageto the environment, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Studies have shown that areas of forest with large trees typically burn more slowly and less hot than areas that are broadly cleared.
One study published last year by Harold Zald, assistant professor of forest mensuration and biometrics at Humboldt State University, found that logging sites on the California-Oregon border experienced some of the highest fire intensity.
“Having bigger trees and a more complex fuel structure, associated with a natural regenerating forest, will have lower fire severity,” Zald told the San Francisco Chronicle.
In a statement provided to weather.com, Shaye Wolf, climate science director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the organization “shares Gov. Newsom’s desire for urgent action on wildfires, but for decades now, harmful logging-based strategies have failed to keep Californians safe.“
“Cal Fire is thinning forests away from where most Californians live and far from areas with big risks of wind-driven fires,” she added. “The governor should reject this doomed, destructive approach and direct funding toward proven fire-safety strategies like retrofitting homes and improving defensible space around them.”
Some at-risk areas like Sonoma and Napa counties and much of Southern California are excluded from the 28-page report because the focus is on higher-elevation, forested lands, Chad Hanson, an ecologist who researches fire recovery with the John Muir Project, told weather.com earlier this month.
“It explicitly excludes communities that are not in forests, but the majority of the most at-risk communities in California are in grasslands, chaparral, and oak woodlands, not forests,” he said.
Newsom said Friday he was also setting aside about $24 million from this year’s budget to teach residents in six fire-prone counties about fire prevention and to raise awareness. Another $12 million is set aside for local and regional response teams and $13 million will fund a public awareness campaign.
Grants will also be available for groups that aid pets and farm animals during disasters, the governor said.
There have only been two other statewide emergencies in California this century: during the drought in 2014 and the subsequent tree die-off in 2015, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. (Click to Source)
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The Lutheran A Cappella Choir of Milwaukee, under the direction of David Mohr, will present two performances of their Spring Concert “To Everything There is a Season.” The first performance will be at 7:30 pm on Friday, April 26th at Hales Corners Lutheran Church, 12300 W. Janesville Rd, Hales Corners. The second performance will be at 3:00 pm on Sunday, April 28th, at St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1615 Wauwatosa Ave., Wauwatosa.
The concert will feature the Milwaukee-area premiere of Bob Chilcott’s Requiem, a beautiful work for choir and instrumental ensemble, featuring soloists Sarah Gorke, soprano, and Lee Henning, tenor. The remainder of the program will contain a number of songs celebrating spring, including Jubilate Deo by Benjamin Britten, Rejoice in the Lord Alway by Henry Purcell, and The Promise of Living by Aaron Copland.
Tickets for the concerts are $15.00, and $12.00 for Seniors and Students. They can be ordered from our website and can also be purchased at the door. More information is available at www.lutheranacappella.org.
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text: As new developments in medical education move inexorably forward, medical schools are being encouraged to revisit their curricula to ensure quality graduates and match their outcomes against defined standards. These standards may eventually be transferred into global accreditation standards, which allow 'safe passage' of graduates from one country to another [Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) 2010. Requiring medical school accreditation for ECFMG certification--moving accreditation forward. Available from: http://www.ecfmg.org/accreditation/rationale.pdf]. Gaining much attention is the important standard of social accountability--ensuring that graduates' competencies are shaped by the health and social needs of the local, national and even international communities in which they will serve. But, in today's 'global village', if medical schools address the needs of their immediate community, who should address the needs of the wider global community? Should medical educators and their associations be looking beyond national borders into a world of very unequal opportunities in terms of human and financial resources; a world in which distant countries and populations are very quickly affected by medical and social disasters; a world in which the global playing field of medical education is far from level? With medical schools striving to produce fit-for-purpose graduates who will hopefully address the health needs of their country, is it now time for the medical education fraternity to extend their roles of social accountability to level this unlevel playing field? We believe so: the time has come for the profession to embrace a global accountability model and those responsible for all aspects of healthcare professional development to recognise their place within the wider global community.


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Description"The castle dates from about 1278. It is a quadrangular type castle with four corner towers, three of which survive. It was converted into a mansion in 1694. The castle was acquired in 1907 by James Joicey, 1st Baron Joicey, and it remains in the ownership of his family, although since 1956 it has been leased to Northumberland County Council as a Young Persons Residential Centre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Castle There are photos and a potted history here http://www.northofthetyne.co.uk/FordCastle.html" Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2010.
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Leaves fallen from trees provide winter mulch protection for plants, but they can also make the garden look messy and unkempt. Cleaning up the garden in the fall for me means removing fallen leaves, and then adding them back as a layer of mulch. There must be an easy way to clean up leaves!
My garden is a small urban landscape full of trees and without a lot of lawn. While I don’t have a large space, my garden beds are underneath trees that are constantly dropping leaves, flowers, and petals on the garden. While I like the woodland garden concept where the trees and plants provide nutrition and protection to the plants by naturally providing a layer of compost onto the soil, it does look a bit messy and I can use some help.
I was grateful when I was contacted by Toro, who offered to send me an UltraPlus Blower Vac. It’s just the tool that I needed to do the trick, making fall cleanup easier and more fun.
Please note that Toro sent me the blower vac to try out at no cost. The opinions in this post remain my own.
This was my first time using a blower vac, and I thought that I could simply use the vacuum to suck up the leaves from the garden beds, shrubs, perennials, and rock gardens. Nope! Upon reading the manual I realized that this was not a good idea. The garden waste is sucked up in the vacuum and goes into a powerful leaf shredder which then deposits mulched leaves into a bag. If something hard like sticks, rocks, or acorns gets into the leaf shredder, it can damage the mechanism.
Instead, they recommend that you blow the leaves out of the garden area into a pile. Then use the vacuum attachment to suck up all the leaves in the pile. This will mulch the leaves and deposit them into the bag. The mulched leaves are then available for you to add as a top dressing to the garden beds or into your compost bin.
This process worked very well. It was easy to blow all of the leaves out from underneath the trees, around the plants, off the rocks, out of the fountains, and from all the different landscaping in the garden. Once it was all in a pile, it was just as easy to use the vacuum attachment. The vacuum attachment is parallel to your body, so you just have to stand over the pile to suck up all the leaves into the bag, which has a shoulder strap. All in all, it’s a great design and one that made fall cleanup an easy task this year.
So what to do with all those mulched leaves? It’s garden gold! Add mulched leaves into your compost bin and it will speed up the amount of time that it takes for your compost to break down and become nutrient-rich material. Or use the mulch leaves as a layer of cover over the soil in the winter. This decreases soil erosion, adds material that will compost onto the soil, and protects roots from colder temperatures.
Read more about fall garden tasks and cleaning up the garden in this fall garden checklist!

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Some schools are designating COVID-19 dorms, others are sending infected students home and some schools have decided to scrap or postpone in-person learning until they can figure out how to keep infection rates at acceptable levels.
Dr. Joseph Gerald, a public health expert at the University of Arizona, said the idea of identifying cases, contact tracing and quarantining is the right approach.
He said it’s just going to be hard to do in dorms and other places where students congregate.
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Red Scare in Court: New York Versus the International Workers Order.
On March 22, 1951, three separate yet strikingly similar events in the political history of the United States were unfolding simultaneously.
Former State Department official and accused communist Alger Hiss began serving a five-year prison sentence for perjury. Accused nuclear spy Julius Rosenberg, on trial in federal court, testified that he was a member--and an insurance client--of the International Workers Order (IWO). And, in a courtroom of the adjacent New York State Supreme Court building at Foley Square, the IWO was itself on trial, threatened with liquidation for posing a public "hazard" because of its leaders' close ties with communist organizations.
The IWO was a fraternal organization formed in 1930 by U.S. citizens and immigrants from 13 ethnic groups. In many ways it was a mainstream organization. Its lodges held musical and cultural events. Members donated blood and knitted for the war effort. Some 10,000 of them served in the armed forces, and 300 died in World War II. Its Russian Section was commended by the U.S. Army for financing the construction of a Flying Fortress bomber, and there was even an official IWO Day at the 1939 World's Fair.
In other ways, however, the order was anything but mainstream. In an era of widespread racial discrimination, it welcomed African-American members, including singer Paul Robeson, and the majority of its leaders were acknowledged communists. Its general membership acquiesced in their promotion of the social, political, and economic agendas of thc international socialist movement.
The IWO was pronounced a subversive organization by U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark in 1947. The listing, among other factors, led to an investigation of the IWO by New York State insurance regulators. They moved to liquiate the company on the grounds that its majority communist leadership had used the organization's funds to support radical political candidates and other "subversive" organizations. These actions, they concluded, constituted a "hazard" to the IWO's members and the public.
The regulators also claimed that these activities were inconsistent with thc IWO charter's commitment to U.S. democracy. The radical political activities thus were ultra vires, and the alleged charter violation, the officials asserted, constituted fraud. Thus, for the first --and, apparently, only--time ever recorded, a financially stable insurance company was driven out of business by government regulators solely because of its political connections and the activities of its leaders.
The IWO was represented in court by veteran civil trial lawyer Raphael Weissman and two radical civil liberties lawyers, Frank Donner and Arthur Kinoy, who later became a Rutgers law professor. The state was represented by a leading private trial lawyer, Paul Williams, who was appointed a special assistant attorney general for that purpose.
Throughout the litigation, the company's lawyers asserted that its business record, not its politics, was the only proper focus of the regulators and the courts. However, the lawyers' repeated motions to dismiss were held in abeyance by presiding Judge Henry Clay Greenberg until the bench trial produced overwhelming evidence of the radical political leanings of the IWO leadership. Of the order's leaders, only Rockwell Kent testified under oath that he was not a communist (adding sarcastically that, however, he had read that Franklin Roosevelt and Shirley Temple were Reds).
In a written decision allowing liquidation of the company, Greenberg agreed with the state that the insurance law's definition of public "hazard" could include political as wvell as financial concerns. The New York Court of Appeals disagreed, but stated that the court's record showed that continued operation of the IWO "would prove 'hazardous' in a financial sense." The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the IWO'S appeal.
The unraveling of the IWO is not an action adventure, and the minutiae of procedure in the chronological account of the IWO'S trial and appeals and the author's detailed explanations of legal technicalities are at times ponderous. Yet his work displays fine scholarship not only of dusty records but also of issues that he calls "far from quiescent ones, breathing, as they did, fire from the place where politics meets the law--all at a most provocative time."
It was that meeting of law and politics that fueled the IWO'S persecution. Although the book's introduction by Howard Fast (himself imprisoned for contempt during the Red Scare) warns that the IWO story "must be read and understood, so that nothing like it will ever happen again," the author is less sanguine. "Inter arma silent leges," he warns. During war, the courts remain silent.
The reader may feel that the real heroes of this book are the lawyers who defended the IWO and others who were persecuted for their politics during the same era. Some of the lawyers depicted, like Donner and Kinoy, were truly radical practitioners engaged in continuous skirmishing with the government. Others, like Weissman, were technicians--perhaps aligned for the moment with liberal interests, but fundamentally courtroom warriors, whatever the cause.
Indeed, in the IWO case and others of the Red Scare era, we see the dark side of Justice Holmes's famous admonition that "it is required of man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived." The antidote to the judge who shares the passion of the times too much is the adversary system and the jury. No jury heard the IWO case.
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By: Dr. Deedra Mason
Visual health and ocular support continue to be not just the subject of growing research but also of a growing interest in supplement takers of all generations. As we become more and more reliant on our technology to stay connected to both the people we work with and play with, we increase our exposure to blue light which may be damaging over the long term.
Sources of blue light are not limited to just our devices either; artificial light contributes to our exposure. As we spend more and more time inside, we have to consider how our daily activities are “adding to” or “taking away” from the quality of life factors. While 60% of adult Americans spend greater than 5 hours per day cumulative on their devices and children spend on average 3 hours per day, we may be more productive, but we are likely to be more and more sedentary while also increasing the strain on our eyes due to the number of hours spent in front of our devices.
This daily strain on our eyes may manifest into a need for more light as you age, showing in difficulty reading and doing close work. Printed materials may become less clear, in part because the lens in your eye becomes less flexible over time. Additionally, you may see problems with glare particularly when driving, you may notice additional glare from headlights at night or sun reflecting off windshields or pavement during the day. Even changes in color perception may occur while the normally clear lens located inside your eye may start to discolor. This makes it harder to see and distinguish between certain color shades.
Sounds pretty grim, does it not?
What you can do:
Several naturally occurring antioxidants can offer not just a significant defense from blue light but also support the need for antioxidants that can offset the growing physical demand on our eyes. These antioxidants are lutein, zeaxanthin, and astaxanthin. These natural ingredients find themselves in the carotenoid family and go by the name xanthophylls. These antioxidants are naturally derived and cannot be synthesized in the body, as such it is prudent to identify sources in both diet and supplementation that can meet the growing demand for our aging eyes. Many experts agree supplementation to the diet has become a necessity if you use more than two devices throughout your day.
Studies continue to show, one of the main benefits of the mixture of Lutein and zeaxanthin in ocular formulas was not just its benefits as a substitute for beta-carotene, which is contraindicated in high amounts, especially in smokers, but also for their benefits in blocking blue light. Lutein is a naturally occurring carotenoid found in many fresh fruits and vegetables that is one of only two carotenoids specifically located in the macula of the eye. It acts as an antioxidant to protect the eye from free radicals and supports macular pigment density, which is considered essential to protect the eye from blue light. Lutein acts almost like sunblock from both artificial as well as natural blue light waves.
Blue light waves are some of the greatest producers of oxidative stress in the macula and the retina making zeaxanthin also relevant as a free radical scavenger. Like lutein, zeaxanthin is a naturally occurring carotenoid found in many fresh fruits and vegetables and is the most powerful antioxidant carotenoid found in the retina of the eye. Together, lutein and zeaxanthin can offer a full spectrum of antioxidant support for ocular health.
FloraGLO® is a naturally-sourced lutein ingredient from marigold flowers used in high-quality supplementation. FloraGLO® provides the same absorbable form of lutein found in the foods as well as being the source of lutein chosen by the investigators of the AREDS2 study, sponsored by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. FloraGLO® has over 80 human clinical trials including bioavailability studies showing the starch form in FloraGLO is superior to alginate form when assessing plasma lutein.
Another concern related to our on-the-go lifestyles today is eye fatigue. With so much visual information, social media and communication coming at us, I think fatigue is an appropriate word choice. There are many clinical trials for the ingredient Pycnogenol and ocular health. Interestingly Lutein and Pycnogenol have been studied together for their synergistic antioxidant potential. In combination, lutein and pycnogenol offer a reduction in oxidative stress by 60%, which is protective of retinal lipids and results in benefits for overworked and dry eyes.
Conventional approaches to eye health, dry and overworked eyes, in particular, may rely on anti-inflammatories, which have limitations in prolonged usage. As such, it has become necessary for practitioners to look for safer alternatives to support the health of their patients. Essential fatty acids, both omega 6’s and 3’s and have proven to be an alternative as they have significant anti-inflammatory benefits that are realized in clinical studies for systemic inflammation, including dry eye. In fact, clinical studies on Essential Fatty Acids include a reduction in inflammation of the ocular surface and lid margin as well as increase tear flow secretion. There is additional merit to algae-derived astaxanthin which is clinically supported for its benefits showing increased retinal blood flow, improved accommodation, increased visual acuity and reduction in Ocular Inflammation and eye fatigue.
The evidence for a combination of antioxidants, fatty acids and a mindful approach to our daily use (and miss-use) of technology is a prudent choice for better eye health today and in the future.
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Nagaki Y, Hayasaka S, Yamada T, et al: Effects of astaxanthin on accommodation, critical flicker fusion, and pattern visual evoked potential in visual display terminal workers. J Trad Med 2002, 19: 170-173
Shiratori K, Ohgami K, Ohno S et al.: “Effects of astaxanthin on accommodation and asthenopia -efficacy-identification study in healthy volunteers -”, Journal of Clinical Therapeutics & Medicine 2005; 21:637-650
Kenchegowda S, Bazan HEP. Significance of lipid mediators in corneal injury and repair. Journal of Lipid Research. 2010;51(5):879-891. doi:10.1194/jlr.R001347.
Pycnogenol® in combination with Lutein provides synergistic antioxidant activity for protecting retinal lipids from oxidation.
Nakanishi-Ueda T, Kamegawa M, Ishigaki S, Tsukahara M, Yano S, Wada K, Yasuhara H Inhibitory Effect of Lutein and Pycnogenol® on Lipid Peroxidation in Porcine Retinal Homogenate. J Clin Biochem Nutr 38: 204-210, 2006

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