Andrae named director of Clemson’s new Simpson Research and Education Center
CLEMSON — Clemson University has folded its campus farms into one Research and Education Center and appointed a seasoned researcher as its director.
John Andrae was named director of the Simpson Research and Education Center (REC), located in the Agricultural Center on Old Cherry Road.
Chris Ray, director of the Clemson University Experiment Station, said the Simpson REC was established so the seven research farm locations on and around the Clemson University main campus would have a common bond.
Clemson has six Research and Education Centers (RECs), five strategically located in the state’s distinct soil and climate regions and one in Dominica. The Research and Education Centers provide science-based solutions that directly support South Carolina’s $42 billion agribusiness industry through research in crop production, disease and pest control, sensor-based irrigation, forest management and cost-effective food production.
“The Simpson REC is different from the other RECs in that the land that makes up the other RECs are contiguous for each REC and the land for the Simpson REC is located around (campus),” Ray said. “The Simpson REC is a collection of campus farms.”
- Calhoun Field Laboratory – Also known as “Clemson Bottoms,” this area includes an 18-acre lateral move irrigated plot for field research in plant sciences, as well as aquaculture research facilities. Current research focuses on vegetables, field crops and pest management.
- Crop and Equipment Services – It provides services to the different farm units, including: hay, silage and crop production; pasture management, vehicle and equipment maintenance, facility maintenance and upgrade, engineering services, grading construction and land management, utility installation, grounds care, carpentry and machine shop services, as well as diesel fuel and gasoline storage.
- Equine Center — The Equine Center supports equine teaching, Extension and research efforts synergistically. It provides “real-world” experience for animal and veterinary sciences students in pre-veterinary and equine business studies.
- LaMaster Dairy Center — The LaMaster Dairy Center provides quality animals for research, teaching and extension projects, as well as quality genetics and dairy products for breeders and consumers worldwide. The 677-acre dairy is located within a mile of campus and has about 150 cows of five different breeds.
- Morgan Poultry Center — The Morgan Poultry Center is located 1.5 miles from campus and consists of 11 experimental houses, a feed mill, a hatchery and a workshop containing the farm office. The poultry farm houses a variety of breeds of chickens that either are reared at the farm or purchased from approved commercial vendors. The farm supports both teaching, research and extension activities.
- Musser Fruit Research Center – This Center is an interdisciplinary research and demonstration facility dedicated to developing and disseminating knowledge for sustainable production in the Southeast. Most of Clemson’s peach research takes place at the Center, a 240-acre fruit tree research farm.
- Sheep Barn (Small Ruminants Facility) – This facility supports multiple nutrition and tall fescue projects and is used in the teaching programs.
- Simpson Research Farm — The Simpson Research Farm provides land resources, equipment and livestock for cattle, sheep and agronomic research, Extension and teaching activities. The Clemson Bull Test facility is located here and evaluates seedstock for producers across the region.
- Starkey Swine Center — The Starkey Swine Center is a “farrow-to-finish” operation where swine are bred and raised from birth to market weight. It is located approximately five miles from the Clemson Campus.
Ray said putting all of the individual farms together as the Simpson REC “tightens up” the organizational structure of the campus farms.
“It’s a pretty unique situation here,” Ray said. “The other RECs have certain animals, fruit and/or vegetable crops to study. The Simpson REC is a conglomeration of several different types of animals and different types of crops being researched.”
Ray said he believes the Simpson REC will provide South Carolina producers information they need to help them be successful.
“We believe this will strengthen the research activities by having a more streamlined, coordinated approach to the research,” Ray said.
Andrae, its new director, is a 10-year veteran of Clemson Research and Extension who studied and worked in both plant and animal arenas. He has a doctorate in animal physiology from the University of Idaho, a master’s degree in animal science from Oklahoma State University and a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Texas A&M University.
He has been a professor of forage crops and livestock grazing systems at Clemson since January 2006. Prior to coming to Clemson, Andrae worked in the Oklahoma State University animal science department’ University of Idaho Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences and Animal and Veterinary Sciences; and the University of Georgia crop and soil sciences department.
“We felt like John had a unique set of skills in the research community,” Ray said. “He has quite a bit of experience in plant sciences, as well as animal science. Most folks are trained in one or the other. But John has a combination of training in both of these areas and because both of these research areas are prominent in the Simpson REC we felt he was the most qualified. Because he knows both plants and animal research, he’ll be able to work well with researchers at all of the farms within the Simpson REC.”
In addition to having a vast amount of knowledge about plant and animal sciences, Andrae also has experience with the individual farms as he served as assistant director of the experiment station with responsibility for the animal farms for the past several years. He said he is excited to be able to use his experience and knowledge to help move the South Carolina agricultural industry forward.
“I am honored to be selected as first director of the Simpson REC,” Andrae said. “I hope to improve the already strong ties among faculty and the research farms while working to improve agriculture research, Extension and teaching programs in South Carolina.”


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A militant was killed in an ongoing gunfight with the security forces in Gopalpora area of south Kashmir's Kulgam district on Wednesday.
Reports said the gunfight broke out after a joint team of army's 34RR and SOG launched a cordon-and-search operation in Gopalpora village before dawn.
As the joint team of forces intensified the searches and fired some warning shots towards the suspected spot, the militants hiding inside opened fire leading to a gunfight, they said.
A police officer told GNS that that the cordon was laid following specific information about the presence of some militants in the area which resulted into an encounter.
In the initial phase of gunfight, one militant has been killed and operation is going on, it said.
Meanwhile, authorities have suspended the mobile Internet service in Kulgam district.


- American Express has joined the movement to lessen fraud liability impact on merchants who have yet to make the transition to EMV chip-based payment terminals.
- Similar to a recent move by Visa, American Express plans to limit retailers' exposure to counterfeit fraud chargebacks by not holding them responsible for charges under $25, a policy that will start in August and extend until April 2018.
- American Express also said that by the end of this year it would limit merchant fraud liability to 10 bad charges per card account. Further charge would be the responsibility of the card issuer.
It doesn't necessarily sound like an original idea, but American Express probably has the right idea. Like Visa, it's blocking fraud charges on purchases lower than $25, which seems like a gesture that will grant merchants some of the relief they have been looking for as they continue to slog through what has been a slow migration to EMV technology.
Interestingly, Mastercard, while saying it was keep an eye fraud so that chargebacks to merchants would not become excessive, didn't introduce a $25 limit, so we'll see if Visa and American Express end up looking a little more like heroes as the EMV transition progresses.
Mike Matan, vice president of AmEx’s global network business, said in a company statement, “We recognize the migration to EMV in the U.S. is an effort that will take time, which is why we are making these policy changes in order to provide flexibility to those merchants that may need more time to upgrade their point-of-sale terminals to accept EMV chip cards.”
Nice gesture, though it took a while for the major credit card networks to do something about the complaints that have surfaced from merchants during the EMV migration. After the ramping up availability and delivery of EMV terminals, streamlining activation and trouble-shooting, and easing the liability burden for merchants, the road to adoption looks much clearer. Of course, the coming months will test that analysis of the situation. We'll find out if all the major hurdles have been overcome, or if there are still a few lurking on the horizon.


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Hypnosis for Nail Biting
Regain Groomed and Beautiful Nails
Are you ashamed of chewed fingernails? Do you suffer from torn and inflamed cuticles? Do you hide your hands when paying at the supermarket checkout and in restaurants? Then you probably suffer from onychophagia. This is the name given to the biting, chewing and gnawing of fingernails. If you don't know it, you're probably wondering what the problem is. After all, it's just an annoying habit that you can easily stop with a little willpower. But it isn't. Excessive nail biting is a behavioral addiction that many people suffer from. Psychologists say that up to 45 percent of all teenagers suffer from onychophagia. The percentage is also quite high among adults. However, these have usually learned better to hide the consequences. Women use artificial fingernails for this purpose, for example. Hypnosis helps to finally stop biting fingernails and to have beautiful and well-groomed fingernails and hands.
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Nail biting symptoms
How to tell if you have onychophagia (fingernail biting)
Fingernail biting is the biting of fingernails with the teeth. Most of the time, people affected bite their fingernails without realizing it and especially in stressful situations. Nail biting usually starts in childhood and adolescence and becomes less with growing older or even stops in adulthood - but not always. Many adults engage in fingernail biting into adulthood.
Fingernail biting manifests itself in people through different symptoms and reactions on a physical and psychological level:
Usually there are physical symptoms associated with fingernail biting, such as physical tension and inner turmoil.
This causes physical damage and also sores on fingers on the nails and cuticles, which can also lead to infections and pain.
Psychological symptoms show in fingernail biting through feelings of anxiety, internal pressure and tension, which are regulated by biting the nail and thus lead to relief. Affected people report shame and guilt associated with the visible physical wounds on the fingers, some also report problems in close relationships.
An example from an onychophagia sufferer who stopped fingernail biting with hypnosis
For me, hypnotherapy was a completely new experience. (Reason: separation) I felt comfortable with Isabella at all times and could completely and honestly confide in her. So far it came to 2 sessions, which were not very favorable. However, you invest in yourself and your future. Surprisingly, after some time my back problems got better and Fingernails I also no longer chew! So only to recommend!
Nail biting self test
Do I suffer from onychophagia - nail biting?
The following questions may be initial clues as to whether you have onychophagia:
Do you experience isolated episodes of intense tension, feelings of frustration and stress, and nervousness?
Do you experience any of the following symptoms when you try not to bite your fingernails: Anxiety, tension, inner turmoil, and pressure?
Do you sometimes find it difficult to relax?
Do you experience shame or guilt when you bite your fingernails again?
Do you have the impression that you would prefer to hide your hands from others?
If you can answer yes to one or more of these questions and feel restricted in your daily life and living, you should seek medical or therapeutic advice. You may have onychophagia. Please note that questions are always asked broadly, so it is possible that people who are not affected by onychophagia may get a positive result. Not everyone who chews a fingernail once in a while suffers from onychophagia.
Nail biting causes
Causes of nail biting
Biting fingernails is for most people a strategy to deal with stress
and to provide relaxation or to endure conflict situations. Fingernail biting can also be a sign of another mental illness such as depression or certain anxieties or fearful situations such as fear of flying or phobias, inner turmoil and tension, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and attachment disorders.
According to Steffen Moritz, professor of clinical neuropsychologist, there are several causes of onychophagia. It is often a sign of tension and nervousness. In many cases, brittle fingernails or even split nails are also involved. These are then bitten off instead of filed. This behavior can take on a life of its own and develop into an addiction. Adolescents in puberty are particularly affected by nail biting. They are often tense, many things in life are new and cause stress and insecurity. In many cases, however, nail biting is also a symptom of a deeper psychological disorder.
Nail biting consequences
What are some of the consequences of nail biting?
The longer nail biting continues and remains untreated, the greater the suffering of those affected. Affected persons feel helpless and have more and more the impression that they cannot change the situation at will.
Summarize the consequences of nail biting as follows:
Affected persons feel ashamed because they cannot change anything about the situation
Stigmatization by the environment
Inflammation, which is often painful and can even lead to blood poisoning
Low self-confidence due to the obviousness of nail biting
Nail biting can harm your career
Nail biting and subsequent problems
The consequences of onychophagia are first of all cosmetic nature. Fingernails and fingertips are covered with small scars. Everything looks unkempt. This causes the affected person to feel ashamed. By the way, there is no difference between men and women. The affected persons are mostly stigmatized by the social environment. They are considered weak, weak-willed, inhibited and insecure. Affected persons are less likely to be promoted, they are rarely found in management positions, and they have problems choosing a partner. This often leads them to use any means to conceal the behavioral addiction and thus resort to other, less visible addictive substances. In addition, there is also the medical aspect. Often, fingernails are bitten so deeply that fingertips and cuticles or even the nail bed become inflamed. This is not only very painful, it can also lead to blood poisoning.
Nail biting = weak-willed?
Nail biting harms professional success
If you sit in an interview with chewed fingernails, you can expect not to get the job. It sounds harsh, but it's just the same. Why?
People who bite their fingernails are considered weak-willed. They are said to lack self-confidence, to be unable to assert themselves. Psychological weakness and nail biting belong together so intensively in the consciousness of most people that the vice is often used in films, on stage or in novels as a symbol for psychologically deranged evildoers. In our enlightened times, resentment against people who bite their fingernails is one of the few socially accepted prejudices of all.
No wonder, then, that decision-makers in boardrooms and human resources departments have learned to pay attention to fingernails. After all, they are convinced that this is a real indication of a person's character. Even if you are already in the workforce, nail biting will hinder your career progress. Maybe you are really good professionally and your boss is very pleased with you. But will he recommend you for a management position or give you an important client project? If you are self-employed, it is even more important that you stop biting your nails with hypnosis. After all, you want to appear competent and reliable to your clients. In other words, exactly the opposite of what fingernail biting supposedly says about you or could possibly convey to your counterpart.
Nail biting hypnosis treatment
Nail biting is a behavioral addiction
Once nail biting has become a behavioral addiction, it occurs completely unconsciously. In most cases, those affected do not even notice that they have their finger in their mouth again. There are a number of bitter tinctures and similar products on the market that are intended to help children and young people break the habit of nail biting. However, this often leads to substitute actions, especially when there is a strong psychological injury behind the onychophagia. A typical substitute action is smoking, because it also occupies the hands and mouth. Behavioral therapy also works with substitute actions. For example, the affected person should put his hand to his throat instead of putting it in his mouth. But here, too, there is a risk that the problem will shift and be replaced by a new, albeit less unpleasant, "tic."
Treating onychophagia (nail biting) with hypnosis
Hypnotherapy, on the other hand, deals directly with the subconscious mind It provides the sufferer with a real deep relaxation, then finds the cause of onychophagia and animates the self-control that is inherent in every human being. But now en detail. The hypnosis session begins with a detailed anamnesis in which I, together with you, get a first impression of the situation. After that we go to our first session. You will relax completely and then, according to your own rhythm, begin the journey to your subconscious. Here you will learn when and in which situations you bite your nails. For example, you can now give your inner guardian the order to warn you every time you bring your finger to your mouth. This way, you will be much more aware and attentive already after the first session. The following hypnosis sessions will then focus more and more on the actual causes of onychophagia. You will get to know your inner helpers, make contact with your own strength and thus be able to give up nail biting without establishing a substitute action for it.
Hypnotherapy for nail biting in adolescents and children
Nail biting should never be underestimated, especially in children and teenagers. It is one of the first addictions that can afflict a person and it paves the way for many more. Children with bitten fingernails are more often bullied than others. They have worse chances at school and later in their careers. This makes them insecure and inhibits their development. When children realize that they are stigmatized because of their nibbled fingernails, they look for substitute actions. Often they occupy their fingers with the cell phone. However, teenagers in particular still far too often replace nail biting with smoking. Don't let it stand in line! Support your child in his fight against onychophagia. Help your child together with Hypnose Berlin to stop nail biting.

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The Austoft 4000 is smaller in size compared to conventional models and is easy to move between cane fields. Designed with the same functional concept as the A7000 Series harvesters, many of its parts are interchangeable with other Case IH sugarcane harvester models. This characteristic significantly increases the machine’s cost-benefit.
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Working in row spacings from 1.2 meters, this harvester is narrow enough to harvest one row without compacting the root zone of the adjacent cane row. It is compact, light, has excellent manoeuvrability and an excellent base cut resulting in reduced cane loss and increased productivity in subsequent ratoon crops. The Austoft 4000 is designed to harvest crops up to 85 tons per hectare.
The Austoft 4000 was designed to make maintenance simple. The engine, hydraulic system, and industrial components are easily accessible, streamlining the machine preventive maintenance, which in turn increases the machine’s availability.
Designed for maximum performance, the Austoft 4000 demonstrates its versatility by harvesting both in sugarcane fields with reduced spacings of 1.2 meters as well as in sugarcane fields with wider row spacings up to 1.5 meters. By harvesting in row spacings, the Austoft 4000 becomes a superb option for cane growers who want to harvest mechanically, as well as big plantations where the Austoft 4000 can harvest short rows and/or low productivity soils. This frees the bigger volume harvesters like the Austoft 8010 series in order to harvest to their full daily harvest capacity, representing a significant gain in machine productivity.
For greater productivity, the Austoft 4000 has operator comfort, good visibility, and operational ease for the operator. The controls are ergonomically positioned to ensure convenience and functionality for the operator during the long working hours.
All over the world, agribusiness professionals can count on Case IH for technological innovations, advanced solutions and professional technical support.

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WHO: Afghanistan soon breaks out an unprecedented epidemic of a tropical disease
World Health Organization issued a troubling statement: soon in Afghanistan might break an unprecedented epidemic of leishmaniasis. In total, may be affected up to 13 million people. These data were presented in a unique comprehensive report on tropical diseases, according to ITAR-TASS.
Leishmaniasis – a group of diseases transmitted by the bite of a mosquito. Physicians know two main forms of the disease – visceral leishmaniasis (cell damage occurs to various internal organs) and cutaneous leishmaniasis (loss of subcutaneous tissue).
On information provided by WHO, in only one of the new Kabul officially registered in the past year increased from 17,000 to 65,000. About uncommitted cases, the experts do not know, but their presence is not denied. The main victims of disease are women and girls. According to the WHO Representative in Afghanistan Peter Graf, hundreds of cases are not diagnosed in view of poor medical care.
So, it takes a long time before the seemingly banal mosquito bite causes blisters and sores on the skin. Ensure accurate diagnosis of biochemical and molecular techniques that are not available to ordinary residents. The situation is compounded by the lack of effective medical treatment for an advanced form of leishmaniasis.

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More details come to light on the British Army’s future cyber and electromagnetic activities posture.
The British Army’s Future Soldier Guide was published in late November 2021. It is a by-product of two recent British Government documents. The first, Global Britain in a Competitive Age, was published in March 2021. It outlined the United Kingdom’s foreign policy and defence priorities in the wake of her departure from the European Union. The same month the government published Defence in a Competitive Age. This outlined the UK’s defence procurement priorities for the goals outlined in the Global Britain publication.
In its own words, the Future Soldier initiative “is about delivering a modern British Army that is fit for the challenges of the future.” This focuses on improving the army’s lethal, agile and expeditionary attributes across the spectrum of operations. These include peace, war and so-called ‘grey zone’ operations betwixt the two.
The Future Soldier Guide says the army will enjoy a 100 percent increase in its Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities. What this means in practice is that a new electronic warfare and signals intelligence unit will be added to the manoeuvre force, a UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) source told Armada.
21st Signal Regiment
The new unit will be raised by re-rolling the army’s 21st Signal Regiment. This formation is based in Colerne, western England. According to official MOD information, the regiment is responsible for tactical, operational and strategic communications. Other responsibilities include the deployment of wide area networks and information systems. It comprises 215 Signal Squadron which supports brigade headquarters, 220 Signal Squadron assisting brigade elements and a support squadron. The re-rolling of the unit for its new electronic warfare tasks should occur by 2024, according to the MOD source.
The 21st Signal Regiment will form part of a new British Army Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) group. “The timetable to establish the CEMA group is still being finalised,” the source continued. Once activated, the group will be headquartered in Andover, southeast England. In 2018 the MOD published its CEMA doctrine. This prescribed the deeper coalescence of cyber and EW capabilities across the British military.
The army’s current EW unit is the 14th Signal Regiment headquartered at Cawdor Barracks, south Wales. By 2028, both the 14th and 21st Signal Regiments will have moved to Innsworth, central England. These two regiments will be joined by the new 13th Signal Regiment responsible for cyber operations. All three will form the CEMA group. In turn, the CEMA group “will be part of Land Operations Command” in the Field Army Headquarters the source said. The Field Army is responsible for generating and preparing units to support operations. Parts or all of the CEMA group will be made available to the army’s manoeuvre force as and when required the source continued.
At the doctrinal level, the army is to shift from close battle to deep effects. This will be achieved by combining kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities to deliver effects at ranges of up to 499 kilometres (310 miles). The guide has set a target date of 2024 for this to become reality.
The bedrock of the army’s manoeuvre force will be the 3rd (UK) Division which will house the armoured force. This division will be supported by light forces in the army’s 1st (UK) Division and 6th (UK) Division. The latter houses the army’s unconventional warfare assets, including its EW elements. These three divisions will provide the constituent parts of the planned Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) constituting the army’s deployable manoeuvre force. The army will have five BCTs. two (12th and 20th BCTs) will be built around armoured elements. Lighter forces will include the 7th Light Mechanised BCT and the 4th Light BCT. These will be supplemented by a Deep Reconnaissance Strike BCT.
As Armada has recently reported, plans are afoot to introduce new EW capabilities across the manoeuvre force. This includes the acquisition of eleven ARTEC Boxer wheeled armoured fighting vehicles configured to support electronic warfare. Although not confirmed by the MOD, it seems certain that the new vehicles will be deployed with the EW regiments in the CEMA group.
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Telstra has dusted off its project to build a residential broadband network worth at least AUD4 billion (USD3.25 billion), outlining a proposal for competitor access at a closed industry meeting in Sydney, reports The Australian. The updated network plan for a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network features VDSL2 technology, which offers speeds of up to 100Mbps. The plan is also likely to strand up to AUD500 million worth of investment in ADSL2+ technology by Telstra’s rivals, including Optus, iiNet, Primus and Internode.
Telstra has been silent about its FTTN plans since talks with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) broke down last June. Telstra initially put the network on ice in December 2005, only two months after announcing the plan. Telstra has a long list of changes it wants made to telecoms regulations, describing the current set up as ‘out of touch’. Top of the list is the removal of parts 11B and 11C of the Trade Practices Act and a change in the access pricing for its copper wires, from four separate geographic areas to a uniform national price.

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Tiny game controller company wrests $21 M from giant Nintendo
In 2006, Texas game controller company Anascape filed patent infringement suits against both Nintendo and Microsoft. On Wednesday, Nintendo was ordered to pay $21 million to the company.
The company's complaint was that both Microsoft and Nintendo infringed upon some twelve patents for various game controller designs.
One such patent, filed in 2000, describes a "controller or converter structured for allowing hand inputs to be converted or translated into electrical outputs, the controller structured with a plate or platform movable relative to a base or housing about two mutually perpendicular axes generally parallel to the platform to effect a plurality of sensors for defining output signal(s) based on movement of the platform."
Another from 2001 describes a device "to aid in controlling three-dimensional objects and navigating a three-dimensional viewpoint shown by a display. An active tactile feedback vibrator is mounted as a component of the controller for providing vibration to be felt by a user."
Representatives from Nintendo said that the Wiimote and Nunchuck controller's motion-sensing technology were not found to be in violation of Anascape's patents.
Microsoft previously settled out-of-court with the group, but did not disclose the terms. Though Anascape is the holder of these patents, it appears to be capable of doing little else with them, unless it considers $21 million as seed money for a future venture.

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Before the early 20th century, photography lay at the fringes of the art world. It was governed by Pictorialism, a style that manipulated photographs to mimic paintings and drawings. Paul Strand, an emerging photographer at the time, worked to reject Pictorialism and establish photography as a medium in its own right. One of Strand’s 1915 photogravures will be offered in the Millea Bros’ upcoming Select auction. The third and final day of this sale will include fine and decorative art, as well as modern and antique furniture.
A pair of French cabinets from the 1860s will be offered in this auction. They are decorated in the Napoleon III style and are attributed to the workshop of Mathieu Béfort. Other key furniture pieces include a turn-of-the-century piano covered in hand-painted mythological scenes and several vintage chandeliers. Collections of signed screenprints from Abstract Expressionists Michael Goldberg and Alfred Leslie will also be available. To view the full catalog and register for online bidding, visit Bidsquare.
Lot Categories:Fine Art (132), 20th Century (18), Decorative Arts (72), Furniture (81), Jewelry (3), Watches & Clocks (6), American Indian & Ethnographic (2), Couture & Textiles (1), Collectibles (26), Wine & Spirits (1)
# of Lots:344
Price Range:$125 - $18,000
Interesting lots include:
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|Befort Jeune (attrib.), pair "Armoire a Medailles"|| Estimate: |
|Paul Strand, "Wall Street", 1915|| Estimate: |
|Erard Paris, giltwood and Vernis Martin piano|| Estimate: |
|Robert Rauschenberg, photo portfolio, 1979|| Estimate: |
|Michael Goldberg, portfolio of signed prints, 1961|| Estimate: |
|Large Italian Neo-Classic 8-arm chandelier|| Estimate: |

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And speaking of piano, as a piano jazz aficionado, I'm especially excited that the great Chick Correa is coming to town, and collaborating with the freewheeling and virtuosic banjo performer, Bela Fleck.
Hey Bill Thank you for commenting on my blog. Kichdi/Kichri pronounced Kich-Ree is basically a rice Pilaf made from Basmati rice & lentils. Whole spices are mainly used to give the lentil stock a nice aroma & then rice is added & cooked on very low heat. Its simple food but yummy none the less. I plan on sharing the recipe. Will share it with you too. If you do end making it, let me know how you like it. Will also be adding you as a Spark Friend 1117 days ago

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For the last 40 years, I have been an agent for change and building community. I have presented workshops locally and nationally on diversity and cultural sensitivity, unity and peace. So when I read the following, I had to pause.
"The face of America is changing and the fate of America hinges on how we react to and invest in those changes." (Angela Glover Blackwell, Policy Link 2011)
My first thought was, really? Ready or not, it is here. How will Manatee County react? How will it affect me? As a homeowner, employee, voter, volunteer and Latina, I have seen these changes up close and personal. Fortunately I have worked with many organizations in our community in collaborative efforts to best include and serve this growing population.
I have also had the privilege of facilitating a self-empowerment and identity group for Latinas at the Women's Resource Center Manatee for 10 years now and witnessed the very diverse population of educated, skilled Latinas from all over the map who have so much to offer our community. We are so much more than just translation skills. Building bridges is hard but necessary work if we are to come together in healthy, honest dialogue about what our aspirations are for our shared community.
Latinos are this nation's largest emergent "minority" group. It's been predicted that by the year 2030, we will likely account for a quarter of the population. Here in Manatee County, we continue to witness the increasing number of Latinos relocating from other parts of the nation.
I first arrived here 15 years ago, but it was not until two years later that I joined the work force. Like many other Latinas, I arrived with degrees, years of experience and many skills. But the jobs available for me seemed to always end with "working with the Spanish-speaking population" -- primarily translation. Don't get me wrong. I have a passion for the work I do with Latino families in my community, but I so desperately wanted to use all of my skills, be acknowledged for the many other abilities I possessed and was all too anxious to share. While this is
slowly changing, it is still a complaint that many professional Latinas have.
Our collective challenge is having the courage to begin uniting our differences by preparing for a world of diversity. Uniting our differences means working together to build community. I am so very proud at how many are stepping up in Manatee County and that I can be a part of this wonderful process.
But it takes a lot more than just getting a group of people together. It means inclusion, working together, recognizing and respecting our differences and, above all, taking time to celebrate our commonalities. I recently sat around a table with the most amazing women who not only had the courage to participate in a process of uniting our differences, but also shared a mission: "Empowering Women, Changing Lives and Strengthening Our Community."
As we discussed creative ways of addressing the needs of Latinas, the more we shared the more we realized that we were all women. And that commonality somehow made our discussion easier. There was candid conversation about differences and animated talk when we shared common grounds.
Everyone's heart was clearly in it. We focused on strengths, potentials and abilities of all. Everyone was encouraged to openly participate, contribute their gifts and talents. We talked of ways to build bridges by creating opportunities to share cultures and multicultural programing. We were building community!
In Community Building and Peace, Scott Peck writes about knowing you have community when a group of people participates in common practices, depends upon one another, makes decisions together, and commits to each other's growth. I think the message was clear that the beginning of something really good was happening, and I look forward to the positive rippling of community in ever larger context.
"For every difference that makes us unique, there is a common thread which connects us all. We share the need for home and community for love and respect. May these common threads form a beautiful world in which all people and all cultures are honored." -- Hallmark greeting card
Maria V. Zavala, founder of Latinas of the Women's Resource Center, can be reached at merizavala@ aol.com.
COMING NEXT SUNDAY: Emma Taylor, a young single woman who came home to Manatee, admits: "Oh, Instagram! What a tumultuous relationship we have."

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Robert Schroeder will receive on March 18th 2017 the "Schallwelle Ehrenpreis für sein Lebenswerk"
(a special price for his musical work over the years) (Infos: www.schallwelle-preis.de)
Each year the best national and international albums and artists will be honored for their particular achievements on the Schallwelle Preisverleihung, which is a famous award for electronic music in Germany.
Besides that the association Schallwende is giving a special award for great life time achievements.
This year Robert Schroeder will be honoured.
Discovered by Klaus Schulze in 1979 Robert Schroeder released his famous debut CD "Harmonic Ascendant" on Schulzes IC-Label, which also featured Arthur Brown, Peter Mergener, Ideal and many other artists.
The most successful project Robert Schroeder had was "Double Fantasy" (later on continued under the name "Food For Fantasy") which reached the US charts.
Nowadays Robert is well known for being an expert in sound. His current albums are characterized by deep, dreamy synths sounds that lifts you up into a romantic dream flight.
Since 2005 Robert Schroeder is working together with Spheric Music. The latest highlights of this period are SphereWare, Cream and of course the meanwhile deleted album Cygnus-A (music of the 80s).
After 38 years Robert can look back to approximately 40 albums.
Within the electronic scene Robert Schroeder can be seen as the second generation of the electronic pioneers like Klaus Schulze, Jarre, Vangelis und Tangerine Dream. Roberts music is also an inspiration for other new artists of electronic music.
The awards cermony takes place on march 18th in the Planetarium Bochum, Germany. Further Infos: email@example.com
The new album:
Robert Schroeder - Velocity
(Spheric Music SMCD 2036)
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This sound is certainly great!
Robert Schroeder puts weight on good and convincing sounds.
It has become a real electronic album, with fresh sounds embedded in beautiful dreamy harmonies and some very nice accents added.
New ideas and new harmonies are combined with the typical Schroeder style in a very interesting way. A few tom sounds and the apply of the vocoder enrich this album, making it to an oeuvre that can be compared with some of the better Klaus Schulze titles. Recommended!
Duration / Gesamtzeit: 64:11 Min.
Style: Electronic Music (Klaus Schulze)
Release Date: February 17th 2017
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Dothan Rotary members worked at the Boys and Girls Club on Friday.
The group prepared bags of food for 150 local, needy families. The bags include canned yams, green beans, gravy, stuffing and pre-cooked ham.
Dothan-Houston County Rotary Club partnered with the Dothan Rescue Mission to select families in the community.
The food will be delivered on Saturday morning.


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You could call Michelle Wernette a marijuana autodidact. Nearly everything the San Francisco-based entrepreneur knows about cannabis she learned by doing or through firsthand observation.
This is a very common experience among American cannabis patients and advocates — and it is also a longstanding and growing problem that academia is only now moving to address, albeit at a cautious clip far outpaced by the still-booming marijuana market.
After seeing how medical cannabis helped her husband’s health problems, Wernette experimented on her own for her arthritis. She found that it worked, mostly. Some strains were great, others weren’t. Dabbing turned her off entirely, until she realized (again, through self-guided experimentation and firsthand observation) that she could dab CBD extracts or take a dose smaller than the reality-shattering gram-sized rips de rigueur at some industry events.
To figure out what about cannabis worked best for her, Wernette was on her own. Budtenders at dispensaries weren’t much help, and there wasn’t a trusted resource to consult or accredited professionals from whom she could seek counsel.
“There’s definitely a huge knowledge gap,” she said. “We don’t have a lot of trusted sources right now… I had to get there on my own.”
Today, Wernette and her husband, Andy, are launching a bespoke dab-bar company called SoTru, aimed at social and corporate events looking for a change of pace from alcohol (or wook-friendly dab bars, for that matter). Their target market includes women and cannabis newcomers. For these reasons, a significant part of the business model involves education — that is, offering a shortcut to the knowledge base that Wernette achieved only through years of trial and error.
But, despite the fact that Wernette knows more about marijuana than most people, she still doesn’t feel like she knows enough to call herself an expert.
This is how she and her husband found themselves in a classroom at the City College of San Francisco on a recent evening, taking advantage of a small-but-growing movement in accredited American universities located in states that have legalized recreational or medical marijuana. These universities are filling an obvious and growing knowledge gap by putting some level of cannabis education on the curriculum — before it’s too late.
A Cautious Renaissance of Learning
As medical and recreational cannabis legalization continues to win favor with voters and lawmakers from city councils to Congress, a clear problem has emerged: There is a dearth of accurate and reliable information, and even fewer universally trusted authoritative sources, on cannabis.
This knowledge shortage is almost entirely attributable to prohibition. For many decades, the vast majority of information available from “official sources” (from authorities including law enforcement, the federal government and the limited drug-education American students received through health classes or D.A.R.E.) stated that marijuana was harmful.
All of these claims were easily refutable through personal experimentation. One only needed to be a cannabis user (or to know one) to see firsthand that marijuana use was not a one-way road to perdition — and that it might even provide some medical benefits.
This dichotomy had a compounding effect. Whatever the official researchers came up with was tainted by their association with the government — they were part of the liar’s league. And whatever alternative sources may have arisen, be they a book by Jack Herer, proclamations from Dennis Peron that “all cannabis use is medical,” or careful examinations of existing medical literature by Project CBD, immediately rose in stature.
As medical and recreational cannabis legalization continues, academia is only now beginning to emerge from these cannabis Dark Ages into a sort of Renaissance of learning. This is being aided in no small part by research conducted in the 19th century, when cannabis was a known and accepted medicinal plant included in the American and British pharmacopeia. Even with legalization favored by a majority of Americans and cannabis for medical use accepted by 93 percent of Americans, according to a spring 2018 poll, universities are exercising an abundance of caution and moving at a snail’s pace.
For years, the only education available was at dedicated cannabis colleges, aimed directly at preparing people for cannabis-industry jobs. Some, like Oakland’s Oaksterdam University, have withstood the test of time (and multiple law-enforcement raids) to become a sort of gold-standard for the cannabis industry. But without accreditation, Oaksterdam cannot offer degrees — merely certificates — and its contribution to the greater body of knowledge is limited.
Cannabis For Credit, But No Marijuana Major
As of the fall of 2018, only a handful of accredited colleges and universities across the country now offer limited coursework in cannabis. Some are for credit, but most, like the City College of San Francisco’s, are non-credit courses. Nearly all of the courses are very limited in scope.
The business-oriented cannabis enthusiast in Colorado can take advantage of the University of Denver’s course on the Business of Marijuana. At Vanderbilt University’s law school in Tennessee — where cannabis is still entirely illegal, and where state lawmakers recently undid decriminalization efforts taken by city councils in Nashville and Memphis — there is a Marijuana Law and Policy course.
Presenting even these limited offerings has proven challenging. Planned seminars on a variety of cannabis topics at Sonoma State University’s School of Extended and International Education were canceled this past spring. The university had hoped to re-offer those seminars in the fall, but it was not clear as of September if those plans had materialized.
Even the City College seminars that Wernette is attending, entitled “Curious about Cannabis?”, are something of a consolation prize.
The college’s initial plan, as first reported by the San Francisco Examiner, was to offer career-focused job training. Similar to the college’s offerings for would-be entrants into plumbing, carpentry and other vocational preparation programs, participants would have earned a certificate — and, hopefully, a leg up in the hiring process at area dispensaries and cultivation sites.
However, that certificate program didn’t quite materialize, for reasons college officials declined to share with Cannabis Now. For the moment, the college is happy to take a slow and holistic approach.
“We’re testing the market right now,” said Theresa Rowland, CCSF’s associate vice chancellor of workforce and economic development. She was present at the class attended by the Wernettes and six others, a motley crew that included two very noticeable men in suits — both from the insurance industry. “These workshops are trying to determine what information might be useful, what kind of information might be helpful,” Rowland said.
To that end, the workshop’s instructors offered what could best be described as an omnivore’s buffet of information: social, political and scientific.
Sara Payan, a cancer survivor and education specialist at a San Francisco dispensary (as well as a Cannabis Now contributor), talked about “the continuum of use,” a spectrum that runs from healing specific afflictions to “increasing wellness, even in the absence of illness.”
Her co-instructor, a licensed psychotherapist named Jamie Lavender, took a few minutes to discuss the meaning of the word “addiction” — and elicited more than a few surprise “hmms!” from his pupils when he mentioned that marijuana was indeed an accepted medical treatment in the 1850s, well before it was made illegal for purely political, and almost certainly racist, motives beginning in the early 20th century.
This broad-based approach, while necessary to correct generations of reefer madness-inspired, Nixonian misinformation, also underscores the need for dedicated specialization. And so far, only one university offers anything close to a “major in marijuana”: Northern Michigan University’s four-year degree in medical plant chemistry.
By completing the coursework — created to fulfill a “great demand for qualified technical personnel and a great opportunity for the skilled entrepreneur” — students fulfill a curriculum heavy on chemistry, plant biology and research. Students can then choose whether to add electives preparing them for a business-focused entrepreneurial track or to pursue advanced courses in chemistry or biology to prepare themselves for research work in the lab.
Either way, the program has proven extremely popular. Enrollment increased in fall 2018 to 232 students, from around 40 in the program at the end of the 2017-2018 academic year, according to Professor Mark Paulsen, who oversees the program.
“We have had applications from 47 states, I think, and inquiries from a variety of countries,” he told Cannabis Now in an email.
In California, the University of California at Davis offers undergraduates a credit course in the physiology of cannabis. And perhaps most importantly, proceeds from marijuana sales taxes under Prop. 64, California’s 2016 recreational marijuana legalization law, are funding the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, which is headquartered at the University of California at San Diego. The research center recently announced the beginning of a new study to examine marijuana’s ability to alleviate symptoms of essential tremor, a nervous system disorder that affects 10 million Americans.
The fact that this limited study, beginning at this late stage, is nonetheless a landmark is illuminating of a larger problem: Perhaps the biggest gap in cannabis knowledge is not among consumers or businesspeople, but among medical professionals.
A Patient-Driven Exercise
Mark Ware, a physician, researcher and professor at Montreal’s McGill University, told SF Weekly in a 2013 interview that cannabis science was almost entirely absent from medical-school curricula — a problem that had persisted for many years.
“There are several prescription cannabinoids, but not many physicians even realize that these exist,” he said during a 2010 interview. “So there’s a lot of work to do even there.”
Ware himself had become interested in cannabis as a palliative only after listening to patients at the Montreal hospital where he was working, who told him — time and again, and for countless afflictions — that they used marijuana to alleviate their symptoms. Ware just happened to be one of the few doctors who dared to pay attention.
Eight years later, as Canada moved towards legalized recreational marijuana in October 2018, Ware said that “lack of data [and] lack of research” remained. As it has been since the beginning, marijuana remains driven by “patients and the courts,” Ware said in a late 2017 address at McGill.
“It began with patients coming forward saying they used cannabis to treat their symptoms,” he said. “This has always been a patient-driven exercise.”
This history of nonexistent medical education on cannabis is a problem for researchers and for physicians both, because neither they nor patients have any meaningful benchmarks nor even a language to use to quantify anything.
“Cannabis is a complex construct,” Ware said. “Dose is critical, and we’re really bad at measuring it.”
Ware went on to note that, without standardized and meaningful dosage measures, “there are 250,000 cannabis patients in Canada right now” and “we know nothing” about their intake and how, exactly, marijuana alleviates their symptoms.
Keep in mind that this is in Canada, where at least doctors and researchers can prescribe and study the drug without fear of losing their licensing or their university’s funding and accreditation — the penalties that loom over many academics in the United States.
In this vacuum, knowledge advancement may have to be led by the market — or worse, motivated by the need to fix pervasive misinformation, such as the tales that the sellers of “legal in all 50 states” CBD products spin, claiming their products are good for nearly every affliction under the sun without supporting research or studies.
Wernette related a telling anecdote: A dispensary recently tried to open for business in her San Francisco neighborhood, along the city’s western edge, and was met with vociferous opposition — most of it based on ill-founded knowledge, sowed in part by unscrupulous bad-faith actors.
“People just heard what people told them,” she said.
In this post-legalization paradigm, universities have a definite role to play by providing accurate, peer-reviewed information that can withstand scrutiny. The only question is how soon they’ll be able to provide it.
TELL US, would you take an official, credited course about cannabis?
Originally published in Issue 34 of Cannabis Now. LEARN MORE


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Date of Award
Doctor of Philosophy
Materials Science and Engineering
Gerd Duscher, Phillip D. Rack, Stephen J. Pennycook, Syed K. Islam
Plasmonic nanomaterials have attracted a lot of attention recently due to their application in various fields such as chemical and biological sensing, catalysis, energy harvesting and optical devices. However, there is a need to address several outstanding issues with these materials, including cost-effective synthesis, tunability in plasmonic characteristics, and long term stability. In this thesis, we have focused on bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) of Ag and Co due to their immiscibility as well as their individual properties. First, a pulsed laser induced dewetting route was used to synthesize Ag-Co bimetallic plasmonic NPs. An synthesis parameter space was derived to show the range of achievable particle diameter and composition. Subsequently, the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) characteristics were studied by broadband spectroscopy which showed that LSPR in Ag-Co NPs can be readily tuned over a wavelength range one order magnitude greater than that for pure Ag NPs. In another important result, significantly better optical stability with 10 times higher life-time in Ag-Co bimetallic NPs was observed as compared to pure Ag NPs under ambient conditions due to cathodic protection of Ag by galvanic coupling of Ag and Co within the NPs. During this study, various new methods, that can be broadly applied to other material systems, were developed to aid in sample preparation and analysis. One was a novel and simple technique to make NPs on electron transparent substrates (i.e. Carbon) for improved the quality of TEM and EELS analysis. A method to quantitatively analyze low-loss EELS spectra was also developed in which necessary number of Lorentzians were fitted in spectrum to obtain detailed information of surface plasmons. By EELS analysis of bimetallic Ag-Co NPs, the first known discovery of a ferroplasmon, i.e. strong visible and ultraviolet wavelength plasmons in ferromagnetic materials, was made. It was observed that Co, when in contact with Ag in a NP, shows strong surface plasmons, which was highly unusual based on the known highly damped plasmonic nature of pure Co. These investigations helped advancing the science of bimetallic plasmonic nanomaterials and unequivocally demonstrate Ag-Co NP system as a promising material for plasmonics based applications.
Sachan, Ritesh, "Novel bimetallic plasmonic nanomaterials. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2013.

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Before the Ovum Pick-Up (OPU), many patients ask me, “How to improve the quality and amount of eggs ?”
Today I will share the opinions which I’ve mentioned during my last Facebook live stream.
Way to Improve the Egg Quality
Everyone has different ways to improve the ovum quality, but, in brief, the most important factor is to
Daily routine : go to bed at 11 o’clock. If you can’t go to bed on time, then sleep 8 hours at least.
Proper exercise : three times a week and once for 30 minutes; the heart beat should be over 133 per minute, which means you’ll be a little out of breath.
If you are a regular exerciser, you can break your personal beast(PB) while improving the ovum quality. However, you should assess your physical condition and reduce the exercise intensity during the OPU medication .
For example, if you run a whole marathon every week, you can adjust it to about 10 km. Take another example, if you can lift 60kg in your weight training, you need to reduce to 20-30kg during the OPU medication.
The purpose of exercise is to maintain your fitness; however, excessive exercise will cause stress and affect the growth of the ovum. Therefore, remember to reduce your exercise intensity during the OPU medication.
Eat healthy : Reduce irritating food and fried food while increasing vegetables.
How Long Does it Take to Improve the Egg Quality?
Nevertheless, every month is especially precious for females with low Anti-mullerian Hormone (AMH); therefore, in this case, I suggest improving ovum quality and receiving OPU at the same time. As for females with High AMH, if they are not in a hurry to start the treatment or have already received OPU but with poor outcomes, I suggest improving ovum quality for three months before receiving medication for OPU.
Health Supplements (Based on Personal Experience)
In general, vitamin D3 and DHEA are effective while Q10 and inositol could be helpful depending on each individual.
Traditional Chinese medicine is also a good way to improve ovum quality, but it can’t be taken with western medicine. It is highly suggested to stagger them.
Notes for Improving Eggs Quality
Ovum quality can only be observed with eyes. The chromosome in an ovum can not be analyzed directly. It can only be analyzed when it becomes an embryo after being fertilized.
To increase the pregnancy rate effectively, we propose a strategy for improving ovum quality based on both comprehensive international research as well as clinical observation and experience.
However, the most critical key point is “Age”. If you plan to have a baby someday, we will suggest freezing your eggs first and following our tips to maintain your ovum quality.
The above text and pictures are from Dr.Emerson’s blog. Dr.Emerson reserves all the rights.

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This section brings together frequently asked questions about credit applications made on the Internet by visitors to the site.
Choose to apply for credit online
Can I make several credit requests at the same time on the internet? I am not at risk of over-indebtedness?
You can make multiple simultaneous requests at multiple sites. You will thus receive several offers. You have to make your choice and send only the one that suits you according to your expectations and your personal situation. Internet credit simulation
How to cancel a credit request on the internet?
As long as you have not returned the prior credit offer, you can cancel your request over the phone ... or simply not act on it. If you have already returned your signed file, you have 7 days to cancel it. You must return the withdrawal slip that was attached to your file.
Is making a loan on the Internet more interesting than by telephone?
Is there a risk in completing my credit application on the Internet?
From a security point of view, there is in principle always a risk in entering personal data on the Internet (purchases, registrations, etc.). The risk is however limited because all credit sites in France have a minimum of security: the forms are generally in https which avoids a large part of fraud (presence of a small green padlock in the bar of your browser signifying a connection secure to the site).
Is there a difference in terms of the papers to be provided when applying for credit by phone or online?
The documents requested are generally always the same: the last 2 (or 3) payslips, a bank identity statement, proof of address (EDF receipt or fixed telephone), an identity document. More and more people are asked for a voided check which verifies that you are not banned from banking. Perform a credit simulation on the Internet Make a loan quickly
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Polyelectrolyte gels have the capacity to absorb large amounts of multivalent species of opposite charge from aqueous solutions of low ionic strength, and release them at elevated ionic strengths. The reversibility offers the possibility to switch between “storage” and “release” modes, useful in applications such as drug delivery. The review focuses on systems where so-called volume phase transitions (VPT) of the gel network take place upon the absorption and release of proteins and self-assembling amphiphiles. We discuss the background in terms of thermodynamic driving forces behind complex formation in oppositely charged mixtures, the role played by cross-links in covalent gels, and general aspects of phase coexistence in networks in relation to Gibbs’ phase rule. We also briefly discuss a gel model frequently used in papers covered by the review. After that, we review papers dealing with collapse and swelling transitions of gels in contact with solution reservoirs of macroions and surfactants. Here we describe recent progress in our understanding of the conditions required for VPT, competing mechanisms, and hysteresis effects. We then review papers addressing equilibrium aspects of core–shell phase coexistence in gels in equilibrium. Here we first discuss early observations of phase separated gels and results showing how the phases affect each other. Then follows a review of recent theoretical and experimental studies providing evidence of thermodynamically stable core–shell phase separated states, and detailed analyses of the conditions under which they exist. Finally, we describe the results from investigations of mechanisms and kinetics of the collapse/swelling transitions induced by the loading/release of proteins, surfactants, and amphiphilic drug molecules.
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Michael Young is expected to become Texas’ primary designated hitter after the Rangers signed Adrian Beltre to a five-year, $80 million contract to replace him at third base, so not surprisingly today general manager Jon Daniels said the team is “out” of the mix to re-sign Vladimir Guerrero.
Guerrero out-produced Young by a wide margin last season, topping his OPS by 67 points, but Guerrero is also two years older than Young, struggled mightily in the second half, and offers zero defensively versatility. And perhaps most importantly, Young is owed $16 million per season through 2013.
If the Rangers could simply trade Young and his contract they’d likely do so and perhaps make an effort to re-sign Guerrero, but in order to deal Young they’d have to eat a significant portion of the $48 million he’s still owed. At this point it seems likely that Guerrero will have to accept a one-year deal for less than the $6.5 million he earned in 2010, as his list of potential suitors is rapidly shrinking with the Angels reportedly out of the mix as well.
Update (9:04 PM EST): The game went into a rain delay with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning of a 2-2 tie, so the game isn’t official yet. Which means the Orioles aren’t yet the official record holders.
A third-inning solo home run by Austin Meadows off of Asher Wojciechowski on Thurday night marked the 259th home run Orioles pitching has allowed this season, setting a new major league record, per MASN’s Roch Kubatko. The previous record was held by the 2016 Reds at 258. Willie Adames hit No. 260, a game-tying solo shot in the fifth inning. The Orioles will have 34 more games to add on to their record after tonight.
The Yankees have famously accounted for 61 of the 260 home runs (23.5%) against Orioles pitchers this season. The Red Sox are next at 28 followed by the Twins and Blue Jays at 23 each.
David Hess has accounted for the most home runs on the O’s staff, yielding 28 dingers. Dylan Bundy is next at 25 homers allowed.
The Orioles are not the only team that will pass the 2016 Reds. The Mariners are on pace to allow 275 home runs. The Yankees, 266. Phillies, 262. Angels, 259. Pretty amazing.


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Special rendering modes: Depth and Normal
- The previous cartoon shader has been extended to include 2 more modes, depth and normal.
- These are designed to use with Stable Diffusion ControlNet to provide a base for your AI images.
- A typical usecase is to setup your composition and poses for the actors in DanceXR and then use Stable Diffusion to generate detailed images with totally different characters and environments.
- Yes you can generate depth and normal map from any image in ControlNet but the rendered depth and normal maps are much more accurate than the generated ones, you can test it out yourself.
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If you're in an area of the country that is suffering from severe drought, such as many parts of California or Texas, leave your field in "roughed-up" condition to prevent soil loss from wind erosion.
That's the recommendatioin of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Large portions of Texas and California are currently classified by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska are experiencing severe or extreme drought.
The potential for soil from wind erosion could be as great as 250 tons per acre per year. Loss of irrigation water could result in vast amounts of farmland being fallowed, resulting in many acres of bare soil.
Abandoned, bare fields are subject to severe wind erosion says Rita Bickel, an NRCS agronomist in Davis, Calif. “Fields continually subjected to erosion may result in land that is incapable of returning to cropping or vegetative systems at a later date,” she says.
Bickel says not only could vast amounts of top soil be lost, but air quality will be affected as well. One example is blowing soil that impairs vision on roads and highways.
She advises farmers to take steps now to create surface roughing, such as building furrows or ridges. These will absorb and deflect part of the wind energy and trap drifting soil particles.
“Vegetation, or vegetative residue, is the best protection for prevention of erosion from wind or rain when fields are left fallow,” she says. “After the last crop is harvested, it is best to save as much of the remaining crop residue, stubble, or ridges as possible. Even weeds can be sprayed in place and left as cover. Soil will be somewhat protected if there is at least 30 percent cover on the surface.”
Tillage with an implement, such as a lister, running perpendicular to wind direction, will form ridges and clods that will provide some protection for soil, she says. This is most successful with soil that has some texture—sandy soils won’t hold the shape of clods and furrows as well as soils that contain at least some clay.
Farmers also can prevent soil loss by compacting unpaved farm roads; avoiding plowing noxious weeds until adequate moisture is present to allow stable clods to form; establishing permanent vegetation on cropland being converted to other uses; and stabilizing equipment lots, corrals and ditch banks not protected by windbreaks or cover vegetation.


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Book of the Wars of Yahweh, lost document referred to and quoted in the Old Testament (Num. 21:14ff.). The book is probably a collection of early Israelite war songs including hymns of victory, curses, mocking songs, and other literary genres recounting the victories of Yahweh, the God of Israel, over his enemies; it indicates that biblical books rely on both written and oral tradition. Similar to the Book of Jashar, the Book of the Wars of Yahweh is not identical with it, according to most scholars.
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A Canaan man was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for possessing an illegal sawed-off shotgun and operating a marijuana cultivation business.
Richard Graf, 56, admitted in U.S. District Court in Bangor to growing marijuana and selling it mostly to registered medical marijuana patients.
His lawyer, Terence Harrigan, of Bangor, said in court documents a the time of his arrest, Graf was in the process of getting a license to provide marijuana legally to patients, but did not yet have one.
Harrigan said Graf lived in a small house where growing marijuana plants and firearms — both loaded and unloaded — were “laid out haphazardly.”
“The guns were entirely separate from his marijuana growing,” Harrigan wrote. He said the illegal shotgun was “tucked away … forgotten” and was not loaded. He said Graff never fired the gun, because he felt it was unsafe to do so.
“The gun itself, in theory, was near marijuana, but not any more so than any other firearm in the cramped home,” Harrigan wrote.
He said it is not uncommon for people in Maine to have firearms in their houses.
Harrigan contended that the illegal short-barrel shotgun was found unloaded behind some Bibles in a drawer near Graf’s bedroom.
Harrigan said by phone Monday that federal sentencing guidelines called for a prison sentence of 46 to 57 months, but Chief Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. opted for 24 months. Graf also is ordered to serve three years of supervised release, or probation, upon his release.
Graf pleaded guilty to the charges in June. The convictions stem from an April 12, 2011, search warrant carried out at Graf’s home by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department.
Police found the sawed-off shotgun and 11 other firearms in the residence, according to a release by Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel Casey.
Police also found more than a pound of processed marijuana and 68 live marijuana plants.
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Department was assisted in the case by agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.


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The National Defense Reserve Fleet (NRDF), under the custody of MARAD, is an inactive reserve source of basic Merchant design type ships that could be activated within 20 - 120 days to meet the shipping requirements of the United States during national emergencies. These merchant vessels are available for use in both military and non-military emergencies, such as commercial shipping crises. Ships in the NDRF are regionally located at three fleet sites - James River, VA (East Coast), Beaumont, TX (Gulf Coast), and Suisun Bay, CA (West Coast). Naval auxiliaries are maintained at the fleet by MARAD on a retention basis for the Navy.
No U.S. Government harbor facilities are maintained at the Port of Beaumont. The Maritime Administration has a restricted anchorage on the Neches River about 7 miles below Beaumont at the McFadden Bend Cut-off. Capable of holding over 200 large vessels, it provides good holding ground in mud and silt, but maximum draft is limited to 16 ft. Use of the Maritime Administration anchorage is restricted to vessels consigned to the Maritime Administration Reserve Fleet.
The Port of Beaumont has over 60 wharves and piers, but only 18 are deep-draft facilities. Of these, all but 8 are privately owned and operated, with alongside depths ranging from 32 to 40 ft and deck heights ranging from 10 to 16 ft. The Port of Beaumont Navigation District owns and operates the remaining 8 deep-draft facilities. Located on the west bank of the Neches River, alongside depths range from 30 to 40 ft with an average alongside depth near 36 ft. Deck heights are a uniform 16 ft.
The ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Orange are located in the coastal section of extreme eastern Texas. Port Arthur is situated on the west bank of the Sabine-Neches Canal which borders the western edge of Sabine Lake. Beaumont is located some 15 miles northwest of Port Arthur on the Neches River, while Orange is about 18 miles northeast of Port Arthur on the Sabine River. Sabine Pass, which is the seaward entrance to Sabine Lake, Sabine Lake itself, and the Sabine River form the southern portion of the Texas-Louisiana border.
From the Gulf of Mexico, Sabine Pass is entered from a Safety Fairway passing through Sabine Bank Channel, a sea bar channel and a jetty channel. Federal project depths are 42 ft in the outer bar channel, thence 40 ft through the jetty channel and Sabine Pass. Inside the Jetties, Sabine Pass extends northwest about 6 miles to Sabine Lake, and the entrance to Port Arthur Canal. With an average depth of 6 ft, Sabine Lake is used only by small recreation and fishing vessels. Port Arthur Canal extends northwest for about 6 miles from Sabine Pass to Taylor Bayou, with project depths of 40 ft. The Neches River extends in a general west-northwesterly direction from its junction with the Sabine-Neches Canal for about 18.5 miles to the Port of Beaumont. Federal project depths on the Neches River are 40 ft to a 34-ft turning basin at Beaumont. The Sabine River extends northeastward from its junction with the Sabine-Neches Canal to the Port of Orange. The Federal project provides for depths of 30 ft in the channel to Orange, with 25 ft maintained in the channel around Orange Harbor Island (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1980). No bridges cross Sabine Pass, Port Arthur Canal, or Sabine-Neches Canal below Port Arthur. At Port Arthur, a fixed highway bridge with a clearance of 136 ft crosses the Sabine-Neches Canal approximately 1.8 miles above the entrance to Taylor Bayou. A highway bridge (Rainbow Bridge), with a clearance of 172 ft, crosses the Neches River about 1.5 miles above its mouth. No other bridges exist between Port Arthur and the turning basin at Beaumont, but overhead power cables with clearances of 164 ft cross the Neches River 50 yards east of Rainbow Bridge. Additional power cables cross the Neches River between its mouth and Beaumont but, in each case, the vertical clearance equals or exceeds 164 ft. No bridges cross the Sabine River between its mouth and Orange. An overhead power cable with a vertical clearance of 172 ft crosses the river about 3 miles below Orange
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Sydney agtech startup Leaf has raised $3.5 million in a bridge round for indoor agriculture light-emitting plastics.
The round was led by Danish investment firms ALFA Ventures and 2 Degrees, with additional support from the University of New South Wales and Cicada Innovations, the deep-tech hub where Leif is based.
It is 2 degrees. A climate-focused private investment vehicle Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby, CEO and Chairman of NREP, European Urban Development Company.
Industrial chemists Dr. Alexander Soriadi and Dr. Alexander Falber Lef in 1999. Founded in 2016 at the University of NSW, they spent the next five years developing a series of patented light-absorbing and emitting plastics that improve the quality of sunlight and artificial light for greenhouse and indoor growing, resulting in an average crop yield increase of around 20%.
The reflective dyes used in plastic roofs in greenhouses absorb light from one color and emit it in another. That light spectrum can be tailored for specific applications, such as increasing photosynthesis or simulating seasonal changes in flowers and fruit.
Leif – whose name is an acronym for Agricultural Film Shining Light – shipped its first product in February this year and sold out in June, now raising funds ahead of schedule for a Series A in October.
The hot capital drew the attention of two climate-focused Danish investments for a New Scientist article published earlier this year in Leaf.
Chris Wilkins, Leif’s commercial director, says it’s easy to see the strategic value of opening a bridge to Denmark so that the startup can focus on accelerating sales and developing new products.
“From the first conversations it was clear that we were on the same page, they understood the technology at a scientific level and shared our vision of its potential to increase food production in a sustainable way,” he said.
“Denmark has been a leader in renewable and sustainable technology, so it’s no surprise that they actively support tomorrow’s green solutions. Beyond cash, ALFA Ventures and 2 Degrees have deep experience creating in the built environment.
“Cicada Innovations is a pillar of the Australian startup ecosystem. They have been instrumental in growing our businesses, and UNSW is known for their leadership in fostering entrepreneurship in academia – some of Australia’s best startups. It’s great to have their support from day one and going forward.
“Leaf technology allows for more efficient use of agricultural land, thus reducing the overall human impact on the environment as it has the potential to be more sustainable,” said Copenhagen-based Clive Iley of 2 Degrees.
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AYC’s September calendar is locked and highly loaded, with every weekend and some weekdays marked for action. Here’s a quick rundown:
Friday 9/8: Crew-Skipper party (or just call it a party-party) from 5-7pm at the Bluewater Grill at 1720 E Camelback in Phoenix. AYC will buy some hors d’oeuvres; you buy the beverages. Shake or stir. This is a chance to mingle with AYC members and if you need crew or you’d like to crew, a chance to find somebody with the right background, commitment, and personality to set you up for the fall.
Saturday 9/9: ASF Work Party. Starting at 8am we’ll gather at the Tempe Town Lake boat corral to spruce up the Arizona Sailing Foundation boats for the fall classes. Please help!
Saturday 9/9: The first class for ASF Junior Performance Sailing. This is a new approach, offering race training and race experience for young teens.
Sunday 9/10: Sunday afternoon Tempe Town Lake will be bristling with action, with ASF Opti and Junior Performance classes and the first day of racing and RC training. Racing begins at 3pm. This same program happens again on the following Sunday, 9/17.
Tuesday 9/12: The monthly meeting features some members who raced or cruised in interesting places, headlined by Mike and Jo Grijalva’s Transpac race and Chris Smith’s run in the Chicago to Mac.
Tuesday 9/19: High School Sailing begins its every-Tuesday sessions through the fall, beginning at 4pm and going until dark.
Thursday 9/21: The free Introduction to Sailboat Racing class from 6:30 to 9pm. Learn the basics of racing or bone up on how AYC does it compared to where you’ve raced before.
Saturday and Sunday 9/23 & 9/24: The first weekend of Lake Pleasant racing, beginning Saturday at 12:30pm and Sunday at 9am. PHRF Spin fleet is on Race Committee. After the racing, explain what really happened on the race course over a beer at Spinnaker Point. This year there will be no fleet dinners on Saturday nights, but plenty of post-race beer and nachos.
Saturday 9/30: From 10am to 1pm it’s come-have-fun time at Tempe Town Lake. We’ll launch some boats, play sailing games, toss some corn hole and horse shoes, and barbecue some burgers and brats.

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PUBG Mobile has officially relaunched in India with a new name under the new regime controlled by South Korea’s PUBG Corporation. Word ‘India’ is added to the title of the new version of the gaming app. The official release date of the new Indian version will be announced soon.
PUBG Mobile India has put restrictions on game time and the characters will be fully clothed, unlike the regular version where avatars are half-naked. PUBG Corporation plans to employ 100 people specialising in areas of business, esports, and game development.


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