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by Father Robert Lauder
Probably the first religious film that moved me deeply was “The Song of Bernadette” back in 1943. Since seeing that film, I have looked forward to seeing films that deal seriously with Christian faith. The appearance of the new film “Son of God,” which I have not seen, will probably raise all sorts of discussion about religious films and cinematic depictions of Christ. A recent piece by Michael Cieply, titled “Can God Make It in Hollywood?” in The New York Times (Feb. 23, 2014), raised interesting questions about religious films.
Cieply claims that years ago when he was producing films at Columbia Pictures, he learned how disinterested filmmakers were in tackling religious subjects. This has been the situation for decades according to Cieply. Given the paucity of first-class religious films, I suspect that he is correct. Is this because those who create films are not comfortable dealing with religious stories and themes? That might be one of the reasons that religion is treated very superficially in some films. I can recall a conversation I had with a nun who was interested in film. She said that she wished that those who create films would stop trying to depict the lives of people who take religion seriously because they “always get it wrong.”
Noting the contemporary disinterest in religious topics, Cieply writes the following:
“Earlier, Hollywood regularly courted the faithful, as far back as 1943 with the release by 20th Century Fox of ‘The Song of Bernadette.’ The film, about the miracle of Lourdes, drew 12 Oscar nominations, including one for best picture and a best actress award for Jennifer Jones. ‘Going My Way,’ ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s,’ ‘The Robe,’ ‘The Nun’s Story’ and ‘Lilies of the Field’ extended the string of religiously themed best-picture nominees, and ‘A Man for All Seasons’ won the top Oscar in 1967.
“But such films began to lose their luster with the advent of the countercultural films of the 1970s and with the rise of blockbuster events like ‘Star Wars.’ One notable exception was Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ,’ a 2004 independent production that was a mainstream hit with its unflinching, often gory account of the crucifixion, taking in a remarkable $370 million at the box office.”
I don’t think that the films that Cieply mentions are of equal value. I love “Going My Way” and its presentation of priests may have even influenced my attraction as a teenager toward the priesthood, but it is basically a light comedy that does not delve deeply into what being a priest means. “The Bells of St. Mary’s” goes a bit more into the meaning of a religious commitment. “Lilies of the Field” is a good film, but its treatment of religion is only surface. I think “The Nun’s Story” is an excellent drama about someone struggling with a religious vocation. The last time I viewed “The Robe,” I thought it was awful.
“A Man for All Seasons” is one of the finest films ever made. I often refer to it as a “perfect film.” By that I mean that everything comes together to make a masterpiece – the plot, acting, scenery, music, direction and editing. I am amazed that the author of the original play and the screenplay was an agnostic.
I first saw “Passion of the Christ” on Ash Wednesday, the day it opened in New York. I attended with a group of about 10 people, all of whom were involved in Church work. Waiting on line as audience members from the film’s previous showing were filing out of the theatre, we noticed that people left silently, almost as though they were leaving church. At the screening we attended, the same thing happened.
That evening, Charlie Rose had four film critics as his guests on his television show. None of them liked the film. One said that if anyone wished to see “Passion of the Christ,” they had better hurry because he predicted the film would disappear quickly. Talk about misreading the public! I believe that what many critics did not realize was how starved religious believers are in our secular society to see something on the screen that speaks to their religious faith.
I think “Passion of the Christ” was flawed, but it did show that there is an audience for films dealing with religion. Will more filmmakers try to reach that audience?[hr] Father Robert Lauder, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn and philosophy professor at St. John’s University, Jamaica, writes a weekly column for the Catholic Press.


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Father’s Day (see my dad above!) is just around the corner and it’s also Men’s Health Month. So there’s no better time to discuss how we can keep you guys healthy (and happy!).
When it comes to men’s health, food and movement are key for longevity, feeling and looking great, and more; and it’s also key to preventing certain common health-issues. Three common health issues that men face include heart disease, cancer, and mental health issues.
So to help you men stay healthy let’s talk specific nutrition tips to ward off three common health issues that many of you men face.
Tips for men’s heart health: About 8% of all men have heart disease, so it’s something that’s ever present, and food and exercise can play a major role.
- Eat more monounsaturated fat from sources like nuts (almonds, cashews), avocados, olives and olive oil – they help to fight inflammation in the blood vessels and thereby the heart. Healthy fat can also help to promote healthy cholesterol.
- Include more whole grains like quinoa, buckwheat, faro, wheat berries and others. Fiber is key for keeping our arteries and blood vessels clean and functioning properly. Try these recipes:
- Eat more berries- they contain polyphenols that help to “clean up” damage and damaged cells in the body and in the blood vessels keeping them healthy.
Tips for cancer prevention: Men are more likely to suffer from certain cancers like prostate, lung and colorectal cancers.
- Eat more lycopene. Find it in cooked tomatoes and raw watermelon. Lycopene is a nutrient that may help to prevent both prostate and lung cancers.
- Cut back on calcium (i.e. dairy products) – as higher amounts of calcium intake may be correlated with increased risk for prostate cancer.
- Include more fiber. Fiber has been found to be beneficial when it comes to preventing colon cancer. Aim to have fruits and vegetables at every meal and snack daily (try including smoothies and juices- yes there’s fiber in juice too!).
- Eat foods that contain flavenoids – like apples, and foods rich in lutein like collard greens, spinach, broccoli and oranges as they too may be protective against lung cancer.
Tips for brain-health: Brain health is key for all of us, so we need to pay more attention to how we can fuel our bodies for better brain function- especially with chronic diseases like dementia and alzheimers on the rise, brain health efforts are more important than ever.
- Eat more dark green vegetables like spinach, kale, Brussels sprouts because they contain folate and other nutrients that may help to promote brain health.
- Eat more nuts like walnuts and chia seeds that contain plant-based omega 3 fatty acids and fiber. These fats are anti-inflammatory and can play a role in promoting brain health.
- Eat more anthocyanin-rich foods like berries, cherries, and beets because they contain anti-inflammatory properties and may also help to boost brain function.
- Include more avocados- the monounsaturated fat can help to boost blood flow to the brain.
- Dark chocolate- yes I said dark chocolate, eat more of it! It contains flavonoids that may help to promote healthy blood vessels in the brain and may also help to prevent age-related memory decline. Additionally dark chocolate may help to promote production of endorphins that can help to promote happy mood.
Brain healthy, heart-healthy, anti-cancer recipe: Easy Kale Chips
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HOUSTON -- (Oct. 19, 2015) -- A research team based in Houston's Texas Medical Center has found that the proteins that turn genes on by forming loops in human chromosomes work like the sliding plastic adjusters on a grade-schooler's backpack. This discovery could provide new clues about genetic diseases and allow researchers to reprogram cells by directly modifying the loops in genomes.
The study, which appears online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is by the same team that published the first high-resolution 3-D maps showing how the human genome folds inside the nucleus of a cell. The multi-institutional group includes researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Stanford University and the Broad Institute.
Every human cell contains a genome, a linear string of DNA. Sequences of DNA bases spell out genes, much like letters spell out words. For decades, scientists have known that genes that lie far apart on the string can activate one another by looping back and coming into contact during genome folding. Last year, the team showed that it was possible to map the positions of these loops, and the researchers created the first atlas of loops in the human genome. But the group couldn't explain how the loops were forming.
"For months, we had no idea what our data really meant," said senior author Erez Lieberman Aiden, a geneticist and computer scientist with joint appointments at Baylor and Rice. "Then one day, we realized that we'd been carrying the solution around -- literally, on our back -- for decades!"
The human genome contains more than 20,000 genes. In any given cell, only a fraction of these are active, and this fraction determines the cell's function: whether it will become a hard-pumping heart cell, a body-defending immune cell or a metastatic cancer cell. Many genes are activated by loops, and it is impossible to understand gene activation without knowing how loops form, Aiden said.
Aiden, who is also a senior investigator at Rice's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, said the researchers found that a set of proteins acts like the plastic slider, sometimes called a tri-glide, that adjusts a backpack strap.
"The mechanism that makes this possible can be explained to any kindergartener with a backpack," said study co-first author Adrian Sanborn, a graduate student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford University. "The protein complex that forms DNA loops appears to operate like the plastic slider that is used to adjust the length of the straps: it lands on DNA and takes up slack to form a loop."
Aiden, assistant professor of genetics at Baylor and of computer science and computational and applied mathematics at Rice, said Sanborn and study co-first author Suhas Rao showed that they could combine the tri-glide model with mathematics and high-performance computation to predict how a genome will fold. The team confirmed their predictions by making tiny modifications in a cell's genome and showing that the mutations changed the folding pattern exactly as expected. Rao likened the result to a new form of genome surgery: a procedure that can modify how a genome is folded by design and with extraordinary precision.
"We found that changing even one letter in the genetic code was enough to modify the folding of millions of other letters," said Rao, a graduate student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford University. "What was stunning was that once we understood how the loops were forming, the results of these changes became extremely predictable."
Sanborn said the discovery also explains a puzzling pattern that the team noticed when it published its original atlas of loops.
"DNA encodes information, and you can think of each DNA base pair as a letter and of certain sequences of letters as words," he said. "In our data, we noticed that when particular keywords appeared, a loop would form. But the loop would only form if the two keywords were pointing at one another. For example, if one side of the loop read K-E-Y-W-O-R-D, the other would be D-R-O-W-Y-E-K."
"That's an incredibly strange thing because these words can be millions of letters apart, and the genome is flexible at that scale," said Sanborn. "If I were a protein, and I wanted to bring these two words together, it's difficult to envision why the way that the keyword is pointing would matter. This simple fact was a crucial clue."
That clue eventually led the team to the tri-glide theory, but not before a series of false starts. First, the team tested models based on fractal packing, but they proved mathematically that such packing could not explain the data. Next, the researchers tested a model of DNA folding where tension along the DNA chain caused it to condense like an elastic band, but this model also did not fit the data.
Eventually, they hit on the tri-glide model. The basic idea is that the tri-glide protein complex lands on the genome and pulls the strand from each side so that a loop forms in the middle -- just like the loop someone might make if they wanted to tighten a backpack strap.
"The strand just keeps feeding through and feeding through from each direction until it hits the keyword, which acts like a brake," said Rao, a student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford University. "So it's not so much that the keywords need to point at one another; it's that they need to point at the tri-glide complex because the complex won't recognize them if they point the other way. To the complex, they would look upside-down."
Aiden said that one of the most astonishing implications of the new model is that loops on different chromosomes tend not to become entangled.
"In the old model, scientists thought that a loop formed when two bits of the genome wiggled around and then met inside the cell nucleus," Aiden said. "But this process would lead to interweaving loops and highly entangled chromosomes. This is a big problem if you need those chromosomes to separate again when the cell divides.
"The tri-glide takes care of that," he said. "Even in a big pile of backpacks, you can use your tri-glide to make a loop without any risk of entanglement."
Additional study co-authors include Su-Chen Huang, Neva C. Durand, Miriam H. Huntley, Andrew Jewett, Ivan D. Bochkov, Dharmaraj Chinnappan, Ashok Cutkosky, Jian Li, Kristopher P. Geeting, Doug McKenna and Elena K. Stamenova of the Center for Genome Architecture at Baylor; and Eric Lander, Andreas Gnirke, and Alexandre Melnikov of the Broad Institute, a collaboration between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aiden, Sanborn and Li are also with the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University. McKenna is also with Mathemaesthetics Inc. in Boulder, Colo.
The research was supported by the Welch Foundation, IBM, Nvidia, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and the McNair Medical Institute.
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DESCRIPTION: Depiction of how loop extrusion packages the genome. First, an extrusion complex attaches to DNA at two nearby locations, forming a small loop. Next, two sides of the complex slide along the DNA in opposite directions while remaining tethered, growing the loop. Sliding halts when a complex encounters a specific DNA keyword, or "motif," of the matching orientation. A loop is formed, and the intervening DNA is organized into a domain.
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CAPTION: The protein complex that forms DNA loops operates like the plastic slider that is used to adjust the length of backpack straps. The complex lands on DNA and takes up slack to form a loop. Researchers discovered that a specific DNA keyword called a "motif" -- a string of fewer than 20 genetic letters that causes the DNA to bind a protein called CTCF -- lies at each end of nearly all loops.
CREDIT: A. Sanborn, S. Rao
CAPTION: The protein complex that forms DNA loops takes up slack by feeding DNA through from either direction until it hits the DNA keyword, or motif, which acts like a brake. The motifs must point in the correct direction; if they point away from the protein complex, it will not recognize them and will keep taking up slack.
CREDIT: A. Sanborn, S. Rao
CAPTION: Erez Lieberman Aiden
CREDIT: A. Sanchez/Baylor College of Medicine
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Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologist, ABOMR Diplomate
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Dr. Amintavakoli believes that the excellence in a treatment plan always starts with a correct diagnosis and radiographic diagnosis is one of the main pillars of correct diagnosis. She currently resides Washington with her husband and in her spare time she enjoys reading, hiking, and exploring the evergreen state of Washington.
Dr. Niloufar Amintavakoli
Dr. Niloufar Amintavakoli received her DDS degree from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran in 2008 and her masters in oral and maxillofacial radiology from the University of Toronto, Canada in 2013. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (ABOMR), and a fellow member of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada (RCDC).
She practiced as an Oral and maxillofacial radiologist in Toronto, Canada before joining NYU in 2015. She worked as the Director of Oral Radiology and Clinical Associate Professor at NYU College of Dentistry until 2022. At NYU she was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Educators and Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society (OKU).
Currently she is pursuing Orthodontics at the University of Washington and providing radiology reports through BeamReaders. She has several publications and book chapters and has been active in multiple research projects in different fields related to oral and maxillofacial radiology and cone beam CT scans.
She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (ABOMR), and a fellow member of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada (RCDC).
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Through, Blackmoon Crypto, the European fund, Russian billionaires Roman Abramovich, Aleksandr Frolov and Aleksandr Abramov setting an eye on prominent cryptocurrency bitcoin.
The European fund is the tokenization platform for real world and crypto investments. Thus, a subsidiary of Blockmoon Financial aims to establish and sustain the framework for tokenized funds globally.
According to the Bell reports, another Russian Billionaires Roman Trotsenko is pointing to declare a crypto exchange platform as well as managing the ICOs. Trotsenko claims that he wants to fulfill the requirements of investors.
“We had an interest in investing only in Bitcoin and we’re developing the infrastructure; we’re not going to move passengers, but rather serve them on the ground”.
Russian will never legalize virtual currencies
Already, Trotsenko’s proposal has faced the uncertain future even before the launch. Since government of Russia has a confusing position on managing the virtual currencies.
However, recently, Nikolay Nikiforov, Communications Minister is claiming that the government will never legalize the cryptocurrencies.
With the regards, Trotsenko is eagerly waiting for further developments before launching his already fully functional platform. Therefore, he claims that he already raised the issues of regulating and legalizing the cryptocurrency with Vladimir Putin, Russian President.
Moreover, Putin considering the regulations of ICO, mining, and legalization and further the crypto laws is scheduling for January 2018.
Currently, Russia is working its own e-currency, CryptoRuble which is only be recognized by Russian market. Therefore, in 2016 ICOs revenues of Russia is more than $300millon.


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DB- 126 // Justin Jay - Mom, I Graduated!
From the heat of the BBQ to the smoking hot talent of Justin Jay, as he returns to the feathery fold with his latest release. The youngest of VonStroke's proteges, the 22 year old producer continues to build on the promise shown on a string of heavy hitting Dirtybird releases (Femme Fatale, Static, Instincts, Le Voyou.) With all of his tracks created on the same college-dorm studio set up, it seems fitting that we bring you the last from those late night bunker sessions and a brace dedicated to the end of his studies and the start of the party.
'Mom I Graduated' launches in to life with the sassily titled ‘Hit It.’ Spring loaded beats adorn an eerie, vocoder-aided atmosphere, before double claps on the beat turn the track into an intensified stomper. The drop descends into thick sub bass, chopped up vocal samples and chiming, echoing percussion around its half time rhythm. This is big!!
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Iowa has some of the strictest laws in the country in the case of cannabidiol. The oil itself is harvested from the crops by the use of a CO2 extraction process This nullifies the THC content or makes it so low that it’s beneath the legal amount. However with hemp vegetation, that is already straightforward to obtain, since they have such a low THC content, to begin with.
CBD customers in Iowa Metropolis Iowa, have been at one time confronted with a fancy and seemingly contradictory legal framework as they attempt to determine whether or not the ownership and use of this substance are allowed below state and federal law Cbd Iowa. We hope to clear up some frequent misconceptions surrounding using CBD hemp oil in Iowa Metropolis, and we’ll provide some background information on this promising various treatment.
The corporate touts that they’re following the quote cautious supervision and strict rules and laws of the Oklahoma well being department” however those with the Oklahoma State Public Health Division say they do not regulate THC in products.
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The usage of CBD has been controversial due to the lack of knowledge of what it is and what it does. Many confuse CBD with THC —the psychoactive component in cannabis. CBD is not psychoactive or addictive. The truth is, it may actually help people who are recovering from dependancy.
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Whereas many people accepted this legislation with open arms and embraced CBD of their lives, others didn’t seem to fairly remove the stigma around it. CBD supporters saw the farm bill as a significant step, which paved means for CBD oils, creams and lotions to be bought in stores. From brick and mortar outlets to online websites, there’s ample of merchandise containing cannabidiol that include big medical claims.
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Farmers will likely be required to pay a licensing fee, go a background verify, and submit a planting report before they will plant. Before they harvest, the USDA must take a look at a pattern to ensure the hemp accommodates less than threepercent THC, the psychoactive element in the hashish plant. State agriculture officers hope all this will likely be in place for Iowa farmers to plant within the 2020 season.

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Selenium in plant life
Selenium is involved in reactions of chlorophyll formation, synthesis of tricarboxylic acids, in metabolism of long-chain fatty acids. The presence in plant cells of ferrodoxins containing selenium instead of sulfur indicates its participation in photosynthesis processes. It has an antagonistic effect on the absorption and transport of heavy metals, increases resistance to water stress, salt and drought tolerance. Excess and deficiency of selenium in nutrient medium has a negative effect on plant growth and development. An accumulation of free soluble amino acids and inhibition of protein synthesis are noted with selenium excess.
At present it does not belong to the microelements necessary for plants, but it is vitally important for warm-blooded animals. When deficiency occurs both specific trace element diseases and diseases of other etiologies. Selenium deficiency in humans leads to the development of cardiomyopathy – Keshan disease, cancer. Among the diseases of farm animals – white muscle dystrophy. Deficiency of selenium in food and drinking water – a pathogenic factor in necrotizing liver degeneration, lesions of the pancreas and intestines, exudative diathesis. Selenium helps protect the body from chemical mutagenesis initiated by toxic doses of heavy metals. With a deficit of selenium reduced immunity and mental development in children. The effect of selenium on iodine metabolism and thyroid activity was established.
The daily requirement of a person for selenium is 40-220 micrograms and depends on the phenotypic features of the organism, the form of incoming selenium, the content of proteins in food, vitamins C and E, to a lesser extent – on age and sex. The deficiency of selenium in food has a global nature: according to numerous studies, the majority of the population experiences a varying degree of selenium deficiency in the diet.
One promising way to correct selenium deficiency is to obtain plant products enriched with selenium. At the same time plants differ in their ability to accumulate selenium. In addition, selenium is unevenly distributed among plant organs. Thus, wheat stems and leaves contain about 2-3 times less selenium than grains and roots. In general, the concentration of selenium in plants varies from 10 to 1100 micrograms in 1 kg of air-dry weight.
Analysis of selenium content in plants of different families showed that the average content in most species is no more than 100 µg/kg.
Table. The content of selenium in plants of the Non-Chernozem zone, μg/kg dry weightYagodin B.A., Zhukov Y.P., Kobzarenko V.I. Agrochemistry / Ed. by B.A. Yagodin. - Moscow: Kolos, 2002. - 584 p.: ill.
Maximum concentrations of selenium are in the legume, bluegrass, and aster families, while the lowest concentrations are in the celery family.
In countries where Keshan and Kashin-Beck diseases are common, such as China, foods are enriched with selenium. Another way is to import into a selenium-deficient region foods produced on soils with high selenium content. In Scandinavia, where soils, especially in the north, contain little selenium, selenium-containing fertilizers have been used for grain crops and forage grasses for the past 20 years.
Selenium content of soils
In the countries of Europe and Asia a large-scale mapping of selenium content in soils, waters, plants has been conducted, attempts are made to regulate selenium content in human foodstuffs and animal diets. In Russia extensive biogeochemical territories with varying degrees of selenium deficiency in the Nonchernozem zone, Southern Urals and Transbaikalia have been identified. Biogeochemical province with an excess of selenium is found in Uyug and Baryk valleys of Tuva.
Agroecological survey of the regions of the Non-Black Soil Zone of the European part of the country showed its low content – 61-729 µg/kg. The lowest amount up to 169 µg/kg is characteristic of podzolic and sod-podzolic soils, as well as soils on sandy soil-forming rocks. Maximum concentrations of selenium, from 521 to 727 µg/kg, were found in peaty, gleyed, iron oxide-enriched and carbonate-rock-formed soils. In most cases, soils contain up to 400 μg Se/kg soil, which refers to the deficit content.
There are complex interrelations of selenium in soils with other elements of mineral nutrition of plants. For example, the application of cobalt, zinc, nickel increases the microbiological formation of volatile selenium compounds, boron and manganese have no effect on these processes, molybdenum, mercury, chromium and lead inhibit the transformation of selenium compounds into volatile forms.
For several years in the laboratory of microelements of the Moscow Agricultural Academy of Sciences researches on cultivation of agricultural products enriched with selenium are carried out. In a series of experiments the effect of applied sodium biselenite on the yield, its quality and content in vegetable crops, wheat, rapeseed and lupine was studied.
The studied vegetable crops without selenium application accumulated in small amounts, 56-303 mg/kg dry weight. The application of sodium biselenite in increasing quantities from 25 to 500 micrograms of Se/kg of soil resulted in the increase of its content in dill plants by 2,5-15,7 times, in radish roots by 4 times, in parsley roots by 2,4-3,8 and in the above-ground part by 3,5-10,0 times. With the increase of sodium biselenite dose from 50 to 1000 μg Se/kg soil, its content in leaf lettuce increased by 10 times, in spring garlic by 3.7-16.0 times, in the green mass of yellow lupine by 3-11 times and in grain by 6-25 times. Foliar feeding of yellow lupine with 0.0005- and 0.002% sodium biselenite solution in field experiments increased the content in green mass by 4-9 times, in grain by 4-8 times.
Table. The content of selenium in some crops when fertilizing them with sodium biseleniteYagodin B.A., Zhukov Y.P., Kobzarenko V.I. Agrochemistry / Edited by B.A. Yagodin. - Moscow: Kolos, 2002. - 584 p.: ill.
Thus, in experiments on sod-podzolic soils, the application of selenium in doses of 25-1000 µg/kg of soil allows for significant enrichment of agricultural products with selenium without reducing yields. Garlic turned out to be the most pronounced concentrator among the tested crops.
As selenium-containing fertilizers in world practice use selenites and selenites for foliar dressing and seed treatment. The most effective and applicable method is the application of selenium to the soil together with macrofertilizers.
Yagodin B.A., Zhukov Y.P., Kobzarenko V.I. Agrochemistry/Under ed. B.A. Yagodin. – M.: Kolos, 2002. – 584 p.: ill.
Agrochemistry. Textbook / V.G. Mineev, V.G. Sychev, G.P. Gamzikov et al. – M.: Publishing house of the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute named after D.N. Pryanishnikov, 2017. – 854 с.


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What does Goldman Sachs Do?
Goldman Sachs, or Goldmine Sachs, as some call it, reported a record $13.4 billion dollar profit last year. But just how is that money made?
The CEO of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein, claims that the bank is doing “God’s work,” explaining “We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital.” But industry insiders are not yet convinced.
According to public records of Goldman’s financial filings, only a tenth of its revenues came from investment banking last year and more than three-fourths from trading for its own account.
In this video, the first in a two part series about unraveling the profit puzzle at Goldman, Economic Correspondent Paul Solman talks to industry insiders and former Goldman executives to find out the real scoop.
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1. What do bankers do?
2. What roles to banks play in the United States?
1. How does Goldman make most of its money?
2. What is trading, as opposed to “traditional investment banking”?
3. What is “front-running”? Do you think it’s wrong? Explain your answer with specific examples.4. Do you think the government hasn’t done anything about front-running because: 1: It’s thought not to be illegal; 2: It’s too hard to prosecute; 3: The government is so influenced by contributions from Wall St., it doesn’t want to kill the goose that supports it?
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I booked here as I needed a place to stay before a flight home. The hotel is conveniently located not too far from the airport or local amenities.
The lady who welcomed me (she was from santo antao) helped me carry my case upstairs - it's on the 3rd floor - be prepared and went above and beyond to help me source some last minute items.
She was based in the common room which also had a bar, a computer, multiple plug sockets, lots of seating, a balcony and wifi - though the wifi doesn't extend to the bedrooms.
I chose a 6 bed room which had 3 bunks; there was enough personal space and each bed came with a fan and a light. The day I arrived was particularly warm and the fan came in handy!
The bathroom and kitchen were clean and tidy and each guest is given a locker that can hold a decent sized rucksack.
In close proximity, there is the beach, a market, a supermarket , fruit stall and several eateries.
Whilst the cost to stay at Praiadise was low, it certainly isnt when it comes to customer service and quality.

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The possible remodeling of building 1 at Orchard Hill for HAACAP is highlighting the Washington Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.
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The new revenue forecast sharpens the focus for budget deliberations between the GOP-controlled legislature and DFL Governor Dayton. The GOP-controlled US House of Representatives also faces off with President Barack Obama. What's the best way to reach accord?
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Work begins on second explosives-handling wharf
BANGOR — Navy contractors began in-water construction Thursday of the second explosives-handling wharf at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor. The explosives-handling wharf will cover 6.3 acres, extend 600 feet from the shoreline and use 1,250 steel pilings.
Construction costs are estimated at $331 million, but the entire project is projected to cost $715 million and will include environmental mitigation, security work, and relocation and demolition of related utilities and facilities, according to Navy spokeswoman Annalisa Cachin.
Construction began with moving barge cranes and material supply barges to the construction site within Hood Canal, and the installation of piles using a combination of vibratory pile drivers and impact pile drivers.
According to the Navy, movement of barges into and out of Hood Canal will occur during non-peak commuting hours on the Hood Canal Bridge. Pile driving will be heard from locations along Hood Canal outside of Naval Base Kitsap Bangor’s waterfront. Pile-driving work will occur during daylight hours and will continue through the end of the approved work window for fish protection in early 2013, the Navy reported.
The number of barges on site at any one time will not exceed eight, depending on the type of construction taking place at that time. Tug boats will be used to tow barges and position them for construction activity and will leave the site once these tasks are completed. Smaller skiff-type boats will be on site supporting construction activities and monitoring sensitive species.
The second explosives-handling wharf will support the upgrades of Trident D-5 missiles and strategic weapons on the submarines at Bangor. The Trident Life Extension Program involves the upgrade of guidance systems, rocket motors in the missiles and other components, which requires additional missile handling operations in Hood Canal. The Navy says the upgrades will extend the missiles’ life to 2042.
Construction is scheduled to be completed in January 2016.
“Properties with a direct line-of-sight to the project would receive noise levels above local background levels,” Cachin wrote in an email, citing the final environmental impact report (www.nbkeis.com).
“Noise levels at nearby Hood Canal waterfront residences in Jefferson County will be less than 60 dBA, which is the maximum daytime noise levels allowed under the Washington Administrative Code. Residents at Vinland would be able to hear noise during pile driving, but levels will be below the background noise level of a residential neighborhood due to trees and terrain.”
The Navy reached a $9 million mitigation agreement with Port Gamble S’Klallam and Skokomish in May, to offset the impacts on salmon and other natural resources caused by the wharf. The S’Klallam and Skokomish have treaty-protected rights to harvest salmon in their usual and accustomed territories.
But even as construction begins, the explosives-handling wharf faces legal challenges.
In August, the Suquamish Tribe filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Navy, the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Marine Fisheries Service, saying the Navy didn’t acknowledge Suquamish’s treaty-protected right to harvest salmon in Hood Canal.
And in June, Poulsbo-based Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging the project violates the National Environmental Policy Act. They claim the construction will harm birds, salmon, seals, whales and other marine life.
“Before the Navy spends hundreds of millions of tax dollars on this project, Congress and the public are entitled to a complete and open discussion of the risks and less harmful alternatives,” Kathy George, Seattle attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement when the suit was filed.
Plaintiffs say the wharf is not necessary, and that the risks outweigh the need.
“As major disasters such as Fukushima become more common, our nation must decrease the potential risk to our environment instead of increasing it, as with the second Explosives Handling Wharf in Hood Canal,” said Steven Gilbert, a member of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.


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Catch Roger Gastman’s documentary “Wall Writers”at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago tonight, January 19th, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. The screening will take place in the Edlis and Neeson Theater in the Museum’s first floor; the event is free, but get there early as seating is first come, first serve, and space is limited! Author and director Roger Gastman will be at the theater at 5:00 pm for a signing of the documentary’s companion book, Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence, and will be introducing the documentary.
Wall Writers, narrated by legendary filmmaker John Waters, is a documentary film that explores graffiti’s eruption into mainstream society during a period of social turmoil in the late 1960s and early 1970s. From graffiti’s humble beginnings in 1967 to the first graffiti painting being sold in 1973, the project reveals the context of the start of a movement that would eventually grow to transform city life, public transit, public art, and ultimately visual art the world over.


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The markets have been reviewed and today's three Follow The Money selections come from the meetings at Hamilton, Bath, Newton Abbot...
We start at Hamilton, in the 14:40 Nursery where we have seen sustained money for Keith Dalgleish's Doc Charm from 7.26/1 in to 5.24/1.
Beaten only nine lengths by the Wow Signal on his debut at Ayr, he then won easily on his next start, beating a half decent field be six lengths. Thrown in at the deep end in the Richmond Stakes at Goodwood in July he was beaten out of sight by next year's 2000 Guineas favourite, Ivawood. On the face of it, being beaten 20 lengths by that animal isn't that bad, on ground which was probably too quick. He was maybe a bit disappointing on his last start when fifth of twelve, first time in handicap company, however that was a pretty decent race. He takes a big drop in class today and we expect Doc Charm to win at a very generous price.
Swiftly on to Bath for our next positive. We've seen a massive move for Flashheart in the 15:20 a Handicap over a mile and a quarter. He has traded as high as 6.56 but his price has nose-dived into favouritism at 3.7511/4.
He is a maiden winner over the distance on firm ground in May last season but has been disappointing since; not really threatening on four starts following that win. As a result he's plummeted down the weights. There were signs of promise when only beaten four and a half lengths by Balmoral Castle on the way to a three timer, and interestingly Gold Cup winning trainer Marcus Tregoning reaches for the head gear. With the trainer in fine form and the major market move, today could be the day for Flashheart to finish off the season with a bang.
Our negative runs in the last at Newton Abbot, the 17:30 Handicap chase over 3m2f. Gorteenwood has been relatively weak. Backed as low as 2.26/5 the Mark Gillard gelding has drifted to 3.02/1.
He's had a great summer with three wins from six starts but as a result he's on a 12 pound higher mark from his last win. It looks like a pretty tough race on paper and we have a major move for James Evans' Minella Bliss. He's also up in trip so we think this combined with the competitive field and the weight means he will maybe find it too tough and is worth taking on. A lay is the call at 3.02/1.
Back Doc Charm @ 5.24/1 14:40 @ Hamilton
Back Flashheart @ 3.7511/4 15:20 @ Bath
Lay Gorteenwood @ 3.02/1 17:30 @ Newton Abbot
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P/L: + 25.29pts (before commission)
Based on prices at time of publication. Correct to end of August.

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So today my HW amp mounting plate and adapters arrived and to be honest Im disappointed in the amp mounting plate. Im going to end up havingg to use velcro anyways like my original idea just on the mount plate instead of the inside of the fender due to the mounting point beong so small. May just resell the plate.
I just received the same 2 things last week because I was ordering grills and figured i'd get free shipping. I agree the mounting plate is small but so are the Hawg Wired amps. I'm just going to mount another aluminum plate to their mounting plate, and then my amp to that. Already have a piece of aluminum from Home Depot that is big enough to cut down. I'm gonna see if I can find someone to rivet them together.
Not sure if that helps ya. I just dont trust velcro (the glue side) inside that fairing when the weather and amp are both hot.
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14th March 2023, India Garuda Aerospace who has created a huge impact with their defense drone showcased four of tis indigenous drones at the 54th Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) day. The event, which took place at the National Industrial Security Academy (NISA) in Hyderabad, was attended by the Hon’ble Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah. The showcased drones included Tethered Drones for disaster communication, aerial surveying, inspection, surveillance, and rescue operations for the NDRF. Other drones like Munition & Ordinance Dropping Drone, Fire Fighting Drones, Bomb Dropping Drone,s and Tactical Surveillance Drones were also exhibited, displaying Garuda Aerospace’s latest innovations in drone technology.
Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Founder and CEO, of Garuda Aerospace, said, “We are proud to showcase our latest innovations in drone technology to the Hon’ble Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah Ji and the CISF. Our drones are designed and manufactured in India and we are committed to promoting indigenization and self-reliance in the drone industry.”


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There are many things to love about the Maine Beaches region. From rocky shorelines and sandy beaches, to hiking trails and nature preserves, to historic lighthouses and quaint accommodations, each visit offers many chances to explore and relax.
No matter which adventures you choose to enjoy, a visit is not complete without slowing down to explore the region’s delectable, local cuisine. From fried oyster appetizers to blueberry pie desserts-plus everything in between-one thing is certain: you want to bring your appetite!
We have the perfect way to savor it all – slow food.
What is slow food?
According to Slow Food USA, slow food is “…a means of bringing humans together, conserving biodiversity, and transitioning our lifestyles from fast and furious to slow and steady.” Maine provides the perfect setting to embrace the slow food movement, which began with a big bowl of pasta in Italy in 1986. When a fast-food franchise attempted to open a location in an iconic area in Rome, a group of activists, led by Carlo Petrini, campaigned to preserve local food and traditional cooking. The slow food movement has rippled throughout the world, promoting local businesses and sustainable foods while focusing on quality over quantity.
Incorporating in the farm to table concept, the slow food movement runs even deeper, focusing on choosing food that is healthy for you and good for the environment. With an emphasis on using products that are grown in the community (thus limiting transportation and reducing environmental impact) the slow food movement improves local economies and provides jobs for friends and neighbors in your favorite towns. Fresh, seasonal ingredients are at the heart of slow food, as is connection-both to the food itself and to the people with whom you gather to enjoy it. Learning about the history and culture of the food and the people who prepare it is also key. Ultimately, embracing slow food is about savoring all of this as an experience to be appreciated, not just another meal to be rushed through.
The best part? You don’t have to travel Italy to experience it. You can enjoy all of this and more right here in the Maine Beaches region. With hundreds of restaurants to choose from, the most difficult part will be deciding which you will visit on this trip and which you will come back for next time. One thing is certain, you will not leave hungry!
Sink into the joy of a slow food journey in the Maine Beaches region
The possibilities are endless for crafting your slow food journey in the Maine Beaches region. Below are key elements of a slow food experience with just a sampling of the area’s many dining establishments that are ready to welcome you.
Start your day off slowly – Start your day off slowly at one of the region’s many bakeries, cafes, and coffee shops. Enjoy a fresh pastry (plus a new book) from Elements in Biddeford or a sweet treat from Bread & Roses Bakery in Wells. You might even grab a coffee at Elevate Café in Old Orchard Beach then head back later for yoga.
Choose fresh and healthy – Eating fresh, healthy foods slowly is part of the slow food journey. Chew deliberately, pause between bites, have a conversation between courses, and allow your food to digest as you linger over your meal. Loveshack Juicery in Ogunquit or Live Café in Kennebunk offer smoothie bowls filled with superfoods to get your day started with this in mind, or grab a signature bowl made from locally sourced ingredients for lunch from Engrain in South Berwick.
Take in the spectacular view – The setting is everything when enjoying a slow food meal. What’s better than taking in sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean while dining? The Cliff House’s Tiller Restaurant in Cape Neddick provides an unforgettable view and cuisine. Or, for a different view, visit include Clay Hill Farm in Ogunquit, the first restaurant in the country to be certified as a wildlife habitat and bird sanctuary.
Head for the beach, trail, or nature preserve – Picnics aren’t just for summer! Embrace the joy of each season with a picnic on a trail or at a nature preserve. Step back in time in the quaint village of Cape Porpoise and get all the fixings from Bradbury Brothers Market, which dates back to 1934.
Celebrate the origins of the slow food movement – Offer a nod to where the slow food movement began with an Italian spread from Traditions Italian Ristorante in Saco or enjoy wood oven pizza from Odd Fellows Tavern in South Berwick.
Bring on the romance – Savor the ambiance at the rustically elegant White Barn Inn in Kennebunk where ingredients are sourced from coastal Maine farmers, fisherman, and foragers. Feel the love at Chez Rosa in Kennebunkport, the only restaurant in Maine that is certified Ocean Friendly, or at Bandaloop in Arundel, which incorporates global flavors, local produce and a steadfast commitment to green practices into their operations. In the warmer seasons, enjoy your romantic slow meal under the stars at these inviting establishments.
Learn how your meal is connected to the community – Be open to learning about where your food was grown and its connection to the community. Did your vegetables come from an onsite garden or a farm nearby like Joshua’s in Wells, where meals are prepared using ingredients from their certified organic farm “Easter Orchard.” Other great options include Jonathan’s in Ogunquit where they’ve been bringing farm to table for over four decades from Jonathan’s farm, and Walker’s in York where farm to table includes food truck prepared take-out.
Dive into the history and culture of your cuisine – Slow food is prepared with care and intention so focus on learning the origins of your dish. Connect with those who created the recipes and lovingly prepared your entrée. Have secret family recipes been passed down for generations? What is the history of the restaurant and the story behind its signature dish? Try Warren’s Lobster House in Kittery where they have been serving lobster, seafood, and other specialties since 1940.
Bring in the element of fire – Whether the slow is falling or the sun is shining, there’s nothing like the atmosphere of enjoying a meal by the fire at Beachfire Bar & Grille in Ogunquit or on the patio at Bitter End in Wells where the vibe is “funky and super casual but somehow elegant and all in all totally amusing.”
Prepare your own meal…slowly – While dining out is enjoyable, learning to prepare your own food can be just as fun. A cooking class from Stonewall Kitchen in York will teach you how to prepare your own slow food meal. There are plenty of local options to gather your ingredients. Pick up organic vegetables year-round from Frinklepod Farm in Arundel. Compliment that with hand-made bread, fresh lobster and dessert from other local favorites. Remember to enjoy the process of preparing your meal just as much as you enjoy the meal itself!
Make it hyggelig – Bring in the Danish concept of hygge by creating a cozy night in. If preparing a meal on your own isn’t appealing, pick up a dinner from one of the many restaurants in the area offering take-out and delivery.
Wrap it up with a nightcap – Complete your slow food meal with good conversation and a nightcap with oak barrel fermented beer from Barreled Souls in Saco, gin from Round Turn Distilling in Biddeford or one of your favorite local wines or cocktails.
With all these ideas, you are sure to experience an unforgettable slow food journey in the Maine Beaches. We look forward to welcoming you!
Bio: Lisa Luken, ACC, of Simple Joy Living, LLC, is a storyteller, researcher, and strategist. She believes in choosing experiences over things and loves helping others slow down and savor the simple joys in life. She enjoys exploring simple places the world but always loves coming home to Maine. Visit Lisa on Instagram at @SimpleJoyLiving.

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Perham grabs two seed in Section
The Perham wrestling team was awarded the second seed in section 8-2A after recent victories over section foes Detroit Lakes and Fergus Falls.
"DL was one of our better performances of the year," Head Coach Robb Moser said. "Anytime you can go get wins against section teams without all your top wrestlers that's a real plus."
Perham defeated DL 42-25, Saturday, Feb. 5.
Senior James Harlow, 112 pounds, has been out recently with an injury but is expected to return soon.


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My route once leaving Brisbane, following small outback roads, I headed north to Darwin. Loading my motorcycle on to the ferry where I disembarked in Dili, East Timor. Island hopping my way through Indonesia, I eventually arrive in Jakarta, where I arranged to have my motorcycle disassembled to fit into the requirements of a shipping crate and send it by ship to India. Because shipping takes time, I meet up with friend in Sri Lanka and we rode around Sri Lanka on hired motorcycles.
After circumnavigating Sri Lanka, I meet up with my motorcycle in India. Starting from the south of India, I will make my way north to the Pakistan boarder. My route will cross Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Israel I want to arrive in Egypt, I will begin the African part of my journey. First off I heading down the east coast to South Africa.
As important as the itinerary is, it is only one aspect of the adventure. While learning about the different cultures and their history, I would like to focus on female social dynamics, architecture and food. Each country has its own local traditions and unique practices that are expected from the women. I would like to adapt and understand these traditions and try to interact and fit in with the locals as much as possible. With this in mind, my goal of being home in 2 years flew past and I felt I needed more and more time in each country I passed.
My planned route for the future is to explore the rest of Southern Africa. Travelling through countries such as Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Once I have completed this I would have been in Africa for over three years. I think it might be time for a change in culture. Who knows, I might end up on your door step!
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Marine reserves used to replenish fish stocks are also improving the health of coral on the Great Barrier Reef, research has found.
Coral disease levels are four times lower inside the reserves where fishing is banned compared with outside reserves, according to the James Cook University study.
Dr Joleah Lamb said researchers surveyed more than 80,000 corals around the Whitsunday Islands for six different diseases that commonly harm reef corals.
"We found three coral diseases were more prevalent on reefs outside no-take marine reserves, particularly on reefs with high levels of injured corals and discarded fishing line," Dr Lamb said.
This is the first time marine reserves have been shown to enhance coral health on the Great Barrier Reef.
Researchers hope their findings send a clear message to reef managers about the benefits of marine reserves for coral health.
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This new syllabus is designed for teachers and students who are interested in learning and understanding the connection between aerial and floor movements. It teaches not only aerial skills and tricks, but also how these elements can be seamlessly merged with dance movements on the ground. Our detailed “Step by step” floor & aerial exercises contain all the information required to effectively link movements into sequences: music, counts, starting position, space, tips, and outcomes. This book also provides a variety of support materials, including: descriptions of aerial rigging equipment, important instructions for safety and spotting, lesson examples with time management, and illustrations of essential aerial dance positions. It also contains a glossary of dance terminology. In its unique synthesis of yoga, ballet, contemporary dance, and circus, Aerial Dance for Dancers offers teachers and dancers inclusive access to the resources of this innovative, expressive movement style.


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LA HAVANA MADRID
TEATRO VISTA ORIGINAL COMMISSION
A joyce award winning project
By Sandra Delgado
Directed by Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Live music by Carpacho y Su Súper Combo
COMING SPRING 2019
La Havana Madrid is an immersive, documentary-style theater experience conceived and written by Sandra Delgado, based on the true story of the 1960s nightclub, La Havana Madrid, which once existed at Belmont and Sheffield in Chicago. Audiences will be invited into an intimate recreation of the lively 1960s music club, with cabaret seating, a bar, a dance floor and a live band.
Fellow Teatro Vista ensemble member Cheryl Lynn Bruce directs Delgado’s theatrical, cinematic history of Latino Caribbeans in Chicago. Legendary Colombian-American musician Roberto "Carpacho" Marin, and his band of 30 years, Carpacho y Su Super Combo, will play live every show, with Delgado as lead singer. Together, the play’s band and cast will chronicle the history of Caribbean Latino music through the decade, from mambo to the birth of salsa, all in a live, nightclub setting.
Teatro Vista's 2018-2019 season is sponsored by private and public funds provided by:
THE BAYLESS FAMILY FOUNDATION LESTER & HOPE ABELSON
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According to the latest tweet by noted lyricist Ramajogayya Sastry, the pre-production work for Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s next film has already kickstarted with music sittings. The senior lyricist tweeted, “Absolutely “khushee” working with SJ Surya garu n Anup darling :)”
Until a few weeks ago, there were numerous reports that Pawan will join hands with his Khushi director SJ Surya for his next. Interestingly, Pawan seemed to have roped in music composer Anup Rubens for this project. It may be remembered that during Gopala Gopala’s release, Pawan promised Anup that he will work with him again.
Keep watching this space for more interesting updates about this project.
Absolutely "khushee" working with SJ Surya garu n Anup darling :simple_smile: pic.twitter.com/v6ZiB06sm2
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- Roshagadu gets a big release in Telugu states
- Upset over Taxiwaala piracy, Vijay gets moral support from Suriya
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The coming Democrat dictatorship.
Hat tip to Human Events.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.
Pelosi’s rule changes — which may be voted on today — will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.”
In reaction, the House Republican leadership is sending a letter today to Pelosi to object to changes to House Rules this week that would bar Republicans from offering alternative bills, amendments to Democrat bills or even the guarantee of open debate accessible by motions to recommit for any piece of legislation during the entire 111th Congress.
……Pelosi’s proposed repeal of decades-long House accountability reforms exposes a tyrannical Democrat leadership poised to assemble legislation in secret, then goose-step it through Congress by the elimination of debate and amendment procedures as part of America’s governing legislative process.
The remnents of Republican ‘leadership’ in the House, submitted a ‘protest’ if you can call it that.
The letter, found here: http://www.humanevents.com/downloads-pdfs/Letter%20to%20Pelosi.pdf,
is one of the most spineless, feeble, prissy excuses for an outcry I’ve ever read.
They’re screwing around with niceties like this:
“This does not represent change; it is reverting back to the undemocratic one-party rule and backroom deals that the American people rejected more than a decade ago. And it has grave implications for the American people and their freedom, coming at a time when an unprecedented expansion of federal power and spending is being hastily planned by a single party behind closed doors. Republicans will vigorously oppose repealing these reforms if they are brought to a vote on the House floor.”
All of which is tantamount to “pretty please, don’t stifle our vote”.
What they should do is threaten a revolt similar to the House filibuster in August of 2008, when the Democrats fled to their homes rather than stick around and help solve the fuel price crisis: (http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/republicans-filibuster-on-behalf-of-americans-dems-go-on-vacation/).
Invite Republican constituents into the chambers to join in on the protest, and this time, raise some real hell.
The jackbooted demnazis are in power, and are marching through our legislature. What Pelosi and company are attempting to do is violate the rights of the Republican members of Congress and Senate, as well as the electorate they represent.
Welcome to 4 years of Socialist America.


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SBIR Phase I:High Performance Ballistics Fibers from Spider's Silk
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AbstractThis Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will demonstrate the commercial feasibility of producing high-toughness spider silk fibers for use in personal ballistic armor. Spider silk is one of nature's most remarkable materials, possessing high tensile strength and high extensibility, giving it an unrivaled toughness as compared with common synthetic fibers. In addition, it is lightweight, breathable, and flexible making it an ideal material for use in protective clothing such as body armor. Previous approaches to produce synthetic spider silk proteins have been based on incomplete silk sequences and previous efforts to create a silk spinneret have not sufficiently replicated the conditions inside the silk gland. In this project, the latest advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology will be used to redesign a natural silk gene to enable expression of silk protein in a recombinant host. This methodology is similar to recent work which enabled the production of chemicals and fuels from renewable sources. Advanced microfluidics manufacturing will be used to create a spinneret that replicates a natural spider's silk gland. Combined, these technologies will result in a reproducible, scalable, and "green" method of manufacturing the next generation of high performance fibers for personal protective armor. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the creation of high-performance and lightweight body armor utilizing a better material at a lower price than current ballistic fibers. The market for body armor in the US is in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually; the proposed product will be able to achieve a significant profit margin due to its low initial costs and straightforward scale-up. Tougher, more comfortable, and cheaper bulletproof vests will benefit police, soldiers, guards, and anyone else who faces harm from projectiles. Lightweight and tough fibers have applications in numerous other markets, ranging from textiles to sporting goods. In addition, the ability to precisely control silk fiber properties will enable better understanding the assembly mechanisms of protein-based fibers and enable the creation of novel materials with mechanical properties tailored to application requirements. Finally, the research proposed herein will enable the inexpensive production of protein materials (specifically, silk materials) for use in a wide variety of non-fibrous systems including tissue engineering scaffolds, medical devices, and optical sensors.
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Jordi Prat Pons : Maria Agustina Sarmiento de Sotomayor was a “Menina” of the infanta Margaret of Austria. The portrait was made in 1656 by the painter Velázquez. It is one of the figures represented in the famouse painting ""Las Meninas"", in which she is offering water to the infanta Margaret. The subject of “Meninas” is and will always be a happening theme in the world of art, versioned by many unknown painters even Picasso himself.
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$5 Million Bond Set for Burley Man Accused in Wife’s Death
BURLEY, Idaho (AP) — A $5 million bond has been set for a registered sex offender charged with first-degree murder in his wife's death. The Times-News reports 34-year-old Ronnie Kincaid Jr. of Burley appeared in Minidoka County Magistrate Court Friday on multiple charges related to Melissia Dawn Kincaid's death on Sunday.
Prosecutors said a high bond was warranted due to the gruesomeness of the crime and because Kincaid previously failed to register as a sex offender. Kincaid's defense attorney, Anthony Valdez, said the amount was too high. Police found the 34-year-old woman Sunday in the couple's mobile home, after Kincaid called 911.
An autopsy showed she bled to death. Court documents say deputies also found five children in the home ranging in age from 10 to 17. Kincaid was convicted of third-degree rape in Klamath County, Oregon, in 2001.


Few words irritate careful writers and editors more than this one, which has become a catchall term for any group of people with practically anything in common. Its etymology (literally “unity together,” with the original Latin meaning of “fellowship”) would seem to make this word apply only to a deeply close-knit group that shares some fundamental, spiritual connection.
But there is no justification for insisting on such a narrow definition. In English, COMMUNITY has applied for centuries to practically any association among people, whether profound or superficial. The almost boundless vagueness of this word is therefore not a new invention, an affectation, or a subterfuge. Jargon it’s not. But vague it is, and therefore an invitation to mental sloppiness.
In some recent expressions like “community development” or “community organizing,” the word started off as real jargon – trendy and obscure, with multiple meanings – but it has gained a certain practiced precision, built up over time. COMMUNITY now means, in these contexts, a group of people living near one another who share, by reason of their common residence, some political or economic interests. In this sense, the word can actually be preferable over more precise words like “neighborhood,” because some such communities aren’t urban enough to be clustered into neighborhoods.
But more often, in phrases like “the intelligence community,” “the arts community,” or “the child-welfare community,” the word drops a deliberate scrim in front of a bunch of shadowy people whom no one is expected to identify. Most of the time, those who use such phrases really mean to say “people in these fields whom I consider important, but can’t or won’t name.” Used that way, the word falsely pretends to give information, while actually blotting out important details.
Worse, that use of COMMUNITY is sometimes deliberately misleading. It implies a unanimity among members that rarely occurs in reality. These COMMUNITIES that speak so conveniently in unison may suit the polemical purposes of some writers, but not without seeming a little fraudulent. When “the Harlem community” supports or opposes a new shopping center, it is a near certainty that a group of individuals, and not all the residents of Harlem, share one view of the development. Used this way, as with SITE, the word may be just the result of careless diction, but it exposes the writer to suspicions of dishonesty.
In the earlier essay In Other Words, we discussed one version of this polymorphous word: the annoying sense in which it describes any group of people with practically anything in common. But readers’ response to that essay made it clear that we had been too easy on COMMUNITY, neglecting one of the other ways it has muddied philanthropic discourse. Quite apart from near-oxymorons like “the diplomatic community,” “the academic community,” and “the arts community,” the far more mysterious use of the word is in its plainest and most generic sense: THE COMMUNITY-meaning, it seems, something like “the universal fellowship of all regular folks.” For example, “mentally ill people should live in the community,” “service should be provided in the community,” and “the community must decide how to respond.” Should elderly people be helped to remain “in the community” (meaning, we presume, somewhere this side of Antarctica), or would it be more to the point to say “at home”?
There may well be a difference between those two ideas, but if there is, the word COMMUNITY does not convey it. When mental health programs are told that their work should be done “in the community,” they are probably being told that their hospitals and clinics are too far away from where their customers live. But the word doesn’t say that, unfortunately-especially not if we read in an adjoining article that the “health care community” is doing something or other. Are the services of the “health care community” not in “the community”? We’re back to oxymorons again.
Whoever wrote that services belong in “the community” no doubt wanted to urge that services be provided in “residential neighborhoods where many patients live.” To replace that specific idea with a formless placeholder like THE COMMUNITY is to presume that everyone already knows what you’re really talking about. And if that’s the case, why are you talking at all?


With the growing popularity of efficient brushless motors, replacing AC motors with these motors brings several advantages. In this blog post, we will uncover one of the advantages that can benefit lighter and compact equipment designs. If we just look at the motors, brushless motors are much more power efficient than AC induction motors. This means a smaller brushless motor can do the work of a bigger AC motor. With recent trends in efficiency, brushless motors should be considered during the motor selection process for new designs.
An ideal application example is shown below with a grip conveyor that has two belts on either side, driven by two AC induction motors. AC motors are not the most efficient option when it comes to power-to-torque conversion. Therefore, the motors need to be bigger and heavier than they really need to be.
Conventional Equipment: Grip conveyor with two belts on each side driven by two AC gear motors. An inverter (VFD) is typically used for speed control (not shown).
Problems with Conventional Equipment:
- Larger AC motors are bulky and heavy to handle and install.
- An additional support frame is often necessary
- Since 2 motors are used, the motor mass makes a bigger difference
SOLUTION: BMU Series brushless gear motor + AC input driver
Use a compact and high power to reduce the motor size and mass on the grip conveyor. A heavier motor may require a support frame to support its weight on the machine. This makes the conveyor heavier, more expensive, and more difficult to install. By replacing the AC motors with more compact, efficient brushless motors, we are able to reduce the motor protrusion on the top of the conveyor as well as the mass of the motors.
Advantages offered by BMU Series:
- More efficient than AC motors
- Lighter & compact motors
- Easier installation & maintenance
- Uses same input voltage for driver
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|Oriental Motor AC Induction Motor||BMU Series|
|Output Power||90 W (1/8 HP)||60 W (1/12 HP)|
|Frame Size||□ 90 mm (3.54")||□ 80 mm (3.15")|
|Gear Type||Parallel Shaft||Parallel Shaft|
|Permissible Torque||4.2 N·m (37 lb-in)||5.2 N·m (46 lb-in)|
|Mass||4.7 kg (10 lbs)||1.4 kg (3 lbs)|
RESULT: The mass can be reduced by 6.6 kg (3.3 kg per unit)
Because of feedback control, brushless motors also offer much better speed regulation than AC induction motors. Read the next post to see how to synchronize the two belt speeds.


Performance analysis of cognitive transmission in multiple cell environment
This thesis conducts a performance analysis of cognitive transmission in a multiple- cell environment. Most of the cognitive radio (CR)-related research has focused on scenarios where a secondary system operates in the presence of a single primary com- munication system. In this work, we extend the study of a single-cell scenario to a more practical scenario where the secondary system is subjected to two independent primary users (PU). In particular, we investigate the performance of a secondary system operating in an interweaving fashion to explore the spectrum of opportuni- ties. Under the assumption of the Poison traffic model for PU activities, we apply the Markov chain model to first determine the system parameters for combined PUs activities, and then characterize the dynamics of the spectrum opportunities for a secondary user (SU) for both single- and multiple-channel access. To fully inves- tigate the proposed system, we also consider some possible drawbacks and provide corresponding solutions in the extension section. We derive the exact mathematical expressions for the performance metrics, in- cluding average waiting time and average service time of the SU transmission. To enrich the performance analysis, other performance metrics, such as average through- put and collision frequency/ratio are also presented. Through selected numerical examples, we examine the effect of different operation parameters on the SU system performance. We believe that those analytical results can help predict which types of SU applications can be supported under certain practical PU activities.
Cognitive radio, Multiple-cell environment


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I offered to help a friend at work with her wedding planning. She’s getting married on New Year’s Eve and I was hoping to take something off her plate. I’ve seen enough people go moderately nuts while trying to plan weddings to know that even the ones who seem calm can be freaking out on the inside.
Anyway, she mentioned that one of the things on her to-do list was to make a soundtrack for their slideshow. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m sort of obsessed with music, so I told her I’d try to help.
I ended up sending her a whole list of song options, and in the process started compiling my list of Top Five Favorite Songs About Love. I originally started with Top Five Songs I Wish Someone Had Written About Me, but could only come up with two that I really liked, then moved to Top Five Verses About Love, but that still didn’t do justice. Anyway, I’m still having trouble narrowing them down confidently, so I’m asking for some audience participation. What’s your favorite song about love? This includes break up songs, happy songs, heart-wrenching songs, anything that moves you. And let me know your favorite verse or line if you want. I may include your song in my Top Five!
Plus I always love being exposed to new music.


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The MTV Video Music Awards returned on Sunday, as one of the first awards shows to have a full live studio audience.
And while it was great to have performances from some of the biggest names in music – it left viewers with a resounding “Meh”.
Unlike many other award shows, the VMAs has built a reputation for not only being at the epicentre of youth culture, but also for pushing boundaries.
From iconic performances to legendary red carpet moments, it has been the talk of the town for years.
You have Madonna’s “Vogue” performance, Michael Jackson setting the stage on fire with a medley of hits in 1995, Britney Spears bringing out an albino Burmese python for “I’m A Slave 4 U” to name a few.
This is accompanied by iconic moments, such as Beyoncé announcing her first pregnancy in 2011, the infamous kiss Madonna had with Britney and Christina Aguilera, and Lady Gaga announcing the “Born This Way” album in a meat dress.
The 2009 VMAs will most likely go down in the history books as one of the most chaotic and entertaining nights in history.
That night, Janet Jackson opened the show, with a tribute to her late brother, with a jaw-dropping performance of “Scream”.
Lady Gaga made her VMAs debut with “Paparazzi”, where she ended up hanging from a ceiling, with fake blood gushing out, in what has been hailed as one of her most iconic performances.
Beyoncé performed “Single Ladies” flawlessly, with a fleet of background dancers. Lil Mama decided to insert herself into Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ performance of “Empire State of Mind”. And Kanye West jumped on stage during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Video of the Year Award, with his infamous “Imma let you finish” speech, where he said Beyoncé had the best videos of all time.
Which also had ripple effects for both Taylor and Kanye’s careers, and pop culture as a whole.
And more recently, in 2013, we had Lady Gaga opening the show with “Applause” in a 3-minute song, served with looks from each of her presiding eras.
The night also provided a lot of fandom discourse, since Katy Perry performed “Roar” and, at that stage, the Katy Cats and Little Monsters were at war, as both songs dropped at the same time.
Taylor Swift threw shade at Harry Styles, while he was sitting in the audience. And let’s not forget about Miley Cyrus’ infamous performance, where she was grinding on Robin Thicke during “Blurred Lines”.
The last memorable VMAs night happened in 2016, when Beyoncé performed a medley of “Lemonade”, Rihanna split her Vanguard award performance up into four segments, and the funny moment where Drake was singing her praises and went in for a kiss and she dabbed on him.
However, many of the women who dominated pop music have gone into other ventures and, for the most part, either don't perform or attend the VMAs anymore, which has created a vacuum.
And it seems the new generation of music artists are struggling to fill it.
Between 2017 and 2020, while there were good performances from the likes of Lizzo, Ariana Grande and Normani, we haven’t had these pop culture moments that reverberate in the general consciousness.
Lady Gaga returned the to VMAs stage in 2020 but, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, her “Chromatica” medley didn’t have the same punch, due to the safety restrictions.
This year, since we had the return of full live audiences and a line-up of new artists who have been making waves in music, our expectations were sky-high.
Chloe finally debuted “Have Mercy”, which she had been teasing for months.
However, while collectively the performances were good – there was not a single stand-out moment from the show.
It felt very “paint by numbers”, and lacklustre.
Now one could say the problem is that this new age of artists and consumers have become so accustomed to these microwave songs, that are only meant for streaming numbers and climbing the charts, but the art of performances and captivating an audience seems to have been lost.
The biggest argument against those of us, see millennials, who were teens during the height of the VMAs' cultural impact, is that we’re just old and out of touch.
However, because there is no digital divide between Gen Z and Millennials, I beg to differ.
Many of my age mates and I listen and enjoy these new artists, and are a very much part of pop culture when it comes to slang, TikTok trends, and Gen Z stars of the time.
We knew the complete back story of Olivia Rodrigo’s hit single, “drivers licence”. We know who the D'Amelio and Lopez siblings are.
It just seems that the era of the superstar is behind us, with the only one of the new crop of music artists rising to the occasion being Doja.
Where’s the fire? Where are the performances that make us want argue online, as to who slayed the hardest?
We can’t keep relying on Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, etc, to be the only people who come to the VMAs and not only obliterate the red carpet, but the performances too.
Hopefully, the new crop of pop stars look back at this night and do the work to level up, and be the superstars we need them to be.