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Our friends of the La Blaque observatory in Varages had organized an afternoon dedicated to solar observation. We were ten of us behind the eyepieces to admire the hot sun rays.
Here join a small overview of the animation (the base color comes from the coffee offered by Caroline)
We deploy heavy EQ, Celestrons (the famous Hats of AiryLab) some large Lunts a Skywatcher and other solar bino’s. I had a lot of work at the sketch board !!! Only a 150 mm Lunt was devoted to the photography.
Here is a little souvenir from the H-alpha compiled views from the Fred’s Hat, the 150/1200 for WL and a nice Jean-Luc bino for 3D view…
As the sun had become much quieter than previous days, it was not particularly complex to draw today, but we do what we can with the star we have! On the left we can see the active area around the end of the AR2339 spot.
I was delighted this morning to find this dark and large filament at the north-eastern limb of our Sun. It had the appearance of a large serpent with foot like projections anchoring it to the solar surface and then visible curving around the limb. The filament is magnetic curtains of plasma hovering over the Sun’s surface, this an especially large and detailed one. I read on the Spaceweather site that the length of the filament would measure the distance from the Earth to the Moon. That’s one big serpent!
Solar Filament & Prominence
h-alpha 60mm Lunt 35x
4/26/15 0800-0845 HST
Black Strathmore Artagain Paper
White Conte’ Crayon & charcoal pencils, black & white
Photoscape Software to colorize, Photoshop Software to reduce size
I went out to sketch the AR 2339 in h-alpha but when I saw this massive Hedgerow type prominence on the limb it had to be done.
PST 40 halpha scope ,8mm eyepiece / 50X
Pastels and Conte on black paper. 13:33 UT May 13th 2015
Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland
On April 28th, I had the opportunity to follow the evolution of this very nice and long prominence.
That was made using a very small Lunt in Halpha (35mm) the total sketch time was less than 2h.
The full view sketch was made using black pencils HB and 4B on white paper and with the help of transparent paper for the active zones, inverted while scanning.
For the sun’s “comic” I sketch only on white paper with a HB pencil, I had no time to sketch more details and the other details were quite calm facing the prom evolution.
This kind of exercise is interesting because no space probe, nor camera are programmed or able to send us such a big number of photo’s and so quick. Let’s say this is another evidence why sketch is still an interesting technique, as is ASOD !.
The filament, origin of this prom is visible on the main sketch and on the first one of the sequence, after that the filament disappear. At the end I just add a digital color layer to my sketch with the use of Paint.net.
Thank you to you all for your interest and on top of that thank you to the ASOD team for their work.
Todays solar surface showed some interesting features that I tried to capture. There were a lot of long detailed filaments as well as a region to the east that looked like a piece of silk that had been crinkled and then flattened. To the west of this area was a brightening plage, at the moment the brightest region in the observation besides a bright spike on the limb. The prominences to the north were more subtle and dim.
White sketch paper
Grey charcoal, Tombow pencils 2H, 6B
White acrylic paint (plage)
Photoscape to adjust contrast
60mm Lunt h-alpha 36x
3/21/2015 2010-2035 UT
Seeing Wilson 4/5 Transparency 2/4
Cindy (Thia) L. Krach
Object Name : Sun
Location : Granada (Spain)
Media: Graphite pencil, white paper.
Equipment: Coronado PST and Baader Hyperion 13mm, azimut manual mount.
SUPER SOLAR FILAMENT: It is, arguably, the second biggest thing in the solar system. A filament of magnetism almost 1,000,000 km long is stretching across the face of the sun. Only the sun itself is bigger. Stretched out, the line would fit 67 Earths!
The Suns surface has been very interesting to follow the past few days. A fascinating solar filament stretching across the surface is one of the longest recorded, over 700,000 km long. Solar filaments are made up of unstable plasma held above the solar surface by the Sun’s magnetic field.
I was able to observe it for 2 days in a row and marvelled over its sheer size, looking like a tear in the Suns surface. On this day there was also an interesting filament like region near the west limb that was wide and appeared dimensional in light and dark values. The “wishbone” prominence to the north appeared to be from beyond where the limb was visible, the top portion reaching toward the observer.
H-alpha Full Solar Disk
60mm Lunt 14mm 35x
February 8, 2015 1920-1940 UT
Seeing Wilson 4/5
Cream colored sketch paper, grey & white Conte’ Crayon, 2B & 6B pencils and #2 pencil. Contrast adjusted in Photoscape.
I think what I like best about solar observing is you never know what you will find going on! This large prominence at the eastern limb appeared extraordinary in its detailed and lacey appearance. Seeing was very good and at higher magnification a network of bright areas appeared, much like a picture of a neuron cell with branching filaments extending in all directions. Tilting Sun Graphics are used to denote prominence location.
h-alpha 60mm Lunt
0945-1020 HST (1945-2020 UT)
Black Canson paper, white & black charcoal pencil, watercolor pencil & Conte’ Crayon
Tilting Sun Graphics
Cindy (Thia ) L. Krach
Haleakala Amateur Astronomers
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Objet Type: Sun Ha
Location: Panama city, Republic of Panama (Central America)
Date: December 24 , 2014
Media: graphite pencil , white paper and Phto Zone to invert, color tone and text.
Telescope: Meade Coronado PST – H alpha, 40/400.
Another Sunday morning spent happily with the Sun. Today the first prominence that struck me was one that had the appearance of a very fine “tree” near a “bridge”. The details & seeing were excellent today and I could make out swirling and looping details within the prominence, a lacy network of light and dark. The prominence could be seen spilling onto the solar surface as a filament.
I usually just cant leave done alone, so I tried some different things to colorize and experimented with Photoscape software. I fell upon the magic button – something called color balance. What fun to add color and see more of what I observed in the eyepiece!
Lunt 60mm PT
14mm & 6mm
Black Strathmore paper, Conte’ white crayons and watercolor pencils
Object Name: AR 2192
Object Type: Sunspot group
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper. Digital work done with Gimp 2
Seeing was very good at the beginning of my observation – i was able to magnify 200x. The visible details were breathtaking and I decided to sketch just the most striking part of the sunspot.
I was also able to observe and sketch a nice X2-Flare.
This week has been fascinating observing the giant sunspot region 2192 making its way across the solar disc. I was working today to demonstrate the details of the intricate swirls of magnetic activity around the sunspot and filament regions. I utilized the Tilting Sun graphic again for this observation though it is reversed from a standard view to demonstrate my view through the eyepiece.
Solar Observation 10-26-14
h-alpha Lunt PT 60mm 83X
Black paper, white charcoal, black and white oil pencils, wax pencils and watercolor pencils
Tilting Sun graphics added in Photoscape
Todays Sun was bursting with excitement along the eastern limb. The more northern triple arch was very bright and dense in appearance. There was some activity near the equator that as I watched began to develop a bright spike. Then to the south, so beautiful and delicate in appearance, a spiral shape twisting off the limb. This was very exciting to sketch and time was spent creating and erasing to get it just right, trying to capture the spiraling effect.
I have been trying different techniques to capture the Sun recently. Graphite pencil on white paper is my current favorite method to get the smallest details my eye can see. A brush with charcoal was used to get the mottled surface of the solar disc.
Modeling after Erika Rix, I added a Tilting Sun graphic to show where the 2 major prominences were located on the solar disc.
Cindy (Thia) Krach
10/12/14 0900-0950 HST
Lunt 60mm PT
White paper and graphite pencil
Inverted & colorized in Photoscape
Tilting Sun software
Object Name: Sun
Object Type: Solar prominence
Location: Deventer, The Netherlands
Date: October 4, 2014
Media: pastel pencils on black paper
As the days shorten rapidly and the sun gets more south every day, the warm afternoons are coming to an end in the Netherlands. On what could be the last sunny and warm day of the year, the active Sun was the obvious target for an astronomical sketch. I set up my modded 60mm Unitron/Polarex refractor and sketched two large prominences on the western edge of the solar disk. The prominences were of the “stable” and relatively long lasting type, but still a lot of internal swirling and changes in brightness could be seen in both at high magnifications. Due to seeing conditions magnifications were limited to about 80x-100x. I made two separate sketches, but got the idea of combining them in a composition when photographing them afterwards.
Object Name Sun
Object Type H alpha with PST, XW-10
Location Tokyo japan
Media Black/red pencils on a white paper. Contrast adjusted with PC.
This my first submission to the site. I hope it is acceptable.
An M-class flare has erupterd at #2172 about one hour after this sketch. I could already see some active regions between the two sun spots.
Object Name (H alpha Sun )
Object Type (Nice dwarf star)
Location (Artignosc-sur-Verdon, France)
Date (2014/09 – 19 & 20)
Media (graphite pencil, white paper, my digital tool is Paint.net to add colours via layers)
What a bad weather! Even the “day of the night” becomes the “day of the rain”, what a season.
But here around we are not too complaining. For my cloudy friends, I made a couple of solar sketches to prove that the sun still exist !
Both sketches and zooms are done in 30 minutes, at 15:30 UT Sept. 19th and the day after, same period, with my mini-Lunt35T and SWA 10mm EP.
The prominences that rises are damn pretty and clustered around the equator as it should be at the end of a solar cycle.
While observing our ever changing Sun today I was struck by a grouping of prominences on the western limb. All of them of high intensity and curving towards the same direction. They made me think of the story of Goldilocks & The 3 Bears!
Cindy (Thia) Krach
Black Strathmore Paper
Pastel and colored pencils
60mm Lunt h-Alpha
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Date and time: 25th July 2014, UT 15:30
Place: Tarjan, Hungary (Astronomy Camp of the Hungarian Astronomical Association)
Equipment: 35/400 H-alpha Lunt LS35T, 12 mm
I used colour aquarel pencils on special aquarel paper.
First International Sun-Day
· Object Name (International public event)
· Object Type (Sun)
· Location (Varages – Provence France)
· Date (2014 June 22)
· Media (graphite pencil for the sun, water ink and watercolour for the scenery, white paper, Paint.Net to assemble)
This first International sun-day was a good time to show the sun to the public, today in the north hemisphere the day is much longer than the night. The day before, the local radio broadcast make our promotion. With the local association “AAP” (Association – Astronomie – Provence) of Varages we had good time and very nice public. Despite the fact that the sun was quite calm, we can show a very tiny archipelago of sun-spots on the middle of the disk as well as some spots neat the limb. Anyway, the proms make our day; they are much more attractive for the public today.
To sketch the H-alpha part of the sun (here the portion out of the disk) I used a Coronado 60mm refractor with a focal length of 1000mm ; for the inner portion, the disk in Wight Light, I used my 102mm refractor, same focal length with glass objective filter.
A large prominence on Sun’s SE limb 1st June 2014. Hard to imagine that these glowing clouds are cooler hydrogen gas surrounded by hotter transparent plasma. Sketched at the eyepiece with Derwent Watercolour pencils on black paper. SolarMax60 H-Alpha ‘scope 50-80X. Location UK.
I was enjoying the Sun this morning and trying to decide how to represent the most prominent features. Sketching the Sun has just not gotten me the feeling that I can really represent it as well as I would like to as far as colorizing goes. I like using black paper but it isn’t smooth enough whereas plain white paper is. But when I have tried to add color later, it just loses what I see in the scope.
So today I tried a little something different. I like how some inverted blue colors really become the right colors for the Sun. So I put some oil pastel colors to paper & inverted to see what I could use. The nice thing about the oil pastel is I can scratch off small little lines to try to get the details of the solar surface. I had to think in negative to produce the sketch in order to preserve black, white and the different tones of red. This is my 1st attempt using this technique and I am not entirely happy with it but it is a bit of an experiment.
60mm Lunt 88x
Oil Pastel, white permanent pen, white paper, Lyra polycolor pencils, a needle to scratch off the oil pastels to produce dark lines
Inverted with Photoscape software
Since I exchanged Belgium for Sweden last year, I am faced with lack of astronomical darkness since mid april. Astronomical darkness (sun below 18 degrees of horizon) will only return end of august. Therefore I will be concentrating drawing more suns and moons instead of deepsky. The positive side to this is that in Winter time it ‘s astronomical dark at 5.30PM already 🙂
I have used my 21 years old TeleVue 101 SDF apochromate refractor, teamed with an (also old) Daystar 0.7Å h-alfa filter. A Barlow is needed to reach the required f/30 focal length. I am using a TeleVue alt-az Gibraltar mount.
I have added a picture to show the observation location. I have reached SQM 21.6 a number of times already.
Hope you like it.
From time to time, with friends, we animate minor scientific events in small Provencal villages.
Today March 19th we were in Varages with the local AAP astro club. Fifty kids and residents came to have a look at our star’s volatile proms in H-alpha and some nice spots archipelago’s in WL. We used 3 refractors, a Lunt 35mm a Coronado 60mm and a classical 102/1000 for the WL. The annexed sketch was done in H-alpha, directly on site, to show to the spectators, what can be seen through our material. In parallel some of our wife’s are trying to explain that our sun is a star.
Object Name Sun
Object Type Sunspot 1575 and crown
Location Néoules Provence France
Date 22 sept. 2012 – 13h TU
Media (graphite pencil for the spot, red pastel for the crown, two different white papers, Paint.net)
I made two separate sketches, one in H alpha via a classic PST for the crown, the second one through a 1000/102 refractor with solar continuum filter for the spot.
I used several eyepeaces.
The compilation was done with the freeware software : Paint.Net
Conditions were perfect, the sun was hot here… !
Location- Bangalore, India.
Media- Graphite Pencil and white paper and processed in photoshop…
Instrument- Coronado PST and 6mm eyepiece on Ioptron smart EQ Portable GEM….
My technique is quite original, after a light circle portion made by a graphite pencil on white paper I use directly a pure watercolour “green emerald” to sketch the solar surface on a water base and then the protuberances on the dry part of the sky, taking into account that light green will become dark red and vice-versa. Then I just have to invert the colours after scanning. The white sky is becoming black while the green part is becoming “H alpha red”.
Right, I add the approximate dimension of the earth and the moon orbit.
Object Name: Evolution of solar [prominence]
Object Type : Solar [prominences]
Location: Castres France
Date: 22 september 2013
Media (graphite pencil, white paper, digital treatment (color, inversion)
– Good seeing and transparency
– PST and Ethos 8mm
– Equipment: Coronado, special instrument to observe the Sun
– Location: Castres (France)
– Date: 08/30/13
– Author: Jean Marc Saliou
– Processing : Photoshop
The sun’s activity is very important in this moment, causing greats eruptions that I drew the best I could. Note that few sunspots appear (maximum 2). The dark lines on the sun are eruptions pointing in our direction.
Location : Castres, south-west France (near Toulouse)
Date : from 22 to 31 august 2013
Media : graphite pencil, white paper
Dayly sketch of sun made through a small Coronado PST (H Alpha) + 15mm Televue eyepiece
1) dayly observing sun coronado around 12h TU
2) quick sketch with ballpen on paper notepad (2 minutes)
3) later copy out on drawing paper with graphite pencil (10 to 12 minutes)
4) picture take of each drawing with camera + Photoshop processing
– flipping horizontally and vertically in order to see the correct sun orientation
– grouping the 9 pictures + date on the same sheet
One may see the sun rotation from August 26 to 29 watching at spots.
I saw some material projections ejected into space (see August 30)
We currently have a great solar activity
To see the solar prominences evolution one should have to observe every hour !
Thank you for taking into consideration this small contribution
DS Maxscope 60mm h-alpha, LXD75, Baader Planetarium Hyperion 8-24mm Mark III
Temp: 86 F (30 C), winds SE 5 mph, lightly scattered, 37% H
Seeing: Wilson 4.7-4, Transparency: 4/6, 50x, Alt: 72.7, Az: 175.3
Sketch created at the eyepiece with black Strathmore Artagain paper, white Conte’ pencil and crayon, and white color pencil.
NOAA 11543 had very bright plage. The sunspots within it weren’t quite as pronounced as the other day. There was a very large filament going east to west in the SE quadrant of the solar disk. More plage located to the SW and the E-NE quadrants.
The brightest, largest prominence that I spotted was located on the NW limb and resembled two dancers joined by their outreached hands with their other hands stretched out behind them. More prominences were scattered about the limb, but to the SW, a very short, bright set of prominences were apparent.
I send you hereby my sketch made this Saturday at Polaris Observatory, Hungary. I used a 114/900 Skywatcher with Baader solar filter for white light sketch and a Lunt 35 for the H-alpha sketch.
The most intersting part is a solar prominence on the northern edge, which is was a very 3D something, biting in the sun-disk.
Equipments used: 114/900 SW (100x) & Lunt 35/400 H-alpha
Date: 18th February 2012, UT: 10:40 (white light) and 11:20 (H-alpha)
Place: Hungary, Budapest, Polaris Observatory
Media: graphite pencil used on white paper
Object Name: Sun
Object Type: Star
Location: Deventer, The Netherlands
Date: April 22, 2013
Media: White pastel pencil on black paper, colorized and mirror reversed with Photoshop
Sunny weather + long lunch break = solar observing!
This afternoon I took 30 minutes to sketch the Sun in h-alpha. It’s been so long since my last solar sketch, I even had to search for the pastels. I made a full disk sketch, the active region AR1726 was large enough so see in detail even at low magnifications. For this sketch I used a 22mm LVW (32x) in my 70mm h-alpha telescope.
Please find attached one of my latest sketches made of the Sun with my Luns LS35 H-Alpha telescope.
We had a lot of cloudy days so far this year, with only a few opportunities to go out and do any kind of observations, but finally the sun was shining and obviously I was sketching! J


Michael Beamish, vice president and general manager at DeFelsko Corp., shares feedback he’s heard from coatings inspectors about their challenges in the field. In 2023, many of these needs revolve around increasing speed and reporting efficiency.
Starting this summer, CoatingsPro Magazine’s eighth annual Contractor Awards Program is open for submissions! CoatingsPro, which takes a real-world look at the coatings industry, showcases projects and crews demonstrating excellence in commercial and industrial high-performance coatings sectors.
Quantifying microorganisms associated with microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) can provide insight into a system’s corrosion risk, as well as the efficacy of its management programs. This article features related insight from LuminUltra, which was a winner in the 2023 Materials Performance (MP) Corrosion Innovation of the Year Awards.
Effective April 1, 2023, Alan Thomas became the new CEO of the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP). In this exclusive interview, AMPP’s new leader introduces himself while expressing some initial priorities.
The proposed multilayer coating system comprises three layers fabricated using physical vapor deposition, with a Zn–Mg layer sandwiched between two zinc layers.
Galvanizing steel with zinc increases its corrosion resistance, making it a sustainable and economical choice to use in construction and infrastructure. Researchers believe it can improve the longevity of steel.
This article highlights U.S. and U.K. case studies that demonstrate success in different structures and exposure conditions. These systems are also installed with imbedded corrosion rate monitoring to allow for the remote service life tracking of performance.
Merging concepts like designing for purpose, maintaining with integrity, and decommissioning with a second life in mind are ideas that, if used in conjunction with adequate management tools, can help industries pursue the path of applying an effective corrosion management system.
The goal is to foster a technical society of forward-looking, proactive professionals equipped to support sustainability in tangible, meaningful ways via knowledge, standards, and a vision for future generations.


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What is AI in medical imaging?
Artificial intelligence encompasses various techniques, such as machine learning and deep learning, that enable computers to learn from data and make intelligent predictions or classifications. AI has emerged as a powerful tool for supporting and even improving medical image analysis, as AI algorithms can extract meaningful information from images to facilitate different tasks such as image segmentation, anomaly identification, and disease classification.
How is AI used in medical imaging?
AI for breast cancer screening
The use of artificial intelligence for breast cancer screening has been proposed to improve image analysis and cancer detection (e.g., reduce the rate of false-positive screens and increase cancer detection rates).
In a retrospective independent validation study of an FDA-cleared AI tool from DeepHealth, AI reading of digital mammograms is compared with human readings in a real-world, population breast cancer screening setting. In this study, artificial intelligence reading showed lower specificity compared with radiologists and lower cancer identification rates. However, AI identified interval cancers (breast cancer, which develops within 12-month after a mammogram was found “normal”) that were missed by radiologists. In a double-reading approach discordance is resolved by arbitration or additional reading. In this study, double-reading of AI and human radiologists’ arbitration increased, but the overall number of radiologists reads decreased by around 41%.
Another example for the use of AI in breast cancer screening is currently tested in Hungary. Kheiron medical technologies works in collaboration with clinicians from MaMMa Klinika in Hungary to test their Mammography Intelligent Assessment AI platform for the identification of breast cancers. In this test, a mammogram is read by two independent radiologists and subsequently by Kheiron’s AI tool, which then agrees or flags image areas, which need to be checked again. Since 2021, 22 cases have been documented in which AI detected a breast cancer tumor, which was overlooked by human radiologists before (and 40 cases are currently under review).
AI for pulmonary embolism detection
Pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening disease, which in many cases needs immediate action. Artificial intelligence tools could help to detect pulmonary embolism at computer tomography (CT) scans and alert radiologists by flagging patient’s scans which require reading on the list of performed scans. This shortens the time of diagnosis of a pulmonary embolism and the time to initiate subsequent therapy.
In a study of chest CT scans of oncology patients, the FDA-approved AI tool from Aidoc Medical was tested to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of AI software to detect incidental pulmonary embolisms in clinical practice. AI software demonstrated a high diagnostic accuracy, reduced the missed rate of incidental pulmonary embolisms from around 45% to 2.6% when human radiologists were assisted by the AI tool and the notification time for incidental pulmonary embolism was decreased to 1.5 hours from 129 hours (decrease of 99%) of the routine workflow or 83 hours (decrease of 98%) of human triage.
The company Viz.ai ran a large-scale blinded algorithm validation study for their FDA-approved software application Viz Pulmonary Embolism Clot Detection algorithm (Viz PE), which was developed in collaboration with the company Avicenna, for the identification of pulmonary embolism and alerting of clinicians about the finding. Here CT pulmonary angiogram scans were analyzed by the AI algorithm and its analysis was compared to the one of three board-certified human radiologists. The AI algorithm demonstrated a sensitivity of 91% and 95% specificity and could be used to help human radiologists to prioritize patients and serve as a secondary reading tool. Viz.ai states that the integration of this artificial intelligence tool might accelerate diagnostic workup and possibly reduce report turn-around time.
AI for stroke and intracranial hemorrhage
Several artificial intelligence tools have been developed in the last years for the detection and treatment support of stroke and intracranial hemorrhage.
Stroke units of different hospitals around the world already work with AI-based tools to detect strokes quicker and to shorten the time before the patient receives a treatment, which is crucial in a stroke event. Thus, the hospitals of the US non-profit health system Banner Health, for example, already implemented AI technology to identify strokes immediately after a CT scan is performed.
RapidAI has developed several AI-tools, e.g., for stroke recognition and subsequent alerting of clinicians and for intracranial hemorrhage – bleeding between the brain tissue and skull – detection. In a study of 308 non-contrast CT scans, the RapidAI ICH (intracranial hemorrhage) tool was able to detect 151 of 158 ICH cases and to label 143 of 150 ICH-negative cases as negative, leading to 96% sensitivity and 95% specificity.
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Challenges and limitations in AI-enhanced medical imaging
All these different examples described here demonstrate the vast potential of artificial intelligence in medical imaging, like improving image reading or organization of image readings, which helps to accelerate the time until a patient receives the necessary and maybe life-saving therapy. The potential of AI to support and improve diagnosis or treatment options goes beyond the here described radiology examples and AI could also be applied to analyze histopathology slides, to read echocardiograms or to detect eye disease early via the analysis of retinal images,…
However, there are also certain limitations for the use of AI in medical imaging. Artificial intelligence models require proper training to avoid bias of analysis and so large, diverse and accurately-labeled datasets are needed. AI algorithms need to undergo clinical validation and tests with real-world data to ensure safety and reliability. Additionally, the use of AI in medical imaging, and more broadly in healthcare, raises ethical questions regarding patient data security and privacy. Furthermore, the acceptance of AI supporting medical imaging by HCPs and patients is required for further development of the use of AI in medical imaging. Artificial intelligence support in medical imaging is gaining acceptance among radiologists, as integration of AI alongside their own reading and analysis. However, healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients still exhibit greater skepticism regarding the trustfulness of AI in medical imaging.
To conclude, AI in medical imaging has a great potential. Artificial intelligence is currently already tested and deployed to improve diagnosis and treatment, and the use of AI will grow further. Nonetheless, the technical limitations and ethical challenges need to be considered for the development and use of AI-based tools in healthcare.
Alcimed will closely follow the rapid developments in this field and is ready to support you in your AI in healthcare projects! Don’t hesitate to contact our team.
About the author,
Frederike, Consultant in Alcimed’s Life Sciences Team in Germany

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Urban environments are the most prevalent application scenario for the Internet of Things (IoT). In this context, effective data collection and forwarding to a cloud (or edge) server are particularly important. This work leverages opportunistic data collection based on the mobile crowd sourcing (MCS) paradigm for time-sensitive IoT applications. Specifically, it introduces an incentive mechanism for the crowd to collect data that are valuable to data consumers in terms of regions of interest and time constraints. The proposed approach successfully incorporates the willingness of the crowd to participate in the data collection as part of the related incentives. It also ensures collection of valuable data via selective user incentivization. Accordingly, a weighted social welfare maximization problem is defined for users to decide which sensors to visit subject to deadline constraints. Following the NP-hardness of the problem, an online heuristic algorithm is proposed for sensors to dynamically incentivize mobile users with a low message and time complexity. The proposed solution is shown to be effective for time-sensitive quality data collection through extensive simulations on realistic mobility traces. It significantly increases the overall social welfare as well as the amount of collected data compared to other approaches.
|Title of host publication
|2021 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)
|Place of Publication
|Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
|Number of pages
|Published - 9 Jul 2021
|IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON) - Rome, Italy, Rome, Italy
Duration: 6 Jul 2021 → 9 Jul 2021
|IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON)
|6/07/21 → 9/07/21


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Statement from Superintendent Keith McBurnett on the Passage of All Four Burnet CISD Bond Propositions Based on Unofficial Results
On behalf of the students, staff, Board of Trustees, and administration, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our community for the support of the Burnet CISD Bond Program, and the passage of Propositions A, B, C, and D. Additionally, I would like to thank the Facilities Community Advisory Committee members for their input in developing the bond program, and to those supporters that put out signs, handed out push cards, and helped to inform the community about the bond.
This bond program was developed in a collaborative and transparent manner. The management of the bond projects will be just as transparent. Community members will soon be able to follow the progress of bond projects on our website.
The election results represent the end of the campaign, but only the beginning of a lot of work ahead. So let me take this opportunity to ask you ahead of time to pardon our mess as we begin to make needed renovations across the District. Thank you again for your support.


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At last night’s preview performance of The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, the theatre was packed with 80 students from Mission Viejo High School who came with energy, enthusiasm, and questions for the cast and director. A terrific Q&A discussion was held immediately after the performance and everyone — artists, students and teachers — had a wonderful time.
The students were from humanities classes and already familiar with the work of playwright Athol Fugard. One student shared that eight years ago she had actually visited the actual hillside in South Africa where Nukain Mabuza painted his famous rocks. She found the play — and seeing the set with its colorful, rocky landscape — very moving and meaningful. The students asked many interesting and insightful questions of cast members Gilbert Glenn Brown, Thomas Silcott, Philip Solomon, Suanne Spoke, and director Simon Levy. The discussion was moderated by Co-Artistic Director Stephen Sachs.
This special evening was part of Theatre as a Learning Tool, the Fountain Theatre’s educational outreach program making the live theatre experience accessible to students.
The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek runs to December 14. More Info/Get Tickets


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Statement by Premier Doug Ford on Christmas
Thursday, December 26, 2019 10:38:00 AM
Today, Premier Doug Ford issued the following statement to mark the Christmas holiday:
"Christmas is a time to count our many blessings. It's a time to rest from work and school, spend time with family and loved ones, and exchange gifts.
As the year comes to a close, it's worth reflecting on how fortunate we are to live in this great province and in this great country. We have an opportunity to think of others and give back to those who are less fortunate, whether it's donating to a local charity or volunteering at your community soup kitchen.
I also want to take a moment and thank our men and women in uniform who keep us safe each and every day.
From Karla, myself, and the whole Ford family, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!"
SOURCE: Office of the Premier

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Introduction – Culture and Ethics
Globalization, technology advancement and market liberalization have contributed global management. Currently, organization managers are not limited to their local branches but they have expanded to the global branches. As a result, management in the global perspective is affected by external factors such as culture. Global managers are not like local managers because they have mandate over employees with differences in terms of culture, traditions, and working habits. It is therefore not surprising to see organizations which are very successful in the local market failing in the international market because human resource management strategies are not universal but are determined by the prevailing situations.
This article focuses on the indigenous people in Australia working in the dole scheme and how their management is influenced by culture and ethics. Indigenous people living in Australia are very different from other people living in the country because of their cultures and traditions. Therefore, management of indigenous people working in a scheme or an organization requires adequate management skills and experience. This article offers a critical analysis of the case of indigenous people based on global management model by Steers, Nardon, Sanchez-Runde (2013). Culture and Ethics.
As a result of globalization, the business environment is no longer limited to the national borders. As a result, managers interact with people in a culturally diverse environment. Managing in a cultural diversity environment is very challenging to global managers due to cultural and institutional differences. However, to become effective global managers it is important to understand cultural differences and similarities and have the ability to interact in these cultures without conflicts and confrontations. Global managers need to have skills in leadership, cultural diversity, and ethics in order to be effective and successful in their operations. Cultural intelligence allow global managers to act and conduct their businesses ethically. Culture and Ethics.
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Rao, Subba and Asulu, Sriniva. 2013. ‘Role of management in today’s changing world environment and emerging challenges of organizational behaviour.’ International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Business Management 1(1), 72-81
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The Decatur City School District carries the highest housing premiums in the Metro Atlanta area, according to a realtor.com analysis.
In the district, the median list price of $565,000 is a 241 percent premium above the median for DeKalb County, which is $235,000. Following close behind are the Cherokee County and Forsyth County districts, where premiums are also 200 percent above their respective counties.
See our chart below for the 10 most valuable districts in the metro area:
|School District||County||Median List Price (District)||Median List Price (County)||List Price Premium (vs County)|
|Decatur City School District||DeKalb, GA||$565,000||$235,000||241%|
|Cherokee County School District||Fulton, GA||$704,000||$332,000||212%|
|Forsyth County School District||Forsyth, GA||$539,000||$260,000||207%|
|Fulton County School District||Gwinnett, GA||$500,000||$260,000||192%|
|Dekalb County School District||Fulton, GA||$625,000||$332,000||188%|
|Cobb County School District||Fulton, GA||$480,000||$332,000||144%|
|Atlanta Public School District||DeKalb, GA||$350,000||$235,000||149%|
|Hall County School District||Gwinnett, GA||$360,000||$260,000||138%|
|Spalding County School District||Henry, GA||$250,000||$205,000||122%|
|Buford City School District||Gwinnett, GA||$300,000||$260,000||115%|

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We are excited to share with you the graduates we celebrated this past month. With each class our students become more accomplished and determined than the previous class. Not only have they become very capable tailors but they have also been transformed into confident, contributing citizens. We are so proud of all of these lovely ladies!
Another group of courageous young men has graduated from HOPE Home. These young men were once orphaned, homeless and hopeless. After a year in Rwanda's government-run Iwawa Rehabilitation Centre, they came to HOPE Home to begin the process of reintegration into society. Here they are today, boldly embracing the bright futures that lie ahead; now they have jobs, their own homes (for some this is a first), and family (with so many adopted brothers, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins). They have worked hard to break the stigma against them and proved themselves valuable community members. We are so proud of your resilience, your accomplishments and your dedication; you have grown into respectable, contributing Rwandan citizens. Congratulations gentlemen! Hobe cyane!!!


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Designed by Ampro design, Romania.
Creative Director: Irinel Ionescu
Senior designer: Francesca Muresan
3d & illustration: Alin Patru
Prepress: Danubiu Birzu
Project management: Simona Sambotin;
Production management: Cristina Cioarec
Production: Sprint promotion
To reinforce its reputation for creativity and “outside the box” design solutions, Ampro Design developed this special holiday gift for its clients. With many of its international trade customers not being allowed to receive gifts for various reasons, this was neatly circumvented by asking: “who would be upset to receive a bottle of milk?” Of course, no client would expect to receive a gift like this, even more so when it was discovered that the bottle in fact contains a fine Pinot Noir.
The main objective of this self-promo item was to stand out among the other gifts received by clients during the winter holidays. And it sure did.
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What had led her to hold the elections, in the first place, was, according to her coterie, her misbelief that she would win through a popular mandate: emotionalism.
A CCTV footage of Jain getting a massage in Tihar Jail emerged earlier this month, followed by several other video clips.
He played the purported CCTV camera footages on Saturday, saying these are being used by the BJP to attack him and his party.
Jain could be seen in the purported videos getting back and foot massages in his cell, reading some documents and talking to visitors while lying on a bed.
Nadda also took a dig at the Arvind Kejriwal government over the controversy surrounding Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister Satyendar Jain getting 'VIP treatment' in Tihar Jail.
The first purported visuals, showed the Minister getting a full body massage, and the second showed him eating an elaborate meal which came after claims that he had lost 28 kg of weight in jail.
The plea alleged that Jain was not being provided basic food and medical facilities inside the prison.
The purported video of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader meeting the jail superintendent was shared on social media by some BJP leaders.
Various reports have suggested that it is an old video on which action has already been taken by suspending the officials concerned including the then Jail Superintendent Ajit Kumar.
The court is also scheduled to take up on Monday another application moved by Jain seeking contempt proceedings against the ED for allegedly leaking the video footage to the media.
Tihar Jail sources also said that the Delhi minister gained 8 kg weight during his time in jail, contrary to his lawyer's claims of him having lost 28 kgs.
The agency told the court that there was "not a single leak from the ED," while it sought adjournment of the matter, citing the unavailability of Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S V Raju.
The tirade came after sources claimed that the masseur, who was seen in video footage giving a massage to Jain, was not a physiotherapist, but an inmate who is lodged in the Tihar Jail in a rape case.
Delhi Dy CM Sisodia had claimed that Jain was receiving physiotherapy following a spinal injury and accused the BJP of doing "cheap" politics on health issues by illegally leaking CCTV footage.
The statement said that Jain is on religious fast for the last six months because he was relying on consumption of uncooked fruits/vegetables, mixed seeds, dry fruits and dates in the jail.
The court had ordered the ED and Jain's legal team not to leak any content of affidavits and video in this regard and had taken their undertakings in the matter.
The court is cancelling Jain’s bail each time, however, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is still trying his best to save him.
Jain's legal team alleged that ED has leaked the CCTV video despite the undertaking given in the court.
Referring to the video, Lamba said it looked less like a jail barrack and more like a hotel room.
No immediate reaction from the AAP was available on BJP's charges. Jain is currently lodged in Tihar jail in a money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

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When two estranged friends reconnect, things buried deep down are bound to surface. Wannabe famous vlogger Andrew Castellano, aka ‘The Amazing Andy’, sets off for a weekend at his former friend turned famous actor Bryce. After receiving the invitation to Bryce’s mountain cottage, Andy has decided to bury the hatchet. Unfortunately he isn’t quite himself anymore… this is the set up for Director Jeff Ryan’s thoroughly entertaining found-footage horror comedy MEAN SPIRITED which will receive its World premiere at this year’s Arrow Video FrightFest event. It will be screened on Sunday 28 August, 1.15pm at the Cineworld, Leicester Sq., Screen 1.
For more about this years Arrow Frightfest, head here https://frightfest.co.uk/
Single tickets on sale from Sat 23 July, noon
For booking and programme details: https://www.frightfest.co.uk


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|Elevation||638 ft (194 m) ridge high point|
MANITOOK MOUNTAIN Latitude and Longitude:
|Parent range||Metacomet Ridge|
|Age of rock||200 Ma|
|Mountain type||Fault-block; igneous|
Manitook Mountain, also called Manituck Mountain, 638 feet (194 m), is a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) long traprock mountain ridge located between the Berkshires and the Connecticut River Valley in north-central Connecticut. It is an outlying ridge belonging to the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. Manitook Mountain is known for its ledges and microclimate ecosystems. The mountain has no official trail.
The Manitook Mountain ridgeline rises steeply to 400 feet (120 m) above the surrounding landscape, with several distinct summits and a high point of 638 feet (194 m) above sea level. Located entirely within Granby, Connecticut, its northern summit abuts the Connecticut/ Massachusetts border near Southwick, Massachusetts. The mountain is particularly prominent as viewed from the Congamond Lakes to the north.
The north side of the mountain drains into the Congamond Lakes then into Great Brook, thence to the Westfield River, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound. The remainder of the mountain is of the Salmon Brook watershed, which drains into the Farmington River, thence into the Connecticut River.
Manitook Mountain, like much of the Metacomet Ridge, is composed of basalt, also called traprock, a volcanic rock. The mountain formed near the end of the Triassic Period with the rifting apart of the North American continent from Africa and Eurasia. Lava welled up from the rift and solidified into sheets of strata hundreds of feet thick. Subsequent faulting and earthquake activity tilted the strata, creating the cliffs and ridgeline of Manitook Mountain. Hot, dry upper slopes, cool, moist ravines, and mineral-rich ledges of basalt talus produce a combination of microclimate ecosystems on the mountain that support plant and animal species uncommon in greater Connecticut. Manitook Mountain is also an important raptor migration path. (See Metacomet Ridge for more information on the geology and ecosystem of Manitook Mountain).
Expanding suburban sprawl presents the greatest threats to the unique ecosystem and landscape of Manitook Mountain. As of 2007, much of the mountain was still wooded and undeveloped. The Granby Land Trust manages several properties on and near the mountain.
- Farnsworth, Elizabeth J. " Metacomet-Mattabesett Trail Natural Resource Assessment." 2004. PDF wefile cited November 1, 2007.
- Raymo, Chet and Maureen E. Written in Stone: A Geologic History of the Northeastern United States. Globe Pequot, Chester, Connecticut, 1989.
- DeLorme Topo 6.0 (2006). Mapping software. DeLorme: Yarmouth, Maine

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In a time of extreme uncertainty, it’s difficult to make long-range predictions. However, clearly the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S. economy and housing market will be extreme.
- Fewer affordable homes: The problem of low inventory will only get worse as fewer people will be moving, at least in the short term.
- Lower mobility: Again, at least for the short term, mobility will decrease as a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions will allow people to stay where they are.
- More sight-unseen buying: Virtual tours will become more and more common as people turn to tech to find their new home.
- Increase in housing inequality: Lower borrowing costs will certainly benefit the higher wage earners while those who can’t work from home will continue to struggle to make ends meet.


EDMONTON – I read comics as a kid, sure. My brothers and I had piles of them at the family cabin in northern Saskatchewan. Nothing ultra-nerd or highbrow. Calvin and Hobbes, Mad magazine, Tintin, The Far Side.
Mostly, it was Archie comics, their papery covers curled from beach-reading, sand caked into the seams, the pages torn and sticky from half-dissolved jawbreaker inspections, or maybe leech guts. Whenever we stopped in at Ralph’s store at the highway turnoff to our lake, we’d beg my mother to buy us each a Double Digest from the revolving comic racks — one apiece, so we could swap later. We read them with flashlights on our bunk beds after lights out. We read them on the veranda during thunderstorms.
Sure, Archie and the others taught me a few things. I learned that “jalopy” is a word for junker car. I learned that Richie Rich’s slogan, “poor little rich kid,” is an example of an oxymoron, and that oxymorons have nothing to do with morons. I learned that some cats like lasagna. But never did these comics move me. They didn’t make me think. Until I was in my 20s, comics were sweet nostalgic fluff, paperback candy.
Then I read Maus, and I understood what a comic could do, the power it could wield as an art form. The 1991 graphic memoir by Art Spiegelman portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats to tell Spiegelman’s father’s story of surviving the Holocaust, and the impact it had on their family. The two-part work earned the American illustrator a Pulitzer Prize and changed the landscape of the art form, legitimizing comics as literature.
Spiegelman, who appears Saturday at Metro Cinema as part of the Festival of Ideas, can still remember how things used to be. “In the 1950s, comic books were the Grand Theft Auto of their day,” says Spiegelman, referring to the popular video game. “Put on bonfires by church and parent-teacher groups, (seen as) a cause for juvenile delinquency. Now I can read a comic book on an airplane and people don’t ask for a seat further away from me.”
Who would even look twice if someone were reading a graphic novel on their iPad now? Hard to imagine a time when comic-book readers were synonymous with trouble.
In his Edmonton talk, What the %@&*! Happened to Comics?, Spiegelman will give us a chronological tour of the artform’s evolution, and offer his thoughts on the reasons for comics’ rising popularity. His biggest problem isn’t what to say, but what not to. “I’m sitting here looking at my presentation, thinking, how can I whittle this down to about a third of its length?” The New Yorker says by telephone, pulled over on the side of the road somewhere in Tennessee. “Once I get started, there’s no stopping me on this stuff.”
The master illustrator’s work has graced the cover of many New Yorker issues, including the iconic, unforgettably sombre post-9-11 cover with the Twin Towers’s black silhouettes against a black sky. He has no shortage of wisdom on his favourite subject.
“Comics have the advantage for me of being static. They stand still while you see them all together. Those things are real important to me, and what comics are that nothing else is. The fact you can see many moments in time at one time. You get the past, present and future all at once.”


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Developer: Baroque Decay
Publisher: Another Indie
Platforms: Switch, PC
Reviewed On: Switch
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Reviewed By: Keith Lavelle
Review Rush was kindly supplied with a review code.
Yuppie Psycho Executive Edition has you playing as Brian Pasternack. He is from the suburbs and has been given a job at Sintracorp. That he did not know he was getting. Sitracorp is one of the biggest corporation in the world ever, making Brain’s job offer even more mysterious. Brian can rise his class rank from G to A with a payout of 10,000 credits. He has one job; Kill the witch.
The story in Yuppie Psycho is a few things. Gladly bad is not one of them, in fact the story is amazing. It is funny, witty, creepy, scary, bonkers and will keep a player on the edge of their seat.
The gameplay in Yuppie Psycho feels like a point and click game. Walk around the office building discovering clues, items and talking to whoever will talk to solve the problems. This is actually a superb and fun game to play with puzzles and death around every corner and a lot of coffee.
There is action and chase sequence, where our Brian must escape before being devoured or get blown up by glowing eyes on the floor. With a lot of twist and turns in there as well. Not to mention the downright bonkers stuff like the Colonel and his motivational talk.
With the main job for Brain in Yuppie Psycho being to kill a witch, it is easy to see how this is a horror title. That being said, there are no real jump scares in the game, it’s more psychological. With writing on the walls, twisted imagery of office life. For example, the women in HR are all bodies with massive lips for heads as they talk all day. There is also the angry works who are overworked and get angry when you get to close. I love all the concepts and portrayal within the game.
In terms of graphics Yuppie Psycho makes a brilliant use of the dark, as part horror clique and really making you think about what could lurk in the dark. A lot of the office is in the dark or has very little lighting throughout (I would have to report maintenance, if there is one). A brilliant use of sound for things moving around out of screen view or chasing you around to kill you. When each comes together, it is unsettling.
Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition is a fantastic game in every facet, great writing, world design, characters. This is a must have for any adventure fan more so if you like a good creepy game.

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Let’s start with the most basic and yet often overlooked thing that will increase the lifecycle of your scooter drastically…… how you store it. Many scooters are stored outside nowadays without any protection from the elements. This can cause a multitude of problems for a vehicle that is powered entirely by electricity. Switches corrode and stop working, exposed metal work rusts, wiring looms and controllers can be damaged by water ingress. Batteries (The heart of your scooter) are subjected to constant changing temperatures and humidity’s. Reducing their effectiveness and lifespan drastically. Fortunately there are some simple solutions, even if there is no possibility of giving your scooter a permanent roof over its head. I will try and cover them all here.
Throw over scooter covers: This is the most basic form of protection for storing your mobility scooter outside. A scooter cover is inexpensive ( Typically around £35.00) and yet will make a huge difference to your scooter. Protecting it from the worst of the weather and preventing water from seeping in to all the little nooks and crannies.
Canvas scooter garage: If space is confined but you would like somewhere safe and secure to store your scooter a fold out scooter garage is a fabulous option. The canvas cover is attached to a metal frame which literally folds over the top of your scooter. It is still an economical option ( usually about £250.00) and yet provides a few really important advantages over the throw over cover: It is lockable, it will have an access panel for charging your scooter and it is much easier to use than a throw as well as being more sturdy and weather proof. This product is available form us as a special order item. Please call or email us for more information.
Lean-to: Often used in conjunction with a throwover cover. A lean to can be built cheaply by a local handyman and give your scooter a permanent shelter from the worst weather. Often it is possible to build these against a building with electricity provision. A local electrician can then easily provide you with an outside socket to make charging even easier.
Wet weather protection: When you are out and about it is also important to protect your scooters delicate controls. If you get caught in a sudden downpour the control panel will require protection. A simple control panel cover is available that will fit most makes and models of scooter to do this job for you. It is really important to remember that your scooter is an electric vehicle. It will cope with getting rained on now and again but deep puddles and forging rivers is always best avoided!


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Author has written 4 stories for Les Miserables.
I am a girl. I am fifteen. I am Minnesotan. I think Canada is funny. Between playing my beloved video games, verbally reprimanding my three (mostly) black cats, prowling the downtown area with the Paul type, yelling at furniture for purposefully getting in my way and rearranging itself in the dark, acquiring and retelling dead baby jokes, throwing together small webpages, reading, reading, and rereading books of various genres, fighting for conscious dominance with the multiple residents of my twisted brain, watching old movies, watching new movies, pretending my dollar store plastic sword is actually the Wallace claymore, collecting action figures, aesthetically rearranging action figures, searching desperately for power metal, alternative, classic rock, opera, and Broadway showtune MP3's on the internet, and screaming insanely at the top of my lungs for absolutely no good reason whatever, I sometimes write fanfiction. Some of it is here. The rest is coming. You are a mendicant, you smell, and all your base are belong to us. Thank you and God bless.


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Community celebrates Art is Ageless® calendar reveal and announces call for entries for this year’s exhibit.
Parsons Presbyterian Manor is seeking artists for the annual Art is Ageless® juried exhibit April 1 – 3, 2024.
Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or over to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the 2025 Art is Ageless calendar.
For the competition, works must be completed after age 65 and in the past five years (since January 2019). There are nine categories, as well as designations of amateur or professional. Entries are due to Parsons Presbyterian Manor, 3501 Dirr Ave., by 5 p.m. March 28.
The community celebrated last year’s exhibit and competition with a calendar reveal party back in December. Artists were on hand to display their art works and sign calendars.
The Art is Ageless® program encourages Presbyterian Manor residents and other area seniors to express their creativity through its art annual competition.
For entry forms and more information, contact Crystal Packard at 620-421-1450 or firstname.lastname@example.org, or visit ArtIsAgeless.org.

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If you like eating meat and want to lose weight, you might be tempted to try this recent extreme diet fad that proponents have made some pretty outrageous claims about. One: that eating nothing but meat can cure you of autoimmune diseases. The problem is that there’s no good research to support that notion, or any other health claim, for that matter. Indeed, omitting foods known to be good for you — fruits and veggies among them — can lead to a bunch of unwanted side effects, including constipation and potentially dangerous nutrient deficiencies. Still, since you’re cutting out so many food groups, there’s a decent chance you’ll lose weight, experts say. Regardless of any possible benefits you might see, this restrictive approach is definitely one you’ll want to ask your doc about before you even consider diving in.
Adequate food records were available for analysis in a proportion of participants at each of the 4 timepoints (Table (Table2).2). Participants completed food records at a mean of 2.5 and a median of 3 timepoints. In general, comparing baseline to subsequent timepoints, mean carbohydrate intake decreased substantially and energy intake decreased moderately while protein and fat intake remained fairly constant.
The ketogenic diet is usually initiated in combination with the patient's existing anticonvulsant regimen, though patients may be weaned off anticonvulsants if the diet is successful. There is some evidence of synergistic benefits when the diet is combined with the vagus nerve stimulator or with the drug zonisamide, and that the diet may be less successful in children receiving phenobarbital.
In this meta-analysis, the researchers looked at the results from a total of 20 randomized controlled trials with more than 3,000 subjects, most of whom had type 2 diabetes.  Although the authors concluded that low-carbohydrate, low-GI, Mediterranean, and high-protein diets should all be considered as a dietary strategy for diabetes management, the low-carb diet proved itself as being superior in 6 of the 8 studies.
When it comes to managing diabetes, it is reasonable that reducing carbohydrate intake can help to lower and stabilize blood glucose levels. The positive effects of the ketogenic diet on diabetes control have been demonstrated in animal models, as well as in humans. We recently reported on several studies that demonstrated substantial metabolic benefits.
Some people feel better supplementing the already active T3 (sometimes prepared from pig thyroid glands), as it can give a stronger effect than the T4 hormone, but its effect is often harder to control. Swedish healthcare rarely prescribes or offers such T3 treatment, as it often lacks advantages and may pose a risk when doses are high for an extended period of time.
A 2010 study in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism assigned 259 overweight diabetics to one of three diets: a low-carb Mediterranean diet, a traditional Mediterranean diet or a diet based on recommendations from the American Diabetes Association. All groups were told to exercise 30 to 45 minutes at least three times per week. After a year, all groups lost weight; the traditional group lost an average of about 16 pounds while the ADA group dropped 17 pounds and the low-carb group lost 22 pounds.
6. Longer life. A recent meta-analysis in the British Medical Journal found the diet significantly improved health and led to a 9 percent reduction in death from heart disease, cancer, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's. Other studies have found that the diet's healthy fats may lessen the inflammation and pain of rheumatoid arthritis and cut the risk of getting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) by 60 percent.
First reported in 2003, the idea of using a form of the Atkins diet to treat epilepsy came about after parents and patients discovered that the induction phase of the Atkins diet controlled seizures. The ketogenic diet team at Johns Hopkins Hospital modified the Atkins diet by removing the aim of achieving weight loss, extending the induction phase indefinitely, and specifically encouraging fat consumption. Compared with the ketogenic diet, the modified Atkins diet (MAD) places no limit on calories or protein, and the lower overall ketogenic ratio (approximately 1:1) does not need to be consistently maintained by all meals of the day. The MAD does not begin with a fast or with a stay in hospital and requires less dietitian support than the ketogenic diet. Carbohydrates are initially limited to 10 g per day in children or 20 g per day in adults, and are increased to 20–30 g per day after a month or so, depending on the effect on seizure control or tolerance of the restrictions. Like the ketogenic diet, the MAD requires vitamin and mineral supplements and children are carefully and periodically monitored at outpatient clinics.
In 2008, researchers conducted a 24-week study to determine the effects of a low-carbohydrate diet on people with type 2 diabetes and obesity. At the end of the study, participants who followed the ketogenic diet saw greater improvements in glycemic control and medication reduction compared to those who followed a low-glycemic diet. A study from 2017 found the ketogenic diet outperformed a conventional, low-fat diabetes diet over 32 weeks in regards to weight loss and A1c. A 2013 review reports again that a ketogenic diet can lead to more significant improvements in blood sugar control, A1c, weight loss, and discontinued insulin requirements than other diets.
What the expert says: ‘Like with atkins, you will lose weight quickly. The ketogenic diet is used in medicine, but under strict supervision and for set periods of time, so with appropriate support it can be safe in the short to medium term. The brain does use glucose as its fuel of choice, so ‘brain fog’ lethargy are common side effects. You’ll known when your body is running off ketones by your breath – it’s known as ‘keto breath’, and it’s bad. It also can affect your ability to exercise by due to a lack of quickly accessible energy.
Think of it as intermittent fasting 2.0 – only a bit more complicated. Ready? Here goes. There are three windows: one to get you started, one to help you reach your goal weight and a maintenance plan. You eat within a 12-hour, 14-hour or 16-hour window depending on which phase you’re in. But what you eat counts, too. The ‘green light’ lists of foods changes with every phase. Still there?
For me, I chose to become a CDE because I had worked as a Registered Nurse first on a medical unit, then in a Medical ICU. These are the units where most of the people with diabetes are, so I had seen every horrific complication that diabetes can cause. When I had a chance to become a Diabetes Educator…to actually help PREVENT some of those horrible complications…I jumped at the chance!
It sounds as if you may have been following a very strict keto protocol. I’m not, and have not followed a ketogenic diet, but am interested in it. I’ve been reading up on it a bit on the blog called Mark’s Daily Apple.* I’ve been following it for several years now, even before Mark tried keto. Based on some of his blog post, both keto related and otherwise, it seems that women do better with slightly more carbs than men. He’s written several blog post specifically for women, including one called 7 Keto Tips for Women, which you may want to read. https://www.marksdailyapple.com/7-keto-tips-for-women/ Then there is this one Where I Part Ways with the Popular Keto Movement https://www.marksdailyapple.com/where-i-part-ways-with-the-popular-keto-movement/ Perhaps the problem wasn’t the keto diet in and of itself, but that you went too low carb for you. It’s worth considering. I’ve also found this site to be pretty interesting https://peterattiamd.com/ Here’s a link to his section on keto https://peterattiamd.com/category/ketosis/ He followed a ketogenic diet for a number of years, though as of 2016 was no longer ketogenic, but definitely eating lower carb than most. (That is under Articles, on the drop down menu, click on Personal.)
The ketogenic diet may offer hope to people with type 2 diabetes who have difficulty controlling their symptoms. Not only do many people feel better with fewer diabetic symptoms, but they may also be less dependent on medications. Still, not everyone has success on this diet. Some may find the restrictions too difficult to follow over the long term. Yo-yo dieting can be dangerous for diabetes, so you should only start the ketogenic diet if you’re sure you can commit to it. A plant-based diet may be more beneficial for you both short- and long-term, so input from your dietitian and doctor can help guide your diet choice.
Changing your body’s primary energy source from carbohydrates to fat causes an increase in ketones in the blood. This “dietary ketosis” is different from ketoacidosis, which is an extremely dangerous condition. When you have too many ketones, you may be at risk for developing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). DKA is most prevalent in type 1 diabetes when blood glucose is too high and can arise from a lack of insulin. Although rare, DKA is a possibility in type 2 diabetes if ketones are too high. Being ill while on a low-carb diet may also increase your risk for DKA.
U.S. News’s Best Diets rankings are put together by a panel of nutritionists, dietary consultants, and doctors specializing in diabetes, heart health, and weight loss. Each member of the panel scored all 41 diets in seven different areas, including how easy they are to follow, how well they protect against chronic disease, and how likely it is that followers will actually lose weight and keep it off.
We really do only want to try and share the knowledge we have through seeing thousands of different patients with complex issues over decades with all of you. Physicians jump at the chance to have a CDE see their patients in their practice or in the hospital because they know our value. They know how thorough we are when assessing their patients and often find issues that may have been overlooked for years. It’s all we do all day, so it’s our specialty…diabetes. We live and breathe it and are very passionate about helping people overcome their hurdles. I do hope sharing some of my personal experience with all of you will help, but I am here if you all have more questions anytime!
When you’re eating the foods that get you there (more on that in a minute), your body can enter a state of ketosis in one to three days, she adds. During the diet, the majority of calories you consume come from fat, with a little protein and very little carbohydrates. Ketosis also happens if you eat a very low-calorie diet — think doctor-supervised, only when medically recommended diets of 600 to 800 total calories.

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The European Commission released its net-zero industry act on Thursday (16 March), setting a goal for the EU to domestically produce at least 40% of the technology it needs to achieve its climate and energy targets by 2030.
The Act will strengthen the resilience and competitiveness of net-zero technologies manufacturing in the EU, and make our energy system more secure and sustainable. It will create better conditions to set up net-zero projects in Europe and attract investments, with the aim that the Union's overall strategic net-zero technologies manufacturing capacity approaches or reaches at least 40% of the Union's deployment needs by 2030. This will accelerate the progress towards the EU's 2030 climate and energy targets and the transition to climate neutrality, while boosting the competitiveness of EU industry, creating quality jobs, and supporting the EU's efforts to become energy independent.
“We need a regulatory environment that allows us to scale up the clean energy transition quickly,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
“The net-zero industry act will do just that. It will create the best conditions for those sectors that are crucial for us to reach net-zero by 2050: technologies like wind turbines, heat pumps, solar panels, renewable hydrogen as well as CO2 storage,” she added.
The proposed law aims at speeding up permitting and increasing access to finance for clean tech. Supported technologies include solar, wind, batteries and storage, heat pumps and geothermal energy, electrolysers and fuel cells, biogas/biomethane, carbon capture, utilisation and storage, and grid technologies.


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Conveying Information about Compounded Medicines: A Cross-sectional Pilot Study on Melatonin Liquid
Keywords:compounded medicines, melatonin, melatonin liquid, quality use of medicines, consumer medicines information
Background: Manufactured melatonin liquid is not available as a proprietary product in Australia, and when prescribed for children, is supplied as a compounded product. It may be challenging for a parent/carer to find reliable product information on compounded medicines, as there is no available standardised information or leaflet.
Aim: The aim was to develop an information leaflet on extemporaneously prepared melatonin liquid for parents and carers, and to evaluate its readability and acceptability.
Method: A leaflet was designed following guidelines for written information. For evaluation of the leaflet, a questionnaire was developed in consultation with a statistician and a pharmacy academic, and was piloted for face validity. The questionnaire elicited feedback about the leaflet design and content, and collected key participant demographics. The prototype leaflet and questionnaires were distributed to a convenience sample of five pharmacies in New South Wales.
Results: All participants (i.e. parents/carers) (n=16) felt that it was important to receive written information for melatonin liquid, and found the leaflet easy to understand. Most (94%; n=15) felt that they learnt something new after reading the leaflet, although three (19%; n=3) had unanswered questions, and nearly one-third (31%; n=5) felt somewhat concerned after reading the adverse reactions section of the leaflet.
Conclusion: The leaflet about compounded melatonin liquid was deemed acceptable by parents/carers.
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