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When it comes to fitness hormones, there are two main categories; steroid and peptide hormones. In this blog, we take a look at what is the best peptides for strength and why. Both steroids and peptides have been known to play important roles in helping many athletes cross the threshold of genetic potential in fitness. While we would like to stress that peptides are for research purposes only, they are common among sportspeople ! If you are interested in this topic and want to know more then you should get to know them just like steroids.
Before we go on, let’s clarify something – Peptides USA stays away from banned and harmful substances and we hope you stay away from hormonal preparations. If you do not know with absolute accuracy what you are doing! These are for experts in the field of research and are still being examined. Buy here Now!
What Are Peptide Hormones?
Hormones are chemicals that the various glands in the body secrete to regulate certain physiological functions. Peptide hormones are secreted by the endocrine glands. They are synthesized by amino acids and flow into the bloodstream. This makes them absorbed by the body and their effects occur faster than steroids.
Man-made peptides cause the increased production of a large number of hormones. Therefore, they are the preferred means by athletes around the world, whose desire is to achieve greater and stronger musculature at all costs.
What are the most popular peptides?
The most important peptides are:
- ACTH – Adrenocorticotropic hormone. It is separated from the pituitary glands and stimulates the adrenal gland and the production of glucocorticoids and growth hormones. This helps repair wound tissues and has an effect on muscles, bones, and the liver.
- ADH – Antidiuretic Hormone and raises blood pressure and causes the body to retain fluids.
- EPO – Erythroprotein hormone. Glycoprotein is produced in the kidney and liver. It increases the number of red blood cells and hemoglobin in the blood. This increases the endurance of the body and its ability to recover, the circulation of oxygen in the muscles and tissues, the production of energy.
- HCG – Human chorionic gonadotropic hormone, and acts as a powerful testosterone booster. Increases muscle size, increases weight and strength, but in excessive amounts causes all the undesirable side effects of testosterone supplements. It is one of the most important hormones for builders who use steroids because it prevents the testicles from contracting.
- Luteinizing hormone – LH and follicle-stimulating hormone – FSH. In men, LH is produced in the testes and stimulates the release of testosterone, while in women it stimulates ovulation. FSH is responsible for the production of sperm in men. High levels of testosterone deplete FSH, so builders take it during the steroid cycle.
- HGH – Growth Hormone is produced by the pituitary gland in the brain. You can read our detailed article on growth hormone here.
- Other important (and popular) peptide hormones are gastrin, prolactin, and insulin.
Possible side effects
ACTH – Insomnia, high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, poor wound healing, and osteoporosis.
HCG – gynecomastia in men and menstrual disorders in women.
EPO – obstruction of the arteries such as blood clots, pulmonary edema, and heart attacks.
HGH – unwanted hair growth on the arms, legs, and the face (acromegaly), an increase in internal organs (arthropathy), circulatory problems, profuse sweating, oily skin, and acne.
Peptide VS Steroids
- The effects are lasting and come slowly
- They are released directly into the bloodstream
- Steroids attach to the cytoplasmic receptors in the cells and reach the nucleus (nucleus)
- The nucleus regulates genetic products, which causes lasting effects
- They are hydrophobic, so they do not dissolve in the blood and are transported through proteins
- Fast and short-term effect
- They are stored until needed
- Peptides bind to cell surface receptors
- They are hydrophilic, so they dissolve in the blood
- Hormonal substitutes
For many years steroids were the leaders in building muscle and strength for the committed athlete. But, since then new products like SARMs and Peptides emerge, and while they are only for research only, due to their capabilities they do get into the sporting world. There are many terms you will see online when searching peptides for sale. Here we define the meanings of the following:
- The best peptide stack for cutting also means the best peptide for fat loss. From the study, the best peptides for burning fat include a newcomer called Adipotide, and the combined blend of three HGH Fragment + Ipamorelin + Mod GRF. Or as athletes refer to as a stack!
- Best peptides to get ripped also mean the best peptide for strength and building muscle. Many experts would say that GHRP-6 is good at increasing muscle growth. Other peptides with the same ability are MOD-GRF (1-29) or also called Sermorelin, and CJC 1295 with DAC.
Summary of the Best Peptides for Strength
We would like to say this article is for information only and we are not promoting the use of humans. However, the fact that peptides can build muscle and strength is hopefully going to treat those who suffer from muscle wastage diseases and osteoporosis in the future. Research continues on these research chemicals.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Black Emanuelle (1975)
So, Black Emanuelle: the first Italian Emmanuelle knock-off. Laura Gemser, who appeared in a bit part in the second official film in the French Emmanuelle series, here plays Emanuelle with one m, a globetrotting, sexually-liberated journalist in the 70s. A few things about this: 1. She's actually listed as Emanuelle and not Laura Gemser in the credits, "Emanuelle in 'Black Emanuelle', which amused me, 2. Laura Gemser is actually Indonesian, which I guess seemed black to the Italians, 3. She's often called 'the black Emanuelle' in these movies, which I guess is a bit like Blackula, but not black. Much of the movie stresses her feelings about being black, which I think is supposed to say, "Hey, we're not ripping off the French Emmanuelle here- she was white! Totally different movie!" (We should make a new blaxploitation film. Maybe "Clash of the Black Titans".)
Anyway, the begins with Emanuelle on a plane. Alex Cox has called planes the train-entering-a-tunnel of the Emmanuelle movies. The French Emmanuelle was screwed on a plane in the first film in a scene that is referenced constantly. Here, the black Indonesian Emanuelle sees a couple fooling around on her plane to Nairobi while a 70s soft rock song plays on the soundtrack. She's a photographer coming to Africa for her magazine: this is the plot of all the Italian films. You can pretty much see the whole Laura Gemser series as one really long movie about a photojournalist traveling the world and fucking a lot of people.
In Nairobi, she meets up with Ann, an English journalist, and Gianni, her Italian husband, and rooms with them. The first night, they introduce Emanuelle to the European expat community at a party in which everyone screws around with partners other than their spouse and jumps into the pool. The next day, they stop by the gas station Ann can screw her mechanic, go out dancing in the evening, and Emanuelle screws around with the Italian husband. Gianni and Emanuelle eventually have sex. Later, Emanuelle goes on a safari with the wife and has sex with her. Then she fantasizes about having sex with a tribal chief. Oh, you get the idea. Bored yet?
The Emanuelle movies are basically travelogues with sex. The problem is a travelogue can get boring fairly quickly, and so can a sex film- both of these are activities that are more fun to do than watch in a movie. After a while, the movies are a bit like watching someone's slides from their vacation while they tell you, "We had sex here.... she blew me in this hotel..." They lag mostly in the long spaces with no dramatic tension, which is hard to establish when your main character has no sexual inhibitions to overcome. Emanuelle never really changes- she just wants to have sex. It's hard to blame her, but it's also hard to be enganged in the storyline because you can imagine fairly easily how the story will turn out: the beautiful horny woman with no sexual inhibitions will probably get laid.
Black Emanuelle tries to create dramatic tension and, indeed, it picks up a bit after Emanuelle begins her affairs with the husband and wife- she's falling in love with him, but he's a bit of a player and rebukes her as a tramp, so she screws another man to make him jealous as well as his ex-lover Gloria for the hell of it. (At this point, there is a scene with some servants screwing that is stolen directly from the French Emmanuelle- I'm ashamed to know that.) But what will she do? Commit herself to Gianni and stay in Nairobi? Leave him and remain free? Probably you can guess.
Clearly, however, Emanuelle doesn't just want sex without emotion. In fact, she tells the Italian stallion her thoughts on love, "Emanuelle doesn't need drugs to be sacrificed to love. Love isn't just an explosion of the senses. Emotion counts too." So true. Rufus agrees, but he needs drugs to finish this movie.
The whole gang goes on another safari and there's a sex scene with Emanuelle and Gianni by a waterfall- also swiped from the French movie. But Emanuelle needs to be free and she takes off, only to be gangbanged by a cricket team on a train, in an uncomfortable scene that reportedly made Gemser uncomfortable as well. What exactly is this scene trying to say anyway? The dialogue suggests that she's sexually insatiable and cannot be with just one man when there are cricket teams available, which is certainly legitimate. But then why is she asleep for most of the gangbang?
Meanwhile, Gianni has run off to find Emanuelle, ending his marriage. She turns him down in a dramatic speech delivered directly to the camera like a scene from Annie Hall: "Something always happens. Believe me... It wouldn't work... Love is not enough Gionni. Maybe it's my work, my appearance, my skin. Or maybe it's just fate. But I must be free... That's what it's like to be a woman. Or, at least, a woman like me."
Okay, I know I sound crazy here, but this is what I find totally fascinating about these movies. The series is obsessed with female sexual freedom. I mean, sure, they're stupid sexploitation movies, and definitely they can fit in a lot more sex if she's not in a monogamous relationship; but how many sex films today have anything to do with a woman's right to find sexual happiness however she chooses? Actually, how many films today are about that?

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The magnitude of negative consequences of clinician disruptive behaviors on patients and clinicians was examined using data collected from 1559 clinicians working at an urban academic medical center in the United States. For the impact of disruptive behavior on patient safety, psychological aggression as caused by disruptive behavior or incivility increased the likelihood of patient harm as well as job dissatisfaction and physical symptoms.
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Bob Lee presents persistence queues, the technology stack, the publish-subscribe pattern and dependency injection as used by Square.com.
Blake Matheny discusses the current status of Tumblr, its evolution and lessons learned along the way, 3 types of concurrency -Macro, Mecro and Micro-, and Motherboy –a dashboard system-.
Jeremy Jarvis shares his experience building a IaaS cloud and some of the lessons learned along the way.
Andy Britcliffe shares some lessons learned building software for the cloud, along with advice on architecture, technologies and the need for vendor support.
Ingo Rammer shares 15 tips regarding people, complexity and technology that he learned doing software architecture for 15 years.
Ola Bini discusses using open source in distributed teams from a sociological, political, and organizational point of view, providing some lessons useful in daily development.
Jesper Boeg shares his experience, lessons learned, failures, and common problems met when introducing Kanban to various teams having no previous Agile or Lean experience
Eoin Woods shares some of his architectural experience along with principles and techniques useful when working with legacy systems.
David Dawson and Marcus Kern share lessons learned creating a high-performance mass audience participation system using NoSQL.
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.
Jeremy Edberg shares the need, the benefits, the pain points and the lessons learned moving Reddit and Netflix’s internal solution to Amazon AWS.
Rob Bowley shares lessons learned while doing Agile: Scrum is not that bad, Don’t call it Agile, Doing the right thing vs doing it right, Identify the change agents, Hire good people, etc.


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It’s never fun to face awkwardness in the bedroom with someone you’re really into, whether it’s a new fling or a stable relationship. You might be wondering: If we don’t click physically, can we really have a future? What’s the point?
But don’t throw in the towel just yet. Lots of—in fact, most—couples go through phases where they’re not exactly on the same page about things between the sheets. That doesn’t mean you can’t get past it, though. If you’re both willing to put in the time and energy to figure out what’s going on, you could be in for an even better sex life than you had before.
Ahead, we talked to experts to get their take on how to handle nine super-common sexual incompatibilities.
Differing Sex Drives
Schedule sex like you schedule any other appointment, and don’t cancel, says Gail Crowder, a certified relationship coach and best-selling author. “That way the person with the high sex drive will know what day to expect sex, and the partner with the low sex drive will know that they have an appointment to have sex. Both will look forward to it in their own way.”
You Like Different Positions
First, avoid positions that cause body pain, as this becomes a distraction that can cause a sexual “malfunction,” such as loss of erection or being unable to orgasm, explains Jacqui Olliver, a sex and relationship counselor. “Take turns in which position you prefer to orgasm; this can make sex more fun and spontaneous. When you eliminate the sexual “malfunction” issue, most positions become favorable; then it’s just a matter of knowing and participating in each other’s preferences for mutual satisfaction,” she adds.
One of You Needs More Time, the Other Needs Less
In heterosexual couples, the desired length of time for sex is much longer for women, on average, explains Dr. Nicole Prause, a licensed psychologist who studies sex. “Some couples feel comfortable alternating sex for different purposes. For example, Saturday is more “for him,” while Sunday is more “for her,” she says. For example, Saturday might involve some activity or sex position he enjoys more, where Sunday he agrees to make sure to leave more time and not orgasm too quickly.
You Like Sex at Different Times of Day
If you want sex at night, but your partner is exhausted, try to help each other out with tasks and chores so they’re not feeling exhausted or overwhelmed at the end of the day. Let him/her chill with a glass of wine or take a nap while you cook dinner. They’ll be more relaxed and likely up for an evening session. “If one partner wakes early and wants sex, initiate a slow, delicious foreplay with splayed fingers gently touching and caressing skin. Give your partner time to wake up without pressuring them with your own need,” adds Olliver.
Mismatched Height and Weight Is Making Sex Feel Awkward
“Use a position pillow to allow a smaller person to get into different sexual positions that can manage the weight of the heavier person or the height of the taller person,” suggests Crowder.
You Only Engage in Penetrative Sex, When One Wants More Oral
You both really need to change your perspectives and open yourselves up to other things. “Sex can be broad and doesn’t have to only include penetration. Oral sex and mutual masturbation can also be great ways of sexually connecting. Add these to your activity list, and you’re likely to feel sexually close to your partner,” explains licensed sex therapist Michael J. Salas.
You Prefer Different Paces
If your partner likes it hard and fast, but you don’t, try to get them to focus their attention on the bonding, rather than the orgasm. It should naturally slow them down. “Remember that the most important aspect of sex is the feeling of connection. Whatever your partner’s preferred pace, always aim for an even, regular rhythm as this helps to keep both partners in “the zone” says Olliver.
Your Dominant-Submissive Preferences Don’t Align
Balance is easy if one of the partners is more on the dominant side and the other one on the submissive. “The key to solving lack or abundance of sexual initiative is to take turns being in control,” says relationships and sex coach Alice Wood. This gives each of you a chance to find ways of achieving pleasure and exactly what you want even when you are not in your regular role. “Giving up control or taking more of it is a compromise you have to make in order to keep the sensual bond strong and make the most of sex for both of the partners,” says Wood.
You Can’t Agree on Kinky vs. Vanilla
When one partner is interested in introducing kink into the sexual routine whereas the other partner could be hesitant, it can lead to insecurity, so Dr. Nagma V. Clark, a licensed psychotherapist and sex therapist, says the kinky partner must acknowledge their partner’s fear and reassure them of the love and safety in the relationship. “The most important tip for such couples is to go slow and allow the non-kinky partner to set the pace. It is also important to engage in joint research and exploration into the many different ways in which to play with kink and to only select the ones that feel comfortable and safe for both partners.”

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My first week back at university has been pretty busy! I’ve been making works for projects Fun a Day and 6×4″. As part of the Duncan of Jordanstone Curatorial Team a few of us have organised the project ’Relics of Attachment’. Here is some information about the exhibition and details about how to participate in our second exhibition!
Part I is a small exhibition to introduce the idea of ‘Relics of Attachment’. The nostalgic feelings we all have to personal objects and remnants. The exhibition includes a collection of items and their sentimental connection to the artists.
RELICS OF ATTACHMENT Part I
DoJ, Matthew Building, Recess Display Cabinet
Thursday 31st January 2013
PREVIEW 4.30pm-6pm, Drinks & Refreshments provided
Exhibition runs 31st January – 18th February
Come to the preview of an exciting new project!
Find out how to get your own artwork involved in Part II!!!
\\OPEN CALL for Part II
A larger collection of work will be displayed in the Cooper Gallery at the end of February.
If you’re interested in participating, we are holding a meeting to discuss ideas and the opportunity to submit work at a later date.
Come to the preview! Come to the meeting! We look forward to working with you!
\\MEETING: 4th February
Green Seats, Matthew Building
\\PART II: 21st February
A group project brought to you by DoJ

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By Mike Goodson/Sports Correspondent
The Hokes Bluff girls used a potent 1-2 scoring punch to take out Southside in the championship game of the Etowah County Basketball Tournament on Friday (Jan. 17) at Gadsden State.
Veteran guards Hannah Evans and Carlie Shields accounted for 35 of their team’s points in the Class 4A, No. 10 Lady Eagles’ 44-36 win.
Evans and Shields were named tournament co-MVPs.
“This was a great win for us,” said Hokes Bluff head coach Jason Shields. “We did what we had to do to win, and Hannah and Carlie brought it home. [Southside] Coach [Kim] Nails did an excellent job having her team ready to play, as usual. I’m just proud of our team.”
The Lady Panthers (8-10) scored the game’s first five points, but Hokes Bluff came back with back-to-back 3-point baskets from Evans and Shields to take the lead at 6-5.
Southside’s Hunter Ashcraft scored a basket with nine seconds left in the first quarter to tie it at 9-9.
The teams traded 3-pointers to open the second quarter, then traded baskets to tie it at 14-14.
After a pair of free throws by Southside’s Mallary Smith, Evans hit a 3-pointer to give the Eagles the lead for good at 17-16. Hokes Bluff held a 20-16 halftime advantage.
The Lady Eagles(17-4) held a 35-23 lead after three quarters, and Southside could not get within six points down the stretch.
Evans led Hokes Bluff with 25 points, followed by Shields with 10.
Blakely Alfred scored 12 points for the Lady Panthers.
Joining Evans and Shields on the all-tournament team were Kendall Johnson and Chelsea Machleit from Hokes Bluff; Blakely Alfred, Lindsey Hindsman and Hunter Ashcraft from Southside; Sally Tinker and Kaileigh Billingsley from Glencoe; Kacee Mashburn and Selena Tarvin from Sardis; Destiny Allen from Gaston; and Brittany Self from West End.


Two crewmen pull a boat through a lock. The first pulls with a force of 130 N at an angle of 35 degrees relative to the forward direction of the boat.
The force of 130 N applied by the crewman can be divided into its components, one in the forward direction of the boat that is equal to 130*cos 35 and the other in a perpendicular direction equal to 130*sin 35. If the force applied by the second crewman is F, it can be divided into its components, F*cos 45 in the forward direction of the boat and F*sin 45 in a perpendicular direction.
If the net force of the two should be only in the forward direction, the components F*sin 45 and 130*sin 35 should be equal.
F*sin 45 = 130*sin 35
=> `F = 130*(sin 35/sin 45)`
=> `F ~~ 104.45`
The second crewman should apply a force of 104.45 N.


FIRST PHILIPPINE HOLDINGS IS A CORPORATION THAT IS CONSTANTLY IN ACTION. WE’RE ALWAYS TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO DELIVER FOR OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND THE FILIPINO PEOPLE.
As part of First Gen’s commitment to providing clean, stable, and efficient energy, the company inaugurated the 414-MW San Gabriel combined-cycle and 97-MW Avion open cycle natural gas-fired power plants in Santa Rita, Batangas.
First Gen owns and operates both plants through two wholly-owned subsidiaries — First Natgas Power Corp. (FNPC) for San Gabriel, and Prime Meridian Powergen Corp. (PMPC) for Avion.
Energy Secretary Alfono Cusi and First Gen Chairman and CEO Federico R. Lopez, with First Gen President and COO Francis Giles B. Puno, led the ceremonial switch-on of the new facilities.
The two new plants run on natural gas, the cleanest form of fossil fuel that produces 70% lower emissions than coal when burned.
Moving toward a decarbonized world
“It’s critical that the country looks ahead and anticipates the trajectory of technology and other forces ultimately steering us toward a decarbonized world. It’s an exciting juncture for the country and we have the opportunity to leapfrog old 20th century technology, like coal plants, and instead build for the 21st. But we can only succeed if we seize this pivotal movement with boldness and vision. As the smartest players know, you have to ‘skate to where the puck will be,’” Lopez said in his speech during the inauguration of the two plants.
In constructing San Gabriel, First Gen tapped Siemens AG for the German company’s latest, highly flexible and 59%-efficient gas turbine technology, under the brand name “Flex-Plant”. San Gabriel marks the first time that Siemens has brought a Flex-Plant to the country. The Flex-Plant technology helps enable a more stable and reliable grid amid increasing installations of intermittent energy.
“The clean and flexible characteristics of these power plants also make them ideal partners in the move towards a low carbon world by stabilizing the grid amid any concern on intermittency, particularly from renewable energy plants like wind and solar as we can easily ramp up to meet the energy demands when needed,” Puno pointed out.
“These gas plants are perfectly suitable to support the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources as the cost of installation and operations continue to ride the cost curve reductions. This is a global trend that will be difficult to ignore. We are proving that it is possible to provide for our country’s energy needs, generate jobs that power our economy and run a profitable business without sacrificing the urgent need to protect our environment,” Puno added.
The San Gabriel Flex-Plant can be turned on (and off) on a daily basis in time to serve the power requirements of schools, offices, and shopping malls. Unlike other power plants, it can be online in 10 minutes and ramp up to full capacity in as quickly as 32 minutes. San Gabriel likewise has the ability of being a baseload power plant providing 24/7 service; hence, the Flex-Plant terminology.
Avion is the first power plant in the Philippines to run on aircraft engines for land-based power generation application. It will use two units of the LM6000 PC Sprint aero-derivative gas turbines from General Electric. The Avion power plant has the capability to run not only on natural gas but also on diesel. Avion’s turbines can be online in 7 minutes and can achieve full load in less than 20 minutes. Avion has the capability to do unlimited daily starts and stops to provide power that can stabilize the grid. Such attributes make Avion an ideal merchant peaking plant.
First Gen as the country’s leading clean and renewable energy company
San Gabriel and Avion reaffirm First Gen’s leadership in the use of natural gas, the same fuel for the company’s 1,000-MW Santa Rita and 500-MW San Lorenzo power plants. All four plants, which are located in the First Gen Clean Energy Complex in Batangas, comprise roughly 60% of the country’s natural gas capacity.
The 511-MW additional capacity to the First Gen portfolio cements the company’s position as the country’s leading clean and renewable energy company powered by indigenous gas, wind, hydro and solar fuels. The new facilities bring First Gen’s fleet of power plants to 21 with a total installed capacity of 3,470 MW.
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Boston's Newest Smart Growth Corridor: A Collaborative Vision for the Fairmount/Indigo Line
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA. low-income urban neighborhoods of SW Boston
A collaborative planning team formed by four community development corporations created a vision for new, urban villages on vacant, underutilized and brownfield sites along Boston’s most underused commuter rail line -- a 10-mile transportation corridor stretching from downtown to the suburbs. The neighborhoods affected by the plan have some of the city’s highest poverty levels, the greatest dependence on public transportation, and the worst access to transit service. The plan calls for an enhanced rail line with new stations that will allow for higher-density affordable housing, better access to jobs, and for a greenway linking parks and recreational destinations.Read more at this project's website.
Transect Zone(s): T5 center.
Status: 51-75% Built
Project or Plan's Scale: Corridor
Features: Affordable/subsidized housing, Civic buildings & parks, Green buildings, Live/work, Mixed uses, Rail/fixed guideway transit, Sustainable infrastructure, Transit oriented development.
Land area (in acres): 5000
Project team designers: Goody Clancy & Associates
Project team developers: Byrne McKinnney & Associates, KKO Associates LLC
Previous site status: Redevelopment

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Lightning announce trio of stars for latest "Unplugged" session
LIGHTNING TO HOST FOURTH ‘UNPLUGGED’ EVENT
Popular Series Continues Feb. 25 at the Tilted Kilt in Carrollwood
TAMPA BAY – The Tampa Bay Lightning and its players will host their fourth "Lightning Unplugged" event of the season on Thursday, February 25, 2010 from 6-8 p.m. at the Tilted Kilt in Carrollwood located at 14457 North Dale Mabry Highway. "Unplugged" is a series of fan friendly events in the Tampa Bay community hosted by former Lightning player and 2004 Stanley Cup Champion Chris Dingman. It offers fans a chance to meet Lightning players and ask them questions in an open, casual, barrier-free environment. Previous Unplugged events were held at Pete & Shorty’s in Pinellas Park, Cantina Laredo at the Shops at Wiregrass and Barnacles in Brandon.
"Unplugged" is a staple of the Lightning’s "Together We Will" marketing campaign, bringing at least two Lightning players into different neighborhoods of Tampa Bay each month to family friendly restaurants and pubs.
The fourth event will feature NHL superstar and team captain Vincent Lecavalier along with fan favorites Steve Downie and Kurtis Foster joining Dingman at the Tilted Kilt. Also at the restaurant will be the Lightning Fan Interactive Truck, ThunderBug and the Lightning Girls. There will also be a merchandise area and a ticket booth where fans can purchase tickets to upcoming Lightning games. Fans in attendance will also have the opportunity to enter to win great prizes.

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As previously mentioned, the launching system for the Top Thrill Dragster is based on hydraulics. The system is actually made up of two identical hydraulic systems. Each system iscomprised of 16 hydraulic motors, each fed by its own pump. The above schematic shows thebasic operation of the system by targeting a single motor and pump configuration. The picturebelow shows one of the actual systems connected to the drum. The other is located on the opposite side of the drum.
The key components are as follows:
14 - Pusher
22 - Reversible Hydraulic Motor
24 - Cable Winding Drum
32 - Cylinder
34 - Nitrogen filled chamber
35 - Collection of gas filled bottles
36 - Piston
38 - Fluid reservoir
39 - Electric Fluid pump
The rapid acceleration of the Top Thrill Dragster is achieved by storing large amounts of energy and quickly releasing it, much like slowly pressing down on a spring and letting go to release its potential energy. Energy in this system is stored by compressing nitrogen gas (34) in a cylinder (32). The electric fluid pump (39) supplies hydraulic fluid (oil) from a reservoir (38), to the top portion of the cylinder (32). The fluid being pumped into the cylinder (32) pushes down on the piston (36), forcing the nitrogen gas under the piston into a group of bottles already filled with compressed nitrogen (35). (The bottles in the diagram are not drawn in proportion to the cylinder, in actuality, the cylinder will be much larger in relation to the bottles.) Eventually all of the nitrogen from the cylinder makes its way into the bottles. It is now compressed to a much higher pressure, since the same nitrogen gas that filled both the cylinder and bottles is now confined to a much smaller volume in that of the bottles. At this point the system is charged and the rollercoaster is ready to be launched. The launch sequence is initiated when the valve (41) is quickly opened, rapidly releasing the highly compressed nitrogen gas causing a powerful flow of hydraulic fluid from the cylinder (32). It is here that the force is magnified, described in the above briefing, as the area of the fluid flow is greater than that of the nitrogen. The fluid travels via a hose through the right side of the hydraulic motor (22) and out the left, acting as a turbine to spin the cable winding drum (24) located under the track in front of the train. The spinning drum acts like a large fishing reel spinning at 500 rpm, pulling a series of launch cables (28, 29) attached to a "pusher" (14). The pusher is located directly behind the train and rides inside a slot located between the tracks. As it accelerates, it pushes the train (2) along the launch track.
After the launch is completed, the valve (41) closes, cutting off flow from the cylinder, and the other pump (40a) is switched to the position represented in the diagram. In this position, fluid is supplied to the left side of the hydraulic motor, thereby reversing the direction of the drum. This is necessary in order to bring the pusher (14) back to its original position for the next launch. The pusher assembly comes next.
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Testing for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) requires a non-invasive 2-to-3-hour breath test. A breath test involves taking a fiber called lactulose and allowing bacteria in your small intestine to metabolize the fiber and produce gas. The bacteria produce gas, and this gas combines with your own off- gassing of carbon dioxide (CO2) in your respiration.
If you have chronic constipation you need to do a three-hour breath test. If you do not have chronic constipation, you can use a 2-hour breath test. There are three types of SIBO Hydrogen, methane, hydrogen sulfide. You want to evaluate for all possible types, if possible, when you do your breath test. Testing for just one type is not comprehensive enough to know what you are dealing with and how best to effectively treat it. Distinct types of SIBO are treated differently.

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Treatment Option Overview
- Topical corticosteroids.
- Topical chemotherapy with mechlorethamine (nitrogen mustard) or carmustine (BCNU).
- Psoralen and ultraviolet A radiation (PUVA).
- Ultraviolet B radiation (UVB).
- Total-skin electron-beam radiation (TSEB).
- Radiation of symptomatic skin lesions.
- Interferon-alpha or interferon-gamma alone or in combination with topical therapy.
- Single-agent and multiagent chemotherapy.
- Bexarotene (topical gel or oral); retinoids.
- Denileukin diftitox (recombinant fusion protein of diphtheria toxin fragments and interleukin-2 sequences).
- Vorinostat or romidepsin or other histone deacetylase inhibitors.
- Pralatrexate (folate analog).
- Alemtuzumab (a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting the CD52 antigen).
- Combined modality treatment.
These types of treatments produce remissions, but long-term remissions are uncommon. Treatment, therefore, is considered palliative for most patients, though major symptomatic improvement is regularly achieved. Survival in excess of 8 years, however, is common for patients with early stages of disease. All patients with MF/SS are candidates for clinical trials evaluating new approaches to treatment.
Current areas of interest in clinical trials for MF confined to the skin include combined modality therapies containing both topical and systemic agents such as TSEB combined with chemotherapy, topical mechlorethamine or PUVA combined with interferon, or wide-field radiation techniques with PUVA. Reports are available of activity for extracorporeal photochemotherapy using psoralen; interferon-gamma or interferon-alpha; pentostatin; retinoids; fludarabine; acyclovir; 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine; serotherapy with unlabeled, toxin-labeled, or radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies; cell surface receptor ligand-toxin fusion protein; and, methotrexate.[3,5-14] Antigen-specific vaccination using dendritic cells  and UVB are also under clinical evaluation.
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Hyundai is expediting plans to start electric vehicle (EV) and battery production at its $7.6 billion complex in Georgia in response to federal EV incentives that reward domestic production. The company’s President and Global Chief Operating Officer, Jose Munoz, revealed the accelerated timeline during a partnership signing event with Georgia Tech. Munoz announced that Hyundai is doubling down on its efforts to begin production in Georgia by 2024 and potentially even earlier. The decision is driven by the Inflation Reduction Act, a federal law implemented by President Joe Biden that incentivizes EV buyers with a tax credit of up to $7,500, but exclusively for vehicles made in North America using domestic batteries.
Hyundai, along with other automakers who import EVs, have still benefitted from the law since dealers can apply the tax credit to leased EVs regardless of their country of origin. Munoz highlighted that Hyundai ranked second in terms of electric vehicle sales in the U.S. in the first half of 2023, a testament to the company’s commitment to the EV market. Nevertheless, the Inflation Reduction Act is pushing Hyundai to speed up battery and EV production in the U.S. Construction progress at the Georgia plant has remained on track, unaffected by Hurricane Idalia, and the company has increased its investment in battery production by an additional $2 billion.
The expanded investment will enable Hyundai to manufacture more batteries at the Georgia complex than originally planned, providing sufficient capacity for all 300,000 vehicles slated for assembly at the facility. Munoz stressed that the company aims to ensure their battery sourcing is 100% American to comply with the Inflation Reduction Act. Additionally, the increased investment will enable Hyundai and battery partner LG Energy Solution to utilize state-of-the-art technology in battery production.
Hyundai is committed to transitioning to fully electric vehicles and sees hybrid models as a “stepping stone” towards gasoline-free vehicles. The company is also exploring hydrogen fuel cell technology for heavy-duty trucks and long-distance vehicles, citing the technology as the most suitable for these applications. In this pursuit, Hyundai is partnering with Georgia Tech to leverage the university’s expertise in hydrogen research and explore advancements in fuel cell technology. It is expected that the partnership will also provide a pipeline for graduates to pursue job opportunities at Hyundai.
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Did the Maya believe the world would end in December 2012?
With MAYA 2012: Lords of Time—a world premiere exhibition opening May 5th—the Penn Museum confronts the current fascination with the year 2012, comparing predictions of a world-transforming apocalypse with their supposed origins in the ancient Maya civilization. The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Instituto Hondureño de Antropologia e Historia of the Republic of Honduras, and runs through January 13, 2013.
His Excellency Porfirio Lobo Sosa, President of the Republic of Honduras, joins Penn Museum Director Richard Hodges to cut the ribbon and open the exhibition to the public at 10 am Saturday, May 5. An Opening Weekend Celebration, co-sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Center, features Mayan and Central American music, dance, weaving and craft demonstrations, and family craft activities in the Museum Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm.
Timed tickets to the exhibition (includes admission to the Museum) are on sale by phone at (888) 695-0888, or through the Museum’s website www.penn.museum/2012.
MAYA 2012 leads visitors on a journey through the Maya’s time-ordered universe, expressed through their intricate calendar systems, and the power wielded by their divine kings, the astounding “lords of time.” Visitors explore the Maya world through a range of interactive experiences and walk among sculptures and full-sized replicas of major monuments while uncovering the truth behind these apocalyptic predictions.
The exhibition features more than 150 remarkable objects, including artifacts recently excavated by Penn Museum archaeologists at the site of Copan, Honduras, and on loan from the Instituto Hondureño de Antropologia e Historia. Visitors follow the rise and fall of Copan, moving across the centuries to discover how Maya ideas about time and the calendar have changed up to the present day. Contemporary Maya speak to their own heritage and concerns for the future.
“MAYA 2012 offers visitors a rare opportunity to view spectacular examples of Classic Maya art—some of which have never before been seen outside Honduras—and delve into the Maya people’s extraordinary, layered, and shifting concepts about time,” noted Exhibition Curator Dr. Loa Traxler. “MAYA 2012: Lords of Time uncovers a history and culture far richer and more surprising than commonly supposed.”
Dr. Traxler, Mellon Associate Deputy Director of the Penn Museum and co-author of The Ancient Maya, (Sixth Edition, 2006), is an archaeologist who excavated at the site of Copan from 1989 through 2003. Simon Martin, Associate Curator of the Museum’s American Section and a leading Maya epigrapher, is co-curator of the exhibition.
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Ryan Anisko is pantomiming. Poorly, but he gets the message across. He wants a pen.
It’s Feb. 18. He’s in a cell at the Gwinnett County jail after being picked up on DUI charges.
The camera’s already rolling, meaning the chair is coming, but Anisko doesn’t know that. After a few minutes he grows agitated: He flips off the sheriff’s deputy, says he’s going to sue “the s—-” out of everybody and sits down in the cell. He’s out of the camera’s sight when someone shouts through the glass to lay on the ground.
Shortly, four members of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department’s Rapid Response Team, the “RRT,” are in the cell. Wearing heavy-duty gear — helmets, masks, vests — they pounce, pinning Anisko down. His left leg is bent up and sat on. He says he’s sorry and asks what he did wrong.
After a fifth deputy brings in the chair, Anisko’s thrown in.
For three hours and 40 minutes, his arms and legs are locked in position and he’s pushed into the corner of a cell.
Restraint chairs are, for the most part, exactly what they sound like.
Intimidating devices with confining arm and leg straps alongside shoulder and lap belts, they’re used just about every day at the Gwinnett County jail. Protocol calls for them to be implemented to “restrain or limit the movement of (inmates) who … create a danger to themselves and/or others.” Complex phrases like “immediate and compelling intent to commit property damage and/or physical harm to themselves and/or others” are key.
A class action lawsuit filed against Sheriff Butch Conway and two other jail officials, though, is challenging the use of restraint chairs. Represented by attorneys John Cicala and Craig Jones, an undisclosed number of former inmates (which includes Anisko) is calling them excessive and unconstitutional.
“It’s overkill,” Jones said. “It’s gratuitous, it’s unnecessary, it’s punitive. It’s retaliatory in a lot of cases.”
It’s also complicated — and on video.
In the first half of this year, 129 Gwinnett County inmates were placed in the restraint chair. The justifications vary, but, according to documents obtained via the Open Records Act, typically fall under the fear of forthcoming self-harm.
“Inmate Anisko was placed into the restraint chair due to self harming behavior by striking the cell door with his head, hands and feet hard enough to cause harm to himself,” the official report says in reference to Anisko’s encounter.
The report for complainant Keven Goodwin’s restraint chair encounter was similar.
“Goodwin began demanding that Lt. Rudowski give him his shoes and started to tap on the door with his hand,” it said. “Lt. Rudowski began to walk away from the cell and Inmate Goodwin hit the door, with his hand, with enough force to potentially hurt himself.”
Under the sheriff’s department’s own guidelines for use, those are acceptable provocations for the restraint chair. Others include preventing property damage, minimizing the possibility of a situation escalating and performing medical assessments.
Once the threshold is met, the video camera comes out and RRT members stage outside of the cell in question for several minutes.
The inmate is placed in the chair, typically for around four hours. A nurse checks vitals.
The pending civil lawsuit, filed July 6 in federal court, is verbose and strongly worded. It takes on Sheriff Conway, Col. Don Pinkard (jail administrator) and Lt. Col. Carl Sims (the now-former commander of the RRT).
“By this action,” it says, “Plaintiffs seek to end the pattern and practice of unneccessary and excessive force inflicted upon hundreds of inmates of the Gwinnett County Jail by a Rapid Response team that is mobilized on a daily basis to subject detainees to gratuitous, punitive, and sadistic pain in retaliation for loud, intoxicated, or alleged noncompliant behavior when said detainees are contained in a secure environment such as a holding cell, are not posing a threat to the safety of themselves or others, and there is no present justification for the use of such force.”
Chief at issue are a pair of policies in the sheriff’s office’s own guidelines. One says the restraint chair is to be used as a “control measure when absolutely necessary,” not intended and “will not be used as a form of discipline or punishment.” The other calls for use of force to end “immediately when resistance ceases.”
Cicala and Jones, the attorneys, said neither was the case. Anisko and Goodwin, interviewed in Jones’ Atlanta office, said they thought they were being punished.
“There’s a lot of these videos where we’re watching them for 15, 20 minutes, and the (inmate), they’re sitting there,” Cicala said. “They’re sitting on the bench. Some of them are mouthy. Some of them are frustrated … But they’re in a contained environment, they’ve already been initially screened for weapons, drugs, anything else that could cause harm.
Said Jones: “You look at the video, and you say, ‘Whatever these people did to deserve this treatment, they ain’t doing it anymore.’ Not to concede anything, but whatever they were doing, they stopped doing it before they brought in the rapid response team.”
A sheriff’s department spokeswoman declined interview requests on behalf of Conway, Pinkard and Sims, citing the looming litigation.
The sheriff’s department is currently reviewing its use of force policy. Sims — a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who took out warrants for LAPD’s infamous 1988 Dalton Avenue raids — has been promoted from commander of the rapid response team to lead his own “jail intelligence” unit.
According to emails obtained by the Daily Post, Lt. Keith Cofer has taken over the RRT.
Both the review and transition pre-dated the current lawsuit and public questions about the use of restraint chairs, spokeswoman Deputy Shannon Volkodav said.
“We were reviewing our use of force policies before all this happened,” she said. “(Sims’ promotion) was also something that was in the works.”
“Being ex-military, it’s like, ‘Is this America?’” Goodwin said. “I thought that, and, ‘Now I’m behind this wall and anything can happen. If this is happening right now, anything can happen.’”
Goodwin, who served with the U.S. Army, spent three hours and 41 minutes in the chair last June. He too had been arrested on DUI charges. His request had been for his shoes, which sat lonely outside his cell. His feet were cold.
He was surprised with a pepperball — pepper spray in sphere form, basically — before RRT members stormed in.
Attorneys for the lawsuit he’s a part of played it coy, but said they believe anywhere from 500 to 1,000 former Gwinnett County inmates could ultimately join the class action case. That reflects the number they believe were unlawfully subjected to the restraint chair since July 2011, the max time period for which damages can be sought.
They want the sheriff’s office to cease such operations, and to “pay for the damage they’ve caused.”
“(The inmates) aren’t violent; they’re not a threat. They’re simply noncompliant,” Jones said. “And then (the RRT) responds to the noncompliance by using force. And by the time they use the force, they’re no longer noncompliant, if they even were to begin with … There needs to be a clear and present danger at the point that force is used.”


A potential biomarker for cancer has been identified in urine. The study published this week in Nature suggests that the molecule sarcosine may be an important indicator of prostate cancer progression and spread.
Arul Chinnaiyan and colleagues profiled the metabolites present in the urine of prostate cancer patients compared with that of healthy individuals. They found that sarcosine - a derivative of the amino acid glycine - was present at higher levels in the urine of patients with aggressive prostate cancer. The team went on to show that simply adding sarcosine to cultures of benign prostate cells was enough to turn them into invasive cancer cells capable of spread, indicating that the molecule may have an important role in disease.
This is the first time a marker for prostate cancer has been detected in urine, and with further research could make for easier and less invasive testing. The researchers hope that their findings could one day be used to aid prostate cancer diagnosis and may offer new opportunities for therapeutic intervention.
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Bachelor Nation fans were first introduced to Gabby Windey in season 26 of The Bachelor when she vied for the affections of Clayton Echard. After plenty of drama and heartbreak, she and Rachel Recchia co-starred in season 19 of The Bachelorette, during which Windey got engaged to Erich Schwer.
Fast-forward to today and Windey is happily dating comedian and writer Robby Hoffman after coming out in early August 2023.
In an article published on August 18, Windey opened up about her romance with Hoffman, the first time she’s openly dated a woman.
“I never wanted to feel like I was living my life in hiding,” she told Elite Daily. “I was really conscious of always being true to myself.” When she shared her new relationship on TV, she wasn’t necessarily focused on coming out. “I felt like I literally had to do this so we could go on living our lives.”
Windey shared that she and Hoffman met in spring 2023 outside of a bar in Los Angeles called Semi-Tropic — and that there was instant chemistry between them.
"I realized it was romantic right away," she told Elite Daily. "She’s very forward, so there was no really mistaking it. Chemistry and love don’t lie.”
Since going public, their relationship has changed for the better.
"We didn’t realize how much of a weight was going to be lifted, but even just PDA feels so much easier now because everyone knows," Gabby said. "We don’t have to explain anything. We can finally be ourselves. It feels really good."
Although social media reactions to her coming out have been mixed, Windey said even the negative comments have had a net positive impact.
"Some people very outwardly don’t agree with me, which has almost given me the liberty to do everything else they might not agree with. I’ve been set free," she explained. "People are going to hang around if they want and will leave if they don’t. You just stop giving a s--- about what people think, and it’s very liberating."
On August 2, Windey publicly revealed she was dating a woman during an appearance on The View.
"I always just want to live my truth and my story, so I have been seeing someone for a couple of months," she said. "And I've been keeping it a little more private because it is, like, a bigger story and a bigger conversation because I'm dating a girl."
Windey added: “It’s been honestly truly, like really, the best experience over these last three months. And I’ve been in a relationship like I feel like I’ve never had before.”
After following her journey on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, we're thrilled that Windey has fallen head-over-heels in love with her girlfriend, Robby. We wish them the very best!


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Police and safety forces around the globe are testing out automated facial recognition programs as a manner of figuring out criminals and terrorists. However how correct is the expertise and the way simply may it and the factitious intelligence (AI) it’s powered by – turn out to be instruments of oppression?
Think about a suspected terrorist setting off on a suicide mission in a densely populated metropolis centre. If he units off the bomb, a whole bunch may die or be critically injured.
CCTV scanning faces within the crowd picks him up and mechanically compares his options to images on a database of identified terrorists or “individuals of curiosity” to the safety providers.
The system raises an alarm and speedy deployment anti-terrorist forces are despatched to the scene the place they “neutralise” the suspect earlier than he can set off the explosives. Lots of of lives are saved. Know-how saves the day.
However what if the facial recognition (FR) tech was mistaken? It wasn’t a terrorist, simply somebody unfortunate sufficient to look related. An harmless life would have been summarily snuffed out as a result of we put an excessive amount of religion in a fallible system.
What if that harmless individual had been you?
That is simply one of many moral dilemmas posed by FR and the factitious intelligence underpinning it.
Coaching machines to “see” – to recognise and differentiate between objects and faces – is notoriously tough. Pc imaginative and prescient, as it’s typically known as – not so way back was struggling to inform the distinction between a muffin and a chihuahua – a litmus check of this expertise.
Timnit Gebru, a pc scientist and technical co-lead of Google’s Moral Synthetic Intelligence Group, has proven that facial recognition has larger problem differentiating between women and men the darker their pores and skin tone. A lady with darkish pores and skin is more likely to be mistaken for a person.
“About 130 million US adults are already in face recognition databases,” she instructed the AI for Good Summit in Geneva in Could. “However the unique datasets are largely white and male, so biased towards darker pores and skin varieties – there are large error charges by pores and skin kind and gender.”
The Californian metropolis of San Francisco just lately banned using FR by transport and regulation enforcement businesses in an acknowledgement of its imperfections and threats to civil liberties. However different cities within the US, and different international locations around the globe, are trialling the expertise.
Within the UK, for instance, police forces in South Wales, London. Manchester and Leicester have been testing the tech to the consternation of civil liberties organisations similar to Liberty and Large Brother Watch, each involved by the variety of false matches the programs made.
This implies harmless folks being wrongly recognized as potential criminals.
“Bias is one thing everybody must be anxious about,” mentioned Ms Gebru. “Predictive policing is a excessive stakes situation.”
With black People making up 37.5% of the US jail inhabitants (supply: Federal Bureau of Prisons) even supposing they make up simply 13% of the US inhabitants – badly written algorithms fed these datasets would possibly predict that black persons are extra prone to commit crime.
It does not take a genius to work out what implications this may need for policing and social insurance policies.
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Simply this week, lecturers on the College of Essex concluded that matches within the London Metropolitan police trials had been mistaken 80% of the time, doubtlessly resulting in critical miscarriages of justice and infringements of residents’ proper to privateness.
One British man, Ed Bridges, has launched a authorized problem to South Wales Police’s use of the expertise after his photograph was taken whereas he was out procuring, and the UK’s Data Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has expressed concern over the dearth of authorized framework governing using FR.
However such issues have not stopped tech big Amazon promoting its Rekognition FR software to police forces within the US, regardless of a half-hearted shareholder revolt that got here to nothing.
Amazon says it has no duty for a way prospects use its expertise. However examine that perspective to that of Salesforce, the shopper relationship administration tech firm, which has developed its personal picture recognition software known as Einstein Imaginative and prescient.
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“Facial recognition tech could be acceptable in a jail to maintain monitor of prisoners or to stop gang violence,” Kathy Baxter, Salesforce’s architect of moral AI observe, instructed the BBC. “However when police needed to make use of it with their physique cameras when arresting folks, we deemed that inappropriate.
“We have to be asking whether or not we must be utilizing AI in any respect in sure eventualities, and facial recognition is one instance.”
And now FR is being utilized by the army as nicely, with tech distributors claiming their software program cannot solely establish potential enemies but in addition discern suspicious behaviour.
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However Yves Daccord, director-general of the Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross (ICRC), is critically involved about these developments.
“Warfare is hi-tech as of late – we now have autonomous drones, autonomous weapons, making selections between combatants and non-combatants. Will their selections be right? They might have mass destruction affect,” he warns.
So there appears to be a rising world consensus that AI is way from good and desires regulating.
“It is not a good suggestion simply to go away AI to the personal sector, as a result of AI can have an enormous affect,” concludes Dr Chaesub Lee, director of the telecommunication standardisation bureau on the Worldwide Telecommunications Union.
“Use of fine information is crucial, however who ensures that it’s good information? Who ensures that the algorithms will not be biased? We’d like a multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary method.”
Till then, FR tech stays below suspicion and below scrutiny.
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Q: Over the past couple of months I’ve read quite a few articles and theories about Ilmor vs HPD and how Ilmor finally fixed its drivability issue. They all reference Ray Gosselin moving over to Ilmor with his Honda engine knowledge.
If most of the paddock thinks that Ray Gosselin took his engine expertise from HPD and brought it over to Ilmor, why isn’t Honda going after him for trade secrets? It is quite obvious that his time working with HPD while at Andretti has heavy influenced the changes Ilmor/Chevy have brought this year.
MP: Quite the opposite. One thing that hasn’t been questioned is Gosselin’s integrity. The big and well-known area of separation between Chevy and Honda through 2021 was Honda’s willingness to tailor the engine’s response characteristics to the wants and needs of each driver. With Ray’s arrival, he’s ensured this has changed and with it, Chevy has erased one area of performance and optimization it, for reasons unknown, did not address as aggressively as its rival.
If Honda wants to go after Ray, every driver who leaves a good team for another good team will need to be sued because they all take similar things with them — how their former team has a process that’s better than the new team, and so on. And for the sake of clarity, Chevy, not Honda, makes their engine calibrations and finer engine data available to their teams, so you can’t take what you don’t have.
Q: Although I’m not a devout follower of IndyCar, I always read the Mailbag. I admit to a lack of understanding of the economics of IndyCar that has allowed GM and Honda to dictate these needlessly complex engines which are pushing car weight toward a ton. (I assume it’s partially green posturing, and some Silverado ad revenue for NBC.) Would annual lease expenses be more for engines produced by Gibson or Cosworth? Hard to imagine IndyCar fans are either committed General Motors or Honda fans. There has to be more than that. Help me out.
Jack Woodruff, Vail, CO
MP: Need to look at the big picture here, Jack, with how much Chevy and Honda support the series through their engine leases, where they lose money on every one, event sponsorships, event activations, TV commercials, etc. Yes, going to a generic engine would come at a lower cost, but then you break the economics of the series.
There are many committed Chevy/Honda fans — I know because I hear from them all the time. The new hybrid engine formula is what Honda demanded in order to stay in the series, and in time, Chevy agreed. Like NASCAR, IMSA, F1, WEC, etc., manufacturers are the economic lifeblood. I’m sure some are nostalgic for the days many decades ago when that wasn’t the case, but, as JPM likes to say, “It is what it is.”
Q: Multimatic is headquartered in Canada. Hinch is Canadian. Does Multimatic + Hinch = Hinch driving the Multimatic-developed Mustang GT3 in IMSA or any other GT3-based series?
Jonathan, Ventura, CA
MP: If I say yes, will that force Multimatic to make it so? My money is on The Mayor landing in IMSA, but probably more in the Porsche world than a new Ford that’s two years away.
Q: While attending the Indy GP I had a conversation with a Yellow Shirt, and he pointed out the new building inside of Turn 3 of the oval that was constructed to house the BMW performance driving school or whatever they are calling it. I commented about the building bearing IMS branding and not BMW. His response was the BMW branding would go up in September. That made me wonder if the delay until after the end of NTT IndyCar season was because the series and track wanted to have the new branding correspond to announcing BMW as a third engine supplier. Am I on to something, or am I victim of my own wishful thoughts?
MP: As much as I wish a building inside Turn 3 is a harbinger of something bigger with BMW, sadly, it isn’t.
Q: Part of the allure of open-cockpit racing is seeing the driver. Why would IndyCar allow the aeroscreen to be tinted when the helmet visor can be tinted instead?
Andy, Farmington, MI
MP: Completely agree. My guess is this will be fixed before we get to the next race in Detroit.


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Watch Seth Meyers Have an Absolute Field Day with Trump’s State of the Union AddressImages via NBC/YouTube Comedy News Seth Meyers
If you opted to maintain your sanity by skipping the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, you’re in luck: Late Night host Seth Meyers watched our big president blather so none of us would have to, recapping the SOTU speech in his latest “A Closer Look” while peppering in the ample, incisive mockery that Donald Trump’s clown show deserved.
Meyers begins by setting up the context surrounding the speech, which of course was pushed back a week due to the government shutdown-shaped bullet a wall-obsessed Trump buried in his own orange foot. The Late Night host reminds his audience of the ongoing border wall battle and Trump’s recent asinine statements about same, in case you hadn’t realized the inherent absurdity of this SOTU speech’s central theme: unity achieved via bipartisan compromise.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as Trump weakly laments in an interview Meyers excerpts, has remained “rigid” on the wall, an expensive and ineffective solution to a wildly exaggerated problem, and one that the majority of Americans see through, at that. As a result, “the specter of a second government shutdown [loomed] over the whole affair,” as Meyers points out, establishing the stakes of the Trump/Pelosi showdown. Pelosi’s very presence at the address shifted the balance of power, breaking up the Mike Pence/Paul Ryan pep rallies that had played out behind Trump during previous SOTUs, with both grown men “standing and cheering for everything [Trump] said like Southern pageant moms” (“Yasss, Kaley, you are serving looks tonight!” Meyers cries).
Pelosi and compay’s continued cowing of Trump was plain to see not only in the respective behavior of both parties during the SOTU, but also in Trump’s remarks leading up to the speech itself. Commenting on a Tuesday Trump tweet that claimed, “We will build a human wall if necessary,” Meyers jokes, “He negotiated himself down from a concrete wall to a steel barrier to a fence to a human wall. Who are the humans in the wall, anyway? Are you and your weird sons going to go down to the border and play Red Rover? ‘Red Rover, Red Rover, send immigrants over!’”
That brings us to Meyers’ dissection of the address itself, in which he covers everything from Trump’s pre-speech miscues—mocking the big guy’s “weirdly crooked tie,” Meyers deadpans, “Trump is so unpopular, even his tie has moved to the left”—to his general incoherence (“Understanding what Trump is saying at any given moment can be difficult for casual observers, let alone professional politicians who are used to normal human syntax”), to his bizarre, Pelosi eye roll-prompting claim that economic improvement and the various investigations into his shady affairs are mutually exclusive (“I’m sorry, you think the investigations are hurting the economy? If anything, you’ve created thousands of jobs for lawyers”). Perhaps the single most laughable remark the man made, though, was attempting to tout “more women serving in Congress than ever before,” as if his rank incompetence and corruption weren’t what put them there. “I love that Trump thinks he can take credit for that,” says Meyers before shifting back into his Trump voice: “‘The only reason they got elected is that most people hate me. You’re welcome, everyone.’”
In wrapping up his segment, Meyers points out, “We’ve been here many times before; we all know the real Trump is the one who will reappear on Twitter tomorrow.” Oddly enough, as of this writing, the Wall Lover has not yet logged on and done so. Give it time, though: Before you know it, he’ll be claiming that Pelosi clap was a sincere endorsement of his “tremendous” long-form word salad. And he’ll probably believe it, too.


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In 1959, Cubareceived 74 percent of its imports from the US, and the US received 65 percentof Cuba’s exports. On February 3, 1962, the United States imposed a fulltrade embargo on Cuba, completely ending any type of trade between the twocountries. This embargo remains in effect today, more than four decades later,and has grown ! to be a huge center of debate and controversy (DeVarona 8).Opponents to the embargo argue that the embargo does nothing more than hurt theCuban people, while proponents argue that the embargo places pressure on Castroto repair Cuba’s mismanaged and corrupt government. Both the supportersand the opponents of this embargo have strong arguments and evidence to supportthese arguments.
Without adoubt, Cuba’s current government is guilty of human rights violations,housing fugitives and terrorist groups, and robbing the Cuban people of wageswith its corrupt state-run economy. While it is inarguable that some actionagainst Cuba is warranted, and that the US economic embargo on Cuba haspositive intentions, the negative repercussions to the Cuban people andthird-party investors and countries greatly outweigh these positive intentions.! Therefore, it would be greatly ineffective for the embargo to remain in placeas the sole tool in promoting change in Cuba.
II. Reasons that action toward Cuba iswarranted.
There are a fewreasons that action towards Cuba was and is warranted. Since the beginning ofthe Castro regime, the Cuban government has stripped many Cubans of their basicrights and freedoms. According to Amnesty International’s 2002 report,Cuba is guilty of multiple human rights violations. Cuban people are beingimprisoned for peaceful exercises of their fundam...
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Friday, October 22, 2004
Bob Perelman reminded me that curating is itself an artform. I haven't seen a better pairing of poets in a long, long time. Lopez gave a versatile reading, surveying a few of his recent books. He delivered six new poems that were less than a day old & three words each. Lopez conjured the spectres of the 19th century & made space for them in his 21st century sonnets, entitled False Memory(Salt Press). These poems chart a personal life attempting to make it through economies, militaries, headlines-the absurd.
Michael Gottlieb read from his latest book, Lost & Found(Roof Books). This is a seminal post-9/11 text composed of three long poems. The most haunting piece is the second- "The Dust". It's a list poem of items (& people) reduced to debris after the attack. The technology, the clothes, the cosmetics, the victims are listed in this powerful piece that goes for about fifteen pages. I have a tender spot for list poems, & "The Dust" is one the best.
I feel sorry for those who slept on this reading. But you can recapture some of the magic by checking out their books. You'll thank me later.
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Dina Asher-Smith full of confidence before toughest test of the year | Sport
When the question came, Dina Asher-Smith did not even blink. “What is it like being the hunted, not the hunter, now that you are one of the best sprinters in the world?” Britain’s triple European champion was asked. “I like it,” she replied. “It’s cool. Everybody thinks they are the best in the race. That’s how sprints work and that’s how it’s got to be. And I want to win.”
The 23-year-old proved she was world class in Berlin last year, clocking world-leading times of 10.85sec and 21.89 to break her own national records, as she won gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay. However, she knows she will have her work cut out on Sunday when she headlines the Birmingham Diamond League in a 200m that oozes extreme class and guile.
When she looks around on the starting blocks she will see a who’s who of sprinting: Dafne Schippers, the world champion; Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, a double Olympic gold medallist and seven-times world champion; Blessing Okagbare and Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who have run the second and third fastest times in the world this year. There will also be a host of other top sprinters who are likely to be in the world championship finals in Doha next month.
But the message from Asher-Smith is clear: bring it on. “You can’t be daunted by anybody,” she says. “There’s nobody in track and field who is infallible or unable to be beaten.”
Her confidence is understandable. Asher-Smith has run under 11 seconds for the 100m three times this season and won two of her three Diamond League races over 200m, and she intends to double up in Doha. She also has happy memories of Birmingham, where she ran a personal best and nearly took down the legendary Allyson Felix as a teenager in 2015.
“I love racing here,” she says. “One of my favourite races ever was in Birmingham when I first raced against Allyson and I ran a massive PB out of nowhere of 22.30sec. I was so dead; I threw up on Ricky Simms’ shoes afterwards! It was right next to the media tent and I said to him: ‘How am I going to do media?’ And he said: ‘You’ll be fine!’
“So I remember running out my skin here before and, obviously, I got rewarded,” she adds. “So I’m coming to run out my skin again. I’m naturally quite a chilled and quiet person but whenever I step on to the track, I’m fiercely competitive; and every time I step on the line, I’m here to win.
“I love running in the UK and I’m really happy I get to run in the UK late in the season and closer to the world championships. It’s not quite a final goodbye for the worlds but it’s as close as we can get.”
And she is not even scared by the thought of facing someone as great as Fraser-Pryce, who ran an astonishing 10.73 earlier this season for 100m after coming back from pregnancy.
“It actually makes me focus more,” she says. “I can’t be daunted by somebody else’s thing. If they want to break the world record, there’s nothing I can do to control it. All I can do is control my own performances. I am looking to do the best I can and if it comes in a nice glittery form in Doha then I will be really happy but even if it doesn’t and I run fast times I will have to take it.”
Event organisers have confirmed that more than 60 global medallists – including 10 reigning Olympic champions, two Paralympic champions and 13 reigning world champions – will compete at the Alexander Stadium.
Among them will be Christian Coleman, the fastest man in the world this year with a time of 9.81sec, who faces the Commonwealth champion Akani Simbine, triple Olympic medallist Andre De Grasse and the former European champion Adam Gemili. In the 400m, the European champion Matt Hudson-Smith returns to action in his local stadium for the men’s 400m – his first race since September 2018.
British eyes will also be on the long jump clash between Katarina Johnson-Thompson and her great heptathlon rival Nafi Thiam. Both women are focusing more on Doha, and are not expected to challenge the event specialists for victory. However, Johnson-Thompson, who has a personal best of 6.93m, intends to leave her mark, by inching somewhere closer to her best.
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Thiam, meanwhile, is playing down their rivalry. “It’s great that Katarina is here because we know each other and I’m used to competing with her, but it’s a long jump competition,” she said. “We’re not in a heptathlon, so I don’t think winning is the point here. I just want to see where I am. In Doha it will be something else but here, I’m not putting pressure on myself to win. But I think it’s going to be very interesting in Doha.”


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Creative Arts in Humane Medicine (Paperback)Cheryl L. McLean (author)
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Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a book for medical educators, practitioners, students and those in the allied health professions who wish to learn how the arts can contribute toward a more caring and empathic approach to medicine. Topical research and inspiring real-life accounts from international innovators in the field of humanistic medicine show how the creative arts in varied forms can contribute toward greater learning and understanding in medicine, as well as improved health and quality of life for patients and practitioners.
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Creative Arts in Humane Medicine takes us on a fascinating journey to meet the educators, clinicians, support workers and artists who apply arts-based methods in innovative ways to enhance patient care, reflexivity in learners, and a sense of community and well-being in practitioners. The book stands out with an emphasis on multiple media (theater, music, visual and digital imagery, literature, and reflective writing), as well as the inclusion of international and interprofessional perspectives. - Allan D. Peterkin MD--Head, Health, Arts and Humanities Program; Humanities Lead, Undergraduate Medical Education, University of Toronto
Cheryl McLean's Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a fascinating collection of essays that evocatively illustrates the importance of literature, music, photography, and art in facilitating self-care and awareness among health care providers, training empathetic physicians, and improving patient care. - Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP--Author of Public Health and Social Justice
Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a graceful and important book that offers a groundbreaking, inspiriting engagement with issues such as empathy, empowerment, ethics, and evidence, explored by a rich cast of inter-professional authors.... A must read for academics, researchers, clinicians, and students interested in creative healing arts, narrative health, and humane medicine. - Sue MacRae--Registered Nurse, Clinical Ethicist, Psychotherapist
McLean's new book is for all those interested in healthcare and the arts.... [T]he integration of the arts into health care professional education remains a marginalized field, but best practices in this field abound. - Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities
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Over 50 guests visited Oceanlab in the evening of 7th September for an event titled 20000 Leagues Under The Sea. The event was sponsored by Statoil.
Professor Ursula Witte talked about the history of our University of Aberdeen site in Newburgh. Opened in 1958 by Professor Vero C Wynne-Edwards FRS (Professor of Natural History) and with George M. Dunnet as the first director, Culterty Field Station pioneered the study of wildlife in the surrounding natural environment of the Ythan Estuary and the Forvie National Nature Reserve. Since 2001 the site has been occupied by the unique Oceanlab facility and studies the deep sea using hi-tech robot vehicles capable of diving to the bottom of the ocean’s deepest trenches. Ursula talked about the effects of pressure in the deep sea and, with the assistance of our Test Technician, Neil Gregge, guests enjoyed an experiment with polystyrene cups to simulate the effect of pressure.
Dr Georgios Kazanidis talked about cold water coral and sponge reefs. People tend to think of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and snorkelling in shallow waters but there are many coral reefs close to home in deeper, colder waters to the west of Scotland.
Professor Frithjof Kuepper talked about seaweed biodiversity in the context of polar climate change and how the loss of sea ice affects the algae.
Our Engineers, Dr Stewart Chalmers and John Polanki talked about our landers and long-term environmental monitoring. John spoke about the DELOS project and the service provided by Oceanlab which has recently become bi-annual and he and Stewart are about to undertake this in Angola next month. A lander demonstration followed in our immersion tank. However on this occasion the lander failed to respond and return to the surface due to a problem with the deck control unit, which reflects what can sometimes happen in real life working.
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