The physical form of the Bible matters because it influences the way Christians use their sacred book. In the countercultural 1960s, for example, publishers shucked the black leather uniform in favor of more contemporary dress. The aim was to reach those who might not otherwise pick up the Scriptures. The American Bible Society's Good News for Modern Man resembled a mass market paperback, and Tyndale House's Reach Out: The Living New Testament looked just plain "groovy."While it is an informative article about some of the little-known facts of the history of Bible publishing and use -- for example, you might not have known that it was in 1791 that Isaiah Thomas published the first American Bible to contain genealogical pages -- the piece actually has very little to say about what it promises in its title: the effects of physical Bible forms on reading.
What an article like this shows is exactly the importance of work like what is going on with the Iconic Books project and here at Material Scripture. We need a language and a means of analysis that actually can track these effects of physical form when we notice them. Hopefully this article at Christianity Today is not just a flash in the pan, and Neff and others will begin to take an ongoing interest in these questions (and their answers)!
(Thanks to Allyn Harris Dault for sending me the CT article)


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HOUSTON (ICIS)--Huntsman wishes it could have acquired pigment producer Tronox in 2009, the chief financial officer of the US-based chemicals major said on Wednesday.
“Tronox was a great opportunity, I wish we could have bought it for $500m (€365m),” Huntsman chief financial officer Kimo Esplin told analysts during a webcast investor conference in ?xml:namespace>
“With [Tronox's] market cap of $2.5bn today, that would have been a nice trade,” he said.
However, Esplin ruled out that Huntsman may now go ahead and buy Tronox for $2.5bn. Nor will Huntsman undertake any big acquisition that could change its credit profile, he said.
“Coatings demand has not been good for three years, it’s pretty lousy,” he said.
The real drivers were TiO2 plant shutdowns during the 2008/2009 economic downturn. This meant that when demand got back to normal levels, supplies quickly became tight.
Another factor curbing TiO2 production are tight raw material supplies, Esplin said.
Even with the economy staying flat, TiO2 markets should stay tight for two or three more years, he added.
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Lightyear 0, the world’s first production-ready solar car, was introduced earlier this week in an online premiere by its manufacturer, Lightyear, a Netherlands-based business.
The car is the culmination of “six years of persistent work,” according to the business, which added that pre-orders will be welcomed starting at the end of the year. The car’s interior is composed entirely of vegan-friendly materials.
The two curved solar panels on the car’s roof and hood charge Lightyear 0’s batteries. The automobile can be driven daily for roughly 35 kilometres in nations with plenty of sunshine for seven months before needing to be recharged, according to the makers. “In overcast climates, such as the Netherlands, you can drive for up to two months before thinking about charging, based on a typical commute of roughly 35 kilometres per day,” it added.
Lightyear 0 comes with standard electric charging plugs in addition to the solar charging feature. “Lightyear 0 can still charge 32 kilometres per hour when plugged into a conventional home outlet,” the vehicle builders claimed.
The car is powered by a 60-kilowatt-hour battery pack and four 174-horsepower electric motors. It has a top speed of 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour) and can sprint to 62 miles per hour (100 kilometres per hour) in under 10 seconds.


The 10k club has a new member as traditional carmaker Volkswagen announced its electric vehicle deliveries in China.
Volkswagen's ID. lineup of four models delivered 10,126 units in China in September, up 44 percent from 7,023 units in August, according to data released Saturday.
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That makes VW the first traditional carmaker among joint venture brands in China to deliver more than 10,000 units in a single month, and it's expected to grow further with the launch of the lower-priced ID.3 model later this year.
VW's first all-electric vehicle in China is FAW-Volkswagen's ID.4 CROZZ, which went on pre-sale in January and began deliveries in late March.
The model is available in five versions with a subsidized price range of RMB 199,900 ($31,000) - 279,900. It is available in 400km, 500km and 550km NEDC range versions.
In early July, FAW-Volkswagen began accepting reservations for the ID.6 CROZZ at a subsidized price of RMB 239,800 - 334,800. Deliveries of the model began on July 18.
The ID.6 CROZZ is an all-electric mid-size SUV, available in 6- and 7-seat models, with a range of up to 565 kilometers.
Sales of the Volkswagen ID. series continued to improve between June and August, with 3,415, 5,810 and 7,023 units, respectively, according to data previously announced by the company.
The SAC-Volkswagen ID.3 was officially unveiled at the Chengdu Auto Show, which opened at the end of last month, and is available for pre-order in China, where it will go on sale during the year.
The ID.3, the Golf's electric counterpart, is one of the top-selling electric cars in Europe. It is SAIC Volkswagen's third pure electric vehicle based on the MEB platform, with a length, width and height of 4,261*1,778*1,568mm and a wheelbase of 2,765mm.
The ID.3 overseas version offers three range versions, 330km, 420km and 550km respectively under WLTP standard.
NIO, one of the new forces in China, announced yesterday that it delivered a record 10,628 vehicles in September, exceeding the 10k threshold for the first time.
That delivery volume for NIO was up about 126 percent from a year ago and about 81 percent from August.
The company delivered 1,978 ES8s, 5,260 ES6s, and 3,390 EC6s in September. ES8 deliveries were the highest since last December, and ES6 and EC6 deliveries were all-time highs.
XPeng Motors delivered 10,412 units in September, the first time in history that the 10,000-unit threshold was exceeded.
This is the fifth consecutive month of record monthly deliveries for XPeng, up 199 percent from a year ago and 44 percent from August.


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Today Kim and I started our climb of Mount Meru. On the way to the trailhead (Momella Gate), we saw baboons, warthogs, zebras, buffalo, and dik dik. There was a blue monkey at the trailhead as well. Because of the danger from the wildlife, an armed ranger was required to accompany us for the hike up to Saddle Hut. You must book with a guiding service too; we went with Gladys.
We took the forest trail to the hut. Along the way we saw colobus monkeys, warthogs, blue monkeys, lots of birds, red dikas, and a giraffe which was on the trail. We had to wait for the giraffe to move before we could hike farther up the trail. We passed through the famous and spectacular fig tree arch along the way. The only real obstacle were the aggressive ants which bite hard as you pass through their territory. The hike was a pretty one through the rainforest.
We made good progress to the Miriakamba Hut where we spent the night.
We left the hut at 8 AM and headed for the Saddle Hut. This time we heard lots of colobus monkeys, but didn't see them. We did see a lot of birds though. We started in the rainforest, but the forest got more open as we headed higher and the plant life was really interesting. We started in the clouds, but eventually broke through them to find sunshine above the cloud deck. We also saw our first views of Kilimanjaro and had some good views of the highest summit of Meru as well.
We reached the Saddle Hut at about noon and took a rest before climbing Little Meru. The views were really spectacular as we were above the clouds and had some fantastic views of Kilimanjaro and Meru.
Toady we woke up at midnight in preparation for our climb of Mount Meru. The skies were mostly clear and the moon was close to full so it was a bright night where we didn't need a headlamp.
We headed up the mountain at 1 AM. We made pretty good progress up to Rhino Point (where there are some rhino bones on the summit), where the route became much more difficult. There are three sections of the route where there route had chains to hold on to, if you choose.
The route is pretty slow going and we reached the top at 6:45 AM, which was just after sunrise. The views across the clouds to Kilimanjaro were really spectacular. After enjoying the summit we headed down and we were at Saddle Hut by 11:00 AM.
After lunch we headed down to Miriakamba Hut seeing two types of antelope along as well as redbucks. bushbucks, and sunes along the way. There were many birds as well. We also saw a leopard track. We arrived at the Miriakamba Hut around 4:30 PM.
We asked the ranger if he knew the story behind the rhino bones on the summit of Rhino Point. He said yes and it was a very sad story. Rhino Point was actually named for two horn like formations seen on the mountain from the Miriakamba Hut. When the last known rhino in the park was poached, one of the rangers carries some of the bones up to Rhino Point and left them there as a memorial.
It was a beautiful morning. We were on the trail by 7:45 AM.
We took the shorter Ikitoni Trail back to the gate. In the forest we saw lots of hornbills, baboons, colobus monkeys, blue monkeys, sune, bushbucks, and many other birds. We took the shorter trail down through the Ikitoni Plain, taking a side trip to the spectacular Tululusia Falls where some of us (including me) took a cold shower.
After the waterfalls, we headed to the plain. In this clearing are of of animals such as baboons, many giraffes, zebras, warthogs, cape buffalo, egrets, etc. There were lots of animal skulls along the way as well and we saw a cool looking large caterpillar. We also saw several elephants near the gate.
Overall, the climb to Mount Meru was really spectacular even though it is mostly overlooked by trekkers in favor of Kilimanjaro.
From Saddle Hut
Climbed Little Meru from Saddle Hut, the day before our first climb to Meru. We were acclimatizing for a further Kili attempt, but found Meru National Park a wonderful place.
Summited without packs in about 35minutes from the huts.
Indeed a sweet and fun little easy summit only 45 min from saddle camp, don't even bring your pack, just your camera. Had some incredible views from up top here.
Great little 45 min hike from Saddle Hut.
Nice acclimatization peak.
Back to Tanzania after seven years, and as the first time we climbed Little Meru as an afternoon hike from Saddle Hut
We climbed Little Meru in the previous day to the attack to Meru with fog on the summit. It's a good peak to aclimatizacion very advisable.

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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone sounds like the name of a blockbuster movie. It’s the clever title of Sydney-based author Benjamin Stevenson’s bestselling book, inspired by his love of crime novels – and his side-hustle as a comedian.
The 34-year-old sets out rules of the action early on, framing the mystery solving as a game, a team effort between the reader and his narrator, who “breaks the fourth wall” as they say in movies, speaking directly to the reader. The novel references many tropes common to the genre, simultaneously sending them up and paying homage. After a bidding war for the rights, an HBO adaptation by Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories is in development.
Sydney based author Benjamin Stevenson.Credit: James Brickwood
The title Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect, released next week, doesn’t sound quite as catchy, but riffs on those same principles – and given the success of Family, it has a guaranteed following.
Narrator Ernest returns, a character Stevenson says he loves. “Inevitably whatever I write would come out sounding like him. When you have a character that is speaking to you in that way, that’s telling you [that] you’re onto something good,” he says.
“He’s nice to write because he is truthful, I find him quite truthful to himself on the page. He has nice vulnerabilities as well, some great stuff that is humanising in a way that those classics don’t really go into.”
Exactly what genre Stevenson’s books fit into is tricky. It’s not straightforward, but it is in demand. “It’s cool to see that kind of light, cosy thriller that I am writing, that classic Golden Age-style mystery is popular,” he says, adding it seems to sit alongside Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club) and Lucy Foley (The Book of Lost and Found and many more), and films such as Knives Out.
“Everything comes in its time and certainly, I’ve been very lucky to be in the midst of a few good moments in Australian literature.”
The exponential growth of interest in crime via podcasts, and more recently TV shows such as Only Murders in the Building, has also fuelled the interest.
Stevenson, right, and his identical twin brother James, appear in The Stevenson Project, a musical comedy act.Credit: Monica Pronk
Long before all that, in his early teens, Stevenson was drawn to Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle; The Hound of the Baskervilles is a favourite. A big fan of films such as Scream, cinema also influenced his writing; he argues Scream owes a debt to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, so there’s a cross-pollination going on.
When you’re pastiche-ing something, you have to understand and love the genre but not be afraid to make fun of it, he says. If you break the rules, people will let you know about it.
Despite the fact he’d been published many times and toured the comedy circuit for years, Stevenson was regularly described as an overnight success when Family was released in 2022.
His first two novels, Greenlight, shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction in 2018 and then Either Side of Midnight, feature the same detective and are written as straight murder-mysteries, in a gritty, Aussie noir tone.
“Every crime writer in Australia owes a debt to Jane Harper for kicking the door down for us,” he says, adding that Peter Temple, Emma Viskic and Chris Hammer all played a part in fuelling interest in Australian crime.
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Back then, he worried that being a comedian and a crime writer would mean he wasn’t taken seriously. “So I tried really hard not to be funny. But then when I was writing this book I thought I was leaving one of my skill sets behind.”
Writing Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone during COVID-19, the third of a three-book deal with Penguin, Stevenson was determined not to die wondering. “If I don’t do everything I want with this book, I will regret it,” he says now of his approach. “We all have this desk drawer, metaphorically, even if it’s just the back of your mind. It’s all the ideas a writer has had that they think might be too hard … Every idea that I’ve wanted to do, but I’d put aside, I used them in this book,” he says. “I wanted to write something completely different to anything I’d read before.”
‘I wanted to be published by the time I was 30, which I achieved. I scraped it in, and I realise now how ludicrous that goal was.’
When writing the final scenes, he thought “I really like this”, and for the first time entertained the prospect that maybe it would work. Even so, the reaction has been beyond his highest expectations.
Stevenson has been a stand-up comic for many years – “I went into comedy because it was easier to get an instant reaction” – and performs with his identical twin brother James, their act often featuring themes around family and siblings. “A lot of our comedy is us on stage bickering – like if Lano and Woodley were related, that’s sort of our vibe,” he says. “Brotherhood gets a run in all my books. My brother has told me several times he is a bit disappointed he keeps getting killed off, so I’m trying to be nice to him in this one.”
His day job is as a literary agent for Curtis Brown. He says the best advice for any writer is to write what you want to read, “that’s the only way you can show that you love it”. “If you’re writing something that you think will sell well or what you think someone else would like to read, you can tell.”
As well as a direct submission process through Curtis Brown and events such as writers festivals, Stevenson says he looks for talent everywhere: in journalism, short stories, essays and theatre. He wants to find people who have a novel in them but don’t know it, and those who may have been scared to make that step.
“I had this sort of goal that I wanted to be published by the time I was 30, which I achieved. I scraped it in, and I realise now how ludicrous that goal was.”
Nearly a decade ago, Stevenson performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 20 days straight; he worked in Sydney from 9am to 4pm, caught a 5pm flight to Melbourne and did a show at 9.30pm, celebrated until arguably too late in the piece, then headed back the next morning at 6am.
“Like I said, I don’t like saying no to any opportunity. I knew that I wanted to do both of these things. Conventional wisdom is why don’t you pick the one you want to do more? My version is well, why don’t I just do both and see what happens,” he says with a laugh.
“That’s why I’ve got this lovely position. I do comedy, write books, have these television opportunities and work as a literary agent. I always think I am doing too much, and then I always enjoy them all, so I think, well, why wouldn’t I?”
Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect is out on October 17, published by Penguin Random House. The Stevenson Experience is at Comedy Republic on October 20 and 21 and the Comedy Store Sydney on October 27.
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Google Inc has finally been ordered by a court to pull out the controversial video ‘Innocence of Muslims’ from the company’s video-sharing unit YouTube. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed the giant technology company’s assertion that removing the short movie from the Website would restrain the freedom of speech provision of the US Constitution.
The decision came after a court vote of 2-1. The complainant was Cindy Lee Garcia. She has been objecting how the movie used a clip featuring her without her full consent. Garcia claims that she had made that clip for another movie. She also asserts that she had learned that the producers not just used that clip in the film. They even dubbed it to make it appear like she was asking viewers, “Is your Mohammed a child molester?”
Garcia was also insisting that her part in the controversial film should also be subject to copyright. She wants to take that copyright as well. Unfortunately, a lower court declined her requests. That is why she approached the appellate court.
In the latest court decision, Garcia scored a victory when she obtained the approval for copyright claim. The court also underlined the serious threats that she has been receiving since the case was filed. It declared that Garcia is facing an irreparable harm in the absence of an injunction of the film.
9th Circuit judge Alex Kozinski said this case is rare and troubling. He emphasized how Garcia was obviously duped. In a statement, he even said that the case is disappointing but not surprising. The judge even acknowledged Garcia’s right to sue Google for the protection of herself and of her rights.
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In a statement coursed through her lawyer, Garcia reiterated that it was the right thing to do for the court to order the pulling out of the film. She emphasized that the film radically differs from just about everything that Garcia believes in.
‘Innocence of Muslims’ was billed as a trailer. It made waves after depicting Islamic religion’s Prophet Mohammed as a sexual deviant and as a fool. Upon its launch online, the movie sparked anti-American sentiments especially within Muslim countries like Libya and Egypt in 2012. For most Muslims, depiction of their prophet in unlikely light could be considered as blasphemy and should not be tolerated.


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A FORMER councillor is calling for an inquiry into how a farmhouse on a Green Belt site has been replaced with an “imposing eyesore”.
Judy Shardlow, former Lib Dem Councillor for Wheathampstead, is questioning why the building on Hill End Farm in Sandridge was given the go-ahead by the council’s planning department and is keen to know what justified the construction of a large four-bedroom residential dwelling, complete with swimming pool, on a prominent Green Belt site.
She said: “The building is unmissable and it’s quite staggering to think this hasn’t raised more questions before now.
“I felt quite sick when I saw it and I cannot understand how on earth it has been approved on a Green Belt site.”
Planning permission was granted for the replacement farmhouse, farm building and ancilliary accommodation in December 2009, after amendments were made to a prior planning application – which was also approved – lodged in 2008.
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The amended plans looked to reduce the impact of the building on the Green Belt site by reducing the height of the house by half a metre and keeping the farmhouse within the farmyard – previously it had been planned to build the house on a separate field of open farmland.
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In the plans, the agents, Yiangou Architects, stated that the house would not be visible from the road below because of the slope of the hill and that a further reduction of the levels by a foot or so would not have any impact.
Planning permission was granted for the building but it was subject to 20 conditions, one of which stipulated that the occupant should be someone working in agriculture, forestry or the widow or widower of such a person.
Judy said: “Now that the seasons have changed it is visible from the B651 and it’s just not acceptable. I cannot understand how it has got to this stage without anyone drawing attention to it.
“An investigation should be launched, otherwise we’re at risk of more ‘green belt chateaux’ appearing on our landscape.”
Planning portfolio holder, Chris Brazier, said: “With a large development such as this it’s important to make sure nothing has been overlooked and I am aware that Heather Cheesbrough, the head of planning and building control, is looking through the matter.”
Yiangou Architects declined to comment on the matter.
Two further planning applications were submitted in August this year to add a first floor open balcony to the house and an additional porch and verandah. Sandridge parish council will be giving its views on the application at a meeting on Monday.
The council’s planning department was asked to confirm that Hill End Farm was a working farm and responded that the fields around the farm were in “agricultural use”. But there was no response to questions about the size and capabilities of the working farm.

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Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra were joined by Laura Shin to chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry.
- Whether crypto optimism is different in Asia than in the United States
- How Sam Bankman-Fried has been doing some work with US regulators
- How the CFTC lawsuit against Ooki DAO changed people’s perspectives about the regulator
- Whether the lawsuit could make all DeFi illegal and the role of DAOs to coordinate governance
- The SEC settlement with Kim Kardashian for $1.26 million, Gensler’s video explaining the case and whether it was a publicity stunt
- Why Tarun would fire almost everyone at the CFTC and the SEC to hire more technical people
- How the NFT QQL collection censored a marketplace in its code
- What the whole purpose of NFTs is, according to Haseeb
- The debate around NFT royalties and their enforcement
- How a huge portion of the blocks in Ethereum are generated by Flashbots and whether it represents a centralizing force
- Whether MEV should be stopped or accelerated
- Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
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- Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
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The lawsuit against Ooki DAO
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- Nik’s article
- CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger’s dissenting statement
- CFTC serving the members of the Ooki DAO via their forum
- Tim Copeland’s article on what’s next for DAOs
- A federal court ruled that the CFTC legally served Ooki DAO through a website help bot.
- The LeXpunK Army filed a motion for amicus status in the SEC case against bZx/Ooki DAO.
- Crypto group DeFi Education Fund argued that the CFTC should properly serve Ooki DAO’s actual members, not just the DAO at large.
- Tyler Hobbs’ QQL $17 million collection
- QQL blacklist explanation
- NFT platform hits back
- Previous episode of The Chopping Block debating NFT Royalties
- Article: Why NFT Creators and Collectors Can’t Stop Talking About Artist Royalties
- Article: NFT Royalties: Why artists love them, and traders don’t
SEC charges against Kim Kardashian
- The SEC fined reality TV star Kim Kardashian $1.26 million for promoting a crypto security without proper disclosure.
- Fortune article on the Kim Kardashian settlement as publicity stunt
- eMax price spiked
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Back in the day, the annual SC supercomputing conference was filled with tabletops hung with research posters. Three decades on, this week’s Denver edition was a sea of sharp-angled booths, crowned with three-dimensional signage, promoting logos in a multitude of blues and reds.
But nowhere on the SC19 show floor drew more of the show’s 14,000 attendees than NVIDIA’s booth, built around a broad, floor-to-ceiling triangle with 2,500 square feet of ultra-high-def LED screens. With a packed lecture hall on one side and HPC simulations playing on a second, it was the third wall that drew the most buzz.
Cycling through was a collection of AI-enhanced photos of several hundred GPU developers — grad students, CUDA pioneers, supercomputing rockstars — together with descriptions of their work.
Like accelerated computing’s answer to baseball cards, they were rendered into art using AI style transfer technology inspired by various painters — from the classicism of Vermeer to van Gogh’s impressionism to Paul Klee’s abstractions.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA sprinted through the show, kicking things off with a news-filled keynote by founder and CEO Jensen Huang, helping to power research behind the two finalists nominated for the Gordon Bell prize, and joining in to celebrate its partner Mellanox.
And in its booth, 200 engineers took advantage of free AI training through the Deep Learning Institute, and dozens of tech talks were provided by leading researchers packed in shoulder to shoulder.
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Piecing together the Developer Wall project took a dozen NVIDIANs scrambling for weeks in their spare time. The team of designers, technologists and marketers created an app where developers could enter some background, which would be paired with their photo once it’s run through style filters at DeepArt.io, a German startup that’s part of NVIDIA’s Inception startup incubator.
“What we’re trying to do is showcase and celebrate the luminaries in our field. The amazing work they’ve done is the reason this show exists,” said Doug MacMillan, a developer evangelist who helped run the big wall initiative.
Behind him flashed an image of Huang, rendered as if painted by Cezanne. Alongside him was John Stone, the legendary HPC researcher at the University of Illinois, as if painted by Vincent van Gogh. Close by were Erik Lindahl, who heads the international GROMACS molecular simulation project, right out of a Joan Miró painting. Paresh Kharya, a data center specialist at NVIDIA, looked like an abstracted sepia-tone circuit board.
Enabling the Best and Brightest
That theme — how NVIDIA is working to accelerate the work of people in an ever growing array of industries — continued behind the scenes.
In a final rehearsal hours before Huang’s keynote, Ashley Korzun — a Ph.D. engineer who’s spent years working on the manned mission to Mars set for the 2030s — saw for the first time a demo visualizing her life’s work at the space agency.
As she stood on stage, she witnessed an event she’s spent years simulating purely with data — the fiery path that the Mars lander, a capsule the size of a two-story condo, will take as it slows in seven dramatic minutes from 12,000 miles an hour to gently stick its landing on the Red Planet.
“This is amazing,” she quietly said through tears. “I never thought I’d be able to visualize this.”
Flurry of News
Huang later took the stage and in a sweeping two-hour keynote set out a range of announcements that show how NVIDIA’s helping others do their life’s work, including:
- A reference design for building GPU-accelerated Arm servers, with wide industry backing.
- The world’s largest GPU-accelerated cloud-based supercomputer, built by Microsoft on its Azure cloud-computing platform.
- NVIDIA Magnum IO, a suite of GPU-accelerated I/O and storage software to eliminate data transfer bottlenecks for AI, data science and HPC workloads.
- Record 136 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated supercomputers feature in the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest systems. Of the 102 new supercomputers to join the closely watched ranking, 42 use NVIDIA GPU accelerators.
SC19 plays host to a series of awards throughout the show, and NVIDIA featured in a number of them.
Both finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high performance computing — the ultimate winner, ETH Zurich, as well as University of Michigan — ran their work on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer, powered by nearly 28,000 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs.
NVIDIA’s founding chief scientist, David Kirk, received this year’s Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, for innovative contributions to HPC systems. He was recognized for his path-breaking work around development of the GPU.
And NVIDIA’s Vasily Volkov co-authored with UC Berkeley’s James Demmel a seminal paper 11 years ago recognized with the Test of Time Award for a work of lasting impact. The paper, which has resulted in a new way of thinking and modeling algorithms on GPUs, has had nearly 1,000 citations.
Looking Further Ahead
If the SC show is about powering the future, no corner of the show was more forward looking than the annual Supercomputing Conference Student Cluster Competition.
This year, China’s Tsinghua University captured the top crown. It beat out 15 other undergrad teams using NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs in an immersive HPC challenge demonstrating the breadth of skills, technologies and science that it takes to build, maintain and use supercomputers. Tsinghua also won the IO500 competition, while two other prizes were won by Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.
The teams came from many different markets, including Germany, Latvia, Poland, Taiwan and the U.S., in addition to China and Singapore.
Up Next: More Performance for the World’s Data Centers
NVIDIA’s frenetic week at SC19 ended with a look at what’s next, with Huang joining Mellanox CEO Eyal Waldman on stage at an evening event hosted by the networking company, which NVIDIA agreed to acquire earlier this year.
Huang and Waldman discussed how their partnership will enable the future of computing, with Huang detailing the synergies between the companies. “Mellanox has an incredible vision,” he said. “In a couple years, we’re going to bring more compute performance to data centers than all of the compute since the beginning of time.”


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When we first moved to Skelleftehamn, back in October 2022, we didn’t know the area at all. We had never even visited Sweden. The beautiful Church in the picture is St Örjans Church, Skelleftehamn. It was the first landmark we used for direction, it helped us find our around the the area. We pass it often and although we are not religious people ourselves, we admire the beauty it holds, aswell as the ever changing sky that frames it.
Quite often it’s a wow moment when we pass this road at sunrise or sunset.The skies here are by far the most beautiful we have ever seen.
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Ninja Gaiden Sigma
An enhanced version of Ninja Gaiden Black for the PS3, essentially. This is what Team Ninja considers the "complete" version of Ninja Gaiden. There are new stages, new weapons, an improved combat system, and Rachael is playable.
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In this article, let’s see the 5 facts about the Bacterial Cytoplasm
All bacteria are prokaryotic cells that consist of cytoplasm: a gel-like solution that contains 80% water, genetic material DNA, enzymes, nutrients, wastes, gases, and other cell organelles like ribosomes and plastids.
What is the cytoplasm of bacteria?
Bacteria cytoplasm also known as protoplasm is a green-colored gel-like matrix solution that is made up of 80% water and 20% of cytosol, organelles, and various granules called cytoplasmic inclusions.
The organelles that are present in the cytoplasm are ribosomes, nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), and plasmids. The type of ribosome present in the bacteria is 70s type with one small unit 30s and large unit 50s. It also contains enzymes, amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, and other nutrients. Plasmids are circular DNA that is not similar to the chromosome.
Do bacterial cells have cytoplasm?
All bacterial cells contain cytoplasm that is surrounded by a membrane called cytoplasmic membrane or plasma membrane.
The membrane is made up of a semi-permeable phospholipid bilayer, allowing only specific molecules to diffuse inside and outside the cell. The bilayer does not contain sterols but is made up of monosaturated fatty acids. They also have sterol-like molecules called haponoids that stabilize the cell membrane.
Bacterial cytoplasm function
The main functions of the cytoplasm are
- Protein Synthesis
It also contains helical actin-like proteins that along with the cell wall provide shape to the cell. The organelles like the ribosomes and the chromosomes are suspended in the cytoplasm.
Binary fission is the type of cell growth that occurs in bacteria which results in two daughter cells that are identical to the parent. When the cell divides the chromosomes get duplicated and the cytoplasm also divides to form two new cells.
Important cellular functions like protein synthesis and respiration takes place in the cytoplasm. Protein synthesis is a two stage process where the messenger RNA (mRNA) is synthesized by transcription process and mRNA undergoes translation to form amino acids. The type of ribosome involved in protein synthesis is 70s type, the process is initiated when the 30s subunit of the ribosome binds to mRNA and the aminoacyl tRNA binds to the start codon. The protein synthesis has three steps; initiation, elongation and termination.
Cellular respiration is a process where energy is generated by breaking down glucose into carbon-di-oxide and water using oxygen in aerobic respiration and using nitrate in anaerobic respiration. Adenosine tri phosphate (ATP) and NADH are formed as the end products of cellular respiration.
Replication of the bacterial DNA takes place in the cytoplasm as the bacteria do not have specialized organelles like nucleus which are present in eukaryotes. The replication occurs in both the direction from the origin of replication and a complex called replisome is formed by the aggregation of proteins that are responsible for DNA replication. The initiation takes place in the oriC region and terminated at the ter region.
Do bacterial cells have cytosol?
The water component of the cytoplasm is called the cytosol which contains all compounds that are needed for the survival of the bacteria.
The cytosol is aqueous in nature and contains high concentrations of metabolites, ions, and proteins. It is also called a cytoplasmic matrix or ground last in which all the metabolic pathways like respiration and protein synthesis takes place.
Cytosol vs. cytoplasm
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|2||The cytosol is made up of water, proteins, soluble ions, and large water-soluble molecules.||The cytoplasm is made up of water, enzymes, amino acids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, and non-inorganic ions.|
|3||All chemical reactions take place in the cytosol||Large cellular activities like cell division take place in the cytoplasm|
|4||The diversity is low||the diversity of the components is high compared to that of the cytosol|
|5||Transportation of molecules and signal transduction takes place in the cytosol||Nuclear division, cytokinesis, and signal transduction take place in the cytoplasm|

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11.1 Jago and Son by Nigel Fairs
With missing persons, dead bodies and a Satanist cult to deal with, both Litefoot and Jago need help. Professor Litefoot finds himself working with Jean Bazemore, an old archaeologist friend. Jago, however, finds he is assisted by someone he never even knew existed - his own son. Or is he? Can Jago be sure of anything?
But there is more to events than the detectives know. An alien menace is stirring underground. Once again, Jago and Litefoot find themselves fighting for their lives...
11.2 Maurice by Matthew Sweet
As he tightens his grip on Inspector Quick, the Master becomes interested in the young composer Maurice Ravel. For his part, Ravel befriends Professor Litefoot. But is anyone truly who they seem or able to control their own destiny and actions?
When Litefoot goes missing, it’s up to Jago to investigate. But the Professor finds himself in a nightmare landscape where reality and fiction seem to have merged. Will he ever manage to escape? And if the real Maurice Ravel is trapped with Litefoot, who exactly is walking the streets of London?
11.3 The Woman in White by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris
The great actor Henry Irving is not as great as he once was. In fact, he’s awful - a shadow of his former self. Worried that something may be terribly wrong, Irving’s assistant Bram Stoker enlists the help of an old friend - Henry Gordon Jago.
With Irving’s state deteriorating, Professor Litefoot also faces a challenge. He performs an autopsy on a man who has had all his bodily fluids drained from him. Can the detectives discover the connection between the great actor and the mysterious dehydrated corpse? And how does it relate to the Woman in White who supposedly haunts Irving’s theatre?
11.4 Masterpiece by Justin Richards
The Master’s plan is nearing completion - and he is sure that Jago and Litefoot will help him bring it to fruition. With Inspector Quick increasingly under the Master’s influence, the Infernal Investigators find themselves tired and fatigued, as if their very life force is being drained away...
With the help of Ellie together with stage hypnotist Madame Sosostris and her assistant Mr Nocturne, Jago and Litefoot finally track down the Master. But as they make their way towards his lair, the Time Lord's true scheme is revealed.
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Despite much criticism and a U.S. Justice Department probe accusing the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office of discrimination -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio is having no trouble raising money for his re-election campaign.
In fact, he's raised more funds than ever.
In its latest finance report, Arpaio's campaign says it raised nearly $6 million since 2009. But more than 80 percent of the donors don't just live outside of Maricopa County -- they live outside of Arizona.
For his 2008 campaign, Apraio raised slightly more than $600,000.
Meanwhile -- Arpaio says he expected charges to be filed against the Tennessee man who posted an Internet death threat against him and his family.
Adam Eugene Cox was arrested in Knoxville on other charges on Friday.
The 33-year-old is being investigated for the online threats.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says Cox is an avid supporter of President Barack Obama, and the threat may have been sparked by Arpaio's investigation into Obama's birth certificate.
For more go to myfoxphoenix.com


Budget Book Introduction
An Open Letter to the Partners of HFM BOCES
On behalf of the Board of Cooperative Educational Services, I respectfully submit for your review the 2020-21 HFM BOCES Budget Book, which outlines our proposed budget for next year. After much work developing our proposal, we present to you an administrative budget with a 1.4 percent increase from our current year.
In the past, we have welcomed your questions and comments regarding the budget during our Annual Meeting and Dinner held each April here on our campus. This year’s meeting was originally scheduled for April 1.
This year, as part of our efforts to stop the possible spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), our Annual Meeting will now take place via the online platform WebEx. Component school district board members and administrators will be welcome to log on and view our live budget presentation and will also have the opportunity to ask questions during the event.
During the online meeting, I will present how our proposed budget was developed and how our component district chiefs worked with us during the process. Chief Financial Officer Kathi Lewis will also be present to address any questions or concerns you might have, as well. Instructions on how to view the meeting will be provided to the component superintendents to share with board members.
Since becoming the HFM District Superintendent this summer, I have worked closely with our administration, our board and the component school superintendents to ensure our services are aligned with district needs. During the budget development process, we continued to work in cooperation with our districts keeping our commitment to be a partner, an advocate and a leader for our region.
By statute, each component board of education will vote on the administrative portion of the HFM BOCES budget on April 29. At that time, our component boards will also elect three members to the BOCES Board of Education.
Since the inception of the BOCES Reform Act in 1993, HFM BOCES has enjoyed unanimous support for its proposed administrative budget each year. We hope to maintain that significant trend, and we look forward to seeing you at our online Annual Meeting.
If at any time, you have specific questions regarding the proposed budget please feel free to contact me or Chief Financial Officer Kathi Lewis at (518) 736-4310 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org.
HFM District Superintendent


Called on to pitch the eighth inning, Yankees reliever Dellin Betances walked four Blue Jays and recorded only one out before departing. He’s now up to 26 walks on the season in 27 1/3 innings and 123 batters faced. That’s an 8.56 BB/9 and a 21.1 percent walk rate.
Since 2000, there has been only one qualified reliever to post a walk rate of 20 percent or higher: Stephen Randolph had a 21.4 percent walk rate for the Diamondbacks in 2004. Aroldis Chapman came close with a 19.8 percent rate in 2011 with the Reds.
While Betances has never been a maven of control, he had a respectable 32/9 K/BB ratio in 17 1/3 innings and 68 batters faced through the end of May. That’s a 4.67 BB/9 and 13.2 percent walk rate. Since the start of June, his K/BB ratio is 18/17 in 10 innings and 55 batters faced; 15.3 BB/9 and 30.9%.
It’s not clear if Betances’ control issue is physical or mental. Either way, one wonders if a stint on the disabled list might be in his future. Betances was recently named to the American League All-Star roster.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Pitcher Max Fried went to salary arbitration with the Atlanta Braves for the second straight year, asking for $15 million instead of the team’s $13.5 million offer.
The 29-year-old left-hander went 14-7 for the second straight season and lowered his ERA to 2.48 from 3.04 in 2021. Fried was a first-time All-Star last season, was second to Miami’s Sandy Alcantara in Cy Young Award voting and was third in the National League in ERA behind Alcantara and Julio Urias with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Fried won a $6.85 million salary last year instead of the team’s $6.6 million proposal in arbitration. That was after he pitched six shutout innings in World Series Game 6 as the Braves won their first title since 1995.
Fried, who is eligible for free agency after the 2024 World Series, had his case heard Friday by a panel that’s expected to issue a decision Saturday.
Players have won two of three decisions so far: Pitcher Jesus Luzardo ($2.45 million) and AL batting champion Luis Arraez ($6.1 million) both beat the Miami Marlins. But Seattle defeated Diego Castillo ($2.95 million).
A decision is being held for Los Angeles Angels outfielder Hunter Renfroe, whose case was argued Monday. About 20 more cases are scheduled through Feb. 17.


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Allegro Resort Pineapple Beach is located on Antigua in the Caribbean. Set along the beach and up a hillside, with access by flagstone paths and wood staircases, the 25-acre, West Indian-style, open-air resort draws families and couples seeking day-and-night activities and get-away rest and relaxation provided by a secluded beach. Allegro Resort Pineapple Beach is furnished with thatched shades and lounge chairs; a beach of light-colored sand stretches 500 yards along an Atlantic Ocean bay protected by two rock-cliff points that drop off into the turquoise water. Swimming, snorkeling, and water sports are available off the beach. Two pools provide freshwater swimming: a large, two-level, freeform pool; and a 30-by-20 feet rectangle. Allegro Resort Pineapple Beach offers all-inclusive service and has 180 guestrooms in 11 pastel-colored wood buildings with corrugated red-steel roofs that rise one-, two-, and three-stories high (no elevators) and are nearly concealed by thick tropical gardens and trees. Decor features terra-cotta-tile floors, pastel walls, and rattan furniture. Allegro Resort Pineapple Beach hilltop air-conditioned fitness center contains a universal gym, cardio machines, and free weights. An adults-only game room offers a pool table and slot machines. Live entertainment is available nightly at this Antigua property.
Another resort on the island is Antigua Village Beach Club. Antigua Village Beach Club is located on a mile-long beach borders the resort with many of the best restaurants, water sports, and entertainment within easy reach. Swimming, boating, waterskiing, and sailing can be done on site. Horseback riding and tennis are available nearby. The island also has several golf courses. The local area provides more nightlife, shopping, and a casino.


*The second annual 2012 Skoole Awards will be presented on August 4, 2012, at the Marriott Hotel, Marina Del Rey, California – it was announced today by awards founder and entrepreneur Cornelius Grant.
Honorees for this year’s annual celebration of the achievements of Old School contributors to the music and entertainment worlds will include Regina Jones, founder and publisher of Soul Magazine; Wally Roker, original member of the Heartbeats and original promotion man at Scepter Records; and David Harrison Levi, cancer awareness champion to the entertainment industry.
The first presenters named for the star studded event are Paul Williams Jr. and David Ruffin Jr. (sons of the famed original members of The Temptations).
Entertainment for the night will be provided by jazz icon Barbara Morrison, accompanied by the 18 piece Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center (BMPAC) orchestra, conducted by John Daniel Stephens. Other surprise guests are slated to perform as well.
About The Skoole Awards
The genesis of the Skoole Awards came as original member of the Temptations, guitar/writer/conductor Cornelius Grant became increasingly aware of how many old school entertainers have been lost in the mist of time and all but forgotten. Determined to change that, he partnered once again with his long-time collaborator, Ruth Adkins Robinson to produce and write the awards.
Tickets may be purchased at www.TicketstoSkooleAwards.com, and CorneliusGrant.com. Tickets: Individual Dinner tickets $75 USD; Tables of 10: $650.
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Brian Howell’s new series of large scale photographs of shopping carts and their contents will be on exhibit at Winsor Gallery in April 2011.
For Purchasing Information
To discuss purchasing artwork, please contact the gallery.
10716 135 A Street [donated to Vancouver Art Gallery Auction 2011]
archival inkjet print, edition of 3
59 x 80 in

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Shot in real time, learn dance moves along with Amanda Cerny in step-by-step tutorial instructions, featuring a final dance-off where Amanda performs the newly learned routine for the first time.
Join Amanda Cerny and learn along as she discovers new moves from famed choreographer Matt Steffanina.
The Williams Fam literally sits down for some tutting dance moves with Amanda, and you can join along!
Famed Latin dancer Paul Barris joins Amanda to show her, and her audience, the right steps to salsa success.
Amanda Cerny welcomes Candice Craig to help get everyone kicking their heels.


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For my birthday this year, my family got me a book about Pittsford called “Reflections on Big Spring: A History of Pittsford, NY and the Genesee River Valley” by David McNellis. It’s a wildly comprehensive book that spans 40,000 BC through the mid 20th century, and I haven’t even finished it yet. But what I have found are some incredible photographs courtesy of Paul M. Spiegel—the same Paul M. Spiegel who was Town Supervisor from 1966-1987 and the namesake for the Spiegel Community Center. His family owned Spiegel’s Wagon Shop near the Four Corners and he has a truly amazing collection of Pittsford photographs. Should you be interested in seeing more, he’s created five volumes of “Pittsford Scrapbooks” which can be purchased at the Pittsford Town Hall and at The Little House (he donates all proceeds to the Pittsford Historical Society) or online.
My favorites of these images showcase a walkable, bikeable, or horse drawn carriage-able Pittsford—a time presumably before there was much worry about speed limits on our neighborhood streets.
Without further ado…please take a stroll into Pittsford of the past. Some things are identical—gorgeous historic buildings at the heart of our village. Some things have changed greatly—some street widths and green spaces. And some things I am left pining over a little—a small grocer in the village, a drug store, and a hardware store all within easy walking and biking distance!
One of my favorites is this image of State Street, looking west towards the Four Corners. The Wiltsie and Crump building (center) is still there, as is the Parker Building (left). But notice how narrow State St is and the small, grassy triangular park that was adjacent to the Phoenix Hotel and State Street for a hundred years, according to McNellis. It was removed in the 1920s. Imagine if that much space at the Four Corners was still given to people instead of vehicles.
Like a true Western New Yorker, I love Wegmans, but I often say that if we had a small grocer, or even a convenience store in the village, I would never need to leave—or at least I wouldn’t need to brave Pittsford Plaza parking when I just need some flour! For those who may not have been around 50+ years ago, Burdett’s was the grocer that served the village for 55 years and it was known for its old fashioned neighborly service—according to McNellis, children from local families could stop by after school to pick up an item or two and just “put it on [the family] account.”
These images show that Pittsford once had a Department store and drug stores too. I would love to have a pharmacy in the village today.
And some things never change—look at that snow!
See anything you like from yesteryear? If you have any personal memories of these places or have family members who do, please let us know in the comments!


by Jessica Kwong : sfexaminer – excerpt
San Francisco’s transit agency announced today that it is officially moving forward with the purchase of 60 new electric trolley buses, the first phase in replacing the aging fleet over the next few years.
The buses being retired were in service for more than two decades and accounted for 40 percent of systemwide delays, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
Considered the backbone of Muni, the vehicles carry 200,000 riders daily on 14 lines, including 1-California, 5-Fulton, 14-Mission and 30-Stockton, which alone transports 32,000 passengers per day. More than 300 trolley buses, which operate greenhouse gas-free, are due for replacement.
“By investing in new, high-performing, quiet and green electric trolley vehicles, we are able to provide better options for moving around The City,” SFMTA Transportation Director Ed Reiskin said in a statement… (more)


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New drive technologies, political decisions, consumer spending habits - many factors influence the automobile market. Researchers are using simulations to find out what’s going to be happening on the streets in 40 years.
Every morning, George Jetson drops his family off in town. But not by car – at least not a normal one. The year is 2062, and George flies a green aerocar. He lives in Orbit City, and once he’s navigated his way through skyscrapers to the kids‘ school, he heads off to the landing strip outside the building where he works. There, he folds up the aerocar into a briefcase and heads into the office.
The popular animated sitcom “The Jetsons” originally aired in the US 50 years ago. It might not be 2062 for another 50 years, but it seems unlikely we’ll all be flying aerocars soon. Butwhile the show’s writers might have been let their imaginations run away with them a little, they were right to predict major changes in the way we travel.
For the time being, most of the cars on our roads are powered by combustion engines, but there are now more alternatives on the market than ever before - from fuel cells and lithium batteries to hybrid motors. In its White Paper on traffic, the EU Commission proposes halving the number of conventional vehicles by 2030 and completely phasing them out by 2050. If this happens, which technology will serve as the best replacement? And what sort of infrastructure will be needed? Will we need plugs and recharging points, or will we still be using good old gas pumps?
In order to try answering these questions, traffic researchers at Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space (DLR) in Stuttgart have developed a computer model. Vector 21 creates a vision of tomorrow’s traffic by assessing consumer buying patterns, the various driving concepts currently in circulation and potential political factors.
“The model’s strength is that it provides a detailed depiction of various technologies and their respective cost while involving the user,“ Stephan Schmid, who leads the DLR project, said.
What makes that possible is that the model is not static but dynamic. “For example, one can test what would happen if a particular technology is subsidized,“ Schmid explained. He and his colleagues have seen what would happen were electric cars, fuel cell cars and range extender vehicles (a range extender is an internal combustion engine in the front of an electric car that kicks in once the battery pack loses its initial charge) to be subsidized for five years upon their launch.
They established that alternative technologies would appear on our roads for as long as the subsidies were in place, but disappear as soon as they became too expensive.
In 2030, 75 percent of new cars would still be hybrid vehicles – i.e. cars with both a combustion engine and a battery that can store braking energy that helps power the engine and reduces CO2 emissions.
The need for long-term subsidies
A second simulation suggests a CO2 saving of 54 percent rather than the 29 percent target set by the EU.
In this version, the researchers factored in higher and longer-term subsidies for fuel cell cars. They calculated it would have a major impact - by 2030, consumers would stop buying new cars with hybrid motors.
Instead, fuel cell and battery powered cars would account for 25 percent each of the automobile market. Electric cars with range extender functions would make up the remaining 50 percent.
But whether or not CO2 emissions are reduced depends not only on political decisions to support e-mobility on the one hand and on the other penalize breaches against CO2 reduction targets. Equally crucial is the sustainable implementation of such measures and the rate of technological development.
The DLR researchers‘ simulation model is not only useful in predicting developments on the German car market.
"Our calculations are for Germany but it is not developing in a vacuum but in a global context,“ explains Schmid. "Basically the local application depends on whether the automobile market is saturated- in China, for example, the market is still developing so it‘s impossible to predict how many cars there will be on the roads in 10 or 20 years. Moreover, political decisions could also put the brakes on growth there.”
A question of changing habits
"Basically we can expect 75 percent of cars in 2040 to still have combustion engines, if you include hybrid vehicles,“ Schmidt said. He does not expect electric cars to dominate the market, given their limited driving range. "Ultimately it’s a question of how easily we can change our habits and get used to plugging in our vehicles,“ he points out. The writers of The Jetsons never envisaged a plug-in car, but it’s more realistic a prospect than an aerocar.
Author: Caroline Ring /jp
Editor: Sonia Phalnikar


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This training module, the third in a series of 5, provides the basic information and learning tools needed to understand and advocate for integrating gender perspectives into regional, national and community-level climate change initiatives. It covers the following topics: development context of climate-related disasters; understanding of gender issues and concerns in disaster risk reduction; and tools and methods for understanding gender-based vulnerability and exposure to disaster risk and integrating gender perspectives into disaster risk reduction policy.
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Organization: UNDP, Global Gender and Climate Alliance
Topics: Risk Reduction/Management, Gender, Policy Instruments
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In times of medical emergencies as well as immediate wellness issues, having fast and also trusted accessibility to high quality healthcare is extremely important. Valparaiso, IN, is fortunate to have a superb source: South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Facility. This cutting edge facility works as a go-to location for both emergency treatment and also pediatric immediate clinical needs.
In this article, we will certainly discover the relevance of urgent care in Valparaiso, focusing on emergency clinics and also pediatric treatment, as well as how South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Facility plays a critical function in meeting the communitys medical care requires.
Understanding the Importance of Emergency Centers
Mishaps and unforeseen health issues can happen any time, as well as knowing where to choose instant medical attention is crucial. Emergency clinics are designed to handle lethal circumstances and also provide prompt like clients with severe injuries or health problems. Unlike medical care companies, emergency situation facilities run 24/7, making them crucial for essential medical problems that can not wait up until routine organization hours.
South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Center: A Lifeline for Urgent Medical Demands
South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Facility, situated at the heart of the city, serves as a beacon of wish for those in need of immediate clinical aid. The centers caring and also extremely trained clinical team ensures that patients obtain punctual and also ideal treatment, guaranteeing the best feasible outcomes. Furnished with advanced clinical technology as well as a complete series of emergency situation solutions, this center has made a credibility for offering outstanding care to the Valparaiso neighborhood.
The Services Provided at South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Center
Emergency situation Care: The centers emergency treatment services cover a wide range of clinical circumstances, including however not restricted to extreme injuries, breast pain, breathing distress, and also strokes. The clinics prompt action and also capability to stabilize people before moving them to the appropriate health center make it a crucial lifeline in important scenarios.
Pediatric Urgent Care: Youngsters require customized treatment, and also when they deal with urgent clinical issues, having a dedicated pediatric urgent care facility is critical. South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Clinic pediatric system is staffed with seasoned paediatricians that give customized like young people, using peace of mind to parents during demanding times.
Walk-In Appointments: The facility invites walk-in patients, getting rid of the need for prior visits for immediate clinical concerns. This access makes certain that clients can look for clinical focus right away, particularly when time is of the essence.
Diagnostic Services: South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Clinic is outfitted with innovative analysis equipment, including X-ray as well as research laboratory facilities. This allows swift and accurate diagnoses, allowing the clinical group to without delay launch ideal therapy.
Minor Procedures: The center likewise executes minor clinical treatments, such as sutures, injury care, and splinting. This comprehensive technique makes certain that clients obtain extensive care under one roof covering.
The Relevance of a Community-Centric Approach
South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Center stands apart not only for its top-notch medical solutions but additionally for its dedication to the local area. By being readily available and also offering tailored care to patients of all ages, the clinic develops itself as a trusted partner in the neighborhoods wellness.
Additionally, the facilities involvement in community health campaigns and also health and wellness education and learning programs showcases its dedication to aggressive medical care. By increasing awareness concerning safety nets and advertising much healthier living, South Valparaiso – Immediate & & Urgent Care Center intends to reduce the occurrence of medical emergencies in the area.
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A Three-part, Phase I/II Dose-Escalation Study to Define the Safety, Tolerability, and Optimal Dose of Candidate GBM vaccine VBI-1901 with Subsequent Extension of Optimal Dose in Recurrent GBM subjects.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of VBI-1901 in subjects with recurrent malignant gliomas (glioblastoma, or GBM).
- Experimental: Part A Dose Level 1
- Experimental: Part A Dose Level 2
- Experimental: Part A Dose Level 3
- Experimental: Part B GM-CSF Adjuvant
- Experimental: Part B AS01B Adjuvant
- Experimental: Part C VBI-1901 with GM-CSF Adjuvant
- Active Comparator: Part C Standard of Care Treatment
- 18-70 years of age
- Histologically confirmed WHO grade IV glioblastoma
- Unequivocal evidence of a tumor recurrence (any number of recurrences) or progression after an initial treatment regimen (prior to enrollment on this study) as assessed by MRI of the brain with and without contrast within 30 days prior to the initiation of injections of VBI-1901. An initial therapy requires surgery and radiation therapy, with or without temozolomide. In addition, alternate therapy (with or instead of temozolomide) is permitted as part of initial therapy.
- Recovery from the effects of surgery.
- Corticosteroid (dexamethasone or equivalent) dosage ≤ 4mg daily that has been stable or decreasing for at least 5 days.
- Recovery from prior therapy toxicity defined as resolution of all treatment-related adverse events (AEs) to Grade ≤ 1 or pre-treatment baseline (except alopecia).
- Karnofsky performance status (KPS) score ≥ 70%.
- Adequate organ function, including the following:
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,000/μL, platelets ≥ 100,000/μL
- Serum creatinine < 1.5 × the upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Bilirubin < 1.5 × ULN
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) < 2.5 × ULN
- Women of childbearing potential: negative urine pregnancy test within 14 days prior to the start of VBI-1901 treatment.
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CCL2 KO mice demonstrate enhanced TH2 responses following dermal sensitization.
Myers LP; Simeonova P; Meade BJ
Toxicologist 2005 Mar; 84(Suppl 1):349
Host resistance studies have demonstrated the importance of CCR2 (C-C chemokine receptor 2) in Th1 responses and CCL2 (ligand of CCR2) in Th2 responses. These studies were undertaken to evaluate the role of CCR2 and CCL2 in the development of skin sensitization. To begin this evaluation, CCL2 and CCR2 knockout (KO) mice or C57BL/6 wild-type (WT) control mice were dermally exposed to 2% 2, 4-toluene diisocyanate (TDI), 30% alpha-hexylcinnamaldehyde (HCA), or vehicle (acetone). Their response to chemical exposure was evaluated using a modified LLNA (local lymph node assay), analysis of serum IgE, and phenotypic analysis of draining lymph node cells. CCR2 KO mice demonstrated a reduced stimulation index (SI) in the LLNA to 2% TDI, as compared to the WT controls (35.8 & 70.6, respectively) with little difference observed in the response to HCA (SI = 4.5 for CCR2 KO and SE = 5.1 for WT mice). Serum IgE levels after 2% TDI exposure were also significantly lower in CCR2 KO (5918 +/- 877 ng/ml) compared to WT (8156 +/- 632 ng/ml) mice. In contrast, CCL2 KO mice demonstrated an increased SI following exposure to 2% TDI as compared to WT controls (64.8 & 47.4, respectively), as well as a slight increase in proliferation to HCA (7.5 & 5.2, respectively). Moreover, CCL2 KO mice had a significant increase in serum IgE levels after TDI exposure (24542 +/- 5651 ng/ml) when compared to WT treated with TDI (9345 +/- 2959 ng/ml). Consistent with published studies in host resistance, where CCR2 KO mice demonstrated a Th1 defect, CCR2 KO demonstrated a slight decrease in their response to HCA, a Th1 inducing chemical. In contrast to observed effects on host resistance (Th2 defect) in CCL2 KO mice, the CCL2 KO mice demonstrated an enhanced Th2 response following exposure to the dermal sensitizer, TDI.
Laboratory-animals; Animals; Animal-studies; Sensitization; Exposure-levels; Exposure-assessment; Lymph-nodes; Skin-exposure; Skin-sensitivity
Disease and Injury: Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
The Toxicologist. Society of Toxicology 44th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo, March 6-10, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana
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The conspiracy case against Vybz Kartel and Gaza Slim is to start on Wednesday, October 29.
Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer and Gaza Slim, whose given name is Vanessa Saddler, are charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Andre henry, otherwise called Pim Pim is also charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The trial was to start on Monday in the Corporate Area RM Court, but could not start because documents were not served.
In addition, legal representation has not been settled for Henry.
Resident Magistrate Simone Wolfe-Reece has given Henry until October to settle his legal representation.
Both Saddler and Henry had their bails extended while Kartel was further remanded, as he is serving a life sentence.
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Pitzer College Art Galleries - Claremont, CA
November 21, 2019 | 1 - 4 pm
Participants will gain insight into the meaning and experience of art in prison, engage in dialogue about the impact of art in the restorative justice movement, and create art and writing projects to reflect on the issues, narratives, and emotional responses to the exhibition.
This exhibition and related events are generously supported by the Justice Education Initiative at the Claremont Colleges, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowed Fund; and Office of the Dean of Faculty at Pitzer College.
Beyond the Blue Exhibition Panel Discussion + Opening Reception,
Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
February 12, 2019 | Panel @ 1pm & Opening 6 - 8 pm
Beyond the Blue Exhibition, Asm. McCarty's Open House & Art Show - Sacramento, CA | June 12, 2019
On June 12, 2019, Prison Arts Collective displayed artworks from the traveling exhibition "Beyond the Blue" is Assemblymember Kevin McCarty's office. Asm. McCarty supported the work being done by PAC and Anti-Recidivism Coalition.
Beyond the Blue Exhibition, Garcia Center for the Arts - San Bernardino, CA | May 10 - June 9, 2019
From May 10 through June 9, 2019, artworks from PAC's "Beyond the Blue" were on display in San Bernardino's Garcia Center for the Arts. Demonstrating the diversity of artistic styles and depth of creative expression among artists that are incarcerated, this exhibition provided the unique opportunity for viewers to engage with works created by those participating in University-led arts programming while incarcerated.
From January 14 through January 25, 2019, selections from PAC’s second major exhibition “Beyond the Blue” were on display in the Annex Hallway of the California State Capitol. To celebrate, PAC staff members and former participants traveled to Sacramento and partnered with Senator Jim Beall, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition to host a reception.
Click here to learn more about the events surrounding this exciting exhibition!
Freedom Festival, Los Angeles Valley College, September 2017
Arts in Corrections Conference, Loyola Marymount University, June 2017
We host certificate ceremonies at the culmination of each 15-week session at the prisons where we facilitate classes. These ceremonies are meaningful to our participants and show their commitment and progress. Some tell us it is the first certificate they have ever received. Others share that they send it home to their families to show that they are engaged in productive projects while incarcerated. Most take it to the parole board.
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS
Outstanding Professor Award, Annie Buckley, CSUSB, 2018-2019
Partner of the Year Award from Job Corps, Community-based Art, Inland Empire, 2015
Outstanding Faculty in Service, Annie Buckley, College of Arts and Letters, CSUSB, 2015
Presidential Honor Roll in Service, Annie Buckley, CSUSB, 2014
CONFERENCES, PANELS, AND GUEST LECTURES
June 2019: Arts in Correction Conference, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
May 2018: Guest lecture and panel, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
April 2018: Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
April 2018: Irish Prison Education Conference, Portlaoise, Ireland
October 2017: Beyond the Bars Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
August 2017: Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, Canada
November 2016: National Conference for Higher Ed in Prisons, Nashville, TN
June 2016: Arts in Correction Conference, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
March 2016: National Art Education Association, Chicago, IL
November 2015: National Conference for Higher Ed in Prisons, Pittsburgh, PA
October 2015: European Association for Prison Education, Antwerp, Belgium
COLLABORATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS
CB1 Gallery: Based in downtown Los Angeles, CB1 Gallery hosted the PAC's first public exhibition, Through the Wall, in spring 2016. In 2017, gallery artist Phung Huynh will be a guest artist with the PAC.
Corita Art Center: We are pleased to collaborate with Corita Art Center of Los Angeles. In the summer of 2016, they invited our research team to the Center. Following the visit, they created a new curriculum based on the work and teachings of trailblazing artist and educator, Corita Kent, specifically for our programs in the prisons.
JP Durand and Liza Carbe of Incendio: We are thrilled to welcome these nationally touring musicians and friends of the PAC for special concerts at the prisons for our incarcerated participants.
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With the popularity of smartphones ever increasing, we've put together a list of the best new and upcoming smartphones of 2013. Updated on 22/04/13.
Smartphones are most definitely among the top of consumers' most wanted gadget lists, so we've rounded up the best smartphones which have arrived so far this year and what is still to come from the biggest brands.
We’ve had some big launches in the first quarter of the year from Sony, HTC and Samsung. And looking forward, there are some exciting things to come from Apple, Google and others.
New smartphones 2013
Sony Xperia Z
The first big smartphone announcement of the year was the Sony Xperia Z which the firm unveiled at CES in Las Vegas back in January. It was the first Full HD phone we'd seen and combined with the stylish glass design which is dust and waterproof, we were impressed.
After a slew of underperforming handsets throughout 2012, Sony has got off to a good start this year - we said "The Xperia Z is the first smartphone which Sony has really nailed." With the amount of competition around it needed to.
Read our Sony Xperia Z review.
After a long delay, BlackBerry, formally RIM, launched its BlackBerry Z10 smartphone running the BlackBerry 10 operating system at the end of January. Many have pegged it as the firm's last roll of the dice after dwindling success.
The Z10 is the first BlackBerry with no buttons for navigation whatsoever. Looking distinctly like a plastic iPhone, it only has a 4.2in touchscreen and uses gesture based control. The BlackBerry 10 OS features a combined inbox called the BlackBerry Hub and keyboard which lets you flick suggested words.
Read our BlackBerry Z10 review.
Next up was the HTC One, a confusing name after the One X, One S and other handsets last year. Following in the footsteps of Samsung, HTC decided to announce just before MWC (the big smartphone show in Barcelona) at its own launch event in London.
Like the Xperia Z, it features a Full HD resolution but on a slightly smaller screen. It's the best built Android smartphone we've ever seen with the Sony close behind. HTC took things a different direction with a heavily modified version of Android and an Ultrapixel camera.
Read our HTC One review.
HTC First 'Facebook phone'
As expected, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Facebook Phone in the form of the HTC First. It's the, er, first smartphone to come pre-loaded with the Facebook Home app which take the place of the usual Android homescreen and lockscreen.
The HTC First is a plain looking device with a modest specification – a 4.3in screen, dual-core processor and 5Mp camera. It is cheap, though.
Price: $99 in the US (UK price TBC)
Read our HTC First review
Samsung Galaxy S4
Like last year, Samsung waited until after MWC to reveal the Galaxy S4. This time it was in New York rather than London. The launch event was a bizarre panto style affair with extra toppings of cheese but it's the phone that's important.
To rival its competitors the Galaxy S4 also has a Full HD display and design wise looks extremely similar to its predecessor, the Galaxy S3. The Galaxy S4 will be the first smartphone with an 8-core processor, but not in the UK unfortunately. Samsung has gone all out on software features including Smart Scroll and Smart Pause.
Our rating: coming soon
With the main flagship releases of the year covered, let's look forward to what's to come. These are, of course, based on rumours and we can't say for sure whether the handsets will arrive or not – in general they are mostly likely to tip up at some point.
Upcoming smartphones 2013
Apple iPhone 5S/iPhone 6
The iPhone 5 has been around for a few months so naturally thoughts are turning towards the next generation. It's unclear whether Apple will release an iPhone 5S or iPhone 6, or possibly two handsets with rumours of a cheaper plastic model. The iPhone 5S seems the most likely, going by previous generations.
If Apple's tradition endures then the iPhone 5S will use the same physical casing as the iPhone 5 with upgrades to the internal components. If rumours are correct, then Apple could announce the next-gen iPhone as early as this month. If not, we're sure we’ll see a new iPhone at some point this year.
Earliest possible launch date: March
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini
A likely candidate for this year is a mini version of the Galaxy S4, as Samsung did with the Galaxy S3. This would be smaller, of course, but also more affordable due to less impressive specifications. I decent photo of the Galaxy S4 mini has been leaked.
The Galaxy S4 will supposedly have a 4.3in qHD SuperAMOLED display and a 1.6GHz dual-core processor but the same styling as the flagship Galaxy S4. It is thought that Samsung will launch the Galaxy S4 mini this summer.
Earliest possible launch date: June
Google Nexus 5
Google is firmly in the hardware market now, with some help from its manufacturing partners that is. The LG made Nexus 4 is the firm's current smartphone offering so the next version is believed to be the Nexus 5.
Rumoured specifications include a Full HD screen at either 5in or 5.2in, a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor and a camera made by Nikon. We could see the Nexus 5 announced at Google I/O in May along with Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.
Earliest possible launch date: May
Motorola X Phone
Things have been pretty quiet on the Motorola front since it was bought by Google. However, rumours of a new flagship 'X Phone' have been circulating. It is tipped to offer customisation over its components or colours and materials so you can 'build your own phone'.
Beyond this there's a lot of mystery with other rumours suggesting it's the name for a number of different smartphones. Rumoured specs include a 4.8in screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip and a large 4000mAh battery. Like the Nexus 5, it could tip up at Google I/O in May.
Earliest possible launch date: May


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TRAVERSE CITY — Cedar resident B.J. Christensen, who is 74, was fully vaccinated by the end of January, 2021. So was her 76-year-old husband, Tom Christensen, and her 99-year-old mom, Ann Mazurek.
They all got an additional shot as soon as boosters were approved for those over 65 years old by the Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 22.
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“We signed up and got it right away,” Christensen said. “I’m not willing to take the risk of getting it and spreading it to my family, especially my mom who is very vulnerable.”
By September it had been about eight months since their initial doses and, like many older residents, they likely by then had little protection against COVID-19, which has killed nearly 830,000 people in the United States since the pandemic began more than two years ago.
When it comes to omicron, the latest variant of the still-raging virus, those who got vaccinated more than six months ago and have not been boosted have very little, if any, protection, said Dr. Christopher Ledtke, infectious disease specialist with Munson Healthcare.
The situation is even more dire for older people who already have lowered immune systems because of their age, Ledtke said. The good news is that those who are vaccinated and boosted have very high neutralizing antibodies against omicron, he said.
By April 3 more than 72 percent of residents 65 and older in Grand Traverse County and more than 70 percent of residents 65 and older in Leelanau County were fully vaccinated, according to data at Michigan’s Vaccine Dashboard. Both counties led the state in overall vaccination rates.
The dashboard does not include data on how many Michiganders have gotten the booster, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of the 206.8 million Americans who are fully vaccinated, just 72.3 million have received a third dose or a booster.
“Basically there are lots and lots of susceptible people,” Ledtke said. “Those with boosters are significantly more protected.”
The Grand Traverse Pavilions reported an outbreak that started Nov. 5 and killed five residents at the long-term care facility, as previously reported. During the outbreak 34 residents and 12 staff members tested positive for the virus, believed to be the delta variant.
It was the first outbreak at the facility since the pandemic started. The infected residents were fully vaccinated, but had not yet received boosters.
“The same day we received the boosters, that’s the day the outbreak started,” Deb Allen, chief development and community engagement officer, said this week.
Allen said there have been no further deaths from COVID or new cases since November. In addition, all residents who were able to get the booster have, as well as 90 percent of the staff, she said.
Ledtke cited a study that came out about a week ago and used laboratory data to measure those antibodies in blood samples taken from vaccinated people.
“That lab data shows that the protection is not enough to protect against omicron,” Ledtke said.
A similar response was found in people who had not been vaccinated but had been infected with COVID, Ledtke said. Those people had very low levels of antibody protection against omicron.
“Having a prior infection with COVID is not enough protection,” he said.
Another study from South Africa used “real life” data to look at people who received the vaccine but not the booster, he said. That study showed a 30 percent efficacy rate in preventing infection from omicron and a 70 percent efficacy rate in preventing severe infection.
Ledtke said it is hard to make generalizations about the results of the study as the ages of people studied, the dates they were vaccinated and their levels of exposure varied.
In addition, a study from the United Kingdom shows that the chance of getting infected a second time with the omicron variant is more than five times greater than for those who were infected with the delta variant, Ledtke said.
“The reinfection rate appears to be much higher with omicron,” he said.
Ledtke said it is not yet known how long the booster will last as it is relatively early and has only been in use for a few months. He suspects it will last longer than the initial series because of the robust response that has been seen in increasing antibodies against the disease.
Israel is looking at giving a fourth dose of the vaccine to high-risk people, he said.
In the U.S. a third dose in the vaccination series is recommended for people who are immunocompromised, followed by a booster six months later.
A third shot is a full dose, while a booster is a half-dose.
This week the CDC came out with recommendations for a booster for those 12 and older who received the Pfizer vaccine — the only one approved for children. The booster is given five months after the initial series.


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