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Windows Phone has recently made some significant leaps forward. True, no WP handset has set the mobile world alight in the same way a new iPhone will, but the platform and its related devices have been making headway. Earlier this week it emerged that Windows Phone has taken a larger market share in China than Apple, despite the first phone running the OS only having been released in the world’s largest mobile market two months ago.
Whilst Windows Phone is supported by several manufacturers, it is Microsoft’s relationship with Nokia that has drawn the most attention when it comes to the emerging mobile platform. Following Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s ‘burning platform’ speech the Finnish manufacturer dropped its MeeGo OS and reduced support for Symbian, choosing to focus on Windows Phone with its new handsets.
This collaboration has produced some excellent devices, most notably the recent Lumia 900, which could turn Nokia’s recent fortunes around. With the latest Windows Phone iteration having gradually embedded itself in the consciousness of the mobile-buying public as a realistic third choice behind the big guns of iOS and Android, where is Microsoft going to take its mobile platform next?
Although not officially confirmed by the software-giant, many rumours suggest that a new version, Windows Phone 8, will be released in October. We decided to take a look at what we already know, or think we know, about the upcoming operating system.
Specific, detailed, confirmed announcements from Microsoft or any of its manufacturing partners are still very thin on the ground. However, there have been a few scraps thrown our way, some of which have led to even more speculation and confusion.
As far as mobile manufacturers go, Samsung and HTC have announced that they will be producing Windows Phone devices in the future. Backing like this is hugely important for the platform, especially since Samsung recently overtook Nokia to become the world’s biggest manufacturer of mobile phones. Both have created devices for Windows Phone before, with Samsung’s Omnia 7 and HTC’s Titan being notable examples of how Microsoft has worked with manufacturers to produce proficient, if not particularly prevalent, handsets.
As for Microsoft itself, the company’s evasive and sporadic approach to announcements and revelations has led to some confusion. Microsoft developer Nuno Silva announced in April that a new version of Windows Phone will be compatible with all current WP devices, and all upgrades would be rolled out in one go. Great, thought the platform’s subscribers, especially those who have recently bought Nokia’s new flagship Lumia 900, and don’t want their new device to become dated within a few months of purchase.
However, no sooner had the sweat been wiped off the collective brow of the Windows Phone faithful than Silva gave them more reason to worry. Just days after his original comments the developer wrote a post on his blog retracting the majority of what he had said, stating: “The point I was attempting to make was simply that existing Windows Phone applications will run on the next version of Windows Phone. This is the same guidance that Microsoft shared late last year.
“I mistakenly confused app compatibility with phone updateability . . .I did not intend to give the impression I was offering new guidance on any products under development or their upgradeability”.
So all existing Windows Phone apps will be compatible with the new version of the software, but there is no news on devices themselves. Windows Phone users will not find much comfort in knowing that the apps they have bought on their account will work when the device they use them on may not.
As with many anticipated developments in the mobile world, there are far more leaks and rumours than there ever are confirmed details. Windows Phone has so far not garnered anywhere near the number of stories that abounded in the build-up to Samsung’s Galaxy S III release, but we have still seen some interesting things emerge.
The most comprehensive revelations came about back in February when mobile tech site PocketNow somehow got its hands on a promotional video meant only for for the eyes of Nokia employees. The video featured Microsoft senior vice president and Windows Phone product manager Joe Belfiore explaining several developments made in relation to the mobile platform. Rather than anything visual, the improvements were focussed on the inner-workings of the operating system.
Assuming the video and details within it are genuine, a new version of Windows Phone will see support for multi-core processors – something that is missing in the current iteration and probably influenced Nokia’s decision to opt for single-core chips in its Lumia range. There could also be compatibility with a range of screen resolutions, possibly to accommodate HTC’s Titan with its large, 4.7-inch display.
Support for microSD cards may also be introduced, allowing users to increase their device’s storage capabilities beyond what is available out of the box. NFC support might also be on the cards, after Belfiore claimed that the new OS will be “placing specific emphasis on (Windows Phone) 8′s push into contactless payments”.
The video suggests that Microsoft will be taking a different approach to camera functionality on the new software, creating a base on top of which a manufacturer can build its own software and tailor it towards the capabilities of each device. Nokia recently grabbed headlines with its 808 PureView and the device’s 41 megapixel camera, so it will be interesting to see if the Finnish manufacturer continues to push the boundaries of mobile photography with the freedom which the new version of Windows Phone will bring.
The last revelation to emerge from Belfiore’s video involves Skype, with the VoIP service integrating with the OS so that calls function in a very similar way to those placed in the traditional manner.
No other sources have revealed anywhere near as much information as the video uncovered by PocketNow, but rumours have emerged from elsewhere. Most recently, a banner ad for the Lumia 900 which appeared on computer site PC Advisor may have seen Nokia accidentally giving us a peek at the upcoming OS. The homescreen of the device in the advert displayed some features that don’t currently appear in Windows Phone 7, such as a split Pictures tile listing how many images are on the handset, and a People Hub tile which sees a reminder for the user to “Meet up with Sarah”. Once spotted, these small details led to speculation that the device used in the advert may have been running a development version of a new Windows Phone iteration.
Also worth noting are a collection of images which purport to show sketches of future Windows Phone features, although no source has ever been named and the veracity of the information is unclear. Genuine or not, the images hint at some interesting ideas concerning the management of multitasking and suggest that Live Tiles might become customisable in future versions.
All of these rumours suggest that a new version of Microsoft’s mobile platform will be an evolution rather than a revolution, with incremental but important changes to the existing software seen on the likes of the Nokia Lumia 900 being introduced.
Windows Phone users are still very much in the dark about the upcoming version of the OS, and concern amongst those who have recently purchased WP handsets over whether their devices will get an upgrade, are understandable. From a consumer perspective, it does seem slightly unfair that Microsoft has done nothing to dispel these fears, even if it stops short of actually announcing the new operating system.
Windows Phone has grown into an impressive, versatile platform that is making a small but significant impact and offering a real alternative to the dominance of iOS and Android. What remains to be seen is whether or not Microsoft can built on its operating system’s recent success and take the Windows name to the top of the mobile world, and achieve the same levels of dominance as its desktop offering once did.

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Why is Busch likely to switch to Richard Childress Racing, what does this mean for Kyle Busch Motorsports and others, and what are the next potential moves in the silly NASCAR season?
Most likely Kyle Bush transfer to Richard Childress Racing
No one could reasonably have foreseen the idea of Busch taking a trip with Richard Childress Racing before the start of the 2022 season. He was motivated by a decision by Mars to leave the sport at the end of the year.
There were many options available to the 37-year-old driver and there was a tremendous amount of work to go on during the process. It’s certainly not likely to see Busch move from Joe Gibbs Racing.
Some of the other options in the process included 23XI Racing, Kaulig Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing. Hendrick Motorsports was thrown all over but nothing came of it.
At the end of the day, going back to car number 18 for Joe Gibbs Racing made more sense but that’s clearly not the decision. It is a failure on both sides not to continue this partnership moving forward if it is the number one goal.
23XI Racing would have had no place for Busch if his brother Kurt Busch decided to return next season. Kaulig Racing and Stewart-Haas Racing went in different directions at the end of the process.
Moving to Richard Childress Racing was the most realistic option if he were to leave Toyota Racing. The organization represents Busch’s realistic best camp Chevrolet team in terms of competitive gear.
In addition, this will help Chevrolet not only in the Trophy series but also in the NASCAR truck series as the Bosch organization will be willing to switch to the manufacturer.
NASCAR Truck Series: Impact on Kyle Busch Motorsport and More
Kyle Busch Motorsports currently plays Chandler Smith, John Hunter Nemechic and Corey Heim as its drivers; However, most, if not all, of them are Toyota drivers and not company drivers.
So, if Kyle Busch Motorsports is going to switch to Chevrolet, you’re unlikely to see drivers make that move either. Toyota Racing may need to increase support across its teams and find other landing spots.
It would be a massive, massive shift in the series’ landscape. Seven Toyota drivers made qualifying compared to two Chevrolet drivers, and one Ford driver. Now, one of the Truck Series’ largest enterprises can move to Chevrolet.
Chevrolet will absolutely love this move as it increases its presence in the series. The majority of its drivers struggled during the 2022 season after GMS Racing reduced its presence due to the NASCAR Cup Series program.
It is impossible to predict what might happen next in the truck chain. Who will be Kyle Busch Motorsports’ drivers as a Chevrolet team? The best program for Chevrolet in the series will be on GMS Racing.
The top prospect will likely move to the organization, which is similar to what they’ve been doing for years with Toyota Racing. It will be very interesting to see who will join the team.
Additionally, could a team like Hattori Racing get more support from Toyota and disrupt its drivers who were left out of the ride due to Kyle Busch Motorsports’ switch to Toyota? Who will become the best Toyota team now?
There are many questions that will be answered but each of them will have solutions in time.
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Assessing upcoming moves in the silly NASCAR season
Bush’s move to Richard Childress Racing raises more questions than answers than whether he will return to Joe Gibbs Racing next season. It all starts with what’s next for Tyler Riddick.
Richard Childress previously said he could add a third car for Bosch, but is there a chance they won’t be able to rent it? Childress could put Riddick in a third, non-rented car as a result of the ad.
If it doesn’t and Riddick isn’t in a renter entry, he could be off next season’s trip. Perhaps, 23XI Racing could somehow find a way to bring it in earlier than initially planned.
As for the #18 car left vacant at Joe Gibbs Racing, it will almost certainly be Ty Gibbs. It wouldn’t be a surprise after Gibbs was collaborating with Kurt Bosch. True, it was not great, but it is to be expected for a young driver.
This opens the door for Sammy Smith to enter the NASCAR Xfinity Series on a full-time basis. The new era of Joe Gibbs Racing is coming soon with Gibbs, Smith and Christopher Bell representing the future after years of fielding an older lineup of drivers.
Now that Richard Childress is likely to race Busch, it looks like Kaulig Racing will have announcements during Fan Day on October 5, which is in about a month. The organization is set to have “the unveiling of the paint scheme and the announcement of the driver for the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series.”
AJ Allmendinger and Daniel Hemric seem like obvious candidates to fill in the #16 car if it had a full-time driver. Then it will open a hole in the Xfinity series lineup which could see someone like Jeffrey Earnhardt fill the role moving forward.
Stewart-Haas Racing appears to be set on the side of the NASCAR Cup Series. The only question is whether Cole Caster will stay in car number 41 or Ryan Price will take the lead. It makes sense to keep Custer and give him another season.
On the Xfinity Series side, could Riley Herbst see himself landing at JR Motorsports? Car #9 needs a sponsored driver and Herbst may be on the verge of winning a race with the speed and improvement we’ve seen this season. If not, returning to Stewart-Haas Racing makes sense.
There will be many moves that come from Busch’s transition to Richard Childress Racing. It’s a massive shift in the NASCAR landscape but the speculation may soon be over.


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The photo shows Sakhr El Matri inspecting humanitarian aid supplies before they are put in a plane and sent to Pakistan’s flood victims. El Matri is the son-in-law of Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
But, the independent Tunisian blog Nawaat noticed that the photo appears to be Photoshopped. If you zoom into the photo, you can see the arm of the man in blue, who appears to be closer to the camera than El Matri, is cut off by El Matri. (See a Google Translate of Nawaat’s analysis of the photo here.) The man in blue’s arm being cut off suggested a cut-and-paste of El Matri into the photo, Nawaat wrote. Also, the photo had some weird shadowing issues and light exposure.
According to Global Voices, this is just the most recent case of fake information that Tunisia’s bloggers and “citizen media” have spotted in mainstream media. Reporters without Borders noted in its March report that Tunisia has high Internet censorship and filtering, but that Tunisia’s blogging community is very active.
“The fact that the doctored images were outed online clearly reached the editors of the newspapers because the photos were promptly replaced soon after in the online version,” Global Voices wrote.
Just two days later, on Aug 22, Nawaat reported that the photo was no longer available on either Le Temps or Assabah’s websites. And, neither of the sites posted corrections or updates explaining the photo’s removal.
Global Voices also highlighted that El Matri “is fully involved in the management of both newspapers.” El Matri is named on Le Temps’ website as prime minister, and Arab news site Menassat reported in May of 2009 when El-Matri bought a controlling share in the media company Dar al-Sabbah, which owns both newspapers.
iMediaEthics has written to Le Temps and Assabah and will update with any response.


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Consider opportunities at U.S.-Mexico border
The 700-mile fence proposed along the Mexican border could create some new opportunities for the United States (“Congress approves 700-mile border fence,” Sept. 30).
Illegal immigrants entering our country along the Mexican border often pay “coyotes” several thousand dollars to smuggle them in. Why not simply let people walk in legally and charge admission, perhaps $7,000 a head? Just have them fill out a form, take a picture, get fingerprints, give them a green card and send them on their way. If 1 million came through paying $7,000 a head, that would raise $7 billion, which would go a long way to paying for that fence.
Next, I would post signs along the fence that anyone entering the country illegally is agreeing to volunteer for our military. Instead of border control agents, staff the border with military recruiters. It’s a win-win for everyone; military pay and benefits are probably a lot more than immigrants could earn picking tomatoes.
There is nothing for the U.S. to gain by sending people back to Mexico. They should be sent to Iraq to serve our country and provide some relief to our soldiers; those not fit for service should be turned back. When their tour of duty is up, we could provide them with a guest pass to our country as gratitude for their service.
This letter appears in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today – I’m sorry, but is this sick bastard for real? Or is this sarcastic? I honesty cannot tell.


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The newly appointed Ambassadors of Mongolia, France, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Serbia, the Hellenic Republic, the Republic of Slovenia, and the High Commissioners of the Republic of Namibia and Canada presented their credentials to H.E. President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Sunday. The Ambassadors and High Commissioners presented their credentials to President Solih at a ceremony held at the President’s Office.
Following the ceremony, H.E. President Solih met with H.E. Ganbold Dambajav, the Ambassador of Mongolia to the Republic of Maldives; H.E. Jean-François Pactet, the Ambassador of France to the Republic of Maldives; H.E. Levan Dzhagaryan, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Maldives; H.E. Siniša Pavić, the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Maldives; H.E. Dimitrios Loannu, the Ambassador of Hellenic Republic to the Republic of Maldives; H.E. Mateja Vodeb Ghosh, the Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Republic of Maldives; H.E. Gabriel P. Sinimbo, the High Commissioner of the Republic of Namibia to the Republic of Maldives; and, H.E. Eric Walsh, the High Commissioner of Canada to the Republic of Maldives.
Speaking at the meeting, President Solih noted the essential roles the accredited High Commissioners and Ambassadors played in strengthening and sustaining bilateral relations between the Maldives and other nations. He also stated that in the past four years, his administration had been able to realise the developmental aspirations of the people and that it had relied on the power of diplomacy and international cooperation based on the three pillars of the Maldives’ foreign policy: promotion and protection of human rights, consolidating democracy, and championing climate diplomacy, in fulfilling this commitment.
President Solih also highlighted the necessary fiscal policy changes the administration was undertaking to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19 on the Maldivian economy. Speaking about the importance of increasing people-to-people contact, the President noted that enabling more accessible travel would encourage cultural exchanges, strengthen economic ties, and build everlasting bridges of peace, prosperity, and progress.
The President stated that the Maldives grants on-arrival visas, irrespective of country, and expressed hope for ease of travel for Maldivians by the respective countries soon. In conclusion, President Solih voiced hope that the relations between the Maldives and the respective nations would be strengthened during their terms.


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If you’re looking for a photo editing program to help you enhance your photos, there are several options on the market. Some of them offer more advanced features than others, but many are beginner-friendly and easy to learn.
For example, PicMonkey is a free image editor that offers a suite of tools to edit photos. You can use it to adjust colors, sharpen images, and retouch photos.
Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular photo booth software programs on the market. It is used by photographers, graphic designers and other creative professionals to edit images or create new high-quality images or graphics.
There are a variety of features available in Photoshop that can be useful for different types of projects and workflows. Some of these include the ability to protect certain parts of an image or artwork while editing them such as using a color and luminescence range masking control to select specific colors in the image.
Another great feature of Photoshop is the ability to create and work with multiple layers. Layers can contain multiple images and each image can have its own set of filters applied. The layers can also be renamed and moved around to make them easier to manage.
Luminar is an image editing program that works as stand-alone software or as a plugin alongside other popular photo editors. It blends AI-powered tools with more traditional manual adjustment options to create a more complete program that’s ideal for all levels of photographers.
Its interface has been updated, making it easier to find the tools and sliders you need. Instead of a confusing filters & workspaces layout, Luminar now uses a more user-friendly grouping of editing tools into 4 categories: Essentials, Creative, Portrait and Pro.
Another feature of Luminar Neo is Templates, which are presets that can instantly transform your photos with minimal input from you. These templates are based on AI assessments of your photos and come in 22 different collections with five to six individual edits that can suit most images.
Aside from the templates, Luminar Neo also features an AI Sky Enhancer that can improve colors, intensify sunrise and sunset, and add or remove clouds from the sky. Additionally, it offers Body AI that can preserve lifelike curves and shapes in your photos.
GIMP is a free and open-source image manipulation program. Originally founded in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, it has since grown into a full-fledged image editor that can compete with the big players in the industry.
GIMP comes with a lot of features that are sure to please anyone in the creative field. It has a wide range of paint tools and a plethora of effects to enhance images.
It also has many retouching options, such as the ability to crop and clone images. It supports a variety of file formats, including TIFF, JPEG, and GIF.
GIMP also includes a powerful plug-in system that makes it easy to add new functions, file formats, and effect filters. This is why it’s such a popular choice for graphic artists and designers, but it’s also an ideal program for beginners who want to learn the basics of editing images. It’s available on a number of platforms, and is free to download and use.
Fotor is a free photo software that offers a variety of features and effects. It’s easy to use and features a colorful interface.
One of its main features is its filters, which can be used to enhance a picture’s beauty. There are hundreds of these filters, and they’re available in both the desktop and mobile versions of the app.
There’s also a collage maker, which allows you to make eye-catching pictures in just a few clicks. You can also add a background, border or tilt-shift effect to your photos.
The program also has a number of retouching tools. It can remove red eyes, wrinkles and other skin blemishes.
It also supports AI background removal, which can erase people and other objects from the image. It can also replace backgrounds with solid color and even other pictures.

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Mobile Game For Kids Helps Them Keep An Eye On Speeding Parents
The app uses a phone's GPS to detect a car's rate of travel and compares it against the road limit
It’s easy for kids to get bored during long rides and maybe even easier for parents to misuse the gas pedal. The Automobile Club of Romania plans to solve both issues with a new mobile game called Mr. Bear Driver.
The game is easy to play and it’s definitely made for the younger audience: animals are the protagonists and as the name suggests, a bear sits behind the wheel.
Using the phone’s GPS, the game detects the car’s speed and compares it against the road’s speed limit. If the driver goes past the limit, the player loses points unless the car slows down. The child would have to remind the driver to slow down when the limit is being breached. If the speeding doesn’t stop, the kid will lose points and the game will end.


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An eclectic design history at Sanderson London
An original, surrealist 1970s red lips ‘Bocca’ sofa by Edra (opposite top), Pierre Paulin’s 1960s ‘Yellow Tongue’ chair and some charming dog portraits (opposite bottom) are just some of the whimsical design touches in the Philippe Starck-imagined Sanderson London hotel. Take a walk around to be transported to a “dream-like world”, says general manager Kelly Morgan of its aura. “Starck even purchased a Tom Sachs ‘Chanel Chainsaw’ from New York to place in the entrance.”
There’s a design legacy to the Sanderson that some may not be aware of. The Grade II*-listed modernist building, built in 1958 and designed by Jeff Holroyd of Slater Uren Architects, was originally the HQ and showroom for Sanderson Textiles. (It was, Morgan notes, one of the first buildings in London “to have a ‘curtain wall exterior’”.)
In line with this rich design history, each piece in the hotel is curated. “Philippe Starck made sure to include repurposed items, speaking to our sustainable approach but also to his own mantra of ‘things don’t have to be new to be beautiful’,” Morgan continues. If the branded power tool at the entrance doesn’t grab your attention, the retro furniture and artworks that fill the rest of the space will. Included are mosaics by Jupp Dernbach-Mayen, a hanging bubble chair, and decorative motifs from the 17th century – each corner of the hotel is utterly eclectic.
“The multicultural nature of London means creativity is found in every corner – restaurant openings, in exhibitions, in street art, but also in everyday life,” says Morgan of why they’re keen to reveal the narratives behind the designs inside the hotel. Back in 2019, the Sanderson celebrated the festive season with the work of London-based designer Yinka Ilori, who created a specially commissioned geometric Christmas ‘tree’ – made up of five colourful sculptures imbued with the hotel’s whimsical aesthetic.
The hotel’s permanent features are just as thrilling as the temporary installations. ‘A jewel box in a doll’s house’ was the starting concept of the Purple Bar, which holds an outré Mad Hatter’s Afternoon Tea. But if it’s peace and quiet you’re after, head outside to the courtyard and experience a serene Japanese garden and its bamboo accents, a giant bonsai tree and black pebbles. Variety really is all.

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This album deserves to be heard like the reviewer before me said, and sucks to see only 2 reviews thus far when it really deserves so much more, but in due time i guess/hope.
Five...Ten...a hundred + STARS all the way!! Great work Insomnium ...AGAIN!
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For example, "Decoherence," a slower instrumental piece with a orchestral melody in the background sounds like something a contemporary post rock band would come out with. The opening song, "Inertia," has definite similarities to bands like Explosions in the Sky or Pelican.
On the flip side, songs like "Through the Shadows," and "Song of the Blackest Bird," are some of the best pure melodeath I've heard in a long time. The guitar riffs, the grooving rhythm; it's just perfect. The vocals are some of the best I've heard from Insomnium since "In the Halls of Awaiting." There is a good mix of death growls and clean singing that just works well with the music.
Insomnium doesn't fail to disappoint. If you like any of Insomnium's older albums, pick this up.
With One for Sorrow, Insomnium takes their melodic death metal sound right up to the edge of doom metal territory. The melodies are more mournful, the keyboards more haunting, the vocals - especially the clean vocals - more somber. I'd place the overall sound of this album closer to doom/death bands like Daylight Dies and Novembers Doom than the usual melodic death influences, though there are a lot of similarities to Dark Tranquillity here as well. Insomnium hits the perfect balance between the fast and melodic and the somber and heavy, and the whole album is drenched in this gloriously depressing atmosphere. Like being in the heart of some immense thunderstorm, One for Sorrow just seems to rage all around you and draw you deeper into its center. It has a sense of emotion that few albums ever reach, and that is only intensified by the occasional acoustic passage or tranquil interlude that moves the listener along to the next explosion of grief and rage.
I have to agree with the reviewer who pointed out the problems with the sound quality of this album. His one-star rating was way off-base, but there is something - and I don't know if it's the mixing or something else - that makes the album a little harder to take in. I don't know enough about the technical side of things to adequately explain it, but it bothered me enough that I almost took off a star.Read more ›
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Insomnium delivers from front to back. If you're a fan of melodic death metal at all, you'll love this album.Published on December 24, 2013 by Amazon Customer
Like every Insomnium album, this delivers with great songwriting and musicianship, while failing in post production. These guys should find a new studio.Published on October 4, 2013 by Ahbin
My first mp3 album by insomnium which i loved so much.
I wanted to buy actual CD and placed an order but they didn't have it in stock.
I'll have to wait for it.
Probably one if their best albums yet! It has the strikingly beautiful melody mixed with the powerful riffs that you have come to expect from this incredible band.Published on February 6, 2013 by James Odinson
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Karen L. Herbst
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology
University of Arizona, 3950 South Country Club Drive
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Background: Lipedema is a poorly known disorder of painful subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) likely affecting millions of women worldwide. Stage 1 lipedema has smooth skin with increased underlying fat, Stage 2 has indentations and nodules, and Stage 3 has large extrusions of skin and SAT. Women with lipedema have more SAT below the waist. As this gynoid fat is known to be cardioprotective, we aimed to determine if health declined with increasing stage and extent of lipedema SAT.
Methods and Findings: Chart review from June 2012 to February 2013 at a tertiary academic center. Fifty women and one man were included in consecutive order. Fat was assessed in 29 areas for lipomas, size of the depot, and presence of lipedema fat. Pain was assessed by a numerical pain scale. Average age of patients was 50 ± 13 y; average body mass index was 38 ± 12 kg/m2. Median age of development of lipedema was 20 y. Pain occurred daily in 89.7%. None of the patients with Stage 1 lipedema had diabetes, hypertension or dyslipidemia. The amount of lipedema fat differed significantly between Stages of lipedema (p=0.003), with Stage 3 having significantly more. There was no difference in fat depot size or number of lipomas amongst Stages. Only one of 51 patients had type 2 diabetes. There was an increase in shortness of breath, palpitations, urination, and numbness in Stage 3.
Conclusions: Lipedema fat can develop in any SAT location and increases in association with increasing signs and symptoms of systemic illness.
Lipedema, lipoedema, lymphedema, lipolymphedema, spheroids
Lipedema (lipoedema in Europe) meaning fluid or swelling in fat is a painful disorder involving subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT). Lipedema was first named in the literature in 1940 by Drs. Allen and Hines as a condition occurring almost exclusively in women who suffer from enlargement of fat tissue of the lower extremities and buttocks ; older literature also contains descriptions of women with lipedema [2,3]. In more recent literature, lipedema is described as a bilateral condition that does not affect the hands or feet  with a disproportion between a smaller upper body and a “voluminous” lower body .
Stage 1 in which there is a normal skin surface with enlarged hypodermal SAT; Stage 2 with indentations of the skin and underlying SAT similar to a mattress  containing larger mounds of SAT that grow as non-encapsulated masses, lipomas and angiolipomas; Stage 3 where large extrusions of tissue (skin and SAT) cause gross deformations especially on the thighs and around the knees. Lymphedema, where lymph fluid develops dependently on the feet and hands increasing cranially due to dysfunctional lymphatics, can develop during any stage of lipedema, and is called lipolymphedema or Stage 4 lipedema. Lipedema therefore is a pre-lymphedema condition; though not everyone with lipedema will go on to develop lymphedema.
The authors found in clinical practice that lipedema fat tissue was found more extensively on the body than is currently described in the literature. In addition, women with stage 3 lipedema appeared to have greater and more serious complaints than women with earlier stages of lipedema. The goal of this report was to gain a greater understanding of the extent of lipedema tissue on the body in all stages, and to determine if a later stage of lipedema was associated with a greater number of signs and symptoms suggestive of a serious decline in health.
Protocol: Chart review from a subspecialty Endocrinology clinic at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), to which patients self-referred or were formally referred for evaluation and recommendations for treatment, from June 2012 to February 2013. Patients were included in consecutive order if they had or were given a diagnosis of lipedema, had a charted physical exam, and a complete review of systems. This research was considered exempt by the UCSD Human Research and Protection Program.
Fat assessment: Lipedema fat has been astutely described as feeling like small firm beans in a bag . These small, approximately 5 x 5 - 10 x 10 mm “beans”, are rounded fat lobules, distinct from one another yet closely packed together, that resemble spheroids, the buck-shot sized, hard, calcified, subcutaneous nodules resulting from fat necrosis present in connective tissue disorders . In this report, fat on the entire body was assessed qualitatively by visualization as increased, normal or decreased, and by hands-on exam in 29 areas of the body from head to dorsal foot examining for spheroids and lipomas. The breasts were not included in the palpation due to the fibrocystic nature of breast tissue and inability to accurately determine the presence of lipedema tissue. When the beans in a bag feel to the fat was encountered by palpation, the fat was recorded as containing spheroids. The fat on the head can be increased with a sponge-like feel in women with later stages of lipedema and was included in the spheroid analyses.
Pain and joints: Determined by numeric scale as average, high and low pain, with zero being no pain and ten being the worst pain ever. Hypermobile joints were assess using the Beighton hypermobility score .
Statistics: A one-way between-subjects ANOVA was used to test for the difference in number of areas with spheroids, size of the fat depot and the number of lipomas based on the patient’s lipedema stage. When appropriate, Tukey HSD post-hoc analyses were used. A Pearson Chi-Square analysis was used to test for the difference in the number of Symptoms in Patient’s Past Medical History and Review of Systems (SPSS, International Business Machines Corporations (IBM; Armonk, NY).
Literature review: In a review of 94 articles found under the search term “lipedema/lipoedema” in PubMed in March 2015, 65 were available with full-text for review, and 49 were available in English. This review focused on articles in English to avoid mistakes in the translation of articles on computergenerated translators. Out of the 42 articles on lipedema, 8 did not mention the distribution of lipedema tissue. The majority of the remaining articles described lipedema fat as occurring almost exclusively on the lower extremities, with occasional involvement of the buttocks and hips . Fife et al. specifically mentioned that lipedema can spread as far up as the lower waist, and down as far as the medial and lateral malleoli and that upper arms can be affected . Cornely stated in a recent paper that the arms are affected in 80% of women with lipedema . Beninson et al. mentioned that trunk and upper extremities are usually normal in patients affected with lipedema . Dietzel et al. found the disproportion between the upper and lower body was lost when obesity was present with lipedema . Combined, these data in the absence of obesity provide a picture of a woman with lipedema whose lipedema SAT can extend as high as her lower abdomen (up to the umbilicus), primarily located on her legs, and upper arms, but not her hands, feet or trunk.
Population characteristics: The majority of the patients in this study had stage 2 lipedema (Table 1) including a single man (age 25 y). Two women with stage 2 lipedema had lipolymphedema (6%) and five women with stage 3 lipedema had lipolymphedema (38.5%), also known as stage 4 lipedema. Body mass index values were available for 46 patients. Four women (8.7%) had normal BMI (<25 kg/m2), three with stage 1 and one with stage 2 lipedema. Seven women (15.2%) were overweight (BMI ≥ 25 ≤ 30 kg/m2, one with stage 2 lipedema and the remainder with stage 3 lipedema; in the latter group, one had stage 4 lipedema. The remainder of the patients, including the man, were obese (76.1%), six of which had stage 4 lipedema.
|Age (years)||50 ± 13|
|Weight (kg)||103 ± 32|
|Height (cm)||165 ± 7|
|BMI (kg/m2)||38 ± 12|
|Age lipedema started (years)||24 ± 13|
|Number of children||1.4 ± 2|
|Past Medical History||Percent ±sem|
|Abdominal or pelvic surgery||48 ± 0.5|
|Arthritis||38 ± 0.5|
|Dyslipidemia||38 ± 0.5|
|Hypertension||31 ± 0.5|
|Type 2 Diabetes||2.0 ± 0.1|
Table 1: Population characteristics, demographics and medical history.
Data on onset of lipedema was available for 41 patients. The median and average age of onset was 20 y and 24.3 ± 2.2 y, respectively. Twenty two (53.7%) stated they developed lipedema by the age of 20 y, eighteen (43.9%)stated they developed lipedema after the age of 20 y, 9.8% after the age of 40 y and only two after the age of 50 years, specifically at 54 y (stage 2) and 63 y (stage 2 and 4).
40% of participants never had children. Sixteen women were multiparous and of these women, two had stage 3 lipedema.
Past Medical and Surgical History: Over 30% of patients had abdominal or pelvic procedures (Table 1). These surgeries included cholecystectomy, loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), tubal ligation, panniculectomy, Cesarean section, uterine fibroid tumor removal, repeated dilation and curettage (D&C) of the cervix, ovarian cyst removal, or ovarian reconstruction. Over 30% of the patients had arthritis, dyslipidemia or hypertension (Table 1). None of the patients with stage 1 lipedema had hypertension, dyslipidemia or diabetes. Additional past history found in <30% of patients included hypothyroidism (27 ± 0.5%), varicose veins, asthma or hysterectomy (21 ± 0.4% each), fibromyalgia or bariatric surgery (13 ± 0.3% each), and endometriosis (10 ± 0.3%). Less than 10% of the patients had diabetes (Table 1), polycystic ovarian syndrome or gluten allergy (6.3 ± 0.2% each), costochondritis or narcolepsy (4.2 ± 0.2% each), or a factor V Leiden mutation (2.1 ± 0.1%). Of the patients with diabetes, one woman with stage 2 lipedema had type 2 diabetes and one patient had type 1 diabetes. Additionally, three patients had a history of gestational diabetes and two had a history of or had current impaired glucose tolerance for a total of 6 ± 0.3% with insulin resistance or diabetes in their current or past history. The single male had secondary hypogonadism only.
Pain and joints: Data for pain was not available for twelve patients. Four patients with lipedema denied having any pain (10.3%) while the remainder (89.7%) had daily pain (Figure 1). Of the patients that had no pain, one had stage 1, two had stage 2, and one had stage 2 with lipolymphedema. A majority of patients had pain in the joints (57 ± 0.5%), fat (49 ± 0.5%), back (44 ± 0.5%), legs (39 ± 0.5%) and muscle (37 ± 0.5%). Pain was also noted in the head (25 ± 0.4%), arms (25 ± 0.4%), feet (23 ± 0.4%), stomach (16 ± 0.4%), eyes (14 ± 0.4%), and ribs (14 ± 0.4%). The man with lipedema had an average daily pain of 5, with highest pain a 7 and lowest a 2 on a daily basis in his eyes, muscles and joints. There was a trend to difference between the groups in the lowest level of daily pain (P=0.07), but not in the highest daily pain (P=0.88) or average daily pain (P=0.18). The average Beighton score for hypermobile joints among all patients was 4.2 ± 0.5. There was no difference in Beighton scores between groups; the percentage of patients in stage 1, 2 and 3 that had a Beighton score of 5 or more was 40%, 54% and 50%, respectively. There was also no correlation between pain scores and Beighton scores (data not shown).
Figure 1: Average, highest, and lowest daily pain scores in patients with lipedema.Pain scores were chosen by patients on a scale from 0-10, with 10 described as the worst pain ever, and zero as no pain.Data are average values ± sem.
Location and type of fat: Fat was noted on physical exam as: 1) Visibly increased in size (amount) from normal; 2) Palpable as small firm spheroids ; or 3) Containing lipomas. These three types of fat were compared across the three groups of patients (stages 1, 2, and 3 lipedema). Out of twenty-nine areas assessed for fat size, there was no significant difference (P=0.7) in the average number of enlarged fat depots between stage 1 (3 ± 2.6), stage 2 (3.7 ± 0.5) and stage 3 lipedema (3.9 ± 0.8). No patient had fat atrophy in any area.
The amount of lipedema tissue containing spheroids differed significantly across the three groups of patients, F (2, 48) = 6.57 (p = 0.003). Tukey post-hoc comparisons of the three groups indicated that the amount of spheroids increased by stage (Figure 2), and was significantly greater in people with stage 3 (M = 19.31, SD = 3.38) compared to stage 1 (M =13.80, SD = 4.44; P<0.05) and stage 3 compared to stage 2 (M =16.12, SD = 3.07; P=0.008; Figure 2). There was not a significant difference in extent of tissue with spheroids in patients with stage 1 compared to stage 2 lipedema. The fat depots in which spheroids were found most commonly (>50%) included the anterior and dorsal upper and lower arms, ribcage, abdomen, pelvis, subscapular area on the back, flanks, buttocks, front and back of the thighs, the medial knee, popliteal, posterior leg, malleolar, and anterior foot (Figure 3). The sites in which patients had spheroids <50% of the time included the cranium, parotid, submandibular, posterior neck, dorsocervical area, upper chest, hand, and the dorsal foot (boxes, Figure 3); none of the women with stage 1 lipedema had spheroids in these areas. The cubital, anterior forearm, abdomen, thighs, medial knee, popliteal and posterior leg had spheroids 100% of the time in women with stage 1 lipedema. None of the patients with stage 2 lipedema had spheroids in the posterior neck or dorsocervical area; the cubital and medial knee areas contained spheroids in 100% of patients in all stages. There were no areas of examined fat that did not have spheroids in at least one (cranium), two (parotid, submandibular, posterior neck, dorsocervical, dorsal foot), or more patients with stage 3 lipedema. Patients with stage 3 lipedema had spheroids in the cubital, anterior and posterior forearms, abdomen, flanks, buttocks, thighs, medial knee, and posterior leg 100% of the time. Hands were affected in 21% of patients with stage 2 and 31% of patients with stage 3 lipedema. The anterior chest was affected in 40%, 36%, and 38% of patients with stage 1, 2, and 3 lipedema, respectively.
Figure 2: Average (± sem) number of 29 areas of the body affected with lipedema fat tissue in patients with stage 1, 2, and 3 lipedema. P-values as shown.
Figure 3: Caricature of a woman with stage 3 lipedema. Percentages denote the number of combined patients with stage 1, 2 and 3 lipedema fat in the stated area. Boxes outline areas affected <50% of the time in all patients and suggest a disproportion in lipedema fat between the upper and lower body. Asterisks denote areas affected with lipedema fat in 100% of patients.
There was no significant difference (P=0.4) in the average number of lipomas on the body in stage 1 (0.8 ± 0.5), stage 2 (0.9 ± 0.2) and stage 3 (0.5 ± 0.2). The number of lipomas in each patient in each stage varied between 0-3.
Signs and symptoms: Patients were asked to fill out a questionnaire listing 66 items as part of a review of systems prior to their clinical visit. Eighteen signs and symptoms from the questionnaire were positive in ≥ 50% of the patients with stage 1 lipedema (Table 2). Unexplained weight gain and muscle weakness were found in ≥ 50% of the patients with stage 2 and 3 lipedema, but not in any patient with stage 1 lipedema. Palpitations, hair loss, frequent urination, numbness, and shortness of breath were present exclusively in ≥ 50% of the patients with stage 3 lipedema (i.e., not in any patients with stage 1 or 2 lipedema). Cellulitis was experienced by 1 person with stage 1 (25 ± 0.5%), seven with stage 2 (22.6 ± 16%), and eleven with stage 3 lipedema (36.4 ± 25%). Other notable signs and symptoms that were more frequent in patients with stage 2 and 3 lipedema included obstructive sleep apnea, blood clot, nausea, constipation, higher body temperature, flu-like symptoms, and burning pain of the skin (Table 2). Signs and symptoms that occurred in <50% of all patients in this study included asymmetry of fat on the left or right side, unexplained weight loss, lumps in neck fat, difficulty swallowing, blurry vision, neck feels swollen, chest pain, burning pain, scalp or other lesions, thirsty all the time, tremors, vomiting, thrombophlebitis, visible veins on arms, tick bite, chronic sinusitis, warts, myoclonus, dry eyes, dry mouth, vertigo, hearing loss, frequent congestion, depression, and anxiety.
|Sign or Symptom||Stage 1||Stage 2||Stage 3|
|Signs, symptoms in 350% of patients with stage 1 lipedema|
|Abdominal pain||50 ± 41||50 ± 13||22.2 ± 31|
|Early satiety||50 ± 41||36.7 ± 15||18.2 ± 27|
|Edema||50 ± 41||74 ± 10||100†|
|Headache||50 ± 41||41.9 ± 14||36 ± 25|
|Joint aches||50 ± 41||75.9 ± 9||83 ± 12.3|
|Nasal congestion||50 ± 41||22.6 ± 16||25 ± 26|
|Stress||69 ± 11||83 ± 12||83 ± 12|
|Easy bruising||75 ± 29||68 ± 10.4||83 ± 12|
|Itching||75 ± 29||39 ± 14.3||58 ± 20|
|Fatigue||75 ± 29||77 ± 9||91.7 ± 8.7|
|Low body temperature||75 ± 29||41.4 ± 14||33.3 ± 25|
|Bloating||75 ± 29||58 ± 12||45.5 ± 23|
|Nocturia||75 ± 29||55 ± 12||66.7 ± 17|
|Muscle aches||75 ± 29||65.5 ± 11||66.7 ± 17|
|Low back pain||75 ± 29||71 ± 10||66.7 ± 17|
|Difficulty sleeping||80 ± 22||64.3 ± 12||45.5 ± 23|
|Poor concentration||100||52 ± 10||40 ± 26|
|Visible veins on legs||100||72 ± 10||27.3 ± 27*|
|Weigh more at night||100||76 ± 10||100|
|Signs, symptoms exclusively in 3 50% patients with stage 2 and 3 lipedema|
|Muscle weakness||25 ± 50||54.8 ± 12||50 ± 24|
|Unexplained weight gain||40 ± 39||67.7 ± 10||58.3 ± 20|
|Signs, symptoms exclusively in 3 50% patients with stage 3 lipedema|
|Palpitations||0||35 ± 15||50 ± 21|
|Shortness of breath||0||39.3 ± 15||50 ± 21|
|Frequent urination||25 ± 50||41.9 ± 14||66.7 ± 17|
|Hair loss||0||48 ± 15||70 ± 18|
|Numbness||0||43 ± 14**||82 ± 14**|
|Additional signs and symptoms that increased with stage|
|Blood clot||0||0||16.7 ± 28†|
|Burning pain||0||40 ± 14||25 ± 26|
|Constipation||25 ± 0.5||35 ± 10||45 ± 23|
|Flu-like symptoms||25 ± 0.5||29 ± 15||33 ± 24.6|
|High body temperature||0||20 ± 17||45 ± 23|
|Nausea||0||29 ± 15||33.3 ± 25|
|Obstructive sleep apnea||0||14.8 ± 18||40 ± 26|
|*P<0.001 vs. stage 1, 2|
|**P<0.05 vs. stage 1|
|†P<0.05 vs. stage 1, 2|
Table 2: Signs and symptoms in patients with lipedema (% ± se).
Lipedema is a SAT disorder found primarily in women. The prevalence of lipedema has been estimated to affect up to 11% and possibly up to 39% of the female population [17,18]. Using the lower prevalence estimate, over 16 million women in the United States may be affected with lipedema. Lipedema developed in patients in our study around the age of 20 y. In the literature, the upper age limit for pubertal changes in the body is 17 y  therefore it is likely that lipedema develops during puberty in a majority of patients with lipedema. We were not able to address whether lipedema commenced or was affected by childbirth and/ or menopause.
A review of the literature on lipedema suggests: 1) that lipedema SAT is generally accepted to be located from the ankle up to the lower abdomen and on the upper arms; and 2) that there is a disproportion between the greater size of the body below the waist compared to above the waist, unless obesity is present, and the disproportion is lost . This study of fifty women and a man who presented to a single clinic in an academic setting demonstrates that lipedema fat can be found on the body from the cranium (top of the head) down to the underside (dorsal side) of the foot with the majority of lipedema fat between the axillary region and the ankle; the head and foot were affected in only a small percent of patients with stage 2 and 3 lipedema. In agreement with Cornely , in this study, the dorsal forearm had lipedema fat in 80% of patients, and up to 90% of patients had lipedema fat on the anterior arm. The number of areas affected by lipedema fat increased with a higher lipedema stage. In this study, the level of disproportion of lipedema fat was higher on the body (up to the axillary area) than previously described (up to the waist). If we set a limit that at least 75% of patients must have lipedema fat in an area of the body to be considered as “generally affected”, then lipedema fat can extend from the posterior leg up and including to the superior aspect of the axillary crease.
Data from this study suggests that the disproportion of fat on lower compared to upper body presented in the literature primarily refers to women with stage 1 and 2 lipedema, in which lipedema fat is not present on the upper body in the majority. Women with lipedema are under-diagnosed by healthcare providers who do not compare upper body to lower body fat. It is likely that women with stage 3 lipedema are confused more often as having lifestyleinduced obesity  as the lipedema fat develops globally and the disproportion diminishes. In stage 3 lipedema, lipedema SAT continues to progress to include more areas of the body, and in this stage there may be greater areas of lipedema fat induced by the development of lipedema secondarily through retention of lymph, as it is well-known that lymph makes fat grow . This area deserves additional research to help patients with lipedema and to shed light on changes in fat in lifestyle-induced obesity. Body composition by dual X-ray absorptiometry scans would have been helpful in this study to examine the disproportion of fat in the different stages of lipedema with greater accuracy as has been published previously . A larger group of patients with stage 1 lipedema would have also improved comparisons amongst the groups.
Lipedema fat can be distinguished from lifestyle-induced fat by palpating spheroids in the fat and in the majority, by pain in the SAT and/or tenderness on palpation of SAT in areas of spheroids. Most healthcare providers have limited time with patients therefore if lipedema is suspected, a focused examination of the cubital and medial knee SAT areas should reveal the presence of lipedema fat as these areas contained spheroids in 100% of the patients in our study. Healthcare providers that diagnose patients with lipedema can use International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes specific for “Other lymphedema”, ICD-9 457.1, or 272.8 for “other disorders of lipoid metabolism” until lipedema is recognized by our healthcare system.
The stages of lipedema are primarily described in the literature with reference to the skin with smooth skin and an enlarged hypodermis in stage 1, indentations in the skin in stage 2, and lobulations of the skin in stage 3. Data from this study suggest that the stages of lipedema should refer not only to the quality of the skin and lipedema tissue, but also that a greater quantity of the body SAT area is affected as the lipedema stage increases; stating a percent of the body that is affected may be helpful. The presence of lipolymphedema also increases with progression from stage 1 to 2 and 3.
Lipomas were not found in a large number of women with lipedema but they were present in patients with every stage. Better imaging of lipomas by magnetic resonance imaging using proton-density fat saturated sequences  would provide a much better assessment of lipomas in lipedema.
There was no past history that clearly appeared to be associated with lipedema. What was striking in this population was the very low incidence of type 2 diabetes (2%). This low prevalence suggests that lipedema fat is not insulin resistant fat, or that the patients were protected from diabetes in some other manner. As lipedema fat in earlier stages is in a purely gynoid distribution (hips, buttocks and thighs), and gynoid fat confers lower cardiovascular risk , lipedema fat may also confer less cardiovascular risk in stage 1 and 2 and possibly also in stage 3. A major concern resulting from the review of systems in this study was the increase in shortness of breath, palpitations, urination, and numbness in patients with stage 3 lipedema. We hypothesize that these symptoms suggest excess fluid accumulation in the body as pre-lymph or lymph fluid. Indeed, edema and cellulitis increased with stage of lipedema in this study consistent with this hypothesis. Women with stage 3 lipedema were also more likely to have obstructive sleep apnea, nausea, constipation and flulike symptoms. These data suggest that the metabolic protection of the lipedema fat wanes in stage 3 lipedema as the lipedema fat spreads globally on the body and patients develop signs of systemic illness. The only known treatment to reduce lipedema fat at this time is excision by lymph-sparing liposuction, a treatment for lipedema established in Germany for over 20 years [24-26]. Furthering our understanding of the pathophysiology of lipedema and medical treatments for reducing lipedema fat are needed so we are not relying solely on surgical management of lipedema fat.
Hypermobility is not a condition reported in association with lipedema but in this report,~50% of women with lipedema had a positive Beighton score ( ≥ 5) suggesting that they may also have the common disorder known as Ehlers Danlos syndrome hypermobility type (EDS-HT) formerly type III) . Pain is a common component of EDS-HT and females are functionally affected to a greater extent than males and therefore this association should be further investigated.
Venous disease is known to occur in women with lipedema . The data in this study demonstrated that as the stage of lipedema increased, visible veins decreased. Interestingly, venous blood clots were only present in women with stage 3 lipedema. These data suggest a masking of underlying venous disease by excess lipedema fat. The development of lymphedema in a patient with lipedema should prompt not only a reassessment by a manual lymphatic drainage therapist, but also evaluation for venous disease by a vascular surgeon, consideration for a sleep study for evaluation of obstructive sleep apnea, and an echocardiogram to assess for heart failure.
The single man was included in our study to serve as a reminder that men can also develop lipedema . Men who develop lipedema tend to be hypogonadal as our patient, have a history of hypogonadal symptoms and signs such as gynecomastia, or have liver disease  resulting in elevated estrogen levels. In the hypogonadal state in a man, the ratio of testosterone to estradiol (an estrogen) is altered, and estradiol plays a greater role in tissues that have sex hormone receptors such as SAT. Lipedema occurs primarily in women suggesting that estrogen plays a pivotal role in the development of lipedema SAT. Men with higher effective levels of estrogen may be at greater risk for developing lipedema fat.
This study was performed at a tertiary referral center that was available to people living in the local area and to those who can travel. Patients with lipedema who were too ill to travel or who were financially unable to travel would be under-represented in this study.
In conclusion, lipedema is a common disorder likely present in millions of women all over the world. Lipedema fat can affect any area of SAT, but is found more often in SAT at or below the axillary area and above the ankle. Obesity increases with stage of lipedema but overall, lipedema SAT confers a disproportionately larger lower body. The presence or absence of lipedema fat can be quickly assessed around the cubit nodes or the medial knee, areas affected in 100% of patients in this study. Women with stage 3 lipedema develop signs and symptoms associated with increased cardiovascular risk suggesting the need to evaluate for underlying conditions such as venous disease or obstructive sleep apnea in patients with lipedema prior to but especially after diagnosis of stage 3. Studying lipedema and lipolymphedema can help millions of women, and provide a better understanding of lymphedema that develops secondary to obesity .6744

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The University of Cambridge and its affiliated hospitals have mobilised diverse teams to help the international fight against COVID-19. Due to the complex and unpredictable response of the immune system to the COVID-19 virus, it is of vital importance to investigate the impact of this disease on all the immune cells present in our blood. These types of investigations will hopefully provide us with a better ability to predict how the symptoms will progress in different patients and potentially lead to the development of better treatment regimes. In order to gain a better understanding of how the immune system responds in different COVID-19 patients, we will be comparing samples from patients with different severities of disease along with healthy donor samples.
The immune system is made up of many different types of cells which interact with one another as well as with the rest of the blood system. For this reason, we take advantage of the rapidly advancing technologies which allow a detailed characterisation of the molecular features and the physical properties of thousands of individual cells at the same time. By undertaking this project, we hope to identify therapeutic targets, markers that provide information on personalising the treatment of individual patients, as well as a map of cellular interactions driving disease severity and variability to aid future drug discovery efforts.
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Addenbrooke’s hospital – the teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge medical school – has gathered its resources in patient care and medical research. The infrastructure has been set up, that will enable a multitude of clinical research, alongside the critical patient care required for COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital in April and May 2020.
Upon admission to Addenbrooke’s hospital, 200 patients will be enrolled in the NIHR BioResource COVID19 cohort, and complex biochemical, flow cytometry, a genomic and molecular analysis will be undertaken. The analysis includes collecting peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), where multiple aliquots for each of those 200 patients will be stored away. Samples will be linked to Addenbrooke’s electronic medical record system allowing the collection of comprehensive clinical data. Once patient outcomes are known, a subset of these samples will be defrosted and subjected to a battery of further tests, which will include single-cell genomics analysis as outlined below.
This project focuses on single-cell profiling for peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) taken from COVID-19 patients to establish full single-cell transcriptome, protein expression for 225 proteins, B-cell receptor, and T-cell receptor rearrangement status.
PBMCs from 80 individual patients will be profiled. 40 of those patients will have progressed to more severe disease, while the other 40 showed no progression. For 10 of the 40 patients that progressed to a more severe stage of the disease, two additional (sequential) samples will be taken to monitor changes in PBMCs associated with severe symptoms. Therefore, this setup entails profiling a total of 100 PBMC samples (80 admission samples and 2×10 disease progression samples).
The single-cell analysis will be performed using the latest multi-modal molecular profiling technology. Importantly, additional vials of viable PBMCs will be kept in storage for possible future analysis of further data types, including open chromatin.
The strategy outlined above will permit deep datamining of the single-cell data against all the clinical and immunological parameters, including patient outcomes. Possible discoveries may include new gene or protein signatures expressed at the time of hospital admission that can predict subsequent disease outcomes, which would allow the future focussing of clinical resources on the most at-risk patients. Moreover, gene/protein signatures associated with poor disease outcome may also highlight biological pathways to be targeted by existing drugs, thus providing new treatment options for this patient group. Finally, analysis of BCR and TCR receptor status will allow future investigations into how the immune system responds to COVID-19 and reveal what types of immune responses are associated with good/poor patient outcomes, providing essential clues for the design of successful immune- modulatory treatment regimens.
The research groups of Sarah Teichmann (Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute) and John Marioni (European Bioinformatics Institute) will support initial data processing and analysis.
All raw and processed genomic data will be freely available to the global community fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
This project has been a combined effort across three medical centres within the UK (Newcastle, Cambridge and London). The funds provided by the Aging Biology Foundation EU supported the research undertaken at the Cambridge site.
The project has taken advantage of single-cell multi-omics techniques, in which transcriptomic analysis, cell surface phenotype and lymphocyte antigen receptor characterisation, all at a single cell resolution, were combined.
The results of the research were published on 20 April 2021 in Nature Medicine.
In this article the authors highlight how this multi-omic analysis of PBMCs has contributed to the characterisation of the cellular immune response in the peripheral blood to COVID-19 across a range of disease severities and to this end has provided several insights into COVID-19:
- a new non-classical monocyte state that sequesters platelets and replenishes the alveolar macrophage pool;
- platelet activation accompanied by early priming towards megakaryopoiesis in immature haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells accompanied by the expansion of megakaryocyte-primed progenitors;
- increased clonally expanded CD8+ effector:effector memory T cells, and proliferating CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in patients with more severe disease;
- relative increase of IgA plasmablasts in asymptomatic stages that switches to expansion of IgG plasmablasts and plasma cells, accompanied with higher incidence of BCR sharing, as disease severity increases.


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9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Harold Gittis Student Center, Room 217 C and D.
1755 N. 13th St.
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The Center for Public Interest Journalism will host a dozen community-minded media makers for a daylong conversation on engaging communities with public interest news and information. As the traditional relationship between journalists and readers evolves and the lines between news producers and consumers blur, the center seeks to explore how communities can be built and engaged around public interest content. The panelists on this forum—representing news organizations big, small, new and old—are on the front lines of doing just that. Come hear fresh ideas and share some of your own. The event is free, and includes breakfast, lunch and post-forum cocktails.
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Thursday, Nov. 17
Joe First Media Center (the Atrium)
Come chat with other Study Away alumni and prospective students at an SCT event on Thursday, Nov. 17, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with a viewing of a documentary from a current SCT student that participated in the Summer 2011 program in South Africa. This documentary is all about her experience and also an advocacy piece for how important study away is to the college experience! Explore each other’s globetrotting experiences, journey through a film created by a current student and enjoy some free appetizers and refreshments with former classmates and fellow travelers.
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We interview and study famous financial billionaires including Warren Buffett and Howard Marks, and teach you what we learn and how you can apply their investment strategies in the stock market.
TIP354: Building Berkshire 2.0 w/ Chamath Palihapitiya
Trey Lockerbie sits down with founder and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya. Chamath was an early executive at Facebook and then went on to become a super successful Venture Capitalist, with early investments into Amazon, Tesla, Slack, and Bitcoin.
BTC030: Bitcoin Security and Self Custody w/ Nick Neuman (Bitcoin Podcast)
On today's show, Preston Pysh talks to Nick Neuman about Bitcoin security and self custody. They explore the importance of taking multiple security measures in keeping one's Bitcoin safe, and the basics of Bitcoin encryption.
TIP353: The Best Performing Asset Is Not Bitcoin w/ Marin Katusa
Trey Lockerbie sits down with NYT best-selling author and investor, Marin Katusa. Marin is a contrarian value investor who specializes in gold, uranium, rare earth, and most recently, carbon credits.
BTC029: Jack Dorsey's Involvement in Bitcoin & Jack Maller's El Salvador Announcement W/ Alex Gladstein (Bitcoin Podcast)
On today's Preston Pysh talks with Alex Gladstein who recently interviewed Jack Dorsey at the 2021 Miami Bitcoin conference. Alex also shares with us the petrodollar system, and El Salvador as the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.
TIP352: Mastermind Q2 2021
In today’s episode, Stig Brodersen speaks to Tobias Carlisle and Hari Ramachandra for the Mastermind Discussion of Q2 2021, discussing about where they see value in the financial markets.
BTC028: Bitcoin Update w/ Plan B & Dr. Adam Back (Bitcoin Podcast)
On today's show, Preston Pysh is joined by Dr. Adam Back and Plan B. They talk about the current market conditions, the Chinese mining migration to the West, the global macro implications of a trillion-dollar Bitcoin market drop of 50%, and much more.


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Charles was a resident of West Florida and Alabama since 1783. He settled in Baldwin County, Alabama in 1811, where he died at his residence.
Charles was the son of Charles Hall I and Aurelia Elluene Dupre; he married (1) Mary Byrne (2) Ann Byrne (they were sisters).
His children with Mary were Joseph H., Aureila Mary, Charles III, Gerald Byrne, William, John, Young Charles and Mary Ann Eliza Hall
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MASTER COMPOSTING COURSE IN A MAASAI COMMUNITY IN LAIKIPIA NORTH WITH PETER ASH
Join us for a master composting course and learn how to create healthy soils.
LPC’S partnership with Maasai women groups revolves around about Permaculture, land regeneration, building using natural materials, water harvesting & soil fertility, how to control soil erosion and integrated farming as well as bee keeping in an effort to promote food security, combat effects of climate change and do away with gender disparities in our Maasai community. This year we are delighted to have Our friend and Master Composter run a composting course at Naatum women group to teach this Maasai women about soil fertility, making dry compost and compost teas. Cost 25,000 Fees include all meals, accommondation (camping) and certification. Excludes transport to and from the course
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ONE WEEK MASTER COMPOSTER’ S COURSE AT LAIKIPIA PERMACULTURE CENTRE LAIKIPIA KENYA WITH PETER ASH
The master composter’s certificate is a train-the trainer program providing more extensive in depth compost techniques with a possible visit to Olpajeta conservancy (www.olpejetaconservancy.org) This world class conservancy hosts kicheche camp (kicheche.com) where we will help work on kicheche organic garden. (Optional)
5TH – 10TH FEBRUARY 2020
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Fees Include All Meals, Accommodation (camping & Certification) transport to Olpajeta. Excludes transport to and from the course.
And excludes Olpajeta Entry fee which is 90 USD for non Residents & 1400Ksh for resident
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2 Day Introduction to Permaculture Course
Join us for an introduction to Permaculture Course on 7th and 8th December 2019 at Laikipia Permaculture Centre with Lead trainer Joseph Lentunyoi and assistant facilitator James Kagwe.
Details to follow
Master Composting Certification Courses
Composting mimics a process constantly taking place in nature. Composting is extremely valuable to any farm since a good compost is a proper blend for nature’s elements including air, water, fire and earth. When these elements are kept in balance, millions of microorganisms including bacterial, insects and other soil biota can break down plants and animal waste into nutrient rich material in weeks. The general agreement is that compost need to be added to the fields at the beginning of each crop cycle and continued progressively so as to build the soil. This is done because compost provides a balanced nutrition to the soil as well as improving its physical structures whilst stimulating the biological life of the soil improving overall plant health. LPC offers a 2weeks intensive composting course at KES 40,000(this fee includes meals,camping & certification but excludes transport to and from LPC). This year we held our composting course with Peter Ash in July. The training was also extended to one of our Women group’s
Advanced Earthworks & Resiliency Course with Warren Brush
Five day Advanced Earthworks Resiliency Course with renowned International Facilitator, Warren Brush. This course is primarily for those who have already taken a Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) and want to get more insight on earthworks. The course takes place in the Northern Laikipia region at Naatum Women’s group, a group located in a remote and severly degraded area with huge problems of soil erosion. This being most vulnerable of groups due to harsh living conditions! According to Warren Brush, who has worked in challenging areas around the World, including the Kalahari desert, this is one of the badly degraded areas he has come acrossYou will have the chance to follow “accompagner” the renowned international facilitator Warren Brush to demonstrate together the incredible potential this site has! Come and do what seems impossible: fully transform these arid lands into a productive and sustainable site for the women. Don’t miss out this super special course with Warren and all the community!
Cost: 85,000 Ksh or $850
(Fees inclusive of all meals, accommodation (camping) and certification)and excludes transport to and from the course)
Two week Permaculture Design Certification Course
Join us for our exciting PDC Course where participants will have the opportunity to see permaculture in full action right on the site whilst learning. There will be a few exciting site visits to the neighboring women’s groups that we are working closely with in Maasai region.
Curious to have a deep insight of permaculture by following the internationally recognized 72 hours Permaculture Design Certificate Course, or to broaden your knowledge with one of our master specialized courses? Come and join us at our Laikipia Permaculture Center for intensive certificated courses, where our key success relies on many hands-on activities and field studies in a challenging indigenous and drought county You definitely don’t want to miss this opportunity!
Cost: 40,000 Ksh or $400
( Fees inclusive of all meals, accommodation (camping) and certification)and excludes transport to and from the course)

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Every January, students, parents, professionals, and lovers of dance all gather for the New York City Dance Alliance Foundation‘s annual fundraising performance “Destiny Rising” at The Joyce Theater. And every year we fall a little bit more in love with the foundation’s mission: “Investing in the next generation of professional performers by offering scholarships for secondary and college education.” Since its founding in 2010, the foundation has awarded over $2.5 million in scholarships. Because of the program (and its uber-generous donors), kids across the country literally get to attend college and pursue their dance dreams. What could be better than that?! Not much…
It’s always very emotional watching the former scholarship recipients (who are out in the dance world doing huge things) come back and talk about how much the foundation means to them and why their careers wouldn’t be where they are today if they hadn’t had those scholarship opportunities. Last night, we got to hear more about the story and journey of the lovely Courtney Celeste Spears, a new Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater member, and it was some serious #Mondaymotivation.
The night also always proves to be a super-glitzy and fun performance thanks to lots of high-profile guests, and last night was no exception. New York City Ballet’s Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia performed a dazzling excerpt from Stars and Stripes, Marymount Manhattan College students performed a stunning piece by Gabrielle Lamb, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet presented an excerpt from the ethereal Dwight Rhoden piece Bach 25, to name just a few. (And can we just say it was SO FUN getting to watch former DS Cover Model Search finalist Tatiana Melendez perform her heart out with her new company fam CCB! Go girl! 💥)
If you’re a current junior or senior in high school who’s wanting to go to college for dance, make sure you don’t miss the next NYCDA Foundation audition date: July 1, 2019 in NYC. You never know what might happen… ✨
And ICYMI, enjoy this peek at Marymount Manhattan College’s performance:


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After a rabid skunk was found in Black Forest, local public health officials are reminding residents keep their pets' vaccinations up-to-date and refrain from coming in contact with wild or stray animals.
The skunk, which tested positive for the disease on Tuesday, was discovered in a horse stall, according to a news release from El Paso County Public Health.
The agency was not aware of any humans who were exposed to the infected skunk. Rabies, a viral disease that causes the brain to swell and damages other parts of the central nervous system. Unless vaccinated before any sign of symptoms, rabies is "almost always fatal" to people who are bitten or scratched by an infected animal, said Danielle Oller, a spokeswoman for the county's public health department.
A rabid skunk was last found in the county in 2013. In the past three years, public health officials have confirmed cases of rabies in one cat and 18 bats.
"Rabies is endemic on the Front Range of Colorado in bats and skunks, that is why we always encourage pet owners to vaccinate all domestic animals including dogs, cats, horses and livestock that may come in contact with wild animals," Dr. Chris Nevin-Woods, El Paso County Public Health medical director, said in a statement.
The health department offers residents the following tips to protect themselves and their pets from infection:
-Keep dogs on leashes when hiking or walking. Pets should remain inside at night.
-Contact your vet immediately if you suspect your pet has been exposed to a wild animal.
-Refrain from feeding wild animals, which can habituate them to human contact and attract them to urban areas, putting people and pets at risk.
-Call a doctor and the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region at 473-1741 if you are bitten or scratched by a stray or wild animal. Also contact the Humane Society if you encounter a wild or stray animal.
-Report sick or diseased animals to Colorado Parks and Wildlife's regional office at 227-5200.


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Many law firms have moved to phase out plans in which they pay generous benefits to retirees as they go, using a portion of their current profits. The fact is, benefits promised in more stable economic times seem increasingly unsustainable today.
But some elite firms have stuck with the tradition, including Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Other top firms with unfunded pensions include Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Debevoise & Plimpton; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, according to data compiled by the American Lawyer magazine.
In this story in today’s WSJ, our own Jennifer Smith takes a look at how such plans may impact law firms at a time when profits are slowly improving but earnings are still lagging, and firms are under mounting pressure to lower their billing rates. Click here for the American Lawyer’s recent story on the topic.
Few attorneys will complain about footing the bill for pension plans as long as profits keep up. The trouble starts if payments to retirees grow faster than profits.
“It’s a real problem in this environment for a law firm to pay 10 or 15 cents out of every dollar of revenue to partners who have retired from the law firm,” a senior partner at one firm with a generous pension plan tells Smith.
According to one estimate by law firm consultant Peter Giuliani, the current pension liability at a typical large New York firm with an unfunded plan could amount to $200 million. That’s if the firm had to make the total payout today.
Some firms have moved to shrink benefit amounts or lower caps that limit retiree payments to a certain percentage. But the plans aren’t easy to rollback.
“In a law firm, you have to get a majority vote of the partners to get it done. In some cases it’s a supermajority, so 75% to 80% would have to support it,” Giuliani says. “If 25% have an entitlement they don’t want to give up, there is no way of doing it.”
Some managing partners say generous plans help build loyalty and retain top talent. “Partners take comfort in the fact that it is there. I think it’s an important part of our culture,” said Kenneth Doran, managing partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, which recorded record earnings in 2011, with gross revenue of $1.7 billion and average profit per partner at $2.47 million.
Doran says his firm guards against burdening active partners with “runaway obligations” by capping pension payments at 6% of the firm’s net income.


A viewing determine file might be set tonight if greater than 2.64m folks tune in to observe Manchester Metropolis v Arsenal.
It’s been three lengthy months, however the Premier League is lastly again on our screens.
Aston Villa and Sheffield United are kicking issues off at 6pm, adopted by the principle occasion of Manchester Metropolis and Arsenal at 8.15pm.
With soccer having been away for thus lengthy, curiosity within the matches is actually excessive, and it wouldn’t be a shock if tonight’s video games draw file viewing figures.
The file for this season was for Liverpool v Manchester United on January 19.
A complete of two.64m folks tuned in to observe that recreation, in keeping with figures revealed by the Broadcasters’ Viewers Analysis Board (BARB).
The reverse fixture for Metropolis v Arsenal was watched by 1.64m viewers in keeping with BARB’s figures.
Villa v Sheffield, nevertheless, wasn’t televised.
One other candidate to set this season’s file viewing figures is Manchester Metropolis v Liverpool.
The reverse fixture drew 2.55m viewers earlier this season, which makes it this season’s second most watched recreation as issues stand.
For a recreation to interrupt the Premier League’s all-time file then it should high 4m viewers.
Figures launched by Sky earlier this season revealed that probably the most watched recreation was the second Manchester Derby of 2012.
A complete of 4.04m folks tuned in to observe Metropolis beat United on April 30.
Nonetheless, that determine relies on Sky’s information, which is totally different to BARB’s.
The all-time file for a soccer match will solely doubtless be damaged although by one of many free-to-air video games.
An estimated 32.30m folks watched the 1966 World Cup closing, whereas 28.49m folks watched the 1970 FA Cup Last replay between Leeds United and Chelsea.
TOP 20 MATCHES
Fixture // Viewers
- Liverpool v Manchester United // 2,642,336
- Liverpool v Manchester Metropolis // 2,548,651
- Manchester United v Manchester Metropolis // 2,380,805
- Norwich Metropolis v Manchester United // 2,217,576
- Manchester United v Chelsea // 2,183,019
- Manchester United v Liverpool // 2,139,49
- Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool // 2,063,426
- Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers // 2,029,366
- Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea // 1,995,025
- Sheffield United v Manchester United // 1,969,035
- Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur // 1,946,365
- Norwich Metropolis v Liverpool // 1,925,692
- Newcastle United v Manchester United // 1,911,703
- Everton v Manchester United // 1,815,268
- Watford v Liverpool // 1,787,372
- Everton v Tottenham Hotspur // 1,773,696
- Chelsea v Liverpool // 1,770,593
- Manchester Metropolis v Manchester United // 1,762,000
- Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester Metropolis // 1,660,015
- Arsenal v Manchester Metropolis // 1,636,000
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Perth-based Emanuel Exports has announced it will vigorously defend in court cruelty charges brought by the Western Australia Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD).
The prosecution notice from DPIRD is in relation to alleged offences under WA's Animal Welfare Act.
The matter will go to court on a date to be determined.
The company said it would defend the matter in court but would make no further media comment, pending the outcome of the hearing.
DPIRD has charged the live export company and two of its directors with alleged cruelty.
The charges relate to the harm caused or likely to be caused to sheep due to heat stress on a voyage from Fremantle to the Middle East in August, 2017.
A total of 2400 sheep died throughout the voyage.
The decision follows an 18-month investigation by compliance officers within DPIRD.
The department is responsible for the administration of the Animal Welfare Act and the department's General Inspectors exercise powers under that Act.
The story WA live export company faces court action over sheep deaths in 2017 first appeared on Farm Online.

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text: Events celebrating Black History Month continue this week with the Chicago Park District presenting a jazz concert Sunday as part of the 12th annual tribute to opera singer Marian Anderson. Anderson was the first black artist to perform at the White House. She is perhaps most remembered for her role early in the civil rights movement. In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her use Constitution Hall for a concert because of her race. The resulting furor led to the resignation of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt from the DAR. Anderson died in 1993 at age 96. The jazz concert will feature the Jazz Unites vocal ensemble. Admission is $7 for the 4 to 6 p.m. show.


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Calculate \(\Delta E\) and determine whether the process is endothermic or exothermic for the following cases: (a) \(q=0.763 \ kJ\) and \(w=-840 \ J\); (b) a system releases \(66.1 \ kJ\) of heat to its surroundings while the surroundings do \(44.0 \ kJ\) of work on the system; (c) the system absorbs \(7.25 \ kJ\) of heat from the surroundings while its volume remains constant (assume that only \(P-V\) work can be done).
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Heart: ● Overview of the Cardiovascular System ○ The heart propels blood to and from most body tissues via two basic types of blood vessels calle rteries and veins. ○ Arteries are blood vessels that carry way to the heart. ○ Veins are blood vessels that carry d ack to the heart. ○ The arteries and veins entering and leaving the heart are called great vessels. ● General Characteristics and Functions of the Heart ○ Blood flow through the heart is unidirectional because of four heart valves. ○ The heart is functionally two side-by-side pumps that work at the same rate and pump the same volume of blood. ■ One pump directs blood to the lungs. ■ One pump directs blood to most body tissues. ○ The heart generates lood pressure through alternate cycles of the heart wall’s contraction and relaxation. ○ Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the inside walls of blood vessels. ○ A minimum blood pressure is essential to circulate blood throughout the body. ● Pulmonary and Systemic Circulations ○ The cardiovascular system consists of two circulations: ■ Pulmonary- r ight side of the heart and the pulmonary arteries and veins; right ventricle blood is conveyed to the lungs and back to the left atrium of the heart ■ Systemic- from the left ventricle

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