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Paddy Paws
You smell of rain.
Your muddy paw prints criss-crossing over my legs;
I often call you paddy paws because you always do this
and it makes me smile.
You waltz around my room looking like a mismatched pumpkin-cat,
hitting any piece of string or coin you find so that it noisily scratches across the floor:
I try to tell you off for your tom-cattery ways, but I think this only encourages you.
When you haven't seen me for awhile you come to find me in my room,
giving me pathetic little mews that make you sound like a kitten;
I tease you for this because when you stretch out next to me you come up to my waist.
At night you walk from one door to another, shouting outside them,
you don't want to walk through them, you just want them open because you like possibilities.
You also like it when I tickle you under your chin; but you never let me do this in front of other cats.
When we walk up the garden together I pretend that we're mobsters because we strut,
and you pretend that we're going hunting, when even if we did hunt we wouldn't know what to do if we caught anything.
You proved this once when you caught a bird and I cried, you let it go because I shocked you by screaming,
(but I like to think you did it because you didn't want to upset me.)
When I started my new job I had to tell a group something about me, I said:
"I like cats more than people."
They all laughed and thought I was being quirky,
I wonder what they would have said if I had told them my best friend was orange with white whiskers?
At first I thought you didn't like it when I wrote because it meant I couldn't fuss you, but now I think it's because you want to write yourself:
we're always battling over the keyboard and you're presently nudging at my screen.
But since you're here, and this is about you, and you have written a fair bit (even though I deleted it) I'll say that this was a collaborative work between us; and you'll miaow to remind me that it's dinner time.


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ooh WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is alot of half square triangles but OMG absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!!! I just LOVE your colour choices too!!!
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ooh WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is alot of half square triangles but OMG absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!!! I just LOVE your colour choices too!!!
WOW very striking cant wait to see it finished.
thanks, all, very much. :mrgreen:
it's my own design. for all i know, there's a block just like it out there somewhere, but since i'm making it up as i go along i hope i'm correct in claiming that it's an original.
the fabrics are from Michael Miller Fairy Frost line.
i've named it Mineral Rights because the two prints on black are Copper and Gold.
Its beautiful!!!! did you count the hst's? That is a BUNCH!!!!!
WOW! It looks great, what size is it going to be?
That is fabulous Patrice! So many half sq triangles I would be going buggy! LOL I think this is your best work yet that I have seen!
320 HSTs so far. (not counting the ones in the scrap drawer or land fill. :lol: )
it'll be just over 5' x 5' when i've done the center. haven't yet decided what do do beyond that. it'll come to me by the time i need an idea. i hope. :lol:
That looks fantaatic. Love the colors! It appears that you've done some very precise work. NICE JOB!
wow, that is so crisp! your precision is amazing. The colors are awesome, the combination really makes the HSTs pop. Can't wait to see the finished product.
That is gorgeous. I love the way the copper and gold are offset by the black and white.

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Image: Proposed design for a stimuli-responsive theranostic nanoparticle in which both MRI and PET imaging moieties are combined. Upon decreasing pH, which is common for the tumour microenvironment, the biochemical properties of the nanoparticle are changed. As a result, the nanoparticle becomes more accessible to water molecules, thereby increasing MR contrast.
Fluorescence, magnetic resonance imaging, X-ray computed tomography and positron emission tomography agents have led to major advances in our understanding of diseased tissue. Often these are blood flow agents that accumulate in the tissue of origin due to changes in the local blood flow. For example the "leaky vasculature" within cancerous tissue can be taken advantage of to allow permeation and retention of imaging agents in tumours. Such simple agents however, cannot be targeted to specific diseases (or even specific tumours), and are poor at detecting the early stages of disease and/or small tissue volumes.
The programs within the Imaging Technologies theme of the CBNS focus on these challenges, aiming to identify novel, safe and more effective imaging agents. The issues of selectivity, specificity, responsiveness and lifetime are tackled using polymer-based imaging agents. Using a macromolecular strategy allows, for example, superior relaxivity for paramagnetic MRI contrast agents (thereby addressing sensitivity issues) and also provides control over nanostructure and therefore in vivo lifetimes and clearance. Specificity can be achieved by modifying polymeric imaging agents with bio-recognition molecules such as antibodies in conjunction with other programs within the CBNS.
In collaboration with the Delivery Systems theme, imaging particles are made responsive using molecular beacons which can be interrogated to provide information on cell function or local metabolic processes. Simple examples of this are agents that can be designed to respond to changes in temperature, pH, redox potential, hypoxia, etc. Imaging agents responsive to oxygen tension, or specific ions can be envisaged and polymeric architecture provides very distinct advantages in the design of these molecules.
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Where do you start with a guy who's been involved in more projects than a US building marshal? Where do you start with a fellow, who's as happy slinging reggae , funk , rock , soul , disco and jazz on the metal platter, as he is house music ? Where do you start with a guy whose productions have been championed by Danny Tenaglia and also by Fabio and Grooverider; by Gilles Peterson but also by John Digweed? Let's start at the beginning, shall we?
Ashley Beedle was born in Hemel Hempstead to a Barbadian mother and English father (his parents met in the local hospital where they both worked). After an aborted attempt at settling back in Barbados, the Beedles moved to Harrow where Ashley spent most of his early childhood. It's probably no surprise to his folks that he eventually ended up working in music. "Well, my dad had an amazing music collection and my mum loved her Al Green, gospel, ska and she loved things like Brook Benton and Mahalia Jackson," recounts Ashley. "But my dad's collection went from Bach to Big Youth and all points in between. He still is a massive record collector." At the moment, Ashley's dad is assiduously hoovering up Bob Dylan / Johnny Cash bootlegs, ever the music fiend.
Music came at him from all angles: from the radio, school friends, parents, everywhere. "When I was about 16, in my last year at school, a friend of ours started to go to Crackers on a Friday lunchtime," chuckles Ashley. "And we used to go into the school toilets at lunchtime, get changed into our granddad shirts, Bowie trousers, plastic sandals ( soulboy gear ! ) bunk school and get on the train to Crackers.That was where I saw people like Norman Jay, Paul Anderson, who was a dancer down there."
Bitten by the club bug, he left school and worked firstly as a spot welder ("I used to weld shopping baskets together!") and latterly in airline offices in and around Heathrow. Money earned went straight into fuelling the soulboy lifestyle and a growing interest in sound systems. Ashley, along with a group of friends from Edgware, founded the Shock sound system. "It started off as a little boy sound', which was what we used to call them. We started off doing house parties. And then Stanley, who was the owner, inherited a load of equipment from his older brother, so all of a sudden we had this big sound to play with ! Where we made our name was in Powis Square, Ladbroke Grove at Notting Hill Carnival. We started around 1984 and went all the way through the early house thing. We were the sound that popularised house music at Carnival, before anyone else I can think of. We started playing a lot of the really early house records because to us, they had the same rawness as the reggae records."
At the same time as his involvement with Shock, there were the trips to the weekenders, the road trips on a weekend to Southend and Hemel Hempstead and the jazz-funk circuit. "Then I had an epiphany", he says. "I was working for Zambia Airways. I was going out a lot then and I was already involved with sound systems. Then I started going to Queens, Phil Perry's club and I'd never been to anything like that before. That's where I encountered the suburban Balearic vibe and started hearing these records I'd never heard before. I thought, I really wanna get into this, but I was sick of my job. So I remember one Wednesday I went for lunch and never came back. That was it." He's never had a proper job since.
There have been many DJs along the way who had an impact on young Beedle, but none more so than Colin Curtis. "That's the man as far as I'm concerned," he enthuses. "Berlin's was the place. We used to get in my mate's van and travel up there. He turned me on to a lot of harder, trippier stuff from the jazz funk scene. He played stuff like Let The Music Play by Players Association and fast samba records on Japanese import albums and things like Brainstorm's Wake Up And Be Somebody, which is as much a southern as a northern record, because of DJs like Colin Curtis."
Early forays in the studio produced one of the first British garage tunes in Give Me Back My Love by the Boys In Shock feat. Carol Leeming (Which Jeff Mills included on his Choice comp for Azuli) . He even got to do a PA at High On Hope promoting the single: "We did a PA with Blaze and they were on first, so we absolutely shat ourselves. They got on stage and did Can't Win For Losing in gold lamé suits! But it went really well." Then there was the Psychic Vitamins, a Hendrix-sample paean to Balearic. But it was his first single for the then nascent Junior Boys Own which helped cement his reputation in the studio with the classic Where Were You by Black Science Orchestra.
"I did it with Rob [Mello] and my flatmate at the time John Howard who helped finance the studio session and he played the hi-hats. John just wanted his name on the record. That record came about because I was in Cheapo Cheapos , a second hand record shop that was in the West End .I was up a ladder going through the old vinyl and next to me was Norman Jay and he said, I've got a good record for you' because he knew I liked Philly. And he pulled out this old Trammps record.I Fell in love with the record and was in the studio with it in two weeks. Just chopped it up. Didn't know what I was doing really." Everywhere you went Where Were You was usually somewhere near a turntable. Not bad for someone who didn¹t know what he was doing in the studio at that time.
He'd already met Rocky and Diesel through clubs like Queens and Full Circle, friendships that were cemented thanks to his work behind the counter at London's famous Black Market record store. They thought it'd be cool to make a record together. Again, it started life as a disco sample, but the loop got smaller and smaller; the sound got bigger and bigger. "We were big fans of the Wild Pitch sound, plus Hardfloor," explains Ashley. "So we thought that we would marry the US wild pitch with the extended breakdowns and the acid of Hardfloor." The result was X-Press 2's Muzik X-Press, a record that still is an anthem worldwide today.
X-Press 2's next single, London X-Press was even bigger. The boys went over to the Sound Factory, then home to Junior Vasquez's epic 12-hour sets. "Well, it's like coals to Newcastle isn't it?" reflects Ashley of their popularity in New York. "When I went over there, I couldn't fucking believe it. Half an hour of X-Press 2 records!"
The remixes poured in for Ashley. Remixes for pop bands, little house labels; hip hop mixes, house mixes; as a solo remixer, and as part of X-Press 2. There really are too many to mention !
There were more offshoot projects: Delta House Of Funk's two EPs for Go! Beat, a one-off single for Positiva with David Holmes under the moniker of De Niro, Roots Revolution for Narcotic, the demon dub-house of Jamayka Boys for Junior Boys Own, Black Jazz Chronicles for Nuphonic. And, of course, the Ballistic Brothers, an X-Press 2 side project (with Nuphonic's Dave Hill and female producer/keyboard player Uschi Classen added to the mix), which produced two very fine albums, London Hooligan Soul and Rude System. "To this day," claims Ashley, "I still think those two albums are brilliant."
Ashley also took time out to compile the first in Stru's Grass Roots series, a brilliant compilation of music that had influenced him as both DJ and collector. Taking in everything from Patrick Adams' produced My Baby's Got ESP to the awesome Stan Ivory and his Ominificent Orchestra, both highly collectible records. What you got was a wicked set of music and a few hundred quid's worth of tunes ...and all for the price of a cinema ticket.
Over the past couple of years, Ashley's mind (and, it has to be said, time) has been largely occupied with the Phoenix-like reappearance of X-Press 2 who scored the massive hit, Lazy in 2002 thanks to an inspired collaboration with former Talking Head , David Byrne. The boys are presently working on a new album, which will contain plenty of surprises for hardened X-Press 2 fans. They also have compiled a Choice album for Azuli in fact being the first and so far only UK DJ's to be asked!! As well as djing all over the world from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Ibiza and Moscow !!!
But not so busy that there isn¹t time for Ashley's little side projects and sneaky little one-off gigs, playing everything from roots reggae to classic Philly disco and dancefloor jazz. There¹s also the same matter of an album of his own and a new label called Out Hear Audio for future Ashley Beedle releases . Also plans for some more amzing compilations... No more aliases for his new project, either. "I'm going to be doing an Ashley Beedle solo album," confirms Mr. Beedle. "I have to do it, because it's been in me for so long now." But not for much longer, we'd guess.


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Sebastian looked at Thane's mother in a mix of shock and pain. He could feel the beginnings of another panic attack coming along. His hands started shaking and his heartbeat sped up, sweat coated his brow and the base of his back. Sebastian licked his lips nervously and frowned down at his feet and tried to calm himself down.
He took deep breaths in and out until he slowly relaxed.
He hated talking about his family, his father especially. Long buried memories of finding his dead father flashed inside of Sebastian's mind. He could still smell the putrid scent of death, still see the empty look within his fathers open eyes.
Sebastian shook his head and willed the images away.
He bit his lip and looked back at Thane's mother. "No, I never even glanced at them. Not like I had the chance to either. My father kept them locked away in the attic and treasured them more than he did with me." Sebastian said bitterly.
He winced at the tone of his voice and looked at Thane, who watched him with a look of apology of his face.
"I see..." Nyx said quietly. She abruptly stood up and smiled at Thane."A word." She said to him and walked out to the entrance without waiting for his reply. Thane quickly stood up and hurried after her.
Sebastian could hear their voices whispering from where he sat but he didn't pay close enough attention to what they were saying.
"You have no idea how lucky you are." Antonio commented from where he stood. Sebastian looked up at him in shock.
"Excuse me?" Sebastian said in surprise. Antonio smiled and came to sit opposite Sebastian.
"Lets just say that our...mother, is a very..." He trailed off and tapped his chin in thought. "How can I put this so you'll understand...protective. she's very protective. And she asked upi questions because she worries about Thane." Antonio said to him with a feint mocking smile. Sebastian swallowed audibly and gripped his knees tightly until his knuckles turned white.
"And how does that make me lucky?" Sebastian asked quietly.
Antonio just smiled at him and winked. "I'm sure Thane will explain it to you when he thinks it's the right time to." Antonio stood up and shuffled out of the room, leaving Sebastian sitting there by himself.
He looked around the lounge again and his eyes rested on the skull.
"Hi there." It said. Sebastian's eyes bugged out of his head as he leapt to his feet and made a run for the front door.


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She turned around to see what she tripped over and saw something furry. A tiny little face peered out and she squeeled with delight. "Hello little friend!" she chittered. "I'm going to call you, erm, Furball!"


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I hadn't expected to receive all of this hype when I moved to this small town. I guess it started with my cousin, Alex. He was a bit annoying, but we would always hang out when he came out to visit us.
Coincidentally, Alex and I share birthdays. We were born on the same day and even in the same hospital. I was born in Riverton, but almost immediately afterwards the family moved up to Canada in Toronto.
Six months ago, my Dad died in a car accident. I was in the passenger seat when it happened. They say that Dad died instantly. I walked away with only a badly broken leg, broken shoulder, some organ bruising and a concussion. After months of physiotherapy I was finally sent to live with Alex and his stepdad Quint. My mom is still alive, but she was a hard-core drug abuser and the government placed me with our closest relatives. I was somewhat relieved. Mom wasn't exactly in the running for Mom of the Year.
Anyway, here I was, being driven by my social worker, Barb, to a town I don't even remember. I watched out the window with my forehead pressed lightly against the cool glass.
"Wake up, Evelyn." Barb called, tapping my shoulder.
"I am awake, Barb." I muttered. I pulled the hood of my grey hoodie over my head even more. God, I wish I didn't leave my iPod in my suitcase.
"Ok well I'm just letting you know that we're pulling up on the street now. You can see the house down the road already."
I stifled a yawn and sat up straight. Barb pointed out which house was Alex's and I stared at it groggily. It was never a mystery to me why Alex always visited us and not the other way around. I didn't know why, but I never really cared or bothered to ask.
We pulled into the drive way and I hopped out of the big dark blue Toyota truck. A thin layer of dirt clung to the bottom half of it from taking the gravel roads that were a shortcut to get here.
I didn't like the feeling I got from watching the woods we drove through when we took those roads. It felt as if something might be lurking inside them.
"Eevee!" someone called. I turned and smiled as my cousin Alex ran toward me. I smiled and ran into his arms.
"Hey, Lex!" I laughed, hugging him tightly. It felt like such a long time ago that I had been hugged. My friends back in Toronto seemed to think that I was too fragile to hug after the accident and soon I just lost connection with all of them. Even though I'm pretty much back to normal.
"I'm sorry. You know, about Uncle Jerry." Alex said, stepping back so we were arm's length of each other.
I shrugged my shoulders. "It's alright."
Alex just smiled that goofy smile of his and went to grab my stuff from the back of the truck. I would have done it myself, but my shoulder just wasn't the same after the accident. It wasn't completely useless. Nobody could tell I had been injured unless I tried to strain myself. I rubbed my shoulder absent mindedly as I watched him.
You could kind of see the resemblance between Alex and me. We were both the same height and had the same color of hair. Only mine was pin straight instead of curly and my eyes were almost an electric green. Dad always said I had magical eyes. A small smile graced my lips at the memory of him.
I didn't bother to say goodbye to Barb. She said that I was all settled for everything I needed, including school. No need for her to stick around anymore. I just hope that this is the last time social services have to bother me.
"And this is your room." Alex said, gesturing to the second door on the left of the upstairs hallway. "Mine is right there." He pointed to one across the hall two doors down. I looked into my room and saw all of my stuff already inside. "Are you gonna be ok with setting things up and whatever?"
"Yeah, I'm not a total gibble." I said with a smirk.
"Good, because you're coming to the memorial service this weekend." Alex exclaimed mischievously.
"It's kind of a thing the kids around here do to commemorate the death of the Riverton Ripper"! He said with his best ghouly voice. "Plus the birthdays of the Riverton Seven- I guess Riverton eight now."
"Do I have to go?" I asked. "I don't even know who the Riverton Ripper is." I wasn't sure if I was up to going to any parties or stuff yet.
"Sorry Eevee. Frankly you ain't got a choice. I'll fill ya in on the details on the walk over there." Alex smirked. Then he ruffled my hair and disappeared in his room.
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The NLTHS preserves, presents and interprets the history of North Lake Tahoe both in a regional context and in the larger context of the American West. We do this in a manner that is engaging, educational and culturally sensitive through innovative programming and exhibits at the Gatekeeper's and Watson Cabin Museums of the NLTHS.
The Gatekeeper's Museum and Watson Cabin place emphasis on the cultural and geographical histories that influenced the development of North Lake Tahoe.
The Marion Steinbach Indian Basket Museum places emphasis on the historical and contemporary basketry traditions of western North America, and seeks to promote cultural awareness through programming in collaboration and consultation with native American weavers and scholars.
The North Lake Tahoe Historical Society serves multiple geographical regions, because we are located at Lake Tahoe: a world class destination area that is enjoyed by people from the Lake Tahoe basin, California, the greater United States and all over the world. Our visitors include people from all walks of life and all backgrounds. We serve local (Tahoe City, Truckee, Kings Beach, Incline Village and communities throughout the Tahoe Basin) students with school tours on-site and in the classroom.
Marguerite Sprague
History Museum, Historical Society, Native American, Basketry, Natural History
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130 West Lake Boulevard
Tahoe City, CA 96145
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PO Box 6141
Tahoe City, CA 96145
Physical Address
130 West Lake Boulevard
Tahoe City, CA 96145
Museum & Museum Activities (A50)
Historical Societies and Related Activities (A80)
Natural History, Natural Science Museums (A56)
IRS Filing Requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
How does this organization make a difference?
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The vision of the NLTHS is to operate a welcoming and inclusive location where engaging exhibits and interactive educational programming encourage interest in the stories of North Lake Tahoe history, for now and for future generations.
We believe the NLTHS is on the brink of change, joining historical societies and museums nationwide as we all evolve to meet the needs of a new generation of museum visitors. In addition to revising our mission and vision statements, we have recently begun reaching out to much wider audiences, incorporating educational programs for visitors of all ages. In an effort to generate excitement about our Museums and programs, we have retired our former newsletter the Tahoe Tattler, in favor of the full-color information-rich Gatekeeper's Gazette, our new quarterly member and community magazine.
We have just completed a financial audit, and will post our financial statements, 990 and IRS determination letter on our website.
Moving forward, we have identified the following priorities for the NLTHS:
1. Diversify and grow our income stream.
2. Expand our membership base.
3. Establish ourselves within the community as a cultural center.
4. Establish ourselves as a "must-see" tourist destination.
5. Continue to grow the talent on our Board of Directors through ongoing education, improved recruitment and openness and honesty in Board Meetings.
6. Implement transparency in all operations.
In 2011, we will be opening a brand new exhibition on 20th century life and tourism on Lake Tahoe.
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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Program 1
We are supported by a membership of approximately 1000, annual fundraising events, Museum admission, Museum Store sales, facility rentals and grants.
Program long term success
Focused on Board development and reorganized the committee structure to three- Governance, Development and Finance.
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Population(s) Served
The North Lake Tahoe Historical Society serves multiple geographical regions, because we are located at Lake Tahoe: a world class destination area that is enjoyed by people from the Lake Tahoe basin, California, the greater United States and all over the world. Our visitors include people from all walks of life and all backgrounds. We serve local (Tahoe City, Truckee, Kings Beach, Incline Village and communities throughout the Tahoe Basin) students with school tours on-site and in the classroom.
Social Media
Funding Needs
We are in need of donations to help us create and install an exhibit about American Black Bears in the Tahoe Basin: target launch date July 1, 2012.
Affiliations + Memberships
American Association of Museums - Member
Chamber of Commerce
National Trust for Historic Preservation - Partner
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Prior to coming to NLTHS, Ms. Sprague served as the Executive Director of the Sierra State Parks Foundation; prior to that she was the Associate Director of Development for Save San Francisco Bay Association ("Save the Bay").
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By Kimberly Wilson/ The Root | 3/3/2016, 10:43 a.m.
The only full-time African-American driver in a national series talked to The Root about his historic 2013 win, how he prepares to win and living up to the legacy he's created.
For many, NASCAR is not a sport "for us." But that stigma is slowly changing, especially with Darrell Wallace Jr. in the game.
Wallace, affectionately known as "Bubba" to family and friends, made history in 2013 when he became the second African American in history to win a NASCAR national series (the first was Wendell Scott, in 1963). Finally, we had someone we could root for. As a product of NASCAR's Drive for Diversity program, Wallace may be the second to make waves in the sport but, hopefully, won't be the last.
Now driving in his second NASCAR Xfinity Series, making him the only full-time African-American driver in a national series, the two-time Camping World Truck Series winner chatted with The Root about his relationship with Wendell Scott's family, what gets him in the zone before each race, NASCAR's Drive for Diversity program and living up to the legacy he's already created for himself.
The Root: You finished your rookie season in the Xfinity Series. How are you feeling headed into this season?
Darrell Wallace Jr.: I'm good; I'm ready to go. It's been a long off-season. A lot of changes have been made at the shop teamwise, carwise, which is all piling in to be a really good season for us.
TR: How do you mentally prepare before every race? Do you have a ritual?
DWJ: I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on. I listen to the heavy-metal stuff you can't understand. Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.
TR: In 2013 you were introduced to the world when you won your first truck race series, becoming the second African American ever (after Wendell Scott) to win the title. I'm sure that bonded you with Wendell Scott's family at the time. Do you still have a relationship them?
DWJ: Absolutely. [Wendell Scott] Junior actually just texted me two days ago. He's always sending messages of motivation. The family is pulling for me, and it's good. It's fun to have that relationship with the family, especially because they've been going through some tough times lately.
TR: Is there any special advice his family gave to you?
DWJ: At some of the tracks we've been to, they would reminisce [about] their dad, and it was great to hear those stories.
TR: Are you tired of the "second African American to win a national NASCAR series" narrative? Do you ever think to yourself, "I'm just a driver like the rest of these guys"?
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20 September 2013 | Issue 5217
A man in Ukraine has found a canine whose piercing gaze is strangely reminiscent of President Vladimir Putin's.
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£85,000 Fixed Price
This end terraced villa is located within a popular area of Glenrothes within easy walking distance of local schools, the kingdom centre and main bus station. The property comprises; An open plan hall, well appointed lounge/dining room, modern kitchen, two spacious double bedrooms and tastefully finished bathroom. Gardens to front and rear with generous split level decking area. This family home enjoys gas central heating and double glazing. Early viewing is recommended.
Entrance Hall
Principle access to this family home is through an attractive double glazed ad UPVC external door. A further floor to ceiling window maximises natural light. The hall is open plan to the lounge/dining room. A fifteen pane timber and glazed door leads to the kitchen. A wide staircase rises to the upper landing. Lowered ceiling with down lighters.
Lounge/Dining Room
18' 8" x 9' 9" (5.70m x 2.96m)
A well appointed public room, open plan to the hall. Window formations look to both front and rear of the property. High quality wood effect flooring. Neutral décor. Coving and down lighters to the ceiling.
9' 10" x 7' 8" (2.99m x 2.34m)
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First Floor
Stairs and Landing
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Bedroom Two
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6' 2" x 5' 7" (1.88m x 1.70m)
The bathroom is tiled through out, three piece suite comprises low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin and panel bath with wall mounted "Triton" electric shower. Opaque glazed window attracts light and ventilation. Polished tile flooring.
The gardens to the front of the garden are designed for easy maintenance and mainly laid to stone chips (This could form a drive subject to planning and consents. The rear gardens are enclosed and laid to grass and a large split level decking area.
Heating and Glazing
Gas combi central heating and double glazing.
Contact Details
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52 Commercial Road
Tel: 01333 278011
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Russian scientists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS), and Gamaleya Research Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology found that treating cells with cold plasma leads to their regeneration and rejuvenation. This result can be used to develop a plasma therapy program for patients with non-healing wounds.
The paper has been published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
Non-healing wounds make it more difficult to provide effective treatment to patients and are therefore a serious problem faced by doctors. These wounds can be caused by damage to blood vessels in the case of diabetes, failure of the immune system resulting from an HIV infection or cancers, or slow cell division in elderly people. Treatment of non-healing wounds by conventional methods is very difficult and in some cases impossible.
Cold atmospheric-pressure plasma refers to a partially ionized gas (the proportion of charged particles in the gas being close to 1?%) with a temperature below 100,000 K. Its application in biology and medicine has been made possible by the advent of plasma sources generating jets at 30–40?°C.
An earlier study established the bactericidal properties of low-temperature plasma, as well as the relatively high resistance of cells and tissues to its influence. The results of plasma treatment of patients with non-healing wounds varied from positive to neutral. The authors' previous work prompted them to investigate the possibility that the effect of plasma treatment on wound healing could depend on application pattern (the interval between applications and the total number of applications).
Two types of cells were used in this study, viz. fibroblasts (connective tissue cells) and keratinocytes (epithelial cells). Both play a central role in wound healing.
The effect of plasma treatment on cells was measured. In fibroblast samples, the number of cells increased by 42.6?% after one application (A) and by 32.0?% after two applications (B), as compared to the untreated controls. While no signs of DNA breaks were detected following plasma application, an accumulation of cells in the active phases of the cell cycle was observed, alongside a prolonged growth phase (30 hours). This means that the effect of plasma could be characterized as regenerative, as opposed to harmful.
The proliferation of cells that had been treated daily over a period of three days (group C) was reduced by 29.1?% relative to the controls. Keratinocytes did not show noticeable changes in proliferation.
The researchers also performed an assay of the senescence-associated ?-galactosidase, which is measured at pH 6.0. The concentration of this enzyme in a cell increases with age. Plasma treatment significantly reduced the content of this substance in the samples. This, together with a prolonged exponential growth phase of the culture, suggests a functional activation of cells—their rejuvenation.
'The positive response to plasma treatment that we observed could be linked to the activation of a natural destructive mechanism called autophagy, which removes damaged organelles from the cell and reactivates cellular metabolic processes,' says Elena Petersen, a co-author of the paper and the head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Technologies at MIPT.
The scientists are planning additional research into the molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of plasma on cells. They also aim to determine the influence of a patient's age on the effectiveness of plasma therapy.
Learn more: Cold plasma will heal non-healing wounds
Designers of solar cells may soon be setting their sights higher, as a discovery by a team of researchers has revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into energy than those currently being used in solar arrays. Their research shows how a material can be used to extract power from a small portion of the sunlight spectrum with a conversion efficiency that is above its theoretical maximum — a value called the Shockley-Queisser limit. This finding, which could lead to more power-efficient solar cells, was seeded in a near-half-century old discovery by Russian physicist Vladimir M. Fridkin, PhD, a visiting professor of physics at Drexel University, who is also known as one of the innovators behind the photocopier.
The team, which includes scientists from Drexel University, the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of Pennsylvania and the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory recently published its findings in the journal Nature Photonics. Their article "Power conversion efficiency exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit in a ferroelectric insulator," explains how they were able to use a barium titanate crystal to convert sunlight into electric power much more efficiently than the Shockley-Queisser limit would dictate for a material that absorbs almost no light in the visible spectrum — only ultraviolet.
A phenomenon that is the foundation for the new findings was observed by Fridkin, who is one of the principal co-authors of the paper, some 47 years ago, when he discovered a physical mechanism for converting light into electrical power — one that differs from the method currently employed in solar cells. The mechanism relies on collecting "hot" electrons, those that carry additional energy in a photovoltaic material when excited by sunlight, before they lose their energy. And though it has received relatively little attention until recently, the so-called "bulk photovoltaic effect," might now be the key to revolutionizing our use of solar energy.
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Solar energy conversion has been limited thus far due to solar cell design and electrochemical characteristics inherent to the materials used to make them.
"In a conventional solar cell — made with a semiconductor — absorption of sunlight occurs at an interface between two regions, one containing an excess of negative-charge carriers, called electrons, and the other containing an excess of positive-charge carriers, called holes,"said Alessia Polemi, PhD, a research assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Drexel's College of Engineering and one of the co-authors of the paper.
In order to generate electron-hole pairs at the interface, which is necessary to have an electric current, the sunlight's photons must excite the electrons to a level of energy that enables them to vacate the valence band and move into the conduction band — the difference in energy levels between these two bands is referred to as the "band gap." This means that in photovoltaic materials, not all of the available solar spectrum can be converted into electrical power. And for sunlight photon energies that are higher than the band gap, the excited electrons will lose it excess energy as heat, rather than converting it to electric current. This process further reduces the amount of power can be extracted from a solar cell.
"The light-induced carriers generate a voltage, and their flow constitutes a current. Practical solar cells produce power, which is the product of current and voltage," Polemi said. "This voltage, and therefore the power that can be obtained, is also limited by the band gap."
But, as Fridkin discovered in 1969 — and the team validates with this research — this limitation is not universal, which means solar cells can be improved.
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When Fridkin and his colleagues at the Institute of Crystallography in Moscow observed an unusually high photovoltage while studying the ferroelectric antimony sulfide iodide — a material that did not have any junction separating the carriers — he posited that crystal symmetry could be the origin for its remarkable photovoltaic properties. He later explained how this "bulk photovoltaic effect," which is very weak, involves the transport of photo-generated hot electrons in a particular direction without collisions, which cause cooling of the electrons.
This is significant because the limit on solar power conversion from the Shockley-Queisser theory is based on the assumption that all of this excess energy is lost — wasted as heat. But the team's discovery shows that not all of the excess energy of hot electrons is lost, and that the energy can, in fact, be extracted as power before thermalizing.
"The main result — exceeding [the energy gap-specific] Shockley-Queisser [power efficiency limit] using a small fraction of the solar spectrum — is caused by two mechanisms," Fridkin said. "The first is the bulk photovoltaic effect involving hot carriers and second is the strong screening field, which leads to impact ionization and multiplication of these carriers, increasing the quantum yield."
Impact ionization, which leads to carrier multiplication, can be likened to an array of dominoes in which each domino represents a bound electron. When a photon interacts with an electron, it excites the electron, which, when subject to the strong field, accelerates and 'ionizes' or liberates other bound electrons in its path, each of which, in turn, also accelerates and triggers the release of others. This process continues successively — like setting off multiple domino cascades with a single tipped tile — amounting to a much greater current.
This second mechanism, the screening field, is an electric field is present in all ferroelectric materials. But with the nanoscale electrode used to collect the current in a solar cell, the field is enhanced, and this has the beneficial effect of promoting impact ionization and carrier multiplication. Following the domino analogy, the field drives the cascade effect, ensuring that it continues from one domino to the next.
"This result is very promising for high efficiency solar cells based on application of ferroelectrics having an energy gap in the higher intensity region of the solar spectrum," Fridkin said.
Building Toward a Breakthrough
"Who would have expected that an electrical insulator could be used to improve solar energy conversion?" said Jonathan E. Spanier, PhD, a professor of materials science, physics and electrical engineering at Drexel and one of the principal authors of the study. "Barium titanate absorbs less than a tenth of the spectrum of the sun. But our device converts incident power 50 percent more efficiently than the theoretical limit for a conventional solar cell constructed using this material or a material of the same energy gap."
This breakthrough builds on research conducted several years ago by Andrew M. Rappe, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the principal authors, and Steve M. Young, also a co-author on the new report. Rappe and Young showed how bulk photovoltaic currents could be calculated — which led Spanier and collaborators to investigate if higher power conversion efficiency could be attained in ferroelectrics.
"There are many exciting reports utilizing nanoscale materials or phenomena for improving solar energy conversion," Spanier said. "Professor Fridkin appreciated decades ago that the bulk photovoltaic effect enables free electrons that are generated by light and have excess energy to travel in a particular direction before they cool or 'thermalize'—and lose their excess energy to vibrations of the crystal lattice."
Rappe was also responsible for connecting Spanier to Fridkin in 2015, a collaboration that set in motion the research now detailed in Nature Photonics — a validation of Fridkin's decades-old vision.
"Vladimir is internationally renowned for his pioneering contributions to the field of electroxerography, having built the first working photocopier in the world," Rappe said. "He then became a leader in ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity, and preeminent in understanding light interactions with ferroelectrics. Fridkin explained how, in crystals that lack inversion symmetry, photo-excited electrons acquire asymmetry in their momenta. This, in turn, causes them to move in one direction instead of the opposite direction. It is amazing that the same person who discovered these bulk photovoltaic effects nearly 50 years ago is now helping to harness them for practical use in nanomaterials."
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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (EIMB RAS), the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (IBCh) and a number of other Russian research centers have developed a new method of diagnosing colorectal cancer. The results of the study have been published in Cancer Medicine.
The scientists have created a hydrogel-based biochip to help detect bowel cancer i.e. colorectal cancer (CRC). CRC is the third most common type of cancer and it develops with minimal clinical symptoms in the early stages. Despite doctors' efforts, the 5-year survival rate does not exceed 36%. Treatment is only effective, and patients only have a good chance of recovery, if the cancer is detected early.
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