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An 8 are you out of your minds for this?!
Just to name a few more cons.
Smallest viewfinder of all DSLRs.
Low dynamic range
Bad I so performance. Just check dxo the 5-6 year old digic 4 combined with this 5 year old sensor is simply outdated.
Bad noisy kit lens. They have an good stm kit lens which is not available with this.
That would make it an 5-6 out of 10 and an avoid if possible rating
I'm new to photography, and this is my first DSLR. None of those things you rattled off mean anything to me, I love the camera, and I'm excited to take pictures with it. You're simply expecting too much out of it, it's a beginners camera, and it suits me just fine.
I made this reply a year ago.
This camera was $500-600 and it performed worse then any Dslr on the market. And it still does.
You may be happy with it. But it's slower provides worse image quality and has nothing to make it stand out to any of it's peers.
You made a wrong buying decission and you like it well that's fine but does not make the product competitive
Nikon ? Sony ? Pentax afficionado ?
Canon 1200D is one of the best camera in its class. Again, in its class ! Having practically a Canon 600D at this price is fantastic !
Very good sales all over the world ! Why ? Because is a bad camera ? Because the idiots are in love with it ?
Nope !
It's a superb entry class camera !
Best in class?!
The pentax k500 same class has similar noise levels but more dynamic range
A 100% viewfinder
Twice the resolution rear lcd
Shoots 5 fps.
The d3300 has a sensor that is better then the one in the 7d mk2. Again with a better rear lcd and shoots 5 fps despite the 24mp.
The sony a58.
100% coverage and much larger viewfinder
Better sensor.
Better rear lcd.
Then it is NOT a 600d
It does not have the sensor cleaning
Nor the crisp lcd. It doesn't have a flip-out screen. Not to mention the 600d is pretty dated these days as well.
Now.why they sell it.
Brand recognition and marketing
You can find one on sale in the folders of electronics department stores across the whole planet. It's not a good camera and never will be.
Pentax k500 has only a 16 megapixels sensors.
Nikon d3300 needs a live histogram and a higher-resolution feed. The movie mode would still benefit from a truly working full-time AF feature.
Sony SLT A58 is (a bit) in other class. Hasn't an optical wiewfinder but an electronic one. With some +, but also with some -.A hybrid between A37 & A57.
We need a lot of discussions. In fact everybody is free to have its own opinion. I like Canon 1200D !
Like 16mp and 18mp with a slightly smaller sensor would ever make a difference in terms of actual detail captured.
The 16mp sony has less noise in shadow area's and the files can be pushed.a.lot more 2-3stops at the lower iso's.
High resolution feed?!
No camera is quick enough to give us 24mp live feed in live view.
You can argue the whole day about evf vs ovf. But you can't argue with 3 vs 6 fps.
If you like the 1200d you must have pretty low standards. Canon basicly putted all their dusted dated crap into 1 piece of missery.
haha Barney Klingenberg you are one sour and angry man who has too much time to put a lot of negativity into creating an argument for not buying something...which makes me think why on earth are you even looking at a page dedicated to the 1200D if you don't like it?! You either work for a competitor or have too much time on your hands ;)
Plus, despite what you say, even if there are 'better' cameras out there, just like the first 'Emmit' said, it suits their needs which is EXACTLY what marketing and product development is about. The business I own may not be perfect but it suits exactly what the customer needs and makes money because of it. Just look at Apple. Not the best phones but made the company the wealthiest company to EVER exist.
Because i want people to enjoy their photography with a p[roper camera that they can grow upon.
And the 1200d is so terrible that it doesn't suit anyone but the Canon board that get's rid of all their outdated scrap parts that were already at their last legs about 3 years ago.
barney is just a nikon fanboy ;)
Makes sense since i mentioned a pentax and sony as well.
I don't even own a Nikon body at this point. But it's impossible to argue about the sensor performance.
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Had a great laugh. Yah it's 10 months ago, so Barney don't point out the bleeding obvious. A camera is a tool. I have 2 Nikon full frame cameras, an assortment of lenses and I also own this 1200D, cracking camera with the 10-18 uwa, nice and light for traveling..just saying..but I'm sure you'll have a retort for this too..GBS
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14. 05. 2013 - Czech Airlines' Fleet Expands with Its First Long-Haul Airbus A330-300
Prague, 14 May 2013
The first long-haul A330-300 joined Czech Airlines' fleet of aircraft today. It will bear a symbolic matriculation number, OK-YBA, referring to an Ilyushin IL-62, the first-ever long-haul aircraft to be used by the airline. As of June, the aircraft will be deployed primarily on Czech Airlines' new scheduled route to Seoul, as well as on flights to Almaty, Moscow, and Tel Aviv. In the future, the airline plans to add more Airbus A330 aircraft to its fleet.
Czech Airlines is the first airline in the Czech Republic to operate an Airbus A330. The A330-300 that Czech Airlines will operate in its colours with the matriculation OK-YBA has a capacity of 276 seats, 24 in Business Class and 252 in Economy, a cruising speed of 860 km/h, and a flight range of 12,000 km. "Czech Airlines will celebrate its 90th anniversary this October. And in October, it will also be 44 years since the airline took ownership of its first-ever long-haul aircraft, an Ilyushin IL-62 with the designation OK-YBA. This year, Czech Airlines has gained a strategic partner, Korean Air, thanks to which it again resumes the operation of its own long-haul flights, after a three-year break. This symbolism has led us to grant the first Airbus A330-300 in the Czech Airlines fleet the historical designation OK-YBA," explains Marek Týbl, Vice-President of Czech Airlines for Flight Operations and a recent holder of a type qualification for Airbus A330 aircraft. The airline has leased the aircraft on operative leasing from Korean Air. In the future, Czech Airlines plans to expand its fleet with the addition of more new Airbus A330 aircraft.
With the Airbus A330 to Seoul, Almaty, Moscow, and Tel Aviv
As of the beginning of June, the Czech Airlines Airbus A330-300 will head to Seoul, Almaty, Moscow, and newly also to Tel Aviv on scheduled flights. It will operate to the metropolis of South Korea twice weekly, with departures from Prague on Saturdays and Sundays; to Almaty once a week, with departures on Friday; to Moscow on Thursdays and Fridays; and to Tel Aviv three times a week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. As of July, Czech Airlines will boost the number of flights on the Seoul service to three per week, newly adding a Tuesday departure from Prague. Together with Korean Air, they will operate up to seven weekly flights between Prague and Seoul as of the summer vacation – every day except for Thursdays, with two flights on Saturdays. The airlines will mutually share their codes on the flight.
Thanks to its strategic partnership with Korean Air, the new Czech Airlines service to Seoul, and a substantial harmonisation of the flight schedules of the two airlines, passengers will have connections from Prague to up to 20 destinations in Eastern Asia, connecting to flights from Prague. With a comfortable transfer without a long wait, passengers can carry on from Seoul on Czech Airlines or Korean Air flights, for example, to seven destinations in Japan – Nagoya, Fukuoka, Niigata, Okayama, Osaka, Sapporo, and Tokyo; as well as Hong Kong, Qingdao and Shanghai in China; Da Nang, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Min City in Vietnam; Denpasar and Jakarta in Indonesia; Kota Kinabalu and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia; Bangkok; or to the Pacific islands of Guam and Palau (Koror). All 20 destinations in Asia are included in Czech Airlines' flight schedule.
A Menu with the Signature of the Chef from Prague Kempinski Hotel
Czech Airlines will serve two meals on the scheduled Prague – Seoul route in both travel classes: a main meal after take-off and then the second one before landing. For their main meal, passengers will have a choice of a Korean, Asian, or European menu in both travel classes. The author of the recipes of the Asian and European dishes served in Business Class is Marek Fichtner, Chef of Kempinski Hotel in Prague, with whom Czech Airlines also cooperates on its menu for its Abu Dhabi service. The Korean cuisine will include the national dish bibimbap, made of ground meat, vegetables, and sesame oil, gochujang paste and rice, as well as rice porridge with jang jorim beef and oji cucumber salad or dry cod soup, and other specialities. As the second meal served before landing, Czech Airlines will serve either a hot snack with a choice of Asian or international cuisine or a lighter, cold snack, depending on the time of day. Between meals, passengers can nibble on small snacks, such as instant noodle soup, crackers, biscuits, ice cream, fruit skewers, and pastries, depending on the class in which they travel.
Business Class in the Czech Airlines Airbus A330-300 features seats that can be tilted to a full flat-bed position for comfortable sleeping. Each seat, including Economy Class seats, feature a built-in, individual in-flight entertainment system that offers over 60 feature films and 70 short documentaries about sport, lifestyle, etc. There are, of course, programmes for children, too. Passengers will have a choice from a broad range of music of various genres. The in-flight entertainment content will be updated and supplemented several times a year.
Basic technical information about the Airbus A330-300 OK-YBA:
Type: Airbus A330-323X
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney PW4168 A (thrust 302 kN)
Capacity: 276 seats overall: Business Class, 24 seats; Economy Class, 252
Number of toilets: 9
Length: 63.7 m
Wing span: 60.3 m
Cruising speed: 900 km/h
Range: 12,000 km
Maximum ceiling: 41,100 ft (12 527 m)
Weight without fuel (MZFW): 173 t
Payload: 45.9 t
Maximum take-off weight (MTOW): 230 t
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The Sisters of Life are a new order. Their charism is a response to the evils of our times. I can think of no work more needed than theirs.
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Nuns and Sisters: To Inhabit the Habit, or Not?
The old-fashioned habit that was worn by women religious for several hundred years is a romantic garb.
It is, in its own way, more high fashion than anything coming out of Paris, Italy or New York today. It harkens back to the days when Europe was going through a prolonged cold streak, when buildings where the common folk lived went mostly unheated.The habit began as the fashion of the day and, as time moved onward and the fashions of the days changed, it became an icon of religious identity for the women who wore it and those who saw them.
The habit meant something rather grand, speaking as it did of the mysteries of the sealed-off world of the convent and lives lived according to vows of lifetime commitment to Christ and His Church. The habit, when worn by Ingrid Bergman or Audrey Hepburn, was not only living religious icon, and high fashion; it was high Hollywood, as well.
No wonder the laity longs to see its return and many young girls like to wear it. But given that it is bound to be a rather uncomfortable and hot dress for today's climate and an altogether unwieldy one for much of today's work, no wonder so many other nuns were only too happy to shed it.
Fifty years on in this experiment of habit-less nuns and sisters, the question remains: To inhabit the habit, or not? Should nuns and sisters wear this garb as it always has been, or should they wear a modified version of it, or, should they abandon it altogether?
I am not a nun or a sister. I don't, as we say here in Oklahoma, have a dog in this fight.
What I want from sisters and nuns is the same thing I want from priests: Authenticity of purpose and fidelity to Jesus.
I do think that it serves an important purpose for God's vowed ones to be identifiable in public. Priests wear the collar. But they don't wear it on the basketball court or the swimming pool. They take it off to go out for dinner with their friends and family.
From what I've seen, sisters and nuns try to wear their habits at all times, even when they are engaged in physical enterprises which make it clumsy or even dangerous. I think that is kind of extreme.
Maybe the question should be more along the lines of what should nuns who are active in the world wear for a habit, rather than if they should dress like civilians. As I said, this isn't my fight. The only reason I'm writing about it is because I see a crying need for sisters who will engage in ministries such as human trafficking, prostitution, and other crimes of violence against women.
The truth is, many of the women who escape from these things are unable to relate to any man in a healthy way, and that includes priests. They are deeply wounded, maimed even, on a spiritual and emotional level. They need people of God to work with them, and it would be very helpful if at least some of these people had the authority of religious vows.
It can't be men; not in the early stages. It has to be women. That, to me, means sisters. The reason I bring up the habit is that I can see that a full-bore, head-to-toe habit might be a barrier between a sister and the people they are ministering to. Victims of this kind of terrible violence have enough survival barriers they've created inside themselves without adding more with something like the clothing you wear.
To me — and I'm going to say for the third time that I'm out of my depth here — but to me the question about whether or not to wear a habit should revolve around what purpose it serves. I think women religious should wear something that is uniform to their calling and that distinguishes them from the laity. But I also think that transporting middle ages fashion to the 21st century may not always be the best way to go.
I'm not saying it's wrong to wear this type of habit. It's fine. But for certain kinds of ministry, it would interfere with the sister's ability to minister. On the other hand, dressing like just anybody who walked in off the street would hamper that ministry, as well.
I mentioned the collar and black and white clothes that priests wear because I think they are a good solution. It is a distinctive and uniform look that anyone who sees it recognizes as clerical garb. At the same time, it does not inhibit a priest's ability to walk, run, sit or drive a car. Priests even wear short-sleeved shirts in summer, which seems kinder than wearing a full habit to me.
Priests also take their clericals off when they want to play golf or go jogging. They even take them off for private social occasions.
Why can't sisters and nuns exercise the same common sense in their clothing?
I've read that the orders which use the full habit are growing while those that don't wear a habit are declining. I don't know if that has to do with the habit or with the spiritual practices and mission of these orders or what. I would like to think that young women are joining religious orders for much more important reasons that what habit they wear.
As I said, my interest in this comes from what I see as a crying need to have women religious in certain ministries. The lack of women religious to help in the fight against violence against women is a sadness to me. I know that they could make a profound difference for the good, but there are not women religious to do this work, at least none that I know of.
This is a rambling post that goes off in several directions and doesn't come around to any conclusion. That's because I'm thinking this through as I type.
What do you think about all this?
Also, do you know of an order of sisters who might be interested in the kind of work I'm talking about?
The Church needs nuns and sisters. It has to have them to do the work of evangelization that it has set for itself.
Will Pope Francis Put More Women in Key Vatican Roles?
According to a NewsMax article, Pope Francis is being advised to move women into senior positions in the Vatican. This is part of his effort to reform the Roman Curia, and is seen by Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi as "a natural step."
Will Pope Francis follow through with these ideas and put more women in key Vatican roles?
I hope so.
I say that as both a woman and a Catholic. The Church is Universal, which means that it exists to bring Christ to all the world. Every human being, of every race or language, belongs in the Universal Church which is the Body of Christ in the world. That includes the female half of the human race.
More to the point, an institution which only uses the male viewpoint to inform its deliberations is an example of humanity, thinking with half its brain. The Church teaches that men and women have unique gifts. God did not make us duplicates. He made us complimentary. Men and women are incomplete without one another.
We need both men and women to participate in His Church because that is the only way to access the fullness of human wisdom. Men cannot replace either the viewpoint or the wisdom of women.
Neither sex is complete in itself. We were not created to be complete in ourselves like, say, a bacterium. Men and women, working together for the common good, is what creates civilization. Either one of them working alone creates chaos.
It is the same with Christian witness. Women, no less than men, are children of God. They are imbued by their Creator with unique talents and viewpoints. When I watched videos of the aftermath of the tragedy in Boston last week, I was struck, as I always am in these times, by the sheer physical courage of men. If you look at the earliest videos, you see mostly men lifting those barricades and barreling in to clear the way. In Aurora last summer, it was men who gave their lives by using their own bodies to shield their wives and girlfriends from the bullets.
On the other hand, I am constantly reminded on my job of the moral courage of women. It is so much easier to use social bullying and go-along-to-get-along arguments on men than it is women. Physical courage comes naturally to men. They don't have to think about it; they just react. In the same way, moral courage comes naturally to women.
We need each other to survive. The Vatican, no less than the rest of the world, needs women and women's unique gifts.
I am not writing this to take anything away from men. We are both exactly who God made us to be. Men and women each make necessary contributions to the whole that is humankind.
But I am very glad to know that there is a possibility that devout Catholic women will have the chance to bring their feminine viewpoint to the higher levels in our Church. We are facing interesting times. We need to think with both halves of our brains.
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Pope Francis is being advised to appoint more women to senior positions as part of his efforts to reform the Roman Curia — a move the Vatican describes as a "natural step."
Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, who Pope Francis recently chose to coordinate a privy council of eight cardinals advising him on governance and reform, told Britain's Sunday Times he was backing more posts for women.
Responding to the cardinal's comments, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said it was "a natural step – there is a move towards putting more women in key roles where they are qualified."
Benedict XVI had already begun efforts to appoint more women to senior positions at the Vatican, most notably at the semi-official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. Women also hold some key roles at the Vatican, although the number is small and they are not the most senior positions. Sister Nicla Spezzati is undersecretary of the Congregation dealing with nuns and religious, and laywoman Flaminia Giovanelli, is undersecretary at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. St Peter's basilica is administered by Maria Cristina Carlo-Stella.
Italian journalist and historian Lucetta Scaraffia is one of L'Osservatore Romano's regular writers who also helped found the supplement. She suggested last year that if more women were in positions of authority in the Church, the cover-ups of the clerical pedophilia scandal would not have happened.
A proponent of more women leaders in the Vatican, she believes that one day a woman will head a Vatican department. Traditionally such roles have been held by bishops and cardinals, but as the work is administrative and not sacramental, there is nothing in canon law to prevent a woman from occupying such a position. (Read the rest here.)
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Seeing that photo of Kim Sung Ryung in the photo spread a few days ago got me thinking about Korean actresses who are over 40, but are still rocking it. In fact they don't look a day over 35. It's perhaps one of those phenomenons where Asian women tend to age gracefully, though I am pretty sure skin care and maintenance all comes into play. Plus they're actresses so they can spend on anything to help defy aging. And there's photoshop. Nevertheless, these women have never looked better.
Now, in order of age – and no special preference whatsoever.
Yoon Yeo Jung
Date of birth: June 19, 1947 – 67 years old
As the oldest on this list, she at this point could be a grandmother. (She could be, I don't know.) Nevertheless she manages to grace the screen with her refined elegance, and I thought she was at her 'hottest' in King 2 Hearts. No lie – I thought she was the coolest Queen Mother ever to grace the screen, especially when she stood up to Yoon Je Moon's crazy villainous character at the threat of death.
Lee Mi Sook
Date of birth: April 2, 1960 – 54 years old
She is no joke – at 54, there is no stopping this woman. She's played a kindly mother (Love Rain) and a real diva (You're the Best Lee Soon Shin, Miss Korea), and everything in between. Don't forget she was Madam Jo in the film "Untold Scandal," which is based on the novel Les Liasons Dangereuses. Damn I wish I look as good as she does at her age.
Kim Mi Sook
Date of birth: May 3, 1959 – 55 years old
If Lee Mi Sook is the provocateur, this is the more demure one. Known for Golden Empire, Shining Inheritance, and more, she has quite the lengthy resume. And it's really unsettling how much she and Lee look alike!
Kim Sung Ryung
Date of birth: February 8, 1967 – 47 years old
This woman's still got it – and to think she gave birth to Lee Min Ho! Okay – not really, but her character in Heirs did to his character. From playing Jang Geun Suk's hateful mother in You're Beautiful to Daesung's ambitious mother in What's Up, to Yunho's suspicious sister in Queen of Ambition, she's a chameleon in so many of her roles.
Lee Il Hwa
Date of birth: January 3, 1971 – 43 years old
As the down-to-earth mother in Answer Me 1997 and 1994, she wins you with her charm and makes you wish she were your mother. As the quietly ambitious mother living vicariously through her daughter Yoo In Na in My Love From Another Star, she makes her kindly features seem more threatening than she really is. It's all in her twinkling smile.
Lee Young Ae
Date of birth: January 31, 1973 – 43 years old
She manages to withstand the test of time and look almost just like she did in her Dae Jang Geum days. Yes, she's matured a bit, but she's so recognizable and still in high demand despite not having acted in the past nine years. In films or dramas. Porcelain skin for the win.
Go Hyun Jung
Date of birth: March 2, 1971 – 43 years old
Go Hyun Jung has the girl next door vibe to her that just makes her more attractive than more conventionally pretty contemporaries (i.e. Lee Young Ae, Choi Ji Woo). That doesn't mean she is not hot. Her frank appearance makes her seem like the friend you want to grab drinks with and talk to all night, and that's a pretty attractive quality to have.
Kim Nam Joo
Date of birth: May 10, 1971 – 43 years old
Kim Nam Joo really caught my eye with Queen of Housewives, where she displayed her deftness in comedy and melodrama. Don't be fooled by her slightly matronly businesswoman image in Housewives and Queen of Reversals – she's really hot, especially with her husband Kim Seung Woo.
Oh Yeon Soo
Date of birth: October 27, 1971 – 42 years old
She looked so good in IRIS 2. Oh Yeon Soo is one of those actresses I could see Kim So Yeon growing into; sharp features that make her look like a total bad ass but still soft enough to take on a tender character like she did in Triangle. Her face looks like she always has a secret to keep and a story tell – a mystique, shall we say.
Jeon Do Yeon
Date of birth: February 11, 1973 – 41 years old
This woman seriously does not look like she's hit her 40s. She manages to look fresh-faced and sunny despite her darker film roles like "The Housemaid" or "Secret Sunshine." Credit it to aging really gracefully? She's become a Cannes darling, and no doubt a fashion one too.
This is just a list of ten actresses; there are so many more actresses who have a charm that is unlike any other, and are physically hot. All I mean to do with this list is marvel at just how good these women look at their age and can compete against women half their age.
Age is but a number, and there's a saying that '40's is the new 30's'. That to me sounds like a bit of a denial of wanting to get older. I think these women should be proud of being over 40, which is usually the age stereotypically believed where the actress goes on hiatus or comes back playing a mother instead of a lead role. Instead these are working actresses. Many play mothers or maternal figures now, but certain actresses like Lee Mi Sook or Jeon Do Yeon manage to upend your expectations with every drama or film she makes. And that's great – for a woman her age to continually forge new paths and new roles, she proves that once they reach a certain age, Korean actresses don't have to play the mother or the grandmother or the aunt.
So really, age is but a number. Be loud and proud to be in the 40s!


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The Top Schools in San Antonio Announced
A nonprofit released the lists of the top schools in the San Antonio area.
The schools on the list were given a grade from A-F, and were graded on several variables, said President and CEO of CHILDREN AT RISK, the nonprofit that conducted the research and rankings, Dr. Robert Sanborn.
"This year in San Antonio we ranked 485 public schools in the Greater area," Sanborn said. "65 of those schools were high schools, 116 were middle schools and 304 elementary schools."
Schools were measured on different performance indicators, Sanborn said. Some of those variables included: graduation rates, TAKS/STARR performance and attendance numbers.
"These are fantastic schools and they should be schools that serve as examples for every school in the State of Texas and certainly every school in the greater San Antonio area," Sanborn said.
The nonprofit says they compile the research from areas all over Texas, in hopes of painting a picture of the state's education strengths and weaknesses.
"We're hoping that this kind of data can help parents be very good advocates for their students here in the state," Sanborn said.
For a full list,including the schools that ranked low, click here.
Top 10 High Schools in San Antonio
1.) Health Careers High School (Northside ISD)
2.) International School of America (North East ISD)
3.) School of Science and Technology San Antonio (School of Science and Technology)
4.) Reagan High School (North East ISD)
5.) Alamo Heights High School (Alamo Heights ISD)
6.) Clark High School (Northside ISD)
7.) Churchill High School (North East ISD)
8.) O'Connor High School (Northside ISD)
9.) Median High School (Medina ISD)
10.) Navarro High School (Navarro ISD)
Top Five Middle Schools in San Antonio
1.) Young Women's Leadership Academy (San Antonio ISD)
2.) Jose M. Lopez Middle School (North East ISD)
3.) Bush Middle School (North East ISD)
4.) Frank Tejeda Middle School (North East ISD)
5.) Austin Academy (San Antonio ISD)
Top Five Elementary Schools in San Antonio
1.) Roan Forest Elementary School (North East ISD)
2.) Encino Park Elementary School (Norht East ISD)
3.) Fernandez Elementary School (Northside ISD)
4.) Hardy Oak Elementary School (North East ISD)
5.) Scobee Elementary School (Northside ISD)


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The First Spin
David Garland reached deep into the archive, and found a cassette tape of the very first Spinning On Air show, broadcast August 2, 1987. Appropriately enough, it features music that makes prominent use of tape recorders as musical instruments and compositional tools. During this month we're celebrating 25 years of Spinning On Air by listening to a few shows from the program's archives. This one includes music by Perrey & Kingsley, Les Paul, Otto Leuning, Elsa Popping and her Pixie Land Band, Jim Fassett, and many others, hosted by the 25 years younger Garland.
Tickets are going fast for the Nov. 14th Spinning On Air anniversary event in The Greene Space with Yoko Ono, John Zorn, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Diane Cluck, and more. If the event is sold out, you can watch the live video webcast, Wednesday at 7 pm, at thegreenespace.org


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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Magedanz
Prof. Magedanz is an outstanding computer sciences and telecommunications expert placing a strong emphasis on applied research in order to link academia and industry within an emerging software-based global networking and services market.
For more than 25 years Prof. Magedanz has been performing pioneering research and conducting globally recognized education courses for master, diploma and PhD students in the field of converging fixed and mobile telecommunications, the Internet and information technologies. In this context he initiated and managed numerous national and international R&D projects centered around the rapid creation of ubiquitous communications, multimedia and machine-to-machine applications on top of fixed and mobile next generation networks. The prototyping of state-of-the-art service delivery platforms enabled by the newest advances in information and communication technologies is the main focus of his research resulting in the development of numerous software toolkits for building advanced technology testbeds for both academia and industry.
He received his diploma and PhD in computer sciences from the Technical University Berlin, Germany, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. In 2000 he finished his "habilitation" for Applied Computer Sciences at Technical University Berlin. In 1989, as the first research associate, he joined the Department for Open Communication Systems (OKS) of the Technical University Berlin and helped to set up the chair. After his PhD he became assistant professor and continued his education and research activities with a strong focus on distributed computing and telecommunications.
Besides his employment as university lecturer and researcher he has been involved in several international strategic studies and research projects related to Intelligent Networks, Telecommunications Management Systems, Personal/Mobile Communications, TINA/Next Generation IN, and Mobile Agents/Mobile Middleware within Deutsche Telekom AG, EURESCOM and the European RACE/ACTS/IST research programs. From 1996-1998 he chaired the "Intelligent Communication Environments" research department at the GMD Research Center (now being part of Fraunhofer) for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) where he was responsible for several projects related to the evolution of service delivery platforms in face of most recent IT, namely IN, TINA, CORBA, J2EE, Intelligent/Mobile Agents. In those days he led the development of the globally recognized Grasshopper Mobile Agent Platform. From 1998-2002 he worked as R&D coordinator for the IKV++ Technologies AG, a spin-off company of GMD FOKUS that provided consultancy services and developed advanced telecommunication middleware and service products.
In 2004 Thomas Magedanz was called as full university professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Cciences Faculty at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, leading the new Chair for Next Generation Networks (called Architekturen der Vermittlungsknoten - AV - in German), sponsored by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft where he is concentrating on the education of master and PhD students, conducting special lectures and project courses in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based service delivery platforms for converged media and communications services on top of next generation networks and the Future Internet.
In addition, since 2003 he acts as Head of the "Next Generation Network Infrastructures" Competence Center at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, providing various technology testbeds and enabling software toolkits in the context of Next Generation Networks and Open Converged Service Delivery Environments. The most popular ones include the Open IMS Playground (established in 2004)based on the Open Source IMS Core System as well as the Future Seamless Communications (FUSECO) Playground (2010) and the Open 5G Playground (2014).
A major research aspect has always been the evolution of information technologies and their impact on the evolving communication technologies. So in 2007 he established the Open SOA Telco Playground for studying and evaluating different approaches for rapid Web2.0/SOA-based service programming on top of the IMS Playground, namely on top NGNs and legacy circuit switched telecom networks.
In 2013 all these activities led to the establishment of the Smart Communications Playground that enabled the rapid and seamless creation and provision of Smart City Applications, facilitated by a set of generic human-to-human and machine-to-machine communication APIs and SDKs making strong use of emerging HTML5, WebRTC and cloud-based service delivery platforms.
In the spring of 2010 Prof. Magedanz founded the Future Seamless Communication (FUSECO) Playground based on the FOKUS Open Evolved Packet Core (OpenEPC) software toolkit with the purpose of enabling applied research on IP core network evolution and seamless mobility support in emerging multi-access wireless network environments. In 2011 Prof. Magedanz expanded, with his team, into the machine-to-machine (M2M) communications domain by developing the Open Machine Type Communications (OpenMTC) software toolkit that represents a reference implementation of the international ETSI M2M and OneM2M standards.
In addition, Prof. Magedanz is optimizing 5G-ready technologies for Industrial Internet of Things applications and infrastructures and contributes to the Berlin Center for Digital Transfomation.
With the increasing impact of cloud technologies in the telecommunication landscape and the rising notion of Software Defined Networks (SDNs) and new network realization concepts like Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), the OpenSDNCore was developed in 2013 enabling the dynamic deployment and scalable operation of IMS and EPC platforms such as the OpenIMS and OpenEPC toolkits as well as other virtual functions in distributed data center environments. In 2015, in regard to the growing importance of the ETSI NFV ISG, Prof. Magedanz and his team released the Open Baton software toolkit, an open source implementation of the ETSI MANO Orchestrator.
With the clear understanding of the importance of network softwarization and the role of SDN/NFV/MEC principles and technologies for the standardization of emerging multi-slice 5G network and service platforms, Prof. Magedanz and his team have been integrating (since 2015) all the above-mentioned OpenXXX toolkits into the 5G Playground. However, OpenEPC, which was transfered to the Fraunhofer FOKUS spin-off company Core Network Dynamics in September 2013, was replaced by the new Open5GCore software toolkit in 2014.
Open5GCore represents a highly performant, low-latency, high-bandwidth, dynamic and efficient SDN-based distributed core network platform targeting, to a large extend, industrial Internet, Industry 4.0 and professional IoT applications. Therefore, Open5GCore marks a new cornerstone for enabling applied research and early prototyping of new network designs, protocols, algorithms as well as innovative professional applications. In 2015, together with colleagues from Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Prof. Magedanz created the Fraunhofer 5G Berlin Testbed, in which the 5G Playground is integrated with other 5G testbed parts.
Prof. Magedanz has always contributed to the national and international Future Internet research community. He led the German GLab DEEP Project focussing on secure cross-layer network service composition and in 2007 joined the European FIRE (Future Internet Research & Experimentation expert group in which he is actively promoting the federation of NGN and Future Internet research testbeds. In this context he was and still is very active in several FIRE projects such as Openlabs, BonFIRE, Fed4FIRE, TRESCIMO, SoftFIRE, etc. Furthermore, he and his team are very active within the more industry-targeted Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) Program in which the developed OpenXXX toolkits are used as enabling technologies within the FI-PPP flagship projects FIWARE, XIFI, and FI-STAR. In all of these above-mentioned initiatives Prof. Magedanz is actively prototyping future ICT platforms for Smart City and IoT applications.
In this network evolution context Prof. Magedanz and his team are working closely with major international network operators around the globe (including Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefonica, PT Innovacao, Orange, BT, NTT, Saudi Telecom Company, Telkom Indonesia, Telkom South Africa, Entel S.A., etc) as well as with equipment manufacturers (such as Qualcomm, Intel, NSN, Ericsson, Samsung, Huawei, etc.) who make use of the aforementioned toolkits and testbeds to prototype innovative applications and test interoperability and network migration scenarios.
Since 2005 Prof. Magedanz is organizing the famous IMS Workshop series that was renamed in 2010 as FUSECO Forum, bringing together every year 200-300 international experts from more than 30 nations. Since 2009 he is organizing the international IEEE Workshop Series on Open NGN and IMS Testbeds - ONIT and also chairing the German KUVS Expert Talk series on Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms.
In 2016, based on all these resources and the related knowhow, Prof. Magedanz initiated the new "Test-Bed and Field Trial Working Group on SDN-NFV-5G" within the IEEE SDN initiative.
Prof. Magedanz also aims for global academic networking. In this context since 2006 Prof. Magedanz is acting as Extraordinary Professor for Next Generation Networks and Services at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. From 2007-2009 he was also Visiting Professor to the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland. Since October 2012 he is also acting as Visiting Professor at the Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica (DIE) at the Universidad de Chile. In 2012 he started a DAAD project Unified Future Internet Testbeds thatis aiming to harmonize education and research infrastructures (i.e., testbeds) and corresponding lectures across the Technical University Berlin and four partner universities in the southern hemisphere, namely Universidad de Chile, University of Cape Town, Hanoi University for Technology and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
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By Walt Wojak, DC, LAc, Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM)
One of the most challenging aspects of studying traditional Chinese medicine for us in the West is to understand just how the Law of the 5 Elements and the 8 Principles work in practical application with our patients and their varied conditions.
When I was in public school, we were taught that Western civilization stood at the pinnacle of knowledge, and that is was just a matter of time before the very mysteries of the cosmos would be unfolded. Further, we were led to assume that other cultures didn't have the benefit of modern science to understand the "true" nature of things and therefore developed some unscientific "notions" to explain the phenomena called life. They simply adopted a metaphoric way of thinking. Now, this was not only quite an intellectual hurdle; it resulted in a prejudice that has only come to light for me in the subsequent years of actual practice.
Total immersion into the TCM paradigm began for me as a matter of professional discipline as well as personal integrity. How could I do justice to TCM and my patients if I didn't "live out" what I was advocating? Almost dying of congestive heart failure and the subsequent "road to recovery," a.k.a. TCM, also set my feet to the fire. Five years later, I find that not only does my TCM treatment approach work better; I understand what's going on around me. TCM does a far better job in terms of predicting and appreciating the actions and activities of our electromagnetic universe than our common Western mechanical mindset. Through it, I "see" the interactions known as "living" with greater clarity.
We who have studied and practiced TCM in the West have all "honed our instincts" to some degree or another. Indeed, most of the truly poignant meanings in life are known in this way. But it is difficult for us to put this "intuitive understanding" into words, especially when trying to discuss this meaningfully with our patients. Frankly, any intuitive element has been fairly driven out of health care, having been deemed "unscientific" by Western medicine. Yet in spite of this concerted effort, those folks that make up our clientele still respect it. This may explain the ascendancy of complementary/alternative health care, a "gut-level" appreciation. It is therefore important for us to find a way to express it.
When the Western ear hears "You have a head wind," or "You have a cold," the literal translation immediately butts up against a parochial understanding that dictates head colds and sinus conditions are caused by bacterial and viral infections. This has been inculcated into us for the last 150 years as "the germ theory." However, it ignores some logical facts that have not been adequately addressed by the scientific community, such as: If the bacteria caused the infection, then why is streptococcus or staphylococcus commonly found in the mucosa of apparently healthy individuals? And how is it that one person exposed to some virus won't get sick, while some others do? And of those others, why may one be only mildly ill while another becomes bedridden?
This is where the Western "one-cause" logic breaks down, because it must grudgingly recognized that the individual's "health" or "vitality" is playing a decisive role. Yet this "health" factor is so complicated and unique to the individual, as to defy "one-cause" quantification. Our "break-it-down-to-its-smallest-component" focus has become a barrier; a wall behind which cognitive Western reason cannot see beyond. It also has been used as an intractable fortress that has allowed Western "smug" egocentricity to survive critical scrutiny.
Pardon me for digressing a bit. This has been covered before, both here and in other publications. It is part of the dialogue between knowledge and ignorance; the very examination of our assumptions and preconceptions -- in other words, the piercing of our prevalent American mindset, which tends to swallow popular information without deliberate examination.
The universe in which we exist and participate is electromagnetic in nature. An oversimplification would be that everything is made of energy -- energy in different forms. Matter has been described as condensed or congealed energy, again in different forms and textures. But the basic, bottom-line fact, is it's all energy. The Chinese somehow recognized this centuries ago, and they called this energy "qi." Now the previous observations that modern science has made over the last 200 years are the same conclusions the ancients began to write about over the last 3,000 years. Their insights came from careful scrutiny, due consideration and a discreet distillation as treatments were tried and the results were recorded, only to be tried and recorded again and again over the length of three millennia. We call this approach "trial-and-error." And from this process, they drew these "modern" conclusions.
It is in this concept that we must take note of the very nature of the universe.
Energy expresses itself in two forms: potential and kinetic. Potential energy is energy in a stored or static state (not moving or expending), but with the potential of release. A charged but unused battery; a rock perched on a peak, poised to fall; a balloon filled to the verge of bursting ... all are examples of potential energy. Kinetic energy is expressed or active energy; energy in action. The battery hooked up to a lamp, giving light; the rock that rolls down the hill; the balloon bursting. It is here that we must start, for even material items (matter) have energetic states of being. They are interactive.
Contrary to reductionist Western thinking, nothing in reality exists apart from its environment. The very nature of existence is by how something is relating to its surroundings. The rock that warms in the sun. The water that freezes in the frigid night. The puddle that evaporates in the desert. The dew that collects on the cool glass. The leaf that is blown about in the wind. Tthe cicada that drones in the dank summer twilight. Nothing is truly unaffected by what is going on around it. It is in this interaction, the dynamic of two entities, forces, things acting with and upon each other, that we concern ourselves with.
As all TCM practitioners immediately recognize, each example I gave is pointing to one of the six external pathogenic factors: heat, cold, dry, damp, wind and summer heat. These environmental states or forces have been related to an organ channel/pathway or system: Heart, Kidney, Lung, Spleen and Liver. The ancient Chinese observed a certain consistency of reaction within these systems within an individual when that individual appeared weak, damaged or impaired. Even when others about them (who were healthy) were unaffected, those afflicted manifested repeatable (and therefore observable) "patterns" of illness. It was the consistency of these stricken folks, with these recognizable weaknesses, reacting to these external factors, that became the foundation for these "patterns," as we call them in TCM.
What I hypothesize now is not something new. What I hope is new is to explain these interactions and their relationships in a way that can bridge the gap between East and West. That is what I will define as "harmonic resonance." That energy, in various forms (heat, cold, damp, dry, wind and summer heat) and transmitted through various mediums (air/wind, water/damp, light/heat,/dry), has a specific "signature": a consistent way of showing itself that, once recognized, can be described or qualified. This is what is being revealed all around us, through these actions in creation. When appreciated in the framework of energy/energies that have a vibrational pattern or consistency, we can then say that TCM/acupuncture is not merely metaphoric, but an allegorical, yet accurate way of describing our electromagnetic reality.
When I was a boy, my brothers and I used to amuse ourselves by playing in the kitchen with many of the items my mom used to recycle, such as empty plastic bowls, milk bottles, and aluminum foil pie plates. One of the things I discovered was that if I held the pie plate close to my mouth while speaking (actually yelling), it would sometimes rattle. As a kid interested in science, I experimented with changing my volume, then different words. Finally, I fell upon changing the pitch; sliding up and down the scale. Sure enough, at one particular note, the pie plate rattled in resonance with my voice. When I asked my science teacher about it, he explained to me that is the way some singers shatter glass: by hitting a note/pitch that causes the crystal lattice (how the molecules are linked together) to vibrate. The structure was sensitive to that particular cycle of vibration. The sound (at a particular frequency), carried through the air (the medium), corresponded to the molecular vibration pattern of the substance (the glass), magnifying the effect (the rattling).
It is from this fact that I propose we understand TCM/Five-Element interaction; that the various external pathogenic factors (heat, cold, dry, damp, wind and summer heat) have a vibratory signature that somehow resonates within sensitive, predisposed individuals, especially when their bioenergetical systems are out of balance. Whether due to extreme external factors, or to weak internal deficiencies, certain organ/energy pathways react to these exterior conditions; the liver to wind (chaotic, variable energy that actually contacts the skin, thus carrying these other factors into the body), the heart to high temperatures, the spleen to damp, the lungs to dry, and the kidneys to cold.
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Well, at least that's what I thought I heard. This was on the afternoon of Monday, November 15, 2004. What was it really? The photos below tell the tale much better than I can...
Almost as quick as you looked over those, including the time it took to load them on your screen, this "parade" was all done. I was glad to see so many characters involved. And Mickey's actual birthday wasn't until Thursday in any case. With the "Parade of the Stars" on hiatus, I'm of mixed feelings about this one. Perhaps no parade would have been a better option.
One neat thing though, for me as the transport geek, was seeing Mickey riding in the electric car with the combination throttle and steering tiller instead of a wheel. Lots of photo's of Walt driving the same vehicle for various events over the years. I just don't have one to share with you.
So? This was a Parade? I guess it all depends on your point of view. For me, it wasn't. For the family with the two kids making their only Disneyland visit, perhaps it was. In any case, it's another in a long line of Disney memories made for Park guests. And that makes it special enough for any of us...
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Course DescriptionCovers setup, applications and operation of single point threading and geometric forming heads for the production of single and multiple lead threads. Introduces cutting, chasing, rolling and forming production of single and multiple lead threads. Also covers cutting, chasing, rolling and forming of internal/external threads on the lathe and drill press by using a single point cutting tool, tap or geometric thread cutting/rolling head on nuts, bolts, fasteners, castings and machined parts to print specifications. Prerequisites: MCH 100, 180, 190. Audit available.
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Cutting External Threads - Cutting (or chasing) a thread refers to the operation of machining thread with a single point cutting tool on the lathe. This is an operation that is done frequently in lathe work. In this module, the student will learn about threads and thread forms and how to chase an external thread.
Cutting Internal Threads - The cutting (or chasing) of screw threads is an important part of the machinist's work. The cutting of internal screw threads is done in nuts and castings. In this module, the student will learn how to cut internal screw threads.
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Can industrial electricians work on wiring in residential homes?
How do I change the AMPs in the house
exp My house AMps is 100amp how do I change to 200amp? And is industrial electricians allowed to do it?
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In most areas an Electrician needs to be licensed for the municilpality he is working in. Assuming that, then yes he can do it.
To upgrade the service, the panel needs to be upgraded and possibly the line for the transfomer if it is undersized.
Thanks for your answer, can industrial electricians change the panel?
I am a certified Ontario industrial electrician, are you sure I can wire in residential house?
Your welcome.
Not sure on the local requirements, but check with the licensing authority and if they say its o.k. your good to go.
1) It certainly does vary from area to area. In my area there are only a few places you need a license of any kind. The other places anyone can do the work. I do NOT agree with this policy but that's the way it is.
NYS is messed up as far as electrical licensing and regulation goes.
2) August, you are "a certified Ontario industrial electrician", and you have to ask the question: "How do I change the AMPs in the house"???
Are you for real?
How long have you been "a certified Ontario industrial electrician"?
To answer your question. Everything from the connections at the drop, down to the meter pan, SE cables, panel and grounding need to be upgraded.
The drop from the street is typically the POCOs property.
I am a newcomer to Canada, I know how to do it but I don't know if I'm allowed to do it with my license, because there is also construction electrician
Then whats the difference between construction electrician and electrical electrician?
Maybe Canada has different rules/titles for who can do what type of work.
So Industrial electrician can do whatever electrical electrician?
Let's wait for a reply from someone who knows Canadian codes.
Okay, sure well anyway thanks for your help
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Hey all. This will be my first power tour. My son and I are going to try and make the Charlotte and Knoxville legs of the tour. We live in Johnson City (close to Bristol), so we are close enough to drive, and skip the hotels. My question is about the daily schedule. On the 7th for example, will the daily activities be held all day, then the drive to Knoxville will start early morning on the 8th? I would like to attend the Charlotte event, and take part in the drive to Knoxville, and then attend the event at Knoxville also. I just don't want to stay in a hotel. I asked on several other forums with no response. I also searched this forum, but couldn't find a specific answer. I might have been asking the wrong questions.
Yes, the drive normally starts about 8:00 and the activities start at around noon at the next venue. I'm doing the same for the Bettendorf and the Dells. I live about an hour north of Bettendorf. I will drive home after the activities at Bettendorf and then sit on an on ramp to join in. I would think you could do the same thing.
exactly activities or the venue hrs are usually 12-6 except charlotte which will be 8-6 on june 7 , on june 8 the tour will depart from zmax around 8-9 am but you dont have to drive with them, just arrive at knoxville before the end of the day
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2188.2. Statement of separate ownership. Whenever improvements are owned by a person other than the owner of the land on which they are located, the owner of the improvements or the owner of the land may file with the assessor a written statement before the lien date attesting to their separate ownership, in which event the land and improvements shall not be assessed to the same assessee.
Such written statement shall not be required annually following the year in which it has been filed but shall remain in effect until such time as either, or both, of said separate ownerships shall have been transferred or until such written statement of separate ownership shall have been canceled by either the owner of the land or the owner of the improvements.
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Use only perfectly ripe tomatoes for this dish. They will yield much more liquid to ladle around each colorful serving.
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- Coarse salt
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- 2 pounds assorted small ripe heirloom and cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Freshly ground pepper
Puree beefsteak tomatoes and 3 tablespoons salt in a food processor until smooth. Line a bowl with double thickness of cheesecloth; transfer puree to bowl. Using a melon baller; scoop out as much cantaloupe as possible into balls; set aside. Scrape out remaining cantaloupe; puree in a food processor. Add to tomato puree. Gather cheesecloth and tie into a bundle. Suspend bundle from a large wooden spoon; hang over bowl to collect the juices for 2 hours (to yield 4 cups liquid).
Core heirloom tomatoes; slice into wedges and rounds. Slice cherry tomatoes in half. Place tomatoes in a bowl; add melon balls, basil, and olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Toss to combine.
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Pentraxin-3 (PTX3) is a protein that has a vast array of immune effects including activation of the classical and alternative complement pathways, stimulation of the lectin complement pathway, regulation of leukocyte recruitment, and regulation of inflammatory process. In preliminary (unpublished) studies conducted in mice by Dr. Laurie Shuman Moss, a decreased tumor growth was found to be associated with increased PTX3 expression. In this study, we test if several lines of human lung cancer cells (H322M, H23, A549 and H460) express PTX3 and if PTX3 has a role in epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT), the change in cell morphology and behavior associated with cancer metastasis. . Cells were treated with varying concentrations of IL-1β, an inducer of PTX3 expression, and TGFβ, a promoter of EMT. In addition to measuring PTX3 expression, Vimentin, E-cadherin and α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) gene expression were also measured to evaluate EMT. We found that in the most mesenchymal cell line used in this study, H23, and in the H460 cells line that there was increased PTX3 expression in response to treatment with IL-1β. In the most epithelial cell line used in this study, H322M, and the H460 cell line exhibited increased expression of Vimentin, an EMT marker, in response to TGFβ treatment. This data suggests that the more mesenchymal human lung cancer cell lines can be induced to express PTX3 and that the more epithelial human lung cancer cell lines used were induced to undergo EMT.


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U.S. Engineer Dept wood cased compass HERSCHEDE 1918
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vintage 1918 dated U.S. ENGINEER DEPT wood cased compass--made by HERSCHEDE very good condition,hinge & latch work well and may need the fittings cleaned. face is very good condition and compass works fine. lid has a locking lever for the compass needle. fresh from local estate.3 inches square wood case,one inch thick.--------------------------------------------------------------NO RESERVE----------------------------------NO PAYPAL--------------------------------------------------------------------


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The AFE said on Monday they wanted a "grand pact for soccer" between players, clubs, the federation and the government that would satisfy their demands or they would stage a strike across the top four tiers of the league between April 16-19.
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The LFP said in a statement on Tuesday such a move would damage the credibility of Spanish soccer, hurt clubs and players and place additional strain on a calendar that was already tight because of this year's World Cup.
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Under new president Luis Rubiales, the AFE is taking a more aggressive approach to helping players get cash they are owed by financially struggling clubs, especially those in the third and fourth tiers of Spanish soccer.
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Codes on Canvas
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Closing Reception- April 10, 5-7pm
This exhibition integrates the dichotomies of data collection and apathy. This work reveals depersonalization on multiple levels by juxtaposing similar images derived from a variety sources researched by the artist. Disparate icons from the genocide of the Holocaust, ubiquitous barcodes, the scanning of irises of the eyes of the poor in India, and environmental concerns suggest their commonality despite apparent differences. The artist represents these phenomena through their common visual theme of lines and patterns .
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