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770 West Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43222
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If you are a victim of a crime and would like to register for notification regarding an Ohio inmate, please complete the Victim Notification form. Upon receipt of your notification form, the Office of Victim Services will process your request and you will receive a confirmation letter.
Senate Bill 160, known as "Roberta's Law", became effective on March 22, 2013. Roberta's Law expands victim notification rights enumerated in Ohio Revised Code section 2930.16 as they relate to certain inmate release or transfer proceedings. If the inmate is convicted of Aggravated Murder, Murder, a first, second or third degree offense of violence or is serving a life sentence, the victim will be automatically notified of specified events, regardless of whether the victim has requested notification. Roberta's Law also provides an opt-out mechanism for those victims who do not wish to be automatically notified of certain inmate release and transfer proceedings. In order to opt out of receiving these notifications a "Victim Notification Opt Out" form must be on file with the Office of Victim Services. The signed "Victim Notification Opt Out" form can be mailed or emailed to the contact information listed below.
The Office of Victim Services
770 West Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 432222
Telephone (toll free) 888-842-8464
PLEASE NOTE: In addition to the registration above, victims can also register with VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday) to have the most comprehensive notification services possible. VINE links county sheriff and statewide correctional facilities to make the status of offenders available 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year.
In the early 1980's, the Ohio Parole Board began notifying victims, who requested, of upcoming parole hearings. The Parole Board began involving victims and immediately recognized the value of their input into the decision-making process. This was strengthened in 1987 by Senate Bill 6, which gave victims of serious crime the right to submit a statement to the Parole Board about their experience prior to the offender's hearing. By late 1994, the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction began developing a plan to provide comprehensive victim services throughout the Department. Senate Bill 2, the "truth in sentencing" bill, effective July 1, 1996, took another step forward in helping transform the criminal justice system into the victim's justice system. This bill mandates that victims have input from the time of an arrest through trial and sentencing, incarceration, and for any type of early release. Senate Bill 2 also formally created the Office of Victim Services within the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, strengthening the plans already developing within the Department.
The Ohio Council on Victims Justice plays an active role in the Department's efforts to improve victim services. They provide input and make suggestions for operational changes that impact victims and serve as liaisons between the Department and the constituents of Council members.
Each correctional institution and parole office has a staff assigned to serve as the "victim coordinator." These staff respond to victim issues and concerns at the local level and serve as liaisons to the Office of Victim Services.
In addition to the above services, victims of inmates incarcerated in Ohio's prisons may register with the Victim Notification Section of the Parole Board. They are notified prior to any release consideration of the inmate. At this time they may either write to the Board or personally voice their concerns in an interview with a Parole Board staff member. A "victims' conference day" is held once a month for this purpose.
The victim or designated representative wishing to provide additional statements and/or information to the Parole Board and/or Adult Parole Authority should send those documents to: Office of Victim Services, 770 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43222.
The mission of the Office of Victim Services is to work in partnerships to make a positive difference in the lives of crime victims, by affording them meaningful participation throughout the Ohio corrections process.
Victims can also register with VINE in addition to their registration with the Office of Victim Services. Registering for both systems will allow victims to have the most comprehensive notification services possible. VINE links county jails and statewide correctional facilities to make the status of offenders available 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year. Anyone may call the tollfree VINE hotline to access custody information, available in English and Spanish. Callers may also register directly with VINE to receive telephone notification of changes in custody. A live operator is available 24 hours-a-day to assist callers in accessing information or registering for notification.
For defendant custody information, to locate an offender in a county jail, state prison, or state juvenile facility, or to register for notification call 1-800-770-0192. Follow the computer prompts given by the VINE service. During registration you will be asked to provide a telephone number and select a 4-digit PIN code. The PIN is a 4-digit number chosen by you. Your PIN is used to confirm receipt of notification calls from VINE. Choose a number that is easy for you to remember and write it down.
When registering for VINE, please have the following information: offender name, inmate number (for county inmates), or institution number (for state prison or juvenile offenders).
Q. What if I'm not at home or my phone is busy when VINE calls?
A. The VINE service is designed to allow every opportunity for you to be notified. If there is no answer or the line is busy, VINE will continue to call for a minimum of 24 hours. VINE will leave a message on an answering machine but will continue to call for 24 hours or until the PIN is entered.
Q. Can I register more than one telephone number with VINE?
A. Yes, but each registration must be done separately and requires a PIN. You may use the same PIN for several registrations.
Q. Does VINE ensure my safety?
A. The VINE program is designed to provide you with quick and easy access to offender information and to assist in preparing for an offender's release. Do not depend solely on VINE or any other program for your safety.
Q. Who sponsors VINE?
A. VINE is provided by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's Office, the Buckeye State Sheriff's Association, the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and the Ohio Department of Youth Services and is funded by a Victims of Crime Act grant.
As a crime victim, will I be notified of upcoming parole hearings or release dates for the offenders?
Can I let the Parole Board know how I feel about a possible release of an offender?
I would like to meet with the offender who hurt my family or me. Who should I call?
If I was the victim, do I have visitation rights to see the offender?
If I registered for notification with the Office of Victim Services, am I automatically registered in the VINE notification system as well?
I have been receiving threats or unwanted calls/correspondence from an offender? What can I do?
Why didn't I receive any information from the Office of Victim Services after I was victimized?
If I move, do I need to let the Office of Victims Services know?
If the offender owes child support, can he make payments while incarcerated?
If the offender owes restitution, can he make payments while incarcerated?


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BERLIN (AP) Next year's Berlin film festival will feature the oil-boom epic There Will Be Blood along with a movie focusing on prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the latest film from Polish director Andrzej Wajda.
The three movies were among the first to be chosen for the festival, which runs from Feb. 7-17, organizers said Monday.
There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a California oil baron who clashes with his son and a local preacher in the early 1900s.
The movie will make its international debut in Berlin, where Anderson's Magnolia won the top Golden Bear award in 2000.
The festival also will feature S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedure ) from Errol Morris, whose The Fog of War won a best documentary Oscar in 2004.
The new film looks into the scandal over the abuse of prisoners by U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib, and also takes a broader look at the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism, organizers said.
Damian Harris' Gardens of the Night, starring John Malkovich, will premiere at the festival, as will Lake Tahoe, directed by Fernando Eimbcke.
Showing out of competition is Wajda's Katyn, the story of the murder of thousands of Polish officers — among them the filmmaker's father — by the Soviet secret police during World War II.
Festival organizers said in a statement that they will complete the competition program by mid-January.
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International GEAPS Past President Melvin R. Mai Passes Away at 78
Date Posted: January 10, 2013
Melvin R. Mai, former International GEAPS President, passed away Jan. 7. He was 78.
Mai, a lifetime member of the Gulf South Chapter, served as GEAPS' 50th International president from 1980-1981.
At the time of his presidential term, he had been a Regular member for 11 years, and had been named GEAPS' Member of Distinction in 1979.
This prestigious award is bestowed by the GEAPS International Board of Directors to give special recognition to members who have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement and pursuit of GEAPS' vision and mission.
He also served in a chapter leadership role, going on to win the Gulf South Chapter Member of Distinction honor in 1997 for outstanding leadership and service at the chapter level.
A GEAPS member for 44 years, Mai was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a member of the Knights of Columbus, St. Andrew #9107.
He is survived by his wife, Delores Mai, two daughters and two grandsons, Jeremy and Justin.
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|Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx>
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|linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:41:20PM -0400, jamal wrote: > > >The new mechanizm: > > > >- the irq handling code has been extended to support 'soft mitigation', > > ie. to mitigate the rate of hardware interrupts, without support from > > the actual hardware. There is a reasonable default, but the value can > > also be decreased/increased on a per-irq basis via > > /proc/irq/NR/max_rate. > > I am sorry, but this is bogus. There is no _reasonable value_. Reasonable > value is dependent on system load and has never been and never > will be measured by interupt rates. Even in non-work conserving schemes It is not dependant on system load, but rather on the performance of the CPU and the number of interrupt sources in the system. > There is already a feedback system that is built into 2.4 that > measures system load by the rate at which the system processes the backlog > queue. Look at netif_rx return values. The only driver that utilizes this > is currently the tulip. Look at the tulip code. > This in conjuction with h/ware flow control should give you sustainable > system. Not quite. You're still ignoring the effect of interrupts on the users' ability to execute instructions during their timeslice. > [Granted that mitigation is a hardware specific solution; the scheme we > presented at the kernel summit is the next level to this and will be > non-dependednt on h/ware.] > > >(note that in case of shared interrupts, another 'innocent' device might > >stay disabled for some short amount of time as well - but this is not an > >issue because this mitigation does not make that device inoperable, it > >just delays its interrupt by up to 10 msecs. Plus, modern systems have > >properly distributed interrupts.) > > This is a _really bad_ idea. not just because you are punishing other > devices. I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on this statement. What I will agree with is that 10msec is too much. > Lets take network devices as examples: we dont want to disable interupts; > we want to disable offending actions within the device. For example, it is > ok to disable/mitigate receive interupts because they are overloading the > system but not transmit completion because that will add to the overall > latency. Wrong. Let me introduce you to my 486DX/33. It has PCI. I'm putting my gige card into the poor beast. transmitting full out, it can receive a sufficiently high number of tx done interrupts that it has no CPU cycles left to run, say, gated in userspace. Falling back to polled operation is a well known technique in realtime and reliable systems. By limiting the interrupt rate to a known safe limit, the system will remain responsive to non-interrupt tasks even under heavy interrupt loads. This is the point at which a thruput graph on a slow machine shows a complete breakdown in performance, which is always possible on a slow enough CPU with a high performance device that takes input from a remotely controlled user. This is *required*, and is not optional, and there is no way that a system can avoid it without making every interrupt a task, but that's a mess nobody wants to see in Linux. -ben
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| Drug Approvals: Circumstances under which an active ingredient may be simultaneously marketed in both a prescription drug product and an over-the-counter drug product
|FDA Comment Number :
|Submitter :
|Dr. Ronald Samuels
|Date & Time:
|10/27/2005 08:10:38
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|Dr. Ronald Samuels
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|Health Professional
|Issue Areas/Comments
| A. Should FDA initiate a rulemaking to codify its interpretation of section 503(b) of the action regarding when an active ingredient can be simultaneously marketed in both prescription drug product and an OTC drug product?
| As a pediatrician, I can unequivecally state that approving Plan B for OTC use is not only safe, but needed. Plan B is a safe, effective, and easy- to-use contraceptive option that will help reduce the need for abortion. Teenagers in particular find it difficult to access birth control. Furthermore, restricitions on access to birth control have no affect on sexual activity, therefore meaning that such restrictions just increase unintended pregnancies and abortions.
Women in this country deserve the same unencumbered access to Emergency Contraception that women in 39 other countries around the world already enjoy. Millions of women, including survivors of rape, stand ready to benefit from increased access to this backup method of birth control.
Every day that the FDA delays making a decision to allow increased access to this second-chance prevention medication, the more women are put at risk of facing an unintended pregnancy. Americans deserve an independent FDA that will protect our health and make public health decisions based on science and medicine, not ideology. To sacrifice the health and lives of women to promote an ideological agenda is not only wrong, but also unconscionable. Major medical groups along with the FDA's own experts overwhelmingly support this move
There is clearly no legally defensable reason not to approve OTC statuts for emergency contraception.


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N.J. in early stage of drought
New Jersey is now in the early stages of a drought.
State climatologist Dave Robinson says rainfall in the Garden State over the past several weeks has been less than a third of what it usually is.
"We've accumulated such a deficit that ... in the coming weeks, it threatens our ability to have sufficient water in the ground and flowing down the rivers," Robinson said.
This is the start of the spring growing season and farmers are concerned about the dry conditions.
"If we don't have the rain it will be a tough growing year, said Rich Norz who owns Norz Hill Farm in Hillsborough. "If you don't get adequate moisture you get a very poor crop. This is my livelihood so without a crop it makes it quite difficult."
Reservoir levels in New Jersey are above average, and there are no restrictions on water use. A Department of Environmental Protection spokesman says that could change if there's no significant rainfall in coming weeks.


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Keyshia Cole Labor Rumors False
News broke back in December that R&B singer and reality TV star Keyshia Cole was expecting her first child with Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Daniel "Boobie" Gibson. So when a TNT sportscaster announced during a Cavaliers game Thursday night (Feb 4) that Gibson was absent from the court because he was in the hospital with Cole, the web lit up with rumors that the star was giving birth.
Despite initial rumors and reports however, the information was incorrect. Gibson returned to the stadium later in the night to help the Cavaliers defeat the Miami Heat and it was revealed that Cole isn't actually due until March. Daniel broached the subject post game, explaining that Keyshia needed a quick trip to the hospital right before he hit the court, but the singer was back home a few hours later, allowing him to return in time for the game's second half.
At approximately 9:30PM, NBA.com reported that Gibson's absence was announced 30 minutes before game time. The Cavaliers' general manager Danny Ferry explained that he was allowed a late start because Cole had been hospitalized for "precautionary reasons." Lebron James filled in for Gibson as point guard until the father-to-be returned to the Quicken Loans arena for half-time.


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Campaign Leadership
College of Engineering
Ana VeigaMilton, B.S.E.E. '87, J.D. '93
College of Engineering Campaign Chair
Ana VeigaMilton is a proud Miami Hurricane who attended the University as an undergraduate on an Isaac Bashevis Singer full scholarship. She then worked for BellSouth as a communications engineer, where she helped to implement the first public voicemail system in Florida.
After marrying Cecil Milton, a fellow 'Cane, VeigaMilton returned to UM on a full scholarship and earned her law degree. Her son is a student at the School of Business Administration, and her other two children aspire to follow their mother's example and attend the College of Engineering.
VeigaMilton is active in the community, serving on the UM Citizens Board, the Zoological Society of Florida, and the Women's Committee of Big Brothers Big Sisters. She was honored as a Miracle Maker in 2011 and was recognized in 2012 by the Chapman Partnership for her service to the community. She serves as philanthropic and community liaison for her family's business, one of the largest property owners and managers in South Florida.
VeigaMilton's tradition of generous support for the University of Miami includes contributions to the College of Engineering, the School of Business Administration, and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. She currently serves on the College of Engineering's Visiting Committee.
Laura G. Coulter-Jones, B.B.A. '80, M.B.A. '90
College of Engineering Campaign Co-Chair
Laura G. Coulter-Jones is a University of Miami alumna who devotes significant time and resources towards advancing the institution. In addition to a decade of service on the Board of Trustees, she also serves on several of the board's committees.
Former president of the Coulter Corporation (now Beckman Coulter, Inc.), a medical device and diagnostics company founded by her father and uncle, Coulter focused on the areas of finance, research and development, and regulatory work.
Coulter hails from a family that has a longstanding relationship with the University. Through her private family foundation, this dedicated philanthropist's charitable giving centers on healthcare-related and educational causes, supporting the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, the College of Engineering, and Jackson Memorial Hospital. She currently serves on the College of Engineering's Visiting Committee.


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South Dakota Bill Would Require "Crisis Pregnancy Center" Counseling Before An Abortion
South Dakota, will you stop f**king with us? Enough already! South Dakota's House of Representatives has approved a bill requiring a woman seeking an abortion to be "counseled" first at a so-called "crisis pregnancy center."
Proponents of the bill say they are trying to assess whether women are being forced to end a pregnancy, as a doctor would have to sign off that the abortion is "voluntary, uncoerced, and informed." The bill, which refers to the woman as a "pregnant mother" (agenda, anyone?), requires the woman to have pre-abortion counseling and be informed what kind of help is available to them if they continue the pregnancy. The bill also requires the woman to wait 72 hours after first meeting with the doctor who'll perform the abortion. That time period is what anti-abortion activists claim is giving women time to think, but in reality it makes scheduling the procedure more difficult for working women or women with children, as they have to go to not one appointment, but two. And considering the vast majority of counties in America do not have an abortion clinic, terminating a pregnancy can involve driving long distances in some parts of the country. Although all aspects of this bill are deplorable, I'm most concerned about the pre-abortion counseling. So-called "crisis pregnancy centers" are not neutral facilities; hell, they are not even medical facilities. A CPC was filmed in the HBO documentary "12th & Delaware" blatantly lying to women about how far along they are in the pregnancy and what an abortion entails. And according to the liberal politics blog Talking Points Memo, these are the people who will supposedly inform women what kind of "education, counseling, and other assistance" are available if she carries the pregnancy to term and any "risk factors" associated with an abortion.
Be afraid, ladies. Be very afraid. If a bill that interferes so much with a woman's private medical decision to have an abortion can progress this far in South Dakota's legislature (it is now headed to the state Senate), what else could happen?


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Andrew Bird's main instrument is the violin. He plucks. He bows. He feeds musical phrases into a loop pedal and adds layer after layer after layer. He whistles. He sings. He plays guitar. And xylophone. He performs solo and with backing musicians.
Daily Archives: October 30, 2011
The End of the Future – Peter Thiel
Modern Western civilization stands on the twin plinths of science and technology. Taken together, these two interrelated domains reassure us that the 19th-century story of never-ending progress remains intact. Without them, the arguments that we are undergoing cultural decay — ranging from the collapse of art and literature after 1945 to the soft totalitarianism of political correctness in media and academia to the sordid worlds of reality television and popular entertainment — would gather far more force. Liberals often assert that science and technology remain essentially healthy; conservatives sometimes counter that these are false utopias; but the two sides of the culture wars silently agree that the accelerating development and application of the natural sciences continues apace.
Yet during the Great Recession, which began in 2008 and has no end in sight, these great expectations have been supplemented by a desperate necessity.
via The End of the Future – Peter Thiel – National Review Online.
An Ode to the Joy of Cash
A Value Investor's Perspective on Tail Risk Protection: An Ode to the Joy of Cash
Long ago, Keynes argued that the "central principle of investment is to go contrary to general opinion, on the grounds that, if everyone is agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive." This powerful statement of the need for contrarianism is frequently ignored, with disturbing alacrity, by many investor.
As always, a comparison between price and value is required. One of the nice aspects of insurance in an investment sense is that it is generally cheap when its value is highest (although this may no longer be the case given the rise of so many tail risk products). That is to say, because most market participants appear to price everything based on extrapolation, they ignore the influence of the cycle. Thus they demand little payment for insurance during the good times because they never see those times ending. Conversely, during the bad times, the average participants seem willing to overpay for insurance as they think the bad times will never cease.
via A Value Investor's Perspective on Tail Risk Protection: An Ode to the Joy of Cash by James Montier


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For many casual observers the response to the Occupy movement that hit first Wall Street and then the rest of the world - including Melbourne - in late 2011 was ''what was all that about?'' But after watching 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film you might just as readily ask, ''What was so hard to understand about that?''
The documentary from New York filmmakers Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites is, in some respects, the clear voice the movement itself often seemed to lack. It paints the Occupy movement as a reasonable and almost inevitable expression of rage and frustration with the inequity that sees 1 per cent of the US population controlling almost 40 per cent of its wealth.
What makes that clarity all the more surprising is that the couple aped the movement itself in making their film. ''We weren't part of the movement,'' says Ewell, ''but we had never seen anything like it in terms of the inclusiveness and different people having a voice. So we decided to set up an experimental production process and see if we could replicate what they were doing and test it.''
They put out an open call to would-be collaborators all over America who would go out and shoot segments of their own, to be integrated into the whole. There were, she says, just three rules. ''First, the more experienced filmmakers would guide the project. Second, anybody would be welcome to join the project if they were interested. Third, it would not be propaganda.''
There are four directors on the film, plus a handful of ''co-directors'', but publicity material claims it is the work of ''more than 100'' collaborators.
Unlike the Occupy movement, there was an hierarchy on the production. Ewell and Aites ran things, even though it was not their project exactly.
''I can say with absolute certainty this is not the film Aaron and I would have made if it had just been us making it,'' says Ewell.
''We weren't interested in seeing a treatment of Occupy Wall Street from one person's viewpoint, even if it was our own,'' Aites adds. ''We had to find a way to get at objectivity through the melding of so many viewpoints.''
One of the most intriguing aspects of the film's narrative is the role played by college loans. Student debt now totals more than $1 trillion in the US, outstripping, according to the film, consumer debt; almost uniquely, college students unable to pay off their debts cannot declare themselves bankrupt, meaning many are destined to years of payments and penury.
Seen through that prism, there's nothing head-scratching about a bunch of people, who feel they've been dudded by a system that promised them a share if they just played by the rules, deciding the rules aren't worth a damn. The trouble is it was never easy for outsiders to see much at all through the multi-hued prism that was Occupy in all its ragtag glory.
''Because there was so much noise and chaos around Occupy, because they didn't have a PR apparatus that allowed for really clear messages to come out, we wanted to make sure that the reality behind the protests, the issues that were behind it all, didn't get lost,'' says Ewell.
There are critical voices in the film – most notably that of writer Naomi Wolf – but it's pretty clear the filmmakers generally agreed with the Occupy message. But what about the model?
There's always a circus aspect to any protest movement; the freaks turn out.
''There's always a circus aspect to any protest movement; the freaks turn out,'' Ewell says. ''And the freaks turned out for our film as well. You just have to manage.''
And having done so, would you do it again?
''Absolutely not.''
Twitter: @karlkwin


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fine art print - limited edition - 'glitter on it'
an archival limited edition print of an original abstract acrylic painting by Belinda Marshall from the 2016 'pastel neon' collection.
Edition of 50 for each size.
made with Epson UltraChromeK3® pigment inks on beautiful heavy 100% cotton rag art paper.
the colours are rich and bright and will last a lifetime.
>> shipping included for print orders within australia
>> flat rate ~ $10 for print orders outside australia
a3 paper size:
42 x 29.7cm {16.5 x 11.7in}
// image size: 25.5 x 22.9cm
{10 x 9in} //
a2 paper size:
59.4 x 42cm {23.4 x 16.5in}
// image size: 39.7 x 35.6 cm
{15.6 x 14 in} //
**a1 paper size:
84.1 x 59.4 cm {33.1 x 23.4in}
// image size: as large as can be made with a white border for framing. exact image size is available on request //
**extra large paper size:
approx 92 x 82 cm {36.2 x 32in} ~ varies slightly depending on the image proportions.
// image size: as large as can be made with a white border for framing. exact image size is available on request //
** the larger sizes are made to order and outsourced. please allow an extra week for production and delivery. the jump in price reflects higher production costs for large format art printing.
© belinda marshall 2016
photography Kirsten Bresciani


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Sweet dreams are made of these…..
These handmade knitted cloud-shaped cushions by Donna Wilson are so delightful! I have such a weakness for this British artist's adorable softies and knit goods! On a rainy day, I could see myself snuggle on a relaxing chair with one of her cloud-shaped cushions at my back, one of her wooly blankets on my lap, surrounded by all the adorable creatures from her collection and just listening to the rain against the windows. Oh, what a lovely thought!


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I just posted this over on my redesigned company site but it's awesome so I had to share it here too. The Changelog, an amazing development podcast, is now part of the Genius Pool Network. Check out the blog post on Twisted Mind, over on The Changelog, or post a job now.
I'd like to congratulate Friends Around Me with their official launch today. I was involved with doing some back-end development for this project. It's mainly an iPhone (and iPad!) app with a Rails back-end. It's a great idea from a very talented group of people whom I was lucky to work with. Check out the site or grab the app from iTunes.
I've been using Google Chrome as my default browser ever since 1Password came out with an extension for Chrome. The state of web browsing on the Mac still, unfortunately, leaves something to be desired. However, after using this full time for a little while I can say that I'm really liking it. As a web developer I have a need for good developer tools in a browser. For that, Firefox and Firebug will always be king of the hill. Daily browsing and light development in Chrome has been suiting my needs just fine.
The ability to have extensions is what really makes Chrome shine. It's fast and nimble in OS X and I was able to recreate nearly everything I did in Firefox via extensions. The down side is that extensions don't work on the latest stable build of Chrome. To use extensions you'll need to get a beta or dev channel. In order to do that you can go here.
Eye Dropper
The Eye Dropper lets you click your mouse on an element to get the color of it in HSB, RGB, or Hex. This differs slightly from the Firefox extension in that there is a pop-up involved and you have to do one more click to get the dorrect color.
Firebug Lite
Firebug Lite is a not-as-fully-featured version of the very popular firebug extension. It's fine for doing basic inspection of elements, though, and the built in console takes care of script running needs for basic experimentation.
While Flash may be fine on PCs it makes the fan on my laptop spin like crazy. This is the equivalent of the FireFox extension and lets you whitelist sites as well. Browsing the web without flash is really a much more pleasant experience the majority of the time and the Flash files are only a click away if you want to load them.
MeasureIt! MeasureIt! is a port of the same FireFox extension. It gives you a ruler that lets you draw a box around a portion of a page to get its width and height in pixels. It comes in pretty handy.
Sexy Undo Close Tab This extension lets you re-open recently closed tabs. There's another version called "Undo Closed Tab" but this one is obviously the sexier of the two which is why I use it. I mean, given the choice between sexy and non-sexy I think it's a no-brainer.
Tab Menu
Tab Menu is a simple extension that gives you a drop down list of all currently open tabs. This is useful if you have a lot of tabs open and can't see the titles. On one hand I wonder why this wasn't included in the browser by default in some form. On the other hand I can completely understand their desire to not clutter the browser and I don't imagine that the vast majority of people have that many tabs open.
RSS Subscription Extension
The RSS Subscription Extension automagically recognizes the RSS auto discovery links and pops open a new tab to subscribe. I included this for developers because you'll want to make sure those RSS auto discovery tags are working. You could also make sure that it correctly subscribe in Google Reader and maybe take a few minutes off while you're at it to read some feeds. Just saying.
SeoQuake is also a port of the Firefox extension. It allows you to see a ton of info about a site including Google PageRank, Index, Delicious index, and more. I keep this disabled most of the time unless I really need it or want to see some information about a site.
Bonus Extensions
Chromelicious is the best Chrome extension I've found for Delicioius integration. The reason is that view your bookmarks in an unobtrusive way from a dropdown menu and actually search your bookmarks and filter down via tabs. It's prety handy..
GooglePreview The Google Preview extension inserts thumbnail images of Google searches in your search results. This is totally gratuitous for any real work but it makes search results look cleaner.
Adblock Plus
This is the equivalent of AdBlock Plus for FireFox. It's not necessarily for development but it is much more pleasant to browse the web with.
Better Facebook Fixer
Facebook Fixer is actually a user script packaged up as an extension. You can do this at the Script2Chrome web site if you have any you want to convert. This extension makes the Facebook experience a bit more pleasant with options like hiding information from the right column, hiding 3rd party apps, and much more. This is a version of the Facebook Fixer extension with the javascript loaded locally instead of another server.
Mouse Gestures
Something I didn't really touch on was mouse gestures. I use them heavily. For that I use a program called xGestures which will work in any application on OS X. I find that to also be an indespensable tool. As a bonus it supports rocker gestures. I use that to go to next and previous tabs in all applications. A rocker gesture means you hold down the right mouse button and click the left. If you bind this to the keystroke command + { as a global gesture it works in almost every app in Leopard. The other bracket (command + }) works as well. This is not a free program but it is well worth the price of admission!
Wrapping up, Chrome has come a long way, especially on the Mac. The developer version, for me at least, has been extremely stable and works well enough to be my daily browser. Check it out if you haven't yet.
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Josh Hartnett: Sienna Miller's Rebound?
Josh Hartnett seems to be getting the most out of his stay in London.
The 30-year-old actor is currently in the British capital performing in the stage production of Rain Man. But off-stage, it seems to be raining women for the Black Dahlia star.
First he was rumored to have gotten busy with an unknown female in the library at his hotel. Soon after, he supposedly shared some intimacy with 22-year-old O.C. vet and noted philanthropist Mischa Barton.
Hartnett's latest alleged conquest? Sienna Miller, who's newly single after her split with Brothers & Sisters actor Balthazar Getty.
Hartnett and Miller, 26, were spotted leaving Jalouse nightclub at the same time last week. Now Contact Music is reporting that the budding couple had a hush-hush get-together at the exclusive Shoreditch House private bar in East London.
"They definitely looked like a couple—and a good-looking one at that! At one point, they were holding hands across the table, but they quickly hid them underneath," the paper's source states. "They continued talking and drinking until very late into the evening—there was definitely a buzz in the air."
Hmm; that seems odd; Sienna usually likes 'em a little more attached. Perhaps she confused Hartnett with his single-but-committed doppelganger, Johnny Depp.


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Chronitons are a type of sub-atomic particle which are linked to time. Chronitons are often associated with temporal anomalies and instances of time travel. They do occur naturally, but are rare.
In 2365 Kori and Cumin, farmer's children on The Armada, found a Romulan torpedo, within which they found a quantity of chroniton particles. They hatched a plan to have to use the particles as a crop treatment to accelerate the growth of crops in The Armada, thus giving them more free time. They took this plan to their parents who agreed and secretly treated their crops. Unfortunately the children were not satisfied to simply get some more free time and sabotaged the chroniton formula to make it destroy the crops. This led to massive crop failures and Starfleet calling in the USS Enterprise-D, the crew of which soon discovered what the farmers had done. Years later a Cardassian colony was forced to abandon when its food supplies were contaminated with chroniton radiation. (TNG comic: "Space Seeds")
Chronitons can injure and even kill the Prophets and the Pah-wraith, entities who exist out of time. In 2373, a Pah-wraith inhabiting Keiko O'Brien forced Miles O'Brien to fire a chroniton burst at the Bajoran wormhole from Deep Space 9. The following year, Winn Adami used chronitons to force out a Prophet and a Pah-wraith which were inhabiting Kira Nerys and Jake Sisko and stop the Reckoning. (DS9 episodes: "The Assignment", "The Reckoning", DS9 - Millennium novels: The Fall of Terok Nor, Inferno)
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William Ferguson Colcock
William Ferguson Colcock, son of Charles Jones Colcock, was born in 1804, in Beaufort, South Carolina. He received his early education at home, through the services of private tutors (1) and then attended a classical preparatory school in Charleston, run by Martin Luther Hurlburt. In 1823, he graduated from the South Carolina College, first in his class. (2) Daniel Walker Holllis, in his history of the University of South Carolina, said "The small but able class of 1823 included future Congressman William F. Colcock, long prominent in South Carolina politics, and future Chief Justice Franklin Israel Moses." (3) Colcock was admitted to the Bar in 1825 and began his practice in the Beaufort District Court at Coosawhatchie. (4) In 1834, he was elected to the South Carolina General Assembly as representative from Prince William Parish. The Greenville Mountaineer wrote of him: "He commands in a very high degree the respect of the House. As a debater, he speaks well, fluently, and always on the subject. He is rather small and possesses quite a youthful appearance. His manners are those of a polished gentleman." (5)
In a memorial tribute, Joseph Daniel Pope, the first Dean of the Law School at the University of South Carolina, described the success of his long time friend, W. F. Colcock, at his chosen profession.
He at once rose into a lucrative practice; in the Court of Sessions, particularly, he was constantly engaged for the defense, and he jumped from one jury to another, wringing from them successful verdicts in favor of his clients. The truth is, the young man was pleasing and popular; he aspired to the name, the honors and the emoluments of a successful advocate; and these he undoubtedly won. … . It cannot be said of him that he was a profound or scientific jurist. … . But this much can be truly said of him: in the Court House, in the heat of the conflict, in the conduct of his case, he was the equal of any; he had for ready use and at his fingers' ends the rules of evidence; he was skilful [sic] and careful in putting his case upon paper according to the subtle forms that then obtained; he understood and was readily familiar with the rules of Common law practice; and armed with these weapons he was often the master of an adversary who was his superior in Black Letter lore. Mr. Colcock was a sound equity lawyer, but we think he preferred personally, the sharp, subtle, and logical refinements of the common law and certainly preferred the animated conflict of the Jury trial. And naturally so; because before the jury he was well-nigh irresistible … . (6)
His skill as an attorney was admired even by opposing parties. He is mentioned in several entries in the journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822–1890), owner of Tombee Plantation. (7) Chaplin had been sued and the plaintiffs were represented by W.F. Colcock, William Ferguson Hutson, and James L. Petigru. The entry for February 27th reads: "Friday. Rained nearly all day, & very cold. Our case was called just before sunset, 2 bills were read & the court adjourned. Baker [the plaintiff] looks a little alarmed. His strong man Hunt [Benjamin Faneuil Hunt] has not come to defend him. He will have to trust to Colcock & Hutson." (8)
The next entry, for February 28th, describes the arguments of counsel at the court in Gillisonville.
Our case took up the whole day from 10 o'clock until dark. It was very interesting. Baker was completely used up, and looked like a sheep-stealing dog. Pope [Joseph Daniel Pope], in his speech, called him a good for nothing bankrupt druggist from Broad Street, and Baker looked as though he could eat him up. Hutson spoke first, followed by Pope, Colcock & Treville. The three latter made splendid speeches. Colcock did well but he had a bad case, the evidence was too much against his client. The case will no doubt be decided in our favor. The judge was heard to say that his mind was made up before Baker's side was heard, after hearing the bills & answers made, & the evidence given in. I suppose we will get the written decision in a few weeks. (9)
In 1841, Colcock was elected Speaker of the House and remained Speaker until he was elected to the United States Congress in 1848. (10) He served in Congress for two terms, during which time he became a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, serving on the board with two future Presidents, Millard Fillmore (USA) and Jefferson Davis (CSA). It was an "appropriate appointment based on his consistent support of educational projects." (11) In 1853, he became Collector of the Port of Charleston, an office he held under the Federal and Confederate governments. (12) Possibly because Colcock had served for many years on the Education Committee of the House, he was appointed in 1853 to a commission to investigate and report on the state of South Carolina College. (13) Several years later, he was championed as a possible president of the college by the Charleston Mercury, but the position was offered to Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. (14)
After the conclusion of the Civil War, in 1866, he retired as Collector and returned to the Beaufort area to practice law. The U.S. Government sued him on his bond as Collector, for the recovery of fees collected during the conflict. The entire Bar of Charleston offered their services in his defense. (15) He opened an office with his cousin and son-in-law, Charles Jones Colcock Hutson, in 1866, with an office at Gillisonville Court House, practicing under the firm name of Colcock and Hutson. Four years later, Colcock's son, Cornelius J. Colcock joined the firm. In 1872, the firm of Colcock and Hutson was dissolved, with W.F. Colcock and Cornelius Colcock practicing under the name Colcock and Son, and Charles J.C. Hutson practicing under his own name. He died in 1889, at home, at Ocean plantation.
William Ferguson Hutson
William Ferguson Hutson, cousin of William Ferguson Colcock, was born in 1815, at Jericho Plantation, his family's lands on the Combahee River, outside of McPhersonville, South Carolina. He was a prominent lawyer in Beaufort district, with an office in Pocotaligo. (16) He appeared in court often with his cousin, W.F. Colcock, in the years before the Civil War. He was among the attorneys mentioned in Thomas Chaplin's journal.
He was a member of the "Secession" convention of 1860, the principal author of the Ordinance of Secession, (17) and a signer of the Ordinance. He served as a colonel in the Reserves during the Civil War. Although McPhersonville was largely destroyed by Sherman's army, W.F. Hutson's law office may have survived. His son remembers seeing "the bullet holes in my father's law office." (18) For a while, he owned Inverness Plantation, which he purchased from his cousin, W.F. Colcock, (19) but his "law practice was more fruitful of dollars than the plantation and at last he sold it [the plantation] … ." (20) Hutson moved his family to Orangeburg 'shortly after the close of the Civil War, from his home in the Low Country about half way between Charleston and Savannah.' (21) He died there in 1881.
- William F. Colcock, Autobiography of William F. Colcock (1877), available at https://hugueninfamily.files.wordpress.com/.
- Lawrence Sanders Rowland et al., The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina 422 (1996).
- Daniel Walker Hollis, University of South Carolina 94 (1951).
- Rowland, supra note 3 at 422.
- Chalmers Gaston Davidson, The Last Foray: The South Carolina Planters of 1860, a Sociological Study 58 (1987).
- Joseph Daniel Pope, William Ferguson Colcock: A Sketch (1890). Available at the South Caroliniana Library in the papers of the Colcock and Hutson Families.
- Theodore Rosengarten, Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter (1st ed. 1986).
- Id. at 401.
- Id. The case is reported at Roux v. Chaplin, 20 S.C. Eq. 129 (1847).
- Rowland, supra note 3 at 243.
- Davidson, supra note 6 at 71–72.
- Id. at 72.
- Hollis, supra note 4 at 146.
- Id. at 206.
- Obituary of William Ferguson Colcock, News & Courier, p. 4 (June 14, 1889).
- Francis Marion Hutson, Prince William's Parish and Plantations 113 (1933).
- Rowland, supra note 3 at 429.
- Hutson, supra note 16 at 113 (description by Charles Woodward Hutson).
- Id.
- Id. at 116.
- William Ferguson Hutson, The Memoirs of William Ferguson Hutson: 1874-1967 1 (2002).


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PHILADELPHIA - Penn reaches the midway point of a five-match homestand to start the 2012 men's soccer season this weekend, welcoming Air Force (Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m.) and Hartford (Sept. 9, 1 p.m.) to Rhodes Field for the first time as part of the Penn Soccer Classic.
The Red and Blue dropped a pair of one-goal matches last weekend to begin the season, falling in double overtime to New Hampshire, 2-1, after a 3-2 loss to Lafayette in the opener.
Penn had three different goal scorers over the opening weekend, with juniors Jonny Dolezal and Alex Reddy each scoring their first career goals and senior Travis Cantrell adding the third. While any team will take goals wherever they come from, Penn will look for increased contributions from forwards Stephen Baker and Duke Lacroix this weekend to earn its first win. Last year, both Baker and Lacroix accounted for five goals apiece but are scoreless through the first weekend. Each has been active, though, with Baker taking 10 shots and Lacroix six over the first two games.
The Quakers will look to avoid their first 0-3 start to a season since 2007 on Friday against the Falcons - a team entering the weekend on its own skid.
Air Force is 0-2-1 to start 2012, with just one goal in three matches to five allowed. After a 3-0 loss at Army in a battle of service academies to begin the campaign, Air Force went to a 0-0 draw with UC Davis before a 2-1 loss in double overtime to Drexel last weekend. Abinadi Samayoa had the goal for Air Force against the Dragons, finally ending Air Force's scoreless streak 347:36 into the season.
Last year, Air Force went 12-6-2, advancing to the semifinals of the MPSF Tournament. The Falcons had a 5-1 start to the season, and finished the regular season on a 4-0-1 run before a win in the first round of the MPSF Tournament. Senior Kevin Durr has twice been named first-team All-MPSF and is coming off a 2011 where he led the Falcons in scoring with 20 points on five goals and 10 assists. Senior forward Garret Getschow was second-team All-MPSF after a team-high eight goals. In goal, senior Matt Underwood returns after an honorable mention all-league season where he posted four shutouts and a 1.02 GAA. The Falcons are a veteran group with eight seniors on the roster, looking to duplicate the successful 2011 season which was Air Force's first winning campaign in eight years.
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The program would provide nonviolent felons to do work for the township at no cost. Community service hours are assigned by the courts as part of the sentencing process.
Linda Mowrer, community service coordinator for the adult probation department, said this morning that no formal agreement among her office and a township is needed, and that any township is welcome to participate in the program.
Many times a township becomes involved when she calls it to place an individual for service, Mowrer said.
Trustee Greg Piatt said the township became interested in getting information about the program when they received a call from an individual who needed to perform 70 hours of community service within a short time. The township agreed to let the individual work in the township but the man never showed up to perform the hours.
Piatt said he called the courts to inform them if Milton Township showed up on the man's community service work record it was not correct. At that time, he agreed to have a representative of the program provide the township with more information.
Mowrer explained those involved in the program must get to the work site themselves and while they are working are covered by the county's workers' compensation.
Nonviolent felons such as those convicted of criminal nonsupport, driving under the influence of intoxicants and forgery are eligible. Before accepting an individual, Mowrer said the township would be made aware of what crime the individual was convicted.
She said the township would have the option of having township residents as a preference. The township would have the option of turning an individual down or of telling them they were unsuitable and sending them back to the probation department if they failed to perform work as required.
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"I would sit next to her and she would whisper her impressions of singers to me all the time," Collette said yesterday, following news of the singer's death in Switzerland on Sunday after a long illness. "Sometimes it was quite tough and critical, but never ever anything but constructive."
For someone "with such a stupendous voice", Collette says, Sutherland "spoke very softly. I was one of the few people who ever had to say to Dame Joan, 'Sorry I can't hear you.' "She laughed a lot, though, and when she laughed it was in her singing voice, that head voice."
It's a detail that highlights the gulf between the private and public Sutherland. On stage she was the voice of the century, as
On stage, she was the soprano with the astonishing, three-octave-plus range and cast-iron technique who, as Collette says, made you feel safe in the theatre, regardless of the vocal oddities of the notoriously tricky 19th century Italian bel canto repertoire she made her own.
There, too, she was the soprano who, with her husband of 56 years, the conductor
"Opera Australia certainly wouldn't be the company it is today without her," he says. In addition to over 300 performances with the company from the mid-1970s until her 1990 retirement, "she came back almost every year with Richard. She helped us with fund-raising, had lunch with supporters, she would go to rehearsals."
"La Scala, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera were all after her. There were so many competing claims on her time it was absolutely a contribution back; through the 1970s and the '80s we got the chance to see and hear Sutherland more than any other great opera house in the world."
"It was important for the company," agrees Opera Australia board member and former singer
Off stage, however, the diva disappeared. "In rehearsal, if she was required to be with us on standby, she would sit in the corner and do her tapestry," Austin recalls.
"I don't think she knew what being a diva was," Collette agrees. "She had none of the trappings of divadom – she took the art form seriously rather than herself.
"I used to have lunches in my office for patrons and supporters, and they were immediately disarmed because she was so down to earth, but she used to get very worried about the leftovers. I thought here is arguably the foremost international diva we have ever produced and she's worried about waste."
In a 1961 profile in The New York Times Magazine, Sutherland said she initially had "a big rather wild voice" that was not heavy enough for Wagner, although she did not realise this until she heard "Wagner sung as it should be". "Richard had decided – long before I agreed with him – that I was a coloratura," she said of the vocal technique used in bel canto operas. "We fought like cats and dogs over it," she said, adding, "It took Richard three years to convince me."
While Maria Callas had, of course, begun to resurrect bel canto before Sutherland, "a lot of that repertoire – Bellini, Donizetti, even quite a bit of Verdi – actually became well-known because it suited her voice and that voice was so good", ABC Radio Music Show host Andrew Ford said yesterday. "It seems extraordinary now, but it was in a sense her talent that brought a lot of that repertoire to centre stage. And she was extremely fortunate in having Richard Bonynge, who was an expert in that repertoire. She followed his lead completely because it was the right choice. She was almost untouchable in terms of her voice, I don't think anybody did [Bellini's] Norma or [Donizetti's] Lucia di Lammermoor as well as she did – there was something absolutely effortless in the way she sang." While Sutherland was criticised for her lack of dramatic technique, particularly compared with Callas, "her acting was done best through her voice," Collette says. "She was one of those artists who just reset the bar on what was possible, and because she was internationally acclaimed and had paved the way, she attracted a lot of younger talent to opera."
Sutherland was also fortunate in coinciding with a heyday of opera recording, which has left a rich back-catalogue, many of them considered definitive. "It was a time when so many great conductors were committed to making great opera recordings and so many of the recording companies were investing so much in these vinyl recordings," Collette says. "But the extraordinariness of that voice had to be heard live. The first time I heard her at the concert hall in Melbourne [in the 1980s] I thought it was in surround-sound, it just came from everywhere."
It's an era Collette sees as passing with the anti-diva. "There was a romance that attached itself to singing, to Callas and Sutherland, that is now felt by its absence in the now utterly professional world of opera where everything is so available all the time . . . the map looks a bit flatter these days."
Joan Sutherland is survived by her husband, son Adam and grandchildren.
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The objective of this work was to investigate the interaction of chitosan with iron from yoghurt by an
Chitin is an amino-polysaccharide containing β-(1,4)-linkages as is present in cellulose. It is a constituent of exoskeletons of arthropods and cell walls of most fungi. Chitosan, the principal chitin derivative, is a heteropolysaccharide consisting of linear β-1,4-linked GlcN and GlcNAc units. This carbohydrate polymer is resistant to hydrolysis by human endogenous enzymes and is biocompatible and biodegradable. Moreover, chitosan has no toxicity in animal organs [
The Codex Alimentarius Commission adopted a new definition of fiber in July 2009, designed to harmonize the use of the term around the world. It describes fiber as elements not hydrolyzed by endogenous enzymes in the small intestine (indigestibility) as well as having physiological effects beneficial to health. Dietary fibers are carbohydrate polymers with ten or more monomeric units and belonging to one of three categories of carbohydrates polymers: edible carbohydrate polymers naturally occurring in food, carbohydrate polymers which have been obtained from raw food material by physical, enzymatic, or chemical means (chitosan is included in this group); and synthetic carbohydrate polymers [
Minerals and trace elements have gained increasing interest in nutrition fields. Iron (Fe) deficiency is a leading nutritional concern worldwide, affecting 20–50% of the world's population [
Yoghurt is one of the best known food products that may contain probiotics and is currently increasing supplementation with prebiotics, a type of fiber that stimulates the growth of specific bacteria in the gut [
Considering the fact that chitosan is a new ingredient widely applied in foods and that there is a need of recognizing enhancers and inhibitors of iron absorption, the current work was designed to study the interaction of chitosan with iron when it was added to yoghurt as a food model. This interaction, evaluated as iron percentage retention, was compared with the behavior of different plant fibers: wheat, bamboo, apple, Psyllium and inulin. To chemically characterize the fibers used in this work, initial measurements of total solubility, insolubility, NDF (Neutral Detergent Fiber), ADF (Acid Detergent Fiber), cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin were taken. Then an
Trends in the area of food and nutrition include the introduction of new ingredients, like chitosan, to make functional foods. Consequently, there is a continuous need for predicting the interactions between chitosan and mineral nutrients, like iron.
In a previous work, we studied sensory and rheological properties of yoghurts fortified with the same plant fibers as we used in the present article (apple, bamboo, inulin and wheat) [
The dietary fibers used in this study have different water solubility characteristics: inulin is a soluble fiber, bamboo and wheat are insoluble fibers, apple is partially insoluble fiber, and psyllium forms a viscous dispersion at concentrations below 1% and a clear gelatinous mass at 2%. Chitosan is a fiber of a different origin,
Inulin presents only soluble fraction in concordance with suppliers. Psyllium and apple have both soluble and insoluble fractions. The total dietary fiber content is 45.2% for psyllium, which is an acceptable value, taking into account that the supplier declared a 49.15% of Plantago ovata seed husk in Metamucil preparation and Van Craeyveld
The chitosan used in this study has 98% of insoluble fraction and no detectable soluble fraction. Furthermore the characteristics of this biopolymer are a deacetylation degree of 89%, a viscosity of 120 mPa.s, a 6.7 g% moisture and a 0.67 g% ash content.
Plant fiber characterizations were completed with the study of Acid Detergent Fiber (ADF) and Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF), lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose contents (
Scientists who deal with animal nutrition usually use Van Soest's method to analyze feed. Scientists working on human nutrition use methods of the AOAC, because of their interest in soluble fiber. It is known that soluble fiber plays an important role in human health and the food industry. However, it could be useful in human nutrition to know the composition of insoluble fiber, as it is possible that insoluble fibers do not all have the same effect on human health. The NDF and insoluble fiber methods were applied to the same samples. Insoluble fiber includes hemicellulose, cellulose, lignin, cutin, suberin, chitin, chitosan, waxes and resistant starch. NDF includes hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin. Escarnot
In this work, yoghurts with each type of fiber are added with 0.8% (w/w) of ferrous sulfate. In yoghurt, caseins are modified as a consequence of its production process. Bioactive peptides are formed from caseins during the elaboration of milk products (cheese, yoghurt) under the action of endogenous enzymes of milk (plasmin, cathepsin, among others) or of microorganisms [
Simulation of gastrointestinal environment of different yoghurts can be observed in
When chitosan is added to yoghurt, one might think that chitosan would remain soluble. However, yoghurt contains peptidic fragments from caseins. The caseins are amphiphilic phosphoproteins and their isoelectric point (p
According to these authors, yoghurts with chitosan could contain chitosan-casein-peptidic complexes apart from free chitosan molecules in solution. Besides, we add iron which could interact with free chitosan molecules and those complexes. In our work, yoghurt with chitosan and iron is subjected to the gastrointestinal simulation. In the first step, our food passes through the simulated stomach (pH = 1.0–2.0) and it could be expected that caseins peptidic fragments, chitosan and iron all remain in solution. Changes in pH, while the food passes through the first portion of the simulated small intestine, can lead to formation of chitosan-casein peptidic complexes and iron could be interacting with them. At pH 6.8–7.0, free chitosan molecules and chitosan-casein-peptidic complexes precipitate forming flocculus. The force of the coagulum formed is high and can be seen in
Bamboo and wheat are high in cellulose content. Cellulose could retain iron by physical adsorption according to results reported by Torre
Inulin, a soluble fiber, has no iron retention in either assay. This result is in accordance with studies that confirm that inulin does not interfere with iron absorption [
Although psyllium and apple fiber contain both soluble and insoluble fractions, they have significantly different responses (p < 0.05). The apple fiber incorporated in yoghurt has no influence on iron retention. Psyllium shows, on average, 44.6 ± 3.8% iron retention at 60min, which may be mainly attributed to the formation of high viscous dispersion that could be interfering with iron absorption (
Chitosan presents the highest iron retention percentages at 30 min (53.2 ± 3.7%) and 60 min (56.8 ± 4.5%), which shows significant differences (p < 0.05) with other fibers. This biopolymer, which has an animal origin, contains 98% insoluble fiber, and flocculates in the first portion of the small intestine. These flocculus (
This study shows that the effect of chitosan on iron absorption is more pronounced and higher than those measured for the other studied plant fibers, as dietary fiber is a significant factor that influences iron absorption. In the same way, we observed with an
Chitosan was obtained from crustacean chitin in the Laboratorio de Investigación Básica y Aplicada en Quitina (LIBAQ-INQUISUR-CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Chitin firstly was isolated from shrimp (Pleoticus mülleri) waste by the process that was described in our previous work [
Chitosan was prepared directly by heterogeneous deacetylation of chitin with 50% (w/w) NaOH. For the biopolymer characterization, moisture and ash contents were determined at 100–105 °C and 500–505 °C, respectively. Deacetylation degree was obtained using FT-IR spectroscopy (Nicolet iS10 FT-IR Spectrometer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) with samples in the form of KBr at a ratio of 1:2. Viscosity of 1% chitosan in 1% acetic acid solution was measured with a Brookfield model DV-IV + viscosimeter (Brookfield, USA) with spindle 21 and a 50 rpm rotational speed at 25 °C.
The fibers used were: inulin (Frutafit-inulin, Imperial Sensus, The Netherlands), bamboo (Qualicel, CFF, Gehren, Germany), wheat (Vitacel WF 101, JRS, Rosenberg, Germany), apple (Vitacel AF 400-30, JRS, Rosenberg, Germany) and psyllium (Metamucil, Procter and Gamble Co., Cincinnati, OH, USA). Metamucil is a pharmaceutical formula with Plantago ovata seed husk (49.15% w/w) and sucrose (50.85%). Suppliers of wheat and apple fiber indicated that these products are free from phytic acid, and besides, the wheat fiber is gluten free. The inulin utilized in this work has a degree of polymerization ≥ 9 as declared by suppliers.
Total, soluble and insoluble dietary fiber contents of chitosan and plant fibers were analyzed according to the enzymatic–gravimetric method of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) Official Method 991. 43 [
Apple, bamboo, psyllium and wheat fibers were investigated to obtain contents of main cell wall constituents (lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose). These components were determined by modifications of the method described by Robertson and van Soest [
Yoghurt was prepared using reconstituted whole milk powder with 15% and 5% sucrose. This mix was homogenized and heated to 85 °C for 30 min., cooled to ambient temperature and inoculated with 0.03% starter culture [
Samples were incubated at 43 °C to reach a pH of 4.4–4.6 and stored at 4 °C, after completion of the fermentation process [
A digestive chemical experimental model was performed to study the interaction of dietary fiber with iron, obtaining iron retention percentages. Experiments were carried out in the following manner.
Yoghurts with ferrous sulfate and each fiber were stirred in 50 mL of 0.1 M HCl (Merck) for 1 h at pH 1.0–2.0, 30 rpm and 37 °C to reproduce the gastric environment. PH was checked each 15 min with a pH Meter Hach model EC-30 (USA) during this first step of simulation and it remained constant (pH 1.0–2.0).
The pH level of these mixes was then increased to pH 6.8–7.2 with 0.2 M NaHCO3 (Sigma-Aldrich Co., St. Louis, MO, USA) to reproduce the chemical duodenal environment. The stirring speed was increased from 30 to 300 rpm to imitate the peristaltic movement and temperature was maintained at 37 °C. After 3 min to addition of NaHCO3, pH was measured (pH 2.5–3.5) and mixes were immediately transferred into a dialysis tubing cellulose membrane (D9527-100 FT, (Sigma-Aldrich Co., St. Louis, MO, USA). This cellulose membrane (molecular weight cut-off 12,400) was previously prepared, as indicated by suppliers, and it was cut into 28 cm length pieces. The loaded tubes were immersed in 100 mL of distilled water; at 37 °C. Iron concentrations were determined from the dialyzed medium at 30 and 60 minutes. A control yoghurt with ferrous sulfate without fibers was subjected to the digestive simulation and was considered as 0% iron retention (100% iron dialyzated) to calculate iron retention percentages for each fiber.
To determine iron concentration in the dialyzates a spectrophotometric method was used. Iron was reduced with mercaptoacetic acid (succinic acid buffer, pH 3.7). Then, it reacted with piridil bis-fenil trazine sulfonate (PBTS) producing a pink color due to the complex formed (Wiener Lab Fe-colour Kit, Rosario, Argentina). Two mL of reducing medium was mixed with 500 μL of dializated and the absorbance was read on a spectrophotometer (Spectronic 20 Genesys, Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments Corp., Madison, WI, USA) at 560 nm (internal blank). Immediately, one drop of PBTS was added, the solution was mixed, and absorbance was read again after 5 min. All glassware used in sample preparation and analysis was rinsed with 10% (v/v) concentrated HCl (37%) and deionized water before using, to avoid mineral contamination. A regression equation (y = 2.5333x + 0.0042, R2 = 0.995) derived from data generated from standards of Fe2SO4 was used to calculate iron concentrations in the samples.
Iron retention percentages for each studied fibers were calculated as a percentage of the amount of iron measured in the dialyzed medium obtained with the control yoghurt without fibers.
Experiments were performed at least nine times for each dietary fiber using freshly prepared yoghurt. For total iron concentration in dialyzates, each individual sample was run in duplicate. Averages and standard deviations were calculated and expressed in each case as the mean ± SD for n replicates. Normality of the data was checked with the Lilliefors test. The influence of different dietary fibers on the iron retention percentage was statistically analyzed by a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to find significant differences (p < 0.05) and Tukey's test was used to compare means.
This study showed that chitosan had the highest iron retention percentage when it was added to a food like iron-fortified yoghurt, as determined by an
Financial support from CONICET and SeCyT-Universidad Nacional del Sur is gratefully acknowledged. Marina Dello Staffolo, Miriam Martino and Alicia Bevilacqua express their gratitude to Universidad Nacional de La Plata and bamboo, inulin and wheat suppliers (Imperial Sensus, CFF and JRS).
Simulation digestive mediums of different fibers before dialysis (37 °C, pH 6.8–7.2 with 0.2 M NaHCO3 and stirring speed 300 rpm to reproduce the chemical duodenal environment). (
Different fiber behaviors in the dialysis step of digestive simulation. (
Retention percentages of yoghurts with different studied fibers.
Characterization of fibers: Total, soluble and insoluble fiber content (g/100g) according to the enzymatic–gravimetric method of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) Official Method 991.43 [
|Insoluble fiber (g/100g)
|% Insoluble fiber
|Soluble fiber (g/100g)
|% Soluble fiber
|Total fiber
|44.8 ± 0.4
|13.3 ± 0.7
|58.1 ± 1.0
|91.4 ± 0.5
|3.2 ± 0.8
|95.3 ± 0.9
|98.0 ± 1.0
|98.0 ± 1.0
|37.5 ± 0.6
|7.1 ± 0.5
|45.2 ± 0.8
|92.1 ± 0.6
|2.3 ± 0.6
|94.4 ± 1.1
Plant fiber contents of main cell wall constituents (lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose) determined by a modification of the method described by Robertson and Van Soest [
|38.6 ± 0.9
|44.3 ± 0.7
|8.4 ± 0.8
|30.2 ± 1.7
|5.7 ± 1.6
|50.2 ± 0.7
|90.4 ± 0.6
|5.0 ± 0.3
|45.2 ± 1.0
|40.2 ± 1.7
|7.3 ± 0.4
|36.8 ± 0.9
|0.8 ± 0.1
|6.5 ± 0.4
|29.5 ± 1.3
|74.8 ± 0.3
|89.7 ± 0.6
|2.6 ± 0.4
|72.2 ± 0.7
|14.9 ± 0.9
ADF: Acid Detergent Fiber; NDF: Neutral Detergent Fiber.


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Why Interface Circuits?Comparators
Computers don't exist in a vacuum. They have to interface with the world in many ways. You can sit at a keyboard and type and you're using a computer interface. You click a mouse button and that's another interface.
Measurement devices often need to communicate with computers also.
You'll need to use a comparator, sooner or later. Here's what you'll need to learn about comparators.
A comparator is the simplest circuit that moves signals between the analog and digital worlds. What does a comparator do?
Real comparators may work like the one in the simulation, but there are sometimes other considerations. For example, a common comparator is the LM339, which come on a chip with four comparators. The four comparators are all open collector outputs. We need to discuss that.
In this situation, you don't need to know a lot about transistors (although it's a good idea to learn that if you don't know it!). What you need to know is that, in this situation, the transistor acts like a switch. A transistor doesn't always act that way, but it does in this situation.
The way you connect the comparator is to put your load between five volts and the collector connection on the chip - like this.
Finally, if you want to use an LM339, you'll need this pin-out. You can click here to get the pin-out in a separate window.