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Unlike many of his predecessors and contemporaries (religiously minded poet-saints who are renowned for speaking on behalf of the lower castes), Guru Nanak (1469-1539) also spoke up on behalf of women. Calling women "the vessel" or "repository"—perhaps to speak for the expectation that women were carriers of culture and honor—Guru Nanak delineates men's dependence on women:
We are born from her, formed in her, and ask her to wed,
We befriend her, and she shapes the road ahead,
If she dies, we seek her again, we are bound to her!
So why should we malign her who births kings? (GG 473)
Although the above composition is his most famous intervention on behalf of women, Guru Nanak also shows concern for the plight of women who have to suffer on account of the greed of men in compositions bemoaning the violent conquests of the Mughal invaders. (For example, see GG 417-8.)
Writing from a feminist perspective, Sikh scholar Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh has made the argument that the Sikh founders' use of the feminine voice in their poems is indicative of a larger project associating with the plight of women, and equalizing all humanity to one gender that is distinct from the divine. Guru Nanak's stance on gender laid the groundwork for his successors, like the third Guru, Guru Amardas, who spoke out against the practice of widow-burning, or sati:
They are forced to burn with their husbands
If we knew the Husband, we would not cause such pain. (GG 787)
Call them "Sati" too, who live modestly and contently
They serve their Husband by rising daily to remember Him. (GG 787)
Clear advocacy for justice shows up in later tradition as well. For example, early Khalsa codes of conduct, from the late 1600s, require Sikhs to break ties with those who commit the sin of female infanticide. Therefore, in Sikh doctrines and ethics, women and men are equal before Kartar. Doctrinally, women ought to have access to every level of privilege, leadership, and responsibility that men enjoy.
Like so many of the world's great religions, Sikhism emerged out of a patriarchal, male-dominated social context. But the vast majority of Sikhs see the ideals of their faith as socially liberating for women. Therefore, the mainstream Sikh stance is that doctrinal equality will overcome gender inequalities endemic to Punjabi society. Sikh women all over the globe are demanding the real-life enactment of the equality that their Gurus promised them as equal members of the Sikh community.


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Senior military commander: Iran wants regional stability
Ongoing wargames in the Persian Gulf convey a message of "peace and amity" for regional counties, said a senior Iranian military commander. "We are striving to achieve regional security and strengthen peace and stability in the region," said Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi Wednesday.
"The US should recognize Iran as a regional power," he said, adding that "military intimidation or economic sanctions would not be to the benefit of the West."
A joint maritime military exercise, dubbed Great Prophet (PBUH), started Friday in the Persian Gulf waters. It will continue until April 6, IRNA reported.
About 17,000 combatants from Iran's naval and air forces, Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps (IRGC), police and Basij (voluntary) forces are taking part in the joint wargames in which world's fastest underwater missile was successfully test-fired.
According to the official, over 1,500 gunboats along with various kinds of fighters, bombers and choppers are taking part in the maneuver.
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Elementary Students Give Back To Their Community
Schoolchildren at Ambrosini Elementary delivered blankets to the elderly who may not have family visiting them for the holidays. Teachers are trying to teach students the importance of giving back.
Third and fourth graders have been putting together the two layered fleece blankets for the past week. Friday they delivered the blankets to Fortuna Rehabilitation and Wellness Center.
"When a community works together it makes a better place to live," said Ambrosini Elementary Principle Amy Betts.
Betts said students have been learning in class what the meaning of Thanksgiving is.
"We also wanted our students to know and learn that at this time of year that other people are in need," said Betts.
"We're brining them blankets to make them happier," said Mariza Guimaraes a third grader.
The elementary school is hoping to have students do community service projects once a trimester. Betts said the students will work with a local animal shelter next.
"In Fortuna we're a small community so it's really good to get students to start early," said Betts.


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Greenhead Flies
Where they hang out: These biting horseflies develop in coastal marshes in July and August and are especially problematic on Cape Cod and the Jersey Shore, where black wooden box traps are installed on certain beaches to snare them.
What attracts them: They like large, dark objects, probably because their natural food sources are cattle and deer. (But they will bite you when they can't find Bambi.) Many of their cousins, such as blackflies, have similar feeding habits.
Their kryptonite: The best defense against greenheads is permethrin, which can be found in products such as Permanone. It's wise to save this for intolerable cases, as it can give skin a rash; spray it on clothes only.
What else you need to know: Greenheads attack during the day. Because they are larger than most insects, greenheads are often not bothered by a normal amount of insect repellent on skin, even if it contains DEET.


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Candelario-Jalil, Eduardo and Akundi, Ravi S. and Bhatia, Harsharan S. and Lieb, Klaus and Appel, Kurt and Munoz, Eduardo and Hull, Michael and Fiebich, Bernd L. (2006) Ascorbic acid enhances the inhibitory effect of aspirin on neuronal cyclooxygenase-2-mediated prostaglandin E2 production. [Journal (Paginated)]
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Inhibition of neuronal cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and hence prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs has been suggested to protect neuronal cells in a variety of pathophysiological situations including Alzheimer's disease and ischemic stroke. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has also been shown to protect cerebral tissue in a variety of experimental conditions, which has been attributed to its antioxidant capacity. In the present study, we show that ascorbic acid dose-dependently inhibited interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta)-mediated PGE2 synthesis in the human neuronal cell line, SK-N-SH. Furthermore, in combination with aspirin, ascorbic acid augmented the inhibitory effect of aspirin on PGE2 synthesis. However, ascorbic acid had no synergistic effect along with other COX inhibitors (SC-58125 and indomethacin). The inhibition of IL-1beta-mediated PGE2 synthesis by ascorbic acid was not due to the inhibition of the expression of COX-2 or microsomal prostaglandin E synthase (mPGES-1). Rather, ascorbic acid dose-dependently (0.1-100 microM) produced a significant reduction in IL-1beta-mediated production of 8-iso-prostaglandin F2alpha (8-iso-PGF2alpha), a reliable indicator of free radical formation, suggesting that the effects of ascorbic acid on COX-2-mediated PGE2 biosynthesis may be the result of the maintenance of the neuronal redox status since COX activity is known to be enhanced by oxidative stress. Our results provide in vitro evidence that the neuroprotective effects of ascorbic acid may depend, at least in part, on its ability to reduce neuronal COX-2 activity and PGE2 synthesis, owing to its antioxidant properties. Further, these experiments suggest that a combination of aspirin with ascorbic acid constitutes a novel approach to render COX-2 more sensitive to inhibition by aspirin, allowing an anti-inflammatory therapy with lower doses of aspirin, thereby avoiding the side effects of the usually high dose aspirin treatment.
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• Speaking of "Fast & Furious," production on the seventh installment has been postponed indefinitely, in the wake of star Paul Walker's untimely death. [The Hollywood Reporter]
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Pre-loved (used) boats are enjoying buoyant sales, according to Seiffert, who says 'there's one to suit everybody'.
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The St Hallett winery was established in 1944. It is named after an early surveyor of Southern Australia. Nobody knows how he gained the title of 'Saint', but my guess is the local's must have worshipped his wines.
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Imagine giving a presentation to a roomful of important customers when suddenly the projector fails. You whip out your smartphone, beam your PowerPoint presentation onto the conference room screen, and are back in business within seconds. This career-saving application and others like it are the promise of a new generation of ultra-small projectors.
Now researchers from Japan and Poland have taken an important step toward making such devices more versatile and easier to integrate into portable electronic devices.
The team has created a small holographic projection system with a lensless zoom function. When fully developed the system should be cheaper and smaller than other projection systems. The researchers report their findings in a paper published in the Optical Society's (OSA) journal Optics Express.
Zoom functions magnify an image to fit on an arbitrarily sized screen, but they typically require complicated lenses and mechanical components. "A zoom lens in general projectors occupies a large area in the systems," said Tomoyoshi Shimobaba, a professor in the graduate school of engineering at Chiba University in Japan. "If I remove the zoom lens, the system will be small and cost-saving."
Though the new holographic lensless zoom is not the first lensless zoom system to be developed, Shimobaba notes that other systems require extra components. His team's system requires only a laser and an LCD panel.
In order to achieve a lensless zoom, Shimobaba, his colleagues from Chiba University, and Michal Makowski from the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland turned to holography.
Holography is a way to produce images by using the interference pattern of two laser beams to encode and later display the image. By their nature holograms operate without lenses. It is possible to represent a holographic image with numbers and formulas and then calculate how that image can be magnified.
Shimobaba and his team made modifications to the standard magnification formulas to reduce calculation time and preserve image quality. Magnified holograms can suffer from a signal processing effect called aliasing, which can result in visual distortions of the original image.
The researchers developed a calculation to reduce aliasing effects and also used a method developed by another team of researchers to reduce the speckle noise effect that can give holograms a grainy appearance. They tested the technique by increasing by nine times the size of a monochrome picture of a woman in a feathered hat.
Currently the footprint of the holographic zoom system is about 160x80x40 millimeters, and Shimobaba believes the researchers can easily shrink it even further. "Currently we use commercial parts," he said.
"However, if we customize the components we believe we can develop the smallest projector [to date] because our technique is in principle the simplest." He estimates that the technology could be commercialized in the next five to ten years.
Going forward the researchers plan to refine their mathematical image manipulation techniques to further improve image quality and reduce calculation time. They also plan to test the technique with color images.
Paper: "Lensless zoomable holographic projection using scaled Fresnel diffraction," T. Shimobaba et al., Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 21, pp. 25285-25290 (2013).
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In this paper we show how to estimate facial surface reflectance properties (a slice of the BRDF and the albedo) in conjunction with the facial shape from a single image. The key idea underpinning our approach is to iteratively interleave the two processes of estimating reflectance properties based on the current shape estimate and updating the shape estimate based on the current estimate of the reflectance function. For frontally illuminated faces, the reflectance properties can be described by a function of one variable which we estimate by fitting a curve to the scattered and noisy reflectance samples provided by the input image and estimated shape. For non-frontal illumination, we fit a smooth surface to the scattered 2D reflectance samples. We make use of a novel statistical face shape constraint which we term 'model-based integrability' which we use to regularise the shape estimation. We show that the method is capable of recovering accurate shape and reflectance information from single grayscale or colour images using both synthetic and real world imagery. We use the estimated reflectance measurements to render synthetic images of the face in varying poses. To synthesise images under novel illumination, we show how to fit a parametric model of reflectance to the estimated reflectance function.