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Numerous blogs, review websites, and app developers are talking about how great iOS 13 would be, but many users don't have a clue on the features that are coming with iOS 13 this fall. Therefore, we are going to be discussing the biggest iOS 13 features, while highlighting how these features will benefit you.
When will iOS 13 be Available?
The iOS 13 public beta is available now for download, alongside the developer preview, which was launched sometime last week. If you're anxious to try the new iOS 13 features of the public beta, then we advise you do it on your second iOS device and not on your primary iPhone. The reason is simple; the public beta version has a history of coming with bugs and app incompatibility.
The official release of iOS 13 for consumers is expected to be in this autumn when Apple announces the next generation of iOS devices and macOS computer.
What Are the Biggest New Features You Will not Miss Out
Here, we'll preview the top new iOS 13 features with clear images.
1 Dark Mode
The dark mode feature of iOS 13 is the most apparent visual change to iOS since the release of iOS 7. This new addition to iOS is real, completely black, system-wide and captivating, and all Apple default apps will get this feature – even notifications and dock.
It's not confusing to us in any way why Apple Inc. chose to release the dark mode feature at a time like this. Its inclusion in iOS features is also not surprising as many iOS device users are clamoring for a dark mode just as they see on Android and Windows mobile devices. We believe you will love it because the implementation is great; the fields are well differentiated with dark grey here and there, and their-party app developers are already working to follow suit.
2 Privacy & Security
"Sign In with Apple" is the summary of the iOS 13 feature called "Privacy and Security". Sign in with Apple is a simple way to log in to websites and apps that respect your privacy. With this feature, you can use your Face ID to open accounts without giving away your sensitive information.
More so, in securing the Privacy of iOS 13 Apple device users, the Cupertino company has made it possible for you to choose to give your location data to an app or not. Apps that need location data must ask for permission to access Bluetooth and location services.
3 Photos & Camera
iOS 13 photos and camera features will have the following improvements and functionalities:
- Portrait Lighting Control: You can create the look you want by adjusting the intensity of light on any portrait.
- High-Key Mono: Homochromatic effects can be added to portrait mode photos in iOS 13.
- New Photos Tab: You can view your best moments for every day, month and year on iOS 13.
- Powerful Video Editing and Redesigned Editing: iOS 13 Photos and Camera features also houses some other functionalities such as powerful video editing, and redesigned editing.
4 Messages
Messages on iOS 13 will be getting profile pictures and display names, which would make it easier to share media files with other users. Some of the new functionalities in the Message app would include:
- Memoji can be used as profile pictures
- Siri will be able to read out your messages through the earpiece
However, we don't know if this function will be available to third-party apps for Siri to read out messages from WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, etc.
5 Find My
The "Find My" app feature of iOS 13 is a combination of apps "Find My iPhone" and "Find My Friends". Hence, these new services house them under the same app. The most important feature of the new app is that it can even locate devices that are offline by using the Bluetooth beacon.
Like as the previous Find My iPhone, in the new app, you can play an alert on a lost device to find it nearby, or make it as lost and lock it down remotely. Of course, if you don't want anyone who finds your device can access your personal information, you can remotely erase the device.
6 Apple Maps
Apple Maps will also be revamped to have detailed map data (Look Around) that would make it comparable with Google street views. Apple achieved it by using thousands of LIDAR-equipped cars to collect the data. The new map features will be available only in the USA for the 2019 period and would go global in 2020.
In addition, one more important improvement is that you can share your ETA while using directions to navigate a location. By simply tapping the "Share ETA" button and it will continuously share your live ETA until you reach your destination.
7 Reminder
The Reminder app will take a whole new look come iOS 13 consumer version. It's a new look that's quite consistent with all other newly designed apps. There will be many filtering options such as Today, Scheduled, Flagged, etc.
The AI smarts will be integrated into the app. It will auto-suggest when you'd like to be reminded. In you like, it will remind you when you open up the Messages thread.
8 FaceTime Attention Correction
The FaceTime Attention Correction is one of the iOS 13 features that would thrill you. The most interesting feature is the ability to fix your gaze on the particular number you want to dial using Face ID sensors.
Using Face ID sensors on a compatible device, you will see where your attention is fixed so that you can adjust your eyes and make it look like you're looking straight at the other person. However, this feature has requirements for the hardware. Only the iPhone X-series phone or new iPad Pro can support it.


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My conspicuous absence of late
Some background info to start:
Last summer she volunteered for a couple weeks on a dig along the NE coast of England (almost to the Scottish border, little town called South Shields.) This summer she participated for a couple weeks on a "rescue dig" in Italia (Italy), along the Tuscany coast, NW of Roma (Rome.) They're trying to save as much of an old Roman Villa and the even older Etruscan village that the villa is built on top of as they can before they both disappear completely. She goes on these digs through a group called Earthwatch. Earthwatch is an international non-profit scientific organization that works toward environmental and cultural preservation. She volunteers on the digs, and pays her own way for transportation to and from the digs, accommodations (outside the dig dates themselves), insurance, meals (for the duration, including the dates of the dig), etc.
I've never been anywhere outside Canada and the US of A.Well, we talked about it with each other – she really wanted me to meet her after her dig so she'd have company for the week (plus a couple days) of playing tourist. She had wanted me to do the same last year when she went to England and Scotland, but we just couldn't afford it. So, we talked about it for a while, trying to see if there was any possible way we could swing it, then we included my parents in the conversation as well, a number of months ago. We checked into flights and hotels and stuff. We were able to find a really good price on airline tickets and we also looked at what it would cost us if we split the hotel bill three ways. It worked out such that, with a lot of scrimping and saving up over a number of months, my Mom and I were able to go over to join my daughter after her dig was done.
So, I got to go to Italia for just under 2 weeks!!!! Squeeeee!!!!!!!
My Mom and I flew out from Canada late in the evening on Sunday, 14 June and arrived in Roma, Italia (Rome, Italy) about mid-afternoon on Monday, 15 June (yay for time zone changes .) Flight wasn't bad, only a few bumps here and there. Mostly on time. Meal was … less than spectacular, but that's to be expected. Found our way to the hotel, then out to get our bearings in the immediate surrounding area. Snagged a quick bite for dinner, then crashed out since neither of us had slept on the flight (we were too excited to sleep, plus I'd only had 3 hours of sleep on the Saturday night, getting packed and the house tidy enough to leave, etc.) Crashed hard. Didn't wake up until almost 11am (Roma time.)
Tuesday, 16 June - our first full day in Roma. Walked over to the train station (Stazione Centrale-Roma Termini, in short called Termini) to figure out where to start. Termini is a wonderful hub to get around from. All the national and international trains stop there (if going to Roma.) The intracity public transit (buses, metro {subway} and cable cars) go there. As well, that's where all the tour buses stop. So if you want to get around, other than walking, it's the place to start. Our hotel was only one block over and three blocks down from it, and they are short blocks. So we were very nicely placed to get around.
Started our day off with a light brunch (fresh fruit and a roll), then time to go find a tour bus to start getting an over-view of the city, help us decide what we want to see when my daughter arrives at the end of her dig, the best ways to get to the various places, etc. We ended up taking a couple different tours around, since while they mostly went to the same places, there were some differences between them. Spent most of the day doing that, just to get our bearings. Found a very nice restaurant for dinner. Just snagged a Caesar salad, I was still trying to adjust to the differences in climate and time zone, so wanted to eat light. One thing about the restaurants in Roma: the majority of them are set up along the sidewalks. With that glorious weather, is it any wonder? Everyone wants to eat outside! Also did some walking around in the immediate area of our hotel and Termini, just checking out the little shops, restaurants, etc. Back to the hotel, send a quick email out to everyone back at home (forgot to mention, our hotel had a couple computers {and internet access} for their guests to use) plus a quick check of my sites to make sure that there wasn't anything absolutely urgent that I needed to deal with or to pass off to one of my staff that couldn't wait until I got home. Did that every evening after we got back to the hotel for about ½ hr before going to sleep for the night. Other than that, though, stayed strictly away from computers, since this was my first vacation in, like, forever, and my family would have killed me if I'd spent it on-line.
Wednesday, 17 June – our second full day. Only slept in until 10am this time. Up to Termini, grab some more fresh fruit to get us started. Figure we'll take this opportunity to get our various train tickets for the end of the trip now, so that it's taken care of and we can then just not worry about it for the rest of the time we're there. With that taken care of, we snag a one-day transit pass and head our way out to Via Appia Antica (the 'ancient road, Appia', the oldest Roman road), known to the Romans as the regina viarum (queen of roads), where we hop off to go find the catacombs. Well, we hopped off in the wrong place or something. We get … hmmm, I guess the proper term here would be … LOST! We walked for, literally, hours back and forth across various roads, trying to figure out where the hell we are. We somehow ended up on this huge long road out in the middle of (what seemed like) nowhere. And we walked. And we walked. And then we walked some more. Finally, we get to the other end of this road and find a little roadside café. We stop in, get something to drink (did I mention that we'd forgot to grab our water bottles that morning?) and ask the nice lady behind the counter, "Where the hell are we, and how do we get to the catacombs?" She very kindly didn't laugh and/or roll her eyes at the 'stupid tourists', pointed out the door and up the hill where the road splits into two and says, "10 minutes, that way." So, we sit for a while longer, panting trying to get our breath back and guzzling liquids, then head out again. Sure enough, up this hill, down the other side and, "duh, there they are!" It's now a lot later in the day than we planned on being, by multiple hours, so we manage to get in on like the very last tour of the day at this one particular set of catacombs, the Catacombs di San Sebastiano. They were the ones we particularly wanted to see, though, so that was okay. They aren't the "biggest" set there (the largest, busiest and most famous are the Catacombs di San Callista), but they are the oldest. Going through them, you can see the multiple levels for the different centuries in which they were in use, and the different religions that they served. Lots of frescoes, stucco work, epigraphs and three perfectly preserved mausoleums were there to be seen. The Basilica di San Sebastiano is built directly above the catacombs and was a beautiful basilica to walk through. (Basilica means 'church' in most cases, although in ancient Roma it meant a 'hall of justice and public meeting place'. The Basilica di San Sebastiano is a church.) After we finished the tour we wandered further along Via Appia Antica, past the Circo di Masenzio (one of Rome's ancient racetracks, where you can actually still make out the starting stalls used for the chariot races!), past the Tomba di Romolo and along until we came to an unusual cylindrical mausoleum, the Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella. Then we wandered back down the road until we found a bus stop and headed back into the city proper.
Went back to the restaurant we'd found on the Tuesday night, since the food had been good and the staff super friendly. Since we were now starting to be acclimatized (and ravenously hungry after all that walking!), decided it was time to have something a little more solid than just fruit and salad. Mom ordered a lasagna and I got a spaghetti carbonara. Oh. My. God! I am not sure if I will ever again be able to enjoy a carbonara here. It was SO good, it was to die for! I took one bite and was groaning with enjoyment. Apparently Mom's lasagna was excellent too. I have no doubt that the next time I have "Italian" here at home, I'm going to be shaking my head and going, "This isn't Italian, it doesn't even come close to what it tasted like in Roma!"
Took a nice long leisurely time enjoying our dinner, then wandered around poking in the various 'tourist' shops, then back to the hotel for the night. Sent out emails, checked the sites, then off for sleep.
Thursday, 18 June - Definitely getting our schedules switched around to more what they should be for over here. Woke up by 9am. Snagged some fruit and roll for breakfast again, then worked our way slowly along down to the nearest Basilica, the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Wandered around in there for a while, just enjoying the beauty of it, both architecturally and artistically. Some gorgeous mosaics, wonderfully carved tombs, etc. Simply beautiful.
Kind of a quiet day for us, didn't do a lot since we were trying to keep the majority of our 'tourist' activities until my daughter joined us on Friday. Mostly just kind of wandered around the general vicinity of our hotel and Termini. Didn't really matter though, since it seemed you couldn't turn a corner or look anywhere (up, down, this side, that side) and not find a wonderfully carved column or surprise fountain or old statue or pretty little park. I was pleasantly surprised with just how 'green' Roma was. I'm not sure why, but I didn't think there would be as many parks and trees and flowerbeds, etc. in the city as there are, so that was nice. Tried a fettuccini alfredo for dinner tonight. For all that it's 'just a basic, plain white-sauce', the alfredo there was as equally wonderful as the carbonara I'd had the night before. A lot more flavourful than what I'm used to here. Headed back to the hotel rather earlier since we were going to be hopping a train early in the morning to go meet my daughter.
Friday, 19 June - UGH! OMG it's early! It's o-dark-hundred! Do I have to get up now? Oh, right, going to get my kiddo! Okay, I'm up! 5am wake up call so we get awake and get to Termini in time to catch our 6am train. Did I mention that our hotel is close to the station? Well, good thing it is. Get there and discover that we forgot the train tickets back in the hotel room. Dash back down there, snag them, then back to the station. (Remember that for most of this we're walking, unless I specifically note otherwise.) Made it in time. Got on the train and had a three hour trip up to meet her. Got to see some of the countryside along the way. If we'd been thinking better yesterday, we would have gotten our tickets such that we could pick her up along the way and then take the train further along its route, up to Pisa (so we could see the leaning tower, etc.) Not sure why we didn't, but we didn't. Oh well. Met her at the station and then took another train back to Roma. Got her stuff dumped into our room in the hotel and got her registered at the front desk, then off to take her on a couple different bus tours around the city, to show her the various things we've been considering viewing when she joined us. Looked further into the idea of trying to go down to Pompei and Mt. Vesuvius for a day but just don't see any way that we can see both in a single day, plus the cost is prohibitive (for us at least, since we're trying to do this whole trip on a shoe-string budget. Probably not really that expensive otherwise, but meh, what can ya do?) Got dinner then back to the hotel to firm up our plans some more, check over our maps and stuff.
Saturday, 20 June - We went to the Citta del Vaticano (Vatican City) today.
We started the day bright and early, snagged breakfast fast and hopped on a bus to get there. The first thing you see as you get off the bus and walk up to the front is Piazza San Pietro (St. Peter's Square). Quoting from one of our tour books (Italy, publisher Lonely Planet. I highly recommend their books if you want quality info for travelling):
Looked at from above, the square resembles a giant keyhole: two semicircular colonnades, each of which is made up of four rows of Doric columns, bound a giant oval that straightens out towards the basilica. On the square there are two points from where you can see all the columns perfectly aligned. Look for the iron paving disks either side of the central obelisk. The ancient Egyptian obelisk was brought to Rome by Caligula from Heliopolis.Decided we wanted to start the day by climbing up to the top of Michelangelo's dome, while we were still fresh. Good decision. If we'd done it later in the day, we likely wouldn't have made it. The dome is the cupola/bell tower on the top of Basilica di San Pietro (St. Peter's Basilica). Even with taking the elevator ½ way up, we still had to climb another 320 steps to get to the top. That doesn't sound like all that much, right? Wrong! Those 320 steps were all at about a 70° to 80° angle, or more. At one point, you are walking bent to the side because you are going right along the inside of the curve of the dome. The final forty-ish steps are so steep that there is actually a rope hanging there for you to hold on to and all but pull yourself straight up. Thank goodness we decided to "wimp out" and take the elevator ½ way up.
And then you go out the door onto the balcony. And you look out. And out. And out. The view from the top is breathtaking (not to mention that you haven't got any breath back from the climb yet .) You just walk around looking out over the city, and boy can you ever see a long way from there, as well as look at the decorations by Michelangelo. The reliefs depict the Reliquie Maggiori (Major Relics).
So, we spend some time just taking in the view, then it's back down we go. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to anyone that got held up behind me. I have vertigo. Not a phobia, but the actual medical definition (I'm not 'afraid' of 'falling', nor do I have a fear of heights at all.) I can fall up stairs (and do, on a not-irregular basis.) I tried my best, but I know that I was slower going down than I was going up. I made my daughter go ahead of me and I waited until she was out of site around a bend of the stairs before I started, simply because if I went, I didn't want to take her (and others) out with me. Apparently my mom was behind me prepared to grab my shirt if I started to tumble. I had no idea, I was concentrating so hard on making sure of each foot hold as I went down. Got back down to the halfway point where we'd be taking the elevator the rest of the way down (and also another lovely terrace where you can look out over the city, walk around a bit, go into the souvenir store) and just stood there for a while with my legs shaking from the strain. Got my legs and nerves back under control and then we hopped on the elevator to take the rest of the trip back down to ground level.
Walk through the doorway at the bottom, start to turn to say something to Mom and just … stop. Jaw drops open. Eyes go wide. Just … stop. See, we thought that when we got to the bottom, we'd be back outside in the square again, to get into another line to go into Basilica di San Pietro (St. Peter's Basilica) proper. We were wrong. When you reach the bottom, you aren't in a line outside again, you walk through a side door into the basilica. Stunned. Positively, wordlessly, stunned. I'm not sure how long it was until any of us actually said anything to each other again. I know we stood there for at least two solid minutes just turning in this slow slow circle, completely awestruck, not making a single noise. I finally know what people mean when they say "words can't describe it, pictures don't do it justice, you just can't understand unless you've been there." (about anywhere, not just Basilica di San Pietro.)
Almost a whisper, stated with just this most awe inspired, heartfelt, humbled, amazed … something …. :
"Oh ……………… My ……………… God"
Then turn around again. Look down. Look up. Look left. Look down on the left. Look up on the left. Look right. Look down. Look up. Make another nth of a turn. Look. Just. Wow. Take a half step. Hear daughter say "where do I start?" And just …. Oh. My. God.
You don't have to be religious to be bowled over by it. You just have to appreciate beauty and artistry and the wonder of what man is capable of creating. It's … I honestly, truly can not come up with the words for it. We have pictures. I can use every expression ever used by anyone in their attempts to convey it. It's not possible. It is simply not possible. You really honestly truly have to experience it yourself. Nothing can even come close to trying to explain how it makes you feel. No pictures. No words. No song or poem or ….
It's …
Just … wow.
So. We stood there completely thunderstruck. Then we moved a little. Then my daughter managed to figure out where to start with her camera. I don't know how she figured it out. There is not a single piece of anything that isn't decorated, that isn't perfect. Even the simplest piece of marble, or tile, or wood is absolutely completely 'right'. I am still trying to figure out how to move on from telling you about it, when I realize that I haven't even really said anything, to figure out how to move to the next thing, and … wow.
I have no idea how long we spent in there. I know there was so much I didn't see, simply because there was so much to see. No matter where you looked, there was something new, something beautiful, something amazing. Eventually we somehow managed to work our way out. Still completely stunned. Finally we managed to gather our wits and walked part way down the Square and headed around the outside to go to the Musei Vaticani (Vatican Museums.)
Right from the first staircase it is again a case of look in every direction and don't expect to get far fast unless you have made the mistake of going with one of the tour groups - they will sure run you through in a hurry. We decided on three of the museum sections we wanted to see and planned to end with the Capella Sistina (Sistine Chapel.) Well we did go through what we wanted and we did see a portion of them but there is no way we could see all of even that small amount of the museum area. There is just too much and it is just too impressive. You are walking on solid marble floors, priceless mosaic floors, parts of floors inlayed with bronze, etc. Every ceiling is decorated, painted, tiled, or something. The walls have paintings, statues, tapestries, frescos, mosaics, and more. The buildings that house the Musei Vaticani, known collectively as the Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano cover an area of 5.5 hectares!
We went through the Quattro Cancelli (which is the starting area for the museum complex), the Pinacoteca, the Museo Gregoriano Egizio (Egyptian Museum), the Gallerie delle Carte Geografiche (Map Gallery), the Museo Chiaramonti (Chiaramonti Museum, housing many Roman statues and Roman copies of Greek statues), the Pigna Courtyard, the Galleria degli Arazzi (Tapestry Gallery), the Museo Pio-Clementino, the Cortile Ottagono (the Octagonal Court, also known as the Belvedere Courtyard), the Room of the Animals, the Gallery of Statues, the Gallery of Busts, the Sala delle Muse (Hall of Muses), the Round room, and of course:
The end of our wanderings – the Capella Sistina – again, just like with the Basilica di San Pietro – "Oh. My. God." Once more, there just aren't words. It was stunning. Simply stunning. After we were in there for at least ½ hr or more, just finding more and more and more every where we looked in there, we finally headed out of the museums (since at this point we were an hour past closing and the museum staff were politely herding people out.)
After we got out, we started to head back toward the metro to go back for dinner and off to the hotel. As we were walking along, we noticed a nice long line at a little gelateria across the street. Looking at it, we noticed that the majority of the line was locals, not tourists. Taking that as a good sign, and since my daughter and I both had very firm intentions of finding a good gelateria while we were there (Mom has never had gelato before), we cut across the street and joined the line. Oh, did we ever make a good choice. We tried out a couple other places over the next few days, but this one was by far the best and we actually went out of our way to go back to it four times through the week, before we came home. This was a little hole in the wall place, with people who were obviously all one or two families working there, with an interconnecting doorway to a crepe place next door. We were able to stand there and watch the gelaterie artigianale (makers of handmade gelato) making it fresh on-site and refilling the tubs as they emptied! It was …. /swoon. The fragola (strawberry) I had – you would have sworn you were eating fresh strawberries, that had just been chilled some. You couldn't even tell that there had been anything done to them (proper fruit-based gelato is made with the fruit ground up with some water and maybe a touch of sugar added, then frozen. Some of the other non-fruit-based are made with fresh cream and whatever the ingredient that determines its flavour – you could see the fresh cacao seeds they were grinding up for the chocolate flavour, etc.) Oooooooh, it was GOOD! Another evening, we went back to get more, and decided that we'd try out the crepes first. On that evening we ended up not having dinner, we made a meal of the crepes and gelato! Trust line-ups of locals, they know where the best places are!
Anyway, yeah, okay, stop thinking about the gelato Cairenn and get back to telling about your trip. Oh, and don't forget to wipe the drool off your chin!
So, found our way back to Termini, snagged some dinner (dinner for us was always about 8:30 pm or so, the same as the locals do – too hot to enjoy your meal much before then), then back to the hotel for the night.
Sunday, 21 June - Today we had the only 'bad' weather of our trip. It rained periodically throughout the day. We still managed to get out and about though, to see some more stuff. We started the day off by going to Piazza di Spagna and the Scalinata della Trinita dei Monti (the famous 'Spanish Steps'), then along to Fontana di Trevi (the Trevi Fountain), where we made sure to toss in our coins (the legend is that when you toss your coin in over your shoulder and make a wish, not only will your wish come true, but you'll also come back to Roma and the fountain) and then further along to the Pantheon. In some ways the Pantheon is as impressive as the Basilica di San Pietro. It doesn't have the artwork to the same degree, but it is just so massive and has stood for so long. It's quite the architectural feat. It is the largest masonry vault ever built. The perfect semisphere has a diameter equal to the interior height of 43.3 meters! Light is provided inside by the oculus – a 9 meter opening in the center of the top of the dome! There are 16 full sized Corinthian columns inside (each a single block of stone), supporting a triangular pediment. As well, we made a stop in our walking to look at the Egyptian obelisk in Piazza del Popolo.
Back toward Termini, food and sleep. A long day under our belt and another planned for tomorrow. Have I mentioned yet that we've done a lot of walking? And that there have been a ton of stairs? We've walked and walked and climbed stairs then climbed some more stairs, then walked for a bunch, then went down some stairs, then up a hill, then walked some more, then up some stairs, then walked, then …. I can tell you, if I lived in Roma for any length of time, my butt and thighs would be in fantastic shape!
Monday, 22 June - Today we went to a place known by many different names over the years. It has been called the Amphitheatrum Caesareum, the Flavian Amphitheater, the Amphitheatrum-Colyseus. It housed the Colosso di Nerone and was extended in the name regio colisei to include the entire valley. It is most commonly known world-wide as the Colosseum. The name Colosseum wasn't due to its size, contrary to frequent belief, but in reference to the Colosso di Nerone, a giant bronze statue of Nero (which also changed 'names' throughout history) that stood nearby. We spent well over 2-3 hrs wandering around looking at it. A fair portion of it has been restored/maintained, but you can see sections of it that are in serious disrepair, with damage due to time, climate, earthquakes, fires, etc. A number of areas you can't go into, they have them roped off, doing work on it, etc. Definitely worth spending a few hours though.
After we wandered around in there for a while, we headed back outside, got a closer view of the famous Arco di Costantino (gorgeous gorgeous highly detailed arch, built to honour Constantine following one of his victories) and up to Palentine Hill, which was one of the three main hills of ancient Roma. Lots and lots of marble pillars, gardens, stone walls, frescos, tunnels, fountains, and on and on. Of course most of it is ruins now, but still amazing. The Palatine is where Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded Roma. Overlooking the Roman Forums, the Palantine was ancient Roma's 'poshest' nieghbourhood.
During this wandering around in the immediate area of the Colosseum and Palentine hill, we've been going around the outside edge of the Roman Forums. In ancient Roma, a forum was a shopping mall, civic centre and religious complex all rolled into one.
Took the metro back to the Citta del Vaticano area and tried the crepes (as discussed early). Did a bit of shopping around that area, managed to get off the beaten path (aka tourist trap stores) and found some cute tops for each of us at more reasonable prices. Wandered around for a while then took the metro back to Termini. Grabbed a light dinner then back to the hotel for the night.
Tuesday, 23 June - We went to the Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums). They are the oldest national and archaeological museums in the world. Once more, the artwork to be seen was simply amazing. Statues, frescoes, mosaics, paintings, sculptures, all from different ages, it went on and on and on. There were actually four inter-connected buildings but we were only able to get through two of them before we had to stop for the day. One section was climate controlled, trying to prevent any further decay of a bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius. There was also a few remaining pieces of a couple 'colossal' statues. One of the pieces was the head from one of the statues, it was taller than I am!
Walked back down the Capitoline hill toward the metro so we could go back to Termini and discovered a little problem. There were cop cars and buses and paddy wagons and … allllll over the place, and the metro wasn't running. There were announcements being made over the PA system in the metro station, but of course we couldn't understand them since they were all in Italian. Decided that we'd walk along to the next metro stop, checking out shops and stuff along the way. Got to the next one and not only was it not running, but the entrance was actually locked up and there was another fairly large police presence. Never did find out what that was all about. (Edit: Ah, courtesy Iriel, I know now what caused it. Thanks for finding that article for me Iriel!)
Since we were about ½ way back to Termini from where we'd started, at that point, and after looking at how completely packed the buses were (honestly, I don't think you could put a single piece of paper between people, they were so jammed in), we decided we'd walk the rest of the way back. Took our time, wandering through various stores along the way, etc. Found a nice new purse (can't go to Italia and not buy something made of Italian leather!), even though I had actually stopped looking. Dropped everything back in the room at the hotel, then snagged a quick dinner, then hopped the other metro line from Termini back to Citta del Vaticano to get another gelato and stay until the lights came on around Piazza San Pietro and in Basilica di San Pietro. It looks quite a bit different at night, but still impressive.
Eventually hopped on the metro to go back to the hotel for sleep.
Wednesday, 24 June - Another absolutely wonderful day. Decided it was time to get out of the city so we went to Ostia Antica today. Ostia (referring to the mouth {or ostium} of the Tiber river) was a great port for Roma and later a strategic centre for defence and trade. The main thoroughfare, the Decumanus Maximus, runs over 1km from the Porta Romana (the city's entrance) to the Porta Marina (the docks which originally led to the sea.) Going through it, you can clearly see the ruins of restaurants, laundries, shops, houses, public meeting places, baths, storage buildings, temples, etc. There's an amphitheater large enough to seat 3000 that is still in amazingly good shape (although there has obviously been some maintenance done on it.) You turn a corner and see the remnants of a fresco, climb a staircase and see a wonderful mosaic, glance to the side and see a fountain. It goes on for miles. We spent the entire day there before heading back into the city. Have I mentioned before how much walking we did while we were in Italia? Went back to our favourite little café for dinner then back to the hotel and sleep.
Thursday, 25 June - Our last day in Italia. Took this as our day to go out to the beach and dabble our toes in Mediterranean waters . Took the train out of the city to Lido di Ostia, one of the beaches closest to Roma. Beautiful turquoise water and fine sand as far as the eye can see. Spent a couple hours there, mostly just dozing in the sun, going into the water a bit (it was chilly though, never got in very far, mostly just waded a bit.) Were you aware that I'm a cat? I like nothing more than curling up in the sun soaking up the heat. However, we discovered on the way back to the city that we hadn't refreshed our sunscreen enough. I was, ummm, lemme see here … burned. Yeah, that might describe it. Burned. I looked like a lobster fresh out of the pot. RED was my skin. Ditto my daughter. For some reason, though, my mom didn't burn. Lucky her. It was Ouchie! Went back to the hotel for part of the afternoon, getting things packed up, checking on what souvenirs we still needed to pick up, etc. One more trip on the metro out to the gelateria, a little bit of shopping to get the last few things, then back to the hotel to get an early night's sleep since we needed to be up and out the door bright and early for our flight.
Friday, 26 June - Up at 8 am to do a final check of everything, make sure we haven't forgotten anything in the hotel room, snag a quick breakfast, then over to Termini to catch the train out to the airport. Get to the airport and check in by 11am for our flight at 2pm. Try to come up with something to do at the airport for a couple hours before we need to go to our boarding gate. The flight was an hour late leaving, but we must have had a good tail wind, since it only took us about nine hours flying time to get back (supposed to be a 10+ hr flight). Again, pretty smooth flight, food was a bit better this time. Was really odd to be in the air for 9 hours and have it only be 4 hrs later arriving than we were leaving. Flight left Roma, Italia at 3pm local time and arrived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 7pm local time. Yay time zone changes again. Met up with my dad, then the drive back home, another 5 hrs (we flew out of and into Toronto instead of Ottawa because it was much cheaper flights and was direct flights instead of stupid crazy layovers anywhere.) Finally get home between midnight and 1am local time, but body is positive that it's more like 6-7am. Drop a quick note to various people to let them know we're home safe and sound and fall into bed for a few hours.
Now it's three days later and I'm almost back on schedule well enough that I can finally get this typed up. I've come home with a sunburn, and blisters on the bottoms of my feet (literally) and it was worth every bit of it. I guess one of the things I learned the most from this trip is that opportunities to do something amazing like this don't come along all the time, so when they do, take advantage of them. Quoting again from the travel book:
So, do as the Romans do - seize the day by throwing yourself wholeheartedly into the life of the city. Walk the cobbled streets and teeming boulevards, drink too much coffee and wine, eat a surfeit of pasta and gelato, and shop the streets around the Piazza di Spagna till you drop. After all, that's what la dolce vita is all about.Carpe diem, meus amicitia, carpe diem! Seize the day, my friends, seize the day.
[Edit]: Yes, pictures will be coming, neither my mom nor my daughter have had an opportunity to get them downloaded from their cameras yet. Between them, they have something like 2k photos.
[Edit again]: Starting to get some pictures in place, anything underlined is a link. I'm frequently linking a single picture for any one place, but clicking on the link for the day will give you the full listing of all the pictures taken on that day in the various locations.
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Okay, when I went to Rome. I was there 3 days and it was amazing.
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Hehe, I remember my first trip to the US Appalachian mountains via I-40 and some side roads. Being my first trip not taken with parents (or anyone else), I had a similar experience of awe that you describe (natural waterfalls and snow were new to this southern Florida boy). I won't describe it though, because I don't want to hurt from the wrath of Cairenn .
Very glad to see you had a great time, I missed the catacombs and Vatican, but made to Mt V and a few of the isles (the seafood there is indescribable... oh my GOD). I also look for where the locals are when choosing a place to eat. Glad you're back though, things were falling apart at the seams .
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Bah, now you've made me want to ring the extended family in Italy and take a trip! *shakes fist* Of course, my Italian is terrible these days, so they would probably laugh at me
Sounds like you enjoyed the trip and it was a well-deserved break
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Grats on going to Italy!! That's one of my must-visit-before-I-die places. Thank you for sharing that, and welcome home!!
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I am glad you enjoyed your little trip to Roma. I have never to been to Rome (the airport that looks likes a shopping mall about to go out of business does not count). Funny enough, all of the flights I have ever caught out of Rome have been late. Must be an Italian thing.
Its extremely easy to get lost in any Italian (except Torino), however its also generally an excellent idea to get lost as least one day as you will stumble across the most amazing little gems (like the geletaria that Cairenn discovered). Looking for the little restaurants which are crowded with locals is the best bet for excellent food (this I have discovered in many cities).
Regarding the food, yah most of the stuff they call "Italian" food in the US is a ghost of what you will find here (Italy). Not only that, Italy is home to some excellent regional goodies that will never find it's way to the US. However I still miss my chilies (New Mexican to my very core here!).
I am glad to see that you did not attempt to take on the local drivers on their own turf! They all drive like they were competing in the Italian Gran Prix while the motorcyclists all want to be Valentino Rossi (complete with the number 46 decal on their Vespa or Ape).
If you ever come back and come up to Northern Italy, let me know! I will be happy to show you around Torino
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Okay, well, it has taken a while and I'm actually still working on them, but I finally have all (2230!) of the pictures uploaded. Currently I have them sorted by day and (where applicable) by location/site. I'm combing all the pictures taken by two different cameras, though, so they aren't all necessarily "in order" within any given section, and they all still need to be captioned with what/where yet, but they are there. You can see them all here.
As I get them further sorted, I'll get them linked to the appropriate places in the main post.
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When I think back to Christmas times of my youth, I recall the cookies my grandmother used to make. They were great! Now she wants to mass-produce the cookies and sell them. Unfortunately, the recipe has been lost. We remember all of the recipe except the "secret sauce" she added to the dough. The only thing we know is that the recipe called for 1 cup of secret sauce, which is a mixture of three ingredients, call them A, B, and C. But, as luck would have it, we forgot the proportion of the ingredients in the secret sauce. To have the optimal taste, the 1 cup worth of secret sauce has to be composed of the right proportions of the ingredients -- or else tragedy could result.
What can I do? I can run an experiment to study the "taste" of cookies made by sauce with varying proportions of the ingredients. This is a mixture experiment. Since the secret sauce is 1 cup, I know the ingredients have to add up to 1 cup. The factors in the experiment are the proportions of the ingredients, and the response is the goodness of the cookies.
Luckily, I have JMP 8. Below I use a ternary plot to show the design points of the mixture experiment.
The point in the middle corresponds to equal proportions of the three ingredients. In other words, the secret sauce is composed of 1/3 cup of each ingredient. The point to the lower left of the middle corresponds to the following proportions: 2/3 cup of A, 1/6 cup of B, and 1/6 cup of C. Points on the edges of the ternary plot correspond to secret sauce for which only two ingredients are used, and the proportion of the third ingredient is set to 0.
We proceed to make secret sauce and cookies corresponding to the design points of the experiment, and have people taste test the cookies. The cookies are ranked on a scale from 1 to 100, with 100 being the best cookie ever. Using the data from the experiment, we fit a model that predicts goodness (taste of cookie) as a function of the varying proportion of the ingredients. We can use this model to find the proportions of ingredients in the secret sauce that lead to the best tasting cookie. In other word, we can find the spot with a Taste value as close as possible to 100.
The data and model are found in Ingredient Data.jmp, and can be downloaded from JMP's file exchange. New to JMP 8 is the Mixture Profiler, which allows the user to interactively visualize a response surface for a model with mixture factors.
The platform generates a contour (the red line) plot. The value of Taste at the contour shown is 54.44. Any recipe with ingredient proportions that fall on that contour will produce cookies with average Taste value of 54.44. For example, I placed the three-way cross hairs on the contour. The ingredient proportions at that spot are read from the top of the window under Current X.
In this case, the values are 15% for ingredient A, 27.5% for ingredient B, and 57.5 % for ingredient C. Notice the proportions add to 1 as they should: 15% + 27.5% + 57.5% = 100%. The little dots running along the contour represent the direction of increasing Taste. I can't show you in a screenshot, but you can use the Response slider to move the contour to different parts of the response surface. Doing this allows you to locate the spot with a value of Taste as close to 100 as possible, which is what we want. To visualize many contours at once, we can add a contour grid to the plot, as shown below.
The three-way cross hairs can be used to investigate the value of Taste at various contours. I use the Response slider to study how the contours change as I move them, and as the dots show, the highest value of Taste occurs in the region of the center of the smallest contour.
As shown below, place the cross hairs in the middle of the contour and read the ingredient proportions from the top of the window. The ideal secret sauce (the one that yields the best tasting cookie) has the following proportions of the ingredients: 41% for A, 34% for B, and 25% for C.
Now that we know the best recipe for the cookies, we are ready mass-produce them and sell them. What price should we charge for a cookie? Stay tuned -- in my next blog post I will use JMP's Simulator to investigate what price I should charge for the cookies.
The functionality of the Mixture Profiler goes far beyond what I have shown here. Multiple responses can be contoured at once, and more than three ingredients can be investigated at the same time. Constraints can be added, so that unfeasible regions are identified on the plot.
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Constellation Brands's plan to sell its low-end wine business is finding lots of interested buyers and will let it focus on its Corona beer products and its investment in Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth—says Wells Fargo analyst Bonnie Herzog, in a note this morning. Herzog reiterated her Outperform rating for Constellation stock (ticker: STZ) and her price target of $235. In today's trading, the alcoholic beverage firm's stock is flat at $167.
"We remain bullish on premium beer," Herzog says in the note. "[Constellation] will continue to expand its share of market, unlike most of its peers whose market shares continue to languish/decelerate."
Five months after Constellation announced that it would "optimize" its wine business, by selling off its low-end brands, Herzog says the company has received greater interest than it expected. So Constellation may sell off more of its sub-$11 a bottle brands than expected—or around 40% of the profits of its wine and spirits segment.
While the divestiture will take about 60 cents a share in profits from Constellation, in the first year, Herzog believes the company's revenue growth will speed up. So will the growth of its operating profits, because the departure of lower-profit wine brands will lift Constellation's operating profit margin by 5 percentage points, to more than 36%.
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In a world obsessed with healthy eating, it can be a tall order to figure out which food claims are real and which are false. It seems more and more that are people becoming immediately convinced that if a new food trend emerges, it must be true.
With that in mind, here's the skinny on a few of the most popular food myths.
Myth: Fat and Sugar will Both Cause Weight Gain
In actuality, there are numerous types of good fats that your body needs to be healthy. And contrary to popular opinion, they won't lead to weight gain. The reason most people believe eating fat will lead to a big belly is because the fatty things they're eating are also loaded up with sugar - the real cause of most weight gain.
Many fast food franchises routinely load up their products with sugar. Any time you go to a fast-food chain and order a burger (or any item containing a wheat-based product for that matter) chances are the bun has been baked with some degree of sugar.
When the body processes fat, the fat you eat is converted into energy for later use. Your body knows how to deal with and store it for later use. Of course, if that energy isn't used it will be stored in fatty deposits, but fat-energy is readily burned off by even minor exercise.
Sugar contains far more calories than fat, and refined sugar specifically carries no nutritional value. It gives you far more energy than you need, which results in fatty deposits far greater than what fat would otherwise provide to you.
Fact: Not All Carbs are Created Equal
Just like fats, there are good and bad kinds of carbohydrates. Refined carbs are bad, and are found in processed foods like white bread, sweets, and soda. Good carbs are found in fruits and vegetables.
The key is to diversify your diet. Include a varied regimen because consuming any one type of carbohydrate in too great a quantity can, in fact, lead to weight gain. A healthy diet's foundation is comprised of healthy carbs, protein, and fat.
Myth: You Should Always Eat Breakfast
The truth of the matter is that some people just don't have an appetite when they first wake up. The reason a lot of people swear by always eating breakfast is that they feel they overeat later in the day as a consequence.
If you're the type of person who isn't hungry in the morning, but also doesn't want to overeat later in the day, simply have a small meal mid-morning to curb your cravings. This will prevent eating large portions later on and help you keep your weight under control.
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Many people have believed for years that eggs are bad for your heart. Well, in reality, eggs have little to no impact on raising cholesterol. In truth, eating fast food, hydrogenated fats and commercial baked goods, along with genetics, contribute far more to arterial plaque build-up.
It has been proved that most healthy people can eat 1 to 2 eggs a day with absolutely zero negative consequences.
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It can be tempting to believe all the latest food fads. But like with all things, it behooves you to always do your research if you're unsure about the facts.
There's a lot of misinformation out there, and the celebrities who often swear by the latest trend may not have the scientific data to back up their claims.
The most important decision anyone can make about their nutrition is to eat a healthy diet they can sustain. It does you no good to eat a diet that keeps you hungry and makes you miserable.
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Researchers have found a gigantic cloud of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around younger galaxies utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). That is the first confirmation that carbon atoms produced inside stars within the early universe have spread beyond galaxies. No theoretical research has predicted such large carbon cocoons around rising galaxies, which raises questions on our current understanding of cosmic evolution.
Heavy elements such as carbon and oxygen didn't exist within the universe at the time of the Big Bang. They had been formed later by nuclear fusion in stars. Nevertheless, it isn't but understood how these elements spread all through the universe. Astronomers have discovered heavy components inside baby galaxies; however, not past these galaxies, as a result of the limited sensitivity of their telescopes. This research group summed the faint alerts saved within the information archive and pushed the limits.
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Brights.. Neons… Its everything but what some may call TOO LOUD! Its geeenius!
Orange, Red, turquoise, Green, Pink etc. every mind boggling colour of the rainbow that pops out at you is A BRIGHT TREND!
How effortless is this?
I love Bright's because it warms up all skin tones.. When you see it, it automatically makes you think of warmth and lots of youthful energy.. and there is no better way to play with proportions on the body than with bold COLOUR!
So… I put together a few pieces from some of our favourite high street stores and created some 'ready to wear' outfits for this fashion trend..
I absolutely LOOOVE this look. Not only will you be on trend wearing this skin warming turquoise, but Fringe is carrying on into this years Spring Summer Season trends with a vengeance! *crowd of ladies cheer*.
Lets not forget by pairing this hot dress with a pair of wedges, again is another trend which is carrying into this SS2011 season.
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My original thread about this was locked with no reason, and after multiple Cox technicians and calls I am still receiving extremely bad packet loss on the upload side only. Mainly to games that use Amazon AWS servers. Anybody from Cox or community members able to help me?
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Hello, I have been a Cox Customer for 17 years and a few years ago I started having very bad packet loss issues. I have spent hundreds of hours trying to fix this issue but it still happens even years later. I am only receiving packet loss (upload), 0% download packet loss. I am receiving low ping (for the most part) (30-40ms) and high packet loss (10-120%) in games such as Fortnite, Overwatch, Rocket league and more. It is happening on my PC & PS4. I have tried pretty much every solution you can think of.
(I am hardwired directly to the modem with Ethernet as well)
This is a Cox issue as I used a TMobile hotspot and received 0% packet loss so it can't be anything on my end. At least I don't think so.
Perhaps you could try running a traceroute to the IP of the server. Then, with that information returned from the trace route, start pinging the closest hop with about 100 pings using 512-byte packets and then continue to the next hop, etc until you start to see packet loss. Maybe, this could help to identify where the bottleneck is. Good luck.
Amazon Web Services servers don't return ping requests due to them blocking ICMP packets to prevent DDoS attacks, so that testing is unreliable. COX denies that this is their problem because there is no packet loss up to the point of the Phoenix server, 184.108.40.206. The packet loss occurs somewhere after that point. But this happens to so many COX customers in the Southwest, and has been happening to me for nearly a year. From my limited knowledge, I have to say that the "routing tables," or whatever controls the path our connections take to these AWS servers, is completely messed up.
Yes, I wouldn't be at all surprised that ICMP requests are blocked from the AWS Servers for the very reason you mentioned. However, that doesn't negate the validity of isolating the point of network congestion which likely occurs en route to the servers (i.e. Level 3 backbone). Hence, my suggestion for performing a traceroute, then perform pings to the visible hops seems feasible in trying to get a handle on where the packet loss seems to be occurring. Would you not agree?
With enough people performing this type of testing, a consensus could likely be formed as to the point(s) of failure. For example, is the bottleneck between the Cox backbone and the Internet backbone or is the problem somewhere out on the Internet backbone (i.e. Level 3)? I hope I'm making sense.
Going to be honest, not really sure what you guys are talking about since I am not a networking genius but I have tried I feel like everything in the book. Here is a tracert to Amazon AWS servers though (Fortnite) - https://imgur.com/0h1rSqE
The last COX technician I had out suggested that I get in contact with Amazon Web Services after replacing my line had no effect on the packet loss. I paid AWS $30 to access their tech support, but they ended up being no help either and said that my ping tests didn't show where the problem was occuring. Here is a PingPlotter test from today, https://imgur.com/a/0zZasP3 . Taking it at face value, I thought something was happening before hop 9, 188.8.131.52. When I told that to AWS support, they said that they couldn't help me any further.
Based on the traceroutes and ping results, both of you provided, it appears that Cox is peering directly with Amazon. Therefore, the issue likely lies with Cox and/or Amazon.
SilverApple42, are you indicating that you have enough speed through your T-Mobile hotspot to play these online games without issue? If so, would you share the traceroute when using the hotspot?


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It is Saturday and I have broken nearly every rule in the book. My book. My book of rules, that is. I have one of those, a rule book. Do you? I have actually written down rules in a journal. Occasionally I add a new rule or rewrite a rule, out of necessity, but I do have a written set of rules to help me keep on track in a manner that boosts my self-confidence, self-esteem and general contentment. I hate it when I break rules, especially since I haven't really thought of a way to punish myself. Self discipline is not my strong suit, in more ways than one.
It is approaching noon and my bed is unmade. I always, always, always make my bed the instant I slip out from the comfort of the covers. Even when staying at a hotel. Unmade beds disturb me and I can't really explain why. My mom is a nurse, trained by the military. Perhaps that has something to do with it. I know how to do "hospital corners" on my flat sheet.
I came downstairs in my pajamas which consist of very large, baggy Victoria's Secret sweat pants and my boyfriend's "Silver Gulch Brewery" thermal, which I wear every, single night, no matter what, unless he is visiting, in which case I select something else from my VS collection. I never come downstairs in my pajamas, and if I do, it is only to perform a quick task and once said task is complete, I dash upstairs and get ready for the day. Shower. Dress. Etc. I am, in fact, still in my pajamas. Ew.
I had two pieces of toast with breakfast. To my credit, they were made from flour-less, sprouted whole grain bread, but two pieces is my weekly allotment of bread.
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I have no plan for my day. I always have more planned than I can accomplish in any day. Perhaps that is why I have been lackadaisical with my rules this morning.
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I didn't get enough sleep. As usual. Even though I could barely keep my eyes open after my VERY LARGE stout, I found some mundane chore that just had to be completed before going to sleep. I set up and configured my new router. Another day without wifi was something I was simply not willing to endure. I probably slept better knowing wifi in the morning was a certainty.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurodegenerative Diseases:
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Job Description: NIH funded postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Benjamin Wolozin to study the molecular basis of neurodegenerative disease. The laboratory investigates the role of RNA binding proteins in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson disease. In collaboration with Andrew Emili, we are also extending our work to include characterization of proteomic networks in neurodegenerative disease. The laboratory also has funded projects developing human organoid models of neurodegenerative disease, and in biomedical engineering, creating synthetic biology tools to treat neurodegenerative disease.
Current studies characterize the protein interaction and RNA interaction networks of RNA granules and pathological complexes (e.g., tau, TIA1, TDP-43). An important goal is to understand how the complexes change with disease, identify which are the crucial modulators of each type of complex, and identify methods of intervention to normalize the disease-related changes of these complexes.
Upon joining my laboratory, the postdoctoral candidate will focus on studies of neurodegenerative disease, ranging from in vitro studies of liquid-liquid phase separation, to analysis of splicing and translation, to investigation of animal or human (iPSC/organoid) models of disease. Approaches utilize live imaging, proteomics, systems biology, viruses and synthetic biology. Recent studies demonstrate that reducing the RNA binding protein TIA1 delays progression in a mouse model of tauopathy (Apicco, et al, Nature Neuro., 2018, 21(1):72-80, PMID: 29273772; Jiang et al, Acta Neuropath. 2019, 137(2):259-77. PMID 30465259).
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"The economic benefits of rapid globalization are asymmetrica large number of people find that they cannot access these benefits while a small number are able to," Prahalad says. "Over 5 billion people are seeking access to the benefits of globalization both as micro-consumers and micro-producers."
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In his groundbreaking 2004 book, "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits," Prahalad contends that private sector businesses can help alleviate poverty and, at the same time, make a profit by turning the poor into consumers and developing viable markets for innovative products and services in under-served and long-neglected areas.
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YORK, Pa. (WPMT) -- Between May 2017 and August 2018, Children & Youth Services in Pennsylvania received several reports of inadequate food and clothing, inadequate hygiene, homelessness, inappropriate caregivers, and inappropriate discipline regarding the care of a 2-year-old boy killed last year in York, according to a summary of child fatalities and near-fatalities from 2018 released by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services on Tuesday.
Dante Mullinix died on Sept. 14, 2018, at Hershey Medical Center, eight days after being transferred there from York Hospital, where he was dropped off by Tyree Bowie on Sept. 7.
Bowie, 40, is charged with criminal homicide in the child's death.
According to the criminal complaint, Bowie allegedly admitted to police on September 7 he was the one person caring for the boy when he stopped breathing, adding that he fed Dante animal crackers in the area of the 700 block of North George Street and noticed the child was not breathing as he approached the area of South George and East Maple Street. That's when Bowie rushed the boy to the hospital.
Dante Mullinix's mother Leah Mullinix is charged with endangering the welfare of a child in the case.
Leah spoke with FOX43 on September 18, 2018. She told FOX43 that she left Dante with a babysitter, Bowie, because she had a migraine and was going to the emergency room. Leah said that at the time she was dropped off, her child was fine, FaceTiming him around 9 p.m. on September 6.
"And then he FaceTimed me again after 10 p.m., flipping out saying, 'He's not breathing, he's not breathing,' and then I was just like, 'Call the ambulance, bring him to the hospital or something because my son needs medical attention.' I told him that multiple times and then he finally brought him in. My son was completely limp, he gave him to a nurse, and then he took off," Leah told FOX43.
At the time of his death, Dante reportedly had bruises all over his body, bleeding on the brain, and a compressed neck.
Bowie is being held without bail in York County Prison. He's expected back in court on June 13.
Leah Mullinex waived a preliminary hearing in January.
MORE: Children & Youth Services received multiple reports on Dante Mullinex in the months before his death, DHS report says - WPMT