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Book Reading & Discussion: Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians, by Ilan Pappé
Fri, December 10, 2010 7:00 pm at Alwan for the Arts
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Described by a UN fact-finding mission as "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population," Israel's Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict. Ilan Pappé surveys the fallout from Israel's conduct in Gaza and places it in the context of Israel's longstanding occupation of Palestine.
Ilan Pappé is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, and director of the Palestine Studies Centre. He is author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), and is a long time political activist.
"Ilan Pappé is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian." - John Pilger
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Sing for No Reason - A magical solo acapella musical memoir!
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Ten applicants will be selected to "pitch" their new work to more than 400 performing arts professionals from over 50 countries at the New York 2017 ISPA Congress. Participants will have seven minutes to present their new work and three minutes to answer delegate questions, facilitated by the host. After the session, participants have the opportunity to interact with delegates during ProEx (Professional Exchange), ISPA's informal networking session where interested parties can inquire about providing project support, premiere dates, touring opportunities, etc. Those interested in presenting a new project to an international delegation of performing arts industry professionals should consider Pitch New Works. Projects vary in discipline, scale, and country of origin.
A proposed project must:
• Be in development with the premiere planned within the next two years; or
• Have recently premiered and has not yet toured outside its region of origin.
Other considerations include:
• Generally, projects that premiered more than three years prior to the date of the Pitch New Works session will not be considered.
• Multidisciplinary and/or cross-cultural projects are particularly attractive to ISPA delegates, though all project types and applications will be considered.
• Submissions from the canon and/or remounts will be considered where there is evidence of a substantially new interpretation and a new production team.
Applicants do not need to be ISPA members (50 USD non-member application fee applies).
Applications will be reviewed by a committee of ISPA members chaired by ISPA Board Member, Piotr Turkiewicz (National Forum of Music, Poland).
Pitch New Works will be held at the Times Center in New York on January 11, 2017.
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Nettle Syrup, A Spring Blessing
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Living a Mythic Life in the Modern Age
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Wood Avens, a rather forgotten herb. Continue reading Working with Wood Avens
Late October and the hedgerows are still packed full of hawthorn berries. There's only so much hawthorn syrup or brandy … Continue reading Hawthorn and Apple Ketchup
The beginnings of in depth work with Mugwort. Continue reading Local Enchantment – Mugwort
Making infused oils with two methods. Continue reading Experiments with Oil Infusing
Dandelion flowers can be used as well! Jellies, jams, wines, meads and balms! 😀 Oh and pesto, let's not forget pesto… Continue reading Dandelion Flower Balm for Sore Muscles
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Wisdom 6:1-11 & Lk. 17:11-19
All authority comes from God. All men and women who wield it will one day stand before His throne and account for how they used the authority He gave them. Parents and priests, bosses and even babysitters will have to answer on how they behaved. The more important their role, the tougher will be the questions they have to face. Popes, bishops, kings and presidents will have to face "a strict scrutiny before the Judge of all." (Wis. 6:8).
Most of us have relatively small spheres of influence. So should we thank our lucky stars? No! It would be far better if we dropped on our knees and prayed for our leaders. They face immense burdens! Consider politicians. God requires them to exercise their authority justly and impartially, upholding the law. In effect they have a parent's job, magnified thousands of times over.
As if their responsibilities were not enough, our spiritual and political leaders face a fierce onslaught from Satan as well. He knows how much control and influence they have. He wants power to go to their heads so that they make the wrong decisions and fail. He knows by influencing them he can lead whole nations astray. Consider Pontius Pilate and King Herod. Each could have made choices that would have made them great in God's kingdom. Instead, they became pawns of an enemy who hated God. Surely, we don't want our leaders to take that route!
So we must pray that our leaders do their job well. May they be good shepherds. May they be given the wisdom of Solomon and the patience of Job.
I am convinced that the ungrateful person would never dream of hurting their benefactor. Yet their very failure to express their thanks does hurt. We have a perfect example of this in the Gospel story of the ten lepers. When Jesus cured them only one came back to say his thanks. We can see how hurt Jesus was. For Our Lord said to him, "Were not ten made clean? Where are the other nine?"
If at this moment we could bring each of those ungrateful lepers, one by one, into this Church and tell them how they hurt Our Lord for their failure to say thank you, I am sure each one of them would protest. One might say, 'You haven't a clue about leprosy – Jesus restored my hand where there was just a stump.' Another might ask, "Do you see my nose? There was just a hole in my face until Jesus gave me back my nose.' A third could add, 'We were social outcasts. We could not live with our families. We had to give up work. We were denied the synagogue. We were as good as dead men. Jesus changed all that. He gave us a new lease of life. How could we ever want to hurt Him for all He had done to us?'
Yet their failure to thank Him did hurt Him. Jesus said to the one who returned, "Your faith has saved you." His generosity was rewarded. Those nine who failed to thank Him lost that reward.
It is interesting to note that in our language how similar are the two words think and thank. It is the person who thinks is the one who thanks.
Lord, we pray for all in high places who exercise authority. May they exercise it to the best of their ability. Let Your kingdom come through those You establish as rulers. Lord Jesus, may we always be grateful to You for all Your many kindnesses to us.


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Spotlight on, October 2015
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL)
Fitzroy, Victoria: the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL) is located in the heart of Fitzroy, 2km north-east of the central business district of Melbourne. This highly successful corporation has devoted itself to addressing the loss of Aboriginal languages throughout Victoria. They are addressing the question of language when it starts to matter—at an early age.
Education and language are the glue needed to maintain, revive and reclaim culture.
A sense of history and how it informs the present is an important element when working with the live form of language.
At the time of colonisation, there were approximately 250 Indigenous languages with about 500 varieties spoken across Australia. It was possible for people to identify what region a person came from by the way they spoke.
The boundaries between one language area and another are not distinct. Rather, mixtures of vocabulary and grammatical construction exist, and so linguistic maps may show some variation about where one language ends and another begins.
VACL map
Reproduced courtesy of VACL
But now, many Indigenous languages in Australia are fast disappearing. More than three-quarters of the original languages have already been lost and the rest remain under threat.
It is therefore heartening that there has been an increased awareness and interest in recent years in the Aboriginal languages of the south-eastern corner of Australia, and VACL is leading the way in Victoria.
Language contributes to the wellbeing of Aboriginal communities, strengthens ties between elders and young people and improves the general education of Indigenous people of all ages.
Knowing a word in language helps to maintain a link that has lasted thousands of years and keeping words alive that have been used by ancestors.
Language is an ancestral right and a part of culture—it is a means of empowering people.
Education and language going hand-in-hand
Education and language cannot be separated. That is the basis that drives VACL.
Well aware of the importance of language to express identity and pride, VACL is supporting communities throughout Victoria to revive their languages through language camps, workshops, music, dictionaries, school programs and educational material for children.
The key aim of VACL is to provide and maintain a central resource for Victorian Aboriginal Languages for the benefit of Victorian Aboriginal communities and people of Victorian Aboriginal descent. VACL does this by researching and retrieving language materials from Victorian and interstate archives, so the material can be made available to local communities and by providing advice, training and assistance to local Aboriginal community programs.
The VACL board and community members, L to R: Christina Eira, Lee Healy, Paul Paton, Aunty Doris Paton, Vicki Couzens, Aunty Fay Stewart-Muir, Bruce Pascoe, Aunty Rachel Mullett, Tom Kinchela, Uncle Herb Patten, Uncle David Tournier, Uncle Sandy Atkinson, Myranda Tournier (Photo: VACL)
Starting young
One VACL project, undertaken in partnership with the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Incorporated (VAEAI), traditional owner groups and three schools, is currently teaching Aboriginal languages as part of a Victorian schools pilot. The pilot uses innovative digital audio-visual resources to support language activities at these schools.
On 7 May 2014, Swan Hill Primary School became the most recent school to take part in the pilot trial to introduce Aboriginal languages in Victorian schools (Photo: VACL)
Gunditjmara languages program at Heywood and District Secondary College, Year 7 and 8 (Photo: VACL)
Then there is also the Yirruk-Tinnor Gunnai/Kŭrnai language program that has been running for almost 20 years. Regaining the Gunnai/Kŭrnai language of Gippsland has been a highly successful project.
The next stage of this exciting project has been to translate books fully into the Gunnai/Kŭrnai language. This has involved extensive narrative recordings and the further development of illustrations to include animation and interactive imagery. The books are presented in both English and Gunnai/Kŭrnai allowing users to swap between languages. Users are able to record their own narration and add this to the resource, which can be played back at any time. The books are now available on the App Store for downloading by any person or school.
Illustrations featured in Woiwurrung language apps, created by Thornbury Primary School students involved in one of VACL's language projects (reproduced courtesy of VACL)


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And, by Liberals I of course include the media. When George W. Bush was president, deficits mattered, and to be fair there was too much spending under W, but since Obama
assumed his throne, I mean was elected President, Liberals have a fever. A fever which only can be cured by more spending apparently. Deficits? Find a Liberal that takes them seriously, no matter how massive those deficits are
Via CNS News:
The Congressional Budget Office last week released updated historical budget data for the federal government, reporting a deficit of $1.087 trillion in fiscal 2012.
2012 marked the fourth straight year—and the only four years in the history of the nation–when the federal government's deficit topped $1 trillion.
Last year's $1.087 trillion deficit was even greater in inflation-adjusted dollars than the peak World War II deficit of fiscal 1943—which was $54.554 billion in 1943 dollars and $723.8714 billion in 2012 dollars, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics online inflation calculator.


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2017 is almost gone and we welcome 2018! 2017 turned out to be a filled with bigger surprises than expected. With the election of President Donald J. Trump, we all knew it would change our lives, economy and the way the world operated on a daily basis but I don't think many expected […]Continue Reading →
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Varieties of Basic Income: The Political Economy of Universalism in European Welfare States
Jurgen De Wispelaere is a former occupational therapist turned political theorist and policy scholar. He is an ISRF Political Economy Research Fellow and a Policy Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (University of Bath). In 2016 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tampere (Finland), and in this capacity formed part of the Kela-led research team preparing the upcoming national basic income experiment in Finland. Before that he worked at universities in Montreal, Barcelona, Dublin and London and was a visiting researcher at Oxford, ANU, UCLouvain, amongst others.
His major research interest is the political analysis of basic income, which was the topic of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Tampere. The current ISRF project is an extension of this research agenda. Jurgen De Wispelaere has published extensively on basic income in leading international journals, including most recently Journal of Social Policy, Journal of Public Policy, Politics, Political Studies, International Social Security Review and Social Service Review, as well as specialist edited volumes. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Basic Income Studies and recently co-edited Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research (Wiley 2013). In addition to basic income, he is interested in disability rights, organ donation, and adoption and has published on all these topics.
Jurgen De Wispelaere was the co-convenor of the 2014 BIEN Congress in Montreal. He is a big fan of death metal and believes a basic income would provide much needed support for the underground music scene.
While in recent years basic income has evolved from a marginal policy idea to a serious item on the policy agenda, there is surprisingly little engagement with questions of how to integrate universal and unconditional basic income schemes into the existing institutional configuration of the developed welfare state. In this project I adopt a political economy approach to analyse what I term the "varieties of basic income": distinctive basic income models that can be mapped onto the specific features of types of welfare states. The project involves both a systematic review of basic income models and welfare regimes, and several empirical projects focused on the political support of political parties and key stakeholders in Finland (where basic income is scheduled to be trialled in January 2017). The importance of this project is to refocus scholarly attention from philosophical and economic debates about the desirability and feasibility of basic income, to its political feasibility — with specific focus on examining the prospects for building a robust basic income constituency, a stable enacting coalition of political actors, and the goodness-of-fit of specific basic income proposals within the institutional configuration of mature welfare states.
The Research Idea
The main thesis of the proposed project is that basic income is not a single idea, but instead should be regarded as a family of concrete proposals that share important characteristics but also differ in important respects. The basic income idea, thus conceived, allows for considerable variation at the level of policy design and implementation.In contrast to those scholars who argue that basic income can easily reach supporters across the ideological and political divides, I maintain that basic income instead faces important challenges building a robust basic income constituency. Adopting a political economy perspective, I argue it is insufficient to focus on the policy category of "beneficiaries" and that we need to focus on the political category of "constituency". Relatedly, basic income research needs to engage directly with the extensive political science literature on coalition-building in policy development to better understand the conditions under which a stable basic income coalition may emerge.This project moves the analysis a step further by engaging with questions about the institutional configuration of welfare states in Europe. There exists an extensive debate in comparative political science and social policy concerning the developmental trajectories of European welfare states against the background of permanent austerity. I propose that basic income research engages with this scholarship by examining how basic income would fit within the policy constellations of different types of welfare state. Adopting a "varieties of basic income" approach allows us to analyze how different basic income models map onto different welfare regimes.
In recent years basic income has evolved from a marginal policy idea to something being seriously entertained by a variety of policy entrepreneurs, stakeholders and decision-makers. However, while much scholarly effort has examined the philosophical foundations of the basic income ideal or its economic feasibility (in a narrow sense), there is surprisingly little engagement with questions of how to integrate universal and unconditional basic income schemes into the existing institutional configuration of the developed welfare state.Existing research often considers basic income as a radical alternative to current social assistance or social insurance schemes, entirely eschewing concerns of political feasibility or implementation. By contract, those scholars who have devoted themselves to taking a pragmatic approach concentrate on the micro-simulation of detailed schemes. While these exercises offer important information on the cost and benefits of various alternative proposals, the results are necessarily static and thus fail to account for dynamic effects. Equally important, micro-simulation studies tell us nothing about the numerous implementation challenges associated with introducing basic income in conjunction with preexisting policies and programs. Finally, current studies fail to engage with questions of political feasibility that are central in political economy, including how to secure the broad public support of a robust basic income constituency and build a stable enacting coalitions between key stakeholders.My research project, which builds on previous work I have carried out in this field, aims to put these key questions central.
The Focus
The proposed project contributes to the political feasibility of basic income as it slowly moves up on the policy agenda. I believe a refocusing of scholarly efforts to a political economy analysis of basic income is a necessary condition for understanding this recent development, and to assist a variety of stakeholders and "basic income policy entrepreneurs" in moving their proposals further along the policy agenda. In this respect, I see this project having direct policy application.In addition, however, the project offers a major contribution to the understanding of mature welfare state development. Welfare state research has operated for several decades under conditions of "permanent austerity", but the recent austerity push following the 2008 financial crisis has put the traditional programs of the welfare state under extra strain. The fact that basic income is being pushed as a solution to current pressures of welfare programs by both anti-austerity social movements (e.g., 15M in Spain) and austerity-promoting governments (e.g., Finland) is a fascinating (even bizarre) fact in need of explanation. My proposed focus on the varieties of basic income — focusing on internal divisions and their mapping onto competing ideological orientations, party strategies and institutional configurations — offers a conceptual tool for analyzing this paradoxical observation.
Theoretical Novelty
Three conceptual and theoretical innovations set apart the proposed project from existing research:1) "Basic income as idea vs. basic income as policy":Where much analysis remains stuck at the level of thinking of basic income as a novel idea, my approach will be to open this "black box" and focus on the detailed policy features of specific basic income models. This will include obvious features such as the level of the basic income or whether it will replace certain social assistance programs, but
1) "Basic income as idea vs. basic income as policy": Where much analysis remains stuck at the level of thinking of basic income as a novel idea, my approach will be to open this "black box" and focus on the detailed policy features of specific basic income models. This will include obvious features such as the level of the basic income or whether it will replace certain social assistance programs, but equally dimensions that only emerge in implementation analysis.
2) "Basic income constituencies": Basic income research focuses on the policy category of "beneficiaries", where the implicit assumption is that those who benefit from a basic income would also support instituting a basic income or ensure its stability over time. My innovations is to dispute this assumption and instead focus on the political category of a constituency, understood as that part of the general public which a) objectively and b) subjectively benefits from a basic income, and that is c) willing and d) able to spend political resources to supporting basic income.
3) "Varieties of basic income": This is a novel concept that plays a central role in the proposed project and involves mapping the design features of basic income models onto the specific properties of welfare regime types. The assumption is that the idea of basic income allows for "policy translation" to welfare states that embrace contrasting trajectories of development, with important political effects.
This project adopts a broad political economy approach and engages with debates in political philosophy, sociology, political science, and comparative social policy. A key part of the project is to build the framework for analysis — theory building and hypothesis-building — by systematically analysing the detailed features of basic income models and mapping them onto different types of welfare states, examining the goodness-of-fit of models and institutional configuration.In addition, I will engage in empirical research focused on the political support for basic income in Finland, which plans the first national-level basic income experiment for January 2017. One project with Johanna Perkio (Tampere University) and Rolle Alho (Helsinki University) employs survey methodology and interviews to examine the views of the Finnish trade unions about basic income. Another project, with Johanna Perkio and Lindsay Stirton (Sussex University) is to compare basic income support of Finnish political parties over the last 25 years, using Bayesian item response modelling of political documents (parliamentary questions, campaign statements, etc). Finally, as both Finland and the Netherlands will be conducting a basic income pilot in the beginning of 2017, this offers a unique opportunity for comparative research. I have had some preliminary meetings with leading Dutch scholars Loek Groot (Utrecht University) and Ruud Muffels (Tilburg University) and Finnish colleagues (including Olli Kangas of Kela, who coordinates the Finnish basic income experiment). The empirical research will test the validity of the main theoretical and conceptual innovations underlying this project.
Work Plan
This project involves both a systematic review of basic income models and (comparative) welfare state research and several sub-projects in collaboration with colleagues in Finland and UK. Outputs include 4 articles, detailed below.
1. Article A: "Systematic Review": review will take up to six months (keeping in mind interruptions for the projects outlined below) ;draft paper written by the summer to present at conferences; revision and write up October-December 2017.
2. Article B: "Basic Income Constituency": examining the hurdles to move basic income beneficiaries into a political constituency; January-March writing a first draft of this article, aimed at presenting at conferences in April-May and subsequent journal submission.
3. Article C: "Survey/Interview of Finnish Trade-unions" (with Perkio/ Alho): We have already started designing the survey, which we hope to send out in January 2017 (start of the basic income experiment) to 80 trade unions; responses will be analysed in March 2017 and follow- up interviews scheduled for the next two months; final analysis and write-up over summer.
4. Article D: "Modelling of Political Support, Finland 1979-2016" (with Perkio/Stirton): Data gathering has started but coding will continue until February 2017; provisional model is running but needs adapting with new data; analysis of data in February-April; write up over summer and revisions following conference presentations in October. Dr. Louise Haagh (York University) and I have submitted a proposal for a special issue of Journal of European Social Policy on basic income, which might feature article A.
While primary outputs of this project will be academic presentations and several planned articles, I am also working on a book manuscript on the politics of basic income with Prof. Lindsay Stirton, and the findings of this project would be integrated in this book.In the longer run I want to set up a Europe-wide network of basic income and welfare state studies scholars interested in examining the political economy of basic income. The aim of this network would be to engage in collaborative research across several European jurisdictions, with specific focus on a) detailed analysis of the scope for inserting basic income policies, b) analysis of public support for basic income within and across different countries (standardized survey design), c) political analysis of basic income support trajectories over time of both political parties and key stakeholders and d) detailed analysis of policy cases (e.g., pilot studies in Finland and Netherlands). I have already established important contacts with leading scholars in Finland, Netherlands, UK and Spain, and this fellowship would allow me the opportunity to build up a proper network aimed as well as preparing future network funding applications.


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Histologic:Chapter 12
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Gallbladder
The liver functions as a vast biosynthetic chemical factory, synthesizing large complex molecules from substances brought to it in the blood, particularly substances recently absorbed by the intestine and transported by the portal blood system. All of the biochemical functions of the liver are carried out by the epithelial parenchymal cells of the liver, the hepatocytes. Hepatocytes are responsible for bile synthesis and secretion, excretion of bilirubin, protein carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, storage (vitamins A, D and B12 and iron as ferritin), and conjugation and elimination of metabolites and toxins.
In man the liver consists of 4 lobes. From the surface the right and left lobes are visible and from the visceral surface the caudate and quadrate lobes can be seen. The liver has a fibrous connective tissue covering called the capsule of Glisson. A serosa (= visceral peritoneum) covers the capsule of Glisson in most areas.
The classical hepatic lobule consists of liver parenchyma and anastomosing blood channels, the hepatic sinusoids. The lobules are prismatic or cylindrical in shape, irregularly arranged or distributed throughout the liver, and are about 1 mm wide by 2 mm long. The axis of a lobule is a central vein that receives blood from the hepatic sinusoids and drains into a sublobular vein. The parenchyma of the lobule is organized as broad sheets or plates of cells forming hepatic laminae arranged in a radiating fashion around the central vein like spokes of a wheel. The hepatic sinusoids are irregular blood channels that receive blood from the periphery of a lobule and transport it to the central vein. They separate the hepatic laminae from each other so that one or more surfaces of each hepatocyte are adjacent to a sinusoid.
Blood Supply to a Lobule[edit]
At the periphery of the lobules, in the angles between 2 or 3 adjacent lobules, lie the interlobular septa or portal canals consisting of connective tissue, and containing a branch of the hepatic artery, a branch of the portal vein, a small bile duct, a lymphatic vessel and small nerves. The blood that enters a lobule is supplied from the vessels in the portal system. Both venous and arterial blood enters a lobule. The venous blood enters the sinusoids directly from the smallest branches of the portal vein. Only a small volume of arterial blood enters the sinusoids directly from the smallest branches of the hepatic artery. Most of the arterial blood goes through a capillary bed to enter the small branches of the portal vein before going on to the sinusoids. Blood in the sinusoids "bathes" the hepatocytes before passing into the central vein from which it flows into a sublobular (intercalated) vein. Sublobular veins progressively unite to form the collecting veins that progressively join to form the hepatic veins. Two or more hepatic veins empty directly into the inferior vena cava.
Other details of the liver are given below in conjunction with the microscopic study of the tissue.
Slide 147 Liver, (pig, PASH)[edit]
Scan slide 147 to see how well the lobules are delineated in contrast to the lobular appearance in man. A connective tissue investment surrounds each lobule of the pig liver whereas in man it is much more difficult to see the boundaries of the lobules.
- Find a portal canal in the angles between lobules and identify the "portal triad" i.e., branches of the portal vein, the hepatic artery, and the bile duct. Find a lobule clearly showing the central vein cut in cross section. Under high power observe how the sinusoids are radially arranged around the central vein.
- The hepatic laminae are separated from one another by the sinusoids. The most peripheral lamina or plate of hepatocytes of a lobule is referred to as the limiting lamina.
- Scan the slide with low power to find a lobule in which the central vein is cut in longitudinal section. In such a lobule one can see that the central vein is confluent with a larger vein, the sublobular vein (intercalated vein). Progressive uniting of sublobular veins forms the branches of the hepatic veins. Two or more hepatic veins empty directly into the inferior vena cava.
- The red granulation in the hepatocytes is apparently stored glycogen stained by PAS. Is the glycogen more prevalent in the center or towards the periphery of the lobules, or is there any difference in its distribution?
Slide 152 Liver and Gallbladder and Slide 149 Liver, (H&E)[edit]
The lobules of human liver are not nearly as well defined as in the pig, and it may be difficult to distinguish one clearly. A lobule of the liver contains a central vein as its axis and several portal canals at its periphery. The portal canals are interlobular in position. Find a central vein and follow the sinusoids which radiate from it (actually to it) to the periphery of the lobule. The branching and anastomosing hepatic laminae intervene between the sinusoids.
- Locate a portal canal at the periphery of the lobule and examine its structures. These interlobular areas are not nearly as well defined in human liver as in the pig liver that you have already studied. Identify the branches of the hepatic artery and the portal vein, which is usually the largest structure, found here. The bile duct is lined by low cuboidal to low columnar cells. Small lymphatic vessels are also present. These can probably be identified in the large portal canals. On this slide, the major structures in some of the portal canals may be slightly "unorganized" as a result of postmortem change and histological preparation. The connective tissue in some of the portal areas is slightly infiltrated with lymphocytes.
- In looking over this slide, note that there are blood vessels larger than the central veins coursing independently of the portal canals. The smaller of these are the sublobular veins (= collecting veins; intercalated veins) and the larger are branches of the hepatic vein.
Examine a number of hepatocytes, some of which will be binucleate. The vesicular nuclei show scattered chromatin and one or two nucleoli. The cytoplasm may vary according to the functional state of the cell at the time of fixation.
Pigment granules are sometimes seen in the cytoplasm. These may represent breakdown products of bile.
Vacuolated areas occur more frequently in the cytoplasm where glycogen or fat was dissolved away in preparation of the tissue.
The surface associations of the hepatocyte can be of three types:
- where the cell abuts next to an adjacent cell;
- where the surface is slightly separated from an adjacent cell to form the lumen of a bile canaliculus;
- an external surface adjacent to a perisinusoidal space (space of Disse).
Study the sinusoids. These intralobular vascular blood channels, averaging 9 to 12 μm's in diameter, converge to form the central vein. Two main types of cells (endothelial cells and the phagocytic stellate cells of Kupffer) form the lining of the sinusoid, and a third cell type, the fat storing cell, is located in the perisinusoidal spaces. This latter cell is not evident on our slide.
The endothelium forming most of the sinusoidal lining is not continuous; rather, the margins of adjacent endothelial cells may either have typical junctions, or they can be discontinuous in which the adjacent cell margins are separated by a space of 100 nm to 500 nm. A basal lamina is absent, but the cells are probably supported by reticular fibers.
The phagocytic cells, known as stellate cells or Kupffer cells are situated on the endothelium or they actually form part of the sinusoidal lining. Processes of these macrophages often extend between the endothelial cells and across the sinusoidal lumen. Their changing shape may show varied relationships to the endothelial cells. The stellate cells are replenished by mitosis and from the circulating monocyte pool.
On this slide the stellate cells are best identified by their oval, large nucleus with delicate chromatin and one nucleolus (not prominent). Their branching pseudopodial cytoplasmic processes can often be distinguished. The best way to demonstrate Kupffer cells is to inject a vital dye into an animal before fixation of the livers.
The endothelial cell is smaller and more flattened than the stellate cell. It has a small, dark ovoid nucleus and the cytoplasm is highly attenuated. EM photographs of the endothelial cells show large variable-sized fenestrae in the cytoplasm. The fenestrae or "pores" are oval-shaped and they average about 100 nm in diameter.
Between the hepatocyte and the sinusoid is a fluid-filled space (or potential space) known as the perisinusoidal space (space of Disse). Identify several on your slide. Microvilli project from the free surfaces of the hepatocytes into this space. Chylomicrons and blood plasma pass through the gaps between endothelial cells and through the fenestrated cytoplasm to gain access to the perisinusoidal space to come in contact with the hepatocyte surface.
Lymph produced by the liver is believed to flow in the perisinusoidal space towards the periphery of a lobule. At the periphery it percolates into the interstitial spaces in the connective tissue of the portal canal from which it passes into lymphatic capillaries. No direct connections occur between the lymphatic capillaries and the perisinusoidal spaces. Silver stains demonstrate a network of reticular fibers forming a framework that surrounds each sinusoid. This framework occupies the perisinusoidal space lying between the hepatocytes and the sinusoidal lining.
Bile is the exocrine serous fluid secreted (excreted) by the liver. It is elaborated by the hepatocytes and transported to the periphery of a lobule by way of the intercellular bile canaliculi. A canaliculus does not have a wall or epithelium of its own. Instead, canaliculi are formed between the plasma membranes of two adjacent hepatocytes. The canaliculus is formed by a "matched pair of grooves on facing cell membranes." At the interface of the two cells the plasma membranes separate to form an intercellular canal or bile canaliculus measuring 0.5 to 1.5 μm in diameter. A zonula occludens occurs at each side of the lumen of the canaliculus. Farther away from the lumen may be a zonula adherens (not consistently present) and/or a macula adherens (desmosome). At the ultrastructural level, microvilli are seen to protrude into the lumen of the canaliculus.
Bile canaliculi will be difficult to identify on this section, but you should look for them. Remember, they range from 0.5 to 1.5 μm in diameter!
Leading from the bile canaliculi at the periphery of a lobule are small bile ductules called cholangioles (canals of Hering) which unite the intralobular canaliculi with the interlobular bile ducts. These tiny ductules have a low cuboidal epithelium and a lumen hardly larger than that of a bile canaliculus. It will take diligent searching to find one on your slide.
In some portal areas you may see large bile ducts which are lined by simple high columnar cells and have a connective tissue investment. The larger of these branches in the liver unite to form the right and left hepatic ducts that in turn join to form the hepatic duct. The cystic duct of the gallbladder and the hepatic duct join to form the common bile duct.
Remember that lymph and bile flow from a lobule in a direction opposite to the flow of blood in the sinusoids.
Slide 152, Liver and Gallbladder (H&E)[edit]
Slide, 149 Liver (H&E)[edit]
The pear-shaped gallbladder shows marked variation in size and shape among different individuals. Anatomically, it consists of a neck, a body, and a blindly ending fundus. Histologically, its wall consists of a mucosa, a muscularis, a perimuscular layer of connective tissue, and a serosa or fibrosa.
Slide 151 Gallbladder, (H&E)[edit]
Mucosa - The mucosa consists of an epithelium, its basement membrane, and an underlying lamina propria of loose connective tissue. The tall, simple columnar epithelial cells of the mucosa are absorptive in nature. They have basal ovoid nuclei and on their luminal surface is a thin striated border (demonstrated by EM). No goblet cells are present in this epithelium. The mucosa of the non-distended gallbladder is irregularly folded, somewhat resembling villi when it is sectioned. These folds largely disappear when the gallbladder is filled.
Simple tubuloalveolar glands exist only in the neck region of the gallbladder, but none are present on our slides. The "hollowed out" epithelial-lined "pockets" which you may see on your slides represent blind recesses or diverticula of the folded epithelium that have been sectioned; they are not glands. The lamina propria is a delicate loose connective tissue containing many small blood vessels. Occasionally, one can see a few smooth muscle fibers scattered within it, but a muscularis mucosae is lacking. The gallbladder also lacks a submucosa.
Muscularis - The smooth muscle of the muscularis forms interlacing and somewhat irregular bundles that may be cut longitudinally, transversely or obliquely. A fibroelastic network accompanies the muscle bundles.
Perimuscular layer - External to the muscularis is the perimuscular layer of irregular connective tissue through which course the large blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics that supply the organ. Here may be found collagenous and elastic fibers, fibroblasts, wandering lymphocytes, macrophages, fat cells and occasional small ganglia.
Serosa or fibrosa - The outermost layer of the free surface of the gallbladder is serosa (visceral peritoneum); it may be torn off the section. Where the gallbladder attaches to the liver, a fibrosa is present (seen on slide 152).
Slide 152 Liver and Gallbladder, (H&E)[edit]
Portal canals and central veins show variations in size and are particularly well preserved.
- The continuity of the sinusoidal lumens with the lumen of the central vein can be observed in many areas.
- Several portal canal areas exhibit lymphocytic infiltration.
- Hepatocytes are well preserved; many are binucleate.
- Stellate cells (Kupffer cells) with visible cytoplasm and delicate cell processes can be observed. These should be distinguished from the endothelial cells lining the sinusoid.
Several portal vein branches are present in association with larger branches of the hepatic artery and bile duct (large portal canals).
A portion of the gallbladder is attached to the liver.
Study the serosa of the liver and its relation to the serosa of the gallbladder. Is the serosa continuous?
Identify the layers of the gallbladder.
Observe the area between the liver and gallbladder. This outer connective tissue layer of the gallbladder where it attaches to the liver is called the fibrosa; it merges with the connective tissue capsule of the liver.
The simple columnar epithelium of the gallbladder is highly absorptive and is well preserved in this section.
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This topic describes how Enterprise Pivotal Container Service (Enterprise PKS) recommends you approach the sizing of VMs for cluster components.
When you configure plans in the Enterprise PKS tile, you provide VM sizes for the master and worker node VMs. For more information about configuring plans, see the Plans section of Installing Enterprise PKS for your IaaS:
You select the number of master nodes when you configure the plan.
For worker node VMs, you select the number and size based on the needs of your workload. The sizing of master and worker node VMs is highly dependent on the characteristics of the workload. Adapt the recommendations in this topic based on your own workload requirements.
Master Node VM Size
The master node VM size is linked to the number of worker nodes. The VM sizing shown in the following table is per master node:
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Worker Node VM Number and Size
A maximum of 100 pods can run on a single worker node. The actual number of pods that each worker node runs depends on the workload type as well as the CPU and memory requirements of the workload.
To calculate the number and size of worker VMs you require, determine the following for your workload:
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- Memory requirements per pod [
- CPU requirements per pod [
Using the values above, you can calculate the following:
- Minimum number of workers [
p / 100
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m * 100
- Minimum number of CPUs per worker =
c * 100
This calculation gives you the minimum number of worker nodes your workload requires. We recommend that you increase this value to account for failures and upgrades.
For example, increase the number of worker nodes by at least one to maintain workload uptime during an upgrade. Additionally, increase the number of worker nodes to fit your own failure tolerance criteria.
The maximum number of worker nodes that you can create for a plan in an Enterprise PKS-provisioned Kubernetes cluster is set by the Maximum number of workers on a cluster field in the Plans pane of the Enterprise PKS tile. To customize the size of the Kubernetes worker node VM, see Customize Master and Worker Node VM Size and Type.
Example Worker Node Requirement Calculation
An example app has the following minimum requirements:
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p] = 1000
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m] = 1 GB
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To determine how many worker node VMs the app requires, do the following:
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p / 100:
1000/100 = 10 workers
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m * 100:
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- For upgrades, increase the number of workers by one:
10 workers + 1 worker = 11 workers
- For failure tolerance, increase the number of workers by two:
11 workers + 2 workers = 13 workers
In total, this app workload requires 13 workers with 10 CPUs and 100 GB RAM.
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You select the CPU, memory, and disk space for the Kubernetes node VMs from a set list in the Enterprise PKS tile. Master and worker node VM sizes and types are selected on a per-plan basis. For more information, see the Plans section of the Enterprise PKS installation topic for your IaaS. For example, Installing Enterprise PKS on vSphere with NSX-T.
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Believed to be first female industrial designer in the US, she was born in Ilyashevka, Russia and emigrated to the US in 1906. In 1920 she began working in her father's jewelry store while studying at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League.
In 1929 she was employed by the Quaker Silver Co., which trained her as a silver designer at New York University, Rhode Island School of Design and at a Pforzheim, Germany Art School. She headed a department of twenty at Quaker in Attleboro, MA.
She opened her own New York office, Belle Kogan Associates, in 1932 and designed many housewares products. In 1944 she was secretary treasurer of IDI. She closed her New York office in 1970 and moved to Israel under contract with KV Design and set up a studio offering comprehensive design services.
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"The Spirit of ANZAC is strong in communities across the Heathcote Electorate", Lee Evans Member for Heathcote said this week in the lead-up to the national day of remembrance.
Mr Evans has again produced an informative eight-page booklet, titled "The Spirit of ANZAC", which emphasises Australia's involvement in many theatres of war. The publication also carries a handy reference guide to various ANZAC commemoration services and marches across the electorate.
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ANZAC Day commemorates the landing of Australian soldiers at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 with this year being the 99th anniversary since the start of the campaign where young men forged the Spirit of ANZAC – mateship, courage, sacrifice and good humour. And so the ANZAC legend was born.
"Thousands of people in our communities will gather on this special day to honour and remember those who served and those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country in all conflicts of war," Mr Evans said.
"These sacrifices were made so today we can enjoy the freedom of speech and democracy in a country which offers us so much opportunity."
Mr Evans said many people from across the electorate have been involved in war – some of those never returned home.
The ANZAC booklet, being delivered to households across the electorate, features articles on local people who helped make a difference when their country needed them most.
"It is very important that we all acknowledge the history which helped build Australia as a nation. The Gallipoli campaign was a defining moment in this country's development and so ANZAC Day is an important occasion for Australians. This is our chance to stand and honour those who gave everything in defence of our nation and for the greater cause," Mr Evans said.
"The booklet aims to emphasise the true meaning of ANZAC – to help us remember that thousands of people gave their lives fighting for our future."


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Gold bridal crown.
Our Alice crown is a dainty option for brides. Worn to create a subtle elegance.
Made from charming brass metal findings, hand set crystal rhinestones, navette opal rhinestones, pearls, jewellery wire on a fine gold band.
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- iDM2 (aka iDM-square) stands for "Idea, Design, Manufacture and Market", a loop to describe the idea realisation journey
- iDM2 is HKSTP's new hardware product development programme designed to help startups shorten the hardware development cycle and lower R&D and production costs. HKSTP and programme partners coach Park companies in market analysis, market positioning, meeting accreditation criteria and IP application as they progress to commercially-viable production, enabling them to leverage the innovation momentum and tap the production prowess of the Greater Bay Area.
- iDM2 is a six-month hardware accelerator that expedites and supports startups in product development, including:
- "Design for Manufacturing" training/workshops (8 modules in 27 sessions)
- Greater Bay Area (GBA) workshops with leading manufacturers
- Clinic/consultation/coaching with experts from 10 manufacturing fields
- Industry leaders in design and manufacturing will share professional knowledge and insights to fully equip participating startups to take ownership of the design to manufacturing process
The first-batch graduates of iDM2 joined a 3-day tour to connect with leading factories and manufacturing partners in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, China in March 2019. The tour offered opportunities for startups to match up with manufacturing partners and mentors for overcoming various issues at the hardware development stage. This is definitely something they cannot gain in a normal classroom. Watch the video to know more.
- The 2019 Spring intake is open to HKSTP incubatees, partner companies, Sci-Tech Challenge candidates, or FHKI STAR Programme candidates
- 2 representatives from each participating companies are required for the enrollment
- Applicants will be selected to participate the program based on their product development status
What will you gain from iDM2?
- Overcome hurdles to translate your design idea into a finished product
- Master the product development costs
- Able to develop an overall plan that covers market identification, intellectual property and accreditation requirements
- Access manufacturing capacities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) for prototyping and manufacturing
- Companies with iDM2 finished product will be recommended to join Global Acceleration Academy (GAA), Technologies from Science Park Programme and IndustryConnect Service for acceleration to the next level
Target Market & Clients
Better Project Planning
Design Thinking & Design for Manufacturing
Manufacturing Jargon
Minimum Viable Product
(MVP) Design with Prototype
Greater Bay Area
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This course delivers a detailed understanding of equality and diversity and helps learners apply that knowledge in the healthcare environment. Equality & Diversity General Awareness is a pre-requisit for this course. This course is for healthcare professionals with a remit for greater knowledge of the key protected characteristics and/ or promoting awareness of these standards.
This course looks in detail at the key issues surrounding equality and diversity. Each session looks at one of the key protected characteristics and is followed by its own assessment:
If learners already have a good understanding of Equality, Diversity and Human Rights they can take the Equality, Diversity and Human Rights E‑Assessment which is available as a separate course.
Skills for Health have now developed a Primary care version of this course with learning scenarios and assessments adapted to the needs of GPs and other primary care organisations. If you wish to order the primary care version, please request this in the order notes.
All healthcare staff who require greater awareness of equality & diversity standards and promotion of the surrounding issues in the workplace.
The session is followed by an assessment with a pass mark of 80%. Progress can be tracked by managers for internal audits and learners can keep a certificate of completion for CPD. This course meets the relevant standards for the Core Skills Training Framework.
The course was initially developed by the e-learning development team in Liverpool Community Health Trust, commissioned by NHS North West. The material in the course has since been revised for national use with the with the support of subject experts
3 hours 30 mins approx
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29 November 2012
The Brewing team celebrate our record haul of 7 awards in the CAMRA Cumbrian Beer of the Year awards.
We won four Golds and three Silvers:
Bitter GOLD Bitter Category
Lakeland Gold GOLD Best Bitter Category
Brodie's Prime GOLD Porter Category
NZPA-New Zealand Pale Ale GOLD Strong Bitter Category
Red SILVER Best Bitter Category
Cumbrian Five Hop SILVER Golden Ale Category
Triple X Brodie's Prime SILVER Barley Wine/Strong Old Ale Category
16 November 2012
An experiment to age beer in a whisky barrel for six months won judges approval and netted us a gold medal at the North Region Brewers Society competition held in Manchester in October.
Our whisky cask-aged Damson and Vanilla Imperial Stout won the speciality bottled beer category at the annual competition run by SIBA (the Society of Independent Brewers) and continued our winning streak: last year Windermere Pale in cask was overall champion of the competition.
The speciality stout made with Lyth Valley damsons, and hand-bottled after 6 months in an oak whisky cask is the first in a series of three new bottled beers, all of which have been aged in barrels from Bladnoch Distillery in Lowland Scotland.
Alongside the 8.3% abv damson beer, the limited edition collection also includes Imperial Stout 8.3% abv and Brodie's Prime Reserve 2012 8.5% abv. Each beer has been carefully matured in the brewery's cellar, during which time the beer grows in character as maturation unlocks flavours in the oak. Only when the unique and complex flavours are deemed perfect are the beers bottled.
The first beer is now for sale at the brewery in The Beer Hall shop. All three will be available to purchase from the shop and online from our web-shop in the next few weeks as soon as they are ready for release.
Although there are only a very limited number of these oak aged beers the gold medal that we have won has given Head Brewer, Matt Clarke, the confidence to crack on with his project of aging more beer in the stock of barrels he has collected from several distilleries so watch out for more specialist releases in the future.
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EarlySail Partners with RafikiSoft to deliver a mobile CRM and ERP Platform for the Base of the Pyramid
Filed under: Android, EarlySail Corporate, iOS, Mobile Apps, Portals, Web 2.0
More than 2.7 billion people live on $2 or less a day, a group often referred to as the Bottom or Base of the Pyramid. RafikiSoft was founded in 2013 to develop enterprise quality and mobile friendly business management solutions for last-mile distribution companies who provide goods and service targeted to this group. Examples include solar lights, stoves, water filter and drip irrigation system.
EarlySail is pleased to be the technology partner to deliver on this promise. The IT platform is now in use in Tanzania, Myanmar and Indonesia. It provides a web and mobile friendly interface. GIS and SMS integration is built-in to the platform. Dedicated apps for Android and IOS are also available.
Contact Us to deliver your IT projects.
More information on Rafikisoft
EarlySail assists Partner with launch of Asia-Pacific's largest commercial property portal
Filed under: EarlySail Corporate, Portals, Web 2.0
The EarlySail team is proud to have assisted a key customer in the development of a Web 2.0 portal designed to streamline the Commercial property search experience.
The iProperty group, a leading Asian online property portal that reaches out to 3.5 million unique visitors and 25,000 real estate agents per month has launched CommercialAsia.com.
Ask us how we can assist you in innovating your transaction portal.
EarlySail Developed Apps Shine in India-wide BlackBerry Media Campaign
Filed under: Blackberry, BlackBerry App World, EarlySail Corporate, Portals, Super App, Wireless
EarlySail is pleased to announce that Research in Motion, the developer of the BlackBerry devices, has chosen to feature not just one, but two applications developed by EarlySail in a nation-wide advertising campaign. This campaign is currently running in full page color ads in major Indian newspapers, and in FM radio stations. Additionally, RIM is marketing these apps in thousands of retail stores.
Check out some of the ads here:
We developed these apps for InfoEdge's Naukri.com and People Group's Shaadi.com – the leading Job Search and Matrimonial portals in the world.
Would you like us assistance in developing your mobile application? We develop for all leading mobile platforms, and we can develop a world-class application for you too. Contact Us now!
Powered by EarlySail: InfoEdge Launches Naukri.com for BlackBerry Super App
Filed under: Blackberry, BlackBerry App World, EarlySail Corporate, Portals, Super App, Wireless
EarlySail is pleased to have helped Naukri.com and Research in Motion in the development of the Naukri.com Super App for the BlackBerry platform. Ask Us how we can develop your Super App today!
Keep your Job Search active with Naukri.com. Search & Apply for Jobs anywhere, anytime with the Naukri.com App for your BlackBerry®. Customize and receive alerts instantly for jobs matching your profile. Keep your job search confidential and your Naukri profile up-to-date with your latest achievements. With over 200,000 jobs at any given time, and more than 35,000 active recruiters, Naukri.com is your best bet to land the best job.
EarlySail develops innovative search portal for leading real-estate media firm
Filed under: AJAX, EarlySail Corporate, Portals, Web 2.0
The EarlySail team is proud to have assisted a key customer's innovation efforts by assisting in the development of an Web 2.0 search portal designed to streamline the Real Estate search experience.
IPGA Ltd, owner of Asia's number one network of property portal under the iProperty.com umbrella brand (www.iproperty.com), has launched an ad-free property portal Propertyguru.com.my.
"The site is a combination of clean and uncluttered design coupled with a highly intelligent search engine that makes property hunting a breeze. Its predictive search function suggests addresses, townships, condos and areas with fast search results . Switching between map, gallery and list views, the navigation gives visitors the option to view properties according to their preference. Each property listing also provides details of nearby schools, transportation and amenities"
Ask us how we can bring your Web 2.0 ideas to life.
Web 2.0 meets Real Estate Search
Filed under: AJAX, Portals
Earlysail is proud to have assisted a key customer's Web 2.0 foray by launching an AJAX-based portal designed to streamline the Real Estate search experience.
The destination site builds on productivity techniques like predictive search and encourages user feedback on every page. The mashup aggregates search results of suitable properties, maps them via Google Maps, and displays property images via a slide show – all in one place. Search criteria for properties can be dynamically modified using sliders and the entire result set changes in place.
Ask us how we can bring your Web 2.0 ideas to life.


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This week I had the distinct privilege of representing Enthought at National Instruments' 23rd annual user conference, NIWeek 2017. National Instruments is a leader in test, measurement, and control solutions, and we share many common customers among our global scientific and engineering user base.
NIWeek kicked off on Monday with Alliance Day, where my colleague Andrew Collette and I went on stage to receive the LabVIEW Tools Network 2017 Product of the Year Award for Enthought's Python Integration Toolkit, which provides a bridge between Python and LabVIEW, allowing you to create VI's (virtual instruments) that make Python function and object method calls. Since its release last year, the Python Integration Toolkit has opened up access to a broad range of new capabilities for LabVIEW users, by combining the best of Python with the best of LabVIEW. It was also inspiring to hear about the advances being made by other National Instruments partners. Congratulations to the award winners in other categories (Wineman Technology, Bloomy, and Moore Good Ideas)!
On Wednesday, Andrew gave a presentation titled "Building and Deploying Python-Powered LabVIEW Applications" to a standing-room only crowd. He gave some background on the relative strengths of Python and LabVIEW (some of which is covered in our March 2017 webinar "Using Python and LabVIEW to Rapidly Solve Engineering Problems") and then showcased some of the capabilities provided by the toolkit, such as plotting data acquisition results live to a web server using plotly, which is always a crowd-pleaser (you can learn more about that in the blog post "Using Plotly from LabVIEW via Python"). Other demos included making use of the Python scikit-learn library for machine learning, (you can see Enthought's CEO Eric Jones run that demo here, during the 2016 NIWeek keynotes.)
For a mechanical engineer like me, attending NIWeek is a bit like giving a kid a holiday in a candy shop. There was much to admire on the expo floor, with all kinds of mechatronic gizmos and gadgets. I was most interested by the lightning-fast video and image processing possible with NI's FPGA systems, like the part sorting system shown below. Really makes me want to play around with nifpga.
Another thing really gaining traction is the implementation of machine learning for a number of applications. I attended one talk titled "Deep Learning With LabVIEW and Acceleration on FPGAs" that demonstrated image classification using a neural network and talked about strategies to reduce the code size to get it to fit on an FPGA.
Finally, of course, I was really excited by all of the activity in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is an area of core focus for Enthought. We have been in the big data analytics game for a long time, and writing software for hard science is in our company DNA. But this year especially, starting with the AIChE 2017 Spring Meeting and now at NIWeek 2017, it has been really energizing to meet with industry leaders and see some of the amazing things that are being implemented in the IIoT. National Instruments has been a leader in the test and measurement sector for a long time, and they have been pioneers in IIoT. Now it is easy to download and install an interface to Amazon S3 for LabVIEW, and just like that, your sensor is now a connected sensor … and your data is ready for analysis in Enthought's Canopy Data platform.
After immersion in NIWeek, I guess you could say, I've been "LabVIEWed":