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I had to write about where I wanted to be ten years from now for one of my finals. This prompt was for my "Learning Frameworks" class. Most colleges have a class like this that freshman take as a part of their curriculum. The classes are usually focused around study skills, leadership, etc. My class was no different. It focused on Covey's Seven Habits. As a result of writing about Covey's Habits for SIXTEEN WEEKS, I now know them backwards and forwards. Will they stick? Hopefully, but I definitely did not mention them in my "Ten Years From Now" essay so who knows if they'll even last that long.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kidding. My humor is really weird but I'm not trying to explain that today. On top of the 7 Habits, we also were required to several small reflective writing assignments throughout the semester. I thought that was cool because I didn't really expect that from college. Then for our midterm and our final, we had at least one topic that was in the same introspective genre. For our final, the topic was the aforementioned "Ten Years From Now" short essay. This essay required us to speak of ourselves in present tense, ten years from now. "I am" tense, none of that "I will be" nonsense. You get what I'm saying. So I really enjoyed writing mine because I kind of talked about the most realistic I could make my dream life. I created reachable goals that still seem kind of impossible right now. I loved every second I spent writing it and earned a 98.6% on the final so I wanted to post it here.
P.S. here's a gif in honor of my survival of my first college finals.
Without further ado,
In Ten Years
The television clicks on at 10:00 sharp every night and every night, there I am. I am watching the news reporter from behind the camera as she delivers the opening I wrote for her with ease. I smile as I imagine the viewers at home gasping at the latest news on a juicy story that my news team has been following for weeks. I suddenly realize that it has been ten years since I attended college at Texarkana College and began my journey to the person I am today.
A lot has changed in ten years. I am the executive producer of a successful nightly news show in Austin, Texas. In my spare time, I work on passion projects of my own. I have won awards at small film festivals across America for my short films and I will be producing my first major motion picture, soon. Short film awards, however, do not often pay the bills. I was hired on as an assistant producer while still in college and quickly worked my way up in the television news world. During the week, I research the most intriguing stories, write and edit scripts, direct the nightly news, and edit the footage taken out in the field. As executive producer, I do several things but the aforementioned are the most important to me. I make approximately $80,000 a year. As a college student, I knew I wanted to be in an industry that paid well both emotionally and physically. The paycheck helps to keep both my bank account and my emotions out of the negative. I am proud of the work I do and I could not picture myself doing anything else. I love being able to work with my team to create the most informative news show in Texas.
After I graduated from Texarkana College, I transferred to Louisiana State University at Shreveport where I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications. I worked as a part-time assistant producer at KTAL Channel 6 while studying. Then, I decided to accept a production position at KTAL while I pursued a Master of Arts degree in Communications at Texas A&M at Texarkana (TAMUT). Once I earned my bachelor's degree, my boyfriend and I decided to get married. We both finally finished our degrees and found stable jobs. We could financially support one another. We were set to stay in Bossier City, Louisiana, because both of our families lived relatively close by. A few months after I graduated from TAMUT, a job opened up in Austin, Texas, and my executive producer wanted to recommend me for it. My husband knew that I always wanted to live in Austin and was always supportive of my dreams. He was able to find a job as a nurse easily in Austin. Soon, we were ready to sell our house and move.
We have been living in Austin for about five and half years. Part of me was not sure if I would ever get to live here. I am extremely grateful for the experiences and friendships I made at KTAL and in college that prepared me for the responsibilities I have now. I have responsibilities as an executive producer, as a wife, and as a mother of one. My husband and I had our first child about a year ago. We plan to have more children in the future, but not anytime soon. Before even thinking of a child, I applied the money saving skills I learned back at Texarkana College in order to plan adequately. The time I spent in each educational institution I attended has impacted my life greatly. Some of the most valuable lessons I learned were taught in my classes. However, every morning, I still hit the snooze a few times before getting up. My life has changed a lot in ten years, but some things are destined to be the same forever.
It's kind of a dorky life story, but I dig it.
Until next time,


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Global Youth Baseball Federation Accredited by National Financial Accountability Organization
WEST NYACK, NY – The ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability) announced today the accreditation of Global Youth Baseball Federation of West Nyack, NY.
ECFA accreditation is based on the ECFA Seven Standards of Responsible Stewardship™, including financial accountability, transparency, sound board governance and ethical fundraising.
Global Youth Baseball Federation joins a growing number of Christ-centered churches and ministries across America, supported by over 27 million donors that have earned the right to display the ECFA seal. When an organization is accredited by ECFA, it demonstrates its willingness to follow the model of biblical accountability.
"We are pleased to accredit a ministry committed to utilize the popularity of baseball to share the good news across the world," said Dan Busby, president of ECFA.
Founded in 2001, Global Youth Baseball Federation (www.globalbaseball.org) uses the unique platform of the game of baseball to build relationships that will facilitate the opportunity to share Christ.
To learn more about Global Youth Baseball Federation and their stewardship opportunities, visit ServantMatch®, ECFA's program that matches God's servants with the stewardship options of ECFA members based on ministry sectors and categories. It is ECFA's newest online feature that allows you to quickly and easily find giving opportunities.
ECFA, founded in 1979, provides accreditation to leading Christian nonprofit organizations that faithfully demonstrate compliance with the ECFA Standards pertaining to financial accountability, fundraising and board governance. For more information about ECFA, including information about accreditation and a listing of ECFA-accredited members, visit www.ECFA.org or call 1-800-323-9473.

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It is probably silly starting the movie review by stating that I played only Max Payne 2 and I don't remember a single piece of the story from the game. However, I remember seeing Max Payne year of its premiere and I think I was pretty angry and scathed the movie as complete rubbish. While rewatching the movie I was pleasantly surprised that it isn't that bad after all. Well, it is bad, but not as bad as I remembered.
Maxy Payne lost his wife and kid to the violent attack of unknown attackers. It was probably just robbery went wrong, but there is something fishy about the whole ordeal. Max transfers himself to cold cases and drowns all his time and himself in the case of his family attack. The movie starts very promisingly, heavy atmosphere and direct inspiration from noir style are apparent. Lighting, angles used, falling snow, every single piece, every single scene looks like carefully laid out painting.
What made noir movies (Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard) exceptional was the rich plot, the story that was unpredictable and this is unfortunately where Max Payne comes short. All the cards are shown pretty soon and even all the hidden aces are very predictable so an experienced movie fan is not surprised by the generic outcome. While the visual fidelity of the movie is planned very carefully and creates an amazing tower of beauty, the story is built like a house of cards that is bound to crumble with each passing minute.
The semi-mythical inspiration by Norse mythology is too obvious (Rag na rock club, Valkyra drug etc.). The tattoo that is the big breaking point in the investigation is so obvious that it is incomprehensible that the Max and his partner didn't realize it much sooner. There is like 100 people with that tattoo and even the stupid pharma company, producer of the drug has part of it in its logo. Seriously? Who is who in the world on the good and bad side is also done in a very predictable way and there is just nothing that could surprise you. It's like the ticking of the mandatory list by both writer and director. And it is a shame, Mark Wahlberg is excellent choice to play Max Payne and I believe if he was given something more to work with it would be a movie to remember.
What did surprise me though was the amount of the action scenes. There are only two or three action scenes. One little scene with shooting inside a bathroom where Max tries to extort a criminal is shot in birds eye view and Max shoots door hinges from each of the cubicles is a pleasure to watch. The action scenes also work as an homage to the bullet time game pushed so prominently. I must not agree with most people complaining that as Max Payne game is the action game with tons of shootouts, so the movie must be an action movie with even more shoot-outs. It is revenge flick and revenge flick can be done without killing 524 thugs and other criminal personae, not including random bystanders. No reason to copycat everything, right?
Last but not least, I must mention one thing that I found kind of disturbing. Towards the end of the movie Max in order to survive he has to consume a certain amount of drug that turns abusers into killing machines. The main hero technically turns into a junkie who sprays bullets all around himself. Really, so the victory is achieved by becoming the thing that he hates so much.
So overall, we have a movie that shows great promise with exceptional cinematography, I dare to say bizarre attention to building the scene that then falls flat because it is completely without soul and heart.


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The airship lurched. There was a loud, screeching noise. One akin to pressure seeping out of a tank. The difference was that sounds that resembled chimes accompanied the whistling noise.
Knight Vigilant Rexza turned around to look at the human. "What's going on?"
The human didn't answer. His eyes went wide as he turned and ran up the stairs to the captain's room. Rexza cursed, turning and following after him. With her large gait, she cleared four steps of stairs with one stride.
As the human burst into the captain's room, Rexza followed in. The captain's room had a table in the middle, upon which a navigational skychart floated around in holographic images. The captain himself, wearing a four cornered hat and showing off a braided hair and beard combination, turned to the human as he hurtled in.
"It seems we've got a case of parasites," said the captain, his voice so low and growl-ish that Rexza was surprised it came from a human.
The captain noticed her, and then the mantle she wore. "Vigilant. I am Captain Hamoya."
"Knight Vigilant Rexza," Rexza replied, with a curt nod. "Problem?"
"Pirates," said the Captain, crossing his arms in front of his chest. "One small ship — a skyjunk, it seems from the visual feed." And as he said that, a holographic screen popped out from the tabletop. The tabletop itself seemed to be composed of various crystalline glass nodes that have wires connected to somewhere within the inner workings of the ship.
Rexza watched as a junk powered by what seems to be more classical means of achieving shipflight attacked the large, protected engine of the ship. On the far back side is the circular transmogrifier, wherein a large sphere of Tass is stored. The pirates have launched harpoons that have punctured the glass sphere of Tass.
The pirates were readying for another shot. Rexza watched as crewmates of her own ship came across the starboard and pulled out slugslinger rifles, aiming at the junk's sails. Rexza frowned — that wouldn't do a thing.
"If the pirates managed to puncture the Transmogrifier Engine, we'll be easy pickings."
Rexza turned and walked out before he finished saying that sentence.
She followed the path down the large ship, until she saw the throngs of men firing their rifles and using the side of the ship as a barrier. Rexza ran. She ran on all fours, the belgar might strengthening her.
"Where are they?" she growled. The human she was speaking to jumped at her voice, but otherwise turned and pointed.
Right beneath them, firing at the ship and readying the harpoon once again, was the pirate's junk. Rexza saw a crewmember get hit by a flying slug. She cursed as he fell backwards, blood spreading.
Humans have always been so fragile.
She breathed, inhaling as deep as possible, and with her large lungs that was very deep. Rexza clenched her fists, and as she exhaled, as she unclenched every muscle in her body, she launched straight up into the air.
She spun around in the sky, falling down, down, and straight past the passenger ship and toward the skyjunk. She released her claws, making a harsh, wicked sound as they burst out from the tips of her fingers. She used the sails of the junk to ease her fall down, slicing the sails clean into ten parts. There were shouts of horror and surprise, and Rexza didn't let them get the better of her.
She leapt off the sail midway down, dropping onto the quarter deck where she clawed down the pirate manning the steering ship. Three others in the quarter deck with her. She reached for one with her leg, kicking him, and she used the momentum of that quick to lift herself to the air, spun, and brought a claw down onto another. The third one raised a slugshot and fired, and it rang hollow against Rexza's lune-iron armor.
The Knight Vigilant cursed in irritation as she turned. She went down on one hand and spun in a move that resembled a breakdance maneuver, and her lune-iron shoe slammed the pirate off of the junk ship and sent him plunging to the endless blue below.
She turned to the rest of the crew. Judging from the slight bristling of her hairs, there were Kifetic Dwarfoturgists causing this ship to stay afloat. It wasn't powered by Transmogrifiers. Her gaze swept the entire deck. She saw thirty crew members, two harpoon launchers, a dozen swords, axes, and slugslingers, and a man with white hair brandishing a thin rapier. They were all humans.
But no Dwarfoturgists. Or so she thought.
Rexza stepped up to the deck, and she bellowed, "Allow safe passage for this passenger ship!" Her gravelly voice echoed throughout their spirits.
The man with the white hair and the rapier shook his head. "Or what?"
"Or I will be forced to show you the promise of a Knight Vigilant's Protection."
The white-haired man shook his head. He raised a hand, which was formed into an intricate hand gesture. He shouted out a snarling word, and then moved the hand in a star-like motion, as if creating a polgyon in the air in front of him.
There was a silent slash of stagnancy, before a huge gout of electricity exploded from the air in front of him and slammed straight into Rexza's chest. She heard sizzling as the lune-iron kept the electricity from shocking her, and kept the static to itself. It was lune-iron, not normal steel. It didn't conduct electricity.
But the pain and the force of the impact were all there. She was sent hurtling backwards, smashing against the gunwale of the ship. Rexza cursed, forcing herself up. She saw the white haired man perform another hand gesture in front of him, and he launched into mid-air, as if bending the dwarfic force underneath him.
He then landed on the ship's quarter deck in front of Rexza. "Severi Cerva," he said, grinning. His moustache was black, as were his eyebrows. "And I am the Captain of the Silverwing Fish. Please, say hello to Kirahl for me when you reach Hell."
Rexza grinned. "Don't let your guard down, Captain."
Severi raised an eyebrow.
Rexza snorted again. "You've never met a Knight Vigilant before, have you?" And then she followed that up with a quick muttering. "Seven-Headed Dragon Style: Head 5 — Most Excellent Alacrity."
She was gone.
Severi stepped back, and bumped onto the steering wheel. He raised his rapier, and another hand he raised a hand gesture — a Mudra. He performed another sign in the air, and a ball of flame erupted around his hand.
He turned around when he heard the sound of one of his men gasp.
Rexza reappeared in the middle of the ship, amidst the thirty men that were foolish enough not to leave at the first mention of a Knight Vigilant. When she reappeared, she reappeared with the force of a hurricane. The wooden floor splintered about her, wind billowed like a bursting bubble.
Rexza didn't waste time. Methodically, she flickered to the nearest man and punched, turned to the next and kicked, flickered again and ten of them were down. The most foolish of the twenty had the brilliant idea to fire a slug at Rexza.
The shot hit the gunwale of the ship. The man who fired the shot fell to the ground.
Rexza examined her pointer finger's claw, which was soaked in blood.
The nineteen men that were left all turned to each other.
"What are you doing!" Severi shouted. "Kill her!"
"Seven-Headed Dragon Style: Head 2 — Breath of the Beast." She turned in midair, and then opened her palm. A gout of flame burst from it, a multicolored incandescence of destruction. It washed over half of the remaining men, and the other half started running.
"Bitch!" shouted Severi. He jumped down to the deck as it cleared of men.
Rexza cocked her head to the side. She didn't have any pups yet.
Severi threw the ball of fire he had been holding in his right hand, and Rexza stepped backward. "Seven-Headed Dragon Style: Head 7 — Perfect Manipulation of Secrets." She invoked another form of the Martial Art, and she caught the ball of fire that hurtled toward her. She performed an intricate redirection kata that ended up with her throwing the ball of fire away from the junk and the passenger ship and it exploding far off.
She turned, and Severi stepped forward, grinning widely as he lunged with his blade. "Die!"
Calmly, Rexza stepped back. A deliberate, full-footed step that grounded her. With one paw she turned away the incoming rapier, and then with another planted a palm firmly into the chest of the human.
Severi opened his mouth to shout something, but Rexza pushed with the paw she had laid on his chest. He stumbled backward, and Rexza continued. A punch, two punches to the solar plexus, a quick cracking elbow to the chin, liquidly turning into a low kick.
And in the breath of time between his launching into the air and his falling to the ground. In the split second in midair, Rexza muttered, "Draconic Fury Assault." And she launched a final punch.
Diwa burst out in multicolored strokes of light from her fist as Severi crashed to the cabin underneath the quarterdeck. A hole in his chest indicated that he was very much not alive anymore.
She turned around, and saw that most of the crew had jumped off on hang gliders. The skyjunk lurched as it slowly capsized in the air and fell out of the sky. Rexza, on all fours, ran up across the starboard, up to its gunwale, and she jumped into the sky.
She spread her hands out like wings, and said, "Seven-Headed Dragon Style: Form 4 — Exalted Wings of the Drake."
The winds obeyed her command, rushing up her and sending her up across the sky. The winds let her ride their current, and she rose up, and up, and up to the deck of the passenger ship.
She sighed in relief as she touched the steel deck. "Is everyone alright?"
The human crewmembers all nodded. In the periphery of the belgar knight, she saw tall spires and neon lights piercing away the night sky, like a watercolor painting slowly being drawn to life. She turned, and her eyes widened. Throne City.


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There are total 10 letters in Violinists, Starting with V and ending with S.
Violinists is a scrabble word? Yes (13 Points) Violinists has worth 13 Scrabble points. Each letter point as below.
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Author: Kara Nygaard
Symposium on Population Biology of Vector-borne Diseases at the Odum School of Ecology February 24, 2018.
The Reece lab at the University of Edinburgh is recruiting a postdoc
The Reece lab in the Institutes of Evolution, Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, is recruiting a postdoc.
Topic: Parasite offence or host defence? The ecology and evolution of biological rhythms in malaria infection
Details and application information: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=042288
Biological rhythms allow activities to be coordinated with the consequences of the Earth's daily and seasonal rotation. The mechanisms underpinning the clocks that drive daily rhythms are well understood. In contrast, the costs and benefits provided by daily rhythms – including how rhythms shape interactions between organisms – are poorly understood. One of the most fundamental interactions between organisms is that between hosts and parasites. Why parasites – that exclusively live within the bodies of other organisms – exhibit biological rhythms and how they are regulated are longstanding questions. Examining the roles of rhythms in disease is a new arena for studying host-parasite-vector coevolution. Also, integrating disease control interventions into an evolutionary chronobiology framework offers innovative approaches to improving health. This includes the development of drugs to disrupt parasite rhythms, harnessing circadian systems to enhance immune responses, or precisely timing drug administration to make treatment more effective.
We are offering a postdoctoral position as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project to investigate the role of circadian rhythms in malaria infection. The project will integrate a novel mix of disciplines (evolutionary ecology, chronobiology, and parasitology) to determine why and how timing matters for interactions between parasites, hosts and vectors, the severity and transmission of disease, and fitness of all parties. This is a very broad topic and so the successful candidate will be encouraged to develop their own niche. Growing evidence that the daily rhythms of malaria parasites can confer tolerance to antimalarial drugs, and that the use of bed nets is changing the biting time of the mosquitoes that transmit malaria makes understanding how and why parasites exhibit daily rhythms increasingly urgent.
This interdisciplinary Wellcome Trust funded project will break new ground by elucidating the evolutionary ecology of biological rhythms for parasites. It will integrate a novel mix of disciplines (evolutionary ecology, chronobiology, and parasitology) and open up novel avenues for disease control. The post holder will plan, conduct and write up research that they have led and support the research of others in the lab. The project will focus on a rodent malaria, murine host, and mosquito vector model system.
This post is full time and fixed term for 3 years.
Salary: £32,548 – £38,833 per annum
Closing Date: Friday 02 February 2018 at 5pm (GMT)
Please get in touch if you are interested and have questions: email@example.com
Pertussis workshop at the Santa Fe Institute March 21-24 2016
Click here to read more on Santa Fe Institute's website
Abstract: Complex systems paradigms, such as critical slowing down, regime shifts, systems theory, and computational forecasting, have taken center stage in the global effort to predict and mitigate emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Such approaches are predicated on models integrating information collected typically at microscopic scales and extrapolating macro-scale phenomena, such as bifurcation, percolation, and persistence. Complex systems perspectives and methodologies are essential as we come to grips with the ecology, immunology, and evolution of complicated infectious disease systems. Pertussis offers a prime example of this in the context of a scientific problem of great timeliness and importance.
The current re-emergence of pertussis, once seemingly on track to eradication, is enigmatic, due largely to its complexity as a host/pathogen system. In particular, the dynamics of pertussis are shaped by the interplay of pathogen transmission, host immunity, host contact-network structure, pathogen evolution, and public-health intervention across a wide range of spatio-temporal scales and levels of biological organization. Globally, trends and cycles in pertussis prevalence are idiosyncratic, due to variations in human behavior, geographic transmission bottlenecks, and dynamic variation in the nature and extent of public health intervention. The resulting scientific contention can only be resolved by theory capable of reconciling disparate, and seemingly contradictory, observations. Key elements of such a theory necessarily include: heterogeneities in immunity, age- and spatially-structured contact networks, dynamism in contact-network structure at behavioral time-scales, and large exogenous perturbations due to vaccination campaigns and behavior changes. Simplified versions of such theoretical systems display (1) prolonged transient dynamics which can contain signatures of the mode and efficacy of immunological protection, (2) sensitivity to contact-network structure, (3) prominent interactions between nonlinear and stochastic effects, and (4) manifold potential for counterintuitive emergent effects resulting from the above. The intellectual aim of the workshop will be to develop a complex-systems theory of pertussis within an inferential framework suitable for confronting models directly with extant data drawn from epidemiology, behavior, and immunology. This theory, and the techniques used to test it, will be readily generalizable to other disease systems because our efforts to resolve the causes and consequences of pertussis' resurgence will necessarily be focused on the essential theoretical questions at issue in complex eco-epidemiological systems generally.
Clay Cressler tells us about his Research Exchange!
In June, I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Princeton working with Andrea Graham and two postdocs, Sarah Budischak and Anieke van Leeuwen. The purpose of this visit was two-fold: (1) develop a mathematical model of within-host dynamics incorporating host immune responses, non-immune physiological processes (e.g., growth, storage), and parasite exploitation and growth; (2) use this model as a basis for identifying key experimental measurements to quantify the effect of diet on host and parasite fitness. This exchange stemmed from a theory paper I published last year showing that increased host resources could either increase or decrease parasite fitness, depending on the structure of the resource-immune-parasite interaction. Dr. Graham and Dr. Budischak initially contacted me to ask about extending the model to consider the role of host diet in driving within-host dynamics of macroparasites, focusing on understanding when host response should focus on tolerance over resistance. Out of this conversation, I developed an RCN proposal more broadly considering how diet links within-host and between-host scales to shape both host immune phenotype and parasite exploitation.
The research exchange was structured around daily meetings between the four of us. I would typically spend the day working in Dr. Graham's lab alongside Dr. Budischak, who is primarily trained as an immunologist. This work environment allowed me to get instantaneous feedback as I was developing the model. During the first week of the exchange, the daily meetings were primarily spent defining, discussing, defending, and refining a biologically reasonable model structure. This was one of the most useful aspects of the process for me, as my knowledge of immunology is limited. As the model development proceeded, Dr. Budischak searched the biomedical literature for estimates of model parameters. This process helped identify key parameters that need to be quantified from subsequent Graham lab experiments. During the second week of the exchange, the focus shifted to model analysis (both analytical and numerical). This analysis helped further hone the search for parameter values and showed that the model is capable of producing both host tolerance and host resistance.
I am hopeful (and reasonably confident) that this research exchange has resulted in a profitable long-term collaboration. Already we have used results from this exchange in two grant proposals. The current plan is to use the data from mouse-helminth experiments to develop an empirically validated model of within-host dynamics and then use this model to study the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of both the host and parasite, focusing on questions like: (1) can diet shift parasites from being resource-limited to immune-limited, and does each type of limitation have a dynamical signature at the between-host scale? and (2) when do cross-scale interactions give rise to self-reinforcing feedbacks, such as the "negative spiral" of malnutrition and infection?
UGA's Odum School of Ecology seeks postdoc associate!
The Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia is initiating a new track for doctoral training in Interdisciplinary Disease Ecology Across Scales. A postdoctoral associate is being sought to assist with curriculum development, student evaluation, and assessment.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in either (1) ecology, evolution, or other field related to infectious disease biology (e.g., immunology, microbiology) or (2) education (with a strong emphasis and background in biology). Applicants are expected to have experience or a genuine interest in instruction, education research, or evaluation and assessment at the post-secondary level.
For more details about the position and how to apply please visit:
A research exchange success story!
In April Nina Wale, an empiricist at Penn State University, collaborated with Aaron King, a theoretical evolutionary ecologist at the University of Michigan.
Experiments conducted by Wale have revealed that varying the availability of a micronutrient in the blood alters the infection dynamics in the mouse malaria model Plasmodium chabaudi. Importantly, her nutrient manipulations altered the dynamics during a period of the infection that has proven difficult to model and is associated with an augmentation of the host immune response. With these data in hand, Wale and King hoped to shed light on the determinants of parasite population dynamics and on how parasites interact with the host immune response. The research exchange gave Wale and King an opportunity to work intensely to build a model that could describe the data. Wale, an empiricist, learned how the models they made worked 'under the hood' and developed her programming skills. A number of hypotheses about the underlying causes of malaria infection dynamics have emerged from their modeling work and they are designing experiments to test them. They hope to continue using theory and data in combination to broaden our understanding of how parasite traits and the host immune response interact to create the characteristic dynamics of malaria infections.
Meeting in Tempe, Arizona March 19-21, 2015
The Inaugural meeting of The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health will be held March 19-21, 2015 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona (adjacent to Phoenix).
March 18, 2015 Pre-meeting for directors of evolutionary medicine programs


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Greek Tyrbul to invest EUR 15 M in Bulgarian Sliven-based dairy
Greek company Tyrbul will invest EUR 15 million in its milk processing plant in Sliven over the next two years.
The resources will be spent on new production premises and equipment, according to Capital Daily.
Dimitris Sarantis, executive director and co-owner of the company, gave a more detailed outline, saying that around EUR 3 million would be invested in new buildings on the territory of the Sliven-based plant, while a sum of EUR 7 million would cover the automation and mechanization of the production process, with the remaining EUR 3-5 million to be allocated to the purchase of new equipment made in Germany.
The investment will allow the Sliven-based factory to add soft cheese to its product range.
At present, the dairy produces different types of hard cheese and preparations for yellow cheese and curd.
The owners of the Greek group Tyras, to which the Sliven-based dairy Tyrbul belongs, announced their investment plans at the tenth anniversary of the firm, which was attended by Desislava Taneva, Bulgaria's new Agriculture Minister.
The new investment in Tyrbul will increase its production volume by 50 % over the next two years.
The dairy plant currently employs 130 people.
According to Sarantis, the new capacity will not create new jobs but it will pave the way for the dismissal of low-qualified employees and their replacement by specialists who can work with the new technology.
Tyrbul buys milk from over 70 Bulgarian farms and processes 120 tonnes of milk a day at its Sliven-based plant.
The company boasts that it is the leading milk-processing company in the country.
Since 2004, Tyrbul has invested more than EUR 20 million in Bulgaria.
Over 80 % of the production of the Sliven-based dairy is exported.
The company exports cheese to all EU member states.
Tyrbul has also been exporting cheese to the US for the past two years.
According to the latest financial report, the company reported sales revenues of BGN 56.8 million and a net profit of BGN 48 000 in 2013.
Tyrbul is a subsidiary of Greek company Tyras, which owns 5 plants in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania.


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David M. Darst is a managing director at Morgan Stanley. He serves as Chief Investment Strategist of the firm's Global Wealth Management Group and is the chairman of the Asset Allocation Committee; he is also the founding president of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1996, he was with Goldman Sachs for over twenty years, where he served as a senior executive in the Equities Division. Darst is often quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others. He is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and FOX News. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics from Yale University.
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I got he following error on my PC
"Windows Update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running."
I tryed to do a manual update and noticed no updates were coming down from MS.
I have 2 PC's, a laptop running Windows 7 and a Desktop running Windows7. Both these systems had a broken update process, VERY STRANGE.
I ran all the suggested fixes that I could find but nothing worked, on either system.
Eventually I used the tried and tested method of:-
Open up a Command Prompt from the Start / Accessories / Command Prompt ( right click and open in Administrator Mode)
type in the following and after each press Enter
net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
cd c:\windows\softwaredistribution
ren Download Download.old
ren DataStore DateStore.old
net start wuauserv
net start bits
Amazing!! It worked!!!
This is the only thing that worked. All is now ok again.
Has another PC with a similar problem but the above didnt work for that one.
Hunted around and found this
Opened it on the affected PC and run it and it fixed it.
So two similar problems (Wont update) but two different reasons and solutions.


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i listened to Glen doing "Home Again" on the Goodtime Hour and Ashley doing the same song. If someone was to mix the two they could have a moment like Natalie and Nat King Cole had!
I am very grateful for the Forum on Youtube these last few months since I was laid off. So many interviews and performances I never heard. It's been great. Thanks!
Please check out Jack Harris's heartfelt tribute song to Glen Campbell, The Farewell Blue Guitar, with Brent Mason on lead guitar!
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Duality Blockchain Solutions https://duality.solutions/
Dynamic page https://dynamic.duality.solutions/
Sequence page https://sequence.duality.solutions/
The Duality platform https://duality.solutions/login
Dynamic market went live on Bittrex!
Nice floor testing on Dynamic(DYN):
Little flag and pennant on Sequence(SEQ):
Dynamic(DYN) v126.96.36.199 has been released:
- Inline with BTC 0.12
- HD Wallet Code Improvements
- Remove/Replace Boost usage for c++11
- Do not shadow member variables in httpserver
- Update dbwrapper_tests.cpp
- Access WorkQueue::running only within the cs lock
- Use BIP32_HARDENED_KEY_LIMIT
- Update NULL to use nullptr in GetWork & GetBlockTemplate
- Few changes to governance rpc
- Safety check in CInstantSend::SyncTransaction
- Full path in 'failed to load cache' warnings
- Refactor privateSendSigner
- Net Fixes/DNS Seed Fix
- Don't add non-current watchdogs to seen map
- [RPC] remove the option of having multiple timer interfaces
- Fix memory leak in httprpc.cpp
- Make KEY_SIZE a compile-time constant
- Add CHANGELOG.md
Dynode owners that run an Cold Dynode , have to send an new start Signal from their Controller Wallet after upgrading the remote Dynamic daemon
Mark Sanders, Duality Blockchain Solution's Business Developer & Strategist joined Coininterview last week. The broadcast can be streamed from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94FkLN3tVOs


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WIDEsupport: Netherlands
This foundation that was created in 2008 by Bart van den Ouden, Nienke Debats, Sandra Kuiters, Erik Bolks and Eva Cheung.
These wonderful people gathered together and work with devotion to provide our home with permanent shelter! Today they still keep supporting us with necessary house maintenance.
WIDEsupport: FRANCE
Partager Grandir (Sharing Growth)
A huge thank you to Sylvie and Valéry Lamoure, Marie-Odile Brêthes and Catherine Vallée the founding members of the french association.
Born in July 2012 after some teachers and students from an art-therapy school came back from a 2 week trip in South India.
This visit to our home set the background for them to establish an association for helping people in desperate need. Together with other colleagues they visited us 3 times between 2012 – 2015 and worked with our children in art-therapy which was a very poignant time for all of us!
Today the association helps support our basic needs; click here to find out how you can help!
WIDEsupport: Switzerland
Yamuna and Yogeshwar from Switzerland made a huge difference to our sustainable future: they encouraged us to start Retreat Centre & Guest House to have our ownconstant support for children's home and were first sponsors for this project!
With their help we were able not only to supply our land with drinking water but most importantly we had courage and believe we can make it! Today we are happy to see that this project is in process (see more) and we believe one day we will have possibility to greet our first guests!
More about them: http://www.namaste-welfare.org
Also we want to say BIG THANKS to:
Corrnelia Plutz (Germany)
Valerie Bernaert and Olivier Forni (France)
Liv Stavås (Sweeden)
for their continuous support to our children's home for years!
We are grateful for their generous support and care about us – it means a lot! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!


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This screening took place on
Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 7:00pm
Globe Theatre, Atlin BC
Winner of the Available Light Film Festival 2014 Audience Choice Award for best Canadian Documentary
Whitehorse based filmmaker Dennis Allen's raw and honest exploration of substance abuse among First Nations communities, begins in his own childhood. Born in Inuvik, Dennis grew up in a community where alcohol abuse was rampant. In his efforts to get sober, he came across a the book "Crazywater", by writer Brian Maracle of the Mohawk Nation, that featured Native people talking openly about their problems with alcohol. As Dennis says, "(h)ow can anyone understand us, if we don't tell our story?" His new film is an incredibly honest effort to do just that: empower five people to tell their stories of surviving addiction.
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I have always preferred looking at the sunset
I have always appreciated the softness of it's hues
I have always been weary to look at you
But I've seen you glance my way and stared for too long, even my peripheral vision can't fool me.
But I can't seem to comprehend your face
You're neither happy or sad or whatever when I walk by and I can't understand your eyes I don't know what you see in me
But I regret not looking back that one time I entered your classroom with a friend and you were literally a smile away and I knew you were looking at me
I felt your anticipation graze along my shoulder and I know you were waiting for me to look at you and at least smile or something but I don't
I didn't
I can't so I let my friend hustle along and leave the classroom, a heavy sigh escape my system
a twinge of regret sit in my head, tapping his foot repeatedly in a syncopated impatience. He checks his watch every so often cursing me to the sky.
Regret is waiting impatiently for me to take another chance.
But I've always preferred to look at the sunset
I have always made an effort to look at something so beautiful
and Regret is still waiting for me to glance back at you and at least see something.


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Luke Busumbru scored twice as Brunos Magpies eased to a 4-1 victory over Cannons.
Magpies started the stronger side and nearly scored in the opening 10 minutes, former Britannia midfielder Kevin Poku Boateng capitalised on a error from Adrian Reina and fired a long range shot towards goal which went just wide. As the game went on Cannons settled and looks threatening going forward, Isaac Cereto delivered a corner which found David Hernandez whose header was saved by Manuel Garcia.
30 minutes in and Magpies broke the deadlock, Jose Maria Diaz Mendoza latched onto a through ball from Luke Busumbru and slotted it past the on-rushing Javier Vaello. Four minutes later Cannons nearly equalised but David Hernandez's header from a Fernando Vera free-kick hit the post.
Magpies went on the counter and doubled their lead as scorer turned provider, Diaz played Busumbru through on goal and fired the ball past Vaello. Cannons nearly pulled a goal back just before half-time but Juan Carlos Pineda fired the ball over from inside the box after being sent through on goal by Guillermo Perez. Shortly after the half-time whistle went with Magpies leading 2-0.
Cannons got off to a fast start in the second half, Samuel Mesua saw his long range effort rocket off the crossbar. Just after the hour mark Magpies made it 3-0, Luke Buxton delivered a free-kick which found Busumbru who rose above his marker and headed the ball past Vaello.
Despite the scoreline Cannons kept attacking and were rewarded with a goal six minutes later as substitute Ismael Ruesca got on the end of a Pineda cross to nod the ball past Garcia. With ten minutes to go Magpies got a fourth, debutant Luis McCoy latched onto a through ball from Busumbru.
Magpies saw out the last few minutes and walked away with three important points. This win sees Magpies remain second and move six points clear of their opponents Cannons in third.
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Bangalore: Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj
on Thursday accepted the resignation of Upa Lokayukta R Gururajan,
who quit citing personal and health reasons.
The resignation has been accepted with effect from today,
a Raj Bhavan communique said here.
Gururajan`s resignation yesterday has left the
three-member anti-corruption watchdog with only one Upa
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Dr. Jacquelin Perry passed away in her home on Monday, March 11th. She was 94. Although advanced in years, Dr. Perry was an active clinician, researcher, and author almost until the day she died. She is known throughout the world for her work with polio patients and gait disorders. For more details of her storied career we recommend her obituary in the Downey Patriot or a look at the Division's Spring/Summer 2012 issue of inMotion.Dr. Perry was a special friend to us here at USC Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy. She was a faculty member, mentor, benefactor, and supporter. She was a member of the Division's Board of Councilors for many years. Our conference room (CHP 147-E) is named in her honor. In 2009, in recognition of her contributions, the Division renamed its state-of-the-art biomechanics laboratory as the Jacquelin Perry Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research Laboratory. Despite her fame, Dr. Perry loved nothing more than seeing patients and teaching students. She was always extraordinarily generous with her time and her expertise. Most of all, she was an inspiration to all of us. A public celebration of Dr. Perry's life will be held at Cafe Amigos in the Support Services Annex Building on the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center campus on Friday, March 22, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. with a formal ceremony at 1:00 p.m.
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
An Affair to Remember
Don't you think all affairs would be remembered? I just thought it was a dumb title of a movie but then again I've never seen the movie so I guess I should watch it before I judge. Anyway, this week we talked a lot about affairs and what we can change in our habits, what we can do to prevent, and what we can avoid. It's true that there is so much that we can do as soon as we start seriously dating someone that will lessen the chance of running into problems with relationships outside of marriage. I found it all very useful and interesting but I think the thing that stuck out to me the most this week was that there are different forms of affairs. There are emotional affairs, fantasy affairs, relationships, and sexual affairs. There does not need to be sex for it to count as an affair. I think emotional affairs are just as dangerous. I think there is only so much love that we can give and if we start giving it to another person we have to take it away from somewhere and so usually we end up taking it away from our spouse. This just causes things to get worse and we start a never ending cycle. If we remain completely faithful to our spouse however, we won't have these problems and we can strengthen each other and grow. The world should be rid of affairs if you ask me. They're no good. None whatsoever.
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How will we grow food in the future?
Why is horticulture lighting important?
The world's population is growing. The available farmland is diminishing. The urbanization is increasing, and with it the transportation distances and expenditures. The ability to provide enough food will become a challenge in the next 30 years. Traditional agriculture will not be able to provide the people in future cities with enough healthy nourishment.
We are in need for new and better systems to meet the food supply demand.
Urban farming and indoor vertical farming are very good examples of such solutions. Growing tomatoes, melons, lettuce and the like in the midst of big cities, and these plants will need to be fed as well, primarily with water and light. Compared to conventional agricultural solutions, urban farming achieves significant increases in energy efficiency and can, thus, help vegetable and fruit cultivation in the metropolises of the world to become viable.
What is horticulture lighting?
Horticulture lighting is used to support, increase and enable the growth of plants by illuminating them with artificial light. LED Light is a very efficient way and upcoming solution for this application!
Horticulture lighting is used -
- as supplemental lighting: To supplement natural daylight and raise grow light levels in order to enhance photosynthesis and thereby improve growth and quality of plants in greenhouses
- as photoperiodic lighting: To control the light period by extending the natural day length with artificial light
- for cultivation without daylight: To totally replace daylight with artificial light for ultimate climate control
How does light affect plant growth?
- Light quantity
The amount of light affects the photosynthesis process in the plant. This process is a photochemical reaction within the chloroplasts of the plant cells in which CO2 is converted into carbohydrate under the influence of the light energy.
- Light quality regarding spectral composition of the light
The spectral composition of the different wavelength regions (blue, green, yellow, red, far red or invisible e.g. UV or IR) is important for the grows, shape, development and flowering (photomorphogenesis) of the plant. For the photosynthesis, the blue and red regions are most important.
- Light duration
The timing / light duration which is also called photoperiod is mainly affecting the flowering of the plants. The flowering time can be influenced by controlling the photoperiod.
Every plant has its own light requirements, therefore plant-specific 'light recipes' are being researched extensively. By using the right light, it is possible to influence the development of plants, from their growth patterns to their appearance and nutrient content.
What are the optimum wavelengths?
Horticulture lighting is focusing on LEDs with mainly 450nm, 660nm and 730nm wavelength.
- The 450nm and the 660nm are providing the energy for the plant to life and grow. The amount of light is not measured in lumen but in amount of photons. The common unit in horticulture lighting is µmol/s in the range of 400-700 (photosynthetically active region).
- The 730nm is necessary to control the growth of the plant.
Key to find the best light recipes are self-learning software algorithms that create and optimize digital plant models in order to cultivate tailor-made salads, herbs, vegetables and fruits.
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People want fresh and nutritious vegetables, beautiful floral arrangements, and fragrant herbs all year round, possibly even at the touch of a button with the latest trends in e-commerce. Fortunately, the art and science of growing plants is evolving with new digital and smart technologies for vertical farms, hydroponic greenhouses, and small gardening systems, enabling the optimization of crop development and farms to sprout in big cities and even in people's homes.
Ongoing light research, sensor technology, and cloud computing allow horticulture professionals to meet the increasing demands of today's consumers, and provide everything from LED grow lights to complete solutions.Link to an overview of our horticulture lighting applications Learn more about PHYTOFY RL, the tunable LED horticultural lighting system used by the NASA
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"We are witnessing the digitalization and automation of agriculture," says Timo Bongartz, responsible for Smart Farming at OSRAM. "By growing lettuce and vegetables in a controlled environment indoors, it is possible to produce them all year round and irrespective of geographical location." Alongside water, nutrients, and temperature, light is a decisive factor in a closed system. By controlling the light, it is possible to increase yields, reduce growing times, and influence the taste, appearance, and nutritional content of plants. "We can influence the vitamin content of tomatoes through changes in the light spectrum, or control how mild or strong basil tastes," Bongartz adds.Read the whole story: "Vertical growth"


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A Maggie's Centre is a place to turn to for help with any of the problems, small or large,
associated with cancer.
Under one roof you can access help with information, benefits advice, psychological
support both individually and in groups, courses and stress reducing strategies. You
don't have to make an appointment, or be referred and everything we offer is free of
It is there for anybody who feels the need for help, which includes those who love and
look after someone with cancer, who often feel as frightened and vulnerable as those
who actually have the disease.
A Maggie's Centre will be many things to many people. It is there for anybody to use in
the way they want to. There isn't a one size fits all recipe for how you live with cancer.
Everybody needs to find their own way.
The job of the professionals at Maggie's is to listen to you, to help you find out what
you want and give you the tools to help yourself.
Every Maggie's centre:
"Although the design and aesthetics of the building are key elements of the Maggie's
philosophy, those first impressions of light, calm, comfort, welcome and difference were
mesmerising as we gradually took in the surroundings"
Andy Millward
"This is a place that feels as if it's about life, rathereassurance and respite."
Deyan Sudjic
Maggie Keswick Jencks, wife, mother, daughter, scholar and writer, landscape designer
and painter, was the woman with whom this whole project started.
She had vitality and determination in abundance. She needed every ounce of these
when she found herself fighting for her life in 1993, when she was diagnosed with
metastasized breast cancer and told that she had just a few months to live.
Having joined a trial for metastasised breast cancer and won an eighteen month
reprieve, she put all her recovered energy in to fighting for the supportive adjunct to
your medical treatment which she felt was desperately needed by anybody having to
learn how to rebuild a life with cancer as part of it.
She was asked to write an article for a medical journal, a patient's perspective on
being treated for cancer. 'A View from the Frontline'gave her the opportunity to
work out what it was that she and the many others in the frontline with her needed.
She was convinced that everybody would feel better as she did, if they felt able to
take some active role in what was happening to them. In order not to be a 'cancer
victim', she believed you needed help with information which would allow you to be an
informed participant in your medical treatment, help with stress reducing strategies,
psychological support and the opportunity to meet up and share with other people in
similar circumstances in a relaxed domestic atmosphere.
Maggie was a good writer. 'The Chinese Garden', first published in 1978 is a classic.
It is a lucid history of Chinese gardens and the philosophy that underpins them, based
on the many trips she made to China where her family had long standing trading links.
Although it is only a short essay'A View from the Frontline', turned out to be a radical
call to arms.
She persuaded her medical team at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh that
they needed partners who could help their patients with the very real, if not medical,
problems of living with cancer. She drew up a blueprint and plans for a pioneering little
venture, in a stable block a bow shot away from where she was being treated.
She found time during that precious last eighteen months to work with Frank Gehry on
an ambitious landscape plan for a project that Frank was designing in California. It was
for love of her that Frank designed the Maggie's Centre in Dundee which confirmed
what Richard Murphy and David Page had already proved in Edinburgh and Glasgow:
the importance of an imaginative, inspiring place for people to be able to turn to at such
a critical moment in their lives, somewhere which feels joyous, a beacon of hope.
For further information on Maggie's please visit:
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613 Mitzvot (commandments)
What are the Laws of given in the Torah? What did Moses teach the people? Learn about the 613 Mitzvot (commandments) given in the Torah as codified by Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon).
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