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Living in Barcelona Spain can be quite an experience, especially for the Erasmus students. Both students and tourists can pick from different options to explore the neighborhood and cost of living in Barcelona. Deepening on how much one is willing to pay, one can find a great range of choices available.
But before you think about moving and living in Barcelona, either as a tourist or a student, it is always a good idea to take feedbacks and research about the cost and the places to stay as per your liking and budget. Read about the real life experience of people living in Barcelona and these genuine experiences are far better than any travel brochures.
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It is 6 AM on Saturday morning. My feet feel like two stumps as I stand on them in the operating room. In this fog of fatigue I am wondering why I am here.
Literally, I am here because this woman is doing her best to bleed to death. By her best, I mean she has now lost close to two liters of blood. One and one half of those liters could still be circulating in her blood stream if she had listened to me ten hours ago. She presented to the emergency room holding her 14 week fetus that she passed at home around supper time yesterday. I was in the operating room and the intern on call retrieved a large piece of placenta from her cervix and managed to slow the bleeding. Medication decreased the flow of blood to a trickle.
As I arrived in her ER cubicle, she declared, "I am not having a D and C!" She proceeded to tell me that she had retained placenta with the baby before last and she was "treated very badly." She adamantly refused to have a surgical procedure to suction out the remaining placental tissue which had not passed. I sympathized and let her talk on. "I don't want blood because of AIDS. If you put me to sleep, you will sterilize me. You think I am a bad mother because I don't have custody of my six children." This last statement she volunteered when I ask her who was caring for the baby born less than a year ago.
While I have gotten use to people not taking my advice, this patient was particularly difficult to care for. Over the course of the next 8 hours I came to realize why she did not have custody of any of her living children and why she was afraid of sterilization. I am sure this option has been offered to her multiple times. I could never reason with her because I could not get two complete sentences out of my mouth before she began railing at me. We finally went to the operating room when she continued to bleed despite multiple medications and a repeat sonogram, done the way she insisted, which showed retained placental tissue.
She is now stable in the recovery room. She still has her uterus. She will be pregnant again, probably within six
months since her last child is less than a year old.
So I am here because....
Well, my answer this morning is, "I couldn't make a living as an investment banker."
I also know I wouldn't be any good at the law or half a dozen other jobs which would give me this kind of perspective. People fascinate me and I often feel privileged to have such a intimate view of their lives. I sound jaded this morning because simply put, I am tired. A couple of days off will cure this and I will be back for more.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
I am here because...
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Stocks to Die For! (Part 1)26 September 2007 - Features - Editor
Entrepreneurial investors, who have held stocks of the innovative biotechnology company Celera of Rockeville, Md, must have heaved a collective sigh of relief when the organization switched tracks from selling genomic information to discovering new drugs. Certainly Applera, which has a controlling stake in Celera, must have had a directive role in the path-breaking decision to change the business model, but even Celera's founder who was responsible for the information-selling decision in the first place, has been supportive.
No innovation is without risk of failure. The decision to sell genomic information, and to compete with publicly funded research in the bargain, was attractive but unprecedented from the outset. It is to the credit of Celera's management that a corrective decision was taken in time, and that the company's future prospects make its stocks tremendously attractive.
How Technological Developments Drive Values of Stocks
Observers can tell that Celera's fortunes have been swept to an unbelievable crest through changes in how new drugs are now developed. The basis for research throughout the pharmaceutical industry has moved away from 20th century organic chemistry to genetics of the new millennium. This evolution has competitive advantages in terms of the quantity of new molecules, which can be developed and evaluated, as well as in terms of designing medicines, which can cater to racial and even individual differences between patient groupings. Most drugs work at specific protein sites in the human body, and genomic information provides researchers with head starts in discovery processes.
Celera proves that technological evolution can change the fortunes of stocks beyond measure. The chances of favorable developments increase when sound management teams blend well with groups of creative scientists: this is the secret of Celera's new success. The stocks of the company are likely to appreciate in superior fashion as the pharmaceutical industry switches over to protein micro-arrays for their new brands. There are also bright chances of major market expansion, as genomics may pave the way for remedies and treatment options for medical conditions, which are beyond adequate management today. The best part, as far as owners of Celera stocks are concerned, is that only a handful of competitors have the requisite know-how.
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Born October 14th 1927, he was the Quintessential British Gentleman who first dabbled in the TV series Maverick as Beauregard Maverick, one of the interchangable brothers for which the series was well known for. He also headlined a version of Ivanhoe. As previously mentioned, his role on The Saint got him his biggest role for which many people still know him to this day:Bond, James Bond.
Roger Moore's relationship with the series started with Live and Let Die and lasted until A View to a Kill. He was 45 when he started out, and almost 58 when he wrapped things up, with the longest tenure in both years and number of films to datenote . His era is known being very light hearted, often to the point of self-parody, making him somewhat divisive among fans of the series, and it is often debated how much of the self-parody was him and how much of it was the studio.
Unfortunately Sir Roger's affection for the role fluctuated. It seems on one hand he loved the job, but on the other hand a great deal of I Am Not Spock feedback came from him. Reportedly, "Who's the best Bond!?" questions tend to leave a sour taste in his mouth because it's such a Base Breaker being him (despite, you know, George Lazenby already having been there).Later in his life, he retired as an actor, but seemed all right with doing a cameo here and there.
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Wintercamp Reflection
The first thing we did well was to make an elevated platform. The elevated platform kept us warm and we never woke up at night because of the cold. Secondly our menu plan was perfect, we made quesadillas and had Gatorade for drinks and marshmallows and chocolate for dessert. We also brought 4 bags of chips for snacks and a veggie tray and finally some beef jerky. The last thing that we did well was make our walls nice and thick, It kept us warm. The walls around the entrance were also really thick so no wind or air was getting through. Not all of it was great though, if I had to do it again I would cover up our tunnel at night. The quinzhee was cold in the morning because all the cold air was coming straight up through our tunnel. Secondly I would make sure to bring a pillow. I didn't have one this time and it made sleeping a lot less comfortable. A recommendation I would make to anyone attempting to build their own quinzhee is to make sure you make the pile really wide. Having a wide base allows for a lot more room once you begin to dig it out. Secondly I would recommend having a good platform so you can stay warm and away from the cold air. My final tip would be to make sure your walls don't become to thin. Having thin walls would make it a lot colder at night and your overall experience would be much worse.


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|The newest AHL Pens forward: Pittsburgh-area native C.J. Severyn. Photo courtesy of the Orlando Solar Bears team page and the ECHL.
When the news broke about the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins signing forward C.J. Severyn to a professional tryout (PTO), many were quick to point out Severyn's hometown and his accolades with the team he has been on this season in the Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL).
The Beaver, Pa native grew up about 45 minutes outside of Pittsburgh near the PA/Ohio border. The former Pittsburgh Hornets and four-year Ohio State University center never put up big offensive numbers in college and played a bottom-six role to add secondary scoring. One thing noticed in his game is his ability to work down low in the corners.
It wasn't until his second season of pro hockey in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) that Severyn's offensive game attracted some attention, after a 22-goal season with the Solar Bears last year.
This isn't the first time Severyn has put on an AHL uniform, as he played with the Charlotte Checkers for six games in March last season after 44 points (22G-22A) in 65 ECHL games with the Solar Bears. It's also not the first time Severyn has worn a WBS Penguins uniform, as he appeared in a few preseason games for the Pens earlier this season during AHL training camp.
I caught up with a teammate of Severyn's to get an inside look at what the Penguins should expect when he hits the ice with the Pens this weekend in St. Johns. Current Orlando Solar Bears and former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defenseman Cody Wild has been a teammate of Severyn's this season and the first thing he mentioned about Severyn was how good of a shot he has.
"He can bury," Wild said of Severyn, adding,"he's a big shooter and he goes to the gritty areas. A real hard worker that isn't afraid to mix up it with some physical play."
Where Severyn fits into the current battered AHL Penguins forward core remains to be seen, but a bottom-six role won't be anything new for him. If anything, it's his bread and butter.
The latest string of injuries and call ups in the Penguins organization has the AHL Penguins without seven forwards from their opening night roster. Forwards Chris Conner, Andrew Ebbett, Jayson Megna and Zach Sill are playing in the NHL with Pittsburgh, while Adam Payerl (3-4 months - upper body), Dominik Uher (1-2 weeks - upper body) and Nick Drazenovic (out this weekend) are all out with injuries.
The AHL Penguins brought in Severyn and Anton Zlobin to help round out the forward core before leaving for St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada for two games with the IceCaps this weekend. The team has 13 healthy forwards in addition to seven healthy defensemen.
Possible WBS Lineup:
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March 23, 2011
Into the Sunset
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- Anonymous said...
I love this! Makes me miss home. You did an awesome job!
- March 23, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- Cams said...
The painting is so wonderful and awesome. I was just thinking what makes you think to stop giving this gift for him?
All dad really appreciates their child artwork. Others may just seem that they don;t like the gift but deep inside their heart they are overwhelmed of our gift to them.
- March 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM
- Gobo Fongo said...
Technically he's flying away from the sunset ;)
It's amazing, and looks really good in their house.
- March 31, 2011 at 10:54 PM
- VanityofVanities said...
I definitely love the background and the sky. Sunset is indeed a beauty to behold not just in reality but even on paintings like this.
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In the Valley of Hopelessness: God's strength is there!
Standing in the valley, as I look around all I see is death and destruction. Surrounding me are bones. Not just any bones, these are dry bones. If I touch then they will fade away like dust. Dusty, dry bones, I've been there. I've been in situations that seem completely hopeless.
This reminds me of what Satan has been doing in my life. He is stealing my joy. He is killing my hope, and in doing so he is attempting to destroy the relationship I have with Jesus. Jesus told us this would happen.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. - John 10:10
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been there. Joy disappearing more each day. My hope on life support and they are threatening to pull the plug. My desire for a relationship with the one who is watching it happen, going down the toilet.
Well if we look at the story of Ezekiel and the dry bones we find some hope for the hopeless.
God asked Ezekiel if those dry bones could live again. I'm going to ask you the same thing. Is there any chance your joy can live again? What about your hope?
Ezekiel had some smart words here in response to this question.
3 He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "Sovereign Lord, you alone know." 4 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'" - Ezekiel 37:3-6
Only God knew if the bones could live again. So God told Ezekiel to prophesy that the bones would become whole, having flesh on them again. The rest of John 10:10 promises that Jesus came to give us life. I'm not talking about a hopeless life. No, he came to give us a full, hope filled life.
This may take some faith, but God knows your future and he doesn't want you living dusty and dry. He wants to give you hope. Water filled hope!
How does God breath power into your Valley?
How do you regain your joy, your hope and your relationship with Jesus? I'm going to venture and say that you need to work this backwards.
Let's start with your relationship. You need to find your love for God, you do this by praying and spending time in the Word. You need to trust him and his great love for you.
Next you need to pray for God to help you see His plans to prosper you. Ask him to open doors that no one can close, and close doors that are leading you away from him.
Now that you are back to building your relationship, pray that God will give you joy. That he will take whatever it is that is stealing your joy away. Ask him for strength and courage to stop following that path anymore.


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Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Day +13 & Lots of Love
Brianna was greeted this weekend by her grandparents, John and Trevor, who all came by on Saturday. We all took turns visiting so that not too many people were in the room at the same time. (The hepa-filtered rooms are meant to circulate the air every eight minutes with two to three people in the room. More people means less air circulation. We always try to err on the side of caution.) So it was great for Brianna to see them and really special for all of us to be together.
They brought some mail and one envelope contained lots of "Get Well" cards from Brownie Troop 2517. You see, we met a sweet 8-year-old little girl who was getting treated for a rare immune deficiency while Brianna was getting all those transfusions at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek. Caroline and her mother Terri shared a treatment room with us a couple of times and it was wonderful getting to know these two special ladies. Caroline shared with her Brownie Troop all that Brianna had to go through to get well. The Troop was also visited by one of our favorite nurses, Nancy Horan, who told the girls about Caroline's disorder and her treatment. One thing led to another, and they all drew beautiful cards for Brianna. It was so sweet!! Brianna enjoyed them so much.
My parents visit was also nice, because Brianna allowed my mom to stay with her for two days, while I got to head home and relax a bit. John and I went to dinner and then on Sunday, we all went to see the movie Wild Hogs. It was just what the doctor ordered! The movie is hilarious. It felt good to be home, but odd because Brianna wasn't there. You never really can relax until you know your children are healthy and safe.
When I got back to the hospital on Monday, Brianna was coughing. The doctors think she has a virus in her lung. That's what happens when your immune system is dropped to zero. Any type of virus floating around in your body can erupt, because all those good antibodies have been suppressed. She had a chest x-ray which did show a spot on her lung with some inflammation. She was also given an antiviral medication and got swabbed a second time. The first swabs taken came back negative for the viruses they checked. The second test will look for lots of other viruses.
Please say some prayers that she rides this out okay. Her new marrow should start making white blood cells between day +14 and +21. That should help, but until then we wait. She is in a bit of pain when she coughs, but some pain medication has helped. She is taking lots of deep breaths to also ease the soreness. Again, we continue to play the waiting game.
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Your beautiful daughter will be in my prayers.
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Rudolph II's art cabinet (Kunstkammer) was one of the most famous collections of art and curios in Europe.
Rudolph II (1552-1612) was the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. He became King of Hungary in 1572 and King of Bohemia in 1575. Following the death of his father he also became Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria. His reign was a troubled time of great religious conflicts coupled with the external menace of the Turks. Unfortunately, politics was not a great interest of his. Instead he was familiar with a number of languages and was devoted to art and science, the latter including alchemy and astrology, a highly fashionable preoccupation at that time. He was also fascinated by magic and the occult. At the end of the 1590s mental illness rendered him incapable of governing his empire, which by that time was torn by disputes between Reformation and Counter-Reformation movements. As a result, in 1611, he was forced to cede the crown of Bohemia to his brother Matthias and he died soon afterwards.
At the royal castle of Hradčany in Prague, his principal residence, Rudolph created the most spectacular collection of art and curios in contemporary Europe. Known as Rudolphinische Kunst- und Wunderkammer, it was housed in a new, purpose-built gallery. Some items he had inherited (the whole family were keen collectors), some were given to him by various diplomatic delegations and scientists, but the greater part he had acquired for himself. He was a passionate and enthusiastic collector and he purchased works of art abroad through his agents, as well as invite artists to Prague where he supported them. It was customary at this time for groups of artists to wander from one royal court to another, and Prague was an obvious port of call, given Rudolph II's reputation as a generous patron of the arts and great collector. He spared no pains in acquiring objects that fired his imagination, including the Devil's Bible. He borrowed it from the Broumov monastery in 1594, but never returned it as it appealed to his interest in the occult.
The collection comprised art objects, decorative arts, precious objects, natural history specimens and scientific instruments. Its wealth and diversity were meant to provide a panorama of the visible world. Rudolph collected anything and everything. Old and new, live animals and stuffed ones – everything was mixed up together. His ambition was universal, namely that of portraying the world in its entirety. The collection included nearly a thousand paintings (Rudolph's favourites were Albrecht Dürer and Pieter Breughel the Elder) and sculptures, especially by Renaissance and Mannerist masters. There was a large collection of minerals, ivory 'rarities', coral etc. Rudolph could spend hours in rapt contemplation of his pictures, sculptures, natural history specimens and curios. The whole collection constituted a microcosmos in which things from earth, sea and air (minerals, plants and animals), naturalia, were displayed together with things made by man, artificialia. There was also a large collection of scientifica, scientific instruments, necessary for exploring the world at large. The naturalia included many exotic, odd and fantastic items. The study of these items was considered the best way into an understanding of Nature's secrets. Rhinoceros horn, mandrake and dragons were included in the collection, as well as rhinoceros and tiger's teeth and a leopard's claw. A botanical and zoological garden were also part of the collection, with live animals supplementing all the skeletons and taxidermic (stuffed) creatures. The inmates of Rudolph's great menagerie included chameleons, pelicans, crocodiles, turtles, birds of paradise and a lion.
This comprehensive collection was also intended to symbolise the power of the Emperor. Control over the microcosmos collection would indicate his omnipotence over his empire, the macrocosmos. The collection was part of a political manifestation. It was very famous, and the Emperor's guests often arrived in Prague bringing precious gifts in the hope of being allowed to see it. But by no means all of them were granted admittance to the Kunst- und Wunderkammer during Rudolph's own lifetime.
The death of Rudolph in 1612 was followed by a turbulent period in the collection's history. Matthias, who succeeded him, hastily compiled an inventory to acquaint himself with its contents. Rudolph wanted the collection to stay in the family, but the Bohemian Estates demanded that it be sold to pay off his huge debts. Large parts of it (including works by Breughel the Elder, Dürer, Tintoretto and Veronese) were successfully transferred to Vienna, which was now reinstated as the Imperial residence. The brothers Maximilian III and Albrecht VII also received their allotted shares, mainly in the form of jewels and artificial objects of previous metals, but also including paintings by Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Veronese and others. Certain objects were given to the adherents of the new Emperor.
It was not until 1619 that part of the collection went to the Estates. Further losses were soon to follow, especially in 1620, in the early stages of the Thirty Years War, when, following his victory at the Battle of the White Mountain, Maximilian of Bavaria carried off a great deal of booty, and again at the end of the war in 1648, when the Hradčany castle was looted by the Swedes. The Swedish General Königsmarck used the threat of torture to compel the treasurer, Dionysio Miseroni, to surrender both the keys of the art chamber and a list of its contents, compiled as recently as 1647. However, Miseroni was soon required to draw up a new inventory because Königsmarck wanted to make sure the old one had been correct.
The Kunst- und Wunderkammer was despoiled of everything that could be carried away. Some of the decorative art items and a number of damaged paintings were all that were left behind. The lion was carried off along with the rest of the booty. A den was built for it in the moat of the royal castle in Stockholm, together with a covered gallery from which spectators could watch it tussling with other animals. Unhappily, the King of Beasts did not fulfill their expectations and eventually the lion's den was turned into a theatre.
Contemporaries testify to the astonishing proportions of the loot. Its arrival was awaited in Stockholm by the young Queen Christina, herself as passionate an art collector as Rudolph II. Only the best was good enough, and she was interested in everything. Later on, when she decided to abdicate, she chose to retain only a relatively small collection of the finest Italian masters, such as Veronese, Correggio and Titian. These, she declared, were the only ones that pleased her. Nearly all the German and Netherlands pictures were left behind in Sweden. Many of these perished in the royal castle fire of 1697 and the Uppsala fire of 1702.
Rudolph II's Kunstkammer seems, however, to have been inexhaustible. The wretched fragments remaining after all the depredations still excited visitors' admiration well into the seventeenth century. And although it was believed that the collection had ceased to exist as a result of auctions and transfers to Vienna during the nineteenth century, it was discovered in the 1960s that there were still over 70 pictures and sculptures in situ.


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Migration to Maven 3
I've read a number of articles which say about new cool features like parallel builds and performance speed-ups. Sounds rather sweet.
So I've taken the current project I'm working at and migrated it to Maven 3 to check if it's possible to get any compilation speed-up. The only thing which was changed in the root pom.xml was replacing http://download.java.net/maven/1 repository with http://maven.glassfish.org/content/groups/public. This has been done because legacy layouts are no longer supported in Maven 3
The project contains about 10 modules, one of these modules compiles GWT, another one – JasperReports reports. This causes the whole compilation process to take about 12-13 minutes.
I've tested three main scenarios used for this project:
- Scenario 1. Quick compilation without running JUnit tests. GWT is configured to support only one browser which reduces compilation time.
- Scenario 2. Quick compilation with running JUnit tests. GWT is configured to support only one browser which reduces compilation time.
- Scenario 3. Full compilation with running JUnit tests.
Below are the results of running these scenarios with:
- Maven 2.
- Maven 3. Parallel build is enabled by specifying -T 1C parameter which tells Maven to use a thread per core.
|Maven 2.2.1
|Maven 3.0.2
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|Scenario 1
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|4m 07s
|Scenario 2
|6m 51s
|5m 45s
|Scenario 3
|12m 53s
|11m 20s
As you can see straightforward compilation without tests was not quicker. But running JUnit tests in parallel is quite a nice thing which can speed up your build process.
Of course everything depends on the specifics of your project, the way it's structured, a list of used plugins. For example the default GWT plugin settings are already good enough to utilize all cores of your CPU. But in general Maven 3 will definetely make your development cycle faster.


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Toward Smaller Silicon Switches
One important measure of the size of transistors is that of the "gate"—the region in the device that actually blocks or allows the flow of current in response to changes in applied potential. Gate lengths are now at about 50 nanometers, but smaller devices cannot be made simply by scaling down the present architectures because of potential problems with leakage currents (an inability to turn the switch off) and capacitive losses. Ieong et al. (p. 2057) present an overview of strategies for creating transistors on chips with gate lengths below 10 nanometers, including the use of multiple gates and ways to speed up the flow of charge carriers in the gate region.
Cheating Heisenberg with Optical Combs
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle leads to tradeoffs when choosing between frequency domain and time domain techniques for spectroscopy. Frequency-resolved spectra measure energy levels with high precision, but the pulses are too long to probe dynamics directly. Ultrashort pulses can probe coherent behavior in state transitions but are too broad to measure state energies. Marian et al. (p. 2063, published online 18 November 2004) have exploited one of the properties of ultrashort pulses, which is that they are actually composed of many discrete frequency lines. The authors apply pulse-to-pulse phase stabilization, using the optical combs previously developed for frequency standardization, to spectroscopy. In a study of Rb atoms, they combine the frequency resolution of the narrow comb lines (for state energies) with the time resolution of the pulse envelope (for coherent dynamics). In addition, they measure and correct for the momentum imparted to the atoms by the light field.
DNA and RNA Swap Roles
Two reports focus on the use of nucleic acids in creating complex material shapes and patterns and in directing molecular assembly (see the Perspective by Yan). Fragments of DNA can be designed that assemble into large-scale patterns and then be further functionalized or coated with metal particles. Chworos et al. (p. 2068) have now built a large library of shapes and patterns out of RNA, despite RNA's greater chemical lability. The authors start by constructing small- and large-sized tectoids, which are square in shape and that are designed with a variety of sticky tails at the corners. Three-dimensional periodic and aperiodic patterns can be formed from mixtures of the small and large shapes. The ribosome is an RNA and protein machine that strings amino acids into peptides specified by messenger RNA sequences. Liao and Seeman (p. 2072) have made a DNA machine that mimics some of the translational capabilities of the ribosome in that it can hook together sequences of DNA based on the way the machine has been set. The functional part of the device can assume two structural states, and is primed by short DNA segments that are not related to the sequence that the device assembles.
Ironing Out Sedimentary Origins
Some of the oldest rocks on Earth, dating to about 3.8 billion years ago, are found in southwestern Greenland, the Isua greenstone belt, and the related banded rocks on Akilia Island. Carbon isotopic data suggested that microorganisms helped to form some of these rocks in a sedimentary environment and thus represent some of the earliest evidence for life on Earth. Others argue that the rocks are not of sedimentary origin. Dauphas et al. (p. 2077) provide iron isotopic data which suggest that the banded quartz-pyroxene rocks on Akilia Island are of sedimentary origin and that it is likely that the iron was transported, oxidized, and precipitated from hydrothermal vents. The oxidation and subsequent isotopic fractionation could be produced by anoxygenic photoautotrophic bacteria, which would link these sediments with the earliest known life.
Love Thy Neighbor--or Thyself
In many plants, a particular gene system ensures that pollen from one plant is only capable of pollinating non-self plants, thus ensuring outcrossing. However Arabidopsis thaliana can self-pollinate. The genes that would normally enforce self-incompatibility, and thus outcrossing, still exist in Arabidopsis, but only as nonfunctional pseudogenes. Shimizu et al. (p. 2081) show that the sequence diversity found in these alleles through populations of Arabidopsis is considerably lower than found in active, self-incompatibility gene systems. In fact, the sequence diversity is so limited as to suggest the action of positive selection on these pseudogenes. Fixation of this transition to self-pollination has occurred recently, in evolutionary terms, perhaps when Arabidopsis ranges expanded after the Pleistocene. Self-fertility may prove useful to a species when it is expanding its habitat ranges.
The Beginnings of an RNA Virus Replication Complex
Many plant RNA viruses have a transfer RNA-like structure at the 3' terminus of the viral RNA genome that is required for recruitment of the replicase. An exception is alfalfa mosaic virus, where the 3' terminus comprises repeating hairpins separated by tetranucleotide repeats. The repeats bind to the viral coat protein (CP), and this interaction is required for replication. Guogas et al. (p. 2108) have determined the structure of a 39-nucleotide RNA segment bound to the N-terminal RNA binding domain of CP. Two CP peptides bind to sequential repeats in the RNA segment and the peptides and RNA co-fold into a defined structure. Such structural organization of the 3' terminus may present a conformation that is recognized by replicase enzymes.
Fundamentals of Iron Metabolism
The regulation of iron metabolism is a key component in maintaining health (see the Perspective by Beutler). Nemeth et al. (p. 2090, published online 28 October 2004) show that hepcidin, a peptide hormone produced by the liver in response to iron loading and inflammation, binds directly to the iron exporter ferroportin. Internalization of ferroportin leads to its degradation and prevents the export of iron from the cells. Iron overload diseases can be caused by the absence of hepcidin, and anemias can arise from increased production of hepcidin. Cells tightly regulate their responses to iron levels by using two proteins—iron regulatory protein (IRP) 1 and 2. Mice lacking IRP2 are severely compromised, but mice lacking IRP1 appear normal. Meyron-Holtz et al. (p. 2087) find that at physiological O2 levels, cells lacking IRP2 misregulate iron metabolism, whereas in cells cultured in high levels of O2—as commonly used in tissue culture—IRP1 can substitute for IRP2.
Every Breath You Take
The mammalian carotid body in the neck is a chemoreceptor that senses O2 levels in the circulatory system and adjusts the respiratory rate accordingly. When O2 becomes scarce, large-conductance calcium-sensitive potassium (BK) channels become inhibited, which causes cell depolarization and a cascade of responses that ultimately increases ventilation. Williams et al. (p. 2093, published online 4 November 2004; see the Perspective by Hoshi and Lahiri) now find that hemoxygenase-2 (HO-2) acts as an O2 sensor to control BK channel activity. At normal O2 concentrations, HO-2 uses O2 as a substrate to generate carbon monoxide (CO), a critical channel activator. During hypoxia, when O2 becomes scarce, HO-2 activity and CO generation fall, which inhibits BK channels and results in carotid body excitation.
Mitochondrial Maintenance Versus Induction
This replication of mammalian mitochondrial (mt) DNA is initiated at a number of start sites, or origins. Fish et al. (p. 2098) have identified an origin for mtDNA replication that is preferentially used by the cell under steady-state maintenance circumstances. The cell uses the other, previously described, origins after mtDNA has been depleted or when there are physiological demands for new mitochondria.
Back Door to Phosphorylation
Protein phosphorylation typically occurs through the catalytic activity of a kinase that transfers the phosphate moiety from adenosine triphosphate to a substrate. Saiardi et al. (p. 2101; see the Perspective by York and Hunter) show that the inositol pyrophosphate IP7 can act as a phosphate donor to eukaryotic proteins. The nonenzymatic covalent protein modification was observed in cell extracts and in yeast cells. Because IP7 and many of its targets have been implicated in various biological processes, this type of phosphorylation may represent an intracellular signaling mechanism.
Brain Repair Mechanism
The transcription factors Olig1 and Olig2 are closely related in sequence, but affect their key targets, oligodendrocyte cells, in different ways. Oligodendrocytes are responsible for wrapping neurons of the central nervous system in an insulating myelin sheath. Olig2 is important for developmental specification of oligodendrocyte cells. Arnett et al. (p. 2111) now show that Olig1 does not play a role in brain development but in repair. Mice lacking Olig1 are deficient in their ability to repair demyelinated brain lesions, the kind of lesions that occur in multiple sclerosis.
Nobly Bound Oxo Species
In the noble metal surface catalysis used for fuel cells, controlled combustion, and other oxidation reactions, a terminal oxo, or single oxygen atom bound to the metal, is a commonly invoked intermediate. However, chemists have long doubted that certain late transition metals, such as nickel, palladium, and platinum, could support a terminal oxo ligand in a high oxidative state. The problem is repulsion between the oxygen electrons and the six or more electrons found in the metal d-orbitals. Anderson et al. (p. 2074, published online 25 November 2004) have succeeded in synthesizing a d6 Pt(IV) oxo compound, stabilized by two tungsten oxide cluster ligands that delocalize electron density from the platinum center. Extensive x-ray and neutron diffraction techniques verified that the oxygen atom was in fact terminal and did not bear a hydrogen atom.
Fixing Broken DNA
Repair of DNA double-strand breaks is critical for genome stability, and cells have developed mechanisms to repair these chromosomal defects. It has been proposed that modified histones at double-strand breaks may attract chromatin-remodeling complexes that allow access for the DNA repair machinery. Kusch et al. (p. 2084, published online 4 November 2004) characterize a chromatin-remodeling complex involved in histone exchange during genome repair. The protein complex from Drosophila includes proteins such as chromatin-remodeling enzymes and histone variants. This complex facilitates DNA repair by acetylating the phosphorylated histone and then exchanging the modified protein with an unmodified version to create an altered chromatin structure at the DNA lesion.
Linking Age Control Mechanisms
Four different factors have been linked independently to mammalian aging—nutrient availability, the Forkhead transcription factor Foxo3a, the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-dependent deacetylase SIRT1, and the tumor suppressor protein p53. Nemoto et al. (p. 2105) now report that these elements intersect in a manner that may modulate mammalian life-span. Under conditions of nutritional stress, Foxo3a stimulates SIRT1 expression in mammalian cells, which requires p53 and two p53-binding sites within the SIRT1 promoter. Moreover, Foxo3a and p53 interaction increases under nutrient-starved conditions. The signaling pathway may constitute a homeostatic regulatory network that responds to nutrient availability and, consequently, controls aging.


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Police are investigating a dispute involving gunshots yesterday afternoon in west Columbia. No injuries were reported, and no arrests have been made, police spokeswoman Officer Jessie Haden said.
In the incident near Scott Boulevard and Millbrook Drive, a witness told police he saw two northbound vehicles on Scott Boulevard, and one was stopped, Haden said. A male who appeared to be a teenager got out and approached the second vehicle, occupied by a 65-year-old man, a 57-year-old woman and their 20-year-old son, who got out of the vehicle with a crowbar. The suspect took a gun out of his vehicle and shot at the victim, witnesses said. No vehicle damage or shell casings were found at the scene.


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Last week, a devastating fire destroyed the Grenfell Tower apartment building in London. The flames claimed the lives of dozens of innocent people and left families searching for loved ones.
The 24-floor building became completely engulfed in flames, and residents were doing everything they could to escape. Some brave souls even tried leaping from their windows to the ground below.
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The tragedy has left citizens heartbroken, and many are without hope. Like they often do, the royal family has reached out to show that they care about the people of the United Kingdom.
Prince William and Queen Elizabeth II took the time to make an unexpected visit to the crisis area and the Westway Sports Centre. They spent time with volunteers and victims, giving support and encouragement to all.
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In an incredibly touching move, Prince William hugged a woman in distress over her missing husband. Fatima Jafari's husband was in an elevator during the fire, and the woman has not been able to find him since.
Royal protocol was thrown out the window when the Prince saw the woman's grief. Instead of the standard handshake, he knew that the situation called for much more than that.
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His display of compassion will serve as an encouragement to his suffering country during this hard time. He is acting as a true leader should, unifying his country.
Jafari was incredibly touched by Prince William's gesture. A witness recalls the woman saying, "I am nobody, but the Queen and future King of this country came to see me. They really care."
Prince William breaks royal protocol and hugs victim of deadly London fire https://t.co/jslhHCUKmI pic.twitter.com/0CzMf2nr9u
— ☆York Stackhouse ☆ (@york0707) June 19, 2017
The visual of Prince William hugging someone who is suffering brings back memories of his mother doing the same thing. She frequently visited with sick patients and would shake their hands without wearing her gloves.
Princess Diana frequently hugged children, breaking royal protocol. Her actions were reminders of how important it is to be kind to fellow humans.
Following in his mother's footsteps, Prince William has grown into a symbol of hope for his country. He sets a beautiful example of acceptance and compassion that the citizens look up to.
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An advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) is a type of nuclear reactor. These are the second generation of British gas-cooled reactors, using graphite as the neutron moderator and carbon dioxide as coolant. The AGR was developed from the Magnox reactor, operating at a higher gas temperature for improved thermal efficiency, requiring stainless steel fuel cladding to withstand the higher temperature. Because the stainless steel fuel cladding has a higher neutron capture cross section than Magnox fuel cans, enriched uranium fuel is needed, with the benefit of higher "burn ups" of 18,000 MWt-days per tonne of fuel, requiring less frequent refueling. The first prototype AGR became operational in 1962[1] but the first commercial AGR did not come on line until 1976.
All AGR power stations are configured with two reactors in a single building. Each reactor has a design thermal power output of 1,500 MWt driving a 660 MWe turbine-alternator set. Because of operational restrictions, the various AGR stations produce outputs in the range 555 MWe to 625 MWe. [1]
The design of the AGR was such that the final steam conditions at the boiler stop valve were identical to that of conventional coal fired power stations, thus the same design of turbo-generator plant could be used. The mean temperature of the hot coolant leaving the reactor core was designed to be 648°C. In order to obtain these high temperatures, yet ensure useful graphite core life (graphite oxidises readily in CO2 at high temperature) a re-entrant flow of coolant at the lower boiler outlet temperature of 278°C is utilised to cool the graphite, ensuring that the graphite core temperatures do not vary too much from those seen in a Magnox station. The superheater outlet temperature and pressure were designed to be 2,485 psia and 543°C.
The fuel is uranium dioxide pellets, enriched to 2.5-3.5%, in stainless steel tubes. The original design concept of the AGR was to use a beryllium based cladding. When this proved unsuitable, the enrichment level of the fuel was raised to allow for the higher neutron capture losses of stainless steel cladding. This significantly increased the cost of the power produced by an AGR. The carbon dioxide coolant circulates through the core, reaching 640°C (1,184°F)and a pressure of around 40 bar (580 psi), and then passes through boiler (steam generator) assemblies outside the core but still within the steel lined, reinforced concrete pressure vessel. Control rods penetrate the graphite moderator and a secondary system involves injecting nitrogen into the coolant to hold the reactor down. A tertiary shutdown system which operates by injecting boron balls into the reactor has been proposed 'as retrofit to satisfy the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate's concerns about core integrity and core restraint integrity' [2].
The AGR was designed to have a high thermal efficiency (electricity generated/heat generated ratio) of about 41%, which is better than modern pressurized water reactors which have a typical thermal efficiency of 34%[3]. This is due to the higher coolant outlet temperature of about 640 °C (1,184°F) practical with gas cooling, compared to about 325 °C (617°F) for PWRs. However the reactor core has to be larger for the same power output, and the fuel burnup ratio at discharge is lower so the fuel is used less efficiently, countering the thermal efficiency advantage [2].
Like the Magnox, CANDU and RBMK reactors, and in contrast to the light water reactors, AGRs are designed to be refuelled without being shut down first. This on-load refuelling was an important part of the economic case for choosing the AGR over other reactor types, and in 1965 allowed the CEGB and the government to claim that the AGR would produce electricity cheaper than the best coal fired power stations. However fuel assembly vibration problems arose during on-load refuelling at full power, so in 1988 full power refuelling was suspended until the mid-1990s, when further trials led to a fuel rod becoming stuck in a reactor core. Only refuelling at part load or when shut down is now undertaken at AGRs. [3]
The AGR was intended to be a superior British alternative to American light water reactor designs. It was promoted as a development of the operationally (if not economically) successful Magnox design, and was chosen from a plethora of competing British alternatives - the helium cooled High Temperature Reactor (HTR), the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor (SGHWR) and the Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) - as well as the American light water pressurised and boiling water reactors (PWR and BWR) and Canadian CANDU designs. The CEGB conducted a detailed economic appraisal of the competing designs and concluded that the AGR proposed for Dungeness B would generate the cheapest electricity, cheaper than any of the rival designs and the best coal fired stations.
There were great hopes for the AGR design. An ambitious construction programme of five twin reactor stations, Dungeness B, Hinckley Point B, Hunterston B, Hartlepool and Heysham was quickly rolled out, and export orders were eagerly anticipated. However, the AGR design proved to be over complex and difficult to construct on site. Notoriously bad labour relations at the time added to the problems. The lead station, Dungeness B was ordered in 1965 with a target completion date of 1970. After problems with nearly every aspect of the reactor design it finally began generating electricity in 1983, 13 years late. The follow on stations all experienced similar problems and delays. The financing cost of the capital expended, and the cost of providing replacement electricity during the delays, were enormous, totally invalidating the pre-construction economic case.
The small-scale prototype AGR at the Sellafield (Windscale) site is in the process of being decommissioned. This project is also a study of what is required to decommission a nuclear reactor safely.
Currently there are seven nuclear generating stations each with two operating AGRs in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by British Energy:
|AGR Power Station
|Construction started
|Connected to grid
|Commercial operation
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|Heysham 1
|Heysham 2
|Hinkley Point B
|Hunterston B
In 2005 British Energy announced a 10-year life extension at Dungeness B, that will see the station continue operating until 2018,[4] and in 2007 announced a 5-year life extension of Hinkley Point B and Hunterston B until 2016.[5] Life extensions at other AGRs will be considered at least three years before their scheduled closure dates.
Since 2006 Hinkley Point B and Hunterston B have been restricted to about 70% of normal MWe output because of boiler-related problems requiring that they operate at reduced boiler temperatures.[5] This output restriction is likely to remain until closure.
In 2006 AGRs made the news when documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by The Guardian who claimed that British Energy were unaware of the extent of the cracking of graphite bricks in the cores of their reactors. It was also claimed that British Energy did not know why the cracking had occurred and that they were unable to monitor the cores without first shutting down the reactors. British Energy later issued a statement confirming that cracking of graphite bricks is a known symptom of extensive neutron bombardment and that they were working on a solution to the monitoring problem. Also, they stated that the reactors were examined every three years as part of "statutory outages". [4]


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Race Report: ECCC Dartmouth Weekend
We had a fantastic week of racing. We won the Men's A TTT by 80 milliseconds, with three riders and two dropped chains. I soloed off the front of the crit for 40 minutes in the cold and rain. I got caught, but scopped up a ton of omnium points. In the hilly road race, a flat prevented me from catching the race winning break, but Tim won the field hill climb for 7th. Jane raced her first bike race ever, and won the Women's Intro road race by over 90 seconds! We're now scrambling for the MIT race weekend, which will be nothing short of awesome.
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It's 5:45 a.m. I am not usually up right now. This is wierd but in my defense, I've been awake since three....ugh. I'm sure I COULD have gone back to bed, but I didn't really want to. I fell asleep with Anthony again, his bed is just way too darn comfy! Then when I woke up, I wanted to do all this stuff, sew, crafts, cook, you know, anything except housework that really NEEDS to be done, lol!
Today they are having "Cruising Keesler", a car and motorcycle show on base, and I'm taking the kids to it. It should be fun. I took them to Lynn Meadows last night to see Bob the Builder (in Ayden's words, "Fun seeing Bob the Builder!") and play for a little bit. They had a lot of fun. They haven't been in a while, cause I normally work on Fridays, and Adam is just too tired after working all day to take them (I don't blame him). But this Friday I was actually off work. I've been out of work since Tuesday because I hurt the tendon in my left arm. I left work early Tues. night to go to the ER because it hurt so bad. They gave me prednisone, aleve, and vicodin. So, thanks to my friend vicodin, I've gotten lots of sleep the past few days, so I'm not worried about being up so early. At least, I'm not worried right now....just give me a few hours, lol.
It's the time of year that I absolutely love, fall! I love all the smells, all the leaves blowing, the cold, crisp air, Halloween, and the start of Christmas season. I had a lot of fun painting a jack o lantern flower pot (pictures to come) a couple of nights ago. It was one of those things where you're afraid what's in your head will not be the final outcome. But it actually turned out better than I imagined! I really like it. It was cheap, too, the pot was $3, the paint was $3, and the finishing spray was $5. And I still have lots of leftover paint and spray.
Now I'm trying to think of some fun crafty things to do with the kids. I bought a really cute plastic picnic table at the thrift store on base, and they love to sit out there and color and paint, but I think this weekend I want to do a big craft thing with them. I just don't know what. I have these masks that go over your eyes that you can glue and paint and decorate, and some glitter and stuff, so maybe I'll do that.
I also found a really good recipe for homemade oreos - here is the link:">http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/05/my-kingdom-for-a-glass-of-milk/
And I mean, it is GOOD. The first batch I made I cooked for nine minutes, and although oreos ARE crunchy, these came out a little TOO crunchy. So the next batch I cooked for eight minutes....and they were HEAVENLY! They tasted like a mix between regular oreos and cakesters. Man they were good.....they didn't last too long, either.
I love fall because I get so much more inspired to bake. Baking is definitely a passion for me. If I can bake something really good, that will just make my day. I would love to open up a little bake shop one day. Who knows, though....I always change what I want to do on a daily basis.
Now it just needs to get light out so I can take pictures of my flowerpot...................


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When Planned Parenthood announced plans for a Kissimmee clinic this spring, a crowd of anti-abortion protesters flooded City Hall in a bid to keep it from happening.
When the clinic had a ceremonial grand opening, protesters chanted and waved signs outside.
For the time being at least, a lawsuit has stopped what those protesters could not.
A judge has issued a temporary injunction barring abortions and some other procedures such as ultrasounds from being performed at the clinic on Oak Commons Boulevard, across the street from Osceola Regional Medical Center.


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A LUV KiCK By Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
- Born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri.
- She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, and several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years.
- She has received dozens of awards and over thirty honorary doctoral degrees.
- Angelou's list of occupations includes pimp, prostitute, night-club dancer and performer, castmember of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, author, journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the days of decolonization, and actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs.
- Since 1982, she has taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she holds the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies.
- She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
- Since the 1990s she has made around eighty appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties.
- the second child of Bailey Johnson, a doorman and a navy dietitian, and Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, a nurse and card dealer.
- When Angelou was three, and her brother four, their parents' "calamitous marriage" ended. Their father sent them to Stamps, Arkansas, alone by train to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson. In "an astonishing exception" to the harsh economics of African Americans of the time, Angelou's grandmother prospered financially during the Great Depression and World War II because the general store she owned sold needed basic commodities and because "she made wise and honest investments".
- Four years later, the children's father "came to Stamps without warning" and returned them to their mother's care in St. Louis. At the age of eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. She confessed it to her brother, who told the rest of their family. Freeman was found guilty, but was jailed for only one day. Four days after his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou's uncles.
- Angelou became mute for almost five years, believing, as she has stated, "I thought, my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone …"
- According to Marcia Ann Gillespie and her colleagues, who wrote a biography about Angelou, it was during this period of silence when Angelou developed her extraordinary memory, her love for books and literature, and her ability to listen and observe the world around her.
- Shortly after Freeman's murder, Angelou and her brother were sent back to their grandmother once again. Angelou credits a teacher and friend of her family, Mrs. Bertha Flowers, with helping her speak again. Flowers introduced her to authors such as Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Douglas Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson, authors that would affect her life and career, as well as Black female artists like Frances Harper, Anne Spencer, and Jessie Fauset.


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Please do not take any of my posts as medical advice. I am NOT a doctor, I am a diabetic using an insulin pump. Any important questions must be addressed to a professional.
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Diabetes Blog Week - One Great Thing
Today's post for Diabetes Blog Week is to talk about something that I (or my loved one) do well with respect to my diabetes. As much as I would love to talk about the stuff that I think I do well, I wouldn't be there to do it if I didn't have my wife.
I know I am a diabetic, I know that I am SUPPOSED to carry my blood glucose meter with me all the time, I know that I am SUPPOSED to test my blood sugar before driving, I know that I am SUPPOSED to carry some sort of candy or other quick sugar with me all the time.
With everything that I "know", you would think I would know better! My wife has lived with me a lot less time than I have lived with diabetes, but she does know better. She knows that I do not carry fast acting sugar on me at all times. So whenever I am in need of a quick sugar fix, I know that I can turn to her and get what I need. There have been so many times when we are out for a walk, grocery shopping, or on a long drive, when I have had to turn to her and ask if she has any candy in her purse, knowing full well that she does. In fact, she recently cleaned out some old purses from our closet and in each purse she found a baggie of candy! Love you, honey!
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Great post, Richard! It's amazing all the things we "should" be doing that we aren't... what you've named used to be many of those things. My wife has in the past number of years started always carrying glucose tabs on her just in case. After having my own scary Driving While Low situations, I started testing regularly before driving and she's usually the one to carry my "man-purse" when we're out together. Really, the diabetes online community keeps me accountable and through the past seven years has been much of the reason I more regularly do what I'm supposed to. But hey, we're all a work in progress - especially when it comes to diabetes!! Thanks for posting this!ReplyDelete


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|Final soak in the Simple Green, Matron
The Simple Green has worked OK, so a good scrub and those few are back in for a final "therapy" soak - should be a couple of days.
|Next load - you can even re-use the Clean Spirit; here's a bunch of assorted Bavarians
I put in to soak this afternoon - I'll have a look at them in 10 days or so
After this morning's blog post (on the subject of the manufacture of resin buildings) I had a further think about the chap I knew who had a resin scenery business, but had to close down because the chemicals damaged his lungs. Now I also remembered that for a while his business partner in this venture was another chap I used to know, one-time owner of the only decent model shop this side of Edinburgh. He was quite a character - he did some Napoleonic figure painting for me, and he was well known locally because he used to run Saturday morning workshops at his model shop for kids - to teach them about Warhammer gaming and figure painting.
It occurred to me that I hadn't seen him or heard from him for quite a while, and that he might have some ideas or contacts, so I did some searching online to see if he is still in business. Well, in fact it turns out he isn't. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 for stabbing someone to death in an argument.
This is absolutely true, by the way. I'm more than a little shaken by this belated discovery, and I am very relieved to be able to say that I never fell out with the fellow at any time, even though I wasn't thrilled with his painting. Good grief.
Anyway, I now have a number of units in the cupboard - some British dragoons, some skirmishers of the 5/60th and a load of French cannons, which were painted by a convicted murderer. It's not as good as figures painted by Peter Gilder, but it is a potential conversation piece.


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Starting with my all time favorite and then proceeding in no particular order...
"If there's a cure for this, I don't want it"
"Hey just between us--I'm an undiscovered genius"
"You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend"
"Songs are like tattoos, you know I've been to sea before"
"Woke up this morning, one of my kidneys was gone"
"I woke up this afternoon and both the cars were gone"
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"Fools in love, well are there any other kinds of lovers?"
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Tattoo Artists
Tattoo artists are exposed to biological hazards, like HBV, HCV, HIV, and eventually Mycobacterium chelonae and abscessus.
Wet work and glove use favor irritant hand dermatitis.
Allergic contact dermatitis is due mainly to rubber gloves, disinfectants, topical anesthetics, or dressings used in the procedure.
Heavy metals used as pigments can induce allergic and photoallergic contact dermatitis, granulomatous reactions, pseudolymphoma, and skin cancers, mostly in clients.
Mercury is the main allergen, but chromium, cobalt, cadmium, and nickel can also induce adverse reactions due to tattooing.
Temporary tattoos, performed usually outside the tattoo parlors, contain mainly paraphenylenediamine which can sensitize the client and, eventually, the artist.
KeywordsTattoo artist Mycobacterial diseases Contact dermatitis Henna tattoo
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American Failures in Vietnam
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It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. (Caputo, Phillip, 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War.) The Vietnam War, one of the most controversial wars in American history, has been one of the few wars where the United States was not a victor. Despite being a world superpower, the United States was not able to defeat a small, third-world, Asian country. The war divided the nation's own people in half, and even resulted in violence. The US failure in Vietnam was caused by a mixture of factors including: the difficulties of fighting an offensive war in a foreign country, poor decisions on the American part, and unexpected North Vietnamese resilience leading to massive casualties on both sides that could have been avoided. The United State's involvement in Vietnam can be traced back to the immediate results of the First Indochina War, which led to a humiliating defeat of the French and their withdrawal from North Vietnam, which came under communist forces. (Caputo, Phillip, A Rumor of War, 1977, Henry Holt and Company, Inc, NY, NY.) The Geneva Accords, which ended the First Indochina War, temporarily divided Vietnam into two sections: a communist north and an anti-communist south, pending a national election to unify them.
The United Stated, fearing a communist victory in national elections and a communist takeover of South Vietnam, supported the South Vietnamese government to elect Ngo Dinh Diem, a staunch anti-communist, as Prime Minister. (Karnow, Stanley, Vietnam: A History, 1983, Penguin Group, NY, NY) The United States feared if South Vietnam were to fall to communism; the rest of Indochina would follow. They believed a "domino effect" would follow any small communist changes in South Vietnam or any concessions made to communists. The United States believed the best way to prevent this from happening was to contain communism. Various American politicians argued to prevent a domino effect, the United States must contain the spread of communism at any cost. This theory fueled much of the United States policies toward Vietnam, such as their support for Diem. Diem's rein was repressive at best. He canceled the nation-wide elections that were to unify Vietnam and instead rigged election in South Vietnam to elect himself president and create the Republic of Vietnam. However, Diem retained the United States backing because he was staunchly anti-communist. As Diem's regime became increasingly repressive, resistance to his government increased, especially in rural areas. The Unites States, in an attempt to prevent Diem's government from collapsing sent military advisors and financial consultants to aid Diem's regime. However, the resistance was strong, so United States created the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), which Diem used to crush communist and other rebels. (Brigham, Robert K, ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army, April 2006, University Press of Kansas) However, when Kennedy took office in January 1961, he faced an increasingly unsuccessful policy in Vietnam. The ARVN faced desertion, corruption, double agents, and a lack of effectiveness. Kennedy, however, believed that the ARVN could still become effective with proper steps. Kennedy increased the number of American advisors to the ARVN from 800 in January 1961 to 16,700 in November 1963. Kennedy believed if the ARVN could win the support of the Vietnamese villages the National Liberation Front (NLF) insurgency could be defeated. Kennedy began The Strategic Hamlet Program, which was an attempt to resettle villagers into fortified camps. The aim was to isolate the population from the insurgents, provide education and health care, and strengthen the government's hold over the countryside. However, Kennedy's policy was largely unsuccessful....
Cited: Caputo, Phillip, A Rumor of War, 1977, Henry Holt and Company, Inc, NY, NY.
Downs, Frederick, The Killing Zone: My Life in Vietnam, 1978, W. W. Horton and Company, NY, NY.
Brigham, Robert K, ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army, April 2006, University Press of Kansas
Karnow, Stanley, Vietnam: A History, 1983, Penguin Group, NY, NY
Parnell, Ted, Vietnam Stories: Dreams to Nightmares, 1989, Viking Press, NY, NY
Caputo, Phillip, 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War, 2005, Henry Holt and Company, Inc, NY
Robert Tonsetic, DAYS OF VALOR: An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War, 2007, Viking Press, NY, NY
Lawrence, Mark Atwood, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, 2008, Oxford University Press, NY, NY
Brian VanDeMark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War, (May 18, 1995), Oxford University Press, NY, NY
Miller, Edward, Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam, 2012, Harvard University Press
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