The epidemic of sleep deprivation in the United States is well-established: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that up to one-third of Americans do not get the minimum-required 7 hours of sleep each night.
This sleep issue has a strong impact on general health. Studies show that people who do not get enough sleep are also more likely to be overweight and to exercise less. It has also been shown that people who do not get enough sleep are at increased risk of diabetes.
The question is whether these two facts are related. Is it the case that lack of sleep leads to a greater risk of becoming overweight and exercising less, and those two factors lead to an increased risk of diabetes? Or is there something about sleep itself which is related to diabetes?
A study published in the journal American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism set out to answer this question. Researchers used two groups of mice that were all had the same diet and exercise habits. One group was allowed a full night’s sleep, while one group’s sleep was interrupted.
Immediately after the sleep intervention, the scientists measured the fat content and glucose levels in the lives of the micer. The results showed that even one bad night’s sleep caused elevated blood glucose levels in the liver, as well as an increase in the liver’s triglyceride levels. The connection between elevated glucose levels and diabetes is obvious, but elevated triglyceride levels are also important, since they are associated with insulin resistance, a feature of type 2 diabetes.
The authors also found changes in liver enzymes associated with metabolism. It is believed that the change in these enzymes may be the root cause for the build-up of fat in the liver, and therefore one of the root causes of insulin resistance.
The take-away message? A good night’s sleep is even more important than we realized.
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Hidden Deserts: Discovering Barrens WorldwideLatest update June 14, 2019 Started on April 16, 2018
Underwater macroalgal forests are among the most important ecosystems in our oceans. Their fronds and branches create a rich canopy, which harbors a diversity of species that are critical to nearshore trophic networks. Additionally, macroalgal forests offer a wide range of goods and services to populations living on the coast. They help ensure high water quality, provide refuge to species of commercial interest and are an important tourist attraction for divers, to list just a few of their critical functions. Macroalgal forests face a growing threat and we may be losing them at a rapid rate. One of the reasons for this loss is overgrazing effect by sea urchin herbivores. Normally, sea urchins would be naturally controlled by predatory fish, but with rampant overfishing, populations of sea urchins can grow to outbreak proportions allowing them to completely overgraze underwater forests. In addition, some areas (such as the Eastern Mediterranean) have suffered major losses of macroalgal forests because of herbivorous fish that enter through the Suez Canal. To add to these threats, other factors, like heat waves (that are increasing with climate change) can also cause dramatic collapses of these precious underwater forests. As a result, areas that were once abundant macroalgal forests are being rapidly replaced by underwater deserts – barrens – dominated by overgrazed rocks rather than macroalgae. These alternate habitats are very poor, low productive ecosystems with very little biodiversity. A group of researchers from different institutions have joint efforts to study the collapse of the underwater macroalgal forests and the expansion of barrens. In particular, we are interested in understanding what characterises these new barrens in order to isolate the factors that determine their creation. We also believe that monitoring already existing deserts is essential to prevent and predict the creation of new barrens along the coastline and will help us evaluate the possibilities of recovering lost underwater forests. For this reason, we launched this expedition to discover the barrens worldwide. Barrens are areas where the bare rock is completely clean of all erect algal cover and is typically covered over with encrusting algae. How big these bare areas are, depends on the pressure the ecosystem receives but it normally ranges in sizes from several square meters to large expansions of hundreds of square meters.
After several months working on the Hidden deserts project, we have received around 100 observations of underwater deserts that have now a spot in the map.
The few citizens that are aware of the project are identifying new deserts in the oceans every day.
So it is the moment to SHOUT!
We need more people and organisations to get involved with the project. Hidden deserts is open to everyone, so if you are willing to participate don't be shy and contact us.
Visit www.hiddendeserts.com We are currently getting funds to provide with the appropriate gear to all those institutions, researchers and volunteers that collaborate with the project.
We need more eyes out there in our oceans to save the reefs from the collapse!
It has been a while now since our last post. During this period, we have been testing the TRIDENT OpenROV while exploring the submerged deserts of the Western Mediterranean.
Divers will know that quietness is generally referred to as the most amazing feeling of being underwater. When I first saw the video records of the TRIDENT on my computer, I could instantly feel that silence (video below).
The silence of these images triggered a great discussion on twitter, https://twitter.com/HiddenDeserts/status/1093915402244186113.
Hopefully, uncovering new barrens will increase our knowledge of these systems and bring clues on how to recover the lost macroalgal forests.
In our latest post, we explained how we use drones to reach places with difficult access and to study the extension of underwater deserts. Since very recently our fleet was based on aerial drones only, but thanks to the SEE initiative (Open Explorer) we have now recruited an OpenROV!
The hidden deserts team is passionate about using technology to help science advances so we are deeply grateful. The new OpenROV will be very useful in discovering and monitoring barrens worldwide!
Join us on our journey!
Like an Eagle
One of the traditional challenges that marine literacy and conservation have faced is related to the inherent beauty of the oceans.
The shiny bright blue mirror-like surface of the sea is one of its biggest threats.
It was not that long ago that marine researchers broke this powerful barrier, diving in a new and fascinating world to be discovered.
Diving the vast oceans is a wonderful commitment, however, its natural wilderness makes this task very difficult sometimes.
But new technologies are out to help. And despite we all love being wet in the sea, we decided to also…
From meters above the surface, the shallow bottoms emerge. From those altitudes and with a bit of training, we managed to identify underwater deserts while flying. That helps us to reach remote places that are naturally very difficult to explore.
Bondi, perhaps one of the most famous corners of Australia. Crowds of visitors from all over the world converge in the legendary beach of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Its iconic pool in the coastal walk attracts hundreds of tourists every day becoming the perfect spot to rest and watch how local surfers share the waves with internationals.
What not many people know is that beneath the surface there’s a huge desert. A hidden desert. Crayweed (Phyllospora comosa) and kelp (Ecklonia radiata) used to dominate the bottoms. But a combination of stressors resulted in the bare rock area that extends today along most of the Northern shore of Bondi.
Barrens are present all along the coast of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia. Not even the boundaries of National Parks can completely prevent their appearance. The increase of seawater temperature has facilitated the expansion of a voracious herbivore, the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii. At the same time, fishing has depleted the number of crayfish, which are one of the main predators of this species. As a result, massive aggregations of sea urchins are pushing underwater forest to collapse.
In some regions of Australia, underwater deserts are very large having strong implications for the society. Local fishers are aware of the effects of the expansion of barrens to their activity and economy.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales run restoration programs engaging the community to recover the lost macroalgal forest. The ‘Operation Crayweed’ recently replenished part of the barrens in Bondi with translocated seaweed that have already had offspring.
Uncovering existing barrens is the first step to increase our understanding of their dynamics. Luckily, some of the deserts of Australia are not hidden anymore.
PS: Terrestrial systems can collapse as well. In the Otway National Park, aggregations of koalas cause massive die offs of gum trees on which they graze.
A group of researchers from different institutions have joint efforts to study the collapse of the underwater macroalgal forests and the expansion of barrens. In particular, we are interested in understanding what characterises these new barrens in order to isolate the factors that determine their creation. We also believe that monitoring already existing deserts is essential to prevent and predict the creation of new barrens along the coastline and will help us evaluate the possibilities of recovering lost underwater forests.
We have launched a citizen science project to spot barrens worldwide. We combine different technologies to detect, measure and monitor the hidden deserts from flying and underwater drones to snorkel and SCUBA diving.
Contribute to this expedition
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Broccoli sprouts discovered to be a “secret weapon” against diabetes
The key to curing diabetes may be sitting on your kitchen counter. Scientists have recently discovered that cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli, can help type-2 diabetes patients manage their blood sugar levels effectively.-
The new study, which was published in the Journal of Science Translational Medicine, found that broccoli could hold the answer to slowing – and potentially reversing – the disease. The exciting discovery could provide doctors and scientists an alternative cure for the disease that has affected millions of people all over the world.
Type-2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it accounts for approximately 90 to 95 percent of all diagnosed cases in adults. There are currently 29.1 million people in the United States who are suffering from the disease. However, there are about 8.1 million who may still be undiagnosed.
The disease is on the rise. Based on reports by the International Diabetes Federation, more than 300 million people are living with diabetes. Also, the World Health Organization estimated that 90 percent of the people who have diabetes have type-2.
Of all the individuals afflicted with the disease, 15 percent cannot take the first-line therapy, the drug metformin, because of the risks of kidney damage. Those who take metformin have an increased risk of lactic acidosis, which is an unhealthy build-up of lactic acid that can lead to abdominal discomfort, muscle pain, cramping, shallow breathing, and tiredness. Thirty percent of metformin users them develop bloating, nausea, and abdominal pains according to DiabetesSelfManagement.com.
Finding an effective alternative is the researchers’ main objective. It’s challenging because research labs have experienced difficulties in finding such options. Traditionally, researchers have only studied single genes or individual proteins. However, they have had to find a new, big-picture approach because diabetes involves a large network of genes.
According to LiveScience.com, Annika Axelsson, leader of the study and doctoral student at Gothenburg, and her team analyzed liver tissue from diabetic mice fed with a “Western diet” that had 42 percent fat and 0.15 percent cholesterol. After conducting several tests, the scientists were able to identify 1,720 genes linked to hyperglycemia, a condition wherein an excessive amount of glucose is present in the blood.
After further analysis, they narrowed down the number of genes to a network of just 50 linked genes that then became the disease signature for type-2 diabetes. Using a database of existing drug compounds and a mathematical program to identify which compounds have the ability to reverse the disease signature, they determined that sulforaphane, a naturally occurring compound found in vegetables like broccoli, had the highest ranking for turning down over-expressed high glucose genes.
More tests were conducted and researchers discovered that for obese patients, a daily dose of sulforaphane, in the form of concentrated broccoli sprout extract, reduced fasting blood glucose by 10 percent. The good news is that the 10 percent reduction is enough to lessen a person’s risk of developing complications. Sulforaphane also didn’t cause side effects that metformin caused.
The next step, according to the researchers, is to find out what effects sulforaphane has on individuals with prediabetes. Researchers are hoping sulforaphane can improve glucose control in individuals with prediabetes so that they don’t develop type-2 diabetes.
It’s impressive how the cures for debilitating health problems — say, a vegetable inside your fridge — can be easy to find. This should give you more reasons to stock up on broccoli and other similar vegetables.


Introducing Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals
* SUMMARY CODES: SN - Special Needs
Simple and direct, just as a child for this age group is how one would describe the content of Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals. A colorful collection of content that assures improvement and development. According to the folks from Arthouse, LLC,the creators of Art House-Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals, it is the first DVD in a planned series of children’s instructional DVD’s, that teaches kids how to draw their favorite animals using basic shapes. By use of step by step instruction as well as entertaining music videos and animation, kids are carefully guided through the learning fun of creating art!
A Better Understanding Of The DVD
In the evaluation of Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals, it was such an experience to watch the children seeing the DVD content on the screen, literally mesmerized in wonder, as you can see from the image below. Even Santa was enraptured with the beautiful color, sound and simplicity of the animals, kids, and illustrations occurring in each segment of the DVD.
| Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals
Communicates a fun way for a child to learn the basics of drawing
Uses fundamental object association principals for greater level of retention
Stimulates creative thinking and other primary developmental skills
Encourages strong parent/child interaction
Creates a desire for repetitive use which in turn increases learning level
Quite colorful and maintains long-term attention span with a child
Combines real-life characters which children can identify with
Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals is quick to capture the imagination of a child with an excellent series of learning activities which are narrated by "Teacher Emily". With the help of Teacher Emily, children are in a sense given a guided tour of each of the drawing lessons which produce easily measurable results.
Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals creates and environment of fun, trust and skill development which results in skill development improvement and stronger self-esteem. This is a powerful underlying foundation which has a dramatic impact on critical thinking skills. With this DVD, a child discovers hours of fun and a personalized experience in learning which they may never have known before.
The different and exciting challenges in each activity provides a new focus and excitement for children which enlarges their current level of knowledge, stimulates memory level improvement, and has a substantial influence on their problem solving skills. These are primary concerns in a child's development and the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD delivers precisely what they need yet still manages to keep it in a proper proportion so that the level of FunFactor™ still remains prevalent.
Independent Evaluation of Introducing Arthouse
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"This DVD provided me with an unexampled product model which awakens the passion in my work. So many products I work on are so, passe'...simply a re-invention of another. This DVD is incontestably not one of them. Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals creates a virtual environment in which a path is established. This path forms a pattern of learning which captivates the attention of a child and maintains that attention well beyond many of the average educational products on the market today. The DVD is undeniably an outstanding experience in both fun and learning for children and surprisingly adults."
"Although Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals is designed for a target age group of 3 to 7 years of age, it encourages participation of a parent/adult and child together. In my hands-on evaluation with families, it was quite apparent that the adults were just as enthralled by the DVD as the children, yet on a different level."
"My results showing the level of participation and response of the adults came as no surprise. It is a commonly known fact that as adults, we still retain a base fragment of a child within us. Society as whole and the constant thrum of media influence today causes us to refrain from allowing the 'child' within us to have any influence or discovery of what they see as a 'childish' their response to appear.
This DVD stimulates that part of us and a child becomes the medium to allow that 'exception to the rule' to prevail. The inner passion and innocence of a child is stimulated for an adult with this DVD. Perhaps taking the time to realize a fancy many of us might have had all our lives, a sliver of a dream to know how to do something which we never took the time to learn.
It is the manifestation of that fact which adds such an enormous level of value to this DVD. It is not just an educational DVD which 'some' mothers would probably sit down with their child to interact with them. Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals is structured in such a way that every adult who took part in my study of the DVD with their children or alone, expressed in their feedback that they had also learned and gained excitement in this learning experience, just as the children did."
In over 50% of the families participating in my study, the wife or the husband was eager to show their spouse a copy of some of the drawing they had created themselves, giving it a higher priority over the creations by their children. This clearly established the value of the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD."
has a well blended combination of color, sound, design structure, and flow of activities which a child will find most delightful. The idea of using a character with whom children are already familiar and has a well established following was a very wise decision.
The creator(s) of Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals have taken a standard approach in teaching figure drawing and combined it with a unique coadunation of real life video with animation with a transition which children can easily assimilate. The end result is a far greater level of comprehension and solidified retention of the lessons, which are called upon later in applied application."
Consumer Hands-On Evaluation
Nothing is more powerful than hands-on experience by a consumer with a product when it is being evaluated. Based upon that fact we put every single product
we evaluate at the mercy of consumers in a hands-on evaluation where
anything goes. Shall we see how the "Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals" DVD
was seen with consumers?
Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals was part of a consumer hands-on
evaluation performed in a busy public mall in
the Woodland Hills, CA area, along with a generous number of other
products from multiple categories. Having several products
available for consumer
evaluation all at once
provides a more well-balanced and unbiased evaluation of each of
For the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD, children provided
a very unusual sight. We all know how playful kids get, especially
when you combine toys and a public mall. Here we had a number of kids
from a wide range of age groups who were quite active, running everywhere...until
they saw the screen with Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals playing.
In the image above/left, you see kids at Merry Christmas Chicago!™,
another PROJECT: Education Outreach™ event held in Chicago, literally
entranced by the presentation of content from the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic
Shapes and Animals DVD. It was nothing short of amazing how the
DVD had the children completely immersed in the presentation.
As an experiment to see if it was truly the content of the DVD that was retaining
their attention, I personally stopped the DVD and placed a different one
in. Within moments, the children were asking me to "put the other
one back in, I like it better." It was as I suspected, the Arthouse
- Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD was the one which captured the
In reviewing the feedback forms which the participants filled
out from all of the locations where we hosted spontaneous hands-on evaluation
of products, it was amazing how many parents expressed how their child loved
the DVD and even the adults had learned something from it.
There was more than sufficient evidence of positive
response on the feedback forms
to demonstrate Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals proving
our time to bring it to this hands-on evaluation event.
The DVD was unquestionably popular. As a matter of fact, Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals was so
popular that the DVD holder for it was taken when I wasn't looking and while
I was sharing that fact with one of the persons in charge at the facility,
the DVD itself which was sitting in front of me "grew some legs" and
disappeared. Now that is what I call popular!
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CONTENT QUALITY: Rating Level -
The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD pulls its weight
in this category for CONTENT
QUALITY. When you consider how it so effectively stimulated the attention
of both the children and adults, it was clearly an excellent learning
Just as the very best DVD products of the past which have made it into the ranks
of products inducted here, Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals has
a well balanced compilation of visual and audio content
to stimulate not just a child's mind,
but their emotions as well. The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes
and Animals DVD provides a substantial contribution to critical and cognitive
skill development which will encourage repetitive use and essential
learning and skill development.
The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD stimulates critical
skill development in a child in a rather subtle approach as they
are being stimulated on
multiple fronts simultaneously. The more a child experiences the DVD and applies
what they are learning concurrently wiht their teacher guide on the screen, there
is a constant level
of further advancement in
many of the most important areas of a child's developmental
skills. The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD pulls
a perfect score of  in this category for CONTENT
CRITICAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT: Rating Level -
The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD provides a substantial
contribution to critical and cognitive
skill development which easily eclipses many other products of similar nature.
With the children multi-tasking by watching the illustrations, video, and animations
simultaneously, the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD contributes so
much to a child's developmental skills that the word "substantial" doesn't
even do it justice. The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD comes flying through the gates with a perfects
score of  in this category for CRITICAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT.
EDUCATIONAL VALUE: Rating Level -
The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD really made a
strong impression in this category for EDUCATIONAL
VALUE. In all consumer hands-on evaluation as well as in-house
evaluation, the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD was
seen as a source of creative
stimulation which envelopes a child's experience on multiple levels.
In this case though, we are looking at educational value which has a fine line
The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD establishes a
clear-cut example of educational value with the different perspective
of teaching with having and adult teacher rather than a primary animated character
After discussion with
evaluators and in-house evaluators it was determined that The Arthouse
- Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals easily fulfills the standard educational
demands that people are looking for in a DVD such as this, well above average,
yet just not enough to take it to the top for a perfect score.
There are multiple perspectives with which to look at what is the definition of
this DVD's contribution to educational value. After reviewing all evaluation
results and independent evaluator reports, The Arthouse - Volume 1:
Basic Shapes and Animals DVD pulls a perfect
score of  in this category for EDUCATIONAL VALUE.
MARKETABILITY: Rating Level -
The marketability with the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and
Animals DVD presented
a challenging task to establish a fair and accurate final score.
In the video
tapes and what we witnessed personally in the hands-on evaluation segment,
the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD proved its worth
to us. The challenge that you have to face is that the corporate buyers are
not always so detailed in their evaluations. Everything seems always to
be in a rush.
What this amounts to is that corporate
buyers have more of a challenge determining which educational DVD's
are the best way to go. Well established
branding of quality and effectiveness, as well as excellent marketing
development is needed to take a product all the way to the top.
Although the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD is
well above average in its scoring in the category for MARKETABILITY,
it hasn't got enough branding/image punch in our evaluation to obtain a perfect
In our final tally of scores in the category for MARKETABILITY, the Arthouse
- Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD comes in with a well above average
score of  in this category evaluation.
RESPONSE LEVEL: Rating Level -
level with for kids with the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes
and Animals DVD is pretty well what we all expected. There was no question
in any manner that the Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD captures
the full attention of the chilldren as intended and creates a clear and well
defined response level of the highest level. The
response level in all hands-on evaluations by children and family
members were well beyond the norm and constant at all times. Children were
literally engrossed in
the imagery and sound while putting it to task to begin drawing
simultaneously with their viewing the DVD. The Arthouse - Volume 1:
Basic Shapes and Animals DVD pulls
a perfect score of  in this category for RESPONSE LEVEL.
VISUAL APPEAL: Rating Level -
appeal for The Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD is
far from lacking. The DVD packaging was average yet the content
of the DVD itself was such a perfect
balance of labors and educational
value. The colors, images, and video
clips draw the full attention of the target age group it is designed for
while at the same time capturing the attention of the adults as well. The
Arthouse - Volume 1: Basic Shapes and Animals DVD passed this category for VISUAL
APPEAL with a perfect score of .


It has been suggested Hypertension (high blood pressure) may be associated with increased risk of death in hospitalised Coronavirus infected subjects. On non-medical social media sites and some newspapers it has been suggested that commonly used drugs ACEi (ending in ‘pril” e.g. ramipril, lisinopril, perindopril) and ARBs (ending in ‘sartan’ e.g. losartan, candesartan, valsartan) may increase both the risk of infection and the severity of SARS-CoV2 (the virus causing this infection), which has led to some patients stopping their medication. This could lead to a decline in control of blood pressure control, heart failure or any other condition they take these drugs for.
These concerns about the safety of ACE-i or ARB treatment in relation to Coronavirus does not have a sound scientific basis or evidence to support it. Indeed, there is evidence from studies in animals suggesting that these medications might be rather protective against serious lung complications in patients with Coronavirus infection, but to date there is no data in humans.
As medical professionals we wish to highlight the lack of any evidence supporting harmful effect of ACE-I and ARB in the context of the pandemic Coronavirus outbreak. We strongly recommend that patients should continue treatment with their usual therapy because there is no clinical or scientific evidence to suggest that treatment with ACEi or ARBs should be stopped because of the Coronavirus infection. This applies to patients taking these drugs for heart failure, high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney disease.
You should take the recommended measures to minimise your risk of getting Coronavirus infection:
Wash your hands frequently
Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water for 20 seconds or more.
Maintain social distancing
Maintain at least 2 metres (6 feet) distance between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth
Practice respiratory hygiene
Make sure you, and the people around you, follow good respiratory hygiene. This means covering your mouth and nose with your bent elbow or tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the used tissue immediately.
If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical care early
Stay home if you feel unwell. If you have a fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical attention and call in advance. Follow the directions of your local health authority.
When to temporarily stop your medication
ACEi, ARBs, diuretics (water tablets) e.g. furosemide or bumetanide, spironolactone, eplerorone, anti-inflammatories e.g.ibuprofen, naproxen or diabetes drugs including metformin, canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, empagliflozin and ertugliflozin.
- If you develop a dehydrating illness (diarrhoea, vomiting, high temperature when you are not eating or drinking enough) you should temporarily stop taking any medicine listed above and any other medicine identified by your health professional.
- It is very important that you restart your medicine once you have recovered from the illness. This would normally be after 24 to 48 hours of eating and drinking normally.
- When you restart your medicine, just take them as normal. Do not take extra for the doses you have missed.
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The U.S. motion-picture studio Warner Brothers played a pivotal role in the development of the Hollywood film industry. In 1927 the young studio revolutionized film by introducing the first genuine talking picture, The Jazz Singer.
The company was founded by four brothers, Harry (1881–1958), Albert (1884–1967), Samuel (1888–1927), and Jack Warner (1892–1978), who were the sons of Benjamin Eichelbaum, an immigrant Polish cobbler and peddler. The brothers began their careers showing moving pictures in Ohio and Pennsylvania on a traveling basis. Beginning in 1903 they started acquiring movie theaters, and they then moved into film distribution. In about 1913 they began producing their own films, and in 1917 they shifted their production headquarters to Hollywood, Calif. They established Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., in 1923. The oldest of the brothers, Harry, was the president of the company and ran its headquarters in New York City, while Albert was its treasurer and head of sales and distribution. Sam and Jack managed the studio in Hollywood.
When the company ran into financial difficulties in the mid-1920s, Sam Warner persuaded his brothers to collaborate in developing a patent on a process (Vitaphone) that made talkies possible. The studio’s Don Juan (1926) opened with a completely synchronized musical sound track, and The Jazz Singer (1927) had both synchronized music and dialogue. (Sam died only 24 hours before the latter’s premiere.) Warner Brothers then made Lights of New York (1928), the first full-length all-talking film, and On with the Show (1929), the first all-talking color film. The enormous financial success of these early sound films enabled Warner Brothers to become a major motion picture studio. By the 1930s Warner Brothers was producing about 100 motion pictures a year and controlled 360 theaters in the United States and more than 400 abroad.
Warner Brothers became known for its tightly budgeted, technically competent entertainment films. In the early 1930s the company started the craze for gangster films with Little Caesar (1930), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932), and throughout the decade it presented films featuring such stars as James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson in gangster roles. In the 1930s Warner Brothers also presented Busby Berkeley’s musical extravaganzas, many swashbuckling and adventure films starring Errol Flynn, and dramas featuring such stars as Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and John Garfield.
Among the studio’s best-known films of the 1940s and 1950s were The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), Watch on the Rhine (1943), and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). The studio’s later box-office successes included My Fair Lady (1964), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Exorcist (1973), The Color Purple (1985), and The Fugitive (1993).
Jack Warner was Warner’s longtime vice president in charge of production and became the company’s president in 1956, after the last of his older brothers had retired. He retired in 1972. Meanwhile, Warner Brothers had undergone various corporate changes and had diversified into television programming, book publishing, and musical recordings by the 1970s. In 1969 it became Warner Bros. Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Communications Inc. In 1989 the latter company merged with Time Inc. to form Time Warner Inc., the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Time Warner inaugurated the WB, a broadcast television network, in 1995.


create a hostile environment. These challenges, if not detected and resolved via constructive leadership, along with failure to participate will lead to loss of innovative potential in diversity efforts and ultimately to failure in the undertakings of and organization.
Law enforcement is a field highly sought often, yet one in which it can be difficult to land a job. By understanding some of the more advanced matters in police work, you can better appreciate what skills are needed and determine if it is a career you could actually excel in and envy. The more one knows about what a police officer is and does, the better on can understand what type of person an agency is looking for. With even all the police academy, field training, and street experience they would tell you that every case and day is different. Doing the job requires a variety of approaches every day. However, you may the officers with every little experience say they can handle anything. This is what the police organizations are looking for (Johnston, 2015, p.24)
A lot of times and money is invested in hiring and training recruits. Police organizations are looking for that recruit who after their training can handle being on the streets. Being able to perform the job at entry level, with the potential to excel is the eye catcher for most criminal justice organizations (Johnston, 2015, p.24)
Police organizations range in on to thousands of officers. All and most organizations use the same hiring and pay scale information. A police recruit attends training and learns the responsibilities of the entry level law enforcement officer. At no time is a recruit denied entry to attend training based solely on gender or cultural background...
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...hey have diversity does not mean that they are not accepting of diversity. They may well be trying, and it does not take much to be the one to open the door that gives them better insight into how their workplace can become even more diverse.
History has shown that minorities and women have not been seen as equals. Today, women carry out jobs once dominated by men. We have seen a significant change in welcoming both minorities and women in to the organization of the criminal justice system, but there is still more work to be done. Still in today’s society and culture some feel that minorities and especially women are not fit for all jobs. It is still an obstacle that women must be prepared to
face. The objective is to show society that change is possible and okay. Hopefully the culture can also change one day as well.
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The New Paddies at Ono in Suruga Province, c. 1829-1833
Ink on Paper
9 3/4 in. x 14 3/4 in. (247.65 mm x 374.65 mm)
On verso in pencil, lower left: 46.1.101, Hokusai, Jo IX 68. Signed: Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu. Censor's seal: Kiwame.
Nishiki-e, horizontal oban; colored ink on paper.
Edo period color woodblock print depicting early morning in the marshy patties of Ono, with mist rising from the wet grasses while waterfowl skim the surface of the water. Fuji solemnly rises through the mist to the sky; it touches the upper edge of the picture. This ethereal landscape dramatically contrasts with the human activity revealed in the foreground. A group of farmers leads five oxen laden with mountainous bundles of reeds, while two women carry smaller bundles of grass on their backs. They have finished their morning labors and are going home for breakfast.
"New Fields' was a name applied to fields recently brought under cultivation. During the Edo period, the shogun and local governments made an effort to expand arable lands in order to support an increasing population, and also to increase taxable lands. Wild or marshy lands were reclaimed. The "New Fields of Ono" must depict an expanse of such marshy land being cultivated, perhaps for reeds.
The simple design with fewer landscape elements successfully depicts a benevolent nature that embraces human life. The color scheme is also simple; a single shade of blue dominates, except for the pink sky on the right flank of Fuji and broad brown areas of reeds and oxen.
(Ref: Hokusai and Hiroshige, p.97).
Eijudo (Nishimura-ya Yohachi) seal.
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Keeping cats as companion animals has been increasing in popularity on theTiwi Islands with local community members expressing that cats are valuable inassisting to control rat and mice within their homes. But when you considerthat one female cat and her offspring can produce up to 500 kittens a year itis clear to see why action was needed to assess the impact cats were having onthe community.
It’s why AMRRIC teamed up with the University of New England and the Tiwi LandCouncil to deliver a program funded by the Threaten Species Commissioner onthe Tiwi Island community of Wurrumiyanga from 5-9th June. The University ofNew England conducted research that included camera surveillance, door to doorsurveys and four hourly patrols to monitor cat activity during the day and thenight. Based on findings of the research the program determined that the bestapproach to controlling cats in the community was to undertake a surgicaldesexing program as well as to provide community education around the impactscats can have on the community and surrounding wildlife. This approachconsidered the community’s values which is vital to the success of theprogram.
AMRRIC delivered six education sessions to the Murrupurtiyanuwu CatholicPrimary School focussing on the impacts of cats on wildlife and the importanceof surgical desexing. In addition Traditional Owners worked with AMRRIC todevelop a video about responsible cat ownership to play in the local shop andhealth clinic. The video was a huge success with community members stopping towatch and discuss the video.
A community cat awareness BBQ was also held with the support of the local RedCross Centre. Over 100 community members attended, viewing cat educationmaterials and enquiring about cat desexing, and the impacts their cats have onthe bush land and native animals.
As a result of working with local community members, the program was a greatsuccess with a total of 30 cats being desexed over two days. It’s just anotherexample of how collaboration can achieve great results.
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53 YEARS AGO
When Raúl Castro assumed responsibility for the assault on the Moncada Garrison
BY MARTA ROJAS —Granma daily staff writer—
THIS is a facsimile which I kept from the front page of the Santiago de Cuba Oriente newspaper, datelined July 30, 1953. For its eloquence it is worth reproducing.
A youthful Raúl Castro Ruz, captured before Fidel and when he did not know his brother’s fate, but did know that Abel Santamaría, second chief of the movement, had been assassinated, assumed full responsibility for the Moncada assault.
The photo, taken in the Santiago de Cuba Bivouac has a caption that reads:
"THIS YOUNG man, who does not seem to be more than 18 years old, brother of the man charged with being chief of the insurrectional movement, Dr. Fidel Castro, name of Raúl Castro Ruz, was arrested yesterday in the vicinity of San Luis.
"According to reports, this individual was the man who personally directed the assailants of the Moncada Garrison last Sunday, who took cover in the Palace of Justic after having managed to flee in the resulting confusion, when the aggression was repelled by the Moncada garrison. (Photo: Senén Caravia)."
After all the events of the Moncada assault, Raúl, who knew the Santiago topography, left the city. He thought about going to his home in the northern area of the eastern region. However, 72 hours later, he was captured by a pair of Rural Guards. From the first moment he did not disclose his identity. He said that he had gone to the Santiago de Cuba Carnival but, having no money left, had to return to his parents’ house. The excuse was not accepted: he was taken to the area barracks. That was how they operated with any young suspect. Santiago was the inevitable destination. At that stage, the regime had drowned the survivors of the assault in their own blood.
In the statement taken from the young Raúl Castro Ruz (they wrote Ruiz) in the Bivouac, he stated that "first the government had to be destroyed, in order to subsequently sort out the country so that it could progress as it should; to undertake an Agrarian Reform, but one that is not only giving land to the campesinos, one that is something more than that: giving them land and making it productive; this system has been evil since the Republic began; Cuba is full of illiterate people, injustices are being committed, money is being stolen from the people, the Batista regime had to be defeated in order to initiate the Revolution."
Later, in September, when the Moncada trial (Cause 37) took place, the prosecution berated him because in the court hearing he declared himself a rank and file combatant, in open contradiction to his statements in the Bivouac.
With his arms crossed behind him, his head held high, his hair cut like a brush and a discreet smile on his lips, Raúl stood to attention before the court and replied:
"When they took a statement from me in the Bivouac, I assumed responsibility for the Movement because I supposed that they had killed Fidel, I knew that Abel had been assassinated and somebody had to assume responsibility for that action which was frustrated in the first attempt. But, with Fidel being alive, fortunately, things have fallen back into place. I am a simple soldier who was assigned a post and a mission.
: de la Cova, Antonio Rafael
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 8:40 PM
Subject: The Real Story of the Capture of Raul Castro on July 27, 1953
Granma newspaper, the Official Organ of Cuba's Communist Party, today
published a distorted version of Raul Castro's capture on July 27,
1953, the day after the Moncada attack.
The real truth is closer to the version that I am excerpting here from
my forthcoming book, "The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban
Revolution" to be published by the University of South Carolina Press,
June 30, 2007.
After the Moncada attack was suppressed, warnings were quickly relayed
from regimental headquarters to the surrounding military outposts.
Forty-two-year-old Lt. Vicente Camps Ruiz had been assigned two days
earlier to the fifteen-man garrison in San Luis, seventeen miles north
of Santiago de Cuba. He responded to the fugitive alert by establishing
a highway roadblock and a covert watch on the railroad tracks between
San Luis and the town of Dos Caminos. Early on Monday morning,
twenty-one-year-old Raúl Castro was walking toward San Luis on the
railroad tracks, having slept in a cane field in El Cristo the previous
night. He had bought bread and water in Dos Caminos before stepping
into the trap manned by police Sgt. Emilio Bóveda González, Corporal
Canet, and policeman Victoriano Pellicier. Bóveda drove the suspect to
the San Luis post because he lacked identification, while the two other
policemen remained at their post.
When Lieutenant Camps interrogated Raúl Castro around 8:00 A.M., he
claimed to be Ramón González, a brother of the leader of Batista's PAP
Party in Marcané. Raúl stated that he had attended the Santiago de Cuba
carnival and was returning home to Cueto, near Marcané. Camps recalled,
"Raúl lacked documentation and only had a fifty-cent coin in his
pocket. I became suspicious when he could not satisfactorily explain
why he had not bought a round-trip ticket to attend the carnival. He
then claimed that he had gone to Santiago de Cuba in a car with two
friends that he named." Camps had the detainee undress to check for
wounds and closely examine his shoulders for traces of rifle-butt
abrasions. "Although he claimed to be a peasant, I noticed that he wore
jockey briefs, an undergarment not used by peasants because of their
similarity to female panties. I then knew that he was a city dweller,"
recalled the lieutenant. Raúl's hands were shaking when left in a
detention cell while his identity was verified.
Lieutenant Camps telephoned the army chief in Alto Cedro, who replied
that the person who supposedly drove Raúl to Santiago de Cuba had sold
his car a month before and the other alleged companion was convalescing
a fractured leg. Camps was given a description of Ramón González, whom
Raúl Castro claimed to be, and it did not match. When the suspect was
confronted with this information and the fact that neither of the two
friends he mentioned had gone with him, he quickly admitted his real
identity and confessed his participation. A paraffin test indicated
that he had not fired a weapon. The next day, Camps and two corporals
escorted the prisoner to the Palma Soriano garrison, where he remained
for three days, before being transferred to the Santiago de Cuba vivac
city jail, a colonial structure built in 1845. Camps then told Raúl,
"Look, your brother got killed," and gave him the pro-government Ataja
newspaper headlined "Fidel Castro Dead." The article stated that "with
all certainty, among the civilians not identified who died in the
Moncada garrison attack, fell the leader of the attackers, Fidel
Castro." According to Camps, the distraught youth blurted out, "He died
like he wanted to. He was a big rogue." (Murió como quería. Fue un gran
cabrón). Camps asked, "Why do you say that?" Raúl replied, "Because he
betrayed us. He said we were going to join some soldiers at Moncada for
a coup d'etat. I did not kill anyone."
Upon arriving in Santiago de Cuba, Raúl Castro stated to the reporters
of Cadena Oriental de Radio and the Havana Post,
"I arrived in Santiago de Cuba on Saturday night for the purpose of
taking part in the assault on the Moncada army post. I left Havana,
where I live at No. 214 Neptuno St., on Friday, on the invitation of my
brother Fidel, who had not explained to me the plans to take part in
that attack until we arrived at the El Siboney estate. There we were
told that we were going to take the Moncada Army post and how it was to
be done, but everything turned out different (they had been deceived
and told that the soldiers and officers were against the government and
would support them). My brother assured us that there would be no
murders, but when we arrived at the Civil hospital some did occur. I
entered the building of the Santiago Court of Appeals, with five other
comrades, to take it and prevent the armed forces from taking up
positions there and firing on the attackers . . .
At the El Siboney estate we were given the army uniforms we were to
use and the weapons. We had no plans on what should be done in Cuba. I
was an Ortodoxoist and I say "was" because Ortodoxoism no longer
exists. Once the plan had failed, I got rid of the army uniform I was
wearing and descended the hill beside the Court of Appeals, leaving the
city and making for Dos Caminos, where I was arrested and taken to San
Luis. Both in the San Luis and Moncada army posts we were well
treated." ("Brother of Fidel Castro Admits Hospital Murders," Havana
Post, July 31, 1953, page 1).


There is no denying that in this day and age art and technology go hand in hand. The process of creating an artistic and even a marketing object has majorly evolved from simple paper origami making, thanks to 3D printing.
First invented in 1980’s, additive manufacturing, or most commonly known as 3D printing, is a process of creating a three-dimensional solid object that is designed in a computer. 3D Printing entails in a three-step process: First step is creating the CAD file (Computer Aided Design) digital design in a 3D modeling application. Then the virtual design will be digitally sliced into hundreds or thousands of layers by computer software, which will result to its 3D model. Finally, the last step is uploading the 3D model to the 3D printer; and then printing it layer by layer until the 3D model is achieved.
At present, the innovations in this technology have made it possible to 3D print in a lot of different materials such as plastics, metals, ceramics, paper, and even – believe it or not – some types of food.
However the printing material that is commonly used in 3D printing is the PLA plastic filament. Not only it is versatile, PLA plastic filament is eco friendly as it is made from processed plant products like corn and potato; is odorless and demonstrates low warp, which means that it is not required to have a heated bed when 3D printing using PLA plastic filament. Moreover, it is important to mention that PLA plastic filament comes in a plethora of striking colors – from the neutrals to bright – that can definitely help achieve the look you want for your design.
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Events nuzul the Quran into a recording history in the life of the Prophet to the next stages to be completed as the Qur'an is with us today. Nuzul Al-Quran events occurred on the night of Friday, 17th of Ramadan, in the 41st birthday of the Prophet Muhammad SAW. The word 'Nuzul' means down or moved from top to bottom. When mentioned that the Quran is the greatest miracle of the Prophet then it means too much to Muslims, especially those seriously looking secrets of the Qur'an.
'Qur'an' means reading or assembly. In it accumulated a lot of things verses that include the question of faith, worship, Crimes jurisprudence, science, technology and so on. Word of the Qur'an, often combined with the phrase 'al-Quran miracles end of time' or 'al-Quran has miracles'. In fact this is the advantage of the Quran does not have one already that dicuaikan or left in the Quran.
The word 'Nuzul' means down or moved, the move from a place located on the top place on the bottom. "Quran" is meant reading or assembly. It is said to be reading because the Qur'an is to be read by humans.
Verses of the Quran was first revealed God to the Prophet Muhammad through the medium of the angel Gabriel was the first five verses of Surah Al-Alaq. Word of God says:
"Read () in the name of your Lord who created. He has created man from a clot. Read in the name of thy Majesty is taught (man) with the pen. He taught man that which he knew not."


How to Prepare for Wildfires
From town, you can smell the smoke when the wind shifts. As the East Troublesome fire has exploded quickly, the damage still difficult to assess. Though snow is in the forecast, fire season has been long and difficult in 2020.
The idea of a mandatory evacuation might feel remote, but we've learned in the past several months that it could be right around the corner. "Having a plan for an emergency is highly beneficial," according to Jordan Mallory, a Helitack Firefighter and EMT with the National Park Service. Talking to your family and setting up a system in the case of evacuation would be worthwhile if the moment came. Plan how and where to meet, and where you would stay.
In particular, caring for animals can become tricky. Many people in Routt County are ranchers or own horses for recreational purposes. Mallory advises, “The most important thing someone could do to protect their animals is to create a defensible space for their property. Clearing big piles of brush, limbing trees, keeping vegetation manicured, and limiting debris around the home is the first step.” These are preventative measures you can take to limit the possibility of fire spreading to your property or creating problems if it did spread.
Keeping informed about the behavior of the fire and its direction is also important. Coordinate with family and friends to define a place to move cattle and other large animals in case of an emergency evacuation. Mallory said the the primary issue she sees with livestock owners is a lack of time to prepare when the evacuation becomes mandatory.
You can also call upon a division of volunteers from the Humane Society called CART – Community Animal Response Team – who are trained to specifically aid companion animals and livestock. Visit their website to learn more about the ways they help ranchers, farmers, and others shelter and care for animals in an emergency and reunite with rightful owners if they become displaced.
If you’re interested in becoming a CART volunteer, there are several steps outlined on their website. Even if you’re not in the line of fire this summer, you can help make a difference for those who are.
Don’t forget that in an emergency, first responders are always looking for wallets and phones as a way to identify people. Keep your ICE (In Case of Emergency) App up to date on your phone, and if you have medical directives, consider DocuBank to store your files for easy access.
In addition to having an emergency evacuation plan, consider revisiting your important documents: your life insurance policy, your financial documents, and your estate plan. Is everything well-organized, and information up to date? Do you have the right people listed as beneficiaries? It's so important to review this information at least once a year.
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New algorithm paves the way for light-based computers
An inverse design algorithm developed by Stanford engineers enables the design of silicon interconnects capable of transmitting data between computer chips via light. The new process replaces the wire circuitry used to relay information electronically, which could lead to the development of highly efficient, light-based computers.
While the heavy lifting in computer processing takes place inside the chips, an analysis by Stanford professor of electrical engineering, David Miller, showed that up to 80 percent of a microprocessor’s power is eaten up by the transmitting of data as a stream of electrons over wire interconnects. Basically, shipping requires far more energy than production, and chewing through all that power is the reason laptops heat up.
Inspired by the optical technology of the internet, the researchers sought to move data between chips over fiber optic threads beaming photons of light. Besides using far less energy than traditional wire interconnects, chip-scale optic interconnects can carry more than 20 times more data.
The majority of fiber optics are made from silicon, which is transparent to infrared light the same way glass is to visible light. Thus, using optical interconnects made from silicon was an obvious choice. “Silicon works,” said Tom Abate, Stanford Engineering communications director. “The whole industry knows how to work with silicon.”
But optical interconnects need to be designed one at a time, making the switch to the technology impractical for computers since such a system requires thousands of such links. That’s where the inverse design algorithm comes in.
The software provides the engineers with details on how the silicon structures need to be designed for performing tasks specific to their optical circuitry. The group designed a working optical circuit in the lab, copies were made, and all worked flawlessly despite being constructed on less than ideal equipment. The researchers cite this as proof of the commercial viability of their optical circuitry, since typical commercial fabrication plants use highly precise, state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment.
While details of the algorithm’s functions is a tad complex, it basically works by designing silicon structures that are able to bend infrared light in various and useful ways, much like a prism bends visible light into a rainbow. When light is beamed at the silicon link, two wavelengths, or colors, of light split off at right angles in a T shape. Each silicon thread is miniscule – 20 could sit side-by-side within a human hair.
The optical interconnects can be constructed to direct specific frequencies of infrared light to specific locations. And it’s the algorithm that instructs how to create these silicon prisms with just the right amount and bend of infrared light. Once the calculation is made as to the proper shape for each specific task, a tiny barcode pattern is etched onto a slice of silicon.
Building an actual computer that uses the optical interconnects has yet to be realized, but the algorithm is a first big step. Other potential uses for the algorithm include designing compact microscopy systems, ultra-secure quantum communications, and high bandwidth optical communications.
The team describes their work in the journal Nature Photonics.
Source: Stanford University


Held each April, Mathematics Awareness Month highlights mathematical developments or applications in a particular area. As an effort to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics, the sponsors of this program provide written material such as posters. The theme for this year is complex systems. Previous themes have focused on a variety of topics including climate, art, and the cosmos.
Mathematics Awareness Month is sponsored by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM), which is a collaborative effort of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The AMS also has outreach materials and posters for public awareness of mathematics in everyday life.


“The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time.”
BY MARIA POPOVA
“All eternity is in the moment,” Mary Oliver wrote with an indebted eye to Blake and Whitman. “[Is] only the present comprehended?” Patti Smith asked two decades later in her magnificent meditation on time and transformation.
This temporal tension between the immediate and the eternal is one of the core characteristics and defining frustrations of the human experience — over and over, we strain to locate ourselves within time, against time, grasping for solid ground while aswirl in its unstoppable flow. We struggle to hold it all with what Bertrand Russell called “a largeness of contemplation,” but we continually suffer at the smallness of our temporal existence — suffering reflected in our cultural fascination with time travel, which illuminates the central mystery of human consciousness.
How to inhabit the time-scale of our existence without suffering and fill the moment with eternity is what the great Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813–November 11, 1855) explores in a portion of his 1844 classic The Concept of Anxiety, later included in the indispensable volume The Essential Kierkegaard (public library).
A century before Borges’s famous proclamation — “time is the substance I am made of”— and more than a century and a half before Einstein revolutionized human thought by annealing our two primary modes of existence to one another in the single entity of spacetime, Kierkegaard writes:
Man … is a synthesis of psyche and body, but he is also a synthesis of the temporal and the eternal.
Centuries before physicist came to explore the science of why we can’t remember the future, Kierkegaard probes our familiar temporal ordering of events and experiences:
If time is correctly defined as an infinite succession, it most likely is also defined as the present, the past, and the future. This distinction, however, is incorrect if it is considered to be implicit in time itself, because the distinction appears only through the relation of time to eternity and through the reflection of eternity in time. If in the infinite succession of time a foothold could be found, i.e., a present, which was the dividing point, the division would be quite correct. However, precisely because every moment, as well as the sum of the moments, is a process (a passing by), no moment is a present, and accordingly there is in time neither present, nor past, nor future. If it is claimed that this division can be maintained, it is because the moment is spatialized, but thereby the infinite succession comes to a halt, it is because representation is introduced that allows time to be represented instead of being thought. Even so, this is not correct procedure, for even as representation, the infinite succession of time is an infinitely contentless present (this is the parody of the eternal).
The present, however, is not a concept of time, except precisely as something infinitely contentless, which again is the infinite vanishing. If this is not kept in mind, no matter how quickly it may disappear, the present is posited, and being posited it again appears in the categories: the past and the future.
The eternal, on the contrary, is the present. For thought, the eternal is the present in terms of an annulled succession (time is the succession that passes by). For representation, it is a going forth that nevertheless does not get off the spot, because the eternal is for representation the infinitely contentful present. So also in the eternal there is no division into the past and the future, because the present is posited as the annulled succession.
Time is, then, infinite succession; the life that is in time and is only of time has no present. In order to define the sensuous life, it is usually said that it is in the moment and only in the moment. By the moment, then, is understood that abstraction from the eternal that, if it is to be the present, is a parody of it. The present is the eternal, or rather, the eternal is the present, and the present is full…


The role of flowmeters in the pharmaceutical industry
A flowmeter is a device that measures the rate at which a liquid or gas moves through a pipe. It is important to measure the rate in volumetric or mass flow rates for a number of reasons such as; fine-tuning costs, monitoring emission levels, and following industry regulations.
The pharmaceutical and healthcare industry has increased pressure to stick to budgets and state financial accountability. Therefore, experts have been analysing how resources are used within this sector and identified where savings can be made using tools such as flowmeters.
The cost of purchasing and producing various medical gases can be extremely expensive and this is one of the largest expenditures in most hospitals. However, this usage is very rarely successfully monitored or measured as most hospitals just rely on the rate at which the gas cylinder empties to determine the amount and rate of gas used.
This method of measurement is highly unreliable for a number of reasons;
- The amount of gas in a cylinder can vary greatly, even when delivered by the gas supplier.
- Gas consumption and peak times of consumption cannot be accurately determined.
- Leaks can go undetected.
There are a number of healthcare applications that would benefit from flowmeters providing precise measurements such as;
- Drug production and administration
- Applications for ancillary medical device processes
- Cleaning systems
- Cooling systems for physical therapy
- Measuring the flow of blood or simulated blood
- Artificial kidney production (hollow fibres).
- Monitoring anesthetic gas consumption.
- Coating of stents
- Synthetic bone production
Bürkert is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of measurement and control systems for liquids and gases. We are proud to be official Bürkert distributors and supply a wide range of their products. The Bürkert brand stands for optimum economy, efficiency, and design geared to the future of pharmaceutical technology.
Type 8098 FLOWave SAW-Flowmeter uses SAW (Surface Acoustic Waves) technology and is designed for use in hygienic applications common to pharmaceuticals. This flowmeter does not have any moving parts in the measuring tube and offers following benefits:
- No pressure drops
- No leakage problems
- No dead spaces
- No replacement parts needed
- Excellent cleanability (CIP and SIP)
- Greater independence from the medium
That’s not all, due to innovative technology, the measurement is independent of flow direction and does not require any conductivity. Furthermore, the low weight, small dimensions, and minimal energy requirements reduce the installation effort and enable compact systems and cost savings.
Flowmeters for pharmaceutical applications
Bürkert provides flow sensors and transmitters suitable for both utilities and process duties within the pharmaceutical industry. Your needs are covered with Bürkert , the measuring principles of these flowmeters range from magnetic, inductive, and paddle wheel. They also have a range of materials and connections to suit different applications.
Type 8056 – Magflowmeter
The 8056 hygienic magnetic flowmeter has high accuracy, a wide range of outputs and integrated data logger and batch controller. Manufactured from 316L stainless steel with a PTFE lining, it is available from DN3 to DN100 with clamp and other sanitary connections.
It is designed for applications with conductivities as low as 5 μS/cm. Type 8056 can control high-precision dosing operations and continuous flow measurement, with a measuring range up to 280 m3/h.
Type 8045 – INSERTION Magmeter
INSERTION magmeter for continuous flow measurement. Designed for pipes with diameters ranging from DN 06 to DN 400 and > 20 μS/cm. FDA approved. The version with a stainless steel sensor has been designed for applications with high pressures (PN16) and high temperatures (up to 110°C). The version with Alloy C22 electrodes allows applications with high corrosive fluids.
Type 8030 – Paddlewheel Flow Sensor
The 8030 paddlewheel flowmeter is ideal for non-conductive fluids like R/O systems and DI water production skids. All wetted parts are produced from FDA-approved materials. The Bürkert designed fitting system ensures simple installation of the sensors into all pipes from DN 06 to 65.
If you would like to discuss these products further in relation to your own requirements, please do not hesitate to contact our expert team.