text: For someone who has long vowed to appoint what he called "pro-life" judges to the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump said last week that he didn't know the position of his nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Roe v. Wade, the nearly 50-year-old Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. "You don't know her view on Roe v. Wade. You don't know her view," Trump told Democratic nominee Joe Biden in last week's presidential debate, in response to Biden's admonition that the future of Roe is on the ballot this fall. But for Barrett's supporters and detractors alike, it's clear that her confirmation would cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court to limit abortion access. Even if the court doesn't overturn Roe, there are cases percolating in courts nationwide that would chip away at an individual's right to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy and give the state room to second-guess that decision. In 2006, Barrett added her name to a list of "citizens of Michiana" who signed a "right to life ad," sponsored by a group that opposes abortion, that appeared in the South Bend Tribune. The ad from the Saint Joseph County Right to Life calls for putting "an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe v. Wade and restore laws that protect the lives of unborn children." Ten years later, Barrett told an audience at Jacksonville University she believed that while Roe wouldn't be overturned, access to abortion could eventually be limited. "I don't think the core case – Roe's core holding that, you know, women have a right to an abortion – I don't think that would change," Barrett said. "But I think the question of whether people can get very late-term abortions, you know, how many restrictions can be put on clinics – I think that would change." Supporters of abortion rights are watching more than 15 cases percolating in the lower courts that will likely arrive at the Supreme Court in the coming terms. They include issues such as requirements for the burial of fetal tissue, hospital admission rules and parental notification, as well as bans on abortion as early as six, eight or 10 weeks into pregnancy. How far Barrett would go is a question roiling the country as progressives lament that Trump chose to replace the liberal late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a 48-year-old conservative jurist who is the feminist icon's ideological opposite, especially when it comes to reproductive health. "At this unprecedented time, and while the nation is still mourning and paying tribute to Justice Ginsburg's tremendous contributions to advancing equality, President Donald Trump has nominated a replacement who would gut Justice Ginsburg's legacy and turn back five decades of advancement for reproductive rights," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. Conservatives, some of whom gathered on the court's plaza last Saturday night as the President announced the nomination, think their time may have finally come. Chanting "6-3, 6-3" to reflect the court's new potential majority that night, they believe Trump has fulfilled a campaign promise from 2016 to appoint anti-abortion justices. Barrett's record indicates she believes the Roe v. Wade decision is an act of "judicial imperialism," Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said at a Judiciary Committee meeting last Thursday. "I do believe Judge Amy Coney Barrett's record bears that out." On the bench, Barrett, a deep thinker and meticulous jurist who was well aware long before her nomination that she was on Trump's short list, has left a careful trail. That trail reveals votes open to more restrictive laws and a state's expanded ability to regulate abortion, as well as a judicial philosophy aligned with that of her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who believed Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. What Barrett said at her 2017 Senate hearing Confirmation hearings, long on drama and often short on substance, rarely reveal anything new about a nominee. In September 2017, Barrett appeared before Congress for her confirmation to the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals and was pressed on Roe v. Wade. She followed the script of most every nominee to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee, noting that lower court judges are bound by Supreme Court precedent. "Roe has been affirmed many times and survived many challenges in the court, and it's more than 40 years old, and it's clearly binding on all Court of Appeals," she said. "And so it is not open to me or up to me, and I would have no interest in, as a Court of Appeals judge, challenging that precedent – it would bind." Then-Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley asked Barrett about her Catholic faith. "When is it proper for a judge to put their religious views above applying the law?" the Iowa Republican queried. "If there is ever a conflict between a judge's personal conviction and that judge's duty under the rule of law, that it is never, ever permissible for that judge to follow their personal convictions in the decision of the case rather than what the law requires," she said. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the panel, persisted, asking the nominee whether she considered Roe v. Wade the kind of precedent that could be overturned. "If I were confirmed, I would follow all Supreme Court precedent without fail," Barrett responded. Asking such questions is often a fruitless endeavor. That's because every lower court judge is bound by Supreme Court precedent. But the stakes would be different on the high court. During her upcoming confirmation hearing Barrett will be asked what she thinks of the doctrine of stare decisis. It's a legal term that refers to a court's practice of following precedent. Literally, it means "stand by the thing decided." It comes up as senators push to see a particular nominee's view on the doctrine. Justice Clarence Thomas, for example, has said he has little respect for it, while other justices believe it's an important stabilizing factor for the court. O. Carter Snead, a longtime colleague at Notre Dame, says he's hard-pressed to see where Barrett has been definitive on Roe v. Wade. "In her scholarship, I've never seen her stake out a position on Roe v. Wade, as to whether it was decided correctly in the first instance as an originalist matter, or how principles of stare decisis might apply to overturning it." Democrats are likely to turn to Barrett's own writing from 2013, when she was a professor at Notre Dame and she penned an essay centered on the doctrine. While she pointed to its strength, her critics focus on the fact that at one point she suggested room for some cases to be overturned. "If anything, the public response to controversial cases like Roe reflects public rejection of the proposition that stare decisis can declare a permanent victor in a divisive constitutional struggle rather than desire that precedent remain forever unchanging," she wrote. "Court watchers," she added, "embrace the possibility of overruling, even if they may want it to be the exception rather than the rule." What Barrett has said about abortion on the bench Her critics won't be able to point to an appellate court opinion where she has taken a position in a merits case cutting back on Roe, but they are looking at two votes in particular. In one, a three-judge panel struck down an Indiana abortion law with provisions dealing with fetal remains and barring abortion based on the race, disability or sex of the fetus. Indiana asked the full appeals court to review only the provision on fetal remains, which it declined to do. But Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote in dissent, saying he thought the full court should have voted to revisit the case, and was joined by Barrett. Easterbrook returned to the law's provision barring abortion on the basis of race, disability or sex of the fetus, calling it a "eugenics statute," and he wrote that there is a "difference between 'I don't want a child' and 'I want a child, but only a male, or 'I want only children whose genes predict success in life.' " "None of the Court's abortion decisions holds that states are powerless to prevent abortions designed to choose the sex, race and other attributes of children," he wrote. The fact that Barrett expressed a will to reconsider a dispute about the Indiana law (even though Indiana didn't even ask for a rehearing on that provision) suggests she thought the panel had gotten the decision wrong. Her critics seize on the Indiana law as being just the kind of statute that chips away at an individual's right to make the decision on whether to terminate a pregnancy and gives the state room to second-guess that decision. In another case, a three-judge panel struck down a law dealing with parental notification when it comes to minors seeking abortions. Planned Parenthood was challenging the law before it went into effect. The panel held the law was likely unconstitutional. Again, the full 7th Circuit Court denied Indiana's request to rehear the case. Barrett wanted to reconsider the panel decision and joined the dissent, which raised questions pertaining to when a law could be blocked prior to its enforcement date. "Preventing a state statute from taking effect is a judicial act of extraordinary gravity in our federal structure," Judge Michael Kanne wrote. Abortion rights activists say her vote signals that she may believe a law should be challenged only after it goes into effect. As things stand, restrictions are often blocked before they take effect. "It's a dangerous sign that in the only two abortion cases she heard she was going to reach out and disrupt a three-judge opinion by her colleagues that these restrictions violated 40 years of Supreme Court precedent," said Helene Krasnoff, vice president of public policy litigation and law at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "Importantly, there is nothing in her record to suggest the opposite. In fact every writing and every decision suggests that she would be a reliable vote to restrict access to abortion," Krasnoff said. Barrett's supporters note that she voted with the majority to uphold Chicago's so-called "bubble zone" ordinance, which bars opponents of abortion from approaching someone within 8 feet in the vicinity of a clinic if the purpose is to engage in protest. While some may say that the opinion, rooted in the First Amendment, protected those seeking abortions, others note that the court made clear it was bound to apply a Supreme Court case that was "materially identical" to the case at hand. "In fact, the opinion suggests that if she were presented with the same issue as a Supreme Court justice, she would rule the other way," Krasnoff added. It's something Barrett's supporters reject. "Since 1973 Democrats have been scaring American voters that every Republican Supreme Court nominee would overturn Roe v. Wade, and here we are nearly 50 years later and Roe v. Wade is still intact," said Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project, a group that supports Trump's nominees. "Judge Barrett, someone who is clearly pro-life, has also clearly demonstrated on her three years on the 7th Circuit that she can separate her personal views from her judicial decision making," he said. At Notre Dame A Notre Dame Magazine article from 2013 detailed a "Professors for Lunch" lecture series that featured a talk by Barrett. The article said she "spoke both to her own conviction that life begins at conception" and to the " 'high price of pregnancy' and 'burdens of parenthood' that especially confront women." According to the article, "she asked her audience whether the clash of convictions inherent in the abortion debate is better resolved democratically." Such a line of reasoning evokes Scalia's jurisprudence. He thought a judge should interpret a text as people would have understood that text at the time it was ratified. As Barrett said in 2016: "Justice Scalia resisted the notion that the Supreme Court should be in the business of imposing its views of social mores on the American people." In 2012 Scalia told CNN what he thought about Roe: "My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice." Barrett was also a member of the Notre Dame chapter of a club called University Faculty for Life. The group wrote a resolution in 2016, when Barrett was a member, noting that it sought to "promote the truth" that "every human being, from the moment of conception and until natural death, must be cherished and protected, and must never be intentionally killed." As such it wrote to oppose Notre Dame's decision to award a medal to then-Vice President Joe Biden. "Mr. Biden has for decades conspicuously rejected Church teaching about life," the resolution read. "He has rejected it repeatedly and consistently in the context of abortion, where (he has been quoted as saying) he would not want to 'impose' this teaching upon a woman and her doctor." CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correct the timing of Trump's comments about Barrett's position on abortion.


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Proteins often consist of hundreds or thousands of individual parts, the amino acids.
Proteins often consist of hundreds or thousands of individual parts, the amino acids. These are connected like the links of a chain. However, protein molecules would not be able to fulfill their task as a long filament flapping back and forth. Each of them is therefore folded in its own, very specific way during its creation. For proteins that are released from the cell to the outside or transported to intracellular stores, this folding takes place at a specific location in the cell: the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Here, the partial strands that end up lying next to each other in the course of this protein folding can also be linked together at defined points. This prevents the ball from unraveling and retains its functional shape.
The connection is made via a mechanism that many people are already familiar with in a completely different context - in the hair salon. That is because it is used in perming to keep the hair in shape. For this purpose, certain chemicals are applied to the curlers. They ensure that chemical bonds, known as disulfide bridges, are formed between neighboring hair proteins. "Disulfide bridges, which link the neighboring sub-strands, are also formed at certain points in the protein filament during protein folding," explains Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer of the Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) at the University of Bonn.
Molecular "Bucket Line" Passes Electrons Onward
Chemically, this process is an oxidation: This is because certain amino acids contain bound hydrogen sulfide (chem: S-H). If two such amino acids come to lie next to each other during the folding of the filament and one splits off the hydrogen (H) from their S-H groups, a disulfide bridge (chem: S-S) forms. For this process, one electron is removed from each of the two original S-H bonds. This is done by certain proteins that exert a precisely matching "traction force" on the electrons. However, the removed electrons must be guided out of this environment, otherwise they can cause damage.
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Image: Wild-type Arabidopsis plants and ero1 ero2 mutants after four days of flooding followed by a six-day recovery period. The double mutants show very clearly recognizable damage. (Credit: © José Ugalde/University of Bonn)

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During the growing season, water your peanut cactus whenever the top inch or two of soil dries out, but during the winter you can mostly leave it alone. It only needs winter watering if it is not being kept cool, at temperatures at or below about 40 degrees Fahrenheit (5 Celsius).
Beside above, how do you root a peanut cactus?
As an ornamental plant, peanut cactus is grown around the world. It is easy to propagate by detaching the stems, which break off easily, and laying them on top of cactus potting mix in a small pot. They produce roots along the bottom of the stem.
Also, can Cactus be in full sun? Typically, most cacti species need at least four to six hours of sunlight to thrive. These plants love being in bright and sunny locations. Plants that don't receive sufficient exposure to light may exhibit a wide range of signs.
Secondly, is my cactus healthy?
Shriveled or limp cactus
If you want to check your roots' health, gently pull out your plant from the soil. Healthy roots should be white, while rotting roots should be either black, brown or look mushy. If left unchecked the rot could spread to other parts of your plant, killing your plant.
Why is my peanut cactus turning red?
Some other types of cacti, it means they are dying. It's most likely getting a sun burn. The intensity of the afternoon sun it's in is too much. The redness is the plant's way of reducing the amount of sunlight it absorbs.
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Why does a cactus turn brown?
Instead of yellow, a cactus can also turn brown. The most common reason for this is age and is called corking. … When a cactus has been constantly wet, rot can settle in from the roots and spread upward to the plant. Diseases such as fungal disease or from pest infestation can also turn a cactus brown.
How deep should I plant my cactus?
Dig a hole that's equally as deep and 1½ times as wide as the root ball or stem (some transplanted cacti don't come with large root balls). 3. Set the plant in the hole so the north side of the plant faces north.
How do you propagate a cactus?
Propagating by stem cuttings is probably the most common and easiest route. Many cacti can be propagated successfully by stem cuttings. Stem cuttings are taken from an existing plant, then allowed to dry and callous. The cuttings will eventually start rooting from the cut end and start growing as a new plant.
How do you take care of Fairy Castle cactus?
Fairy castle cactus care is easiest in winter when you can cut in half the amount of water the plant receives. Fertilize with a good cactus fertilizer in spring when growth resumes. Feed monthly or with irrigation in a dilution that is half strength. Suspend the feeding in winter.
How long can a cactus live for?
In the wild cacti can live for hundreds of years. Indoors they may survive for 10 years or more. The trouble with old ones is that every single knock, scratch or blemish they get stays with them, so they tend to look less appealing as they get older.
Do cactus need lots of water?
Cactus plants actually hoard moisture in their plant cells so they have some water during extremely dry, drought-like conditions. … Loose, well-draining soil is essential to cactus health. If the soil is porous enough, occasionally overwatering is not much of an issue, as excess will easily drain away.
Where should I place my cactus?
According to basic Feng Shui principles, placing cactus plants in living room, bedrooms or the front entrance can turn it to a place of conflict, instead of a place of cooperation and harmony. A cactus plant can bring bad Feng Shui if placed in a wrong area.
What does an overwatered cactus look like?
How do you tell an overwatered cactus? … The cactus will appear to rot or decay. The leaves and stems will start changing color by turning brown or black. The base will also start turning black.
What do you call a person who loves cactus?
Xerophile: From the Greek, xeros meaning dry and philos meaning loving. … When word gets around that you're a cactus (and xerophile) enthusiast people have a tendency to give you cactus-related items of varying degrees of kitschiness.
How do you know when a cactus needs water?
Well, to know if your plant needs water, you need to observe its behavior carefully. Typically, if a cactus is under-watered, its body may look wrinkly and feel somehow "soft." The spines (modified leaves) feel dry and may easily fall off.


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text: This study highlights the need for transfection mediated coordinated bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) and fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) signaling to advertise osteogenesis. of and was noticed on time 3 and time 7 post-transfection respectively by cells transfected with PEI/(or by itself. Alizarin Crimson staining and atomic absorption spectroscopy uncovered elevated degrees of calcium mineral deposition in hADMSC civilizations on time 14 and time 30 post-transfection with PEI/(and leads to a significant improvement in osteogenic proteins synthesis osteogenic marker appearance and following mineralization. This extensive research points to a fresh clinically translatable technique for achieving efficient bone regeneration. osteogenesis is unguaranteed and unpredictable because they may differentiate into other tissue unrelated to bone tissue.8 Hence hAMDSC pretreatment with osteogenic growth factors ahead of implantation can be viewed as as a appealing approach for transforming undifferentiated cells into osteoblast specific cells. FGF-2 is normally a prominent mitogen and one of the Thiostrepton few osteogenic development factors9 with the capacity of generating osteogenesis in stem cells. FGF-2 is expressed with the cells of osteoblastic accumulates and lineage in the Thiostrepton bone tissue extracellular matrix.10 Binding of FGF-2 to its receptor FGFR1 leads to signal transduction ultimately in charge of cell migration proliferation and differentiation of a variety of cell types.11 The need for FGF-2 in regulating bone tissue formation was highlighted by a report demonstrating that mice acquired reduced osteoblast proliferation and an impaired Thiostrepton capacity to create new bone tissue.12 Furthermore to FGF-2 BMPs which participate in the transforming development aspect-(TGFFGF-2 and BMP-2 are believed to operate in coordination through SMAD activation as well as the MAPK signaling pathway to synergistically enhance osteogenesis by promoting Runx-2 nuclear co-localization in hADMSCs that may further enhance osteocalcin activity (Amount 1B).18 Therefore within this proof of concept research we proposed to market osteogenesis of hADMSCs by combinatorial plasmid encoding growth factor (FGF-2+BMP-2) delivery. Delivering recombinant regenerative development elements or morphogens such as for example BMPs and FGFs in proteins form are believed to be appealing treatment approaches for Thiostrepton bone tissue regeneration. Nevertheless huge amounts of proteins are necessary for significant bone regeneration fairly. These high dosages of protein possess increased threat of toxicity and so are costly.19 Gene therapy is known as a logical option to protein therapy since it is less expensive because Thiostrepton of the inexpensive production of plasmids in comparison with the recombinant protein production.19 The delivery of exogenous nucleic acids into cells can be carried out via a variety of methods the strongest which involves the usage of viral vectors.20 However viral vectors could be immunogenic limiting their utility in clinical applications thereby. Several physical strategies such as for example electroporation and microinjection are safer alternatives to viral delivery nevertheless the transfection performance is typically fairly low.20 Within this research polyethylenimine (PEI) a cationic polymer was useful to form nanoplexes with DNA encoding FGF-2 and BMP-2 by self-assembly through electrostatic connections and continues to be previously proven to possess efficient transfection capability both and combinatorial delivery through PEI significantly Thiostrepton improved the creation of bone tissue morphogenetic proteins-2 and genes and thereby augmenting osteogenic potential. Furthermore there is a substantial improvement of calcium mineral deposition and mineralization in the cells transfected with pFGF-2 and pBMP-2 via PEI. Outcomes & Discussion Development of PEI-pDNA nanoplexes Within this research we investigated the result of combinatorial delivery of and plasmids complexed with PEI to induce osteogenesis in Mouse monoclonal to GSK3B hADMSCs. The PEI/and PEI/(nanoplexes had been prepared as defined in the techniques section. Through the planning of nanoplexes the quantity of pDNA remained continuous at 50 μg whilst the PEI quantity was varied to acquire different amine:phosphate (N/P) ratios of just one 1 5 10 15 and 20. The threshold N/P proportion of which the PEI quantity utilized can stably complicated the pDNA was driven using gel.


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Our spring concert is at 7.30pm on Friday 22nd March at St Andrew Holborn, EC4A 3AF.
The programme is Mozart Requiem and Mozart Vespers (K339) with orchestra.
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Rehearsing from 9th April between 6.15 and 8.15pm at St Andrew Holborn, EC4A 3AF.
New members are welcome to come and give us a try.
Our summer concert is at 7.30pm on Friday 5th July at St Andrew Holborn - Puccini Messa di Gloria.
"City Chorus is one of the longest running amateur choirs in London. In 2020 it celebrated one hundred years of continuous music making. Even at the height of the Blitz, after the first shock had passed, a small group of Choir members, led by Gerry Darling, continued to meet and sing, and kept the idea of the Choir going. Over its one hundred years, the Choir has faced many hurdles, and undergone many changes of name, but its core identity has remained constant. It is a group of enthusiastic amateur singers who give up their time every Tuesday evening to create something together: to sing, listen, work and laugh together. There is something very special and very liberating about submerging your worries, ambitions and desires to a communal project, where the sum is so much bigger than its parts."
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Sir Anthony van Dyck
- Anthony van Dyck
- Head of a boy with clasped hands, a study for Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me
- oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Thence by descent in the family to William Alexander Louis Stephen, 12th Duke of Hamilton (1845-1895), Hamilton Palace, Scotland;
His sale, London, Christie's, 8 July 1882, lot 1033, to E. Warneck for £47 and 5 shillings;
Edouard Warneck, Paris, 1882-1926;
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 27 May 1926, lot 37, to Blumenreich;
With Leo Blumenreich, Berlin;
Fritz Hess, Berlin;
His sale, Lucerne, Cassirer-Fischer, 1 September 1931, lot 13, 10,500 Swiss francs, to Haas;
Anonymous sale, London, Phillips, 20 April 1993, lot 47 (as studio of van Dyck);
Deborah Gage, London, 1996.
Baltimore 1999, no. 16;
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, The Young van Dyck, 20 November 2012 - 3 March 2013, no. 37.
Hamilton Inventories, Beckford MSS, Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 12, inventory of 13 October 1704 at Kinneil Castle, Scotland, inv. no. 273;
Hamilton Inventories, Beckford MSS, Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 13, inventory of 7 June 1759 at Hamilton Palace, Scotland, inv. no. 72;
W. Bode, Rembrandt und seine Zeitgenossen, Leipzig 1906, p. 264;
R. Oldenbourg, "Studien zu van Dyck", in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, vol. IX, 1914-1915, p. 232;
W. Bode, Die Meister der Höllandischen und Vlämischen Malerschulen, Leipzig 1919, p. 347-348;
H. Rosebaum, "Über Früh-Portraits von van Dyck", in Der Cicerone, vol. XX, 1928, p. 365;
L. Burchard, "Christ Blessing the Children by Anthony van Dyck", in The Burlington Magazine, 72, 1938, pp. 29-30, reproduced fig. B;
K. Garas, "Ein unbekanntes Porträt der Familie Rubens auf einem Gemälde van Dycks", in Acta historiae artium academiae scientiarum hungaricae, 63, 1955, p. 199, cat. no. 10;
H. Vey, Die Zeichnungen Anton van Dycks, Brussels 1962, p. 102;
E. Waterhouse, Anthony van Dyck: Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me, Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Canada, vol. II, Ottawa 1978, p. 16, cat. no. 9;
I. Compin, "La donation Hélène et Victor Lyon", in La Revue du Louvre, 23, 5/6, 1978, p. 384;
J. Rupert Martin and G. Feigenbaum, Van Dyck as a Religious Artist, exhibition catalogue, Princeton 1979, p. 92;
A. McNairn, The Young van Dyck, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa 1980, p. 155;
M. Laskin and M. Pantazzi, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: European and American Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1300-1800, vol. I, Ottawa 1987, p. 100;
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren 1988, vol. II, p. 108, cat. no. 255;
S.J. Barnes, Van Dyck a Genova, Grande Pittura e Collezionismo, exhibition catalogue, Genoa 1997, pp. 74-75, reproduced;
New Orleans 1997, pp. 42-44, cat. no. 17, reproduced p. 43;
Baltimore 1999, pp. 42-44, cat. no. 16, reproduced inside cover and p. 43;
C. Brown, Van Dyck 1599-1641, p. 108, under cat. no. 8, note 1, reproduced fig. 1;
S.J. Barnes, N. De Poorter, O. Millar, H. Vey, Van Dyck, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven 2003, p. 31, cat. no. I.15;
J.J. Pérez Preciado in, The Young van Dyck, exhibition catalogue, A. Vergara and F. Lammertse ed., Madrid 2012, pp. 194-195 cat. no 37 and p. 199, under cat. no 38, reproduced p.195.
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."
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Numerous preparatory sketches from van Dyck's early period in Antwerp survive today, though later in the artist's career the practice appeared to tail off. He commonly created swift yet detailed studies in oil on paper, many of which were later mounted onto panel. The effect of oil on this medium is very different from its sleek appearance on panel and the result provides surprising insight into the artist's technique and application of paint.3 It is clear that the characterization of the sitter was of the utmost importance in this case and as such the paint is more concentrated and heavily worked up in the face and hands. In these key areas the paint is densely applied in a thick impasto and the texture is almost dragged and grainy. Less important areas, such as his clothing, are indicated in thin, broad strokes and the overall effect is swift and spontaneous. As José Juan Pérez Preciado writes:
"instead of trying to capture the details of the boy's features, the artist seems to have concentrated his efforts more on reflecting the psychological qualities and the attitude that the child was to convey in the final painting."4
The sitter's eyes are cast downward in humility, but the artist also conveys a certain "nervous tension" in the boy's demeanor, as Oliver Millar notes.5 The artist skillfully expresses the subtle emotion of the child; his hands are gingerly pressed together and there is a slight tautness at the corners of the mouth.
The vivacity and naturalness of the sitters in the right hand section of in the finished Ottawa composition suggest these figures are portraits of a real family, incorporated into the biblical scene.6 Klara Garas, Ellis Waterhouse and Alain McNairn considered it a strong possibility that the family portrayed was that of Peter Paul Rubens and his first wife, Isabella Brant.7 By that reasoning, the boy in this sketch would be Rubens' eldest son, Albert, who was born in 1614. Nora de Poorter, amongst others, have since rejected the hypothesis, however, finding the resemblance to Rubens and Isabella Brant less convincing and questioning the inclusion of a fourth child in addition to their own three offspring.8 The identity of the boy and his family thus remain a mystery.
A workshop version of this sketch, showing the boy without hands, is now in the Museé du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 1961-83). That study was also offered in the 1926 Warneck sale (see Provenance) and its inclusion alongside the present sketch led to the assumption that the Louvre picture was also an autograph work. The quality, however, is inferior to that of the present painting and as such the Louvre picture is now considered to be a workshop variant.9
1. New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 2014, lot 24; New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2010, lot 176.
2. J.J. Pérez Preciado, under Literature, p. 194, note 5.
3. New Orleans 1997, under Literature, p. 42.
4. J.J. Pérez Preciado, op. cit.
5. New Orleans 1997, op. cit.
6. N. de Poorter, under Literature, p. 31, under cat. no. I.14.
7. A. McNairn, K. Garas, E. Waterhouse in, The Young van Dyck, exhibition catalogue, A. McNairn ed., Ottaway 1980, cat. no. 71.
8. N. de Poorter, op. cit.


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Which of the following have coral reefs?
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Gulf of Kachchh
- Gulf of Mannar
- Sunderbans
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[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2014 Prelims]
(a) 1, 2 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: (a)
- Most of the world's coral reefs are located within the tropical zone between 30º N and 30º S latitude.
- Coral reefs require specific conditions for growth, such as a preferred temperature range of 22° to 30° C and a maximum depth of 200m.
- They can only survive in saline waters with an average salinity of 27 to 40%.
- More than one-third of the world's coral reefs are located in Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
- The Pacific and Indian Oceans are the most common locations for coral reef growth due to their shallow, warm, and clean waters.
- India's coral reefs are found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Gulf of Kutch, the northwest coast of Gujarat state, Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea off the southwest coast of Kerala, the Gulf of Mannar in the southeast of Tamil Nadu, and Palk Bay in southeast India.
- The Sundarbans in the Bay of Bengal is famous for its unique mangrove forests.
Therefore, option (a) is the correct answer.


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When it comes to building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in Austin, Texas, it's possible to go big. To accompany a client's existing 1960s ranch-style home, designer Matt Garcia could have maxed out the ADU's size to Austin's allowable limit of 1,100 square feet—but that didn't feel right. "The challenge was to keep the scale appropriate to the existing house, to be really sensitive to the property," says Garcia. "I wanted to make an architectural statement, but not a loud one, and do something rigorous and thoughtful."
When siting the new building, Garcia had to preserve a lot of the mature oak trees where he wanted to build. "All of the trees on that side of the property were protected by the city of Austin, so we couldn't touch them," he says. "So that was part of it, getting it nestled into that oak grove." A clever cutout in the ipe deck, mirrored in the roofline, is a gesture to that constraint.
For the interior, the goal was to give the client "a small footprint that someone could live in for about a week," says Garcia. "He's really involved in the music scene in town and he wanted a spot for buddies to come and jam and have a place to stay during South by Southwest."
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Quiz: What Paranormal Romance Should You Read Next?
Falling in love with a vampire, werewolf, witch, or other paranormal creature is a time-honored tradition of paranormal romance. What if you fell in love with an urban legend? Would you cower in fear, or would you get even closer? If you are in the latter group, this is the quiz for you.
The literary tradition of falling for an otherworldly person is everywhere. The animal bride and groom tradition shows a longstanding pattern of mystical or magical creatures who end up with human partners. Animal shifter romances are also entrenched in the western literary canon with poems like Marie De France's Yonec (where a lady falls for a Hawk-Knight) and Bisclavret (where a lady falls out of love when she realizes her Knight husband is a werewolf and the king takes him on as his werewolf-Knight). Something is incredibly appealing about an otherworldly person who chooses to trust you with their secret, power, or secret powers. I, for one, cannot see it stopping any time soon. If it does, I will have to read the backlist of my favorite sub-genre as I patiently wait for paranormal romance to become popular again.
I've selected a mix of backlist and frontlist paranormal romance books that cover a range of love interests from vampires, to werewolves, to witches and so much more. I am a fan of all of the paranormal romance books that are getting published once more. All I have to say is, bring it on. The paranormal romance novel you should read next awaits after a short quiz that targets your preferred vibe.
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Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Elena is doing just fine in Toronto as a human-passing journalist before Clay shows back up and asks her to return to the New York state pack. She is the only female werewolf, their best tracker, and his only love. Most of all, they need her help. Even if she can never forgive Clay, she wouldn't leave the pack to fend for themselves. Ultimately, they will have to learn to get along if they want to protect each other.
From the Dark We Came by J. Emery
When a vampire attacks you in the middle of the night, he normally doesn't follow it up with a job offer. Belar is a music teacher by day, a monster hunter by night, and so, he is sure Cassian has come to finish him off. The vampire needs a hunter who will find out who is framing him and put a stop to their misdeeds. Bite into this one if you're looking for a queer vampire-vampire hunter romance that packs a punch.
Human Enough by E.S. Yu
Noah knew getting captured by a vampire while working for the Vampire Hunters Association was a risk, but he never expected to find someone like Jordan while he was restrained. He cannot bring himself to kill someone as sweet as Jordan, so he takes him home with him when he escapes. But when he returns from work he notices something is wrong. Hiding his boyfriend from his coworkers becomes increasingly difficult as they attempt to shut down Noah's investigation into their crimes against the innocent vampires of the city.
Wolfsong by TJ Klune
This is a friends-to-lovers queer werewolf romance that will melt your heart completely. Ox grows up with a mother who will do anything for him, but when Joe and his family move next door he knows he has found his person. Ox and Joe have to face generations of decisions that will forever change their pack together if they want to move forward at all.
Silver Silence by Nalini Singh
In the Psy-Changeling world, Silver is a Psy who still follows the Silence and keeps emotions out of her daily life as a director of the emergency response network. As a bear Changeling alpha, Valentin's wildness opposes everything Silver believes she wants out of life. But when her life is threatened, she must live with the bear clan and learn how to love the chaos.
Black Witch Magic by Mila Nicks
Everyone knows librarians are magic. Selene just happens to be a witch. In her small New England town, everyone believes she is descended from an evil witch and one paranormal investigator is going to get to the bottom of it. Aiden is grumpy and persistent, but even as he begins to investigate her grandmother, he cannot help falling for the witch right in front of him.
Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
A sapphic witch romance that makes you question your future, past, and present. Emmy does not do magic, not since she left Thistle Grove and her difficult breakup behind. But, for one month, she will return to monitor a spellcasting tournament to uphold her family tradition. Emmy did not expect Talia to walk into her life and scheme to take down their ex-boyfriend and his family in the tournament. Who says you can't fall in love and do crime simultaneously?
Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Looking for a sapphic vampire romance novel? Ginger and Camila are the characters for you. Straight-A student, Ginger never thought she would join a sorority in college, but that was before she met an intriguing sisterhood bound by blood. The sisterhood is one thing, but dealing with a forbidden love on top of it all is another matter entirely.
Not the Witch you Wed by April Asher
A classic case of "an archaic supernatural law dictates I need a mate by an oncoming deadline, so we have to start a fake relationship." Violet is known as the magic-less eldest sister of the Magical Triad so she never thought the council would force her to follow the rules. Now she has to fake-date her ex-best friend, the current werewolf alpha, if she wants to buy herself some time to figure it all out.
The End of The Paranormal Romance Book Quiz
You finally have your next paranormal romance book. The sub-genre is so vast that I could not possibly include all of my favorites, but I hope this handful will hold you over for now. If you had a fun time with this quiz and want another book recommendation via quiz you should give these a try:


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Something almost identical happened to me as of late, which caused a great deal of dissatisfaction as that sublimation printer was the main model that I could work with. It is irritating to lose the main piece of hardware that you can work and depend on in your office.
As I don't feel comfortable around different models, this irritation, at last, began my chase after the top sublimation printers for amateurs. I discovered a few truly helpful models that even I could work and utilize easily in this chase. Consequently, I am sharing definite audits of those eight best sublimation printers for fledglings to help every newbie searching for good-quality printers.
Numerous makers in the market are creating sublimation printers with various elements and are offering them at various cost fragments. An off-base decision can land you in genuine misery as the color sublimation printers are an expensive issue. In any case, picking the best sublimation printer requires having master information about the stuff with them. At Scanse have done extraordinary examination in the market to present to you the rundown of the best sublimation printers accessible.
You ought to note that Sawgrass is the main brand in the market that produces best printer for sublimation explicitly made for sublimation printing. Different printers that we have referenced in this rundown are likewise viable with sublimation printing however are not intended for the reason alone. Changing over an ordinary printer for creating sublimation prints is irreversible for certain printers and may void the guarantee presented by the producers. It is encouraged to check with your maker before continuing with the change.
Before you get to see our top color sub printers, we might want to clarify that we don't embrace any of the brands on our site. All items we have utilized for this audit are retail units and are bought with our cash. So, let us roll further.
You ought to think about a couple of key factors while purchasing a sublimation printing machine. Here is a concise gathering of every one of them.
On the off chance that you enter the customization business, you'll confront numerous contenders. That is the reason it's vital for the rule regarding quality. To check a sublimation printer's printing quality, you should check out the goal and shading exactness. For the most part, sublimation printers with a goal of around 2400 dpi rule the market.
You can take a look at the shading precision by checking out the printer's ink framework. Of course, the more ink cartridges a printer can use, the better its precision.
Printing speed is urgent while purchasing sublimation printers, particularly for extending organizations. If you have many orders and can't print them in a sensible time, you'll lose clients. That is why you ought to search for sublimation printers with 10-30 ppm printing speed.
Sublimation printers with a wide network will make your life a lot simpler. In a perfect world, it might be ideal assuming your search for a printer that works over Wi-Fi, USB, and Ethernet. This will prove useful to associate your printer straightforwardly to the switch and not use Wi-Fi. They'll act as the hero in the USB ports, assuming that you will print a picture from another gadget.
On the off chance that you're new to managing printers, you'll be stunned to the detriment of purchasing and supplanting ink. Instead, you ought to check the brand of ink that the printer uses and see whether it's inside your monetary capacities. It might be ideal assuming you searched for sublimation printers with refillable ink tanks to bring down the expenses.
No. There are explicit models by a couple of printer makers, for example, Epson and Canon, that guarantee their printers can be changed over to delivering sublimation prints. For more data on unambiguous models, go to those printer producers' sites.
A few specialists recommend that color sub prints can be tougher than inkjet prints. They're more averse to smear and are more water-safe for the most part. A color sub photograph's unmistakable covering additionally keeps the picture from blurring (even though how much a picture will blur will rely upon the fact that it is so presented to the light after some time). Specialists additionally guarantee that a decent quality sublimation print that has been effectively moved to a polyester shirt could outlive the existence of a shirt itself.
No. You can print on a shirt made from manufactured fiber, like polyester texture. Concerning mugs, you'll have to purchase an extraordinary sort of mug with a coated ceramic surface with an exceptional covering that permits the outer layer of the mug to protect the sublimated ink.
For our appraisals of the best sublimation printers, we picked current models from some of the significant brands that produce these printers. Furthermore, we explored and chose the models that incorporated the broadest range of highlights and abilities, which addressed the issues of most clients, and which models and printer types were generally reasonable.
We likewise took a gander at viable printers with the two Windows and Mac PCs (the latest working frameworks for both) and other network advances, including USB, remote, Bluetooth, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.


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Something in the world of floating have you stumped?
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Today on Social Media week, Derek educates Ashkahn and Graham on what exactly it's like placing an ad on Facebook.
Facebook, as well as other social media sites, provide a cornucopia of options for targeting your ad based on employment, interests, age range, and lots of others. For float centers, this can become fairly confusing, especially since floating doesn't have demographics in the traditional sense.
Derek clears things up and explains to Graham, Ashkahn, and the rest of the float community, exactly why these options exist and what might work for a specific center.
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Graham: Okay.
Ashkahn: Alright, welcome, everybody.
Graham: Hey, there. I'm Graham.
Ashkahn: I'm Ashkahn.
Graham: And-
Ashkahn: We have a guest-
Derek: Derek!
Ashkahn: Derek.
Graham: Damn.
Ashkahn: It's Derek. Boom, bet you didn't see that coming-
Graham: Unless you've tuned in to last four days, which in that case, you definitely saw it.
Ashkahn: It was probably pretty predictable.
Graham: Yep. But he's still here, still recording with us.
Ashkahn: That's right.
Graham: Still talking about social media.
Ashkahn: We're doing a whole week of it. We recommend listening to the other episodes before this if you want, or whatever, you know, you're your own person. Don't listen to us.
Graham: I mean, maybe just not about that, or you should listen to us for some things, for certain. So, anyway. Today's question is: "how do I know which options to choose when I set up a Facebook ad, cuz there are a lot of them?"
Derek: There are a lot of them.
Ashkahn: And Derek does social media for Float On-
Graham: We didn't just drag this guy off the street.
Ashkahn: If this is the first episode you're listening to.
Derek: Look, I just wanted to float for free, and this is what happens. Seven years later.
Ashkahn: So that's who you're hearing from now, right now. He does our shop social media does a lot of stuff for float tank solutions, it is the conference, he just been a dear and loving friend of ours for many years now. We hang out.
Derek: Sometimes. Go to Blazer games.
Ashkahn: Sometimes. Yeah.
Graham: And so go on, so there are a lot of options. Those are great, thank you for clarifying.
Ashkahn: Yeah, no, I just wanted to give people some context.
Derek: So you can target by job description no, actually. You can target by interest. Like we just said, the Blazers. And you can target by a lot of things. But the thing you should do is go listen to yesterday's episode where we rambled on about the Facebook pixel, and try to target as much with that as possible. If you don't have a large audience, or you're just starting out, or you don't even have a website just yet, there's going to be a lot of decision-making in your future. You're gonna have to decide who you want to target, and more importantly, I would argue, than who you're targeting, is "does the message actually fit who you're targeting?"
So, everybody uses the yogis as an example of you can target. I want to target who are interested in yoga, ages twenty-five to forty-five, and it's really ambitious to say all of those people are the same people, right? You can alter politically, you can alter a lot of different things within that wide swath of twenty years. Like talk to somebody twenty years older and say they're just like you. So.
Ashkahn: Yeah, and before we delve into the specifics, I think really the kind of benefit of modern advertising in social media platforms is basically this, the ability to do incredibly precise targeting.
Derek: Right.
Ashkahn: That's what this has over newspaper. You can't, with newspaper, you have the demographic of people who read the newspaper, which is probably pretty huge. And you're just doing a shotgun approach, you know, or maybe you're trying to get into a very specific publication that meets a certain demographic. But back in the day, with billboards, and a lot of the traditional advertising that existed, it was much more of a like, we're gonna show this to as many people as possible to hopefully get the people we really want to see it, to see it. And now, with social media, and the ability to just know so much more and specify so much about who's seeing something, this is basically the benefit, and I think it's probably one of the big reasons why advertising like this is outperforming a lot more traditional advertising, is just because of this, you know, kind of scalpel precise.
Derek: Hyper-targeted. Yeah.
Ashkahn: So it's good. If you're doing social media advertising, and you're not using this, you're probably not getting one of the biggest benefits out of the advertising platform.
Derek: You can go hyper-targeted and get down to all the specifics about where they live within a certain mile radius, and what language they speak, and what level of college or not that they had attended. Test all of the stuff. So whatever your audience you're going to select, do some variations and find the ones that actually do respond to what you're doing more than anything else. And here's why, you gotta monitor a lot of things on Facebook ads, and one of them is, "is the money I'm putting in, what I'm making back", right?
So, some audiences, you could be pumping hundreds of dollars into, but if it never equates to a single float, then you're actually wasting money. But if you're, let's say, put a hundred dollars of ads in, and you made four hundred dollars, that's a pretty good return on ad spend. So, let's say, for every dollar you put out, you made four dollars, you could just do that all day long. And you won't know that unless you just start playing around with different audiences.
So find those that are close to you that you can actually speak to. If you're a big Crossfitter, and you understand crossfit lingo, you could say hey, after today's WOD, you can actually go ahead and relax in this tank and relieve all the tension, a la da la da la. And it actually will speak to the people in that Crossfit community better than, you know, everybody uses that, was it Steve Buscemi meme, where it's like, "hey young people, I'm just a young person too". And it sounds disjointed from what you're actually trying to attract.
So start with audiences you're familiar with, that you're close to, and make sure, again, the messaging supports that.
Ashkahn: Is there really something called a WOD?
Derek: Yeah. It's workout of the day.
Ashkahn: Okay.
Graham: And I will say, it's good advice. It's so much I tell people for target markets in general, not just on social media, too, is floating is kind of like the old saying about a hat store, where it's like, "what's the target market of a hat store? Anyone with a head". You know, and with social media especially, I think that when you're looking at demographics, it's easy to just kind of choose out, "oh, I'm gonna go for yoga people", or oh, "I'm gonna go for this wellness group", or oh, "I'm gonna go for Joe Rogan", because these are all really obvious tie-ins we think about.
But, in fact, often who ends up being really happy clients are the people who are part of groups that you're interested in, and you could just as easily go after marathon runners, or even MMA fighters, or even firefighters, or police fighters, depending on what your other campaigns are doing.
Ashkahn: Musicians, artists, there's a lot of different approaches.
Graham: Yeah, so don't feel constrained by what you think is the appropriate wellness group, or those people who would already be interested in floating. Often, you're kind of limiting yourself by constraining yourself to that.
Derek: Mm-hmm, exactly. And it builds rapport, so if you start attracting your people into your center, you start striking up these conversations, you're gonna hit it off better if you have something in common. And so that's where a lot of "which target market should I pick?", pick the one that you're going to wanna work with.
Graham: We have a lot of death metal bands who come through Float On, and that's specifically because we have a couple employees who really like death metal. And when they pass through town, they always invite the bands out to play, and that wouldn't be a target market you'd necessarily assume for float tanks. But in our case, totally is. That, again, comes just out of a love that our staff has for that specific interest.
Ashkahn: And especially with floating, when there's such a huge, diverse range of benefits that you could list on there, like being able to target, and being able to adjust your copy, and what your messaging is, appropriate to the group that you're targeting, is also really powerful. You know, it's another tough part about having a billboard or something. It's like, what do you say about floating in a billboard that doesn't try to list fifty different benefits that might reach out to different people who are seeing it?
Derek: Make it look like snake oil. "This thing cures all!"
Ashkahn: Right.
Derek: Yeah, you want to avoid that, for sure.
Graham: So, we haven't really talked about geographic targeting, or limiting, yet. Say a little about that.
Derek: I think every float center needs to do that with every one of their ads. There are ads I've seen on Facebook, and I try to give the float center owners a nudge when I say, let's say, all the way across the country ads to come to our float center when I'm in Portland, OR, means you're spending money to reach, I don't know, I looked, because you could click on Facebook and find out, why am I seeing this ad, and they just said, twenty-five to forty-five year old male who liked Joe Rogan. Guess what? That's a lot of people, and it probably should say within ten miles of your center if you want to attract the people you are actually trying to reach.
So, as far as geo-targeting, every audience you should set up should have whatever range works for the commuting ability in your city. So if it takes an hour to go ten miles. Right, you probably shouldn't do ten miles. You might have enough population density where a five mile radius is sufficient, and Facebook will actually show you kind of the neighbors and everything, and you can put your float center's specific address, it will drop a pin right on top of your float center. And then you just do the little slider to ten miles out and see how far out it goes, maybe twelve miles, fifteen miles, until you get to that point where you feel comfortable knowing your community, and reaching the best population for what you're wanting to spend.
Graham: And the closer, the better, right? I mean, running an ad within just a couple miles is going to produce pretty good hits, but may cost more, maybe?
Derek: Yeah, so-
Graham: Is there a balance there between geographical specificity and actual cost of the ads?
Derek: When you go hyper-targeted, Facebook's gonna make you pay for that, right?
Graham: Sure, sure.
Derek: Right, so if you go, "I want to hit all these people, including people within a mile radius, and college-educated, make over seventy-five thousand a year", and la la la, Facebook's like, oh, you know exactly who you're trying to target. Well, now your leads just went from two dollars a click to seven dollars a click, because this is a very important person to you, and we're gonna make you pay for it. So, I try to do a little bit wider swath, and I don't just do everyone in Portland for the twelve-mile radius. What I probably start doing is picking those audiences plus geographic.
So demographics plus geographic is gonna be a lot better result than just one without geo for sure, and then geo without any kind of granular drill-down.
Graham: Cool. And, I mean, so that's a definitely for certain one, is the geographical targeting. Are there any other options that you consider to be essential, that you pretty much do for everyone, or even just certain groups that you found, for us, to be especially helpful?
Derek: I like to play around with things. I'm a tinkerer, I understand the platform a little more. People call it testing, and I call it tinkering, but sometimes I go against the opposite grain, right? If we're trying to attract people who are already into meditation, and yoga, and all this stuff, maybe they don't need floating. Maybe they can get into that state without the benefit of the tank, and it's a harder sell. Oh, "I can meditate, I'm fine". But maybe you go to that super stressed out person, and you go to corporate executive. I try to sometimes go against the traditional float audience sometimes, and I might pay a little bit more for those, and I might not get as good of a crossover. But the people who do crossover are now infiltrating back at their corporate offices and talking to their employees, and their coworkers about what they just did, and it could have larger effects that you don't necessarily see on Facebook immediately.
So, that's one thing, it's just try to do the opposite of what you think sometimes is intuitive and test that out as well, too.
Ashkahn: Yeah, I mean, I think that is definitely one of the harder to think of benefits of targeting is like, well, maybe you should be trying to expand the group of people who might even know about float tanks or have heard about it.
Derek: And it's a balance, too. You know, the best Facebook targeting is going to be the people you've already warmed up. That's your Facebook pixel we talked about in the last episode. That's the email list you uploaded, we talked about in the last episode. The second best is gonna be, of course, people you feel are going to naturally adopt and warm up a little bit quicker, go from cold lead to a warmer lead. Sometimes, you gotta lay the foundation for those harder to get people, because some cities are only so big, and you sometimes, if you're a town of ten thousand people, you're gonna have to try and get in front of those ten thousand people one way, shape, or form.
And again, if you're in a city of ten thousand people, it's not gonna cost you that much to reach them, because it's only ten thousand people. Whereas like Portland, when there's two million people we're trying to reach, it's gonna cost a lot of money to reach those two million people. So you're actually at an advantage with Facebook ads, I believe, when you're in a smaller town.
Graham: And I have another question, actually, which is, once you find good demographics for you, or once you find these options to select on Facebook that work well for the ads you're running, is that kind of it? You find the things that work in your area, and then you stick with those, or is there always some playing around, and trying new audiences, and stuff like that, to do?
Derek: I always play around, because you don't want to fatigue the audiences. If you find a gold mine of an audience, and then you show ads to them, you show more ads to them, and the results start going down, you probably want to ease off of that audience. They've seen your ads enough, they know about you enough, you might want to move on to a different audience.
There's a frequency rate that you can check in Facebook, where if you run one ad, I try to keep it under three, if somebody has seen the same ad more than three times, probably want to turn that campaign off. Switch the ad up. Target them again, or just ease off of that audience for a little bit and move to a different audience.
Graham: And you've kind of said this before for some of our other episodes too, just for other things, which is kind of the social media changes so much, and even like you said, I mean, these are people out there that are seeing the ads. You can fatigue them. And there's this sense of do what works until it doesn't, and then switch things up. Do you think that's kind of just good advice for social media in general? Like you're getting results from posting these images inside your shop, great, run with it, do an ad based on those images, wait until it doesn't work anymore, and then try something else.
Derek: You can have a lot longer lifespan mixing it up, so if you're just posting pictures all the time of in the center, and that gets old, and now what, now do you go to articles? Picture, then wait a little bit, then do an article, then wait a little bit, then do a video, and then go back to picture. I wouldn't do picture, picture, picture, picture, until picture fatigued out, because that type of media is very valuable, so.
Graham: And is that just for organic, and would you say vary it up for ads, too? Like sometimes do video ads, sometimes do picture ads.
Derek: It depends on the audience responsiveness. Sometimes, if it's a really good video, and it's a short enough video, I would try video ads, especially if you can get that video ad under thirty seconds. Because you gotta think, again, nobody's gonna interrupt their Facebook viewing to watch a six minute video. So, I would, again, mix it all up and try to honestly just be observant of what's working and what's not.
Graham: Cool. That makes sense. Alright.
Ashkahn: Great.
Graham: And any last things to add over there?
Ashkahn: So, I mean, this is-
Graham: Yeah, let me settle down over here, we're just getting started.
Derek: All of this is a very big topic to cover in a short amount of time, and there are a lot of resources. If this is something you as a float center owner can't afford to hire somebody to do for you, and you're gonna learn, there are a lot of great resources that will walk you through it. Just be afraid to sit back and do nothing. You really should be doing something on Facebook ads. You can't really go wrong, because as long as you're not offending people, you're reaching people. So the worst thing you could do is nothing.
Graham: Yeah, and look at the industry report too if you haven't downloaded the most recent 2017 industry report. It's actually true across the board for all of the industry reports, but if you look at the drivers of traffic to float centers, it's number one, word of mouth, and then just slightly behind that, Facebook ads. And then the next tier of things, way below that, by far, is the two biggest things bringing people into float centers is just word of mouth, which is something that happens naturally. So if you're gonna spend money on something, at least the stats, according to the industry, are spend that money on Facebook ads. It is paying people off more than any other venue.
Ashkahn: Mm-hmm.
Derek: And to wrap up a couple of the previous episodes, don't get wrapped up in vanity metrics, right? Don't get wrapped up in, "I spent a bunch of money, I got a bunch of likes." Make sure that pixel is set up, so you can actually track your conversions, because if you throw five hundred dollars at an ad, and you've got all this reach, and all these likes, but not a single person bought a float, you just wasted five hundred dollars.
But also, you know, if you did a hundred dollars, and you made a thousand dollars off the deal, do more of those types of ads, right? So make sure, and the only way you can do that is putting all the pieces together, set up the Facebook Pixel and just know what is actually a real metric you should be shooting for.
Ashkahn: It's all starting to come together. It's good.
Derek: It's media week.
Graham: Two more episodes, we're gonna have a pretty nice bow tied on this package.
Ashkahn: Who knows what's gonna happen in those. Alright, well, we'll stop here so we can get you to those ones even faster. So if you guys have more questions you want to ask us that we'll answer in the future, you can go to FloatTankSolutions.com/podcast, and stay tuned here tomorrow for the next installment of our social media week with Mr. Dubbington over here.
Graham: Yeah, and you know, in addition to sending us questions, which you should totally do, take a second to let us know how you like this social media week, too. We're thinking about having a few more just targeted, cover a topic for a week's worth of episodes, so, you know, if you hate it, definitely let us know. And if you like it, send us flowers, chocolate, we like just small trinkets and gifts, so.
Derek: Popcorn for Ashkahn.
Ashkahn: Yes, that would be great.
Graham: Alright, thanks everybody.
Ashkahn: See ya.
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The Bundesliga served up yet another weekend packed with action, goals, and excitement as Union Berlin kept hold of top spot with a win over Borussia Dortmund. Under-pressure Schalke lost to Hoffenheim, while trainer-less VfB Stuttgart got their first win of the season.
So, who were the winners and losers of Bundesliga matchday 10?
The winners
VfB Stuttgart
It was Bayer Leverkusen last week and this week it was Stuttgart's turn to get a hugely impressive win after sacking their coach. In contrast to the Werkself the Swabians didn't install an immediate successor but entrusted internal solution Michael Wimmer to oversee the matchday 10 clash with Bochum.
A performance like no other they have produced this season saw them achieve their first win and climb out of the bottom two. Silas was the star of the show with two goals and an assist in the 4-1 win with the other goals coming via Naouirou Ahamada and Wataru Endo.
Yannick Gerhardt
Wolfsburg's Gerhardt has never scored more than two goals in a single league campaign before, but the 28-year-old former Köln midfielder has now scored three in as many games this season. He equalised against Borussia Mönchengladbach after Marcus Thuram's opener to follow goals in both previous league outings after his return from injury.
"He's a very intelligent player who converts everything immediately one-to-one" Wolfsburg coach Niko Kovac said after the match. "His experience helps in the Bundesliga. He is far under the radar and not so much in focus because he sacrifices himself for the team.
"When the strikers are blocked, you need the players who create the majority with their deep runs. Yannick does that exceptionally well."
Eintracht Frankfurt
Losing to bottom side Bochum last weekend and them going down to Tottenham in the Champions League would not have filled Frankfurt with a whole lot of confidence going into their encounter with Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen.
They need not have worried as they blew a poor Werkself side away 5-1 at the Deutsche Bank Park. Daichi Kamada dispatched a retaken penalty after Kolo Muani had missed the initial spot kick. After Leverkusen equalised, the Adler scored four unanswered goals via Jesper Lindstrom with a delightful chip, Kamada with another penalty, Kolo Muani and a first goal of the season from Lucas Alario against his former side.
"It's a richly deserved win over the full 90 minutes" coach Oliver Glasner said after the win. "The boys backed up what they'd shown me in training: they expressed themselves with nice combinations going forward. They attacked at pace and caused Leverkusen problems.
"For me, the best goal was the last one. Rafa Borré, who himself hasn't had many minutes or goals this season, was in a promising position and he squares it for Lucas Alario to score against his former club. That speaks volumes about the togetherness in the whole squad. Everyone wants success for each other."
Marcus Thuram
Two goals from Marcus Thuram against Wolfsburg helped Gladbach to a 2-2 draw at the Volkswagen Arena. His first saw Alassane Plea play the ball in from the left, and the Frenchman cut inside with pace, before dribbling past Lacroix and firing the ball into the back of the net. His second came three minutes into the second half after Jonas Hofmann's corner was headed towards goal by Thuram. It bounced back off of Paulo Otavio for the Gladbach hitman to strike the rebound past Casteels into the corner. He now has seven goals for the season.
His performance was called 'world class' by Wolfsburg sporting director Marcel Schäfer after the match.
Steffen Tigges
Köln found themselves in a real sticky patch after Augsburg took the lead at Rhein-Energie Stadion on the back of consecutive defeats to Borussia Mönchengladbach and Partizan Belgrade. Up stepped the striker tasked with replacing the goals of Anthony Modeste with a brace to turn the game in the Billy Goats' favour.
Steffen Tigges fired in the equaliser just three minutes into the second half before blasting in the winner in the 81st minute. "The home win feels really good. I think that was really important after the last few games£ Tigges said afterwards.
"In terms of performance, we don't have to hide from the last few games, it's just that the results weren't that great. We always got a lot of what we set out to do on the pitch. We had difficult phases in the game again today – the early goal we conceded out of nowhere. And also the 2:2 out of nowhere.
"But the team never gave up, kept fighting and then we simply have quality up front – with all the players who come in or play from the start. I'm just really happy for the team that the negative run has been broken."
Janik Haberer
For once it wasn't the strike duo of Sheraldo Becker and Jordan Pefok amongst the goals, but Janik Haberer, but Union fans won't be bothered who scores as long as they keep winning.
The first was an absolute gift after Gregor Kobel's howler, while his second was an excellent drive that flew like a bullet into the bottom corner leaving the BVB keeper no chance.
The losers
Bayer Leverkusen
The honeymoon is certainly over for Xabi Alonso as he watched his side crumble at the Deutsche Bank Park days after they were beaten in Europe by Porto. Defensively it was a horror show in the second period and there will be plenty to work on next week in training. At least their DFB elimination in the first round to Elversberg gives them an extra week off to try and sort the many issues they have.
Pellegrino Matarazzo
What must poor Pellegrino Matarazzo be thinking? No sooner has he lost his job than his former team produces their best display of the season to secure their first win and move out of the bottom two. Had he been given another week; would he have been the one to turn things around?
He will be back in somebody's technical area soon as a head coach, but it must be galling to watch your side click days after your departure.
It seemed inevitable that Schalke would go down to a defeat at the hands of ex-coach Andre Breitenreiter and it was a typical Schalke display that lacked so many things. That coach Frank Kramer has thus far survived the chop is a surprise, but after facing Hoffenheim again in midweek in the DFB Pokal, it could be his swansong.
Gregor Kobel
After coming back last week from injury to reclaim the number one jersey, Gregor Kobel showed more than a little rustiness with a calamitous howler against Union to gift them the lead in Sunday's clash in Köpenick.
He inexplicably slipped trying to take a simple back pass allowing Janik Haberer a free run in on goal. He was however man enough to face the interviewers after the game saying, "With the first goal when I slipped it looked pretty bad, and I can tell you it feels even worse. After that we were 0-1 and it's a tough place to play."


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Mitragyna Speciosa, or Kratom as it is more commonly known, is a Rubbeaica family tree/herb. Coffee is also a member of this family. This plant thrives in the marshy parts of Malaysia, Thailand, and the rest of Southeast Asia, where the climatic conditions are ideal for its growth.
For decades, kratom has been used extensively in many cultures. It was an element of folk medicine that was used to treat a variety of diseases including sleeplessness, lethargy, pain, opiate addiction, anxiety, and more. They also utilized it to boost their energy levels. Originally, the indigenous would just gather the blooms and chew them. They would brew it and drink it as tea on occasion.
Kratom was researched as a plant for the first time in the 1830s. With the dawn of the twenty-first century, its popularity skyrocketed, and with it came a slew of new ways to consume it. Some people prefer crushed kratom leaves, while others prefer powdered kratom. Some people prefer extract, while others prefer capsules.
Also Read: Kratom in Malaysia: History, Usage, and Legality
How to Prepare Kratom Powder Using Leaves
Any excellent kratom store, such as Borneohale, sells dried kratom powder. After that, you may grind it up into powder, which is a common way to consume kratom. To make kratom powder, simply place the leaves on your hand, place a piece of paper underneath, and crush them, making sure the paper collects the dust.
Alternatively, a pepper mill can be used. If you don't get a fresh one for this, the residual pepper and other spices can get jumbled up. It is also possible that some kratom remains in the mill. You can also use a food processor/blender if you have one. Just make sure there is no powder left on the blades after you are done.
Here are some ideas for how to use your freshly made powder once you have finished it:
- Simply consume it like that. Of course, the flavor will be pretty bitter, so you may want to wash it down with something sweet or tasty to hide it.
- You can combine it with juices such as orange and apple. This is a great way to conceal the taste once more.
- You can also mix it with smoothies, yogurt, or protein drinks. Before a workout, protein drinks are a good idea. Just make sure you choose a kratom strain that energizes you rather than relaxes you.
- You can bake cookies and brownies.
- It also goes well with savory dishes like porridge and soups.
- You can encapsulate it in vitamin capsules purchased at a local grocery store.
Also Read: 7 Reasons Why Consuming Kratom Capsule is Better
What is the Ideal Dosage?
It is critical that you measure your kratom dose precisely each time you use it. Because each strain has its own set of characteristics, you must pay attention to both the dosage and the side effects.
Begin with a modest dose and gradually increase it gram by gram until you reach the'sweet spot.' Monitor the physical and mental effects of each dose. Observation and experimentation are the only ways to figure out what dose works best for you.
These recommendations for dosing may be useful:
- 1-3 grams – This is a good starting point for individuals who are new to Kratom. You will have some side effects even at this level. The impacts will be less noticeable, but they will exist. They might not last very long as well.
- 3-5 grams – This dose falls somewhere between low and somewhat higher. This is ideal for those who have never used Kratom before. The effects are somewhat stimulating at this dosage.
- 5-7 grams – This is a really potent dose in comparison. The effects begin to shift to the calming side of the spectrum, rather than being energizing.
- 7 grams and above – The effects can be rather strong at this point. They can also be difficult to predict at times. This is why consumers are cautioned from taking such large doses. It is only safe to ingest more than 7 grams of kratom leaves if you are a seasoned user.
Also Read: Easy Guide to the Best Kratom Dosage
Which One is Better – Kratom Leaves or Powder?
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to getting kratom into your system. It all depends on your personal preferences. If you want to prepare food at home, opt for leaves. If you don't mind a ready-made preparation, the powdered form should be easy to come by.
At some point, you will have to select which version your body prefers. Perhaps you've discovered that one product is more tolerable than the others. It could take some time until you find the ideal product. Don't be scared to do some experimentation and take some time to figure it out.
To summarize, if you prefer kratom in the form of tea over anything else, opt for the leaves. If it is not a priority for you, powder is an option.


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I am an authentic, positive force of inspiration.
That's a powerful sentence. And it's one that I've been repeating to myself a lot lately. Last week's blog was devoted to creating your own morning routine, and this week is building on that. One component of the morning routine that I outlined last week is the visualization portion. Visualization is an extremely powerful thing. You might think that in order to visualize something you need to meditate, or you need to start crossing the boundaries between what's considered normal and what's considered "weird". (Side note: You shouldn't give a f*** if people think that something you do is weird, because as we've been discussing, there are a huge number of habits that are considered weird that are fantastic for your overall health and wellness.) The truth is that you've probably been a visualizer your whole life, but just haven't called it visualization.
Here are some examples of visualization:
Planning for the future, and thinking about the pleasure you will receive from an accomplishment; the result of hard work and dedication.
Performing a mental rep; going over a play in your head (think soccer, football, or lacrosse) and imagining the perfect outcome of a well-executed play.
Thinking about a meeting or appointment you have later in the day and looking forward to the best possible outcome of that meeting.
There's a good chance that you've done one, two, or all of the examples listed above in your life without ever even realizing that what you were doing was visualization. Here's the really cool thing: the more you positively visualize something, the more likely the outcome of that visualization. Making visualizations part of your morning routine means more success in every facet of your life: fitness, health, relationships, business… but I digress, because Man Flow Yoga only focuses on fitness and health, right? 🙂
For those of you that have been the diehard fans of the Man Flow Yoga movement, you know that this brand has always been deeply personal. You've been able to see my progress over the last couple years as an athlete, entrepreneur, and hopefully as a human being. Now that I'm starting to understand myself more, I am better able to define what I am doing Man Flow Yoga. When I started, it was to get more guys to do yoga. I wanted them to experience the same physical benefits that I did. Then, somewhere along the way, I realized that the physical benefits were so much more than increased physical performance. I have to thank my first client for that.
Tom Couture, who has last 50 pounds in the last year working with me, has probably had an even greater impact on me that I have on him. At 56 years old, he didn't contact me looking to get six-pack abs and make himself a better football player. He wanted to live longer. And here's the thing that he said to me that has stuck with me ever since. He said, "I want to be able to play with my grandkids." Talk about an oh shit moment. Suddenly I had a mission to help people live longer and be able to do what they wanted to do. Since that time, that simple sentence has been the essence of my why, the why of Man Flow Yoga. (Note: If you are still not completely understanding my use of the word 'why' in this blog, please do yourself a favor and read Simon Sinek's epic book, "Start With Why".) My sense of purpose, my why, in turn, has been the foundation of everything I do and every decision that I make, and that includes the visualization component of my morning routine. I am able to base my visualizations on a single sentence. It comes back to the original sentence that I started this blog with:
I am an authentic, positive force of inspiration.
What you see if what you get. This is the real, authentic me, out in internet world for everyone to see. I am here to encourage people to take positive steps in their lives. My job, my why, is to inspire people to improve their health through physical fitness that will enable them to do what they want for longer and with less physical pain. The word choice is also important. I choose positive words. (For some reason, words like 'no', 'not', or 'avoid' are NOT heard by the universe (or God, or your destiny, or whatever you want to call it), and you can get the opposite of what you're visualizing.) I also choose powerful words. Authentic. Positive. FORCE, instead of source. Inspiration. Find your own powerful words, and make a powerful visualization.
The reason that I am telling you this is not only to let you know about Man Flow Yoga and my personal quest to make people healthier without changing their values or beliefs, but to help YOU develop your own basis for your own WHY, so that you can tie your visualizations back to a single sentence, and then go out in the world and be your own source of inspiration. If you can discover a powerful sentence for yourself that brings together your why, your character, and your sense of purpose, then you can simplify your approach to accomplishing your goals. Imagine that you can inspire yourself every morning with a visualization derived from a single sentence. Can you even begin to contemplate how powerful and how meaningful every action you take would feel? Stop imagining. Do it now. Like, right now. Find your why. Be your own source of inspiration.
I'll leave you with that sentence one more time:
I am an authentic, positive FORCE of inspiration.
I've told you what I am. What are you?


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